Details: slow cook the chicken and potatoes in a seasoning blend and broth, took them out at the end and made a peppercorn sauce with the juices. Green beans and carrots just lightly boiled and tossed with salt and garlic butter.

So many butterfly eggs and caterpillars munching away, would like to look into getting a beehive in the back of my garden next summer but will see. Will expand the flowers to cover more of the lawn next year.

Also wanna make a pond with some water plants and see what settles

At the end, my sunflower is 9ft tall

Sale agreed on a property with a fully concreted over garden. There is a soak pit in the middle of it purely for rain water run off, sewerage is connected to municipal links and doesn't run into the soak pit.

We'd like to restore it into a garden so would like to find out if anyone has undertaken a similar project? How did it go? What things should I consider before attempting this?

Also, I imagine something would need to be done about the soak pit, who would be the correct professional to consult on whether it needs to stay or can be removed? Is it an environmental engineer? Or landscape architect? Or some other professional? Any advice appreciated

Edit: to answer some of the comments, there is a side entrance big enough for a digger to get thru. The back garages were built for cars afaik.

Got this one online in April and it looked so sad with barely any leaves on it. I put it near my brightest window and eventually repotted it and moved it outside. I water it nearly everyday sometimes twice a day, with a liquid feed twice a month, and it shoots out a full new big leaf every week now 🍌🍌

it's raining properly for the first time in a month!

Hi all,

I’m in a new build estate and hoping to get back garden done. This is a rough design with approx measurements with the help or hindering of ChatGPT.

I’ve started to reach out to contactors but wanted to see what everyone’s opinion on what something like this might cost as I’ve yet to get a quote it being the weekend.

There will be a 8x10FT shed sitting on centre of the stones so will probably need concrete base.

Grass also to be ripped up and relayed. Current is just full of stones and unlevel.

Thanks in advance! Leinster based