Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Ah, that's excellent. What have you trained them along? Any chance of a pic? Trying to work out how to get them to grow along the fence.

I'll try a pic tomorrow. It's trained up and over a tall gate opening. It's a bit of a thug, grows like stink so gets cut back so I can get past it.

Dam thing then goes into a sulk and refuses to flower until the year after lol

Edit. Just googled and it's hydrangea petiolaris. Variously described as Vigorous or "will romp along" The other one in the garden invaded the magnolia tree!

Chunks of clay with stones? Say no more...

I need a hotbin too I think as ordinary compost bins won't kill the seeds. But first thing first ..which is have A compost bin :)

What else will you plant? As that is weed central otherwise, wood chip will help too.

(My garden is 50% weed seeds 50% soil though ;)

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My husband dropped off something, I end up talking about a building with somebody in the street, next thing I know I have a huge bunch of hydrangea flowers, I shared then with the neighbours and now I have 9 cuttings & flowers & free Ribes from the neighbour.

Random but good 😁

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Did lol

Old veg patch gets no sun anymore so I'm turning it in to a shady patio and putting in some raised beds next to the mega bambles.

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Great, currants or gooseberries?
Sorry for spamming my roses, but I do love them. Road side purchase, I think it's called scentimental.

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RIP your back. Has the DOMS kicked in yet?

I love roses! Rescued two from old neighbour, got rooting powder and will get cuttings from nr34.

That's a nice one you got.

I got one that looks like yours, a pink one that's not super productive yet, a fragrant yellow one & a fragrant pink one with huge blooms.

Not sure what type of ribes they are, have to wait for flowers. They have pink flowers I was told.

Oooh that’s a nice rose. I pruned mine too late this year (or, should I say, I pruned it on time for about a decade ago before spring started getting earlier) and was worried that I’d fucked it up. Moved it out into a sunnier patch of the garden and it has finally bounced back and is looking pretty good for it.

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Lovely, is that a damask type? I'm under strict instruction to not buy anymore, as there is no space apparently. I'm glad I don't live near the David Austin nursery.

I see you are too blessed with the clay of backaches.

What are you planning to grow? :)

It’s one of these: https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/mary-rose

Think it looks a bit unusual at the moment as it’s not fully opened up yet.

Will be treating myself to a climbing rose next year when I tear down my pointless wood store and replace it with a raised bed, and this one will probably find itself out of the pot and into the planter as well. Maybe it will be joined by another, as these things always look good in threes.

This is one of my rescues, not good as a cut flower. Nice fragrance and blooming well.

But if I run it through Google lens I get several results. Rose identification is just hard I guess?

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Looks a bit like my Gertrude Jekyll?

Wasn't too bad a dig, but definitely effort. Not completely sure. Prepping for next year really. Hoping to put up a second bed tomorrow, and possibly have one for berries and one for veggies. Needs to be child friendly/appealing. Open to suggestions at this stage?

Probably a Mary rose as well, leaf shape looks like eejits'

Ha! Luckily my back is fine, probably from riding with a large saddle to bar drop however, for some reason, my thighs were the sorest.

Under this angle it comes up as a Rennie McIntosh.

It's just really nice. I should have dig up the tea rose at the rental too, I planted it and left it for the next tenant, silly me :)

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Day 78. Still no tomatoes…

https://twitter.com/deelomas/status/1554003340509446144

So lovely, how naughty would it be to take cuttings from an abandoned/derelict house with neglected/overgrown garden?

This is the future. Just plant cannabis everywhere.

I'd image taking cuttings from anything that overhangs on the street is ok? I mean, you are allowed to cut back anything that overhangs in your own garden and don't enter the property/garden.

Not sure what the law is?

I took ox eye daisies, purple toadflax and digitalis plants from cracks in the street though "better to ask for forgiveness.. "

Going to take some cuttings of this one maybe there will be spares for on here in 2 years :)

Well I did it, the flowers are gone but I managed to get 5 sticks off the one piece I cut. Should be a pinky white!
There's a Rosa laevigata(Cooperi) that I can't reach without a ladder☹️.
Visited a friend an got cuttings from a rosa mutabilis.

The wood strawberry bushes have been going mad under the cover of neighbor's conifer.

The rose I feared was on its last legs has finally flowered as well. Crazy Fashion, from NIPR.

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Oooh nice! Good one!

I am going to try propagating cuttings this year, have to see how it goes.
Can get free begonia from the neighbour, those are super easy to root in water, but roses I've never done.

Cut them 30 cm, semi-hard wood, take most leaves off, use rooting powder, ensure the soil drains...OK, but there is an element of luck me thinks :)