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Double digging was something devised by senior gardeners for the apprentices, under gardeners to do over the winter. It kept them busy, out of trouble and you knew where to find them. Meanwhile the senior gardeners where in the glasshouses taking cuttings, sowing seeds, smoking pipes etc. Every...

Coming along the motorway around here I notice a fair amount of EVs on the inside lane getting in the way of the lorries as most are only doing 50mph.

Just passed a house with a young sapling in a small bedding in the front garden. Sadly they have piled on a lot of fresh manure and buried part of the trunk in it. I was tempted to knock on the door and explain to them the error of their ways but my OH would not let me.

A good one to try which will tolerate clay @Andrew Funnell is Calamagrostis Karl Foerster. It has a columnar form, growing to about 1.5m in flower. Others include Panicum Northwind, also narrow and columnar, and Miscanthus Malepartus which is a larger, vigorous grass. The three have different...

Sounds as if you need to clear your search history and remove your cookies....

If I waited until March then that would July to have a full flowering plant, I could start now indoors but it’s lot of effort to get some plants or would I be better off treating pansies/viola as bi-annuals and sow with foxglove/wallflowers and put them out of mind until August?

Proper plant talk.

Magnoliaflora (baby's bum pink )Jenny namaste

I dont think we are trying to make a big issue, as such, out of this, obviously it still works, so no rush. I think most of us thought it was something that would sort itself out with no real problem, or input from anyone. Nice to know someone knows what they are doing.

Tradescantia loving the rain ..Tecoma stans (Ginger Thomas) new growth from severe cutback ...