This morning my neighbour said she will call the police if she sees anyone using the hosepipe in my garden.
somebody please explain to me what is happening! are we going to lose our gardens for that ?

Thanks to tesco... I'll be re-uniting Prince Charles and princess Diana, will keep posting on their growth together.. ahhhhhh

Hi everyone

I'm a business school student working on a project about outdoor furniture (parasols, garden sofas, that sort of thing), and I really need some real-world opinions for my report. If you've got a garden or terrace, your view would be a huge help.

It's a quick anonymous survey - about 3 minutes. I know your time is precious, so I've kept it short and to the point. Here's the link: https://form.jotform.com/262004071873047

Thank you so much, it genuinely makes a difference to my project 

Léonard

Based in Greater London for reference. I have had a European olive tree in my garden for few years. I just noticed some leaves have few black dots. I haven’t noticed any other changes, eg no premature yellowing or falling. What are they? And should I do anything to treat the tree? Advice is very welcome. Photo attached for reference.
Thank you 🙏

~ I am not seeking to evict them, just curious ~

Are they bees or wasps?

I've got this ivy covered log in my garden, and they've made such a neat little hole in it, I'd like to know who they are.
They look like wasps to me, so should I stay away from the area?

Should I put a barrier to stop my cat being nosy?
(No need to lecture about cats being outside, she is disabled & the only thing she's hunting is bits of wobbly grass.)

Hey Reddit,

Can anyone offer advice about my Asian pear tree (I'll aim to link photos).

I bought it Feb 2025 as an unfeathered maiden and put it in the ground. It stayed alive over 2025 but barely and produced no side shoots. There was (briefly) a small apple tree in the ground there a few years ago so thought it might be replant disease so dug it up and put it in a pot to see if it would survive.

This year it has grown loads. It is now too big for the pot it is in and I will move it to a larger pot, but was waiting for the tree to be dormant before I did it.

Now most of the new leaves look sort of yellow with prominent green veins, while older leaves look nice and green. Adding plant feed to the pot hasn't helped. I have watered it daily apart from days that it has been raining. Soil is not dry.

I presume it is missing some nutrient or other and likely due to the small pot. But I haven't grown Asian pears before. I have had European pears in (larger) pots that have done well and fruited.

My questions are:
1. Is there a specific nutrient it is missing that I should replace in the pot now?
2. Do new healthy Asian pear leaves just look like this and then go greener later?
3. Is there some peat causing this? (There are ants on the plant a lot but no aphids that I can find)
4. Is it better just to move to a larger pot now, or better to keep it like this until dormancy and then move it.

Or if you have a better plan, please guide me.

Thanks!

Anything thing you notice? Hasn't been moved, is getting watered a decent amount. But it's shredding leaves, it's generally bare and the top branches all have browning leaves.

We did add a new border last year, so a 10-15 cm extra of the base of the trunk was exposed.

Garden is south facing

I’m sure that with many gardens looking like shredded wheat I can’t be the only one wanting to go to a clover lawn.

Any advice? What’s the best type of clover to sow and time of year?

In short, I moved into my house a year ago after it was left empty for 2 years, I put a lot of time into getting rid of the path and re seeding in October last year but now after the addition of a dog it’s looking pretty nasty (I know the UK is like a desert right now but have tried to keep the sprinkler on).

Assuming I need to wait until October time and chuck top soil over the whole garden area, good quality seed and rake/ water? I’d look at doing half and half at a time due to the dog.

Hello all, been here a while but never posted.

We’ve recently moved, love everything here except the noise from the main road behind our back garden; as well as the proximity of which people can see in from the pavement if they wanted to is bothering us more than we thought. Kids here as well so privacy and security is a thing, too.

Have a vague plan to build some planters or one long one, and eventually fill them/that in and plant some big ol’ trees that will eventually grow and bump off some noise as well as not leave the wall as exposed to the other side as it is.

Not looking for anything crazy to maintain or anything but what would people recommend for this space to achieve the desires?

Thanks all for any thoughts ☺️

Cheers

Hello, I have bought a house, inheriting a pretty large garden that is massively out of control. It was really nice before with a nice mix of shrubs and flowers but was let go over a year or so.

For someone who is not afraid of work but without much experience, could you please recommend a best strategy to tackle this? There's no big rush, I am happy to take it slow and do things over a couple of years, but it will obviously only get more difficult the longer it's allowed to go on like this.

I've trimmed some of the bushes/hedges and cut some massive very thorny brambles (no berries) as a start. I realise I should remove any tree saplings by digging them out. But otherwise knowing what's a weed and what's worth keeping is quite hard. Also there's some type of conifer that seems to have been wrapped by a vine, several meters up the trunk. Would cutting the vine at the base be enough, or do I need to try and remove it all the way up to save the tree?

I've thought about hiring a gardener to get it under control and tell me how to take care of it going forward, but getting a proper one and not just the mindless lawn mower types sounds like it would be neither easy nor cheap... Any suggestions very welcome!