Does anyone know anything about gardening?

I’m looking for some lower height perennials. I’ve got tulips, gladioli and hydrangeas but need something that will provide some ground cover and slow down any weeds.

I’m open to most colours just not yellow.

Thrift, lavender, primulas?

Got a lot of lavender already

Thrift looks very nice, I’ll be ordering some of those.

Okayyyyy lets go…

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You know it’s not going to grow

Purple sage?

Slice of mud pie?

Surprised that anything grows in all this catshit compost I keep finding between the plants.

Stonecrop, geraniums, geums, marjoram, thyme, poppies, catmint, lupins, irises, day lillies, small buddleias, Osteospermum jucundum..

Anyone else’s flower petals being eaten by molluscs? They’re just such little pricks. I planted a metre square of daisy-like flowers big and small, that we can see from the back window, and it’s just looked ravaged all summer.

A few pages back it was lamented. I resorted to beer traps and marmite traps but have tried all sorts.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/15/minuscule-wasps-enlisted-to-fight-off-moths-in-new-pest-control-strategy

I built a whole wall shelving system from 2x3 and OSB. Possibly not the cheapest but I can climb it to the rafters as needed and it holds tons of stuff (probably about half a ton of paint, power tools and crap)

It all depends what you are looking for really. Previously I used the cheapest b&q click shelving and that worked just fine.

Refund & product win?

Ace.

First impressions?

That Wasp Larvae/Caterpillar photo is a lot vomit inducing.

Does the job but feels awkward after using a normal wide trowel. Kinda snazzy though. I can see how people convince themselves it was worth the high price they paid, but I’m happy I would have only spent the Ali price. Happier still it is gratis until they somehow work out how to un-refund me.

Once the multi function value of the knife blade edge and serated saw edge kick in the perceived value skyrockets.

Kinda hope they don't un-refund you so it remains free, the admin costs will more than exceed the total for them I reckon!

multi function

I did try to see it, by trimming and pruning with the serration after digging a bit, as well as planting a couple herbs in pots to a depth.

The size is somewhere between unwieldy-large and too small, but maybe I’m finding excuses to absolve my freebie-guilt (after being a little bitch daily for nearly 2 weeks, from the parcel debacle).

Where I've found it most useful is weeding.

I forget what they're called but we have these wild/selfseeding plants with buttercup like flowers. Since planting up the front garden I don't really want them - or just a few maybe rather than being everywhere.

The hori is probably better than any other tool. My long hoe is less effort for a long period if there isn't much else in the way, but I have a lot of irises, so it's tricky. Plus it's a big with a specific home.

So I think it's that plus being able to use it as an excellent planting trowel which is what makes it attractive.

However, I will say that the Japeto/Ali lux hori feels better in the hand with gloves.

Ah yea I can see the appeal for uprooting and weeding. Might try it for that this weekend.

wild/selfseeding plants with buttercup like flowers

evening primrose?

Creeping buttercup? We have quite a bit in our garden this year

I've had a couple of buckets of garden clippings in water for a week or two. Just watered the garden with it and it now smells like a herd of cows wandered through and shit everywhere. I can only assume this is going to be very good for plants and hope that it fades soon.

+1 for bigdug

Creeping buttercup

Yeah. This.

As I hadn't quite worked out what to do with the front I let it run a bit unchecked when we first redid it. Then this year I've been battling it. In spring there were loads that had actually taken root inside the iris tubers, and one of the normally fantastic fushas is in a sorry straggley state having been engulfed by them... and also tbh because it's furtherest from the front door I've been slack weeding there.

Trying to be diligent about deadheading before they seed.

I quite like them, but not in the volume I currently have them. So if I can be militant and get rid of 80-90% I feel it'll be a bit more maintainable.