Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Thank you. I only put them in a year or so ago and I'm really happy with the difference they made. They act kind of like punctuation against all the green for the time between the tree blossoming and the summer flowers coming through.

Because they are tall they don't need their own space as such, they fit over other plants. My garden is teeny so I have to be careful about how much I add. (This is in theory. In practice I put far too much in then am sad when only half of it thrives.)

Loving all the pics, moar pls.

Cycled over to my green fingered parents house today and got allium envy. They’re actually in the process of shrinking some of their borders which have crept over the last twenty five years so I grabbed a pile of stuff that had self-seeded - some of @hugo7 persicaria, a blue cornflower and some daisies. Bonus that I can have a beer and get chauffeured home by my better half.

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my gardens (front and back) are WILD rn. it's frankly embarrassing tbh but w/e. I won't even post a pic - someone supposed to be coming this week to sort both out. whew

Do before and after photos.

will do. sure the whole street raging about state of front garden - big curtain twitcher energy in this neighbourhood

Wow, I have heuchera envy now!

Red and purple roses as well now.

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No you can't, those are sodden blue socks. The photo's main aim was to show her grandparents how much she ignores my protests for her to, well do anything I say really.

Ha, I think yours look pretty healthy dude.
I can’t recommend the Fremontodendron highly enough, evergreen and these bracts should be around until August. The Irises weren’t supposed to yellow too but the packet lied. Our hanging strawberries are already turning red, god bless the greenhouse.

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That looks good. I'm trying to grow a yellow rambling rose in Suffolk but the location is too exposed and it's just not happy. I'm gonna dig it up and bring back to Walthamstow, and replace it with one of those fremontodendrons.

My new garden has loads of mature plants which is very lucky. Having only been here since March it's great seeing what all the mystery plants are now they're blooming, immature Peonies look like aliens, they're beautiful now though.

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My Ceanothus is a very dull colour, couple of blue flowers but mostly not. Any ideas?

Also wisteria at the front of the house isn’t flowering (not produced flowers). I pruned it last year which I thought might encourage things but nada. Any ideas? House is east facing

How old is the Wisteria? They can take up to 10 years to flower.

Well we’ve only lived here a year but it’s very well established and from photos i think it’s got to be close to that. I’ll ask our neighbour if she can remember

Fatsia japonica berries you say?

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I’m looking for a plant recommendation.

We have a shady, damp area which is grasses, but the grass is struggling to take, so we are thinking of putting in a small border, with a fast climbing plant to cover the gabion basket and add a bit more colour. We were thinking of something like Boston Ivy for all year round colour, any other reccomendations?

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Yes!

...but I can't remember what it is at the moment.

Ha! Well i'm not in a rush, got a few other jobs to do first, so if you do remember, shout!

Honeysuckle doesn't mind a bit of shade. Also if it's the low shady wall on the left the small creeping purple campanula will spread and cover it. I've got some on a North-facing wall.

We have some Honeysuckle in the front garden, they seem to do OK in our soil, but not spectacularly.
I shall put Campanula on the list, we are probably going to do the small shady wall on the left, but also the bigger wall at the back, which is 1m high, 1m deep and just under 20m long, so needs a fair amount of coverage.

We've got a Honeysuckle in constant shade behind the garage, and I swear you can see it grow. Must have gone from about 12 inches to 4 foot in a month or two.

My campanula right now in the shade. It does creep/scramble with a bit of encouragement but pretty sure it'd run out of steam before reaching 1m. I do like a Virginia Creeper, not sure how they'd do without further to run though!

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a fair amount of coverage.

I have some holboellia latifolias that I planted this winter and have grown like gangbusters already

dense, leafy, vigorous and evergreen

appears to be true so far

Does look nice! Think that might be a good option for the side wall for sure.

Excellent, will put that on the list for the main wall!