u/Kairismummy

I thought up a whole plan for my garden. I planned to plant our Rowan tree on the right side along with 14 geranium.

I planned to plant our Hazel tree on the left side along with 7 lavender plug, 3 jumbo carex plugs and 12 phlox plugs.

I also wanted to put 2 lavender plugs in the planter with the roses

The flowers arrived and I got to work. It’s 27c out here and I’m already regretting it. However, now I’m in a panic!

The first picture is the right hand side once I rakes, the second is the left. I planned to dig out the weeds of both, but I’m really worried about how baked the right is!

If I plant into it, is everything going to die? I spent so much money and don’t have anymore to put into anything, so I really need all these plants to survive! (And I don’t have a great track record inside 🤣😭)

Is it best I put everything into the right side and make a super longer boarder. Or do I stick to my left and right split as planned?

Any quick help is much appreciated as I’m out in the garden now 😭

Created a wildlife pond last week and then ordered a box of 6 starter pond plants.

I’ve added photos of what I received. The plants came with no instructions at all, so I’ve researched as best as I can and helping someone more in the know can guide me.

I don’t think any are oxygenators (I also chucked in some watercress)

Have I put the plants in the best places? Should they stay in their pots? Are any of these oxygenators or do I need to order those specially?

Really appreciate any help, I’ve spent quite a bit on the pond now and would like it to thrive!

My pre-teen likes to stay away from screens and is living her ‘vintage’ life and I’m all for it.

She would love a cassette player, but the cassettes themselves are of course very expensive now.

Back in the day, I used limewire to get my music. Then I switched over to iTunes buying each song individually until I could eventually just download them from Apple Music on my iPhone.

What platform would we use to get MP3 on the laptop now, so I can transfer them to a SD card and pop into the device (pictured).

I’d really like to make this happen for her, so she can stay away from a phone to listen to music without the distraction of notifications!

These are (rough and not drawn to scale) measurements for our garden. (Second pic has ‘colour’ where overhanging tree is and brown for brambles)

We want to add a moulded wildlife pond that’s approx 2ft x 2.5ft

On the bottom left we have a drain in the grass, so we can’t put it there, bottom right of grass is veg bed, top left is a gate which is currently not used but could be in future and top right clear, but next doors butterfly bush is overhanging it a lot - would this cause an issue?

In the summer we have a gazebo on the patio, we definitely use the veg bed a lot.

This year it’s super thin (it’s never been fantastic) and it’s now flowered at the top?!

My second one is fatter but there isn’t much of it.

Is there anything I can do to help them? My poisonous rhubarb (3rd pic) is of course doing amazing 🤣)

Left side is mostly shaded (late afternoon sun), right side gets more sun (most of day), ground is very wet most of the time (fenland)

We need stuff that brambles won’t beat (because they come under the fence constantly) and not high maintenance.

We currently have a Gunnera (we planted it years ago as it was sold as ‘edible rhubarb’) which is growing really well and takes no care, so something else like that would be amazing!