Part 3 - Tina’s Garden Design & Makeover 🌺🌺🌺

Hello everyone, it's Jeanette here and Tina. We are back finally in Tina's garden. With a new haircut. New haircut, yes. We're back in Tina's garden and it's been three months. We've had the whole of the winter off, haven't we? But a lot has happened during that time, not by us but by Keith. By Keith, yeah. So there has been some progress made and we are back today and we are so excited. We have a whole list of things that we need to do. So let's just have a quick recap of what's been done over the winter and then we'll show you what we're doing today. Yes, okay. So you can see what's been done was initially we had all grass along here and Keith, throughout the winter, he has extended the patio so now you can walk even in bad weather. You'll be able to walk all the way around to access the garage which is amazing. And then of course you can access the pond and the pond's looking good. You'll also see that the pond filter which was here is now no more so we already have a cocktail corner. The pond filter has been moved over there. We've also taken away the waterfall for the moment because what's going to happen, and Tina and I have just done this, we've removed all the bricks and I'll show you a picture of what that looked like before so you can see what that looks like there. And this morning we've removed all the bricks, all the slate which is now stored over there because there's some nice pieces here so if we could utilize them we will. So we've just done that and the waterfall is going to come from this direction over this side but that's Keith needs to just change all the pipework and then that's probably another day we will put that together and make that look nice and we can plant all this. There were loads of big rocks which if you have a look over here we have put here because we are going to create or give it a go anyway we're going to create a rockery garden along this side. That's what we've been up to this morning before we started the filming but today we have put dead center of the cabin which is the center of the garden we've just put a stake, we've tied a piece of string and as you know we're having curved eddies aren't we Tina? Yes so that's going to come around here to this side yeah and all that in inside is going to be grass and all this is going to be flowerbed yeah and then on the other side come around here. Oh just a bit of sunshine to there perfect that's what we're going to do now some spray paint and we're going to do that now got the semi-circle shape yeah what do you reckon? I think that's okay like that and it's a mirror thing isn't it yeah so it's precision and Tina I think that'd be uh yeah that'd be fun that'd be nice actually this is Tina's side brilliant no no I'm resting you're resting yeah yeah we have dug the lines as you can see on both sides so we're going to tidy this up and then we're going to focus on creating the most beautiful rockery over there so that is what's happening next we've made a start on the rockery and what we've done is we've chosen the flat rocks which have got a flat side and a flat top and similar ones as similar as we could find dug those in and then we've back filled it with soil and we've covered in because these rocks some of them do go out much further but we're covering them forward so you only get a glimpse of the rocks so now we're on to the second layer and we've just filled in with soil which was just from this pile here and the bits that we took out there and so we're going to do another level now now here we are with the second row done I'm not showing actually doing it because it's a lot of taking things out putting them in digging them down and then along here we've got a low flat don't know if that's coming out but that is all flat and then we're going to do the same for behind this row it will be all flat so we just need to fill that in I am conscious of the fact that you're not supposed to put soil around trees tree trunks I do appreciate that but I think with all the tree any tree can handle that it's these conifers hedges so what we're going to do now is not be quite so precise with the bricks that are around the back because we've got so of not bricks by the time we raise this bit up a bit you're only going to see the top of them yes we've still got this much which is surprising how how it is has been very helpful hasn't it it's very helpful but what we're hoping to do is finish this rockery today always dogs all barking this is a behind Tina's fences is a pathway that leads to a lovely big park so there's a lot of dog walkers along and I suppose as one dog meets another there can be a little altercations little update so we are ready for the final row this is what it looks like and we've gone round the back as you can see if I scramble around here we're not so worried about what these rocks look like and we're going to put another couple of rocks on the top then fill in one more time but that's it so far well we are finished day six of gardening I've never built a rockery before I've watched many many a YouTube video of how to do it but everything's harder than you imagine so I think it's looking good there is a gradient as you can see if I put that there you can see it does go up probably about 18 inches something like that I think we've made huge improvements at the end of day six gardening hello we are back in Tina's garden and it's now day seven of gardening while we've been away for a whole week things have happened beautiful waterfall is as you can see cascading and it looks amazing and he's done all the pipe work and everything so it looks wonderful then he said this wall here so he's going to continue that round round to there so he's asked us not to do anything in he has dug out all the bricks that whole row of bricks is now gone and along here this is going to be useful which we'll tell you about as time goes on and the other thing we've done we've got step ladders and precariously leaning against hedges on long ladders and we've kind of trimmed off around these edges right there bits that were sticking out on the top and around there so that's where we are at the moment now Keith's just had another good idea which we're going to do he's decided more planting room which can't argue with that but he's decided that he's going to take away this square here and we can use this for our project over there which with the other slab which i mentioned but we're going to have a go at taking this out and literally just moving it that way so that's the plan and that's what's happening next Robin he's been hanging around all day hasn't he look bless bless him oh he's gonna have a lovely time so there's loads of worms there he thinks it's his birthday so that as you can see has created quite a lot more planting space so that's brilliant we have such beautiful plants don't we we went out shopping last we have come across the most gorgeous plants and we were looking for shade loving plants which is what this area needs it does get a bit of sun doesn't it yeah in the afternoon let's go through them all yeah and then we'll plant them because that's probably going to be a lot of moving around and everything but there are some gorgeous plants got to place them beautiful this is a hellebore called ivory prince we have three different brunneras so we've got alexandria and jackfrost looking glass i love brunnera and i said to tina you just have to so we've got some different varieties of ferns which we thought probably we put in the back and polystichum two polystichums it's beautiful all beautiful this is a lovely one this is called esplenium esplenium that's gorgeous then we have hookah as i said you have to have hookahs because of the beautiful color so another one they're loving this is called peach flambe peach flambe timeless night timeless night so that's those oh yes avinca minor stunning we've got two of those called illumination what was this one or beginia beautiful beautiful beginia another bingham minor and alba and alba and a valentine we've got loads beautiful this is the lamium this will spread tina this would get really big yeah lovely lovely and then this hookah is called ginger ale tiarella i've never had a tiarella but when i was googling about what plants go in the shade this is one that came up tiarella lovely pink spires anemones anemones yes anemones so we've got a couple of different varieties of those more lamium and another hookah called lime marmalade i've got a lime marmalade yeah it's lovely and we have another tiarella a pink sky rocket and another anemone and another anemone and these are just lovely all of them aren't they they are they're gorgeous they're gorgeous so what i think we'll do is place them all yeah and show you at the end yep wonderful so here we are we've placed everything all according to height and color and we think it looks beautiful don't we tina so let's get planting we have finished the planting it's beautiful isn't it tina gorgeous it's beautiful so we've got anemones those little ones at the back they will grow the tallest so they're going to be even three feet and then we try to do the heights appropriately and we have hookahs everything will fill in so much and then along the front there we have the lamium that's going to carpet the whole front and then these finca miners as well we have one at each end then you can see we have hookahs and we have the little tiarellas the most gorgeous hellebore that's just stunning really really pretty so one little area is done i just had to re-dig this edge because it was bugging me coming from there like that so i've just re-dug from the corner i think it looks yeah so i just had to do that but i think oh this is uh bow hello bow hello bow are you a good boy yes you are so here it is there as well do you want to do more or we run out of steam i think we've run out of steam yeah i think we've run out of steam right we are worn out yes very busy we're going to have tea and chocolate muffins chocolate muffins but we're so pleased with this beautiful rock garden i think it looks stunning and it's only going to get better and better as the years progress yes so thank you so much for watching we have lots more planned thank you next week so come back and see what we are up to next week we are nearly there i reckon within a month within a month this is all going to be done so thank you for watching i'm Jeanette and i'm Tina the Enthusiastic Gardener and Tina is also an Enthusiastic Gardener well she's getting there yeah we'll see you soon thanks for watching bye