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, leafless Himalayan weed sound as entrancing as drifting through a Venetian lagoon, while fireworks light the sky and nubile attendants serve rare delicacies from their navels. Roy is an outstanding writer (he just won Journalist of the Year at the 2008

it is not too heavy). Often much better than a wheelbarrow (especially if your garden has any steps). In the same parcel I would accept some large plastic buckets for collecting weeds and other, non-compostable, stuff.Almost anything from the catalogue of Crug

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

't look too unruly or unkempt.The rhubarb is just about breaking the surface, and the beds I recently dug over are not overrun with weeds. So I can spend a gentle couple of hours doing a little bit of pottering, and afterwards feel smug that things

of weeding won't go amiss).Many hardy annuals also generously set seed. Either collect seed or let it fall onto the soil around and you'll have more flowers next year for free.So, what's your favourite annual?

it into something else. Rather than spend a lot of time (and client's money) digging out perennial weeds and scrappy grass, I tend to spray the whole lot off instead.I have tried burning them but that doesn't really work, so until someone comes up

of hyacinths; Adam is firmly sat on the fence and only dislikes "weeds", while Anne hates coleus, particularly in bedding displays. Are any bedding displays really nice, though? Do people actually like begonias, marigolds and impatiens or is it only municipal

in moisture and suppress weeds later in the season as well as provide extra nutrients and maintain a low pH. If you garden organically, the manure is especially important for feeding the plants.If it weren't for the children, I would be tempted to dig up

the pathways made from broken glass and brick pieces. But its message was inspiring: you can put almost anything to good use.The Global Stone Bee Friendly Plants Garden proved that not all bee-friendly plants are 'weeds'; they can be striking, ornamental plants

an urge for poetry. In which case I must recommend Weeds and Wild Flowers, a collection of poems by Alice Oswald, gorgeously illustrated by Jessica Greenman. The poems attribute various human characteristics, some funny, some tragic, to various well