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There is a house up the road from me that always has a good show of these in the front garden, I think the owner has either died or gone to a care home as the house had a for sale sign recently and new people parking outside.I doubt they will survive some how, but maybe, it will probably end...

Thankyou very much for your suggestions, some great ones. I will have a look and play around with some ideas.Many thanks,E

I've got double red, double yellow and a lovely peach/yellow striped double

I think a few plants are available in the UK but at stupid prices mostly.

I haven't tried but see no reason why not . Jenny namaste

As you have ivy, that would rapidly cover any fence, assuming it's one of the more vigorous ones, so you'd need to consider that if planting the clematis, although it also depends on what types they are as to how/where you site them. The Philadelphus may not be flowering well due to pruning at...

I’d say the nose and lips.

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My local metal stockist had limited variety of hex rods, I preferred a 25mm hex but the best they had was a 30mm, they had larger sizes but 30mm was the closest to 25mm, so 30mm it wasAt home I very soon got to cutting off two 75mm lengths and then took off the surface rustNow came...

I soon discovered the weld on the hex and the rod were hindering the bearings from performing properly, so soon after I bought another set of rods and this time I had the hex drilled and held to the trapezoid rod with slot springs, these pins were 2mm diameter, I must mention, at this time (pre...

A few years back I bought a couple of motor bike jack to use with my Lotus Elise, these are rated at 500Kg each so more than enough to lift one side of the carI was fed up using those scissor jack to lift up the Elise to be able to then slide under the. axle standsOne of these either...

Anything will do for covering it - plastic bags, tarpaulin, carpet etc. If you have large bits of cardboard you can use those with some compost bags over the top. That will protect it from excess wet, but the card will also break down and become part of the mix. If you're able to 'fashion' a...

It's having them too deep, and in consistently cold wet soil, that's the problem @Wild_Violet , so allowing them to establish in a drier setting at this time of year is best, before planting out in better conditions in 6 months time. It then allows good establishment through the drier part of...

Oh brilliant thankyou for finding it , @ricky101 , I will have a look at that. Yes, perhaps a bit more than I could cope with, presently.

Hi Kevin,It's good to have you back and I'm pleased that your cataract surgery went well. Your garden being fenced has given it some protection from the wind even though the Ceanothus has been damaged. It looks pretty good in the image above and shouldn't take you long to get it back as you...

Probably other ways but how I do it is take a picture and my phone stores it in the gallery. Click on upload file and I get my pictures on my phone all come up as thumnails, select by tapping on the one you want, it then loads it into the reply box. Add text if you want and hit post reply.