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Very interesting. I used to spend hours on hands and knees pulling out masses of clover. Now, being a lot older, the knees suffer, I can't really see the clover unless on top of it and from a distance it looks to me like I have the best "lawn" in the world - another plus for old(er) age.

Looks like one of the large family of moth caterpillars known as cutworms that feed on low growing plants. They aren't usually a problem in gardens but it can be quite hard to identify to species. Very rarely do you get densities of them high enough to do major damage.All larger moths are...

I'd hazard a guess you have to stamp (put it in a machine) the ticket when you start your journey. I've seen this in Italy and to a small degree in parts of the UK (Newcastle metro?). The danger is it catches you off guard as the driver ignores passengers getting on i.e. not looking for cash or...

If desperate for some greenery there I’d plant a small leaved ivy at intervals along there and let it clothe your side of the wall but keep it clipped tight so that it looks almost like an evergreen hedge. As long as you’re assiduous with regular clipping it shouldn’t be a problem there. It...

Thank you both, I did think it would be OK to lift them now, but I guess I just wanted confirmation! Cheers!

They are one of the last on my list to sow because I need the space for other plants to get going first. I will sow them soon but have found that with longer daylight and more natural heat, they catch up and look better than ones I've sown earlier. I do molly coddle them a little and grow them...

I think if your soil isn't suited, you either have to forget about them, or do the usual method of growing in a container of some kind where you can dictate the growing medium. It would be the same as me trying to grow something that needs quite alkaline soil and really sharp drainage, which...

Unless you have somewhere heated to keep seedlings/small plants when they're pricked out and potted on, it's always a mistake to sow too earlyI'm sure most of us have been there though, and it's very easy to sow too many of everything - just in case...

Bear in mind that some Pieris are also variegated, so you get everything there. I have a fairly new, small one here, and they're certainly popular up here I wasn't sure if it was evergreen you wanted too, or if it didn't matter. Choysias could also be good.I meant to ask though - what was...