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size pig at our caravan I wish it was at home which I have two large pots with bay trees in,I have a yew which I am still wandering what to do with its about 4' high 2'wide open to surgestions.Ive have done topiary on hebies in the past they grow quick

Clear away annual climbers, like sweet peas and morning glory, growing on obelisksPick seedheads and evergreen foliage and mix with fruit such as clementines or limes to make a fresh Christmas wreathMove tubs of shrubs or winter bedding to a

of laurel, one of my personal pet hates, so it went, the yew stayed, the rest went in over the next few years.) Ive heard leylandi can take a couple of years to get started Have you thought about choisya? It grows quickly, needs no 'know how' and is a

know why they die? I should have thought box would be quite happy there. Agree about the artificial stuff. The green's not very realistic to start with and doesn't improve with time. My first thought was to grow a  shade tolerant clematis up an obelisk

'Hayward' and one 'Tomouri' Kiwi growing against my South-facing garage wall for 20 years or so. I never feed or water them and pruning consists of severe cutting back all summer just to keep the rank growth under control.Two years ago I had a superb crop

fast growing hedge, a hedge that can take the abuse my young boys will doubtless give them. I have built a retaining wall and would like to know how close I can plant them to the wall and how close together, I propose to buy the hedges at approx 1 metre

to kill these things. I tend to avoid taxus / yew or any conifer prunings. They take too long to break down and the taxus is toxic to animals. And I have poultry that get the run of the plot from Oct to Mar. So yew is a no-no. And any leathery evergreens

150 years. It feeds on the fruits, using its stylet mouthparts to suck out the juices, in autumn moving to the berries of yew, which also grows profusely on the chalk downs.However, during the 1990s Gonocerus was found, first, at Bookham Common

to circulate. You mite be able to let it grow this year and then pull some nearby long bits through the damaged sections to green them up. They're definitely not shade patches, are they? Where something's planted close to the hedge and has shaded out behind it

Regardless of your location and garden conditions if you could have anything in your garden what would you have? I would love a Ginkgo biloba tree. I know they will grow in pots but I'd love a mature one.  a beanstalk, complete with golden egg