General Gardening Discussion

Get in touch with your local police for ASB parking on pavements picture's will help email police and copy to your PCC disable people are having problems using the pavements, you never know something may happen

I have one in my garden which definitely attracts hover flies.

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We had an enormous ash tree in our garden which I absolutely loathed. It had to come down due to heart rot and I found myself surprisingly emotional when I saw it in pieces. The garden didn't look right without a tree so a replaced it with a small maple but that didn't last long though. For...

I'd be interested to hear from anybody who has attended this year who has also been in previous years and can compare years. I watched a small part of Gardeners World on Friday evening but can't stand Joe Swift so didn't stay with it for long. I know segments were filmed before opening but...

Hello allThanks for the Replies.So, the consensus seems to be that in a Flower Garden they will do no harm which was my Worry.I do not Grow any Vegetables so I shall just leave them be.ThanksKevin

They aren't too difficult in the ground if you just pollard them every year. You then get a difference in the foliage too, as it's longer rather than rounded, and the colour is more intense If you decide to re pot though, the one that isn't happy might just need a bit more shade while it...

The sweetcorn I planted out are getting away happily. Thoroughly enjoying the rain and warmth. The babies I moved into the greenhouse are stretching themselves out now and beginning to get bigger. I am very nervous about planting out the courgettes, squash etc. I feel there is an army of slugs...

Yes, the winters can ruin anything. Last house was up on moors at 300m and for 30 years I battled with weather - much easier down here. So can I buy lilac and put it in now, or is there a set time to plant it??

I think it looks better now that it's aged some.

Oh that's ok, it'll be perfectly fine on a fence with wires..

This was splendid in my last garden but died in the current one. But the soil is really hard where I put it and although there are trees around I think it got too much sun

The branches feed the trees and you will always have more growth from the upper parts of the tree because its where most of the energy goes.With the grass it's an idea to cut away a few feet from the trunk. It's not this simple but for young trees the roots will probably be around the width...

As long as we dont get another 'beast from the east'.

No @JWK I put the fleece round the Hostas I was more fussed about as only had a limited supply of fleece. Poor old Ligularia got absolutely slaughtered as the slugs were obviously pis.ed off that their favourites were awkward to destroy and turned their onslaught onto the clump of Ligularia that...

Smallish very full front garden. It'd have a job to spread. But I'm on to it now anyway So long as it behaves it can stay

I don't think any major event, horticultural or otherwise, can truly claim to be 'sustainable' for the reasons given in the article. What events such as the major flowers can do is give people ideas and advise on making their own gardens sustainable. That could be far more productive in the...

Thanks!

Spittlebug...

The problem with it here is that it gets quite soft and lush through summer, because it's wet, but warm enough, for lots of growth. Then the winter arrives, and they can't cope. I expect if we continue to get the warm winters we've had for the last few years here, that might change, but it's...