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Dahlia cutting from late spring now with a bud
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Hibiscus coming into bloom
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Haha there is lots people don't know about me my friend
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lovely to see all the fellow gardeners , I moved to my new place adapted bungalow Febโ24 .So am having to start all over again - hard work that Iโm no longer able to do but my old fella still does the bulk of the work even though he is slowing down a bit ( donโt tell him I said that ๐)
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nothing wrong in being slow more time to enjoy your work
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@micheal57
Hi Micheal
He is hoping to spend a bit more time at home very soon , due to retire this coming Dec . I know Iโm looking forward to having his company around more ๐
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Haha I beg my dawnie not to retire bad enough with the neighbours telling her what I get up to
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@michael57 ๐ I like your sense of humour , you have a Dawnie - I have a Jonny D he has worked hard an even more so since i stopped being as able to do as much - he has earned his upcoming - I will please myself an do it if I feel like it moments ๐
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Big boys out to play
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all itโs wonderful to see your gardens. I must admit I do try to keep the garden nice. I love all flowers but especially roses, Lupins and rhododendrons. I donโt seem to have much luck with hydrangeas for some reason. We are right at the top of Scotland so itโs difficult with some plants. My husband used to help with the garden but due to his Parkinsonโs heโs not longer able to. So Iโve noticed some of the plants are slightly overgrown. So in autumn this year I need to prune a few. We have a weigela plant that needs a good trim. If anyone could offer advice on the best way to do this it really would be appreciated. Oh and an elder blossom thatโs huge so again any tips would be wonderful please.
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It's been lovely seeing some of the plants and garden's. Thanks for the tip on the rhododendron. I'd just planted 2 in the garden, I will now take them up and put them in pots. Anyone any ideas about how to stop bamboo spreading, mine is causing a nuisance, thanks ๐
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Keep it in pots only as the roots go down and creep in the ground it is one plant that takes a lot to control or get rid of chop a root and leave in the ground and it will grow
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Best pruned just after its finished flowering cut out the oldest stems at ground level will encourage new growth and shorten the ones you want to keep by about a half
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love it
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Sooo my lovely gardening people, can anyone help or advise with my garden??
It's more weed than grass. I used a weed puller yesterday and got up over 40 before giving up, as I wasn't even half done. ๐
Is there anything I can use to prevent or slow them down? And not hurt the grass??
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Unless you get the roots out completely they will keep coming back cutting them before they flower and set seed will help stopping them spread best cure is perseverance and patience
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Thanks @michael57! I've got a long handled tool thing that digs town, I twist and it pulls up (with roots and all) they sometimes seem to regrow in exact same hole so maybe I'm not getting all the roots?
I have let it kind of just do its own thing for months so lots have flowered, I didn't think about that being the seed ๐ Oops!
There are some in the stoned area that has membrane underneath that have grown to higher than waist height, I don't really know what to do about them as they won't pull out the ground but I can't use my digger tool thing because of the membrane and all the stones ๐ต!!!
I was so happy to finally have a garden but didn't realise how much work they can be, I did quite a good job for a few years but had such a bad patch the last few months I haven't even been out there and it's feeling unmanageable!
It doesn't help that there's no drainage and under the grass is just rock (literally found whole bricks and chunks of concrete, naughty new build builders!!)
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If the weeds are coming up through the membrane it's not doing its job or your not doing your bit haha little and often it sounds like the seeds have germinated gone through the membrane and took hold short of taking it all up getting weeds out and replacing the membrane with a good quality membrane not the cheap rubbish it's gonna be keep cutting it so it kills itself
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@michael57 I'm definitely not doing my bit ๐
It's round the back of my house in like a tucked away part of the garden, I get creeped out being round there so don't go to that bit very often lol
Plus I imagine the membrane was cheap and awful so that doesn't help either!!
Thank you for the tips โค๏ธโค๏ธ
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An update on the ongoing saga of Rosie_Scope vs the snails. The only veggies left standing are the tomatoes. Andโฆ
The snails are still winning ๐
Eggshells? Copper tape? Wool pellets? No problem for these super snails. Guess the only one getting fed from my garden this year is the wildlife ๐
I'm not keen on killing them off so I'll just leave 'em to it at this point. They're having a lovely time!
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