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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

I am a keen but new owner of a big garden.  One area is very shaded by 7 medium sized trees and bushes and a big monkey puzzle.  About six weeks ago, in among lily of the valley shoots and bluebells most of the area seemed to be shooting arum

It is New year;s day and the rain has let up at lsst and i can take my camera out in my garden to see the beautiful bare bones of the trees and anything else that thrills me in the winter.  so be prepared for some photographs as soon

garden ready for lots of plants that don't grow so well in my exposed garden with little shade. Clay soil is usually very rich in minerals, so once the soil structure is improved you will be able to enjoy hostas, hellebores, primulas, pulmonarias, acteas

's fast-growing for a tree. You could have a tower block built hollow so the tree grows up the centre of it, and it would seem intact for quite a while then the treetop would emerge, and after a while it'd just burst. You might have to CGI the collapse

and possibly more so. If plants that would otherwise have been destroyed by developement can be given a second chance then where is the problem? in much the same way that tree ferns from New Zealand were brought into cultivation when they were cleared from

bed (it does get some sun) because I wanted them growing up through the ferns. I just have the two...I have been getting unsightly blotchy patches on some of the leaves...but I just cut them off and bin them. Flower bird wrote (see) Annual meadow

consists of a few small trees and large shrubs and which is in full sun all winter but gets shaded by foliage in summer.   There are proper bluebells in tehse wods too and wild daffs.  later the ground is covered with ferns and brambles. A trawl through all

My Husband and I went to the show for the first time this year and we had a fabulous day out! There was so much to see and learn (Hubby found out what was wrong with his tree fern)The NEC was clean, well organised and a pleasure to stoll around

rare or endangered species just to see whether I could help by growing them. I never cease to be grateful to the people who saved the Gingko biloba tree from extinction by cultivating it every time i look at my beautiful young one and think present day