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. I also have a large border that is open to the elements and also on a hill, I have hebe's, foxgloves, hollyhocks, lupins, poppies, cornflowers , echinacea, correopsis, ornamental grasses and verbascum.  Thanks for the advice. Im new to gardening ,It

much hapopened, except for the Verbascum chiaxii alba I ordered, most were not the alba variety but the yellow, which was not as required, but there was also some figwort seeds, that looked very similar to verbascum when I planted them out. I am still

flowers for sustenance, and flowers need bees for pollination. But it's important the flowers you grow provide the food bees need.Most double flowers are of little use, because they're too elaborate. Some are bred without male and female parts, while

Hi Kate,One side of my garden is blue forget me nots the other white honesty showing through all the other self sown grasses aquilegias fox gloves and weeds of all kind,every thing is growing well with all this drought that has been falling from

I just scrape them off (time consuming but less yucky than squishing 'pillars)  everything else tends to be left to its own devices I keep an eye out for caterpillars ofsawfly on solomon's seal, mullein moth on verbascums and of course cabbage

which are the best wildflowers to grow in pots as i have only a countyard garden I have some dwarf cornflower (I think they're called 'midget blue') that seem to be coming along well in pots; they're not strictly wildflowers but the bees love 'em

we've found a couple of these growing in our garden veggie patch. when small they looked similar to our potato plants however now they're much bigger they don't look anything like potato plants. we've had a lot of seeds move round the garden caused

photo, and it probably won’t be long before the mystery is solved.If you grow majestic marrows or stately verbascums, then share the secret of your success. Or, if your hostas are miraculously slug-free, tell us how you manage it (you obviously have

I'm saving seed of my perennial sweet pea to grow plants for my friends. Having collected and cleaned seeds at the botanoc garden for the seed distribution (ten packets) that Friends of the BG are entitled to, I'm a bit of an expert. Some seeds

's one lesson I've learned the hard way. 'Must try harder' is my gardening resolution for 2011! I was unable to plant my alium sphaerocephalon bulbs at the appropriate time and fear it's too late now. Also, any ideas for a plant to grow through a sambucus