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well. I am unsure of soil type, but the garden it has both shadey and open sunny spaces. Any suggestions would be much greatley received. Kate Sarcococca for scent, small neat evergreen. Cyclamen coum, flowering since new year and still out in spite

Hello fellow fig growers - I need some help.  I've had a Brown Turkey fig for three years in a large (1/2 meter across) pot in the sunny end of the garden.  I've never had a fig and only produce the miserablest leaves ever seen to a gardener

What's in your shed? If it's anything like mine it will contain some (or all) of the following: tools (some hanging from nails, some lying around on the floor), mowers, plant pots, deckchairs waiting for a sunny day, three bicycles with flat tyres

SchizostylisExotic, elegant, yet eminently adaptable, it's time the overlooked schizostylis took a leading role in our gardens.Schizostylis coccinea flowers from late-summer until the first frosts. It has dainty and delicate stems and flowers

Last year I sowed all my seeds in the first week of January, eager to get my brand new garden off to a flying start. Everything was sown at once - from Eryngium leavenworthii to tomato 'Gardener's Delight' and my front room looked like a badly run

Black-eyed Susan, Thunbergia alataHanging basket with linerMulti-purpose compostChunks of polystyreneFully laden with fruit, the tomato plant will be quite heavy, so make sure the basket is hung from a strong bracket. Put the bracket and basket somewhere sunny so

Despite temperatures in my greenhouse dropping to zero at night but soaring by day, I've just got to get on with more seed sowing. Chillies and sweet peppers are top of my list. Last summer I had an outdoor electric socket installed for the garden

At last! A spell of dry weather - and it's even warm and sunny at times too! The site is buzzing with activity as everyone makes the most of the weather and gets on with all those jobs they couldn't face doing in the dismal weather of August

's not essential. By getting the tubers into the ground a little earlier you should be able to enjoy a delicious crop of first-earlies a few weeks before other crops are ready to harvest. Choose a sunny spot in your garden and warm the soil for a few days

The colour combination of pink and yellow creates a refreshing display, blending pretty marguerites and pink begonias with the peachy pompoms of verbena. Play up the cottage-garden look with a rustic basket, and decorate the sides with a trail