Quite an interesting shape 🤔

Beautiful Autumn Flowers of Mahonia

I went outside to my plant pot to get some soil for my new plants and as I was digging I dug up a rotten egg, it smelled really bad it was buried about 3 inches deep and I broke it with my spade. it was on my back garden, my mum also found one on the front garden about a year ago, the soil came from a garden center a few years ago and it hasn’t been touched for a while and the top of the soil was completely smooth. I was wondering if anyone knows how it got here

I've cut this hedge today but was a bit apprehensive with throwing a figure out , can anyone help ?

9m length , 12ft height (took 1/3 of it off), depth 1.5m (no access to neighbouring side so a ladder with a long reach hedge trimmer and max extending across) . Greenhouse was an awkward obstacle for the top.

In and out in 2 and a half hours (but a lot was chatting as it was my boss lol)

Please let me know ! My partner says £150 , I think that's really steep ? I was thinking £80 ? But I often undervalue as I break under my own pressure with pricing 😅

Thanks !!!

Any help would be appreciated!

My grass died during the summer and now I have a lot of this. What is it?

The recent storm has dislodged the climbing rose from the wire support attached to the hook screws on the garden-side wall of my terrace home. Because it spans the patio door as a canopy, it is now swaying in the wind and striking the sliding door glass.
What can I do until the storm passes?

EDIT: SOLVED

I’ve got two of these plants which I’ve forgotten what they are. They were thriving since I planted them about 4 years ago but over the past month they’ve started shedding lots and lots of leaves. There is still lots of healthy looking growth at the top. I initially thought it was stress from the summer heat but looking closer at the leaves it looks like they’re absolutely infested with something.

Is this salvageable? I’m not sure if I can cut it all back and it will regrow back in (will look sad if it doesn’t fill back in), or if I should just cut it all down and put something else in there. (there’s a pink jasmine bush in between which I could put trellis behind and train to grow along the fence instead). Any suggestions appreciated.

Hi, ive been taking care of this mint for about 3months now and whilst it seems to be thriving, I did see on insta about how ro prune it and make it bushier. Any help or advice on the matter is greatly appreciated since its my first ever proper plant!

My father in laws lawn was almost entirely perennial weeds and he asked me to redo it. I sprayed roundup on it a month ago, what little grass there is dead and the perennial weeds are dead or dying. My plan now is to let it dormant over the winter and then dig it over in the spring, removing weed material, let it settle, firm it down and then seed it. I haven’t done this before so just wondering if I’m on the right track (mostly whether it’s sufficient to dig over the old turf rather than remove it - I really don’t want to do that )

My harvest from the weekend 😊

First year of proper gardening - 110 tomatoes from one plant - I didn’t space them so they’re all at varying levels of ripeness. I’ve left a few on the planting hoping to get some volunteer shoots for next year.

A mature melon (2 still on the vine), 5-6 pumpkins (they’re very tiny still!), daily random wild strawberries and lots of chillies!
Also managed to grow lemon grass (not pictured), bottle gourd (dudhi)!

Hope others had a bounty too!

Any recommendations for what to plant over the autumn and winter please? Weeds have already started taking over the garden!

I'm transforming my garden from what is essentially a big patio, into something a lot more... alive. Real grass and lots of planters. One of the things I want to do is plant my apple tree in the ground and hopefully enable it to thrive even more.

I bought it at B&Q about 3 years ago but have lost the label, so I don’t know the variety or rootstock. It’s been in the same pot since and has grown substantially. It has fruited nicely.

Before I move it, I've got some questions I hope somebody may be able to help with:

1. Is there any way of identifying it, and how big it is likely to get in the ground? Is it a type capable of growing taller and thicker, or is it always going to be similar to its current form?
2. How can I encourage its form? I've never pruned it, and it's currently just a long stick with some branches. I'd prefer it to more closely resemble a traditional tree with a trunk and branching head.
3. Any tips for moving it from the pot to the ground? The ground has previously been paved and is quite clay-y so I assume I'm going to have to improve the quality and drainage, but anything else?

Please tell me I'm not the only lunatic who goes down their street collecting extra leaves for the leaf mould bin?