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hide.  In my old garden we had massive privet hedges which were full of birds but sadly we have no room for hedges now. The birds love our holly tree, and the ivy that's growing up the trellis.  As well as providing shelter, they're both great

? It is what I would describe as a vigorous self clinging climber, that will grow to around 20 feet up and nearly as wide, great for pergolas and arches, or in my case a warm south facing wall. It has aerial roots, a bit like climbing hydrangea and ivy. Mine

We're looking to redevelope an area of the garden and at the moment it have a fairly large Honeysuckle growing through it among other things. The area is riddled with ivy and weeds. We're looking to start the area from stratch but I don't want

And there was I thinking my ivy arbour over my old pear tree was just for the blackbirds. Thank you, Richard, for great blog on bees. I can't wait for this wind to die down to get out and do some voyeuring among the ivy. Really interesting

friendly garden you need a variety of plants that flowered from autumn to spring. Hi everyone. We have quite a lot of fences with ivy growing up them. The bees absolutely love the flowers which last well into the winter. ChrisX lovetogarden wrote (see) We

We have a few of these in our garden,  this one has grown in front of our ivy fence.  I assume they are wild plants but I really like them and love the colour of the flowers.  Does anyone know what it is please?     Looks like honesty Poppy lady

against the fence that will give me winter colour and berries and the local birds protection, my soil is heavy and the shrubs I would like to grow eventually to the height of the fence. I am looking for ideas if anyone can give me any? What about

build house? Photo of planr and leaves would help a lot more than likely some seeds from your cooking have got inside your hob and decided its the right environment.but it could be bind weed which grows anywhere,or have you accidentally let some bird

Anyone got any suggestions for plants that'll creep through the gaps between paving in slightly shady spots? Soil is average loam and limy. I've done your bugles, sedums, violets, tiny ivies and london pride, and whatever I use needs to be pretty

on and there is a lot of dead wood on the tree. It was also smothered in Ivy which I have now cleared from the tree.  I have found a few websites which imply its infected with Blight but now I am finding it hard to identify a product or method to treat this.  Do I