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They’re cheap for a reason

What would an expensive tyre be? The new gravelking + are £60+ each

Disagree, look closely at the leaf shape, I think it's more dissected than creeping buttercup

Carolina geranium stock photo

Meadow cranesbill stock photo

Creeping buttercup stock photo

It'll be certain when it flowers though

cranesbill geraniums

Looks like this to me too but also with herb robert underneath

phalaenopsis?

I have one and what works well is:

Remove from pot and remove all the existing substrate, wash off any bits of bark stuck to the roots etc

Using something sterilized and very sharp, remove any dead brown roots and stems

Repot it using fresh orchid bark substrate, into an orchid pot that lets the roots get some light, can be cheap plastic or glass or something with holes in

After an initial light watering from above, water it only by letting it soak from below for a few hours

Give it a bit of a feed using orchid myst

I just twist them together and put some electrical tape over - is this significantly better?

There are square taper options if you want longer BB life and classic styling
eg
https://freshtripe.co.uk/3-arm-classic-double-chainset/

Tetrapanax?

Definitely in the aralia family

Looks like it is sending up suckers, which it does do. Free plants for your friends and neighbours, or stick them on eBay, unless you want a forest of them

The photo does look like star jasmine, but that's not what jasminum officinale (common jasmine) is. Star jasmine is trachleospermun jasminoides. Different plants from different families - albeit v similar in looks

can't wait to see it grow

Won't take long in my experience!

You could, but as you say it wouldn't give you any privacy

Personally I'd go for a hornbeam hedge, which also keeps its (brown) leaves over winter, with a border full of grasses and perennials in front, to hide the fence and provide beauty. If you can't afford to lose that much space, do either a hedge or a border instead of both.

Do the privacy bit with a pair of big fast growing deciduous shrubs/multi stemmed trees. How much privacy do you really need in the garden in winter anyway? Bare branches will still break up the view and make you feel less exposed.

I'd go for a pair of elders - sambucus nigra black lace is beautiful, fast growing, quite early into leaf (mine is leafing up now), and gives you flowers you can make into pink elderflower champagne. Its big but can be pruned as hard as you like if it gets too big. See artists impression (albeit it's leaves are purple not green).

Plenty of other big shrubs / small trees available if you don't like the elder

I like ivy but you can't make a hedge out of it. I guess you can have it in your hedge

Evergreens above are our only native trees/shrubs

There are native evergreens

Not many! There are 5 British native evergreens

Yew, box, holly, scots pine, juniper

Box is now unusable due to caterpillars and blight

Yew makes a fantastic hedge but it's slow

Monarda also perennial, pink and happy in part shade

Perennials, shady, flowering, Preferably blousy and pink

Astilbe?

Or Astrantia?

For me, dahlias will grow in shade but not flower much at all

Gardeners world is also good for ideas on this as half of Monty's garden floods every winter, and in particular his 'damp garden' is a permanent bog

For herbs, Jekkas are the best. Try
https://www.jekkas.com/collections/jekkapedia/products/jekkas-stepping-thyme

good quality leather with suitable wax, sown in tongue, welted sole

Any other recommended models that do this, and aren't quite as pricey as the meindls?

Thanks all. Use would be mostly dog walks, 3 to 10 miles or so, in often very wet and muddy terrain. So would usually want gore tex, and a grippy sole. Occasional proper hike up a Brecon Beacon or similar but rarely

I overpronate badly and have issues with plantar fascitis so generally think more structure/support is better

Most recent pair were some Merrel MOAB Gore Tex, picked up in the sales and which are meant to be good but are falling apart after not much use

Without rereading the whole thread, hiking boot recommendations?

You mean them being noisy?

Knock knock, open up the door, it's real
With the non-stop, pop-pop of stainless steel

I've used GB which I think are stainless steel and VO Alu before with good results

Have also since discovered that PDW do some in Alu, 27.5 x 65mm for the still expensive but slightly less ridiculous price of £130. My tires would be 1mm fatter than recommended but thinking that's an option nonetheless

I went for bluemels on my utility bike, in part to keep the cost down, but they are occasionally rattling and contacting the tyres on big bumps. Am going to try to solve with some more patient fettling (not my strong suit), but if that doesn't work, a more rigid set of metal mudguards seems like the obvious answer.

But are there any metal mudguards that will fit a 27.5 x 2.25 tyre apart from the (£190) SimWorks x Honjo 74mm? Not sure I can bring myself to spend that much

What's the rando bag? Looks great

I personally think this sort of recipe absolutism is bollocks - if you want garlic in your ragu, who gives two shits what the society/academy/institute of self important arseholes think

I am making cumberland sausage, red pepper and sage ragu tonight and it's brilliant

Edit - not a dig at Chas but at the Academia

Was it a few years old? It's only meant to live 4 or 5 years iirc

They are cheap and fast growing if you want to replace

Mine are flowering and sending out young shoots, I'd be concerned if yours is doing nothing

It's an unusual plant in that essentially each stem is biennial - growing out of the ground one year, then flowering the next and dying after that.

You are meant to cut back the flowered stems when they're done in summer-ish, making space for the young growth to take over and then flower the next year. If you cut everything including the young growth back, you might have fucked it

I would still hold on for a bit and see, just in case