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Finally getting some insects into RH20, must have been on their bug holidays...

Was he a swimming pool attendant previously? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8YfgxF3APY

Cheers for that, very very few Butterflies seen at Jakarta Towers, we planted a Buddleia specifically to attract them and last year it was covered, this year hardly a one. :down:

SLIGHTLY off topic but one for Jack Straw as it is Gardening related, RH20 seems to have had a massive drop in insects as in almost no flies, wasps, bees and our Roses havent been ravaged by greenfly. Is this happening all over? Car windscreen and Motorbike Visor both lacking in insect...

Euphorbias are the Devils own weed. 20 years ago we had a couple of them, now it is everywhere. Only good thing in our garden is I have pretty well diverted it (via digging out) to compete and beat up our horrible Ground Elder, so everything has a use...

So I need to set fire to my Lawn? Bugger, my Ku Klux Klan membership has lapsed... :down:

So no advice about my ants then... I guess I will just have to welcome our insect overlords. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jWAwUb63c

A new topic, ANTS. We have had them at Jakarta Towers since we moved here 25 years ago. Have willingly let them do their stuff over the years BUT we now have several Ant Mountains plus patches of brown/dead grass. Before I napalm the little oiks I need to know if these facts are...

Thanks for the reply, Sullington is on the Posh Side of the South Downs... :p Sounds like we have a project on our hands. We'll see how they get on this Summer, I'm guessing once they start to put out their proper foilage I had better split them, have plenty of plastic pots.on hand. They...

As ever, many thanks! As an aside did the radical prune on our Red Robin at the weekend, it now looks dreadful so we shall see...

Having a fondness for spicy foods and seeing as we were given a packet of chilli seeds a couple of years ago, in a lockdown moment they got sown into a small (15cm dia) pot and left to their own devices. Nothing happened for weeks but with this recent spell of hot weather we now have a dozen...

Don't tend to go to Garden centres for Plants, we have an old-fashioned Nursery in West Chiltington (Sinnocks) which is brilliant. We didn't go first day as thought it would be a scrum, decided to go this Lunchtime with shopping list. Apart from a one way system through the place just like...

Many Thanks, I'm a technophobe but I have taken a couple of photos so will see if I can work out how to insert them. Happy to chop things down, its Mrs Jakarta's job to grow them...

One for Jack Straw, our Photinia Red Robin Shrub is healthy but leggy, I don't just want leaves at the top, but at low level as well. 1. Can I give it a hard pruning down to say 1m above ground level (currently over 2m high)? 2. When should I do this - not now I would have thought? Many thanks

That's the One! I'll have to let Mrs Jakarta know that it aint a Bamboo, its just called one. :p The Fatsia is an Ex-Fatsia as it is now chopped down, proving to be a bugger to get the Roots out. Will have to wait until my sojurn to lovely Wisbech, Peterborough and Wellingborough over the...

Can't take a photo at present, I'm in lovely Wisbech for work... :( Don't know about clumping, all a bit spindly but it has been overshadowed by a Fatsia (also removed this w/end) for all its life. It has produced lots of tiny red berries if that helps? You can tell I'm not Monty Don...

Many thanks, shame to chop it down as spring growth just started but where it was is going to be a hole in the ground prior to it being a bigger pond. Will get relocated somewhere in the garden at some point. Happy for it to 'tick over' for a few months or even into next year. Presume it...

Oh forgot in my twitcher post to ask the following: Took a bamboo out of the ground (about 7-8 years old and about 6 foot) as we are extending our Pond and it was in the way. I have stuck it in a large pot, what are its chances of survival?

Oh and Nuthatches, we get them in pairs for some reason, bizzare to watch them as they feed upside down, beautiful looking birds of course. There are Crows who only seem to hop about on the verges at the bottom of our road, no idea why they don't come up to the top of the Hill where the...

Lucky Man, whereabouts are you located, presumably somewhere fairly rural? Our Birdlife varies in terms of species, a few years ago almost every one on the feeders would have been either Green Finches or Chaffinches, hardly seen a one in the past two years. We never get Starlings or...