Does anyone know anything about gardening?

It takes me an hour to mow the lawn, it is a bit different... 🙂

Nice, looks idyllic

It is that, downside is that the most exciting thing I've done all weekend was go to our local home/garden megastore with the dog...

I'm so fucking bored...

Looks ace, Jose!

Had some work done, then did the planting myself - with an overhelpful 6 year old!

From a grim foxes litter tray to this :)

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Beforehand and whisky barrel preparation - had to remove the bands to pop one end out.

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Akebia - Chocolate Vine in the climber (with a hellebore).

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That's lovely. Is the hedging dogwoods? Take a photo in a year, 18 months, it will look totally different.

It is red dogwood - Cornus Sibirica, am learning all the latin now!

The tree is a young Rhus Typhina.

Are people with blueberries covering them in fleece/similar at the moment with the mildly frosty mornings?

I'm covering them in gin, try to keep it p.m. though.

Nah. No flowers in mine just some leaf burst.

Cheers. Same.

The 7 Lidl lavender plants that I put down my front path last summer have started flowering. Bit early I'd have thought but nice nonetheless!

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I think French Lavenders often flower quite early?

Oh, yes, just had a quick Google and it looks like they may actually flower a few times! I'm hoping for a wonderful smell when I come home in a sunny day.
Got my new hydrangeas in too.
Hydrangea Macrophylia Blue Wave and Hydrangea Macrophylia Taube.

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has anyone planted out vegies yet? i am running out of sacrificial cucumber/tomato...

Sugar snap peas, sweet peas, mange tout, cabbages all out. Toms, cucumber, peppers, chillis, all that sort of thing etc all still indoors :)

Spinach, peas, lettuce, kohl rabi etc down in modules and put out under fleece a couple weeks back.

Peas, beans, radish, carrots and beetroot are all in the ground.. we'll see if it's too early

Our (probably too early) beets failed, have a back up plan for more. These, radish, broadbeans all being prep'd for bank holiday planting... but always 'cast ne'r a clout 'til May is out' rule of thumb for maximum confidence (global-warming not adjusted for.) Chard also in fyi. Rhubarb already sprouting :) as are horseradish.

Today I managed to get the polytunnel finished. Still some tidying to do and an irrigation system to sort out, but I have lots of seedlings ready to go in. Never had anything like this, am excite.

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A garden that size needs a pig.

Don’t disagree, but I promised i’d Get our own offspring sprung before inviting porcine ones!

Got 200 Thompson & Morgan tulip bulbs last October for £20: