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Hi. I used to live in Japan many years ago. Amazing country with wonderful people, many of whom love gardening.

Thanks Shiney , i like the look of that , for me on a smaller scale , and i will aim to do something along those lines.

Welcome to GC jay__0

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Falstaff.

Welcome . You'll get all the help you need here! Enjoy

Welcome back Luciusmaximus. I hope you're settling well in your new location and we'll be looking forward to hearing about the garden of course.

I like your choice of large paving @Ian Clive White, it certainly makes the area look more spacious . I agree with @noisette47 about using large pots, just make sure that they are elevated on pot feet or similar to drain well and avoid marking your paving. I'd choose medium sized shade loving or...

You are lucky having a wall Sheal.I can't think of a use for chalk. Teachers have interactive white boards instead these days. Maybe I can make a garden wall out of it and pretend it snows all the time.

Hi and welcome to GC

An apple tree won't pollinate a plum or a cherry. Depending on the varieties they may not even pollinate each other. The cherry is likely to be self-fertile. The plum might or might not be. You really need to know the names of the varieties because therein might lie the answer to your problem!

Welcome to GC Daisy Daisy. Gardens can be hard work but when they look good it makes it worthwhile.

I'm about an hour from Norwich, near the coast. Hunstanton!

Don't forget the dandelions - very important for early pollinators. My garden is smothered in lesser celandine at the moment which the hoverflies like.Hoverflies seem to be particularly attracted to yellow/orange. I once put up a bird feeder with an orange base and saw multiple hoverflies...

Many thanks!

Welcome to Gardeners Corner potted.Basic or otherwise, we're all willing to help you with questions along the way.

No idea if this will help, but my OH finds this chap quite useful .

The old tale was that you planted a grapevine above the dead body of an animal.

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I played rugby against a Swansea Uplands team in the late 1970's on an Easter tour, hope your gardening is more successful, sure we lost the game.

A cottage in our village has/had/ dozens of gnomes in its front garden but I haven't past that part of the village for some years.