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  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,290 Championing
    edited March 4
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    they are a pretty flower my daughter has a few in her garden cant say i have ever had one in any of my gardens tho

  • Teigr
    Teigr Online Community Member Posts: 4,883 Championing
    edited March 4

    I love them too @Beaver79 ,a garden that we see on our daily walks has a gorgeous red one growing in one of the borders.

    The garden's a mess,weeds and brambles everywhere and the grass is knee high.I feel like I should rescue the poor thing,,it deserves better.

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,544 Championing
    edited March 4

    These are the 10p ones I saved

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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,544 Championing
    edited March 4
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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,376 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4

    Ah I'm so glad you saved a life there @Sandy_123 a begonia if I'm not mistaken? Definitely a bargain!

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    edited March 4

    @Teigr I bought a heavy duty black bin out of wicks especially for those extra clippings ๐Ÿ‘ Sometimes the garden bin gets really full and the bin man won't take it. At one point I tried turning it into a composter by drilling holes in it (watched a YouTube video) but the novelty didn't last ๐Ÿ˜‚

    I've reached my limit of plants for this year, Time to sit back and enjoy it. The most I'll do now is seed collecting for next year. I'm expecting to have surgery around September, so I'll just have someone mow the little bit of grass and water things for me while I concentrate on getting a bit of sun on my glowing white legs ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,544 Championing
    edited March 4
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,544 Championing
    edited March 4

    thankyou @Beaver79 theyve had a good drink and weeded

  • Cantilip
    Cantilip Online Community Member Posts: 621 Empowering
    edited March 4

    I don't have a garden but I hope people will like the verge on the other side of the road. I lie back on my sofa and watch the birds and squirrels and the bushes shaking and dancing in high winds. Earlier in the year there were masses of daffs. Now it's hollyhock time.

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  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing
    edited March 4

    My partners chilli plants didn't survive the cold and wet weather we've had.

    But our berry vines have loved it!

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    Picture 1: The flower buds of a Boysenberry bush that will become our first boysenberries!
    Picture 2: Some ripening Alpine Strawberries
    Picture 3: Some ripe/ripening raspberries

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,376 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4
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    A little update from me. Here's my various chillis, raspberries, tomatoes (that randomly germinated in there) and strawberries in the raised veg patch, all doing their thing.

    It's not been a great few months for fruit and veg, but the chillis are finally taking off! Out of 40 seeds, I have one pea vine growing, poor lil guy.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,376 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4

    Hah, yeah I often have a chat with the plants down there each evening @Beaver79, the people who's garden leads onto ours must think I'm either bonkers, or I have a friend who's very quiet. ๐Ÿ˜†

    I'm going to attempt planting some peas one last time and hope they don't get munched. ๐Ÿคž

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,544 Championing
    edited March 4

    Look great @jim_scope and @albus_scope

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,544 Championing
    edited March 4

    Love the plants I've got 2nd one

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,278 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4

    Picked my first courgette from the garden today! Got to think of something to cook with it now!

    A large yellow courgette
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,544 Championing
    edited March 4

    Oh nice @Rosie_Scope

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    edited March 4

    @Beaver79 Sweet William has to be one of favourite flowers and they produce so many seeds to collect for the following year๐Ÿ‘

    @Rosie_Scope do you remember a few years back when courgette spaghetti was really popular? I even bought a little contraption so you could make your own. That was a fad!!๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ The things probably somewhere at the back of a cupboard here ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ waiting for my next health kick. Funny enough, I bought a courgette in my recent shop, it's sitting in the fridge but I can't remember what I was going to do with it???๐Ÿ˜‚ Good luck with your peas @Albus_Scope I've a family of sparrows that wont let me grow them more than a few inches tall ๐Ÿ˜‚ How's everyone's tomatoes plants doing this year? Mine are stunted ๐Ÿ˜. But I've got plans out there in the garden today. Just building up some energy ๐Ÿ’ช

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing
    edited March 4

    The raspberries are ripening thick and fast now! I'll need to take a picture later today of what we managed to collect yesterday

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing
    edited March 4

    Oh @onedayatatime, our tomatoes have not done great. While they're doing well know they did not like the first few cold weeks of June!

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    edited March 4

    I'd like to ask if anyone has used one of those weed burning tools, the one that's a long stick with gas cannister attached? I'm a bit nervous using things like that๐Ÿ˜‚ I'm wanting to know if it would be suitable for the job I need to do or any suggestions. I have a patch of ground, 4ft x 15ft, that needs clearing of weeds. The patch is baked clay but does have some rose bushes and a few odd flowers plants I'd like to save. I've seen these tools used on things like patio weeds and weeds growing between concrete. Would it be suitable for selectively burning this area of clay do you think? I can't bend to pull weeds and the clay is also super hard. I've managed to chop things low to the ground but they will of course be growing back pretty soon ๐Ÿ˜‚ I'm also a bit nervous of setting the whole thing ablaze! Maybe burner in one hand, hose in the other๐Ÿ‘ I don't like using chemicals, so do you think this tool is the right thing for the job?

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