‘Golden Falls’ Redbud, ‘Ever Red’ Loropetalum & Other Beauties 🌺

Hello everyone, it's Jeanette here, Enthusiastic Gardener. It's been a little while since we've been in my garden here in Langdon Hills in Essex because we've been so busy doing Tina's garden makeover which has been an incredible amount of hard work but very very exciting. Now I don't know when you'll see this video because we are still in the middle of doing her garden but I wanted to do a couple of things here so I thought I'll do those film them and then perhaps should there be any delay in the weekly videos from Tina I could slot this one in but hopefully there won't be and then I'll put this in at the end even though today is actually Monday the 7th of April it's a beautiful spring day and actually if I leave it too long you won't see all my beautiful daffodils which are looking amazing so I wanted to show you quickly how all the bulbs are looking and then I have some beautiful plants which I've bought today this morning from a wonderful nursery near to me called Hillcrest which is where we've bought all of Tina's plants they're just amazing and I didn't want them all to go before I got back to my garden so I had to go along this morning and snap them up so let's have a quick look at my garden and then I'll show you the area that needs a little bit of a revamp in my opinion and I'll show you what I've bought and we'll put them in and yes so I'm excited to do that let's go and have a look quickly around the garden I just wanted to show you all my daffodils because they've been so gorgeous and they still are we've had some early bloomers which have already gone mid bloomers and there will be some late ones as well very very nice I did plant a lot of tulips but for some reason although they're beautiful I chose white and they kind of blend in with the daffodils so mental note for next year I think what I'd like to do is have more colour such as I have in the front garden I've planted vibrant colours and they look so so cheerful so I think I'll do that here some orange and some reds that would be nice but they've been very beautiful so last year when I had 10 groupings of 10 different varieties one group for each variety for a couple of years but last year I dug them all up and replanted them all randomly so it's been fun look at that isn't that beautiful it's been fun to see them popping up I just wanted to show you all my daffodils and we also have buds on the cherry tree that's going to burst into life over the back there I have an apple tree that has blossoms on and then around here for the first time ever in the history of this garden this pear tree has blossoms so we'll have some pears this year excitement that tree was twice the size I've cut it there it went up goodness so tall and I chopped it in half but we have lots of pretty buds everywhere pulmonary is beautiful and of course the brunnera so I just wanted to show you very quickly my pretty daffodils this corner is looking a little bit bare but I did have blue star junipers around here but I took them out yesterday and they were looking a little bit some had gone brown so I gave them a good spruce up took all the brown off and I've moved them I've already planted two new heucheras in fact Tina bought me those thank you very much Tina so that's my beautiful color so yes we have their gaps which I'm about to fill and my lovely new camerops I was calling it a chamerops in the video all the way through the video and it's a camerops I don't know so let me show you the plants that I have bought for this rather bare area this is my first beauty now I already have a beautiful forest pansy red bud which was planted two years ago which is right behind me Cercis canadensis is a forest pansy red bud this will be its second year just about to burst into life and flower the buds are just arriving that has been beautiful I loved it so much that I wanted another one and this one is called a golden balls and I put a picture on it because obviously at the moment it's just sticks so it doesn't look so magnificent it will have beautiful flowers in May and then these leaves are beautiful golden leaves and they're heart shaped prefers for some you've pruned after flowering I'll look all that up probably check out Jim Putnam's YouTube he's bound to have a video on one of these so I'll look at that and it's going to be interesting foliage and I think that the colors will complement my green pox that's over there which graduates into different colors of green then for the base I have these beautiful finca minors well they like full sun or partial shade or full shade so you know you can't go wrong with that they are ground cover carpet spreading they'll grow about half a meter in height did I mention the blue flowers but they were spread out up to about a meter so I have three I'm going to dot those around the edge I think they'll be beautiful and finally my contrasting color plant it's a loripetalum loripetalum here it is we've gone for a lollipop shape which I love a lollipop shape standard standard shape this one is called ever red and it's just beautiful this beautiful contrast as you can see look at the difference and I always try to follow the principle of using red yellow green and blue in the garden it just makes apparently each different color stand out if you just like a little bit of color you may have noticed so this one it likes full sun and or semi-shade so this is going to be in the full sun area and what else it's evergreen it is hardly down to minus 10 celsius so should it ever get lower than that which it doesn't really but I can always put shade cloth on it likes a little bit more of a sheltered position I think this will be fine so they are my beautiful new plants which I'm delighted with and let's put them in I left my fork I forgot my fork is at Tina's so I had to use the spade I don't have an auger augers and I don't really get on that well but I've dug the holes I'm always forgetting I was going to put the loripetalum further back but I forgot there used to be a pond all of this area used to be a big pond which came right out around here and everything and I forget that they're still concrete so it's going to have to come forward a little bit but I think that will look nice and yeah dug the holes I'm going to put a little bit of my slow release fertilizer in each hole which is just I don't recommend any particular one this is just the one I have a big tub of gromo balance nutrients for all garden plants just sprinkle some of that in I'm not adding any extra soil because Monty Don says you shouldn't because if you make it too comfortable for your plants they won't stretch out the roots will just stay where they are won't make any effort to go searching for better goodness so I'm not putting any in and that's going there make sure it's straight halfway planted I'm going to give it a little bit of water and we only want to plant it as high as it already is in its pot we don't want to mound the soil up any higher I think it's straight we'll take the tags off so Richard couple of my little clips there and also along the golden falls as you can see well it's an hour later and I just have to move it the red bud I've got to move it it's bothering me because here it looks fine but as you see as you come this way it's going to block all my pot yeah see if you look from this direction it's wrong isn't it needs to go that way so I'm only moving it literally a foot there it is now it's going there there's my pile of soil but I think it will just bug me otherwise I think for the sake of 20 minutes extra it was worth moving it I think it's going to look beautiful let me see if I can put a fake golden falls right there so you can see my vision but as we move around this way before when it was forward a foot by this point you couldn't see the pot and imagine when it has all the leaves it would definitely have covered it up but now I'm really pleased it's difficult it's difficult it's just twigs at the moment but I'm so pleased do you ever do that you put something in and you just you might as well just move it oh do you ever do that I mean it seems like for a foot oh can you be bothered especially when you've just done a lot of planting and you it's pretty exhausting planting let's face it but uh it was bugging me and I think it's bugging you it's better to do it now than in like a couple of months time when it's rooted in so I am very happy I don't know when you'll see this video but as I say at the moment it is the 7th of April my April budget is already spent so I've got to wait till May till there's any money left in the coffers or anything else I hope you've enjoyed this video I'm Jeanette I'm the Enthusiastic Gardener thank you so much for joining me have fun in your gardens happy spring and I will see you soon thanks for watching bye oh so pleased I did that