Don’t put new water plants straight in your pond, even from a reputable supplier. Quarantine it in a bucket of pond water first. That is unless you really wanted a permanent infestation of duck weed.Â
Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.
Ooops sorry, also don't spell brambles with a "p" or nobody will know what you are talking about.
Weaving brambles together?! You must be made of stern stuff! Or your gloves are. I would add to that, don’t try to weave a living willow arch unless you plan to have a lot of time to maintain it. Willows grow very fast.Â
Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.
Don’t leave your favourite gardening glovers or shiny new secateurs anywhere near the bags of Spanish bluebells, lesser celandine, ivy prunings etc destined for the council tip.  Â
Never mind gloves (although it's a mystery why they always chew the right hand glove) don't leave your most comfortable, waterproof, suede gardening shoes out to dry off and then forget them Â
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
Don't ask grumpy teenagers to dead head things.  Some years ago I asked Possum to dead head all the pelargoniums I had in pots and troughs. She did a good job but wasn't happy to be asked and lobbed my new and shiny Felcos in the compost too, unbeknown to me.  OH turned that bin a few months later ready for spring mulching and Voilà , the missing Felcos in a sorry state.
I took them to the Felco stand at Chelsea Flower Show where they were declared to be the worst they'd ever seen but they did take them away and fix them for £25. I bought spare blades and springs while there but haven't needed them - yet.
As for men and DIY, don't let your OH hang a new back door on the house you've just bought together without first making sure he knows what a spirit level is for!
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Don’t leave your favourite gardening glovers or shiny new secateurs anywhere near the bags of Spanish bluebells, lesser celandine, ivy prunings etc destined for the council tip.  Â
I took them to the Felco stand at Chelsea Flower Show where they were declared to be the worst they'd ever seen but they did take them away and fix them for £25. I bought spare blades and springs while there but haven't needed them - yet.
As for men and DIY, don't let your OH hang a new back door on the house you've just bought together without first making sure he knows what a spirit level is for!