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Hi, I'm looking for advise for good plants to use in the school garden that has been ruined by recent builing works. They need to be ones which wont take over the courtyard style area but give year long structure and interest. We are determined

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

-trodden areas of grass to keep the lawn looking at its best.More project ideas to enhance your gardenRepair a worn patch of grassAdd willow edging to bordersMake a raised bedMonty Don demonstrates how to make an alpine path and gravel bed in his video project

and drawn. 3 strawberry plants (pot-grown or lifted from the garden)Large pot or hanging basketMulti-purpose compostJanuary - April20 minutes harvest May - JunePlant two or three strawberry plants in a hanging basket or large pot of multi-purpose compost

and there is only a couple of inches of snow on the glass. I have knocked it off the Fruit cage netting and the Shade House which is netting and the Shade garden where the netting is getting a bit old and rather brittle. Did shovel a lot of snow onto the beds

 blew away in the wind before they were planted out. One tray didn't make it so I'm having to wait to see whether the row planted out last year are whiteberries or pineberries. One things certain though, judging by their leaves they aren't alpine varieties

it anyway. Being a very keen advocate of biodiversity I would love to have been at the Malvern Show with the opportunity to meet the team but we have our Alpine Garden Society Group summer outing on Sunday, and one cannot afford everything when one is saving