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As I don't have power to my greenhouse, my germination area is a corner of the garage with a heated mat, now on a second thermostat and two sets of LED grow lights. Timer on the lights and the thermostat has a diurnal cycle set up on it so the night time temperature is 4 to 5° lower than the...

I have to correct myself. I had a look into my pictures and found the same stage for the Daffodils, Exochorda and Deutzia in 2024. The 5th of March was my dad's birthday and for most of the time since I planted them in 2017, the Daffodils were not ready on that day.

Better still, you belong here with the GC family - the best of the bunch!

I think any of the magellanica types would work. I have a pale lilac-pink one Fuchsia magellanica var. molinae | maiden's blush fuchsia Shrubs/RHS, a variegated one with red and purple flowers and the pure white "Hawkshead". Hawkshead seems less tough than the others, often cut down further than...

The biscuit jar. I try not to eat all at once, and use it to reward The Child after hard labour.

Hello allI Hope you are Well.Well, the Weather was Nice This Morning so I spent 2.5 Hours catching up on Weeding in the Back Garden that I was not able to do at the End of Last Season.This is how it looks now:Ready for Spring, More or Less Now I just need to do the...

I repurposed surplus concrete patio tiles as stepping stones, using an angle grinder to soften the shape into something less square. Picture below shows the shape - the wonkiness comes from not being level-headed. On places like gumtree you may find tiles that you can recycle. I don't mind that...

Rats can certainly be a problem if they can access your house and that is when many people draw the line even when accepting them in the garden. I don't know whether methods have changed but years ago Pest Control people would always advise someone to stop putting out food for birds for several...

I thought the same when we first moved here and several clumps pf bluebells appeared the first spring. After 10 years or so they had spread all over, into the bases of shrubs etc. I've been digging out as many as I can and slicing off the rest every year since.

I bought one of these my back loves it!

No, thats factory formed. Proper gates are hand forged but totally unaffordable.....

The second picture is a cotoneaster, probably cotoneaster horizontalis. It looks fine and will burst into leaf soon. The first a mophead hydrangea and it's likely to be fine. The mop head part is important if you want flowers this year because they flower on the previous seasons growth....