Not emptying one of my hay racks completely before planting my fuchsias. I wanted to keep some trailing plants which had survived the winter. The difference between the one which had some new compost and the two which had all new compost is unbelievable. No amount of TLC and fertiliser has made a difference. Anyone need photographs for advertising purposes!?
I've done a few , pruned penstemon garnet to early I ended up losing that plant good job I take cutting . Didn't realises how much geranium ann folkland spreads , I do like it so its need moving further back . My yearly mistake not staking early enough on some plants . Not throwing my duvet on the spuds / wisteria when hard frost was forecast , my spuds are pants this year with the slugs constantly attacking weak plants now.
Not buying even more compost and the plants I wanted before the pandemic , its been a nightmare to get hold of some plants this year.
Starting all my climbers too early. I have stacks of cup and saucer all planted out at least a month too early because I ran out of space and got tricked by the hot spring weather. They all turned a funny color in June, didn't grow well, and now I have one single flower on a stretch about 30 feet long. Same with my morning glory, flowered and finished in about 30 seconds in June.
Also regret doing mixed dwarf cosmos, which all turned out 18 inches high and pink.
My cornflowers mostly disappeared this year, and squirrels ate through about a hundred calendula that I spent ages potting up.
Oh and much like everyone, grasses. I have stipa pony tails which look absolutely great for about a month as the tips burst into seed heads, and then they flop over in a sodden mess as soon as it rains. Every year I'm hoping it won't happen. Every year I'm disappointed. And every year I say I'll take them out next year...
@Loxley - re-read what I wrote. Nigel Dunnet - professional garden designer/guru and his scheme in Sheffield professionally planted and managed. Not someone's private garden done on the hoof.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
1) Growing dahlias, even if they were £1.99 from The Range. To my surprise they got through the slug-munch only looking a bit tattered and even produced a few flowers....which promptly got chewed off by deer 🤪
2) Lettting Mrs Racine start a “project” in one corner. Scruffy fence and shed used to hid away by a mature rhododendron. Now we have a patch of bare earth and a dumping ground 🤷♂️
It occurred to me that Mrs Racine is a gifted amateur. She is a strong candidate for the Oxymoronic Award for destructive creativity and she should, with appropriate minimum effort, achieve full member status.
It occurred to me that Mrs Racine is a gifted amateur. She is a strong candidate for the Oxymoronic Award for destructive creativity and she should, with appropriate minimum effort, achieve full member status.
The garden is a bit of a battleground. I am forever trying to land grab some space for more flowers whereas she would prefer more storage and neatly mown grass. To be fair sometimes her “projects” do bear fruit but I have to put up with the eyesore in the meantime.
Anyway, I let her have this one only because I need to built up some credits before chopping down a mature pine in Autumn and replacing it with an (expensive) tree of my choosing. I’m thinking Amalanchier.
@1634 Racine One of my mistakes was planting a tiny amalancier. I can't remember why I got one so tiny. I can only imagine other sources had run out of stock and I was impatient. It was an entirely daft mistake. I should have waited and got a six foot tree instead of a seedling. I suspect I should pull it out and replace.
@1634 Racine One of my mistakes was planting a tiny amalancier. I can't remember why I got one so tiny. I can only imagine other sources had run out of stock and I was impatient. It was an entirely daft mistake. I should have waited and got a six foot tree instead of a seedling. I suspect I should pull it out and replace.
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Not buying even more compost and the plants I wanted before the pandemic , its been a nightmare to get hold of some plants this year.
Also regret doing mixed dwarf cosmos, which all turned out 18 inches high and pink.
My cornflowers mostly disappeared this year, and squirrels ate through about a hundred calendula that I spent ages potting up.
Oh and much like everyone, grasses. I have stipa pony tails which look absolutely great for about a month as the tips burst into seed heads, and then they flop over in a sodden mess as soon as it rains. Every year I'm hoping it won't happen. Every year I'm disappointed. And every year I say I'll take them out next year...
2) Lettting Mrs Racine start a “project” in one corner. Scruffy fence and shed used to hid away by a mature rhododendron. Now we have a patch of bare earth and a dumping ground 🤷♂️
I’m going to drop £300+ to get a mature specimen. I get grief for buying a pack of seeds, hence the need to build up some goodwill 😁