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HiI’ve attached some pictures and am looking for advice as they look like they’re dying!- 2 pics of honeysuckle at the trellis: this was planted back in spring and is growing and flowering, however, you’ll see the leaves are all white and diseased looking. I’ve bought some spray for it but...

Thank you all for your replies (I’ve just noticed some now!). I hope my honeysuckle grows as well as yours, very nice pictures! I like clematis but chose honeysuckle as it doesn’t get much light, especially at the roots. It’s not looking too good so fingers crossed it keeps growing!

I forgot to add that some varieties of courgettes that produce yellow fruits have yellowish leaves, that cause some gardeners to think they have a problem, but that's not the case here.

Hi B-leaf, can I ask are your Acers in the ground or in large pots and what are the variety names?. There is a slight difference in how you would care for those in soil or those in pots. It sounds like you're doing all the right things anyway as they seem to be in good condition. Acers don't...

I think the one watering a week is fine as long as it is a good through watering around the root area, not just a spraying over the top. If it was pot grown there is a chance that the roots are struggling to get out of the rootball especially if the rootball dried out just after planting.

Not a sweet pea grower by any means but I think it's normal.I've seen the serious growers layering their plants when they reach the top of the supports. They untie the plants and lay the leaf less stems along the ground and retie them in lower down and further along the row.

I'm no expert but is it a viral mutation? I can't believe it's due to where they are growing.....

Thanks Nigel

Only lettuce I've grown is the kind that forms hearts. The slugs get at the outer leaves but you dont use them, just the heart which is usually slug free.

Good to know! Hopefully be ok then!

This is my first year of doing a flower garden. Probably I'm wrong, but i assumed that there would be some blooms by this stage. The picture shows a row of poppies near the fence (an afterthought to fill in the gap!) three Hydrangeas (one mop head the other 2 paniculata), Antirrhinum,...

I've seen similar with white fly on the undersides of the leaf, but they are pretty obvious if they are around.

Thanks all for your input. Lydney skip hire came in cheapest at £16.70/t. Will give an update on quality when it is down.Thanks again everyone. Paul

They can be trained upwards if you have a sturdy enough framework. You would need to support the squash if you did so.

Probably not tall varieties, the label lied Not unusual. They might have been treated to dwarf them but I wouldn't have thought so.

Dandelions are very good for pollinating insects, especially bees of all sorts in spring when the bees first emerge and when there are often not many nectar rich flowers about. Once seed is set finches, particularly Linnets and Goldfinches come to feed on them. Watching this is one of my...

Normally you dead head as soon as the flowers are finished. Not sure if they will flower again this year if you do it now, but its worth a try.

Blackberry wine for me.

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