Hello Diane, I can’t imagine how annoying it must be to have deer ruining everything you try to grow! But I’m so glad if I’ve given you a great idea!!! Have a happy week 🩷💚❤️
Hello Max, we are blessed with rain, you are right, very lucky. Hope you get some rain soon, I know you’ve been wanting some for a while now. Hope you’re ok, always love chatting to you 💚
Hi Janette. We r getting thunderstorms here in Michigan so I’m inside watching ur video! I am amazed at how wonderful ur garden is at this time of the year! We have leaves all over the ground ready to b raked! It must b nice to walk out in ur backyard n pick plums off the tree! Have fun!
Hello Mary and I hope you’re ok in all your stormy weather over in Michigan. Stay safe. Today it’s 48-56 Fahrenheit so still quite mild but as I say it’s very wet and raining a lot. This was my first year for plums so that was unexpected! Hope you have a wonderful rest of the week ❤️💚
Hi! Your garden is always so pretty and seems as enthusiastic as you. It's the Enthusiastic Garden. It's loving it's life! Thank you for your video. I look forward to them each Tuesday.
You have done brilliantly Janette to only have so few losses, and everytime I see your "rescue" shrub I smile, its thriving in its forever home ❤...I am intrigued to see plan B. Have a lovely weekend ( restful or otherwise ) xx
Hello there Julie and you’re right, in the whole scheme of things I haven’t lost too many plants. It’s funny though that some plants become favourites and that Eremophila is definitely one of those. Been pouring with rain all this morning so definitely an indoors day today (I have the week off for school holidays 🎉). Hope you’re doing well 💚🩷
Hi Janette, still your garden is looking so pretty and loving all that rain. I wonder if it really did rain all weekend. All your beautiful artworks in Woodland Courtyard make it so cheerful and welcoming. So sad about your little Ilex Stokes. Gardening is certainly an adventure in excitement and disappointment. Thank you for the 'hello' to all your Aussie friends. One big difference between English gardens and ours is that because our Winters don't get so cold (I think I'm freezing if the temperature drops down to 15 degrees) there's never a time when our gardens 'go to sleep'. Much as I love spending time in my garden I think it would be nice to have a little break over Winter each year. I'm sure I'd come back with such renewed enthusiasm in the Spring. Oh dear, another long one. Hope you and Richard have a wonderful week. Much love, Bron xx
Hi Bron, I was thinking of you!!! We don’t really get all that cold normally either, but we did have a whole week of snow last December. Surprisingly on Saturday it was a gorgeous day after all. I managed to buy my spring bulbs too. So pleased you like Woodland Courtyard as much as I do! I am sad about my Ilex Stokes but I like your way of thinking and that it makes for gardening being an adventure too. That’s lovely. Hope you’re doing ok Down Under 💚🩷
Hi Janette, sorry you lost some of you Ilexes(I think that's how its spelled). I love all the evergreens especailly the pops of blue evergreens, it nice in the winter to see green and blue. I need to add more evergreen interest. Your garden looks so beautiful still. I agree as sad as it is that the garden is going to sleep, it's a nice break and exciting to see everything regrow in spring. Have a nice day.
Good morning to you Adra and thank you for joining me. Yes … quite sad, but that’s how it goes sometimes isn’t it? 😊 I’m glad I added those blue spruces, pine and juniper back in late winter, will be nice to see what it all looks like when everything else has died back in a month or two. Pouring down here this morning again! Hope you’re having a wonderful week 💚🩷
Hi, Janette, I popped to a garden centre this afternoon and saw a lovely heuchera called 'Pinky Panky,' I thought of you and all your beautiful heucheras. I thought, 'I must get one'. I then went to look at some pots, got carried away, and its not until now while I was watching your video that I remembered the heuchera, which I forgot to buy 😢. Great to see all the colours you still have in your garden. It's Amazing. 😊
Oh no Pauline! Pinky Panky might still be there!! 😆😆 Don’t they all have such wonderful names too. I always say I’m not buying any more but they are too irresistible 😆🩷💚😊😎
Hi Jeanette thanks for sharing your October garden. Still looking colourful 😊. I love watching your videos. Btw your Rhododendron looks like it needs ericaceous feed to me.? X
Hello Sue and thank you so much for watching and yes, I do need erichaceous feed for that rhododendron, I think that every time I do a monthly garden tour! And then it slips my mind until the next time. I might order some on Amazon while I’m thinking of it. Thanks so much for watching 🩷💚
So nice to see you and your lovely garden again. I hate when we gardeners lose plants but we are resilient and forge onward with new ones. Can’t wait to see your plans to replace the shrubs you lost. I planted some shrubs and perennials this week; hoping they all do well. The temperatures are supposed to be in the 70s (20s C) until Halloween and then they plummet and we should get our first frost which is a bit late for us. Fall is in full swing here in Kentucky dispute a very, very dry summer - the leaf color has been glorious especially when backed by gorgeous blue skies.
Hi there JC and you are so right! I’m going to dedicate my next video to resilience in the garden 😊 I do have a plan for what to replace the Ilexes with, even if it’s just temporary. Blue skies make everyone smile so I’m glad you gave those where you are 😊 thanks so much for watching 💚
Hi Janette 👋 The garden looks spectacular the colours of the seasons changing are a joy. I was very impressed with your Nandina it looks brilliant the colours are wow, I wish mine looked half as good. Thanks for sharing, bfn.🐞🌻🌱
Good morning to you Jane and thanks so much! I don’t remember what variety the NANDINA is but I’ve had it a long time, very pretty isn’t it? Still the leaves haven’t yet fallen from the trees behind my fence. I’ve started digging up some of my annuals so gradually getting things tidied up. Hope you’re doing well - have a wonderful week 🩷💚
Hello from Middle Tennessee which is very dry and dusty. However, the fall leaves are beautiful this year. Thank you for sharing your garden; it is so lovely.
Your garden is still beautiful! Yes sad when we lose a plant but you are right it happens & sometimes there is no explanation. Oh yes, I dread the falling leaves…lots of raking ahead. I’m always happy once the garden is put to rest because I’m with you…we can always use a rest after such a long, hot summer. For me next year should be a lot easier since I do not plan on adding anymore garden beds. I stood out in my back yard last month & had a look around & decided that I am satisfied with the hardscaping of the back yard & that next year I’ll enjoy planting & mulching & of course trying to keep ahead of the watering, weeds & bugs! Lol Still a lot of work.
Hello Lindylou, I’m glad you are happy with all the garden space you already have. It’s a nice feeling and then we can just concentrating on keeping up with what we already have, and perhaps we can actually sit in our gardens instead of jumping up doing things all the time. Im looking forward to my rest this winter 😆😊💚🙏🩷
Hi Janette, thanks for your video I enjoyed your tour. It is sad the garden is going to sleep soon but we all need a rest. Like you I'm well behind planting my bulbs, this weekend hopefully get them done. Take care. Steve
Hi Steve and I’m looking forward to a rest! I did buy all my tulips and some more daffodils so waiting for the frost now so I can take my annuals out and plant all my bulbs. Of course I still have to tackle all the leaves when they start falling (they haven’t yet) and so no rest on the cards quite yet. And I’m still practicing piano in between 😊 hope you’re having a great week 🩷💚❤️
If you put anything in your greenhouse over winter wrap bubble wrap around the pots you have plants in and set the pots on bubble wrap as well it keeps them nice and warm and frost cant get at them. Your we garden is beautiful by the way just a nice size mine is amost a acre big i have a lot tropical plants in it but you would never be done but it is a nice hobby hope you get this mes ok. Good luck and God bless.
Hello there William and thank you for your great greenhouse advice. I do love tropical plants so I imagine your garden is large and beautiful. Thank you for your lovely message and I wish you a really great week 💚🩷❤️
Your October garden is beautiful! I just love it! I liked the touch of a formal design around the planter. I wish you would just buy the same plants to replace the 3 that appear to be dead or dying and try one more time. Thank you for sharing your garden with us.
Hello there Penny and thank you so much. I might buy new ones in Spring but I have an idea to try until then so I’ll do that next weekend and see what it looks like, and how long it lasts. Never mind, is gardeners never give up 👍 have a happy week ❤️🩷💚
Looking good still Janette! I know you are probably dreading the falling leaves that are coming soon. Just look at it as free compost! I still have color in my garden too.
Hi there Manycats, I am dreading the leaves 😆 but yes, good compost. I must have a look at the leaves I stored round the back of the cabin a year ago! I’ve completely ignored them. I bet they look exactly the same as they did a year ago 😆 have a happy week 🩷
Hello 👋 Janette, your garden is still looking so vibrant and full of life at the end of October 🤩. Thank you for all the rain 😂 you are sending over the pond, 3 weekends in a row with rain, but like you said, it’s good for the garden. For the upcoming weekend we are expecting temps in the 70s Fahrenheit, spring like temps, the weather is all over the place. Your Nandina is gorgeous, love the red. Your are correct, we all need a respite from gardening, and let it reset for spring. I need to get out this Sunday and trim the hedges and deadhead the roses etc…and trim the grasses. So sorry for your ilex, maybe trim them down to the ground and see if they come back in the spring.Gardening is a trial and error, for the most part you’re a master my lovely friend 🥰🌳🍃
Oh Elizabeth you always say the nicest things 😊 the weather has certainly been all over the place all year, our plants are so adaptable. I’m looking forward to a nice rest, once the frost arrives I can pull the annuals out and get the bulbs in and rake the leaves up … ooh still lots to do but a rest is in sight 😆 have a happy week 🩷
I’m with you 💯, need to kick back a bit. Don’t mind planting annuals and bulbs because they are pretty quick, it’s the fall cleanup that scares me☹️😂, not looking forward to that Would you believe I still can’t plant my garlic, it’s still too warm for it, the bulbs can rot Ready or not I’m doing it next weekend, it’s supposed to be a few weeks before the first frost and the weather thinks it’s spring 😂😂😂
Oh yes, fall clean up seems to go on for weeks doesn’t it? I really like to get it all done this side of Christmas rather than waiting, then a lovely long rest 🙏🥰👍☀️
Hi Janette, gardens still looking great, I'm just going out to plant some bulbs as we've had a nice dry weekend thank goodness lots of flooding up here with that storm, anyway enjoy your week Janette take care. ❤x
Hi Helen and oh yes I have seen all the flooding! Terrible. I hope you’re doing ok and well done for getting your bulbs planted. I did buy all mine at the weekend thankfully so that’s good. Take care 💚
Hi Janette, thank you & Edie for sharing her beautiful gardens, back/ front. Please tell her from me her gardens are lovely. The highlights for me were ....the various amazing iron sculpture art! ...the tall narrow mirror tower ( never seen anything like it before) her stone planters....her garden furniture....her onion boxes and of course her plants I really enjoyed watching your video, thank you. Sorry I'm a week behind watching them, nothing new there! I will watch your latest video asap. Steve
Hi there Steve and I tell tell Edie from you 😊 I love all the same art pieces you do, such fun. Glad to hear you’re too busy to watch videos 😊 that means that you’re doing fun things instead!! Always so lovely to hear from you though. Have a wonderful day my friend 💚🩷
Hi Janette, having fun is stretching it a bit...just routine stuff really...all good though. I didn't ask about your keyboard progress, how is it going? I've still bulbs to plant here, would you recommend compost base in pots or compost and grit combination? Steve
Hello! I think if you have some grit that would be better, for good drainage. I did buy all my bulbs at the weekend so I’m pleased about that - just got to plant them all now!! Not my favourite job 💚
Good morning Janette! Your garden is still pretty. I wish we would get a good rain here. It has been some time here with no rain. You and Richard have a wonderful day❤
I love your garden with all the variety as things bloom and fade to autumnal temperatures and colours. As you say, it has been rather wet to keep up, but nothing wrong with a rest. But it always leaves something for another day. We can't really define our seasons these days, so there are always surprises with extended blooming and sadly some losses. But it does leave spaces to try something else.
Hi Tony and you are so right! The seasons have been all over the place this year! Our plants must be so confused. We had loads more rain again today but I’m with you, it’s nice to have a rest too. Hope you’re doing ok 💚
Good Morning Janette Your garden is beautiful. So many gorgeous plants still in colour. I have planted some tulips. I tend to plant them in stages up until the shops run out of them. The squirrels are causing havoc at the moment. So i have to cover the pots with wire to deter them. So funny...after I'd done that a squirrel stopped on my fence and looked at me accusingly. If i leave the bulbs unburied they do not touch them. Strange isn't it. Anyway, enjoy your week. I'm sure you'll find something to plant, i always do. Sorry about your ilex💕🍀🌸🍀
Good morning to you!! Thanks so much as always for joining me. I did actually buy a load of bulbs from B&Q yesterday but I’m not looking forward to planting them all 😆 good idea to plant in stages though, I might do that, maybe one border section at a time, or I’ll forget where I’m up to! Thanks for that tip. Hope you’re having a wonderful week - it’s pouring down here right now 😆🩷💚
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener i found that the supermarkets introduce new varieties and if you like them you can always order in bulk next year. Yes, the rain is steady so far. We do seem to get the monsoon type nowadays too💕🌷💕🌷
My local supermarket doesn’t seem to have any bulbs unfortunately but I did manage to get quite a lot, enough for the front garden too. Dogs are crossing their legs at the moment waiting to go out 😊 I have this week off for half term holidays which is fabulous!! Have a really lovely day. I might sort out my wardrobe and put all my winter clothes back in seeing as it’s raining 😊
Hi Janette, your garden still looks good, my garden is basically " lovely " shades of grey and brown and billions of leaves everywhere. I found a bag of crocus bulbs in my shed the other day. I have no idea how long they've been there but they seem good, I'll plant them and hope for the best. I'm the one who said your sedums are probably neon joy and not autumn joy.
Hello!! Oh yes! I’m so glad you reminded me it was you!! Thank you 🙏 I couldn’t remember who had told me. Usually I screenshot comments so I can mention names but I forgot to do it! I think I’ll divide them all again next Spring and have lots of little groups of them. I’m sure your crocuses will still pop up. Have a fabulous week 💚🩷
I was worried that you got the big storm from Scotland. I’m glad you didn’t. You might try making a standard out of a geraniums. I’m trying it with Mums and Geraniums, I saw it on RUclips, an English man. You get the stem, take most of the leaves off, except the very top. Then it spreads out and you get a ball of flowers next spring. You really did so much work in your garden, you deserve a good rest now. I’m amazed that you know all the names of the plants. Thanks for sharing your garden.
Ooh I like the idea of making a standard with the geraniums Nancy, thank you for telling me about that 😊 I’ll try to find the video too. We didn’t get the storm here thankfully but they have really suffered up in Scotland so that’s not good. But I hope you are doing ok and having a really great week too 🧡❤️🩷
Hello Janette. Hope you are doing well. Your fall garden is looking lovely. Mine is looking a little tired and messy - lots of rain and it’s been cold so the leaves have turned and are falling. I haven’t been able to do much because my Mom has been in the hospital so the garden will have to wait. She is fine thankfully 🥰
Hi Lauren and I do hope your Mum is getting better, that must have been a worry for you. Sending lots of love to you and your family and thanks for coming along with me today 💚
Hi! You still have so much pretty color in the garden. Love it! Guess you’ll just have to go plant shopping to replace the plants that bit the dusk. Sorry! But... it’s fun to replace. We’re headed in to frost and freeze next week here in Indiana so I will just have to dream of new plants for spring. Need the redbud tree you have. Gorgeous!
Your garden looks so pretty. I'm cleaning up now and leaves are falling! Yes, I'm ready for a rest! It's fun planning next years annuals during the long winter here! 😊
Hello Peggy, I’m looking forward to a rest too, no doubt we will miss gardening as soon as we stop and then yearn to do more again 😆❤️ have a lovely week 😎💚
Autumnal colours are looking fab in your garden Janette and I can't believe that we both have annuals still flowering at this time of the year. I agree with you that we need our rest after a busy gardening season. Gardens are hard work keeping them looking nice but it's a labour of love. Like you, we've had a lot of rain. My garden is absolutely water logged at the moment so the most I've done is planting bulbs in pots. Did you survive the recent storms? Those poor people in Scotland took a battering and being flooded must be so awful for them. Hopefully see you next week. Take care.
Hi there Wendy and I’m like you, looking forward to a rest, but I did manage to buy my spring bulbs at the weekend. So there’s still that to do!! Urgh!! 😆 we didn’t get any of the storm here thankfully but oh my goodness they did up in Scotland so I hope everyone is ok. Hope you are too and wishing you a wonderful week 💚🩷
Good morning Jane!! Lovely to hear from you and thanks for watching. I did buy bulbs yesterday from B&Q so pleased about that. I’m just waiting for the annuals to go so I can see where the gaps are and plant them. Hope you’re having a great week, it’s raining hard here this morning - again 😊💚🩷
V lovely . I do like to dig up some geraniums -pelagornium because they pot well and sometimes flower in winter so they cheer me up. Re your ilex, it may revive because it does seem to have some green in it. But I would only cut it back next spring as it’s too late. But you still may lose them so perhaps it is better to make another plan right now and not worry about the,
Hi Sunita, I will pot up some pelargoniums I think, give it a go, although I think I will definitely get some seeds as everyone says they are incredibly easy to grow from seed. Must order them now, you’ve just reminded me!! I don’t think the Ilexes will last even though there’s a little bit of green on the third one. I think I just need to cut my losses and I’ll move the good two and see how they do. Never mind, we have to remain resilient!! Have a happy week 🩷
Hi Janette, I've just heard you mention your friends in Australia - I'm watching from 'over the ditch' (as we call the Tasman sea) in New Zealand. We are also in the middle of spring and my azaleas and rhododendron are all flowering for the 1st time in 2 & 1/2 years, so it's quite pretty at the moment. I really enjoy your videos. 😊
Hello Paula!!! Isn’t it simply amazing how instantly we can all connect right across the world these days 🌎 and we couldn’t be any further apart!! Mind blowing!! Hello to you and everyone in New Zealand, I hope you’re enjoying Spring so far. It’s my favourite time of year, full of promise. Glad you are having such great luck with your plants too!! It’s pouring with rain again here this morning. Thank you SO much for joining me and I wish you a wonderful day (or I’m guessing it’s now your evening 🤔) 🩷💚😎
@TheEnthusiasticGardener Yes, it's 9.00pm, so I've just hopped into bed with a hot chocolate and our Springer Spaniel, Stirling next to me. And thanks for the lovely reply. Enjoy your day, and I hope the sun comes out soon for you. 💖 🐶 🌺
Aww that sounds cosy, hello Stirling 👋 out to lunch with my friend and our Mums today as I have the week off for school holidays, managed to walk Lotte and Lucy in a gap in the rain 💚🩷
I really enjoy your garden updates! You have a very lovely garden! Also, I think your rhododendron might have chlorosis. Perhaps check when you have a minute.
Good morning Halyna and thank you so much for joining me in my garden and your lovely comments. I think you are right too about my rhododendron and I keep meaning to get myself something to treat it with or add. So I must make sure to do that next time I’m at the garden centre. Thanks for dropping by 😍
Hi Janette. Your garden is still looking very pretty. Mine is dripping and sulking with all this rain. We have similar weather conditions as you. I can't say it's much fun out there at the moment since I'm trying to get up all the dahlias, dry them off, wrap them up and put them away. As you say, we need a rest from it all, although by January, I will be going crazy with the need to be out there, knee deep in soil. So sorry about your shrub loss, do you know why it happened? The pots are all ready to receive my bulbs, I save them from year to year, but once again, I'm waiting for the rain to ease because I don't want them to rot. Many thanks for sharing your garden, hope you find some gorgeous bulbs. 🙋♀️
Hello there Kim and thank you as always for joining me 😊 no idea why they died although I don’t think I’m going to buy from that garden place again as it’s not the first time I’ve had things that died from there (naming no names 😆). Of course it could have been anything, including me (user error 😆). But that’s life. I’m like you, long for a rest at the end of the year and then I can’t wait to get going again a month later!! You are so good saving all your dahlias and bulbs each year. I did manage to buy my bulbs at B&Q on Sunday so I’m pleased about that, although I don’t relish the thought of planting them all 😆 always lovely to chat to you 🩷
Well, to be honest, Janette, I have the time to salvage bulbs and tubers and reuse them because I'm retired 😅. And to be double honest, I do leave some in the ground 😮
Such a lovely garden. Good job, I always enjoy your videos. Please tell me what that mock door with glass is on your fence in the back and where did you get it. Blessings form Houston TX. With our extreme Texas heat I lost alot of plants so I am going to stay with Texas natives that can take heat and frost. Thank you.
Hello there AllGood and thank you so much! I’m sorry you lost a lot of plants!! I think we all have to start thinking about heat tolerant plants with all the climate changes. That is my garden illusion gate. It’s not actually a mirror, but an acrylic sheet of some sort. I got it from a company in the UK called primrose.Co.uk but I think if you just Google garden illusion gate you’re bound to find something similar over in the US. I’d wanted one for ages, I think they’re just such a good idea to brighten up a dark corner and makes it look as if there’s some other secret garden through a gateway. Hope you’re having a lovely week 🧡❤️
The garden is looking wonderful. The “dead” Cystopteris bulbifera is fine. They do die down very early in the autumn. Even the one I planted out in my greenhouse had died down. Come spring they will be back. Sorry to see the Ilex have died. I wonder why. I’m afraid I do have to disagree with one thing you said: your inability to paint. As someone who has done a little bit of art teaching there are 4 things you need (apart from materials of course) 1 a certain level of hand/eye coordination. If you can sign your name you have that. 2 a desire to paint. You obviously have that. 3 a knowledge of how to paint. This is where people get it wrong, they say “I can’t paint “ when they mean “I don’t know how to paint”. This can be learnt. In fact we all have to learn, even geniuses like Picasso. After all you are not born with the ability to drive a car, or divide a clump of plants, you have to learn it. 4 the confidence to paint. This is the big one. Confidence comes from experience and practice, so a catch 22. The solution is to use the confidence of the person or people you are learning from, be it face to face or through RUclips videos etc. They know you can do it. I know you can paint. You just don’t know it yet. The same goes for anyone else who has the first 2 on the list. If you have those, you can get the other 2.
Mark what a really encouraging post, thank you so much!! I can just imagine you being a teacher 😊 you are right of course, I like painting I just don’t know how to paint! And I’m glad to hear I haven’t killed one of my ferns, I do have one question for you. Mum popped over today, she suggested I put all my ferns into my “greenhouse” which is more of a coldframe really. It has been raining so hard and the pots are just soaked right through, she thought I might lose them if it keeps raining. Do you think that’s a good idea to put them in there? 💚
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener As long as the pots can drain through the ferns should be ok, with a couple of exceptions. I would put the Cystopteris that is dormant in the greenhouse, just as a precaution plus the Pyrossia. The rest , as I say, should be fine but if it makes you happier, by all means put them under cover. The Polypodiums could be planted out any time you like, once you know where you want them.
Thanks so much Mark. I said to Mum I thought they would be fine, but she was concerned so she made me worried 😆 I’ll put the ones you said in the greenhouse and I have an idea for where to plant you suggested. Another project 🙏😊
❤have a wonderful week dear Janette and Richard.
Oh and you too dear MJ 👋😊💚🩷
Your garden is still looking good what a shame you have lost some plants Thanks for the tour
Hello Iris and thank you. Yes a shame about the Ilexes but we have to take the rough with the smooth otherwise we’d give up 😆 have a lovely week 🩷💚
I can't grow tulips because I have heavy deer pressure, but you just gave me an idea--plant them in my window box! Thanks for the idea . . .
Hello Diane, I can’t imagine how annoying it must be to have deer ruining everything you try to grow! But I’m so glad if I’ve given you a great idea!!! Have a happy week 🩷💚❤️
Hello my friend, you’re blessed with all the rain , we haven’t had much rain , my creeks are still dry. The fall colors are beautiful.
Hello Max, we are blessed with rain, you are right, very lucky. Hope you get some rain soon, I know you’ve been wanting some for a while now. Hope you’re ok, always love chatting to you 💚
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener same here my friend , always enjoy your videos . Every Tuesday I start my day watching and drinking my cup of coffee 😊
I think of you drinking your coffee ☕️ and watching 💚🩷😊
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener 😊😊😊😊
Hi Janette. We r getting thunderstorms here in Michigan so I’m inside watching ur video! I am amazed at how wonderful ur garden is at this time of the year! We have leaves all over the ground ready to b raked! It must b nice to walk out in ur backyard n pick plums off the tree! Have fun!
Hello Mary and I hope you’re ok in all your stormy weather over in Michigan. Stay safe. Today it’s 48-56 Fahrenheit so still quite mild but as I say it’s very wet and raining a lot. This was my first year for plums so that was unexpected! Hope you have a wonderful rest of the week ❤️💚
The plants are loving the rain. They all look so happy.
Hello there Karyn, they certainly are loving the rain! Hope you’re having a great week 🩷💚❤️
Hi! Your garden is always so pretty and seems as enthusiastic as you. It's the Enthusiastic Garden. It's loving it's life!
Thank you for your video. I look forward to them each Tuesday.
Aww Cindy that’s so lovely, thank you 🩷 have a fabulous week 💚🩷😎🥰
Place is still beautiful, weather has been kind to our gardens so far this fall❤
Hi Cynthia and thank you - hope you’re having fun in your garden! 👍😎🩷💚
You have done brilliantly Janette to only have so few losses, and everytime I see your "rescue" shrub I smile, its thriving in its forever home ❤...I am intrigued to see plan B. Have a lovely weekend ( restful or otherwise ) xx
Hello there Julie and you’re right, in the whole scheme of things I haven’t lost too many plants. It’s funny though that some plants become favourites and that Eremophila is definitely one of those. Been pouring with rain all this morning so definitely an indoors day today (I have the week off for school holidays 🎉). Hope you’re doing well 💚🩷
An Artist is one who is creative as you are so Janette you are an Artist .... !!!
Oh Shirlene that so lovely of you - thank you 🙏😎🩷💚
You are welcome ... !!!
The garden looks lovely Janette its lovely to see so much colour still
Hi there Chris and thank you so much! 💚
Hi Janette, still your garden is looking so pretty and loving all that rain. I wonder if it really did rain all weekend. All your beautiful artworks in Woodland Courtyard make it so cheerful and welcoming. So sad about your little Ilex Stokes. Gardening is certainly an adventure in excitement and disappointment. Thank you for the 'hello' to all your Aussie friends. One big difference between English gardens and ours is that because our Winters don't get so cold (I think I'm freezing if the temperature drops down to 15 degrees) there's never a time when our gardens 'go to sleep'. Much as I love spending time in my garden I think it would be nice to have a little break over Winter each year. I'm sure I'd come back with such renewed enthusiasm in the Spring. Oh dear, another long one. Hope you and Richard have a wonderful week. Much love, Bron xx
Hi Bron, I was thinking of you!!! We don’t really get all that cold normally either, but we did have a whole week of snow last December. Surprisingly on Saturday it was a gorgeous day after all. I managed to buy my spring bulbs too. So pleased you like Woodland Courtyard as much as I do! I am sad about my Ilex Stokes but I like your way of thinking and that it makes for gardening being an adventure too. That’s lovely. Hope you’re doing ok Down Under 💚🩷
Hi Janette, sorry you lost some of you Ilexes(I think that's how its spelled). I love all the evergreens especailly the pops of blue evergreens, it nice in the winter to see green and blue. I need to add more evergreen interest. Your garden looks so beautiful still. I agree as sad as it is that the garden is going to sleep, it's a nice break and exciting to see everything regrow in spring. Have a nice day.
Good morning to you Adra and thank you for joining me. Yes … quite sad, but that’s how it goes sometimes isn’t it? 😊 I’m glad I added those blue spruces, pine and juniper back in late winter, will be nice to see what it all looks like when everything else has died back in a month or two. Pouring down here this morning again! Hope you’re having a wonderful week 💚🩷
Hi, Janette,
I popped to a garden centre this afternoon and saw a lovely heuchera called 'Pinky Panky,' I thought of you and all your beautiful heucheras. I thought, 'I must get one'. I then went to look at some pots, got carried away, and its not until now while I was watching your video that I remembered the heuchera, which I forgot to buy 😢. Great to see all the colours you still have in your garden. It's Amazing. 😊
Oh no Pauline! Pinky Panky might still be there!! 😆😆 Don’t they all have such wonderful names too. I always say I’m not buying any more but they are too irresistible 😆🩷💚😊😎
Will try and find time to go back and get one.😊😊😊
Oh you just have to get a Pinky Panky 😊👍😎
Hi Jeanette thanks for sharing your October garden. Still looking colourful 😊. I love watching your videos. Btw your Rhododendron looks like it needs ericaceous feed to me.? X
Hello Sue and thank you so much for watching and yes, I do need erichaceous feed for that rhododendron, I think that every time I do a monthly garden tour! And then it slips my mind until the next time. I might order some on Amazon while I’m thinking of it. Thanks so much for watching 🩷💚
So nice to see you and your lovely garden again. I hate when we gardeners lose plants but we are resilient and forge onward with new ones. Can’t wait to see your plans to replace the shrubs you lost. I planted some shrubs and perennials this week; hoping they all do well. The temperatures are supposed to be in the 70s (20s C) until Halloween and then they plummet and we should get our first frost which is a bit late for us. Fall is in full swing here in Kentucky dispute a very, very dry summer - the leaf color has been glorious especially when backed by gorgeous blue skies.
Hi there JC and you are so right! I’m going to dedicate my next video to resilience in the garden 😊 I do have a plan for what to replace the Ilexes with, even if it’s just temporary. Blue skies make everyone smile so I’m glad you gave those where you are 😊 thanks so much for watching 💚
Hi Janette 👋 The garden looks spectacular the colours of the seasons changing are a joy. I was very impressed with your Nandina it looks brilliant the colours are wow, I wish mine looked half as good. Thanks for sharing, bfn.🐞🌻🌱
Good morning to you Jane and thanks so much! I don’t remember what variety the NANDINA is but I’ve had it a long time, very pretty isn’t it? Still the leaves haven’t yet fallen from the trees behind my fence. I’ve started digging up some of my annuals so gradually getting things tidied up. Hope you’re doing well - have a wonderful week 🩷💚
Hello from Middle Tennessee which is very dry and dusty. However, the fall leaves are beautiful this year. Thank you for sharing your garden; it is so lovely.
Hello Vickie, so great to chat to you all the way in Tennessee! Thank you for coming along with me today 💚
Your garden is still beautiful! Yes sad when we lose a plant but you are right it happens & sometimes there is no explanation. Oh yes, I dread the falling leaves…lots of raking ahead. I’m always happy once the garden is put to rest because I’m with you…we can always use a rest after such a long, hot summer. For me next year should be a lot easier since I do not plan on adding anymore garden beds. I stood out in my back yard last month & had a look around & decided that I am satisfied with the hardscaping of the back yard & that next year I’ll enjoy planting & mulching & of course trying to keep ahead of the watering, weeds & bugs! Lol Still a lot of work.
Hello Lindylou, I’m glad you are happy with all the garden space you already have. It’s a nice feeling and then we can just concentrating on keeping up with what we already have, and perhaps we can actually sit in our gardens instead of jumping up doing things all the time. Im looking forward to my rest this winter 😆😊💚🙏🩷
wow it's gorgeous Janette
Hello there Christine and thank you so much for coming along with me today!! Raining here again today but I hope your day is just fabulous 🩷💚
Hello Janette I am Watching you and your garden Tuesday evening Australian time Garden looks good . I love salvias. I wish we could get some rain here
Hello there Olga from the other side of the world!! Amazing how we can chat so easily!! I’m sending you over some rain 😊🩷💚
very beautiful garden🎉🎉🎉
Good morning and thank you so much, Happy Sunday 🩷💚❤️
Hi Janette, thanks for your video I enjoyed your tour. It is sad the garden is going to sleep soon but we all need a rest. Like you I'm well behind planting my bulbs, this weekend hopefully get them done. Take care. Steve
Hi Steve and I’m looking forward to a rest! I did buy all my tulips and some more daffodils so waiting for the frost now so I can take my annuals out and plant all my bulbs. Of course I still have to tackle all the leaves when they start falling (they haven’t yet) and so no rest on the cards quite yet. And I’m still practicing piano in between 😊 hope you’re having a great week 🩷💚❤️
If you put anything in your greenhouse over winter wrap bubble wrap around the pots you have plants in and set the pots on bubble wrap as well it keeps them nice and warm and frost cant get at them. Your we garden is beautiful by the way just a nice size mine is amost a acre big i have a lot tropical plants in it but you would never be done but it is a nice hobby hope you get this mes ok. Good luck and God bless.
Hello there William and thank you for your great greenhouse advice. I do love tropical plants so I imagine your garden is large and beautiful. Thank you for your lovely message and I wish you a really great week 💚🩷❤️
Beautiful Janette 🥰🥰
Thank you dear Jasmine 🩷💚❤️
Your October garden is beautiful! I just love it! I liked the touch of a formal design around the planter. I wish you would just buy the same plants to replace the 3 that appear to be dead or dying and try one more time. Thank you for sharing your garden with us.
Hello there Penny and thank you so much. I might buy new ones in Spring but I have an idea to try until then so I’ll do that next weekend and see what it looks like, and how long it lasts. Never mind, is gardeners never give up 👍 have a happy week ❤️🩷💚
Looking good still Janette! I know you are probably dreading the falling leaves that are coming soon. Just look at it as free compost! I still have color in my garden too.
Hi there Manycats, I am dreading the leaves 😆 but yes, good compost. I must have a look at the leaves I stored round the back of the cabin a year ago! I’ve completely ignored them. I bet they look exactly the same as they did a year ago 😆 have a happy week 🩷
Hello 👋 Janette, your garden is still looking so vibrant and full of life at the end of October 🤩. Thank you for all the rain 😂 you are sending over the pond, 3 weekends in a row with rain, but like you said, it’s good for the garden. For the upcoming weekend we are expecting temps in the 70s Fahrenheit, spring like temps, the weather is all over the place. Your Nandina is gorgeous, love the red. Your are correct, we all need a respite from gardening, and let it reset for spring. I need to get out this Sunday and trim the hedges and deadhead the roses etc…and trim the grasses. So sorry for your ilex, maybe trim them down to the ground and see if they come back in the spring.Gardening is a trial and error, for the most part you’re a master my lovely friend 🥰🌳🍃
Oh Elizabeth you always say the nicest things 😊 the weather has certainly been all over the place all year, our plants are so adaptable. I’m looking forward to a nice rest, once the frost arrives I can pull the annuals out and get the bulbs in and rake the leaves up … ooh still lots to do but a rest is in sight 😆 have a happy week 🩷
I’m with you 💯, need to kick back a bit. Don’t mind planting annuals and bulbs because they are pretty quick, it’s the fall cleanup that scares me☹️😂, not looking forward to that
Would you believe I still can’t plant my garlic, it’s still too warm for it, the bulbs can rot
Ready or not I’m doing it next weekend, it’s supposed to be a few weeks before the first frost and the weather thinks it’s spring 😂😂😂
Oh yes, fall clean up seems to go on for weeks doesn’t it? I really like to get it all done this side of Christmas rather than waiting, then a lovely long rest 🙏🥰👍☀️
Music to my ears😴😴
Hi Janette, gardens still looking great, I'm just going out to plant some bulbs as we've had a nice dry weekend thank goodness lots of flooding up here with that storm, anyway enjoy your week Janette take care. ❤x
Hi Helen and oh yes I have seen all the flooding! Terrible. I hope you’re doing ok and well done for getting your bulbs planted. I did buy all mine at the weekend thankfully so that’s good. Take care 💚
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Thanks Janette 😊 x
Hi Janette, thank you & Edie for sharing her beautiful gardens, back/ front. Please tell her from me her gardens are lovely.
The highlights for me were ....the various amazing iron sculpture art! ...the tall narrow mirror tower ( never seen anything like it before) her stone planters....her garden furniture....her onion boxes and of course her plants
I really enjoyed watching your video, thank you.
Sorry I'm a week behind watching them, nothing new there!
I will watch your latest video asap.
Steve
Hi there Steve and I tell tell Edie from you 😊 I love all the same art pieces you do, such fun. Glad to hear you’re too busy to watch videos 😊 that means that you’re doing fun things instead!! Always so lovely to hear from you though. Have a wonderful day my friend 💚🩷
Hi Janette, having fun is stretching it a bit...just routine stuff really...all good though. I didn't ask about your keyboard progress, how is it going?
I've still bulbs to plant here, would you recommend compost base in pots or compost and grit combination?
Steve
Hello! I think if you have some grit that would be better, for good drainage. I did buy all my bulbs at the weekend so I’m pleased about that - just got to plant them all now!! Not my favourite job 💚
Good morning Janette! Your garden is still pretty. I wish we would get a good rain here. It has been some time here with no rain. You and Richard have a wonderful day❤
Hello Judy - thanks for joining me today!! I’m going to send our rain your way 🤞 it arrives soon. Hope you’re ok 🩷💚😎
I love your garden with all the variety as things bloom and fade to autumnal temperatures and colours. As you say, it has been rather wet to keep up, but nothing wrong with a rest. But it always leaves something for another day. We can't really define our seasons these days, so there are always surprises with extended blooming and sadly some losses. But it does leave spaces to try something else.
Hi Tony and you are so right! The seasons have been all over the place this year! Our plants must be so confused. We had loads more rain again today but I’m with you, it’s nice to have a rest too. Hope you’re doing ok 💚
Good Morning Janette
Your garden is beautiful. So many gorgeous plants still in colour. I have planted some tulips. I tend to plant them in stages up until the shops run out of them. The squirrels are causing havoc at the moment. So i have to cover the pots with wire to deter them. So funny...after I'd done that a squirrel stopped on my fence and looked at me accusingly. If i leave the bulbs unburied they do not touch them. Strange isn't it. Anyway, enjoy your week. I'm sure you'll find something to plant, i always do. Sorry about your ilex💕🍀🌸🍀
Good morning to you!! Thanks so much as always for joining me. I did actually buy a load of bulbs from B&Q yesterday but I’m not looking forward to planting them all 😆 good idea to plant in stages though, I might do that, maybe one border section at a time, or I’ll forget where I’m up to! Thanks for that tip. Hope you’re having a wonderful week - it’s pouring down here right now 😆🩷💚
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener i found that the supermarkets introduce new varieties and if you like them you can always order in bulk next year. Yes, the rain is steady so far. We do seem to get the monsoon type nowadays too💕🌷💕🌷
My local supermarket doesn’t seem to have any bulbs unfortunately but I did manage to get quite a lot, enough for the front garden too. Dogs are crossing their legs at the moment waiting to go out 😊 I have this week off for half term holidays which is fabulous!! Have a really lovely day. I might sort out my wardrobe and put all my winter clothes back in seeing as it’s raining 😊
Hi Janette, your garden still looks good, my garden is basically " lovely " shades of grey and brown and billions of leaves everywhere. I found a bag of crocus bulbs in my shed the other day. I have no idea how long they've been there but they seem good, I'll plant them and hope for the best. I'm the one who said your sedums are probably neon joy and not autumn joy.
Hello!! Oh yes! I’m so glad you reminded me it was you!! Thank you 🙏 I couldn’t remember who had told me. Usually I screenshot comments so I can mention names but I forgot to do it! I think I’ll divide them all again next Spring and have lots of little groups of them. I’m sure your crocuses will still pop up. Have a fabulous week 💚🩷
I was worried that you got the big storm from Scotland. I’m glad you didn’t. You might try making a standard out of a geraniums. I’m trying it with Mums and Geraniums, I saw it on RUclips, an English man. You get the stem, take most of the leaves off, except the very top. Then it spreads out and you get a ball of flowers next spring.
You really did so much work in your garden, you deserve a good rest now. I’m amazed that you know all the names of the plants. Thanks for sharing your garden.
Ooh I like the idea of making a standard with the geraniums Nancy, thank you for telling me about that 😊 I’ll try to find the video too. We didn’t get the storm here thankfully but they have really suffered up in Scotland so that’s not good. But I hope you are doing ok and having a really great week too 🧡❤️🩷
Hello Janette. Hope you are doing well. Your fall garden is looking lovely. Mine is looking a little tired and messy - lots of rain and it’s been cold so the leaves have turned and are falling. I haven’t been able to do much because my Mom has been in the hospital so the garden will have to wait. She is fine thankfully 🥰
Hi Lauren and I do hope your Mum is getting better, that must have been a worry for you. Sending lots of love to you and your family and thanks for coming along with me today 💚
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Hi! You still have so much pretty color in the garden. Love it! Guess you’ll just have to go plant shopping to replace the plants that bit the dusk. Sorry! But... it’s fun to replace. We’re headed in to frost and freeze next week here in Indiana so I will just have to dream of new plants for spring. Need the redbud tree you have. Gorgeous!
Hi there Judy and thank you. Yes, it’s sad but that’s gardening for you! We can’t let that worry us. Thanks for joining me in my garden ❤️🩷💚
Your garden looks so pretty. I'm cleaning up now and leaves are falling! Yes, I'm ready for a rest! It's fun planning next years annuals during the long winter here! 😊
Hello Peggy, I’m looking forward to a rest too, no doubt we will miss gardening as soon as we stop and then yearn to do more again 😆❤️ have a lovely week 😎💚
Autumnal colours are looking fab in your garden Janette and I can't believe that we both have annuals still flowering at this time of the year. I agree with you that we need our rest after a busy gardening season. Gardens are hard work keeping them looking nice but it's a labour of love. Like you, we've had a lot of rain. My garden is absolutely water logged at the moment so the most I've done is planting bulbs in pots. Did you survive the recent storms? Those poor people in Scotland took a battering and being flooded must be so awful for them. Hopefully see you next week. Take care.
Hi there Wendy and I’m like you, looking forward to a rest, but I did manage to buy my spring bulbs at the weekend. So there’s still that to do!! Urgh!! 😆 we didn’t get any of the storm here thankfully but oh my goodness they did up in Scotland so I hope everyone is ok. Hope you are too and wishing you a wonderful week 💚🩷
Morning Janette. Your garden looks so lovely. It's so strange to see so many of my perennials flowering still.
I've yet to plant spring bulbs. 💚
Good morning Jane!! Lovely to hear from you and thanks for watching. I did buy bulbs yesterday from B&Q so pleased about that. I’m just waiting for the annuals to go so I can see where the gaps are and plant them. Hope you’re having a great week, it’s raining hard here this morning - again 😊💚🩷
V lovely . I do like to dig up some geraniums -pelagornium because they pot well and sometimes flower in winter so they cheer me up. Re your ilex, it may revive because it does seem to have some green in it. But I would only cut it back next spring as it’s too late. But you still may lose them so perhaps it is better to make another plan right now and not worry about the,
Hi Sunita, I will pot up some pelargoniums I think, give it a go, although I think I will definitely get some seeds as everyone says they are incredibly easy to grow from seed. Must order them now, you’ve just reminded me!! I don’t think the Ilexes will last even though there’s a little bit of green on the third one. I think I just need to cut my losses and I’ll move the good two and see how they do. Never mind, we have to remain resilient!! Have a happy week 🩷
Hi Janette, I've just heard you mention your friends in Australia - I'm watching from 'over the ditch' (as we call the Tasman sea) in New Zealand. We are also in the middle of spring and my azaleas and rhododendron are all flowering for the 1st time in 2 & 1/2 years, so it's quite pretty at the moment. I really enjoy your videos. 😊
Hello Paula!!! Isn’t it simply amazing how instantly we can all connect right across the world these days 🌎 and we couldn’t be any further apart!! Mind blowing!! Hello to you and everyone in New Zealand, I hope you’re enjoying Spring so far. It’s my favourite time of year, full of promise. Glad you are having such great luck with your plants too!! It’s pouring with rain again here this morning. Thank you SO much for joining me and I wish you a wonderful day (or I’m guessing it’s now your evening 🤔) 🩷💚😎
@TheEnthusiasticGardener Yes, it's 9.00pm, so I've just hopped into bed with a hot chocolate and our Springer Spaniel, Stirling next to me. And thanks for the lovely reply. Enjoy your day, and I hope the sun comes out soon for you. 💖 🐶 🌺
Aww that sounds cosy, hello Stirling 👋 out to lunch with my friend and our Mums today as I have the week off for school holidays, managed to walk Lotte and Lucy in a gap in the rain 💚🩷
I really enjoy your garden updates! You have a very lovely garden! Also, I think your rhododendron might have chlorosis. Perhaps check when you have a minute.
Good morning Halyna and thank you so much for joining me in my garden and your lovely comments. I think you are right too about my rhododendron and I keep meaning to get myself something to treat it with or add. So I must make sure to do that next time I’m at the garden centre. Thanks for dropping by 😍
Hi Janette. Your garden is still looking very pretty. Mine is dripping and sulking with all this rain. We have similar weather conditions as you. I can't say it's much fun out there at the moment since I'm trying to get up all the dahlias, dry them off, wrap them up and put them away. As you say, we need a rest from it all, although by January, I will be going crazy with the need to be out there, knee deep in soil. So sorry about your shrub loss, do you know why it happened? The pots are all ready to receive my bulbs, I save them from year to year, but once again, I'm waiting for the rain to ease because I don't want them to rot. Many thanks for sharing your garden, hope you find some gorgeous bulbs. 🙋♀️
Hello there Kim and thank you as always for joining me 😊 no idea why they died although I don’t think I’m going to buy from that garden place again as it’s not the first time I’ve had things that died from there (naming no names 😆). Of course it could have been anything, including me (user error 😆). But that’s life. I’m like you, long for a rest at the end of the year and then I can’t wait to get going again a month later!! You are so good saving all your dahlias and bulbs each year. I did manage to buy my bulbs at B&Q on Sunday so I’m pleased about that, although I don’t relish the thought of planting them all 😆 always lovely to chat to you 🩷
Well, to be honest, Janette, I have the time to salvage bulbs and tubers and reuse them because I'm retired 😅. And to be double honest, I do leave some in the ground 😮
I’m so looking forward to retirement!! 😆😊🙏
Such a lovely garden. Good job, I always enjoy your videos. Please tell me what that mock door with glass is on your fence in the back and where did you get it. Blessings form Houston TX. With our extreme Texas heat I lost alot of plants so I am going to stay with Texas natives that can take heat and frost. Thank you.
Hello there AllGood and thank you so much! I’m sorry you lost a lot of plants!! I think we all have to start thinking about heat tolerant plants with all the climate changes. That is my garden illusion gate. It’s not actually a mirror, but an acrylic sheet of some sort. I got it from a company in the UK called primrose.Co.uk but I think if you just Google garden illusion gate you’re bound to find something similar over in the US. I’d wanted one for ages, I think they’re just such a good idea to brighten up a dark corner and makes it look as if there’s some other secret garden through a gateway. Hope you’re having a lovely week 🧡❤️
Thank you for the info. on the garden illusion. Love ya'.🤩@@TheEnthusiasticGardener
Love ya right back 😊👍💚
Hello from Scotland what you work as
Hello Martin, thanks for watching! I work in Admissions at a school 😊🩷
The garden is looking wonderful. The “dead” Cystopteris bulbifera is fine. They do die down very early in the autumn. Even the one I planted out in my greenhouse had died down. Come spring they will be back.
Sorry to see the Ilex have died. I wonder why.
I’m afraid I do have to disagree with one thing you said: your inability to paint. As someone who has done a little bit of art teaching there are 4 things you need (apart from materials of course)
1 a certain level of hand/eye coordination. If you can sign your name you have that.
2 a desire to paint. You obviously have that.
3 a knowledge of how to paint. This is where people get it wrong, they say “I can’t paint “ when they mean “I don’t know how to paint”. This can be learnt. In fact we all have to learn, even geniuses like Picasso. After all you are not born with the ability to drive a car, or divide a clump of plants, you have to learn it.
4 the confidence to paint. This is the big one. Confidence comes from experience and practice, so a catch 22. The solution is to use the confidence of the person or people you are learning from, be it face to face or through RUclips videos etc. They know you can do it.
I know you can paint. You just don’t know it yet.
The same goes for anyone else who has the first 2 on the list. If you have those, you can get the other 2.
Mark what a really encouraging post, thank you so much!! I can just imagine you being a teacher 😊 you are right of course, I like painting I just don’t know how to paint! And I’m glad to hear I haven’t killed one of my ferns, I do have one question for you. Mum popped over today, she suggested I put all my ferns into my “greenhouse” which is more of a coldframe really. It has been raining so hard and the pots are just soaked right through, she thought I might lose them if it keeps raining. Do you think that’s a good idea to put them in there? 💚
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As long as the pots can drain through the ferns should be ok, with a couple of exceptions. I would put the Cystopteris that is dormant in the greenhouse, just as a precaution plus the Pyrossia.
The rest , as I say, should be fine but if it makes you happier, by all means put them under cover. The Polypodiums could be planted out any time you like, once you know where you want them.
Thanks so much Mark. I said to Mum I thought they would be fine, but she was concerned so she made me worried 😆 I’ll put the ones you said in the greenhouse and I have an idea for where to plant you suggested. Another project 🙏😊
Hi Jeanette your garden looks lovely and so much colour still … it’s pouring here in Yorkshire too xx
@marlenegash1824 hello Marlene and thank you so much for coming along with me today. Yorkshire is so beautiful, must be lovely living up that way 💚🩷