r/UKGardening

I’m currently sitting in my friends garden and noticed how devoid of life her pond is. Please advise on how we can fix it.
Scooped out this bright green water!

I moved into my first home late last summer, and didn't have the chance to sort the garden out as the interior of the house took priority. I'm thinking about making a border at the bottom of the garden (image looks east), what plants would add a bit more life to a very dull garden?

Hi everyone, gust another generic question of what is this plant? It has been sprouting in the garden and I don’t know whether it’s one of those get rid of it asap before it takes over or just one to leave and enjoy.

So I scarified this grass about a month ago, and now there are dark brown patches scattered in many different sections of the lawn. The build up under the grass was very thick so I done about 5 passes with the aerator and a little bit more probably would of even come up if I done a couple more passes

The fifth picture shows the brown patches where the red squares are, but there are many more sections of those patches in the grass. The pictures after that show close ups of the brown patches.

I never aerated, topdressed or overseeded it but I've decided I will do that this week

My question is, with those brown patches, should I fork them over or just scarify those sections? I just want to be sure the seeds will catch and come through in those sections but its a large area of grass with those patches in many different spots so I dont want to have to fork it over if I dont need to.

Thanks.

Need to cut my lawn and have noticed these leaves sprouting up from the grass. Are they weeds? Do I need to be concerned or should I just cut the grass as normal and carry on with my life?

For reference I had a lot of moss at the start of spring, spread that lawn moss remover down and let it do it's thing which has helped with the moss..unsure if that's related at all!

As you can probably tell I'm a total novice at this, only moved into this house with my first garden about 8 months ago.

Any advice on how to deal with this would be mega helpful! Cheers

What's the best available weed killer to tackle this monstrosity?

A large bush in my newish garden has some odd formations on its leaves.... some are perfectly healthy amd fine looking. Then right next to them, there are a whole lot with these odd nodule/growths on them. From a distance I thought they were insects but they are actual formations from the leaves.

Anyone with any specialist knowledge on what they might be? And what type of bush/plant is it? Thank oyu in advance. Any info would be greatly appreciated, my 2 young lads are also intrigued by how different they are. Cheers all, have an ace evening 🖤🔥⚡️

We've been in our house just over a year and we didn't spot this last summer, but I think we just found japanese knotweed in one of our flower beds.

Is this knotweed, and what can we do now?

Hi everyone I got this Camellia Dr King in March and planted at the same level the garden center did… whoops.

I’ve just gone down a few cm to expose the root flare which I think I have done but this exposed a large girdling looping root coming out the back left, up and around the back of the trunk and down front right. It’s about a cm from the trunk, not touching it.

I’m concerned firstly this looks daft.
And secondly that this may pose a problem in the future.

- Leave?
- Sort it later - when, cut it off winter? Give it more time to establish first especially since so young into this pot and I’ve already removed quite a lot of fine roots getting down to this level
- sort it now

Grateful for all advice!

I planted a mixed selection of bulbs of my balcony. They're being watered well and have good sunlight, why aren't they flowering? Should I just give them more time?

Found on day lily Is this horse hair worm? Is it a good guy?

What is this growing on my parents tree? It’s the first year we’ve noticed it, and they’ve lived there for almost 20 years. My dad is wanting to cut them off, and has already started doing so.

It’s completely soft and shaped like a pine cone, mixture of short growing leaves. I cut it off as Google suggested it could be some form of mite, this was the only one on the tree.

Have had the lower 3 layers for 2 years and just and the top 2 layers this year.

They all have the same watering routine every 3 days and same fertilizer. Why is that 1 specific plant struggling?

Anyone got any idea why this lawnmower won’t start. I’ve had it a long while and it’s had a lot of use to be fair, but this is the first time I’ve ran into this problem with any of my battery tools.

This is a Stihl RMA 448VC. I’ve tried using multiple batteries that definitely work in my other tools. I’ve used multiple of those little activation keys that definitely work in my other tools. I’ve checked to make sure nothing is clogging or blocking the blades. The cables all seem fine from my unprofessional eye. The little side button you press as part of the start up process feels normal when I press it. The self propel doesn’t even work anymore either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, if not I will have to take it to a local shop to be repaired. Thanks in advance