The slugs and snails drive me mad too - I have managed to entice a local hedgehog in which i helping but I also set beer traps - old margarine...
my dad sets the flood lights in my parents garden to come on until 11pm every night in end of winter/early spring for just that reason! Works well...
sunny and blue skies again today, was covered in sunblock in the garden - perfick ;-)
oooooh yes bamboo, I hear soooo many horror stories about it! Was very tempted by the blue bamboo but didn't buy it cos it scared me!!!
I'm the same as Hels - Greater Periwinkle (Vinca major). When I moved in and was new my friend recommended it to me. Planted one, and within a...
Kew gardens is brilliant for peacocks! Did you see all the wild parrots as well?
Hi Woo,I read this thread with interest - it never really occured to me NOT to spay. When we had dogs, (2, one after another - when I was...
yes, found that on the BBC today - very handy!! Have also brought a 1000 best flowering plants in Britain book which seems very beginnery...
thanks guys, some nice ideas. I do deadhead, but probably not as often as I ought to, I try to go round the garden around once a week and chop off...
thanks :-)
Hi chaps - I have been working really hard this year to put up places for animals in my garden and I am now totally chemical free (but still...
I tempted a local hedgehog into the garden and I've had the lest problems with slug yet!
Hi Guys,I've had 2 years here now and slowly been doing work on the garden. Its come along nicely and I have been doing a little at a time to...
Well, the parakeets are out in force outside today! Last count there were 12!! They are sooooo noisy but also big bully boys and have been a bit...
I've noticed, they have made a right meal of my rhubarb! I've moved them on (well the ones I can see!) to a nature reserve over the road (masses...
yep that's them, leaf beetles! I might leave them if they eat aphids as I have terrible problems with greenfly on my lupins!
oh fab! I wont worry then! Thanks :-)
I did a few different searches for plants - camelia, lupin, foxglove and buddleia to find out about them when planning my garden. You were up in...
I'm on the waiting list here too - its a 5+ year wait in these parts! I tried to get one in the next borough along as there is only a 6 month...
Oh, I have photo but dont know how to post it!
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