Everything is growing rampantly…

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On the contrary, I've been watering every evening as things are drying up.
A little rowan tree I had in a pot has died.
My meadow is doing well and the roses.

I came home after a weeks holiday to find massive nettles nearly as tall as me in the garden, I donned gloves and pulled them out but still managed to sting my wrists badly. I seem to have foxgloves & poppies sprouting everywhere this year too, I don’t really mind them but they do seem to be growing much more rampantly this year.

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.

Have you got squirrels?

We have and find little trees growing everywhere and see him/her burying nuts in the autumn including in my pots.

All lush here too and wow the poppies. Bit miffed that my non gardening neighbour now has the most stunning front garden!

Bella23

We can't keep on top of sycamore tree seedlings even on gravel. Under one drain cover, it was like a nursery. The tree is next door itself, unfortunately, it leans our way so we get all the seeds. Their Lime is also dropping loads of the sticky stuff just where we park the cars.
Another bush in our garden with an awful smell like foisty clothes is about two months ahead of itself. We live in the cold Noth west.

The sticky stuff used to cover my car and if it hardened was difficult to remove. And the seeds are poisonous to dogs. Our local farmer used to encourage them and they overhung my garden. Thankfully he did cut the biggest one down albeit asking me to pay towards it even though he’s a millionaire and I’m a pensioner! I just dug out an evergreen Burberis (sp) which has been in the garden for years but this year has grown up and around a lilac tree. Its thorns are awful and I was worried about the dog walking on one. I’m quite happy to leave the nettles for the butterflies.

It’s not impacting so much where I am in mid Wales, if anything I’d say the season is late because we had a cold winter and a wet and miserable spring, it only got better in the last few weeks. My roses are just beginning to bloom, and the peony is still in tight bud. Weeds are always a problem, I’ve got lots of tiny oak saplings here but fortunately no sycamore.

We can't keep on top of sycamore tree seedlings even on gravel. Under one drain cover, it was like a nursery. The tree is next door itself, unfortunately, it leans our way so we get all the seeds. Their Lime is also dropping loads of the sticky stuff just where we park the cars.
Another bush in our garden with an awful smell like foisty clothes is about two months ahead of itself. We live in the cold Noth west.

We've had to weed out literally hundreds of sycamore seedlings from the lawn, beds and paving this year. Normally it takes a week or so to gather them all up but this year we had to carry on for weeks and weeks. There are still some rogue ones that I spotted today hidden amongst the shrubs, nearly a foot tall!!!

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.

But I’m pleased that verges have been left for wildflowers to grow and as for buttercup meadows - has there ever been such a year?

Yes - I've noticed rampant growth this year too - much earlier than usual. Nettles taller than me, brambles like triffids! Ground is now very dry but I wonder was it very wet weather in April that encouraged this growth when days got longer?