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emilym. How about filling in with decorative pebbles? You could probably get a few things to survive but they wouldn't please you much.  Hi both yes I think I am hoping a little, the soil is a good 4 inches and weeds grow  there pretty well, shame

beasties hide underneath them. It' s in a big blue pot so something to contrast nicely please. Oops done something wrong there ! Clematis are very hungry and thirsty plants so be prepared to feed and water regularly during the growing season and alo protect

flowers. This next bit is for gardeners with a very strong constitution.  We have a very large and well loved red sycamore half way down our garden - under which little will grow. Please sit down now if you are likely to faint ....... I have planted

seedlings! And the violets are flowering their socks off again in the "Woodland Edge"garden at the Botanic Garden, competing for compliments with the lovely pink and white Cyclamen hederifolium who usually have it all to themselves in the autumn.Pippa, you

is planted and scattered the seed of yellow Corydalis which grows very well in shady areas. It's a wild plant and is rampant but is very effective and very colourful in problem areas. I have a shady bank under trees - apart from greenery (ferns, hostas etc

. To attract wildlife to a garden, planting flowers is actually way down the list of priorities, well below being untidy, leaving grass to grow long, making a log pile, putting in a pond.Tina. Many midges (biting and non-biting) have aquatic larvae.Paula M

, ladies smock, violets and honesty will all grow in your grass and attract the orange tip and green-veined white to lay their eggs, and remember a clump of nettles in a sunny spot is invaluable. Small tortoiseshell, peacock, painted lady,red admiral

has died to me! Dead nettles/ lamium. Nasty acrid smell. Eeeeurgh. I'm with Shrinking Violet in hating privet flowers. Sorry if I'm getting boring, this is the third thread on which I've said this!! When I lived next door to a privet hedge I couldn

that grows only whatever plants it is that you want, as they will be the experts. thank you Bookertoo - one question - do I need to take them indoors in the Winter or am I able to grow them  in the ground.?  Here in South Wales we have some good old frosts

the virtue of being more interactive (I hope). Off now to do some serious gardening.  The sun is shining, and nature calls, as it were. Are you going to leave us guessing, Violet? Who were you? Only small bit-part player on the beeb in recent times, Alina