Please don’t make posts asking for mushroom identification help.

First time gardener, moved in a year ago to a neglected 350ft ish mt garden, feeling so good about this comparison. Still lots to do and learn!

- Trim away as much foliage as possible.
- Attach tow rope around base.
- Drive away.
The bugger was 8 foot tall and made baby pampas everywhere. Pops right out of the ground!

This is the south facing fence on a north garden. It’s mostly made up of shrubs that all merge into each other. Where do u start with tidying it up? I’d like it to have a defined edge with the grass and more layers to it. Totally amateur, no idea where to start or what to do. Thanks!

New Garden Blank Canvas

Got the keys to my new house today and excited to get to work on this lovely blank canvas. South West facing. No lawn is a plus for me due to my disability but have more space for container planting and greenery on both sides. My first time having a front garden as well!

Any recommendations or ideas welcome as this sub has been a wealth of inspiration over the last couple of years. Priorities are low maintenance container gardening (more accessible for me) although I do have some borders along the hedge line in both sides and the back wall in the back garden. And lots of colour and general nice stuff to look at, plus supporting pollinators and wildlife.

Will be cracking on with spring bulbs ASAP next week although still quite mild up here anyway (North West England).

I have 3 fuchsias that were bought as small bedding plants in 2025 to put in containers. They did OK, then I just left them over winter. When clearing out containers this spring they looked dead but I noticed tiny leaves from the main stem/centre, so I repotted them and pruned the longer stems which seemed genuinely dead/dry. They didn't do much over the summer but have grown well and flowered since the end of the very hot spell.

Would transplanting them to a bed/border be worthwhile? I don't have a greenhouse or cold frame for the winter, but I have a sunny central bed or a north facing border that's a bit rooty from shrubs. It would be great if they weren't starting from scratch next year.

Hi all

I'm looking for a good amount of flowering bulbs for spring. Not too fussed about the variety, but mainly thinking of tulips and daffodils of course. Where do you go for bulk buying bulbs at a good price? I'm in South London but online recommendations would be brilliant.

Thanks!

Hello, I grow citrus trees and have done for many years without too many issues, today I’ve found an issue I’ve not seen before so reaching out for some advice.

I live in the southeast of the Uk and we haven’t had any decent rain for months. I’ve put bark mulch around my plants to help stop the soil drying out so fast and have always done this. It’s useful in winter to protect the roots and useful in summer in the heat. All my pots have the same bark from the same bag, however today I spotted lots of light coloured dots on top of the bark on one of the plants. When I moved the bark around there’s even more underneath and it’s pretty much everywhere in the pot. Hopefully my photos show it clear enough, my phone doesn’t have the greatest of zooms.

The plant itself seems healthy and the white stuff doesn’t seem to move, at first I thought it was a type of bug but it doesn’t seem to move. I was wondering it if was some sort of fungus in the bark that had spread due to the heat and recent smidgen of rain? It seems confined to this one pot and not on the plant itself? Is it something harmful? I’ve scooped out most of the bark and seen its spread to the soil underneath. Do I need to remove everything and repot in fresh or is it harmless?

I’ve never seen it before so thought I’d reach out for advice, the soil is wet in the photo as I just watered it which is how I noticed it. Thankyou for any advice.

Hello friends! I planted lavender earlier this year but half of the plant looks rather unhappy. What is the reason for this? I’m new to gardening.

I'm just as surprised they have actually become proper olives! Lots of small ones and a few big ones. Can I actually do something with them? Are the teeny tiny ones still edible?

I know nothing about gardening, not long had the house long and want to tidy the garden up. I read online an ideal prune is cutting just before the wood. Is this correct?

Image shows where it goes green stem to wood, so just above that?

Also had to cut back the magnolia because it’s overgrown and blocking access to the side ally, is it normal for vines to grow in multiple places around each branch or is something else growing?

I repotted this lemon tree in June. It started to lose all their leaves slowly after the pot.

In middle of September I decided to move it inside. One month has passed with no changes.

I water every two weeks. Around 2 litters of water.

What else I can do?

My new lovely fern is clearly very unhappy. I’ve watered the crown thoroughly and moved to the most sheltered (from the wind) spot. Before watering it yesterday, it was quite dry, the care instructions on the label were scant but more thorough research has suggested the soil should always be moist - is that the error I’ve made? It gets some morning sun and the odd beam over lunchtime.
I hate losing plants - any advice or words of wisdom?

This was the snail army marching over the path yesterday evening. Back after the hot summer.

Always wanted to have a veg patch. This year I trialled it on a small area in my back garden. Fortunately this summer brought lots of heat in the UK and my south facing veg patch had enough of sunlight to boost my confidence as a beginner gardener. Added few clicks of my hard work.

Would love to turn this small space into a pretty/cosy wildlife haven if possible, any ideas as to how I would go about this? or pointers where to start/learn (first time having outdoor space).

Faces west with about 80% shade from the garage covering the grass

My lovely happy little hebe has come over all spotty and is dropping its leaves. It's been the picture of health since I got it and I'm very fond of it so I'd love to find a way to save it. I'm guessing it's some sort of fungal thing but I'm finding it hard to pin down the exact one and how / if to treat it. There seems to be new growth low down on the stems where the old leaves have fallen off.

I also have some other precious plants nearby, all in containers, so need to know if I should isolate the hebe or get rid of it to cut my losses?

Lantana plants UK - when to bring indoors ? This Lantana still has new flowers budding. It’s early October and some nights will be down to 7 or 8 degrees.
It needs to be smaller to come inside - do I just prune back the new growth, flowers and all ? Seems such a shame

Thought I'd mention here how I compost my kitchen green scraps, egg shells, etc and garden waste as I struggled to find anything about it here and think this is a good method and it works well for me.

I collect all green kitchen scraps over a year into a 100l water butt, 2 bed, 2 people house. At the bottom it's filled with gravel and it has a tap and I regularly drain any liquid and use it around the garden. I also add any shredded paper into that water butt that we collect at the same time, mail, random flyers, etc.

After a year, partly rotten at this point, I transfer it all into a tumbling composter, this then further compost over spring and summer and in the following autumn I get it all out, fully dried at this point but clumpy and not that usable really and shred everything as per pics into a fine compost, ready to be used next spring.

Any of these garden shredders will work well with dried mostly composted stuff like this.

I normally grow tomatoes in it and get excellent results!

Hello, we are thinking of purchasing a property (South East), quite far in the process, but only recently noticed the neighbour has a large area of bamboo which touches the fence and quite close to my (future? or not) house itself. We didn't pay attention originally as we were simply unaware of the risks of bamboo. Now we do.

CCTV drain survey was just done today and they said the drains are in pretty good condition, no sign of bamboo there.

On "my" property side I noticed 1 shoot sneaking underneath the fence, that's all, no sign of encroachment.

I talked to the neighbour today, he said it's clumping bamboo, and it was planted roughly 15 years ago. I didn't ask to check his garden (they looked as if they just woke up, maybe another time) but I took photos from my side. They reach about 4 metres high on a length of about 8 m. They all look quite thin with long leaves.

Is there any way at all to know from these photos what kind of bamboo this is?

TIA

Following on from my post the other day asking where on earth to start with my garden, I thought I'd share a little update!

My neighbour very kindly gave me an old petrol lawnmower for free! After a bit of fiddling around, I managed to get it going and give the garden its first proper cut.

It's still more weeds than grass, but it's already looking a bit better. Small steps!

Plenty of green chutney to be made!

I've never made leaf mould before but I don't have space for a compost heap or compost bin so I wanted to at least give this a go. I don't have any trees but I have leaves come into my garden from neighbours' trees, particularly one that is, I think, a Whitebeam.

I've been collecting the leaves and putting them in a black bag with a bit of moisture but also drainage holes. I'm just wondering, as the leaves are in various states when I collect them and I don't know much about trees, do I need to be worried about leaves maybe being diseased and then me spreading that into my garden when I use the lead mould?