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Mystery Night Bird

Was in the garden watching for shooting stars last night. Pitch dark because the local council turns the street lights off. I heard a bird calling out and then realised it was actually in flight,...

chrissa1

How Much Woodbark To Eliminate Weeds?

Just got my daughter to de-weed my small front garden. How many bags of wood bark would be needed to give the correct depth to stop weeds etc growing back? If someone can give me a square meterage per...

Suetheramble

Highgrove Herb Garden

I have visit Highgrove Gardens recently and in the herb garden was a plant surrounding most borders attracting ( and I mean attracting!) the bees. Does anyone know what this plant is. Light...

Tilly2

Sage

I nipped a piece of sage from a plant in our community herb garden. If I put it in ordinary potting compost, will it root?

Mags22

Holes In Plant Leaves

Quite a lot of my plant leaves in tubs have bite holes in - small ones - and all I can see is the odd ant crawling about - would they nibble leaves? I've used the 'bug gun' odd times, but its a bit...

spider32

Can You Identify This Flower

Don't know if it's a wild flower or garden flower but it's growing in a local field and I don't recognise it.

CallieH

Weird Insect Behaviour

Hi, was wondering if anyone knows what's going on I got up this morning to find several insects on the outside of my window. They look a bit like small striped wasps but are black and white and have a...

Prudie

Butterflies On Buddleia

Have to let you nature lovers know that my white buddleia is now finally out in full bloom (really late this year) and I have never seen so many butterflies and bees and moths on it all day and...

Oleanda

Runner Beans

My runner beans this year have an awful lot of leaves and not many beans. Would cutting some of the leaves off to make searching for beans easier be a good or bad idea?

mrspirite

Ivy

does anyone know how to loosen the grip of ivy,before it goes to far..thanx in advance.

hairlady

Patio Cleaner

Hello. Could anybody recomend a good patio liquid cleaner,the paving flags are really dirty. Thankyou.

chrisgel

Sapling Growing Through Concrete

Hi, I am slowly renovating an old property and have noticed there are a couple of saplings (about an inch diameter) growing out between the concrete of the path and brickwork of the house. Can anyone...

SMP

Monkey Puzzle Tree

I am growing a Monkey Puzzle tree. My grandson's school gave seeds to the children last September. It took about 3 months to get the seed to sprout and now I have a tree 5" high. It is in a pot 3"...

jasmin26

Gutted !

My 12 year old GSD had to be put to sleep on Thursday night and I am so numb . I lost my other one on the 14th of May and still haven't come to terms with losing him , and now this !

ferlew

Ladybirds.

I haven't seen a single one this year. Have any of you seen any?

emmie

Wasps

has anyone noticed more wasps around than usual. I tried to have some lunch yesterday, al fresco as you do, and ended up losing the lot to a swarm of angry wasps. Miffed i was......

mallyh

Agapanthers

(not sure if that's the spelling).i have some lovely agapanthers but was wondering what to do when the blooms die do i cut it right back or what any help would be really appreciated .

ferlew

Blueberries

Never eaten them until today, they are really rather nice. I expected tart/sour. I did however, find that little hard frill nasty in the mouth, are you supposed to remove it?...

callboy

Tree Root

I have had a tree cut down in the garden but the roots are quite long under the soil.I have managed to chop some of them out but does anyone know the best solution to kill the roots off

craft1948

Japanese Maple Shrub

http://www.spaldingbulb.co.uk/product/japanese-maple-dissectum-garnet-/ I'm quite fancying one of these to go into a large patio pot..........can anyone recommend them?...

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