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Andrew Mikolajski's Blog

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Based in the UK, Andrew Mikolajski is the author of over thirty gardening titles. Visit his blog for practical tips and advice on a wide range of gardening matters.

• Added on: Nov 6th, 2009
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Andrew Mikolajski
• Listed in: Home and Garden Lawn & Garden
• Tags: gardening garden plants garden design plant propagation gardening courses andrew mikolajski

Recent Posts

• Cymbidium update

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 14:43 in slugs, wet weather, cymbidium orchids, flowering houseplants, resting orchids, cymbidium flowers, feeding orchids, cymbidium flowering, drainage requirements orchids, feeding cymbidiums, fertiliser sticks, fertilizer sticks

  A second flower spike has appeared at the base of my cymbidium. Although the plant should be resting, I’ve been putting it outside on mild – and not so mild – wet days, and this seems to be doing it no harm at all. Those flower spikes should st...

• Solanum jasminoides ‘Album’

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 16:28 in winter flowers, hardy plants, solanum jasminoides ‘album’, white-flowered climbers, climbers for warm walls, viburnum bodnantense ‘dawn’, mahonia media ‘charity’, winter-flowering shrubs, potato flowers, frost affecting plants

  It’s quite normal to see shrubs pushing out a few flowers at this time of year – and I’ve noticed on my travels that two reliable winter flowerers are well into their stride. The ones in question being Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’ and Mahoni...

• Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 08:45 in stormy weather, yellow leaves, brittle stems, gardeners’ question time, gleditisia triacanthos ‘sunburst’, robinia pseudoacacia ‘frisia’, thorny plants, trees for small gardens

  At a Gardeners’ Question Time the other evening, there was a question about the tree Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’, and whether there were any alternatives. I was only too happy to answer this, as this is one of my all-time least favourite plan...

• Lilium regale from seed

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 15:16 in plant propagation, grit, heavy soil, seed heads, dead-heading, scented plants, growing from seed, growing bulbs from seed, growing lilies from seed, lilies in containers, lilies in pots, lilium regale

  Seeds are continuing to ripen in the garden. If you grow Lilium regale, a beautiful Chinese species lily with richly scented trumpet flowers in July, the seed cases should be starting to split to spill their copious seeds – assuming you didn’t de...

• Phillyrea angustifolia

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 in olive, box, cuttings, cirencester, common names, narrow leaves, knot gardens, evergreen shrubs, hardy plants, rosemary verey, buxus sempervirens, disease-resistant plants

  It’s time I put in a plug for one of my all-time favourite plants, Phillyrea angustifolia – there’s no common name, this is one of those instances where you just have to get your head round the Latin. Like box (Buxus), this evergreen shrub tole...

• Cymbidium update

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 11:30 in houseplants, orchids, orchid flowers, wet weather, dormancy, overwintering, cymbidium, damp weather, inducing dormancy, orchid feeding, orchid watering, pseudobulbs

  I took advantage of the mild damp (actually, wet) weather today and stood my cymbidium outdoors. While I have been known to bang on about ‘inducing dormancy’ in houseplants, in practice I think a rest period is best kept as brief as possible – ...

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