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birds eating the berries is to wrap them in fine netting. I've been out covertly covering berry-laden holly branches in my local area, so if you've seen a well-wrapped figure in Hampshire, with hat pulled down low, wrapping the odd holly branch

, they stay so healthy looking because they're given an annual wrap-up to get them through the winter. In a place otherwise devoid of trees it was great to see this pair of rowans, and the effort to wrap them up every year seemed well worthwhile. My family

condition please pack them as follows:Keep the plant whole, but segregate the top growth from the roots by wrapping them in separate bags. Label your sample with the name of the variety and the supplier. Plants in plastic bags turn to (useless) slime very

things warm up. Even the worms are hiding in the base of the heap, where it's slightly warmer. Right now it's raining buckets so I shall stay inside, but as soon as the weather starts to clear I'll be out there wrapping my compost heap with fleece

, wrapped up the roots and transported it to its new location. It survived, despite the fact that I was so busy with the move that I didn’t manage to replant it immediately, as I should have done.For the first couple of years it did sulk rather, then started

minutes or more with the bird wrapped in a tea towel and me with a pair of scissors, I finally managed to extricate it. The leg seemed perfectly OK despite the fact the net had become wound around the leg several times and the poor bird flew away