Oh yes, thank you. I'd only just got used to the other hebes in my garden and able to recognise those, I hadn't realised they varied enough to...
I've got two little bushes that neither my sisters nor I have been able to identify for sure. Can anyone tell me what they are and what treatment...
HiI wasn't sure if this belonged in trees, beginner's gardening or where but here goes. I've been in my new home almost exactly a year and got...
Thanks Jack, I really appreciate hearing about something similar because that clarifies for me that this probably won't be the strategy we'll...
Ah I'd looked at that one Bilbo, I liked it's flower colour and that it was evergreen. The only thing putting me off was the chocolate scent....
Don't worry Louise, this isn't the only outcropping of leylandii in this garden ;) But an ivy screen is also a very good habitat for wildlife...
That's useful that it's in a group that doesn't need pruning. I just checked up about the groupings (new gardener, so many new concepts to grasp...
I was just reading about clematis montana and realised I could train it up a tall column to grow in front of the street light that dominates the...
Thanks Gardenman :) I hadn't thought of an alpine area there I shall have to do some research. I take it they won't mind frost? Certainly the...
Well it just got identified as elm on all accounts :) The leaves are as you pointed out from that last link Silversurfer. That's useful to know....
Thanks for that, I see what you mean and was able to check. It does indeed look like I have an elm hedge. It's extremely vigorous!
HiI have an extensive native hedge that I had assumed was alder (alnus glutinosa?) mixed with privet, hawthorn, rose and some pesky lonicera....
Hi :)I've been in my new home for around six months so far and have spent the time getting to know the space and how we use it as well as some...
I've had to do mine from time to time due to a buildup of something black that comes off on my clothes. When I first realised something was wrong...
I xoot from the South East of Scotland :) Likewise to some things that suffered in the harsh winter though i'd not got to the stage of buying any...
I've been a member for at least fifteen years I think. I feel they use my money well.
I googled 'Gardening forum' and joined a couple only to find that most of the posters were in the USA and talking about plants I'd never heard of...
Shiney, I've got more than enough ground elder to make up for the lack of the others ;) And where there isn't ground elder there are buttercups,...
Goregous pics. Made me very broody. I kept rats from 1988 till January this year when my last rat died suddenly just before I was able to...
I'm an emigre originally from the Peak District who has been in Scotland for the last twenty years. I'd have to say my assessment is similar to...
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