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Most of the olive tree videos here are from Australians or Americans. This is SO English. "I bought these two from Morrison's & got £10 off". . Great stuff. I love olive trees for the same reasons that you do - & I have 3. . One is very large (cost me £300) in a huge pot (I'll never be able to repot it if I have to !!) I had a big scare 3 years ago when, after returning from a holiday, I found it dried out & I lost all the leaves ! I cut it right back &, within a few months, the shoots started coming. But they were SO green & looked like hedge branches & leaves ! After a year, they finally turned silvergreen & it's now back to its former glory.
Love that brick wall as a background. Florida here to tell you about my passionflower. The fritillary caterpillars chewed every leave! No worry now have butterflies and the leaves are growing back. It's also an invasive vine & pops up all over the yard. But mainly grows over the fence. The fruit is also edible.
I'm feeling guilty as this place is practically on my doorstep and I haven't been to see it yet! This will be rectified soon tho after seeing this video. Will be interesting to see how much the willow arches have grown in a year. If you come back to Torquay then you might like to see 'plant world' a map of the world style garden full of plants rarely seen outside their own countries
Greetings Mark from the US. I live in Frankfort, Kentucky. That is US hardy zone 6B. We have a native hardy passionflower called, "Passiflora incarnata" in my area. I see it sometimes growing in the wild. It can be a little aggressive. Some people call this vine, "Maypop". The blooms are very exotic and beautiful. Thanks for the information about this beautiful vine. Happy gardening, James
Hi Mark Thanks for the video and I followed the process to the letter. It’s been 2 months now but still no signs of new life. How long should it be before new shoots emerge and should I water with added plant feed in? Thanks David
Hi Mark, Peacock 🦚 are my favourite bird. They are so stunningly beautiful. My hubby knows alady who has Peacocks roaming around her house and gardens, so hubby surprised me with a bunch of Peacock feathers and i have them in two vases. The markings are mesmerising. They never bother my hubbys car. 🦚🦚🦚❤
Stunning birds I spotted my first ever peacock while I was at secret world wildlife rescue in Highbridge last year when I was taking a poorly hedgehog in. It was walking past the entrance & I had to do a double take when I first saw it! Bit of a worry seeing the bird on the road though, hope it doesn't do that too often, would hate for anything to happen.
Hi Mark, we have a stray peacock who lives in our neighbour’s shed but comes to us to for food. He has never landed on any vehicles, but helped himself to my Livingstone daisies last year and has been at my cabbages this year.
I highly doubt it could damage your car. I wouldn't worry about it. I'm glad they let him roam free, they need that. They shouldn't be locked away in a cage, no birds should really. My neighbour in Hawaii used to have a whole flock of peacocks and it was so marvellous to see them roosting on the roof next door. I love their calls, it is so hauntingly beautiful. You are so lucky to have this visitor! I hope someday I can live near peacocks again.
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK Yes, it looks GORGEOUS! : ) Oh btw, I also meant to say that in all the years living next door to the peacocks I never saw them roost on any cars or peck any cars, (also to reassure you), but maybe different peacocks have different tastes, lol! ^^
Hi Sandy. You are correct, as I explained in this video there was no external microphone on this video as i grabbed my phone and recorded. Apologies. All my other videos are using external microphone and are much better. Mark
Wonderful! And your rearranged tree ferns are all looking very happy. ^^ It's so funny how you said it's like an alien life form because I was just thinking this about plants the other day! Yes indeed! They are wondrous!
Good format Mark. Do some more food related videos please. Tips for creating a herb kitchen garden would be great. Also nice to see the tropical border progressing nicely.
The tories can barely run the country at the most basic, fundamental level, yet they have managed to ban a relatively obscure, exotic plant. That figures.
I am from Central Florida, love your videos! If you don’t already follow Garden Answers check them out. Today she planted in her pond, I know you will enjoy that.
Such a great video and has given me loads of confidence and reassurance that (fingers crossed) my overly pruned olive tree starts new buds soon! thank you for sharing
No problem Tim. I always reflect on feedback. It's fair to say that this video is certainly very heavy in signposting others and I'll take that on board thanks again. Mark
How apt that I should be watching this while in a charity run house in Southampton called heartbeat house. Our son had just had his 4th open heart surgery. This place allows relatives of people with heart problems a place to stay, near enough for free just trying on donations to run. Cracking video as always ❤️🙏☕️
Hi Tim. Hope your son and you are ok. Sometimes it's easy to forget the challenges people are going through. Thinking of you and thanks for watching. Best wishes. Mark
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK Your welcome. If you are like me it drives you nuts when words you use often, simply cannot be dragged from the depths. It happens to me several times a day, every day. Then at 3am, lightbulb moment lol
Hi Mark, great video as always. I’ve had the colocasia bug this year and been experimenting with them also, esculenta is an interesting one for sure. One of my findings is that all colocasia seem to have different growth habits, they either run, corm or clump, or a mixture of all three! Pink china is great because it corms and runs, very reliable because of it. The esculenta I find clumps, but doesn’t corm or run, from my experience anyway, although I’ve not had them in the ground long enough to see if they create more bulbs/ corms. 🌱
Looks just great!! And those 2 deep curved ponds will look just great with fish in ……. Native fish and native crayfish…? Colourful fish like koi or goldfish …?
Happy to find your channel , Mark. My little olive is doing well; the only issue is : it’s cold in winter , here in eastern Canada. End of November , I put it inside the attached , unheated garage ( there’s a window, with good light ). I never have the courage to leave it there long enough to induce flowering, though, since it can get down to -10,or -12 for a few weeks , even in there . Would you think it should be fine , anyway ? Many thanks Ed
Wonderful footage Mark, thanks for taking us for a midnight walk around your pond 😁 Have you thought about putting a or a few low solar spot lights up around your lovely pond to attract the insects for the frogs and toads to eat, plus maybe get footage of that too? Thanks 🙏
Hello mark. Ive watched you for a very long time now, but have never really commented. I find all you do very interesting. I too have many of the same plants as you have. The pond vids - newts toads and frogs, and quiet possibly be a partridge in a pear tree🤣 . Keep up your escapades and work in your garden. All the best . Steve Bacon.👍
Hi, it is about 9:00 p.m. in Idaho USA. I have a blue moon wisteria actually six of them that I'm training to go up my pergola. They bloomed this spring but they're still young plants. My question about pruning them. You mentioned to cut them back to five leaves. However, this plant has seven leaves on the stem, so I'm not quite sure how bushy to keep it or how low to cut it. Please advise. Thank you
