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Garden tour April - including small trees with good spring blossom
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
- See the Middlesized Garden in April. Find out the best trees for spring blossom in smaller gardens, and other April garden tips.
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Thank you so much for keeping up your content during this difficult time. It's like a lifeline back to normalcy and a reminder that Nature marches forward.
Thank you! I usually upload on Saturday afternoons, but everything just seems to take a little longer at the moment. But, as you say, nature very comforting (except the 2 huge slugs I discovered yesterday just by the Perpetual Spinach)
Alexandra you are so generous, so instinctive, so knowedgable, so present. I look forward to your vlog.
Thank you so much!
Your garden is lovely and I like your style of gardening. Thank you for entertaining us in such a time as this. I have an old home (1939) in South Carolina. I discover hidden jewels from time to time left by a previous owner. Then, I've added my own that the next person may enjoy. The Arbor Foundation here sent me 10 tiny, one-stem trees and 2 crape myrtles, very tiny. I've placed them in my raised bed until they grow a bit. They sent crab apples, white dogwoods, hawthornes, and redbuds. If even a few survive, they will certainly add to my yard. Thanks again. Love your videos.
Thank you. What a beautiful selection! Two of my crab apple trees were given to me as tiny single stems ten years ago and they are now about 25ft high. They grew so fast - I think they must really like being planted so small.
Beautiful spring blooms! WOW
I can relate to the lack of potting soil. I'm rationing mine now. Thanks for sharing your videos, I think gardening is both useful and therapeutic in this scary time.
Thank you! And I agree.
Alexandra, you gave me a chuckle when you said that “we can look at something every day and somehow not see it”, as I had the very same issue with some ornamental grasses I have in pots. I actually cut mine back yesterday, trying to avoid all the new growth. 😂 Thank you for the informative and inspirational videos! 💚🌿🌷
Thank you. I wonder if ornamental grasses become particularly invisible? I think that because they hadn't collapsed into a mess, I just hadn't thought about them.
The Middle-Sized Garden I think that they do just fade into the background with their basic structure intact. Some of mine even retain much of their color (I’m in zone 8b-south Louisiana USA).You’re probably right that they’re not really an eyesore, as some things can be, so maybe we just take their structure granted in the garden! 😊
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I do that all the time, only inside with dust and piles of mail!
Today is one of the nicest days we've had so far this spring here in New Jersey, USA. And I have wandered all around my garden not doing much of anything! Sometimes I just need to enjoy it. The past few weeks I have been working on making a critter proof fence. No sense in planting much in my potogé until I get that finished! Rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, & groundhogs all inhabit my yard and think everything I plant is for them alone.🐿️ Thank you for your great videos. They are a very bright spot in these dark times.😁
Thank you so much. We're lucky here in South East England, not too many critters, but my friends in Australia have to have their veg garden in cages.
Thanks for your video, I want to say we had a Bartlett Pear tree for years and did a lot of canning. It was here when we moved here, older and never properly pruned, but we received lots of pears every other year. Lots and lots of bees. Love trees with blossoms, we now have two Magnolias, White Star Burst and a yellow blossom. Stay safe and healthy 👍❤️😊
I'm impressed with the canning. I would really love to be able to grow good pears because they are delicious when they are good. Stay safe too.
Your garden is gorgeous in the spring. I can’t wait to see it as it passes through the seasons. Really impressive.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
My pleasure!
Beth is a pair that can grow and fruit well without aid on another pear tree. Here in my gardens it thrives
RE: Weeding the veg. I have 2 methods. First method, take an egg timer with you, set it for a specific time (I usually do 30 minutes) and pull weeds like mad just for that span of time. Second method, take a large bucket with you and pull weeds like mad until that one bucket is full. Do either one every day and you can (hopefully!) stay ahead of the weeds. Thanks for another great vid.
Very good tips, thank you!
Thank you for these wonderful videos. I so very much enjoy your informative, encouraging presentation, and it is lovely to be able to see your garden move steadily through the seasons. I am also in southern England and I am lucky to be able to feel somewhat in step with you. That makes your videos especially fun for me!
Thank you so much!
Yes! I have some hardy hibiscus and I end up leaving last year’s skeleton stalks forever, even when they look odd. Then I realize it and get to maintenance.
Thanks so much for so much good gardening information and lovely garden tour...❤💖💝
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you, Alexandra.
Thank you!
Thank you! Will you please make a video on choosing right trees or plants as focal points in the garden?
Great suggestion! I will have a think about who would be good to talk to. Thank you.
Thank you Alexandra. Stay safe.
And you!
Where I am in Pennsylvania the garden centers are open and I am thankful for that.
That's great. We are petitioning here to get them opened again, but it doesn't look likely at the moment.
Great content. Always pick up something!
Thank you!
Another super video, Alexandra! Living in Barbados, I would have enjoyed my fruit tree blossoms - pomegranate and cherry and limes - and fruit from about October to January. Only the Mediterranean figs continues to prolificly fruit. Right now the aim is to keep the kitchen garden from being eaten and all the flowering shrubs alive during our hot dry season from January to June. Just planted some Texas Sage! 🌺
Thank you - your fruit blossoms sound beautiful.
Thank you for your gardening tips, very much appreciated. I know what you mean about the spreading alliums, but they are so beautiful, the flowers last for a long time and even when dry they remain attractive. Maybe I should be cutting them back after flowering? Fortunately I bought red onions and potatoes to plant before the virus so it looks as though I shall be having an easy time of it this year in the veggie patch!
I leave about half the allium heads in for their dry structure though they do collapse at some point. This year a friend advised me to dry some heads of Allium Christophii for Christmas and it was such good advice - I kept them in the loft out of sunlight until Christmas and they are still looking starry in the hall now.
So true on the veg patch. It exhausts quite a lot of energy even with a fair amount of tending.
I’m looking for small tree options. Maybe slender or one that would have an airy feel to it if kept pruned.
I really like the crab apple or pear trees, if you choose a smaller variety.
Great to see some colour return to the garden. Really tough for the garden centres but perhaps this is a chance for more people to get into growing from seed - which ultimately should reduce our plastic pot consumption. I’m a fan of strulch too. Although the birds do like to scratch around in it, usually sorted with the addition of few thoughtfully placed twigs.
I'll try the twigs tip - I find it's quite useful in deterring them from nibbling at some of my leaves although the word 'some' is probably the key.
Thank you Alexandra for a beautiful video full of information. I love the flowering trees this time of year...we have in our yard the ornamental plum trees and quite a few dogwoods that haven't bloomed yet here in NJ. I am always forgetting to trim down the butterfly bushes (buddlea?)so they are very woody. I have noticed in my walks with our dog that there is a house with great looking tulips, many buds, but the people who live there do not care for their yard and they must have been planted by someone else and are thriving in neglect. I am thinking maybe some things would do better without my fussing. Thank you for the tour...it is great to see how everything is doing and great to see Lottie too.
Thank you - and I'm glad to hear some tulips are battling through!
Really enjoyed this informative video Alexandra. Thank you. I'm torn between planting a crab apple or an Amelanchier in the front garden here in the West of Ireland.
Both are beautiful.
I love your mellifluous pronounciation of Amelanchier almost as much as your describing it being a substitute for net curtains!
More tulips will return if they have an opportunity to 'bake' in a long, hot, dry summer as their ancestors did in the mideast which is somewhat duplicated in our southwest France garden. I used to dig up those that flowered the previous spring before replacing with fresh bulbs in autumn. Then I noticed the discarded ones were blooming on the compost heap as were the tulips that I missed removing in the flower beds. So a little research, a rethink, and now I realise though it is a delight to see them blooming merrily in a neglected part of the garden, it would be better if I just left them in their original location. Though Darwin tulips like Apeldoorn are one of the more reliable returners in general, in our garden other varieties come back too, like lily-flowered, parrot, triumph, and fringed. Oddly, Fosteriana which is a species tulip and regarded as a naturaliser, doesn't. To know what does well in your own garden is always the way to go and that kind of observation takes patience. I cultivate the garden while the garden cultivates patience in me!
I had mentioned in an earlier comment, that I try to grow vegetables which give us more than just one crop (onions & green onions, beets/turnips & their greens). Since peas were planted thickly about a month ago, we now have a bunch of fresh greens in the form of thinned pea shoots.
Thank you!
Thank you for your video. The trouble I'm having with my garden is it just disappeared under 8 inches of snow when it was just starting to peek out. I am writing from Canterbury in New Brunswick, Canada. I'm sure spring will come eventually, but it's a long wait.
Hope spring comes soon for you. I live very near Canterbury in the UK. No snow here though, very sunny and more like summer!
I love the spring flower colors you're wearing--did you plan that?
Thank you so much, yes, I try to plan what colours to wear before shooting but often forget, so it's sometimes an accident when it works out.
As always the weather. We are having 3-4 days of lovely spring weather and then one drastically cold. I am making more and more portable covers and greenhouses i can pop things into quickly. I live in s. Michigan. I am also growing more and more veg in containers.
Hi, do you mean you cover things already planted in the ground with these little greenhouses? I have seedling that are definitely too big for their cells and am wondering how I can maybe get away with planting them a little early. I'm in Connecticut, 7a. I wrote a whole question about this before I saw your comment. :o
@@nspector you can make covers out of plastic or net row covers depending on how cold its getting. Check out One Yard Revolutiin on CZcams for more ideas
We too are having 3-4 days of beautiful sun and now a bitterly cold day with a biting wind.
My weather has been quite similar to yours, wet for weeks, windy and kind of dry, still too damp to get the veg in. I sowed a lot of seeds this late winter, now I'm worried I won't get them in the ground on time. I really hate to have 30 sprouts on a salad rather then 30 plants in the ground. We're supposed to get up to 77*F this Wednesday, I expect to be planting my heart out, and savoring the sun. Have a Great week ahead, stay safe, and Happy gardening to all.!
I think it's definitely worth getting some in the ground whatever the weather. Plants really want to grow - good luck. I'm just about to transfer my first ever batch of turnips and can't imagine them being successful.
I'm planting those as well first time, I'm still waiting for it dry up a bit more, raised beds are getting more today. Good luck to both of us =^)
I am loving your video's and your garden! I also watch Laura on you tube channel "Garden Answers", she is in America and has a rather large garden. It's nice to see the contrast, I am in England so appreciate that your garden is more relevant to me, however it's interesting to see her issues which include hole digging and root eating gophers!. My issue at the moment is that my partner won't allow me to plant more ground covers and perennials, I would love to not see bare patches of earth. I do sneak plants in when he isn't looking though and will do this once the plant centres re-open :) I am from Australia originally and last year managed to acquire, from my local nursery, a bottle brush (Callistemon), Grevillia and a small gum tree, so I have my little semi-Australian native corner in my UK garden to remind me of home, sadly my Grevillia doesn't appear to like the British weather, it - unlike me - has not acclimatised I expect.
Thank you, yes Garden Answer is very good. I quite often feature Australian gardens as we go there once a year, so I hope you enjoy those - if you haven't spotted them they are czcams.com/video/6rPsidljeqk/video.html and czcams.com/video/GgVJMEykfts/video.html and there are others, usually around March ish.
5:15 well my goodness- thanks! I cut my bulbs all the way back once they get sloppy. And I don't plant my tulips a foot deep either. More like 4 in. I do find them quite high maintenance. I'm a shrub girl
I agree shrubs are very good value in the garden.
March 2021....thinking of planting 2 tart/pie-cherry trees....my grandson so loves tart cherries....my grandmother had a lovely one alongside the croquet lawn. Prunus Cerasus 'Montmorency' Tree.....available, and the perfect choice for memories and zone 6b. Wish I could plant a seed and grow my grandmother back into now. : ) She was awesome.
She sounds lovely
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Yes thank you, she was lovely.
I still have a creeping sedum from her...started the clippings more than 50 years ago. Always I move some with me, through 3 house-moves. : )
I think many of us would agree with that last ...!
What is the beautiful plant with dark leaves beside your watering can? I would love to have it.
Hi, Alexandra, and thank you for keeping up with your videos during this time. I once had a pear tree in a house we rented and we had pears, so I didn't know they're not self-pollinating, just like apple trees. Good to know for my next garden! I'm afraid I didn't quite catch the name of that special mulch. Would you be so kind as to write it out so I can look it up?
It's called 'Strulch' - it's based on straw. Friends of mine get a similar effect by putting their pruned trees and shrubs through a chipper and using that as mulch, but we don't really have room for a chipper.
The Middle-Sized Garden Thank you!
Thank you for your interesting videos. I often watch and enjoy them very much.
I do not remember in which middle-sized garden video I saw this, but I want to see it again: Small birds are entering and leaving holes in bamboo-tube shaped nests. They looked so pleasant and cute. What birds are they? Are the nests in your garden? If so, did you made them for birds to live in? It would be unlikely for birds to live in my garden since it is far smaller and far less abundant with nature than yours. However, just thinking of hanging a similar tube-like nest from a tree in my garden and waiting for birds to make it their nest is fun! Please let me know how to make it.
I'm trying to remember which video that might have been. We get birds making their nests in our ivy (very wildlife friendly, but you do have to cut it back every few years) and also in the hedges. And any tree, however small, is also lovely for birds. I don't know if you saw this video on what a wildlife friendly garden needs: czcams.com/video/Fiz5qc7CRaY/video.html - it might help.
I'm trying to remember which video that might have been. We get birds making their nests in our ivy (very wildlife friendly, but you do have to cut it back every few years) and also in the hedges. And any tree, however small, is also lovely for birds. I don't know if you saw this video on what a wildlife friendly garden needs: czcams.com/video/Fiz5qc7CRaY/video.html - it might help.
Hello Alexandra, Ilove the combination of the euphorbia robbiae and the burgundy tulips, this is something I'm going to try in my garden. I've had my eye on a sambucus black lace for a little while and managed to take delivery of one from our local nursery this week. Could you please tell me what plants you grow alongside yours and it says to prune back hard for the best foliage - do you do this? Thank you
I don't prune it back hard every year, though that is because I forget. But it seems fine. I've been growing Acanthus mollis 'Rue Ledan', the pure white version, also foxgloves and camassia. And also Japanese anemones.
Thank you so much.
I also struggle with growing vegetables, they are little prima Madonnas. Plus, I can seem to get the slugs off them or I don’t feed them enough. Sad.
I found two absolutely enormous slugs poised to attack yesterday. Slugs are a real problem.
Hello. This was absolutely lovely. Thank you.
You asked about challenges. I am growing perennials and some annuals from seed this year for the very first time, indoors under grow lights. I actually did not start them too early, but many germinated much faster than the packets said, some more than two weeks faster. So, right now I have plants that are really too big for their cells, but it's not quite warm enough here. Zone 7a, Connecticut. I'm particularly worried about my lupines which have that fussy tap root. I have no idea what they're doing in their cells, but it cannot be good. So, I'd like to risk planting them a little early. All that to get to my question: What can I do overnight to protect them from the cold? I know there's some kind of fabric I can put over them, but I don't know how to do it without it blowing away or squishing the plants. Maybe there are other methods? Do you (or anyone reading) have any experience with this? Thanks very much.
You could plant them out and throw one big harvest guard over the whole area? Or if you have any seed starter/ potting mix left you can pot a few seedlings into bigger containers. As long as there's drainage anything works. I've used straw bags with holes and repurposed loads of unused household things to keep my seedling growing with more space. But like I said, that's assuming you have soil sitting around. Hopefully someone with more experience can recommend further things. Good luck.
@@kareharpies Thanks very much. I could do that with some of them, but the lupines do not like being transplanted. I have them outside right now. It's the coldest temp they've had out there (still in the cells).
I might be ok to plant them in a few days...But, yes, I should see if I can get some harvest guard shipped.
We use horticultural fleece here (that might be the same as harvest guard?) It's a white fleece type fabric that sits lightly on the plants and is secured on hoops or flat on the ground with stones. The plants seem to be fine and not squished as it's very light, and it's pinned down around them with bricks or large stones at the edges. Hope your lupins survive.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Yes. thank you, Alexandria. I ordered some harvest guard (it's the same thing, I think), which should be here soon. Hopefully I can plant in the next few days.
I’m surprised garden centres weren’t seen as essential businesses. How can people grow food if they can’t easily source plants and compost? It’s frustrating.
Hear hear!
In the US they are an essential business. You probably just need to write a letter or find a farm supply outlet...those wont be closed. We have Tractor Supply or the Farm Coop here but I am sure you have something similar to that there. You might have to buy in bulk but a few of you could split it up and that would help establish community as well. Don’t forget that you can make all your own personal protection equipment like masks without waiting for someone to supply you with them. This is very common in other parts of Europe and the USA right now. This way you can have community, share resources and stay safe as Brits. :). It takes all of five/seven minutes to make a flu mask with spare fabric that you have laying around. Masks equal freedom since that is what they used in China to completely stop the spread.
Many people are petitioning the Government to let them open as essential supplies. It is frustrating as I'm sure there are safe ways of allowing people to buy.
Veg gardening is a fight to win . Everything wants to eat it so a big tent net over veg is needed
Absolutely!
Hi I got a plum tree last year I am not Geting any leafs at the top they are come out at the bottom is the tree dead. X please can you help me.
It is probably grafted and the host root stock is alive but the grafted tree above it is not. Many fruit trees are grafted onto a base, usually a different variety of, say, plum. If you're in the Northern hemisphere, see what happens over the next few weeks, but if you still don't get any leaves at the top by mid May, I think it has died. And sadly, the only option is to take it out. The leaves coming out at the base will be coming from the rootstock and they won't give you the fruit or the shape that you wanted when you bought the tree.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden brilliant that's help me a lot thank you for answering me I will let you know what happens thank you Marie from Belfast. 👍😊
Hello Alexandra, is your veg patch in your own garden ??
Yes, it is.
@@pansepot1490 Thank yoi
Pat is right - it's in the L shape of the garden.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thank you
I garden in central Mexico, in very high elevation. Last week we had the first real rain since December. So watering had been No. 1 chore. I’ve been setting up drip irrigation on parts of my garden. I’ve a pear tree, a fig tree, a lemon tree, and an orange tree covered in little tiny fruit. I’ve a 10 year old apple tree that does NOTHING. I’ve helias, agapanthus, roses, hydeangeas, alliums that are begining to flower. But my vegetable garden is empty, which now I regret with this coronavirus thing. Last year I started playing with succulents and they are WONDERFUL. But not as easy as you would assume, even in Mexico. If you want a look at my garden I have some pictures in IG. @paleobuenisimo. Love your content.
Ya mire sus fotos y que bien se alimenta, señora.
I checked it out and you had some impressive carrots (last year?) Lovely succulents and pear blossom, too.
The Middle-Sized Garden Thank you!
Ruby Arias Espero que no sea sarcasmo, jajajaja. Sigo una dieta paleo porque tengo los genes del infierno: diabetes, artritis, cancer y Alzheimer. Pero la epigenética nos dice que genoma no es destino y pues le hago mi luchita.