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brilliant pics. Wintersong they are brilliant pics. I took a pic of my first rose, the smell is that typical old fashioned rose smell   Fraid not Nut...its a good old common allium although I can't remember the variety. It gets very leafy early spring

wrong? What ingredients (and quantities) should I use to self mix general purpose potting compost? Hi Adam, my chrysanthemums are sprouting very quickly,what should i do to them, please advise I have a number of different roses, that I would like

with buttercups round my roses. Better meaning more attractive, more interesting and less thuggish.  My garden is also "the right place" for nettles, thistles, couch grass, chick weed and sticky bud, none of which I choose to grow or encourage. Increasing

suggest for now that you follow the instruction for the treatment ! for your  climate/conditions !?  (early/mid summer @ the latest! ) But starting treatment  early  in the year, is best!! HYGIENE is very important (& like Roses , clear away/burn any

as the turtle doves.   This means I can put less food on the ground and, by teh tim ethe pheasants, jays and early ground feeders have finished there's not much left for the rodents.  I have other penut and fat ball feeders strung up around the garden near roses

) in the coldframe outside from March without any heating. Seed packs are rose campian, cosmos, deliah, Agastache cana, Campanula Rockery ,Eryngium leavenworthii, Lysimachia atropurpurea, Papaver, Primula ,Sedum Rock Garden Mixed, Verbena bonariensis, Grass

a rose growing in a wheat field is a weed". It always makes me smile when I look at a plant that is in my garden but classified a weed and looks darn good. I have lots of Herb Robert growing in cracks in the wall with beautiful pink flowers; I don

the single beetle becomes an infestation!! Earlier in the year I found a 2cm long bright metallic beetle on the ceanothus flowers. Was this a Rose Chafer? Just had to dig up a loved Rosemary bush that had been attacked and killed by the dreaded Beetle. I

an inch long). Wish I'd had the camers with me. Can you tell me what it was, please? Never seen one before. Reply to GrannyanneSounds like it might be a rose chafer, Cetonia aurata. Try this link to confirm your identification. My backyard in MN, USA

encouraged with lavender, roses and as many flowers I have been able to manage this first year.Thank you My front lawn is about 85% clover at the moment. I'm not totally anti clover at all, but the balance is far to much away from lawn. So, without trying