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up the trap next year as insurance. How can I organically control Scale insect on my 8ft tall Contorted Hazel? All the controls appear to be for greenhouse use. Please help! Thanks how do you prune cob nut trees? I suffer from vine weevil in my garden

.... help. What insect builds a cocoon of leaves in soil (of spring cabbage seedlings)?I have creatures similar to wasps/bees that have made a hole in the soil of my spring cabbage seedlings and keep returning with small pieces of leaves. When I broke

with smaller gardens, the boundaries will help protect your plants from the wind and you can change the feeling of each room.  Also, if you make a mistake in planting or design, it won't be on a huge, glaring scale.  Good luck, I'm envious of the space you have

. In all my years of gardening I have never seen anything like it. My primroses and primulas are flowering as if it really was spring. Heatwave! We here in Scotland on the west coast have had rain on a biblical scale everything is starting to rot, I haven

perfume carried through the garden on the evening air - once smelled never forgotten, and all from such a simple flower http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/advice/pests_and_diseases/identifier.shtml?scale_insects I love my Clematis Armandii and Summer Jasmine

's leaves if it gets too dry, and is a martyr to red spider mite and scale insect. Not that I want to put you off, as it's a lovely plant! When it gets big, the leaves are coarser and less interesting, but I can guarantee you won't get that far. If it starts

and does wildlife like it? We have a jasmine that is supposed to be growing up an arch but it's very slow growing, and also suffers from sooty mould due to scale insects. Clematis is good for combining with other, slower-growing plants. The fast

supporting charities by using the find facility here: http://www.ngs.org.uk/ Personally, I would start with making a list of my favourite plants & shrubs - "must haves" if you like, look-up their approximate spread and then mark their positions on a scale

on pests and diseases, checked images of the likely culprits and then checked my wisteria with a magnifying glass on its leaves, stems, branches, trunk and going to the main root. I cannot find any sign at all of the scale insects (re recent news 2010) nor

chemicals to control anything they don't like, let their cats roam about without collars with bells.....the list is endless, and I could rant for hours.All this aside, whether we want wildlife venturing into our gardens or not, without pollinating insects