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Thanks If and when we move house, I hope I remember that method if I have a south facing window to spare. Just shows that there’s always more than one way with veg growing.

It's Pulmonaria...Lungwort.

Hi again, Here are some more photos that might help? You can see the height of it next to the large Forsythia, there’s a photo from “inside”, and some photos of the rather unhealthy looking ones at the side of the drive. I think @fairygirl said they don’t like a hard prune back, well I may have...

If they have grown shoots I'm sure they will pick up as the season progresses.

They'll take a while to establish, and the length of time depends on the site and soil, as well as climate. It'll be next year before they really start growing well. Small plants always establish more quickly, so there's never much to gain by having larger ones. They can fail more readily unless...

I had one as an houseplant. It was bought in full bloom, beautiful thing. Towards the end of Autumn it started dying back so I cut everything off right down to the base and put it in a bag in a dark cupboard.When spring came I got it out, watered it, and within a couple of weeks loads of new...

I had an old empty fish tank doing nothing up the attic so as a bit of an experiment I put an inch of gravel in the bottom and put some young potted houseplants in it such as Fittonia, Crotone, Calathea and Alocasia. I poured some water on the gravel, not too much, and put a lid on the tank, and...

It is a Willowherb. There are several types. It will flower … almost every type of plant produces a flower and seeds even if they’re hardly noticeable. I would get rid of all those that you see … plenty more will appear to take their place … get rid of those too … plenty more will appear to...