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‘They’ has always been used for the second person singular where the gender was unknown or uncertain … eg ‘If someone has picked up my book by mistake I hope they will return it.’ It is therefore not a change of use to refer to a single person as ‘they’.Changes in the meaning of a word have...

Russian friends have told us that it’s well known that cloud seeding is used in Russia to ensure fine weather for big parades and other important events.

Love Buff Orpington’s and Marans You’re right … Silkies aren’t great layers (only 2or 3 a week) but are well known for going broody and have a reputation for being great for brooding and hatching eggs of other breeds for smallholders and smallscale poultry keepers … in earlier times they were...

When the flowers finish I mow the lot as they all grow in the grass, they come back next year.

I always think if starting in pots its best not to completely cover them, leave the neck of the plant above soil level.

I see You'd still be able to have plants directly into the gravel, in the way I described with those little sedums I have, if you grow them on initially in pots or trays, so that they have a little layer of soil to help them. Those sorts of plants which need very little help [thymes and sedums...

Good for the mind - the decluttering As well as for the garden

Fingers crossed for you @Debs64

Looks about right. And a very happy plant it seems to be! Mine died (clay soil), but here’s a close up of the flower for comparisonSaxifraga arendsii ‘Pixie Rose’

The main problem I had was that a lot of my pond was very shallow @Thevictorian , so the water warmed up very quickly. It was impossible to get the depth I wanted at the time I was doing it, but I've been digging it out recently to make it deeper. This thread has just made me wonder if I should...

My rough rule of thumb re putting dahlias outside is this. If it’s good enough for tomato plants to go out, it’s okay for the dahlias too. Unless you had a very deep frost, I suspect the cold will have only nipped the green growth and the tubers will be ok. Move them to a greenhouse/somewhere...

Nothing useful to add as it looks ok to me. We have a small one to help pollinate our other apples and I do know it's a french variety and was named after Eve Reste, not the closely spelt mountain as some people think.