How to keep your lavender and roses looking their best, plus what to do when a variegated leaf goes green, are your flowers distorting and can you ever beat bindweed?
00:00 Welcome
00:59 Description of the Middlesized Garden and why it is approximately a USDA hardiness Zone 9
01:28 The lavender is Hidcote, possibly ‘Hidcote Giant’
01:35 The tall white spires are Acanthus Mollis ‘Rue Ledan’ (the white dog is Lottie!)
1:50 Weeding – why there’s no such thing as a ‘weed-free garden’.
02:08 The No-Nonsense Guide to Weeding: Win the Weeding Battle video: https://youtu.be/SvHFHym6cjM
03:20 What to do about bindweed
03:52 Treat weeding as a meditation?
04:07 Tips on growing and trimming lavender
05:34 How to Prune English lavender beautifully: https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/absolutely-best-way-prune-english-lavender-beautifully/
06:13 Tips for growing roses
06:38 The scarlet flowers are Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and the pink roses are ‘Gaujard’
06:57 The white roses are ‘Little Pet’
08:11 What is fasciation and what to do about it?
09:25 Tweaking and tidying the main border
09:56 What to do if your variegated leaves go back to being all green
10:30 Why buying and planting a young tree is better than buying a mature one
11:22 Why we haven’t mown the lawn
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27 Comments
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I started watching last year and took your advice re the lavender pruning. I took my leggy lavender back to the lowest green buds and goodness me, what a difference it made. I was going to dig my lavender out and replace it, but this method has meant I can keep it for longer! So pleased. Once again, thank you for sharing.
Your advice is very solid
I have employed many of your tips and techniques and I happy to announce that they all have improved my gardening ability & the overall look of my garden.
Lovely garden 🥀🌼❤️..
Thanks for sharing this, I have weeds, do I have weeds. Now I know I am not the only one and now you have given me a new perspective on the subject of weeds and weeding. Thanks.🌻🧚♂️💐🌹🐞👋
I like the shaggy look and so do the bumble bees of our area😉
Great to hear your lavender advice! Will try this year. Also will you tell us more about the white wand of flowers at beginning of video. I have that plant, but it never flowers, beautiful architecture leaves if it is the one I'm thinking it is 🙂
Thank you- I look forward to your videos.
A few of my Lillies did this several years ago. The stem grew flat and wide like that. 🤷♀️
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I so appreciate your wisdom and philosophy about weeds. I have a hard time not thinking of it as I would dust and dirt in my home. It feels like a sign of neglect but I want to enjoy my garden time, not feel inadequate about the upkeep. Thank you for the encouragement and down to earth advice.
Beautiful informative video again thank you 😊💐
Could that rose be Rosa mundi ? It looks paler than Ferdinand Pichee . Also there are more French striped roses . I had one in a garden I moved into, which was darker than F . P . K
Your pink striped rose I believe is Rosa Mundi 🙂
I recently learned about fasciation because one of my tomato plants has it. It definitely looks interesting.
Love your tips, this is one of my favourite YouTube channels.
Your garden is very beautiful and so is your Saluki hound/Lurcher.
Do you need to deadhead lavender throughout the summer or do you just wait till it’s all spent then cut the whole thing back?
Hey! Your "Harry wheatcroft" rose looks very similar to my "Scentimental" floribunda rose.
Always appreciate your insights and thoughts! Gardening is definitely an evolution, I've learned so much from your channel, even though I'm in a completely different zone (3) in the middle of Canada. Keep up the good work!!
This was a very timely video. I have been looking at my gardens's lavender, roses, and baby trees that needed something. Now I know what they might need to improve them. Thanks for sharing what you're doing as the season progresses!
Very interesting – thank you!
Very helpful and delightful post as always !!🙌🏼🥰
Thankyou
Your dog is so pretty. Love her curly tail. Such an animated face!
My Dad told me that if I leave my lavender standing that yellow finches will come for their seeds. So this year, I didn’t harvest my lavender and sure enough, the yellow finches have come for their seeds! That and the Cosmos seeds, and coneflower in my front garden! So exciting to see.
I love your channel and all the information. I'm a new gardener and feel a bit overwhelmed by all the info. I love to create an English cottage style garden. This year I planted some plants including a climbing rose to make it look less bare. But I keep having lice on my rose stems. It is in a small border in a fairly shaded corner that is Southwest facing with a hardiness zone of 8b. I have some weeds and grasses growing in there to and a few catepillars made it their home, including an elephant hawk moth catepillar. I try remove and kill the lice with a squirt bottle filled with cold soapy water and a toothbrush. Every lice I see I try to squash, but they keep coming back every single time. What can I do?
I use my weedeater to trim my Lavender
Just love your videos. What is the name of the beautiful roses just behind LITTLE WHITE PET at the beginning of the video (2mn) ? They look like peonies and seem to be salmon pink . Thank you so much