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follow the instructions on the pack carefully, as these products can damage or kill surrounding plants and wildlife (particularly frogs) if applied carelessly.For small paths you can buy ready-to-use products in hand sprayers, but for large areas it

after them very well and a lot dry out through lack of watering and care. Makes me very angry and I usually end up telling them. I've also haggled with them. I managed to get an Orange Dream acer for 50p years ago - it had been marked down to £1 because

entered a Telegraph competition for some solar panels and I didn't win but they sent me a book instead on how to film wildlife which was nice but rather random. I won the seed box a few months back. Was a total suprise and something I needed as mice

Evening all! Just wondering if any kind soul would care to offer me advice on how I can line my border down one side of my garden with an interesting array of evergreens to over time hide a fence behind it. To set the scene my border is 12 metres

larger pond in another site in garden so don't know whether or not to keep damaged one and re-do or just carefully empty it all and fill in the hole? I know this is something I need to do too. We had so many newts in the pond over the summer that I am

worked for 15 minutes to carefully cut it free and it slithered away towards our 4 compost heaps where it is probably living. I have a pond but lost all my goldfish, someone said it could have been the grass snake, could that be true? You are quite

, supposedly. I am torn as to whether I love my  plants or my birds, hedgehogs and so on more! And I wouldn't mind a mole or two. (better be careful what I wish for,huh?)   I suppose all our cultivated garden plants were wild flowers or weeds at some point

completely 'opposite' parts of the garden? My only thoughts are that you do have to be careful as to which grasses you use as some are extremely invasive! I did inherit an ornamental grass with the garden and although I've dug out all the large clumps I

, please, are the following points... Suitability of aquarium in the first place.Substrate options. Species that are the best to use - clearly the point here is to encourage as much wildlife as possible so presumeably natives are the best option

That's some image, Pippa - birds in home-knitted socks! But I do agree we need to take care of the birds. They are the gardener's best friends. My garlic will be sown in pots, which i will do at the kitchen table, covered with plastic. Needs must