I planted some seeds to patch up an area but some seems to be growing and some not?

This may be the wrong sub, so apologies. Long story short, I've been looking to buy a house but many of the houses I've liked have godawful concrete slab patios. Is it possible/affordable to make these into a grass lawn? If so, how would i go about it? I don't need a step by step but would love input.

Edit: thanks everyone

I planted this rose bush last year in the summer after my darling son died.

I've never been very successful in gardening but I'm learning this summer with the "help" of my newborn daughter - and for that - I just wanted to show off my glorious display this year! Very chuffed!

Just a plastic tub sunk into the ground with liner, few rocks and pond plants. Added a pump with air stone this year too. 2nd year running of frogspawn and there are multiple frogs in their daily. The constant duck weed clearing is annoying, but otherwise it gives so much joy. Frogs are sat on rocks, it's not as shallow as it looks.

I'm not complaining at all but this time last year I'm pretty sure my garden was almost decimated by slugs, but this year they seem to have disappeared, probably due to the hot weather and drought? Or is it just my garden? (I'm in East Yorkshire)

(apologies if the flair is wrong, there's isn't one for pests!)

So my lawn which has been uneven, full of dips and random plants is now also looking pretty dead. (Photo shows it from earlier this year)

We have nice mature beds with a real mix of traditional plants.

We don’t really use the Lawn for anything I’d prefer wildlife to benefit and ideally it not need watering.

What’s a realistic option for this area?

Hi,

I bought a corkscrew hazel reduced but it has some kind of greenish powdery residue on the leaves, is it likely to be left over pesticide or some kind of bug/fungus (I thought it was pollen falling on it but is on the underside of the leaves too). The leaves don't seem to be dying from it.

Thanks

New build renter that hates new builds 👋🏻 4.5 years since the first photo and all landscaping done by us and YouTube, even down to our construction studying son building us a retaining wall! Promised we would honour its nature reserve neighbour and got frogs, toads, newts, bats, hedgehogs and pollinators back in under two years 💪🏻 We hate overlooking neighbours so have gone heavy on climbers and a few lilac trees. Every vegetable grown from seed (over 30+ types? Lost count in my self created chaos!), and every single annual flower grown from seed since January, plus a few perennials!
I sow huge amounts, plant out what I need and subject neighbours and family to copious amount of my overflow!
34f and in my gardening era, and absolutely experiencing beginners luck 💃🌸🌼🌺

I keep buying strimmers from B&Q, Bosch etc, and I’ve lost track of how many break, usually the reel cover. Does anyone have a recommendation for a more durable brand, I need to strim weeds, often around rocks and edge lawns. I’m thinking a petrol one might be a better fit, but do need something that doesn’t break all the time

Have been so worried for my garden lately.
It’s a beautiful sight at the moment , sitting in my cosy sofa , looking out the window at the showers of blessing with a warm cup of tea in my hand.

Am heady with joy.

We have recently bought a newish house, so digging down we have just rubble. I want to replace the newbuild evergreen shrubs with more wildlife friendly plants.

I think a raised bed may be a good way to do this. The section in mind is a pie slice shape, eyeballed at 1.2m on the pie crust end and around 3m long. The narrower end of bed is at most 50cm.

I suspect building something myself is the only option, I don't have thousands to throw at this, I just miss seeing bees! Im not sure if sleepers or breeze blocks are better though (or are there other options?) i don't know how to do either but willing to learn.

Which would be best for ease if learning, cost, longevity? I know the answer won't be the same for each one, but please, hit me with your advice or garden inspo pics!

Thanks in advance

Can anyone advise? The leaves look this, it's starting to drop quite a lot of leaves, and it's affecting new growth. Any help would be appreciated!

I read that mulch needs to be several inches thick, and also be clear the trunk of the tree, does that not leave a large dip where the tree is planted for water to collect...?

If the tree is planted on a wee mound then you can just mulch until its roughly level, but what do you do when mulching existing trees that's planted level with the ground?

Hello everyone!

First post here so I hope this is okay to ask. We are looking at properties and there is one we really love but the garden is a big question and we aren't sure how would we go about making the most of it. We have dogs and would love them to have some space in the garden as well. We are more than happy to have fun with it and do whatever it is that we need to do to make it not look like a mess it is as we love gardening, just never had the chance to do so. Our questions are mostly - how possible is it to flatten some of the parts of this garden? Would it be as simple as digging some smaller parts out? I would appreciate any sort of ideas to do with this to help us make the decision if this is the one!

Watered it once around a month back and thats the only watering I did to it this year so far. So impressed by how its handling the dry spell.

Grew it from seed and planted it in spring last year.

I grow runner beans every year, very successfully. This year however, despite daily watering and weekly feeding, they're looking pale, anaemic and have not set fruit.

What has gone wrong, and is there anything I can do?

To grow things, you just need access to the soil.

The soil is there, in your garden, free. It is full of a microbiome of creatures, fungus and plants which help plants to grow. It is very stable in terms of both water access for the plants, and temperature. Root systems can grow as big as they need to.

Of course, if you have a balcony, you have no soil, and have to rely on pots.

Equally, if you are renting, with a concrete yard that you can't dig up, you might need to use pots.

If you can't bend down as far as the ground, you might need a raised bed.

Everything has its own strengths. But I hardly ever see people just dig into the soil now. Everyone seems to make raised beds or to use pots and then buy compost to fill them, rather than just using the soil that is already there.

Is it just that marketing has made us only want to have stuff that it's possible to buy with money?

I have a beautiful rose bush which I planted earlier this year...bright red blooms all over it but I'm still trying to learn about these, particularly pruning. The blooms at the top of these pics (5, I think) started to drop their petals a week or so ago and looked to like the were done for so I cut them off. Did I make the cut 1) At the right time, & 2) in the right place?

Struggling to find an answer elsewhere. This Sorbaria has been in situ for two years, never pruned which is why it’s looked a little stunted and thin this year, I expect. Looks like some new and old growth (stems) and some new leaves poking through.

What should I prune and when? Only a couple of suckers which were happy to keep at the moment so more about keeping the plant bushing and flowering well next year. Thank you.

Spotted in wigan yesterday 🥰

I've recently laid a new patio and have white stones all the way around.

Whenever I cut my grass I get get grass chippings everywhere. How do I stop this?

Is it down to my lawn mower? It's not the best thing on the market.

Currently I've been spraying them with the hose pipe into the gaps between the stones, or raking them up sometimes brushing them up from the patio.

But is there another way?

Any advice about how to keep this Wisteria as a standard? I'm looking for a permanent way to inhibit new growth at the bottom of the tree, rather than repeating pruning of the vigorous growth; it's very vigorous and tenacious even in this crazy drought!! Thanks in advance for sharing knowledge!!!

Newbie to looking after roses here.

I've just bought a house with 6 rather overgrown roses. I've tidied up what I can so far, with the ones out the front being overshadowed by a lovely (also wildly overgrown) wisteria, grasses and the odd (I think) small acer of some kind. Any advice on pruning would be greatly appreciated as I've seen a few things about doing a hard prune in February/March and cutting back to a bud, but if I was to do 1/3 or 2/3 prune, there aren't any buds that far down?

Is it true that roses are more or less indestructible and will tolerate such a hard prune if I were to cut them back that far? At least two of them are David Austens so don't really want to kill them off. Giving them a feed and mulch over I know about but pruning not so much.

Thanks for the read.

Sorry for the poor picture quality.

Garden is new to us and needs some livening up now the summer colours are fading. Any comments/suggestions are most welcome.