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Hi all, trying to cultivate a hedgerow on the corner of the garden.

Planted a mix of hawthorn, fushia and guelder rose about two years ago.

Looking for ideas of either plants to add to fill out the bottom of the hedge or ideas on how to encourage growth in that area.

Currently battling to keep grass down between the shrubs.

Any advice?

Planted with;

- lavader (lavanda angustifolia)

- oregano (Origanum vulgare)

- chicks and hens (Sempervivum)

- sedum (Sedum rupestre)

- Mallows (Malva muchcata)

- hollyhocks (Malva alcea)

- willow herb

- Fascicularia bicolor

- mamgave praying hands

All grown in a large polytunnel. They are exceptionally productive this year

Morning folks!

We recently moved into an older house and I’m only now getting a chance to tackle the garden.
It’s a lovely space, but we’d like to add a bit more privacy along this side, as we’re overlooked by the house behind.

We get on really well with the neighbour beside us, so I want to avoid planting anything that could eventually spread or overhang into their garden. Because of the angle of the gardens, we wouldn’t block any of their light regardless of what we planted, but I also don’t want to leave them looking at something unattractive.

The *best* idea I’ve come up with so far is a long corten steel planter with golden bamboo. It seems like it would give us the height we need while keeping everything contained and avoiding any issues with it spreading into the neighbouring garden.

Does that sound like a sensible approach, or is there another evergreen option that would give a similar level of screening without becoming a nuisance over time?

Appreciate anyone that has the chance to offer some advice.

Cheers

I've managed to grow a chilli pepper from a seed I took out of a store bought chilli. It's started fruiting (year 2 of it growing)

How long should I leave the fruits on to get useable seeds out of them and how would I know?

Reason is, I'd like to regrow it from a new offspring seed in hopes to get a more acclimatised variant.

So, I am currently on maternity leave with a 4mth old. I thought I would be more free with time by now (oh, how wrong I was!). 1 month ago, I bought 9 tiny 9cm pots of erigeron to plant about the front cottage garden.

I kid you not - these are just 6 of the 9 plants now, spread over a 1.2m window box. A relative helped me out by potting them in there, so they wouldn't just die waiting for me to plant them.

I am now reconsidering adding them to my front beds. Would they do OK in pots Instead?

I would also like to have them grow from my front wall- it is a modern stone wall- there arent many gaps or cracks.... would they take?

Cleared a lot of gravel from the back of the garden when we were planting some creepers and added topsoil, manure and compost.

My cucumbers this year for some reason keep yellowing and dying, I water them every second or third day depending on the weather, they get weekly feed of tomato feed, I dug in some aged horse manure into the soil and alot of it too before the planting season, they are burpless too so no need for a pollinator, I’m a bit at a loss now as to what else they might be lacking or what could be causing it!

This year I have LOADS of bees, butterflies, hover flies and have even been visited by hummingbird hawk moth a few times.

I also have dreadful hay fever but I don’t care 😂

Hi there!

First time poster..

We just moved into our new build and we have a small garden. I really want to learn about how to create and maintain a lovely garden but I honestly don’t know where to start. I don’t know the first thing about anything gardening related. I would like to start somewhere but I don’t know where. Would appreciate any tips! My vision is planting around the border of the garden, very much meadow / wild flower inspired.

I would like to do it myself and am genuinely interested in learning

Thank you!!!

So here's more pics while hunting invasives this evening. Not all but some of the rest of the garden. Came across loads of mating popular hawk moths so delighted.

What is the best way to manage a wild patch of the garden?

Should I just never cut it again? Cut it every few months?

Currently have lots of clover, buttercup and birds foot trefoil in there amongst the tall grass

My garden so far this year.

I’m in love with it and have realised I have major problems passing a garden centre without having a little ‘look’ 😂 my online shopping habit has also gone bananas.

Grass is in bits. What are the steps to improve grass growth and when is the best time to do it?