John is a true inspiration. His fearless approach and knowledge base is truly impressive. His video series is more informative and entertaining than BBC Gardeners World. My teenage boys sit and watch when I put his video on, that alone is amazing.
“Gardeners are the most impatient group of people you’ll ever come across.” Great closing line! I consider impatience to be my #1 character fault, and you are right about that! But we have to be patient waiting for plants to grow, so it all works out. Love your videos and your humor!
No fannying about with John..... if it needs to come out GET IT OUT! Love your videos John, have binge watched them all during lockdown! You're a star in our house!
Love your personality, and your garden witticism. Every one of your videos brings a grin to my face, well, except when I am envious of the plants I can't grow in my climate, then it's only a smile plus a sigh.
Just started watching these videos, but I can really see why gardeners are compared to painters. Watching him move the plants around, cut others back, take some out, put new ones in is like watching a painter.
Thanks John , nice contrasts of foliage and flower there . ...us gardeners are so lucky to be able to paint pictures using the individual beauty of plants .🎨🍀
Oh John. I'm 8 days out from shoulder surgery from being impatient and stubborn. 38 (smallish) trees cut down and all but 3 roots out. 4ft 11 woman. 4 frozen shoulders and damaged tendons. We wont be told will we. I adore listening and watching you despite only having a 10m garden. You are an inspiration to me still at 65. All the best with your knee
LOL yes! I actually caught my daughter hurling these gigantic snails that were all over her NYC micro garden plants, over the garage into somebody else’s yard and I’m like “WHAT are you doing?!”
@@laurenb6451 I can beat that ... a couple of years ago my young niece picked up snails in Austria which she played with ... without anyone knowing she put them in her suitcase with the intent of smuggling them into the u.s. - my brother caught it the last day in Europe and released them ... lol.
I learn more about gardening and plants from John than any other gardener. Forever grateful for the on screen names, it really helps. Thanks for your energy and enthusiasm, John!
I've just finished some delicate snipping in my cottage garden. Your gardening techniques are a welcome change. You look as if you're going into battle with that axe. Great stuff! The border is looking good.
John squinting in the harsh sunlight : "we're gonna take out the grasses because it is too shady for 'em"...😂. And I need to get one of those tools to hack away at plants!
What a find! Here from Plantsman's Corner. Love John's passion, another character with lots of knowledge and in the land of my dreams..Ireland. Looking forward to some catch up binge watching, happy growing from Kaye in Australia.
Thank you for showing how to use a pick axe to take out small trees/shrubs! I've been using a garden fork and it's so tough to get the roots out when you can hack it with the axe. Always love watching you, learning from you and being entertained by you :)
🙋hi from Scotland hi John just came across you vidios ,they are amazing I will need to go back and catch up with them all ,you are amazing an inspiration to all gardeners John were do you get all that energy from ,I love your garden and garden centre if I over in Ireland I would definitely come look around your amazing place thank you for taking the time in sharing all your hints and tip your nollage on pants is just fantastic stay safe take care Anne Scott from Scotland
I sure can sympathize with your knee pain ! I'm planting today in a very hot, humid Mid-Atlantic day in North America with 2 bad knees ... Good luck getting yours fixed ! I wish I could come and visit your lovely garden and nursery, and see where my great grandfather came from. Some day ! Until then I will live vicariously through your videos :)
Love your videos. Going to comment on Gardners World to put you on there. Not that they would listen to me. Would you be willing to do that? You just make me chuckle because of your enthusiasm. 😊
I totally agree. I am a inpatient gardener also. I get my energy at night. Likely from a lifetime of being a night nurse. I love gardening at night during moon change. I don't plan it that way but Aside from having to use a flashlight I am thus far successful! Good luck with your knee. Your enthusiasm is inspiring. Bad knee and all yet you can whip around so fast! Love Teddy too! My Boxer Karla is so docile and loves to watch me in the garden. I do mostly container planting those and mostly for plants that flower. This year I am trying some perennials. Take care and stay safe. We had our first vaccine thank god but being in one of the epicenters is a challenge. I come from a big catholic family back in Labrador , Newfoundland. Needless to say living in British Columbia, Canada in Surrey I really wish we were back in Newfoundland now. Covid or not I still prefer our weather. All the best to you all.
Hi John please can we have a shot of what is behind your your fence. You make me laugh every time you throw something over. I use your ideas a lot now when I’m in my garden thanks Sheila
WOW, I'm first! John thank you so much for another great video. "Gardeners love opportunities." Hell, yes and if there isn't one we will make one! I'm in the process of doing just that and I would be out working on clearing but it is a a heavy rain day. Please take care of your knee. Maria
John is a really good plants man, he works it out quite carefully, but it's also instinctive. I wouldn't always use his combinations, but then I haven't much space , so I stick mainly to blues and pinks . Hes has lots of space to plant blue and yellow, red , another lovely combination. I like to use plants like paints , but texture and form are important too, like ferny leaves by big oval leaves . Then leaf colour , I do like to get dark reddy brown leaved plants , like heucheras and the red brown hazel behind peach pinks , and silver grey too. I'm sad hes lacking out the maroon leaves tree behind , but it's too tall and thin for there . I'm encouraged that he changes his mind about planting as I do ! K
Katharine Davis The most important and overlooked issue when putting together plant combinations is will any particular plant actual thrive where it is being put. Some plants dislike dryness, others wet soil, some hate any kind of shade, some dislike open windy situations, some hate crowding, other can take over their neighbours and so on. So your choices are generally very limited before you start making colour and design combinations.
@@johnlordssecretgarden i couldnt agree more . We learn those things by trial and error over the years or listening to wise gardeners like you . A prime case in point is a mistake made by the landscapers where I live in flats for the elderly. By the front door in the hottest spot in the whole garden , with glass behind and white pebbles and brick paved paths they planted Japanese anemones ! For 2 summers they burnt up completely. This year one side has burnt up , one side is flowering a bit , we've had some rain . I don't know how the plants have survived ! We plan to move them into the shade and replace with sedums and lavender. In Wales a neighbour grew them very successfully on the shady side of her house . I didn't talk about any of this in my comment because I was only commenting not giving a lecture on gardening. I leave that to you and I enjoy your videos very much . I've been gardening since I was a very small child , I'm now 75 . I love reading books and looking at gardening videos . At present I have a small allotment where I grow fruit , bumper crops from the trees this year and a few vegetables in raised beds . Sprouting broccoli is a favourite. I want to grow new things like millet though , and am in the process of establishing fruit bushes this year. And tayberries , blackberries etc . Here i have a very small plot and also grow tomatoes and everbearer strawberries in pots. Gardening is quite complicated but rewards patience and study . K
Be careful with that knee. Just had meniscus repair from too much tennis and jumping on shovels probably. Luckily I’ve had your videos to binge. Prayers from VA, US.
I thought a good word is Independent. You want to do it all yourself. I've had my left knee replaced (awesome) and due to several health issues that have slapped me left and right, I've had to wait three years now to get my right knee done--hopefully in Sept this year.
I do recommend you to people I meet in nurseries, and others closer to me. One 'laid up' temporarily, laughed so hard they nearly bust their stitches so you are 'on hold' there, pro tem. I've had knackered knees for 60 years, hey ho!
Thanks for the vid. Living Germany with a bone dry garden which must have water every second day. Slowly moving to Mediterranean plants. Keep away from Corona!
The reason you like the gaura with the nepeta so much is that their colors, orange and blue, are opposites on the color wheel. But luckily that gaura is not a true orange, or the contrast would be too much.
You are just a delight to watch! What U.S. hardiness zone is your part of Ireland most similar to? I'm watching from Cleveland, Ohio (zone 6). Love your enthusiasm!
I just love your videos 😃 .... chop down and toss over the fence 😃 😃 if I could do that it would save me tons from calling council to pick up green waste or journeys to skip 😀
Lots of uses for old plant material, perhaps you could find a way to make use of it? I use twigs, branches and small trees in the bottom of raised beds or hugelkulture mounds. You can also grind them up into wood chips and mulch with it. A cheap grinder will pay for itself in no time.
I laughed my head off when I watched this, because I've been googling all over trying to find Astrantia maxima to buy (I'm in Australia) and no one sells it here.
Astrantia Roma (amongst others) is far superior. The problem with Astrantia maxima, while it has a lovely soft pink flower is that it has quite a short flowering period and doesn’t reflower when cut back
John Lord’s Secret Garden Thanks! No Chelsea chopping the maxima then. I do like the look of the Roma but there’s something really special about the apple blossom pink and green of the maxima that just does it for me. I’ll try both if I can get them. A local grower has emailed so I’m hopeful. And grateful. This is good.
I'm interested in the wooden edging. I saw in another video that it is 3 inch tree stakes. Are there any videos showing how it is installed? Is it secured into the ground in some way?
We wouldn’t do much damage to the perennials as they will be all underground by then, and I might even dig one or two of them up split and fill the gap left by the tree
John is a true inspiration. His fearless approach and knowledge base is truly impressive. His video series is more informative and entertaining than BBC Gardeners World. My teenage boys sit and watch when I put his video on, that alone is amazing.
Is it me, or has anyone else watched loads of John's videos during lockdown? Spot on
I could watch him all day 😂
This man is the reason my garden is a successful beauty 👌
Impatient, impulsive, impetuous, impassioned, impish, impudent, impactful... gotta love him!
“Gardeners are the most impatient group of people you’ll ever come across.” Great closing line! I consider impatience to be my #1 character fault, and you are right about that! But we have to be patient waiting for plants to grow, so it all works out. Love your videos and your humor!
Yes gardeners are impatient but gardening also teaches patience.😊.
Should have him on gardeners world, would liven things up.
Ha ha ha!
Lets all comment on their Instagram to have him on there. 🤣
Great idea 👍 needs someone to liven GW up John would certainly do that. IMHO Monty Don is so boring.
I actually like Monty but as for the rest John would be streets ahead
Totally agree ! He needs his own garden show !!❤️🙌🏼
No fannying about with John..... if it needs to come out GET IT OUT! Love your videos John, have binge watched them all during lockdown! You're a star in our house!
Love your personality, and your garden witticism. Every one of your videos brings a grin to my face, well, except when I am envious of the plants I can't grow in my climate, then it's only a smile plus a sigh.
Just started watching these videos, but I can really see why gardeners are compared to painters. Watching him move the plants around, cut others back, take some out, put new ones in is like watching a painter.
Thanks John , nice contrasts of foliage and flower there . ...us gardeners are so lucky to be able to paint pictures using the individual beauty of plants .🎨🍀
I love how ruthless you are. If it's not doing the job, out with it! Inspirational and energising.
Oh John. I'm 8 days out from shoulder surgery from being impatient and stubborn. 38 (smallish) trees cut down and all but 3 roots out. 4ft 11 woman. 4 frozen shoulders and damaged tendons. We wont be told will we. I adore listening and watching you despite only having a 10m garden. You are an inspiration to me still at 65. All the best with your knee
Thanks for not playing crappy music while you are talking. Much better 👍
John Lord is adorable .
You have my nerves shattered but at the same time can't stop laughing! Hope your knee is better.
Love the sound of the gravel :)
You are another one of my favourite gardeners! 💚
I like to think you just throw the stuff over the fence into the neighbours garden, haha.
😂
THAT IS FUNNY!!!😂
They won't have to buy any plants they will just get cuttings for free ... hmmm any houses for sale next to his garden???
LOL yes! I actually caught my daughter hurling these gigantic snails that were all over her NYC micro garden plants, over the garage into somebody else’s yard and I’m like “WHAT are you doing?!”
@@laurenb6451 I can beat that ... a couple of years ago my young niece picked up snails in Austria which she played with ... without anyone knowing she put them in her suitcase with the intent of smuggling them into the u.s. - my brother caught it the last day in Europe and released them ... lol.
Know anyone with a bad day send them to John Lord garden cloud's gone bring a smile to anyone face ! This man needs to be clone 👍👍
I learn more about gardening and plants from John than any other gardener. Forever grateful for the on screen names, it really helps. Thanks for your energy and enthusiasm, John!
I've just finished some delicate snipping in my cottage garden. Your gardening techniques are a welcome change. You look as if you're going into battle with that axe. Great stuff! The border is looking good.
Great to see you back John you're a tv star mate
John squinting in the harsh sunlight : "we're gonna take out the grasses because it is too shady for 'em"...😂. And I need to get one of those tools to hack away at plants!
😋😄🤣
I love an “opportunity “!!😂
I Love john’s energy, it’s so energizing.
Somebody give this guy some coffee! And two aspirin for his knee! Then he could get some gardening done! LOL I love this show! Binge watching.
John Lord just makes me smiles 😁
What a find! Here from Plantsman's Corner. Love John's passion, another character with lots of knowledge and in the land of my dreams..Ireland. Looking forward to some catch up binge watching, happy growing from Kaye in Australia.
Another great video from this very colourful character!
"Opportunity" is such a beautiful word in the garden!
I just love you .you make me smile with my morning coffee great way to start the day ,thank you
your brutal yet effective via knowledge and inner glow lol lol lol
'some people like it' - chops it to bits lol. Grotendorst translates roughly to 'great thirst'
I just love your videos, such an awesome sense of humour
Thank you for showing how to use a pick axe to take out small trees/shrubs! I've been using a garden fork and it's so tough to get the roots out when you can hack it with the axe. Always love watching you, learning from you and being entertained by you :)
'Impetuous' would be another word that would fit! Loved this - lots of fun + great plant suggestions.
I keep finding videos just at the right time - on Saturday I bought 'Annabelle' and 'Limelight'. Now to get digging.
You right there 👍😀about gardeners been impatient 👍
🙋hi from Scotland hi John just came across you vidios ,they are amazing I will need to go back and catch up with them all ,you are amazing an inspiration to all gardeners John were do you get all that energy from ,I love your garden and garden centre if I over in Ireland I would definitely come look around your amazing place thank you for taking the time in sharing all your hints and tip your nollage on pants is just fantastic stay safe take care Anne Scott from Scotland
I sure can sympathize with your knee pain ! I'm planting today in a very hot, humid Mid-Atlantic day in North America with 2 bad knees ... Good luck getting yours fixed ! I wish I could come and visit your lovely garden and nursery, and see where my great grandfather came from. Some day ! Until then I will live vicariously through your videos :)
Carole Maguire You have a good Irish name.
Same problem here and I am going to start using a maddox! Great idea! Hope ot helps.
Love your videos. Going to comment on Gardners World to put you on there. Not that they would listen to me. Would you be willing to do that? You just make me chuckle because of your enthusiasm. 😊
Looking forward to seeing the tree being moved, planning to move an ornamental Salix in the Autumn, would be a great help to see how it goes.
I totally agree. I am a inpatient gardener also. I get my energy at night. Likely from a lifetime of being a night nurse. I love gardening at night during moon change. I don't plan it that way but Aside from having to use a flashlight I am thus far successful! Good luck with your knee. Your enthusiasm is inspiring. Bad knee and all yet you can whip around so fast! Love Teddy too! My Boxer Karla is so docile and loves to watch me in the garden. I do mostly container planting those and mostly for plants that flower. This year I am trying some perennials. Take care and stay safe. We had our first vaccine thank god but being in one of the epicenters is a challenge. I come from a big catholic family back in Labrador , Newfoundland. Needless to say living in British Columbia, Canada in Surrey I really wish we were back in Newfoundland now. Covid or not I still prefer our weather. All the best to you all.
Therapeutic just watching.One day I would love to visit.Keep up your brilliant videos.
I love Asters. So nice to see him planting those and other North American plants like Joe Pye Weed which will attract butterflies.
Hi John please can we have a shot of what is behind your your fence. You make me laugh every time you throw something over. I use your ideas a lot now when I’m in my garden thanks Sheila
Will do
wow amazing garden a master peace.
A lot of “something right” is definitely happening! Beautiful !
Love watching your video's.... very entertaining 😄I will have to call you the pick axe gardener 😄
Im glad youre the same person John....
Pickaxe gardening, love it!
So beautiful garden 😍
I just love him!
I think John might be my next door neighbour. He keeps throwing junk over the hedge into my yard.
WOW, I'm first! John thank you so much for another great video. "Gardeners love opportunities." Hell, yes and if there isn't one we will make one! I'm in the process of doing just that and I would be out working on clearing but it is a a heavy rain day. Please take care of your knee. Maria
John is a really good plants man, he works it out quite carefully, but it's also instinctive. I wouldn't always use his combinations, but then I haven't much space , so I stick mainly to blues and pinks . Hes has lots of space to plant blue and yellow, red , another lovely combination. I like to use plants like paints , but texture and form are important too, like ferny leaves by big oval leaves . Then leaf colour , I do like to get dark reddy brown leaved plants , like heucheras and the red brown hazel behind peach pinks , and silver grey too. I'm sad hes lacking out the maroon leaves tree behind , but it's too tall and thin for there . I'm encouraged that he changes his mind about planting as I do ! K
Katharine Davis The most important and overlooked issue when putting together plant combinations is will any particular plant actual thrive where it is being put. Some plants dislike dryness, others wet soil, some hate any kind of shade, some dislike open windy situations, some hate crowding, other can take over their neighbours and so on. So your choices are generally very limited before you start making colour and design combinations.
@@johnlordssecretgarden i couldnt agree more . We learn those things by trial and error over the years or listening to wise gardeners like you . A prime case in point is a mistake made by the landscapers where I live in flats for the elderly. By the front door in the hottest spot in the whole garden , with glass behind and white pebbles and brick paved paths they planted Japanese anemones ! For 2 summers they burnt up completely. This year one side has burnt up , one side is flowering a bit , we've had some rain . I don't know how the plants have survived ! We plan to move them into the shade and replace with sedums and lavender. In Wales a neighbour grew them very successfully on the shady side of her house .
I didn't talk about any of this in my comment because I was only commenting not giving a lecture on gardening. I leave that to you and I enjoy your videos very much . I've been gardening since I was a very small child , I'm now 75 . I love reading books and looking at gardening videos . At present I have a small allotment where I grow fruit , bumper crops from the trees this year and a few vegetables in raised beds . Sprouting broccoli is a favourite. I want to grow new things like millet though , and am in the process of establishing fruit bushes this year. And tayberries , blackberries etc . Here i have a very small plot and also grow tomatoes and everbearer strawberries in pots.
Gardening is quite complicated but rewards patience and study . K
Be careful with that knee. Just had meniscus repair from too much tennis and jumping on shovels probably. Luckily I’ve had your videos to binge. Prayers from VA, US.
Love your dance moves!!
Fantastic video
I love this guy. Great
Thank you appreciate your knowledge stay well
I learned a lot today from John. John, I hope your knee is better right along.
Warm regards
Jennie
I really enjoyed watching your video! You have a great personality and energy! I just subscribed. I look forward to watching more.
Hi John can't wait for your next vidio stay safe take care Anne Scott from Scotland
I thought a good word is Independent. You want to do it all yourself. I've had my left knee replaced (awesome) and due to several health issues that have slapped me left and right, I've had to wait three years now to get my right knee done--hopefully in Sept this year.
Love it!
Absolutely.....bare ground is an opportunity. I buy plants that I can’t resist, bring it home then search for an opportunity.
I do recommend you to people I meet in nurseries, and others closer to me. One 'laid up' temporarily, laughed so hard they nearly bust their stitches so you are 'on hold' there, pro tem. I've had knackered knees for 60 years, hey ho!
Thanks for the vid. Living Germany with a bone dry garden which must have water every second day. Slowly moving to Mediterranean plants. Keep away from Corona!
How many cups of Lyons tea does John drink-zoomin❣️
John, burn that cardigan!! All you're missing is the pipe and slippers!
Another v informative video, thank you!
I’m all about secret gardens hidden in plane sight
John thanks for sharing Cork garden channel here.
Love your videos ❤️
The reason you like the gaura with the nepeta so much is that their colors, orange and blue, are opposites on the color wheel. But luckily that gaura is not a true orange, or the contrast would be too much.
Love your videos ! 😁
Is he excited? or is it coffee? 😉 a kid in a candy store!
Aster divaricatus, in USA NYS z6 nuh uh. It spread all over the place and was super hard to pull out. I won’t allow it in my new yard, nope.
You are just a delight to watch! What U.S. hardiness zone is your part of Ireland most similar to? I'm watching from Cleveland, Ohio (zone 6). Love your enthusiasm!
It's true, I have zero patience. 😳
How’s the knee? Dang your fun to watch!!
The ground is better than mine - river bottom lots of rocks and clay .. plus the herds of deer and rabbits.
Croc. Hellfire is a great one - flowers later than Lucifer as well
I wish I had your soil😊
I just love your videos 😃 .... chop down and toss over the fence 😃 😃 if I could do that it would save me tons from calling council to pick up green waste or journeys to skip 😀
Lots of uses for old plant material, perhaps you could find a way to make use of it? I use twigs, branches and small trees in the bottom of raised beds or hugelkulture mounds. You can also grind them up into wood chips and mulch with it. A cheap grinder will pay for itself in no time.
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Tried to source Rugosa whips here in Australia; hadn't ever heard of whips! Never seen any kind of plant whips advertised here in Oz. ☹
Any up to date video's John
Grootendorst means 'big thirst'.
I have that rose. Of course it doesn't grow that big in Connecticut. But I rarely water it.
“Don’t plant it “ then “we’ll pot that up and sell it”
HaHa love it!!!
I’ve always heard you should break up the root ball but, you never do. Does it affect the plant?
Great information and ideas. Easy on the camera movement. Making me dizzy
Is Lucifer or Hellfire the purest red or is it both of them???? Not clear to me which one you meant? TY for the post, I look forward to your videos.
I laughed my head off when I watched this, because I've been googling all over trying to find Astrantia maxima to buy (I'm in Australia) and no one sells it here.
Astrantia Roma (amongst others) is far superior. The problem with Astrantia maxima, while it has a lovely soft pink flower is that it has quite a short flowering period and doesn’t reflower when cut back
John Lord’s Secret Garden Thanks! No Chelsea chopping the maxima then. I do like the look of the Roma but there’s something really special about the apple blossom pink and green of the maxima that just does it for me. I’ll try both if I can get them. A local grower has emailed so I’m hopeful. And grateful. This is good.
Is your Knee knackered from kneeling down to garden?
I'm interested in the wooden edging. I saw in another video that it is 3 inch tree stakes. Are there any videos showing how it is installed? Is it secured into the ground in some way?
We just use wooden 3 (or is it 4?) inch tree stakes. They are screwed together and just rest on the ground.
Won’t you damage your flowers when you pull that tree out
We wouldn’t do much damage to the perennials as they will be all underground by then, and I might even dig one or two of them up split and fill the gap left by the tree
The dark tree looks great tho. You should've left it.
Impulsive.....
Live long and prosper John.
I see no trace of clay. He should try to garden in an American Midwest subdivision.
Or don’t be so heroic?