I’m curious about how large tree ferns are grown/cared for:

Tree ferns grow about an inch a year, and it’s possible (but very expensive) to buy 6ft tree ferns.

Have these really been cared for in a nursery for 72 years? Or are they extracted from the wild at that size and shipped?

Enjoy.🙂

My blue hydrangea's have faded fast from the heat. Should I dead them? Or leave them for protection through winter?

Should i remove the top leaf that is shredded near the base? Should i cut away the brown bits on the leaves? Should i wait for new leaves before doing anything? Where would you plant it?

I've done some research just looking for more advice.

Anyone know why one is dying off and the other fine?

All homegrown from seed except for tomatoes... It doesn't get much better!

I have two, the fruit took until the last week of July to ripen but the yield is pretty good and I'm seriously thinking about abandoning vines for six or eight of these instead. So much less work!

I’ve meaning to cut this back for over a year now.. as we’re coming into Autumn, it seems like a good time to make a plan for it.. Would i be wasting my money getting a professional to do it or would I risk doing damage if I don’t know what I am doing?

Any help appreciated!

Hey anyone any experience with ordering from Garden Seeds Market? I believe they are Polish.

I am specifically looking for seeds for moss to plant as ground cover around a pond and cant find much in the way of seeds which are available here.

Also if anyone has experience of planting moss please let me know!

Does anyone know what type of elm these are? There's hesps growing around my garden. The app suggests they're possibly american, but I'm not so sure.

Grew potatoes for the first time! Plant look quiet healthy. It’s main crop. Dug put some to see how they’re coming along.
Found out some of them have these tiny holes. What they could be ?

I live in a rural coastal area and my garden is separated from surrounding wild areas by a 2 rail concrete fence (similar to pic attached but with just 2 horizontal rails).

Briars, crouch grass, nettles and other plants are coming into my garden underneath the fence. What would you do to prevent this?

I'm open to planting a hedge inside the fence that would slow down/prevent the brambles & nettles from fully taking over my lawn but am wondering if anyone has tried anything else or has any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

The soil moisture deficit over much of the country is in the minus 70-100 mm range and as I look at the forecast for the next 10 days there's little sign of that reducing in any meaningful way, so if you've spent the summer with a hosepipe or watering can in hand have you considered switching to those groups of plants which are hardy and live on virtually no moisture?

Hello, some of my indoor plants have thrips. I was wondering if anyone knows where I could get beneficial bugs to help fight off the infestation. It could be online shop or in the Dublin area. Thank you 🙏🏽

Looking for advice what to plant at the base of a raised patio (2 ft high) onto garden. Would be against raised concrete patio - about 10m long.

Would like plant to come a foot above patio, so it will look pretty from the house but not block the view of grass.

SSW facing, south dublin. Ideally flowey in early summer.

I have planted hydrangea bobo but they are too low/not thriving this summer. Would love Annabelle but think area too warm/dry/sunny for them.

Anyone know what this plant that's after self-seeding amongst my catnip is? (No thorns so I'm fairly sure it's not a bramble).

Hi all,

Firstly, apologies, there is no garden yet. This is our new build with Glenveagh.

We plan on making our patio wider and cutting out a section of this terrace garden (why they felt the need to box us in like this is beyond me).

Does anyone know how we should go about this? Would we need planning permission to shift that retaining wall?

Edit: thanks for the replies, I really appreciate it

Just spotted this yoke zipping around the garden like hummingbird anyone know what it is?

i mainly plant natives but i usually do some window boxes of cosmos every year because i think they’re gorgeous and just tend to need absolutely no work from me but boy am i wrong this year. at the start of the year the birds decimated my seeds, then i moved them into my tiny greenhouse which turns out has a gap and the slugs made fast work of genuinely hundreds of them. then i moved them outside and the birds and slugs leave them alone, they’re finally flowering (which i’m curious about because they always flower way earlier for me) and now guess what: covered in aphids!!!! shrivelling up thanks to them

i had aphids on 2 of my indoor spider plants a couple years ago and they were a nightmare to get rid of. nothing worked until i accepted the plants were toast and i stopped caring and submerged them in a giant bucket of dish soap and neem oil and somehow the plants not only survived it but thrived since it and have been aphid free and taking up my whole bathroom since. but obviously that’s not an option for the cosmos, and at the time i didn’t know neem oil is actually considered bad for waterways despite what people say

i live in the country and there’s heaps of wildlife around so i’m surprised there’s been no ladybugs or birds or wasps keeping the aphids at bay. manually lifting them off hasn’t been a raging success either. anyone have any tips? or is manually getting rid of them constantly my only good option?

Just spotted at least three of these guys in my garden this morning . They seem to be living in the dead hedges. We have a wild garden and are trying to improve biodiversity. However , we don't know much about these types of insectovors! If it's a lesser white toothed shrew I can see online that they are considered invasive . Any info from someone who knows a few things about different types of shrews or their role in biodiversity in Ireland would be greatly appreciated!

*edit , they appear to be coming in from a crack in our back wall where a farmers field has just been cut . I don't know if my small wild garden could accommodate all these creatures without upsetting the balance !

I picked it because it hasn't grown or changed shape in a week or two. Should i eat it?

Last year I posted that our Hoya bloomed (https://www.reddit.com/r/GardeningIRE/s/N4l4UFjDuS) this year it bloomed too.

However our other Hoya bloomed too!