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with the stuff, every shrub and fruit bush mulched with a thick layer, and still the overflowing buckets continued to come!I'm a keen home composter - who isn't these days - but I do still resort to buying in mushroom compost from time to time. If I lived near a

my photograph of the display as a reminder that, come this autumn, I need to buy yet another huge sack of daffodils. Maybe we don't all have the space they do at Wisley, but naturalised bulbs like this look stunning beneath smaller trees - even shrubs

on the island has a garden open to the public which has some fantastic trees and rare shrubs (including good collections of Olearias - particularly the exotically named phlogopappa and Rhododendrons). One part of the garden is called the Lighthouse garden

are passing, is an extraordinarily lovely tall shrub: similar in temperament and style to Katherine Hepburn in a good mood). The lawn therefore, is interesting, ticks some environmental boxes and has saved a lot of tedious marching up and down. (Although I

post-coital.But it is by no means all over as now the late summer perennials and shrubs (Rudbeckias, Asters, Ceratostigmas, Cimicifuga, Nicotiana sylvestris etc) kick in giving a second wind to borders.October comes and even the late

to the Caucasus (Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Greece) - not to be confused with the ornamental Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica) which is a great wall shrub.Do you remember the Greek myths about the Golden Apples of the Hesperides? Hercules' Eleventh Labour

the furniture in your home, as pots can be moved from one place to another to create a fresh display.It helps to have a few hardy shrubs in pots, things that play their part in displays throughout the year. Then add in the seasonal performers, like bulbs

-pack containing six gorgeous, well-formed, compact, vigorous, perfect-looking shrubs, for planting in winter containers. It includes hollies, euonymus, variegated pieris, Choisya ternata, which look great in that sort of planting. But my point is, six fantastic

at Ascot in a series of hats that were so extraordinary as to be very close to ridiculous (as well as being unsuited to wear in a stiff breeze); parrot tulips have the same combination of exhibitionism and impracticality. Another shrub that makes my heart

mouths had opened we realised that no, it was not a delightful and uncommon shrub that we had never seen before, but simply one liberally decorated with 'cuckoo spit'. The frothy white liquid looked like super-delicate flowers - a reminder that even