December 2020 || English Garden Tour

It's Jeanette here again from Enthusiastic Gardener and I just had to capture that gorgeous sky this morning it was just absolutely beautiful and I have not been out in the garden it seems like weeks because I've been at work it's been dark all the time and now I have a few days off and it's Christmas Eve and I thought let's do a quick garden tour because I don't think I've done one really since September would you believe because October was Richard's garden tour and then November we skipped completely because we did the Christmas lights and so I thought it might be nice on Christmas Eve just to do a quick run around the garden see what's going on so let's do it. So here we are we still have leaves to collect and let's go up the garden path and of course there's not an awful lot to see everything's quite dormant I love the view from here I always think it looks really nice from here more in the summer of course but here we are we have a rhododendron and my poppy this is the famous twig which is called an aralia I love it in the summer it doesn't do an awful lot in the winter of course we have the totem poles this rose is still blooming that is lovely in fact it's probably the only bit of color and I always really like these little pom-pom flowers on the faxia but they are dying off a the lilac will look gorgeous that will be one of the first things in the spring to start again it didn't do all that well last year didn't have that many blooms so I'm hoping that it will do a little bit more next year I think I'm going to get rid of this berberis next year I think that is a good opportunity in fact I'm going to take away all these osteospermums because I'm hoping next year when I get my greenhouse I'm hoping that I am going to grow fabulous flowers so a lot of this old older stuff I'm going to take out to make way for my fabulous flowers now I've just noticed ivy ivy goodness the ivy is coming through from the other side of the fence now this whole fence probably a year ago was covered in ivy it went all the way up this little brick wall it was just covered and I had to go around the other side and in fact I'm going to have to do that again go around the other side and pull it all through and cut it all back the other side of this garden is just a kind of a public space in fact I will show you because I can just pop the camera over the top so look that's what's the other side so the other side of this fence is where the ivy grows from should really show other people's houses but I'm gonna have to go through and pull that through again I think this mahonia is gorgeous so it's nice to give the bees something they can still enjoy in December even salvia hotlips has stopped flowering now and I'm gonna have to prune all that next year it did look absolutely gorgeous this summer it was just flooded with little red and white flowers I loved it and I'm hoping next year all the clematis that I planted I planted a different clematis on each trellis and that was their first year so they didn't have a lot of time to get established so maybe next year that's going to look lovely I do hope so and of course a lot of things will have to be pruned but you can't prune them yet it's only just winter 21st of December is the first day of winter so we're only a couple of days in really this is lovely this is my Chinese plumbago so we'll leave all that until end of winter to start pruning that and my cabbages all died I thought that the cabbages last the whole winter but these ones didn't and I'll probably move that pedestal back back again to its original place because I'm going to have a lot of space I may take these osteospermums out as well still a few flowers left I'll let them bloom again they'll bloom in Easter and I'll let them bloom and then I'm going to take them out and then here I've planted a lot of tulips everywhere but here in particular I think I may get a little tree still blooming the fuchsias and my seeds I put them here today just because it was a little sunny so I put them there I'm so excited for my new greenhouse which should be arriving any day now this is the David Austin rose that my very good friend Jean Leach sent to me and it's still doing very well the heathers still looking lovely then we have the topiary lemon cypress more heathers so there we are a really really quick run around the garden on Christmas Eve there's so much to do I have a lot of cooking to do we've been placed into tier four lockdown where I live I'm in the southeast of England I'm about half an hour away from London and so it's very quiet Christmas this year but that's okay I wish you health and I wish you happiness and I wish you peace and a fabulous day tomorrow and I will see you again very soon thank you so much for watching Merry Christmas bye