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get into the soil to lay their eggs. After losing a couple of beautiful roses a few years ago I have not been troubled by the weevils again since doing this. I'm with Sir Digalot - vine weEVILs are evil and should be killed along with those horrid red

!!! Have started working on our greenhouse should be built soon!! looking forward to sowning seeds, hopefully we are sucessful, Wish the frost would go away!! im,trying to train my climbing rose around an arch. i know im to keep the main stem as horizontal

- the ants move on and your heap breaks down quicker as it's moist. Dry heaps are also favoured by rodents...daisy rose - leave a comment on one of Richard Jones's blogs, I'm sure he'll know what it is.Brenda - I'm sure your ants won't be harming the garden

a treat in Hidcote. Roses, golden hop  and vines work well in the Bristol Botanic Garden.  I think smal gardens can look bitty so suggest a fairly large patch occasionally in the borders of the same one or two plants like this border of alliums

gardening at the mo but I have been out doing som elight pruning of roses and clematis and have started painting my rusty obelisks.   Tomorrow I'm planning to sow seeds in the greenhouse which is gentle, satisfying work. Today I had my first garden group

. On the other side are 4 climbing roses which will be trained across over the trellis. All three clematis are quite substantial plants (5+ years old) so when they get their feet in they should go great guns. They are all type 2 as well so once I have the main

hear it. Frank Thats amazing Frank! I'm rubbish at poetry, so here goes... Roses are red, Violets are blue, Gardening is my passion, And I hope it's yours too! Basic, but effective haha Oh yes, Frank, I remember it well. I remember writing some rather

a big garden and I like loose and romantic with lawns, roses and flowers and, preferably, an old stone or brick wall somewhere. I don't like beds surrounded by box hedges, like the jewel garden, unless it's for a small formal front garden or a knot

! Only a few visit my late opening roses and fushia flowers and just watching them flit between them is fascinating and deeply calming! I love bees, and they never seem bothered by me doing my job. As I'm deadheading, I've had several on my hands, just

tried it? I cleared a bed of old roses and herbaceous perennials of ground elder by planting geranium endressii - probably "wargrave pink".It grows so rampantly that it will smother and kill most weeds.Even nettles struggle to compete with it.It would