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I can't remember the exact name of the yellow variegated one I had - it was no taller than about a metre, so probably one of the cookianum hybrids, not tenax which is the huge one. Called something like Maori Sunrise? I took it out because it was becoming a huge clump and then weeds would grow...

Interestingly enough Buckingham Palace has been updated fairly recently. Certainly it is in better nick and better maintained than the Houses of Parliament.

Yes - we've always been nervous of pressure cookers. It's been a real gamechanger that the airfryer takes the fear out of pressure cooking - it manages the temperature, pressure and timing automatically, and is much better insulated so uses less energy.

Not found anyone local, they only do topsoil and mushroom compost and aggregates, the delivery charges always makes it more expensive than the GC bags in the end unless local, plus you dont really have any idea what you will get, a ton of something pretty awful is not good. I could try a pallet...

Trees, particularly young trees, generally prefer not to have anything in touch with the trunk (other than air). I always leave a gap around the trunk when I'm mulching around a tree, no matter what i'm mulching with - it's like a doughnut with a hole in the middle...

It survives around here is all I can say, dont have it myself but have seen it in gardens.

Don't forget to water them in and they will need watering over the summer.

@Plantminded Who had thought that my garden was fox main road

Was eaten by East Enders here too after the war, so OH.