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The shops always have arrangements of plants in baskets or whatever, trimmed up with ribbons/bows/general glittery tat, and they seem to sell well. I fear most of them will barely last longer than a bunch of flowers though.

50/50 - partially ignore, partially tidy up. I have loads of ivy climbing the wall - it (ivy) tends to bush up on the top of the wall every year; cherry laurels in the end of the garden - not my choice, they were there as large trees when I moved in - I had a gardener to reduce those to bare...

My last bloom, probably for the year ...

Still flowers are appearing. Today I have Turbinicarpus viereckiiWhile I await Turbinicarpus flaviflorusand Turbinicarpus horripilusWinter gets brighter at times. Seasons greetings all.Fof

Thanks i will think about this

Don't believe it about the mice. We used to find just bundles of leaves where the mice had eaten the crocus corm underneath.

Sounds OK. Do you have a photo which would help.

I am not sure regarding greenhouse / conservatory (and the shed sounds like a definite no). I have a Kentia Palm in the corner next to the conservatory door (but within the main house) and it is surviving. Based on a quick look, yours should be a bit more cold tolerant than that, but still it's...

Agree, but here it is a gooseberry being pruned.

Talking about traditional English words:-Banish the use of the four-letter words! Whose meanings are never obscure. The Angles, the Saxons, those hardy old birds, Were vulgar, obscene and impure. But cherish the use of the weaselling phrase That never quite says what you mean. You’d better...

One of mine is just a mass of roots but no flowers, maybe it needs a bit of attention.

Thank you @Spruce I shall do that ...

Stepovers might be better in that situationI planted two cordon apples on our east facing wall more than ten years and although they blossom, it's only this year that we had a very small crop. However I have very rarely watered them so that might be why, plants have to sink or swim in this...

Lovely blue sky too @Victoria .

Gardeners’ World is gradually changing, the BBC are pivoting away from the one main presenter format to several presenters, this is due to scandals in particular Hugh Edwards, they also want to move away from the pale, male and stale look, a better example of this, is Bargain Hunt when it...

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Agreed. Ive also got a Turbinicarpus horripilus, that I got in the summer, budding up. Looking forward to seeing that one.

Marvellous @Ante1 . He loves it, he looks so content.

@Allex50 , I forgot to say earlier, from your description of your Allotment soil it sounds like clay based. Highly probable as many plots are. Although it has its challenges one advantage of clay is that it's naturally fertile so may not require so many inputs as other soils. That said...