Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Red stems is totally normal for new growth.

Brilliant! Serves me right for googling. Thanks for clarifying

Yeah, they just look like new rose shoots

After being the weaker of the two creeping thyme, the red creeping thyme is really going strong.

I think by the end of the summer it will have taken all the remaining free soil at the bottom.

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I've got extra sweet pea seedlings, but no more canes. Can I leave them in pots on top of a 2m wall and let them drape down? Or will living upside-down freak them out?

Love going to Beckenham Place Park every week to make my garden look even shitter

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Wow, I've only been there once near when it first opened. That's so much better than the golf course that it was before! It's Horniman-esque.

Latest update on the 'wildflower' meadow is that I've start sticking cosmos plugs in it.
I'm loving these Aquilegia that I bought as bare roots and am hoping for a lot of spreading next year.
And I am a bit disappointed at the number of plants getting delivered 1-2 months late?! These hollyhocks will get destroyed by slugs!

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Yeah, it’s well worth a visit on a sunny day. This photo shows about a quarter of it.
Good coffee, pizza and beer too.

We’ve done some hollyhocks from seed and there’s no way I’m putting them out for the slugs and snails. Not sure what to do with them.

looks class. should see my front garden. it’s a riot

I planted out holly hocks last month, haven't been touched

Aquilegias are great as the hybridise and self seed everywhere

My hollyhocks get munched, but not enough to kill them.

Oh that’s good news. We wanted to put them out the front where it’s much less snaily too, so there’s hope.

IME you can't direct sow hollyhock, everything gets munched, but if they are much bigger already there's hope

Oh yeah we’ve started them off in the growhouse

Just got back from a very pleasant day at the Chelsea Flower show. It's the second time I've been. Geums and foxgloves very on trend this year. Purchased some Felco secateurs. Great day to be alive. Liked this waterbutt with submersible pump. Anyone else go?

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I did, really enjoyed it.

The only mild disappointment was that watching Chelsea on GW had given me a false sense of scale. On tv the gardens looks massive and many in number.

When I was wandering round there was 16 gardens that seemed fairly similar and they all seemed quite small.

Walking round the borough was spectacular all the local businesses showing of their creations.

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144 perennial plugs £24 delivered:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/value-perennial-collection-72-plug-plants-6-of-each-variety-free-delivery-4347291

Who started that thread about a wildflower garden?

@pdlouche

144 perennial plugs £24 delivered:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/value-p­erennial-collection-72-plug-plants-6-of-­each-variety-free-delivery-4347291

If there still there when I get paid

Amazing!! Thank you! That's a bargain. I ordered a couple and there was even a further discount at checkout. Let's hope half of them are alive when they get here...

Dunno, sorry, but funnily enuff I just saw this:

https://x.com/KenGoodwinITV/status/1794257359046586607

quite a nice mix, scabious? those daisy things & poppies.