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by the silver leaves of the cascading dichondra, which are even more lustrous in full sun. Water generously - twice a day if it's really hot - and feed regularly to promote new flower growth and ward off mildew in the verbena.May - JuneJune - August30 minutes

and want to add some deph and colour to my garden. Any suggestions? I'm new to gardending so thank you for this tip. I too, have great difficulty with blackspot on my roses. Might I add I'm new to gardening as my husband always did the gardening but he

flowering English climbing rose with a strong scent, producing a number of basal stems and putting on quite a bit of growth in its first season.  If anyone has any experience of growing the following roses, I would welcome your comments: A Shropshire Lad

the base from early spring, unfurling beautifully. The only other thing I've noticed with new growth in my pots is that it can look very pale, which I put down to lack of feed. So pay attention, and add liquid feed to a watering every couple of weeks

Hi I planted 6 Thuja Plicata 30cm plants a year ago, one of them has turned red a few months ago, the rest are fine. It's the same height as the other plants and looks healthy apart from the colour. It has also got a green child and abnormally thin

all stems down to a pair of buds low down or take out a third to a half of stems each year and leave the other half.    Thr former method keeps the shrub a bit smaller and neater and gets the best new colour for next winter.  The latter is better

left the leggy bits on without cutting them off if that helps. I would cut the leggy bits off, this will helps stimulate fresh new growth. Thanks Matt, I'll go and do that now while the rain has stopped Thanks for all the info and responses fingers

in south wales and they seem to love it.  What sort of soil do you have and where are you? My Primroses have provided colour and put a smile on my face through out this long bitter winter, the have bloomed continuously for nearly five months in a long row

survived. I have a heuchera 'Shanghai', lovely purply/silver foliage and it has survived the winter in the garden looking good all the time, Now putting on new growth  Fairygirl, yes I did compose the four seasons. I intended it to be five seasons but had

each year as t flowers on new growth and honeysuckle so I should get a long season of interest.   I've also just planted a rose to grow up an arch. On the other side I have a clematis which needs pruning back each year as it flowers on new growth