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@PoppyB we have a Cytisus that was labelled as "Albus", which is meant to get up to 1.5m max, and it has reached 2.5 m. But that might be an exception.Regarding pyracantha, it all depends on your personal preferences of course. You can thin it out. If on the other hand they are clipped into a...

If you follow the advice given above re ensuring the containers are able to drain well and raise the containers off the ground so excess water can run out, there is little more you can do whilst the rain continues other than providing some form of cover for each container. A few sticks in each...

Yes I agree with previous posts. You need to do a light trim now ( so as not to stimulate overgrowth) and a summer prune later in August or September. With the summer prune you will reduce vigour as you will remove energy from the sap and leaves being taken out. The reason winter pruning...

All my plants are edible but I wouldn't say they are decorative and some have never fruited eg my figs Some plants just constantly die eg my cranberries

I still like my soil block method.

A new year, and I am still picking herbs each week!This week, we have rosemary (one plant is starting to flower!), winter savoury and bronze fennel.

Like detectorists a very slow start but given Mackenzie Crook is the writer of both I suspect it will build. Very niche.

I also grow Miscanthus Morning Light and Miscanthus Zebrinus as well as Calamagrostis Karl Foerster (on Plantminded's advice) all in pots about the same size as yours They all seem to be thriving and the Miscanthus have survived being divided last year.

I've never had success with a bag when air layering so will be fun to see if those gizmos work

I've seen many a slug being munched by a hedgehog, they sound surprisingly crunchy.

I also passed a house near where I live and that had a nice couple of rhododendron in the border, quite close to the rose bushes, should I knock on their door and have a word? I didn’t bother as could tell by the label on the rhododendron it was a cheap one from Lidls*.As they say if you like...

I think they might well do.

Bit late for this year but if you have really claggy clay soil I'd try winter green manure, something like grazing rye, it works if you dig it in when the clay is drying slightly, wait too long and it will be hard work. The rye really helps the drying out in early spring and the roots make the...

That keeps the other lanes clear for us then .

A good one to try which will tolerate clay @Andrew Funnell is Calamagrostis Karl Foerster. It has a columnar form, growing to about 1.5m in flower. Others include Panicum Northwind, also narrow and columnar, and Miscanthus Malepartus which is a larger, vigorous grass. The three have different...

Use your search engine and input - how to use manure for fruit trees. This will help.