ᐅ Garden Photos Chat Corner

kati1337 schrieb:

I did some more planting in the garden on Sunday.

You have a lot of paving in front of the house. Are you planning to do anything else with it?

Tarnari schrieb:

We have new visitors.

Looks like a stinkhorn mushroom to me.
They’re probably not easy to get rid of.
Annoying or just a minor issue?

The snails definitely like this stinkhorn 😀
Thanks for the midday smile...

I’ve heard that lime helps get rid of them fairly well (just be careful with the surrounding plants). Otherwise, dig out the mycelium over a wide area.
Good luck!

Holzhäuschen schrieb:

The snails definitely like this Stinky Phallus 😀
Thanks for the midday smile...

I’ve heard that lime works well to get rid of them (just be careful with the plants around). Otherwise, dig out the mycelium over a wide area.
Good luck!

Thanks for the encouraging words xD

Which garden pruner do you swear by, for example for roses? Felco 2 or another product? My father gave me a Felco 2 years ago, but now it’s lost and impossible to find.

Also, for thicker branches, do you prefer Felco 231 or 211?

evelinoz schrieb:

now it’s gone,

Since our garden is complicated and not very straightforward, I have, for exactly THAT reason, no expensive pruning shears, but quite a few cheap ones. They’re all inexpensive, but they’ve been serving well for years, because the cheap kind keeps turning up :p

Felcos are really great, and the Kurumi pruning shear is a real pleasure to use. Of course, roses also grow beautifully when pruned with very simple shears. I find Fiskars quite good and still reasonably priced.

In our home, high-quality gardening tools, which all family members use, don’t have a good place. Something often gets left out in the rain, which tests my patience even with affordable tools.