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Yes. If it was a long blade you should then tilt the angle of the blade, handle raised very slightly, on the stone as you go round the curve. On a short blade it doesn't really matter much.

Hello @Dan1981, I think it depends on what you find when you remove the paving and start digging. My building experience is limited so I can’t advise on the technicalities here. For anything that you plant though, there needs to be adequate drainage below ground as would be needed with a...

Great thread, especially on a very dull wet day.

Good to hear that @Victoria and your welcome.

Not sure what you are trying to do?

The crab looks like it has a decent trunk thickness so you could get away with removing some of the lower growth but it doesn't look to bad to me, as it is. I'd probably leave it if it was mine unless there are any branches that interfere with each other or areas where you want to stimulate...

Lucky you, no frosts. In England we throw them on the compost every year and buy or sow new ones in spring. In fact, I thought it was an annual!

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:

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...

@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.