I love your colorful cottage garden. You planted really well. The whole garden views are stunning! Even though you planted dense, you also have lot of delicate & airy plant collection. It looks wonderful.
I just discovered your videos and your garden is absolutely stunning 😍 it looks like a designer garden! Thank you for sharing so many flower combinations ideas!!!!!!!
Absolutely stunning, and great inspiration for my garden as we have a similar style but you use your plants to better effect! Yes, it has been a very cool and wet summer here in England too.
I am sure that it will be a success. Here I started out with a few shrubs and trees and a small boarder close to the terrace. I have enjoyed it, even though there where a few bumps along the way. Remember to sit down and enjoy it every now then! Thank you for watching!
Your garden is stunning. I particularly like your Hydrangea. I have that variety in my garden but it doesn't look as good as yours. Thank you for the tour.
Your borders are so lush and beautiful! Here in Kentucky, we are still in and out of our heatwave/drought. Therefore, I'm letting some of my perennial plants go into dormancy as I just can't keep up with the watering. My Echinacea purpurea though somewhat drought tolerant are wilting. I think since because of climate change my area is going to have hotter and drier summers so I need to focus on more drought tolerant plants for my borders. I'm going to rethink this autumn what plants I am going to remove and what new plants for next year. That's my garden project for next year. Happy gardening! James
Here we had a severe weather warning due to an approaching rainstorm that threatened with one month of rain in 6 hours. Luckily it turned out to be a false alarm - in the end we got a pretty normal rainy day. I hope you get some rain soon, it sounds disheartening with that heatwave/drought. Happy Gardening to to you too!
😊you're garden is so spectacular! July is likely the most prolific time for blooms there from what I've seen from your other videos. I haven't heard of the phalectrum? Also, your garden bench is so unique. It seems that i can only find commercial types. I would love to find one with character
What a beautiful garden, I have to agree about geranium Rozanne, I have a few types now they are so lovely. Hoping to split them in the autumn so I can use them in other places in the garden. How old is your elderberry black lace? I also have one, but I didn’t realise they grow so big! New subscriber 🎉
The elderberry black lace must have been in this garden for 7 or 8 years. It consists of 2 plants planted around 60 cm (around 2 foot) apart since I got them as cuttings from my mother. You can prune an elder back, Gardeners World have a video on it here (if you scroll down, the video is rather good): www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-elder/ I have not, as you can see, not given it a go though ;) Thank you for subscribing :)
I really like Wand loosestrife 'Dropmore Purple' - It realiably comes back every year, does not flop, and here it does not seed. Do check up on invasiveness though, some loosestrife can multiply a lot by seed.
In the places where the flowers do not flow out over the grass (it actually damages the lawn a bit) I weed every now and then. Unfortunately I have places in the lawn that has couch grass in it, and I have had to dig that out (again damaging the edge). The edge is, unfortunately, not that well maintained. When I maintain the edge I dig out a shallow trench between the boarder and the lawn - I will not not claim that it is working well though.
Your garden is so wonderful! Thank you for sharing! I have always wanted to try out Veronicastrum. Does yours need staking? How does it cope with windy conditions?
This year I have had to support it - Due to all the rain it is taller then it usually is. I have a string around it 1½ foot of the ground - The string is hidden by the foliage, so it is not visible from the path. I know that some people reduce the height of it a bit earlier in the year by 1/3. It will reshoot and be able to hold its own weight better. Normally I have not had to do that here though, but it will depend on your climate. If windy, it is likely to need some kind of staking.
Not sure if I can share a link due to RU-vid policies, but hoping this works: www.gardenia.net/plant/veronicastrum-virginicum-lavendelturm-culver-s-root
Our garden is on the countryside so it’s almost always very windy. So I’m one of those that do the “Chelsea chop” on the veronicastrums in late may or very early June. It basically stops the stems from growing and only the flowers will grow from the spot where they were chopped. This year I did it with some of the phloxes and tall sedums as well and next year I will do it on the large campanula lactifloras. I can really recommend that method 👍
@@christofferjrgensen8387 Thank you very much for your replies and the link. The link worked and the info is very useful! Great to know that Veronicastrum responds well to the "Chelsea chop". I'm familiar with it and I agree with you that it's a super method to keep plants in a better /stable shape.
I do :) Last year I planted "Rhamnus frangula" (Alder buckthorn) that supports the local Brimstone butterfly - it is still very small shrub, but will become quite large in the end. I have planted in some wild flowers in a narrow strip between the house and the hedge behind my house. I planted in some "Hypericum perforatum" (St John's wort) that supports nighttime butterflies. I ordered and sowed out Lotus corniculatus (Bird's foot trefoil) that supports butterflies in the meadow in 2021and it has been a pleasure ever since. I have also sown out 2 different seed mixes there as well, so hopefully there where some additional butterfly supporting plants in those! All in all, I hope the butterflies are happy - they are definitely very welcome :D I have not talked a lot about wild flower strip / meadow in my videos, but I have a small "snippet" of it at the end of the "Early June" video. June is where the meadow looks its best: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gxUS4-QOjyA.html
