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I didn't want to open up those rubbish kitchen design places and get them up to the top of the forum again. Therefore asking on a separate thread. How does one report to the moderator? Perhaps if we all did it at once we might be noticed.

Mystery plants

Very hard to do when the pics are that small I agree SS

1 could be Viburnum tinus.

How big do they grow Maggie, and when do they flower and what do they look like? There will be some sort of flower even if it's insignificant. A catkin type of flower if Silver surfer is right about 2.

My guess is that1. is evergreen and 2. is deciduous, is that right? 

Manner of growth is quite useful for ID and a pic of a complete shrub could help. Particularly as we can only get tiny images here right now.

weed supressing membrane

What are your intentions for the ex lawn Jennifer? If you want to garden it I'd slice the turf off and dig it over. Turf can be composted and replaced in time. Weed surpressing membrane is more about stopping weeds coming up through gravel, bark etc than killing them. As Goldilocks says, they're not light proof.

The slice off and dig method has the advantage of now rather than waiting. Anything like twitch or other persistant weeds would still be lurking when the grass had gone and you could be getting on with eliminating it. It's not difficult in an empty bed, it's when it's round all your precious plants that it becomes impossible.

Unusal Lawn Plant

If you like them, I'd move them, you won't keep mowing the tops off and can observe progress

Unusal Lawn Plant

Very interesting Julian. I had a variegated bindweed one year and someone suggested it might be due to weedkiller As it was right against our boundary it was exposed to anything that gets sprayed. Any chance that might be the case for this one? 

Hang on to it, if it's stable you might make a fortune in Plant Breeder's Rights

Mini Greenhouse - door open or closed?

I'd only shut down if a frost was forecast for those Wodufin. And soon not even that. Get them toughened up and grown on outside for a while.

Mini Greenhouse - door open or closed?

My GH door is open in the day and only shut at night to keep the birds out, the little b...s love an early morning rummage in the seed pots. What plants have you got in yours Wodufin? Mine are all hardy, just young. Apart from the tomatoes that go out there in the day time and back to the kitchen at night.

Beared iris Border

crocus and the mini tulips would be my choice. not too much heavy leaf to shade the irises. And the bulbous irises, I. reticulata leaves are so thin they cast no shade at all. 

I've got an iris just going over now, disappears to nothing very quickly, Iris bucharica, very pretty. 

Hermodactylus tuberosa might be good as well but it might be getting into bearded iris time when it flowers. They wouldn't go well together.

primulas

Find them a corner in the garden Alison, not too hot and dry. They'll be back next year.

MORNING FORKERS

Morning all

Dove and Sam I've got the messages. Thanks

The sun is out so I can cook up in the GH even if the breeze is a bit on the chilly side. 

The map

Toms in the cold GH

wild cherry, what's up with it

deep pink epimedium

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Aquilegia discolor

When will I learn?

Does anyone recognise this

What have I got here?

iris unguicularis

seed swap mark 2

good effect of a wet summer

Aldi garden stuff

daffs gone blind

Can't garden so reading the books