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The US will want a puppet in place, who will be rewarded handsomely for allowing US companies to do as they wish (eg flout environmental laws) and unceremoniously discarded if they do not, to be replaced by a tamer puppet. And so on.

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I like the look of that Chilean myrtle @Perki, have you grown it where you are? I grow both the plain green and variegated Griselinia here, either as hedging or clipped specimen plants although they can make good trees. They are comparatively fast growing too but not much wildlife appeal as the...

Starting a new thread for 2026.M&S had Amaryllis reduced to £1.87 so I got two The Child got a ceramic jug planter with Muscari (£2), she's a romantic style person and the jug is just the right size for her windowsill emergency watering can.

@JoaoThere’s plenty of advice, ideas and chat on here.

Morse was the only one I followed, but don't forget Minder with Dennis Waterman or The Sweeney with John Thaw and Dennis Waterman (probably too violent to be made or repeated these days)

It ok here to, it was abit slow when i click on new post but now it seems ok may be that's because of our slow broadband but it's now back to normal

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...

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...