Our Gardens

A walk round the garden this morning made me smile. I realised I do use some more unusual containers for my plants, most have been fly tipped by others and found on our walks.
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Spike and Peanut's old cage is now a salad bed (holes drilled in bottom). The broken recycling box the council didn't take back and an old bucket now contain potatoes. A dumped bath is now a seedling bed. The french beans are doing well in a planter made from recycled wood, Potatoes growing in bags. Herbs in a butler sink found in a hedge, we also have one from a car boat sale. My old spare cage base in a cage stand, the wheels make it convenient to move around the greenhouse.A babies bed found dumped makes a brilliant growing space for salad leaves and parsley.
Has anyone else got repurposed items for growing plants?
 
My wisteria is doing exceptionally well, ignore all the buckets etc, we are extending our patio atm and everything is a mess. We removed a 12ft yucca tree which has extensive roots both wide and deep so a lot of digging is being done. Luckily our new neighbours want raised beds so they have taken all the top soil.
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… because tiny green shoots are terribly exci
Lorcan said:
I know it's not much but I have something growing!

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(edit: and I don't mean the weeds to the right. There's tiny little shoots! Why am I so excited about tiny shoots
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Lorcan said:
I know it's not much but I have something growing!

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(edit: and I don't mean the weeds to the right. There's tiny little shoots! Why am I so excited about tiny shoots?!)
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… because tiny shoots are terribly exciting! 😁
 
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The front garden in full bloom. These were taken last year, the flowers are not quite all open yet this year and the rain has bashed them all flat the last few days. Hopefully they will recover. I didn't realise I hadn't put these on the forum last year. Most of the back has been taken over by veg so it's lovely to have a splash of colour out the front window.
 
just a few photos of plants growing in my garden atm. I’m really happy with my new rambling rose which I planted last year, it’s the first rose bloom this year, the OH hates roses of any kind so it’s banned to a small corner of the garden
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A funny iris which in North Yorkshire was blue and has now changed its colours
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Yellow Aquilegia
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Ladies Bedstraw which came in on a plant I bought, usually found in hedgerows in the UK and was supposably used to stuff mattresses along with straw in medieval times as it has insecticidal qualities and repels lice and bedbugs
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Foxgloves
A very overcrowded border 😆

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