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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 56,344 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    We were sold waterlily fertiliser when we first built the pond. Pellets that you press into the soil in whatever pot they're planted in IIRC.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,542 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Its overgrown and infested with bindweed/3 cornered leek and it drives me crazy sometimes but I do love this garden and cant believe its mine when the sun shines 😁:

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    This is what it looked like when I bought 3 years ago:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭Hobby farmer


    Looks great!!! You've done a great job bringing it back to glory! If only the sun would shine more often.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,542 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Thanks just wish I could turn it into a wildflower meadow instead but it just doesnt work for me the grass is too strong, current plan is to spend this year and next year giving it a buzzcut once a week and taking away every single blade to see if I can weaken the grass before another attempt.

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 56,344 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Buy yourself a scythe! And some physio sessions.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,266 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Think you are setting yourself up for a fail. What you are doing has some merit but only in specific cases.

    Its the soil fertility that is the problem. In fact you can cross out the word fertility and just say its the fact that you have soil at all is the problem.

    When you start with low/no fertility you can stop the soil improving by removing the sward when you cut it. If you take the sward away after cutting soil that is good then its still good. Unless of course you want to repeat the practice for more years than either of us would have patience for.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,935 ✭✭✭ECO_Mental


    Taken sitting from my patio seat. The lavender is only starting to come out now.. What a day..I might be a bit bragging but I'm loving it especially on a day like today. I normally have the grass cut tight around the house but I broke the lawn mower after I got back from holidays.…but I do have grass that has not been cut in 5 years. Well most of my grass had not been cut in 5 years.

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    6.1kWp south facing, South of Cork City



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 56,344 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    more a 'photo from the garden' than 'gardening photo'. (and actually taken a few weeks ago)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    For the love of God - now I'm hungry…

    What's that over to the right - looks like veggies - onions/garlic, bit of kale?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭dmcdona


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    The herb garden (our percolation area) was started from scratch 9 months ago. Delighted with progress.

    Lavender, chamomile, marigolds, razzmatazz, borage, lobelia, sunflowers, rosemary, chives, parsley, dill, fennel, anemones, sage, basil, dahlias and nasturtium



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 56,344 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    onions, garlic, and some self seeded opium poppies my wife left there because the bees like them so much.

    junkie bees.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭Mr.Wemmick


    Is anyone else addicted to foxgloves? I can never have enough. This is the best one in the garden so far and I forgot it was there until it flowered.

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    If Baggins loses, we eats it whole..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,700 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    there’s a great life span out of them, ours still strong since April ish. Lovely combo with the astrantia. Iv planted Thalictrum beside the fox gloves which should take the baton later in the summer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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    Small greenhouse in the UK midlands yesterday, the windows have melted! A relative in the UK sent this on a day when the temperature was 38 where she was.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    Would dividing these geraniums help address the problem of them invading the other plants? They die back fully obviously in winter, but within a couple of weeks in early June, they take over completely. Yet I see other people have them nice and neat. I do cut them back in summer to allow the other plants some room, but usually the leaves have already taken over long before the flowers even appear, so I worry about losing the flowers if I cut back sooner.

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    This was it not long ago a few weeks ago. So the growth happens very quickly, then flowers are slower to appear.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    I think they would just grow back fairly quickly. Maybe if you got a more compact hardy geranium type sanguineum var. striatum.

    “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭Mr.Wemmick


    That's shocking! I lived in the south of England for a few years, glad I don’t live there anymore. Friends there and in London are saying the heat is like torture.

    If Baggins loses, we eats it whole..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,266 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    I don't think people really understand greenhouses anymore. From June the 1st (if not earlier) they should have a shade covering on the glass. Not seen one done with shade paint in years. This is what greenhouses used to look like in the summer. Don't worry plenty of light gets in to grow things like tomatoes.

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    Edit> Not my picture btw just one google found for me.

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    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yes, I was saying she should have even just thrown a cover of some sort over the greenhouse for the sake of the plants if nothing else. Its only one of those tiny Aldi ones, so not a big deal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,266 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    I bought this buddeleia in Aldi last year, and it was already finished flowering and was the last one left on the shelf. So I kind of forgot about it until the last few weeks. The label says, "buddeleia candy mix". Should the flowers have colour? I assume it's very unhappy in this tiny pot now. Should I re-pot it, or ideally, can I plant it out? Do it now or wait?

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    This salvia is so popular with the bees. Again, an Aldi pot, that had a mix of plants (labelled a "drive-in for bees") and after the first summer I just forgot about it. The salvia gradually took it over and flowered well this year after nothing last year. Again, can this be planted out?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,872 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Usually all I do in that situation is manoeuvre the geranium with my hand and brush the other plants back up above it, should work fine with the Stipa and Agapanthus there. Going forward you can certainly divide/reduce the geranium over winter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yes and yes. If you plant them out now, give them plenty of water every couple of days while its dry. Give them a good soak in a container of water before trying to plant them out. Cut the flowers off the buddliea. Dont forget to loosen the rootball a bit, don't worry about breaking roots, just give them chance to escape.

    There are lots of 'candy' buddeias, you might have got a white one or a pale colour. It will be fine when it gets growing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,872 ✭✭✭standardg60


    No need to cut the flower buds off, it's not going to be 'shocked' by being planted out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    I give them hidden support with some sturdy twigs and twine. Works especially well with Rozanne as it grows fairly tall and is inclined to fall over. But they will re grow and probably flower again if you cut back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    Thanks, I'll plant out the buddeleia and salvia once it cools down a little. I'll just keep cutting back the geraniums for now. I might try propping them up a bit too with some stakes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh I thought they were finished, mine flowered a while ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,872 ✭✭✭standardg60


    You might be right, hard to tell with these 'fancy' varieties!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,266 ✭✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Ours haven't even started yet. They are cut back hard each spring so maybe thats the difference?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    One flowered, tbh I haven't looked at the others, I just jumped to conclusions.



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