Here is last years bulb video if you want some planting motivation. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dGrWYhNb_zk.html wow, it’s so fun looking back at old videos and seeing the difference in a year. Thanks for sticking with me on my garden journey ❤
Audrey Hepburn one of my favorite actresses said “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Essentially I reckon she means she believes in hope for a brighter future! That is such a wonderful thought! I plant bulbs in pots because I live in AZ but when I lived in Northern climates I had a forest area behind the garden bed in the back of my home. I always dug up the bulbs every 2 years then planted them out there. Whatever made it made it. Some of them still grow 20 years later. We have visited a neighbor and since no walls or fences allowed in that neighborhood we can see that area clearly. I grew my bulbs in pots the first year in my garage which was cold no frost or snow. I found lilies were the hardiest. My favorite Rubriums. I no longer can garden due to health but I love watching you so TFS
Planted my bulbs this week! I’ve felt really detached from my garden this year due to the fear of having to move but I am determined to make improvements in 2023. Knowing the bulbs are planted and on their way to cheer me up in springtime really helps with my seasonal anxiety. Sending love to everyone xx
I’m so excited to add tons of hyacinths this year to my garden. Last year I bought only a couple dozen bulbs because I thought they had to be spaced very far apart according to the package directions. But when they grow up big and tall they started falling over. I read that planting them closer together keep that from happening. So I’m going to purchase lots of those. Thank you for the inspiration for other types of bulbs to try.
Narcissus bulbs are an unsung hero! Tiny, white, delicate, and very fragrant perennial bulbs 💛 PS: PAINT HANDLE of little trowel a bright color, then a coat of clear glow-in-the-dark. You'll find it faster next year! Happy gardening 😁💜🌾🌿🍁🍃
Oops! I should've been more clear: Narcissus Paperwhites. 💜 They act as a perennial when planted outside where I live in the U.S. But I adore the jaunty Daffodil, as well! Happy planting 🌿🌼
Grab yourself a lovely basket for your hand tools, gloves, twine, labels etc and ALWAYS put them back in it. Makes it easy to move around the garden ❤️✨
Girl!! I love to see you getting a little philosophical, About gardening, no less. And especially, when drinking tea with a hedge hog mug! Sweet I am planting alliums, thanks to you. The bees thank you too 😀😀😀
Hyacinth in pots are wonderful and easy to force into bloom they smell so sweet come in white, pink, and two blue tones... and tiny little grape Hyacinth come up early in spring.. live your garden videos 💕🤠
Alliums are my new favourite obsession! I enjoyed them so much this year so I have 40 more bulbs to plant for next year. Your bulb collection is beautiful 💐
Thoughts of the day...... - red tinged Pelargonium leaves happen when the temperatures start to drop, also happens to strawberries - so that I can still oil the wooden handles on hand tools I use bright electrical tape on the shaft of hand tools - I have a kitchen cleaning caddy for carrying about the garden, one side I have hand tools, string, secateurs, labels and pens etc. the other side is handy for packets of seeds and bulbs - blue bells and Muscari can both become quite invasive over time I'm loving your garden journey👍
Your bulb/ flower videos always get me excited about planting! 🤗 With the dull gray winter months ahead, it's so nice to have the hope of the spring colors to brighten our days 🌷⚘🌷⚘ Thanks Catherine 😁
I just found your channel yesterday and have so far already found MANY ideas I´m going to try. And you´re such a breath of fresh air Catherine it´s an absolute joy watching your videos🌺🌻😊
Today is a very nice day here. I planted most of my bulbs a few minutes ago and by the time I came in I saw your video popping up. That´s timing. 😅 I love tulips. 🌷 I did plant some pink muscari as well. We have the same taste. 😁You are so right: We plant some hope. Love from Germany 🤎🍁🍂🤎
Do you have any peony’s growing? They’re my favorite flower, but I can’t grow them here in in southern/gulf coast Texas. I live vicariously through you with your beautiful flowers! We’ve been in a drought here, so I’m very jealous of your rain! We’re supposed to be getting some cooler weather and rain in the next few days and I’m overjoyed at the prospect! Thanks for bringing us with you and sharing in your adventure! ❤
You 2 are so funny. Love Love the bulbs that you got. So sweet. I have a bucket I take around with me in the garden to keep my kneeling pad and my smaller digging tools in and I just remember to put my things back. It’s great. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us. Appreciated.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Every year when I'm emptying my compost bins I'm finding my missing tools, I even stopped wondering where did I put them, I know they will show up in spring time 😇
Hi Catherine, really enjoyed your video love a visit to a garden centre, hubby and l went today to pick up some daffodil bulbs and had a look round because all the Christmas stuff was out in our local garden centre, saw a lantern and a lovely painting of a hare, did not buy them but regret not getting them today, so definitely another visit soon, l picked up a couple of pots of cyclem and have put them in a hanging basket, we also have some in our garden they are so pretty, l will have to look out for geranium Janette as this is my full name, got me all excited lol, happy bulb planting xx
You need a hook outside, near the front and back doors, on which you can hang your hand spade as you are entering the house. Also maybe paint the handles a bright colour...flourescent pink?
I did exactly the same a couple of weeks ago...digging out a huge root from an old rose tree I used every tool I owned but when putting stuff away no trowel..... hmmm buried somewhere. Bought a new one and low and behold who should reappear but the lost one under all the earth I'd dug out ..opps!! I planted some snake's head fritillary last year and they were pretty and although mine are in the ground they would look good in pots. Thanks again for a lovely video x
Have you thought about getting scented geraniums for your greenhouse? I have a windowsill of rose scented pelargonium and use the leaves dried for tea, and make syrups that go great with gins! They smell amazing when you brush the leaves.
Catherine, put some high viz tape around the handles of your small tools, we used this idea in our allotment cos we were always losing them too. Love your gardening diaries, they’re so inspiring ❤️ nanny Jean x
Yes I lose tools I have a habit of dropping them into the bucket I’m using for the weeds then the whole lot goes into the compost bin, last year I found my favourite secateurs in my compost, sadly well rusted and useless. Loved the video very nice garden centre , loved those brilliant autumn furnishings , but not in my budget, so nice to have a friend to share it with. But now I’m thinking spring bulbs so thanks for the inspiration.
I do the same about the little spade and fork tools but I love a reason to have a new one and they aren't that expensive. When you find the old ones give 'em a good cleaning and then hang 'em in the greenhouse as a decoration or spare for next time you can't find the newest ones.
I love your spring bulb plantings. It is sooo hard to say no to the pretty spring bulbs. I bought over 100 bulbs my first haul, then 2 days ago I found the clearance rack for spring bulbs!! Half off, yes please, lol. I love daffodils, whites are my favorites, but I love the unusual colors also. I picked up tulips and alliums. If that wasn't enough I bought 5 hydrangeas, and ordered 4 more. But, I have been on a mission this year, to organize my garden better instead of everything willy-nilly. Thanks to you I have been watching Monty Don and found Carol Klein. I love that you say " this is how I garden, not how to garden". Those are the best and most inspirational garden videos to me.
Always Look forward to your videos. I broke my foot so have more down time at the moment and you're a very nice distraction to the chaos in the world. Thank you for being so kind always. Your parents did a great job raising you. Kudos to you!
Love ur videos. We are having a very wet spring here in my bit of Australia. I spent an hour scratching about in my little veggie patches yday, planting more coriander seedlings, pulling out the spent marigolds, weeding and staking up my tomato triffids. It was bliss !
Aaah snowdrops at home are the 1st flower that heralds the first stirrings of spring. I used to love picking small bunch and giving it to my mum...thank you for sharing 🍂🧡
I love your bulb jaunt! I’m planning the ones that I want to plant this fall also! I used to forget my hand trowel, pruners, etc., in the weirdest places.🤦🏻♀️ Now, I have an old market basket that holds my gardening hand tools, my twine, scissors, plant markers, gloves, just everything I might need without having to stop and walk to the garden shed and back. Then when I go to my parent’s house or my sister’s house to work, I just grab my basket and I know everything is there ready to go! Have you ever tried lily of the valley? I love when mine come up and they smell heavenly!!! Thank you for taking us along on your field trip! 🌷🌷😉
You had a great choice in those garden centers 👍 I had a tendency to look for my gloves and tools as well all the time 😂🤣 meanwhile it got better. I left one saw somewhere on the roof over winter and it got rusty and one time my pink watch ⌚️ got lost in the garden and I found it one year later. It was still working and didn't look too bad. Looking forward to see your spring flowers bloom 🌸🌷🌷🌷Have a nice week Catherine. Greetings Heidi 👩🌾💕
Happens to me too. I have to have some tools in the front yard and some in the back yard. But then I lose something and I have to go to the front yard and grab the one I have there and visa versa
Nothing better than spring bulb shopping when the weather is so dreary outside! Those pink Muscari are gorgeous 😍 Aliums, Anenomes, Rannunculas & Fritillarias would be personal favourites! Roll on Spring & all the beautiful colours. Your flower beds are going to be gorgeous 😊
Wow... check you out girl...some beauty's going to be joyful hen they all Bloom...you can get some Hi - Viz sticky tape...you can wrap around the handle...on the hand held tools ...they will glow ..🌟... 💐😉. See next week thanks for sharing
Gardening has been one of the best things about this year! It's brought me so much joy and just gladness seeing how beautiful the earth that God created is!
Lol lost trowels are probably in alot of gardens. Try storing the new tools in a hand basket that way you can carry the basket with you to garden. Much harder to lose a basket. You will see the basket and if empty where you left tools will be fresh in your mind 🤣❤
I agree with Carole, paint handles a bright colour. My grandfather painted the handles of my grandmother's tools. I lose gloves and hammers, eventually I find them. Hammers survive, gloves not so much. 🍁🙋♀️🎃
Thank you for taking us along on the tour! I think Blondie is hiding your tools so you'll pay more attention to her than gardening. Ha! I painted my tool handles before they began selling colorful handled ones.
I love your videos and am so glad I found your channel! Lily of the Valley is on my list of unsung hero’s for spring bulbs. I just adore it in a woodland garden. And smells lovely as well.
Lovely selection of bulbs, can’t wait to see them. I’ve lost three trowels, I tidy one section up then move on and forget where I’ve left them, all the good ones are lost, I’ve a cheap crappy one now that bends, can’t lose that one😂
I wish I could grow crocuses but every time I plant them come spring when they come up the bunnies devour them. I’ve finally given up and just plant other things. Planting bulbs gives you something to look forward to. I too have trouble with the darkness of winter. Hoping for a mild winter with not too much snow🤞🏻
I brought from Amazon a smaller rake to get in tight spaces. I opened the package and the rake was exactly what I wanted. This was months ago. I have no idea what I did with the rake!
For your errant trowel, might I suggest a permanent springy cord that could attach to your gardening apron via a carabiner? I’ve seen UK mudlarkers use them for when they’re scratching at the foreshore looking for treasure, and the cord always means they are attached to the tool and won’t leave it behind.
I use my dads old small plastering trowel and I am forever losing it in the garden and then go into a panic because it is so sentimental, but I shouldn't worry, it always turns up. It must be over 70 years old but does the jobs better than any other I have tried. Spring bulbs are joyous but not as joyous as you in every season 💖
Always Love Sunday Tea with you Catherine ~ 😊 I enjoyed buying bulbs and watching the weather during the day. It was a warm 85° here in California and nights are getting down into the 60°'s sweater time! See you Thursday!
Love listening to the rain! Hopefully this time next year I’ll have my home remodel done and my back patio will be all finished. Looking forward to a hot cup of coffee, surrounded by plants and listening to the rain. Something about the rain that calms me.
Loved the red cranesbill I can’t find a red one only line anywhere you must of got the only one ,I’m going to look for some pink muscari love your videos
That is a peaceful lovely drive you have Catherine. I love the bulbs you selected. I plant my bulbs in flowerpots not directly in the flower beds. This way I can move them if needing a pop of color elsewhere in the flower beds. It also protects the bulbs from gophers.
