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you are? Foxgloves, definitely. Also campanulas, calendulas, and fuchsias. Oh, and all trees are verdant, though not necessarily fruiting. Apart from the slugs...honeysuckle, hemerocallis, hardy geraniums, viticella clematis. Foxgloves terrific until

most of these are growing, 9 out of 21 show no signs of life. Maybe I have not dealt with them in the right way, or maybe I am unlucky, but I do have a reasonably successful garden. I would say that the instructions that come with the plants are not all

physical weakness at the first knuckle on the floweriing stems so each year I support with thin canes then they will flower upright til the autumn.  The golden oat grass is lovely plant. If you don't grow this then do. Planted some perennials and hardening

you build a habitat around it. If you grow plants that attract insects the insects will come. We got a bird box with camera from Hayle in Cornwall, but we had to make sure it had some cover. Result. The secret is in what is around it as well

and evening sun. The Heuchera has flowered with tall bracts above the purple leaves next to the Fuchsia with its red flowers and the Potentilla with its yellow flowers.There is so much in bloom as other plants finish and get dead headed, The Peonia leaves

Oh WOW! I'm a happy woman today....hubby got me the perfect birthday pressies.....a greenhouse heater, a potting bench, tray etc.,  and a beautiful rose bush  (now he's either encouraging me to keep growing and listened to me oohing and ahhing over

I have sown some tomato seeds this weekend and sweet pea. It is just great to be out in the garden, and it is lovely to walk into a lovely warm greenhouse. I have my little heaters in my greenhouses and it keeps them nice and warm. My fuchsias

the variegation I would love the names of some though, that would look good in a white border. I have erysimum. fairygirl, I once had a variegated Jacob's Ladder but it didn't survive its first year. the leaves were tricolour, a bit like a fuchsia that I still

plants to choose from, but your choice does depend on quite how much light the wall basket gets. For shaded positions I'd recommend evergreen, variegated ivy to trail down, plus try impatiens, and possibly fuchsias if not too shaded. Begonias might be OK

and how the plants will manage may mean that we in the end will be able to grow many more exotics in our gardens Well I think the season's have gone all to pot. In my back yard I have a few pots with several plants in and I am amazed that there is so many