How the hot, dry summer changed the autumn garden, what to do with leaves and see our new organic, sustainable range of t-shirts, hoodies and totes! Free postage & packing this weekend (Nov 4/5th)
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00:00 Welcome
00:23 How Save Your Garden from Stressful Weather with Harry Baldwin of Borde Hill Gardens: https://youtu.be/tMvTOGXwE7s
02:47 Why you may not wish to prune back dead parts of a plant
03:16 Revamp a border – top tips from experts: https://youtu.be/BuWs8wqetYs
04:05 The long border at the back also suffered from summer weather
04:39 Trim topiary from late summer through the autumn/fall
05:04 Good alternatives to box for clipping into topiary video: https://youtu.be/QwTR7VjPokE
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07:43 Leave leaves on your borders, but clear from paths, terraces and lawns
09:10 Best bulb for autumn – Nerine bowdenii
09:48 Autumn (fall) garden tips playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZRLHPUbGmAw3e__Yau8P1hs10LP803o
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25 Comments
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As a perennial fan of your channel, I extend gratitude for the good work. Things like this keep me motivated to carry on prepping and propagating for the coming season(s)😃 Thank you! I believe your reworking will be a blank page and look forward to the reimagining and plant choices you make.
So lovely to see your new merch – and such fun designs! We're very happy to welcome you to the Teemill family, Alexandra 🙂
Your topiaries are so pretty and a landmark to your garden. I am surprised your fuchsia did so well in your drought. It doesn't like it in my yard in Texas. I like to mow my leaves and then catch the excess to put in flower borders. I think mowing is easier than raking and it shapes up the lawn as well. Mowed leaves blow around less in the flower border and look better IMO. Love your sensible, realistic approach to gardening.
Leaves in borders are good . That’s why gardening is like music . It’s an art rather than a science, because there are lots of rules , and some of them can be broken . My sedums and the fuchsia did particularly well and the Australian bottle brush . Also had a bumper crop of strawberries. But I probably did overwater 😬🙄
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Leaves on the borders stay in my garden. As you say the damp keeps them there. For your revamped area I would plant some of the new types of hydrangeas…..just a thought 😀 😉
Well I like I don't want a dead looking plant in my garden then if you have the money to pull them out and put in new ones go right ahead
In all fairness to middle size garden it always looked after the people on low money and the sensible ways of doing things and keeping the purse strings tight
it was a hard summer in the U.K. And the economy situation is worldwide believe me not just a Bank of England problem
poor plant been pulled out just because it has a hard year
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I so enjoy your Vlog! Thank you so much for your practical and well researched advice.
Lots of great advice. You may be anxious about planning new borders, but your viewers will love to see what you plant, so I hope you'll find the process exciting. I am totally in support of removing the day lilies; they are thugs and usually flower for such a short window; mine actually live up to the name "day" lilies, and usually only bloom for a day, and then rot on their stems, and collectively only bloom for two weeks in the summer, the new blooms beside the rotting blooms, while taking up much of the flower beds with only leaves the rest of the season. Last winter some deer ate out the bulbs from the flower beds and I was glad to see them go. The surrounding plants finally had room to shine.
I planted several David Austin roses both in my summer home in Maine (zone 5) and home in Southern California (zone 10) and they have done so well in both zones; in fact the heat has only made them more vivid and intensely varied in color hues in Southern California, while they are slightly more monochromatic in Maine I find. We've had heat waves and droughts in both states and they have survived and done really well. And the more sun the more blooms, especially in June.
Looking forward to what you choose to plant in your borders next. We'll love and learn from whatever you choose. Plant, plant, plant again. I'm excited.
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I'm excited to see what plants you try for your revamped garden! I've lived in the American Southeast growing up, where it gets very hot and sometimes quite cold too. When there were droughts, the plants that handled it best seemed to be the grassland/prairie plants: Baptisia, Panicum, Little Bluestem, Liatris, Echinacea, Eryngium, Agave filamentosa, Achillea, etc. And it's not that these plants require hot & dry, they just handle it well. Because of that, most of my garden (and entire yard!) is mostly these plants. Awesome work!
I am losing plants from weather as well. Will start using native and drought Tolerant plants when filling holes. Good video Alexandria
You have to expect the occasional ‘up and die’ plant. Sometimes there’s no explanation.
Very good advice as usual. When something seems to have died I always wait before pulling it out — many times new green shoots will eventually emerge. So, unless it's something I was considering yanking for other reasons, but just hadn't gotten around to it, I give it a reprieve. We had a bad drought this summer in the Northeast of the US, which happens every ten to twenty years or so. I am finding out what is drought tolerant and what isn't on my property. I will probably have to have some very mature dead conifers removed — I am trying to see that as an opportunity to bring in some more interesting plants. I look forward to seeing what you put in your renovated border.
I have been leaving the leaves in my borders for over 20 years. It is an effective strategy for suppressing weeds and for adding organic matter. In the spring I just mulch over the leaves, which have stayed in place thru the winter.
Those nerines are just so pretty! I'm definitely on the side of letting leaves lie in the border, as you say it's good for the soil. I love the merch too Alexandra 👍😁
This was fantastic !!!
I have a mixed acre of oaks and pines. I shred the leaves with my lawnmower and then use them as winter mulch. I blow the pine needles into several borders. They do not increase the acidity of the soil. That is a myth that has been disproved many times. Good luck with your border. Renewal can be very exciting. It's like changing the pictures in a room for a whole new look.
Definitely leaves on borders!
There is a fuchsia Delta Sarah in my village here in Norfolk. It flowers for many months and was well in flower last Christmas! So I bought one this year, and have taken several cuttings which are thriving.
Your just awesome. Thanks!
So pleased you mentioned that Nerines can take up to two years to flower as I planted them in a trough which is south facing and they haven’t flowered. A bit of a wait but if we move I can at least take the trough with me but will have to be careful that the conditions are right.
Love the t shirts
I leave leaves in the borders, or collect to make leaf mould, it's great stuff for the garden, in fact I could do with more leaves, and am thinking of asking the school if I can have their huge pile of leaves, which have collected on the path ☺