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'll need to start with plugs or even larger plants. If you're starting from scratch you can sow a wildflower mix to suit your soil after removing perennial weeds Poppies, cornflowers, corncockle etc are cornfield flowers (or weeds if you're a farmer

and so on. If they're not willing to show you where the soil came from and guarantee against perennial weeds then look elsewhere. Excellent - thanks Joe_the_Gardener It's worth giving your local council a try, many sell bags of soil conditioner/ compost

weeds coming through and just looks a bit messy. thankfully, nothing is planted within the gravel border ... but i do intend to plant all around it. for this reason, im wondering whether i should remove the gravel, remove the fabric, improve the soil (i

perennial weeds; before the garden really gets going it is quite easy to track them down. Also the ground is soft enough to winkle out the clinging roots of buttercups or the long parsnipy tap roots of docks. The nicotine yellow roots of nettles are easy

.  They are perfumed and about 15"/35cm high.  Will have to stake them as blowing a gale now but - are they a garden flower, a wildflower or a weed?  They sort of resemble wallflower and the perfume is lovely.  The stems are soft at this point and mis-shapen because I

this may often be a weed, you never know what might pop up.And this is where self-seeders - flowers you love, and deliberately let go to seed - come into their own. By resisting the temptation to snip off every faded flower in sight you give some flowers a

blue flowers.  Its a bit clingy, like a pea plant.  I haven't seen or heard of it before, but I would love to have some more plants like it. I think its a perennial. Do any one here have one?  Maybe you could tell me how to propagate it? Can I take

-click on the pictures for a bigger view and again to zoom Thanks Geoff - works a treat. However, unfortunately now I can't blame my ignorance on poor eyesight!  And I am still not very much wiser!!  I don't remember it flowering last year. Was worried it was just a weed

. This edge had got a layer of weed-net and is covered by bark.  It is shaded almost all day.  Last year I (optomistically) planted a couple of hydrangea which unsurprisingly haven't done well, although they are just about still alive.  I was planning

wrong for daisies - it's just ordinary garden soil. Just a thought, I had some Bellis daisies in pots on the patio one year, I have had daisies in the lawn ever since. I do not use weed killer on the lawn either. Might see if I can find some Bellis