Chez,i'm encouraged your other half is towing the line!, sorry I won't be able to make the meet sunday,work & family commitments mean's I need to be close by.Have a great day & we will meet up at some stage.

I'm not sure jim, I post a lot more on eps now,although that has a different feel altogether,i always felt able to have banter on here with some serious needed when required!.....that's unless Charlie dimmock is bought up.

Hi chez, it certainly is a strange old atmosphere on here this time around!.

Welcome, we need fresh meat to build up forum interest again!!.

You can celebrate being back in action jim!

Hi Jon...very well done & a great makeover!, also just to my taste also. I think the one thing it's crying out for is some giant stone's scattered in between plants.

Warmwindy.

Fantastic pictures Charlie...really wetted my appetite now.

Fantastic pictures Charlie...really wetted my appetite now.

Fantastic pictures Charlie...really wetted my appetite now.

Great video kris... Can't wait to be there!. Going early September.

All my large phormiums were trashed and I've dug most up as they look crappe. Again my cordyline look rubbish apart from two... Growing points in a bad way. Massive rare butia caterinensis spear pulled so I've given it to a member in Portsmouth to try to revive it!. Six large lorerpetulum shrubs dea...

Hi Charlie.. The moat system for controlling these beast's is a little awkward in this instance but i do use it on other bamboos.. I've now got a nice mixture of vivax & aurea in one bed!.

Well after being very well behaved for about seven years it's now showing its true colours!, it's popping up on other planting areas six/eight feet either side. It's not in a part of garden that it will cause major problems, but i am toying on whether to fetch it out.