Gardening anyone?

Hi @Former-Member

Star jasmine are lovely and amenable to pruning. In my experience 3 potato vines is probably excessive. I had one beside my back door facing west and couldn't keep up with it, it kept surging towards the eaves and the clothesline.

I need to rethink my backyard too - the rear of a villa unit so probably about the same size as yours.

@Dimity by now nothing would surprise me about plants that were selected and planted here. Garden bed under front bedroom windows has about 10cm of soil, at the most, and then it’s mainly clay. I spent couple of hours this morning trying to turn the soil over and was constantly having to remove wet, boggy clay from the fork with my hands. Small amount of plants that were somehow still alive were root bound, same as every other plant.

My floor to ceiling lounge room windows give me a nice view of the back fence and I like idea of climbing plants. I like geraniums and snail creeper but not sure if suitable

Gypsum might help with the clay @Former-Member . I'd avoid turning it when it's too wet. I have a couple of ivyleaf geraniums in pots - I used to have more colours. Big windows would be nice, would be good for indoor plants maybe.

I’ve got liquid clay breaker @Dimity that will water into the area later today and will do again in few days time

Ive got 2 cats so avoid indoor plants. Hoping to get cat enclosure in back yard at some stage next year which will be away from plants. Currently have dahlias of different colours in pots which sit on edge of my tiled outdoor area.

my mum was the gardener and couple grow things from cuttings. 60 year old and I’ve started to be able to keep plants alive and have them thrive

Your dahlias sound like a lovely splash of colour @Former-Member . I'm enjoying some of my native daisies and cottage perennials.

Mutabilis Rose@Shaz51 @Oaktree @Former-Member @Sophia1

I have tremendous trouble navigating my way around the forums.

I often cannot find a Thread that I want - To Post or write something.

In this case, I spent over 30 minutes trying to find/ search for the Photographic Thread - Simply to Post Pictures of my Roses for you to see.

I never found that thread.

So I'm posting the Rose pictures here instead.

This is a Heritage Old World Rose called Mutabilis.

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Sarah Van Fleet Rugosa Rose@Shaz51 @Sophia1 @Oaktree @Former-Member This is a beautiful Old World Heritage Rugosa Rose called Sarah Van Fleet.

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Lamarque Noisette Rose@Shaz51 @Oaktree @Sophia1 @Former-Member This is an Old World Heritage Noisette Rose called Lamarque.

It dates (origin) from the 1800's, as do most of these Heritage Roses.

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Softee Rose@Shaz51 @Sophia1 @Oaktree @Former-Member

This is Softee Rose - It's much more recent, from 1980 (44 years).

It's a gorgeous miniature climbing Rose.

This Rose has absolutely No Thorns, not a single one!

I guess that's why it's called Softee - You cannot get spiked....

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So delicate - thank you for sharing @Adge 🌺🙂

I’m sorry to hear it’s hard to find threads.. I often have the same problem. I just found out how to favourite a post, it’s in the drop down at the post header.
I’m sure there’s a way to favourite a thread too - I’m not sure how to do so.. @Shaz51 or @tyme would it be ok to ask for some help with this please? 🙂