Thanks for all the time and effort you have put in to making these videos and thanks for the poem it did bring a tear to my eye as I lost my mum when I was 8 years old now 68. A stiff reminder of how vitally important a mother is. Cheers, Ean.
There is something about you, telling that the budgetfriendly home garden hasn´t the same dirt quality seen in these expensive produced BBC productions where everyone wonders who the hell had been digging up before the presenters plant some bulbs/shrubs/trees. Every time I watch these, I´m screaming and complaining about my f... hard clay soil! Thanks for keeping gardening real, this is what I love about you. Please, tell Amanda that I´m so sorry for her loss, I´d lost my mother 2 weeks before Christmas some years ago. Your poem was spot on, left me in tears, the intro with "..words fail me..." did as well. Thanks for taking us along your garden journey, you´ve accomplished so much in such short amount of time! Best wishes, Hanni.
To beat hard clay soil for good====> Start introducing bits of tree bark with a border fork. NO WOOD only bits of the bark. Come back and post here after you test this.
That was so helpful, the best explanation ever of training apple and pear trees. Your no nonsense approach to clem planting I will definitely follow.🤗👍👏🏼
Always enjoy your videos Malcolm. Really looking forward to the ones in the future, grafting etc. Your poem was beautiful. So sorry for your loss Amanda💕
Learnin more now that he’s retired. Can hardly wait till the next video, if I ever make it across the pond I long to visit Eggleston and the river Tees and see what all the fuss is about.
Oh my god Malcom you’ve worked so hard .It’s really coming on . It’ll be nice to see the workshop (shed) 😁 I also noticed some snowdrops in flower yesterday ,but my garden is walled so a bit warmer . Give Amanda my love and condolences 💐 in time she’ll remember her with a smile and not with sorrow .Lovely poem 🥲 look forward to next time 😊 ET
Hi from Australia (tho a Kentish Lass). Thank you for some invaluable info, plus laughter. Your thumbs are green, language blue, teaching pure gold🤣 You and Sabrina Hann, an equally knowledgeable, blunt and funny horticulturalist and on ABC radio Perth 720 AM Sat weekly with Roots and Shoots, should start yarning together. I would love to hear you two imparting information to us amateurs. 1 of her fav sayings to callers trying to save plants get's me every time, "nah, it's buggered" And she hates palm trees, good luck with advice on cocos palms 😅 Cheers from a recent fan. Always a gently meandering journey in your videos. The poem was lovely, condolences. The end words made me spit my tea out, priceless 🤣🤣🤣
So looking forward to this! Everything looks great! Retirement is keeping you busy, and fit. We enlarged our pond last year and have really enjoyed it. Condolences to Amanda, that is a tough one.
"Oh no! Not more fuckin' Snow Drops" Planted some in the fall and hope to be able to say the same in a few years. Sending condolences to Amanda. Such a sweat sole she is. The garden certainly is evolving nicely Malcolm. Bravo!
I hope you planted them in the green BonsEYE…….snowies don’t do well from dry bulbs….nearly always disappointing so if they fail it won’t be anything you did. I went over to Eggleston last week and gave them a hand digging some for potting up…..moving them now is about the perfect time. In some parts of the country “snowdrop rustling” has become big business (I really am not joking) Same with Bluebells and the winter aconite really…..I should have an understanding of why they don’t work dry…..but I don’t. Hopefully yours will be ok. Very best wishes….Malcolm
@@plantsmanscorner128 Nah, I planted them dry mid November here in Scarborough ON Canada where they're currently sleeping under about 2 feet of snow. On a whim I wanted to try giving some life to a forested section here. I didn't get most them in the ground and ended up putting them in pots in the garage. On the other hand I had hundreds of overgrown Muscari which I dug up and transplanted alongside the snowdrop bulbs. Somethings bound to pop up in Spring......in 53 days! Well thanks to you... now I know what to do next time. :)
I spent a year living in Scarborough in the early 70s…lived in Hill crescent. Still got my Ontario chauffeurs driving licence. First and only time I got sprayed by a skunk that was stuck in the garage……I’d only just arrived and thought it was a cat…..I thought skunks were American. I wasn’t that bright even then.
Thank you so much, Malcolm, for taking us along with you as you create such a special garden. In one of your recent videos you mentioned how much you were enjoying using the American style shovel. Being an American, I just assumed such a shovel was common everywhere. Don't know if you're familiar with them, but there are a couple of other digging tools that I haven't seen you use - the mattock-axe and the digging bar. These are two of the first tools I reach for when I'm about to do some digging in soil with roots and rocks.
My sympathies to Amanda for her loss. That’s the worst thing.❤️ For happier things: the terrible hilarious frog thing must have been from somebody important or it wouldn’t have commanded such a significant position. Ha . Your apical dominance demo was great. Ah, I planted my Acer griseum seeds and the flats are in plastic spring mix bins with a board on top to keep them from blowing away. They are under my canoe so they won’t get baked if sun shines on them.. But somebody just said not to let them get too cold. Some nights it’s been down to -5°F or maybe more. Is this too cold? Are they better off in a fridge? Love your videos - truly there is nothing better to watch - your garden is getting better by the minute! 💚💚💚
My thoughts are with Amanda for her very sad loss. We lost our darling mum on 2nd Nov. She was 87 yrs young, the happiest and kindest person you could ever meet. Than you Malcolm for your beautiful poem. I really appreciated it, and I am sure Amanda will love it as well ❤️ Your garden is looking amazing, loved to see the troughs being planted up. Im afraid i am a fair weather gardener lately, not a great fan of wet slippy grass! I will be back out as soon as we get some good dry days.
Oh God , you crack me up. If I lived near you I would give you free labor just to hang around and hear your stories. Looking forward to your next very informative video.
After you, I like to watch Bunny Guinness. She's also down to earth with lots of good info, and tho' she has plenty of money to throw at the garden, she does get her hands dirty. I have watched other You Tubers in the past, all aged 50 something, always moaning about getting old. I love my garden and just get on with it, (not that I know what I'm doing) despite being nearly 20yrs older. So thank you for sharing. You are my mentor. 👍🙏
I like Bunny Guineas…..I find her approach really no nonsense…….I moan about getting old when I find it difficult to get my leg over a stile….or anything come to that…..or get up from kneeling down without making some kind of groaning noise…..it’s pathetic Pat…..furthermore….and this is a bit personal…..I am finding some loss of wind control….what’s worse is I seem to have lost all sense of embarrassment about it also……worrying times! Best wishes to you x Malcolm
Great video, you have been grafting, your garden is coming along beautifully. Condolences to Amanda, My great Grandad Staincliffe’s poem ‘ My Mother ‘ ( I was told he wrote this, either that or he liked it ) There’s lots of things I knew as a child. But they’ve slipped clean out of my mind. But there’s one I remember from my childhood days, And the days that go drifting by. I knew it then and I know it now. If I live to be Ninety and Nine. There was never a mother in all this world, A patch on that mother of mine. It’s your Mother. It’s your Mother. And you’ll never get another. It’s your mother with her loving ways, And kindest thoughts that never decay. So, as you make your travels through life, Whether it’s near or whether it’s far, Always try and be the one, Your mother thinks you are.
That is lovely Bad Books….thank you. I am quite surprised how many people have responded to this poem, which was a sad reflection of how Amanda would have narrated it, but nevertheless people obviously relate to the love between mother and child and the sense of loss with the mothers death…..I did put ‘passing’ here originally but for some reason it’s a word or description I am uncomfortable with. I have no idea why……I’m wittering now. But thanks for taking the time to comment. Very best wishes….lMalcolm
@@plantsmanscorner128 Thankyou Malcolm. You narrated the poem beautifully, and Amanda will be proud. Mam died in 2019, and I had forgotten about great grandads poem, found it when clearing her house
Great video Malcolm glad you are taken it easy ha as for clematis you are spot on plant deeper does go a long way from preventing clematis wilt over 40 years that’s alway my advice to customers never had a case come back . Take care
I’ve never been sure David if I’m honest…I do it because I’m told it’s effective…..so it’s good to have your feedback/confirmation that it works…..I just grew the buggers in pots!. Best wishes…Malcolm
Great to see the progress in the garden. A fellow horti here I can understand your frustration with people not wanting to do a bit of hard graft.. I agree I don’t think it’s laziness. I think it has something to do with people being too bloody soft these days and if they are going to join the trade they are good weather gardeners who don’t want to get dirty or cold and wet. There’s nothing better than a day of hard bloody work - maybe that’s because I’m so blue collar trash 😂
My deepest condolences to Amanda! What a nice poem… Malcolm Happy New Year to you and the gang at Eggleston. The garden is coming along beautifully. It is amazing how much you have accomplished. We, in USDA zone 5 are faced with temps dipping into -2 degrees Fahrenheit in the recent week. So, Seeing that you are still able to plant makes me a bit envious. Anxiously looking forward to the new video!
Thank you Bernadette….That sounds a bit cold for me…..One of my brothers lives in Canada and I think he’s become accustomed to such temperatures. We’ve had an incredibly mild winter so far….I’ve not used Fahrenheit since I was a child….off the top of my head was 32° freezing? ……..we used it all the time till I was about 12 then it became centigrade then Celsius…..all I know is it sounds f***ing cold. Best wishes…Malcolm
Hi Malcolm firstly my condolences to Amanda, second nice to see you back with great progress on the project, I love the way you keep skirting around the pond refurb 😂. Anyway just a thought on clematis planting like you I plant deep keep the roots cool and yet I still have issues with my group 2’s wilting so thinking about it rather than stones a mulch of leaf mould and bark would be more natural, what do you think? Lastly god you we’re lucky to get all that timber in before prices went mad, it’s almost impossible to quote on a job unless it can be done the same week but I will say that all those stones you moan about would cost about £7.00 each down here. All the best
Morning Malcolm, great video,iam never dissapointed with your videos,enjoying seeing the progress. Have you settled into your retirement, even if you have still been grafting like hell,looking forward to your classroom /shed being erected
Lovely poem for Amanda; there is no "being prepared" for a parent's passing, much love to her. I hope Tucker's leg heals quickly, poor dear. The rising sap demo was brilliant; thank you Lisa for getting wet for our education. I find myself getting excited for Spring, to see your garden come to life, although, even in the dead of Winter, it is beautiful. Maybe, instead of hiring a teenager to help out in the garden, you could advertise a weight loss program, and have people pay you! Thanks for the video. Take care, Be Well. ❤
What a great idea Gigi…..cardio vascular exercise at a tenner an hour. I’ll tell them over at Eggleston. Thomas being a tight-arsed farmer will love that. Tucker is having intermittent problems with his leg and back….he thinks he’s still a 2 year old rather than knocking on for 12……he’s all over the moors and the rocky outcrops, down rabbit holes, after rats or moles and weasels……he has more stitches holding him together than normal skin….but it’s what he lives for and I can’t stop him, if he can’t go out he gets major depression….one of a kind that boy. Many thanks for your kind comments…Best wishes…Malcolm
Thank you…Tata….I hope all is well in Russia and it’s not too cold. We are having a very warm winter so far….it’s weird really. I hope your spring is soon and beautiful. Best wishes…Malcolm
It is called ‘Your Mother Is Always With You’ by Deborah R Culver…..hope that helps Pat…..I think it’s written in the screen but I may have missed it off….I made another editing mishap later on with a blank screen for a minute….old age I think. Best wishes…Malcolm
Condolences to Amanda... it's very hard and you'd said she has been caring for mum for a while. The garden's coming on amazingly ... that trenching spade looks really handy .. your explanation of nicking and notching was v clear - thank you. Did you say who gave you the hideous Frog?? I must have missed that.. you could always cover it with an ivy or sonething?? Or stick it under the fatsia..both hideous together?? Keep at it.. looks great.
It's too bloody cold for me outside atm, I'm a lightweight. I got one of those root slayer spades for my birthday. It's actually very good. I am making new beds in a bottom of an old 12 century moat that has trees everywhere so I needed it. I couldn't help thinking that one would be handy for your trench but you seem to have it all under control. I also realized that you don't have many adverts, I know your not in it for the money but Most of us wouldn't mind skipping an advert if it brings you a few pennies. Or even watching one all the way through if it was garden related. Best wishes Carol.
Thank you for another wonderful video Malcolm. The part where you explain apical dominance was very helpful. I was wondering, instead of making a notch below a bud (to discourage it to break), isn't it possible to cut or rub off the bud in its entirety? Or does that damage the plant too much? Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Tom
Great explanation of apical growth. Love your no nonsense approach to what you do. Can you recommend a couple of apples that grow well in the north of England (Preston area) . Thanks. Russ
The beginning had me cracking up good xD However, apical dominance has little to do with sap rising and energy going somewhere; that'll happen regardless.. The apical meristem instead produces hormones which suppress the growth of buds below it as not to be in competition with them for being the leading stem. You see this when you cut an apical shoot: lots of new growth below the cutting point going straight up in a race to be the new leader. 26:00 *bloody bird shut up already* Liked the tip about the soaking twine.
Thank you for taking the time to reply Lee-Roy. I can understand your technical point on the terminology, however, I have found over the years that making something simple to understand is easier for most people if there is a form of visualisation or an analogy to everyday life without getting too bogged down in the science. Microprop sounds much better than cellular totipotency to us ordinary mortals, or even tissue culture etc. the ordinary gardener just generally wants to know if I cut this off what happens next. But I do take your point. Thank you for making it. Very best wishes…Malcolm
I have searched and asked many gardeners if I can espalier a Serviceberry or another name is Juneberry tree/schrub. Do you have any idea if it has ever been done? Maybe I should just try and see what happens? Wonderful explanations! Thank you!
No…it’ll be part of my new sprinkler/drip system……I actually use hose with holes in for seep irrigation….you’d be surprised what you can do with it…..but they only have about a 15 year lifespan. Best wishes….Malcolm
Now l will go prune some apple trees following his example and they will look awful in the spring and grow in completely the wrong direction. No idea why but l can't prune to save my life and l will have a branch growing down and left when the original damn bud was on the top right!
Your Pear that you are training along the wire - I have a Gertrude Jekyll rose that's a couple of years old that I'm growing up a fence. I'm fanning it out. Can I apply the same principals of pruning that you are using for your pear, because it makes sense that if I do I will get stronger stems rather than the present ones, some of which look a bit weedy.
Bunny……I don’t know where your rose is planted or if it has grass growing up to it or is in competition with other plants…..I’d give it a good feed in spring. You can’t really prune a rose the same as an apple/pear…not exactly anyway. But you do need some good strong shoots to work with……and to bring as many down to the horizontal as you can. We did do a video on pruning a climbing rose….though I do believe Gertrude is a New English shrub rose that ‘can’ be used as a short climber….at least I hope so as I’ve just planted one here at Sunniside….so I’ll be dealing with it in the next year or two…….keep an eye out. Best wishes….Malcolm
@@plantsmanscorner128 Thanks for taking the time to reply. My Gertrude Jekyll is planted in a small boarder that runs the length of a northfacing fence 8' fence in my Kent garden. It's a relatively new boarder that was created when my next door neighbour removed their beautiful 12' high very old beech hedge and replaced it with a closeboard fence 🥲. It isn't just me that misses the hedge - the birds lost some valuable roosting spots. I left it a year before I planted anything, starting with the rose about three years ago. It looks very pretty in flower - you won't be disappointed. I had read it could be planted as a small climber, but I want it to look robust too, if you know what I mean. At the moment I have some wallflowers planted at its base. I have subscribed to your channel and I look forward to seeing you feature the rose in a future video. Any advice I can glean will be very welcome. Thanks.
Hi Malcolm. My condolences to Amanda and I hope she gets over being 60 quite soon. What a thoroughly entertaining and instructive hour. You're looking to be in better health and that's great. What I find really encouraging about your videos is that you let us see that there are winter jobs that are just as important as spring and summer ones, (which the GW tv output seems to ignore entirely). The structure of Sunnyside is really coming on. Yet again, you score hugely. GW is much happier showing somebody digging a hole and planting something in isolation, rather than looking at whole bed areas and re-working them to suit the plants concerned, splitting the invasives and encouraging the more delicate specimens. Your explanations are always instructive. Plant labelling in some of the chains drives me crazy, because it's so vague. One shouldn't need to look up a plant online whilst standing in a nursery to see the conditions it'll do best in. I'm moving to a new garden in South Wales, which is going to be considerably wetter than my garden in Surrey. I'm so looking forward to the learning curve, observing where the weather is coming from, what other folk are growing successfully and what's in the local garden centres before sourcing the specimens I want to see grow and thrive.
Good luck with your new garden in Wales Patrick…..you’ve reminded me to do a bit on plant labelling next time out. Commercial labels are all bollocks generally you know….all icons and no real information beyond them crediting us with the understanding or attention span of a gnat……the problem I had with GW……and Geoffrey Smith was a friend and mentor over the decades….was that the reality of peoples gardens and soils bore no resemblance to that on GW which wherever it was filmed seemed to have about a 2ft depth of friable potting soil instead of top soil comprising of stone, flint, or chalk (or all three) to a depth of about 9 inches…….growing up at the foot of the South Downs we had all of those problems and enough flint to build a house with…by the age of. 15 I think I’d had my hand stiched about 4 times because of flint shards…..best wishes….Malcolm
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Here he is. About bloody time!! 👍
Thanks for all the time and effort you have put in to making these videos and thanks for the poem it did bring a tear to my eye as I lost my mum when I was 8 years old now 68. A stiff reminder of how vitally important a mother is. Cheers, Ean.
There is something about you, telling that the budgetfriendly home garden hasn´t the same dirt quality seen in these expensive produced BBC productions where everyone wonders who the hell had been digging up before the presenters plant some bulbs/shrubs/trees. Every time I watch these, I´m screaming and complaining about my f... hard clay soil! Thanks for keeping gardening real, this is what I love about you. Please, tell Amanda that I´m so sorry for her loss, I´d lost my mother 2 weeks before Christmas some years ago. Your poem was spot on, left me in tears, the intro with "..words fail me..." did as well. Thanks for taking us along your garden journey, you´ve accomplished so much in such short amount of time! Best wishes, Hanni.
To beat hard clay soil for good====> Start introducing bits of tree bark with a border fork.
NO WOOD only bits of the bark. Come back and post here after you test this.
Hallelujah!!! Thank you
That was so helpful, the best explanation ever of training apple and pear trees. Your no nonsense approach to clem planting I will definitely follow.🤗👍👏🏼
Yippee. Classic quality entertainment! Thank you.
Your poem touched me deeply. God bless you and my condolences to Amanda.
I love the example that you made by piercing the hose! Awesome way to explain to beginners.
You are a great teacher, full of information.
garden coming on great .
Sorry to hear about Amanda mum.
Thank you for the apical bud demo, Malcolm. It finally made perfect sense to me!!!
Very clever. Explanation
Thank you M, one of your finest and most informative videos.
Always enjoy your videos Malcolm. Really looking forward to the ones in the future, grafting etc. Your poem was beautiful. So sorry for your loss Amanda💕
Been waiting to hear from you again! This was a real good one. Thanks Malcolm!
Excellent explanation thank you Malcolm .
Learnin more now that he’s retired. Can hardly wait till the next video, if I ever make it across the pond I long to visit Eggleston and the river Tees and see what all the fuss is about.
The garden is really coming along, looking forward to seeing the progress.
Beautiful alpine troughs Malcolm and thank-you for explaining the pruning process I never quite understood it.
Oh my god Malcom you’ve worked so hard .It’s really coming on . It’ll be nice to see the workshop (shed) 😁 I also noticed some snowdrops in flower yesterday ,but my garden is walled so a bit warmer . Give Amanda my love and condolences 💐 in time she’ll remember her with a smile and not with sorrow .Lovely poem 🥲 look forward to next time 😊 ET
Thank you Eileen….I will pass that on to bandy Mandy x
Hi from Australia (tho a Kentish Lass). Thank you for some invaluable info, plus laughter. Your thumbs are green, language blue, teaching pure gold🤣 You and Sabrina Hann, an equally knowledgeable, blunt and funny horticulturalist and on ABC radio Perth 720 AM Sat weekly with Roots and Shoots, should start yarning together. I would love to hear you two imparting information to us amateurs. 1 of her fav sayings to callers trying to save plants get's me every time, "nah, it's buggered" And she hates palm trees, good luck with advice on cocos palms 😅
Cheers from a recent fan. Always a gently meandering journey in your videos. The poem was lovely, condolences. The end words made me spit my tea out, priceless 🤣🤣🤣
So looking forward to this! Everything looks great! Retirement is keeping you busy, and fit. We enlarged our pond last year and have really enjoyed it. Condolences to Amanda, that is a tough one.
"Oh no! Not more fuckin' Snow Drops"
Planted some in the fall and hope to be able to say the same in a few years.
Sending condolences to Amanda. Such a sweat sole she is.
The garden certainly is evolving nicely Malcolm.
Bravo!
I hope you planted them in the green BonsEYE…….snowies don’t do well from dry bulbs….nearly always disappointing so if they fail it won’t be anything you did. I went over to Eggleston last week and gave them a hand digging some for potting up…..moving them now is about the perfect time. In some parts of the country “snowdrop rustling” has become big business (I really am not joking) Same with Bluebells and the winter aconite really…..I should have an understanding of why they don’t work dry…..but I don’t. Hopefully yours will be ok. Very best wishes….Malcolm
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Nah, I planted them dry mid November here in Scarborough ON Canada where they're currently sleeping under about 2 feet of snow.
On a whim I wanted to try giving some life to a forested section here. I didn't get most them in the ground and ended up putting them in pots in the garage.
On the other hand I had hundreds of overgrown Muscari which I dug up and transplanted alongside the snowdrop bulbs. Somethings bound to pop up in Spring......in 53 days!
Well thanks to you... now I know what to do next time.
:)
I spent a year living in Scarborough in the early 70s…lived in Hill crescent. Still got my Ontario chauffeurs driving licence. First and only time I got sprayed by a skunk that was stuck in the garage……I’d only just arrived and thought it was a cat…..I thought skunks were American. I wasn’t that bright even then.
Thank you so much, Malcolm, for taking us along with you as you create such a special garden.
In one of your recent videos you mentioned how much you were enjoying using the American style shovel. Being an American, I just assumed such a shovel was common everywhere. Don't know if you're familiar with them, but there are a couple of other digging tools that I haven't seen you use - the mattock-axe and the digging bar. These are two of the first tools I reach for when I'm about to do some digging in soil with roots and rocks.
My sympathies to Amanda for her loss. That’s the worst thing.❤️
For happier things: the terrible hilarious frog thing must have been from somebody important or it wouldn’t have commanded such a significant position. Ha . Your apical dominance demo was great. Ah, I planted my Acer griseum seeds and the flats are in plastic spring mix bins with a board on top to keep them from blowing away. They are under my canoe so they won’t get baked if sun shines on them.. But somebody just said not to let them get too cold. Some nights it’s been down to -5°F or maybe more. Is this too cold? Are they better off in a fridge? Love your videos - truly there is nothing better to watch - your garden is getting better by the minute! 💚💚💚
God bless Amanda my heart is with you 💜
My thoughts are with Amanda for her very sad loss. We lost our darling mum on 2nd Nov. She was 87 yrs young, the happiest and kindest person you could ever meet. Than you Malcolm for your beautiful poem. I really appreciated it, and I am sure Amanda will love it as well ❤️
Your garden is looking amazing, loved to see the troughs being planted up. Im afraid i am a fair weather gardener lately, not a great fan of wet slippy grass! I will be back out as soon as we get some good dry days.
Oh God , you crack me up. If I lived near you I would give you free labor just to hang around and hear your stories. Looking forward to your next very informative video.
I would volunteer also !!! I need a laugh!!!!
After you, I like to watch Bunny Guinness. She's also down to earth with lots of good info, and tho' she has plenty of money to throw at the garden, she does get her hands dirty. I have watched other You Tubers in the past, all aged 50 something, always moaning about getting old. I love my garden and just get on with it, (not that I know what I'm doing) despite being nearly 20yrs older. So thank you for sharing. You are my mentor. 👍🙏
I like Bunny Guineas…..I find her approach really no nonsense…….I moan about getting old when I find it difficult to get my leg over a stile….or anything come to that…..or get up from kneeling down without making some kind of groaning noise…..it’s pathetic Pat…..furthermore….and this is a bit personal…..I am finding some loss of wind control….what’s worse is I seem to have lost all sense of embarrassment about it also……worrying times! Best wishes to you x Malcolm
Great video, you have been grafting, your garden is coming along beautifully. Condolences to Amanda, My great Grandad Staincliffe’s poem ‘ My Mother ‘ ( I was told he wrote this, either that or he liked it )
There’s lots of things I knew as a child. But they’ve slipped clean out of my mind. But there’s one I remember from my childhood days, And the days that go drifting by. I knew it then and I know it now. If I live to be Ninety and Nine. There was never a mother in all this world, A patch on that mother of mine. It’s your Mother. It’s your Mother. And you’ll never get another. It’s your mother with her loving ways, And kindest thoughts that never decay. So, as you make your travels through life, Whether it’s near or whether it’s far, Always try and be the one, Your mother thinks you are.
That is lovely Bad Books….thank you. I am quite surprised how many people have responded to this poem, which was a sad reflection of how Amanda would have narrated it, but nevertheless people obviously relate to the love between mother and child and the sense of loss with the mothers death…..I did put ‘passing’ here originally but for some reason it’s a word or description I am uncomfortable with. I have no idea why……I’m wittering now. But thanks for taking the time to comment. Very best wishes….lMalcolm
@@plantsmanscorner128 Thankyou Malcolm. You narrated the poem beautifully, and Amanda will be proud. Mam died in 2019, and I had forgotten about great grandads poem, found it when clearing her house
Thank you for the video and the Poem.
Great video Malcolm glad you are taken it easy ha as for clematis you are spot on plant deeper does go a long way from preventing clematis wilt over 40 years that’s alway my advice to customers never had a case come back . Take care
I’ve never been sure David if I’m honest…I do it because I’m told it’s effective…..so it’s good to have your feedback/confirmation that it works…..I just grew the buggers in pots!. Best wishes…Malcolm
Great to see the progress in the garden. A fellow horti here I can understand your frustration with people not wanting to do a bit of hard graft.. I agree I don’t think it’s laziness. I think it has something to do with people being too bloody soft these days and if they are going to join the trade they are good weather gardeners who don’t want to get dirty or cold and wet. There’s nothing better than a day of hard bloody work - maybe that’s because I’m so blue collar trash 😂
Love your program.
Nick & notch!!! How wonderful ❤️. Thank you
My deepest condolences to Amanda! What a nice poem…
Malcolm Happy New Year to you and the gang at Eggleston. The garden is coming along beautifully. It is amazing how much you have accomplished. We, in USDA zone 5 are faced with temps dipping into -2 degrees Fahrenheit in the recent week. So, Seeing that you are still able to plant makes me a bit envious. Anxiously looking forward to the new video!
Thank you Bernadette….That sounds a bit cold for me…..One of my brothers lives in Canada and I think he’s become accustomed to such temperatures. We’ve had an incredibly mild winter so far….I’ve not used Fahrenheit since I was a child….off the top of my head was 32° freezing? ……..we used it all the time till I was about 12 then it became centigrade then Celsius…..all I know is it sounds f***ing cold. Best wishes…Malcolm
Hi Malcolm firstly my condolences to Amanda, second nice to see you back with great progress on the project, I love the way you keep skirting around the pond refurb 😂. Anyway just a thought on clematis planting like you I plant deep keep the roots cool and yet I still have issues with my group 2’s wilting so thinking about it rather than stones a mulch of leaf mould and bark would be more natural, what do you think? Lastly god you we’re lucky to get all that timber in before prices went mad, it’s almost impossible to quote on a job unless it can be done the same week but I will say that all those stones you moan about would cost about £7.00 each down here. All the best
Morning Malcolm, great video,iam never dissapointed with your videos,enjoying seeing the progress.
Have you settled into your retirement, even if you have still been grafting like hell,looking forward to your classroom /shed being erected
LOVE the program and all that you share, but I miss the crazy hats you always wore!
Lovely poem for Amanda; there is no "being prepared" for a parent's passing, much love to her. I hope Tucker's leg heals quickly, poor dear. The rising sap demo was brilliant; thank you Lisa for getting wet for our education. I find myself getting excited for Spring, to see your garden come to life, although, even in the dead of Winter, it is beautiful. Maybe, instead of hiring a teenager to help out in the garden, you could advertise a weight loss program, and have people pay you! Thanks for the video. Take care, Be Well. ❤
What a great idea Gigi…..cardio vascular exercise at a tenner an hour. I’ll tell them over at Eggleston. Thomas being a tight-arsed farmer will love that. Tucker is having intermittent problems with his leg and back….he thinks he’s still a 2 year old rather than knocking on for 12……he’s all over the moors and the rocky outcrops, down rabbit holes, after rats or moles and weasels……he has more stitches holding him together than normal skin….but it’s what he lives for and I can’t stop him, if he can’t go out he gets major depression….one of a kind that boy. Many thanks for your kind comments…Best wishes…Malcolm
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Thank you…Tata….I hope all is well in Russia and it’s not too cold. We are having a very warm winter so far….it’s weird really. I hope your spring is soon and beautiful. Best wishes…Malcolm
Just going to watch short bits of this over the next several weeks to make it last. Thanks!
Love your garden and progress. Please can you tell me the name and author of the poem you read. It was very moving.
It is called ‘Your Mother Is Always With You’ by Deborah R Culver…..hope that helps Pat…..I think it’s written in the screen but I may have missed it off….I made another editing mishap later on with a blank screen for a minute….old age I think. Best wishes…Malcolm
@@plantsmanscorner128 Many thanks for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it.
Condolences to Amanda... it's very hard and you'd said she has been caring for mum for a while.
The garden's coming on amazingly ... that trenching spade looks really handy .. your explanation of nicking and notching was v clear - thank you. Did you say who gave you the hideous Frog?? I must have missed that.. you could always cover it with an ivy or sonething?? Or stick it under the fatsia..both hideous together?? Keep at it.. looks great.
Really enjoyed binge watching all 4 of your new-style episodes. Great stuff! Thank you 😊
It's too bloody cold for me outside atm, I'm a lightweight. I got one of those root slayer spades for my birthday. It's actually very good. I am making new beds in a bottom of an old 12 century moat that has trees everywhere so I needed it. I couldn't help thinking that one would be handy for your trench but you seem to have it all under control. I also realized that you don't have many adverts, I know your not in it for the money but Most of us wouldn't mind skipping an advert if it brings you a few pennies. Or even watching one all the way through if it was garden related. Best wishes Carol.
No adverts on my laptop viewing?
@@johnlaw4236 most you tube channels have them. Malcolm doesn’t?
Thank you for another wonderful video Malcolm. The part where you explain apical dominance was very helpful. I was wondering, instead of making a notch below a bud (to discourage it to break), isn't it possible to cut or rub off the bud in its entirety? Or does that damage the plant too much? Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Tom
Great explanation of apical growth. Love your no nonsense approach to what you do. Can you recommend a couple of apples that grow well in the north of England (Preston area) . Thanks. Russ
The beginning had me cracking up good xD
However, apical dominance has little to do with sap rising and energy going somewhere; that'll happen regardless.. The apical meristem instead produces hormones which suppress the growth of buds below it as not to be in competition with them for being the leading stem. You see this when you cut an apical shoot: lots of new growth below the cutting point going straight up in a race to be the new leader.
26:00 *bloody bird shut up already*
Liked the tip about the soaking twine.
Thank you for taking the time to reply Lee-Roy. I can understand your technical point on the terminology, however, I have found over the years that making something simple to understand is easier for most people if there is a form of visualisation or an analogy to everyday life without getting too bogged down in the science. Microprop sounds much better than cellular totipotency to us ordinary mortals, or even tissue culture etc. the ordinary gardener just generally wants to know if I cut this off what happens next. But I do take your point. Thank you for making it. Very best wishes…Malcolm
I have searched and asked many gardeners if I can espalier a Serviceberry or another name is Juneberry tree/schrub. Do you have any idea if it has ever been done? Maybe I should just try and see what happens?
Wonderful explanations! Thank you!
Have you seen 'Wild Your Garden' with Joel Ashton?. I am following his advice on making a small wildlife pond.
Do you have a video how to make the troughs?
Stash the armoured cable mate the tea leaves will have that (coil ?)
Advice taken Ben. Thank you and best wishes….Malcolm
I hope that holey hose isn't off to the landfill now that you've demonstrated the principle.
I expect he will just cut off the holey bit?
No…it’ll be part of my new sprinkler/drip system……I actually use hose with holes in for seep irrigation….you’d be surprised what you can do with it…..but they only have about a 15 year lifespan. Best wishes….Malcolm
Now l will go prune some apple trees following his example and they will look awful in the spring and grow in completely the wrong direction. No idea why but l can't prune to save my life and l will have a branch growing down and left when the original damn bud was on the top right!
Your fly is open Malcolm
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Your Pear that you are training along the wire - I have a Gertrude Jekyll rose that's a couple of years old that I'm growing up a fence. I'm fanning it out. Can I apply the same principals of pruning that you are using for your pear, because it makes sense that if I do I will get stronger stems rather than the present ones, some of which look a bit weedy.
Bunny……I don’t know where your rose is planted or if it has grass growing up to it or is in competition with other plants…..I’d give it a good feed in spring. You can’t really prune a rose the same as an apple/pear…not exactly anyway. But you do need some good strong shoots to work with……and to bring as many down to the horizontal as you can. We did do a video on pruning a climbing rose….though I do believe Gertrude is a New English shrub rose that ‘can’ be used as a short climber….at least I hope so as I’ve just planted one here at Sunniside….so I’ll be dealing with it in the next year or two…….keep an eye out. Best wishes….Malcolm
@@plantsmanscorner128 Thanks for taking the time to reply. My Gertrude Jekyll is planted in a small boarder that runs the length of a northfacing fence 8' fence in my Kent garden. It's a relatively new boarder that was created when my next door neighbour removed their beautiful 12' high very old beech hedge and replaced it with a closeboard fence 🥲. It isn't just me that misses the hedge - the birds lost some valuable roosting spots. I left it a year before I planted anything, starting with the rose about three years ago. It looks very pretty in flower - you won't be disappointed. I had read it could be planted as a small climber, but I want it to look robust too, if you know what I mean. At the moment I have some wallflowers planted at its base. I have subscribed to your channel and I look forward to seeing you feature the rose in a future video. Any advice I can glean will be very welcome. Thanks.
Hi Malcolm. My condolences to Amanda and I hope she gets over being 60 quite soon.
What a thoroughly entertaining and instructive hour. You're looking to be in better health and that's great.
What I find really encouraging about your videos is that you let us see that there are winter jobs that are just as important as spring and summer ones, (which the GW tv output seems to ignore entirely).
The structure of Sunnyside is really coming on. Yet again, you score hugely. GW is much happier showing somebody digging a hole and planting something in isolation, rather than looking at whole bed areas and re-working them to suit the plants concerned, splitting the invasives and encouraging the more delicate specimens. Your explanations are always instructive. Plant labelling in some of the chains drives me crazy, because it's so vague. One shouldn't need to look up a plant online whilst standing in a nursery to see the conditions it'll do best in.
I'm moving to a new garden in South Wales, which is going to be considerably wetter than my garden in Surrey. I'm so looking forward to the learning curve, observing where the weather is coming from, what other folk are growing successfully and what's in the local garden centres before sourcing the specimens I want to see grow and thrive.
Good luck with your new garden in Wales Patrick…..you’ve reminded me to do a bit on plant labelling next time out. Commercial labels are all bollocks generally you know….all icons and no real information beyond them crediting us with the understanding or attention span of a gnat……the problem I had with GW……and Geoffrey Smith was a friend and mentor over the decades….was that the reality of peoples gardens and soils bore no resemblance to that on GW which wherever it was filmed seemed to have about a 2ft depth of friable potting soil instead of top soil comprising of stone, flint, or chalk (or all three) to a depth of about 9 inches…….growing up at the foot of the South Downs we had all of those problems and enough flint to build a house with…by the age of. 15 I think I’d had my hand stiched about 4 times because of flint shards…..best wishes….Malcolm