How to use evergreens for a garden that looks beautiful all year round
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- This clever evergreen garden has lots of tips you can use in your own garden - an all-evergreen border, hedging used to conceal working areas and brilliant easy tricks for classical garden features and ornaments. A charming and inspiring garden with lots of takeaways.
00:00 Welcome
01:00 The Norfolk Gardens Trust : www.norfolkgt.org.uk
01:27 The garden is about 100ft/30m long and 25ft/7.5m wide. Winters equate to a USDA zone 9 but summers are cooler.
01:47 Clever trick to turn a garden shed into a classical folly
02:53 Using the space between the hedge and the boundary fence for storage and work areas.
03:18 Classical parterre and view of Norwich, including Norwich Cathedral
03:43 Low evergreen parterre of box and yew hedging. For alternatives to box, see: The Best Evergreen Shrubs for Clipping into Topiary: • Top alternatives to bo...
04:06 Alternate Cypress Leylandii 'Goldcrest' and Irish yew (Taxus baccata fastigiata)
04:48 Evergreen border: the blue foliage is Rue 'Jackman's Blue'. The topiarised shapes are Lonicera 'Baggeson's Gold', spiky plants far left are astelia and the grey leaves are Senecio 'Angel Wings'
05:29 Same evergreen border, see above
06:14 Use of ivy as ground cover. Check that it's not on a list of invasive plants for your area.
07:19 Ivy grown across the risers of the garden steps
07:34 Wall with ivy, trellis and ferns
09:03 Winter gardens playlist: • Winter gardens
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Good morning Alexandra, thank you for your wonderful channel.This is a wonderful garden!
I realize this is an older garden,but their clever designs, and subtle contrasting shades of green colors is beautiful. This garden feels like one is walking through the a large park.
There are so many wonderful ideas. This garden would make a great book on using evergreens.
Thank you!
Your channel is my favorite gardening channel! You come across so professional and articulate and our videos are always well researched, edited and interesting. I really think it is the most well-produced gardening channel on youtube. Kudos to you! :)
Thank you so much 😊
Garden of my dreams!!!!
What a peaceful looking garden. And what a view! I didn’t even notice it being on a slope.
Thank you for the advice for gardens. Ivy is my friend and I have it growing up trellis’, trees and in pots. 😊
Thank you for showing. Roger and Stephen credit to you both. Love love love.
I had to break off halfway through to make a note of that Senecio! Spectacular!
What a beautiful garden, I love the shed and using the space behind curved hedges. A lot of thought and work has obviously gone into it!
It really is an inspiring garden, I agree.
I absolutely love that garden. A garden really is a 4-season event, especially here in New England, where it's so important to have evergreens mixed in with our deciduous plants.
Wow! for a relatively small garden, it looks much larger and really quite grand. Such a lovely view, so clever in design. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you very much!
Beautiful garden, very peaceful a lot of rest for the eyes.
Firstly may I saw what a comprehensive view of the garden, very descriptive and you can
clearly see the expertise and passion from the narration. I do like the interesting way they
have used the combination of yellow Cypress and Irish Yew. In terms of flowering
plants many overlook the flowering evergreens and some of the new varieties such
as Choisya 'White Dazzler' and Viburnum Tinus ‘Gwenllian’ are absolute stars.
Very good point, and of course, I now realise that there were a couple of choisyas there and some other flowering shrubs, which I should have mentioned - as they weren't in flower when I was there, I overlooked that point. Thank you.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden You did actually mention Choisya in your narration,
my comment was more a note for others who may seek a touch of colour.
I have to say in all honesty that I really love your narration style, the highly
informative content and the clear passion you have for gardening, you are
a credit to youtube. This video I found most entertaining as in Scotland our
summers are so short and winters bleak so providing year round colour is a
great way to better enjoy the outside space. Many thanks
Green is my favorite color and this proves all shades of green, well with one sweet cosmos makes a beautiful garden. I'm in the Mid-Atlantic area of the east coast in Maryland. Some yrs ago ivy started up my pecan, people said to stop it asap, but seeing 40 foot trees in the woods with ivy to the top, I'm not all that concerned. People also say to never let Wisteria grow up your house, I say to them houses in the UK are covered with it, they've been gardening there longer than Americas been America so I'm thinking that's OK.
I agree with you, although the problem with both wisteria and ivy is when they wrap themselves around the guttering and pull it down in a wind. As with all things, it's just a question of keeping an eye on it and trimming climbers back before they become a problem.
What a splendid garden, they have designed a park with so much elegance in the design. I feel with a large evergreen garden like this, you could hire someone to do periodic major pruning, and still enjoy doing quite a bit of pruning yourself to give it the personal touch. Anyway that's what I do ☺️💚 with my oversized Rhodie's. A really enjoyable video and great camera views of the details.
Thank you and you're right, it is almost like a miniature parkland
All the tricks of the 18th century landscape painters packed into one medium-sized garden; no mean feat to accomplish seamlessly on rising ground. Thanks so much for ferreting out this clever garden to enjoy and learn from! Always love your presentations.
Thank you!
What a lovely garden. The contrast of colours and textures is so attractive that you don't really notice the lack of flowers. And what a view!
The view is extra-ordinary!
This garden is so inspiring and your videos are always food for the soul. Thank you for taking the time to do them!
Thank you!
Beautiful display of evergreens. Thank you for sharing.
Folly is a great idea to cover an ordinary shed
Isn't it? I loved it.
What an amazing garden with so many clever design ideas!
Thank you! I agree!
Thx for the interesting video, dear Alexandra. The two gentlemen created a very inspiring evergreen garden (OMG, the view is stunning), and parts of it look like parts of my front garden which has shady areas. I use ivy, too, but here in Northern Germany I never heard about any restrictions related to ivy. I'll have a look at the plants list. A nice weekend to all of you!
Thank you! I think it may only be the US with ivy, but it's always worth checking.
Thats because ivy is a west european native plant and you have robins, blackbirds and more birds eating its berrys, bees eating the nectar and pollen in late autumn when few things bloom and me using it as a washing detergent - it is actually recommended for a wildlife friendly garden in germany. Wikipedia has a nice list with pictures of european invasive species: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasive_species_in_Europe you've probabyl seen the japanese knotweed- japanischer Knöterich, oft in Hecken zu finden.
The garden is such a beautiful garden, I can feel the calm and tranquility that it probably provides to the owners. Very creative and clever use of space to provide interesting corners. Thanks for sharing👏🏾
Thank you!
How spectacular! A very restful place. I’m inspired to add more evergreen to my landscape 😊
I learn so much from you, thank you 💚
Thank you!
Oh my goodness, I love this garden.
Alexandra, your videos are so refreshingly concise and informative. My favorite of several gardeners I follow.
Thank you so much!
Your videos are always so helpful. Thank you for the informative content.
You are so welcome!
What a beautiful garden. A veritable feast for tired eyes. Such clever and imaginative ideas with a view to die for.
My Saturday treats are both yours, and Lady C’s videos.Both an education in themselves.
This is definitely my favorite channel for garden design, so much inspiration and useful information. Thank you SO MUCH!
Thank you!
Thank you Alexandra. You are such a joy to listen. Cheers and love this garden!!!
Thank you!
Hello Alexandra, another inspiring video from you. Thank you. There are many ideas here to draw on. I like the idea of hiding a working area behind an inward curving hedge. It is always hard to hide these areas in middle or small-size gardens. The garden with the view is just stunning. I have mixed garden beds with combinations of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, perennials and occasional annuals such as cosmos. Evergreens not on your list that work well for clipping, that I have in my garden and recommend, are Pittosporum Tobira, Myrtus Communis, Eleagnus 'Limelight', Luma Apiculata, Viburnum Awabuki (however can be a weed in warmer climates), Osmanthus Fragrans, Osmanthus Burkwoodi. I am always on the lookout for more so your video and list are very helpful. Best wishes...
Great plant list! Thank you.
What clever ways of making a garden look good! I love the idea of snaking the main path and using the empty spaces created for utility spaces, like they do with their compost heap. Very nice ideas!
Thanks so much! 😊
Good morning Alexandra, what a beautiful neat garden. I am sure it took quite a bit of patience waiting for the hedges and conifers to grow to this stage! It was so worth the wait and just keep shaping and maintaining. One day I suddenly noticed all the different greens in a normal garden. You see it more in the summer season, where is spring the shades are very fresh and tender green yet at the season settles in suddenly you notice the colours. Green is one of my favourite colours, like flowers definitely more than one favourite!. Not too many ornaments in their garden, just sufficient to make it interesting. The trees I had such a desire to move, I have left for the time being. We decided, they took so many years to grow, it is better to just leave them, enjoy their summer shade and let them be. I am glad now we did not removed. Sometimes it is better to remove some branches than to removed the tree completely! Oh, I had a very pleasant surprise, I noticed some extra dahlia plants coming up, I did not plant tubers in the area, but you know what, they self-seeded and the plants are strong and healthy and the one in bloom now has the most delightful dark pink flower. It looks absolutely stunning. So there, we never realise what your garden can produce. What a treat..... Thank you for the lovely informative and encouraging talk, it is always a pleasure to listen to your videos. Do enjoy your Festive preparations, are you planning for a busy day, or just keep it all lovely, warm and good company. I mean just you and your husband? :) take care
Thank you! Self seeded dahlias sounds interesting. I hope you enjoy your festive season too, and Happy New Year
This garden should become a national treasure! Wow!
Do you think it may be possible to visit?
Thanks as ever Alexandra - you are a gem. 🥰
Thank you! I don't think Roger and Stephen open the garden, but you could always enquire at the Norfolk Gardens Trust as Roger is connected with them (and they may be able to suggest other good gardens to visit). I would suggest The Plantation Garden in Norwich if you haven't been: www.plantationgarden.co.uk/ and the Norfolk Gardens Trust is www.norfolkgt.org.uk/ have a good trip, it's a lovely place.
Thanks Alexandra. I’m in Norwich now so will let you know if something happens.
I'm glad to have found this channel. I have a small "backyard" as we call it here in the U.S., but I much more love to call it "garden" as you all do! I have a lot of work to do to get my garden looking like those in your videos so I will be watching more and getting inspiration. Thank you!
Thank you!
Their garden is stunning. Such a nice and smart use of textures and layering. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Thanks so much 😊
I was looking forward to watching this video when I heard the garden was on a slope
Our garden is on a slope but sloping down, it is quite open and we are looking for ideas of plants to use
The view from our bungalow is a small housing estate and we are constantly trying to find the right trees and plants to give us privacy as well as focal points
I really enjoyed this video, it has given me some ideas but if there is a video on a downward sloping garden like ours that would be good to watch
Have you seen some of the privacy posts or videos? Although they're not specific to slopes, the principles would be the same. This post on how to increase your garden privacy has links to other posts in it: www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/how-increase-garden-privacy/ I do agree that it is a tricky problem, though - I'd suggest creating private areas near the house, as the nearer a tree or screen is to you, the smaller it can be to create privacy. I hope that helps and I will bear downward slopes in mind for the future.
Thank you for the design principles explanation that this mature garden exemplifies! I’m thrilled as ever with your content on this channel.
Thank you! I thought this garden was so interesting, too.
Thank you for sharing this garden. It is so beautifully subtle and sophisticated in the most humble way. As much as I love flowers, I truly appreciate the discipline and beauty of this approach. The gentle enticement through the garden to such a splendid view is genius.
Thank you!
Amazing garden, absolutely beautiful. Gives me some ideas! Thank you Alexandra
You are so welcome!
What a lovely garden. Lots of inspiration.
Thank you!
The gentlemen have some very good ideas I love there garden
Thank you !!! Super inspired and a visual delight!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your garden is very beautiful, I am an Indonesian farmer, I will continue to learn from you
Thanks and welcome
I have to share my new favorite evergreen with my new favorite garden channel ;) Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Boulevard" such a lovely blue and fluffy texture, I watched this one twice to catch all the great ideas in this video!
Thank you for that suggestion, I've looked it up and it does look beautiful, especially in some of the shapes people have pruned it into. I'll look out for it.
great point especially time it takes to care for
Beautiful 💜
Congrats on a marvelous vid: it has lots of gorgeous, inspirational images which combine hand-in-glove with the very welcomed stream of gardening facts, news and your own studied opinions.
Thank you!
Thank you so much 😀
How wonderful.
Woow, this is one of the most happily situated gardens I have ever seen in my life!!
Thank you Alexandra for sharing this beauty with us every week 💚
I'm glad you like it
Beautiful and inspirational. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Wowee! The green garden with distant valley view is fantastic!
Thanks for sharing. I have similar light and wind exposure with a view. This video is food for thought.
I’ll have to adapt the plant selection to more succulent varieties to resist brush 🔥.
Good point - hope it goes well.
On point as per usual, thank you
You are so welcome
What a wonderful garden - and what a wonderful view!
Thank you!
Another great video! You always have such interesting points and gardens to share. Thank you for pointing out the invasive nature of ivy; I've used pachysandra in some areas but once again like you point out always best to check how a plant will impact your area.
Thank you!
I live in the Northeast U.S. and I love ivy. I have neighbors that have yards filled with weeds. Those weeds would be all over my yard if not for the ivy which keeps everything out. Do I have to pull it up and prune on a regular basis? Yes absolutely. A few minutes here and there, and it's very well controlled. Also it's roots are pretty shallow so it's very easy to pull up and I would never allow it to grow up buildings or important fixtures.
I just want to add that camellias are evergreen and bring some gorgeous blooms to the garden when nothing else is blooming. I absolutely love them but they're only good in zone 7 and higher.
I'm certainly thinking of using more ivy in the difficult spots - after all, it takes time to weed them so a quick ivy trim from time to time should be less work, if anything.
Thank you for sharing this lovely video. I personally love ivy. Ivy flowers are excellent for pollinators and of course attract the ivy bee. I also "harvest" lots of mine every year on December 21st and use it to decorate my home for Christmas 🙂
It's brilliant at Christmas, I agree, thank you.
Fantastic video. Got me new ideas and thinking about the evergreens In my garden.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing such interesting tips, you help us a lot!
Thank you!
I love your channel! 💝
Thank you
very clever, I like it.
Glad you like it!
hello Alexandra! how timely this video is for me! i am a mostly evergreen garden too. so peaceful, i love all the green. PS- my nan used to live in Norfolk!
A lovely place to live!
Thank you Alexandra, wonderful video, such great advice. Beautiful corner of Senecio "Angel Wings", love how it added to the foliage texture of the garden. I'm experimenting with my Senecio this year. In my zone 6 it's considered an annual, however I'm going to try and winter it over, planting it next to the house and cloche it. Fingers crossed!🤞
I had one but I think a very bad winter got it, so I think it is a little variable.
Love this idea as you knew I would .The light green against the Irish dark yew is an Idea ill borrow tell them as it is radically just right for my garden too.
It is lovely, I agree
I just love Ivy.
me too.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Ivy is very underrated. So interesting how resiliant it is, all of its pros for biodiversity, and the various stages in its life - a lot of times happening in the same plant. A haven for wildlife, including nesting and feeding birds. Does well in literally every soil and spot, and thrives on loving neglect. Ergo: the perfect plant. Apart from all that, when the wind wooshes through its leafs, or the rain drips down from them, it brings me utter joy. "The Wind in the Willows" could just as well be "The Wind in the Ivy". The main characters then of course had to be Mouse, Spider and Hedgehog. 😉 Poetry in motion.
Gardens come in all sorts and this type of garden would come into its own in winter but, to me, the major downside of such a garden would be the lack of variety during the course of the year. No doubt one could plant up pots with colourful displays to brighten up things. A interesting garden made even more so by the wonderful & cleverly framed view of the city.
The pots with begonias certainly pop with colour. And the view is extraordinary.
I've focused on evergreens in our little garden. Our garden started out as a Rose garden so in the Winter it became a pile of sticks. Is it difficult to pull off. You don't want to end up with just bushes. Varying textures are the key and versatility.
Camellia is my favourite evergreen. Herald of spring. Provide a great backdrop in Summer. Still around in Winter.
Eunonymous is essential to add some colour. I've got an Emerald and Gold and a lovely one that has white new growth that goes green.
Spotted Laurel is similar to them.
California Lilac is also very nice.
I've got a Rhodedendron about to go through its first winter.
As is a Viburnum Tinus which is just showing some flower.
I've also planted a Myrtle and a Pyrocantha just today
The aim is for a year round garden where different plants show their interest at different times. Not necessarily a garden that wows in June and is gone by August but a gentle joy throughout the year.
That's a great list of plants
I love this garden. I'm beginning to plant more flowering shrubs, especially 3' and 4' sizes. Only a few perennials do well for me as I have limited sun. We are surrounded by huge cedars and firs. We are just above the US Pacific Northwest ie. Southwest Canada. We have ivy growing on the steep slope at the edge of our property but I don't know what kind. It is very slow growing, thank goodness. I'm going to watch this again and save it. I particularly like the shot of the border with the Elephant Ears (?) Thanks Alexandra!
Thank you. The large leafed plant with silver foliage is Senecio 'Angel Wings' - I don't think there were any Elephant Ears here.
That cat is beautiful!
Yeah, ivy is generally not good to grow here in the pacific NW. In particular, english ivy, which is invasive here. Though I think some grow ivy as an indoor plant, or in pots.
Periwinkle is more common as a vine-groundcover here, but it can still spread at times.
There are a few nice evergreen native groundcovers too, that can sort of be used in a similar way on the ground, like kinnikinnick, which is an evergreen woody and dark glossy leaved low growing and matting groundcover. It looks great.
Many different native and selected cultivars of strawberry also make a great groundcover in the PNW. Some are deciduous, and others are evergreen.
Good suggestions, thank you!
Please consider a pointer to indicate which plants you are speaking about as you describe various features. Possibly this would be helpful to many.
Good idea, I'll bear that in mind.
What is that low blue plant in the curved border? There's a good shot of it at 4:46.
It's Rue 'Jackman's Blue'
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thank you. And it even grows in Pennsylvania! Managed to find some. Received and planted today. Not only is the color interesting but the foliage texture is quite nice.
European ginger might make a nice evergreen substitute to ivy in some warmer regions.
I can no longer properly comment on your videos because I've run out of adjectives. From now on, I'll just be fumbling along. Fair warning.
Such a great garden to see. Wonderful ideas. (See? Weak!)
The Senecio 'Angel Wings' are amazing, but I figured not for zone 7a since I don't see them here. And, yes, zone 8 or higher. I do have dusty miller (also normally can't take lower than zone 8) that I wintered over outside with a lot of mulch. About half of them survived. Maybe could try that with the angel wings.
Thank you! And I agree, I'm sure Senecio 'Angel Wings' is a bit tender, but I think some people grow it as an annual or take it into the greenhouse. Although that is a bit of a fuss, and if it's not sold where you are, that's probably the reason.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I do do that with one very tender perennial that is incredibly useful to me -- a baby's breath-like Euphorbia by Proven Winners. I keep it under grow lights, as it doesn't seem to need a dormancy period. But don't really want to start doing that with more plants. I don't have a green house either, where there would be a sort of "milder winter." I mulched up the dusty miller, which I'd actually grown from seed because I'd read about other people in my zone having success with the heavy mulching. (Oh, and then, about a month ago, I found some downtown here in New Haven that a restaurant was about to throw out! So I grabbed those and got them in the ground.) But, yes, I feel like I would have heard about angels wings before now if they could be carefully wintered over outside. But maybe they are sold as annuals here and I've just missed them?? I don't know. They are so striking.
Hi Alexandra thanks for a great video 🙂 just wondering what that plant is behind you on the wall?
Chinese virginia creeper - Parthenocissus henryana.
I love this garden! What is the name of the plant with the peach flowers ? Time stamp 0.28. What a lovely pop of color!
It's a begonia, I'm not sure which one, but it's the kind sold for pots but doesn't withstand a UK winter.
Does anyone know what kind of tree / shrub is shown at 2:47? I love its shape 🤗
Thank you!
I'm sorry - I'm not sure what that one is.
Can you tell me where I can find cat whiskers lavender ,orthosiphon plant Java tea live , perennial plant pale purple???I’m here in the US and would really like to find this plant if you could help me, I really would like to buy the seeds!!!
Does star jasmine grow in a similar manner to ivy?
They're both climbers, but star jasmine clings less and will drape and hang more than jasmine
The sound has been really bad on the last few videos, it keeps popping like the mic is too close
Sorry to hear that, Michael, we've done a technical check at MSG, and remotely, and cannot find what you describe. It may be a problem at your end.
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ivy hedera will destroy and invade your house. we had it going through the power points.
Oh dear...