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I made a trough pond last autumn after watching Adam Frost on Gardeners World do the same thing. It has in it a variety of plants as you can see, but two of them which I put in last autumn are not showing any signs of life - one is a Lilly (Pygmaea alba) and the other is miniature bullrush Typha minima. The lily has had a ball of feed put into the compost as advised but new leav...

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I Hope you are Well.

I have a pair of Wilkinson Sword Hand Shears, as shown here:


I use them to Cut the Lawn Edge between the Paving / Setts and Lawn.

I am not able to use a Half Moon as it will not go down due to the Cement Bed of the Paving / Setts.

They Cut fine when they were New, however, with...

Is there such a thing to be had as a small/mini leaf sucker/vacuum that can be held in the hand and get into corners and behind heavy things like big tubs etc.
The one I've got is big and has a strap to go around the shoulders, and it has to be plugged in to the electricity, and it's heavy, and will suck up hundreds of leaves if they're in mounds or on a path ...
but...

We have a smallish garden but I've arrived at a point in life where it's getting too much for me. I can generally do things like trimming bushes, but bending down to do weeding is becoming a problem, even with a handy kneeler, and they are beginning to get a bit out of hand.

I'm looking for some help, maybe once a month, to keep it in order. We had someone once who ...

Hi,

I am making some changes in the garden again (my favourite pastime) and I thought I would get the opinion of real people instead of AI, before it replaces us

I had 2 pots on my patio, which I have removed ( you can see from the stains where they were - currently awaiting a cleaning product to arrive by post).

The pots were tall and ...