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How Does our Garden Grow?

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  • Teigr
    Teigr Community member Posts: 3,717 Disability Gamechanger
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    Excellent bit of improvisation @martymart.
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  • Zimba
    Zimba Community member Posts: 1,873 Pioneering
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    Spent some time today cutting back the blackberries and holly brush…it’s a start.
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  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 2,901 Scope online community team
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    @Sandy_123 Rhubarb is such a pain to remove. We had some in our garden when we first moved in but wanted to plant something else.

    I had to get a shovel and dig half a meter down to get the main bulb out. It was HUGE. Took me a good hour to get the whole thing out, it'd clearly been there for years. It hasn't grown back, so far at least (we also planted a berry bush in it's old spot).
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  • Lou67
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    Teigr said:
    One of our azaleas bloomed while we were away.

    Oh that’s absolutely gorgeous Teigr I love it. 
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  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community member Posts: 767 Pioneering
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    Some great shots and some beautiful plants

    I've started redesigning my garden to make it dog/bomb proof.  Slow going because it's a big reminder how far away fitness is ...

    Laying slabs in the borders for pots to go on, with a few planting pockets ... also a shot of the reason for the makeover.  The Ruudster

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  • Jimm_Scope
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    I will try to take some pictures this weekend. Our potatoes are already sprouting! The weather is being really good so far.
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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 4,947 Scope online community team
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    So I may have gone overboard with the chillies this year. That's 14 varieties hardening off now, though I've had to move them from the little plastic greenhouse, as they've already been attacked by slugs!

    I've also repotted my carnivorous plants, so there's more space for them to grow (one is a very rare species whose pitchers grow up to 6 feet tall) as they come out of dormancy and I've even planted some in a little "Deez memorial "bog garden by the pond. Which is named after my old cat. That bit of wood was his favourite thing ever, so I bought it from the old house and put it by the pond as his ashes are scattered under the pond lining. :) 



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  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 294 Pioneering
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  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 294 Pioneering
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    ah thank you my dawnie she has enabled me to post pics bless her
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  • Teigr
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  • michael57
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    A freebie from our blackbird in my dahlia bed 
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    Teigr said:
    Ah azaleas pretty plants 
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  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community member Posts: 767 Pioneering
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    @Albus_Scope cool bog garden.  I want to get away from 'mainstream' gardening/ borders and incorporate parts like that.

    I get no joy from chillies or peppers.  They get so high from seed and the amount of fruit is zero to negligibly not worth the effort.  Tomatoes I have to give away, cucumbers are pretty successful.  Not that I can eat them, give me indigestion even with Omezaprole

    @michael57 ... are the million bells, cuttings ?  Very healthy looking plants.  Love that white flower, what is it ? 

    @Teigr ... beautiful azalea.  On my wanted list as well as an Acer.  I've never grown anything needing ericaceous soil so want to have a few Japanese plants

    By this time of year I've usually got over 150 seedlings on the go but had no hwyl (motivation) this year after the garden got trashed by the dog.  Although I have got some African Daisies (Osteospermum) in trays. So making my son replenish the garden ... I buy ... he reimburses.
    Finished shopping now, just need the ground to dry out and have that yellow thing in the sky for a few days



    A mix of B&M,  Home Bargains, the Range and a very good cheap nursey a few miles away
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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 4,947 Scope online community team
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    Excellent haul there @WelshBlue I do love the cheap nurseries. :) 
    Bog gardens are very much a case of patience, as carnivorous plants grow so slowly, but I love the feeling of growing them over a few years from a tiny seed and seeing them finally outside (about 2 inches big) and having a good meal on nearby bugs.  I like growing the weirder chillies, then making them into sauces, or drying and powdering them for cooking over the rest of the year. 
    This will be the first year I'm not growing tomatoes as they never get eaten.  :D

    Let's all hope for a few nice days soon! 
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 53,241 Disability Gamechanger
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    Look at you green fingered lot 
    I messaged my gardener 2 days ago and got ignored so may just get a mower and save money in the long term
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  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 294 Pioneering
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    hi welshblue have no idea what it is its pretty so will come out and go somewhere nice cant be having it with my dahlias lol all hanging basket plants were grown from cuttings cant work anymore so i shut myself out in the garage and grow cuttings plus seeds  keeps me out of trouble with dawnie 
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  • Teigr
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    It looks like a freesia @michael57.
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  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 294 Pioneering
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    Teigr said:
    It looks like a freesia @michael57.
    ah could well be flowered a bit early tho its a keeper and was free 
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