My garden is a war zone.

My plants are fine as it is mild here but moss and weeds have covered the paths and beds. Unfortunately my gardener does not do weeding so I don't know how to fix this.

AreWeThereYet can I suggest you put your little Oak trees on Freecycle. I love to think that they aren't wasted. I gave away an Ash tree that had appeared in a pot in my garden and the person who took it assured me it would be planted in his field in Norfolk. I often think of that little tree that, when I'm gone, will hopefully be a lovely mature tree.

It killed off my Echium, third one I've tried to grow, it was doing quite well boohoo

The gardener is now going to come on 21st April. Probably he realised that he would lose a valuable contract .
Good news have found a gardener! I had enough worries with pain without trying to find a gardener.
There are so many men now who just want to cut the grass and don’t know a weed or proper plant and call themselves gardeners.
Some of my plants have memories for me having been grown from cuttings from my father or from my journeys.

I’ve had some losses this winter. My salvia “hot lips” has carked it, ditto geum Mrs Bradshaw and phygellius “Devils Tears”. Some losses on the rockery wall too. My plan is to clear out the main flower bed this year, save a couple of favourites and replant it afresh. Trouble is I’m going to have to get someone in to clear it and dig it over and that’s proving to be a problem.

Apart from the loss of many plants, including those with greenhouse protection, it is the literally, millions of sycamore seedlings that are causing me the biggest problem. There is hardly any ground not covered by them, including gravel. I can only think it was the heat and drought which have put the trees under stress and they have produced all this seed. It is back braking having to hoe and pull them all out, especially when there are other jobs to be done.

I have lost a mature rosemary bush that had been growing happily in a large pot for years. I had taken cuttings but sadly none of rosemary's babies have survived the cruel winter. We are no strangers to cold weather here but there was something about this winter that was particularly brutal to plants.
I hope you find your gardener, Bijou.

I have lost Fuchsias and Hebes. I think it is quite sad but I will get a lot of pleasure out of nurturing new shrubs.

Yes. here in Northumberland I've had 6 "hardy" Hebes growing in 60cm pots on the patio for the past couple of years. All moved up to the kitchen wall to give them a bit of protection for the Winter, but that prolonged, horrendous cold snap we had with sub zero temperatures for around 10 days has seen them off, I fear. I'm leaving them for a while just in case they recover, but I think I'm going to be disappointed.

Wow Bijou you certainly deserve a beautiful flowering garden for your birthday. Congratulations.
Do you think a local gardening club might be able to suggest someone.

With the drought last summer and the hard frost during the winter as well as being to find a proper gardener my garden is a sorry sight. Before I had to give up Gardening it was my hobby so I feel very frustrated.
Am desperately trying to find a gardener because I am hoping to get straight for my 100 birthday party in May.

We get the same in reverse when it is stinking hot. I have lost some lovely ferns and a shrub we call a cigarette plant ( flowers look like glowing cigarette ends) because we were away and didn’t water in 40 C heat.

I’ve just spent the morning dividing pot bound grasses and Siberian irises.
I thought my fuchsia’s in the greenhouse had died, but on closer inspection tiny green shoots are sprouting. I’m not giving up on anything dead looking, just yet.

A small flowered Rhody is coming into flower. SO-- we are due some frost. Guaranteed. I should dig it up and throw it out.

Busy day yesterday lovely weather we too 6 large shrubs out that were totally dead, probably about 12 yrs old so quite large, another 3 might recover so pruned those. When OH decides on a plan things happen quickly.
Then went to the garden centre for replacements making sure they are fully frost hardy, plant those today, sandy soil here so we wanted to plant while it’s still damp and cool.

I spent time the other day emptying pots of dead plants. The prolonged cold spell caused lots of damage. I have lost cordylines, hardy fuschias, jasmine, to name but a few,as well as my huge agapanthus which I have loved and nurtured for years, packing with straw and fleecing to no avail.
My garden centre shopping list is growing by the day!

We've just spent most of a lovely sunny (but a bit cold) morning trying to clear up our front garden a bit. It all looked a bit sparse until we cleared up lots of leaves from between the plants. Our lovely peony is starting to grow, lovely red stems and new leaves. There are lots of purple, pink and white anemones dotted around and some tiny blue star flowers that I forget the name of have sprung up under the oak tree.

On the downside there are a million acorns trying to root in the middle of the plants - we have a huge oak tree but I've never seen so many rooting before. I might have to dig up some of the plants to get rid of the budding oak trees 😥

Oh meant to say that I’m not sure about what has survived. I’ll wait until mid-may before I give up on stuff.

I’ve been out all morning, just in for a break before I finish feeding some plants and pack up until the next dry day.

Mine is the same, it’s very cold and wet here in the winter, I’m in the mountains in Wales. I’m leaving my shrubs in a bit longer yet before I give up on them, as I think there’s still hope for some yet. All my scabious has definitely gone, which I’m sad about.

We had similar temperatures. I’ve got a fair bit of replanting to do too. It’s amazing that the spring bulbs come through each year no matter what weather they’ve had to endure.