Hi Lee, great to see your Gunnera putting on growth. Really enjoying watching you on Garden Rescue, you and Charlie Dimmock, seem to have a great relationship.
Can I just say i by chance saw you on garden rescue, your designs absolutely smashed the competition a majority of the time. Good work man, you made the other people up their game.
Awww Blue! That’s so nice to hear. I give everyone of my designs the same high level of rigour. I absolutely love designing gardens to get people gardening and using/enjoying them daily. So all my work has that at the forefront. I’m glad that comes across. To me it’s not about winning each show but really giving the clients something incredible (hopefully) to consider! Challenging what they thought they may want. Glad you’re enjoying it! Happy gardening n🥷🤘🌿 Lee
My daughter has 2 hedgehogs visiting her garden every night. She has her first swarm of bees in my garden in a borrowed nucleus; transfer to one of her 2 hives (in my garden) due next weekend. They are mesmerising to watch 🐝
Awww absolutely fantastic. I bet you’re both so excited. It’s such a wonderful thing to help bees out. Must admit I’m giddy with excitement for their arrival!!! 🥷🤘🐝🤞🌿
i just watched episode 24 in Swindon!!!! i have literally watched every episode of every season of garden rescue and it was my favourite to date!!!! your pillows were gorgeous and you and Chris created just the most joyfully peaceful environment for that sweet lady!!!
Hey Stephanie! It was such a fun episode. In true Ninja style I thought I’d go rogue sit in the shade and sew lol 🧵 🪡😂🥷🐝 Guy of many random skill sets. Hehe 🤘🌿
You’re welcome Mate. It’s been a while coming given all the garden rescue filming commitments but I’ll keep em coming!! Quality over quantity hopefully! Hope you’re good. Lee 🥷🤘🌿🤞
@@Gardenninja and you are doing awesome on Garden Rescue. I really like your approach and applications on the show. Also it pays to have a great sense of humor too. Totally enjoyable 🙌🏾🌿🌿
Hedgehog and bees, oh my! Such a fun tour today. I always wanted to keep bees and would attend beekeeper meeting for fun. But now that I have my own home I am content with just seeing my neighbor's honeybees working in my garden. Looking forward to seeing how it goes for you!
Love the garden tour of your garden my garden is new to me an I feel guilty I can't do it all at once but watching you makes me realize I will be hear a long time an there is no instent fix just enjoy wot your doing xx
Hi Mavis. Never feel guilty. Gardening is an evolving process. It takes time. There’s no such thing as an instant garden. Enjoy the evolution of it! Happy gardening and thanks for the kind words. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja Thanks Lee, incidentally, I have a very interesting garden in Sweden, you might like some pics, I just do not know where to send them? Even a very short clip - 🙂
Hi Arthur. It sounds very interesting! Please visit my website www.gardenninja.co.uk and add them to the forum here under introduce yourself! www.gardenninja.co.uk/forum/. 🥷🌿🤘
Hi Lee really enjoyed your talk at RHS Wisley this weekend. Will definitely take back more lawn for plants and experiment with some new species this year. Look forward to attending your next talk.
Great to hear from you and glad you enjoyed the talk. It’s proving a real hit with all abilities of gardeners. The wildlife will thank your deeper borders and they’ll keep looking good for longer with that layering technique! Happy gardening. www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-to-plant-a-flower-bed-3-top-design-tips/ 🥷🌿🤘
You're right, Lee. I am quite impatient and often pull-up things that are not progressing like I think they should. I almost pulled-up a maple two years ago and now it's gorgeous. Thank you for the reminder to cool my jets. DA
Hi Donald. It’s easy to be impatient. Think we all are in the garden at times. But it is a virtue to wait and let things establish! 🥷🤘🌿 Enjoy the Maple!! 🍁
Oh Lee, just love Mrs Tiggywinkle's cottage ❤❤❤. So cute. Bless her heart. Please give her our love and get well soon wishes 🦔. Your garden looks great. Just love the Exploding Atom garden, so pretty and your meadow garden is also beautiful. I'm currently obsessed with cornflowers ☺. You have so much gorgeous space! So envious. Thanks for another great video xx 🦋🌷🦋 p.s hugs to Barry 🐾
Another fabulous video. I can’t wait for my personal tour of your garden in a couple of weeks. We are lucky enough to have hedgehogs wandering through our garden and I love seeing them drinking from my plant saucers before mooching off. We get lots of bumblebees in our and I love to get close up videos of them collecting their pollen. Also really looking forward to seeing your wildflower meadow. And of course loving your Garden Rescue designs. Mum 🤗🥰💙
Thanks Mum! Well soon as I’m back from my holiday you’ll have to come see it! There’s been lots of bees this year which is always encouraging to see! 🐝🥷🤘🌿 xxx
I am relatively new to your You Tube channel, but l am learning so much from your knowledge about planting and how to be more patient! I have quite a narrow long border in the back garden, but that has been in for many year's now and l don't have the physical strength anymore to start altering it. If l had the money l could get someone who knows what they are doing in, but l think it is going to have to be someone else's project! I am going to go out and look at my border and the patch of garden outside my kitchen window and take your advice about not having so many different plant's and just do a repeat of plant's. I am going to be sharing your video with my family and friends. Thank you for all your advice. PS l think it was wise for you to explain to people that to keep Bee's you do need to be taught by the Professional Bee Keeping people. I had cause a while ago to contact the Bee Association, because l had a problem (forget what it was) however they were very helpful. Keep well.
Thanks so much G B. Welcome to the Garden Ninja community! Glad the advice is helpful for you. There’s hundreds of videos on my channel to help gardeners. You can also use the garden ninja forum here to ask specific questions of the other Ninjas! 🥷🤘🌿 www.gardenninja.co.uk/garden-advice/
Yes it’s really starting to establish. Considering some yellow rattle sown this Sept for next year but don’t want to fiddle too much with it whilst it’s still so new! 🥷🤘🐝😂
@@Gardenninja I did 2 packets of yellow rattle 2 sep/octs ago best thing I ever did,the 1st year I sowed some blue cornflower too(love the colour) but,touch wood,it's taking care of itself,I've just purchased some meadow seeds for birds(another area I have in mind) 🤞
Love your garden designs. Your own garden looks gorgeous. I would like to know the best way to plant a gunnera please. I'm trying to do an exotic looking garden thank you. 😊
Hi Janine. Thanks so much! Did you checkout the April tour when I planted it with instructions. Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/xBkLmUfjCNM/v-deo.html 🥷🤘🌿
Hi Lee, I wonder if you could give me some advice please. We have a gooseberry bush in our garden (planted by the previous owner). It looked very healthy earlier this year but all its leaves were suddenly gone by midsummer. I'm not sure if that was normal. I took the opportunity to prune it etc (thanks to your video). But anyway, to add color in my border, I am thinking of replacing it with a David Austin rose or planting one next to it. Do you think it's a good idea? TIA
Hi. Sounds like gooseberry sawfly which can decimate a bush within a matter of days. Have a look here for more guidance www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-when-to-prune-gooseberries-beginners-guide-for-improved-fruiting/ 🥷🌿🤘
Lee, is what you said re the gooseberry bush (take off anything older than 2 years, cut back by 1/4 to an outward facing bud) good for currant & blueberry bushes too?
Cahill Tiff. Currants and blueberries fruit on 2nd year old wood so yes. Any wood over 4 years should be in stages cut back to the main stem to allow for new wood to regenerate as they become unproductive. Hope that helps! Lee 🥷🤘🌿
Hi Lee, I’m new to your channel and absolutely loving it. I have a question I hope you can help me with. My garden space is not very big and is on quite a slope with 8 big boulders at the bottom (presumably to keep all the soil from falling down). It’s very difficult for me to navigate my way through although I have managed to plant some fabulous plants in it, I just wondered if there’s a cheap way to level the garden out without covering the rocks at the bottom. I’d love to have a flat garden and really get stuck in.
Hi Tea. To be honest why not work with it? Flat gardens have a habit of looking one dimensional. So at least you’re already starting with a dynamic level! I’d work with it rather than the expensive of large scale soil removal which would also damage your soil structure. One top tip is to always add a few small garden trees to help raise height. If you want more detailed personalised help checkout my online garden consultation offering here! www.gardenninja.co.uk/garden-advice/ 🥷🤘🌿 Lee
@@Gardenninja Thanks Lee. To be honest I bought a tree today, a euonymus japonicus to try and give it some height. It’s a bit like a lollipop and quite nice. Maybe I just need to enjoy what I’ve got instead of trying to making it hard work.
Exactly Tea! That’s the best way to garden in my experience. You’ll get more success working with it than against it and it will make you a more innovative gardener! 🥷🤘🌿
Man good to see how your garden is evolving! Also a question Lee..i noticed my Hawthorn starts to get yellow leaves here and there but i dont know if thats natural (like how pines sometimes shed needles to make way for new ones) or something to worry about..my weeping willow has it too for years now but also with some young branches thst just partially die off..i hope you can tell me if trees also naturally shed leaves sometimes or that they should keep the leaves their growing all season long. Kind regards and thanka in advance
Hi Wistful. Good to hear from you. All these plants will lose their leaves each winter as they are deciduous. So that’s completely normal. Hope that helps! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
Hi Lee, great to see your Gunnera putting on growth. Really enjoying watching you on Garden Rescue, you and Charlie Dimmock, seem to have a great relationship.
Thanks 👍 We have such a giggle and are learning a lot from each others styles and gardening skills so its win win!
Can I just say i by chance saw you on garden rescue, your designs absolutely smashed the competition a majority of the time. Good work man, you made the other people up their game.
Awww Blue! That’s so nice to hear. I give everyone of my designs the same high level of rigour. I absolutely love designing gardens to get people gardening and using/enjoying them daily. So all my work has that at the forefront. I’m glad that comes across. To me it’s not about winning each show but really giving the clients something incredible (hopefully) to consider! Challenging what they thought they may want. Glad you’re enjoying it! Happy gardening n🥷🤘🌿 Lee
My daughter has 2 hedgehogs visiting her garden every night. She has her first swarm of bees in my garden in a borrowed nucleus; transfer to one of her 2 hives (in my garden) due next weekend. They are mesmerising to watch 🐝
Awww absolutely fantastic. I bet you’re both so excited. It’s such a wonderful thing to help bees out. Must admit I’m giddy with excitement for their arrival!!! 🥷🤘🐝🤞🌿
@@GardenninjaI can see that it’s going to be a whole new world (along with gardening)!
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i just watched episode 24 in Swindon!!!! i have literally watched every episode of every season of garden rescue and it was my favourite to date!!!! your pillows were gorgeous and you and Chris created just the most joyfully peaceful environment for that sweet lady!!!
Hey Stephanie! It was such a fun episode. In true Ninja style I thought I’d go rogue sit in the shade and sew lol 🧵 🪡😂🥷🐝 Guy of many random skill sets. Hehe 🤘🌿
Love your garden and love your designs on garden rescue.
Thanks so much Sheila. I work really hard at bringing something fresh and unusual to the gardens on the show! 🥷🤘🌿 Happy gardening. Lee
Thoroughly enjoyed all the updates Lee. Your garden really is exploding! It looks fab! Thanks for all the valuable tips and advice!😎🌿
You’re welcome Mate. It’s been a while coming given all the garden rescue filming commitments but I’ll keep em coming!! Quality over quantity hopefully! Hope you’re good. Lee 🥷🤘🌿🤞
@@Gardenninja and you are doing awesome on Garden Rescue. I really like your approach and applications on the show. Also it pays to have a great sense of humor too. Totally enjoyable 🙌🏾🌿🌿
Hedgehog and bees, oh my! Such a fun tour today. I always wanted to keep bees and would attend beekeeper meeting for fun. But now that I have my own home I am content with just seeing my neighbor's honeybees working in my garden. Looking forward to seeing how it goes for you!
Thanks!! Yes I’m super excited about the bees arriving. Another chapter to the gardens development. 🥷🤘🌿
Thanks for the update Lee, the garden is looking great - what an exciting project with the bee hives! As always, Barry is a star!
Barry steals the show every time hehe. Thanks for the comments on the garden. I’m so happy with it! I’m thinking on getting some drone footage! 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja Drone footage would be fabulous to see - hope you share it with us.
Love the garden tour of your garden my garden is new to me an I feel guilty I can't do it all at once but watching you makes me realize I will be hear a long time an there is no instent fix just enjoy wot your doing xx
Hi Mavis. Never feel guilty. Gardening is an evolving process. It takes time. There’s no such thing as an instant garden. Enjoy the evolution of it! Happy gardening and thanks for the kind words. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
LEE!
Brilliant mate - very inspiring!
I love your garden, your passion, your enthusiasm - well done 👏
Thanks so much Arthur! Plenty more videos to come so make sure you subscribe not to miss any! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿🐝
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Thanks Lee, incidentally, I have a very interesting garden in Sweden, you might like some pics, I just do not know where to send them? Even a very short clip - 🙂
Hi Arthur. It sounds very interesting! Please visit my website www.gardenninja.co.uk and add them to the forum here under introduce yourself! www.gardenninja.co.uk/forum/. 🥷🌿🤘
Hi Lee really enjoyed your talk at RHS Wisley this weekend. Will definitely take back more lawn for plants and experiment with some new species this year. Look forward to attending your next talk.
Great to hear from you and glad you enjoyed the talk. It’s proving a real hit with all abilities of gardeners. The wildlife will thank your deeper borders and they’ll keep looking good for longer with that layering technique! Happy gardening. www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-to-plant-a-flower-bed-3-top-design-tips/ 🥷🌿🤘
Beautiful meadow! Tfs, Laura 🌸🌸🌸
Thanks Laura! 🥷🤘🌿
Your garden is looking beautiful. 🐱 X
Thanks Carole! It’s a labour of love but great for wildlife! 🥷🤘🐝🌿
You're right, Lee. I am quite impatient and often pull-up things that are not progressing like I think they should. I almost pulled-up a maple two years ago and now it's gorgeous. Thank you for the reminder to cool my jets. DA
Hi Donald. It’s easy to be impatient. Think we all are in the garden at times. But it is a virtue to wait and let things establish! 🥷🤘🌿 Enjoy the Maple!! 🍁
Oh Lee, just love Mrs Tiggywinkle's cottage ❤❤❤. So cute. Bless her heart. Please give her our love and get well soon wishes 🦔.
Your garden looks great. Just love the Exploding Atom garden, so pretty and your meadow garden is also beautiful. I'm currently obsessed with cornflowers ☺. You have so much gorgeous space! So envious. Thanks for another great video xx 🦋🌷🦋 p.s hugs to Barry 🐾
Thanks Ellie! She seemed happy enough. She’s moved on somewhere else in the garden though. Not sure where!! Barry says hello! 🥷🤘🐶🌿 Lee
Another fabulous video. I can’t wait for my personal tour of your garden in a couple of weeks. We are lucky enough to have hedgehogs wandering through our garden and I love seeing them drinking from my plant saucers before mooching off. We get lots of bumblebees in our and I love to get close up videos of them collecting their pollen. Also really looking forward to seeing your wildflower meadow. And of course loving your Garden Rescue designs. Mum 🤗🥰💙
Thanks Mum! Well soon as I’m back from my holiday you’ll have to come see it! There’s been lots of bees this year which is always encouraging to see! 🐝🥷🤘🌿 xxx
I am relatively new to your You Tube channel, but l am learning so much from your knowledge about planting and how to be more patient!
I have quite a narrow long border in the back garden, but that has been in for many year's now and l don't have the physical strength anymore to start altering it. If l had the money l could get someone who knows what they are doing in, but l think it is going to have to be someone else's project!
I am going to go out and look at my border and the patch of garden outside my kitchen window and take your advice about not having so many different plant's and just do a repeat of plant's.
I am going to be sharing your video with my family and friends.
Thank you for all your advice.
PS l think it was wise for you to explain to people that to keep Bee's you do need to be taught by the Professional Bee Keeping people.
I had cause a while ago to contact the Bee Association, because l had a problem (forget what it was) however they were very helpful.
Keep well.
Thanks so much G B. Welcome to the Garden Ninja community! Glad the advice is helpful for you. There’s hundreds of videos on my channel to help gardeners. You can also use the garden ninja forum here to ask specific questions of the other Ninjas! 🥷🤘🌿 www.gardenninja.co.uk/garden-advice/
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Thank you for replying and sending me the link.
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Beautiful garden lee thanks for the tour 🤗💞👍
Thanks so much Mary! It’s a joy to work on each week! 🥷🤘🌿
Love the update!
Thanks Nordlys. Glad you’re enjoying my gardening content! More to come! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja 😊👍🌿
I'm starting a beekeeping course in October and I hope you'll be giving us some updates on how things are going with your beekeeping!
Hi Rumi! Of course! It wouldn’t be garden ninja if I didn’t spill all the details good and bad!!! Hope you’re excited. It’s a fascinating world!! 🥷🐝🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja great! Looking forward to it!
That was brilliant Lee thank you,the meadow is looking great and the exploding atom garden👌👏
Yes it’s really starting to establish. Considering some yellow rattle sown this Sept for next year but don’t want to fiddle too much with it whilst it’s still so new! 🥷🤘🐝😂
@@Gardenninja I did 2 packets of yellow rattle 2 sep/octs ago best thing I ever did,the 1st year I sowed some blue cornflower too(love the colour) but,touch wood,it's taking care of itself,I've just purchased some meadow seeds for birds(another area I have in mind) 🤞
Right we’ll if Roy’s succeeded with it then it’s a goer for me!! 🥷🤘🌿
Love your garden designs. Your own garden looks gorgeous. I would like to know the best way to plant a gunnera please. I'm trying to do an exotic looking garden thank you. 😊
Hi Janine. Thanks so much! Did you checkout the April tour when I planted it with instructions. Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/xBkLmUfjCNM/v-deo.html 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja thank you Lee I'll have a look.
Hi Lee, I wonder if you could give me some advice please. We have a gooseberry bush in our garden (planted by the previous owner). It looked very healthy earlier this year but all its leaves were suddenly gone by midsummer. I'm not sure if that was normal. I took the opportunity to prune it etc (thanks to your video). But anyway, to add color in my border, I am thinking of replacing it with a David Austin rose or planting one next to it. Do you think it's a good idea? TIA
Hi. Sounds like gooseberry sawfly which can decimate a bush within a matter of days. Have a look here for more guidance www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-when-to-prune-gooseberries-beginners-guide-for-improved-fruiting/ 🥷🌿🤘
Lee, is what you said re the gooseberry bush (take off anything older than 2 years, cut back by 1/4 to an outward facing bud) good for currant & blueberry bushes too?
Cahill Tiff. Currants and blueberries fruit on 2nd year old wood so yes. Any wood over 4 years should be in stages cut back to the main stem to allow for new wood to regenerate as they become unproductive. Hope that helps! Lee 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja Thank you - I’ve a lot to learn!
Hi Lee, I’m new to your channel and absolutely loving it. I have a question I hope you can help me with. My garden space is not very big and is on quite a slope with 8 big boulders at the bottom (presumably to keep all the soil from falling down). It’s very difficult for me to navigate my way through although I have managed to plant some fabulous plants in it, I just wondered if there’s a cheap way to level the garden out without covering the rocks at the bottom. I’d love to have a flat garden and really get stuck in.
Hi Tea. To be honest why not work with it? Flat gardens have a habit of looking one dimensional. So at least you’re already starting with a dynamic level! I’d work with it rather than the expensive of large scale soil removal which would also damage your soil structure. One top tip is to always add a few small garden trees to help raise height. If you want more detailed personalised help checkout my online garden consultation offering here! www.gardenninja.co.uk/garden-advice/ 🥷🤘🌿 Lee
@@Gardenninja Thanks Lee. To be honest I bought a tree today, a euonymus japonicus to try and give it some height. It’s a bit like a lollipop and quite nice. Maybe I just need to enjoy what I’ve got instead of trying to making it hard work.
Exactly Tea! That’s the best way to garden in my experience. You’ll get more success working with it than against it and it will make you a more innovative gardener! 🥷🤘🌿
Man good to see how your garden is evolving! Also a question Lee..i noticed my Hawthorn starts to get yellow leaves here and there but i dont know if thats natural (like how pines sometimes shed needles to make way for new ones) or something to worry about..my weeping willow has it too for years now but also with some young branches thst just partially die off..i hope you can tell me if trees also naturally shed leaves sometimes or that they should keep the leaves their growing all season long. Kind regards and thanka in advance
Hi Wistful. Good to hear from you. All these plants will lose their leaves each winter as they are deciduous. So that’s completely normal. Hope that helps! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja Yeah, in winter i knew..but im talking about now, mid summer. Sorry if i did not specifiy haha. Thanks again for your reply!
@@Zeheroth69 ok sounds like lack of water or nitrogen. Both can cause yellow leaves. Give them a mulch and a water that should help! Lee 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja Thank you so much Lee, for your help and answer! Ill better get my mulch going🤘🏻🎃🤘🏻