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Give the root ball a good soak and then see if you can prise sections apart. If so, plant up with good, loam based compost (John Innes type 3). If not, re-pot in a large pot with good compost.It'll enjoy a sunny spot and, once settled, just enough moisture to keep it happy and nowhere near...

They looked good in early April but sadly not so much now, tho on inspection there's some new growth in the middle.....It's my own fault as i never got round to planting it out I think it's because I'm not 100% certain where to put it

I expect slug numbers are strongly influence by the weather in any particular week. I think we have all witnessed a scourge of slugs and snails, appearing almost from nowhere, on a wet but mild summer’s evening after a dry spell.

Just saying, but if they are flowering Alliums then all is good.

Took thee this morning. One or three Auriculas in there.

What about bluebells? We have them growing through ivy and come up each year. Also Paris quadrifolia (photo). An amazing plant which we have under a magnolia and catalpa. Even though it's name suggests 4 leaves it often can have 5 or 6. It is in flower now. We also have different euphorbias that...

Even if you pull out the forget-me-nots before they set seed (and it might already be too late) there's probably seed in the soil from previous years. If you really want to get rid of them you need to take them out ASAP and keep weeding out new seedlings when they appear. On the plus side, the...

Here's a photo of the bits. Actually, one of the pipes is over 3ft in length. I reckon I can use the shorter thick one to try and take strange looking photos.

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...