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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,344 Championing

    I love gardening

    I don't have much space but a small rockery I built myself and several tubs

    Keeps my mind occupied tending flowers

    Plenty of weeds lol

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 358 Empowering

    And I see them now in the woods , even white ones , they are so pretty . They just seem to come up each year no matter what .

    This is copy , but I've seen these many times . I also have somewhere a picture I took a few days after my dad in 2017, he loved his garden and it was as if the flowers bloomed just for him in his memory , the garden was covered . I will find it and post it .

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  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 358 Empowering

    This is just one side of my dads garden which bloomed a few days after he died .

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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,057 Championing

    Looks lovely with all the colours @sarah_lea12

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 2,349 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Beautiful pictures @sarah_lea12 🌼 it's so nice seeing all these gardens flourishing ☺️

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 358 Empowering

    Thank you I am going for a walk later I live near the countryside and yesterday the wild flowers were amazing , there are a few poppies bluebells etc , so I will take a picture and post it later .

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 2,349 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    That sounds amazing, looking forward to seeing the pictures. I hope you have a lovely walk 🙂

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,710 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Had a peak at my outdoor planters earlier after neglecting them for a couple of days. Everything has been chomped down to stalks by the local snails. Marigolds, courgettes, bean plants, peas. All gone. They've eaten everything but my tomato plants, cheeky little blighters 🐌

    Need to recruit an army of hedgehogs from somewhere to overturn the slimy hordes!

    Ah well. Guess I'll be making lots of tomato dishes this year then 😁

    Hope you're all having better success than I am this year!

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 2,349 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited May 8

    @Rosie_Scope I've heard if you crush up egg shells and place them around the plants it's meant to help stop the cheeky snails getting at them. Don't know how true that is, but I used to know someone that did that and swore by it ☺️

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,710 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    My army of mega snails would probably eat them too @Holly_Scope 😂, but I will have to give that a go!

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing

    ah the joys of gardening haha buy them a bottle of beer at least they die happy

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,710 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Haha yes @michael57! I'm usually a garden pacifist but it might be time to open a beer garden 😁

  • egister
    egister Posts: 987 Pioneering

    There are different robot vacuum cleaners, it's time for robot snail-killers to appear!

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,710 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    If only @egister! Someone needs to get their inventing hat on!

  • egister
    egister Posts: 987 Pioneering

    The green laser should help, the problem is in the inexpensive guidance system)

    🎃

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,089 Championing

    Not a very ethical thing to do nowadays, but you can collect them all up and place them in a bucket of salted water.

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing

    I give them one plant for themselves they touch the rest they get the beer our little blackbird causes more mayhem he just likes things his way however many times I put it back does make us chuckle tho

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,784 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    You can buy nematodes to spray on gardens that will decimate slugs and snails that get in the areas you've inoculated. Well worth the price.

    I spent most of yesterday repotting my carnivorous plants. I got everything looking lovely, then overnight got visited by blackbirds and a squirrel, so everything's been dug up. 😆

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 1,147 Pioneering

    How lovely @Wibbles, You must have watered them well 😊.