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And you get to choose if you are a Red Giant or a White Dwarf or something in between ("a regular Sun please, no sugar")

There is a photo of the area set back.

That is perfect, @Busy-Lizzie! Apart from carrot, which I have never successfully grown, you have pretty much listed what I grow for the kitchen! Well, also peas, beans, courgettes, and chillies (which are in a lovely cocoon of their own) - but I can grow them in the lower garden! Onwards and...

Thanks for all your replies. After watching various videos I've decided to go ahead and plant them and keep my fingers crossed.

Hiand looking great and very neat and tidy . I also bought some grasses from Parker’s and the word small is the wrong word to use lol .. mine have been planted in Malaysian huge pots, the roots were huge so they will soon get going.Spruce

That looks fine That's about the height that I reduce my Verbena bonariensis to. Your Perovskia shouldn't be tempting for slugs anyway because of the strongly scented, tough, silvery foliage. They don't touch my Salvia Caradonna which is in the same family (mint).

Thanks Pete. now planted.

Qthanks for the update , glad it’s looking good .

I can't just sit or watch TV all day. although I watch a fair amount of nature/geographic/wildlife/crime programmes. I like to spend time outside doing what I can in the garden, and indoors I crochet a lot for charity as I like to keep my hands busy. I like vegetables .. but the thought off...

I like the moat method for seedlings I sow in the greenhouse and it works well (I put the legs of the stand in water so I have more room) but you do get intrepid slugs that scale the greenhouse glass and glide down on a mucus rope from above, like a wildlife mission impossible. I've tried...

Think one of the biggest draws to rats is BBQs, especially 'chilled out' neighbours, not tiding up, or leaving the tidying until morning after a jolly good BBQ.

I've only just found this thread. What a lovely transformation you have made in such a small space too.We are currently looking at moving and have been viewing gardens that are heavily overlooked liked yours was. It's really lovely to see what you've done with your garden and has given me...