Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

The larvae are often fed on by ants.
I have ladybugs, just not enough.
Don't just complain about the farmers. Farmers have to make sure they feed the population. That will not work without *zide.

Check your garden to see if you have enough habitat and food.
And what about your neighbor?
Weed killers are still commonly used by private households. And for what purpose?

For ornamental beds, I use unprinted cardboard and remove package tape and stickers beforehand. It works and is certainly not more harmful than all the weed fabrics and products sold in retail.

The clematis was already a bit bigger. It also bloomed nicely. Within a few days everything was gone. I have now cut it back completely. Let's see if it will come back again.

Not only complain about the farmers. Farmers have to make sure that they feed the population. That won’t work without *cide.

Check your garden to see if you have enough habitat and food.
And what about your neighbor?

No, this was not supposed to be farmer bashing. The thing is that apart from the road, we have agricultural land all around us. So really all around, so to speak. Hence the suspicion that their chemicals have killed a lot of things here. There is no poison in my garden - zero, nothing, nada. On the contrary - about 300sqm are completely left to nature and wild growth, in the hope that animals feel comfortable there. There should also be food; there is an extra insect meadow, a bird protection hedge with flowers also for insects, a small water spot, fruit and deciduous trees. All just for the wild animals - we hardly harvest anything from it. We’re too slow. :D

We are having a terrible problem with ants :( even relocating them with a pot doesn't help :mad: Great tip with the cardboard

Check your garden to see if you have enough habitat and food.
And what is your neighbor doing?
Weed killers are still happily used by private households. And for what purpose?

I don’t know if that was directed at me, but I also didn’t talk about weed killers as chemical sprays or anything like that. Maybe I expressed myself poorly.
I meant an electric device – so destroying weeds with heat! No spraying!!

I bought a few perennials and planted them in my containers, which I have had in my Berlin garden for years.
Turkish poppy, blazing star, Macedonian widow flower, Byzantine woolly mullein, pigeon scabious, sage, cranesbill, and a garden mallow.
The pigeon scabious and the sage


Blazing star and poppy in more nutrient-rich substrate


The rest in nutrient-poor substrate.

In the wildflower meadow, which I minimally seeded and didn’t take care of at all, some plants have come back.
Especially the mallows.
And we already have many animal visitors (although the deer prefer to eat the fresh fruit tree shoots and the flowers of the hemp agrimony).


The mallows


Grain leaf beetles on a not kid-friendly date


Rose chafer beetles on a not kid-friendly date on greater knapweed


Cranesbill


And this huge viper’s bugloss, which self-seeded.

My hawthorns have already arrived. I’m a bit annoyed with Pflanzmich, from whom I placed a huge order for my wildlife protection hedge. End of April, with requested delivery date last week. Since May 25th, they have supposedly been packed.
Some of them are bare-root, and now I’m afraid they will all die on me because it’s taking longer with our water connection.

Well, fingers crossed.

Single-stemmed hawthorn, first planted in a container so the neighbor can help water it, and a cinnamon rose:

And of course Lotta.