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and location. At this time of year I am doing much better with biennials. Which annuals are you trying? Can I reccommend this article  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/9039365/Grow-your-own-cut-flowers.html  Hello flora4, If you want to cut

://www.niwaki.com/ it may have been the Tobisho secateurs that you mentioned.  The Japanese really know how to make amazing gardening tools!  I've got some of the Okatsune snips for taking cutting and they are great.  www.alisonpike.com/blog/ Most professional gardeners

My upstairs neighbours idea of a perfect garden is the slabbed over back garden and circular clothes drier. There is nothing planted in her part of the garden. Today she tidied up a year and a half's worth of debris and contrary to my request cut

the dahlia was persona non grata in our gardens and was banished to the vegetable garden, where it was grown purely as a cut flower or for competitions. Dahlias were they garden equivalent of battery hens. Now they range happily through our borders bringing

lysimachia nummularia from my local garden centre four weeks ago - 75p each - and two weeks later took three cuttings from each. They have all rooted and the parent plants are now bigger than ever and ready for some more cuttings.  You can do the same

Do you have an autumn clear-up in your garden? Do you cut down all your herbaceous stuff so that everything is tidy for the winter or do you leave everything until the new year? Most people nowadays leave it until later to give food for small birds

Carol never fails to amaze me!She gardens and plants up cuttings as she goes (and passes that all on to us watching)!I wish I had half of her talent!:D I agree she is great, even today when I was sowing seeds,  I covered my seeds in grit a la CK . I

of autumn colour. If you can spare a moment from harvesting pumpkins, admiring dahlias and cutting things back then this is a good time to think of your last garden visits of the season. Get out there and see some leaves.The great places for autumn visits

Hi Kate when I cut the borders in the mainly glass area of our back garden I stacked the turf face to face back to back against the fence with my compost bins in front.The local Rat found a great place to live with food on the door step,every time I

We've just been allocated more space on the allotment, so we now have a full sized plot. As well as planting many more spuds - which will keep the 'old man' happy - we can also plant the cutting garden my daughter always wanted. Despite