Ideas to try in your garden at home from BBC Gardeners World Live. Click on ‘show more’ for designer and plant names, plus timestamps to your favourite tip.
00:00 Welcome
00:12 Woodland Fall garden designed by Anthony Nutley and Tom Wooldridge of Anthony Lionel Landscapes and built by TAW Garden Landscapes
00:20 From Hippocrates to Vaccines by Annette Yiannaki
00:30 Flower Power for the Bees by Nikki Hollier
00:39 Cosmos ‘Pink Popsocks’ from Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants
00:47 Echinacea ‘Pretty Parasols’ from Barnsdale Gardens: https://barnsdalegardens.co.uk/
01:18 Garden Envy by Kate Mason
01:23 Seed to Flower by Jayne Probyn and Sharon Boss
01:34 Jungle or tropical style gardens
02:09 Echinacea ‘Coral’ and ‘Adobe Orange’
02:30 The large dark leaf is Colocasia ‘Black Magic’
03:13 Indoor/outdoor plants
03:30 The mini palm tree style plant on the left is Begonia luxurians
04:04 The big plant in the centre is Tetrapanax
04:12 Meadow inspired borders
04:24 The Meadow Border by Tina Worboys
04:33 Garden tips and tours playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZRLHPUbGmBzUZEPFQk-FPCR9e3KRgOS
05:09 Think about texture as well as colour
06:01 Nostalgic or rustic accessories
06:34 Make do and mend border by Andy Wright
06:45 Great Dixter inspired border by Victoria Legge
07:52 Add impact to your flower colour with outdoor cushions
08:17 The Power of Flowers is Everything by Lynn Cordall
09:29 Recycling and upcycling
10:12 On Your Bike by Hana Leonard and Armstrong Landscapes
11:06 Use vertical space – statement walls or fencing
11:11 Garden by Marshalls, specialists in paving blocks and concrete
11:30 Garden by Gunns & Roses
12:43 Plant ‘borders’ in pots
12:53 Border on a Budget by Kitty Chew
12:58 Dahlias in pots video with Claus Dalby: https://youtu.be/2XDuK8zl-lw
13:45 Mix paving and hard landscaping materials in a no-lawn garden
14:27 The Cornwall Staycation Garden by Kim Parish
14:34 Marshalls paving
14:38 The Association of Professional Landscapers Garden designed by Prof David Stevens
14:54 Beach inspired garden by Teasels Landscapes and Julianne Fernandez of Chasing Arcadia
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45 Comments
These are always my favorite of your videos, Alexandra. Thank you for always bringing us along to the shows and giving us these great run downs. Looks like it was a great show this year.
I don't know how I found you but I learn so much from you. This was exceptional and gave me some great ideas. Thank you. I'm wanting to put a nice unique fence around my new and very small veggie/flower garden. Love some fence ideas. I love your "goodbye" so I say back to you "goodbye" and of course thank you ❣️
This was a very inspiring video. I haven’t been to a garden show in years. Each garden was fabulous. Many design ideas. Thanks again.
Great episode! Some lovely and very accessible ideas picked up. Well done Alexsandra, a very enjoyable watch!
Hi Alexandra, I love your videos! You speak so well and explains everything just right. Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing. I definitely got some inspiration-especially to put some small panels or fencing around wild annuals or even perennials. Brilliant design idea.
is this Christopher Walken in disguise?
Thanks Alexandra, for sharing, for those of us who could not be there in person. Such a wonderful array of displays for inspiration. I especially like the twist of cottage and meadow garden plants.
So many gorgeous gardens. Everyone was my favorite 🤩. Thank you so very much for this post. I don’t know of any “garden shows” here in the summer. Now I’ll be on the hunt to find all the wonderful things you’ve just introduced. Yes, “falling in love” with these looks was exactly what I’ve done.
Thank you for this lovely video. My husband is a cyclist, and I recycle as much as I can, tying together my stakes and trellises with inner tubes, using tires and wheels to stake plants, but this pergola… Wow. He needs to bring in more wheels, obviously!
Love this video Alexander. Thanks for sharing. The reclaimed, rustic garden style with old fashioned flowers is just delightful 😊
🤦🏻♀️ Alexandra
Love the Pink Gaura! Have 3 new ones here in challenging Santa Fe, NM. I bought seeds for white ones so I'll have more out next year in my gardens. We love our flowering enclosed gardens here. I don't see any Agastache ( Hyssops) in your videos. Beautiful group of cold hardy flowering perennials that are hummingbird magnets. Some smell great
I'd love to know where to buy that wooden curved bench that featured showing the purple cushions in the video intro.
Hi everyone, does anyone know roughly when we should expect the first frost of autumn 2021 (Central Lancs)?
Love this informative video, question if I grow flower from seeds how to achieve the cluster that showcase in garden center or in a border? Thank you
wow so wonderful Garden my dear friend ❤️❤️❤️
Although I am in NY zone 6 I absolutely take the time to watch your videos. Very informative,. Thanks for sharing!!
Wow, as always another great video. What a ton of ideas… I too like a feel of natural space in my design. As I am slowly decreasing my lawn for more plantings with seasonal color and texture. Thank you for sharing🥰
I just loved the use of the water in the purple garden. It must be magical when the fire is lit. So many wonderful gardens, hard to choose a favorite. Thanks for the tour.
Great inspiration as always.
Great video Alexandra
Your programs are so relaxing and inspirational.😊What do you have in- store for winter?
I absolutely loved this video! You're teaching ability is both educational and enjoyable. Thank you. I love that it was longer than your normal videos.
Hello. I too want to create the similar, “under bench planting, with rockery,” look, on the West-facing side of my square small/middle sized garden.
Can you tell me some of the planting under the bench in the video, as well as offer any suggestions for perennials/texture year round interest that won’t just turn this side of my garden into a crazy overgrown mess?!
BTW, I’m very much into sitting within my borders, rather than just looking at them.
The opposite of purple is yellow.
A super round up of design ideas. I am particularly interested in ways in which I can replace what little lawn I have in my small urban garden as I am more interested in growing plants & veggies than having a small lawn. Thanks Alexandra.
Regarding the first garden type: tropical – inspired: that's my style. I'm in the US (midwest now, zone 5), but lived in Hawaii for about 8 years. The plants there suited me so well, and I keep that look going wherever I am. One plant I love that does well as an indoor/outdoor plant is ti (Cordyline fruticosa). I grow it in pots only, and it does fine indoors over the winter. Then when the nights warm up to 50 degrees F or above outside (usually in late May) I bring the ti plants outside and put them in a partly shaded area. That's when they do their growing for the most part, and indoors they just keep their leaves and don't really grow but still give me the lush tropical look.
Lovely ideas so many different styles
Thank you for sharing the tips from the show! I love the hurdle and woven obelisk idea! 🌿
Wonderful! Thank you!
Your information is interesting, but I would prefer to see the plants as you’re speaking rather then your image. It’s off putting to get just a flash of what your referencing before flashing back to yourself.
Very inspirational!!
Can you perhaps list some major annual garden shows that we could diarise at the beginning of the year? I find that, by the time we hear about it, it's too late. We're all busy, and life just takes over! Thanks..
Thank you. New subbie.
I just wanted to share I'm from Texas zone 8 I grow Giant Elephant ears from bulbs. They come back every year even after the cold snap that shut down TX ..They last all the way up until the freeze
Tips for growing them. They don't need special soil but they do need partial shade and they work great in areas that puddle up with rain water. We get enough rain on avg in Houston that I don't need to water them, but they do love water. You can clip them back before the freeze and dig up the bulbs and replant them or leave them during winter and they will come back up
We've been growing them for 5 years from one plant <3 When in partial shade and left alone to do its thing it gets taller than our house haha… Just magnificent ! Just wanted to share that.
I do like the hard scrapes in these gardens, and the use of pots. Thanks!
Hi like to know what is it called the lime green grasses in a group? Front of a border in video 11:08. Use vertical space- unusual walls or fencing
Beautiful gardens! I loved seeing the orange and purple jungle. Orange echinacea don’t make it through my zone 6 winter, so I buy a few each year. Very inspiring!
What a delightful talk show, you make gardening so interesting. In this video there is a good selection of ideas for various Gardeners. I love the pretty manner in which the cobbles were used, it does add a feature of neat and tidy as well as the grouped pots of various flowers. I think the advantage of garden pots are you can move them about and try various ideas. Maybe when you are having friends or tea and cake in the garden😄 so lovely to enjoy after you have been working or tidying up! Looking forward to the next garden chat. Go well.
Nice
Thank you
I too rather liked the winning small garden water fall table . from this one could certainly set wood fired oven in wall above table and make it a worthy setting for dinning out
Alexandra, since I discovered you, a couple of weeks ago, I'm watching you videos back to back. I really think you are the best at what you are doing – and HAVE I SEEN A LOT! Or at least the best for my taste. Always to the point, not useless details – not missing information. Excellent use of the language, articulation – very helpful for us foreigners. Pleasant personality, smart, classy… I don't know why others are shouting/screaming/cheering or the opposite, act like it's open heart surgery – relax, it's gardening. You are exactly what I need to learn and enjoy at the same time, THANK YOU!
My two cottage garden areas in the front are like yours where they're two sides of a front walk. One was a small rectangle lawn area between the walk and driveway while the other was a larger lawn area. Didn't want to overwhelm myself in the beginning so I put the cardboard down on the larger lawn side just to make a 3-4' border….now hiding a smaller lawn "room". Last year I had the border side in perennials and the other in a wildflower mix. But I don't like how the annual side is barren until I can sow the annuals again. So this year I'm planting/transplanting both sides in @ 60% perennials and will sow the wildflower mix in between the perennials.
I think we need a new category of garden. I know a cottage garden will have up-cycled things (even I have an old metal milk cannister next to my MILKweed) but when they go over the top and start painting bicycles or making up-cycled sculptures, we should call them "a whimsical garden".
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