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and nigella foliage go well together. This year I am going to put annual flowers like Marigolds in amongst the veg and I am working out a plan for "drift" planting veg next year when I get brave enough to ditch the straight rows - after all they are only

We' ve all done it at one time or another. Planted something  in wrong location, wrong soil, too shady, too sunny. Can anyone beat this ? Years ago I purchased a Viburnum macrocephalum ( Snowball Bush ) by mail order - planted it and everything

My neighbours on all three sides (or 2 sides and bottom of the garden) have been offended by my garden at different times. None of them likes me to plant near the boundary wall, and all are concerned that the wall may be undermined. All of them

the best way to keep them off my plants was to search for the eggs. A drift of 10 or 20 of them, pale pink, each about 0.5 to 0.7 mm high on the underside of a leaf. Just squish them. I only have half a dozen stems though. I pity anyone trying to keep them

through and put names on the plants, but I am too tired at present.http://s703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/June%202012/ Try again.

, both golden and the usual form. I love the cottage garden plants, and infill with annuals as I don't like to see bare soil. The more plants the better. I also like to plant in colour drifts. At the moment I have a mauve through to pink part

walls; I love the green shoots thrusting gently Breaking the dormant cold of winter Springing forth like resurrection. Here, poised at the turning of winter to spring, I dream of the bounty to come, The plants tumbling and billowing Flowering

couldn't identify them in any of my books (obviously my books are too old for this one). Now I've identified it, I shall be spraying! Please stop all this spraying. I'm sorry your plants aren't looking so good but it won't kill you to just leave

As discussed on another thread in the 'Plants' section, I'm starting this for those who may need some help with their sweet peas. HI David i love sweet peas and usually grow them every year with success.however last year i sowed 2 lots and they both

at the lowest point but the plants have all gone mad with roots creeping everywhere. Surely, as an entomolgist you must know that this is not the best time of year to empty your pond as so many animals and insect larvae lie low in the warmer bottom of the pond