Does anyone know anything about gardening?

You can borrow my dog? Or just get your own.

The wildflower meadow I got the council to do

Looks lovely, but more importantly, how did you achieve this? Is there some kind of trick to getting the council to do things? I can't even get mine to replace my broken wheelie bin

Southwark have something called the cleaner safer greener fund. You can apply for things like this through it, took 2 years from approval mind. I offered to do it myself because I was so sick of waiting as they were spraying the weeds that were there before but they insisted it had to be done by them

Oh and they were worried people would use it to stash weapons or drugs until I explained that there's already a bush on my road used for that purpose.

I can't even begin to imagine the amount of time and willpower it took to achieve this. What a stunning outcome, thanks on behalf of all your neighbours for a superb result that I will never see other than in pictures.

Poke a load of sticks into the ground and it will make it too awkward for the cat to use. If you keep them pretty much level with the ground cover they probably won't even be noticeable

Something keeps shitting in the wood bark by my kids Wendy House. Glade it's on stilts and the shitting is round the side, but still! Plus it's on the way to the compost and I stepped in it the other day.

It's also fucking annoying because I keep scrapping it under the Wendy House, and now there are fuck all bark chips there.

I need to sort it out. Maybe go back to having a morning piss out there.

Put the kid on 24/7 guard

Got my first couple of plants back in around the patio.

Climbing hydrangea - idk if it'll flower, it hasn't yet but it's only ever lived in a pot. One of the fushas I lifted - hoping it survives. And out of shot a Japanese quince - also lifted and 🤞 it takes again.

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Hydrangea Petiolaris is pretty much unkillable and will take over your wall like a climbing Triffid, yes, it will flower. I have seen a quince that had been cut off at the root and poisoned push through an inch of tarmac. Fuschias are quite tough.

^ good to know.

Put down a load of chilli powder. I don't think this is cat shit, but it didn't smell quite as raw as fox shit normally does.

Also out of curiosity has anyone ever planted into tree stumps? If so, what and how successfully?

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That looks like a dog turd to me.

Lion shit scares cats so it makes sense dogs would be nervous of minotaur shit.

Might riot of colour in my front garden has fallen flat in May tulips have done over, alliums starting to appear, gladioli are miles away. I need some colour to appear during May. Any recommendations?

Must be perennial preferably pink or blue

Some kind of Ceanothus perhaps? Or something less bushy?

Is this a wasp nest? It's quite small, about the size of a golf ball...

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Yes indeed
Remove it before it gets any bigger I’d say

Poke it with a stick and find out?

But yes, looks very much like a wasp nest.

Wrong thread!

Got one already

Fuschias are quite tough.

Not tough enough, sadly, for the badlands of East Cambridgeshire. I planted three supposedly hardy ones in a pot last year. None made it through the winter.

RIP Fooshyas, etc.

I'm in 2 minds about removing the wasp nest (assuming that is what it is). It's not in the house, and not causing any issues - so might not be such a bad thing to just let them live there for the summer?

They'll multiply at a rate of knots and sting the buggery out of everyone come autumn, by which time there'll be many more to get rid of.

Your call!

Looks like a solitary wasp nest. We have a few historic nests in our loft.

Obviously if it grows… I’m wrong and you’ll get stung.

Petition to rename the thread: 'Does anyone know anything about killing wildlife?'

Close second: 'Does anyone know anything about paving?'

For what it's worth, we had a wasp nest in our loft one year. I did try and get someone to remove it, because I'm allergic to wasp stings and I was scared, but they couldn't find a way to get access, so we left it.

You could see the wasps constantly pouring in and out of the eaves, it was cool to watch, and they didn't come into the house proper until it started getting properly cold. By then they were slow and sleepy, and nobody got stung.