I am always happier with popular plant names for two reasons. I can never remember, spell or pronounce the Latin ones! The second reason is that...
35mm - that's as wide as a film! Transparency sounds like some sort of chrysalis. Found in the soil suggests leather jackets. Need a piccy, please!
I got some lovely clumps of it in my woodland garden. It can only seed where there is bare earth and there is none - wall to wall ground cover is...
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You are very wise to wait and see what comes up. Hope you find some lovely surprises. As regards the slugs and snails -Have you got a lot of...
I only salted a slug once - never again! It writhed in agony and would certainly have screamed if it could. Then it went all bubbly and dissolved...
Can you try to avoid peat? Peat extraction is really damaging the few remaining natural sites. You can get excellent substitutes.
Wild and Wonderful - that means Upper Teesdale to me! Its one of the wildest places in northern England and home to some of our rarest and most...
It looks a lot like the so-called Siberian Wallflower (Erysimum x allionii), but they are more orange in colour. It never came from Siberia, but...
Good photos. Wallflowers are not native, but they have been in Britain since 1066! They were introduced by the Normans from Southern Europe and...
Cheapest is probably plastic edging - classiest is Victorian or repro stoneware "rope" edging. Found a lot buried in my garden soon after moving...
Yes - I never buy in mealy worms or other live food. That just makes the birds lazy and what we really want is to encourage them to kill our...
Silver birch are short lived and grow fast. Better to leave it and buy another.
Berry bearing bushes are a must and so is a clean bird bath for drinking and bathing. All sound advice so no need to repeat it, but just a mention...
"A weed is just a plant growing in the wrong place". Forget-me-nots are easy to remove from where you don't want them. I let them seed, then pull...
Another great place for high quality plants at rock bottom prices is Plants Galore.http://www.plants-galore.co.uk/roydon.php
Well grown and unusual plants are available from Langthorns Plantery near Dunmow in Essex.http://www.langthorns.com/Wonderful selection and...
Comfrey is a wonderful compost maker. The old blokes are right though. When I had an allotment, I grew comfrey and put cut leaves in a water butt....
Looks like something from "The Great Escape" - cue Steve McFrog on a motorbike!
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