We Are Back In The Garden! And Here’s Why We’ve Been Away 😊

hello everyone it's Janette here from enthusiastic Gardener I'm back it's been a very long time so apologies there so much has happened you may remember my last video with with the wonderful Richard we did a a mad collaboration of singing and piano playing and Christmas nest and it was all fun well a week later Richard was on the train up to London the weekend before Christmas to meet his brothers I was down with my mom taking her to lunch before she went away for Christmas I wouldn't see her and I got a phone call uh from paramedics or iPhone Richard paramedics answered we have uh Mr Richard Jensen with us it was very matter of fact he had a heart attack followed by Cardiac Arrest he had the defibrillators twice uh they took him to Bart's Hospital which is one of the major heart hospitals uh they fitted a a stent to him mson medication for ever more and he has uh fractured ribs and fractured sternum from the CPR because uh you can't perform proper CPR unless you actually get to the heart and to do that you have to fracture the ribs we've since met the wonderful wonderful couple called Emma and Matt who saved him on the tray they literally performed CPR they got the defibrillator they pulled the emergency called on the train and uh saved his life we have met them they are wonderful we're going to uh keep in touch with them we're going to take them out to dinner to thank them and and uh he had uh came home and it obviously it was you know a total lifechanging way of living uh that we had to get used to he did have a couple of setbacks he had a bad reaction to one of the um e numbers in his medication he came out total all over his face in big weeping blisters so we had to sort that problem out that was horrible then um after that uh well a couple of weeks ago he he went to golf he was walking around the course with his friend and uh he used his gtn spray glycerol nitrate spray he used it incorrectly um you spray it under your tongue if you're feeling any chest pains but you're supposed to sit and wait for 5 minutes um calm down because it opens up your blood vessels and it lowers your blood pressure but Richard didn't do that he carried on walking up an ink line he said to his friend Ron Ron don't feel so good um anyway long story short another ambulance I got another phone call just as I'm just getting used to trusting he's going to be okay when I'm not with him I get another phone call from the golf course um and another 7 hours in A&E but it turned out it wasn't his heart it was just he' used his spray incorrectly so now he knows that last Thursday he started his first of eight cardio Rehabilitation programs where he goes to have exercises and uh you know they they have every week a discussion there's a group of 10 of them discussion on different aspects like last week it was learning all about how the heart works next week I think it's going to be understanding all your medications cuz he's on loads now so that's going to be really helpful and they do exercises and and he's allowed to play golf he's supposed to do a lot of walking so that's the story of Richard but we wanted to say thank you thank you thank you because the messages we received honestly in those beginning days and throughout so uplift in oh you make me cry many times it was emotional anyway so thank you so much really really really finally another sadness which I have to tell you is two weeks today we lost a beautiful Beau sister she became un well she hadn't been well for a while she was so comical and gorgeous and lovely very very cute little dog and she became unwell and we had to make the decision to you know we had to let her go so that happened two weeks ago so it's been it's been B I wouldn't say a horrible 3 months because I feel like it's a blessing because for Richard if it was going to happen and it was going to happen it couldn't have happened in a better way in a public place people to help him he got treatment the hospital was wonderful so we do feel blessed but still it has been stressful stressful as for the garden I have only been out twice I went out sometime beginning January swept halfheartedly swept a few more moves and then about 4 weeks ago I went around and I did some cring so today is beautiful beautiful blue sky so I thought I need to get back into it and uh so I haven't done anything to show you but there's beautiful newness which I can share so we'll do that we'll have a quick Garden Tour but we need to meet the wonderful Richard because I know you all want to see him and I've spoken for far too long we need to see Daddy shall we get Daddy Let's get [Music] Daddy Let's get Daddy oops so let's go and see Richard then we can have a look at the Garden in the springtime he's in the garage so he's going to pop out this way oops set the camera here and I'll get him not the best view of my garden but there you go just coming out here he is here's [Music] Richard as you can see he's he's exercising he's been doing really well in his exercises he could do things he couldn't do before come here here he is oh sorry sorry he got a little bit of a chest here he is he's here I'm back he's back he's back he did this to me when I was sitting in the lounge a couple of nights ago I said Richard you have got to do this for everyone yeah I was practicing me Bell welcome back Richard welcome back thank you but we just wanted to say how lovely all those comments were oh lovely yes oh my goodness you you really helped us get through and we had comments from all over the world and close by and it was just amazing yes so I'm still here yes uh I've got to take it easy and uh but I started uh uh Rehab on Thursday Physio and they've told me I to play golf yes sorry no no going stage please yes so I'm back on the Golf Coast next week I have to take it easy and um the heart is doing very well uh I was in at rehab I was in the gym for an hour and I was monitoring the heartbeat and that's fine the the only painful part is where they fractured my ribs and Mis them that's the painful part but other than that I'm on the menend but it's it's an 8we course so um and then I got a couple of projects in mind in the garden and the garage which I haven't told Janette about but watch this space oh well it's lovely to have you back will you like to join us for a garden tour or do you want to go in I want to go it's cold very cold very C thank you Dar and so happy it's been a tough three months espe been challenging it's been challenging and also we lost our little one yes we lost our little lucy I did explain oh right so thank you Richard right rest assured he's still around I'm still here thank goodness blessed we're blessed we're blessed anyway yes one final thing that I need to tell you which I forgot another thing that happened or did I say it I cannot remember it's all a blur but I also I left my job I'd handed my notice in on the Wednesday before Christmas and then on the Saturday this will happened with Richard but already handed my notice in so I had to leave that job so I had to be a month there in a monthly stressful situation at home then I had to start my new job but fortunately it I returned to the place I'd been previous to the school that I just left they asked me to come back so they're all wonderful wonderful people I knew them anyway they know Richard so that made it so much easier and they are just wonderful and it's a different role I'm doing accounts I'm loving it loving it loving it I've been there I don't know if it's five weeks or six weeks but uh the best thing of all no not the best thing but one of the good things is it's three days a week so at the moment I'm doing Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays and then I have four days off so that will give me more time for gardening because it was I was thinking well all my weekends or the last four years have been taken up with gardening videos believe me it's took a lot it would be all day Saturday filming a video pretty much all day Sunday editing a video ready to upload for Tuesday and I was beginning to think I've got no life for doing anything else so now I have four days so I will be able to continue so that is amazing anyway enough talk about us thank you for your patience thank you for your wonderful messages let's have a very quick look at the Garden here's the Garden in Spring I think it's the 9th of March today and we've got a beautiful sunshine look at that but it's very chilly so we have a lot of new bulbs popping up we have uh these are tulips I believe these are aliam and yes yet again we have we had this all last year which I need to pull them all out we have syar or whatever they are the little things helicopter things that come down from the trees they all seed themselves I'm just going to do a very very quick tour because I feel like I've I've uh said enough beautiful daffodils all popping up these ones I do know they're called Colton because they're the first ones every year now these have been planted I planted them all I think it must have been 20 oh I don't know if it was 2020 Autumn or 2021 can't remember but the daffodil I always keep them in and I always pull out my tulips and my aliums I shouldn't really pull my aliums out these are going to be daffodils and they are the double fluffies these ones here and those ones at the back the little double fluffies we have the Sedum neon Joy I intend on splitting this and dotting that about these I believe are aliums I think you can tell the aliam shape is different from the Tulip shape there's tulips I mean oh that one that little bud there very very little I think that might be because either the winter wasn't cold enough or they weren't planted deep enough but I'm not worried about that these little hens I had them given to me last Christmas time and I just plunked them in the ground afterwards and they've come back I have a lot of weeds to deal with which I will get around to my lovely fats here my little ey Stokes which were around the green pot and I had to move oh it seems so long ago or this well it was I suppose um beautiful youu that's the youu the round one and next to it is the vanderwolf's pyramid or pine another Sedum I need to split through my Shadows it's not the best of days that's the pot and the what's that called a green Spire in the pot uus one of my favorite plants is uus and I have all different types and you can get different variegations the Juniper blue stars which are these around the edge they've overwintered well I'm glad to hear and they will get more blue once the Sun starts shining the hookas lots of daffodils my tracky carpers fortun ey that's another uous behind that we have the Rocky Mountain Juniper I think it's Juniper blue arrow the Nandina at the front here was oh gosh in the Autumn beautiful brilliant red and Mahonia these spikes in the depths of winter were bright yellow they were very stunning this is looking wonderful this is my Fatina pink crisy look at that that isn't that not gorgeous so you get this beautiful variegated leaves and then the new leaves are bright pink and I planted that last Easter so almost a year ago this is the first time I've seen the gorgeous pink I've pruned the Roses still haven't pulled back the Ivy from the other side of the [Music] fence which I said all year I was trying to do that we have the pear tree here with I wonder if that's blossoms oh if that's blossoms that means I might get pears I don't know or maybe it's just new leaves I'm not um really up on fruit trees really so I don't know my gorgeous hoopsy eye piscia pons hoopsy eye which I Adore we have a lots more little things popping up hookas oh I've got lovely little crocus this is their second year and I planted the little bulbs All Around The Edge so you can see lovely little crocus I mean some of them are gone now and we had some yellow ones as you can see as well this one here is a a Pisa Pon super blue seedling so it's in a got the sun on it that's lovely next to another Nandina we have the pulman areas which I planted last Easter I planted quite a few little varieties so spring is their good time and the crocosmia is the all this here which I mistakenly kept calling it Lucifer Lucifer is the red one this one is orange I don't know what it's called but uh they're popping up we'll get the little Fountain out soon Shady Corner my beloved Shady corner here we go oh the Broner the Beautiful beautiful [Laughter] brona it's looking a little bit of a mess I need to TI It Up all these ferns are called drous a finish you can see how windy it is little bit of wind um what I will do for those is I will cut off all these leaves another little pulman area beautiful I will cut off all these old Le leav because in the middle hopefully should be some new frons down the bottom somewhere this is what I did last year anyway cut all the old ones off started a fresh you can see I haven't cleared all the leaves and my beautiful little uous hedge got all different little ymous oh lotes I think someone's at the front door they're getting a bit covered but they are have now been in for 2 years and they're doing exactly what I'd hoped they would they were to replace my um boxwoods which all got eaten by the Box tree moths a couple of years ago so you can see I need to sort the leaves out I have a bit of a problem because for those who know I have uh had these leaves in these bags from a year ago it's already ready and lovely compost but the thing is it's quite heavy and I don't really want to ask Richard he's not supposed to be lifting things really so I've got to try and drag them out myself without dragging them across all this so anyway I'll figure that out it's hardly um a terrible problem apple tree we should have dentra bleeding hearts popping up soon I can't see them yet and more lovely pulman area and more [Music] brera this is my um cersi canadensis forest pansy Red Bud which I planted last summerish summertime I think so this is the first time and yes we do have his little buds there so I think that did all right the hookus down here they'll get nice and big so that's it it's done well he didn't even need my help for 3 months need to prune that road haven't done that yet the window boxes which I planted up last Autumn with some CarX just to have something in there I think what I will do is that variety and there's this variety I think what I will do is pop them in the Border somewhere so finally Woodland Courtyard which we created last year which I really do love I have plans for Woodland C Courtyard to amp it up even more ramp it up they've done well some of the ferns were deciduous and died back some of them were Evergreen as you can see the fatsia which I moved I forgot that I had bulbs in there so you can see the Fier spiders web which I moved from the front well it's got all new leaves so that's obviously happy these were the hukas that I divided last spring I think it was the walnut tree I don't know what to do about this Walnut because the jugglin this is not a black walnut it's uh but apparently black walnuts are not good to have in your garden because which is why I put them in a pot not in the garden cuz I bought it before I realized all this um well apparently it can affect other plants and I don't know this is not a black walnut but I'm still concerned that it will still have a negative impact that's why I've put it around here another lovely fatti here some beautiful ferns the fence is going needs a good paint more hukas that I divided all of these and they're all okay they've all done well and the ferns from my friend Mark border some of them are deciduous I'm assuming cuz they otherwise they've died but yes so like this do dear media I don't know if it's dyed or it was deciduous but we will see these are lots of little iies bits and pieces oh oh I have plans for those big plans cuz I need to um get them planted better wind blows that round yes so that's my garden on the 9th I believe of March so we're nearly into spring 20th 21st of March something like that little lty she is loving all the attention now she's the only girl so she's doing very well so everyone thank you for waiting for us for such a long time and uh it's going to be a good year thank you so much everyone I'm Janette I'm the enthusiastic Gardener I hope you're beginning to have fun in your garden and we're almost through the winter of course unless you're over down the southern hemisphere as I do have many friends down there hello to you all and you will be heading into your Autumn I guess and uh have a wonderful week and I will see you next week thank you everyone love you all bye