Gardening chat

[Procrastatron]

I find some areas of Mumsnet quite stressful at the moment due to strong opinions and covid related doom and gloom. Not the gardening section though.
I spend a lot of time daydreaming about my little, slightly wild, London garden and all the lovely things that are on order with various online nurseries or stashed on the decking for planting out soon. I’m definitely novice gardener and happily so and my criteria for plants are along the lines of hard to kill, colourful and weed suppression.

Right now I’m pondering where I should plant my verbena and how well my rose will respond to the cavalier pruning I have it at the weekend.
I’d love to hear what gardening related things other people are thinking about at the mo.

Sounds great LoveFall, I got Oregano from Morrison’s couple of days ago for £2.50 for a good size.

Morrisons really are great for bargain plants.

I'm planning on taking down a tall conifer at the back of the garden. It's dark, too big and casts too much shade. It's a small garden so everything has to earn it's place IYSWIM.

Problem is DH wants to make sure we have privacy from the house behind us. So I need to replace it with something probably about 8 metres tall. I like flowering trees or bright, light coloured leaves. I was considering Laburnum but their leaves are toxic and take up to 50 years to grow to 8 metres. I was thinking weeping willow but my gardener said their roots are as long as they are tall which could become a problem? Not sure?

Does anyone have any ideas?

@NutellaEllaElla I’m interested in this too!

In other news, I was fiddling with my clematis and snapped the top off the main shoot. I’m hoping it’s like every other plant any I’ll actually encourage more side shoots but worried I’ve done some real damage now.

Before we moved to an apartment I had a real garden with quite a few clematis. I don't think you have done permanent damage, but you may find it takes a while to send shoots upward.

Procrastination, this has happened to me many times. There is a temptation to help clematis twine round the support and they are really delicate. It will just sprout another stem, no real damage done.

Noticed this morning my clematis is flowering!

My problem is I work in a garden centre and being home plants less knowledgstaff Chuck out! They are nameless, no idea what some are do just bring them home and plant them

Also, when our store had to close for a while last March many of the plants were feee for staff to take. So I stick them in the ground. No idea what they are

I’m really loving Heucheras at the moment

• bring home plants less knowledgeable staff Chuck out!

Where can I buy cheap compost ? It’s costing me a fortune:(

What are you using it for?

For pots.

We're having our garden blitzed from utter bombsite which floods to new lawn, paved ,drainage to control the flooding , new path .
So excited

There's a lot of established shrubs that need cut back but a couple of areas that will need plants . And some potted plants .

I have - (from seed) nastrusiums and sweet peas ( 2 of my favourites)
Some begonia plug plants
A clematis
They're all in the little greenhouse

Waiting on climbing fushia and a passionflower to be delivered

I've got daffodils in pots that are looking a bit rough now so they can go in one of the beds once they die down

Snapdragons are lovely MrsBert I might look out for them .

I really wanted a freesia (sp) saw loads in the last couple of weeks but I've missed the flowering season I think .
And a California lilac.

really wanted a freesia (sp)

Argh , I meant forsythia .
Though I do love the smell of freesias too

I can't have a garden without snspdragons. I have the loveliest memory of my son aged 2 laughing his head off at the bumble bees going in and out of them. They are the best!

Had a good laugh this morning. Two months or so ago I ordered a package of spring onion seeds online. The only ones I found were from the Ukraine. It was not much money so I took a chance. They finally arrived this week in a hand addressed envelope from the Ukraine.

In the meantime I had given up and ordered another package from Amazon that promised very quick delivery. Lo and behold it arrived last night.

The seeds are in a packet clearly from the Ukraine! I am now the proud owner, in Canada, of two packets of Ukrainian onion seeds.

I could start an onion farm with clearly exotic onions.

Lovely gardening weather.
I had a great morning, I went to Homebase looking for bean netting, none to be had. As usual l went to the sad plant bit and found an Azalea about to flower for £3 and a miniature flowering cherry £3. So delighted!
Spent the very warm afternoon potting on seedings.

Wow BeeBumble what a bargain, enjoy!

All the gardening experts, I need advice - I plant to put trellis up and let rose & jasmine climb on front of the house, currently it’s just brick, I want to paint it white then let the plants climb. But please tell me if it’s not wise to paint and I should leave the bricks as they’re ?

I plan to *

Managed to do a little planting this afternoon. I’ve got a hydrangea cutting from my Grandmother which looks like it is taking well. Plus my lupins have taken off.

BumbleBuzz do you mean paint the bricks? Once bricks are painted then that’s it! You have to keep painting them. Personally I’d not do it.
The trellis, why would you paint that? When fixing trellis to walls it’s best to put a spacer between the wall and the trellis, so that the plants can twine behind.

@NutellaEllaElla Rowan will get to 8m and give you flowers, fruits and autumn colour. Or whitebeam, or a larger flowering cherry. Or a pear on a non-dwarfing rootstock, or quince

Thanks, I just adore following cherry trees but only see short ones

Flowering lol

Yay! The nice delivery guy brought me three (3) gaura today!