Morning Folks

Has anyone grown these, was wondering if you pinch out the growing tip?
   

I've been offered the large part of a 100l bag of landscaping bark but told its very heavy.
Now some people's version of "very heavy" varies so, can anyone tell me in pounds or even kilos, what to expect  when I go to pick it up tomorrow please.

On the Flowers beginning with H thread, that SC started today, all I could think of was Halitosis!!

Halitosis flowerbuds are a pretty pink and white when closed.  When the buds open, it reveals its yellow and black spotted interior with a slightly furry stamen.  Its one to observe from a distance as the stench of the Halitosis flower is attractive only to blowflies and dung beetles. 
Don't like your neighbours? Plant this next to their fence and they won't bother you for long. 

Seeds are on sale from your usual ripoff supplier.

I broadcast three packets of annual flowers over a sloped border at side of house. It was a bit late to be sowing them but at least its given a bit of greenery.

Some blue fowers are evident  and I wondered whether they were gentions? Its hard to tell from photo but they are about an inch diameter. Any thoughts?

 I'll not ask you what you think the rest are and hope they flower this year so I can find out!

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Sorry to barge in on your threads veggie     

I’ve just been through A-G. I’ve failed miserably to germinate 85% of what I mentioned in those previous threads   .
So thought I’d start the next one. 

Flowers beginning with H 

Honesty
Hellebore 
Helichrysum



( maybe I shouldn’t of started H. All 3 of my honesty that I managed to germinate are on the way out . Only managed to germinate 1 helichrysum. Hellebore is doing ok, but I brought that as an established plant   )

Cost of living = growing your own F&V

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62206677

I love these godetia flowers. I’ve only discovered them since I’ve been doing seed swaps with you lot   . I believe these are from one of our swaps. I know they are supposed to self seed well. Do they? Lots of things that are supposed self seed, don’t up here.  Mine have never had the opportunity because they’ve always been in pots ( and pots that are probably to small ).

   

Are there any perennial with similar flowers?  Just curious.

I want one! I used to have a huge thing that we
Managed to hook onto the lawn mower when moving big piles of tree clippings etc around. It eventually fell apart but I used it often.

Now I would like one, but I would like it to pick flowers. At the moment I either carry a bucket half filled with water, pick and walk back to my shed where I store flowers. This does mean I am wandering around quite a bit and carrying the water isn't ideal.

So I would like something that's solid and will last , my old one was mesh metal, I would like a good solid flat, bottom? Easy to manoeuvre over grass and big enough to carry 2 buckets. 

Anyone else use one?

I know 100% nothing about water lilies. So I have lot of really silly questions which I could probably look up myself. But where’s the fun in that ?   
How deep does the water need to be?
Can you get dwarf varieties?
Does the water need to be flowing at a reasonable rate?
Do the spread quickly/ are they thugs? 

I’m thinking a couple in the ditch at front of our plot. But it’s not very deep. Depending on the weather it’s a very general trickle to not quite a raging torrent. I’d like them to not take over and have their offspring disappear off down stream. 
Is this a possibility or Should I forget the idea?

I have a 3 year old albizia, about 1.5m tall that had a lot of the bark eaten by deer in the spring.  There were just 2 thin strips of bark left, still attached top and bottom but no longer connected to the trunk, over about 30cm. My attempts to reattach and reinforce them have been fruitless and the tree is clearly slowly dying above the damage. 
There is one happy and healthy branch below the damage and I am wondering if this will become a leader if encouraged more vertically, or if a new shoot will come from the junction of the trunk and this branch?
Poor thing was just about to flower for the first time!
Thanks all