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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...

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...

The tips look a bit frosted to me.

Hiyou will need to feed the potatoes

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thank you CarolineL, I should of known nothings for free

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...

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.

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.

Thank you Pete. That’s good to know.

It tends to be bitches that cause dead patches in lawns. To me your grass just looks dry like most peoples does this year.

Thank you for your help, I thought it looked like canker but I wasn't sure - im not sure how much is a lot - do you just treat it kikw vlaxj spot on roses - cut it off and destroy. I have started to water it. Ive not noticed any other damage or splits in the main trunk. Is it a crab apple ? If...

Would a Ilex argentea holly tree work on the other side?