We are picking a big punnet of rasberries every couple of days at the moment. Have to replant them this winter, they didnt come up as well this year after all they dry cold we had last winter
We’ve only just started looking after our new garden, was getting the lawn a lovely lush green colour… then came the mole. The little bugger is digging it all up. I’m going to try and catch him and release him elsewhere.
Mine is just a lawn, pots, fuchsias, shrubbed borders and a patch down the bottom that i’ve sown with wild seeds such as poppies, budleha(not sure of spelling) etc to encourage bees and other insects.
Our is looking a bit wild, not cutting the grass anywhere near as often as we used too…and I like it! Yes, the trees and bushes need pruning and there’s stacks of weeds everywhere, probably to the disgust our neighbours as they’re sneaking under the fence but I love the carpet of buttercups, daisies and clover.
We have three small raspberry canes that are still quite young and have only produced 12 raspberries so far and two tomato plants that are growing really big and have loads of baby tomatoes.
This is a very sweet topic! I live in an apartment so unfortunately no garden but I’ve developed a lovely little family of plants. They definitely cheer me up and have helped make my rented space feel more like a home. My plant babies make me happy! I’m not the best plant mom, sometimes my plants look a tad under the weather but they somehow manage to survive which is a true miracle
I noticed my neighbour has started to let areas of his lawn grow long. I assume it’s because he’s seen mine and like the way it looks.
That and because he says he hates mowing
I love my garden at the moment, we didnitnuo last summer and it’s so much better. I like things like lavender and foxgloves and pretty flowers but I’ve also got 4 sprouts plants taking over my raised beds, failing sunflowers, a few tomato plants that are just leaves at the moment and a chilli plant that is looking promising, the rest are cottage flowers and wildflowers.
Salvia (also known as hot lips) is fantastic bee plant! I’ve got a couple and they are really easy to look after. Grow quite bush like, Hardy and I do nothing but give them a chop back a few times a year
I planted some lily bulbs in a planter earlier this year as we live in a flat so have a patch of lawn under our back windows and they’re finally starting to get close to actually opening instead of just growing taller!
Also, the gift rose I got reduced from the supermarket has doubled in size and started budding which is a shocker as it’s an indoor plant and I just chucked it outside to see how it got on with some others.
Got into succulents recently too (indoors although have some outdoors to plant) and thanks to one of the cats, they’re half squashed and flat so just trying to revive them.
Somewhere I saw an item about bees stealing pollen from plants by going in under the
sepal and so not pollinating any of the plants,and now I have actually watched the bees on our Salvias doing it .