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Todays Heinz Beans are nothing like the original. Watching one of the "Inside the Factory" programmes ( always interesting if you could ignore the presenter ) which dealt with the Heinz beans production reminded me how much they had changed. I always have a book to hand when watching TV, mute...

Uprising in Iran. The currency has collapsed, they are running out of water and there is a power emergency.

No, not a shortage this year, probably due to constant use of compost and , especially woodchip derived mulches. In fact several new species beyond the usual range.

I have taken cuttings from a Holly with particularly large orange berries. They are very slow to take! I would suggest strip off most of leaves, gritty soil mixture, and use loads of cuttings because I had quite a failure rate. As for sexing them, unless you do like @Adam I suggests, you have...

Rainwater is tops when it comes to watering plants but I don't collect rainwater at all. No need.I have a huge fish tank in my house and my weekly water changes give me more water than my plants would ever need.Aquarium water quite possibly is even better than rainwater because it has a %...

How about putting it somewhere that is very visible to them but not constantly in your line of site and planting a few fake vines over the edges of the thing to make it look like they are growing or some of form other camouflage you can think of?