I just love your videos. They are the most realistic and honest - none of this "we get thousands of dollars worth of free plants from advertisers and profess that you can do the same thing in your yard" fantasy that some of the other garden channels put forth. So thank you.
Thank you Alexandra for sharing just what was involved in clearing the border. Such good advice to dig everything out especially when your inner self is saying otherwise. I am looking forward to seeing how you plan what plants are going back and what new ones are to be added.
I have many varieties of Cornus in the garden, including Midwinter Fire and Midwinter Beauty, and each month during the growing season I nip out the growing tip on every branch. Each branch then forks, creating two branches. Subsequently by winter time there’s always a thicket of colourful stems, all the same height and the overall height of the shrub is reduced.
Hi Alexandra I have been following your channel for a few years now. I live near Cambridge now but I went to school in Faversham in the 1970s. I have learned so much from you. I spotted your neatly clipped lavender in this latest video and wanted to tell you that there were a couple of lavenders in my garden that I forgot to trim back after flowering last year because they had a second flush and were still in flower into November. Inevitably they went to seed. I was amazed to see lots of goldfinches enjoying the seeds a few weeks ago. Having never left the dead flowers on my lavenders I had no idea that goldfinch love the seeds. I have so many lavenders that I will be leaving some for the birds next winter. I just wondered if anyone else knew that finches love the seeds 🤩
Thank you so much for another delightful and educational video. I'm so glad to hear that you have had help clearing that boarder and trimming those beautiful tall topiary. I found a place near by, an arboretum, where I can get native plants! They are having a plant sale today and I am going to go spend an obscene amount of money to get some for my English Cottage Garden! WOOT!!
I find that digging out plants is very challenging. People talk about dividing perennials as if it’s very easy, but I am likely to hurt myself. Glad you had help:) excited to see what you do with the border.
Thank you for the pruning tips. I prune my really vigorous Rhodies in autumn as it's such a big job, and do the more delicate pruning on the less vigorous Rhodies in spring so as not to weaken them over winter. Your garden's winter structure is really outstanding, the evergreens, white birch, shrubs, statuary and seating look like a park!
I revamped my old large perennial border a couple of years ago. I kept only the shrub roses and peonies and spring bulbs and a dogwood tree. I planted liatris, David Austin roses, delphiniums, lilies, nepeta and lavender and hydrangeas. I have an edging of perennial geraniums that I kept from before. In the summer I add dahlias and glads. Can't wait to see what it looks like this year. Bonny zone 5b Canada
I'm following the progress with your front "meadow" lawn. If anyone can make it look good, you can. I dearly love the ground dwelling bees that live there. You're an inspiration for gardeners to look closely at the insects in our plot of land. I can't remember the names of those bees, but I love that you are giving them attention.
Your garden does look lovely with plenty of structure. I have the Cornus ‘Midwinter fire’ but I’ve trained it into a tree and it’s given glorious colour over the winter but it’s a job to prevent suckers appearing from the ground. Thank you for your advice on Hydrangeas
This is an incredibly useful and timely video with so much advice that I can apply right now. I've got the area I can see from my kitchen window that I've been wondering how to make more attractive during our relatively long winters here in the south of Norway. I've a lawn that I'm considering putting over areas to wild flowers, and an area that I've not done anything at all to. I appreciate your sharing what's worked and what you're having second thoughts about, it's all tremendously helpful.
Good morning Alexandra, cleaning and clearing a patch of even a trough, can become very daunting to say the least. I have oriental lilies growing in a trough, I knew I had to tip it over, sort out those bulbs, but thought about the baby bulbs and thought no, I will wait until autumn and then sort it out. So my reward was just green leaves and two pathetic looking flowers, I should have not done what I felt like doing, taking a chance had it's own reward, disappointment! The hydrangeas produced beautiful flowers and heads, then we had wonderful rain the summer season and all the heads got heavy with the rain drops that they bent over and never recovered! I can't remember what I did with the pruning but the plants just shot up like they were not going to stop growing, they were ginormous and you know what I could only pick one vase of flowers. Sometimes I think gardening is like opening a cellophane packet of nuts, if not careful the whole lot spills out on the table, the weight of the nuts just tore the cellophane to pieces. Presently it is raining so who know when I can cut back, it is just they took over all of the pathway! Pulling up bulbs can be very daunting, but shortly I will pull the Galtonia's and save them for spring later on. Taking things for granted in the garden is not a wise decision. As irritating as shrubs can get, do not touch pruning or cutting back until after winter. I cannot handle when many fine branches pop up, I think it is a form of the shrub/tree to save itself. So it thinks it will push out new growth. Well one thing is certain we learn from our mistakes. I must say, you looked awfully comfortable with the lovely scarf around your neck! Thank you for the lovely garden discussion it is always so relaxing to listen to your advice and giving us new ideas. Keep warm and snug. Kind regards. Elize :)
Some great tips here, thank you. I like that pruning philosophy. I try to get things pruned in winter, but every year there seems to be something (last year it was a bum hip) that gets me off schedule. We must all do what makes sense, the best we can. Looking forward to seeing your new border in spring/summer. :)
Really helpful video, Alexandra, and I quite like your meadow lawn :) The only thing I might add regarding winter pruning is if you have stone fruit trees, such as plum and cherry, don't prune until mid-summer. Otherwise, they can get silverleaf infections that will eventually kill the tree. I sadly made this tragic mistake in the past.
Alexandra, I've been wondering when you add your compost, rotted manure and any mulch, if it adds a lot of height to your beds or settles and if it ends up smothering any plants. I also hope you will take us on your design journey as you revamp your flower bed. Thank you. I enjoy your videos a lot.
Thank you! Adding compost and manure doesn't add height to the beds because it rots down. I think soil moves around generally, it breaks down, it settles, some may be blown around on the wind, you take some away when you weed and so on.
THANK YOU, Aleandra. NO ONE has ever said that before on any channel I have watched. When spring comes around, I'm too busy too busy to do those things I could have done in autumn. I prune in autumn. Period. I don't want to look at dead things all winter. I want the gardens to be clean and easy to weed in the spring. Also, I hate leaving leaves on the beds during the winter because in spring, I cannot always see the bulb shoots when I'm trying to clean-out the beds and I smash them. Thank you!!!!!
Your videos really helped me this winter and last, when I first found them, to get through to spring. I'm in Manitoba so winter gardening is mostly shoveling snow and stratifying seeds.
It's refreshing the way you decide to change a design/layout if it simply doesn't please or work anymore. So many of us are hesitant about making a volte face decision about an established bed or even a larger element of our garden. May I be so bold as to suggest that I think your large border to the right of your parterre could take some quite sturdy medium to low height & mixed density evergreen shrubs to give a more enclosing/contrasting feel to your beautiful parterre ~ I feel that would help showcase its eye-pleasing classical symmetry :)
Thank you and I suspect you're absolutely right. I'm going to think about that, as I'm often very hesitant about making that sort of a decision too. I recently saw a lovely garden (Cloudehill in Australia) which had some splendid evergreen Chinese yews in a border. (the garden will be featured some time over the next few weeks).
Me too! I need to move a hydrangea that they’ve already winter pruned for me. It needs a spot inside the fence; then maybe it will grow bigger than 12” 😋
@@judithdarsky2265 You should prune plant like those after they flowers in the Summer. That is the advice I got listening to Horttube with Jim Putman. Very knowledgeable he used to own a nursery
I love your channel and all your videos thank you so much. I have a question, and that is: what can I grow together with and alongside very vigorous and fast growing creeping vines, I have a wall covered in thungbergia but i cant put anything near it because it will swallow any bush or small tree in no time and I would like to give her some company that she can’t climb or suffocate so easily. All I can think of right now would be iris but I’d like to know more ideas. Thank you so much 😊
Thank you for this. I think I prefer a more formal front garden for a Georgian house, although I understand it is probably lass wildlife friendly. That would be a challenge to combine the two and reduce the need to cut grass on top!
Looking forward to what you do with the cleared out border. I have some purple crocus that my mom planted some 40 yrs ago blooming. They're all over, I'm thinking about moving some snow drops to mingle with those. Last early summer I throw some wildflower seeds in an area of my lawn along the road, nothing came of those. I'm going to try again, maybe those will pop this spring, and trying earlier will work better.
It's quite difficult for seeds to compete against established lawn, I've tried too, but with no success. Joel Ashton of the Wild Your Garden RUclips channel suggests planting 9cm high wildflowers if you want them in the lawn so they have a bit of a head start. But you never know, sometimes seeds can pop up years later if conditions change.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I love Joel, started watching him after you had him at your place. I did put compost down first, the wild Queen Ann's Lace pops up all over the yard. I let that do its thing out there, even had some beautiful soft pink blooms on some.
Have you ever thought about doing a video with one of the Bonsai guys, its this time of year they start to repot, which could also be interesting to people with other plants in pots, so you could get some great root pruning and planting tips, also some structure ideas too.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden GreenWoods is the big one, Herons is ok, the most well known, but does feel too brutal at times. There's a few smaller ones, i visit one just of the A3 called the bonsai shed, he doesn't have a social media presence though and you may not get as great or as many interesting visuals.
Hello Alexandra ~ we're getting close to the Equinox, so Spring can't be far behind here in the states. I'm so envious of your climate! 15" of snow still covers my farm and a freeze in my greenhouse killed everything, so I'm just now sowing cabbage and other plants. I love this video, your garden is beautiful. Do you have a designated vegetable garden?
Thank you! I do have a vegetable patch, but I am really hopeless at growing veg in it and when I used to feature it, people switched off! Every year, I say that this year will be different!
Once the last frosts are over. You should have a 'last frost date' for your area (you can put 'last frost date + name of a town' into Google. Or if the weather seems particularly good, you could take straw away from the crowns a bit earlier.
I wonder if the reason the mini meadow isn't working is because the plant selection isn't the right scale. It's such a small area. What about a tapestry of multi colored blooming ground cover type plants mixed with short, clumping wispy "grass" textured plants?
I think you're probably right - and having it bordered quite formally with roses doesn't help. But the roses are very old and may well not last much longer, which would give me a chance to completely re-do the whole area (more endless dithering...)
I dont think that mini meadow looks good at all but it was worth a try anyway...that would be good if you had 10 or 20 acres and threw out flower seeds along the way. Do you have wood chips over there? Here in USA I took half my front lawn, laid down cardboard, then 4 to 5 inches of compost then fresh wood chips about 6 inch thick on top of that ..waited a yr, and now I have absolutely beautiful soil, underneath the wood chips, no weeds at all, its perfect soil! I have planted several fruit trees which have tripled in size since I bought them about over a yr ago. And I want to try to plant cabbage, and a few edible things, maybe potatoes..not sure. But I do have a bunch of trees that hide this area from the road, but with food so expensive, but also poor quality, you could maybe do something like that! To make all your land useful. You could grow mint, and rosemary, and mix in some beautiful perennials. I love watching your channel, it inspires me to get out there! I've never really gone out in the gardens much in winter, but this winter I am so busy doing so much out there. I've pruned all my trees, planted more trees, planted some ivy ...having fun and enjoying watching real gardeners like you! Im in Washington state in the pacific northwest zone 8b....
Thank you and you sound like just as much a real gardener as I am. I'm sure your soil loved the wood chips and cardboard. It's nice to get sunlight in winter, too, even if there isn't much of it.
I just love your videos. They are the most realistic and honest - none of this "we get thousands of dollars worth of free plants from advertisers and profess that you can do the same thing in your yard" fantasy that some of the other garden channels put forth. So thank you.
Especially in the States!
Thank you!
Thank you Alexandra for sharing just what was involved in clearing the border. Such good advice to dig everything out especially when your inner self is saying otherwise. I am looking forward to seeing how you plan what plants are going back and what new ones are to be added.
Me too, because I have a similar border that has the same perennials ever yr and I want to change it up a bit!!!! Make it more "wow".
Good advice to remove everything and start from nothing? Maybe if you have a lot of money!
Or you're good at propagating and sowing from seed - it really is not the most expensive thing you can do in a garden
Thank you! I'm looking forward to it myself although about half of it is still a blank page!
Good luck, hope the videos help!
I have many varieties of Cornus in the garden, including Midwinter Fire and Midwinter Beauty, and each month during the growing season I nip out the growing tip on every branch. Each branch then forks, creating two branches. Subsequently by winter time there’s always a thicket of colourful stems, all the same height and the overall height of the shrub is reduced.
Hi Alexandra I have been following your channel for a few years now. I live near Cambridge now but I went to school in Faversham in the 1970s. I have learned so much from you. I spotted your neatly clipped lavender in this latest video and wanted to tell you that there were a couple of lavenders in my garden that I forgot to trim back after flowering last year because they had a second flush and were still in flower into November. Inevitably they went to seed. I was amazed to see lots of goldfinches enjoying the seeds a few weeks ago.
Having never left the dead flowers on my lavenders I had no idea that goldfinch love the seeds. I have so many lavenders that I will be leaving some for the birds next winter. I just wondered if anyone else knew that finches love the seeds 🤩
I haven't seen anyone say so, but it's a really good thought. Amazing that you went to school in Faversham!
Anxiously waiting for spring, with longer daylight and warmer weather. Thanks for sharing. 👍❤️😊
Oh, yes, absolutely!
Thank you so much for another delightful and educational video. I'm so glad to hear that you have had help clearing that boarder and trimming those beautiful tall topiary.
I found a place near by, an arboretum, where I can get native plants! They are having a plant sale today and I am going to go spend an obscene amount of money to get some for my English Cottage Garden! WOOT!!
Thank you! And hope you had a wonderful plant sale and brought home lots of goodies.
I find that digging out plants is very challenging. People talk about dividing perennials as if it’s very easy, but I am likely to hurt myself. Glad you had help:) excited to see what you do with the border.
Lots of good advices on pruning. I’ll be watching this again as revision. Thank you Alexandra.
Thank you!
Thank you for the pruning tips. I prune my really vigorous Rhodies in autumn as it's such a big job, and do the more delicate pruning on the less vigorous Rhodies in spring so as not to weaken them over winter. Your garden's winter structure is really outstanding, the evergreens, white birch, shrubs, statuary and seating look like a park!
Thank you so much!
I revamped my old large perennial border a couple of years ago. I kept only the shrub roses and peonies and spring bulbs and a dogwood tree. I planted liatris, David Austin roses, delphiniums, lilies, nepeta and lavender and hydrangeas. I have an edging of perennial geraniums that I kept from before. In the summer I add dahlias and glads. Can't wait to see what it looks like this year. Bonny zone 5b Canada
Sounds fabulous!
I'm following the progress with your front "meadow" lawn. If anyone can make it look good, you can. I dearly love the ground dwelling bees that live there. You're an inspiration for gardeners to look closely at the insects in our plot of land. I can't remember the names of those bees, but I love that you are giving them attention.
Thank you! and the ground dwelling bees are ivy mining bees.
Lovely video, I enjoy everyone. Love from a very hot Australia.
Thank you! We are all dreaming of heat!
Your garden does look lovely with plenty of structure. I have the Cornus ‘Midwinter fire’ but I’ve trained it into a tree and it’s given glorious colour over the winter but it’s a job to prevent suckers appearing from the ground. Thank you for your advice on Hydrangeas
Thank you, and that sounds like a good treatment for the cornus.
This is an incredibly useful and timely video with so much advice that I can apply right now. I've got the area I can see from my kitchen window that I've been wondering how to make more attractive during our relatively long winters here in the south of Norway. I've a lawn that I'm considering putting over areas to wild flowers, and an area that I've not done anything at all to. I appreciate your sharing what's worked and what you're having second thoughts about, it's all tremendously helpful.
Thank you so much!
It will be such a pleasant chores! Thanks for the good advice! I love this spring job! I love the start of the season!
Me too!!
Good morning Alexandra, cleaning and clearing a patch of even a trough, can become very daunting to say the least. I have oriental lilies growing in a trough, I knew I had to tip it over, sort out those bulbs, but thought about the baby bulbs and thought no, I will wait until autumn and then sort it out. So my reward was just green leaves and two pathetic looking flowers, I should have not done what I felt like doing, taking a chance had it's own reward, disappointment! The hydrangeas produced beautiful flowers and heads, then we had wonderful rain the summer season and all the heads got heavy with the rain drops that they bent over and never recovered! I can't remember what I did with the pruning but the plants just shot up like they were not going to stop growing, they were ginormous and you know what I could only pick one vase of flowers. Sometimes I think gardening is like opening a cellophane packet of nuts, if not careful the whole lot spills out on the table, the weight of the nuts just tore the cellophane to pieces. Presently it is raining so who know when I can cut back, it is just they took over all of the pathway! Pulling up bulbs can be very daunting, but shortly I will pull the Galtonia's and save them for spring later on. Taking things for granted in the garden is not a wise decision. As irritating as shrubs can get, do not touch pruning or cutting back until after winter. I cannot handle when many fine branches pop up, I think it is a form of the shrub/tree to save itself. So it thinks it will push out new growth. Well one thing is certain we learn from our mistakes. I must say, you looked awfully comfortable with the lovely scarf around your neck! Thank you for the lovely garden discussion it is always so relaxing to listen to your advice and giving us new ideas. Keep warm and snug. Kind regards. Elize :)
Thank you! and I so agree that even a trough can be daunting.
Another super interesting video. Thank you 🌼
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for your videos! I follow you from Madrid and my zone is also 9, so I get great tips.
Glad you like them!
Some great tips here, thank you. I like that pruning philosophy. I try to get things pruned in winter, but every year there seems to be something (last year it was a bum hip) that gets me off schedule. We must all do what makes sense, the best we can. Looking forward to seeing your new border in spring/summer. :)
Thank you! Hope your hip is better this year.
Really helpful video, Alexandra, and I quite like your meadow lawn :) The only thing I might add regarding winter pruning is if you have stone fruit trees, such as plum and cherry, don't prune until mid-summer. Otherwise, they can get silverleaf infections that will eventually kill the tree. I sadly made this tragic mistake in the past.
Oh, yes, you're so right and I usually remember to say! Thanks for adding it.
Alexandra, I've been wondering when you add your compost, rotted manure and any mulch, if it adds a lot of height to your beds or settles and if it ends up smothering any plants. I also hope you will take us on your design journey as you revamp your flower bed. Thank you. I enjoy your videos a lot.
Thank you! Adding compost and manure doesn't add height to the beds because it rots down. I think soil moves around generally, it breaks down, it settles, some may be blown around on the wind, you take some away when you weed and so on.
THANK YOU, Aleandra. NO ONE has ever said that before on any channel I have watched. When spring comes around, I'm too busy too busy to do those things I could have done in autumn. I prune in autumn. Period. I don't want to look at dead things all winter. I want the gardens to be clean and easy to weed in the spring. Also, I hate leaving leaves on the beds during the winter because in spring, I cannot always see the bulb shoots when I'm trying to clean-out the beds and I smash them. Thank you!!!!!
Thank you!
Your garden looks very good in winter. I'm planting more evergreens into the garden so that it's nice in winter as well.
Thank you!
I loved this video and seeing your garden!
Thank you!
Your videos really helped me this winter and last, when I first found them, to get through to spring. I'm in Manitoba so winter gardening is mostly shoveling snow and stratifying seeds.
Thankyou! It's funny how many of our summer gardens have similar plants and challenges but all our winters are so different.
It's refreshing the way you decide to change a design/layout if it simply doesn't please or work anymore. So many of us are hesitant about making a volte face decision about an established bed or even a larger element of our garden. May I be so bold as to suggest that I think your large border to the right of your parterre could take some quite sturdy medium to low height & mixed density evergreen shrubs to give a more enclosing/contrasting feel to your beautiful parterre ~ I feel that would help showcase its eye-pleasing classical symmetry :)
Thank you and I suspect you're absolutely right. I'm going to think about that, as I'm often very hesitant about making that sort of a decision too. I recently saw a lovely garden (Cloudehill in Australia) which had some splendid evergreen Chinese yews in a border. (the garden will be featured some time over the next few weeks).
Deer do a lot of my pruning here in Canada.
Me too! I need to move a hydrangea that they’ve already winter pruned for me. It needs a spot inside the fence; then maybe it will grow bigger than 12” 😋
I abandon my garden in the winter time, although I have winter interest it's not appealing to me
9:41 I pruned my hydrangeas yesterday, but am wondering if I’m removing the flower buds! Especially on the oak leaf hydrangeas… I’m in zone 7a.
@@judithdarsky2265 You should prune plant like those after they flowers in the Summer. That is the advice I got listening to Horttube with Jim Putman. Very knowledgeable he used to own a nursery
@@verawallace9055 oops. Thank you. I think I made a big mistake!
Lovely idea
I love your channel and all your videos thank you so much. I have a question, and that is: what can I grow together with and alongside very vigorous and fast growing creeping vines, I have a wall covered in thungbergia but i cant put anything near it because it will swallow any bush or small tree in no time and I would like to give her some company that she can’t climb or suffocate so easily. All I can think of right now would be iris but I’d like to know more ideas. Thank you so much 😊
Helpful advice!
So glad!
Thank you for this. I think I prefer a more formal front garden for a Georgian house, although I understand it is probably lass wildlife friendly. That would be a challenge to combine the two and reduce the need to cut grass on top!
I know what you mean!
Looking forward to what you do with the cleared out border. I have some purple crocus that my mom planted some 40 yrs ago blooming. They're all over, I'm thinking about moving some snow drops to mingle with those. Last early summer I throw some wildflower seeds in an area of my lawn along the road, nothing came of those. I'm going to try again, maybe those will pop this spring, and trying earlier will work better.
It's quite difficult for seeds to compete against established lawn, I've tried too, but with no success. Joel Ashton of the Wild Your Garden RUclips channel suggests planting 9cm high wildflowers if you want them in the lawn so they have a bit of a head start. But you never know, sometimes seeds can pop up years later if conditions change.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden
I love Joel, started watching him after you had him at your place. I did put compost down first, the wild Queen Ann's Lace pops up all over the yard. I let that do its thing out there, even had some beautiful soft pink blooms on some.
Your garden looks good. Mine is buried under snow
Have you ever thought about doing a video with one of the Bonsai guys, its this time of year they start to repot, which could also be interesting to people with other plants in pots, so you could get some great root pruning and planting tips, also some structure ideas too.
That's a good idea, thank you.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden GreenWoods is the big one, Herons is ok, the most well known, but does feel too brutal at times. There's a few smaller ones, i visit one just of the A3 called the bonsai shed, he doesn't have a social media presence though and you may not get as great or as many interesting visuals.
Hello Alexandra ~ we're getting close to the Equinox, so Spring can't be far behind here in the states. I'm so envious of your climate! 15" of snow still covers my farm and a freeze in my greenhouse killed everything, so I'm just now sowing cabbage and other plants. I love this video, your garden is beautiful. Do you have a designated vegetable garden?
Thank you! I do have a vegetable patch, but I am really hopeless at growing veg in it and when I used to feature it, people switched off! Every year, I say that this year will be different!
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden With the price of food, and the scarcity of certain foods, I think this year really will be different, by necessity.
I have my dahlias in ground and covered with straw. I live in Vancouver BC, 🇨🇦. When should I uncover them?
Once the last frosts are over. You should have a 'last frost date' for your area (you can put 'last frost date + name of a town' into Google. Or if the weather seems particularly good, you could take straw away from the crowns a bit earlier.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden thank you very much for your help ( I trust your advice 👋❤️)
I have such a hard time getting rid of plants, I feel sorry for the little under performers 😢😊😊
Me too! Although I am putting some in other parts of the garden.
I wonder if the reason the mini meadow isn't working is because the plant selection isn't the right scale. It's such a small area. What about a tapestry of multi colored blooming ground cover type plants mixed with short, clumping wispy "grass" textured plants?
I think you're probably right - and having it bordered quite formally with roses doesn't help. But the roses are very old and may well not last much longer, which would give me a chance to completely re-do the whole area (more endless dithering...)
Ladybirds overwinter in the dead flowers of my hydrangea so I leave them on until Spring has ready sprung
Nice observation, I must check mine!
👍💚
I dont think that mini meadow looks good at all but it was worth a try anyway...that would be good if you had 10 or 20 acres and threw out flower seeds along the way.
Do you have wood chips over there? Here in USA I took half my front lawn, laid down cardboard, then 4 to 5 inches of compost then fresh wood chips about 6 inch thick on top of that ..waited a yr, and now I have absolutely beautiful soil, underneath the wood chips, no weeds at all, its perfect soil! I have planted several fruit trees which have tripled in size since I bought them about over a yr ago. And I want to try to plant cabbage, and a few edible things, maybe potatoes..not sure. But I do have a bunch of trees that hide this area from the road, but with food so expensive, but also poor quality, you could maybe do something like that! To make all your land useful. You could grow mint, and rosemary, and mix in some beautiful perennials.
I love watching your channel, it inspires me to get out there! I've never really gone out in the gardens much in winter, but this winter I am so busy doing so much out there. I've pruned all my trees, planted more trees, planted some ivy ...having fun and enjoying watching real gardeners like you! Im in Washington state in the pacific northwest zone 8b....
Thank you and you sound like just as much a real gardener as I am. I'm sure your soil loved the wood chips and cardboard. It's nice to get sunlight in winter, too, even if there isn't much of it.
✂️🌱🌿🪴🌳THANKS ‼️
Thank you!