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If you over water or have bad drainage the roots can rot. You could dig it up and examine the roots. I would have thought it would still have the lower leaves. Never grown these personally. Maybe dig it up improve the soil with compost, replant and hopefully in the Spring all will be fine.

Hello Mark, welcome to GC Opinion is pretty divided on weed-suppressing membrane. I'm a big fan as my garden is on a hefty slope too, and by far the most successful borders are those where I've prepared the soil thoroughly and then planted through membrane. Bark, though, will tend to travel...

Hi Sophie, welcome to GC. It's the 'all year round' factor that limits your choice. But I have had a varigated laurel (aucuba) in a large tub for around ten years. The leaves are always cheerful and the female version produces red berries if a male one is local (that's a long shot on a balcony!)...

Looks a bit like insect attack of some kind. Think I would just prune back the damaged shoots.If you can see any small caterpillars squash them.

Hi Emily, I agree that your Lavender is in the 'wrong' place! Unless you re edge the lawn, grass would soon start to grow through it and make it untidy. It's a great plant to have however. Bees love it and the scent is a welcome one. I would wait till it's past flowering if possible (probably...

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

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.

Is picture one and three some type of geranium and picture two a type of sorbaria?

Acers are sensitive to cold winds and the start of May has been cold and windy. Don't know where you are in the country, but that would be my initial thought. Cold winds on young foliage. Should recover with time, maybe see growth by end of May with mild weather.

Hello, welcome to GC You don't say whether the pot is in sun or shade, but here are a few ideas for either: Euonymous fortunei, Hebe, Nandina domestica 'Firepower', dwarf Pittosporum tobira, Convolvulus cneorum, dwarf Photinia, Hedera 'Glacier' trained on a frame, HTH!

@Bob Rob I would prepare a planting hole, with a stake, where I wanted the tree to go. Water the tree well; then dig the tree up with as big a rootball as possible. May need two and or a wheelbarrow or a strong sheet of plastic to drag it on. Move it over to the new hole and slide it in making...

It's worth mentioning that while digging up all those weeds, there was plenty of worms and bugs in the soil. (Less in the clay areas.)Does this mean I don't have to worry about organic matter in the layers?

Hello Slouise, Have a Google for Cistus, Helianthemum, Prostrate Rosemary, Lavenders, Artemisia, Thyme, Salvias...that will give you something to be going on with

Grass needs a decent seedbed and soils structure if it is to make a nice lawn. If that is in the "too difficult" bracket you could go with Astoturf instead - that can go down straight onto your hardcore surface (with some sand in between)

Hello, HazzaGrazza. Hydrangeas (and I am now referring just to the macrophyllas, also called mopheads or lacecaps) have an area in their base where they develop all the stems from. It is called the crown over here. New, green shoots in Spring that come out of the crown and that develop into...

It probably would have preferred an Ericaceous compost ...They hate wind (particularly the finely cut leave types), so I would keep it very sheltered.if it is outdoors / exposed overwinter (and even if not ...) Acers suffer dieback of old branches. Not much that you can do about that (that I...

Welcome Dannii. I replied on the link below before I saw this thread.Clay soil and general advice

Forgot to include that I water the seedlings well, and use Miracle Gro Potting Mix

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Hi,Welcome to the forum.What seems a simple diy project is quiet possible but think you under estimate the volume of water needed, which in turn determines the revervoir size, the pump size (big) and the return feed pipe.What catches my eye is the width of the stream and the fall, and that...