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to Podocarpus macrophyllus (or Japanese Yew).Acer palmatum 'Atropurpureum' is a maple with dark red, lacy-edged leaves. It will stay within the height limit, although it is susceptible to middle aged spread and will cover a largish area. It can also be grown

several damselflies in tandem mating pairs so recolonization is happening, if only slowly.The water level has been going down slowly in the hot weather, only 7 or 8cm, but enough to show the ugly liner at the edges, so I topped it up with a hose

and they're looking a bit scraggy round the edges. Usually I have no objections to a bit of scrag, but if they are cut back, the geraniums will put on some lush new growth and the salvias will flower again later in the summer. The allium seed heads look

of damage and a decent helping of pain. However, a bramble scrambling through hedgerows or the edges of woodland, where it's doing no harm is loved by everybody. The bramble is extraordinarily vigorous. It uses its thorns as grappling hooks to pull it across

, sheltering in the moist seclusion of long grass, log piles and disreputably untidy corners. We do have a pond, but it's not very big and it's raised: a triangle of old railway sleepers the top edge being a good half metre up from the ground. Originally I