Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Big love for all the peonies.

@Sam_w was it you who made a raised bank and were wondering about what to plant to cover it up?

What did you do in the end?

Going to be OK for spuds this year.

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Treated myself to one of those posh git David Austin roses (Bring me Sunshine). After digging several holes in my garden this morning and finding brick walls, I decided the bloody thing can now live in a container.

Success with roses still eludes me. I think it is to do with my neighbours' enthusiasm for growing oak trees in their flower beds.

Not sure if it was me! But it is certainly something I have been trying to do.

We have used a combination of Vincus Minor (periwinkle) for ground cover and planning to get Boston Ivy in the autumn to trail up and over things.

My Passion flower thing is going to need a hard trim in a bit;

But bloody love the blossom this time of year on the ornamental crabapple and the roses;

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…..sorry for the state of the lawn…. No mow May.

Done, and I scalped and seeded the lawn.

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This was it a couple of weeks ago

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Next door:

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And

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Garden, or carpark verge? Lost here.

Ah, does the sign need to come up, but whoever pulls it up is the Rightful king of England and some chancer is seeing if he can become royalty for the price of a day rental of a fuckoff crane?

I offered to trim these Leylandii for the previous owner in 2002. Turned out he & wife were off to retirement dream home on the coast a few years later, closer to a son & grandkids.

'New' people let them grow & grow & ...

Crane: £650 for the day
4-man felling, snedding, chipping team £?

Lesson: trim your Leylandii and don't plant afresh.

Residential property, southern boundary to Municipal playing field.

Gotcha. I would have felled it in sections with a mate on the ropes, have that down in chunks in a couple of hours. Crane FFS!

(H&SGM)

Success with roses still eludes me. I think it is to do with my neighbours' enthusiasm for growing oak trees in their flower beds.

Roses? Currently feeling quite #smugface on that front.

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lovely!

i think i'm going to have to dig mine up and plant them on the other side of the garden, away from oak tree hedge.

agreed, a crane is OTT for those trees.

can't see much change out of £2k for all that.

snedding

What a good word. Fun tool exists

Cranes in tree work are becoming pretty common, all my mates are using them all the time.
Depending on situation it’s faster, cheaper, safer and lower impact on the clients garden. Clean up on leylandii is endless and boring. Throw the lot through a 36” chipper straight from the crane, job done.
Might not be as ‘manly’ but it def makes sense if you’re running a tree firm.

Going up on the end of a crane and getting dropped at the top of a big crumbly poplar is always preferable to having to climb the damn thing.

I get you. And a poplar is not a fun climb.

If anyone in South London around SE19/CR7 needs tree work, Christian and Will from Respect Your Elders were really lovely to deal with, seem to have done a great job and cleaned up after themselves better than any other trade who has been here.

That garden is south facing with only a low (at present) hedge in front of it. Plenty of light. Deadheading is keeping me busy though.

Crane operator mentioned he was certificated for 'flying' a guy in. Depot in Dartford. When requested I gave him the easiest route back to A40/M25.

Open back van was taking away a lot of big diameter logs, so the chipper wasn't a 36 incher.