Gardening

Diagram showing how a cross support in a flower can can be used to keep a vertical support upright and so help keep the plant upright

Diagram showing how to dig up clumping perennials such as hosta and divide them with the blade of a spade before returning them to the soil

Diagram showing how to do double digging of a flower bed or vegetable plot

Illustrations showing how to use a hoe to searth up or pile soil around a newly planted plant

How to erect a polytunnel in six stages including how to put up the metal hoops, how to secure and attach the polythene covering, how to secure the bottom edges of the polythene, and how to build in an entrance way or door

How to build a deck or build your own decking

How to grow figs or propegate figs from an established plant by taking cuttings and potting them up

Aphid on rose showing damage done to youg leaves and an aphid in side view, cut to white

stem of a rose with the effects of canker being lesion, discolouration, yellowing and weakening of the plant

Stone trough planted with a variety of ferns as a garden feature, cut to white

Building a garden tool rack with spaces for garden forks, half moon, edgeing tool, shears, edging clippes, in a garden on a patio

Picture showing black death virus effects on a hellebore flower and on the leaves

Leaf showing signs of fungal wilt with infected branch behind; the leaf is discoloured and wilted

Spruce Bark beetle Ips typographus inset illustration against a background showing maternal and larval galleries in bark

Hand picnhing out the growing tip of a busy lizzie plant to encourage lateral growth

Large grey or metal pot full of growing plants with red flowers and foliage making for a centre pice or point of focus in the garden

Garden with plastic sheet on the grass catching the bamboo cuttings which are being taken off the potted plants with secateurs. Dead leaves piled up and blue sky behind

Little rocket seedlings growing in a seedling tray in compost, ready to be thinned out or planted on