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Eco plugs will work not cheap and is a professional product but can be bought off ebay .

Thank you and all the helpful replies. I planted a clematis Alionushka on trellis on the left side of the door the trellis for ease of painting the workshop (my wife keeps calling it the shed). I am thinking also the plant the arbutus shrub to go over the fence next the workshop to as mentioned...

The picture looks lovely with the rose and 'Rozanne'. My only worry would be to have thorns of the rose in the seating area. Reading the RHS description, Sorbaria has a habit of being a sucker. I would be careful with that. I tend to make my life easier and plant what behaves well without...

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Thanks for the advice with my sweet peas, but going to hold off for a week as I see there is low pressure coming in over the Atlantic. So going to wait for the next warm spell.

I reuse the compost from my Potato bags each year, I do refresh with new compost and feed. No problems so far

Which bit of France @LilyTL ? There are a few of us here and all with different weather and soils.

@LilyTL, yes, you can re-use the compost from the pots but you should remove any roots first. The removed compost would benefit from some granular fertiliser being mixed with it and/or some bagged manure to beef it up before re-using either in pots or in the garden.

Over 30 plants gone in over the past couple months. Here's some updated pictures.Still yet to tackle the patio area.Have put in a lot of evergreens. 2 holly, 5 euonymus, 1 bamboo, 6 red robins, 2 pieris, 3 yew, and a few others I can't remember.

Tulips are such photogenic flowers!

Hi all,An update on my planter. Sadly the heather didn't do very well and the Thyme is just about hanging in there.The Bugle I found reduced at the garden centre and seems to like it there so have planted that today in there and removed those plants that started growing in there.I could...

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You're welcome. It's a good plant to have a go with as the success rate is high. Maybe 80% of cuttings will take and grow on happily.

Okay, so this is the plan, such that is. I admit that what I know about gardening could be written on the back of a cigarette-paper, have little time for faffing around, and yet, I hope for more than I deserve.I have bought Cornflower (tall mix). Why? Because I like Cornflowers. Ditto with...

That variety does very well here and I have a few self seeded ones pop up every year, even though I never bought one to begin with. The only downside is they never self seed where I would like them so most come out for the local plant sale.