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I think I’d go for something with contrasting foliage shape or foliage colour in that location I have a variegated Griselinia in a similar position, it’s evergreen and the variegation makes the area feel brighter all year. The flowers are insignificant but I don’t mind. There’s also a...

A short video of the Great Britain tour steam hauled train on the edge of our village today

Yeah, there will always be speculation regarding these kinds of thing, who knows.

Know what you mean, often tried to come up with a practical idea for some automatic variable shading using slats or roller blinds etc operated by a motor or linear actuator but finding some material strong and light enough and that can withstand some wind etc hard to find without spending a...

I don't know Bordeaux but @Busy-Lizzie maybe able to help you.

Maybe too little light as well - if I was to sow it now, or even end of March or so, it would have a cover [ie in a basic propagator] and grown on for quite a while. The lack of light is a bigger problem here than further south though. Hope another, later sowing will take. I used to leave a...

Used the Stihl to cut the paths in the orchard this morning. First time for many weeks as far too wet for so long. Grass very lush but mower coped well. One battery used.

Thanks all.They are in 3" pots, which I think is enough room. In an unheated area with a glass roof, so plenty of light, but getting a boost when there is no direct sun, from grow lights.Temperature has to be the key...? I had thought that because they are half hardy, outside would be a bit...

I wondered why there was no bird on the feeders today, then I saw why, a sparrowhawk eating its lunch in my back garden. They're very beautiful and awesome at manoeuvring and all that, but I wish they wouldn't eat 'my' birds and leave bits for me to clear up.

Thank you, we had wondered about bamboo but know very little about. From what I've just read it can be very tall and has quite a large spread. But perhaps it can be kept very narrow. Attached image shows drive width and you can see that no plant can spread far beyond that right side gravel/wall...

There's a few white varieties, but Abbotswood is the most common one, and readily available. I have two here

That's how the link was showing for me @Palustris, but I wasn't sure about it showing correctlyWe regularly used to get scammers on the phone at work - it went in cycles of around 3 or 4 weeks. Great fun winding them up. One of them was very persistent, and was clearly having a bad day. When...