Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Thanks all.

I know some of the berry plants will take up to 3 years (with cutting some of the previous years growth away) to really get a yield.

Probably going to try it anyway. Not too much money to lose if it goes pear shaped...

Oh I have to show you guys the redcurrant and blackcurrant bushes I have which were originally planted from tiny Aldi bareroot plants. They pretty much take up one whole side of the garden bear piles of fruit that stays in perfect fresh condition even if you leave them on the plant till winter. The birds dont touch them either. Fresh blacurrants are insane, super intense spicy flavour. "Challenging" if you just pop them in your mouth, but so potent they feel like something exotic and magical. Definitely great for cooking or perhaps winemaking.

All of my fruit bushes were bare root stock from Lidl and they're all doing very well, even the tragically munched-upon gooseberry. I got at least 15 raspberries off the raspberry bush and it's only been in the ground since Spring. I even dug it up and transplanted it elsewhere after initially planting it and it didn't seem to mind. Big thumbsup for the budget bushes from me.

We often lose the first figs to the local squirrels,
but this year*,

and

(* Neighbour has two labrador/spaniel crosses.
Twice daily walks, past our place to local golf course.
Last year, the pair caught 12 squirrels, of varying size,
seemingly wiping out the local population.
We haven't seen any tree-rats, in the garden this Summer).

i am fucked off about my figs. every year they get going, then we go away, or there is a particularly hot week and they miss out on the water, which makes the leaves go yellow and fall off.

this year i had little figs, too! boo.

Our Gooseberry had sawfly first year 2012 I think, but 2 strong years since no treatment just hoping nature balanced things. The fruit seems small this year but are deep red and tasty and plentiful.

Same time I moved a small Blueberry we had alongside the Gooseberry plus planted redcurrant and two blackcurrant, all doing well, minor pest damage but nowt crazy. P.s. soil not acidic.

Progress

Progress of the gladioli and tobacco plants over about the last 4-6 weeks. The tobacco plants really shot up and I thought they were on the way out.

Got a dwarf lupin on the left too.

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^ nice ball tub.

First greengage of the year picked plenty more to come got beaten by sunset and height. Tree is good source of aphids as well as wasps & ladybird larvae but needs a damn good pruning as we left it alone last year.

Is this a plum tree?

Consequently, is this a plum?

The trees flowered in early spring, around the same time deciduous magnolias do. They've been producing fruit that I've been finding dotted around my garden for quite a while now, the size of a fingernail. It's only now I realise that there are also fairly large fruits, rather than only tiny berries.

Yes (probably). Looks very similar to the ones in my parents garden which are ready now. Old variety of which the name escapes me now (Czar, Majorie?) but will only be ripe for a day or so and then start to go off. Bite but don't swallow and see what it tastes like.

Oh, and report back so we know it's not poisonus...

The one I pulled off a tree looks, smells, and tastes exactly like a slightly underripe plum! Hurrah!

So looks like I have about 5 to 7 mature plum trees. Amazing. Attempting to prune them from their current overgrown-to-20-foot-tall is going to be interesting o.O

Doesn't look pointy enough to be a damson. Also if you can bite into it without wincing, it's not a damson.

So yeah, probably a plum. Good luck harvesting them before the birds do and watch out for wasps.

My verbena has white mildew on its leaves. Anything I can try before getting the fungicide in?

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Pete's height. Outsource!

Challenge accepted

Can anyone help me identify the two individual plants here? I grew them from a "scented flower" seed mix which did not specify anything. The thing with white trumpet flowers and the purple brush type flower which smells strongly of aniseed.

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Purple one looks like a blue giant hyssop. Dunno about the white one.

White look like night blooming jasmine but not sure about the leaves

Could be a South American Tobacco plant

Yeah, nicotiana.

It is!

Thanks everyone, the white one is defo nictotiana and Ive identified the other one as Anise Hyssop thanks to the tip bothwell!