Garden Projects and DIY

I think the neighbours had been considering the idea, but the council said no. I believe one issue we have is the street should still technically be available for vehicles to access, even though nothing bigger than a small car has attempted it as long as I've been there. Supposedly it has to be...

Things are starting to brighten up in the midlands

There is always artificial grass. A friend with bad health problems bought very expensive stuff and it almost looks like the real thing.

I share the concerns re weight but if you were doing this then I would have thought bamboo would have a relatively long lifespan. At least as long as the plastic, which will get brittle eventually

Yeah but if you treat it it might last 30 yrs.

That's a lovely transformation Anguisfragilis.

As I haven't asked you to pay for it, the cost needn't concern you.

Shed gone ! Now what to do ? many choices

Thanks for your input everyone. I've had a play around with this border and come up with the following...There's the area under the Amelanchier which is still bare and looking for ideas for underplanting this (yellow highlighted area). I will probably leave a good portion around the tree bare...

Thank you @Golarne for the suggestions of Geranium. It's a plant I really love. Last year I went to 3 local nurseries looking for Geraniums and found next to nothing, there always used to be so many to choose from and I wasn't sure why there just weren't many around.Cimifuga I think is a bit...

Thanks again for your recommendations everyone. I thought I would provide an update in case anyone reading this thread is curious.I went through the key options with my partner and he loved the option that I also had a soft spot for (lithodora). Some of the other options...

I agree, I think the lime green goes well with the Salvia.

We had the same situation as 66. Contacted the company. We do not do not supply spare panels was their response. This was despite a neighbour telling us it had arrived in kit form. Warned the public of this companies attitude on a well known review site. Taken down after a week as the company...

When you dig, pay attention to the colour of the material you remove. It is likely that you will find at least one layer of plastercine like texture, often due to consolidation while wet. If you find a layer that is grey/blue/green, that indicates that it contains vivianite, a mineral...

Thankyou very much for your suggestions, some great ones. I will have a look and play around with some ideas.Many thanks,E

Thank you for everyone's really helpful advice. The best deal I could find was with Gtech. Cost slightly over £50 (£56) with free, fast delivery. Have only drilled thick plastic pots so far, but very happy. Battery is 2.5ah. the drill seems solid. Cordless Combi Drill | Electric Power Tools | Gtech

If you trim conifers, you only take off the new growth, so to keep them at a height/size you like, that's the annual task. Once you cut back too far, that's when you have the problems as most won't recover from that. You can certainly prune the Pittosporum in all sorts of ways, so you may be...

The area to the back of us has a blanket TPO covering thousands of trees, set up in 1971. I've recently asked the council to review it as it's not appropriate to good tree health and they're looking very tatty and congested now. I don't think councils tend to use blanket TPOs now so that's a...

Thank you @fairygirl and @infradig never considered them getting eaten and I agree, I don't want too much of the same.

You could also try brushing hard with sharp sand or even a bag of lawn sand, which kills moss. Might be a lot cheaper if a lot more effort!