You have beautiful jungle garden. And the main thing is that our thinking is matching . I am having a very small garden of just 300 sq feet but I have all the wildlife . Thank you for showing your garden and sharing your thoughts.
Thank you! People never believe me when I tell them it doesn't take much work to keep it looking like that, but once all of the plants are planted and established mostly it does look after itself. Thank you for the kind comment! ☺️
What a lovely video, packed with nice tips. So nicely filmed and edited - I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers!! 🫤 I have 2 old coal bunkers in my garden that I don’t use for coal anymore. I’ve filled them with logs, twigs, pine cones, clippings, you name it, and they’ve become a massive bug hotel with a couple of lovely honeysuckles I have growing over the top of them! 🤗 You’ve a new subscriber, you’ve melted my cold black heart! 🖤👍🏻🤣
Thanks @LouciferFlum! This is the first better quality video like this that I've made, but I have loads more planned. Thank you so much for the encouragement 🥰
@@amykellygardening yes I can see you’ve upped your game! Keep at it, it really was a great video. You’ve a nice relaxed style without the inane waffle that some people get embroiled with. So much content just in one video. Well done! 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻
I just stumbled upon your video here. I love the tips, and I like that you pack a lot of variety in a small space. That is how I do it in my front gardens as well. (My property here in CT, USA is just 50 ft. by 150 ft.)
New subscriber from your home country here, Amy. As you know we're in the dead of winter here and my Westringia and Hardenbergia are the only plants with flowers on at the moment. That doesn't stop the bees though. They love the Westringia and there is always a few hanging around them. Anyway, keep up the good work and all the best.
Amy, I enjoyed this video so much. It’s the first I have seen from you and I am definitely subscribing! You are a joy to watch - so calming and articulate. I’m off to look up the water plants that you have suggested. We have a very large pond on the farm (so will have a look at the lillies and irises) but I’ve decided that I’m going to make some container ponds in the garden around the house now too after being inspired by this video! 🐞
Hi Amy. I just came across you here on RU-vid. Fabulous informative video. You explained & included sooo much. Glad you included 'moths'. Thank you. Have liked & subscribed. Regards. Rose 🌼
Hi rose, thanks so much for subscribing, and thank you for the kind feedback! I put a lot of effort into my videos and it's lovely when it's appreciated 🥰
💚 what a lovely garden And I love the fact that your planting for our animal friends My gardens are small cottage style that wraps around my home it's a certified wild habitat. We use no pesticide or chemicals. Only plant for our bees birds butterflies friends what ever else deside to stop by.....
Hi! It's difficult to recommend specific named varieties without knowing what is available specifically in your area. The best thing to do is go wherever you can buy plants locally and try and get as many different shapes of flowers as you have space for. Different insects are evolved to favour different types of flowers, so the more different ones you have, the more different insects you'll attract.
Here in my US zone 6 garden it seems that as soon as the plants are up and looking gorgeous in the spring, the four lined plant bug comes and ruins it all. The plants generally eventually recover but they look very bad and get burnt on the damaged areas. Do you deal with anything similar?
Hi! Are the bugs you mention possibly Colorado Potato Beetles? (Look it up online and see if they look the same, if you can.) If so, let me know and I'll try to do a short video for you on how to deal with them. My big "problem" insect right now is gooseberry sawfly, which has just eaten half the leaves off all my gooseberries 🫣 My fault for not getting my mulch down in time to interrupt the breeding cycle! Live and learn! Let me know about your beetles, if we can identify them, we'll know how to sort them out. 😁
@@amykellygardening no, they’re not. Though I have those too 🫠 but they’re more specific in what they wreck. The four lined plant bug seems to like any and everything 😩
Ah, now I know the one you mean, Poecilocapsus lineatus. Give me a couple of weeks and I'll post a video for you with some advice to hopefully help! If you subscribe and click the bell for notifications it will let you know when I post it. Thanks for the question 👍
@@amykellygardening yep, that’s the one! Your gorgeous valerian is what got me thinking-it seems to be specially hard hit. I moved it last year so it was already compromised and it looks almost dead now. There are a few spare shoots and I’ll give it a good watering, hoping for the best.
@@emkn1479 I freakin' hate the 4-lined bugs, and yes, they do attack so many things in my front garden. BUT.. after finding out their life cycle is just a month or so, and then they are gone, and they don't kill anything, I just get get annoyed but leave them alone rather than do battle with them. Oddly, on a lot of my plants, they just grow fresh foliage and I don't even notice the damaged leaves anymore (example: on my butterfly bush and mountain mint.)
Birds, frogs, and toads all eat slugs, so often bringing more birds etc. into your space will help put nature back in balance and help with your over-enthusiastic slugs.
@amykellygardening over enthusiastic! That's right, well said 😁 it is really unfortunate because I have a small town garden, like 50sqm max, I can't put a pond, and there are birds but I do not want to attract them too much because there are also cats 🐈. So I put beer and it helps a little, but it is also veeery disgusting when the slugs fall in and I have to remove them. I heard that copper stripes or nets can help I will try that! But thanks!
