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Can anyone tell me whether Heliotrope are a hardy plant or a bedding plant.  I live in Suffolk and have a fairly sheltered garden.  Any advice would be helpful.  I would say Heliotrope are a tender perennial - they can be overwintered somwhere frost

mine. I have grown garlic for a few years now.  I plant in October/November and overwinter.  It has appeared now.  When the leaves go yellow I investigate to see how the bulb looks and if O.K. I harvest and hang up to dry.  Some people eat it 'green

Follow Chris Beardshaw's step-by-step video advice on lifting and preparing dahlia tubers, for overwintering in a frost-free environment.autumnMore advice on growing dahliasVideo advice on planting dahlia tubersMore tips on lifting and storing

What is the best way to overwinter these lovely plants? Mine are still gorgeous clumps of flowers at the moment but I know from bitter experience that winter weather will be a big problem. I have an unheated greenhouse and I also sew wool

- your shed may be too cold. Take the cuttings around about August/September, using non-flowering shoots if possible. will have to free up some windowcill space, can I overwinter the parent plants or is it best just for the new cuttings

time, but have usually eaten their way out to overwinter on the bark of the tree. They will then pupate and hatch into adult moths the following spring, ready to mate.Holes often visible in ripe fruit. When the fruit is cut open, the tunnel made

Although I have been gardening for many years, I am only now, about to buy my first greenhouse.  The choice is bewildering!  Should it be wood or metal, set on bricks or the ground.  I will mainly use it for cuttings and overwintering and growing

, the variegated white you spoke about....maybe Gweek Variegated?....is slightly more tender. I take cuttings of this but also dig it up and overwinter in the greenhouse. The others are left in the ground but take cuttings too. However, if your plants

have found out they hide in the soil where they over-winter- as well as on the plants-you can control them to a certain extent by picking of my hand or using Provado Ultimate Bug Killer This is interesting from the RHS-tells you all you need to know

I have just checked my overwintered begonia corms to find that most have at least 5-6 inch shoots. Do I pinch the shoots off or can I do anything?  Corms were stored inside in a paper bag and I have about 60 of them so really need to save them