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Welcome to GC But don't ask me to do your mowing for you!

Welcome to GC Sam.

Hello @Shubela and

Welcome to the forum! @Strider6 are you near me and want to share my snow shovel or?If you have time, you can click on your own name and add your location to your profile and then you will get lots of great advice that is appropriate for your growing area.

You've made good progress Shyamalie and with the hard work all but done, you now have planting to look forward too.

thanks for all for the welcome wishes.......

Welcome to GC Chalk&Cheese.

Welcome to GC Blue Moon.

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Paul.

Think it depends on what begonias you choose, some of those hanging basket ones get very big, other not quite as big, so I think you need to look into which ones to get.Not something that I grow really, but I'm sure someone might have a better idea than me on the spread of various types.

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It was on me too, @NigelJ My first thought was 'sulphur'.... I'll be trying it out on my sowings this week so will let you know if ordinary, French supermarket matches work. They're not much cop for lighting bonfires

Hello and welcome to the forums

Hi Steven, welcome to Gardeners Corner

You don't have to post about gardening through the year, there's the off topic threads as well.

Thanks for your welcome, everyone. If my pond ends up like yours, Sian, I will be very happy!

Welcome to GC

@Coffee welcome to GC The black grass plant looks like Ophiopogon.

Welcome to GC Our garden has been organic for almost 50 years. We do buy peat based compost for seeds but the rest is all our own compost and no chemicals used in the garden. It works for us

Hi Darryl, The way the stepping stones are raised tells a story.. I like the pagoda style shed at the rear. It looks an obvious sump on that lower level but we have had a particularly wet winter thus far which obviously hasn't helped. Think I'd dig down to see exactly what you've got under the...