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  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 239 Empowering
    edited March 4

    @Luchia yes, they are Sweet William, also one of my favourites. A lot of mine have already turned to seed, so I've been collecting the seed heads and shaking them out ready to grow next year. 👍

    I'm already starting plans for the garden for next year 😁 I think I'd like some sort of sensory garden. I would really like a little seated area surrounded by the plants. I've shown my plans to my son (who does the physical work 😁) I can grow plants in the greenhouse but cant plant them out.

    Can I ask, what do people do to disguise those big ugly rubbish bins and all the other rubbish for collection?I've got two of the big bins, black/green, a blue box for glass and all the recycling bags. Its all a bit ugly!!

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    edited March 4
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/910231#Comment_910231

    You can buy “Bin Sheds” which hide the bins really well, sort of like a cupboard outside for your bins, you can get them with trellis on the sides with completely hide the bins from view, Also some really nicely designed ones to go with garden furniture

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    edited March 4
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    Weeding today the far left ones were the 10p plants I bought

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 7,193 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4

    Ooh, looks very tidy @Sandy_123, and what a bargain for those plants!

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    edited March 4

    Shattered now tho looks better tho

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    edited March 4

    Bought 6 lovely young Rhododendron today, I know there a bit controversial but I couldn’t resist

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing

    Oh wow I didn't have a clue did they say why

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4

    Quick update on the veg patch. I've certainly underestimated my ability to keep chillis alive. But very happy to have just picked my first harvest of cucamelons.

    Now will I be brave enough to try one? 🤔

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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    edited March 4

    Oh wow loving the home grown produce

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I didn't know that either, but had a quick google!

    Rhododendron, especially Rhododendron ponticum, is invasive in the UK, spreading rapidly and outcompeting native plants. It forms dense thickets that reduce biodiversity, alters soil composition, and hosts harmful diseases like Phytophthora ramorum. Its toxicity also poses a threat to livestock. While not illegal everywhere, its spread in the wild is heavily controlled to protect ecosystems.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4

    I have a lot of cucumbers and cucamelons now. So I guess I'll need to have salad with dinner. 😊

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,808 Championing

    its not illegal to actually grow them in your garden its illegal to let them spread into the wild as they are classed as invasive

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/911270#Comment_911270

    As long as they stay on your property they are perfectly legal but if they manage to escape it’s illegal, it’s mainly the Ponticum variety but now they just treat any variety the same

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/911283#Comment_911283

    Yet they still allow Bindweed to grow freely and that stuff is terrible 😣

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering

    Ponticum is the main issue but they just treat all varieties the same 😣

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing

    Ohh Google ...spreads quickly through rain, can effect large areas of trees, infect plant material and soil and debris on boots and tires. 🙄

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/911290#Comment_911290

    If grown in pots and well maintained it is absolutely breathtaking, I bought 3 different colours

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing

    Yeah ideal for pots mint also as it takes over

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/911292#Comment_911292

    Mint is super useful but yeah I’d only grow that in pots too as it does like to take over and very rapidly

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Bindweed is currently my nemesis. My neighbour has loads of it growing in their very unkempt garden and now it's infested our garden too. 😖

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