Does anyone know anything about gardening?

The wildflower meadow I sowed in March is doing great, just waiting for the flowers to pop out.

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How do you tell the difference between weeds and wildflowers.

Ancient Chinese proverb

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your garden looks amazing well done, wild flowers soon :)

Thanks, I dropped down to working 4 days a week last year and it's the best thing I've ever done. Given me more time to work on the garden.

More clearing, and I think I've done about as much as I can reasonably do myself without going mad or drawing it out more than it needs. So will be getting someone in to quote for that. Still want to do the fence myself.

If any of the landscapers on here want to quote (CR7), get in touch. Otherwise, I've already reached out to the folks I had the JKW management plan with at my last flat as they do landscaping and we're nice to deal with.

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I've got three tonne bags of shreddings (two visible above, a third behind the big laurel) that I'll either drip feed into the fortnightly garden waste collection as I have been doing or ask whoever does the retaining wall to cart away.

The little brown patches are miracle gro patch magic, not any animal activity. Just bare patches from the first round of sowing.

Looking good, great work. I love ripping crap up.

This is my current project, converting this wasteland into a usable grassed area.
Spent yesterday evening using harrows to rip up all the weeds and loosen the earth, then rolled it with a 8 tonne roller. Next stage is to use a stone burier and power rake to get it a bit leveller and remove a load of stone, will then seed it just before it rains next time, as no way am I watering it by hand…

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Thanks. It madness looking back at the listing. Basically everything in shade in that photo was covered in ivy and sometimes shoulder high brambles. Not to mention a shit ton of rubbish and old shed detritus. It's been lovely having a safe (so long as we are there to stop her going into the brook) space for mini_com to be.

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I'll get back in my box

Ha! I can assure you yours will be a lot nicer than mine! I'm lucky that I 1. live on farm so have access to farm machinery and 2. have a brother who is a landscaper so has access to specialist equipment for the price of nice bottles of wine!

I'm very aware of how lucky we are. I really love that it is so shaded but different spots get intense sun at different times of day. I love all the different trees (holly, sycamore, oak, chestnut, ash, laurel, rhododendron and some others yet to be identified) and the avenue type space they make. We'll be able to teach mini_com about the different types and the different leaves and seeds. We'll get acorns, conkers and sycamore "helicopters" all in our back garden. Then there's the apples and brambles and blackberries from next door's garden. Plus the wildlife here is pretty great, for Croydon. There's a local litter of four fox kits that play down the end of the garden every evening. Tons of squirrels and birds. Even a couple of jays!

Give me a PM and I'll come and have a look. Some dickhead ordered £35k of work from me, complete with CAD drawings, then found out he couldn't finance it....

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I was jealous of the rose pics from the weekend but mine finally opened today. It's a little leggy because I missed pruning this year.

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My Lady of Shallot rose has come out of nowhere to put on a great display this year.

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Blue shoes! The plot thickens. :)

This was a surprise this morning! I didn't expect poppies for another few weeks.

I didn't plant this one, it just grew from the compost. The garden soil is full of poppy, foxglove, love-in-a-mist and hellebore.

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Poppies are the only thing that survived my hot compost. I've got loads coming up in the front garden. Assume because the seeds are so small and made their way down quickly to the cooler bottom.

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I'd love to see a picture when they bloom. What are the sticks for, a cat deterrent?

Yeah, sticks to stop the cats and foxes from digging up my plants and eating my compost.

Love the vibe of your garden. Looks like a proper oasis of calm.

that is correct, you have to constrain/restrict the roots to keep it small

I kind of like them! The regular rows and crosses and being sticks not canes make them look like garden structure. We've got a load of darkish colour sticks from pruning the apple tree, I might try that next year.