Your gardening photos

looksee

What a nice selection, I can match most of them in my garden except the borage on the bottom row, I must try again with it.

SnowyMuckish

Starting to bloom here now. My geraniums and pincushions are slow to get going though!

My garden when I moved into house in 2018 versus now.

scarepanda

Wow! What a transformation! Fair play!

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Thanks. Had a professional do the paving and fencing but the the rest is my own work.

galaxy12

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Nepeta ,echinops , Osmanthus ,huechra and broom

ECO_Mental

New build house only moved in late October 2021. Big site about 1.25 acres and I was not going to be mowing it all...got the builder to just to level it all out and put down some no2 lawn seed in October, eek!. To be honest it did sprout in November and got a "bit" of color but it then took off in spring time. There are some of the patches in the lawn/field that patchy but every day its coming on.

Decided to let the grass grow long and cut paths through it and around the edges and its beginning to look great. We have a small area just in front of the patio that is a traditional lawn but its only about 10m x 3m. Got about 200+ 2-4ft bareroot trees over the winter and put them around the edges and a few spots all native trees mostly whitethorn but also including crabapple, elder, willow, hazel, and alder

This is the back of the house and down at the bottom corner, the grass on the right hand side here is the old farm pasture that has not been cut in about 2 years and its looking good also grass on the left of the path is the new lawn. The paths are great they do lead you down the garden and encourage you to walk around it...even saw my 18 year old son walking down the paths one evening.

jellybear

A little collage of photo's from my parent's garden, taken today 🙂

My mother's beautiful back garden. Moved in the week I was born 41 years ago and it was a pile of builder's rubble.

looksee

A 'wild patch' in the garden. The foxgloves and a few other things are self-seeded, the daisies, marigolds and chamomile were moved from other bits of the garden in a haphazard sort of way.

paddylonglegs

Was painting the house last week and got this unusual shot from the ladder

Gloomtastic!

If you ever want to ignore a plant, I can recommend this one. They’ve been in an unheated conservatory for the past year, maybe watered twice.

And then they produce this. Plants are amazing.

Mr.Wemmick

Waiting for lots of plants to grow. Some dahlias have already flowered and doing well.

jellybear

First time our passion flower has flowered 😀

Planet X

Reseeded.

And after 12 days.

Ground Elder top left corner creeping in 😀 That's all been dug out now but it's established in lawn.

rje66

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First time growing tree lilies, might get a few more for next year. Anyone else got some??

nigeldaniel

I took this photo 2 weeks ago. The side of the house. The beach trees are doing very well these last 3 years and one is even giving off seeds.

fryup

Raspberries & Blueberries coming up trumps this year 😎 (it's the seaweed feed that does the trick)

Mr.Wemmick

First time taking leaf cuttings this Summer and all five cuttings doing well with new buds. This time of year the garden is pretty crowded with plants.

Some huge gladioli this year.

Planet X

😀😀

Mr.Wemmick

Cornel Brons dahlia has finally flowered and works great with the Sneezeweed, Rudebekia and crocosmia.

rje66

Great display there.

Mr.Wemmick

Someone asked about Delphiniums a few months ago. Here is mine after I cut it right back in late June and fed it a c few times, it’s now flowering again. Same with the clematis. Garden is going okay, but it’s been plagued with spider mite this summer.

bored_newbie

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I'm just about to plant some bulbs, any tips?

I'm thinking of putting them just inside a chain fence. Good sun and I can give them some support.

Autumn color in aspen

Excise the side view...cannot rotate for some reason!?

New Home

There you go.

Heighway61

I swear there was a fairy sitting on this when I took the photo.

galaxy12

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Asters , astrantia and Sanguisorba

bored_newbie

I really like your Sanguisorba, I'm not familiar with it. For scale, is that a purple salvia in the background?

Been thinking of gettig something like that or even a red hot poker type for the garden.

galaxy12

Yes they are Sanguisorba blackthorn or Sanguisorba proud Mary.A popular nursery up on top of rathfarnam have several varieties so check them out .

The background purple are Agastache 'Blue Boa.

Some of the Sanguisorba can grow quite tall but need plenty of sun .

Other options for tall would be cow parsley or Lythrum or even verbena.

With the weather we now have I find some of these are much easier to grow in Ireland and grow quite tall as compared to previous years.

Red hot poker though nice may be .difficult growers initially and may look better dotted in between rather than together..

galaxy12

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osmanthus fragrans, anemones.

heuchra Paris and brunnera jackfrost in full shade

Graces7

Flowers are hardwon out here and I love the old cottage garden favourites.. The sunflower was blown over in the first gale but the bud opened anyways.

looksee

Some photos from my garden this morning (courtesy of daughter with phone, wandering round the garden in her dressing gown). The first one is weeds on a rock, the second is a carpet rose and the third is two skulls and a rock, with more weeds and moss.

nigeldaniel

having a good look around. There was a goldfinch too but the bugger was too nervous to stay put for a second to get a photo of him/her. The tree is a copper beech tree on my front lawn.

Declan T

Stunning 😍

Rhododendron

paddylonglegs

Blossoms and blue skies never get old. Not sure how to rotate image

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SnowyMuckish

Love the way the light filters through the tulips in the evenings this time of year.

Weeping cherry hasn’t bloomed yet 3rd year in a row, only one small flower. It mustn’t be happy in its spot.

joujoujou

Ms jou's pride - Fritillaria Imperialis (Kaiser's Crown):

Gloomtastic!

Mr Joujou, you cheated! 😳

looksee

Good though, innit!

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120539869#Comment_120539869

What if it's a pebble?

looksee

It would be a very shiny, metallic looking, cylindrical pebble!

joujoujou

It's stainless, 12mm diameter, one meter long pebble. :-P

Anyway, 5 posts and not a single word about what the photo was really about. ;-)

Gloomtastic!

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This is Boards. What do you expect? 😂

Well done, looks fantastic. And the flower thing is cool too. 😎

looksee

The flower goes without saying, its spectacular and I am jealous!

StupidLikeAFox

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This is a great transformation! What is the bark like for the kids play area? Our neighbours have cats that do be around the place and worried that they would use it as a toilet

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Our neighbour has a cat and no issues. The main thing is to make sure you get a good membrane underneath to stop the weeds coming up. It also needs topping up every couple of years.

Supercell

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Gorgeous, never saw that before, one to add to the list for next year!