Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Ha, sounds good to me!
https://www.sarahraven.com/products/sarah-raven-ultimate-flower-meadow-mix-seeds

We've just got back from a week away and it's amazing how much the garden can change at this time of year. Half of these trees weren't in flower or proper leaf before we left and suddenly there's the missing colour I've been craving.

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Yeah, amazing the difference even a short break makes.

Spotting little changes all over like the blossom on our apple tree just starting

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After many years

We ripped one out years ago when the neighbours did their extension. They were very pleased and said they hated it.

Little did they realise we took cuttings which have taken forever to get going but are beginning to show results.

Can any one help with this plant ID. The big tall one in the centre
I thought fatsia but the leaves look different

I have a very small one which has provided negative growth, since I bought it a year or two ago.

https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/tetrapanax-papyrifer-rex/classid.2000048007/sku.PL30006664/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwztOwBhD7ARIsAPDKnkCAlLmxxgRRLmAiTRQtNlTJY4eYBxwoB_a5Y_GGmOQcZMMyg6kI_k0aAhPFEALw_wcB

Tetrapanax?

Definitely in the aralia family

Looks like it is sending up suckers, which it does do. Free plants for your friends and neighbours, or stick them on eBay, unless you want a forest of them

Yeah looks like a tetrapanax, seen these fuckers get massive, looks like these have been kept in check

To be honest I'm just planning to outlive them.

Very nice!

Had a look at a twisted willow trunk I cut up a couple of years ago - rotted away so will be a good place to plant a subdivided fern with some leaf mulch that’s now 2 years old.
Random rhubarb and dogwood too

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Thanks all these ones are at kings cross. Ta for the ID hope to get one in the garden/back yard

Nice I've got a small tree stump I'm looking to do this with would like to try and get some moss around it to

I keep wondering where I can nab one from for a. Similar purpose. There are quite a few in the parks and woodlands near me.

This is the top part a year ago - now full on stumpery area

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Current research shoes that having a goal in life makes you live longer... ;)

Latest thinking in our hedge/screening, with huge thanks to the hive mind here, is mixed native hedging with a couple of larger hornbeam trees (they seem to be the local tree of choice here over beech due to the moist clay soil).

I'm excited about this now, especially planting a hedge again.

My greenhouse is right opposite my kitchen window, and quite empty and not lovely to look at. I'm considering putting a hop plant in it, as I have some notion that it will climb all over the place and green it up. Has anyone done this or have any thoughts or better idea?

Errrm... Why not fill it with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, aubergines, chillies and salady stuff? Or grow stuff from seed for planting out later. Y'know, use your greenhouse as a greenhouse...

Hops don't need greenhouses, stick a grapevine in it

I'd just sell it if you're not going to use it.

Why have something ugly and useless blocking your view?

My other half said the very same thing, she was looking at me.

So of the 20ish perennials I planted in autumn, about four or five are looking like they won’t be doing anything, compared to a few others. How soon can I call it and plant something else instead before it’s too late in the year? Pretty sure some are just getting eaten by slugs and snails the moment they push out some leaves. Especially the asters

Because I grow some stuff in some raised beds and have enough space there. Seedlings are on kitchen windowsill as I have a little kiddo and a FT job so time is of the essence. The greenhouse will come into its own in a few years' time

Asters come out late, don't give up on them