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It's looking pretty good already, they do take a while to get going.A general purpose feed like Growmore will help.Depends on how tall you want it, wait until it's nearly reached your preferred height then snip the tops - that will make it bush out more.

Tropaeolum peregrinum , canary creeper . Nice vine grows very well twining through something . I found it self seeded for a couple off years after.

For some reason I think the first plant is a Gardenia. The second one with the dark leaf a Berberis and the third one a Daffodil which looks as if it's growing blind (not flowering) as JazzSi said. I'd dig it out as it's unlikely to flower, there will be a bulb at the base of the stem.

Ok thanks ill have a look for a detection kit and see what is in the spil

So a little later than I had planned I finally got the hance to get out and tackle the conifers! I am 3/4 of the way through I have 2 conifer stumps left out of 11! Lot of hard work but I knew it wouldn't be easy. I have attached pictures as promised will finish the last 2 tomorrow as I run out...

Plan C , AKA compost bin

It claims to kill off tree stumps, so works on woody stuff.....it's worth a try!

Plum Pudding is 1 of the few Heuchera I can grow in my soil here (maybe not good enough drainage/too cold/don't know!) Palace Purple is fine but many of the fancy coloured ones don't accept here. With Plum Pudding and no doubt with other varieties they are really easy from cuttings.When they...

I have the old fabric from our trampoline currently acting as a weed membrane. It's still early days do hard to tell how successful it's been, but I'm wondering whether I could create a raised bed for flowers/strawberries on top of it without them suffering? It lets water through fine and I'd be...

Not heard of this, but if it has been in the shed for over a year I wouldn't use it. Mix it into your borders instead to improve the soil. Any MP should be fine so those other two you mention will do.Only if it's broken down (composted), don't use fresh manure.

Thank you noisette you are very, very kind

It's so lovely to see black elder leaves coming out. One of my favourite shrubs, it looks a bit like an acer!

Think we all do that from time to time.

That's an interesting one Andre. I am beginning to realise there are quite a variety of these plants.

Just as here ,

I don't even have a mower anymore, I ended up employing a gardener to cut the grass!

Thanks everyone for the advice. It's quite a small patch at the moment, with potential to get bigger if and when I choose. Probably around 3.5m x 1.5m.Think I'll go down the pull-em-out route, as I'm hopefully going to be time-rich!Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Not the ideal hedging choice On a serious note, maybe you could offer them to a local school or similar?Not sure that I would want that in there as it can get rather rampant.

In my experience that is down to soil being too damp.I should have said that the covers are used after pricking out for a few days only.

Thanks for your advice! I'll check them tomorrow.