ᐅ Garden Photos Chat Corner

@Wickie No, it wasn’t directed at you. Once again, farmers were singled out as a sensitive topic.

Regarding burning, I would a) be concerned that it would cause more to catch fire, and b) it has never helped with paving joints before.

Check out the documentary "Our Biggest Little Farm." It nicely shows how everything needs time to reach balance.

I only have aphids on the elderberry. It has to manage them; that's how it is in nature as well. It is planted at the very back, far enough away from other plants.
Unfortunately, our horse chestnut is showing leaf miner moth spots again, but not too many so far. We burned the fallen leaves for years, as often recommended, but that apparently didn’t help. Now it has to cope on its own; it’s too big and has too many leaves, which we also can’t clear away from the bushes behind the garden.
Otherwise, almost all the shrubs we planted in the front yard survived being transplanted. They were all 1.5 to 2 meters (5 to 6.5 feet) tall and were previously planted in soil elsewhere. Only one cherry laurel did not make it.

It's great that your "old trees" have survived the transplanting so well.

The last two years it worked well, first with aphids and then with their natural predators. This year, however, I hardly saw any ladybugs, but quite a few parasitic wasps – though still not enough. Sometimes great tits are around collecting them, but far from enough.

We had an extreme number of cockchafers (May beetles) in the area – but hardly any flying ones; most were found more or less torn apart on the ground 🙁
So, naturally birds and then crushed ones...

@haydee Ah OK... I’m also unsure about the burning thing. Burning too much probably can’t hurt. It’s nowhere near as intense as with a gas cylinder, which I don’t want anyway. We’ll see.