Thanks for your advice - I just thought that early stages of decomposing bird might be a problem! But then, when I removed the poor thing it was...
Yesterday morning I found a dead bird in my pond! The pond is rather small (one of the pre-formed things) - I wonder how the bird managed to...
They probably sent these letters to everyone in the estate, not even bothering to investigate beforehand who did some work on their patch and who...
I think I would not mind rain throughout the whole of June as long as the creepy groundfrosts in my area stopped! Every other morning I stare out...
My dad has always been a keen gardener, in his heyday he had, apart from his main garden behind the house, as many as 4 allotments in different...
Ok, found out it might be the one called "Water Soldier" (as seen here , although my parent plant has not flowered, but the rest of the...
I don't remember the name of it but one of the "swimmers" I put in my tiny pond 2 years ago has multiplied intensively! It looks like a little...
Nope, no vine weevil. Had the bush up over the weekend and checked the roots. The only worms I could find there looked yukk enough - about half an...
We sort of had the same problem, wanting to get rid of our lawn. We ended up using the slabs from an old path to lay a new patio in the centre of...
Frogesque, how do I recognize "artificially dyed"? I have something like 7 different heathers around my little pond (planted 2 years ago and so...
Hm, root infestation can be the problem - not soil exhaustion or clumping, as the plant has only been in there 6 weeks or so, after digging in...
The bush did sooo well when I first planted it, lots of flowers, it grew like insane. But now the top foliage is turning slightly yellow and the...
Hm, I don't think so - I used chipped bark on the beds in the front garden (pansies), left the pansies in there over winter and some came back...
Ok, I don't have a picture right now, but for the past two summers the cherry tree in the front of our house has been giving us headaches and it's...
Thanks - we could have had a bonfire with the old shed and could now also burn the old fencing stuff, but I am never too comfortable with open...
Well, today we actually took care of the front garden - lawn mowing, cleaning old pampas grass leaves away from udnerneath (I hate to cut it back...
I believe you were right - however I managed to save 4 out of the 8 plants so considering the timing it is not too bad! Everything else I bought...
Get a couple of cats. No matter hoe often they get stung, our bunch keep chasing and munching insects (anything from spider up to bumblebee). I...
They are (well, rather, were) trailing lobelia, and I did not plant them in hanging baskets but rather between two steps made of old railway...
Stopped here now but welcome it was - and tonight after work we will do some more digging (freeing some more slabs from the old patio to extend...
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