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I have a walled town garden ( 100ft x 80ft) and I fit gardening into a busy life. So I look for ideas, tips and information to make gardening easier and your garden more glorious.
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Alexandra - you are a delight! I so enjoy your videos. I love garden sculpture. Just yesterday I purchased an 80 cm orb made from rusting horseshoes. It looks magnificent amongst my eucalyptus trees.
'Artist' is a word thrown around too easily these days, and nakedness to express absolutely any and everything is just so crass and overdone, however, the pear sculpture is liveable. Thank you Alexandra for keeping it interesting.
One important consideration to this approach is that there is a lot of patience and potential frustration as you try to get the materials together. It can take a long time but the results are unique and beautiful. It is basically a lifestyle.
I loved the slowing and sinking of the rain. I really love the aesthetic of aged, slightly neglected materials. The garden is a place to lower the standards and let things (and ourselves) slow down.
What about using sculpture with a “functional” aspect? The mushroom sculptures could double as hose guards. Some sculptures could include lighting elements at night? The pear sculpture could be used as a “trellis”. Thanks for the interesting video.
Must be careful with interesting metal structures in areas where yellow-jackets make their nests. These aggressive and territorial wasps will take every opportunity to turn your work of art into a fortified bunker. And, come back every summer and take over like a motorcycle gang.
Great video. Love art for the garden. You should check out the incredible life size and larger sculptures that are on permenant display in the Benson Sculpture Gardens that is maintained by the city of Loveland Colorado. Absolutely amazing collection
Right oh dear! you are my come to garden site, well this is after losing my box sculptured hedges to blight this awful summer, decided to go all out and buy 3 massive terracotta urns and fill them with David Austin roses, very beautiful ... but now cannot move them at all! so heavy, what to do when frosts come? wrap them in hessian have a small bungalow with no garage and my sheds will not accomodate these giant pots, the garden is fairly large but windy with no really sheltered places for overwintering foolish maybe but am disabled and flowers really make my day!! please advise if you can? Thank-You so much for your blogs and sensible advice.
Oh, dear, I'm sorry to hear that. If the terracotta is frost proof it should be OK, but if not I think that wrapping in hessian or bubble wrap should help. Can you go back to the place where you bought it and ask their advice?
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Firstly thank -you so much for replying....Well yes have tried to get in touch with the well known garden centre but not answering cannot say the same for D.Austin their lovely helpful staff said rhe roses should be fine but more concerned about the huge terracotta urns!!! suggested they are more than lightly baked at high temperature and therefore more frost hardy,but i will move them next to a house wall and buy some hessian,and get a trolly and borrow two hefty guys"...must love gardening or something along those lines!!☺.
Not a real fan of garden art, there is enough human stuff everywhere, for me the garden itself is a refuge away from all that stuff. That said I am an artist and do have a very organic ceramic piece from a friend,it was a gift, from the artist,and is now a sentimental reminder.
Superb video! Loved this one so much. Gave me quite a lot of new info I hadn't heard before even though I've been reading around the subject a lot already! Thank you
Lovely to see gauras, spiderflower and bananas growing in these beds. Extremes of delicate vs strong, enormous foliage. Many thanks for the time stamp list of plants. 🇨🇦
Thank you and it's so helpful to know that the list is useful. It takes me a bit longer, but it's something I'd want myself so I'm glad to know that other people do.
I woukd love to see how these gardeners take notes. Just a notebook? 10 year diary? Notes on the phone? I take photos on my I phone which helps me track bloom times, when I did what, etc.
Love the idea of raising the beds so the flowers are closer to passersby. I also enjoy all the different English accents and characters that you interview. Thank you so much!!
Beautiful but fine and dandy.. Depending on where you live.. Some overgrowth where one may walk might be harboring venomous snakes.. I could only imagine some places poisonous insects... I remember sitting down in my yard to pull up chickweed a nice clump but low to the ground.. as I begin to pull... A pilot snake was hanging around... As he went one way, I went the other... My days of pulling weeds by hand have been pretty much over..
Oh very interesting. I'm in the US and I think our verb "to mulch" something is the same based on context. But how you defined the composition of mulch isn't the same as what I consider mulch. Interesting!
I defined it because I had a feeling (from watching US gardening videos) that the meaning is a bit different around the world. Although I must own up to not being absolutely sure what the difference was. Thank you!
