August Cottage Garden Tour Part 2 | Gardening Tips & Advice for Late Summer | What to Grow in August

Welcome to part two of our garden tour for August. When it comes to tomatoes, you can't beat these beauties. It's a variety called Gardeners' Delight and it is a delight to see these wonderful tomatoes now at this stage. We've got plenty that are still green but ready to ripen, but look at that They're turning red and look great. Look at how many we've got—Gardeners' Delight—it's done well, it's gone all the way up, it was Going over the fence, we've had to bring those back a bit because they were extending beyond the boundary. fence into the next door, and I'm sure they do appreciate some tomatoes, but we can't Let them grow like that—they're going way too much, and we need these to ripen as well. And if we keep letting them grow and grow, they won't do that as effectively. But look at how many trusses we've laid down. I remember the Italian family next door to my mum when I was growing up, and they just had everything The one thing they grew everything in the garden—even had a vine, to be honest with you. grapes, but he grew everything, and I remember bags of tomatoes he would have Give it to me, and this is the same—it's going to be like a real harvest here, so Gardeners' Delight if you haven't tried it—give it a go, and hopefully you'll have as much success. As far as I can tell, we've kept this area watered except when we were away, and it's really We've succeeded; we've got sweet peas growing around them, and sweet peas are normally quick to take off and we normally have lower tomatoes this year it's been the tomatoes that have taken off and the sweet peas have really struggled this year; it's okay, to be honest, to say don't forget that we've also had a lot of dry weather, and I think that hasn't helped either, and we I did use some farmyard manure; now this was well-rotted, and it had come from a garden centre. not too far away, and this well-rotted manure was placed in the pots that we use to grow our Sweet peas, as you know, we have sweet peas for those of you who don't know We grow our sweet peas in tall pots. Sweet peas don't like root disturbance, so we don't disturb them. roots because as soon as they're tall enough, we'll put them out soon as they're ready to go out wire, there we'll place them on the ground, just twirl them into the ground so they settle in the ground, the roots can then permeate through the base of the pot into the ground, but the sweet The peas are in the pot now. Normally, we have sweet peas that are climbing all the way up and over the In August they're literally all the way up at the top here; they haven't done as well, I don't know. Whether it was the manure, I mean, there was no smell to it, so it wasn't as though it wasn't well It's rotting there—there's just something going on, I don't know what it is, but they're not thriving there. This year we've had years like that before in the past in other gardens where sweet peas we've had Years of great successes, and then years of failures, and this year it hasn't been great. but they're still there and we still have the scent, and we can still cut them and bring them into the house, but I don't think we'll be delivering them to other people like we usually do because they just aren't feeling the love for some reason, but the tomatoes are doing great Absolutely amazing. Now my rose—this was bought from Northumberland—and my recent, our recent Visit there, and this is a rose called Sunseeker—it's a patio rose that bloomed once and is now finished. It was deadheaded, and this is its second flush of flowers—you get buds all over. The place with this beautiful rose, as I say, Sunseeker, it's well worth growing; this is in a pot. So it's in compost, it's in a pot, it does get fed and watered regularly. Obviously, roses don't like Too much water, but they're in a pot, so remember they do need water, otherwise they will dry out. frizzle up and be burned to a frazzle, they'll just dry out, so it's a really, really nice one to have Lyatris spicata is a really nice plant, Paul's favorite; it has struggled while we've been away. It seemed a bit wilted and not very happy when we came back; it's in a terracotta pot. Pottery terracotta pots also dry out more quickly, by the way, so that's something you need to keep in mind. Keep in mind that when you're watering your terracotta, it's going to dry out much quicker—this is splendid. plant; if you look at those colors, the bees love it—it just looks amazing, it's a pleasure to sit And look at this one—it's such a nice plant, and one that we definitely recommend when it comes to dahlias—we've got dahlias growing here; we've got some tips for you again. The channel is all about tips and advice and wherever we can give them, and this was filled with ants now what we did to get Get rid of the ants first; we don't use any chemicals in the garden at all, absolutely not—we do it all differently. Everything we do in the garden is humane; I wouldn't want to be an insect myself and killed. with chemicals, so I don't kill insects with chemicals, but what I can say is this: we did blast with a hose pipe, so we did blast with a hose pipe and that's helped a lot. We then used ground cinnamon, this is the tip—ground cinnamon all over the soil itself, there's all of the compost at the and then up the stems and all over, and that ground cinnamon keeps the ants off, so there Was it really working because now you can see everything is coming into its own—it was looking shocking, and now it's all coming back to life again, so it just shows you, we don't have to reach for the chemicals, um, and we can, there are other ways to do things, it's just a bit of researching on the internet, you know, we already knew what to do anyway, but I'm saying, if you're not sure about it What to do? Google it. Go online. Google. You've got AI now. We have to embrace AI. It's here to stay. And you can go to Google, type in "what do you do in this situation," and it will give you some ideas. on what to do, you know, if you want to, you know, hopefully humanely do something that's that's The best way to do it, but look at that—look at the results; they speak for themselves, really. Our helleniums. And this is helenium, and this is Helena red shades, so Helena red shades are doing really well. This container here looks great. Helenium is beautiful in the garden—you can't beat it. Time of year, who doesn't love a helenium? We've had some fatalities—I'll tell you about that later. Look at our iridium coming back; this pot has dried out a little bit as well, so I put Iridium is normally fine. Oh, look at the seeds there—yeah, it's doing its thing. This is iridium. Carvinskianis and looking really great—it's a lovely daisy-like plant that sells seeds all all over the place and just looks fantastic. Our rose here is Rhapsody in Blue, and that's giving it a second flush of flowers soon, with these lovely buds that are on there—pardon the grass in the way it's going to flower soon, I can't wait for that—honestly, you know? Because that's It's going to look absolutely amazing when it comes to geraniums; Geranium ibericum is truly lovely. It only blooms flowers once, but the flowers you do get make it well worth it. It's worth that one flush just to experience it, and I love the foliage on this one as well. After it finishes flowering, it can look a bit tired, as most hardy geraniums do. I like to give them a good trim—just grab the shears and cut them like I'm pruning a hedge. it right back to the ground they grow back and this is what's happened here and that's why the the foliage looks so fresh and so lush because it's had that cut back—it looks great, and that's what we're going for. What we want is to keep the garden looking great for as long as possible, so we don't want foliage that's all brown and dead, we want it like this Sedum matrona—you've seen that in the other part of the garden I showed you—what's different here? You might think, well, Ben's tree, Prunus nigra Looking great as always, with this lovely dark foliage adding something different to the garden. But it's not just that we've got here a cedar pushing forward— you think, well, it's obvious. It's near a tree. It's light. No, it's not. That's not the issue at all. What it is is the clump. It has filled the space even over there; it's coming forward because it's not being divided. for a while now, and the thing is, with sedums, they'll let you know—all sedums, they'll let you know when they're ready to be divided because they'll start growing outward and you'll end up with a central part of the plant that is just a crown with no foliage emerging from it and the growth is coming along and around, and that's your indication when it starts looking like that, that it's ready to be lifted—not now, not this time of year, but before spring, so during the winter we'll lift it, we'll divide it, we'll replant it, we'll put some more on or give it to someone or move it somewhere else in the garden as well, and then next year it will flower beautifully all from the base and not rising up all over the place with a dead crown in the middle, and that's The same applies to most perennials as well—geraniums will do this, other plants will do this, but sedum It's so obvious when it does, especially Sedum atrona because it's so tall—it's just these The tall, slender growths, and then that central cone—the central part, which is dead grass, is looking great. doing fantastic, favorite grass— one of my favorites is Calamagrostis × acutiflora now Calamagrostis californica didn't flower last year; it was behind, and it wasn't doing great. all but now look at it this year and that's what you're growing it for; you're not growing it for this because some people look at it and say it looks like I'm in a field, I don't like it, you're Growing it for what you see here—look how beautiful that is in a garden, absolutely fantastic. and that wouldn't look out of place; there was more space in that border, some of it being in that border towards the back or the middle as well—it'll look great in there, and that's what you can decide which plant is going to go where, as you can see it and you think if Something's not working— it's okay to change it. It's like life; you don't just keep following a path. That's not working; change it if you don't like it—change it for the job, your life, your friendships. Whatever you change, it's the same with gardening—you just change what needs changing. That is perfection; I don't want to change a thing. I think it looks perfect, and you know what? When you see it with the purple behind as well, I think that's a really good combination you've got going here. beautiful brown, and then you've got this coming up behind, and it's eupatorium, and eupatorium is a It's a really, really lovely plant—we've been growing it for years. It likes a bit of moisture, so it's one of those that will soak if it's in full sun, and it's very sunny here, but we do chuck a bucket over it occasionally and it keeps it going, and you know, to be honest, if you look at that That works well; the two colors together look at that—these flowers will die off and they will Turn to the feathery seed that will be dispersed everywhere, and every year I always say the same. Something on the channel, but I just hope it goes far and wide and other people get to enjoy this. Amazing plant because it's a really, really nice one; we did have some fatalities here. We had helium growing throughout, and unfortunately, we lost it during that time. We were away, it dried out, we lost it, and it was upsetting because Hellenium is beautiful. Lovely flowers, but you know, instead, you've just got to use it as an opportunity—we've got Echinacea in there instead and that's going to look just as amazing as what the hellenium would I've done something different, but it's going to be lovely—Echinacea magnus—and these are self-sown seedlings. that have been potted on and look at how wonderful they are—they're amazing. Also, Rebecca here. Rebecca Fulgida Goldstone, so Rebecca Fulgida Goldstone, looking great, amazing daisy-like plant And you know what's wonderful is that these go with you into autumn and winter. because you lose the flowers, you keep these beautiful cones and they change you, go even darker to this lovely black and in the dead of winter when there's nothing else going on in the garden, you look out, you walk out into the space, and you see these beautiful cones, these beautiful centers of this gorgeous plant, and you see them with a frost on, and there is nothing better than seeing frost on this plant during winter—this is one that emerges now, and you get to Enjoy this right to winter, as I say—not in this, not in the form of flowers, but in the fact that these centers you will be enjoying when winter comes, you get frost on those that Beautiful white on top—there's nothing like it, honestly, it's the best. So if you haven't grown it yet Rebecca, before you go, because that's a nice one I was talking to you about crocosmy earlier And I really like this one; I like the name, and I like the height—I love tall plants. And this is a tall one for me—it's a beautiful crocosmia, and it's Crocosmia Lucifer, lovely. vibrant red when it's in bloom, but I love the way it cascades and turns into these— it's gorgeous with all the seeds and do you know something about the columns of this, what you have to do with Crocosmia does need lifting every few years; ideally, you can lift it every few years. You'll see a series of columns, like little bulbs all attached to each other, called columns. You'll see a series of them, so the one with the most recent growth will be at the top. then the one underneath, stuck to it, will be the growth from the year before, and the one before that the year before that and so on and so on, the further back it goes, the more you really do You need to divide them; take away the old ones, and then replant them the first year. One year that you've got growth, you'll plant that one, and you'll plant all the rest of them as well. Just put them all back into the garden or wherever you want them—give them away, do whatever you want with them, just pop them back. them on so you can figure out what you're going to do with them, and in that way you're getting More flowers from your crocosmia if you leave your crocosmia; eventually, they'll start flowering. the less and less the more these columns build up beneath the soil, so you need to break them Discard the old ones, let's preserve your new ones; don't do it the other way around—plant your old ones. from the bottom or something like that—don't get them mixed up; it's really important that you do it when you're able to, that you actually understand what you're breaking away from You put replanting that first year of growth on, so you want that back in, but crocosmia Lucifer Love it, Vronicastriv—it's gone over, but the bees were loving it while it was on. It looks great. Still a great structure; I've had a butterfly with it, *Persicaria plexicollis*, fire tail. bee magnet look at the bees watch the bees on this just watch just watch how beautiful that is When they all start moving around, look at that—it's a real bee magnet. I know it's a bee, some People look at it and say, "Why are you planting dock leaves in your garden? They're not dock." The leaves are persicaria and plexicollis, and they look stunning now, geranium Roseanne. This is a sterile plant; it will keep growing and continue flowering throughout the summer. It's sterile, but it's a great one to grow. I think at some point it dried out a little bit, but it's Fine, it does have a hoop in there—looks nice as a ring if you haven't got any supports or plant supports. Some hoops have one of those—it's just a half moon. Okay, you can get the full ones as well. but back in the old days, a blacksmith would have made these for you; now you can buy them any garden center, plant nursery, or flower show wherever you are— they're well worth it because if that weren't there, this would be trailing all the way over to say where my trainers are It's okay, so we don't want that. I'd rather it stay as it is, just a bit of support. Moving on to this Rebecca, and this is Rebecca's full jitter DMI, so it's really Rebecca DMI, very nice. Right, it's actually my favorite; I like this one more than Goldstone. Goldstone's petals are a a little thicker over there—they're just, I don't know, Goldstone does it, doesn't it, doesn't do it as Thanks a lot for me as full jitter, full jitter really does it. I mean, I don't like that, um, looking great. doesn't like to dry out, I've seen this in a hospital setting before, a hospital not too long ago far away from here, where they've planted it in a full sun exposure that is obviously never watered That's not going to work. We came back from holiday, and one of these plants had just been Just wilting, it was this one, this one he's put back up because he's had a really good water with the hose pipe he had to use to save him because he was literally dying, and it's one of those situations where you have to save your plants because it's, it's, it's one of those things this It looks great, but if you're going to leave it during dry periods, like it rained last night, so It's going to be fine now, but if you're going to leave it, the plants are going to perish—they do. like some moisture, they love the full sun aspect, light a bit like a bit of moisture as Well, if you don't have those conditions and you're trying to grow things that you really like but your garden isn't necessarily you know you've got full sun aspect going on sun's coming up over there for us, and over there you've got sun on it all day, so in summer that sun's beating You're going to have to step in sometimes—it's a fact, you know, if you want it to happen. To stay like that, you're going to have to intervene—crocosmia looks great there, meandering through. now the star of the show for me, and something I really want to show you, is our two patches or two selections of Phlox paniculata David or Phlox david—just going to call it Phlox david phlox david here and here, so one on each side. Now we'll talk a bit about garden design. that we've tried to bring the same plants across, we haven't got all separate plants We've got Phlox davidii, we've got Stipa, and one of my favorite grasses, Stipa tenuissima. or ponytails, as they're known, but steeper tenuisomers on either side of the pathway leading up to the The mad about gardening house behind me, and we've got verbena coming up and we've got phlox David. Looking great, but I want to show you the Phlox David—Phlox David is really reliable. It's one Of those who like to just put their feet on the table and stay right where they are, it's not going to happen. With snails and slugs, we've never had a problem with it; it does sometimes have little red things. that crawl all over it—that's fine, we can handle that; that's nice, um, but the scent from this is Amazing, and it's a white phlox—it just came out when we were about to leave for my birthday. and I was really disappointed because I thought I absolutely needed to do a garden tour right away, but now we're back doing it now and they're starting to go over just ever so slightly, but you still get to see how white they are and how much when I've talked about them on previous garden tours about previous months that you now you get to see what I'm talking about and how wonderful they are they They really are amazing now, Aryngium planum—nice one to grow among the verbena; they're really nice. Oh, plant such a gorgeous one again, loved by bees, absolutely adored by bees, and you know They just can't get enough of it—the penstemon garnet mixed in there looks good still, still. Looking amazing, that and Echinacea Magnus behind you—come up here through this planting and you See what Paul probably likes the most, which is this plant here—it's much more pastel. I like the reds and the more vibrant colors, and it's okay—we're not all into the same things. Same things, and that's good—we've got echinacea magnus looking really great, or coneflower. as it's known, and those lovely cones—I love the feel of them too; they're really nice, but look At those petals—absolutely gorgeous, absolutely stunning—and the helenium behind is just going wild. over and this is Helenium Wesogold, really nice golden Helenium that has done its thing now for Many, many weeks it's looked great, it's looked amazing, but now it's ready to call it a day. He will keep getting these odd flowers growing through. Remember that seed heads are just as beautiful as the flowers themselves—it's a different way of looking at things, what you What needs to be done is to look at it in a completely different way. I think I've come to appreciate the flowers—it's not just about everything else. About the flowers, what does it leave you with? As I've said, the beautiful Rebecchia is keeping you. going during the winter with the frost on it, so it's one of those things where you have to get used to seeing it in a different way, focusing on the structure rather than the flower, and appreciating That there's nothing wrong with seed heads—they're absolutely amazing. Everything's going well here. With our Lithrum, this rocket is really nice. Lithrum also likes to be not too dry. It needs to be watered quite a bit there, so you'll need to prepare to water it, but it's looking great—really nice. I plan to have geraniums going there; we've got cosmos in the pots now, they're a bit slower to start this year, but we've managed to get them in; they're starting to flower, and these will Fill these pots eventually and grow much bigger, which is going to be great—our beautiful phlox. The blue boy still has some flowers on, but it's just going over; it'll flower again, it will do. It's happening again, and I can't wait for that because I just love phlox—I love the scent from it as well. I really do, everything's going really well over there. I'm going to bring you down to Little Adder. Now little adders, looking great, really, really nice one, absolutely adore it as far as this goes. And it's a beautiful agastache, uh, agastache rugosa, and it just looks lovely. I really like that. It's also in a nice terracotta pot, but it's a lovely flower—look at that, really, really nice. red dragon, uh, while we've been away, it did suffer a little bit; we kept it watered, keeping it watered, and it has the most beautiful vibrant red, usually, and it will do so again and again, phlox Very happy crocosmia. I'm going to tell you what happens when you've got a conifer like this. And we haven't been here; this is the first year that we've not been able to actually trim it. and this is what happens—you end up with the conifer trying to take over conifers by the way will create when the needles drop they'll create more acidic soil as well and what's What happened is that the crocosmia has really struggled; the crocosmia struggled, and you've got only one flower. There—that's a sign these need lifting, and the combs are breaking off as well, but I think it is. It also has to do with the conifer, and we've lost some other things as well, like the ligualaria. which has beautiful yellow flowers, normally it's just doing nothing, it's just not happy down there, and it does get sun on it; the sun has gone round now, but normally it's got sun on it all the time. from morning into the afternoon, so it's one of those things, really—I think there's a lot of work that needs to be done I'm doing this now, the fuchsias—I mentioned before that small one that was in the pot; this is fuchsia. It's the traditional one, the one I used to see in everyone's garden when I was little. And in the 60s and 70s you had this everywhere; in the 80s you still had it in people's gardens. It's a great one to grow, so Fuchsia magellanica—if you don't have it, grow it, the bees love it. It's wonderful this time of year—such lovely flowers, truly divine, especially when it comes to fuchsias. I love the way the bees hang off it like that and spin around on it—absolutely love it. because it starts off with this beautiful pale red, but look at the purple center there You can see purple in the center, really, really nice. People don't notice that as much as what they Should do really, really nice now—a buddleja; this is a beautiful buddleja, perfect for the space. and absolutely love the smell of buddleja, by the way—butterflies love it as well; they've been I'm loving this; they've been all over it, they've been enjoying it. It's known as the butterfly. bush for a reason—it's one of the plants, one of the many plants that you can help with the Pollinators love it, and I think it's one of those things that we should all have. our garden, if you have a smaller garden and you don't want to grow anything like what we've Got on the back here—if you just point up to my cameraman there, you can see a massive buddleja. There's a lot at the other back of the garden because there's a whole space behind the summer house. house or the mad about gardening house, the whole space behind there, but there's a lot of it's quite overgrown, it's a bit wild, and we like it like that, but buddleja is one of those that you can grow very easily; you can also get small varieties now that can be grown in a small pot, so there's No excuse not to be growing a buddleja in your garden—don't think buddleja damages walls. will grow in your walls and damage, yes it will, if you let it grow in your walls, and the traditional the original variety that you seem to see on empty sites where there have been buildings developed buildings, and they just keep appearing everywhere—they seed themselves and grow everywhere. If you have Buddleja growing in a wall, the trick is when you see a plant growing out like That and you know it's going to be a Buddleja; take that out—it shouldn't be in there because It's going to damage the walls; we've had experience with that in our courtyard garden before. In the day when it literally just damaged the wall completely, what you need to do is focus. on identifying what the plant is, if it's something harmless and just growing into it, it's A wonderful thing for the beast, but if it's something like a buddleja, you don't want that. growing in a wall because it's going to cost you money later on, it's going to cost you, but whereas in the garden it's beautiful and there's no excuse for not having the small ones in pots now you can really do that and make a real difference for pollinators, but every plant matters the pollinators, and not just the pollinators during the day, but as I've said before, the nocturnal pollinators, so the pollinators at night, so moths as well—we need to consider that and a good one that the moths like, the many plants that the moths like, all plants but is the Licheness Coronaria that I showed you earlier, and that's one they really Like right now, I want to show you something. This is the Mad About Gardening House. This is a rare one. opportunity to look inside, um, a more completed version, I'm not going to take my trainers off because I'm fine to go in now, this is what you can do with a little space like this, you can have Comfortable seating around the edges, there are some books there—some gardening books, some westerns, but Also got a great book here—this is Marjorie Fish, We Made a Garden. I might do a video about that. Discussing this book, uh, Marjorie Fish, as many of you might know, um, had the garden at East Lambroke. manor, and this book was actually first published in 1956—very old-fashioned, very interesting book There are many amazing photographs in there of Marjorie in her garden, as you can see—there's Marjorie. fish Caroline called her the Dwayne of cottage garden, but it's a no-nonsense book—I love it. the interplay between Marjorie and her husband, as well as the fact that they purchased East Lambroke Manor in the 1930s This book documents that journey; it is the very first book, as I said, published in 1956. This is a later copy, as you can see from the picture—it's more like a 70s version. This one, if I Correctly, actually, 1983. Copy. Now going back to this. Seating. People can come in. They can sit down. Along there, they have cushions behind them; there are lots of plants on the wall. kinds of different things got the madhouse there should say mad about gardening house Got a fireplace that'll keep you warm in the winter, um, two nice comfy chairs there, nice. chairs there are really, really nice, and everything you need to create a great space—some great The lighting above looks interesting too; the blinds are going to be replaced as well. if you need some blackout blinds really to keep it nice and cool during the summer days But yeah, everything's looking great. It's a great little space to come to, right at the end of the There's a bit of space behind as well, on that side and at the back—there's space on both sides. sides, but also at the back, but we obviously need that for access to the roof and other things like that, so you know when you're building an outbuilding like this or some kind of summerhouse a house or something you don't want—it's tempting to utilize your space and push it right up to the very end, but then you have to go across neighboring gardens when you're doing repairs and the like Like it's probably not the best thing to do, really. It's probably best to think about that when you design and do what our beautiful friend did here when he created this back in the day A long time ago, he allowed that space because he was very much like that—he thought things through. And he did the right thing, so it's looking great, and I'm really pleased with that. Need to paint a little bit on the outside; some of the paint around the windows is coming away. so but it just needs a bit of TLC; this has been up since about and it was started, I think I remember It started around 2001, so I can't remember the exact year, but I think it was 2001. and in 2002 and 2003 it was completed by um, but yes, very beautiful now. Magnolia is obviously finished. is looking great—great trees to have in a smaller garden as well, lovely magnolia there because it They take so long to grow, that's why they're great. Um, I really want to say something about rose super. Dorothy, now this is a tribute rose to Paul's mom. Her name was Dorothy. Now, what's happened here? It's had its first flush of flowers; it's a rambler, and that first flush is over now. It's now going to get a lot more on it; it still has some flowers on, but this whole thing was covered in flowers; it was amazing to see, it was wonderful, but it's had its cut back now, so it's All have been neatened; as we start to get more rain, we'll see much more growth. and we'll get so many more flowers too, so I'm so excited about that—I can't wait, fingers crossed! crossed, but I think we will, I know we will—it's been cut back at the right time, and as you can When growing a climber against a fence like this, you need to train it. You're growing it up and then a longer roof or somewhere like that, you have an outbuilding or somewhere where you're not bothered by that is fine, but you really need to train your roses—it's something you do need to consider is that you won't be able to just slap this in the ground and expect it to do its thing, because it's going to be growing forward, sideways, every which way way that you want it to, and the idea is to conceal the harshness of the fence because the The fence is harsh; I prefer either hedging or walls for that reason. Walls are beautiful—we had a wall. in our cottage garden at our previous cottage, or back in the day at our house, and I prefer walls we I like walls. Fences can be harsh, you know, when they're painted like that and it's It's been repainted; this is what we've repainted it to, and it still doesn't look good, but that's just how it is. and you're just trying to use the greens and cut away the other foliage to try and just take that harshness away and then obviously when you have a lower fence than the one we have at the on the other side of the garden, you try and then just include some shrubs along there to give it to soften it and just make the space feel a bit more private, which is nice, honey's The bench is doing great here—tribute to our beautiful honey little girl, she's absolutely amazing, miss. She's wonderful, always with us, always in our hearts. Now the rose, great hips. That's what we grow it for—this Rosa rugosa; we grow it not for the flowers. The flowers are quite tiny, white, and rather insignificant—I'm being honest with you on this one, but I do know that when you get those hips, that's what we're growing it for, and you know something. The birds will eat every single one of them—they'll all be gone. The wood pigeons seem to Take them away as winter goes on, and you know, it's just wonderful to see, but I just love it. during the winter when you come out and you see those on before the birds take them all Probably one of the last things they actually take, uh, we've planted another buddleia here. This is blood buddleia globosa, and they have these beautiful round orange balls on them—I really Like it, Buddleia globosa, really nice. It's been planted in a container; I'd like to dig it all up. These flags mark the original paving used to run along the edge of the boundary, well beyond the fence. I'd like to take this out and actually plant that in the ground over there—that's a work in progress. This might be done soon, but Buddleia globosa is also nice for a nice screen, and it's a lovely plant. to bloom again for the wildlife, it does flower Buddleja globosa a little earlier than usual than the other buddleias I've noticed over the years in many gardens, it does flower slightly later. earlier than the others, but it's nice anyway, and it just maintains that standard of something for the nectar-loving insects come to enjoy, go into the center of the border here, and we've got our apple tree Not exactly laden, not like I thought it would be—lots of apples on it, but some have succumbed to diseases as well as in insects—they're not really diseases, it's more insect-related; it's a first time for it to do this, to blossom and flower, and it's not the variety, because the variety is really Nice one, it's Ergmont Russet. It's a really nice variety. Um, I do believe it's just the situation. It's in full sun; it's a new tree to the space. Remember, this used to be a huge red robin shrub. here, and it used to have a letterbox in the middle, like a small gap where the birds used to fly in so it's been here for many many years, but originally, when our friends came to live here, they had An apple tree is right here in this space; there were actually remnants of it underneath. There for a long, long time and bits of it, but that's been taken away now, uh, this is Honey's. resting place, but I can tell you that now, that will get better as time goes on—it's just He's struggling—it's his first year, and we've had all this hot weather, you know, and we're not standing like water it all the time, so it's just one of those things where we've been watering it The roots are in the middle because it's also raised, remember, so the roots It came in a small pot about that wide across, so it's one of those things where You expect it to take time to settle in. This is the full sun aspect. This is the bit of the garden. that gets the most sun out of every single bit of the whole lot, the sun is on it all the time, so It's one of those things where we've done our best, and eventually it will thank us. Settle in, but it's taking a while, but it'll do. Trees do that, um, everything's going great here. Remember, we've got our geranium back—the geranium nimbus that's coming back will flower again. So many things going on; I replanted these in memory of Honey—these beautiful poppies. They're still going strong through all these months, through all this time—they're still going. They're going to go to seed now, and they'll self-seed and hopefully come up next year. We've got helenium in there, beautiful helenium coming up—there that's lovely, it seems to light up. the space and we've got our eryngium cobalt star, as I say, Elizabeth McGregor—it was her son she She was telling us a story once, a very long time ago, many years ago, at her place—she was telling us. about her son and this seedling he found, which turned out to be a cobalt star Which is this beauty here? So her son is to thank for this beautiful specimen and a really great one. one to grow, and I just love it, and it's one that we had many, many years ago—we first got this from Elizabeth McGregor when she was at Tatton—once absolutely amazing, such a beautiful thing this Diocea, and it's a diocea called Emma, looking great, lovely flowers also along such a beautiful Delicate flowers, but well worth being in the space. I really do like it; it's nice, and it's a good mix. Different colors here—we have the grasses, and we also have some cosmos that Paul has planted. So hopefully that will come on and do its thing. We've got some Jim here, and this is Jim, and it's Mrs. Bradshaw, I think it's a beautiful red, but with Jim, it does tend to like moisture. And as I've told you, this is full sun; it's raised, so you know it's going to be well-drained. It's going to get dry very, very quickly; it's not the perfect space for it, and it is somewhere where I do have to add a lot of water; could it be that that's been accounted for because we have the alliums? Here too, I know honey used to come out, I used to hold her in my arms, and she'd watch The alliums, and we still have the remnants, as you can see—look at the structure; we leave those in. until they fall off completely, and then we'll put them in a vase and just enjoy them indoors but we keep them on as that structure, but this GM, I don't know whether it's working there. Could it be that my beautiful new edition ends up going in here? Can I do some sun might go in here? I don't know, but we'll see what happens, we'll see what unfolds, but the gene, I think it's lovely. there with the colors, especially the red when it's in bloom, and you have these beauties out as well, these alliums look great, but can I be honest with you? I don't know whether it's if something likes a little bit of moisture and you're putting it somewhere where It's not thriving that thrives as well as it can, but perhaps it will bloom longer if it were somewhere else, I'm not sure, but we did have some GM over at the fence here that we've discussed in another video and it was growing along behind here, and because there's a gap underneath the concrete posts of the fence, the actual panels underneath, not the wooden panels, the actual concrete panel, base panel, there's a gap—I think it was drying out too quickly, the soil, and it just didn't thrive, you put it on, pour it in a pot, it begins to thrive, you realize it's just remember right plant, right place—that was the wrong plant, right place; that's an example of it, and we We all do it; we all make mistakes. We think it would look really good there, in that part of the garden. but the plant will tell you whether it's thriving or not—what works here, and the advice that we can give is based on a lifetime of experience, as we've both been gardening since childhood Um, it's not something we've suddenly stumbled upon; we've decided we like plants for five years. years ago and set up a YouTube channel; we've been gardening all our lives, they've been it's been a passion shared by both of us from the very beginning, ever since I can remember, it has been for me Certainly, as well as Paul, so we do know what we're saying, but something that works for us might It doesn't work for you—it depends on where you are, your location, which direction your garden faces, and what you have. In your garden, what's around it, what the soil is—these are all components, all elements. You need to think about it, and it's no different for any of us—we're all in the same boat. We're all learning from each other as gardeners, and nobody knows everything. I know there's probably people who claim they do, but nobody knows everything, it doesn't matter how long you've been It's never too late to learn something new, or to start doing something you've never done before. Too long to learn something from someone else, and that's the beauty of gardening—we share knowledge. We share plants and we share tips on how to succeed, and we help each other, and that's the The beauty of it is, now I do want to say something before I go. Speaking of honey, rose, sweet honey—doing great. Got a bud ready to flower again—beautiful rose for your garden, if you haven't grown it before. paused, paused on lots of cuttings from this rose, and they've grown successfully, and we now have Some in the front and some in pots as well—very beautiful creamy white flowers, beautiful scents. Not great for cut flowers—they don't last very long as cut flowers, but excellent on the bush. Thank you for joining me. This is the end of part two of my garden tour for August, as I said on the The first video we've had to split into two because it was quite a lengthy tour, and it's nice to have it that way. two videos anyway, because you can watch them in bite-sized chunks—you can watch the first part Then take a break and watch the second part. Thank you for watching. Please hit the like. Also subscribe if you haven't already subscribed to our channel—it's completely free to do so. And if you can see the hype button below, hit that hype button—hype the video; I really appreciate it. 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