Not sure what to plant in your back garden? Well why not get some ideas from looking up the native plants in your area on the Natural History museum's Postcode plants database? Writes Carol Miers.
This website is part of the flora and fauna section and has lists of all the native plant and tree species covering the UK in 10km square blocks.
The lists refer to plants that were found at some point since records began. They say that these plants are therefore adapted to the locale, however I am not convinced that all those listed for inner city London would now thrive, like water violet for example. But what if I am wrong and it would? There can be no harm in trying.
Perhaps your gardening career began at seven years old, planting your first row of carrot seeds? By now you can remember the latin names and the management of thousands of plants.
But for those who are still reading the back of seed packets and falling short of their horticultural dreams the company Topdisk Ltd run by Gaynor and Julian Andrews has developed a computer package to help.
The old market town of Todmorden lies between Burnley and Halifax, on the borders of Lancashire and West Yorkshire in the Pennines.
There, where many strong rivers once powered the machine looms, an industrious cultivation project has begun to flow, a kind of market gardening with free produce and shared ideas.
Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET) is a pioneering project to create a sustainable healthy food chain. Say the word 'healthy' and many are put off. But this scheme is so different and ahead of its time that other towns are taking up the same ideas and it is taking root world-wide.
At this time of year, it's almost impossible to keep up with the autumnal changes. Here in France, the fruits are ripening and disappearing fast and the chestnut tree leaves are turning brown, but due to lack of water rather than cold weather, writes Carol Miers.
For example if you look at the Mersey at Brinksway - in the table above - you can see that although recent levels were very high, current levels are well below any risk of flooding.
Rob Hopkins is a man with a mission. Rob is co-founder of a movement - see how it started - which hopes to change human behaviour, from one of wide circles of extravagant oil dependency to a micro supply chain network that is less reliant on oil as the vast industrial society we have become.
Transition Town Totnes is the centre of the Transition Network. Its aims are to help us, as a world, as nations, cities, towns and villages and as individuals, to accept that as the world's oil resources peak, we learn to find and live with the alternatives.
The Gardening Channel website has been launched this week by Sun gardeners Steve and Val Bradley.
The site is not yet finished and many of the links are still not live. For example, if you click onto the on-line shop you will not find a link that takes you back to the main page.
I will keep an eye on developments - what do you think - is there room for another gardening consumer site or is it just information that is required?
The first (Escape to) River Cottage started in 1998 and in my opinion, was the best. It is one of my favourite programs and a couple of Christmas' ago, I spent a whole day watching the repeats on television.
The Original Victorian cottage in an idyllic location with a stream passing the door and set in the middle of the Devon countryside.
Arguments over who owns what between adjoining land or gardens often lead to confrontations, sometimes costly court action, violence and in some cases murder.
A case that in the Manchester Evening News this week highlights exactly how a simple disagreement over the rightful place of a wall, hedge or fence can escalate out of control when one party takes actions into their own hands.
The Garden Answers and Gardening News websites are having an overhaul and will be off-line until the new year.
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