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It didn't strike me that way at all. Just someone asking for advice, concerned about doing the wrong thing for their plants. In my book that is being sensitive to a plant's needs.

I always used a pressure cooker for meals when the kids lived at home. It became redundant when there was just OH and me but I used to love it. Also, having been used to cooking with/on an electric cooker and now we have a gas hob, I would not know how to gage a pressure cooker as I don’t like...

From the new picture I agree that the stems and bud do look like an ash. Looking at the old picture again where I thought it had lobed leaves, I believe that might be your neighbours tree. I took the green to be one tree and not two and I could only see leaf detail on one half.

Went to gc early this morning to have a look at phormium not much there but I were looking at a little yucca called gold sword didn't think much of it until back home and reading Pete / plantminded comments I quite like the look of the mature plant colour and upright growth I'm looking for. I'll...

It looks like it. Lift up the pots and carefully look around the base and under the rim for slugs and snails. You can use slug pellets. These are now based on ferrous sulphate and don't harm birds, hedgehogs etc.

I imagine Melania shares your queasiness,

A bit earlier this year I'm thinking lots of things are, its been chilly but frosts have been rare or very light since mid January.

Yes it is. When we 're working in our veg plot we have to rescue worms before the chooks get them. Not always succesful.If you add Ile de France to your profile, people will be better able to tailor advice - climate and soil make a huge difference to what grows well.

Unfortunately I don't have any other materials in the garden to use, and there is quite a large area to cover so I fear putting in a drystone wall would be beyond my level of skill.

Good question, I am undecided as to what to plant there but this Ivy is going wild, and as I understand from my neighbour, has been an ongoing problem.Attached are a few shots, there is plenty more ground covered.

I understand where you're coming from, but there is already a symmetry in this area (either side of steps) so it is an issue

Thanks regarding the dog violets as well, I have loads of them in the back garden. They seem to really love it there in the shady places and also edges of the lawn

They deliver it to me on a pallet and I used a wheelbarrow to move the bags about 200ft to the end of my garden and left it there for a month or two - it's a good workout! I find the the mushroom compost is often still a bit 'hot' so leaving it for a few weeks allows the composting process to...