Garden Check-In

[bridgetmkennitt]

How is your garden going so far? Is it looking great? Is the weather fighting you or working with you?

Comments

[antisoppist]

South-west UK here. I'm renting and this is my second year here. My landlords have never lived in the house and just want me to prune things when necessary but the previous owners of the house were keen gardeners and have only moved up the road so I feel kind of responsible for looking after the garden they spent ten years creating!

My own planting last year was limited to pots on the patio but now I've seen the garden through a whole year, I've put in some summer flowering bulbs where there are gaps.

It is very much a spring garden. We had a lot of sun in April followed by a lot of rain in May so everything is now going mad. There is a flowering clematis taking over the side wall and the lane the other side, and a wisteria blossoming over the shed. A rose has forced its way through a mass of honeysuckle (which isn't flowering) and is producing roses about eight feet above the ground. The bay tree is growing as I look at it and the rosemary has flowered and fallen over sideways. I think I am supposed to just let everything flower and then do rather a lot of cutting back. I would like to plant something edible but I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by what there is there already and last year slugs ate all my peas and beans and even rocket so I am rather gloomy about its prospects.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Oh wow, ten years worth of garden? Yeah, I'd feel the same way too.

I feel a bit overwhelmed just reading your description! I wish you luck and here's hoping you can plant some edibles. I love edibles more than flowers (since I can eat the former and not the latter). Would container edibles help against the slugs?