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I think I'll just do my usual and mix jacks magic with ji no3 and sharp sand.It works ok but was hoping for a cheaper option.I bought a bag or two of some unknown stuff a couple of years ago and nothing grew in it, god knows what it was contaminated with.

I don't have Queen of the Night, but I do have some Epiphyllum. Plants often look the worse for wear.

Yes, they're fine. I'm a cheapskate, so use bits of wood I find in my shed.

Actually I think @Selleri is right, it looks more caterpillar because they've avoided the leaf ribs. I didn't think there would be any around yet. But probably garden centre plants are kept in warmer conditions

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.

I don't understand why any presenter is paid hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. Some, like Lineker getting over a million per year. For doing what? Either pressing buttons to get a piece of music to play, or reading an autocue and chatting.

Welcome to the forum @singer61 !

After chopping out a 40yr old pyracantha last summer I'd never entertain the stuff, it was in a neighbours garden. Diabolical stuff.

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...

Happens every year with our Magpies, even our Blackbird has tried pulling Trachy fibres off. It does no harm to the plant to the plant all.

That looks very similar to the one my brother has. We had colder than -5c here this year and it suggests burgandy spires can only take a lite frost, so perhaps similar cultivars are the same.