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They all used to be in Inverness.

Hello @JennyJBThanks for the Reply and the Advice, much appreciated.Kevin

Any recommendations for a good quality compost for growing vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers? Last year was a disaster and the compost I purchased was infested with fungus gnats.

I’m done with lavender . They don’t like winter wet and even in my dry sandy soil they really only last a couple of years. Nepetas are much more reliable, easy to divide and equally popular with bees. I avoided them for many years thinking that my neighbour’s cat would show an interest but this...

Hellebore bought last week at Farmyard now fully open A cheat I'm afraid - acacia longifolia in greenhouse

They need all the sunshine with their necks in the sun.

If you want something unusual try Ugni. They are related to blueberries but the fruit ripen much later and have a fragrant taste - we liked them, more for snacking on than pies I suspect. I bought the variegated one and have it in my front garden. I think it would be OK in a pot.

Oops! Sorry @cactus-girl I repeated what you said. We must watch the same programmes.

My oldest wheelbarrow may have fitted your criteria as it had a few holes but they were from rust. There was one drawback with it. The wheel that was on it rusted off last year . It went into the skip with the old greenhouse that was falling down.The greenhouse was only 50 years old and the...

I hope so @ViewAhead !! Good luck with them!!

@Perki I bought that Acer in 2020 out of naivety that red leaves look nice. Reality was that in the first spring, it lost all its leaves to leave scorch. I took it out of the ground and put it into a barrel pot for 2 years to have it in a shade corner. It had a poor life because a tree in a pot...

They arrived today, the rootstocks have rather poor root systems so i potted them up instead of planting them out. Give them summer and see if the grafts take.Good lord it was exhausting grafting them all. I decided to graft the scion then do 2 bud Grafts in the hope at least one of them...

Happy house anniversary Ours is on the 28th, marking 19 years since we bought this house.The wood is looking pretty good and I'm glad the mice seem to have survived. We had a rat problem a year or two ago and it's not very nice, I got quite stressed out.