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I hope so @ViewAhead !! Good luck with them!!

@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...

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

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

Thanks @NigelJ - that looks good.

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...

Hi, does anyone grow schizophragma hydrangeoides? I was given one some years back and it's done well but not been in its forever spot yet. Was wondering how and where people are growing it? I know it would do well up a tree and that they grow massive but despite it seemingly loving the full sun...

As well as the Lonicera nitida another which may do well is Griselina - evergreen, quite fast growing and doesn't appear susceptible to disease.

Job done -- with the help of a friend. Thanks for all the suggestions.

@Palustris I'll wait for it to flower. It's wedged itself between a geranium and a veronica. If it behaves like the lesser jobs, it's unlikely to do any harm.

Hello allThanks for the Replies, it is appreciated.Kevin

Morning All,Many thanks for your replies and advice, we took it on board so we'll wait and see what happens. The trees are very old, if you push them they rock in the ground so I doubt they'll last much longer. We lost one at the back end of last year that had completely gone, so much so that...

Definitely one I'd grab, but it seems out of stock everywhere!

I think you need to thin it out a bit to allow air to flow and sunlight to penetrate.Use a clean, sharp pair of secateurs to remove any broken or crossing stems and any you can see are dead or diseased. Stand back and look again and see where you can reduce congestion then give it a good...

Better still, you belong here with the GC family - the best of the bunch!

I repurposed surplus concrete patio tiles as stepping stones, using an angle grinder to soften the shape into something less square. Picture below shows the shape - the wonkiness comes from not being level-headed. On places like gumtree you may find tiles that you can recycle. I don't mind that...