Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Me being me didn’t even notice the sign.

“Oh pretty flowers”

Was my one and only thought.

Grass seed slowly coming through..

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My fig tree is covered in these webs and eggs - is getting eaten too but can only see the one caterpillar. Any ideas what these are and natural ways to deal with them? Neem oil?

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establishing well now…

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looking great!

Tried to start a wildflower patch in the garden this year, completely digging it over back in March. Looked pretty terrible for a while, and I sowed in a complete mix from emorsgate and a cornflower mix to try provide a bit of cover. Main winners have been a surprise mix of things I haven’t planted, common mallow, petty spurge and ubiquitous creeping buttercup. Got some salad burnet, musk mallow and corn cockles coming through though too, and hoping more next year. Am I correct in thinking best way to manage it is cut from autumn, plant some yellow rattle and then keep short until next April?

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i would limit the amount of mallow.. it's very deep rooted and a bit of a pain imo.

sorry - no other advice to offer!

Oke doke. Does it seed especially vigorously? If it makes up majority of next years growth will snip it back. Also had a couple of these spikey leaved plants come through - are these cowslip or something else?

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I've found flattening the long crops and leaving those to seed out while acting as a mulch works quite well for that sort of thing.

Does anyone else feel an immense joy when deadheading roses?

Not once I've got into three figures as I suspect I will have by the end of today.

Luckily or maybe unluckily I’ve got to those dizzying heights yet.

This is about a quarter of today's deadheading. Admittedly I've left it longer than I should since last time.

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And one dandelion...

cute basket.

Trugs make great Xmas presents for gardeners :)

We've gathered all our rose petals for the past two seasons for confetti, we comfortably get enough for two weddings a year.

As midlife has pointed out, izza trug. It is rather nice, although I draw the line at hooking it over my forearm like a handbag. For now, anyway.

We've gathered all our rose petals for the past two seasons for confetti, we comfortably get enough for two weddings a year.

I would do, but I'm at that stage in life where the first wave of weddings is over, and the second hasn't really started yet. I'm still in The Divorce Years where rose petals are superfluous.

Although maybe I should've put some rose petals in the back lawn as there's some serious hedgehog lovin' action taking place...

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Apologies for the blurry photo, but I thought using flash photography would be overly intrusive.

Gives a sense of thrust.

Does anyone have experience of sedum trays for green roofs? I’m making a bike and bin store in my front garden. The bike area has a fixed roof and will be seedum. The bin roof lifts up for access so I was originally planning on having timber cladding. But I was wondering how well ‘stuck’ the seedum is in the trays. If I was to limit the opening to less than vertical would the seedum stay put? I could maybe add some netting or something to stop it slipping? Considering it’s about 1m2 and it’ll only be open for a matter of seconds. Does this sound like a crap idea?

spikey leaved plants

I reckon that's a teasel

Have you thought about the weight? What sort of sedum were you planning to use? I have a Camomile lawn on a wooden pallet about 6ocm x 70cm well bedded in you can have. I have been tending it for a few years now getting bigger and bigger it started at 30 x 30 but to be honest it does not fit anywhere in my garden. Will post same picks later