Planting Ground Cover, Herbs, Zinnias & A Miniature Ficus 🌸🌺

hello everyone is DTE here enthusiastic Gardener I've got some lovely things to do today these are I said at the end of my last video that over by my blue chair over there I'm going to get some ground cover and I listened to your suggestions as well so these are just some of the ground well they're not some of them they are the ground cover that I'm going to be planting today this however is is Apple mint oh it smells Divine absolutely Divine and this is going over in Woodland Courtyard in my new little hedgehog planter and then for the little bird planter another smell I cannot resist oh my gosh I cannot get enough of basil and you call it basil over in America we call it basil oh it's divine I made the mistake of leaving this tray on the ground over there forgetting that snows and slugs do like things like this but fortunately it appears to be unscaved so I'll go through these gorgeous selections when I come to plant them I also have some Zenia seeds that I'm going to direct sew in my two Planters which are just over there which you can't see but I'm going to give that a try should take 12 to 14 days to germinate so plan B is of course Bonia I'm also going to plant up a birthday gift for my wonderful friend Tina it's her birthday Monday which is today when you see her so she might end up watching the video before she gets her gifts but then hopefully she'll see the love and care and attention that I've put in it that's very pretty which I'll show you in a moment and tinette looks after lty and she looked after Lucy as well when we had Lucy Miss Lucy so much he been different without Lucy Lucy was um so a little bundle of fun and uh she was a very quirky little character lty is adorable of course Lotty is far sensible dog faithful by my side Lucy was rather more scatty she's very missed I must say let's go of is present and the little hedgehog and the little bir bir and then we can uh get on with everything else so let's head over to Woodland Courtyard and this is Tina's present it's a ficus tree it's called Ficus kumani which I thought is really beautiful and the little stem as well reminds me of my braided Willow now you can over here in England I'm in a equivalent of a hardiness us Zone 8 so we can leave these outside throughout the summer but they can be house plants as well we would have to take this in in the winter they like light sunlight but they don't really want direct light on or direct sun onto their leaves which may burn so they're good in a kind of a dappled shade shelter position but still a bright place and then it's going in this pot which I bought which I thought was very nice so put it in there yes this is new did buy something else for Woodland Courtyard and I also have a little fairy where have I put the fairy there's the fairy and we have a little fairy to go in Tina's pot as well thought I could make her a little seat either with these rocks or perhaps this little twig that I have so we'll figure that out when we've done the rest but that's her little fairy Tina does like Fairy Gardens and things [Music] oh oh [Music] so when lty and I sit on our little chair in Woodland Courtyard as we quite often do we can smell basle and we can smell mint before we go on to the next thing I'd like to to show you uh a little clip of what happened last night so I thought I'd give you a little update on the the lamp shades which are the white balls which I put fairy lights in thanks to your suggestions this one on the left oh there it popped on I was going to say the one on the left always comes on first and then shortly after the one on the right so they've been very pretty and you can see we have some strange things hanging on the line this is part of the chair building process which Richard has started so if you remember we are making or he is making four chairs in the style of this one we bought you see the black two ends for each chair we bought eight ends and we spray painted the mall well we spray painted four last weekend and we ran out of paint so we ordered some more and today while I was at work Richard sprayed the other four these are the slats which are going to be the part that you sit on and they're hanging on the line because he painted them with varnish and so now they're drying and I'm facing this way because any minute now the light should come on right over here oh there we go perfect timing so that's the solar lights over that side and we're going to leave those wooden slats hanging all night because it's been such a beautiful day we're not expecting any rain so there you go update on my lights I've decided that I'm going to try these zenas beautiful zeners which are zinderella Peach very gorgeous grow about 30 in tall up there perhaps I'm going to put them in this planter and also the matching one at the other side which does have the climbing rows which was drastically pruned last week but there are tiny little buds forming so I think it's okay we'll keep that in there we'll add these to it so you just need to um sew them it says 12 in apart but I think I'll do 6 in apart and uh germination should be about 7 to 14 days and they should flow July August September October hopefully look really beautiful I just need to take all these weeds out tidy up the soil add some nice fresh soil make it all beautiful and then we can plant some zenas [Music] well I didn't even move the gravel well let's just see how strong senia seeds are let's see what happens and obviously I'll keep you updated and if it doesn't go according to plan then it's Bonia I think bonus now it's time for the m main event of the day which is the planting of the ground covers and here they are I have four different plants and two of each and they're going to go around here I just wanted to tell you all with great joy that I have weeded as I said I would all the way around the edge so everything is now very nice and tidy for a little while at least least and I did all the way around the edge tided it up and each plant as well kind of if it needed something doing then I did but I haven't finished yet because Shady Corner that's the last bit and my aliums are I reckon in a couple more days they will be glorious oh and one quick side note my chili and potato tree has flowered so that's pretty obviously it's very small at the moment and the honeysuckle which I planted last week's video that's doing well as well and also the clematitis which I moved last week which was is called ice blue that's flowered that's very pretty and my Ros is schneit chin Rose just beginning to open and there's so many buds on that that's going to look wonderful here we are this is my selection we have now these are all Hardy down to - 10 10° C and I know you like the fahrenheit so I'll put that on the screen cuz I can never convert I know how to convert upwards for example this is my trick if it's 10° C what you do you double it and add on 29 so 10° CSUS would be 59 F or for example 18° C that would be double it 36 65° F so that's the way I know but when it's a minus I'm not sure that it works the same they all like full sun as well this one is called a golden thyme beautiful scent lemon lemon scented is a year round Carpe in foliage and it has tiny pink flowers in June and July so that will be nice and then this one is another timeing it's called a silver posie I just thought oh smells so nice I just thought that uh it would be nice to have nice smells around a seat seating area full sun they're all full sun so they like the hot weather and the cold weather what could be better than that one is another time giving myself lots of time it does smell gorgeous this one is called a fox Le and this one again minus 10 this has purple pink flowers in June and July again likes well drained soil beautiful so three lovely times and a bonro and auga and I did have three augas right over the other side but they died on me this one is oh this is the m - 20 hard is - 20° C they like full sun as well this one is called a black scallop your suggestion this was why don't I try creeping flocks so yes we've got a McDaniel's cushion full sung again again Hardy down to -20° C and S pink flowers in May and June beautiful so we're going to have have all these beautiful Ground Covers around the chair so that's how I think I'll have them we've got them about a foot apart and then I've gone under the seat as well and then over the back there's another one so that should look nice [Music] is a golden hour just so beautiful the last bit of sunshine of the day I've enjoyed my day of planting today it's been such a beautiful weather we finally headed into some warmth thank goodness and I hope you are too but I've enjoyed doing this little area and I hope you're having fun in your Gardens wherever you may be I'm Janette I'm the enthusiastic Gardener take care everyone thank you for watching bye