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Over many years I've bought from CPA Horticulture - mushroom compost & horse manure every year and I've had bulk composted bark chippings and 25T top soil. All of it has been of very good quality. Even substantial amounts of manure or compost are available in 75 litre bags which makes life...

I've always been a fan of pressure cookers and have an aged Prestige Hi Dome (you can still get spares for it), my mother had a similar one. I find it useful for cooking some pulses, making soup and stock, marmalade, cooking bacon joints and similar.They do, mine has 3 possible weights 5, 10...

Some of the posts look like they have already rotted at the base and should be easy to remove. I would try to remove those loose ones first, then see if the others can be levered back and forth like removing an old shrub or tree. The easiest option would then be to replace them like for like,...

I agree with Tidemark that Ivy is wonderful for the wildlife and a great, evergreen plant- but if it's in the wrong place it will just have to go.Cutting the stems back as near to the root as possible is the most popular way. The roots will re-sprout so the new growth will have to be cut back...

Hi @BOSullivan , welcome to the forum! What an exiting project you have ahead... best of luck and please share updates and photos of your journey.Adding your approximate location into your profile information is helpful, there are many climates and soils on this island which makes a big...

I'm not surprised you getting 10 different answers, there's not a lot to go by at the moment until it gets some leaves at least.The growth habit looks similar to Hibiscus but that is just a wild guess.

Shame. Pyracantha provide flowers for bees and berries for birds. Bamboo just spreads and makes a nuisance of itself. But just chop the pyracantha off at ground level and wait for the odd shoot to appear and chop that off at ground level. It can’t live long with no leaves. Shame.

Thank you CarolineLI have not done very well, I was so keen to get into this that I bought items before I asked for advice, I was not aware that sellers would mislead to sell their stock, as a previous post mentioned. It looks like I will have to put everything to one side and start again with...

Are they not still in the process, these old buildings need constant attention, a bit like cathedrals and stately homes. Problems occur when they stop the constant upkeep and then it cost millions to get them back.

Do you have opera glasses or binoculars? You could see if there are buds starting to open. I wouldn’t necessarily expect leaves but Catkins. But I’m not an expert in this. I checked my images when I took a picture of a willow and this had male Catkins at the end of March.

Was eaten by East Enders here too after the war, so OH.

Trees, particularly young trees, generally prefer not to have anything in touch with the trunk (other than air). I always leave a gap around the trunk when I'm mulching around a tree, no matter what i'm mulching with - it's like a doughnut with a hole in the middle...

Hi AllI was recently getting ready to remove the moss from my lawn (or more properly green space, as it predominantly moss) and re-seed with grass when I had second thoughts.There are a few weeds in there as well, and I understand that if I remove the moss now there is a good chance I will...

Hi AllI bought some Mo Bactor Instant to deal with a considerable amount of moss in my garden.Before I get around to applying it (probably later this year) I am now wondering is it actually any good and would I be better using something else?Thanks in advance for your sage advice!

I can't remember the exact name of the yellow variegated one I had - it was no taller than about a metre, so probably one of the cookianum hybrids, not tenax which is the huge one. Called something like Maori Sunrise? I took it out because it was becoming a huge clump and then weeds would grow...