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colours. If you want calmer colours and more of a foliage look you can get white varieties of lilies and rhodies too. In my 'tropical' bed I've got cannas, dahlias, eucomis, begonias, kniphofia, cordyline (except the rabbits have destroyed it), crocosmia

, lined with pots of chillies, aubergines, peppers, begonias and more. These deep trays hold a large reservoir of water – easily enough for a week or more. So, other than opening the greenhouse each morning before work and closing vents at night, I don

fuchsias, petunias and geraniums. Other plants it might contain include begonias, dianthus', becopas, asters, violas and bidens. Thanks Most of those will require TLC over winter. You may be OK with the dianthus. Mostly annuals by the sound of it

and have changed the compost in the posts. Is it safe to put the old compost which, I have doused with Vine Weevil2 killer on to my compost heap for use next year on my flower / shrub beds or is it better disposed of? I have recently lifted my begonia

and snails everywhere but no sign of the little black beasties. If only the rain would stop, everything is floppy but foliage verdant with little blooming going on - other than some begonias which have held up amazingly well.  Will get back if the opportunity

to me waiting to be read. I know that I'll be growing tomatoes, chillies, cucumbers, climbing courgettes, and some of those trailing begonias that did so well last summer, so I must choose my varieties. Planning for the year ahead will give me something

: http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/perennials/classid.2000002824/    Hope this helps The classic summer bedding plant with bright flowers that grows in shade is the Busy-Lizzie (Impatiens). You can grow it in containers. Have a look on "Google". The other bright flower for pots in semi-shade is Begonia. You

annual begonias in, they look very nice and once again low maintenance, just a little water when they need it. Hope this is of some help, good idea to look at the labels on shrubs to see how high they grow. Each spring with most of the shrubs I care

When I was planting some flowers that I got at the weekend (from a garden centre) I noticed some little eggs in the soil. The 'shell' was crispy so to speak and had white liquid inside This is in the begonias but also found in an old bag of compost

begonias! I wondered whether to coat the begonias with something not very nice, like vinegar, or hairspray before I plant them out. Would this work? I have a small garden (whistable) and some chickens and have had stags visit yearly, these huge and quite