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.I love the way home-grown salads start off as a meagre collection of leaves in spring, then steadily grow as tomatoes, broad beans and other ingredients are ready to harvest. The watercress growing in my pond is always the first leaf crop I pick, followed

 most wildlife-friendly plants! You could try herbs such as thyme, chives, rosemary, sage, mint and marjoram etc which are good for beneficial insects and useful in the kitchen.  Lavender is always a winner, and I found that the bees were attracted to gazania

not be about the usual hedging plants. I grow a "hedge" along the side of my veg patch comprising euonymous emerald n gold, variegated box, potentilla, a good blue rosemary, Lonicera nitida Baggesons Gold (love this one) and a couple of half standard prunus

amateur gardening enthusiast with the query below please? I am growing basil, mint, chives, parsley, rockets and rosemary from the beginning again. I want to put them outside for the summer but when I did this last year with the same set of herbs they got

and would almost certainly treat any of our ants (No.4=) as cocktail snacks.We are unlikely to stumble across the giant Palouse earthworm. Though harmless - and endangered - it can grow to be about a metre long which is enough to give anyone a bit of a shock

interest, hardy, fool proof and with very little shelter. I was hoping for a camelia or rhodo, (something I presume won't grow well in my neutral soil) Any ideas? Thanks I am a little confused, are you looking for a climber. Are you planning on using

, coriander, mint, thyme and rosemary.Then there are nasturtiums - vibrant, colourful blooms produced in profusion by these easy-to-grow hardy annuals. They have a warming, peppery flavour, not unlike watercress. Which is hardly surprising when you realise

be great. Heres what ive thought so far .chives . garlic.mint .lavender. Rosemary.nasturtiums. something in my brain is saying violas would be ok too but i could well be making it up. ps you are really helping me as i could troll the net but whats wrong

shade / partial shade, well-drained, slightly alkaline. Thanks in advance for suggestions. Flo x   Flo - some scented plants would be nice - a Sarcacocca maybe?Skimmias are low growing,too . What about some herbs? I will keep thinking Pam LL x Lavenders

just make do with baubles on a synthetic conifer swag on the mantelpiece. I bring in the prunings from the Rosemary and the Juniper horizontalis (?) for the scent. On the other hand............. There is a big business in growing christmas tree