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Qualcast&Flymo said:
My book says that you leave the plant after harvesting half of the leaves, so that they can store lots of goodness in the roots, then you divide the crowns when the leaves have died back.
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Mine just has the one crown so there is nothing to divide . For the first few years it barely grew at all but clung onto life. Every year now it puts all its effort into growing a magnificent flower stalk and gives up if I cut that down🤣 It is in a flowerbed, not a veg plot so I think it might have an identity crisis🤣🤣 I do enjoy the flower tho. Oh and I have never eaten a single stem as I figure it needs all the goodness it can get to become more productive at some point in the future!
 
Got the grass cut this morning, lovely in the garden. Sun was out with just a gentle breeze....went inside to eat and got back outside to rain!

Looks like my bedding plants will have to wait to be potted up then.
 
That’s our weather ! Glad you got the grass cut before the rain !
 
We have had sunshine and showers all day and the plants are lovingly it
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My £30 year old £1 acer, still doing well after all these years and was rescued from the compost heap one spring after it got a virus and we thought it had died
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The shady north facing part. I was given some Forget me not “ seeds when Ted was pts back in 2020 and scattered them the following spring. They seed around the garden and look so beautiful, just like my Ted 💙
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The bleeding heart has suddenly sprung up from nowhere
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A white bleeding heart, one of my favourite plants
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My favourite, the native wood anemone or “wind flower” so beautiful, followed by another native “Ladies Bedstraw” likes to seed all around the gardenIMG_1676.jpeg
Pretty alpine dianthus making a show around the pond
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and finally my garden “thug” a white clematis Montana who would take over the whole garden if I let it, but she is a beautyIMG_1678.jpeg
 
I have a confession. I have neglected my garden.

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So I decided to start pulling things out and I have a problem. See the tall ones? Those are foxglove. Should I leave them? Should I just pull everything out, no discrimination?

I know, I know. But I need to do this while I have the opportunity and I've only got a few weeks left, so.
 
I'm sure I've seen one of the Chelsea gardens looking very similar :roll: Artful Re-wilding is what I'd call it!
I like a foxglove. You can't eat them, and they are poisonous for piggies, but they are pretty in a wooded area and attract bees. But if it's easier to raze the lot then go for it... it'll probably all grow back at some point anyway!
 
Nah if it can be kept I'd like to, if for no other reason than for the bees. Still got some willow herb and some poppies in there so if all I should pull out is the dandelions, the nettles and the grass then I'm all for it.

None of it good for the pigs, sadly, but needs must. I've cleared a small corner, I'll come back out later when it's cooler.
 
Foxgloves are definitely great for bees - so are dandelions. Possibly willowherb too. Rosebay willowherb is a massive 'weed' of hedgerows and country lanes, but the only issue really is its size and untidiness when it's finished, otherwise it's quite colourful. Nettles are a food plant for the caterpillars of the peacock and red admiral butterflies if you want an excuse to leave them as well 😉
 
Sadly at least some of it has to go - the access via that flag path is currently blocked, and I didn't quite get all the thorns from last year (although I got most) and a thick carpet of stuff around my feet makes it hard to find thorns til slightly too late. The soil needs turning or replacing at some point, too.

And I really, really hate dandelions, lol. I'd almost rather have thorns.

Edit: That said, there's a lot of foxglove in there that you can't see for everything else in the photo.
 
Lorcan said:
Sadly at least some of it has to go - the access via that flag path is currently blocked, and I didn't quite get all the thorns from last year (although I got most) and a thick carpet of stuff around my feet makes it hard to find thorns til slightly too late. The soil needs turning or replacing at some point, too.

And I really, really hate dandelions, lol. I'd almost rather have thorns.

Edit: That said, there's a lot of foxglove in there that you can't see for everything else in the photo.
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Don't let the piggies know that you want to get rid of dandelion. That's one of the best parts of any garden as far as piggies are concerned. :whistle:
 
That jungle has at least one regular cat visitor, it's not worth it unfortunately (I'd do something with the nettles and the sticky weed too if I could).
 
I think she's a she, and I think she's called Tabitha. I don't know for certain though, I'm not even sure where she lives.
 
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