Does anyone know anything about gardening?

These nasturtiums are still going ...

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Fucking Nasturtiums!!

There is only so many you can eat ...

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You can pickle the seed pods too.
The buggers just pop up everywhere, which gets bloody annoying on the allotment.

Yes - good substitute for Capers.

Mrs c00ps made nasturtium pesto until I got really fed up with it. I mean really fed up, so much so that I won't entertain it ever again.

Hmmm ... might try making nasturtium pesto - cheap Christmas presents this year :)

Cosmos still going in the sheltered back garden, we've had 2 hard frosts:

Beautiful. Our garden is equally sheltered but not nearly as tidy.

Found a couple of trailing lobelia still hanging in there today.

We had a few, but they all seem to have disappeared now. Last year they went beserk and had to be culled

I caved and paid someone to tidy up the garden for winter.

It's paid off though as I have got inspired to plant peonies, tulips and ranunculae bulbs and tubers today.

I've never done bulbs before as this is my first gardening year in the new house. Over the year I have put down snow drops, bluebells, tulips, daffodils, narcissii, muscarii, naturalised crocii in the lawn and now peonies and ranunculae.

Can't wait for spring!

Sounds BLOOMING marvellous ;)

I'm going to call it auspicious that it started snowing as soon as I finished planting.

We totally lucked out.

We have someone who comes to walk our dogs when we are both working and away from home. She brought her mum along one day. Mum is an RHS trained gardener and promptly offered to help us with the gardening. She also loves our dogs so is happy to come and garden and let the hounds out.

She is a brilliant teacher, and when we are here shows/tells us what to do in the garden, and will come on days when we aren’t home to garden/dog sit.

So our garden is tidier than it has been all year and we have pruned raspberry canes and other things in preparation for next year.

The best bit is she charges us peanuts for her help/advice. She had undercut her daughter by 50%.

Bonus!

Joseph Bentley? Reasonable quality but look more like a gift than a practical tool.

After a pair of secateurs as a present.

Do you know if they are any good?

@farewell - what did you go for in the end?

They're for an older person and probably won't be babied. Ideally <£30

Otherwise thinking about these as the felo are a bit pricey, except for the economy ones which people said open quite wide so may not be suitable.

Fiskars Secateurs – Power Geartm Roll Handle Bypass PX92 – Black/Orange, 21,5x6,8x4,0 cm 1023630 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NAJJ9X8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_WZxlAbC86BZDX

Cheers.

I bought some like these (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-7-in-Stainless-Steel-Bypass-Snips-2-in-Cutting-Capacity-with-Wood-Handle/191932063081?epid=1720337017&hash=item2cb00add69:g:cAkAAOSwSv1XmCp-) for my octegenarian mother in law a few years ago - still in use, still looking good, although she has since downsized with a correspondingly smaller garden.
What I can't find is a current uk supplier on e-bay: purchase history suggests Sept. 2015, so I suspect the world has moved on...

Cheers, I'll check them out.

I'm in the US and can have them taken back for Xmas, so they may be a good shout.

Look a bit more presenty than the Fiskars I posted.

Currently more than twice the price???
As I said, the world seems to have moved on...

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Two years and a shit pound.

Although these are similar price wise
Joseph Bentley Traditional Garden Tools Bypass Stainless Steel Secateurs Pruners, 7-Inch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JTH85E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_HRylAb89R4VXD

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Hard frost tonight on the way home so I brought in a potted chrysanthemum and azalea, both of which are flowering. Is this unnecessary? Weirdly there's loads more flowers than there were a couple of months ago - the primulas and cyclamen are busy doing their thing. And a huge hellebore. The nasturtiums might've finally given up for the year though.

Can somebody tell me what these are (sorry i know the picture is not ideal I'll take a better one later).

That's I believe the common-gardener clematis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clematis_vitalba

Old man's beard, it's lovely rambling through old hedges, like someone's emptied a vacuum cleaner bag.