The first rule of potting shed is YOU ALWAYS talk about potting shed. The thread continues.

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Here goes, and feeling bit cheeky as I didn't post much on the last one.

A fine autumn day here, with much seasonal clearing done. Now I come to think of it, is there ever a non-clearing season? :o

ah but tiny sprays is how it starts!

I didn't plant the tulips deep enough, I think. Some are fine, others are drying up really fast - could that be it? They are new bulbs and all get the same amount of sun. May be just coincidence but perhaps my estimates weren't good. Maybe i should have bought one of those bulb planter thingies.

oh I meant to say - anyone grow freesias? They need winter protection don't they? I just love freesias but I have heard they are hard to grow.

The rhododendron should be fine, if not you'll see it yellow a bit then you water with sequestrion. Or specialist plant food of some kind. My mother has a lovely display of tiny daffs (tête a tête?) around a heather. Looks surprisingly stunning.

So pleased about my rose...

pickle - I have tete a tete - sorry don't know how to do accents - I really like them, much prefer them to normal daffs.

That does sound lovely pickle - I'm not normally a fan of daffs that aren't the classic big, plain yellow kind, but I can just picture the tiny ones mixed in with heather.

I tried freesias once: I love them put some in a pot and gave them lots of Tlc, but they still didn't produce any flowers for me. They are indeed tender, so need to be in a greenhouse probably- I tried mine outside.

On the subject of pots, I got some tiny scaevola plants the other day - the sort that are 5 for £5. They are very pretty and mine flowered from June until almost December last year, with no deadheading provided or needed.

I too attempted freesias once. Even though I started them in a pot in the pop-up greenhouse, they didn't produce so much as a leaf. Huge disappointment, as I love the scent and cheery colour of freesias. Coincidentally, I've got the same happening with lily of the valley now.

Thanks all
I've noticed a lot of places selling freesia plants but I will resist!!

Maud, isn't it too early for lily of the valley to be in leaf?

Yeah, my point is that it's been planted for a year and nada.

Maud are they in a pot or in the ground?

I didn't have any luck with them in pots either.

I brought hyacinths inside, smells lovely, made me think what easy bedding plants might have a nice scent? But then I was also going to be economical so I'm not sure what to have over summer. I get carried away looking at catalogues....!

PS I get confused with heights - always seems to say something different on different websites but I need something very low growing.

I am determined to finish clearing this bed today! I'm also really pleased with how this rose is looking - I found it deep inside a hedge last summer (where it must have been for about 10 years!) when one determined flower poked through. I replanted it and chopped it right back and it looks so much healthier now!

I have a potting bench! The kids helped us assemble it, now it just needs some cuprinol and my pricking out and potting on will be a joy.

Ooh, Mrs. I like that!

I've been digging up 'Chinese lanterns'. I didn't know it was a bad idea to plant it in a bed. I'd like to see them in a basket.

I posted this all over the place but here goes again . Does anyone know what this might be it is a hard green shell thing that is starting to sprout. I think another few are a bit further advanced but I am not really sure if they are the same thing. Not something I planted.

The ones on the left could be alium?

Dunno about the round thing. Doesn't look like the alium bulbs I planted. Although it does look like something the squirrels kept diggIng up, nibbling and re-caching over winter.

I wondered about alium. Possibly in the soil of some of some of the plants I kept.

The one in the, sort of shell casing, looks like it might have fallen from a tree, except none of my neighbour's have trees.

May I join too? I'm starting to garden too.

I had a potting shed built last year so am slowly learning to grown plants but am really a novice.

Our back garden is NNW facing, unfortunately with enormous leylandii to the west and neighbour just about to double size of house, taking more light .

We have a lovely thick clay soil too. Have wood chipped the beds and last year I spent several months putting top soil etc on the lawn so the condition is improving.

Need to work out how to let my increasingly dark garden grow. Also looking to grow a few veggies, perhaps start with peppers in potting shed.

I'm so unbelievably excited today about a sodding plant MIL gave me mountains of cuttings last year, which I stuck in any bit of soil I could find, and then moved the surviving ones to where I wanted them when I'd dug a bed.

Anyway, fast forward to now, in said bed are lots of things popping up, as I shoved in a load of bulbs too from one of those deals last year (and promptly forgot what bulbs they were!). I noticed one with a dark pinky/red stalk coming up, and then went to MIL's and noticed she had the same. I asked what it is, and she said it's a peony!! It's obviously from one of the cuttings she gave me - her garden looked so so lovely last year with pink peonies everywhere, and I am just so excited to actually have one of my own now

(I tried telling DP about this but he looked at me like my head had fallen off, so I'm telling you lot instead )

Peonies are well worth getting excited about.

It can take Peonies a while to settle in before flowering. I share your excitement, I have a new Sarah Bernheart popping through! I can't wait for ir to flowers, although it might not this year. 😊

I'm fully expecting it not to flower this year, but if I can just keep it alive I will be happy! I've heard they don't like being moved, so I'm so pleased it's popping up nice and healthy

I love peonies! I've never managed to keep one though...