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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Its better to get it all out the way at once. I wouldn't mind doing a fairy garden. I might do that next year now tho

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912001#Comment_912001

    Is that one of the tiny garden thingies with little cottages?

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Yes little fairy gardens grandkids would love it

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912006#Comment_912006

    That sounds like a fun idea, don’t think it would work in my garden but I have seen them on YouTube before, some are really complex with fountains etc

    I’m just trying to pick what I want to order next lol, thinking Salvia Amethyst lips, I have 2 hot lips which smell amazing

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    I chose all my plants this year so they come back next year, so hopely half the cost

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912022#Comment_912022

    I try and stick with Evergreens and perennials, although I do grow Pansies from seeds for hanging baskets

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Nice I've not done hanging baskets

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing

    We grew a tomato plant in a little hanging basket actually. It definitely didn't grow as well as the ones in proper large pots, but you can grow anything in them that can fit in a regular pot!

    We're planning on moving early next year so I don't think we'll be able to do much planting next year. Still love to see what everyone here is doing though 🙂

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering

    Strawberry plants do well in hanging baskets too 🍓

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Yes I planted strawberries in the ground, which didn't help as they need to hang down, so need to be higher up. Easy access for the cheeky birds

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912290#Comment_912290

    Hanging Basket strawberries work really well as it gives them space to hang down and if you put a little piece of tinfoil on the hanging part it tends to keep the birds from helping themselves.

    I did recently put up a few bird feeders and that also seems to help plus it’s lots of fun watching the little birds chowing down on the seeds although oddly they don’t seem as interested in the suet balls so might have to try another variety of them

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing

    We planted strawberries in a bed by the side of our garden last year and this year we found them halfway across the entire garden! It's surprising how far they can vine. We have both alpine and regular versions and it's nice. My partner planted them because they're one of my favourite fruits.

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912439#Comment_912439

    Alpine are absolutely delicious!!

    My plan for next year is to get some dwarf fruit trees and grow some strawberries so I might be with alpine ☺️

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering

    Well the birds might not be interested in the suet balls but a very young looking squirrel has taken a shining to them this morning ☺️

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Lol squirrel 🐿️ don't miss a trick. I had a sofa waiting to be picked up by the council, the squirrel was going in and out of it getting the filling for his nest. He did a treat with the left over Xmas nuts too.

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912625#Comment_912625

    Looked to be quite a young squirrel, Going to have to get some nuts next time I order bird seed so he has something to enjoy ☺️

    Was funny to see though they are rather acrobatic 🤭

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Oh very I was sat in the garden on Saturday and one came on the fence, stopped looked at me, I was a bit scared he was going to run at me, so I made myself look bigger, I mean of course I am, but he ran off so it worked lol

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 615 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/912643#Comment_912643

    I don’t think I’d dare try that lol we have Ring cameras in the garden and knowing my partner it would end up on YouTube lol 😂

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,576 Championing

    Lol crikey imagine being on up tube showing a squirrel who is bigger lol. Luckily no cameras in my garden

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing

    My grandad has a little group of 5-6 squirrels that he continues to feed into his 90s. He has named them all and can tell them all apart.

    When I lived in Glasgow the two closest parks the squirrels behaved differently. In Kelvingrove they were your usual skittish things, they might eventually come up to you if you stayed still long enough and had food.

    The Botanic Gardens squirrels though? Brazen things. I saw one climb into a babies buggy once looking for food. If you put a shopping bag down on the ground you'd soon have one running up to see if they could rummage through it.

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