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Autumn is generally a good time to plant so long as your plants are a reasonable size. Foxgloves should be OK, mine seed themselves, but slugs love lupins. They will attack them in spring just as they emerge if they are small plants. I would cut down the flowers of the achillea.

Hello all. It is corbis sanguinea midwinter fire.

No need to be afraid - I'm glad that I'm not the only one @Bluejayway

I have no idea what sort of bamboo ours was (is). It came from a large house in north Wales in the 1970s, where we used to go for training. Hubby was wondering around the grounds and thought he would like some. He must have used some canteen cutlery to dig up a bit as his only other equipment...

Newly planted conifers of that size will need lots of water to enable their roots to establish and support the branches and foliage above. The one in your photo also looks very close to the fence, casting a rain shadow which will reduce the amount of rain reaching the roots. If the trees are...

In my experience, Lonicera BG gets very unhappy in a container. Even a large pot would only be OK for about 5 yrs max (assuming you started with a tiddler plant under a foot tall. They grow fast and love to be free.

I think with conventional practice for angled cuts are on plants with thicker stems and larger buds. The idea being that you angle the cut so that any water drains away from the bud to prevent rotting. If you are cutting a thin branch such as the ones I showed in the second picture, I don't...

Many are started off in pots/cells or trays though, and then planted out to grow on, but it's certainly a more sustainable method of growing. It also depends on the type of tree and where they're being produced. I've successfully grown hawthorn and rowan from seed, very quickly and easily, but...

This put me in mind of 'Man About the House' for some reason.

Any Photos would help.How high and wide is it now?Whose hedge is it?...... May seem a stupid question but accepting that a neighbour says that a boundary structure whatever it maybe belongs to them, and you can't touch it may be incorrect.As a very general rule, standing at the back door...

Ah yes, put your keys in the fruit bowl and draw lots......... I got a Mk2 cortina!

They won't grow a lot over winter, so leaving them till spring to separate should be fine. I would keep them undercover but without artificial heat, and check them periodically for dryness. You don't want the compost to be wet, but equally the roots need some moisture.

I think the companies are using all sorts of C**p to manufacture peat free compost and then chucking in an unknown "very small insignificant" amount of "added Nutrients" and not specifying what or how much. I think they are largely processing waste materials and charging us a fortune for very...

They don't need as much food as you've been giving it, even in a container. The important thing is the content and structure of the soil mix, and if you add more organic matter over winter into spring, that should help, but some of the composts are poor, and either don't retain moisture well or...

@AnniD -I never do that...honest guv.....I forget what I've done an hour previously, so trying to remember what I did in the garden the previous day[ for that thread] is almost impossible! I've just been outside to check on something and remembered various things I'd done that I hadn't...

@TomatoLover91 As you neglect to put your approximate location in your profile, its difficult to answer your query. You say 'no covers' ;that limits your scope considerably ; as even established transplants will need protection from pigeons , and butterflies which have appeared in the last few...

The stranded wire all reads as being strong but I'm wondering what guage to go for. I think I might opt for 1/16 (1.6mm ish) and see if it feels strong enough. I might also cheap out a bit and go for simple crimps over the gripples!

I'm not surprised @On the Levels - they're so pricey! I'm just debating what mix to put in the raised bed. It's 80cm tall (ish) and so I plan to put a lot of old stones in the bottom to improve drainage. However there are different views on the compost. Some say peat, leafmould and loam with...

My messy, scrappy Henryi was a lovely one up my tall birdfeeder. Planted as an afterthought on the gravel in the drainage sump hole I dug, it quickly found it's roots into the heavy clay soil under the lawn and climbed the pole in the first summer.Much loved by the bees and birds, sparrows in...