Does anyone know anything about gardening?

That looks amazing!

Well yes, thanks, but its mainly weeds, sycamore and spikey things. I don’t have the time to do anything this year anyway.

Looks like forget-me-nots, red deadnettles and primulas. The red deadnettles can spread quite a bit, but don't last long and attract bees pretty early on in the season, but you can pull them out quite easily if they are getting straggley.
*replied wrong person.

Yeah, the bees are out in force today, I'm honestly not after a perfect lawn, but something that doesn't contain hidden brambles, sticky weeds and a Sycamore forest would be preferable. The primrose has been a very pleasant surprise, its dotted throughout the back garden, and I am going to move some to the front too.

Unfortunately there's no specific herbicides that won't kill your flowers.

I have to pull brambles, sycamore and sticky weed a lot too but keep at it, over time there will be fewer :)

Just looks lots more flowery than mine - I get the dandelions but not any of the other flowering weeds, and mine seems patchy. I'd take yours any day (but appreciate I'm probably not seeing the other things in there that you don't want)

Hadn't seen Garden on a Roll before, look a fair bit cheaper than Dig but I suspect the customer service may not be the same.

Just need to sort out the lawn now. Put down a load of grass seed a couple of weeks ago and none of it even germinated.

Supporting a new small business that customizes is also a good thing to do :)

Grass seems to be the hardest thing to grow if it doesn't want to...I only have "wild" grasses and one of the neighbours nearly killed their grass trying to kill the moss.

Local park probably only has mostly Couch grass which is indestructible and of course lots of wildflowery stuff. Dandelion-only lawns are the way to go :p

I need some feed for my star jasmine.

Searching says 10-10-10 or 5-10-10.

I'm fucked if I can find any. Anyone have a link to somewhere I can buy online?

Cheers

What the heck are these, and do I want 200 of them?

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Is it Lily of the Valley?

Looks like lily of the valley. Used to have some next to a path and they managed to appear through the tarmac!

Very toxic so no good around kids or pets or adults that think they are wild garlic :)

Hmmm, presumably only toxic if we eat them? Have a small child, but he doesn’t eat anything green.

Yep that's lily of the valley. I like it but it's quite invasive.

The flowers are sweet smelling and white though.

Which will cheer me up no end through the diarrhoea and vomiting.

It won't jump on you and try to eat you little shop of horrors style, but eating anything from the plant is a trip to A&E bad idea.

As long as the small child won't try to eat leaves or berries it will be OK.

Lots of garden plants are toxic and my son never tried to eat any but some pets and kids love experimenting... :)

My azaleas are back in flower. Was a bit worried this wasn’t going to happen again. They’ve travelled more than most plants: started out life in my parent’s front garden in Stockport where they never flowered, then moved down to London where they flowered every year (much to my parent’s disgust), and then moved back north to Sheffield. Last year they did not flower and I worried that the climatic change had done them wrong, but it looks like they are back in business.

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Your azaleas probably spent last season establishing, leaving no energy to flower and fruit.

That and learning a new language.

First of the year!

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As a temporary measure for sorting out my crazy paving front yard (more crazy than paved) I'm thinking of ripping it up and putting some stones/gravel down (plus one of those plastic shed bases so I can put a bike store in).

Firstly, does this sound a reasonable idea? Anything to look out for?

I guess I want something like 20mm washed gravel, how do I work out how much of it I need? How does the weight translate to area?

Cheers

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Based on our 20mm sized stones, 1 bulk bag of gravel will cover approximately 12 sqm at 50mm depth

Not much use as they don't give a weight per bulk.

25kg of gravel will cover an area measuring around 0.6sqm. This is based on wanting coverage of about 50mm in depth

Remember to put down weed proof membrane.

This is a great tip, I'm in the same boat, have a big bed and no clue what to do. Soil wise what did you do, Top soil, compost? Are you going to mulch to stop weeds? I've got no clue haha.