One of my favourite plants is daphne, but I have had two die on me. I have them in semi sunny spot, stones in the pot for drainage, but they still keep dying. Are there any other tips for me please?
A year ago, I purchased a Daphne 'Perfume Princess' bush, and it has only grown leaves, nothing else. I am disappointed as I was looking forward to the lovely fragrance! Can you please tell me what could have happened or if there was something wrong with the plant when I brought it?
I have some medium sized Rhododendrons on my small lawn area. Some of the leaves are turning yellow. I'm just wondering if I should mulch around the base to kill the grass or prune and fertilise to make them a bit healthier.
I love my Daphne bush, but it is dying. It is about a year old and growing by a fence where the ground is very wet. Is there any way of saving it, I have used Acid fertiliser. Should I shift it?
I have a daphne bush that is not doing well and hasn’t flowered for a few years. I am not sure what is wrong. I have feed it with fertiliser, and it is in the garden in a nice sunny, sheltered spot.
My gardenia bush has yellow tips on the leaves. I am not sure whether I am giving it enough water or if it could have something to do with the pH in the soil? Can you offer any advice?
Can you please advise the best course of action for our wisteria? It seems to be infected with borer which we noticed after the wind blew dead branches down.
When would be the correct time to cut back peonies and lift and divide for replanting?
I have recently started growing a frangipani from a cutting. While it has flowered once, it seems to have come to a bit of a standstill. What should I be doing for it to flourish?
I have a potted Gardenia plant which I’ve had for several years. I re-potted it and feed it, but it still hasn’t produced any flowers. It gets the afternoon sun. Can you help me solve this problem so I can get flowers this season? I live in a windy area and not too far from the beach could this have something to do it?
I had a severe bout of thrips on my viburnum over summer and seem to have managed it with spray. Is it likely it will return as the weather warms up? If so, what can I do now? Also will the frosts destroy existing insects?
I have two very healthy Winchester Honeysuckle and they have been through two spring seasons without any fruit, flowers, or colour change in leaves. They are planted in partial shade with morning sun and there is also a large cherry plum tree above the area. What is causing the lack of expected seasonal changes?
My daphne smells glorious but looks really scruffy. Can I safely prune it and if so how and when?
Can you tell me please why my gypsophila plant was flowering really well for three years, a huge bush of flowers, then died? Branches were going yellow and I lost the plant. Also, I can grow the white ones but when I tried growing pink, they all died. Can you please help?
A couple of years ago I planted a Daphne facing east. However, it did not do well so I put it in a pot in April this year with potting mix and acid fertiliser. Unfortunately, it is giving up. What am I doing wrong?
I’m wanting to plant tall shrubs in front of my north-facing lounge window as a welcome distraction from a view of my garage, and also along my north-facing large fence. Perhaps a climber or tall shrub/tree. What do you suggest I plant in both areas?
I like the bunched look of lavender and recently saw some pink rather than the purple ones. We are about to buy a house soon and wanted to know if they were easy to find and grow?
Our viburnum (not a snowball one), has grown very straggly and back in May, half of it was blooming, and the other half was leafless. Would it be wise to cut it back, and if so, by how much?
I have a Daphne bush that is having a major sulk. Is there is a product that can re-energise it? The leaves are not yellow and none are falling off, but they look a tad limp and not glossy. It has been in its current position now for 6 months.
We’ve been advised that our sewer pipes will have to be dug up and replaced. Can I uproot my Escallonia Apple Blossom shrubs and place them perhaps in tubs while the repairs are carried out, then replant them?
We have three flowering cherry trees in our section. They appear to be sending out roots to other parts of the garden. How can we stop this? Will they damage to our new drive? And does cutting them back affect the trees?
What is the best way of propagating Tree Peony seeds? And how do you move one that has grown too big for its position?
I fed my camellia plants a few weeks ago with the right food. I have three side by side. One has dropped all the leaves and budding up again. What would have caused that?
We have a very big cherry blossom tree on our property and it has nearly dropped all its leaves for winter. When is it best to trim/prune it?
How do I turn my hydrangeas blue? Is there anything I can add to the soil?
What is the best way to take cuttings from a begonia? Leave the cutting in water till roots appear or tap it in root hormone gel before planting?
Could I please have some advice on when to take fuschia cuttings, is April too late in the autumn?
I was shifting a small rhododendron and I noticed that grass grub were nestling in the roots. Can grass grub damage rhododendron roots and if so, what is the best treatment for them?
My hydrangeas have only 1 or 2 flowers on them this year, and have been late to flower. They are 4 year old plants and I haven’t treated them differently than other years. Any advice?
I have quite a few lavenders, but with some the leaves have gone dead at the bottom. I prune them after flowering and they come away again but at the moment the smaller variety are looking spindly. I have different varieties. Can you help?
I have a hydrangea bush that has been blooming beautifully this summer. Once the flowers die off, when is the best time to prune it?
In March, I moved to a property with a hedge of several young camellia trees showing signs of neglect. How do I return them to health and encourage flowering? Should I do anything special for them in winter?
We have a lilac tree and for the past fourteen years we have had plenty of green and growth, but very little in the way of flowers. Could you please give me some advice on this matter?
Some hydrangeas I picked and placed in a vase have started to grow roots and have new leaf buds. Can these be planted into the garden to grow into bushes?
My neighbour has a tree bearing the most magnificent large pink Camellia blooms. Would it be feasible to plant the seed pods from this tree to germinate replicas of the parent tree?
My hydrangeas never flowered well and the leaves were stunted as well this year! What is the problem?
Last winter I planted two Daphne Bushes each side of my entrance. One has grown beautifully and is almost in flower while the other is pale and has hardly grown. What is the reason for this?
My two Fragrant Gardenia plants in pots at my front door had lots of leaves last year, some went brown on the edges but I did not get any flowers on either plant. Can you help?