Our Gorgeous Bulb Container Garden Tour, Great Dixter Flower Joy & Wildflower Woods in May

Join us for the early May tour of our small space garden, along with a flower-filled visit to gorgeous Great Dixter and a wander through English woodland carpeted with wildflowers. At the start of the month, it’s the patio containers of tulips, wallflowers and aquilegia offering the greatest colour impact, but the pristine white lilac is also reaching its zenith, apple blossom buds are finally opening their soft pink petals, and birds and bees are busy going about their beautiful business. We garden in Kent, South East England, Zone 8. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed to our channel and sending our best wishes for flowerful times and nature-soothed minds.
For more information from Great Dixter Charitable Trust: www.greatdixter.co.uk
Videos from our visits to Great Dixter:
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* CHAPTERS *
0:00 Intro & Welcome to our Tour
2:15 Tulip ‘Mistress’, ‘Princess Irene’ & ‘Negrita’
5:04 Great Dixter gorgeous as always
10:09 Rosa ‘Mary Delany’
11:12 Acorus gramineus ‘Ōgon’
12:54 Aquilegia ‘Spring Magic White’
14:16 ‘No Mow May’ & Bellis Perennis
16:00 English Bluebell Hyacinthoides Non-Scripta
19:00 Wild Garlic Allium Ursinum
20:08 Self Seeding Plants
22:02 Thank You!
* ATTRIBUTIONS *
‘Great Dixter’ Chapter:
Title: Vase of Flowers (Pink Background)
Artist: Odilon Redon French
ca. 1906
Credit Line: Bequest of Mabel Choate, in memory of her father, Joseph Hodges Choate, 1958
Met Open Access
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Title: Bouquet of Flowers
Artist: Odilon Redon (French, Bordeaux 1840-1916 Paris)
Date: ca. 1900-1905
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George B. Post, 1956
Met Open Access
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No Mow May’ Chapter:
Daisy High Res Image (Original image modified in our animation)
With thanks to Adalia Botha on Unsplash

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Wonderful, wonderful, thank you so much! Here in PEI, only the crocuses and grape hyacinths are blooming... the rest is yet to come.

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Thank you so much and enjoy all your gorgeous spring flowers yet to come.

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[@kotsifou]

I was rejoicing to no end because I finally got the first sprout of my anemones in pots until this morning when I saw it completely munched to the stem most probably by a slug. Just devastating for me as poppies and anemones are my favourite spring flowers. My aquilegias, on the other hand, are doing just fine like yours. We are more behind here in central Germany than you; we're colder here than in Kent but slowly getting there. Thanks again for your inspiring content!!

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Those hungry slugs have no idea of the heartbreak their appetites can cause! We hope the rest of your poppies and anemones escape unharmed and bring you much joy. With thanks and sending our best wishes from Kent to central Germany.

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I was hoping you would go to Dixter this spring. Thanks for sharing!

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So happy you enjoyed the Dixter magic with us!

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Sending our best wishes!

[@wendybartlett6717]

I've just watched a video about Great Dixter so it was lovely to see your footage. Your garden is looking so beautiful. It always does!

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[@AnnaT.54]

Absolutely lovely! I'm really curious to know what you use to fill the big containers and do they have drainage holes? Do you put the plants in plastic pots first?

[@ApplePeaFernSea]

Thank you so much! Several of the largest patio containers have inner plastic pots of spring bulbs, so that size-matched pots of agapanthus and salvias can be rotated in when at their best over summer. Their roots love the extra moisture from the layer of compost/soil beneath the secondary plastic pot, and all plastic and ornamental containers have drainage holes (although we put blu tack over the holes in dry spells, to retain moisture when watering).

[@AnnaT.54]

@@ApplePeaFernSea Thank you very much !
This makes sense to me and I'll try your method in the summer.