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, they will regrow. Good luck! (Maybe they don't like lettuce - they haven't touched mine either) New to the veg. garden, so want to know is it too late for me to grow either bean in containers? My garden is very small, have got potatoes growing in large tree pot

to be most resistant to slugs. Of course, resistance does not mean immunity, but if you pick from this list, it's a satisfying way to repell slugs without extra cost, effort or chemical side effects.AquilegiasAstilbesAstrantiasBegoniasCrocosmiasEuphorbiasFerns

(under a eucalyptus tree) and so am looking in all the shady areas in the gardens I visit for inspiration. So far I have learned that foxgloves, yellow poppies, bluebells, Heuchera "Lime Marmalade", and many ferns are suitable. Research for your garden

under trees where nothing will grow apart from weeds... ok here are the other plants that we've grown in our slightly improved clay -many many cranesbill, euphorbia, elephant ears, dicentra, ferns in the shade, roses, magnolias, iceplant, aqualegia

and homeliness of a 'proper' garden, but that's the point, really. It's wonderful to see a fabulous tree or shrub and know that somewhere very close will be a neatly engraved label giving more information than you will ever need. Not just the plant name but also

Thank you for the useful websites, James. in the Rockies National Park in Canada you can see forest gardening as done by nature - gooseberries, black currants, raspberries, abound under the trees as well as lots of fungi and edible tips of fern

up for a potager to be built. I would not have been able to resist buying some of those lovely alpines Carol pointed out. No doubt I will return from Dewstow Gardens with some more ferns for the fernery and from the Welsh National Botanic Gardens

of apples growing in the garden!x Reply to jack: My apple trees in the Midlands are just coming into flower. In full flower now are plums and cherry, but apple blooms are not far behind.If there is no sign of flower buds then your apple trees will not going

lilies-despite the blasted beetle dahlias-reliable, colourful will never let you down   there will be others.................       My Bramley tree. rhubarb, ferns, snowdrops, forget-m-nots.  These are just for me but the five my wildlife love

Can anyone advise me please. We have a very steep, almost vertical, high bank at the back of our house that, with all the rain, has partially slipped (my husband has today cleared away 18 barrow loads of sand and rock). The only thing growing