How do plants like male fern and bramble adapt to grow in shaded areas? Which one grow better in shade? What are the biological/ecological adaptations to shade and non shaded ares? Can anyone help at...
Like most areas our horse chestnut trees (SE London) have suffered through the weather and disease. However, yesterday morning, on my way to work, I noticed that on one particularly large tree amongst...
I have some sort of animal/s that are fouling my garden every night. Looks like raw mince texture and is dark, and is getting worse every night. Does anybody what it is and how I can stop it...
We are lucky enough to live in an area where there is loads of wild and open places full of rabbits, foxes etc where we walk our dogs every day, however this is not as nice as usual at the moment as...
Hi, I live in Jersey and today, which is gloriously sunny and warm, noticed that the holly trees are full of berries already. Does this mean we are in for a cold winter. I do hope not. Many thanks
I bought this lovely tree two years ago in late October. The first year the leaves turned a wonderful yellow/gold and I was delighted with my purchase. The following spring/summer year everything...
I have just returned from Spain, and saw lots of white flowering very strongly scented shrubs in the gardens of urbanizations. I am trying to identify what type of shrub this might be. The flowers...
I have 2 rhododendrons in pots.They are getting too big but I can,t get them out without breaking the pots(,which are large)Someone told me that I could prune them after flowering next year,but I,m...
Dogs can sense odors at concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than humans can apparently! so why is it when you can smell dog poo 100 yards away, your dog has to stick his nose in it to smell...
I went to kew Gardens the other day. In one of th main flower beds they had the most fabulous purple plant. It's large, spiky, and was brilliant deep purple. Coyuld not find anyone to ask the name....