Gardening: Hints and Help!

Might be Brue😁 They are expensive DA roses, as are Peter Beales. I quite fancy having a go at taking some rose cuttings this year, it’s something I have never done before. There’s a lovely rose nursery just outside Pickering that usually has lots of different varieties. Another not too far from us at Holmesfield area as well, got a couple of beauties for Mum last year. Just got back from our local cash and carry store (you name it, they sell it🤣) Three big sacks of bark for £10, and half a dozen lovely pansies for £1.50, love pansies and viola’s, they last forever with some deadheading.

Rose cuttings are easy TDA, I pruned a rose last year, stuck a bit in the corner of a pot and it's grown very well (Jacqueline Du Pre rose) now I've got two!

This is the Dahlia I questioned about, it’s now a good 18” the other is one I planted about 10days after.

Just my opinion, FWIW.

You’re a bit early. I think I would put it outside during the day, to slow it down a bit and to harden it off. You might find it’ll need potting on (they grow quick), bearing in mind it probably shouldn’t be planted out until mid-May at the earliest. Before then you are taking a chance. Hope this helps 👍

Thanks for that Freddy, it’s the first time I’ve tried to grow Dahlias so yes I’ll remember for next year. 👍👍

Thanks Brue, I must have a go.👍 Do you use any rooting compound, or merely stick in a pot?

Agree F55, good healthy growth. We had a frost last night here in South Yorks, no way can I think of putting anything tender out yet. Gloriously warm in greenhouse though, things are budding up, putting new growth on.

We had a frost last night too. Plum blossom is vulnerable!

Beautifully sunny today.

Not worked in our greenhouse, too busy licking the whole garden into shape. Did pop 2 buckets full of unidentified bulbs in there whilst clearing the beds of rampart plants. Turns out they're bluebells so I need to return some, but I'll have to offer lots to others. Did pop a peony dug up before hard landscaping started - still with us 😀. 3 strawberry plants survived in the one of the beds, chickweed is very plentiful 😉.

We had a lovely established, in completely the wrong place on a tight corner from the front to back of the house, yellow rose with fragrant flowers, lovely once the petals dropped. Landscaper dug it out with digger, dug in a new hole where I'd asked and "plonked" it back in before could add compost below it. Didn't need to water it in 😂. It's a vicicous blighter and I cut right back a few weeks back. Delighted to report its sprouting 🤞

Off to potter out there but I MUST cover that 3 cornered leek which is expanding as I blink......

No chickweed here, but I am waging war on Sticky Weed/Cleavers. Gradually winning each year. I suspect dog fur was the original source of seeding. It’s a race to get each bit before it seeds🤣 Our chickens and ducks used to gobble it it, so it was never an issue. 

Dilemma time again. Bluebells are the Spanish variety so I'm in 2 minds about planting/keeping/giving them away.

Cleavers are present in this garden,  last year I thought it bad, but I do my best to keep on top of it, but then it got demoted by an over sufficiency of 3 corned leeks!