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ideas on what this is from the picture would be helpful.   I think this is just a recently planted clematis struggling a bit, due to a combination of factors.  It will be concentrating on growing it's roots in the first year, plus the weather has been

I'm always looking for plants that make an impact - things that will grab the attention and put on a good show. Seasonal bedding and bulbs are always popular, but many shrubs also grow well in patio pots.Over the years I've tried all sorts, from

. With minimum care, they'll flower year after year, and many will bulk up into clumps after a few years.Like cultivars, species tulips prefer growing in free-draining soil in full sun. Plant them in drifts for swathes of colour, dot them around a rockery

around your garden grazing on aphids and slugs. If you let full-sized hens into your borders then they will kick soil all over the shop and peck large holes in the emerging shoots of your most precious plants. Bantams are less destructive, but if the main

them in large drifts to dance, drunkenly around my borders. I've given up on the crocus, they like the sun too much. I'll plant them in a sunny patch of grass in my flat's communal gardens instead.Spring bulbs don't just provide us with a burst

across, and I have twice gone for interestingly coloured phormiums that were supposed to be 2x2 feet and fully hardy. Pah! Both died off over winter, within 2 years of planting. Do you have any suggestions for a single plant I could use? Ideally

Gardening in a mild climate here in Cornwall enables us to grow tender plants. Salt laden winds can be a problem without protection and we don't get those lovely autumn colours you guys up north get but we have a long flowering season and few

using weed suppressing membrane, you may need to leave it in place for a whole season.  As soon as you plant anything or turn the soil, dormant weed seeds will be brought to the surface though, so membrane is not a panacea.  There's an old gardeners

completely destroying the plant.I haven't got any daffs in my garden, but the fly is quite welcome to the Spanish bluebells that come up in vigorous drifts every year. In the wider countryside it is quite at home using native bluebells too. My fond attachment

Has anyone used wilko's own brand? I've just bought a 60l bag half price at £2.50 I figured it was worth a try at that price!  I have used it, and their seed and cutting compost.  It is OK  but I would hesitate to use it for long term planting. I