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exciting! Hi GG I think you said this before , 25 Min's is not long enough  I did like Monty's double deep beds for extra drainage Derek I liked his deep-dug paths for drainage, too, and the bricks looked great. Well I enjoyed the show learnt some bits good

herbicides. The thing to do is to get 2 stones and mush the Marestail up. That opens it up to herbicides and you can kill and eradicate it. Undiluted vinegar may work! Mares tail is one of the hardiest and most long lived plants there is.  We live in a mining

so easily if there is different immunity to it in the plant population. Carpet bedding has little biodiversity while a wildflower meadow has a lot. Hope that helps. I am sure you are not at all lazy if you ask questions like that. Having had some

the winter, was replanted due to drain flood and quickly planted in the nearest bed just to have somewhere to put it.  When the weather became reasonable during the sudden odd warm week in February, I cut it down to about a foot stem length and re-planted it

, I am happy to confirm that we have made a decission on a planting scheme and will begin with the flower beds during the summer holidays, having the gardens ready for the start of the new school year in September.   Regards     Rui

. I'm planning to do raised beds as well but this could just be a small area. If the plants are expensive it'll have to be just a small area! I was enchanted by them...don't really have anywhere to keep them tho. That's interesting Berghill as I

I'm quite plesantly surprised to have found some plants I thought had snuffed it during last years horrible summer winter. After moving into my new place I had to relocate my Rip van Vinkle daffs because they didn't like it in the window box (too

to be on this board, I wouldn't get past go. But I like to read the threads and pick up bits and bobs. I have even found out the names of lots of shrubs, etc, in my garden bought over the years, as I never bothered to keep the labels, by looking up plants mentioned

my tomatoes and had to completely dig out the bed and get rid of the soil. This year I have just bought some 6X 100% natural fertilizer having checked with the producer that it is definitely weedkiller free and has been 200° heat treated as well. So

the neighbourhood cats digging up my beds and uprooting some of the young srubs and breaking the heads off the bulbs, lol. One which is easily obtained and flowers early, usually from Dec. in Bristol, is Galanthus elwesii - no yellow markings but grey-green large