Gardeners!

[Tin Pot]

Perfect repointing!

Not much to do now...

FFS.

 

[Dave 123]

After 30 odd years in horticulture it’s sad to admit that no matter how hard I try I’ll never get close to beating nature!

Just an old drystone wall near Princetown. Perfect.

 

[Lullabelle]

Just spent about 1 hour in the back garden tidying etc. It is really quite hot out there.

 

[Tin Pot]

Ten hours hard labour and it looks exactly the same!



Repointing, a bit of mowing, painting, pruning, collecting supplies, sweeping the drive and pavement, shifting mud off the drive, resanding...

Oh well, it’s wine o’clock.

 

[rich p]

I've got myself a new full-time job...
,,,dead-heading cosmos and petunias.
The pay's terrible, the hours are long but at least I'm out in the fresh air.

 

[Mrs M]

A bit messy I know but really like the way the blue grass and lavender look together

 

[Paulus]

[QUOTE 5354186, member: 9609"]that about the sum of it with gardens - when you see folk with perfect gardens they mussint do out else

how on earth do you spell mussint ? googles never heard of it[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE 5354186, member: 9609"]that about the sum of it with gardens - when you see folk with perfect gardens they mussint do out else

how on earth do you spell mussint ? googles never heard of it[/QUOTE]
Mustn't?

 

[MartinQ]

Bit of a cheeky question :-), but I do a charity plant sale in early May. In the past few years we've raised about £1k.
Problem is that my garden only has so many plants and I'm always running out of different ones to sell.

Could you let me know if/when you have any spare seeds this autumn? I'd appreciate anything a bit unusual - thanks.

 

[JhnBssll]

I spent all day on the front lawn yesterday. Weeding first which took hours, then mowing then scarifying. Now waiting for the grass seed to arrive so I can overseed it and Hope the slog has been worth it

We are due for some cooler weather and a bit of rain in the coming weeks so thought I'd take the opportunity

Unfortunately we're now in the intermediate stage where it looks worse than it did before I touched it

 

[Tin Pot]

I spent all day on the front lawn yesterday. Weeding first which took hours, then mowing then scarifying. Now waiting for the grass seed to arrive so I can overseed it and Hope the slog has been worth it

We are due for some cooler weather and a bit of rain in the coming weeks so thought I'd take the opportunity

Unfortunately we're now in the intermediate stage where it looks worse than it did before I touched it

I did this in Spring...it’s still looks terrible!

 

[Tin Pot]

So I’ve tried the “ready made, brush in” stuff, given it a light watering after but I’m not sure anything is happening. Apart from the smell it just looks like loose sand.

 

[Dave7]

We like being in our garden (we have 3 of the b*****s to sort out) but are useless at the actual gardening side. So I feel a bit of a fraud post on here BUT......after some neighbours bought us a nice rose bush and I was FORCED to clear a space and learn how to plant it I have decided to enlarge that area and make a mini rose garden. I am trying to dig out roots of unwanted rubbish like wild roses and that is hard work but hopefully will have it all finished by tomorrow.......then we have to choose a couple more rose bushed and plant them.

 

[Dave 123]

Bit of a cheeky question :-), but I do a charity plant sale in early May. In the past few years we've raised about £1k.
Problem is that my garden only has so many plants and I'm always running out of different ones to sell.

Could you let me know if/when you have any spare seeds this autumn? I'd appreciate anything a bit unusual - thanks.

Such as? I have a wintersweet- Chimonanthus praecox with lots of seed. Will take a couple of years to get a small saleable plant.

 

[Dave 123]

I spent all day on the front lawn yesterday. Weeding first which took hours, then mowing then scarifying. Now waiting for the grass seed to arrive so I can overseed it and Hope the slog has been worth it

We are due for some cooler weather and a bit of rain in the coming weeks so thought I'd take the opportunity

Unfortunately we're now in the intermediate stage where it looks worse than it did before I touched it

I scarified this lawn last Tuesday. 6 dumpy bags of crap.
Seed sown Tuesday PM Is starting to germinate

 

[MartinQ]

Such as? I have a wintersweet- Chimonanthus praecox with lots of seed. Will take a couple of years to get a small saleable plant.

Thanks in advance, I realize that some stuff takes a year or two to get a reasonable size. I've just planted some tree lupin seed a month ago and they've germinated so will be in the greenhouse overwinter to get them a bit bigger before the sale, but they'd be better in a year or so. Will message you my address if you don't mind sending some seeds? Happy to swap if I've got something you want.