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Hi Kate just come back from the golf course with the dogs,The fairways are like your ponds with water at different levels in the undulations due to all this rain,I can't wait to move to a house with a larger garden so I can dream of my (office)over looking all my acres .Dream on!...

Your little mouse is so cute Kate. I have never had them in the house but I have caught a few in the greenhouse in humane traps, this was back in the spring. My husband then has the job of taking them to the common and letting them go. The spiders have been in, I just catch then ...

I saw a lot of lizards on my trip around South America. There were brown lizards, green lizards, bright blue ones, and some that blend in perfectly with the red and black volcanic environment they inhabit.I was lucky enough to see a pair of lizards mating in Colombia. The male li...

“I heard some growling from the shallow pond”, said the text message, from my mother. Frogs have been hiding under rocks and shrubbery in my mum's garden since she moved in nearly 17 years ago; but this is the first time there has been any 'growling'.I dug my mum her first pond 1...

Hi, My deliver of 70 bare-root hedging plants arrived today - which I hope to plant this weekend. However, I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice on how best to configure my hedge... I have bought the following: Blackthorn (25) Elder, Common (15) Cherry Plum (10) Haze...

Hi, I have a serious problem with squirrels eating my bulbs I have tried covering with netting ect but as my garden is mostly containers it wasn't very successful. I read in a newspaper that they don't like chilli powder. so have sprinkled this every where, but with the rain las...

I wondered if anyone else uses the beautiful tall structural plant cephalaria in their wild life gardens. They have large pale lemon scabious type flowers and bees just love them, often several bees seem attracted to just one flower head. I grow them in my sunny gravel bed with...

Do you now where I can buy sedum matting I want it for the roof of our shed? I love this shield bugs too. And so do the kids. They are easy to catch without damaging them (!) and they crawl up jumpers slowly enough not to worry them. I read the item about sedum mats for bird tabl...

Hi I have decided rather than replace a fence ruined by gales to plant a native hedge.  I live in west coast of scotland.  Any advice greatly appreciated! Hi - Mrs Spratt...                                                                                                          ...

I have a hedgehog house and nesting box and both are being used,I have a single blue tit that roosts in the nest box over night and the hedgehog has been using his house everynight,he hasnt gone into hibernation yet,but will as soon as it gets a bit nippy. i to have 1 of thoses b...