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  • #202
    Carb
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    chewed wrote: »
    ...and a few years....when you have to clear it out all again! :eek:

    No chance. If it goes wild again I'm buying goats.


  • #203
    bloopy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭bloopy


    Wildlife and pollinator garden I've been building over an old lawn starting to come into flower. Got sick of mowing all the time.

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    Bees!

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  • #204
    Harry Palmr
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    Looks fabulous!


  • #205
    ShiverinEskimo
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    Have you a 'before' pic of the lawn?


  • #206
    lordgoat
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    @Bloopy - how many years since the lawn was there? I'm just started my planned wild garden!


  • #207
    bloopy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭bloopy


    lordgoat wrote: »
    @Bloopy - how many years since the lawn was there? I'm just started my planned wild garden!

    The wild garden was started in the spring of 2017.
    All plants are selected to encourage specific pollinators and predatory insects.
    This year I have reduced mowing even further by letting previously mown areas to develop as mini habitat corridors around the garden.
    Areas which get a mowing are mown tight to highlight the wildness in contrast to the lawn paths.
    Prevents the garden from looking like it is just an abandoned mess.


    I have no pictures of the lawn area before it became the wild garden but I might be able to find older photos of the area from when we first moved in. If I can find them, I will stick them up.


  • #208
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    After four years my apricot tree finally has its first apricots!

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  • #209
    Redrubies
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    Our beautiful Ceonothus!


  • #210
    GrumpyMe
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    Redrubies wrote: »
    Our beautiful Ceonothus!


    Somebody gave the BLUE a helping hand!


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  • #211
    finla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭finla


    Redrubies wrote: »
    Our beautiful Ceonothus!

    Wow. What variety is that? Looks amazing


  • #212
    smacl
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    Redrubies wrote: »
    Our beautiful Ceonothus!

    Wow, looks amazing. Didn't realise they got that big.


  • #213
    Lumen
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    smacl wrote: »
    Wow, looks amazing. Didn't realise they got that big.

    I have one about 3m tall but skinnier than that, its colour peaked a couple of weeks ago and looks a bit drab now.


  • #214
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    Mine seems to be a ground hugger, spreading out the way, not up.


  • #215
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    smacl wrote: »
    Wow, looks amazing. Didn't realise they got that big.

    They have a large range of species from Ceanothus arboreus and Ceanothus griseus that grow 12 to 18 feet high and 15 to 20 feet wide to Ceanothus griseus horizontalis that grows 1 to 3 feet high with a spread to 4 feet.


  • #216
    honeybear
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    bloopy wrote: »
    Wildlife and pollinator garden I've been building over an old lawn starting to come into flower. Got sick of mowing all the time.

    29lfblw.png

    2v0hfo1.png

    vqtqpw.png

    Bees!

    15nr9e8.png

    Beautiful. I’ve just bought house with a lovely garden. There is also an extra bit of land adjacent to the garden. There is nothing in it atm. Looking at this pic makes me consider a wild garden. How difficult is it to grow and then maintain?


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  • #217
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    the garden a few weeks back, when the weather was a little better.

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  • #218
    [Deleted User]
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    Not sure what this is , i cant actually remember if i planted it or did it just blow in from somewhere else.


  • #219
    New Home
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    Could be an agapanthus. Can we see the leaves, please?


  • #220
    [Deleted User]
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    New Home wrote: »
    Could be an agapanthus. Can we see the leaves, please?

    Hello, there is no leaves just a long narrow stem, and what you see on top of it.


  • #221
    New Home
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    Maybe an agapanthus in bad shape? :pac:

    They are gorgeous flowers. :)


    https://www.google.com/search?q=AGAPANTHUS&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwqoHMxPDiAhUGTRUIHc3PAU8Q_AUIECgB&biw=1920&bih=938


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  • #222
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Could also be one of the alliums.


  • #223
    ShiverinEskimo
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    Devastation on the front porch this morning. :mad:

    Stripped bare. Two seperate trees.

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  • #224
    celticbhoy27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭celticbhoy27


    ShiverinEskimo wrote: »
    Devastation on the front porch this morning. :mad:

    Stripped bare. Two seperate trees.

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    OMG was that in full leaf prior to attack?


  • #225
    magicbastarder
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    i've seen this on a hedgerow recently, ermine moth caterpillars i think. about 20 foot of hedgerow stripped bare.


  • #226
    [Deleted User]
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    I've similar happen to my gooseberry bushes...saw fly caterpillars im sure.

    On a more positive note.....that's a pretty attractive stone wall you have :)


  • #227
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    Found this little creature peering in at me when I looked up from my book recently

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  • #228
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    celticbhoy27 wrote: »
    OMG was that in full leaf prior to attack?

    Yep. Just starting to look perfect for summer. Damage done in about 36 hours.


  • #229
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Love this plant


  • #230
    New Home
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    Canna, if I'm not mistaken. :)


  • #231
    Stheno
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    New Home wrote: »
    Canna, if I'm not mistaken. :)

    Yes red velvet where we have our seating area in our new garden we have a few statement plants.

    I adore those flowers and the contrast with the foliage


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  • #232
    Pretzill
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    Spuds in bags this year - the lazy gardener :)


  • #233
    fryup
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    the smart farmer


  • #234
    scarepanda
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    This might be a silly question, but how do you deal with blight in back garden spuds?


  • #235
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    scarepanda wrote: »
    This might be a silly question, but how do you deal with blight in back garden spuds?

    In my case I just hope they don't get it. If it's later in the season I'll cut the stalks back and try and save the crop. I have gotten blight lots of times used to spray them but even then it was hit and miss whether you'd protect them at the right time.


  • #236
    Mam of 4
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    Beautifully uplifting :)


  • #237
    New Home
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    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Beautifully uplifting :)

    Absolutely stunning (yes, I do say that a lot, but look at them!)


  • #238
    Mam of 4
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    New Home wrote: »
    Absolutely stunning (yes, I do say that a lot, but look at them!)

    Am quite proud tbh NH , they were left aside for many months , (weren't my plants ) . Found them , just watered them regularly and somehow they resurrected themselves , think me auld da would be lol at me :)


  • #239
    fryup
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    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    Beautifully uplifting :)

    lily's ?


  • #240
    Mam of 4
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    fryup wrote: »
    lily's ?

    Yep , Asiatic Lilys I think fryup , am open to correction on that though !


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  • #241
    [Deleted User]
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    My first crop of potatoes this year :)

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  • #242
    FlipperThePriest
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    Wildflower bed
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    Was also expecting corn marigold, hasn't happened yet, maybe squeezed out as I never thinned them out?


  • #243
    Dr_Colossus
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    A few irises from last week, didn't last long and the heavy rains finished them off
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    Bees going mad from this now which is starting to flower, great to see and hear them in action, don't even know what it's called:
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  • #244
    New Home
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    Hybiscus


  • #245
    Stheno
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    Sweetpea


  • #246
    goose06
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    Garden in bloom


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  • #247
    [Deleted User]
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    Flowers surviving after slug infestation :)


  • #248
    auspicious
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    No flies in the house? No?
    They're all partying on my California poppy.
    Teasel ready to flower this month too.


  • #249
    New Home
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    You know what they say, "Orange is the new black". :D


  • #250
    KGC
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭KGC


    Nothing last year from these, now this....
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    every year, around 8ft this year
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  • #251
    Graces7
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    Y'day' s flowers in the sun..

    The marigolds are from last year and are a glory, and the wee white ones are some kind of chrysanth; I scattered old seed around last autumn.

    There are large numbers of white -tailed bees in attendance


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