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At this time of year garden magazines and blogs are chock full of articles about snowdrops. Even Adam Pasco has written one and it takes a lot for our sainted editor to stir himself from his Caribbean hideaway at this time of year. However

-you can often see mistletoe now, high up in leafless trees To get it to grow is quite a hit and miss affair-this probably explains it better than I can http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3345933/Mistletoe-How-to-grow.html There was an item

I've been intending to get some bluebells for my woodlandy area and like magic a single bluebell has appeared elsewhere in my garden. Firstly, how do I be sure it's an English bluebell?  I don't what to encourage it if not. Secondly, how best to try

and moisture, typical woodlander. Thanks, didn't want to lose it. The next job is picking off the saw-fly larvae It's actually pretty good natured so long as it's not in full sun. I've had it in dry shade, but it prefers it moist really. Only problem I had

lynne I am tranplanting bluebells spread all over my garden to a small wood. Some of the bulbs are a perect onion shape. Others are long and almost tuber shaped. I am concerned that these may be foreigners. I would be grateful for advice Ancient woodland

in Dulwich Woods, Beckenham Place Park, and a few other woodland places, but the ones flying past my back door are breeding in long-lost and forgotten subterranean root systems, buried logs and stumps no longer visible on the surface. But every year gardens

of my favourite plants, one that is very much in evidence at this time of year (there were lots at the Chelsea Flower Show last week): the comparatively humble geum. Most of the garden varieties can trace their pedigrees back to either the Chilean Geum

walls etc... the garden level is above that of the grown floor of the house. Oooh that bank is full of possibilities - I think I'd treat it as if it was a woodland fringe and create planting pockets within the tree roots - digging individual planting

The National Gardens Scheme (NGS) is one of those great British institutions like fish and chips, cricket, morris dancing, Victoria sponge and Alan Titchmarsh. The idea of spending the weekend wandering around other people's gardens appeals to us

.Is it that we have exceptional amenities here? I doubt it. Anyway, there's also Nant y Deri, in Cowbridge, a lovely woodland garden which is the home of Bordervale plants. It is a bit remote and involves a drive along a narrow country lane for about a mile