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garden is at least 10 days behind last year, obviously due to the weather. Somethings also did extremely well out of all that rain including sedums, sempervivums, my Alpine Phlox, wildflower seedlings and self-seedlings and I think the Roses and Clematis

of roses. I remember a recycled shower tray transformed into an alpine display ! I try to stay awake to watch Gardeners' World on Friday, but don't always succeed after a week spent with sixty four and five year olds ! Catch up TV is a wonderful thing ! So

gardening to the No-Dig method and, like MsAnjuik, going from open plan veg patch to a raised bed potager type. On a completely different subject I miss the input about alpines that Geoff hamilton used to give us - hardly ever mentioned now, even

already have flowers, although they are small and not long in the ground. Should I remove flowers and let them grow a bit more first? Strawberries grow for fun in my garden, in beds,pots and forced in the GH for an early crop. Last year I sowed some alpine

in the Alpine section  They are easy to look after !This is one of my sinks Pam x Don't go on line. Much better to select ones you like when you see them close up in a garden centre. A few are named - such as a favourite of ours, Blue Boy, but most don't have a

alpine strawberry plants and eat the fruit but they all got concreted over when the extension was built. :-( I bought my first house when I was 28(after a tenement flat) and it had a huge back garden - that's where I got the gardening bug. Selling

on alpines to the WI next week so needed to do my hand-outs for that. So glad you like my comments and I find my garden a great delight. Well done from me too, James.Having been to HC on Tuesday i have to admit to being a little disillusioned.....it was ok

Hi, I am a new gardener and not sure if it is to late to prune shrubs and over grown trees! The garden still has lots of green and two wks ago new buds on shrubs? Please help! I have a cold greenhouse, but would like to grow veg over the winter

to deflect each 1ºC increase in average yearly temperature. Likewise, those boreo-alpine species will have to move about 100 metres further up a mountain, for each degree, to keep within their favoured temperature range.At first, this may not seem such a

might try again with my own sedd from other clems in my garden which I know to be hardy to -25C so would hope their babies would also be hardy enough for my garden. http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/plants/identification/2711.html Can't do