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I have 3 new fruit trees planted in the spring in half whisky barrels cherry, plum and gage will i need to protect them from frost as they are in tubs, i am in south east. thanks for your help No, they should be fine in that volume of earth.

Hi, This may be a daft question but I'm quite new to gardening and have planted a lot of things for the first time e.g. sweet peas.  I'm worried about frosts which have been damaging to some of the new growth on my clematis plants in recent weeks so

I’m cross! I'm fed up and I bet I'm not alone in my anger. I keep buying so-called frost-proof pots, but they always seem to break anyway.I tend to buy pots and containers marketed as being 'frost-proof'. It's the most sensible option as (in theory

Dear all, my husband has left his previous 15years old Jade plant, Crassula ovata out in the frost for the last couple of days, only get upset when seeing them go soggt n lifeless this mrning. Please advise on the bast way to it's recovery

My coprosma which I planted in autumn last year has developed dead, brown tips on its leaves. The whole plant is affected but I'm unsure if it has been caused by frost damage over the winter or a lack of water. There are other shrubs in the bed

I have Ivy growing up a wall - variegated, large leaf - which has been in for about 10 years.  It is huge and the birds always nest in it.  In fact it has a blackbird nesting at the moment.  It has been damaged by the frost and the leaves have

Hi I bought two lovely white Hydrangea's about a month ago and being a novice gardener I left them out and think they have frost burn on them. There are a few mopheads damaged and turning brown also some leaves.  Would it be correct to cut off

back to see what it was!). And now the forecast is for snow next week where I am (NW Kent)! I enjoyed the hard frost on flowers,it is beautiful and I took some photos.I am amazed that my darling snowdrops spring back unharmed after being bent double

't look like it's producing much in the way of flower buds. After a bit of research I think it's probably frost damage as I left it out all winter - I live in Devon and it was fairly mild but we did have the odd few nights under zero s maybe I should

year it budded and flowered beautifully then as you will remember we had terrible frost and high winds and it killed all the flowers which meant we lost the chance of getting apples.....no one in our area had any apples at all last year. This year again