Staking Plants || Forming Topiaries || And We Have Mice!!! 🐭🐭🐭

Hi everyone, it's Jeanette here again from Enthusiastic Gardener and today, now it is spring, there are a few jobs that I'm asking Richard can help me with and we're just going to go around and follow him doing his jobs for the week in the garden. It's actually called the Devil's Walking Cane. Devil's Walking Cane is an angelica tree. What I'd like to do, because it is very beautiful, but as you can see it grows this way, so Richard is going to stake it, just going to tie it. Hopefully that will be all right. That's going to look so much better. It will do, now you've got two sticks. Yeah, so this is called a Aralia Elata and it has beautiful, well it's from Japan and Asia and it really, really is beautiful and it has fruit on towards the end of the year. An angelica tree is another name for it and also apparently they are called Devil's Walking Canes and in Asia they take the young shoots and they cook them and steam them and I found some pictures so I'll show you those. So it's all very interesting but now hopefully it's nicely, a little bit better, can grow straighter rather than that way and then this was leaning right over so Richard has kindly put a stake in for me. It was this side so it wasn't doing anything now he's put stake in there and that's looking a little bit better and I have another job. This here is a Euonymus, it has been in my garden since before I lived here. I think it's probably one of the very first things that was ever in my garden. It was one big whole shrub and at one point I decided to topiarise it. Now I can see this, my lounge window is over there and when I sit there every night I can see directly to this shrub and I've been thinking that I would like to make this into a single ball topiary and I think it would lend itself to it if we just take this section off and I'm going to ask Richard, obviously there's no going back but I'm going to ask Richard, can you cut off this side? I actually like this part. Voila! Voila! I'm just going to quickly trim around in here. I like to do two balls. That is going to look nice. Thank you. We've got mice haven't we Rich? We have. And Lottie is fascinated by mice. We've seen them running around in the garden and we had this a couple of years ago probably and what they used to do then is they lived underneath our cabin. Underneath here is kind of like, what are they called Rich? It's like wooden rafters or something. Yes that the cabin is sitting on and they used to live under there so Richard as you can see had to put on this wire mesh to stop them living and breeding in there. Lottie is fascinated because she keeps seeing mice. She keeps seeing them going underneath that green covered table and chairs. I think they're probably under there and last night she was out here and there was one wedged right behind there in fear of its life because we were all looking at it. Unfortunately I didn't think to film it but anyway when I went into my greenhouse the other day I think they've been getting in here as you can see it's all slatted and I got these grow bags out and there was all this shredded it's not there now because I yeah you can see a little bit there was all these shredded bits and pieces it looked like they were making a little nest or something so obviously I do not want that climbing up eating all my strawberries. I've got some strawberries that I'm going to plant. I think you're going to have to clear out the bottom of that. Okay I can do that. So I'm gonna have to do it on the inside because I'm not gonna get around the back. Oh I'm sorry giving you all these jobs. Okay I can do that. And it smells a little bit as well doesn't it? Yeah so they're getting in to my greenhouse and they could eat through my heat mat cables for all we know. They've probably been sleeping on the heat. Yes they probably have. Oh yeah sleeping on the heat mats. Let's see how many times I hit my head. Can you hold the end of that like that? What I've done if you have a look over in that corner and you see the wire going along there all the way around and it'll stop the mice from getting underneath and into the greenhouse. Oh thank you Rich. Let's hope so. I don't think it's anywhere else they can get in. The doors. No that's fine. I bet they'll be on the top there. Do you think they could? I bet they can but anyway. Thank you. I think that will stop the mice getting in. Another job well done. Thank you. Right it's the next morning. I'm just gonna have a check just to see if there's anything anywhere I moved. Nope. I think it's a success. I hope so. I think so. So thank you for watching. It's Jeanette here. Thank you to Richard for doing all my troubleshooting jobs. Very grateful. Have a good time in your garden and I'll see you again soon. Thanks. Bye.