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Neglected Lincolnshire garden - one year on
I'm going to start a "progress" thread on my garden as well. I've been here three weeks and planted a few of the things I brought with me because they desperately needed to be in the ground, but it's a bit of a drop in the ocean of grass! It's about 20m from the house to the back fence, and about 35m along the back fence,…
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Aphids and Caterpillars
I’m having problems with my trees and shrubs. My apple tree has Apple Ermin caterpillars, which is worse than it was last year. Researching the problem, I used winter tree wash in the winter as instructed, but the caterpillars are back with a vengeance this year. My weeping flowering cherry tree has Wooly Aphid, as has one…
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Perennials suitable for permanent shade
South west corner beneath a large holly tree. Looking for something 3-4 ft high to go against the fence and something lower to cover the rest of the ground, preferably both as bright as possible
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My experience with Gardening Express
This is my experience with Gardening Express (GE), following a BBC programme I watched sometime in October last year. I believe it was either Rip Off Britain or Watchdog. In that programme, Gardening Express stated that they had “promised to review their systems”. Unfortunately, my experience strongly suggests that they…
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Growing grass
Hi all, I put down some miracle go complete 4 in 1 lawn treatment about a month ago but what I didn't realise is that I have to wait about 7 weeks until I can put down the grass seed but with that date being 9th June how do I make sure that the grass grows properly given it's in summer time and the warmer weather Kind…
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Can this be saved?
Have been watering every evening for a few months but no sign of improvement. Am I wasting my time (and Kent's scarce water)
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Webs on apple tree.
These are a couple of pictures of what look like webs covering many branches on my apple tree. I have done a search but wasn't sure what to do with them in the UK. Could anybody help please
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Is my Euonymus Japonicus Himalaya healthy?
I'm looking for some advice on my Euonymus Japonicus Himalaya. It is planted outdoors in a large pot, and the soil surface is covered with pebbles. I've noticed a few dry leaves, and some leaves have irregular holes/notches that look as if they may have been eaten by an insect. The plant otherwise seems to be growing, but…
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What can I plant in these small pots next to Brick Wall
Hi all. We had an extension built but the pattern imprinted concrete was damaged when digging footings. We filled the concrete in and tried to make it look like the original but it stands out a bit. Therefore, we are going to put some planters with flowers in over the concrete. You can see from the picture that the…
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Bindweed
Hi all, We have bindweed in our garden and I was wondering how to get rid of it Kind regards mark
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Growing in my grass
Does anybody know what this is growing in my grass and how to get rid of it please?
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Is this Leylandii hedge likely to recover?
Parts of this hedge are still green, but not sure if hedge will recover. I think it has spider mites as I can see webs.
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My Fence- come/Neighbours
My back garden fence backs onto a Council run allotment, my fence is not in the best of health but is covered with ivy and such like, that in a way, they are a support for each other, A few weeks back, without me being informed ( which i feel i should have done) they cut off all the overhang growth on their side, thus…
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Red Robins
Hi Can anyone advise how to bring these 2 red Robins back to life? I have been watering them daily and fed them fish blood, bones. They are supposed to be shaped as bay trees but have lost a lot of leaves. Any advice would be great. Thanks
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Rear Landscape
Hi all, looking to pick brains on the garden! Main isuses with the current setup and new toddler in the house, is the sharp drops, slippy slate and no garden segretaion. Playing with online design tools - we quite like the idea of replacing the slate central area with a closed off play area - with glass balustrades and…
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Another 'what is this '
Seems to be a year of unusual things. This is a strawberry plant which has produced these The variety is Pegasus. Planted last year and fine. It does have a lot of tiny white fly infestation sort of thing.
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Used coffee grounds!!!????!?!
Ok so I met a friend for a coffee in a place that's a bit artisan. Coffee was ok, cake too. But at the till there was a big bag of used coffee grounds - free to take away with the note that it's "good for your garden". Being very MSE I of course nabbed my free bag. Yes but good for what? And how does one use it?? Do I mix…
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What is this, these do you think
So I planted some salad seeds in my own homemade compost. Should be Rocket and Spinach in a cut and come again form. What has popped up is Spinach but maybe one rocket. It looks to me like I have 16 tomato plants come up 🙄 quite possibly from my compost heap. The irony being that I've struggled to get them growing from…
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can I still plant spring/summer bulbs???
Ever the optimist I bought a few packs of bulbs last autumn in anticipation of my gardener being able to get them in so I'd have a great display this spring/summer. Gardener didn't show, made excuses, suggested inconvenient times to come and then didn't show and so on. So no bulbs were planted and my lawn hasn't been mowed…
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Aldi cordless lawnmower
Did anyone buy the new Ferrex cordless lawnmower from Aldi last week? I got one and apart from the fact that it's actually quite poor at cutting grass, I have an issue where the motor seems to dip down into a low power mode after only 5 mins of use, even though the battery is fully charged. It's supposed to be able to…
