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grow, encourage their stems to weave together to create a glorious mass of foliage.Take cuttings of the plectranthus and overwinter in a frost-free conservatory or greenhouse. More ideas for growing begonias and plectranthusIncrease your plant stock

Do you have an autumn clear-up in your garden? Do you cut down all your herbaceous stuff so that everything is tidy for the winter or do you leave everything until the new year? Most people nowadays leave it until later to give food for small birds

We've had to cut down most of the Clematis montana. It had already done some damage to the featheredge and was threatening to bring down the entire fence. Oh well. It was a fast grower when we first planted it and has provided us with a huge drift

While you can't take cuttings from rhododendrons, there is a much simpler technique you can try - layering. Do it over the summer and by the following spring you'll have the beginnings of many new rhododendron plants.Established rhododendron plant

The last few days we’ve had a toad wandering about near the back door. It ambled out from under the guinea pig’s carpet off-cut weather cover when I rearranged the hutch, and although I released it in the hedge it reappeared in the same place

garden hedgesAround the gardenTake cuttings from shrubsPrune out plain green shoots from variegated trees and shrubsCut lavender for drying when in full flowerFlowersHarvest onions sown last autumn for early cropsWater celery regularly in dry weather

around with one to decide if it suits your needs.In just a couple of weeks I've been able to take better photographs.Here are some tips if, like me, you are a complete beginner.1. To cut down on camera shake and to shoot at slower speeds, buy a tripod

two triangles for the sides of the bat box.Place the backboard on a flat surface and cut ridges into it, 2mm deep every 0.5cm, to make a 'ladder' for the bats to climb up.Take one of the side triangles and measure 12.5cm from the acute angle along

isn't stable. If left, this all-green growth, which will be more vigorous than the variegated kind, will take over the plant.Variegated leaves are caused by natural mutations, but these mutations aren't always a stable, permanent feature, and the plant

insideThin bunches of greenhouse grapesTake cuttings from pelargoniums, fuchsias, marguerites, penstemon, carnations, diascia and many othersDamp down the greenhouse floor each morning on hot days to increase humidityStand pot plants on capillary matting