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plant projectsCreate a Christmas holly pot displayMake a Christmas door decorationMaking a Christmas wreathCreating a winter display of aster and ornamental cabbageGrowing pansies for winter colour

would cut them back to make them bushy. There are plants for this time of the year you can use......pansies, violas,ivy, . Dont feel dis spirited though or discouraged. We have all made mistakes...growing in the wrong soil or putting plants

small bamboo (upright and evergreen, but not very original), or perhaps an agave, or a selection of alpines or succulents, or maybe a Zantedecia (can look good in a black pot).Make sure that the pot has a decent drainage hole. Pansy2, I would put a Thuja

of the space. I absolutely love colour, and will probably go for pansies/cosmos to start my balcony colour collection. But I would really love some advice on what other flowers there are that are relavely short in terms of height but really colourful

. Here's a link which makes a couple of useful points. http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Grow-Your-Own/Advice/Veg-advice/Seed-sowing-technique However, my guess is that you are looking for specific tips based on personal experience with particular seeds

Hello am very new to this so please bare with me, we have just been given an allotment plot as were childcare providers in our community, the children are under 5 years old and love to grow things in our back yard in pots so this is  a new adventure

, then wonder why they sometimes don't do well when we offer them opposite places in which we expect them to grow.   Export pansies to Africa, and they won't grow there either, without a vast amount of care (I know, I tried!). I now what to do about daisies

seedlings all over my garden. I have managed to rescue most of them but wonder how they will fair in the next week or two. Damage of a different kind in my garden. I thought my pansies were being dug up by a blackbird collecting mud to glue her nest together

the plant. That sounds like fungus gnats - annoying, but they won't be killing your plants.   What sort of plants are we talking about, where are they and what are they growing in? We discussed fungus gnats yesterday and agree they are a nuisance not a pest

Hi  I have several wooden planters and lots of tubs and pots all sizes filled up with pansies, primroses and primulas and some foliage plants, my ? is Can i lift most and grow on in large pots in a corner of the garden for next year ? i need