Whole day in the garden today - what a relief that it's finally nice and warm! I planted up the border I've been preparing over the winter - two...
Thank you! I'll take some cuttings - can I do that in spring before I prune it?
Sunny and 7 C here today, so I spent all afternoon on a couple of jobs. Replaced the leaky plastic sheets in our mini greenhouse with some acrylic...
Hi all, can someone tell me what this might be? I'm pretty sure it had mauve-purple flowers in the summer last year. It's quite leggy and I'm...
Ooh interesting, I didn’t know that. It’s a pretty thick stem but if I cut it shorter I might be able to pull it off.
The plants I ordered arrived today, rather sooner than I had expected and including 5 bare root raspberries. So I got them straight into the...
@Perki I don’t recall seeing any white flowers on it last summer - are flowers from below the graft always white or can they be pink? I do...
The first dry day of the year allowed me to finish off preparing the beds where I want to plant bare root raspberries, and I also planted some...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hi everyone, could I get some opinions on this old rose, which I inherited from the previous owners of our garden. It is...
Miserable and rainy here but we’ve played lots of board and card games - one of my favourite things to do over the Christmas hols.
Time is probably the biggest problem right now - two small children and a full time job means that gardening is generally a weekend-only activity,...
Thanks all! Would love to have space for two but it’s just not an option in this garden. That’s why I went for the design with the slanted front...
Been wanting to compost for a while, and finally managed to carve out the space. I’d already stashed a load of material so it’s basically full...
Thanks so much for this link. I too have two large hydrangeas which are great and flourishing but outgrowing their space a bit and getting...
I’m planning to do a lot of garden planning this winter! And I have shrubs to hard prune or remove, paving to de-mossify, and various other repair...
Ah ok. Fixing wires - something else new for me to learn! Can they just be screwed straight into the posts or do I need to drill and add plugs?I...
Ah, that makes sense. I wonder if this was producing the strong scent I remember in the garden in spring but couldn't identify.You said yours...
@ViewAhead I don’t think it has thorns - the leaves have an odd wavy edge to them, almost like a non-spiky holly, but smaller than a holly leaf -...
I’m trying to give the garden an overhaul, starting with a ‘what to keep, and get rid of the rest’ approach. There are a lot of mature shrubs all...
Hi all, I have been laid low with a virus so while I’m confined to the sofa I’ve been pondering a section of our garden that I haven’t touched...
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