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Will do. Thanks

I would just say somewhere in the sun, and sheltered from the wind if it's soft and indoor-grown, until it's hardened off. Rosemary is pretty hardy, just doesn't like its feet wet, but all young plants grown under glass need hardening off gradually. I've just been outside and the wind has turned...

Some more Camellia photos.

I only grow mine in pots and find they do better when south facing. Been in the GH for some time now in order to avoid our incessant rain.

If you want something unusual try Ugni. They are related to blueberries but the fruit ripen much later and have a fragrant taste - we liked them, more for snacking on than pies I suspect. I bought the variegated one and have it in my front garden. I think it would be OK in a pot.

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

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...

Me too! Lots of early colour there, We do have daffodils, but currently the naturalised ones near here are sitting in puddles of rain water, so I hope the bulbs don't rot off in the ground.

@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...

They arrived today, the rootstocks have rather poor root systems so i potted them up instead of planting them out. Give them summer and see if the grafts take.Good lord it was exhausting grafting them all. I decided to graft the scion then do 2 bud Grafts in the hope at least one of them...

Oh no, that voice is like sandpaper on a pane of glass. I can’t bear it. And I can only see in my mind’s eye those hands doing the accordion player thing.

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...

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