Does anyone know anything about gardening?

I've never mulched in the 6 years we've been here so that might be the problem.
I did dead head the flower stalks only last year so could be that. Could have been the Fox family that jumped on them or slugs. I'll see next year.

Looks like salsify

Well pleased with the colour combos of this rose.

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Very satisfying ombré

Peony’s have started to flower

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Quite enjoying what this guys doing (mainly because I really want a pond or bog garden)

https://youtu.be/WdYf_2LUqs0

Pls add like subscribe so he can afford to hire an editor.

x1.25 is your friend

I got the book from him, great for inspiration.

And they sell seeds too on the website :)

Old shower tray going in the garden this weekend to make a frog sink.

Finally got in the garden after doing a LeJOG, to find the burst of hot weather made the roses go mad! The rose with the bee was a £5 job from Morrisons! So many blooms in it.

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Roses look great! Waiting on mine to bloom.

In the category tomato n00bs: What does "regular watering" mean. I mean that's what the RHS page states. Well, I normally only water plants when these really look sorry and then only if I really want to keep that one, the rest good luck to you! Darwinian gardening.

But with tomatoes that means you don't get a good fruit yield. I mean, 1 liter of water per plant a week if it's 20 degrees and sunny? Is that OK? What is regular? :)

Mine are in the raised bed in the sun.

Roses are popping

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Loving everyone's roses. Mine are a little behind.

Alliums starting to go over but they've been excellent

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Water irises doing their thang

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Leafs be leafing

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And finally a bit of 'creative' pruning

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The lupin exploded this year. At the back is a teasel which should flower this year, a good native plant to provide birds with seeds.

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We've just had our garden redone - but the budget for the professionals would only really stretch to ripping all the shit crazy paving out and replacing it with nice porcelain tiles, so I'm taking on all the carpentry and bits like that myself.
Put the first bit of fence in last night - and considering that I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm genuinely chuffed to bits with it. Feel free to tell me all the ways that I could have done better though - I'm always happy to learn things.

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It depends on how warm the weather is, but generally you should water them every couple of days during a dry spell. Little and often is probably better than a big soak once a week.

Woah, steady there with the dutch head, this the garden thread not 'The Third Man'!

Haha, unfortunately small garden requires extreme angles to be able to fit the whole thing in 😂

Lush, love the early summer for colour. Are those the lady of shallot ones? @JWestland I think you need to water regularly, I imagine raised beds dry out slower than but like pots.

That's a Gertrude Jekyll and Roald Dahl - with a Pilgrim yet to flower.

My roses are starting to bloom. The plants themselves are in shocking condition getting some blooms nonetheless

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Ah yes, lovely.
I'll try and get a photo of the rose bush next door, the flowerhead is the size of a football.

Before:

After*:

*still to do:

• seal
  
• gravel on the right, maybe the left
  
• pots back
  
• bedding plants - want to take my time as I'm keep to have fewer and make them stand out
  
  

Not 100% sold on the grainny look of the grout, but have limited fucks left at the moment. However, it feels bigger and is a much more usable space. Looking forward to softening up the edges.

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What grout did you use?
I just redid mine with Sika Fast Fix All Weather which was pretty easy to work with.