gardener's world

No luck with RHS Plantfinder.

Every link I click on just gives me a description but no supplier.

Perhaps he's extinct

Bizarrely enough, I have found Ebay to be a useful source of plants. Good nurseries often have a site there and the plants I have bought have been promptly delivered in excellent condition.

Watching the latest Gardeners World I was astonished at the size of Griff Reese-Jones garden. What a sublime part of the UK he has, with an inlet(?) bordering it.

How much help do you think Monty and his wife have? Three acres is a lot to manage.

Anyone noticed Monty's dying his hair? I quite liked his wisps of greying hair.

I used to enjoy watching Chelsea when the GW team individually walked through the show. they used to walk up to a new or a favourite of theirs, stop, identified the plant and bingo! Immediately the name appeared on the TV screen. That doesn't happen now. As a gardening novice (4) years I need as much help as poss.

Does anyone have mistakes they've made over the years in their garden? Here's mine. My DH bought bulbs from a catalogue about 25 years ago. Horror! Both ends of the bulbs had wisps. I hedged my bets and planted 50 one way and 50 the other. I grew 50 plants but for the life of me I cannot remember the name.

I am an avid gardener, have been for years. We had a recent break in to our home in Brighton! and the locksmiths are suggesting defensive plants! I have had a look on their site. The burglars broke in by climbing over the back garden fence and tearing part of a upvc window off to climb in!!

www.brightons-locksmiths.co.uk/

and sure enough there's an article about it, but do people on this forum think that thorny roses would be enough, I really would like to stop this from happening again!

Well the more you do to deter the better I should have thought. Dog's are good as well. The point is burglars will choose the easiest place to break into so making their life as difficult as you possibly can heps I would have tnought

Angelicab Try Mahonia spiky leaves, lovely yellow flowers in January and berries for the birds later on. Pyracantha very thorny and nice berries in Autumn.

Razor wire? Electric fencing. Land mines?