Woodland Courtyard Garden With Evergreen Shade Lovers 💚💚💚

Hi there everyone, it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener. Welcome back to my garden. We are now in September. So we're still in the summer until the 21st of September. It is still summer. I have one more major planting project which I have been considering and thinking about and I think I'm ready to make a start today and It is literally on the other side of this cabin We have another shady corner This is a shady corner mark one, which I think I think I said to you in a recent video I do actually find shady gardens Far easier to plant and to choose plants for and to look after Sometimes than sunny borders, so I don't mind shady borders I quite welcome them and you can see it's the morning now We have a little bit of sun here, but the rest of it's in shade and the sun will move away Throughout the day. It's about 1030 in the morning. We had last year over in that side of the corner of the garden Carnival corner carnival corner was fantastic in my opinion and I do know quite a few of you agreed It was a fun area. We had colorful bunting. We had flamingos We had vibrancy and plants and it was wonderful however, the bunting faded and frayed and Had to take that down and by the way, I'm banned From putting up any more bunting by Richard. He refuses to allow me to put more bunting So anything carnival related is now out of the question the flamingos I had They've migrated to other sides of the garden So we're left with a very sad. Sorry area and I've been trying to think what can I do to make it beautiful? As I said, it's shade So I've decided it's going to become woodland courtyard Which I thought had a nice ring to it because I like to name all the little areas So I'm going to take you around to carnival corner via the rest of the garden My new beautiful I was going to call this pot corner, but then I thought it sounds like if I call it pot corner it sounds like somewhere we Somewhere where you go and smoke something you shouldn't be smoking. So we're not going to call it pot corner. I think we'll call it Container garden. Yes container garden and then this I haven't put the fountain on This is where the flamingos have migrated to this is going to be called Fountain garden, I think and I do sit in that chair a lot as well. Richard made that chair and here's the rest of the garden and We lead up to the very sad Ex-carnival corner, which I'm going to change today into my woodland courtyard and It's very sorry looking You can see I haven't planted this this is a lovely planter and it's had nothing in it all year has trellis as well with a little lizard and It's just growing weeds this here is A planter with more weeds and I'm not even sure what this is That could be saved and made nice. I'm going to paint this. I have some spray paint black spray paint I've been doing quite a bit of painting and people have asked me any particular kinds of paint for my colorful things I've painted I've just used a box of paints, which I bought from Amazon and then I find if I cover them with clear varnish, then that's good enough, so I Will cover this with clear varnish as well now look at the sadness and the mess the mess of the bench area these Lovely little hanging pots, by the way, this was a radiator that we had and it was Vertical on the wall in our kitchen, but the radiator broke so Richard up cycled it and turned it into a back for my potting bench and My potting bench is so useful, but doesn't it look untidy? We have all this growing over these are blackberries Which I could pick those But you can see the canes just I'm always cutting these canes So what I'm going to do is cut All along there get rid of all that that will grow again, obviously But this is just for now to make it tidy and you can see this tree that we cut down in the early Spring it's a volunteer tree. And of course, it's come back again So such is gardening things grow the things that grow are usually the things you don't want, but it's so untidy So I'm going to tidy all this up. And also I've stored all my Sewing equipment all my seeds and things and they're just because the water can come down through the slats Up here things are just getting ruined Down there. So I'm going to tidy all that up. This is a big mess That's going to be tidied up. I need to sweep all along and then we've got two water butts, which I use all the time This is a lizard. I think we bought him in somewhere like Puerto Bernice in Spain So I might paint him This is going to be a woodland area, but you can see The sorry condition of the inside of my beautiful Victorian wall tall Greenhouse, it's got nothing in there but a little bit of death and I'm using this gorgeous greenhouse for just Rubbish, that's not good. It's not good. I need to tidy up this other plant here. This is my walnut tree So that's rather nice and I thought that I could move this Perhaps over to here. So what I'm trying to create is a beautiful courtyard Because even a small space we can use and make it look beautiful. I also have this It's it's always in the shade. It's a clematis Which I think needs to be moved so I can put some shady plants there I just want to fill it up with woodland wonderfulness. And so that's what I'm going to do today This little courtyard garden leads off to our garage the back door of our garage there Very useful used all the time. I think it can be wonderful and that's what I want to do today so what I'm going to do is Tidy it all up cut all that back Clean these pots Tidy this up probably rearrange Some of that might store some of that in my greenhouse because that will encourage me to do some sowing When it's all nice and organized, so I'm not going to show you that But with the magic of editing in just the flick of my fingers, let's see if I can do this It will be done. I don't think this is going to work, but let's try and it is done My woodland courtyard is finished. It's been a couple of days. I am so delighted not least because this as you saw was an area which was just Abandoned and unloved and now it's beautiful. I think in my opinion anyway let me take you around and show you what I've done everything in the woodland courtyard can handle shade and Most of it is full of shade Do you get a little bit of sun here and there and I've also bought everything which can be evergreen That's what I've tried to achieve. So we have a lot of ferns. They're evergreen ferns. They're all going to get much bigger than this So some of them are one meter tall Some of them are very wide as well And I was so impressed with my ferns in Shady Corner that I thought right ferns are the way to go So these two are called Dryopteris phyllix mass and I've also painted my little lizard giving him a new coat of paint and Moved him over to here. Then as we turn the corner We have a couple more here now these two Will also get very big and they are called polystichum Sussimense Sussimense something like that and this is in my little container, which I've painted Black because it was a wooden color and I received this when I left my school two years ago It says Jeanette our enthusiastic Gardening peach because we all call each other peach We will bloom in miss you Isn't that sweet and you may remember I used this before when I created my little fairy garden So as we move along we have I already had that evil eye I think it's called evil I that was from when I went to Cyprus I've added some little bits of metal artwork, which I found on Amazon. I Have given my little hedgehog a paint So he's looking nice It might be a girl actually. I think it's a girl. That was just rust and what I did I bought some black paint that you can spray directly on rust So that's looking nice. And this is the reason that I thought of this woodland courtyard Which it was last week. You may remember I dug up three spiders web fatsias From the front garden and so they've been in a pot They've now been in the shade and I really really do think already now this was the best one of the bunch But I do think already It's loving it over in the shade and we just have a hooker. I dug that up from another spot in my garden I've done a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul new little IV and this one here This hooker was one of the ones that when I divided my hookers earlier this year and Rooted them and that's one of those and you'll see some more in a moment of those which are all in the pots So we already had this. This is my walnut tree which I've moved to the other side and as we pan around you can see the second of My spiders webs, this one is actually perked up no end I've moved the mushrooms which were in shady corner Because they got lost and disappeared. This is the rusty old lizard, which I've painted Giving him a little new lease of life and Then this fern here a chirotium. That's very pretty. This one will get big as well That's lovely Now these four pots, which I'll show you I've two on the other side. These were my absolute bargain Facebook marketplace And I've to this side and let me show you these this was the worst of the fanciest spiders webs So I had to cut quite a lot off of that one But even that one looks reviving and that's another fern is actually the same You can see my little dragonflies have been put around here we have one of the little tortoises That is just well, I've had that goodness knows how many years it was in my other garden. So 25 30 even and I just painted that but what I was going to say about the pots. Yes Those pots were four pots. They're two foot tall and They were four pots for 20 pounds and I'd been looking for pots And they were like 70 80 90 pounds each and I managed to find those for 20 pounds for four I've said it twice because I'm still amazed We have a couple more ferns here this one is Asplenium Asplenium and this Here, I'm not sure what this is. This was already in the pot. So it could be a weed But anyway, we'll we'll see what happens with that. This was the little Plant which was in the black planter, which I explained earlier So put him in there and then these All of these along here They're all I've taken them from other parts of my garden and all the little hookers Were ones that I've divided We've got a Bronnera I've divided all those earlier in the year and they've all taken So they look cute. We have a little bumblebee at the top and Then as we pan around I've just added these two which are just a little bit of color There's my water butts, but it's nice and tidy and I've I've swept and cleared all the leaves away and I did cut away quite a lot from there Those bits that are there. I couldn't actually reach I was standing on this and Leaning across I couldn't actually reach they will all grow again now my greenhouse Has been really tidied up And I was thinking to myself that I don't use my greenhouse for growing plants in but then I thought why? Is that bothering me? It's going to be an attractive storage Place for all my bits and pieces. So in the bottom, we've just got my kneeling mat my garden shoes That is my what I use for compost mixing and a bag of compost I have my You can see there Happy birthday Jeanette and then blooming. What does that say? Blooming lovely at 60 and then that one says the enthusiastic gardener and This is my box with all my seeds in and then I bought these six little boxes from Amazon And then I've put that's a random Things in there. They're all my gloves and my farming sleeves. These are all ties It's a string This is all plant tax, which I thought I'd write those out nicely for the ferns, so we'll do that there we have scoopers and There we have my secateurs There we have some little pretty watering cans This box here has all my old plant tags in This is an old replica of a cassette tape for those of you who are old as me You will remember cassette tapes. That's what they used to look like and that's got all little plant ties in and And These are my I'll say it really quickly fake plants. Okay. I said it so that was given to me by a beautiful friend So I have a couple more metal art pieces and then last little bits now We have this fan is called aetherium nipponicum pictum Very nice and then this was the planter that I Spray painted and then in there We have these which are called taxus baccata fastigata robusta Which I think are very nice this cat here. I Painted him. I found him in the shed. I'd had him years ago So I thought I'll get my I've got my paints out we'll give him a little a little paint so then of course I have my lovely little colorful piece of glass So that's it my new woodland courtyard I Am loving my little woodland courtyard and I hope you'd like it, too And I hope it's given you perhaps some ideas of you may have a little tiny little corner somewhere Which can still be beautiful and it's still all part of our garden so we might as well make the most of all our square footage and Enjoy it. So thank you for watching. I'm Jeanette. I'm the enthusiastic gardener. I hope you're having fun in your gardens September already, so we're heading into autumn or fall Yes, the leaves will be falling very soon, so let's make the most of everything while we still can take care everyone Thank you for watching. Bye