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Its for the comming tax year for me, I dont owe any tax either.

We are having a giant problem with criminal tourism. Porous airports bring in lots of car jackers, house breakers, human trafficking and our sympathetic courts are have the backbone of a noodle.And Mark Carney and his lot against not allowing those convicted of crimes here then claim refugee...

No problem at all digging up/removing anything in your own garden, except trees that have preservation orders. Spanish bluebells - now's the time to get digging, as soon as you can see where they are. Go down deep and get the bulbs out as best you can. It's not a once-and-done job - there will...

Idk for mature plants but the coir plugs in those teabags are very consistent and cheap for producing stuff from seed or tiny cuttings and it has holes for small roots so you can uplant it easily, the issue is that material degrades way too slowly.There is big demand for things that biodegrade...

I blame TV gardening shows, they have no relation to real gardening and growing. Instant effect, not keen on garden designers personally.

I would go for smoother curves rather than the wobbly amoeba shapes, and some deeper areas of border. Maybe an oval or pear-shaped lawn, or two interlocking circles. The path doesn't have to be the same width all the way, for example in the attached sketch there are some wider areas where you...

If the pot is large enough, leave it in there until you hand it over. Your friend can then check the rootball and top growth after a few weeks and decide when best to plant in the soil.

Looks a bit old for me.

I can understand why you need a path now @Dan1981, clay based lawns are a challenge. I'd try to locate the path on the shady side of your garden, if there is one, allowing the lawn and plants in the borders to get as much sun as possible.

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.

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.

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...