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You are probably correct, @pete, he could have been thinking of Greenland, which he kept calling Iceland, although it is Denmark that he said wouldn’t hand it over to him. Or maybe he meant the Chagos islands, but I don’t think anyone was offering to give them to him? Who knows what is going on...

Thank you CarolineLI have not done very well, I was so keen to get into this that I bought items before I asked for advice, I was not aware that sellers would mislead to sell their stock, as a previous post mentioned. It looks like I will have to put everything to one side and start again with...

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...

Do you have opera glasses or binoculars? You could see if there are buds starting to open. I wouldn’t necessarily expect leaves but Catkins. But I’m not an expert in this. I checked my images when I took a picture of a willow and this had male Catkins at the end of March.

I've always been a fan of pressure cookers and have an aged Prestige Hi Dome (you can still get spares for it), my mother had a similar one. I find it useful for cooking some pulses, making soup and stock, marmalade, cooking bacon joints and similar.They do, mine has 3 possible weights 5, 10...

I'm not surprised you getting 10 different answers, there's not a lot to go by at the moment until it gets some leaves at least.The growth habit looks similar to Hibiscus but that is just a wild guess.

We're in Ile de France, so quite far North. The soil in our garden has many earthworms in it - I'm hoping that's a good sign!

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...

Over many years I've bought from CPA Horticulture - mushroom compost & horse manure every year and I've had bulk composted bark chippings and 25T top soil. All of it has been of very good quality. Even substantial amounts of manure or compost are available in 75 litre bags which makes life...

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