I'm recording it 'cos my wife is watching yet another programme about house make-overs. We made the mistake of getting a Sky dish. Grounds for...
Lovely, lovely garden Fran! Really beautiful and it draws you in - that's one of the great secrets. You want to go in, wander around and see...
The non persistant weed killers work through the leaves. So if you cut the nettles down first there will be no leaves for the weedkiller to work...
Whoosh your greenfly with a hand held spray gun thingy. Tap water is fine. Some people add a little washing up liquid.
Yep - that's the answer then. Roast pork all round folks!
Difficult one that, Daisy. I too am uneasy about trees too close to houses, but the eucalyptus might be worth keeping if it is not already too...
The very best ground cover to plant beneath roses are hardy geraniums. The flowers compliment the roses. The foliage laps around the ugly rose...
That is a brilliant idea! They really will root out the nettle remains and dung the land too. The only problem will be that you will need to keep...
Well said Fran, Liz et al. It's time that gardeners ran the country. No amount of huffing and puffing from Two Jag's dept is going to make it...
Just keep strimming everything that pops up. Why not plant a small wood of native trees and shrubs? Lot easier than mowing a boring old lawn in...
I do like that! Lovely crushed velvet claret coloured old fashioned shape. Good perfume too?
This was the scene outside my front garden last March. The problem was not heavy rain but water being pumped from the construction site of a...
I'm on fairly stiff clay so perhaps that helps. I love them and let them grow as big as they like. Buds are plump now - soon, very soon...
Ouch! I don't envy you at all - it's gigantic!
Fruhlingsgold is not a great looker, but it does smell nice. I only keep it because I've had it for such a long time. The foliage is a good...
I have three down in the jungle - the other two are variegated. The leaves are most vulnerable when they first emerge at ground level surely.
Ditto
Odd isn't it - that all our "firsts" are yellow ones. Must be in their genes and country of origin.Sorry you still have gales - weather here is...
Is this Britain's smallest wild flower? The pearlwort is seen here growing beteen paving slabs with a match stick to give scale. Wild flowers are...
This is my first rose of the summer - Fruhlingsgold. It is quite old and moved with me from our previous garden. It grows to 7 or 8 feet as...
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