Great looking Autumn garden Peter S. Mine looks a bit sorrier as the spread of flowering perennials is not so good for this time of the year. Best...
Even after seeing the effects of the wonderful 'ground elder' I purchased the variegated variety on the understanding that it was not a...
All must take care - have you not seen the 'Little Shop of Horrors'......................
Sorry to say - have never used a flame thrower. Am not sure what difference it makes to the poor insect life - to be fried or drowned in weed...
Hello LOL and Dendrobiuim - and thank you both for your advice which I shall endeavout to follow in a week or three! Not sure about cats, being a...
Am sat here feling sorry for myself after being bitten to death by late summer 'mozzies' and then I read all these positive comments.Thanks to...
Hello all - I have a rather large honeysuckle plant which is falling and potentially bringing down the fence to which it is clinging.I need to cut...
My problem is no the mildew but loss of leaves on one of two Aquilegias - will need to attack with slug bait I think...............all sees very...
Hello Fran you are very lucky to have any lawn left after the Summer. Mine are full of burnt patches and whether or not they will greeen all over...
Sorry to DaveP for not responding. His information on Hedychiums was great and I shall hope to do better next year
Dave-in....As an old boy from West Park - its good to hear from God's own country - are the fish and chips in Denton's Green still as good.
My Passiflora is currently running riot underground and coming up through the lawn as well as in a small border - methinks it will have to go...
I like to follow this sort of approach, theproblem being size of plants to replace in the borders - also the 'second flowering' of e.g....
Dave P- congratulations on getting a result with Hedychiums - have tried for two years now with no success in the flowering department - foliage...
Well done Rob............Too much hard work for me but it looks great. Do you use the lovely local stone?Be aware that the Buddlea, Honeysuckle...
Am also a bit fickle with each year/season bringing something new. This year it has been Anthemis E C Buxton - the creamy yellow variety which has...
Due mainly to the lack of water we have difficulty with things which 'look good' in August. However there are lots of things in flower including...
Plenty of seed heads on the Astrantia 'Hadspens Blood' at the moment if anyone is in need - also have Monardas but still flowering and others.
Not sure that I like the term 'grey brigade' - are TV programmes really aimed at the 'over60's'?As one of mature years I too dislike the...
Like Waco I use Dahlias and Canna lilies but also have a couple of Monardas which flower alongside the Heliantheum? and Penstemmons which are...
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