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and treat it like an annual, keep it inside in a warm sunny spot all year or give it the best possible outside conditions? I'm in the south-east. In future I'll be reading the backs of plant labels properly. Thalia fuchsias are lovely - it will be fine

pruned and fed along with other roses in my garden.  It refuses to put on any leaves apart from a few at the top of each of it's four branches, and it has formed one bud. I can't find any pests apart from a touch of black spot which was treated

a beginner gardener and would welcome any suggestions. bergenia,hellebore,or iceberg or as I have fern. I love buddleia despite my husbands protests that its a bomb site plant,the cheek. I have buddlea mixed with weigela. What I actually have beneath

I'm new to gardening and it's fast becoming my favourite pastime. I've just brought my first Sweet pea plugs and am after advice to plant them. I have cans, in a great sunny spot, but when I look at the plants in the tray they are very spindly

Last weekend my partner and I attended one of the special snowdrop days at Chelsea Physic Garden. Saturday was a beautiful, clear sunny day and it was great being outside among catkins, unfurling leaf buds, early bees and, of course, snowdrops

be appreciated. Many thanks. I've had one for years but only as an indoor plant. Mine came from an Aunt who had the original in a sunny conservatory, but not sure how they would do outside. Have you considered the evergreen winter flowering clematis 'Freckles

What's the difference between wildflowers and weeds? They're at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to acceptability in the garden, but are they really so different? A weed is a essentially just a plant growing in the wrong place. But what

has disappeared, are they slug resistant???? As I peruse the ice and frost outside, I do wonder if the weather is due to the Gardeners World Magazine. No sooner in there an article about the need for drought resistant plants, then we have two wet, cold

Having watched a-z of gardening on iplayer I am inspired to try blueberries in a pot, we are quite exposed here and not the sunny weather of some places but wonder if they would be ok in a greenhouse and what else I could grow fruit wise in a pot

(in north London) and we haven't had any flowers since planting them.  They are in a sunny spot in our north facing garden, near some crocosmia and a spirea that both do well.  Apart from the odd hole caused by slugs in one or two leaves, they look