Thanks so much for all your wisdom. I've just set up and planted our small terrace and just come in for a cup of tea! I have just started learning about gardening and am gobbling up all your videos. It's making me so happy!
Thank you, Bunny, for your amazing and informative videos. Although I don't have very much space for planting, you have given me some great ideas... and watercress is on my next grocery list. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. I can't wait for your next installment.
I find the easiest way to remove ivy from a wall is to run an old bread knife from the bottom up behind the plant. It comes away quite easily without damaging the pointing.
Great tips Bunny! Your boxwood topiaries are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing. 💚🙏🪴 Can’t wait to see your choices of Old roses in the place of the ivy. 🌸🌸🌸👏 Watercrest is yummy in soups or quick stir fry with garlic as well Bunny.
I have controlled ivy in my yard and up the sides of my garage a couple of trees. I did learn my lesson concerning the roof and now I keep it from attaching there. I'll be growing watercress on my next shopping trip. Thank you
Thank you for discussing ivy. In our old home we had a beautiful ivy-covered fence. In our new home I’m trying to replicate that but everyone is warning me about planting ivy. I lived with it for 5 years and really found it easy to tame with regular pruning. 🙏🏻
Hello Bunny, I've been a GQT listener from the US for a few years now. I truly enjoy your commentaries and insights when you are on the panel. I'm also really enjoying the RU-vid videos as well. Apparently, I must be quite the gardening program avid listener as well. I enjoyed your discussion and sparing with Peter Seabrooke on his recent podcast. My garden/farm is in WA State and wanted to point out that no ivy is allowed on the premises-even the somewhat benign floral type. Don't tell my friends that part gets tossed out when they send us flowers. It's considered a noxious weed in our state and it thrives in our temperate climate. I 'get' the feelings about some of the herbicides you've mentioned and the negative feelings associated with their use. However, I have a large tract of land and there are some (very few) cases when we must use these products in a very, very discerning manner. We have a license to use them and only use when absolutely necessary. I've watched more homeowners on smaller lots use these chemicals in ways more harmful than I would ever dream of using this application. It will take more education and also judicious use of these products to understand their pros and cons. No one should feel they should extricate themselves from your knowledge and years of experience when you are careful of your family, associates, livestock, and all the living plants and things that matter in your gardens and farm. I'll keep listening for more great information. Thank you.
Many thanks for all this. Had not realised about ivy with you. I really like and respect Peter Seabrook but we have slightly different approaches on some things! I think that’s what makes gardening so fascinating, there are so many different approaches to design, techniques etc. Great to hear replies from different countries and hear about their methods. Totally with you re herbicides. 🐇🐇🐇
I know what you mean about ivy. I have some growing on my garden walls. I treat it like a hedge, regularly trimming it throughout the season to keep it in bounds. Lovely idea with the watercress. Will try it out, thank you
Thank you Bunny, every one of your episodes has inspired me and my garden is so much better for it! I really want to do more with yew and box. I’ve tried to propagate it but failed miserably, if you fancied doing a video on what you do that would be amazing! 😃
Thank you for all the information, on trimming the boxwoods (made the mistake of doing it before a rain. Luckily I sprayed TopBuxus because I have had blight there. Then of course, it got hot and now the leaves are scorched. Will wait for the perfect moment next year! Good to know that ivy isn't as bad as we thought. I pull it off the huge cedar trees around us. Good thing it is a slow grower. And watercress sounds like a veg even I can grow. (Still trying to get the flower beds where I want them though.)
I think that taking the ivy off after being on the tree for so long is detrimental because the tree is exposed. The solution is to not put ivy at base of a tree at all. Then the tree grows to be conditioned to its surroundings. It is a huge invasive issue here in Canada.
@@bunnyguinness I am in Canada and I know on the west Coast that they have that issue.. I don't in Central Ontario, but Ivy is invasive so I never plant or use it
I use a Clear PVC Corrugated Roofing sheet to catch box clippings. Once covered with clippings it can be lifted along its sides which are pulled together to form a tube shape. This is then easy to "pour" into a recycle bin.
I’d love if you did a video on all the types of weeds we have and how to get rid of them. I normally just try and “ round up” everything. But sometimes it just doesn’t work. Very frustrating.
I like to know all my weeds and recognise them when small. I would rarely treat weeds in beds with herbicide except ground elder, couch and bind weed ( and mares tail if I had it). Other perennial weeds such as nettles, docks and creeping thistle I find easy to remove by pulling especially after rain. With all annual weeds it’s worth removing before they flower. Good idea to do a video on weeding !🐇
Hi Bunny, I live in rural NSW Australia and am new to gardening. I'm not sure what "zone equivalent " I am in the UK, but we are in the middle of Winter here and we get down to -7 deg C at the moment, and I don't have a greenhouse (heated) but I do have a few cold frames that I want to start my Spring hardy annuals and perennials in. I have started growing some seeds (Nigella, Foxgloves, Campanula) but I'm not sure if I have to pot them on (now that they have true leaves, not just seed leaves) or if I can plant them out? I love watching all your videos, and am very interested in establishing a cut flower garden, hence my question. Love your honesty, approach to gardening - you are an international inspiration (even though I have to reverse the seasons and the aspects - e.g. In Australia North Facing is the sunniest aspect!!!)
I have a chart of the world with all the USDA zones on my office wall printed out from the web. It’s really handy and it seems to be the most widely used chart across the world. It just means what ever country I’m working in I can grasp the climatic conditions relatively easily. I plant many tender seedlings out only when the risks of frosts have gone making sure to have hardened them off first. 🐇
Ps a lot of foxgloves, and certain campanulas over winter as small plants outside. Foxgloves are biennials. We are doing a cutting garden video in next few months
I have bamboo in my back yard. I cut it all down, laid landscaping fabric and sand than put 100 50 bags of black mulch on top. When shoots manage to grow up , I spray round up on the shoot. Right now I am planting in large pots in that area. Will I ever get rid of the bamboo? The golf club behind me planted the stuff and it manage over the years, to invade my yard. I left it because it was pretty but it is taking over.
I think you will. Are you using glyphosate? Spray the young shoots when growing strongly and about 200mm high. You might need to treat for a few years though to eradicate it. Good luck! 🐇
Pulling ivy off the tree damages the bark, those roots get in there and pulling it off makes deep little wounds. I’ve found that just cutting the vine down at the base is sufficient, let the vines die, and then pull the vine up in the ground around the base. Pulling any vine when it’s raining is the easiest, the ground is soaked and gives it up.
Never use WD40 on your garden power tools as it’s too thin. Use something like 3in 1 or similar as it’s thicker. You can put in in a jar and designate a brush for applying the oil, which you could keep in the jar, with the lid tightly screwed on. You’ll be able to hear how much quieter your hedge cutter sounds and how much better it cuts.🥀
Hello, thanks for lovely the video, i need some tips i bought topiary forms of geese and they are to go over box, i was wondering how close to the form do i trim too, do i go right up to it or a few inches from it ?
So you plant the plants inside the form work and then clip as tight as you can to the form. Before the plants hit the edge of the wire still cut the shoots back as this will encourage then to shoot more strongly and give you a more vigorous bushy plant. 🐇
@@bunnyguinness thank you ive been trying to find any information online and its so difficult, do i remove the form after the shape is acheived or can i leave it :)? i wish i could send you pictures of my garden that has florished through your tips
I got two goats for a children’s party one sunny afternoon and they did more damage to my garden than a bull in a China shop, at your peril or maybe some goats are greedier than others! 🐇
@@rinskeraphael8755 in many places in the U.S., bamboo is illegal to plant and you can be held liable ($$$) for removing it from your neighbor's property.
@@Bamboo4U2 its a nice plant in a pot 🙈....live in The Netherlands....I have to remove it myself , and I will remove it on the neighbours yeard wether they like it are not🤪when they are on vacation i will be happily diving in there yeard😉
I so appreciate your views on Ivy. I am, however, going to call you on the mat regarding the virture of it . On buildings and grounds.No matter how one may see it, It is a very invasive, destructive plant. In the city of Vancouver, B.C. Canada 🇨🇦. It is destroying our most precious park. 100 + acres in the city itself. I ask of you not to defend this plant. It is invasive, and it's killing our most precious park.
I love your programs but find your page annoying in that it does not accurately reflect what you have posted Right now (26-7-21) There are at least 4 new posts that I have found That are not listed
