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Hi all, We have a fairly large border at the back of our garden that I want to enlarge and tidy up in order to add some plants I am growing from seed. At the moment it is full of forget me nots and raspberry plants which have self seeded and taken over. My question is what to do with them? We...

Oh, my wife is a gardening person, just not "junk" person. In our household, we try to agree on things that really matter. However, if we cannot agree, then we decide whether or not it is important. If so, she normally cedes. Occasionally we just allow the other person to have their way.This...

A message from my son today...There are scams going around where you'd get a call from "Microsoft" or maybe your internet provider or computer manufacturer who will tell you they have received error messages on your computer and they'll ask you for remote access to fix it. Microsoft, your...

@BenCotto, it might also be interesting to give it a week and then put the traps out again. Will the numbers be back to square one?

Yeah, you learn as you go along don’t you. The large one in flower, I have pruned before, but only very lightly like you say. The ones on the front drive I have reduced with loppers unaware of what a hard prune would do, they will have to come out then. Thanks all.

You should be losing a little water because you don't really want it completely sealed. In some terrariums you can drain the water out and replace it but in your situation you could use a foliar feed or add fertiliser to the gravel layer.

Thank you for the replies. Most of the plants are in small 9cm pots (Geranium, grasses, Astrantia Roma, Jacob's ladder). The soil was digged over and mixed with compost a couple of years ago. Then I just put bark on it and left it. I will definitely wait a bit with planting, but I would not...

If you buy one of the yew balls, you could place it on the bed (in its pot to give some extra height) and see where another one or hebe would give best affect.Acer griseum is one of my favourites too, unfortunately (luckily for the garden budget) I haven’t really got anywhere to put one. Mmm...

Oh my dad lives in Lewis in Bayble, not far from Stornoway. I haven't been there in a while but the climate is very similar, very windy and exposed in the northern part. So I am going to have a read about Hebe. Thanks for the tip!

Yes- it's as @Punkdoc says. Young hedging plants are called whips, and you can get 1 yr old, 2 yr old ones etc. The big advantage of Beech, and also Hornbeam, is that they can be kept as tight, narrow hedges, but they can also become very large in each direction. Meikleour Beech Hedge,...

I've never bought 'horticultural sand'. As far as I can tell, it is just expensive sharp sand.If the area is not already a lawn at all, then I retract my point about not worrying about the weeds. If you're starting from scratch then weed free is best.For spreading grass seed and top dressing...