[Help] Gardeners Question Time.

[The Grockle]

It could be Bay, but also Portugese Laurel. Bay leaves aren't usually wavy around the edge, or particularly elongated.

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My vote goes to Portuguese laurel.

 

[A mex eyecan]

things starting to come through nicely. it’s taken a good few years to get this far, but at last i think things start to look pleasant

 

[The Grockle]

things starting to come through nicely. it’s taken a good few years to get this far, but at last i think things start to look pleasant
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Looks amazing, I really like the raised bed with the rocks

Your Acer Dissectum that looks like an Emerald Lace is so wide!!!!

 

[Weststander]

things starting to come through nicely. it’s taken a good few years to get this far, but at last i think things start to look pleasant
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Fantasic. Did you do the hard landscaping and paver edging by your own hands? I love the edging, I’ve done a fair amount myself and it negates the need for ever having to tidy up lawn edges.

Is that an alternative to Box hedging?

 

[A mex eyecan]

Looks amazing, I really like the raised bed with the rocks

Your Acer Dissectum that looks like an Emerald Lace is so wide!!!!

the rock walls i built myself when we first moved in. ruddy heavy some of those. i didn’t have a clue what i was doing but as the say, you learn by doing.

the acer i bought out of Wilkos for 99p and was not much more than the size of a lolly stick

 

[A mex eyecan]

Fantasic. Did you do the hard landscaping and paver edging by your own hands? I love the edging, I’ve done a fair amount myself and it negates the need for ever having to tidy up lawn edges.

Is that an alternative to Box hedging?

most hard landscape i’ve done myself but can’t take the credit for the brickwork edging, that’s well above my skill set.

No not an alternative, it’s box that i grew from cuttings 15 years ago.

I get huge pleasure out of making bits and bobs out of materials left lying around or sometimes recycled.

The bbq shelter was part built as a basic pergola. The sides are made out of left over conservatoray roofing tiles, and wood from an old pergola that used to cover a now gone koi pool.

 

[A mex eyecan]

sorry to be a bore but here’s a couple at night.

 

[Jack Straw]

My friend's garden I built and look after. The two Acers in the foreground are Bloodgood and Sango Kaku which were there already, but had been "lollipopped" on a regular basis until we took over 5 years' ago and let them get on with it. There's also an Acer palmatum dissectum atropurpureum in the far right corner.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

One of our oaks is dropping a lot of new leaf clusters. Never seen this before, any ideas why this is happening?

 

[Jack Straw]

One of our oaks is dropping a lot of new leaf clusters. Never seen this before, any ideas why this is happening?
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It may have just been the recent very strong gusts of wind?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

It may have just been the recent very strong gusts of wind?

A few clusters of leaves were falling when I took the photo this morning. There was a squirrel up there though. It’s just that I’ve never seen this before.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

I’ve had the garden now 18 years and haven’t never planted this.

Last year noticed a 2 or 3 come up in a very over grown part of the back garden.
This year I’ve noticed about 5 or 6 coming yp
In front garden.

Not sure if to pull them up or leave them. I’m more puzzled as to how they getting to where they are

 

[vegster]

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

I’ve had the garden now 18 years and haven’t never planted this.

Last year noticed a 2 or 3 come up in a very over grown part of the back garden.
This year I’ve noticed about 5 or 6 coming yp
In front garden.

Not sure if to pull them up or leave them. I’m more puzzled as to how they getting to where they are

just post the picture in the " PlantNet" app, should solve the prob.

 

[Jack Straw]

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

I’ve had the garden now 18 years and haven’t never planted this.

Last year noticed a 2 or 3 come up in a very over grown part of the back garden.
This year I’ve noticed about 5 or 6 coming yp
In front garden.

Not sure if to pull them up or leave them. I’m more puzzled as to how they getting to where they are

I'm not committing myself yet on this one, even though I should get it. I don't suppose you could take a photo from a little further back and a different angle, and of one or two of the others?

 

[A mex eyecan]

I'm not committing myself yet on this one, even though I should get it. I don't suppose you could take a photo from a little further back and a different angle, and of one or two of the others?

thanks Jack.
problem i’ve got is that they are buried amongst a load of daffodil leaves, and that one pic is about as good as i can get. i’ll take another look in the morrow and see what i can snap

 

[Jack Straw]

thanks Jack.
problem i’ve got is that they are buried amongst a load of daffodil leaves, and that one pic is about as good as i can get. i’ll take another look in the morrow and see what i can snap

Great. Need an idea of scale, and whether the plant in the photo has a round or flat cross-section.

 

[Weststander]

just post the picture in the " PlantNet" app, should solve the prob.

Yes.

One of the daylily’s.

 

[Jack Straw]

Yes.

One of the daylily’s.

That's what my money's on, but only 90%. Hemerocallis to you horticulturalists!

 

[Jack Straw]

Just got opinions back from a couple of qualified gardening friends, and now it's 100% Hemerocallis (Day Lily).

 

[A mex eyecan]

Just got opinions back from a couple of qualified gardening friends, and now it's 100% Hemerocallis (Day Lily).

thanks all. so it’s a leaver where it is then