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I love the way plants hold associations with places and key events in your life. Some - like pheasant's eye daffodils - I grow in my garden as a fond reminder of the childhood associations I have with them. Others somehow seem to slip the net

everywhere. A few years ago I cleared out the small window boxes of the dead and dying plants that were clearly not doing very well. All I found, instead of roots, were lots of these small (7-8mm) creamy white maggots — vine weevil grubs.The adult weevils

've got, is a fast growing bamboo with an eventual height of 15 - 20 feet, see here http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/bamboo/exotics/classid.1601/ Were you aware of this when you planted it?  Will you have room for it and is it in an appropriate position

I'm not sure I like moth orchids. They're pretty to look at when in flower, but a bit of a pain to care for if you want them to bloom again. And I think it's a bit sad that these beautiful plants, which should be growing in the canopy of an exotic

, loam-based compost, a warm position, and once they're growing you must make sure their compost never dries out. This is one pot plant I don't think you can overwater.Many varieties have wonderful speckled leaves, while others have dark leaf stalks

Hi Please help this novice gardener! I recently bought three plants from a local shop. None of the plants had any indentification, and the shop staff had no idea what they were. I have tried to find out online, and drawn a complete blank. I have

i SAW GARDENERS WORLD WITH MONTY DON THIS EVENING AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT PLANTING GREEN MANURE. i WANT TO KNOW WHICH GREEN MANURE I PLANT FOR CABBAGES - MAYBE YOU CAN LET ME KNOWTHANKS My neighbour has a lovely red flower/bulb in a pot but am

last Christmas. On another thread, started yesterday... mummycrafts wrote (see) .. I grow more exotic plants including curry leaf trees (indoors) ginseng and Orchids in my conservatory I've never seen a curry leaf tree, but from pictures it looks like a

This plant reaches about 1m high, then in summer produces large spherical heads of flowers purple out side and lilac within, which have the scent of hyacinths. In its earlier phase it looks like a weed, and is extremely invasive. It spreads

I have only planted bulbs in pots to prevent our dog from digging them out of the grass ;) It's not my dog digging in the lawn that bothers me, but the squirrels! They are burying nuts everywhere – in pots, borders, and in the lawn. They haven