Questions

I'm a beginner. I bought 20 bareroot beech about 3 ft in height. I started digging thinking I'd be ready to plant in a fday or 2. Over a week later I'm still digging as ground is impacted. The trees are outside in black plastic bags..will the trees last as I need another's day digging. The bad weather has delayed work as well. Feeling demoralised..

can Jasmine solanium survives in Ireland . Will I place it indoor or outdoor in garden soil . What weather is best for it and what will happen in winter?

Can you please help me identify a beautiful Japanese maple which I lost and long to replace? A. palmatum type, with five-lobed leaves, undissected, unvariegated or otherwise marked, sap-green in spring, light green in summer, and flaming crimson in autumn. Small (in a pot), lovely loose, leaning habit (not the squat, congested look of some dissect types). I'd be most grateful for your help, as I can't find it in the catalogues.

I would like to plant a hedge in my front garden which will give privacy all year round but also be edible/friendly to wildlife? ( hedge space is 20ft by 3ft)I can plant holly and ivy to keep some winter green as they grow well here. My partner is obsessed with neat hedges and wants box hedging so I would like to have a good alternative

We have a new build with acidic soil and just lawns done. We want to sow low maintenance plants and trees that do not cost the earth . It is a 2 storey House 180m in from road its an open site with a sweeping drive and lawn wrapping around the house with smaller lawn in front on the other side of the drive, its a blank canvas and I don't know where to start, out in the countryside. I don't want the trees to grow too big but still have a good presence. a limestone wall is at the entrance since these photos.

Please suggest some plants or shrubs or fruit or colourful cover to plant against a north facing wall in Co.Tyrone