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. Thanks I have always found that spring is a perfect time to sort out houseplants.  Just as they need a bit more watering and feeding in spring, it is the time to re-pot as necessary.  With three plants now a bit overcrowded in their pot, I would leave

artichokes - large perennial/architectural plants where you can eat some flower 'buds' & leave others to bloom* courgettes/ marrows/pumpkins - can be great-looking plants, generally flower well & you can eat the fruit or the flowers My family and I bravely

are generally ok. Thanks RED ROBIN>Have just come back from holiday to find my Photina Red Robin is severely wilted (looked perfectly healthy before going away - although had dropped a lot of leaves). Any suggestions what it could be and if I can do anything

want to ask for general advice or something specific and would appreciate help from both experienced gardeners and fellow newbies and even people who have only been gardening for a few years. Putting all the newbies in their own section would be a bit

's a fool proof defence against cats who roll and sleep in catmint besides eating and generally worshiping it - put a wire hanging basket shell over the young plant. By the time it has grown through the wire, it can sustain cats' attacks. We had a plant

of harmless moss or lichen. If the plant dies then I am wrong and apologise!DoveF: Frogs know what they are doing. If they like your pond enough to spawn then you are doing fine. Plants help for general biodiversity and to keep water clean.Obelixx: Ah, Tibetan

is good for foliage houseplants, but flowering plants need a bit more potash - I'd use a very small amount of a proprietory rose fertiliser. Can't grow roses here well at all.....Cornwall is generally a poor area for roses so I'm envious of those wo can

them as close together as possible. There are other videos. If you put 'space plants' into the new search engine you will find them. As a general rule, spacing close together will give you smaller crops that can be just as good. However, fungal diseases