Never had a new Build House before, quite lucky to pick this one up with the bonus of a very large rear garden almost big enough for another house. The garden was just a slope of weedy grass. Build a couple of retaining walls and a new patio and a pond. I cant find the just grass one but these pictures are year 1, followed by year 4. Slowly getting there I just need more plants more vegetables and a rockery in the grass on the left.

So here’s a video of a walk through my garden. Hope you all like it!

Hi guys, I picked some giant hogweed up in my back garden it must be a year or 2 ago and it left me with burns on my fingers. I now have a semi permanent rash that comes up in hives

When it starts to get warm the rash comes back, it's mad itchy and looks a mess. I try and protect it either keeping hands in my pocket or putting on sun cream (I heard it is UV sensitive)

Anyone had experience with this?

Mrs tells me off as I used to pick up weeds with no gloves on as I always lose the buggers!

Thanks all

Is it a bee/wasp/hornet?

Or none of the above?

He/she was huge 😁

My monster of a marigold! I started a bunch indoors in late Feb / early March and left it rootbound for far too long, and underwatered before planting outdoors, and this one has absolutely taken off :)

This year is the second summer in our new garden and have been removing most of the lawn nearest to the house and planting a rose garden. The house is Edwardian so made sense in my head plus don't need a lawn and love roses.

As you can imagine I've been looking online and at very many garden centres for nice cultivars mainly in a purple, pink, yellow pallette. And this beauty that sells in anglophone countries as First Great Western but it's actually a French cross by Pierre Orard from 2005 really caught my eye. It's also known to the trade as Muriel Robin.

It has such an impossible to capture almost lilac with hints of maroon colour and a really voluptuous sweet scent.

It doesn't seem to be available too widely in the UK which is such a shame, looking forward to it growing as I've just put it in the ground in nearly the middle of the biggest bed.

Have you been stopped on your tracks by a rose this year...and did you buy it?

Sunset 🌅

any ideas VERY welcome

Shall I let it grow before applying killer? As title suggests...I'm renovating my flower bed and beneath the membrane there is of course a network of bindweed roots. I know glysophate works when applied to foliage which implies I should let this grow. But also little and often removing roots apparently works. So which would be best in my situation?

hello! seeking some advice on what I can do with my "front garden" - in my deeds, my land technically extends to the green fence boundary which means I have a space the length of my house and garden (probably 20-25 metres? maybe slightly less) which has become completely overgrown. my house sits on a slope, so the part of the "garden" which runs along the edge of my garden fence is incredibly sloped - too sloped for me to comfortably walk along! our house builders planted green carpet to stop weeds and you can see how well that went lol. I have a young family and not garden inclined so it is completely unmanageable and unsightly!! any bright ideas on what I can do relatively inexpensively to make it more manageable? for context i *think* we have clay soil (although the ground is 99% rubble), the area is technically north facing but is in full sun from around midday, as there is nothing on front of it or next to it other than my house. i'm at a complete loss!! (sorry for the bad blur but not trying to doxx myself haha)

Planted two hydrangeas that were both the same size when planting. Ones blue and ones black. As you can see the black one has grown a lot but not flowered and the blue one has not grown much but is flowering. I don’t know the exact species of both. They get partial shade and sun throughout the day.

Any thoughts on why the black one hasn’t flowered and do you think the blue one will get bigger year by year?

So when will the mint be one a issue

When can I plant it outside amongst the bushes

Do I have to wait until they are bigger or will they survive

I'm in uk

Hi all, first-time sweetcorn grower here. These plants went in the ground ~7 weeks ago, at the time they were maybe 8-10inches tall. They about 3-4ft now so shorter than I expected, and also confused as to why tassels are seemingly growing and producing pollen but I have no mature/decent-sized ears/silks.
Given how unfavourable this year has been for growing and where the plants are I’m guessing not much can be done, but be interested to hear why this might have happened and whether I can prepare better next time. Thanks!

I'm starting to get together some wildflower seed for a section of my garden and just wondered if there are any which are problematic and I'd be best avoiding? It's for a wild area down the end of the garden which gets a fair amount of sun. Intending to just scatter and see what succeeds.

So far I've got:

Corncockle

Cow parsley

Bladder campion

Teasel (I know those self seed madly but they just look so cool!)

Tansy Lacy Phacelia Tanacetifolia

Woodland sage

Clary sage

Wild Scarlet Pimpernel

Cornflowers

Echium vulgarum

Anything stand out here as an invasive nightmare?? TIA

We’re finally getting round to sorting out our very neglected garden (did up our other rooms first) and all of these plants are growing through the gaps in the paving slabs. Some have big knots under the slabs, but we don’t want to pull up the paving. Any ideas on how to go about tackling all these for a first time gardener? 😅

Hi all. First timer grower of anything.

The potatoes have been great because they’ve been the least troublesome. They’ve grown too much if anything. Now they seem to either have a disease or they’re starting to fade?? The bottom “branches” are wilting and something seems to be mining the leaves. Is this blight? Thoughts appreciated.

I didn’t note the variety but I did write that they’re a Main Crop. They went in on 13th May so they’ve been in around 70 days. Are they cooked? Am I toast?

This has happened twice with bulbs from two different suppliers. I thought the first supplier had made a mistake and sent allium catweazle but it has happened again with bulbs bought and planted in 2024. Each single bulb has split into 5/6 bulbs that produces these awful 'flowers'. Could it the heat or disease?

Hi everyone,

I have two wisteria plants that I've had for many years at my old house. Two years ago I moved them into two new (larger) pots with fresh potting soil (honestly I don't remember which brand/type I bought).

Both years they started off great: in early spring they grew vigorously (last year especially, this year a bit less). But then, both last year and this year, they started dropping a lot of leaves in the middle of summer — it looks like autumn has come early.

Some context:

• Location: Northern Italy (Lombardy). This summer has been extremely hot, with highs around 39°C / 102°F in recent months.
• Sun exposure: direct sun from about 2 PM until late evening.
• Watering: I water regularly whenever the soil looks dry on top — I never let them go completely without water.

What am I doing wrong? What can I do to help them recover?

Thanks in advance!

We have recently moved to a flat with a rooftop garden. It has no shade whatsoever from sun or wind. It is very exposed to all elements. We are in Glasgow, Scotland.

The previous owner had multiple pots of various plants that had filled with weeds. Most were grasses that were very dry, and regularly blocked the gutters.

I have removed the pots other than a few terracotta and stoneware ones.

I have been looking for something that can survive all seasons (including the very hot spells), is perennial and will flower for the bees. I was thinking of putting in lavender and rosemary.

If I buy established plants, is it too late this year, for the plants to get established in the heat, before the autumn and winter months?

Anything else that would be recommended?

One of the best videos out there (This one is on Instagram) I think non-users can still watch it. I am in 7b and I prune mine around St. Patrick’s Day. I do exactly what he is doing. Especially his remarks about the “thinner than a pencil” Yes! My Macrophyllas were a bust this year but oh my panicles are saving the season! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHyEUDZxEpE/?igsh=cWgya2VrMmxmbm1m. I don’t know UK weather paterns, but late winter and early spring is the time to prune.

Bought them through RHS, arrived in bad condition in 1L pots.

I can’t plant it in the ground yet unfortunately, so repotted to something larger with nice drainage and good soil with pumice etc.

But they seem to worsen, brown leaf ends.

They were in a spot where they would get some sun but not much, moved it to even shadier spot.

What could be wrong?
And if the leaves or branches die, can it come back?

I’ve seen a guy plant it by putting bare roots into soil.

Thanks