My crimes are as so many above. Not planting new plants, not watering, not potting on and planting out, I would be a millionaire if I had all of the money I have wasted over the years on plants and seeds that have died before being planted. Labelling has a mind of its own in my garden, I try really hard to label everything but they still disappear. Having moved from fat, fertile Thames Valley soil to thin, gritty, impoverished soil has been a steep learning curve, just digging holes and putting extra compost in before planting does not work so I have lost many shrubs and trees, to my despair. I have also had some pleasant surprises at what has succeeded, like the ginger lilies which have gone from strength to strength.
I have been known to visit garden centres and pinch off cuttings from plants I like but don't want to buy...
Oh my yes. It was about 20 years ago I went to Bodnant and pinched some fuschia cuttings. I reasoned that they had loads of huge bushes and wouldn’t miss a few stems. Never done it since as I still cant go back to Bodnant without extreme guilt and shame🙄
Oh and buying too many seeds, seduced by the photos on the packets. By the time I get around to sowing them after a couple of years I have already bought some new ones. ...and so it goes on.
It seems that a lot of folk are making a lot of the same mistakes - I've got an abundance of unused seeds, unlabelled mysteries and plants 'waiting' in pots
my garden crime I planted broccoli behind my corn. poor babies did not head till mid august; when wind stor nknocked down corn. got blue ribbon for broccoli at the fair.
My failing - still at times - is filling gaps with plants, and then a year or two later, having to move some because they're all overcrowded. Patience isn't always one of my many, many virtues.. 😄
Looking at gardens on Instagram and forgetting they’re put together by some of the worlds best gardeners and in a lot of cases by spending more cash than I have!
Worst crime around here is the insistence on planting lawns. The soil is wrong, the climate is wrong and they haven't a clue how to maintain a "gazon".
As a novice I planted hydrangea in the hottest spots in the garden. D'oh. As crimes go I will never forget the blue tit trapped in the netting I set up to protect some blackberries. To these days I get flashbacks of the poor hanging thing when I pick the blackberries. And the culprit was a blackbird of course.
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Not planting new plants, not watering, not potting on and planting out, I would be a millionaire if I had all of the money I have wasted over the years on plants and seeds that have died before being planted. Labelling has a mind of its own in my garden, I try really hard to label everything but they still disappear.
Having moved from fat, fertile Thames Valley soil to thin, gritty, impoverished soil has been a steep learning curve, just digging holes and putting extra compost in before planting does not work so I have lost many shrubs and trees, to my despair. I have also had some pleasant surprises at what has succeeded, like the ginger lilies which have gone from strength to strength.
poor babies did not head till mid august; when wind
stor nknocked down corn. got blue ribbon for broccoli
at the fair.
Patience isn't always one of my many, many virtues.. 😄
As a novice I planted hydrangea in the hottest spots in the garden. D'oh. As crimes go I will never forget the blue tit trapped in the netting I set up to protect some blackberries. To these days I get flashbacks of the poor hanging thing when I pick the blackberries.
And the culprit was a blackbird of course.
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