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That’s suuuuper helpful, thank you!

Good morning all, Lovely day ahead here on the Yorkshire coast, weather looks spot on.... As im in a positive mood, I thought I would ask some advice on taking cuttings. I am learning all the time with gardening, this year is the first time I have grown from seed for example, but I am still very...

Any chance you had a hail shower recently? Otherwise I'd go for a mollusc

My strawberry patch got eaten by a deer last year so I let it go to rack and ruin so it's more a weed bed now... That said there's still lots of strawberry plants going still. We've had it suggested to paint some stone red and place them out now; theory being animals will try the red thing and...

I listened to a farming program on the radio this morning advocating the no dig system. Strips of soil covered with 12 ins wide coverings of alternate wood chips and farm yard manure. Plants are put into holes in the manure and covered with netting tunnels. It was admitted it is a very labour...

Thank you both for your useful tips. I need to use more grit! @fairygirl, the alpines struggling in their natural habitats due to climate change; it's rather worrying, isn't it?

Why only metaphorically?

I have found that both upright and prostrate varieties of Rosemary start to shed their leaves regularly after a few of years. As the plants get larger, if they are near paths or paving the sweeping up becomes a chore and I now only grow a small upright variety in a container.

In any supermarket I have been in that sells plants, I have not seen any evidence, ever, that would back up the notion that they should be allowed to sell them in the first place.Selling plants is not like selling tins of beans. The live plants need care whilst there to keep them looking nice,...

I agree. Also I look after some disabled people on benefits and one of them has lost his winter Warm Home Discount but not through any higher income (he can't work). They have moved the administration of it from the power companies (who just reduced their bills by the set amount if they were...

Wondering if anybody can recommend a good brand of long handled shears for cutting large wide hedges etc, not long handled grass edging shears. Most of the brands I have had a look at on the net are telescopic which in my experience are dreadful and after the last telescopic tool I bought which...

Yesterday RHS Bridgewater was open till 9pm for a special event, so i went to take advantage of the golden hour, when the sun is low in the sky. There was some thin cloud at times but the light was still good. The Camassias, Bistort and Candelabra Primulas were at their peak. There was a coot...