General Garden Reviews

I fonnd this site with no trouble at all. I then ordered two mushroom growing logs for my fathers 60th birthday. They were a little more expensive than other places but the Delivery was 2 weeks not 28 days. That was the last time I heard from them! My payment was processed by world pay at 10.30am on 19/03/03, Spidergarden have not replied to my ...

I grow my own plants from seed, and find it very satisfying and much cheaper than buying ready grown plants. I get all my seeds mail order from chiltern seeds. I have been buying from this company for a while now and have nothing but praise for them. They are quick to reply to queries and orders, and very fast to ship out. Perhaps I ...

Sunflowers...so easy to grow, and so rewarding. We all know the van Gogh painting, but the real live ones in your own garden are so much better. Nowadays you can buy seed to produce short or tall plants, single flowered or with many flowers, single or double. And different tinges of yellow and brown. They look lovely in the garden, but the smaller ...

If the following seems a little over- romantic for an op, it is because it is for Jill. My garden is anything and everything that I want it to be. This tiny plot holds magic within it's boundaries, and has the never-ending ability to match or lighten my mood, however I feel. Winter or summer, a lovingly tended garden never stops ...

Butterflies in my flower borders Here I sit in my garden on a sunny afternoon. Watching butterflies visiting flowers to feast on nectar. I have described my wildflower lawn in a previous opinion. Now I shall tell you about the garden flowers I grow to attract butterflies. One of the most successful plants is of course the ...

I was never really into gardening, it was my mum who started me off. I was watching an Alan Titchmarsh program when i saw him sowing some seeds. I decided to sow some myself to see if i could get them to grow. I only had one tray for seeds but there were three different types i wanted to sow. So i made my own little pots by rolling ...

When we moved house in July 2001, one of the many reasons for choosing the house was its large gardens that back on to open fields without another house in view. At the side of house was a 30-foot Holly tree, the tree was full of berries and has a perfect shape to it, and we quickly became rather attached to it. It was always our plan ...

Autumn is well and truly upon us and before long we will be into winter and time to make sure our feathered friends have food and water. If you have a decent size garden with one or more trees in it then you can hang nets with nuts or seed from the trees and you have no problems with feeding the birds, but where do you put water for them to drink? ...

This idea came from my neighbour and I thought that it was so good that I would share it with you all. Have you ever wanted to grow your own vegetables but not had the space or the inclination to do all of the preparatory work? Well this year my next door neighbour gave me some seed potatoes with the instructions to grow them in the old ...

Unless they’re out on a romantic stroll with their lady friend, very few men will admit to an interest in the joys of gardening. Images of poofy flowers, monstrous gnomes and old men stumbling around their veggie patch, come to mind. But these same men often secretly long for an escape, an outdoor retreat from the hustle and bustle of life, ...

Recently the Ipswich Borough Council delivered a second (Brown)wheelie bin. This second bin is for materials that can be used to make compost for their Composting Scheme. On a set day they will collect the contents of the compost wheelie bin just in the same way as normal household rubbish. The material is treated and matured to produce ...

I realise that there is something of a trend in my reviews - I spend most of my time advocating doig things the old fashioned way.... well, here we go again. Reason number one for not using electronic gadgets in the garden is that they use electricity and you can be more green by doing it manually. Reason two - doing it all ...

Several of my friends have asked me for advice on gardening in general, so here we go. This is basically a tale of how to keep a largish garden looking presentable for as low a cost as possible. I have recently been turning the garden of a friend's council house from a field to something a bit more presentable. The grass and weeds ...

I took the plunge recently and decided to have my front garden landscaped. As I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to plants and the only ones I can keep going are plastic ones (and even those melt in front of the fire in the winter) idecided to employ a professional. 'It's not like Groundforce' I was warned ...

I have been gardening for 45 years and have come accross the perfect garden center called BAKKER. web site www.bakker.co.uk I have recieved their catalogues via snail mail over the years & have orderd plants from time to time & my last order was a year ago. for 3 types of lilies 2types failed they just seemed too weak, so i found that they had ...

A very personal opinion on gardening: I really cant get to grips with gardening, and ive certainly tried. Once i became a home-owner i figured that "doing the garden" was all part of the deal. But i soon learned a critical flaw - everything keeps growing! There are few pasttimes where the odds are so ...

The garden seems like a fairly peaceful, uneventful sort of place. But having watched closely the goings on in my garden, I can tell you that there is high drama, tragedy, and intrigue going on under our very noses. This time of year the garden sees the most activity in terms of bird life, many young will have just fledged and are still ...

Water is the essence of all life. Plants that thirst, die; creatures that thirst, move on. Remember this, above all else, and you will have made a good start to bring wildlife of all types to your garden. For a long time I tried to bribe birds into my garden with food. I succeeded in enticing the odd pigeon along, and even a pheasant ...

Allotments....don't they conjure up pictures of old men in flat caps, cycling down them on their bicycles with carrier bags of cabbages? Well, yes, there is that element to allotments, but there's a lot more besides. I have been married for 10 years and the 2 houses that we've lived in have been brand new, therefore they have ...

I have always fed the birds in my garden, I think perhaps because I was encouraged fom an early age by my granny who was a member of the RSPB. It's a lovely to be able to look out over the garden as I tap away on the computer and be able to see a little community of birds flocking around the table quite often in a feeding frenzy!As ...