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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

Half a barrel adapted to be a pond with water and flowering pond plants in including arrowroot, flowering rush, and spearwort

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

Purple hostas in a blue and white flower pot

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

Lily of the valley growing in a large old terra cotta flower pot

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

Water lily leaf showing damage from caterpillars of china mark moth who nibble the edges of the leaves and make folded floating ods from the leaves. Blue water background and inset detail of the caterpillar,

Rosemary beetles on rosemary showing metallic markings, cut to white

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

Leaves and bud and flower of a rose covered wuith powdery mildew and mould, and causing discolouration of the leaves

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

Three views of fenland with increasignly complex networks of inter dependent species, culminating in a rich landscape with wild flowers, a hobby hunting dragonfly, and heacy with insect life

View of a traditional little house in the northern village of Coxwold with trees behind and wisteria growing up the front

Meadow in summer with red kite circling, green woodpecker feeding from distant ant hills, goldfinch on teasels, and a peacock butterfly on a knapweed bloom with a Painted lady on hawkbit. A family cycle past behind.

Oakland landscapw with details of mosses and lickesn and some insects that live in and on the oak trees including beetles and wasps; bird in the background include the nuthatch, pied flycatcher, warbler, and great tit