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growing on a grassy bank. It has clear white flowers in summer and very prickly stems. I tend to hard prune some but not all, which means that we get a much longer flowering season. (The unpruned flower earlier.)This is the beginning of growth on a pear

they invade flower borders or veg beds, and for some they're a menace in lawns. But I don't have a lawn, just grass with dandelions growing in it, and a tiny clump of daisies too.Last year and the year before I hardly saw any dandelions. But this year I

have to decide exactly when to put them in place. Some support frames need to be carefully positioned over clumps early in the season to ensure that foliage and stems grow up through holes for support.Never leave delphiniums and other tall perennials

to the rest of the garden. It is very easy to grow and there is another one planted just outside my office, so if I open the window and inhale … aaaaaahhh!I have sneaked a couple of other varieties. One is Philadelphus 'Belle Etoile', which is about 1.6m high

treatment of an elderly pear tree, whilst Matt and I pleaded for mercy on its behalf.After a session on the Grow Your Own Garden stand (which looked just stunning), we're all about to meet up again to record a second session. Who knows what we'll get. I

dripping with up to 10 fruits. We've eaten many, but the remainder are now inedible. Sadly I found myself running inside for a large bin liner and, having slowly but surely carried the infected plants outside (I couldn’t rush because I didn’t want to waft

. I've been debating whether to get a tree for ages, but my garden is 4m² and gets very little sun, and I'd have to grow it in a pot as the soil is so shallow.Another problem is that my garden is isolated. Of the five 'gardens' in the row, mine

wins.Before the introduction of the potato to Europe in 1536, the parsnip was a much more mainstream vegetable than it is now. Parsnips are pretty easy to grow by sowing directly into the ground around March and April - dig the ground well as lumps

in the sun. Everything was wrapped in a frozen overcoat. Will the plants survive? Most will, but like every adventurous gardener I push the boundaries of my gardening and grow a range of plants you would describe as having 'borderline hardiness'. Only time

them in a bin with some water in the hope that they will drown.In spite of all this sweeping I know that soon there will be baby ash seedlings popping up all over the garden. They are fine if you get them early enough but they don’t half grow fast when