ANGIE DAWSON

What has eaten my Lupin - I need to protect the other 3

I have been out to the garden and found that something has eaten my Lupin.  Can anyone advise?

I do want to protect the rest of the lupins from the same fate!

Get thrifty

I have planted my baskets up and the birds have since been and have taken the edges of the baskets for nests and now the water pours out. So as not to disturb the plants so much I have had to cut up inch strips from an old one to now place around the edges.  I have also added a small clear plastic bottle without the lid on and the bottom cut off into the basket.  I now water through the bottle.  This ensure that the water stays in the basket and feeds water to the roots of the plant.  This has made such a difference to the conditon of theplants in the basket. 

Get thrifty

I have bought wooden step ladders (at car boot sales for approx £3) and use them as climbing frames for my sweetpeas or climbers.....and whilst waiting for the climbers to grow, they have a plant pot on top with flowers in to give a little interest.

UNKNOWN BUSH

Ceanothus - different varieties.  beautiful blue flowers.  They dont like being moved in my experience and take a few years to flower again (but that could just have been the one I had as it was moved three times (when I moved house I took it with me)

Apple Blossom

Hi, I live in East Yorkshire and I have a patio appe tree.  When shoud this be in blossom as there is absolutely no sign of flowers for the second year running.  Last year I put it down to the fact that I hadnt watered it enough but that is not the case this year. Any ideas?  Should I just give it up as a bad job?

Perennials not growing

i have tried them for years...... no luck  - this year am trying for the last time as in new garden.  maybe the soil conditions will allow them to thrive - its more sandy here

Hanging baskets

great for the drought

David Austen Rose - white bobbles on some branches

Its on the stem.  I thought it was powder that had been spilt to start off with as we had just moved house and there was a lot of work going on.  the local garden centre said they thought it was a bug but couldnt be sure unless looking under a microscope at the piece I had taken to show them..... I have cut off the offending branches before it affects any more of my expensive roses

David Austen Rose - white bobbles on some branches

Help.  I have a David Austen Gertrude Jekyl rose and have planted it into my new garden.  It has some white bobbles on it.  I am keen to keep this as you know they are not cheap roses and I bought it for the beauty and the scent of it.  Any ideas?

theft!

this happens on the patch where my mum and dad live in Cyprus.  she has to plant into pots as the cats use the ground as their toilet (she has tried all sorts to stop this and now all the ground is covered in big stone) but her loveliest pots are swiped in the night.  this really annoys her as the plants are not cheap over there.  I too get upset if my plants get damaged by stray balls, dogs etc.  I had a fella come and chop the hedge for me and whilst there I asked him to cut a few plants back.  He obviously didnt know what he was doing as he chopped my wisteria to a foot in height.  I had it planted in a metal bin so I could take it with me when I moved....needless to say, it stayed at the old house. 

What has eaten my Lupin - I need to protect the other 3

Apple Blossom

David Austen Rose - white bobbles on some branches

Plotting where the sun is going to shine