Help. Moved to house with garden and old apple tree It had apples on, some maggoted, leaves/branches bit decayed .. So in jan the tree was pruned .. this year no apples atall .. leaves .. no apples .....
Hi all - I'm planning to plant a cherry tree - Prunus avium Stella - in the front garden, 4.5m from the house. My neighbour thinks the roots might spread to damage our foundations. I'd been told that...
I have had a fish pond for about 9 years with a assortment of pumps and filters. I found that normally the sponges in the filters had to be cleaned almost weekly. However the present sponges were...
Any advice please for a Russian vine which has gone crazy this year, we inherited this when we moved a year ago and did not cause too many problems last year. However this year perhaps because of the...
I am about to do the very tedious job of removing mold and weeds from in between hundreds of cobbles on my drive - once i've done this, does anybody know of a product to put down to stop this from...
I moved house in February of this year and have inherited 12 Leylandi trees down the side of my garden which are now out of control. Behind the barely green outer, just beyond that it is all brown,...
My neighbours hanging baskets and window boxes are looking amazing. Mine how ever are looking decidely 'gone over'...every year they start well. I water them daily (twice if hot), i feed with miracle...
i just want to apologise in advance for posting quite a bit lately, all of which have been questions related in some way to my bf. i just dont know who to talk too and i always find it useful on here...
3 years ago I bought a house from an elderly couple. The garden was then well cared for and had many - what would seem to be - mature plants and shrubs. (I am a complete gardening novice). After tryng...
There's some weeds and (I think) plants coming through my fence from my neighbours currently unmanaged garden. They seem to be mainly spreading across at ground level. I've found that one is a Vinca...
Its driving me crazy growing round everything, anyone got any good ideas to get rid?? have tried the paint on gel but really doesn't seem to do much at all. TIA x
My house was built in 1926, a recent survey has said that the cavity wall ties need replacing but a lot of people have said that during this period the cavities were filled by cement. Do you think I'm...
i have recently put a drive in the front of my house and now the neighbour has put up a 2 metre high trellis against his 1 metre high fence which has been there for more than 20 years because he said...
We want to remove the lawn in our front garden and then replace the whole thing with gravel. How do you kill or remove a lawn or can you just put weed control fabric down over the lawn? Thanks