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  • Autism_at_40
    Autism_at_40 Online Community Member Posts: 899 Pioneering

    I am the opposite of green fingered, although I do try.

    I live in flats, so only a communal garden, which I have planted a few herbs in, not that they do that well with all the weeds and the strimming every 2 weeks!

    These mushrooms have just popped up though, I've looked them up and apparently they are edible, not sure I will try them though.

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  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 963 Trailblazing

    is that a shaggy inkcap reminds me of cousin it covered in snow 😂

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Ok so it turns out I shouldn’t be allowed on Amazon when browsing plants lol

    I only went on to purchase a Euonymus fortunei 'Harlequin and ended up buying quite a bit more lol

    Needless to say the £500 prize money for winning Happy Gardens has been well spent on plants and other gardening related things lol

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 7,592 Championing

    Your garden will be lovely next year when all your plants settle. Perhaps you could post some photos then. @Luchia

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/918991#Comment_918991

    My plan is to win again next year :D

    My main problem is there’s just too many nice plants in the world and as soon as I get them I find more I want lol

    Thankfully my garden is a good size so lots of space for more plants

  • Autism_at_40
    Autism_at_40 Online Community Member Posts: 899 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/918034#Comment_918034

    Yes, I believe so! They look different now they've opened up.

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,703 Scope Online Community Specialist

    Oh, I'm always so suspicious of mushrooms. Just too many that look like edible ones but are actually toxic 😓

    I hope you'll share some lovely pictures with us @Luchia!

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/919116#Comment_919116

    Could be worse 😱Could be the mushrooms on Last Of Us!

    Will be sharing some pictures soon, We seem to have summoned a rain demon here lol

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 61,032 Championing

    Wow @Luchia that's the garden sorted then

    I don't think I'd eat those @Autism_at_40

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,695 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I'd be really hoping those aren't cordyceps fungi @Luchia that could get very messy!

  • Autism_at_40
    Autism_at_40 Online Community Member Posts: 899 Pioneering

    @Sandy_123 They're supposed to be edible, but I didn't touch them, they've gone now anyway.

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/920081#Comment_920081

    We are still waiting for Season 2 so it might not turn out too badly 😱

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Just bumping to keep the thread active 😊

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,682 Championing

    Hi @Luchia - my cat, Shadow, is a very keen gardener…..she decided that some of my bulbs were definitely in the wrong place; she dug them up; I put them back in my raised bed; she dug them up, I put them back, ad infinitum.

    She also decided I had far too many forget-me-knots, so dug quite a lot of them up; mind she was likely right that I had rather a lot, & at least she waited until they'd finished flowering!

    Now all this leads to having an even more ever changing garden, so I do get to experiment with different plants (hopefully cat-proof ones she can't remove entirely). Life is certainly interesting with her around 😂

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/921563#Comment_921563

    Had a lot of trouble with my neighbours cat digging up my plants and leaving little presents but I got one of them ultrasonic device things and now he won’t come in the garden so definitely been a huge win, been nearly 2 months without any issues now.

    It sounds like your kitty just wants to help with plant placement hehe

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 61,032 Championing

    Its the squirrel in my garden, he forgets where he hides things so digs everything.

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Bought two lovely hebe andersonii variegatas the other day! Not often you see them for sale so had to grab 2, pretty big size too with plenty of new growth

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Just a quick update as we start preparing for Spring.

    Make sure to check on plants and remove any damaged leaves so they can focus energy into new growth.

  • nasturtium
    nasturtium Online Community Member Posts: 381 Empowering
    edited February 2

    I personally do not like to tidy the garden until the spring weather arrives. I like to leave piles of twigs and leaves on the ground (if it is safe to do I like to keep all paths clear incase of slipping etc) so insects can have somewhere warm hunker down over the cold weather. The long range weather forcast for this month is looking cold but mainly dry with possible snow so the friendly bugs and insects need places to shelter and keep warm. Sometimes a untidy garden over autumn and winter is a tidy garden for insects and bugs to thrive. Then in spring they can come out of there hibernation and the garden tidying can begin.

    Nasturtium

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering

    I dislike Ragwort. It can kill horses and livestock. The fields around here are martyrs to the stuff.

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