Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Sand is just a general mulch, my wife is in charge of planting design but it will be green eventually. Already have a few solitary bees making wee tunnels in there. I’m gonna drill lots of holes in the logs for nesting bugs too

Very cool 👌

Planted some lipins today and some Eryngium 'Victory Blue' which I’m dead excited about.

Already looking forward to scalping the front lawn and sowing some yellow rattle in autumn.

Bit of sun and everything's starting to emerge

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yeah we had our first rose bud hit the finish line on the weekend. the plant is sort of plagued with black spot but it seems in reasonably shape at the moment, loads of buds

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Nice pics

Nice, it’s amazing the difference a bit of sun makes

Roses starting to flower and it looks like we have some fruit on our walnut. Mulberry (not pictured) seems to have masses of fruit - hoping it ripens!

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Little bed by the patio is springing into life

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My big area of dream perennials has become an absolute wasteland thanks to the fucking slugs and snails.
Might just let the bindweed take over and be done with it.

I have a shady urban garden in the wet west of the country so it is slugageddon. There are plenty of plants they never ever touch. Roses, grasses, ferns, hydrangeas, salvias, euphorbias, thalictrum, the vast majority of evergreens, etc etc etc

There is enough variety that you can do an entire ornamental garden in plants that they won't ever touch

Sorry just having a strop. I’ll get a slug-proof plan together for a big autumn planting

If I've got spent compost from tulips, mixing some chicken manure pellets in and reusing it for dahlias should be fine right?

I was meaning to be encouraging! They are gross and very dispiriting

I would, as long as none of the bulbs had gone mouldy.

You'll all be glad to know our reptilian intruder was successfully reunited with its owner. Turns out there were 5 missing in total as they'd all just woken up from hibernation and wandered off. They were all found the next morning within a 50m radius of their starting point. Happy days.

Our elderly neighbours have a tortoise that must be forty years old and regularly escapes. They Tippexd the landline number across his back!

Sweet Jesus, they're on the warpath.

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I was staring out the window wondering what strange buds had appeared all over the tops of our Angelica. Oh it’s 20 to 30 snails

Guys this is the perfect time to start culling them.

Get out there!

You can buy ladybirds in boxes on the internet to deal with aphids, as has been documented elsewhere in the thread.

So why can't you buy boxes of thrushes to come and deal with the snails?

(This idea is my intellectual property - get in touch if you would like to invest)

The bigger question is surely "why do you have a warpath"

Yep just been out the garden and the allotment in the pissing rain to collect the fuckers and take them far away. The numbers are astounding.

Maybe we should try this. But with slugs.

https://youtube.com/shorts/eYsz2VJqk7g?si=l6l35UP4BPfqKSFY

More Rose woes. Some strange red stems have appeared on Both plants just as they're starting to bloom. Google reckons its rose rosette virus and the solution is to dig em up :(

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