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Early summer garden tips and tour - what to do in your garden now
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Find out what to do in your garden in early summer, and see what's worked and what hasn't in the middle-sized garden.
00:00 Welcome
01:03 The climbers on the back door: Chinese Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus henryana) and Ornamental kiwi vine (Actinidia kolomikta)
02:30 Keep up weeding in early summer
03:00 The No Nonsense Guide to Weeding Your Garden: • How to weed your garde...
03:56 How to prune English lavender successfully: • How to prune English l...
04:11 Giant fennel (Ferula communis)
04:37 Tips for the herbaceous border
05:03 Plant out dahlias, chrysanthemums and cannas and fill gaps in the border
05:14 Rose 'Guajard' - shall I keep it or dig it up?
06:03 Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
06:08 Rose 'Souvenir du Docteur Jamain'
06:18 Place stakes, hoops and other supports in your garden in early summer
06:42 How to make plant supports from clippings: • How to make natural pl...
06:56 Use soft ties not wire to tie plants to supports. I use
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07:09 Whether and when to mow the lawn? We're doing No Mow May but this is very much a personal choice, not a recommendation.
08:12 The north-facing shady border - we've taken out the hedge. What do you think? Better? Or not?
09:16 Easy wildlife garden tips from Joel Ashton: • Easy wildlife garden t...
09:34 Buy bird boxes, bug hotels etc from wildlife organisations and make sure that they are made so that wildlife will use them. Gifty stuff may be useless!
09:53 Water newly planted shrubs and trees in their first summer. And weed around their roots to reduce competition for nutrients
10:24 Are raised beds always good in gardens?
11:26 Smynium perfoliatum (Perfoliate Alexanders)
11:50 A border that doesn't work....
12:25 If you're having plumbing or landscaping work done, include the garden. It makes a big difference to have easily accessible taps!
13:32 Trim hedges in early summer - but not if there are birds nesting in it!
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Thankyou Alexandra I agree planting closely together to stop those weeds it’s Maxine 81yrs young we moved to new build 3yrs ago and the lawn was eaten twice even after treatments so now we have border’s and a large square in the centre with shrubs and flowers that I take care of and try not to wince but the rest is gravel that I also grow plants in you have such a lovely voice my husband also enjoys listening to u he’s 85 but doesn’t like gardening very much just looking at it however he will always help with heavy things We look forward to Saturdays to see what new things you have to tell us thankyou again love your dog such a happy soul always charging around xx
The rose is nicer than the fennel. Mercy for the rose.
It is your garden, Alexandra, and you should of course do what you want with it, but as regards that beautiful rose that you didn't choose, I would keep it. It is so pretty and it looks to be thriving. I just couldn't bring myself to dig it up. But it is in your garden so you need to decide. 🤗
Thank you, Alexandra. I have lived with plants that weren't what I ordered, and sometimes were things I did, but just didn't look like I expected. Then during the pandemic, I decided life is too short to suffer through with plants I don't love. Gardening isn't about enduring; it's about joy. I put out a call to the local garden club, and all of my unwanted plants and shrubs went to people who would love them (and who carefully dug them out themselves).
I so appreciate your realistic tours of your garden and your suggestions for avoiding problems and inconveniences. It is impossible to keep a very large garden looking perfect continuously without some help and professional help is just about impossible to find in the US. Thank you for your videos. I like to watch them when I’ve come inside on a break.
Dear Alexandra, thank you for the garden tour, it is always a pleasure visiting other gardens. If you have doubt about the pink rose, dig it out and give someone how loves it. Because you will look at it and think "I didn't order you" every time you'll see it. Greetings from South Germany.
Completely agree! Raus!!!
Alexandra, leave the rose! The color may not be to your taste but it does add a very interesting contrast. The texture and color of the leaves (they're very healthy looking) are very nice, too. That's my two cents-worth.
Thank you for your lovely friendly videos. happy gardening everyone
Thank you!
Thank you, Alexandra! It’s refreshing that you share the good, bad (but never ugly) about your garden. That makes it much more useful than only showing the pretty bits. I think your garden is beautiful and charming, and part of that is that it is NOT perfect, but it obviously is much loved and cared for. So... the rose... Have it out. Someone will want it and then you can put in one that you love.
So well said.
Pulled muscles in my back weeding .Slipped on mud getting up .Weeds laughing millions of dandilion army against fences to fields at the fast march. Me on stick unhappy. Been four days of hell and on going.Real job on my self yet again each May same
Oh, no, I'm sorry to hear that.
Perhaps you can just clip the seedheads off and put them in the garbage?
Embrace the dandelions! You’ll get a wildflower meadow without having to work for it.
dandelions are good for the soil and for pollinators!
I understand completely about your rose dilemma. I had four Hydrangeas that, because of wrong tags (expected growth was way off)grew much too big for the spots I planted them and had no other spots for them to shine. I called my two friends who are also avid gardeners and they came over last fall, dug them up and by their photos from last week are quite happy with their new homes. Now I have space to be creative. Thanks for another inspiring video.
I have also had to move hydrangeas to better locations after years of trying a different spot and then they thrived. Was glad to see they were quite hardy! Glad it worked for you and your friends too!
I say keep rose as it's so beautiful!! I love your sunken gardens and walled areas 💖
I agree, keep the rose, it's doing well and looks lovely where it is!
Make your peace with this rose - it is a nice one! I have a rose in my garden as well, that was already in. It is not my first choice. And I think, that the rose know this and perform perfect every year ;o)
Thoroughly enjoyable and practical as ever. I particularly loved seeing your Physocarpus - the ever changing beauty of it's leaves is never understated. As I get older I find myself more particular about what specific roses I would include/retain in the garden. I have to genuinely love it, or it gets gifted to someone who would appreciate it more. Always a personal decision, of course!
I’ve just bought some hose and connectors to extend my existing hose and it’s a joy to water the end of my garden without the watering can business!
I was thinking of that, and I think it'll make it a bit better but still so much unrolling and rolling back!
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden it is a bit of a pain
Do the hoses not hook together in the UK, without buying connectors?
I have 5 hoses stuck together to reach a far away horse. It also reaches most of my plants. But I confess I leave it out, unless someone is coming over.😂
I have 3 hoses put together, sometimes seems more work than help, as thry constantly get pulled apart og the shower head comes off. And when im done, the hose is wet and full of sand, which i also end up being. Wet and full of sand.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden maybe you could keep the new section down there, and connect it when you need to use it
That's an outstanding garden. I absolutely love your British accent. It takes me on an exquisite journey through the garden. Thank you!
Thank you!
My initial thought when you asked was 'stay', but then I thought 'no', that's the beauty of gardening, we can move anything if we so desire x 🌼🙏😇🇦🇺
If you added a small gutter on the shed or potting shed at the back of your garden, and a down pipe, you could install a small water butt. This would help reduce your hose / watering can journeys, as you will be able to fill your can near the raised beds.
Dear Alexandra, I would like to thank you so much for your excellent videos and very helpful advices! It helped me a lot in the last year when I started my work in planning a garden in the south of Italy. It's so useful to get a lot of information through your 'on the point' interviews with head gardeners or garden designers.
A very warm 'Thank you' from Germany! 🤗
The unwanted rose-
If you can stand one more year of it, then how about digging it up after it goes dormant in next Winter?
What a great gift for a friend who wants it! Plus, right now you can take good pictures of it blooming to show possible adoptive parents!
Bcuz I agree with you, you should only grow things you really love. ❤️
Love love love your videos. Thank You from Dallas, Texas
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Glad you like them! Thank you.
I love the rose in the midst of the other plants!! It adds color and texture. I say keep it and reframe how you think about it😊🌹💓
I'm coming round to it! Especially as some other roses have now come out and it looks less out of place.
Thank you. Love the new haircut😇
The pink rose looks really beautiful to me. I wouldn't get rid of it :-)
I love that rose and i think it fits there perfectly! I love your climbers especially the kiwi one. Beautiful garden and video! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for showing us everything
Definitely makes me feel better that everyone has problem areas 😃
Loved your list of early summer chores -- have accomplished all! I am going to run out and get some borage seeds -- we all need more courage these days!
Absolutely!
It’s not even summer yet and your garden is already bursting into life with all those flowers!!!! So jealous here in Melbourne - it’s becoming the dormant season and nothing is growing aside from the native varieties (which I don’t have the money to buy 😐).
Oh well - will have to see what winter and spring flowering varieties I can buy so give me some joy in the garden.
I live in dry Northern Utah, USA and I planted a hedge of Austrian pines, Blue Spruce and deciduous trees around the perimeter of our 3.65 acre property to hide the encroaching big box businesses around me. I watered every tiny, bare root soil conservation trees (200+) 2x week in the summer/fall by hose for 2-3 yrs, setting the timer on my watch to go off every 20 seconds so I’d move to the next tree. I had over 600 ft of hoses with quick connections on them to add or subtract hoses easily. Trees have been in the ground for over 25 yrs now and are tall and beautiful and I don’t see my commercial neighbors.
(You could always add another hose in order to easily water your trees in the corner.)
So I'm definitely not the only one receiving a wrong colour, or just not what you had thought, after planting them in the fall. I had bought white daffodils with yellow centre at Lidl last fall. When it was spring, they were entirely yellow. That was not the colour it said on the package, even though it looked stunning next to my soft pink hyacinths. I also bought some tulips in a pink/orange coral colour. But it turned out more on the lighter red and that colour is not part of my colour scheme in the garden. And I have also been battling a lot with aphids lately. Especially since I layed french bark chips down against the drought we had. It has quite a strong smell and the aphids are now even on plants they otherwise would have left alone. I'm sure that they must have thrived with the drought, because I have never seen so many in my early gardening years.
I have a Hydrangea petiolaris on a north facing fence and it grows well
have a wonderful weekend. Best wishes from Liverpool
Thank you! You too!
You have beautiful self seeders all around! I agree it's good to dig out plants when they are young if you don't like them ...I waited too long to dig out a peony plant, it is so strongly established I simply could not lift it out even after a hard shoveling session. 😅 It's probably a 20 year veteran of the garden. Also great advice on bird boxes, I'll remember that! 💚.
I used to fill my garden with bargains from the sales bech, freebies from friends etc, but as it's matured I'm now being ruthless in slowly removing all those plants I don't actually love, and giving them away to other friends, or selling them at charity events. And what an opportunity to squeeze in another goodie you've fancied for ages!
I always enjoy your honesty. Re hoses, my daughter bought one for me that is flexible, expandable, retractable; it at least doubles and maybe triples in length when water is in it and shrinks again when the last of the water has gone from it. I leave it unravelled alongside the side of the house . It has made my life so much easier. I use rainwater for pots submerging the watering can in the rain butt ( much quicker than using the tap at the bottom of the butt)
When I didn't have a tap to reach my back yard, I purchased two high quality expandable 50' hoses with brass fittings and shut-off valves. I'd hook both together to water the flowers in the back, shut off the valve to the one hooked to the faucet, unhook the other one and allow it to drain while I completed my watering up front.
These expandable hoses are lightweight, making them oh, sooooo much easier to manage than a rubber hose! If you purchase high quality and don't yank on it if it gets caught on the corner of a brick porch or step (lesson learned) it should last for several seasons.
Thank you, Alexandra, for sharing your successes and "do overs" with us. And for constantly reminding us of your equivalent to our USDA hardiness zones. 🌸🌿
Always love seeing your beautiful garden!
It's always a joy when your videos pop up! Those climbers are stunning, I understand the dilemma about the rose. Hard to get rid of something that is happy where it is. I had that issue with white callas but had to dig them out because the slugs loved them more than me. I also love to see your beautiful brick wall less crowded. It's nice and airy. I try to mow less often but I do love it when the lawn is neat the green. Now is the time for me to pack in annuals and trim the hedges. Thank you Alexandra for your bright smile.
Beautiful garden. Could you move the rose to a less prominent location?although I do like it.
I think it won't have enough sun elsewhere - I've tried roses in some other places and they haven't done well, although it's a good suggestion, I'll have another look. Perhaps over to the dumping ground at the back of the garden as that is potentially sunny.
Loved the honesty in your tour; it makes me feel so much more relaxed about my own garden (I'm a workaholic so I'm always behind with the gardening jobs, even though I'd much rather be gardening!). But a comment about the underplanting of your fruit trees - won't underplanting create competition for trees when you're already asking them to work quite hard providing fruit for you?
I think if it isn’t a particularly shallow rooting tree and it’s established then it wouldn’t be a problem. I am a beginner though. Just thinking about orchards and food forests for example where companion planting is used. Like a nitrogen fixers planted around the fruit tree to feed it.
Hope you are well and that my comment isn’t out of step.
Just got to the part about weed competition right against those birches. That’s pretty close I wouldn’t want weeds like that, unless I couldn’t see them at all or ignorance provided bloss etc 😅
Beautiful garden. Love the Silver birch tree I'm hoping to get one for my garden
Loved seeing the back corners of your garden. You always have helpful advice.
My dear, sweet lady, buy a second water hose and connect the two. I have gone from the traditional water hose to the retractable hoses. I can store 100 feet of hose in a five gallon bucket. Having light weight hoses makes my life so much easier. The older I get, the more I appreciate easy. Your shows are lovely and inspirational. Thank you for your efforts in sharing them with all of us.
Thank you! And I will look into that.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I think you would love them.
Your wildlife sanctuary corner turned out to be a beautiful solution for a neglected garden space! I love it! Your thoughtful research was well worth your time invested.
You've created a beautiful haven Alexandra. I do love that lavender hedge!
Not sure if you've considered this, but is it possible to put a gutter and down spout on your little shed by the raised beds? A rain barrel is a very convenient source of extra water and one good rain usually fills it right up.
Alexandra, I have invested in automatic hose reels that are attach to walls or posts. They have made life so much easer and save time. No having to wind & rewind the hose. It also makes car washing more convenient.
I use retractable hoses, life is so much easier not having to roll up a hose. Invest in a really good quality one if you can 👍
I’ve tried 3 times and although the retracting is ideal they all developed a leak/tear/split so I’ve gone back to the rigid sort and rewinding.
@@rosmitton2202 O no that’s terrible 🥲 Did you invest in a good brand? We have had ours for over 5 years & no problems? Gardena is a top brand here in NZ
I had a look at those, but my main problem is the L shape of the garden - everything has to dog leg round and there doesn't seem to be any alternative to doing that manually.
@@heatherstephens9295 5 years! 2 years max for me. My first two were cheaper admittedly but the third I paid a lot for.
Your climbers are gorgeous! I didn't realize they help the brick. I'm going through a similar process where I'm planting so many perrenials the weeds don't get a chance to spread. Except for clover which I leave. Ajuga has helped me immensely.
I always find something I want to try after watching your videos - this time making plant supports from cuttings. I vote for digging up the rose if you don’t love it. I’m sure a friend or neighbor would enjoy it. Although I should take my own advice and do the same with the Shimanishiki tree peony that turned out to be all magenta with no white at all, which does not match my pastel color scheme for blooms. Looks nothing like the photo on the tag or images from the internet. But it’s growing so well after only 2 seasons I hate to disturb when it flowers so prolifically.
I love tree peonies, but they never match the description on the label! They’re beautiful regardless.
Those vines are amazing. I just have plain old Virginia creeper here in zone 5
Absolutely love your videos. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Love watching your videos and advice, Alexandra. Always very interested in seeing what you have in your garden as I live nearby in Thanet. Lovely idea to gift your rose to a friend. Found your information about the creepers on your walls very educational. Look forward to your next video as always.
Particularly lovely video. I enjoyed the practical advice about watering.
Thank you for replying Alexandra, that makes complete sense now!
Thank you as always Alexandra. 👌💕
Great video Alexandra! Really enjoyed this one ... 🌺 Thank you! 🌺
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your garden is fantastic - warts and all!
Such an honest tour. Thank you
Very good advice ! Thankyou from Stockholm Sweden.
Alexandra, I think your garden has a nice Beatrix Potter kind of character. It could be an illustrators morgue of inspiration.
I watched you stretching that hose as far as it would go and then filling the watering can and I laughed because I have that problem too. Very informative video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, and loved your videos with The Horti-Culturalists. Am only halfway through watching but will be able to finish later today when on train. Really interesting topic.
I always enjoy your discussion of what works and what doesn’t. So helpful. If your native soil drains well, and is fertile why bother with raised beds? Play to your strengths. Give that rose away to a nearby school. It’s your garden do what you want to. Put in drought resistant plants in your out of reach border if you can. Have a restful day and a great upcoming week.
IKR? I also find raised beds rather unattractive
Your videos are pleasing and inspirational.
Glad you like them!
Loved seeing more areas of your gardens! Initially I was very intimidated by drip systems but I have conquered it and every plant & tree is on drip now.
🌼🐝🌻I’m Back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. I am making garden videos too on my own channel. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season. I still have so much to learn in this area. I hope we can learn more from each other! 🌻🌸👨🌾🐝🌼
Thank you so much 😊
Thank you for this Alexandra - so many useful tips. My vote is to change your rose to the one you love! Perhaps the old rose can be relocated/potted/gifted? Also, how about tall grasses and wildflowers under the south facing fruit tree border - a bit of a wildlife and pollinator haven? Have a lovely early summer.
Hello from Virginia USA. I dug waterlines by hand for my gardens and yes it is a terrible thing haha. I have also found that I can run a hose from a tap over the lawn to wherever I need it, and keep it that way! The lawn grows to cover it (I mow on a tall setting) and you would never know it was there. That might be a solution for you. You could link hoses across your lawn to that back corner and run it up a post to a tap in a discreet but much more useful spot. Just an idea 🙂 Love the videos thank you.
That does sound ingenious. The problem with my garden is the L shape and the changes of level, it means nothing is straightforward and there are so many places where the hose has to curve and therefore kink.
I love the rose
Please keep the rose Alexandra ☺️🙏🏻💚🌹 even if you just decide to move it elsewhere in the garden, rather than remove it completely. It’s happy and healthy x x
Oh Alexandra I would love to come and take that Rose off your hands just so I could come and see your garden but unfortunately I live across the pond and can't come to visit you love watching you on UA-cam
Put a lovely koi pond in your shady corner. It will become a great place to sit and enjoy !
The issue with leaving plants to grow between the pavers, I've found, is they move the pavers apart leaving much larger gaps. This causes many more weeds to take root making it much harder to remove. Lovely garden. Gorgeous pink and green climber, forgot the name.
Margie from usa. I really enjoy your videos ALexandra and love the brick wall you have. Thank you for providing helpful ideas.
Thank you!
Great video. We have a large garden area with raised beds. You're right about having to water more often. In summer, they need water nearly every day. I don't mind, though, because it gives me the chance to remove weeds and see what needs to be harvested. I combine raised beds with square foot gardening. It works best for me to have defined spaces to take care of one at a time.
I think that's a very valid point of view, because veg need daily inspection so watering certainly does ensure that.
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I like the rose but have what you love. Must say I noticed that foxglove right away. It's gorgeous
Thank you! 😊
I just came in from weeding, to watch you talk about weeding, LOL. Here in CA we are facing water restrictions starting June 1st, so I'm deep watering my orange tree, and a few others that were recently transplanted. Also trimming, re-potting in larger containers, and mulching in preparation. Many plants that do well in full sun elsewhere, need part shade here, or they get blasted by the mid-day sun. I love re-seeders and volunteer plants; red nasturtium and white alyssum come back every year. I just rescued 8 tiny "sea lavender" plants from the grass weeds. Perhaps a neighbor or gardener nearby would be interested in digging out your unwanted rose and taking it away. I ended up with 6 very vigorous pale orange lilies (orange is my least favorite color); the package said TIGER lilies. Not a spot or stripe in sight. I will probably re-pot them in give-away pots and pass them along.
I didnt realize you were in a zone 9! Geat garden
We have some water barrels that collect rain from the roof gutters- all good, but they aren't attractive. I'd love to see more ideas on how to conserve water, how to make water barrels more attractive, how much to mulch, and how to encourage more bird and insect visits. I always look forward to your weekly videos. Thank you!
One extra point worth mentioning is putting in water butts wherever possible, to save using mains water
You need to get an extra hose to add to your existing! It’s a game changer!!
Please keep the rose 🌹She’s very happy and I want to say...meant to bring a bright color to your beautiful early summer. Appreciate your lovely and informative show. Thank you
Hello there Alexandra.Thank you so much for sharing such useful interesting information.Perhaps a solution for your watering in the area your hose doesn't reach, could be rainwater collection containers. Thanks for your great channel.
I think the rose should go if you don’t love it. You can mitigate your guilt by donating to a friend that wants it, a school or a park. It bring joy to someone else!
Please try to keep the Rose you didn’t order. It’s magical.
Thank you Alexandra, you are the best. I learnt sooooo much from you. Please don't throughout the lush Gaujard from your garden. Looks nice. AND if you do, give it to me....
Thankyou and Rose Gaujard is here to stay, she has performed through hot and dry summers, also wet and dreary ones.
Hello Alexandra, I'm new to your channel and wanted to say how much I am enjoying it. You give detailed advice and background information which I find frequently quite lacking even in TV programmes. Of especial benefit for me is your beautiful speaking voice. As I'm slightly hard of hearing, you are a first!, in that I don't need to use subtitles because of the clarity & precision of your narrative! With such a beautiful old established garden, in such a classic period Georgian house, I wonder if gardens too have a genus loci? On matters more practical...yes, I would remove the rose 'Gaujard', and maybe replace it with any site-suitable white flowering variety. I find that white flowers in a garden act like a punctuation point where the eye can rest.
Your summers are downright cold. I am surprised at how warm the winters are in the U.K. as I imagined them to be really, really cold. I live in the southern end of the central valley of California (U.S. planting zone 9) and summers get to 100-108 Fahrenheit. We are happy when it is only 95 degrees. Plants that in other places can take "full sun", require a bit of shade. One advantage is that by the time you hang out the 3rd washing machine wash, the 1st washing machine wash is dry and ready to be collected.
Yes, our winters are extraordinarily warm and the summers quite often don't really get going. Sometimes there's only a few degrees difference between the two, I think.
I think if you aren't happy with that rose, find a friend who is, it's better to look out there and love everything you see. I'd like to thank you for sharing your video with Joel, I started watching his channel, he's really wonderful. I ordered 11 dahlia's in 2020 for 2021 from a well known supplier here in the states, 8 were not what I ordered, it was so disappointing as that was the first time I'd very grown the tall ones. Now I'm curious about your front garden, are you still trying a meadow.?
As for the rose.....I would let it go....plant what brings us joy not someone else's mistake...every time you look at it what crosses your mind is the mistake not what you wanted...plant another rose that every time you look at it, it makes you think "what a lovely choose I made".
Life will find a way... unless it's something I purchased. Than it won't. Lol
We had an Actinidia, we loved it! Always got the new shoots caught by the early frost!! We also found the local cats loved it too, problems then with them burying their mess. Sad to say it had to go and no problems with cats now. I connect a 15’ extension hose for the top end of the garden, so much easier.
Yes! Actinidia wood is actually sold as dental chews for cats! They love it and it helps keep their teeth plaque free. It is a crying shame that people let their cats roam free, especially because of their bird-hunting ways. 😕
We let our south lawn grow up so fireflies can lay eggs. There are less fireflies because so many lawns.
I think you should get rid of the rose if you prefer a different one. We all have limited space to different degrees. There's no extra space for something that is pretty enough, in my opinion. I want to love every last bit of it.
My daughter ordered a bare root rose ‘My Dad’ but when it flowered it definitely wasn’t that. I emailed the well know rose company and the sent the correct one and let us keep the wrong one so credit to them for excellent customer service
That's a good company. Sadly the company I ordered from didn't. I did email them about it and they said theyd send another but never did. Then I ordered again from them, and also got the wrong plant. Sigh.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thats such a shame, I must admit there aren’t too many companies like that anymore as they live by reputation and social media can have a big impact if they have too many complaints. We dealt with Peter Beales, they didn’t have it in stock but remembered 9 months later so I can recommend them x
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Indeed I had the same problem with a well known plant company... (Ah stuff it, they're not gonna sue me, I can afford legal help, also the truth is not libel anyway - Thompson and Morgan). Oh and they sent the order late.
@@barbsdee3831 I might try out Peter Baels.
@@Stettafire Peter Beals Roses 👍🏼
Hi Alexandra, I also had a far garden and my solution was a permanent hose from a hose bib. I ran it from the split and left it with an on/off switch. I could then turn it on at the house and it was ready to use in that garden. In late fall I would unhook and store. Maybe it would work for you. jd
Lots of great tips. I'll be trying the grass one. Have you considered drip irrigation, for your veg beds? The drip system can be programmed to your phone to turn on or off on rainy days.
Thank you Alexandra for sharing your useful tips and the good and bad things going on at the moment. Do you have a nature area where you don’t weed at all ? Also I like your bird houses are they easy to care for and do you think they’d be ok for me as we hand my neighbours have cats? 😊
I loved the tour of your garden, it's the best time of year for me. Can you please tell me why your hydrangea is not happy with the foxgloves? My Annabelle's grow quite happily with foxgloves.
The foxglove has literally self seeded within its roots, so there's too much competition. If it had chosen a spot just 6" away I don't think there would be a problem. Thank you.
Thanks Alexandra for another great video with lots of good tips. I really love what you’ve done with the corner that had the pergola in it. The bird boxes look great. Can I ask how your box plants are? Unfortunately ours have an infestation of box caterpillar . I believe this pest only attacks box and seems to be mainly in the east of England. We’re in Hertfordshire. I’ve been trying to pick the caterpillars off manually and feeding them to the birds but I’ve discovered birds don’t like them! 😵💫
Amazingly my box plants are still OK, though not because I've done anything special to avoid the dreaded moth or blight. A friend 500 yards away one direction has both, as does a friend 500 yards away the other, but so far I'm fine. I'm wondering if my high walls have anything to do with it.