If all you keen horticulturists can't solve my problem, maybe you can advise me of some forum or website which can. After very fine blossom, my morello cherries are filling out, but many are becoming...
need some advice what is best fast growing conifer / fir tree for a garden edge. garden is 9M x 6Metres . just want a border around edge . went to B&Q yesterday and seen very small trees approx 1 ft...
1 Sharp police force 9 2 One or the other? With a lisp. 5 3 A mark hesitates before the spanish 8 4 Wooden spoon prize 5 5 Elizabethan neckware 4 6 Feeling sorry without the direction 5 7 White with a...
Last week in a Times garden magazine they showed pictures of about 15 birds commonly seen in the garden (although they omitted the dreaded wood pigeon ) I have seen nearly all of them in my garden,...
My daughters front hedge is seemingly infested with white tailed bumble bees. Seems to be hundreds of them. But the hedge doesn't have any flowers. It's more like large plants with large, long, pale...
A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself. "Two plus five, that son of a *** is seven. Three plus six, that son of a *** is nine." “What are you doing?” asked his mother....
It was a busy night at the 'Pride of India' Indian restaurant, while customers waited patiently for their meals. Imagine the surprise when a waiter suddenly appeared and started cavorting around the...
I put down weed killer in my garden which promised 'kills weeds not grass'. However it killed the grass. If I put down grass seed will it take, or should I cover the burnt area with peat moss first...
Has anybody ever done this?? We have a small garden and either side we have a raised flower bed built from railway sleepers and , obviously, filled with soil. When we moved in 12 yrs ago there was a...
I have put some lawn fertiliser on my lawn. I thought I was careful using a spreader but it has scorched it. I am keeping it watered but what are the chances it will grow back. Can't remember what I...
Walking my dog along the riverbank - The Neckar, in south Germany - first thing this morning, I saw a pair on the river - unmistakable and beautiful. I've never seen them before and according to the...
A guy was driving down a motorway in England with his blonde girlfriend and she piped up, "I think those people in the car next to us are from Wales?. "Why do you think that ?" he said. "Well, their...
...first the bees in the bird box....sleeping now but still with the guards around the entrance... Then lots of gardening where I uncovered frog after frog....large ones and tiny ones... But tonight,...
I have four mock orange shrubs in the garden which rarely come into flower as the pigeons peck all the buds off, leaving bare branches. A few minutes ago, I disturbed seven pigeons on one shrub. For...
Can anyone tell me how hard back I can prune a ceanothus, please? I've let it get a bit too large and the underneath is a bit bare....though it's quite stunning just now.....t's next to other...