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Prone to being swayed by indirect inducements, let's say. Not "for hire" exactly, but "friendly" gestures of support for causes or campaigns are not unwelcome.

I only kept the ragwort because it had self seeded from somewhere, wasn't doing me any harm so thought why not leave it.I always think to do really good for wildlife you need to plant things on mass, one here and there might help somethings but you need more to do more.

Only snag with the Lidl ones is some, not all are grafted onto Rhododendron Ponticum. Some years back I thought I would try a few. Bought three white flowering, 2 reverted to mauve so binned the lot!

Also been in the range same product range and slightly bigger selection £2.49

Thanks @AnniD and The huge Ali baba pots are at least 3 ft tall and both are perfect. There are similar pots not as big for sale on the net for over £300each! I certainly will not sell those for less than £150 for the pair, they are beautiful and definitely not Morrisons cheapos! If I don’t...

I seem to recall reading something many years ago about not planting in pots which are "glazed" on the interior . To do with the roots not wanting to live against the smooth sides and therefore not expanding. It would have been in a gardening book or magazine but I can't remember any more than...

Thanks Pete, size is the one thing that I had considered problematic. The one i saw where it was recommended was almost small tree size and given it arches out thats quite a chunk of real estate. I know it's short flowering but I didn't think that was really much different to deutzia or...

That’s what I do @Michael Hewett, it’s a gardening technique known as pace yourself . In previous years I used to cut all my ornamental grasses down at the end of February. Quite a task as I have many. Now I cut them periodically from December onwards as individual varieties show signs of wear...