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Didn’t realise the whole area was covered in a weed sheet which made things 10 times harder than planned.

Excited to see the new plants establish

Moved to our new build one year ago. This is the evolution of our garden over the year. We did it all ourselves. There are still many things to do, but we are already enjoying the space!

Some plans and plants didn't survive. Either because we changed our mind along the way, or because the winter killed them (such as a lovely lemon tree that we planted in the ground).

The latest addition was a small pond and jungle themed plants in the top right corner. Looking forward to the big lush foliage in the summer.

Three years I've been battling the dreaded horsetail, no herbicides, just digging down following the roots and pulling manually. 1st year, I was overrun with the stuff in the subsequent three years, I feel I've been slowly winning, this year, only 4 shoots spotted... so far! wish me luck!

moving house this month, to another new build. it will be nice to have a new canvas to paint, but I am proud of what I did here to give it some character. Will miss the fruit and veg picking with my son.

I’m from the south of the UK and for the last 12 years+ I’ve been growing citrus. I have 12 trees in total including 4 different types of lemon. Amalfii, Meyer, Eureka and Limon Rouge, 2 lime varieties, key lime and Australian finger lime, clementine, kumquat and a grapefruit tree.

My oldest is one of my Eureka trees which is almost 2 metres tall, my rarest is maybe my Limon Rouge or Lemon rosso and I’m also probating a cutting of the New Zealand lemonade tree which is no longer sold in the UK (at present anyhow ) it’s taken root and grown leaves so I’m hoping it takes! I did try grafting another cutting to one of my eurekas but it didn’t take.

I love my trees and the challenge of growing them, especially when you get to pick all the fruit! I made 3 litres of limoncello last summer and after checking my trees after winter I have enough lemons to start another batch from my Amalfi tree and enough grapefruit for some batches of jam or marmalade.

I’ve been growing them for around 12 years and apart from my grapefruit and very large eureka which are in the ground all the others are in pots so I can move them to shelter for winter. I’ve never lost one yet and im looking forward to uncovering the pots for the summer to get some fresh air and sunshine on their leaves .

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but some advice would be greatly appreciated.

We have recently hired a local landscaper to lay 30sqm of indian Sandstone for a new patio in our new build garden (moved in Sept 2024). We have been very happy with their workmanship and work ethic thus far and while prepping the ground etc.

However I have gone out this morning to check the newly laid patio out (half of it was done yesterday morning, the other half on Friday). I have quickly noticed a number of loose slabs that I could easily lift by hand. A number of other slabs also sound hollow when tapped so I am sure they would also become loose with relative ease if I was to try lifting them.

This is clearly an issue with either the cement mixture being inadequate or the sandstone slabs not being prepped properly?

I am now a bit reluctant with them even with a fix as I suspect the entire patio will likely need re-laying, even the seemingly solid slabs? I am also unsure if this was just a fluke on their side (they are a very well reviewed small, local company).

I have messaged them this morning with these issues as they were due to return tomorrow to have the pointing done. Still waiting to hear back from them.

Any advice on how I should proceed from here would be greatly appreciated!

I have attached a couple of pictures with some of the loose slabs where you can see the back and the mortar bed.

Hi, we are so very lucky to have this very large/ private garden..

However, we need ideas of what to do with it- we’ve removed the bushes in the middle - and the tree on the left fell down in a storm. We now have a small patio there .

We’ve planted lots of fruit trees at the far right end-

The lawn is very unlevel.

Any ideas very welcome:,

Also pond is very dirty? Any ideas re cleaning the water?

I absolutely love our garden and all the nature and greenery. And very appreciative that we have all this space- (we are housing association in south east England)

So this is a very large garden for the area.

We want to make the most of it-

But it feels like a huge task and I’m actually not sure where to start?

Other than putting out bee 🐝 bombs and wild flower garden - in the middle of the garden. (and have put eucalyptus and magnolia trees) but they’re obviously take years to grow.

We have sun 🌞 all day in the garden- so will need plants that are ok with that.

When we bought our current house we inherited a very large fish pond. After a year of living with them and a baby on the way, we realised it had to go. We re homed the fish and I set about excavating the pond myself.

I’ve been at a loss what to do with the area ever since. Do I cover it with grass and extend the garden with some sort of walkway on the raised area? Slab it? Pour some kind of resin and create a seating area?

What would you do?

Edit: pond was primarily removed for safety concerns, but also we found that it had quite a large leak in the concrete exterior structure.

Hellebore Seedlings Potted Up 🌱 taken from underneath the mother plant after self seeding. Wondering whether they will be the same as the mother plant or a hybridisation 💚💚

We have a solid roofed conservatory in a pretty full south facing direction and are looking to get a grape vine going inside. Thinking something like the 2nd pic.

Obviously with the solid roof, there's not a huge amount of direct sunlight that hits the house wall above head height.

I've only ever had vines growing in greenhouses before and know that grapes need a bit of direct light to ripen.

Any thoughts or advice as to whether this is a pipe dream or can we really make it happen? Thanks