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Working in a SEN school, I am trying to re-devolop a patch of the playground that has been allocated to me and a handful of students.It used to be a large "hump" that acted as support/ladder to a small slide.This has ,obviously,since been removed

.Some plants need moving, some need supporting, some need feeding, some need pruning. Many just need sowing.I need to cut the lawn (we don't have a mower so we do this on our hands and knees with shears.) Luckily it's full of dead patches so it shouldn't take

Hi, I received a new Mother in Law's Tongue plant from eBay recently. I've noticed that small wrinkled patches were forming on the leaf surface after a few days only. Having lived with them for a week now, they have developed into huge light green

will be a year older and know a bit more about gardening. Why not help him sow some nasturtium seeds in the patch in front of the grape vine - they enjoy being in the sunshine and their roots won't damage the vine at all - and the whole plant is edible so

. I noticed on one thread that cutting once a week will help thicken the lawn so will try this. I think we may have left the first cut to long but not really sure as we have never had a new lawn and not really confident gardeners. Would really

novice veg growers make is to take on too much. When you are short of free time, restrict yourself to a small salad patch, a raised bed or some tubs of veg on the patio watered by a home-made irrigation system. Few of us have time to grow absolutely

gardening, we have got a patch where my little sis plays that is wild :) Great article - really important to use native plants to help are indigenous wildlife! If we all did our bit in just a small section of our gardens it would create such a huge habitat

memories of my childhood. A lawn can't really be called a lawn if there are no daisies.I have a few patches of daisies, but they are only visible in places where the grass has not been cut for a while....   The heads are perhaps 4 inches above the ground

Hi all, I have a Forsythia at the top end of my garden that I cut back to the ground last year due to the fact that it was pretty neglected. This year the growth has been ok but as I've been up there doing some work I've noticed that the trunk

etc....I have lifted some and put them into a pot of earth - they has started to produce baby bulbs. Hydrangea arborescens - incrediball - I bought these and one has put on a lot of growth - do I/should I cut it back to form a tighter plant or let