Dylano's activity

The garden is at it's most colourful now with iris's and roses looking good. Thinking ahead, I find July and August there is a lack of flowering plants.

We have a small satellite dish pointing to Hotbird and using an Italian Sky decoder received RAI 1,2,3, as well as Mediaset 1,2,3 and 4. We also received umpteen other stations including BBC World News and Euro News.

At the moment we have a small amount of money transferred from the UK, on a monthly basis, to our Italian joint bank account.If we were to transfer a one off sum of 3,000 plus euro to this account, would there be a tax implication, and if so, at

I live in Marche and have had, for 4 yrs now a plumbago growing in a pot as I thought it was not hardy enough to withstand the winters here.

I need to find a supplier of bay, lauris nobilis, to create a 100m hedge so am looking for approx 300 plants. Am I too late to buy bare root ? Can anyone recommend a supplier in Le Marche area.Many thanks.

Did look in search box for answer to the above but did not find a supplier? Does anyone know of one capable of providing mixed seed in bulk, native to central Italy.

Can anyone recommend someone in the Sarnano, Gualdo, Fallerone area who could repair a washing machine ?

I have a good vacuum cleaner, but need an attachment that has a brush angled at 90degrees for cleaning the dust etc off the tops of umpteen beams.... Can anyone recommend such a thing ?

Can anyone advise.....  We live in a small stone house that was renovated in the 'rustico' style approx 15yrs ago.

Just enjoyed a lovely bass cooked on the BBQ.  Not being very scientifically minded, if I was to bury the remains, head, bones and tail and plant something on top would it rot down and become what we know as blood, fish and bone ???