First time buyer house, with a second rate garden!
- ConcreteJungle
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P.s the grass seed if anyone interested was from homebase. Qualcast premium grass seed. They do shade variety too.
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Good selection of plants.ConcreteJungle wrote:Thanks, needed grass for my little one, bosch verticutter made the difference... early to buy but already got some 4x fatsia, asian wonder bamboo, robusta palm, Trachycarpus, mule palm, sikki and 2x ensete, cordy burgandy spire. Trying to get some big plants out the way. Then fill in the gaps. On my list still is cordy charlies boy, some ginger, ferns including a 2ft dicksonia only, phormium, suitable self clinging climber for one part of my metal shed, astilbe for the wet part of garden and a dwarf willow.
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Oops! Has this pygmy date palm survived???
In the growing point there is emerging fronds of both green and some brown aswell .... I love the spot for it in full sun in summer until mid afternoon. Due to spikes cudnt keep it indoors over winter. Was my first naive buy in homebase. One key point to mention - i never wrapped frost cloth around it (instead placing a massive 75gsm frost cloche over it which didnt touch the palm at all) Also, i forgot to put polythene cover over it until start of january , to stop excess rain entering at the top and freezing up! just hope it survives?????
In the growing point there is emerging fronds of both green and some brown aswell .... I love the spot for it in full sun in summer until mid afternoon. Due to spikes cudnt keep it indoors over winter. Was my first naive buy in homebase. One key point to mention - i never wrapped frost cloth around it (instead placing a massive 75gsm frost cloche over it which didnt touch the palm at all) Also, i forgot to put polythene cover over it until start of january , to stop excess rain entering at the top and freezing up! just hope it survives?????
Re: First time buyer house, with a second rate garden!
Oh bless, I wish my lawn looked like that,
Leave it there, give it time to come to...maybe June time. Scrape gentle on the stem, if its green its living.
CJ...why did you not bag it in fleece?
Leave it there, give it time to come to...maybe June time. Scrape gentle on the stem, if its green its living.
CJ...why did you not bag it in fleece?
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- ConcreteJungle
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Lawn I can do, but plants I'm very new at! I thought what I did was enough, I guess, next time, if survives I'll really wrap it up.
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Lawn looks very good, plants are easier than lawns in my opinion in most cases.
- The Codfather
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Na lawns are a breeze...
AKA - Martin
Wish list - Big Palms or Dicksonia antarctica's but open to anything really.....Cash Waiting !
Wish list - Big Palms or Dicksonia antarctica's but open to anything really.....Cash Waiting !
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Im guessing you have well drained soil.The Codfather wrote:Na lawns are a breeze...
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Lawn, mine is in a shocking state,
With all the rain, its more like mud but I do see the very midges do Dicksonia antarctica of Improvement. It needs forking, sand, cutting and then Greenthumb to visit.
For the mud patches I bought grass seed yesterday.
With all the rain, its more like mud but I do see the very midges do Dicksonia antarctica of Improvement. It needs forking, sand, cutting and then Greenthumb to visit.
For the mud patches I bought grass seed yesterday.
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nope....far from it wet, heavy, compacted clay and water stands on it upto 6" deep at times.......But I have been working the ground and lawn for 4 years now and it is getting better......and the lawn's etc easily can be repaired.fern Rob wrote:Im guessing you have well drained soil.The Codfather wrote:Na lawns are a breeze...
AKA - Martin
Wish list - Big Palms or Dicksonia antarctica's but open to anything really.....Cash Waiting !
Wish list - Big Palms or Dicksonia antarctica's but open to anything really.....Cash Waiting !
- The Codfather
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i think in my blog....at the start you can see pics of the state of my lawn at the start and half way through you can see it after some TLC
AKA - Martin
Wish list - Big Palms or Dicksonia antarctica's but open to anything really.....Cash Waiting !
Wish list - Big Palms or Dicksonia antarctica's but open to anything really.....Cash Waiting !
- ConcreteJungle
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Kata - when applying grass seed - ensure you have lots of grooves in the lawn soil and top off with top soil on top. Fern Rob - i think applying gypsum to the lawn helps drainage.... aswell as spiking in spring & hollowtining in autumn. Well that's what i did anyways! Codfather - cant find your blog, would be interested to see a before and after photo of your garden.
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Thanks CJ!
I turned down tyning because when I first had it done it was like parcels of poo and I hated picking them up..
I may just accept that this autumn though.
How has my lovely lawn come to this?
From this
I turned down tyning because when I first had it done it was like parcels of poo and I hated picking them up..
I may just accept that this autumn though.
How has my lovely lawn come to this?
From this
- ConcreteJungle
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It's not too bad, winter didn't help anyone's grass, just needs a good scarify and overseeding when gets warmer.