Does anyone know anything about gardening?

My dahlias (the tubers bought via here, unknown in a big box) were sprouting nicely but all the new growth has been trashed by the frost. As has the magnolia flowers and the rhododendron new flowers.

Never dreamt would drop to minus 2 :(.

Had the first flower on the blue passion we put in, beautiful.

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I started dahlia inside from seeds two weeks ago and they are coming up ok. I doubt they flower this year but it's for the fun if it.

Outside I find seedlings take ages to come up...

Lol. My sister stuck some in pots in August last year and they flowered in October.

Nearly finished removing a 5 meter long planter. So much soil, I now have 30 rubble bags of soil to shift. The annoying thing is there is another planter opposite to do at some point. Instantly makes the garden look bigger.

Plan is to shape the border to be a bit more curvy and plant some evergreen shrubs.

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Are you going to do anything with the white wall? Dark colors can make light foliage stand out?

I was thinking https://www.littlegreene.com/obsidian-green but there is 15 meters of walls, it would be worth it!

I sense a forum dahlia challenge coming on.. Plant outside in pots date TBC.

Film noir references obligatory.

Nice :)

Going back to the poorly rose - took a dead branch off last night - snapped off in my hand - and the whole plant feels very light/loose in the ground. There is a tiny number of new shoots right at the base, is there any point in taking it right the way back and just leave those buds to see what happens? Be a shame to lose it completely, but I have a dozen others and I can’t see it getting back to its best.

Replant with some added fertiliser, tamp down very firmly and prune down to 5mm above the buds you mention. It's actually quite difficult to kill a rose by pruning too hard, they can be pruned with a chainsaw!

As in take the whole thing up and put it back in? Sorry, I don’t know what I’m doing. And thanks.

Yep, jab the soil in firmly around the roots with your fingertips, use gloves if you haven't got landscapers hands!

Any idea what this is?

It's not rock cress as leaves don't match.
Not snow in summer as flowers are purple not white...

I think it came up from a seed from a mixed seed bag or I liberated it from a footpath. It's very happy in half sun in wettish clay and spreads via root runners.

Free plants! :)

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new shoots right at the base

Might be from the rootstock rather than the rose you think it is? One way to find out...

Go on…

Erysimum bowles ?

Any recommendations for electric strimmers?

We have an outdoor socket so are agnostic about cable/battery. We have a small-medium sized garden but with lots of tight to reach nooks where the mower can’t get.

If it's just lawn grass that you need to strim, then almost anything will do it. I had a basic Bosch DIY battery one and it was fine for normal grass. I upgraded last year to a Makita dual battery as it has a brush cutter which is necessary for some brambles and thick grass we had at our new place. I would recommend a shoulder strap for anything that'll take you longer than 5 minutes.

It doesn't go woody, I had an Erysium given to me, but that's not it. The leaves are also soft and a bit grey.

The Erysium seeds are growing out in trays atm :)

Might be Aubrieta

Snow -in-winter, and then an aubrieta mixed in? Those buds don't look like they turn into those flowers.

Wait and see what the flowers look like!

I have a corded Bosch one we never use. It's a bit big and awkward. EN1. Yours for not much.