All good, sound advice. This delay in cold weather is a good thing in many ways but it's also dragging out the anxiety of when the proper cold will arrive. We haven't reached that point of proper frost to blacken tenders where we say, "right it's time to put the garden to bed"
Thanks Kris, we all pick something up every year don't we, whether it's experimenting and trying a new method / philosophy or finding proof that certain options work reliably across multiple winters. I think the weather forecast for next week may have changed the second half of your comment but I don't really mind it starting to get colder in the second half of November. As you say, we can now combine getting the remaining (all!) tender plants brought in along with more of the 'putting the garden to bed'. I'd also much rather have a progressive drop in temperatures down to subzero rather than a drop right off the cliff which did so much damage a couple of years ago.
Hi george. What a fantastic video. There was more info in that video than any gardening programe ive seen. Well done, and your doing it cos you honestly are dedicated. Top man. All the best . Steve.🌴👍.
Thanks a lot Steve, that's very kind of you! I try my best to share what's helped me and where I've gone wrong in the past - hopefully it helps others and makes interesting or at least watchable videos in the process! I appreciate your support and all the bet to you too.
Thanks to mainly you at the start. Kris , Craig , and Tony at uk bamboo. I have started to do exactly what you have said in the video. Lost many plants but now sticking to what i hopefully know won’t need protection. Inspiration, love it 🌴
Thanks, happy to help and whilst I try not to watch too many other growers' vids these days, if I wasn't making my own vids, I'd definitely try to get a few different opinions and practices when it comes to overwintering. We're all going to lose some plants eventually and part of the fun is trying to get away with plants in the hope of milder winters or microclimate protection but I think it's certainly not a bad idea to have a good structure of tough plants which won't be tested most winters and then take things from there as far as your ambition / time / money / delusions want to go...
Thank you for the tour and all the tips. I like your humorous comment about the weather in winter, never short of humidity 😁for the tree ferns! 12:5213:15 What a view! I love all the bamboos under the rain and maybe another day under the snow! Take care George! 🙋♂🌿🌧💙
Thanks for watching Bernard and I hope all is good with you. Yes, winter humidity is never usually a problem here and for the past year and a half at least, pretty much constant humidity and rainfall has certainly helped create the view! I'll be having to carve out a path with some kind of structure to preserve a way though soon! Thanks and all the best.
Thanks, that's really kind of you to say, I try my best - even when slightly sleep-deprived and busy haha! All the best with your Ensete, it's cool to know we're at opposite sides of the world but still working hard to enjoy growing the same amazing plants!
Such a fab and informative video as always George, thank you so very much for sharing your expertise. I've been following your wintering process guidance for years now and am super thankful to say it's never failed me. I'm holding off for a little bit longer putting everything to bed down in Wiltshire because it's still so mild, rest assured I'll be keeping my eyes on the weather forecast! Luckily my tiny garden won't take too long 😂
Ahh thanks Emma, I try to mix things up every year and hopefully talk about where I've changed my methods or learnt from previous successes and failures - I'm sure there'll be plenty of both again this year! I'm guessing the forecast for next week may have changed what you're doing this weekend though. Good luck with your thousands of plants!
Thanks for your advice and tour George. My first year for my garden in Hertfordshire. I will be wrapping the height of my Musa basjoo's with fleece and hoping for the best 🤞
Thanks for watching Vanessa and all the best with your plants this winter. In a mild-normal winter in most UK gardens, Musa basjoo should be just fine with a fleece covering.
Thank you so much! Are there any plants we both grow that I don’t talk about much on my channel? Any vids on palms you might find interesting or helpful maybe?
That's a great question. I have to confess that so much of what I see on your channel leaves me wishing that I could grow gunnera, tree ferns and some of the fargesia that just don't do well here lol (it would be a case of wrong plan,t wrong place) we get all the weather but a little bit hotter for longer time in the summer and I think a little bit colder in the winter as well . There are some overlaps I'm sure so I'll think about it and let you know!
I've been collecting leaves to mulch the garden with, currently at 6 full garbage bags that are already spread around, but I will collect as least as much more to cover everything with a nice layer. Cheap frost protection and good for the soil :) We have big baskets outside where people can bring their leaf litter, so it's pretty easy to get them from there
Thanks George for your excellent video and advice. I’ve lost so many plants. Up here I. AYRSHIRE. With cold and wet or simply buying plants that are hardy. Bit only down to 5 degrees like Yorkshire kris I’m going for hardy jungle plants , my neighbours still hate my garden , even the tree peonies and camellias , all,the best to you ,your family and dogs .
Thanks Gordon and all the best to you too! Fair play to you for trying. I think there's definitely a sweet spot for most of us away from sheltered locations in terms of growing mostly very tough plants then a balance of others which may need wrapping or are more experimental based on your free time and how much you're prepared to risk. As much as it's good to get on with neighbours, as long as nothing is affecting them, it's a bit sad if they can't appreciate their neighbour taking an interest in enjoying and improving their immediate outdoor spaces irrespective of style and taste differences. Keep doing what you enjoy doing - I'm pretty sure you will!
Great advice as always George. But the real take away for me that I totally agree with, is that each garden and indeed location is different. That's not to say that I wouldn't take a persons advice that has been doing this style of gardening longer than me in the same region as myself. In fact the opposite should be true when you are first starting out! But simply having a sheltered spot, especially next to a house can make all the difference in some cases.
Thank you very much and yes, you're absolutely right. Obviously learning from somebody in a similar location to yourself is a great start - what Kris does may largely be similar to what I do here but I think over time it's understanding the 'why' behind certain practices and how your specific location changes things. I'm probably just overly aware that somebody might watch my channel from Cornwall, from a rural part of Scotland or from a very central frost pocket - all of which can have dramatically different temperatures, precipitation and soils etc. as you know. You're bang on with your second point too, a sheltered spot just next to your house can make a big difference in all but the most brutal winters. I basically use mine for plants like smaller Trachycarpus and younger exotics which don't need to be in the polytunnel and frost free but I want to shelter and test in equal measures while they're younger.
Lovely video. Nice way to protect plants with (other) leafs. Perhaps I will protect my Musa Basjoo with the leafs of my Tetrapanax. Greetz from the Netherlands 🌴
Thanks Erik. Yes, you can definitely reuse and recycle a lot of the leaves at this time of the year to help other plants. Good luck with all your winter preparations!
Persecaria this year, a big one, was the only one that attracted bees. The small worker bees. Despite fox gloves and other flowers nothing else interested them. No bumble or honey bees at all and no butterflies despite 3 big buddleias. My neighbours single dahlias in the ground which came back every year enormous and full of bees has disappeared. Very sad. My bananas are about 8ft( Cornwall) and I was about to get the carving knife out today but had second thoughts. Problem is the westerly wind shreds them big time if you leave them. However as you say just let it be. 🍌your is garden looking good.
Hi Cynthia and thanks! I'd definitely leave things as long as you can but the forecast for next week might encourage me to get some more plants prepared this weekend. Hopefully we all see more bees next year. I enjoyed watching a few buzzing around my Fatsia flowers for a few moments at the weekend - it really is the wildlife that helps make gardens special places. Maybe try growing some more single Dahlias yourself next year?
Hi George, it's James from pembrokeshire, still watching and enjoying videos tours and advice and just wondering if you can help me again on the alocasia zebrina issues. I've had 2 for a few years and can't seem to stop the brown edges and yellow areas on leaves. It lives in the kitchen with bright indirect light and my other alocasia buddhas fist and monsters seem to do really well there in the same spot. I've also been really careful with watering schedule and nothing I do seems to solve the problem, please help
@ yes.. I do know what frost cloth is..thanks for the explanation… also.. I always wonder what ‘Zone’ gardens are in that i am watching..I am so used to the Zone system here..which relates to how cold a plant can handle…and that helps me understand if a plant might work for me…
Hi Alan, they're all absolutely fine, just trying to focus on the 'jungle' plants this autumn to give me more time to get the area at the far end of the garden progressed and tidied. When it's coming together more, there'll be more arid plant videos I'm sure!
We brought our Ensetes in last week, three big ones all potted up in new compost inside, but two others stunk like they are rotting already so we have tried the dry store method with them (mainly because we dont want them in our house!)
Nice one, good to hear you're prepared and all the best with them. As for the ones which stunk, could it be stagnant water in the leaf bases? They can collect a fair amount at this time of year along with falling leaves etc. so that may be the issue rather than the plants themselves rotting. Either way, drying them out and storing them away from the house doesn't sound like a bad idea!
@@GeorgesJungleGarden It could easily have been stagnant water but it has given us an opportunity to try and dry store one of the bigger ones at least.
Hey George, I've got many different varieties of ferns that have attached to my tree fern from spores naturally. Some of them have grown over the year to a decent size. Do you think it may harm the tree fern? Should I stop them from taking over? As they are almost all the way up the 5ft trunk
Hi Barry, nice one, that completes the natural look doesn't it! Whilst on some level, they may be taking water and nutrients from the tree fern, I'd also say that if the conditions are good enough for the ferns to be forming that far up the trunk then the conditions are also great for the tree fern itself regardless. I've seen photos of established tree ferns in habitat and the older gardens where they're covered in moss and smaller ferns. Personally I'd maybe keep them restricted to a certain height on the trunk and maybe keep on top of them a bit but if your tree fern is performing well then I wouldn't be worried at all.
Great video as usual 😊. Qq regarding the dicksonia, I can see some new fronds coming out on one of mine and I'm wondering if the winter protection won't damage them? Or are they going to die during winter anyway? I'm in Dublin so the winter here aren't cold.
Hi and thanks - some of mine are the same. You might find you need to put a layer of fleece over the newer fronds if they haven't hardened off yet but I have unfortunately found if it's particularly cold they're the first to brown off. Keep an eye on the forecast and if it's not too much bother to protect them from frost while they're new it's worth it even if it's not cold enough to damage the main plant itself.
Hi George I dug up a t Rex and now they've popped up everywhere.will these young plants survive and what you do with loads of baby t Rex plants everywhere?
Hi Craig, that can happen if the main plant or roots are damaged. If you want some more Rex plants and they've got a bit of a stem try digging them and potting them up this weekend, if not them just rip them out and you'll soon get on top of them.
Thanks for another informative video George, is it really 4 1/2 years since you moved where has the time gone, I have one question I recently brought a couple of small cavendish dwarf bananas and wondered what’s the best way to over winter them, I was thinking of wrapping and putting in shed?. Cheers Paul.
Thanks Paul and yes indeed - it flies by doesn't it! We moved in at the start of August 2020 and I started uploading to the channel consistently in January 2021 so just rounding up slightly. As for your Cavendish bananas, you may get away with wrapping them and putting them in the shed but they are more tender than basjoo and Ensete etc. so personally I'd say they're a houseplant for Nov-May realistically. If you got them cheaply though it may be worth experimenting...
All good, sound advice. This delay in cold weather is a good thing in many ways but it's also dragging out the anxiety of when the proper cold will arrive. We haven't reached that point of proper frost to blacken tenders where we say, "right it's time to put the garden to bed"
Thanks Kris, we all pick something up every year don't we, whether it's experimenting and trying a new method / philosophy or finding proof that certain options work reliably across multiple winters. I think the weather forecast for next week may have changed the second half of your comment but I don't really mind it starting to get colder in the second half of November. As you say, we can now combine getting the remaining (all!) tender plants brought in along with more of the 'putting the garden to bed'. I'd also much rather have a progressive drop in temperatures down to subzero rather than a drop right off the cliff which did so much damage a couple of years ago.
Hi george. What a fantastic video. There was more info in that video than any gardening programe ive seen. Well done, and your doing it cos you honestly are dedicated. Top man. All the best . Steve.🌴👍.
Thanks a lot Steve, that's very kind of you! I try my best to share what's helped me and where I've gone wrong in the past - hopefully it helps others and makes interesting or at least watchable videos in the process! I appreciate your support and all the bet to you too.
Thanks to mainly you at the start. Kris , Craig , and Tony at uk bamboo. I have started to do exactly what you have said in the video. Lost many plants but now sticking to what i hopefully know won’t need protection.
Inspiration, love it 🌴
Thanks, happy to help and whilst I try not to watch too many other growers' vids these days, if I wasn't making my own vids, I'd definitely try to get a few different opinions and practices when it comes to overwintering. We're all going to lose some plants eventually and part of the fun is trying to get away with plants in the hope of milder winters or microclimate protection but I think it's certainly not a bad idea to have a good structure of tough plants which won't be tested most winters and then take things from there as far as your ambition / time / money / delusions want to go...
Thank you for the tour and all the tips.
I like your humorous comment about the weather in winter, never short of humidity 😁for the tree ferns!
12:52 13:15 What a view!
I love all the bamboos under the rain and maybe another day under the snow! Take care George! 🙋♂🌿🌧💙
Thanks for watching Bernard and I hope all is good with you. Yes, winter humidity is never usually a problem here and for the past year and a half at least, pretty much constant humidity and rainfall has certainly helped create the view! I'll be having to carve out a path with some kind of structure to preserve a way though soon! Thanks and all the best.
Your videos are both entertaining and inspiring. Hopefully, with your tips, I will keep my Ensete alive this winter (mid-east-coast USA)
Thanks, that's really kind of you to say, I try my best - even when slightly sleep-deprived and busy haha! All the best with your Ensete, it's cool to know we're at opposite sides of the world but still working hard to enjoy growing the same amazing plants!
Such a fab and informative video as always George, thank you so very much for sharing your expertise. I've been following your wintering process guidance for years now and am super thankful to say it's never failed me. I'm holding off for a little bit longer putting everything to bed down in Wiltshire because it's still so mild, rest assured I'll be keeping my eyes on the weather forecast! Luckily my tiny garden won't take too long 😂
Ahh thanks Emma, I try to mix things up every year and hopefully talk about where I've changed my methods or learnt from previous successes and failures - I'm sure there'll be plenty of both again this year! I'm guessing the forecast for next week may have changed what you're doing this weekend though. Good luck with your thousands of plants!
Thanks for your advice and tour George. My first year for my garden in Hertfordshire. I will be wrapping the height of my Musa basjoo's with fleece and hoping for the best 🤞
Thanks for watching Vanessa and all the best with your plants this winter. In a mild-normal winter in most UK gardens, Musa basjoo should be just fine with a fleece covering.
Awesome video George and great advice...Always look forward to the latest on Saturday or Sunday morning here in Dallas.
Thank you so much! Are there any plants we both grow that I don’t talk about much on my channel? Any vids on palms you might find interesting or helpful maybe?
That's a great question. I have to confess that so much of what I see on your channel leaves me wishing that I could grow gunnera, tree ferns and some of the fargesia that just don't do well here lol (it would be a case of wrong plan,t wrong place) we get all the weather but a little bit hotter for longer time in the summer and I think a little bit colder in the winter as well . There are some overlaps I'm sure so I'll think about it and let you know!
I've been collecting leaves to mulch the garden with, currently at 6 full garbage bags that are already spread around, but I will collect as least as much more to cover everything with a nice layer. Cheap frost protection and good for the soil :) We have big baskets outside where people can bring their leaf litter, so it's pretty easy to get them from there
Fantastic, one of the best things you can do for your garden and plants isn't it. Well worth putting in the effort and doing!
Thanks George for your excellent video and advice. I’ve lost so many plants. Up here I. AYRSHIRE. With cold and wet or simply buying plants that are hardy. Bit only down to 5 degrees like Yorkshire kris I’m going for hardy jungle plants , my neighbours still hate my garden , even the tree peonies and camellias , all,the best to you ,your family and dogs .
Thanks Gordon and all the best to you too! Fair play to you for trying. I think there's definitely a sweet spot for most of us away from sheltered locations in terms of growing mostly very tough plants then a balance of others which may need wrapping or are more experimental based on your free time and how much you're prepared to risk. As much as it's good to get on with neighbours, as long as nothing is affecting them, it's a bit sad if they can't appreciate their neighbour taking an interest in enjoying and improving their immediate outdoor spaces irrespective of style and taste differences. Keep doing what you enjoy doing - I'm pretty sure you will!
Great Thank you George 🤗👍🏽🌞🌞🌞🌞
Thanks Pascal, all the best with your winter preparations 😊
Great advice as always George. But the real take away for me that I totally agree with, is that each garden and indeed location is different. That's not to say that I wouldn't take a persons advice that has been doing this style of gardening longer than me in the same region as myself. In fact the opposite should be true when you are first starting out! But simply having a sheltered spot, especially next to a house can make all the difference in some cases.
Thank you very much and yes, you're absolutely right. Obviously learning from somebody in a similar location to yourself is a great start - what Kris does may largely be similar to what I do here but I think over time it's understanding the 'why' behind certain practices and how your specific location changes things. I'm probably just overly aware that somebody might watch my channel from Cornwall, from a rural part of Scotland or from a very central frost pocket - all of which can have dramatically different temperatures, precipitation and soils etc. as you know.
You're bang on with your second point too, a sheltered spot just next to your house can make a big difference in all but the most brutal winters. I basically use mine for plants like smaller Trachycarpus and younger exotics which don't need to be in the polytunnel and frost free but I want to shelter and test in equal measures while they're younger.
Lovely video. Nice way to protect plants with (other) leafs. Perhaps I will protect my Musa Basjoo with the leafs of my Tetrapanax. Greetz from the Netherlands 🌴
Thanks Erik. Yes, you can definitely reuse and recycle a lot of the leaves at this time of the year to help other plants. Good luck with all your winter preparations!
18:10 Oh George, you big tease 😆
Hahaha I just thought I'd say it before somebody (maybe you!) comments! Now I just need to get on with something to actually show you haha
@@GeorgesJungleGarden Yeah, you know I like to watch... 😏😆
Persecaria this year, a big one, was the only one that attracted bees. The small worker bees. Despite fox gloves and other flowers nothing else interested them. No bumble or honey bees at all and no butterflies despite 3 big buddleias. My neighbours single dahlias in the ground which came back every year enormous and full of bees has disappeared. Very sad. My bananas are about 8ft( Cornwall) and I was about to get the carving knife out today but had second thoughts. Problem is the westerly wind shreds them big time if you leave them. However as you say just let it be. 🍌your is garden looking good.
Hi Cynthia and thanks! I'd definitely leave things as long as you can but the forecast for next week might encourage me to get some more plants prepared this weekend. Hopefully we all see more bees next year. I enjoyed watching a few buzzing around my Fatsia flowers for a few moments at the weekend - it really is the wildlife that helps make gardens special places. Maybe try growing some more single Dahlias yourself next year?
Hi George, it's James from pembrokeshire, still watching and enjoying videos tours and advice and just wondering if you can help me again on the alocasia zebrina issues. I've had 2 for a few years and can't seem to stop the brown edges and yellow areas on leaves. It lives in the kitchen with bright indirect light and my other alocasia buddhas fist and monsters seem to do really well there in the same spot. I've also been really careful with watering schedule and nothing I do seems to solve the problem, please help
For us in the US..what is fleece? Wool, cotton or ?? Not a term we use here… thank you..
Hi, I wasn’t aware of that - horticultural fleece is the thin white material we use for short term frost protection - do you call it frost cloth?
@ yes.. I do know what frost cloth is..thanks for the explanation… also.. I always wonder what ‘Zone’ gardens are in that i am watching..I am so used to the Zone system here..which relates to how cold a plant can handle…and that helps me understand if a plant might work for me…
George, have you still got your various Yucca rostrata etc. or have they succumbed to our weather?
Hi Alan, they're all absolutely fine, just trying to focus on the 'jungle' plants this autumn to give me more time to get the area at the far end of the garden progressed and tidied. When it's coming together more, there'll be more arid plant videos I'm sure!
@@GeorgesJungleGarden Glad to hear they're O.K.
We brought our Ensetes in last week, three big ones all potted up in new compost inside, but two others stunk like they are rotting already so we have tried the dry store method with them (mainly because we dont want them in our house!)
Nice one, good to hear you're prepared and all the best with them. As for the ones which stunk, could it be stagnant water in the leaf bases? They can collect a fair amount at this time of year along with falling leaves etc. so that may be the issue rather than the plants themselves rotting. Either way, drying them out and storing them away from the house doesn't sound like a bad idea!
@@GeorgesJungleGarden It could easily have been stagnant water but it has given us an opportunity to try and dry store one of the bigger ones at least.
Hi George
would you treat Hiniba the same as Maureli? Great video as always...Kevin
Hi Kevin and thanks. Yes, if it was a similar size I would - Kris and Tony Shep might have more videos on Hiniba so I'm sure they'll be able to help.
Hey George, I've got many different varieties of ferns that have attached to my tree fern from spores naturally. Some of them have grown over the year to a decent size.
Do you think it may harm the tree fern? Should I stop them from taking over? As they are almost all the way up the 5ft trunk
Hi Barry, nice one, that completes the natural look doesn't it! Whilst on some level, they may be taking water and nutrients from the tree fern, I'd also say that if the conditions are good enough for the ferns to be forming that far up the trunk then the conditions are also great for the tree fern itself regardless. I've seen photos of established tree ferns in habitat and the older gardens where they're covered in moss and smaller ferns. Personally I'd maybe keep them restricted to a certain height on the trunk and maybe keep on top of them a bit but if your tree fern is performing well then I wouldn't be worried at all.
Cheers George, great advice
Great video as usual 😊. Qq regarding the dicksonia, I can see some new fronds coming out on one of mine and I'm wondering if the winter protection won't damage them? Or are they going to die during winter anyway? I'm in Dublin so the winter here aren't cold.
Hi and thanks - some of mine are the same. You might find you need to put a layer of fleece over the newer fronds if they haven't hardened off yet but I have unfortunately found if it's particularly cold they're the first to brown off. Keep an eye on the forecast and if it's not too much bother to protect them from frost while they're new it's worth it even if it's not cold enough to damage the main plant itself.
Hi George I dug up a t Rex and now they've popped up everywhere.will these young plants survive and what you do with loads of baby t Rex plants everywhere?
Hi Craig, that can happen if the main plant or roots are damaged. If you want some more Rex plants and they've got a bit of a stem try digging them and potting them up this weekend, if not them just rip them out and you'll soon get on top of them.
@GeorgesJungleGarden ok nice one George. Thanks 👍
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Thanks as always!
Thanks for another informative video George, is it really 4 1/2 years since you moved where has the time gone, I have one question I recently brought a couple of small cavendish dwarf bananas and wondered what’s the best way to over winter them, I was thinking of wrapping and putting in shed?. Cheers Paul.
Thanks Paul and yes indeed - it flies by doesn't it! We moved in at the start of August 2020 and I started uploading to the channel consistently in January 2021 so just rounding up slightly. As for your Cavendish bananas, you may get away with wrapping them and putting them in the shed but they are more tender than basjoo and Ensete etc. so personally I'd say they're a houseplant for Nov-May realistically. If you got them cheaply though it may be worth experimenting...