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decorative and cost a fortune. I need good normal horti-grit to lighten my soil and add drainage. I want it available now.  Why is it so difficult....nowhere has it in stock, not DIY stores, builders merchants or garden centres. Its frustrating me...so many

heavy persistant rain recently, my novice ability in identitfying my soil type as limestone sandy was brought into question when i was out gardening on my alpine rockery area and found that due to me tramping all over it the soil was more clay like when

, Rockeries were all the rage when I was a lot younger, Alpines, Saxifraga, Daphne, Erinus, Aubrieta and always Viola. The list is long and you really need a nursery or garden centre that has them. I live on the North East coastal area with the same problems

is all edible plants, all the gardens classed as naturalistic and those which use wild flowers a lot and recycled materials. Which says a lot about my financial position I think! And of course I would search out the Alpine Garden Society display and any

. I went out this morning and photographed red acers and yellow limes and noticed that even the oak trees have spectacular colour this year and a beautiful buttercup yellow is showing on one of my alpine shrubs, a Japanese willow. Everyone should

Golidlocks I am not very good at recommending plants for pots, we do not really grow any except in the garden. WE grow vast amounts of evrything in pots, and find that bulbs are really very sucessful grown this way - but as with so many modern bulbs, they do

My sentiments exactly. So many people say to me as they marvel at the size of my garden "Do you do it all yourself" as if it were a chore. I assure them it does not seem like work because I enjoy every minute of it. Another way to make most use

looks a little less polished than that, and the plug plants are a lot smaller. The one above makes a better photo though! Get yourself a little bit of tufa, Kate and put alpines in it and you will soon have a lovely. light feature on your roof. Alpines

, growing in a mulch of alpine grit and they've been flowering their merry socks off since September, Should I scrape away some of this and replace with garden compost as the mulch? Thanks again, Jay Hi Jay, I'd wait for the cyclamen to finish flowering

Hi all. I moved into my new house two years ago and have had some great results in my garden but there is one part of my garden I am not happy with. It is down the side of my house and measures 30 inches wide by 120 inches long,the problem I have