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with acid soil. For next summer, why not go for some climbing annuals, or tender plants like morning glory as well? They will grow faster than hardy perennials and give you lots of colour. You could make use of them to fill the holes while you wait

! And I'm certainly not going to be kind to slugs and snails. I always start the New Year intending to keep the veg garden hoed and weeded, but as I prefer being in the flower garden the veg weeds tend to creep up when I'm not looking, so now I use weed

helped my dad with the weeding and hoeing. Then when l was five l was given my own small patch next to the greenhouse where l would grow radishes,lettuce,a few peas l would always eat raw,candytuff flowers l would grow for the faeries to pick! My jobs

but which will have to start again from ground level and a magificent 10 foot pittosporum which looks very much the worse for wear. What seems to have come through undamaged - wouldn't you know it - are weeds. They are everywhere and the recent mild spell

you were have the bike version mower lol, no bunny, that was just a joke ;) Hi, just weeds at the moment. Have inherited a very derelict garden front and back. Tidied it up a bit last year but have lots of tired shrubs to take out and rosa rugosas

I'm sorry - I just couldn't resist this: "Anne Wareham hates gardening. She hates planting bulbs (‘I wasn’t made with a hinge in my back’). She hates cutting things down, cutting them back and pulling them out. She hates weeding. She hates

fuchsias, petunias and geraniums. Other plants it might contain include begonias, dianthus', becopas, asters, violas and bidens. Thanks Most of those will require TLC over winter. You may be OK with the dianthus. Mostly annuals by the sound of it

years ago he lost interest in maintaining it and so the ivy had taken hold of the fences. The weeds were as high as my waist (about 3ft) and growing in every space possible and he used the garden (which is mostly slabbed) as a place to dump anything he

. Annuals all in and some in flower.  All early flowering shrubs finished except for privet.  The only Buddleia which survived the winter growing rapidly now. Lots of perrenials finishing now except for the salvias and a couple of later flowering ones

been bred for what garden centres call maximum impact - ie false and fake? but he and I feel the same about most daffodils - the rant about those big heads nodding in patches of bare earth are an annual occurance in our house! I only commented