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If I was growing a single stemmed tree I'd wait three to five years before attempting to raise the canopy, depending on the tree, for the reasons described by Amelanchiers are more shrub like and your multi stemmed plant should be fine if you just remove the branches nearest to the ground...

If the conditions are suitable for fungi, there are probably several varieties involved. To stop that happening and get rid of those already there it just needs less moisture in their environment, so more ventilation and a less moist compost will achieve that.Most years I get some fungi...

I used to change the page and then go and make a cup of tea, usually it would have just about loaded by the time I got back.I thought it was amazing.

Happy new year everyone

The winter jasmine is in full flower here and the sweet box in bud, but there's no sign of my snowdrops yet. Although we've had a few frosty nights I still have quite a few hangers-on - the usual suspects mostly (salvias, pelargoniums, fuchsia microphylla, feverfew). More surprising is this...

Welcome to Gardners Corner Happy new year !

Well done Colin

Thanks @lizzie27 for the warning. Very much appreciated. Where currently the Johnsons Blue is, I will dig it through carefully. Both Hardy Geraniums in the ‘Japanese’ bed with the newly planted multi-stem Birch and 3 ferns, they are too high and big for it. Maybe I plant the Pulmonaria into...