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....... it is rather pretty. And then there was Hypericum Patulum, this produces underground shoots,everywhere,lots of them. That pretty nettle............... I acquired a Himalayan honeysuckle courtesy of the birds, I thought it was lovely, I now have 4

You don't have to convert a Scots lady to the benefit of conifers.  I love my Scots pine the birds or squirrels brought me in the front garden and they go so well with heathers.  I still have Adrian Bloom's book - they were all the rage in island beds

added a bird bath to the middle of one bed with perennials growing up around it. Hope whatever you decide to do looks great My garden is sightly bigger too, and again I have got a paved circle in the middle of the flower garden.    I decided to dispense

autumn colour and winter stems, so acers, cornus and coppiced willows went on the list.  We wanted to encourage birds, so we cut down a proportion of the larches and sycamores to replant with native trees and shrubs. So anyway: I'd start by thinking about

the birds strip the plumes clean for their nests Now, what to do about it...I started digging around in the centre and the whole thing is falling apart with rot (amazing compost!) so its coming out...by hand...by me...all alone...oh dear. I may be some time

'.  OB- Cumbrian weather very similar to west of Scotland. A wildlife pond for frogs and getting plenty of birds into garden is best way to get rid of the slugs I find. I mean the feathery kind.... Yeah Fig, I have a patio then grass little mock up piccy - (not

...Expecting some plants in the post tomorrow so that's always exciting Zoomer, stay away from women in very high heels, they fall over a lot I went to Wisley today. Had to collect someone from Heathrow so thought i would kill 2 birds etc. and have lunch and a quick

,that is a great northern humming bird hawk moth impressing the wife no end. then I explained about reading of the moth in the south only the day before,not seen here until now, lost perhaps? or ranging further than previously thought? We live in Warrington

mainly free of maggots. I feed the blue tits and other birds throughout the year with sunflower kernels which they carry up into the apple tree above to feast on this delicacy and can only assume that they dealt with the little bug...s for me! I will put

cleared this, applied weedkiller (no choice in view of the neglect) and have made 4' wide by 15' beds for vegetables. I planted onions, garlic and shallots in the autumn. I have keept thes weed free and protected from birds with netting. Have I done