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is actually very fertile and will grow all sorts of things.  It's just hard to work.  There are other threads lower down about how to improve clay soil by adding plenty of sharp sand, fine grit, well rotted compost and manure to break up the clods.    You need

with ferns unfurling, blue, green and variegated hostas, tall white primulas and an astilboides all performing now to be followed by astilbes, Japanese anemones and chelones in shades of pink and purple.   Some aquilegias and sweet rocket have self sown

results!)  I've always fought shy of trying to grow primulas from seed as I believed they were very difficult.  I'm just off to the garden centre to buy some seeds and give them a go.  We're revamping a pond and last night's episode gave us lots of ideas

. In all my years of gardening I have never seen anything like it. My primroses and primulas are flowering as if it really was spring. Heatwave! We here in Scotland on the west coast have had rain on a biblical scale everything is starting to rot, I haven

........................................................................ ....................................................... well,summer bedding plants for a bright display if and when the sun comes out,spring fill with primulas or all manner of plants its a personnel thing.if you go to a good garden center you will see plants that might inspire you.That's the best i can say

it with spring flowers - lots of primroses and primulas,pansies,wallflower,love-in-the-mist still blooming away.  And ,for the first time I had winter heather in full bloom for my wreath.  We are going to have our first frost tonight in Bristol so it will be a

spring. Consider though what you want form this area, do you want to fill it with perennials or could it be filled with a mix of annuals also. how about growing some of your own food here mixed in with the shrubs, standard fruit bushes can make good focal

, pulsatilla vulgaris, verbasucm, a couple of primulas (which I do know can be a bit hit and miss) also some rudbeckia and echinacea for next flowering late next year.  Those should be fine, happy sowing. i use a company called "Premier seeds direct" on ebay

some ideas for things thata might not have come naturally.  Mine are: bergenia, because its huge evergreen leaves show everything nearby off brilliantly (and snails eat my hostas). You do need huge clumps though. hardy geraniums, because they grow

And, if you do want to grow your tulips in pots like Adam and have squirrels in your garden or nearby, remember to put netting over the pots or they will dig them up. Tulip bulbs seem to have a smell like ambrosia for squirrels. They make a