r/UKGardening

made redundant last year so decided to finally tackle the back garden the house was a student house before I bought it and the back garden was an impenetrable wall of brambles, spent all summer digging a pond and pumped stream, 2 tonnes of topsoil on the clay and some planting, cox orange pippin, Victoria plum, conference pear 3 types of ribes (red, yellow black gooseberry) all bare root, by the time I finished at the beginning of autumn I just had bare earth with "sticks" planted but this year it's coming together and I LOVE sitting at my pond and listening to the water run, I also added a bog section and a wildflower meadow (meadow has just sprouted it's the half moon section in photos) I also left a large section as a slowworm habitat and added logs roof tiles and rockpiles as there are slowworms locally and surprise I had my first slowworm under a tile this week (if you build it they will come!), garden needs a trim at the moment but reseeded some bald spots last week so waiting for those to get a bit more established before going nuts with the trimmer

This winter something moved into my compost bin. First noticed a large pile of compost outside the bin next to the lower opening which was not fully closed, so I shovelled it back in and closed the gap up. But more has moved out the compost bin somehow and there are tunnels in the bin. First picture is inside second is outside the bin. Any ideas what creature is living in my compost bin?

Pulled all of this out that was growing in my gutters but what is it? I quite like the look of it & want to grow in a container so would like to do some more research

I purchased these Olive trees a couple of years ago. One of them is doing ok but the other is really struggling.

New growth forms but doesn’t really go anywhere and the leaves are a yellow colour with curling.

I feed them, monitor the soil moisture and they are in full sun. Can anyone offer any advice please?

As above please....two not one in image

Please can someone tell me why me rhododendron leaves have gone orange/purple with little spots on top leaves? & will it flower this year??

Any ideas on why my white saxifraga is turning pink? I’m not mad about it but would like to know why🤷🏻‍♀️ for context the on next to it was always pink & it was only planted out last month… it’s in a very stony clay west facing bed which I added a layer of compost on top of

Hi, I have two sets of slabs that were donated to me about two years ago and I’m wanting to just off load them for a bit of cash to fund getting some plants in my garden. I’m unable to ask the donators what type of slabs they are so maybe you can help me.

So I think this is a money plant the first picture?

It’s always lived in the bathroom but I decided to put it outside all last week and it’s nearly doubled in size. Can I cut it back?

And this monstera I’ve had for 2 years now and it’s just gangly and tbh a little bit pathetic. It lives in a dark corner in my room but again decided to put it outside all last week for some sun and it’s burnt the leaves.

How can I make the monstera look more fuller?