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My favourite tree is the Horse Chestnut, but I don't have a big enough garden to grow one. I live roses and I like growing them in the garden, especially the climbing ones.

A weed is just a plant that is growing in the wrong place! Almost everything I can think of has a use and is necessary in terms of habitat, food or healing properties. We choose not to have certain...

Mickie, what country does this law apply to? I love wild flowers and I am happy to have them in my garden, my favourite is the primrose.

It is the climate, it is not hot enough in summer for the fruit to develop fully - but with global warming you never know what may happen in the future.

Thanks for all the advice, it seems I have tempted fate by asking this question. I began my holiday on Saturday and it has rained continuously since then so I will be lucky if my containers haven't...

I guess we may have felt differently if it actually produced food, but peach trees don't grow well enough here to produce edible fruit. It was here before we moved in, personally I prefer to grow...

The containers are in my front garden, they have fuchsias and miniature roses in them. I will try the soda bottle idea, thanks.

I am not sure where you live. In UK it is against the law to pick or dig up wild flowers but this does not apply to your own garden. I have lots of bluebells in my garden, I love them and they seem...

You need to prevent growth of bacteria in the water, so cut off all the leaves that would be in contact with the water, dissolve a soluble aspirin in the water (to make it acidic) and change the...

Do you have any tips for making sure your containers don't dry out when you are away on holiday? I have moved mine to a shady spot and I have some of those moisture retaining granules in them, I...

He would have been impossible, he took took it as a personal insult every time a bird targeted the car, so if he had found rotting fruit on the car he would have declared war on the squirrels and...

Confession time, I have lived at my house for 17 years and I haven't done any of those things except pruning (once in a while) and spraying for blackspot, but my roses look fantastic.

I expect someone with more knowledge than me will be able to answer this, but I will try to make a start. Weeping Willows are very thirsty trees so it could be taking the soil too dry. Depending on...

My mum has a big garden and her weeping willow is planted at the far end of her garden with her pond just beyond it. It looks beautiful, and it had given her hours of pleasure, I hope you will enjoy...

It sounds like Peach Leaf Curl you can get some information about it here
http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/disease_descriptions/omplfcrl.html
We had this on a tree in our garden and in the end...

The mixture was called Slow Grow. I have no idea what the climate is like in Arizona but I am guessing it is much hotter and drier than where I live. Perhaps you could search on-line to see if any...

I have several climbing roses in my garden, all have thorns but they are beautiful. They flower in abundance and they need very little looking after. I cut them back a bit every couple of years and...

I think you would need to be careful with this method, you could easily damage other plants and if you pour boiling water on to the ground you could kill worms, ants, beetles, caterpillars and other...

My brother has a bit of a problem with deer, I'm not sure what type of deer they are. He says that the sound of dogs puts them off and they don't like movement. He has some old fertilizer sacks...

I have found a slow growing low maintenance grass seed mixture based on dwarf rye grass. They say it only neesd cutting twice per year, so it sounds ideal. It has the added advantage of not needing...

I have two lilac bushes growing on that side of the garden, so another one would fit in well and you are right the neighbour likes them. They are almost trees rather than bushes, I think I have let...

That looks great, my garden is far too small to need anything like that but it would be really useful in a larger garden.

I have pets too as well as children and a husband with big feet so whatever I plant will have to cope with being walked on. I am starting to see the attraction of paving slabs!

Thanks Roguegal, I would love to grow bougainvillea but it will not grow outside in my area. Maybe that will change in time the way climate change seems to be going.

I see what you mean and I probably will grow a climber up the fence, but not ivy as the fence borders my neighbours garden and she would not be pleased about ivy intruding into her garden.