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It's always nice to be shown a 'find' by an excited child, so when I was told of a bright green iridescent beetle found in a neighbour's garden I could hardly wait to see what it was.As it turns out, it was Oedemera nobilis. It's very common

garden is putting a pitched roof on top of his garage  to create a bedroom. Also their kitchen window looks into our garden so my second issue is, what sort of hedging to plant ,I would like a fast growing and dense and also bird friendly. I would  really

then knocked it off the roof- particularly dangerous to me as i am extremely allergic to there sting, however it doesn't stop me gardening! To deter wasps from nesting in sheds etc you can use those fake nests which make wasps think the space is already

Wild life mating can be very fascinating. i have two collar doves which kiss beaks for ages before mating on next door's roof! The time od day does not seem to bother them but we will all have to get up very early to watch the slugs it seems

is Seagulls! Same here, Ryan. Seagulls and magpies drive off smaller birds. Our dogs object to birds using the air space, which doesn't help, either. We've just had a Peregrine swoop down and take a woodpigeon from our garden  Literally just 10 minutes ago

siting where it get as much light/sun as possible-perversely it may need shading during the Summer but you don't want any permanent shading from trees etc. Again ideally a roof line that runs East to West is preferable but in the limitations of a garden

Could garden plants reduce your winter heating bills? Some interesting research has been conducted at the University of Sheffield and by other organisations around the world that highlights the value of trees and plants surrounding buildings

really come to appreciate succulents and I am slowly making a nice collection of them. I'm fond of them too, particularly for their leaf colours. I planted some last year in the roof garden on Insect Towers.  Looks like they've come through the winter OK

In Joe Swift's garden design section in this week's Gardener's World, there was an interesting-looking path. It was made of long thin strips of stone, slate maybe? Laid in lines going across the direction of the path. Perhaps 1-2 inches wide. I

Hi - my garden has been overtaken this year by a big gang of adolescent starlings.  They eat all of the food as soon as I put it down, they constantly fight with other little birds to discourage them from using the feeders, they squeal all the time