I steeped Rhubarb and Orange zest in vodka - really yummy! Made a rhubarb and blood orange jelly (the jam type, not the pudding) that was really really nice! Another good combo is Rhubarb and strawberry. Crumble in that combo is really good too. Not tried Rhubarb wine - sounds fab!
Jacqueline x
There is away you can post off small plants, we used to do it regular on another group, you need small pop bottles, the plastic ones, cut it in half, get your plant ā¦ with roots, pop a small amount of damp compost onto paper, wrap up the roots, place covered roots in a small plastic food bag, tie up the bag around compost level, pop plant into bottom half of cut bottle, squeeze the top half ā¦ cut end, into the bottom part. wallah, your plant is protected and will live through the post, as long as itās only a couple of days, best time to post would be Monday through to Wednesday.
To make sure it doesnāt get to hot you could prick a few small holes around the top part of the bottle.
Now how many strawberry pants do you want to shift Jacqueline 
Jax x
Iāve sent plants to my friend by using plastic bags and elastic bands.
Root part into the bag with some compost sealed off with an elastic band then lay the plant into a old cereal box between a few layers of kitchen paper. Wrap in brown parcel paper and send it through the post.
My rhubarb is beginning to grow now,just had enough to make a tart , lovely!
Does anybody have one of those coiled hoses for their garden? I am thinking of buying one as so fed up trying to unkink my inkinkable hose! wondered if they are any good
I had one once but the coils tended to get tangled and as I had to run mine across the road between the house and the garden it wasnāt easy for cars to drive over it! I havenāt got a working hosepipe any more 
I donāt have one either due to my normal 50ft one just goes around my greenhouse in the back garden under the āsecret gateā onto the edge of the front driveway then along the full length of the side garden. itā lays there all year and we just brush it into the flower bed to mow the lawn.
One of these new coiled oneās would never stay were we wanted it once we turn it off.
Ours is left on continually and I just push in the hoselock trigger to make the water come out. Once I finish watering I release the trigger bit leaving the hose laid out.
Have any of you tried the āVerticual Gardenā system . Iāve earmarked an area in my Veggie garden to make one next year.
I hope to have columns of herbs, veggies and flowers.
This is the one I found on youtube. Iāll be painting all my containers in green.
Yes I love my garden I started my first when I got married in 1972 always love moving plants around to fit on some new ones ,at the moment I seem to be planting a lot of alstroemerias which give you flowers all summer long
Hi everyone, lovely to find a gardening thread and see your photos.
Wow a garden in France Heather.
Pauline I got married the same year as you. I started with a small garden and an allotment I got evicted from the allotment as I couldnāt keep up with it! My current garden is 200ft has lots of shrubs and trees and is cottage garden style. At the end of the garden I have some fruit trees and a little wild flower meadow area.
I am involved with a yearly plant swap for local residents, have done a bit of guerilla gardening. We are starting a local gardening group.
I love roses and have a few photos of them on flickr
That is really interesting! I am going to ask my son to save his irnbru bottles and maybe plant some things this year up my trellis
Thanks for sharing that Eileen
I used to help my Grandfather in his allotment when I was a child, and I had my own allotment for 7 years. Sadly, it became more of a stress than a pleasure and so I gave it up a while back. I now grow as many plants as possible in my tiny postage stamp of a garden. I have veggies in pots, buckets and tin baths, and roses and clematis in the beds. It is small but (almost) perfectly formed. You can find a few photos on my IG feed (Iām new to these forums and Iām not sure how to get them in this post!)
Wonderful roses Tessa!
Loving the blousey roseās. I bet them smell wonderful 
Always think a garden isnāt a garden unless there is a least one rose.
Almost ready here to buy a couple of climbing roses for all trellising we have just built. Thinking of whites and apricot shades but the most important thing is lots of scent 
Thanks so much for the posting tips! If anyone wants any plants in future, let me know. I will start saving pop bottlesā¦
Jacqueline x
Has anyone noticed that the newer varieties of Roses tend to be all about colour and bloom but they forget about smell?
I much prefer the older varieties as they are big, blousey and tend to have yet strong scents.
So true Eileen, whenever we visit shows I always can be found burrowing my nose into any roses on display and coming up disappointed by the lack of smell. Did buy a David Austin rose a couple of years ago, Munstead Wood, I think is itās name, a very rich, dark red with the most delicious old rose smell to it, the sort that grabs your attention as you walk by it.
My most fragrant one is roseraie de lāhay. I love David Austen roses mostly fragrant and disease resistant. Heather I always head for their stand at shows too.
I have just been out to collect a rose I ordered from the local garden centre. itās one I painted and itās called Burgundy Ice.
I tried to put a link to an album of flowers on flickr but it just came out the the cover photo.
waves @ Margaret.
I love David Austin roses too Tessa and Heather, the only one who was unsuccessful was William Shakespeare, and he obviously took a dislike to my garden even though there were several other DA roses planted happily in the same border.
I am about to uproot a Gertrude Jekyll from my mumās old house, Heather, and as you probably know Munstead Wood was Gertrude Jekyllās home.
If I was ever to sit in the big black chair on Mastermind then the work of Gertrude Jekyll would be my specialist subject