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. The recent wet weather has left just about everything in my garden covered in water, and as temperatures have been mild, algae has spread.The soil here is clay, which I've spent many years improving with garden compost, manure and leaf mould. Algae and some

Add a cottage-garden feel to your patio with this simple pot project. The trio of narcissus, carex and aubretia provides instant colour, as plants can be bought in flower. If other spring flowers catch your eye at the garden centre, you could use

Robins coming into the garden, so spring must be just around the corner, I hope. As I live in belgium, I didn't do the RSPB bird count but I have had loads of birds in the garden at the various feeders as well as some good sitings in the marshy paddocks

't mind the dull green leaves for most of the year I would thoroughly reccommend Chimonanthes.  On still sunny days it scents the air for many yards and one or two twigs in the house brought into the house......delicious.  It grows very easily from seed

mostly leaves. Last year and the year before they flowered so well and looked so lovely but this year its as if they are on strike. I am sure that someone out there in our great gardening family can tell me why and may be what to do. Hello donutmrs, do

at the end corner of my garden..Its a sunny spot and the soil is usually quite well drained, just not so at the moment! Turning black seems strange-could you take a photo and post it in here. Are they turning black from the top or from groundlevel? from

will appear. In my garden there were none apparent all last week and as soon as we had a few hours sunshine at the weekend there were loads around. Mind you, my OH has filled our garden with bee nests so they don't have far to go to find the pollen. Depends

Its July and back in the spring I bought from the garden center a set of 3 blueberries    I planted them up into bigger pots with the correct compost and put them in a sunny place in the garden. They had a few new leves but now are stripped bare

I want to put a greenhouse on a south, south west wall.  I thought this might be too hot.  What does everyone think? Thanks Vidette  Greenhouses need the maximum amount of sunshine. That situation seems ideal. On a sunny day at the height of Summer

out on sun-baked earth in the hot August sun.After a few weeks in the shed I took the onions home. Some of them were whoppers and were very heavy because of all water they had absorbed. At home, every consistently sunny day, I moved the onions from