Zone 8 English Garden || How My Garden Changed In One Year 🌺🌺🌺

Hello everyone it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener. Now I think I'm giving myself a week weekend off of gardening, a week off, but I have something very exciting to show you instead because in January, back in January, nearly a year ago now, I decided that I was going to film the garden on the last day of every month and I've kept that up. I've done a little mini garden tour every day on the last day of every month and I was going to put it all together in one big montage which is what I'm going to show you today. So it's been a really good year in the garden and yes you've been a good girl too. So without further ado, yes without further ado, yes do you love mommy? You do? Here's my garden from December 2022 up until now. I hope you enjoy it. Gardens never look at their best in January do they? But I think if we have some evergreens it always brightens things up and a little bit of winter interest. Oh yes in a year's time I think the yucca will be gone unless a miracle happens and I hope my hebe survives. Doesn't look promising at the moment. And here we are and it's the last day of February and we have the first of our daffodils which is most exciting. I have a few, actually I've been very busy out here. I have planted, replanted. Good morning to you. I've replanted, transplanted and planted loads of bits and pieces. Still hanging on to the hebe just in case don't hold out much hope. You may remember all the way back to February I was searching for blue, blue foliage and this is the first of my beautiful blue foliage plants. Pungens, super blue seedling, a beautiful, beautiful blue conifer. Do you remember I did my three ball topiary? That's still okay. A little glance around but let me show you this section beginning to wake up. The bronneras, the bronneras are looking gorgeous, very tiny still and there's one over there, two over there. The ferns, wonderful. I've ordered caladium bulbs so I'm going to put caladium bulbs in between for a bright pop of colour. Over here we have the Norway spruce which I've chopped the top off. I don't think this Norway spruce is going to last very long in my garden but this is magnificent. It is my Picea pungens hoopsii and that is, I don't know if the colour's coming out, very good on this video but it is blue as blue can be and I've planted lots of things, transplanted lots of things. I've been moved around to accommodate the new bees. I finally moved the David Austin rose which is over there. We have these new little additions here. There's another there. Moved this, this little pedestal thing over to here. That's my juniper rocky mountain and that is another of my blues. Tidied up, moved the hydrangea which was in the hospital garden over there. That's my little Acer little princess which was over by my new little fountain in the corner. I thought it would deserve some more sunshine and here is the other blue. Very, very pretty with these wonderful candles and it's like two-tone, green on one side and blue on the other. That is, let me get this right, my Pinus van der Wolf's pyramid. So I've been busy in February. Here's an overview. Daffodils all coming up. I look forward to seeing what it looks like a month's time. And here we are today, the last day of March. I have lots and lots of daffodils which is wonderful. I have not got a lot of new plants to share because they're all buried underground. I planted this month bare-rooted perennials from Farmer Gracie. So we have Breeders Mix Geraniums and we have Cupid Veronicastrum, the purple Veronicastrum and then we have Echinacea, Sweet Meadow Mama I think it's called. The plum tree, plum tree, not only is it beginning to bud but for the first time we have flowers. Little flower buds which, well I'm assuming, I'm no expert but I'm assuming that means we're going to get some plums. That will be very exciting. I'm going to move this rose and the other rose which is in the distance and they're all going to join my current row at the back of the fence. I'm hoping to do that this weekend because I think a row of roses, my rose wall, that's what I would call that. One thing that I did was plant these little little free Carex. Now something every morning is digging out my Carex. As you can see this morning this one here has been dug out and we suspect, look, we suspect magpies. Heucheras putting on lots of lovely vibrant colour already and the Brunneras are beautiful, those beautiful Brunneras. Oh this is a sadness, can you see on the right hand side of my Fatsia looks like, looks like that's dying so that's a bit of a shame. We'll have to think of a solution for that because I love that Fatsia and Alliums are on their way. Oh tulips, they'll be next and some of the daffodils are very sadly beginning to fade. But that's the garden at the end of March 2023. Don't know if that is going to survive. We may have to get used to the view without that. I'm mentally preparing myself. Anyway we shall see, that's the end of March 2023, April tomorrow. Well it's April and we have the April showers. They do say April showers, May flowers, so I'm not complaining. And here we are on the last day of April 2023. The biggest change of course is the Lemon Cypresses are no more. We took them out because well they died, simple as that, they were dying. The daffodils have gone now, we're left with lots of beautiful tulips and it's been a very very wet month I have to say, very wet month, but things are looking good. The Plum tree, we have these gorgeous, gorgeous little flowers on the Bay tree which I've never had before. And generally things are looking very nice. I've planted quite a bit of Lungwort, Pulmonaria, Shady Corner is just looking gorgeous basically because of, I keep coming back to it, but as well as the Bleeding Hearts Dicentra which have all come out now, is the beautiful Bronnera. We did the Hostas in Pots, so they've been added. The slugs have found this one and a little bit on that one, but all in all things are looking very very pretty out here in April. We have a new rose, the King Charles Coronation as we're celebrating, that's over there. The Pyrrhus Forest Flame, that was redder, it's beginning to pale and the Heucheras are looking very colourful. Everything's looking very nice. The Virginia Red Robin is beginning to go a little darker red, that was very very vibrant. It's beginning to go a little bit browner, it's got some flowers as well. The Erysimum with the purple flowers is just looking very nice. The roses you can see, as I say, the tulips are so pretty, very pretty. What else is new? Ah yes, this is my new favourite, the Pink Crispy. This is the petunia which we planted. This is unusual, first for me. This is an apple and it has blossoms, well that's exciting. We have some happenings on the faccia, we have some buds here and there's one there, so I think nothing will happen there or there, so I may cut those stems off completely. We did plant these, the Picea Glauca, daisies white, and we put this on the wall as well. Carnival Corner is just corner, but yes, very nice. In April, let's see what my most favourite month will be like, which is May, tomorrow. So for the May garden, I thought let's put the lights on, let's do the May garden in dusk, because it's 9.30 at night and it's still well, almost daylight. Pelargonium Contrast, which I've just planted, but it's all about the Alliums in May. And we have the planters, the Strawberries and Cream mix of planters, looking very lovely. The Santana Rose has just begun to bloom, another planter. It's been a very cold month, May. We have cherries on the Stella Cherry. We even have, for the first time in history, in this garden, plums on the Stella Cherry. The plum tree, this is a Victoria plum, a plum, a plum or two. This plant here is my new Emu bush, which I've just planted. We have the Lobelia Circle. Lobelia bush has been planted all the way around the edge and that is beginning to look very good. We have Adugas just up here, three different varieties of Aduga, so that door can now open and close freely with nothing in the way. We have the Lobelia all the way around the edge. We have new Pelargoniums here and we have a wonderful addition, the Circis canadensis, Forest Pansy Redbud, my new beautiful addition. Over in Shady Corner, the ferns, I've taken off all the old foliage, so this foliage that you can see here is all new this year and another excitement is the rhododendron is blooming. So all in all, the wonderful month of May, very, very colourful and I think June will be roses. There's Lottie doing her evening walkabout. That's what I meant when I said that I have a foot of concrete all the way along the back and that's the little dog run and there you can see in evidence the little dog run. Last day of June and we have jazzed up this little area with my painted snout, two tortoise and some lamium, which hopefully will do very well. But here is the June garden, nice and colourful, mostly the colour is coming from Pelargoniums, which are all doing very well. We have salvia as well, which is looking lovely at this time of year. It's been very hot the last couple of weeks and the most exciting development is my new window box, which did have dahlias in, but I didn't realise how hot this area got, so unfortunately the dahlias were getting rather fried. The blue fescues and the carex have been moved. Other things that have been moved are my Ilex crenata, cloud pruned is now there, and my three ball topiary is now here. I have a lovely new cotinus, young lady, that plant there, smoke bush. It has been confirmed that this is in fact a ninebark and probably the lady in red. Shady corner has the fountain now, which I think looks very pretty. I have a lovely new wind chime as well. The blue bush lobelia is filling in all the way around the circle, very needy, it wants water all the time, so I'm a slave to the lobelia. Little salvia dotted just over this corner over here, and another one down there. So there we are, the June garden, beautiful roses, although I've deadheaded the first flush. We have some white ones over in the distance. It has been a very wet month, July, but the garden has loved it. You can see over in the distance the cat has moved because I've had a few changes around here. First of all, my beautiful new fountain. I've planted up this area, we have some dianthus along the bottom here, over the back is scabiosa, to the left of that is some gara, everything's looking a little bashed in the rain at the moment. Then we have over in the distance verbena bernarensis, some hardy geraniums, and amongst all that we have pelargoniums, which I'm waiting for those to flower. So that's what I've been up to in July. As well as this area, I've cleared it quite a lot, and I have my beautiful new pot from Tunisia, which I'm just loving, and that's my new project. We'll be planting that up. I've yet to find what I'm going to put in there, but we have a buddleja, Miss Ruby, another salvia, and here we have a stochysia. It's from the Aster family, and very shortly I'm hoping for some blue blooms from that. The crocosmia is looking very nice around the cat, that's opened up, and I very much like the look of that. It's quite a blustery day today, as you can tell from the wind chimes. Not much has changed in this area, and I must just point out in particular how beautiful the veronicastrum is looking, and as you can see the bees love the veronicastrum. Everything's filling in, and everything has very much enjoyed all the rain. I particularly like these white begonias. Begonias are, with pelargoniums, I think my favourite annual. The lamium, round by the snail, well I had to raise the snail up because it's just doing so well, and the snail was disappearing, so it's now sitting on a couple of bricks, and the carex pups, which were there originally, are now very happy and doing well there, and I also divided carex, which was over by the fountain, so we have some carex dotted around here and there, as you can see, that seems to be doing well. We have some more down there and over there, and then the window box, which now has begonias. Begonias seem to be perfect for sun and shade, so that's my garden in July, and let's see what August brings. Well, we have reached the end of August. The last day of August is today, and it's been another quite a wet month, August, so the garden has quite enjoyed that. Pelargoniums have been very beautiful, and I've planted up my container garden, finally, which I'm very happy with, and I think it looks very, very nice, very beautiful, and very colourful. So in the pot we have a euonymus green spire with some ivy, and then we have Ilex canata stokes around the base of the pot, and also some juniper blue stars, you can see the blue tinge, and I'm very happy with how the colours complement each other. This is the stokesia, which is blooming, and so I'm very happy with that. We've got a second flush on the roses, still some more buds. Here's a view of Shady Corner at the end of August. The ferns are just spectacular, and of course the brunnera, and hydrangea venetifreys has turned pink, and we have pink tinges on the autumn seed and joy, and as you can see the bees are loving it, and the window box has done well. The begonias, that is one begonia, the pink one. Spectacular. So there we are, the garden full of bees and pollinators, I don't know if you can see that. Last day of August. It's the last day of September. The leaves haven't yet started to fall, but it won't be long, and we lost this tree yesterday. The neighbours came and took the tree down, and I'm wondering if these are to follow. We no longer have our rattan furniture, we sold that on Facebook Marketplace, and I am loving the view of all the plants, which we've never seen before really. Well that furniture was there, it covered up pretty much all of that, so that's a lovely surprise, and we have found chairs that we are going to restore, or Richard I say we. This is particularly beautiful on my lovely autumnal nandina. No frosts as yet, the Cercis canadensis is turning some very beautiful autumnal colours, and the Aralia alata is about to lose its leaves. We have spectacular colour. Now I've always called this Cedum Autumn Joy, but one of my wonderful viewers said, I think you have Neon Joy, so I have to get used to the Cedum Neon Joy, but this month, this month, my crowning, crowning glory has been the restoration of this corner, and the creation into woodland courtyard, which I am just loving. So we have beautiful ferns, and a lot of whimsy, and I've given everything a really, really good tidy up, and a paint, everything has had a paint. We moved the Fatsia spider's webs from the front to here. I have my wonderful restored woodland courtyard chair, beautiful fern collection from Mark Border, which I've been delighted with. So all in all, September has been a wonderful month in my garden. We had some quite warm weather, and a few changes. Let's see what October brings. Last day of October, Halloween, Halloween everyone, the stick of Halloween, and we have some leaves, but they're still there. Oh my goodness. So here's the garden at the end of October, pretty colours on the surface, very nice, and we had some sadness over here, because I lost my arlick stokes, which were around the green container, so we now have lavender instead. So we'll see how that does, and the lavender came from this area over here, was either side of the chair, so it was just there, just there. I've repotted some of my pelargonium, so we'll see how they do. These have been amazing, they've been in for nearly six months, so seven little plants, wonderful. Definitely autumn, and the clock's changed last week, so we're getting home in the dark, we're getting up in the dark. Winter is on its way, on the last day of October. We have one more month, and then I will have filmed every month for a year. And here we are at the end of the annual garden tour, at almost the end of November. Last week I took out all my pelargoniums, and I've stored them in the paper bag method. I want to take out my crocosmia over there now, cut back the salvia, I've got that to do, but everything's looking nice. The leaves are still firmly on the trees, so I'm still waiting for those to fall. I haven't really done any leaf clearing at the moment. It's very cold today, very cold. It's been a very nice gardening year. There's the crocosmia close up that I'm going to take out. So that's a whole year in my garden from December round to November. I hope you enjoyed that video, and it has been a very, very good gardening year. I still have lots more to do, I'm not saying it's the end of the gardening year. Oh no, it's just today it's so cold, we've got dog haircuts. Lottie doesn't know yet. Yes, she's walking away, she's just realised. So I'm going to be involved with all that. Tomorrow on Sunday is supposed to pour down again, so I thought perfect opportunity to show you a year in my garden. I haven't even started to chip away at all my autumn tidying jobs, but I'm having a weekend off. I hope you're having fun in your gardens. I'm Jeanette, I'm The Enthusiastic Gardener. Thank you so much for joining me and I will see you soon. Take care everyone, bye.