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I think the mice get them out whole and take them elsewhere. I often find I have empty pots. But sometimes they replant - one year my broad beans turned up sprouting in the spring in arbitrary other pots! My main complaint is when they nip off seedlings and just leave them when they don't like...

New December Thread here:- What's Looking Good December 2025

Soft Buddleja cuttings will root in water.

If the new growth is flexible enough you could even bend them over and tie it all together as a proper living fence, like this:

If you see them growing naturally in the garden the corm pretty much sits on the surface.

Nature doesnt make many chemicals that arent biodegradable, because eventually it would build up and something would evolve to eat it. This goes for most chemical poisons, though elemental poisons like arsenic can be problematic.Plants filter chemicals into their body quite finely, but metals...

The Yellow one I call April got some buds ...... which opened today albeit a bit raggedly and oramgy due to the cold nights ...

@Adam I Sounds a bit too advanced for me

I know I'm a few years too late,but I did find some of these suggestions veryfunny

If it's in the lawn, just mow it. It is green after all. Weedkillers are noxious to wildlife as well as plants and a real problem as they leach into waterways.I have it appearing in a couple of my hosta pots where it does its thing before the hostas really get going and then get hidden. ...

Clematis Armandii is a bit of a thug, so I wouldn't recommend for that situation. However I have one (cheap from Morrisons!) called clematis x triternata rubromarginata. It's delicate and cute. Not supposed to be evergreen, but it's holding on well. The sites say it's vigorous, but I haven't...

There is a nice dwarf perennial pea lathyrus vernus albo-roseus. Doesn't spread, doesn't climb. But sadly, no perfume. I've never managed to grow the white sprawling one - only the Barbie pink one

I’m quite sure that this is not Camassia in your first pictures. Not that I can tell what it is, but I would take out one and see if it has a bulb or roots like a grass or roots like a cordyline.

yeah... I hacked at the roots a bit and pulled them out.

When I've grown Salvia Patens, they have managed outside down here in the balmy south, but that is in pots under the shelter of the overhanging roof, so they stay fairly dry. I'd say they can cope to about -3 as long as they are not too wet. Any lower than that and I pop them in the garage...

Thank you @NigelJ

Thanks for the replies.

Yes the dreaded beetle , it’s easily sorted with a spray .. but where it was it was a shared hedge and it was me paying out and cutting it all the time ..