Best of luck, Guess the winters wll be rather more chilly up there. Thought you had decided finally to settle down in your own house - obviously the wanderlust is still beckoning.

Crikey Robo. That must have been a shock. Hopefully they haven't mixed you up with another patient of the same name in the same hospital actually happened to a friend of ours a few years ago. Anyway good luck for next week if it,a really is for you. I suppose you have to be grateful that you,re at l...

Frogspawn.

Anybody got any yeti.?
I can't get easily get out into the garden to check now but we've had none in our tiny pond for two Springs. Can,t help wondering if the reluctant grassing over of our vegetable patch has some connection here?

Geoff - what an unbelievably stressful time you've both had! Troubles never come-singly do they and the older we become the less resilient we often are. Good news on your wife's diagnose. Wishing you both good health and better luck in the times ahead.

An anybody explain why this happens My husband bought me several bunches of daffodils in tight buds earlier in the week . They were all in full bloom the following day in all their glory and then all dead already with browning flowers by the following day.. Normally daffodils have several days of fl...

Done a quick Google. Was interested in one post on a forum whixh said a gardener had planted hundreds of snowdrop bulbs in an area but after planting a laurel hhedge close by, most of the snowdrops had died. There may have been other reasons for this of course but it does wave a potential red flag i...

Interesting and valid question given the fact that laurel hedges grow quickly and need to be pruned regularly to prevent them becoming unbearably thick and high. I will go away and Google the issue pending an expert reply.

Well Westi, once a gardener, always a gardener,. Even if you can't physically do it any longer the interest is still there. And thankfully my other half has gown so used to having fresh veg from the garden for 50 years that he's prepared still to grow few items under my supervision! And he,s learnin...

Where re you living? Is this a Swiss cheese plant whixh in the UK is kept indoors all year round because it wouldn't survive our winter climate. Perhaps you!re living in sunnier climes? Sound as if it,s come to the end of its natural life though and possibly too late to rescue. Sounds as if the whit...

Our gardening support guy came this morning to help Mr Primrose sort out our potting shed area. It has apparently descended into chaos since I,ve had to give up gardening. Lost count of the hundreds of pots, cells trays and other items thrown out onto patio for disposal. Just enough kept for the few...

We've had two sleepless nights from gales here, expecting to lose roof slates or fence panels but only minor incidents. Various trees down locally though. Do you think the combination of drought followed by heavy rainfall weakens their wind resistance over time?
Hopefully everybody is safe.

Delighted that it,s all worked out so well. You,ve probably added a new perspective into your neighbours' lives as well as having a positive motive for cooking. A double win in my view.
And knowing your interest in cooking they,ll probably end up with a few more occasionally healthy options too.

My only issue with hanging baskets is the amount of watering they need in a hot dry summer. I belatedly disovered water absorption crystals which might have helped a little but discovered when gardening time is in short supply, these containers are too labour intensive.

Well done on the lemons Westi. That must feel quite an achievement as I know they,re pretty hard to rear in our climate, even with the benefit of winter cover.

Good job you keep some spare emergency clothing in your allotment shed! slippery mud can be a real accident causer.

I,m surpsed at how many lumps of moss recent strong winds and heavy rain downpours have blown off our roof slates down onto the patio.

It,s almost as if we,ve lost a free layer of insulation, (does a moss coating actually provide much insulation I wonder?).