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The variegated Pittosporum Elizabeth could work well - one of my neighbours has a very attractive hedge of this. I liked @Plantminded's suggestion of a flowering climber for the arch itself, too.

Someone in england managed to breed s red podded sugar snap by crossing yellow and purple podded varieties and stabilising that took 5 years, but she seems to have dissapeared without releasing them sadly.If you can garentee the space to work for many years its a good project to breed...

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.

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

When I first saw these AI designs I thought they were striking because they are so unusual. If that’s the look you’re after, go for it! Just bear in mind that having the lawn as such a dominant feature, maintaining it to a high standard to retain that pristine look will take time and patience...

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 .

I'm not sure this is the right thread to post this under but can't see anything which might be more appropriate (feel free to move it if there is)The 'traveller' community gets a lot of bad press, much of it well deserved, so I was a bit apprehensive when I went into our local today to see a...

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.

Great news. I lived in East Lothian and moved to the South Coast and the advice I get here is completely different from when I lived in Scotland.

Personally I prick all seedlings out into those cell trays, the ones I don't are things like onions which I sow three or four seeds to each cell and plant out the whole cell when it comes to that time.I don't think you will find any hard and fast rules how you do things, people often find...

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

I use pencil, then at the end of season I collect all the labels. The ones that didn't break from the light get washed (using sponge and soap), then I use eraser to clean whatever written.