How to adapt English cottage garden style - tips from Bill Bampton of
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- How to create your own individual version of English cottage garden style, even if your climate or garden seems very different! At The Diggers Club's Heronswood garden in Australia, the style is a 'mashup' of English cottage garden and indigenous plants, using easy-to-grow plants that are available all over the world.
00:00 Welcome
00:18 The Diggers Club:www.diggers.com.au/
01:01 Start with what your site wants
01:24 Look at the form and function of the plants - what plants would be like a cottage garden plant?
02:30 Agaves offer structure, succulents offer lush green foliage - look at them in a different way.
03:01 Reducing irrigation - use appropriate plants
04:21 What plants grow well in windy dry conditions
05:26 Unusual combinations for cottage garden mashups
06:18 'Grounds, mounds and astounds' - Bill's approach to creating impact
07:20 The Diggers Club - cottage garden style and heritage seeds
11.07 Cottage garden landscaping - do it yourself with materials you have
13:54 How to create English cottage garden style video: • What is cottage garden...
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I very much like this video and the message it has!
I don't want some "style of garden"... I want MY garden with the plants I LIKE, no matter what kind of plants they are. Plants that like my soil and space, without me having to "cuddle" them with extra water and so on. And (very important to me) a garden that is useful for insects, birds and smal animals etx. :)
Wonderful to have you at Diggers and to read the responses from around the globe! Thank you for enjoying Bill and the Diggers approach. Everyone is welcome to visit! Keep well and enjoying your gardens.🌱
Thank you for hosting me, we so enjoyed meeting Bill and seeing round Heronswood.
How’s your day going with you Rachel?
So many Garden Nurseries have disappeared here in Australia. Diggers and Lambley are stand outs. I miss wandering around garden nurseries. Hate the Big Box. Sadly most of my plant buying is now online.
This is perfect for those of us in Southern California, where temps will reach 95F on Friday. I love traditional English garden flowers and plants, and one trick is to plant them where they receive sun in early morning, or late afternoon, but shade mid-day. Lavender, rosemary, sea lavender, roses, alyssum, clematis, do fine in part shade. Nasturtiums and freesias self-seed, and come up early in winter; they will be gone in a few weeks. Shrubs and trees will survive if they are well established before the weather heats up. Wisteria blooms here in February, and my huge, old hot pink bougainvilleas bloom off and on all year without being watered. Great advice from Australia (I love kangaroo paw flowers!!); with adaptations, we may still achieve our dreams. Thanks, Alexandra!
Thank you!
I watched on my phone first, but the plant pairings were so interesting that I turned on my laptop and watched again so I could appreciate the borders in all their glory. Beautiful! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Such an interesting video! Definitely agree with Bill, every gardener has to find their own groove. You can get ideas and inspiration from others, but in the end you have to do what works for you. That's part of the fun and excitement of gardening! Thanks for all you do :)
Thank you!
His last statement was so profound.
Sensational 💖 that garden for me typifies our Australian style.
Watching this gave me several lightbulbmoments.Thank You !!😃
Wonderful!
I grew a lot of those plants in Denver. Russian sage, Powis Castle artemesia and sedum grew happily on the hellstrip.
Great video Alexandra and thank you Bill for the very interesting content. Beautiful garden.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful! We've inadvertently created a cottage mashup through trial and error and observation of plants that thrive for our neighbors. I've always adored the English cottage garden style but our climate is quite different here. Thank you for sharing these "mashup" insights!
Thank you!
This was great! I actually love the message here! I realize too that I have a mash up garden process going on!! Why? Because I love plants!!! Lol! The weather must be a bit warm for you all today....no jackets! However, I am still wearing mine!
The weather has generally been all over the place, both in Australia and England. We've been in and out of jackets in a most confusing way. But that day was very pleasant weather.
I love this,and this is how I garden 😀
This is a great resource! I live in a mediterranean climate (Southern California in the United States), and a garden of any appreciable size takes a lot of water to maintain. I love some of these ideas, and I’m going to see if I can implement them!
Thank you!
I thoroughly enjoyed this visit, Alexandria! 🙃🌱💮🌿
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loooove this interview! What a fresh and inspiring take on gardening. I love the hardscaping they've created and his reassurances to create something rather than trying to recreate a photo from a magazine.
This has given me a number of ideas for my garden. It is great to see these videos of you in Australia. I live in Sydney but will be travelling to near the Mornington Peninsula in May. A visit to Heronswood will be on the agenda. Thanks, Alexandra.
Thank you!
Exactly what's happening in our backyard due to ongoing California drought--a mash-up or mixed garden styles. Thanks for this insightful video!
Our pleasure!
I'm in the UK, so no idea why I'm watching. But wow the gardens featured here are stunning
It's almost the same climate (marginally warmer winters) and many of the same plants! Thank you!
I love Herronswood! Was a member decades ago and I loved touring their gardens! Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for visiting Alexandra!
Glad you enjoyed it
I’m in Tasmania in Australia and this is very inspirational and insightful, wonderful presentation and I’ve learnt an awful lot, thank you for this informative video
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Well this is awesome! I have a few different types of sedum...I have three upright: firecracker, autumn Joy The other I don't know it was given to me as a gift but it grows half the height of autumn joy with bright pink flowers. I keep them planted together with my denim n lace because I know that they don't like a lot of maintenance to them but I think I'm going to experiment and try to plant them among my other plants because I love the growth habit of upright sedum. Sorry that was a long comment 😀 but thank you so much Alexandria and Bill for the inspiration!!!! 🥰👍🏾
Thank you!
Love, love this garden and information in this video.
Thanks so much!
Lovely content friend ❤️ thank you for sharing!
Thank you too
Love this video 😍 very special to me: I have been there in January with family, who is living in that area, we had lunch, I hope you didn't miss out on their scones! 😊 My aunty bought me Erin Benzakein's book which I bought back with me all the way to Germany, it is looking at me from the coffee table, while I watch your video and remember the nice time. 🤗Greetings, Judit 🙋
Thank you! I didn't manage the scones, but the coffee was delicious.
I loved the idea of using vegetables as a form of adornment and color. What a clever video idea. This was great
Thanks so much! 😊
Really brilliant. Clever, individualistic approach to deliver something unique. Agave used like Cardoon. Magic
So right! Bill compared it to topiary, which is also good, but cardoon is perfect.
Simply outstanding presentation!
Thank you!
Hi! I am thrilled to see a video of this type for the Southern Hemisphere. I live in a similar climate over in NZ and my garden already has many of these plants - it’s great to know I can work with these to create a ‘cottage’ feel. I’ve recently mass-planted nasturtium seedlings for their stunning green foliage and they don’t need too much water. Thank you for this great video 🌷
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank-you so much for this video! As time goes on I have planted more Mediterranean plants such as : sedums, nepeta, yuccas not because they were part of my plan but because they were so reliable. My plan was not so much English Garden style but I have not had luck with some of the plants I desired such as delphiums, foxglove, lobelia, and primroses. My windy, south slope would just bake them in the summer. So I have stuck with just plants that are known to thrive here. This gentleman really spoke to my heart. It is all about how they are combined that makes a beautiful garden, not what plants are in it.
It is, i agree.
This was so encouraging and inspirational! As I have commented before, my goal is to have mostly native plants, but I'd love it if more of my like-minded "diggers" would realize while we might choose to embrace some limitations in terms of choices, it shouldn't come to the point it feels like "a garden of tolerance and suffering" as Mr. Bampton put it. Being too strict kills the joy of gardening. I will choose a native Hydrangea over a hybridized one, an Amelanchier or Redbud in place of a Callery Pear, and an Inkberry Holly rather than a Boxwood, and Coral Trumpet Honeysuckle instead of an introduced Clematis...but I will also plant daffodils next to the Virginia Bluebells and Cosmos and Verbenas among the native sunflowers and phloxes, just because they make me happy. Thank you for another brilliant video!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I like the sound of your plantings.
I share in your ideas, and love all you said. How true. I LOVE planting natives, and my heart is all there....but I choose to also keep a few favorites to go alongside here and there to supplement. Gardening is an art really, and we have to enjoy it too. Wishing you the best as you explore native gardening in ways that make you truly happy. Paula
@@pauladentebetz739 How kind of you, thank you! This will be my 3rd growing season after converting my tiny front yard to "mostly" natives, so I'm looking forward to the "leap" part in "perennials sleep their first year, creep the second, and leap the third". Wishing you an excellent time gardening this year!
Very helpful information for this Texas gardener. Thank you Alexandra.
Glad it was helpful!
Great tips, thanks for sharing. I am enjoying the journey in creating my cottage garden here in Lesotho, southern Africa, the mashup style is what i am following. Thank you very much
Brilliant! Thank you.
Very inspiring
A most interesting and inspiring. I live in a hot area with about six months of the year very hot, but milder cold winters.
The main challenge is to find plants that can survive the heat, yet do well in the heavy clay soil.
I have tried to amend the soil with compost and soil conditioners but it seems like the heavy clay just turns the amendments into clay anyway. We also deal with poor drainage in our small yard.
We do have some drains in the backyard but they don’t really help much. Our homes are close in our neighborhood and my neighbor’s yard behind us is about four feet higher that us and heavy rains or wet periods their yard drains into ours. Water always seeks to go downward.
I do have three city’s plant in the higher planter type areas that we created by adding a low wall to allow us to have a bit more yard space. It seem my hardship challenges in getting the soil to be more loamy. Most plants don’t like wet feet, or hard/ gooey soil that gets hard.
I read that this area about one hundred years ago hard a clay brick factory. Yes that is what my yards soil is like, bricks! But I like this video and the ides presented. I always wanted a traditional
English like garden. Thank you for this encouraging video.
Thank you! that does sound like challenging soil, good luck
Wow, brilliant video, amazing garden 💚 Thank you! Even though my climate is completely different, it opens up a whole new way of looking at things.
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that.
We are in a terrible drought, so I have been able to see which plants are still doing well. I generally pick hardy plants, but now I can see who is extra hardy. This Spring and last I filled my borders with "mounds" (nepeta, perovskia, lavender) and then added "astounds" (iris, roses). I used to not like iris that much, because of the short bloom time. Since moving here I have changed my mind about it. It also works as a ground cover for me. This was another great video!
Thank you. And I so agree with you about iris, and the spiky leaves do add something even when not in flower.
What a view!
Great interview. My favorite plants are the ones that thrive in our difficult Oklahoma climate. Discovering which ones is part of the fun
It is!
I hv been doing cottage garden w/o even knowing that's what it's called, lol..I receive so many compliments every yr. I have recently added various amaranth, gosh, it's beautiful. Cosmos too have added beauty as well as dwarf butterfly bush plus many more too numerous to mention.
That sounds beautiful
Welcome back to Victoria Alexandra, I live about an hour away from Heronswood, such a lovely garden, I have adopted the “cottage garden mash up” for my garden, works so well for our climate, thank you so much for showing this beautiful garden.
Thank you! Sadly, I'm back in England now but so enjoyed my visit, you live in a beautiful place
Thank you for this unique garden tour!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I so agree with their approach.
Very beautiful and inspirational ❤️
Ah, thank you!
I'm so glad I found your channel
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Thank you!
Very interesting loved the gardens. So true that Mother Nature is the best gardener Don’t fight your place but go with the flow
So true!
I was trying to comprehend the fact that you're in Australia at the moment! 😁
I was! But am back in UK now - there's usually a bit of time lag between shooting the video and putting it out..
This is such great advice. Thank you for sharing I recently infused some hardy hibiscus in our Highline inspired border in wetter spots for color in the late summer and structure in the winter. Why not? In the end this is New England. This is a plant that is native here, not the tropics
Sounds great!
That’s me! Mash up from Florida 9b!
Wonderful information and video!! Really enjoyed this 🌞
Glad you enjoyed it!
Alexandra, I LOVE your content!!!
Thank you so much! I appreciate that.
Very interesting and inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed it
I like the idea of a xeriscaped garden and am working on creating that in my secret garden. In calif 9b we are typically in drought summers so i feel it best to challenge myself in creating something beautiful that once mature can live independently.
Very good strategy.
Thank you for this, Alexandra. I’ve been back in my childhood digs in southern New England these last 20 years, but have fought in other climates to grow the favorite flowers I remembered. It really is a losing battle, and so I think all the experiences and concepts your guest shared are right on point. Even for plants that thrive in my area, I have to consider the howling winter gales that blow across the river and funnel up the cove to blast my garden. I have a frost pocket here as well that needs account. For all that, it makes this a spot that is like nowhere else, and - as I learned - cannot be exactly replicated elsewhere. Sometimes we have to content ourselves with enjoying other gardens while being satisfied with our own. 🌷🌷🌷
Absolutely!
We need a book from the Diggers Club - this man is amazing!
There are some here, though a cottage garden one would be good, I agree!www.diggers.com.au/collections/diggers-books-and-guides
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thanks for this!
Loved this video the best! Trying to plant a picture perfect cottage garden isn’t always easy. I love this approach to cottage gardening where you are pleased with free growing plants and not so staged.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A most interesting video.
Thank you!
I really appreciated this interview.
I wanted an English cottage garden around my farmhouse.
But its zone 3 in ssskatchewan Canada. Many of my seedlings failed before or after planting due to the gumbo soil and harsh spring.
I moved my plants in and out of the cold frames so often that I mixed them all up and lost labels. Many plants I've never grown before.
So I just rammed in everything I had in no particular order . Then I will see what grows , self seeds and comes back next year !
It's always an exciting journey, isn't it?
Stunning garden! And great video. I also agree with the advice of doing what is right for you and as a new gardener who bought most of his plants before starting to follow garden designers, it is a relief to hear. Sometimes I imagine that if a professional designer was to come into my garden, they would think it's got an identity crisis: I love flowering Asian plants (e.g. flowering quinces, clematis) but also shrubs which carry berries (e.g. gaultheria mucronata - which originates from South America) and then I also have some native British trees e.g. hazel. I have of course made many mistakes, but I do not count the mix of styles as one of them. I love them all and I refuse to be tied to one continent ;-)
Sounds excellent!
This was wonderful! Thank you!
Really do think the word you were both looking for was RUSTIC!?
thank you for such a informative and interesting video!
Excellent word!
Fabulous great information 🌸🐝
How’s your day going with you Daisee?
Loved this video very interesting 👌
Glad you enjoyed it!
If you are in Australia for a bit you should try to get to see Diggers other Gardens , one in the highlands at Cloudehill Olinda and St Erth. Both are gorgeous gardens.
I agree, I did see them both a few years ago, but didn't have time when I was over this year. But definitely for the future!
Loved this video! Thank you. The thing about these inspirational videos that I find lacking is that there is never any mention about pathways (and how to achieve the Heronswood ones in particular), nor the type of mulch used in the borders. These are what I’d really be interested in learning about. The odd glimpse into the beds at Heronswood shows that gravel has been used instead of traditional pine bark mulch, etc. I’d love to know what size gravel was used, what type and the depth. I couldn’t see any drip irrigation lines through the beds either, and this is another area I’d love to hear more about. Are the beds mounded? Has agricultural cloth been installed under the decomposed granite paths? How do they manage weeds on the paths and in the beds? Would love a video that covers all these questions that us home gardeners always want to know more about. 🙏
Thanks!
Thank you!
Beautiful and interesting. I'm intrigued about the see through plastic? wrapped around the tree in the background at 10. 37.
Phlox love my heavy clay soil. SE England in Kent.
Wouldn’t be without them.
Would love to learn to propagate them.
Salvia of every kind! Stunning variety selections.
Also wouldn’t be without climbers they can be so helpful especially if In mid summer, if there’s a plant that doesn’t do much. For eg. I grow clematis over camellia. Group 3 so it can be cut down after
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Ita too bad there isn't a garden tour, I live in a northern desert and it's hard to find similar environments to draw inspiration from
Did they have any Eryngium or Echinops that you noticed? I've noticed a few Autumn Joy Sedums in your videos. Are there any other tall garden sedums that you're familiar with or would recommend?
Whilst jnteresting to dome, fif me thus is of no jnterest. I live in the UK and want to identify with your films, which are mostly, wonderful.
Funnily enough, you've probably got more in common with this garden than you do with a garden in the Cotswolds - or even a garden in West Kent. Many - or even most - of the plants grown at Heronswood also grow in Whitstable - and I know that because I live about ten minutes away, and visit Whitstable frequently. The issues this garden is dealing with are drought, wind and a coastal location, all of which we have to deal with here, although like Heronswood, we benefit from a relatively mild winter and fewer frosts than many other parts of the UK.
Yes, what Bampton says is true, but there is no comparison with the real cottage garden with all its colors. It's definitely the best they can do but there is no game at all.
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Cant say need to know much about hot nations and plants to suit as im in a cold nation so need that sort of what will suit in plantings .Nice effort in the Diggers garden but Ill never make any thing like it so not much help dear is it
This area has similar summer temperatures as the UK, although the winters are milder (relatively few frosts). I think your summers are probably hotter, though the winters very much colder.
A cottage garden is called that for specific reasons. Therefore, if it's not those reasons and those plants then it's just what we call "a garden". People are so over-sensitive these days. It's the fluoride poisoned water, they say.