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24th February 2026The 24th marks five years since we moved to this house. I've never stopped since we got here, what with all the decorating, landscaping, observatory build, railway build and gardening, but we love it here. Part of that is my new found connection to nature.I've always...

My oldest wheelbarrow may have fitted your criteria as it had a few holes but they were from rust. There was one drawback with it. The wheel that was on it rusted off last year . It went into the skip with the old greenhouse that was falling down.The greenhouse was only 50 years old and the...

I think it is about 2.5ft deep, so a fair size. Whatever is in there gets watered daily along with the hanging baskets etc. I do actually have the components of an auto-watering system in the shed, just not had time to install it... maybe that is a task for this year

I have found they grow well in an east facing border next to a wall where it is quite dry. I started with 5 and over the years they have multiplied well. Yes they do grow better halfway out. I think the bulbs ripen better then.

I tried the lemon and white chocolate hot cross buns and found it a nice change. I asked hubby if he liked his cherry bakewell one two days ago and he can't remember having had one. Men!

Olivia Rose Austin may also be suitable, judging by the picture in the Handbook which arrived today.

@CarolineL That was what I thought, it was around certainly all morning and into the afternoon. That rosemary is in flower just about all year round and over winter on a sunny day plays host to various bees and flies.

@Perki I bought that Acer in 2020 out of naivety that red leaves look nice. Reality was that in the first spring, it lost all its leaves to leave scorch. I took it out of the ground and put it into a barrel pot for 2 years to have it in a shade corner. It had a poor life because a tree in a pot...

Thanks @NigelJ - that looks good.

Oops! Sorry @cactus-girl I repeated what you said. We must watch the same programmes.

The bed is 6m x 1/2m two strips. Bit expensive and labour intensive with straw. Vine weevil I did not know about, I'll look that up. I will dig out the older plants and let the new suckers take over.

Hi, another climbing hydrangea question, does anyone grow "bright side"? It is another plant I was given, not something I'd personally buy but am willing to see if I'm wrong. When I received it the leaves were quite scorched. I don't know if this was because it was in a pot and last summer was...