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, leading to flooding. If every building had a green roof - be it an office block or garden bin store - much of this water would be absorbed before it even hit the ground.My shed has a tiny, steep roof, so we needed to make sure any soil that was added

this is to be ground breaking. I also liked The Garden that Time Forgot by Catherine Charles and Victor Moreaud (dripping water, twisted metal and balloons), The Frog's Dream by Remi Salles (boxing rings,goldfish and Edith Piaf) and Amelie Leroy's Family Tree. I

they hold more compost and have a deeper root run.Large households may well accumulate more cardboard or egg boxes than they can use for raising plants, so I compost all this instead. Just tear the card up into small pieces, moisten with water and mix

and scabious, against a backdrop of a green-roofed garden office and serene water pools.I also liked the SKYShades Garden, designed by Marney Hall. Her garden depicted a range of wildlife habitats, including hedgerow and woodland planting schemes

. Cats regard gardener with a supercilious look as if they were Duchesses and you, the de facto owner of the garden, just the lowliest drip on the nose of a tramp.So how to deal with it? Everybody seems to have a theory. Some say filled bottles of water

for garden use in the 1970s. Liquid nicotine is extremely dangerous to all living creatures and was used widely as an insecticide for many, many years. It was either mixed with water as a spray or else vaporised in lamps - in which case the gardener lit

I have just ordered a whopping great pile of manure. A couple of weeks ago we finished cutting everything back and hunting down any perennial weeds that were hiding beneath the plants in readiness for mulching: had it not snowed we would have

conditions she experiences near the east coast. Rainfall is sparse and infrequent, and watering costly and time consuming, so plants are chosen that relish dry conditions.And that is one of the big lessons I've learned from visiting gardens during this cruise

How inspired were you on your last visit to a garden centre? Did you leave with a trolley full of plants or empty-handed?My recent comments on this blog certainly generated some interesting responses (thank you - we love hearing your thoughts

early in winter before. I’m sure my friendly BBC weather forecaster will provide me with plenty more weather statistics when I next tune in.So, what does this mean for our plants and gardens? Firstly, take very great care walking out into your garden