Everything is growing rampantly…

Could it be masquerade? Witzend It begins pink and changes to yellow as it opens.

Kew Gardens have said it’s the best year ever for roses.

AreWeThereYet

We have spent days over the last three weeks digging up oak trees from the front garden where the acorns dropped last year. Hundreds of them where normally there are four of five. So we've ignored the back garden during that time and I was staggered when I went out the back last night and saw about twenty oak trees nearly a foot tall in the lawn. I dread to think how many more are in the borders. In the thirty years we have lived here that has never happened before.

Encourage some friendly squirrels. We lived with a very old listed oak tree in our garden for 30 years and never saw an acorn. Quite a few squirrels lived in it.

J52

AreWeThereYet

We have spent days over the last three weeks digging up oak trees from the front garden where the acorns dropped last year. Hundreds of them where normally there are four of five. So we've ignored the back garden during that time and I was staggered when I went out the back last night and saw about twenty oak trees nearly a foot tall in the lawn. I dread to think how many more are in the borders. In the thirty years we have lived here that has never happened before.

Encourage some friendly squirrels. We lived with a very old listed oak tree in our garden for 30 years and never saw an acorn. Quite a few squirrels lived in it.

Oh gosh no, don’t do that! I’m nowhere near an oak tree, and the squirrels bring their acorns to my garden to bury them - then forget where they are. I must have pulled up at least 30 oak seedlings in the last few weeks.
My roses are fabulous this year too, here’s one of my favourites, even though it has a touch of the dreaded aphids. It’s callled William and Catherine. I love white and cream roses.

Casdon

J52

AreWeThereYet

We have spent days over the last three weeks digging up oak trees from the front garden where the acorns dropped last year. Hundreds of them where normally there are four of five. So we've ignored the back garden during that time and I was staggered when I went out the back last night and saw about twenty oak trees nearly a foot tall in the lawn. I dread to think how many more are in the borders. In the thirty years we have lived here that has never happened before.

Encourage some friendly squirrels. We lived with a very old listed oak tree in our garden for 30 years and never saw an acorn. Quite a few squirrels lived in it.

Oh gosh no, don’t do that! I’m nowhere near an oak tree, and the squirrels bring their acorns to my garden to bury them - then forget where they are. I must have pulled up at least 30 oak seedlings in the last few weeks.
My roses are fabulous this year too, here’s one of my favourites, even though it has a touch of the dreaded aphids. It’s callled William and Catherine. I love white and cream roses.

Oh gosh no, don’t do that!
I agree!

The neighbour's oak tree is far enough away across the road for acorns not to drop in our garden but I find little oak trees in our back garden, in my pots. I see Sebastian Squirrel burying them then he must forget where they are.

Our roses are good too, some plants are doing very well, others not.

What has happened to our Agapanthus - do they dislike very cold weather?

Ahh that’s where the squirrels took them! One of my Agapanthus died as well, the other two less hardy survived in the greenhouse. Only one flower though.

J52

Ahh that’s where the squirrels took them! One of my Agapanthus died as well, the other two less hardy survived in the greenhouse. Only one flower though.

I had one which a friend had split which looked healthy last year; it has a wonderful root but not one shoot this year. We repotted it in a slighty larger pot plus a little fresh compost but nothing.

April did provide a lot of lush growth but May has been so dry it has evened out, that ended yesterday in a massive thunderstorm. Now expecting the remaining flowers to burst out along with more lawn mowing.

Callistemon21

J52

Ahh that’s where the squirrels took them! One of my Agapanthus died as well, the other two less hardy survived in the greenhouse. Only one flower though.

I had one which a friend had split which looked healthy last year; it has a wonderful root but not one shoot this year. We repotted it in a slighty larger pot plus a little fresh compost but nothing.

Yes I tried that, the roots looked healthy, but no green shoots. On the other hand, my Cotinus is covered in flowers. So much so, that you can’t see the leaves. I’ve never seen it so floriferous.
The joys of gardening.

We had, until very recently, a magnificent hazel tree in our garden. In 25 years we never had a single nut from it. The squirrels had them all. This now applies to the walnut tree that has sprung up in an odd corner. as well.

The last thing i want in my garden is squirrels.

On this day last year I counted 70 Northern Marsh Orchids dotted about our garden. Bits of it are marshy and we mow 'discriminately' to avoid the orchids. I leave the seed heads until autumn and then bring some of them inside to dry out properly. Then we sprinkle the tiny dry seeds around indiscriminately.

Today I counted 208 NMOs, as we call them, including nine in the grassy centre of the lane that leads to our gate. I think that counts as properly established.

There are also half a dozen or so common spotted orchids but they aren't flowering yet

Prolific growth in Devon, too. Privet hedge is getting too large so need to find someone to cut it, for me nowadays,