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Thank you Pete. That’s good to know.

I always shake the seeds of foxgloves where I'd like them to grow. Sometimes they oblige, but often not. They're one of those plants that seem to do best when you let them self-sow and grow where they like.

A house up the road from me has had a fantastic display of these in the front garden for years, I noticed the old boy who lived there has died earlier in the year and the house has been sold.So probably all be under tarmac at some point.

It might not be dead yet, but that big hole/split in the bark doesn't look healthy, and it's planted very close to the wall. I'm guessing it was one of those ball-on-a-stick topiary trees that are so popular these days, but I doubt whether it'll ever grow back like that. If it were mine I would...

Thank you CarolineL, I should of known nothings for free

Compost. I said earlier I had a couple of bags earlier in the year of Compost that nothing grew in, plants just stood still and the roots withered. I'm almost sure it was contaminated with some kind of weed killer.

Seafigicecoffe is 100% correct with her advice. I took me years to realise that you could be so brutal with a rose. But as another thought what about cutting it back and buying a Arch or obelisk and let it clamber up that. It could look great.

I'd have thought so too, but the 3 my neighbour has are by their north-facing front door. They do get a couple of hours sun early morning in the summer, but the rest of the year there in shade but get reasonably decent light.

I get that on my front lawn. I call it my string grass and it usually appears after a drought. So I get down on my hands and knees and cut it short with scissors. It's not the whole lawn, just small patches.

Thank you all for the advice. It's an area that is about 36m2 I'd guess - so will have to work out what the best incentive is for the kids!Fortunately, already have some paved area - although that's a shocker too and so will be the next laborious job Today's patch uncovered hundreds of...

Make sure you check what the animals have been eating. I finished up with a border of thistles and it took a few years to get rid of them.

Hello all - medium-term lurker, first time poster here - hoping to tap into the fountain of knowledge this excellent forum provides!We're FTBuyers of a lovely house with an equally lovely south-facing back garden, but my green finger experience is nil - however I'm now fully invested in...

Hiyou will need to feed the potatoes

The tips look a bit frosted to me.

What's under the plastic? I'm going to hazard a guess that the house is a relative new build and the developer left a load of crud there and covered it up. If you remove the weed membrane then you can see what you're dealing with but I expect lots of Mediterranean plants and lavender would be...

My tulips were all up before the weather turned dry. I was more worried they would rot in their pots, with the enormous quantity of rain we had over the winter.I had very good performance from all my newly bought bulbs. The bulbs I'd saved from last year produced small, papery flowers or were...

Thank you much appreciated.

@Joel Bailey It would be an idea to give people an idea of your location as advice can depend on location.

I still think that the trigger needs to be 'the other side 'of one of the loops, whether it is wrongly assembled or suffered shock in transit.

Well its funny this lawn thing should crop up because we've had a similar problem please allow me to explain...we have a 100 foot back garden mostly lawn with borders however for a few years we had this patch of grass that refuses to show any enthusiasm no matter what I've tried i.e. feed,...