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Sea buckthorn is great and has lovely berries (if they send both sexes) but you'll only need a single row of them! They're very robust.

You've already got a few nice hostas there @potted ! The irises, though gorgeous flowers, do not flower for very long and can look a bit tatty afterwards. I would suggest maybe small shrubs that could sit in pots and look decent even when out of flower - hebes, or heathers if you want smaller....

So a question on today’s GQT from Glamorgan, “has anyone grown mangelwurzel,” so no one unsurprisingly grew this in the audience and surprisingly too no one of the panel (Chris Beardshaw, Beth Coredon and Anna Switherbank) have grown this.I bet Bob Flowerdew has, so have you?

Whilst I wouldn't pretend to know the ins and out of the different types of bus, we do have both single and double deckers thru the village on a regular basis - HPC 2, school and community buses. Narrow road and this house is on a sharp bend, no pavement and with about 6 inches to spare between...

What a good result @hailbopp, not surprised you are now on your knees. You will have deserved a good rest when the sale is over.

What do you experienced gardeners make of this video? Basically the guy just cuts all the leaves off his fern. Some people in the comments say that's a terrible idea, others say it works, and some say it depends which type of fern.I've been feeling like cutting 2 of my tattered three ferns...

Good plan.

Thank you everyone, it is covered in flower buds so I'll keep it potted near the back door for fragrance and then consider where to put it. We had a pretty cold winter for here and it would have been sat outside in the sales beds during that, so is probably a lot more hardy than I had considered.

That plant looks like Euryops pectinatus. A common sub shrub that's used in a lot of public planting schemes.

We love our Lakeland airfryer - one big drawer with a removable divider. Bought silicon dishes which are dishwasher-proof to save on the mess.

I used to top dress my clay soil with loads of it, and it was a family challenge with the kids to get to the mushrooms first. Although I know they add chalk, it didn't seem to affect the plants, but I never tried making compost purely with it.