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Landscaping has now mostly completed and I'm now able to share pictures of the beds (in alphabetical order). Please let me know your planting suggestions.

Hello allI Hope you are Well.Well, the Garden Camera has Failed I am going to be getting New Security Cameras Installed in a Couple of Months anyway, Hopefully.Maybe the Garden Camera found out I am looking at a Synology Camera as it is designed to work with Synology Surveillance...

I've half answered your query Penny on the Wakey Wakey thread.At the moment I'm growing Mara des bois ones in pots in my lean to greeenhouse to keep away slugs, snails and woodlice. They are smaller but sweeter and crop for longer. Previously I'd bought a pack of 3 different kinds, Florence,...

Looks a match to me for Cardamine hirsuta.Structure and Shape: The leaves are pinnately compound, meaning they have a central stem (rachis) with multiple leaflets arranged on either side. There are typically 3 to 7 pairs (sometimes 5-15) of lateral leaflets, plus a single, distinct, terminal...

Thanks everyone. I think I've successfully moved it. Oddly it didn't have masses of roots. These Davjd Austin roses have resly struggled in my garden

We went there a few years ago - my dream garden!

Haven't listened to GQT recently but whilst producing Watercress in running water is the ideal method, it can definitely be grown and provide a decent harvest in a pot - or even in a garden pond. I've done and eaten both and still alive and kicking . Obviously depends on your site/surroundings...

I agree, very cheery.

HelloThe one I purchased, with 30m of Hose, reaches the end of the Back Garden, not Hard to do, and more importantly, reaches all of the Front Garden too I made sure to Measure before I Ordered and it came to 26m so at 30m all is Good Kevin

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.