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Thank you @On the Levels, those small irises really do have one of the best blues in the garden, shame they don’t last long .

Choose a couple of stems and scrape a little bark off. If it's dry and brown then it's dead. If there is any green it may still be alive. If so when the buds are beginning to break spray with a dilute seaweed TONIC (not feed). This may help stimulate new growth. I agree Lornicera, or...

Welcome G but for better advice enter the area you live in.

This country also has a moral decline with women on benefits with 6 or more kids have the income and benefits of a person earning 70K. I also read that these unmarried women are looking to pay men for breeding to increase their family for more benefits.

That one’s a good vibrant blue @Clare G, now on my list .

First bloom of 2026, Hibiscus Red Pagoda ...There s a Standrad Red and an April Yellow to open soon.

Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse is an interesting book about this kind of thing.

I think I poked them vertically into the compost. If I remember rightly they're quite big and easy to handle individually. If you have lots of seed you could try different ways and see what works for you.

One thing I would do if I was planning my garden anew is to put a paved path all around the outside, wide enough to stand a stepladder on or push a wheelbarrow. It provides safe access to the back of the borders for weeding and to hedges and fences for trimming. You think it is going to take up...

It needs a good prune, I'd remove perhaps half the branches coming from the base, any crossing branches and any obviously dead growth. I wonder if it could be a red currant rather than a black currant.

Say manageable seeds like snapdragon, marigolds or cosmos, would these be sowed as plugs and not needing pricking out or would you do these on a seed tray then prick out.

Thank you for the replies, really appreciate the insights and advice