Argh, buttercups!

Thanks everyone for your ideas and welcomes :D

Spruce I don't have pics of the buttercups (plus they don't have flowers yet) BUT I can share with you all a pic of my first garden

All I've done so far is mow, weed, stick sun flower seeds in the ground, stick an orange rose bush in a gap and paint my sheds funny colours hehehe -



It's my first garden, still amazes me when things grow! I walk around every couple of days on my inspections, found rhubarb today!

 

Are you on an acidic heathland Natalie? Is the soil sandy and are there yellow flowered Gorse bushes around?

 

Haha, I don't know about my soil acidity.... It's mostly clay like soil with bits of coal in it, being in yorkshire.

No idea what a gorse bush is.... Sounds like a fruity cocktail hehehe

 

Aah, I just wondered with the birch trees there.

Gorse is that prickly bush with yellow flowers that are always out. Smells of Coconuts.

 

Why I do like the sound of that gorse bush, sound like nice smelling burglar deterents! Mmmm coconut.

We have quite a few birch trees, all the neighbours have chopped thiers down but ours are here to stay I love them. They suck all the water up and have lovely leaves that rustle nicely. They add character.

Is clay soil acidic then? I should get some soil tests really.

Natalie

 

A picture for you Natalie, this is gorse and the thorns are lethal. It grows all over the island here and will grow on most soils. If you plant it - it spreads quite quickly and is very difficult to get rid of.

 

i will trade you both for your dandilions and buttercups for my BINDWEED

 

Going once, going twice.... Do I hear any Japanese Knotweed... Yes, Lady at the back of the room...

 

Damn i bet that was lolimac wasnt it

 

Where I live was once Sherwood Forest...Gorse is common on most roadside verges and wasteland here.Folks always think of the forest as all trees...it wasn't...vast areas were heathland, and gorse was extremely common.Two feet down anywhere round here and you hit sand.