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-life friendly alternative The midnight hunt is probably the most effective route, backed up by wildlife-safe Growing Success Advanced Slug Pellets. i use every possible method:  the beer one seems to work only once in the season, even when putting fresh beer out

in the garden is it a good idea or should I leave it alone You cannot spilt a woody shrub-what you could do is take cuttings and grow them on But you need suitable cutting material Hi Tracy Is this one of the shrubby hypericums? What I know as Rose of Sharon

. But, can you tell me if I need to change the soil or add feed or something. I just leave the pots alone, let them stay out all winter and they just seem to grow very well. I have 4 hostas slugs don,t really bother with them maybe an odd nibble but if i

to feed the birds today & even the start of new buds on the rose I transplanted in November. J. Blue bells are starting to show in my front garden, it's some what sheltered though and they grow by a wall.   In summer here in France plants and roses

border and put shrubs at back. Can anyone recommend some tall growing shrubs? I would still check your deeds as to whom does own that boundary & ultimately the maintenance, or not, of that fencing. BTW what aspect is it? Soil type? If your old border had

.Plants that herald a new season like snowdrops,tulips, roses, callicarpa, holly give us something to look forward to.Scented plants like freesia, honeysuckle, lavender, lilies often come with memories.Other plants we love just because they survive and grow for us

I grow lots of blue flowered plants. What's your favourite? How about linum perenne to start? In summer, and grown next to santolina lemon fizz....yellow foliage....and behind a yellow osteospermum it is a real eye catcher all summer long. I

spikey plants like Veronica's, agastaches, dwarf delphiniums. A couple of good well chosen hellebores, couple of hostas, Heucheras and a wonderful grass called hackonechloa would be on my list. Carex testacea is lovely olive "grass" that would grow

are just dying! I recently bought a delphinium and I have had to bring that in after the rain yesterday as it had just started growing back again after the last attack...I'm guessing there's only slug pellets left to try now, of course I will get

the management of this beast over the years, it just kept growing and I left it to take up a good few feet because although its base is ugly, I always adore its gorgeous plumes that I watch from my kitchen window all winter long. I know its spring because