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If Rooks build high up, it will be a warm summer. If no Rook around, there will be no summer

Not a heron - we have loads of them here on the Thames. They are much more angular birds, standing around waiting for fish and looking elegantly gawky. This rounder softer looking bird is some kind of a wader - maybe a greenshank or godwit as @Selleri says. Or a dunlin, or a sandpiper?

Gladioli for me. Something about them just looks like they belong in a vase and not in a border. Leylandii obviously, but that's basically cheating as an answer. I've also never got on with begonias, they always look slightly plastic to me no matter what variety.

You can use it as a mulch to improve soil texture on a bed but it will be completely depleted of minerals and fertilisers so, if keeping it the pot you need to add some slow release fertiliser such as blood, fish and bone or pelleted chicken manure and some leaf mould or other fibrous matter to...

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Those windows would make a brilliant cold frame, honestly probably more useful than as bed sides. For the raised bed itself, about 30cm deep is plenty for most veg. You could get some lettuce, radish and spring onions going now and they'll be fine under fleece if it's still chilly where you are.

Alpine strawberries do really well in partial shade, they actually prefer it to full sun. Gooseberries are worth a go too, they're one of the few fruit bushes that genuinely don't mind a shadier spot.

it makes a lot of sense!! Thanks for sharing your opinión!!

Mega bucks would mean moving somewhere warm, but just a million would mean I'd stay where I am but just do things I'd like, heated greenhouse would be nice, but I think I'd just wish it had happened earlier mostly.

I've always thought a good rule in general is you dont plant out plants that are already flowering. So most bedding plants get pinched back in my place if showing flowering buds.Plants you buy are more often than not already flowering, because they sell better that way.