[Help] Gardeners Question Time.

[Jack Straw]

I want to plant something all around the edge of the 10" square, not a hedge!

Minimal effort.
Not lavender.
Excellent ground coverage
But not lavender.
About knee height.
I said NOT lavender.
Attractive to wildlife.
Lavender! F##k off

Something that will give this kind of effect around a poppy (and other stuff) patch.

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Just not lavender.

As sugested by Cheshire Cat above, Rosemary is the nearest thing you'll get to Lavender. If you go for this, you might wish to avoid the upright or the low spreading ones?
Small plants will grow quite quickly. I would space them at 18" apart.

 

[Stat Brother]

As sugested by Cheshire Cat above, Rosemary is the nearest thing you'll get to Lavender. If you go for this, you might wish to avoid the upright or the low spreading ones?
Small plants will grow quite quickly. I would space them at 18" apart.

To be honest I thought CC was taking the piss but this could work



Seemingly I can even have blue and white stripes!

https://www.birdsandblooms.com/gard...ing/growing-rosemary-drought-tolerant-garden/


So that's sorted then my wild garden will be bordered by blue and white stripes of Rosemary - whodda thunk it.

 

[LamieRobertson]

To be honest I thought CC was taking the piss but this could work

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Great for the bees….can get woody if you dont prune


Alternative

Ive used this hebe to create a low hedge …you could even mix in with sage to give it an additional shade

 

[zefarelly]

California poppies are rapant and easy.

Our lawn is a battle now we have 2 hounds pissing on it, but the rest has recovered from the path/paving work

 

[Stat Brother]

I've got some bits and bobs of colour down my main border.








And some bulbs across the way

 

[Jack Straw]

I've got some bits and bobs of colour down my main border.

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And some bulbs across the way

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Nice one Monty. Looks like you're needing to water like buggery sooner rather than later.

 

[Stat Brother]

Nice one Monty. Looks like you're needing to water like buggery sooner rather than later.

Believe me, mm's under the surface the soil is damp.
But it will be watered again, later.

 

[Jack Straw]

Believe me, mm's under the surface the soil is damp.
But it will be watered again, later.

The plant to the left of the Dahlia, looks like a Water Figwort. If I'm right, it's normally treated as a weed. Not invasive, but it will spread if you leave it to seed. It has wierd red flowers, so you may wish to embrace it?
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wild...ort is a common,pollinated by the Common wasp.
I may be talking total rubbish, and you bought it and planted it!

 

[Weststander]

California poppies are rapant and easy.

Our lawn is a battle now we have 2 hounds pissing on it, but the rest has recovered from the path/paving work

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Still no beaches for hedgehogs to escape drowning

 

[Stat Brother]

The plant to the left of the Dahlia, looks like a Water Figwort. If I'm right, it's normally treated as a weed. Not invasive, but it will spread if you leave it to seed. It has wierd red flowers, so you may wish to embrace it?
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wild...ort is a common,pollinated by the Common wasp.
I may be talking total rubbish, and you bought it and planted it!

I'm pretty sure I did plant that.

The bottom right hand corner, narrow leaves white stripe, is one of those things I mentioned a while back.
I left that one to see what would happen.

 

[Barham's tash]

Trying to grow watermelons as something of interest for my daughter to follow through the summer.

Have three well established plants with multiple fruits.

Does anyone have any experience in nurturing the fruit through to full maturity?

 

[razer]

Reduce the multiple fruits to not so multiple fruits. The ones that are left will get far bigger.

 

[zefarelly]

Still no beaches for hedgehogs to escape drowning

A; There is a beach
B: a walled garden has never had a hedgehog in the 19 years we've lived here . . .they're all flint and I aint poking holes in them

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Tricky one (or perhaps not) for the gardeners of NSC.

This tree was very unwell two years ago. It was crowded by other trees and shrubs and young branches were dieing. We cleared around it and pruned (in the Summer - it has wounds that weep sap, so I assumed cherry/plum family). Last year it was a bit stronger and this year it is looking healthy with leaves on all branches and plump healthy stems.

But we have no idea what it is. No obvious blossom so far (unlike all the fruit trees in the garden). Hard to say how old it is. Only clue is the trunk looks a little like a cherry and so do the leaves. Any clues?

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Well look what this tree just produced!! The mystery is over. It's a peach (or is it a plum??) - that has produced half a dozen fuits. Who'd have thought it!!!



This tree was so sickly a couple of years ago, but we cleared some space and pruned it and now it's a really healthy tree prodcuing fruit!

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Not a peach. Is it the size of a peach? Nectarine.
Is it the size of a plum? It's a plum

 

[Stat Brother]

Noticed this lil bad boy coming out to say hello, as I was leaving.

 

[Jack Straw]

Noticed this lil bad boy coming out to say hello, as I was leaving.

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That's your Zantedeschia! Arum, or Calla Lily to you!!

 

[Stat Brother]

That's your Zantedeschia! Arum, or Calla Lily to you!!

Luckily it's on the purple side of the garden along with a buddleia and some kind of other gangly purple thing.

 

[Eric the meek]

Well look what this tree just produced!! The mystery is over. It's a peach (or is it a plum??) - that has produced half a dozen fuits. Who'd have thought it!!!

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This tree was so sickly a couple of years ago, but we cleared some space and pruned it and now it's a really healthy tree prodcuing fruit!

I think that fruit may be an apricot, but ripened to perfection. I recently got some that looked just like that - with speckles of redness in the skin, from the Park Farm shop opposite the Amex. They were by far the best apricots I've ever eaten. This year is apparently very good for them.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I think that fruit may be an apricot, but ripened to perfection. I recently got some that looked just like that - with speckles of redness in the skin, from the Park Farm shop opposite the Amex. They were by far the best apricots I've ever eaten. This year is apparently very good for them.

Nope, sorry disagree