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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...

That keeps the other lanes clear for us then .

Bit late for this year but if you have really claggy clay soil I'd try winter green manure, something like grazing rye, it works if you dig it in when the clay is drying slightly, wait too long and it will be hard work. The rye really helps the drying out in early spring and the roots make the...

Use your search engine and input - how to use manure for fruit trees. This will help.

I also passed a house near where I live and that had a nice couple of rhododendron in the border, quite close to the rose bushes, should I knock on their door and have a word? I didn’t bother as could tell by the label on the rhododendron it was a cheap one from Lidls*.As they say if you like...

Sunflower seeds make quite nice microgreens, I used ones for birdseed, much cheaper! Batchelors dried peas are the best for pea shoots.

Anyway I was in B&Q today and for 4 trays of pansies, so 48 plants for £14, also had a look in Morrisons who do good plants and they normally sell a big tray of plugs for £5, but non in yet.Anyway I never see any Viola seeds ever for sale, which I mean retail shops that have a garden centre,...

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.