Autumn Garden Jobs & Making The Best Of A Sad Situation 😊

Hi everyone, it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener. Today is just the most beautiful day, it is bright and blue skies, a warm sunshine, it's very very calm, there's no wind, it's lovely, so I have to do some gardening because tomorrow I believe it's going to rain. So I did tell you last week if you watch my garden tour that I've had a great sadness and lost two possibly three of my Ilex stokes around container garden and that is the trouble with a formal design that you lose one thing and you know the whole design is gone. Very sad, I'm not going to replace them with like for like. I also have a plan for something that I can use already in my garden which I can replace those Ilex stokes with at least temporarily. I also have some lovely plants which I've just picked up on clearance for my window box and also I'm going to move my Picea glauca daisies whites because they were gorgeous in the spring but I didn't think that they're going to get so burnt and hot against this brick wall all in the summer, so they need to move. I'll see how much I can get done. I also had said that I wasn't going to try overwinter my pelargoniums but they have been gorgeous but I think I'll give it a go. It's worth a go because they are pretty and it will be a good experiment. Let me show you the plants first of all that I have for the window box. Here's my window box which is already cleared out all ready for planting. These are gorgeous and I've got them on clearance three pounds they're Carex everest and they're just beautiful and they will be evergreen all year in winter interest so that would look lovely and I have four so two in each side so I think that would look nice and I can always replant these in the landscape. I'm not a fan of grasses normally but I do like Carex and then over where the glaucus are, these are the Picea glauca daisies white which I'm going to move so I'm going to put them up and I have these slightly different but still bargain at three pounds these are called Carex evergold so I'm going to put three in there so that's that. So they're all the jobs that I'm doing today and I hope you'd like to come along with me. pelargoniums. We have more pelargoniums over here and I'm going to pot those up see if I can overwinter them it's worth a try. I think I have taken out a few of my pelargoniums so we have one dark pink and one light pink has gone here because my lovely friend Edie has given me from her garden this hydrangea she gave this to me two days ago and I still haven't planted it so I think it's going to go in that spot there so I'm going to plant that there. I have potted up some pelargoniums we'll give them a try in the cold frame stroke greenhouse I would just deadhead give them a tidy give them a water put them in there so I have a selection I'm out of pots now so I've only got tiny pots left so I don't think I can pot anything else up look how wonderful this has done this was seven plants seven really lovely still flowering so here is the corner of the garden where the Ilex stokes are and you can see definitely that one in front has died that one to the left and this one over the back that does look quite brown on top so it's a bit sad a little bit sad but there you go and shall we do this quickly move those Ilex stokes well I need to plant that we'll plant that we'll move the Ilex stokes over to here because I'm running out of steam and motivation but I do want to get this done so I'm going to do that quickly and then I will come back to you because I need to charge my phone and show you the end result well it's the end of a very productive day I'm not quite sure what I filmed and what I haven't filmed actually we had a disaster at the front garden the fence fell down so I went to help Richard who was trying to hold it up single-handedly but I left this camera filming nothing for over an hour and then my camera had died or the battery had died so it was all like a I don't know what's together but let me show you what I did achieve I've planted Edie's hydrangea I've put it there which I think will look very pretty I don't even know what it is I think it's a limelight could be a little lime not sure and then as we pan over you can see what I've done here is I took the lavender which was at the either side of this chair and I had been saying for a while it was in two lines either side of the chair a line of it was there a line of it was there and I've been wanting to move it so now what I've done I've used it over there I'll show you close up in a moment but here are the two Ilex stokes so I've just planted them in there I don't know that they're going to last to be honest here's a close-up they're not looking so good but anyway we'll leave them in there see what happens and yes so a close-up of the lavender I think it looks all right I don't know how happy the lavender will be here I've just watered it lavender doesn't like water as you know but I've watered it because I've replanted it so hopefully it will perk up we shall see I think it's the best of a bad situation I need to uncover the stepping stones they're supposed to be able to see the stepping stones but I'm worn out everyone worn out and I did repot some of the pelargoniums which are now in the cold frame greenhouse there's the three piceas waiting to be replanted here's the new window box and I decided in the end I didn't plant daffodil bulbs in I was going to put daffodil bulbs as well but I don't think I could have planted them deep enough to be honest so I left those had a little tidy up and a sweep here are the other carexes now they've all just been watered so they're all a little droopy but I think this looks nice for autumn and I can always switch it out again with maybe more begonias these begonias are still looking wonderful and over here finally in the cold frame we have all the pelargoniums are potted yes so at the moment I have the latches or the windows open there so I'll have to keep an eye on the frost and that's it goodness busy I hope I've got something filmable to show you but doesn't it look pretty in the late afternoon sunshine I hope you've enjoyed this video today I hope I've got some footage to show you because I'm not so sure what's been filmed and what hasn't but fingers crossed and it's been a beautiful day today here in the garden so I hope you're having fun in your autumnal gardens and I will see you soon I'm Jeanette I'm the Enthusiastic Gardener take care everyone and see you next week bye