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@Selleri that was certainly a good try and deserves an honourable mention. However I had in mind Sheffield Forgemasters to celebrate 250-year anniversary

The dog will still use that route.

Thanks everyone This was on the advice of my garden designer. The reasoning was that buying things smaller, in threes you can get a more dramatic effect quicker than spending more on larger shrubs that may not survive.That being said, I have realised I am an impatient gardener, and...

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...

Do they serve any real purpose? Plastic has its place for sure but I think its terrible how much waste gardening generates that seems unnecessary.

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.

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

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 .

Welcome G but for better advice enter the area you live in.

First bloom of 2026, Hibiscus Red Pagoda ...There s a Standrad Red and an April Yellow to open soon.

Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse is an interesting book about this kind of thing.

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.

One thing I would do if I was planning my garden anew is to put a paved path all around the outside, wide enough to stand a stepladder on or push a wheelbarrow. It provides safe access to the back of the borders for weeding and to hedges and fences for trimming. You think it is going to take up...