Planting château flowers VIKING STYLE | Queen's Escape
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- We wanted to plant a few flower beds with some peonies and tulips. How hard can it be, right? HARD. We must have the toughest, rockiest, back-breakingist soil that ever there was. The limestone cliffs behind our castle should have been a tip-off. So, we couldn't do it with shovels or the tiller. No. We needed the BIG DADDY DIGGER! And lucky for us, one of our new French farmer neighbors was nice enough to lend us his. Figuring out how to turn it on is where the adventure began. :D
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Hi! You may want to also consider planting bushes that have a longer bloom time. I'd suggest hydrangeas if you're looking for flowers. Hydrangeas bloom all summer and then provide winter interest when you leave on the spent blooms. Your peonies (one of my favorites!) only have blooms for about two weeks, then they are just green for the rest of the summer, and die to the ground in fall. The green of the peony leaves in summer can be a wonderful backdrop for maybe some cosmos or other flowering perennials for summer?
The tulips will bloom before your peonies and really won't last for years -- best to plant daffodils (narcissi) in beds as they will naturalize and spread. These days daffodils come in a gazillion pastel shades, not purples, but beautiful creams and peachy shades. Best to use tulips as an annual. A suggestion: (you're going to hate me for this) dig up the tulips and plant them together with the muscari in your planters. You don't have to worry about spacing -- for seasonal containers it won't matter. It will create a beautiful and significant show in those planters for spring.
Were there drain holes in those planters? If not, your bulbs could rot! Drilling some holes around the bottoms won't be noticeable and will benefit the bulbs and anything you plant in the future. Also, try to avoid planting bulbs in straight lines like soldiers -- better to plant five to seven bulbs here and there or in a swath -- much more natural looking, imho.
If you want some inspiration for planting a beautiful garden I'd recommend watching Claus Dalby's channel here on the RUclips. Not only are his garden rooms spectacular, his containers are just magnificent! His spring tulip show is to die for!!!!! He does them on a HUGE scale but WOW!
Love your project! Cheers from North Carolina
So appreciate your detailed ideas. Can hydrangeas take full sun? I love your ideas.
And yes. Planters have drain holes and rocks in. 😄
@@queensescape Limelight Prime Hydrangeas can. They bloom white and turn pink in fall.
@@queensescape yes! Many varieties are available that take full sun. I live in NC, so ours need respite from sun in the afternoons or they wilt. In your location, "Annabelle" (Hydrangea arborescens) would work. I wish I could have them, but it's just too hot here (we rarely are below 80° at night in summer).
I love agapanthus plants too. Though you need to check the rules in your area as some view them as weeds, they grow so well.
Its a kill switch. Farmers install them in inconspicuous places to stop their machines from being stolen.
It takes 12 months to build up soil. Your patience will be rewarded. Lots of compost and manure
I think your flowers will look beautiful, tulips bloom every spring but don't last very long. Someone suggested hydrangeas, the thing about them is they don't tolerate direct sun very well, they do better in filtered shade. God Bless you on your renovation journey. Kathy 🇺🇸
Crossing my fingers for you. I’m not a gardener but I admire their dedication and the results!
You may find that if you get into gardening more, it is a kind of reflection time, relaxing in and of itself, because nothing else is on your mind. Love the area you live in, it really looks scenic. What a place to wake up to and work amongst.
I can recommend the garden answer youtube channel❤
You both learned new skills. Good job with the digger. Yes gardening is hard work when your new to it but after time when you see the rewards you may find yourself enjoying it more.
Karen, I can’t wait to see them in the spring. The chateau is going to look beautiful!
The round planters will look great when the bulbs bloom. I hope the planters have drainage holes in the bottom, or else the bulbs will rot from too much water. They came surrounded by sawdust to keep dry.
Yes. Drainage holes ✔️
Great job, looking forward to seeing it at flowering time. I agree with comments below, the peonies only flower for a couple of weeks so you will want more flowers and roses would be lovely!
My darling mum used to tell me "don't think of it as stony, think of it as well drained soil!" made it much easier for me 😃💜
To late now probably but planters dry out quickly - if you use baby diapers in the planters at the bottom they hold the water - doesn’t mean don’t water but will keep the longevity of your plants in the planters 👍🏻
That’s genius
Muscari or grape hyacinths are useful as edging plants, spread very easily, once corms bigger, can be dug out,divided, and replanted to grow on.
Great job. It's hard work, but you will forget that when you see the beautiful results. It teaches us delayed pleasure is worth the wait. Thank you for sharing. Look forward to a visual update.
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Regarding the muscari, they will propagate and spread in a lovely, naturalized manner. They are better suited for a bed, rather than a planter. Also, they bloom only in the spring. Perhaps plant a few things in the beautiful pots that will bloom longer and successively throughout your growing season.
Peonies are one of my favorites! They only bloom for a few weeks, so you might want to consider adding other plants to your lovely beds. Think conceptually of a "growing season"...plants that bloom early spring, late spring, summer, fall, etc, so something is always blooming. Don't be alarmed when your peonies die back to the ground and seem to disappear. They aren't dead!
Yes it Is Hard Work gardening You Did Well For The First Time It is The Best Time Now Because Sow Is Still Warm 🏰🙏💕🌱
One thing you might want to do is to put down mulch several inches deep to keep the weeds from regrowing and the soil from drying out quickly.
What a great start to the garden. Bearded iris and lavender would also do well there and standard roses would add some height and flower after the peony. Iceberg is a hardy white rose that flowers for a long time and might look nice for the wedding season.
Given your preference for pink shades you can get pink lavender which would lovely with the stone wall behind
LOL OMG I saw another channel about a year back who had the same issue for starting a digger. I was thinking as you spoke, I wonder if there is a starter button! Glad you figured it all out! Nice to have your family helping out. With all those bulbs the gardens should look amazing!
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So true.
In the pots geraniums may work for summer. Holes in bottom of planters for drainage. Good luck and yes it is hard work 😅
You should stop calling it a castle. You're in France now and it's called chateau 😀
There are lots of château’s that don’t look like castles. Turrets = castle to us.
Don’t forget to water once everything is planted
I did. 😊 But I really appreciate you reminding me.
@@queensescape it’s the one step I always miss and then wonder what happened. Your garden is looking great
All the spring flowers will be lovely! Well done
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I planted Peonies bulbs this spring they are up and hopefully will flower at some stage . Just a idea standard Rose's and then Bush rises along the back of both sides if the walls would also look gorgeous too . Tulip are neat planted in mass plantings . It's going to look fabulous.
I appreciate these knowledgeable tips so much.
Peonies take 2-3 years to establish before they'll bloom. Remember to stake up the stalks so they don't fall over. Those blossoms can be really heavy
I would suggest shrubs or short evergreens for the back of the borders. There are some evergreen azaleas that can take sun. Hollies would look great too and would add winter interest with the red berries. Peony's can live for years and years. Sarah Bernhardt is one of my favorites. Roses will bloom from May to October. You might look into David Austin's English Roses. They are stunning and huge. The Muscari (grape hyacinth), like tulips, only bloom for a very short time in the spring. You might want to think about annuals for your planters. Geraniums are wonderful.
Also, the right tools are very important. Instead of sitting in the dirt like that, get a little rolling cart to sit on. Much easier on your back and bum. I have 2. One is strong plastic and has storage in the seat for hand tools. The other is more heavy duty, no storage but is metal and has a farm tractor like seat on it with larger wheel. These carts are also really helpful when painting baseboards. Seriously great to have them. You also could get an actual for this work. I like the small blade like this one on Amazon. I don't know if this particular one is good or not. The size of the blade is what I like. Fiskars 96685935J Shovel, Black
As for planting bulbs, I use an auger bit in my cordless Dewalt drill. So much faster.
Your comment was chock full of info I wanted. Thank you for taking the time.
Your tulips are such a lovely color! My one suggestion is to not necessarily plant them in a straight line...think how plants tend to grow in nature, which is in clumps or drifts. You might think of keeping them in the front of the beds since they aren't tall, but doing random clumps of 3, 5 or 7 (odd numbers seem more natural). Your tulips will naturalize and spread through the years. I'm not sure if your tulips are early-, mid-, or late-blooming. They will only last a few weeks and bulbs are such lovely harbingers of spring! It would be nice to add some taller perennials in the back behind the peonies (don't be alarmed when you see ants on them, they assist with blooming). It's also nice to plant flowers that attract pollinators like butterflies and honeybees...even hummingbirds! Best of luck, you are off to a great start!
Yes! I want to put taller ones in the back.
Gardening is difficult! Next time you order, check out day lillies! They multiply every year, you don't have to dig them up often to divide and years of colorful flowers for decades! You just can't kill them. Be sure to check out many sites before ordering. There are so many colors, fragrances, and rebloomers! Get what you like and enjoy! They come back every year! No work flowers are what I prefer! Your flower beds will be beautiful in the spring but what about after spring? Daylilies will add color from spring through summer!
We do appreciate these tips. Day Lillies ✅
The muscari blooms don’t last very long. If you put them in the ground, they will multiply like crazy. I had them and they became a nuisance. You might want to plant a sun loving foundation plant since the peonies and tulip blooms don’t last very long.
Yes. I've got them outside in the planters so the spreading is limited. Thank you for this. I was thinking roses to fill out the flower garden. :)
Bulbs are beautiful especially in spring and early summer. However to have a beautiful garden all summer you will need some additional foundation plants like roses or flowering shrubs. A perennial garden takes some time to establish but you only do it once. Get some advice and help from a local garden centre. It will be totally worth it
I appreciate this advice. I was wondering if roses had a place with the peonies. I think I'll pull in the garden center this spring. Thank you.
Hope you don’t mind me saying this but you might wanna consider doing composting the soil there is very sandy rocky as you mentioned but if you look at some of your other neighbours in the Normandy area they collect lots of grass manure etc. etc. put it in piles straight and they get large volumes of compost which is a really rich dirt🇨🇦
Yeah. We need a better solve.
Roses also grow very well to provide flowering all summer as well as height in the beds. I hope you have wild daffodils in the forest.
Suggestionn sun loving flowers and plants and very French would be roses of all hues ,herbs especially lavender and rosemary but all herbs
Wow it is really all coming together and the garden will be amazing in the spring when all of those bulbs make their debut! Well done and good for you for learning to use that digger!!!
Don’t bury the nubs on peonies. You might want to take the dirt away to expose them. It takes about 3 years for peonies to establish and flower. They get big and are easy to keep. They are best planted at the back as they get about 1 metre high and 1 metre wide.
Hi from Denmark. I would like to know more about your life, how you meet, how you got to the chateau.
We are going to do a little video on that over the holidays. 😊
Good on you for giving gardening a go. If all goes well you’ll have lovely flowers come spring/ summer 👍
It is really neat being able to experience so many things that are new to you. Great job. I hope your flowers are all beautiful!
You guys are amazing! You don’t know how to do something? Learn and then do it!,!
Your garden will be gorgeous! Love the colors you're choosing 🌷
You must be exhausted. Well done for doing such a great job!
All the guys seem to fall in love with their diggers. Great job 👏🏻 🎉
Hahaha! Truth.
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I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this but consider annuals (petunia's, geraniums, greenery, etc.) in your urn planters. Once the bulb's bloom has run its course, it dies back and the planters flowers will need replacing. So save yourself the work. Then as fall comes, just dig out the plants, leave the dirt, sprinkle a smidge of fertilizer in it & wait for spring to plant again.
I'm guessing you do get cold there in the winter & those planters will freeze through. Keep the bulbs for the in-ground planting. Yes, the ground will freeze but it's 'insulated' in a way.
Hope everything will still work out.
I have heard it before but repetition helps me and that is one of the most genius tips I got, so thank you. Smart.
Someone suggested hydrangeas and I would agree that they would make lovely additions, but with this caveat... given you mentioned how hot it gets in the summer, please know that while they do love sun, hydrangeas will wilt easily in hot temps without regular watering...to the point where they could actually die. If this spot gets full sun, it might not be the best spot. You might consider planting where they get early morning to early mid-day sun, with afternoon shade (meaning east facing). Find out your growing zone and select plants accordingly.
It’s full sun, full heat, so no hydrangeas. They were my first choice.
I started a big garden here in Greece a couple of years ago. We must have a similar climate. Roses are the way forward as they're low maintenance and suit your architecture. Your soil looks very depleted. I do chop and drop. Just lay grass clippings, leaves, and green waste on top of the soil. The worms will love it and do the digging for you. Plus it will end up like mulch and keep the weeds down.
Great tip! Bo flies to Athens often. He always brings olive oil and sometimes oranges. Just lovely! Thank you.
A little late now but maybe next year when you peonies start to grow you could add some rose bushes, they will fill in the gaps, add a beautiful scent, and prolong your flowering period. 🌹🌹
I want to plant rose bushes. Love them.
Almost nothing makes a person more happy than ridning on a garden tractor after figuring out, how to start it 😂 No stress - pure happiness!
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Consider going to local gardens and nurseries for inspiration and which flowers or plants will thrive in your area. Gardening is an ongoing learning experience however once you start you will never regret.
I’m so anxious to know more. 😊😊
Great job researching! Planting can be so fun! But if the farmer s manure ….make sure to let it sit for over a year and then put in on the beds.
Great tip. Thank you.
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Complimenti per la proprietà e per l'amore che dedicate al vostro progetto. Adoro i fiori che hai piantato però hanno una fioritura breve e il fogliame è poco decorativo.Qualche piccolo arbusto avrebbe decorato l'aiuola anche in inverno. Un piccolo consiglio disinteressato. Buon proseguimento
Your advice is very much appreciated. You can tell this is my first time. 😉 I was hoping to plant some more in the flower beds this year to solve the issue you’re talking about, so if you have any ideas on types of shrubbery, I’d love an informed opinion. Thank you. 😊
Peony roots need good drenage soil under them.
I am praying they come up.
what a long talk
😂 Yes, it was.