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Thank you @hard_stone_84 That is very tempting and flattering. I work full time and I'm trying to maintain a decent work/life balance so I don't think I could do part time work on top of that - at least not at the moment. However, if there's something that you would like an opinion on, I would...

I understand Willow Tits are almost extinct, because people are feeding the birds and there are many more Blue Tits than there should be, and they kill the Willow Tits and destroy their nests and throw the eggs out. Then they build their own nests in that place. Apparently it is very worrying...

I did wonder whether you had misread the depth @ViewAhead, I had to read the post a couple of times myself .

Sometimes it's not the name but the description of the plant. I think it was a rose named after Eleanor Roosevelt which flatteringly said "not good in a bed, but fine up against a wall", or at least that's the story.I've also heard that salvia hot lips was going to be called hooker lips...

Thanks for posting that Really made me smile .

Oh the battery one could take a finger without stopping, which is why my left hand is in my pocket or elsewhere when using it! For example I had to do a brutal cut back of a privet hedge that had been badly maintained. The reciprocating saw did a lot, but there were places it couldn't, and the...

I've grown both skirret and salsify, I got enough to for a meal or two, but didn't really bother again. Purple sprouting broccoli, hardy, can make a large plant and produces edible shoots at this time of year, these can be eaten raw in salad or briefly cooked.

@pete it’s 10pm on Friday 22 MayAnd right now a normal ticket (for non RHS members) for 22 May is £137

It's a lot dryer and grainy than I was expecting tbh.

That’s one of the many benefits of gardening @CostasK, learning from your mistakes, we all do it. There used to be a thread called something like gallery of shame on the old GW forum, not just amusing but helpful. I could certainly contribute to that .