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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Looks more like pheasant grass to me



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,549 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    Yes I think you’re right after a bit more research. Pheasant tail grass or New Zealand wind grass. Saw it yesterday, fantastic delicate flowers on top. Thanks RA!



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Bawnmore


    Not even close to the same as others here, but cut the grass yesterday after seeding and it's the first time we've had an actual back garden since we bought the house a year ago. Lots of digger work etc to get it level(ish) that we had put off with other things. It's not much, but it's a starting point for sure.


    Post edited by Bawnmore on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Ms2011


    echinacea purpurea



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Ms2011


    Pumpkin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Ms2011


    Peony



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Ms2011


    Penstemon



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I only took to vegetable gardening last year to keep my head afloat during the lockdown. I learned a lot in the first year and although my space is small it's productive enough for me. Last year 80% of my garden was potatoes, this year I've managed to wiggle that down to about 30% with an early and late crop and added more beds and veg to the menu.


    So far this year I've harvested bout 4kg of new potatoes 30 onions, 20 carrots and four cabbages (which were eaten by caterpillars and slugs so they went in the brown bin) and two freezer bags full of runner beans.


    I picked up a small greenhouse and made a small raised bed beside it where I've got tomatoes and salad stuff, onions and lettuce and I added an herb border behind the veg patch too. I don't know why my pictures are sideways but I'm hopefully going to get some healthy marmande tomatoes this year.


    And this little fella stayed with me for the whole thing.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]



    My garden in the rain last Saturday.

    The only photo of what it looked like before we started, after the builders left, in August 2019.

    The front garden last spring.

    And then a few weeks ago...

    Shaded 'exotic' bed I planted a few weeks ago.

    Side bed I did last August.

    Same bed 11 months on with lots of additions.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭secman


    A few photos of our rural garden, enjoy.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Those wildflower gardens are just delicious. I'd love to see a lockdown garden thread if there hasn't already been one, I imagine a whole lot of folk have created some epic spaces over the last 18 months or so.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,622 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    After being eaten alive by the chickens last year, my ferns are thriving again. North-facing wall and one of my favourite bits of the garden.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    who says miracles don't happen.....look at this

    my venus flytrap back in april

    my venus flytrap now

    the week of scorchio back in july brought it back to life🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭Mr.Wemmick


    It’s been a funny old summer, weather wise. I am still waiting for most of the sunflowers to bloom. The dahlias have done okay.




  • Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭ellee


    My dahlias did nothing! Never tried them before but planted some bulbs. Only 2 made any effort to grow and they did not flower, I guess they need a LOT of sun do they? My garden is a bit awkwardly orientated. Hardly any of it would get all day sun.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Ms2011


    Dahlias hail from Mexico so the more sun the better for them. Plus if they are kept somewhere shady and damp it makes it all the easier for slugs and snails to get them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,987 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Anyone know what would have done this to a neighbours lawn?



    Perhaps birds looking for grubs in the soil?



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Very likely.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Two years ago it wasn't much more than a mound of grass and a dog run. It's been my safe space and literally a lifeline over the last 18months or so. Kind of proud of my garden.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's lovely, you have a lot in a small space very effectively there. We have been the same over the Covid time, we moved into a house two years ago and have spent the last 18 months or so working on the sadly neglected garden, as you say, a life-line.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,622 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Added some succulents from Aldi to a cactus I had for a few years in a dish I got in a charity shop. A mix of compost and builders sand, topped with some decorative stones from the pet shop. Not bad for a fiver. 😋



  • Registered Users Posts: 46 Nell B


    Looks lovely.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,622 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Why are my pics turning 90° and not others? 🤔



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Could be to do with the size of the pic, it possibly wants them to be landscape and that one looks slightly narrower than it is high. Not sure but it could be that.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Bawnmore


    It's likely the orientation information on your image that's stored from the camera (or phone) it was taken on. It might even look right on your computer/phone, but boards would take the orientation of the file into consideration when deciding what show.

    Here you go:




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,622 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Thanks for that. Do you know if I change the info settings on my phone so they’re displayed correctly?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Bawnmore


    It's a crappy answer, but it depends. Have a look here for some info, but I'd be pretty sure that's what's happening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Has anyone else's yukka suddenly sprouted flowers out of the blue this year? I posted pics on FB and a few people have commented that theirs did the same.

    This has been planted for about 15 years and there was never a sign of any flowering at all!

    What got into them this year???

    (Apologies if this has been posted about before, I just came across this thread, haven't read through the lot)



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I don't have any but that looks amazing. I had a quick google though (just wondering if you can save the seed) and apparently there's a couple of factors required for flowering, maturity and pollination. Sounds like you got at least one of them right anyway. 😉

    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/foliage/yucca/yucca-plant-doesnt-bloom.htm



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I have a small border that is very difficult to find things that suit it - south facing but with quite a lot of tree issues that make it less easy to establish plants. I just keep planting things and see what succeeds. I put in a Kaffir lily two years ago and left it to get on with it. Early this year lots and lots of new little plants started coming up at the opposite end of the bed. I had no idea what they were but even if they were montbretia I was willing to let them populate the place. It turns out they are Kaffir Lilies, they must have seeded from the first one but there were such a lot it was a bit surprising. Anyway I am delighted and they are welcome to populate the bed if they wish!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    Almost identical - over the years mine attempted to flower much later in the year but this years is a fine sight.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    Mind your own business ! The most beautiful of all weeds. great for a shady spot ☘️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's gorgeous! It came up so I could not see the comment and I thought it was a pretty garden pond!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    This is Skeeter's Broom. Lidl had them around 5 years ago. I have never seen them for sale anywhere else at any time. It has a very upright shape for an Acer and it will make me a great broom when I become a witch.🕷️ . I have to tidy up the area behind it. I planted a clematis behind it but the snails ate it bare in one night. I have also planted a Persian Ivy behind it ( you can see it peeping out.) This year the Tree is redder than it has ever been before perhaps because it is a nice autumn weather this year.

    🐟️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's a very nice Acer, in lovely condition. Never heard of Skeeters Broom!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,483 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Testimount to how mild its been this year, for the first time ever, my banana plant is trying to flower and fruit! I didn't even believe it possible here. Its north east facing in front of the house so doesn't even get the afternoon sun, makes me wonder if I should stick one in the back garden to see what would happen!


    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Wow, that's a bit special!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Ms2011


    The result of a couple of months work.

    The little one ran out of time to ripen 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Grawns


    Arbutus unedo. First fruit on my killarney strawberry tree planted in 2018. My mum tried a berry and agreed with the name, eat but only once. 😁. Its a very attractive shrub planted in a North East bed, clay soil



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,773 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I have just put in a Strawberry Tree, handsome plant with year round interest. I had them in a previous garden, I grew them from seed, and they did very well. The area I have put this one is a bit challenging for plants, a bit subject to wind, so I will look forward to seeing how it does.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8 SylviaBogle


    The Rose flowers I love most. This enjoyed me a lot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭kindredspirit



    Dudleya virens ssp. hassei from Santa Catalina Island off the west coast of North America. Lovely farina on it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9 John M00re


    I managed to make this spooky flower bloom. I'm quite proud



  • Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Macker


    Ladybirds getting lucky




  • Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭galaxy12


    Alliums in full splendor , planted last November .



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    Garden looking good after the rain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    Just some pea starting to climb and few "bucket variety potato"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭secman


    Grass not in great shape, lots of creeping buttercup to be dealt with



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Getting lush now



  • Subscribers Posts: 693 ✭✭✭FlipperThePriest


    Took a snapshot yesterday of everything flowering so far in the back garden. Have been letting it go pretty wild the last few years. Counted nearly 40 different types of flower, not bad for a small garden in May.




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