77. Village Business and More Homestead Plants - Living Alone in Wales (June 2024)
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- It's been a busy week in the village with new businesses opening plus it is even busier back home when all my online plants arrive at the same time.
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Saw hedgehogs last night Sean. Lots in our area because we have houses for them, feed them and have made hedgehog highways - which are small holes in fences to connect gardens. 🦔❤
We also have hedgehogs visiting, we put water & kitten biscuits out every night in their feeder throughout the year because even if they're hibernating they sometimes wake & need a top up. Hopefully you know to never feed them mealworms as they love them but will develop metabolic bone disease if they eat them & die a slow & very painful death.
There's a lot of misinformation on the Internet about hedgehog feeding so it's important to spread the word. Slugs & snails are a last choice for hedgehogs when there's no decent natural food available to them as these carry lungworm & other parasites & can also be deadly to hedgehogs, especially if their health is already compromised.
I absolutely love hedgehogs!!!
So pleased to hear you have hedgehogs around and a bit jealous
You know, when I’m feeling a bit low, I just put on this lovely gentle show. And I feel better.
yes, me too
Oh my Sean, my OCD was through the roof with all the straw everywhere 🤦♀️😂😂
Same. 😂
My Mysophonia can't take the crackling wrapping paper noises 😅
Mine too😂
Well said Tinastone! I am not house proud but this went BEYOND my comfort zone! Sean, I can't stop watching despite my HORROR. The mess distracted from everything else. At least living on your own you aren't expecting anyone else to clean up after you! Dxx
Your vlogs and channel are one of the best things that appeared on my i pad, they are uplifting and so funny Sean, i honestly thought a donkey might appear when the straw started flying, Thankyou, have a lovely weekend, Ben Dover 🤣😂
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I've got hedgehogs in my garden, I see them pottering about on my wildlife camera. I had one at my previous address years ago that used to come in through the catflap ! I know what you mean about not taking life too seriously, as I've got older I've realised a lot of what used to upset me just wasn't worth wasting energy on. I try to do my best to help others (it stops me worrying about my own issues) and keep a smile on my face. Not always easy but I do try ! My nan used to say worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. Thank you so much for all you do, I love your channel. Your new plants look fabulous too 😊
During our twenty one years living in Bontddu, the ducks and chickens were always wandering into the house only to be escorted out again by our five miniature Dachshunds!!
I have a family of hedgehogs living under my shed I see them now and again
Living in upstate NY I have never seen a hedgehog in person. Coincidentally though, last evening at dusk when I expected to see a rabbit or two out the back window, I instead saw what I took to be a grey fox, or coyote. Either would be very rare to see in this residential neighborhood, though I have seen white tailed deer so paths are obviously possible. It was pretty exciting to me and I tried to take a photo, but only managed one nearly useless blur.
Hello. Londoner living in New Mexico for past 50 years.
That's amazing what they have done to the old tapers garage site
I sent the magnets from New Mexico, my names Jamie.
Many thanks Jamie.
@@seanjamescameron you're welcome! I live in Chaparral New Mexico!
We called them Gooseberries Goosegogs when I was a Kid and Spring Onions are still Gibbuns to me
I call them goose gigs & spring onions were called scallions cos we grew em to a large size. Trip down memory lane 🤩
Really enjoy your vlogs…thank you for taking us along on your beautiful adventures!!! Hello from Tennessee USA!!!
Those lavenders look wonderful Sean. Those plug plants made me giggle. Good luck, I hope they flourish.🌿💚
Lovely straw to put on your garden for mulch .
Those fruit trees were really well packed.
My ideal home would be a workshop with a bed in the corner in the middle of the woods!!!!
Think you need to keep a roll of heavy duty bin bags in your study to put all your cardboard and straw in for allotment
Hedgehogs are in my garden every night.
Nice garden area, much better than a garage & lovely for nearby houses to look out on.
Can't believe you opened the plants on your desk, what a mess!
Sean i now look forward to your posts.
Its like youve become a friend who chats to me in the mornings and i would miss you if you stopped posting.
Educational and nice music not overdone. You make me smile. Thank you ❤
Years ago I enrolled for a City and Guilds gardening course in our local high school. Two hours week 7-9 , one unit every term for five terms Excellent teacher, new friends and invites to gardening related days out. I would recommend this evening class if it’s still available
Oh Sean,4am i am wide awake,so thought I wonder what Sean is up to, an here i am in bed howling laughing,at opening parcels an Straw flying then like magic, a bootiful plant appears, oh Sean you are Tonic, you really are, so funny,bet the cats had a field day in that straw before you could get brush out. Then the opening of the letters an magnet's.ha ha. Brilliant video.please don't ever change Sean! Take care, blessings from Southport!😅 Sonja
I'm very impressed with all the projects going on in your area and the new cafe. In so many towns, shops are boarded up but you seem to have lots going on around you which is encouraging to see.
Jaaaaaayzus the mess 😂😂😂😂!!! I was just going to say save it for the nativity!!!
You are going to be so busy planting all your wonderful plants in your Homestead, and it will be so lovely for you to have some time to yourself doing that, I am sure. You can use that straw in the packing on your homestead, so nothing gets wasted, to put around strawberries perhaps? Love the little plug plants from Thompson and Morgan, although they are small, with your love of plants, they should all flourish and grow into healthy mighty plants I am sure. Are you going to put some raised beds on your Homestead? Will be kinder to your knees and back. Looking forward to seeing you enjoying your time there, and getting it the way you envisage. xxx
Am doing it the old fashioned way.
When I had my Whippet Cody, he went out in the garden for his last wee and I heard him barking .Went out to find him with a rolled up Hedgehog, wondering what to do with it .I had to laugh. I called him in and that was the last time I saw one .I loved watching you undoing your plants and tossing the straw around with gay abandon,, ha ha ..Lovely plants too.. Hope you can get the little plugs sorted ..I have never cared for Gooseberries .my Dad used to grow them. Too sour and prickly to pick them .Have a good weekend Sean. .I'm always pleased when you have a new video out ..
Look out for a dessert gooseberry - a good one can be eaten without cooking! Honest!
I had 72 mix from Thompson etc, there were 12 dry tubas and 60 mini bulbs for £5.99, like you i should have known better lol.
We have lots of hedgehogs here. I blocked the bottom of the gate so they couldnt get in the garden because of my jack russell cross.
Goosegogs we used to call gooseberrys.
Lovely to see your enthusiasm again with your plant delivery, thanks for brightening my day.
Jans two weeks ago an advertisement was in the Daily express for a garden centre named coopers of stortford the advert was for hanging baskets £14 99 so I ordered two thought it was very reasonable they asked for my bank details like a fool no hanging baskets have arrived as yet looked at my bank statement they charged me £59 99 am to afraid to phone them as it gives out the same phone number they charged me enough on first order if these goods don’t come in the next week I am going to the police what they did to me is theft and false advertising my advise to anyone don’t phone coopers of stortford they might do the same to you I usually have a nice garden but I am haveing treatment for blood cancer and haven’t got the energy this year
It's like Christmas every day at your house with the unwrapping of so many parcels. 🤣 Love your videos always entertaining without even trying 🤣
Sean you have such a lovely sense of humour, always look forward to you videos bit of a messy one today though wouldn't want to clean that up 😂
Great about the new coffee shop, you can't get an oat milk coffee anywhere in RCT without hunting hard 😅
I get carried away, so must remind myself when ever I'm in the shops.😊
The plants look so healthy Sean, currants too (bonus), I have 2.5 acres here in Tasmania and need to plant more fruit trees, I’ve just put in wildlife pond and weeping willow , two Pin oaks too (mind you they are only 6”😂) hopefully they’ll grow , love your sense of humour, so dry 😂😂, thank you for posting these videos, they are gold. I live in raspberry growing country, huge farm and shop down the road, we have hops growing here too and a river called Tyenna runs through this town (Westerway) and people come from around the world for fly fishing, we have some of the best lakes in the world for trout and fishing competitions… not that I fish mind you 😂😂
Indeed, smile and be happy. Love the flying Hay. A mess is a joy just like a weed to some are flowers to others.
Spent a week at Trecco bay with my grandchildren a few years ago lovely place fabulous beach ⛱️
👑👑👑I'd leave that straw.
Christmas is just around the corner, as you mentioned earlier.
It would make a great Nativity scene.👑👑👑
Or as a filler for a Christmas Hamper!.
Last year, there was a Hedgehoag lady and she had 2 babies. We put a wildlife camara out to watch them. I dont use poison and leave a lot of corners wild for them.
When your fridge magnet wall becomes full put a metal plate next to it on the wall in front of you and they will look like colourful tiles x
The lavenders look lovely and when your gooseberries have grown make a crumble, delicious with custard or cream. 😊
Oooh, yes, nice gooseberry crumble with custard and clotted cream for me ❤ and a nice cuppa tea 🍵 😋
Haha! I did exactly the same when I bought my plants for my hanging baskets. I thought it was a bargain and the plugs were smaller than my little fingernail!
You can get rid of Marestail, Sean. Unfortunately, it's by using neat round-up.
My Robert was a wonderful gardener who created a beautiful garden at The Cross, in Llanblethian .
A year or two before he died last October, a new neighbour of one of his clients told him that he killed the lot with neat Roundup.
I've seen some of that nasty plant creeping along my cul-de-sack. If it comes anywhere near my house, I'm going to give it a go.
I know you can kill it with rock salt on gravel because Rob and I tested a metre square on gravel, but that's no good for beds and grass.
My word you could start keeping goats or sheep with all the straw. May I add that your channel is so uplifting always look forward to your videos
Got half a dozen trees from same supplier in march there all doing really well 😊
Wise decision not to go to London. The currants from Chris Bowers look splendid - I bought plants from him in the past. I have planted lots of lavender in my new garden. A mixture of varieties. The French lavender, papillon, has been flowering for nearly three months, the English varieties are just bursting out.
You could put a small solar panel on your shed if you are so inclined.
Glad you're clearing up the mess, not me! 😀
Good compost fodder there ! Get a black bin in that passageway lol
Leave the straw and turn the room into an indoor chicken coop; buy the hens that lay purple eggs.
Hi Sean. Well I'm in bed having a cuppa. You can tell there's not a women around in your house. Couldn't stop laughing. You can use the gooseberries for jam making. Loads of pectin. Just a bit of advice.... If I was you I'd get some friends from your community group to help you get the homestead dug over. If you don't get those plants in within a month they will suffer and all that money wasted. Did you buy a load of lavender plants earlier. It seems to ring a bell. I thought you'd bought about 12. Have a great weekend Sean. Hope the weather is good. Xx
No, only bought one in Wales but did buy 12 for my London garden.
Always have fun watching your vlogs Sean .I to bought plug plant from the same place and didn't get them till to late ,so I missed out on that to . The lavender looks very healthy and huge .Thankyou for the vid ,my favourite .
My better half hates things packed in any sort of polystyrene because "it goes everywhere". I wonder what he would think of this packaging? 😂
I love the cat ornament that resembles Rusty ! Awesome 🙂 Those blackcurrants I love and are easy to grow cuttings from. My mum just used to stick them in the ground and most grew ! Funny you mention seriousness. I have never been capable of taking life seriously at all...lol
Yes saw a hedgehog 🦔last month & managed to get it on trailcam 👍luckily there's a field opposite us.
Hedgehogs, I love them! They live here, at the back of the back yards. Not many of them. But I see at least one hedgehog in a year. Not always the same one, sometimes it's a small one, sometimes a larger one. Once I met two of them together, probably a male and a female wanting to start a family.
This is an ordinary neighbourhood, with houses, apartment buildings and a few shops, but it's fairly green, lots of trees and bushes and lawns.
Hi Sean those currant bushes look really healthy, you will have to build a fruit cage on the homestead, or the birds will have a field day, I have got a blueberry bush which every year is covered in berries, but the birds always get them before I do, some really fat birds where I live, I love seeing what you have bought for the homestead, it gives me ideas, we have got hedgehogs in the garden, one trundles down the side of the lawn every night to have a drink out of the dogs bowl, all of our neighbours and me have put holes in the bottom of our adjoining fencing, we call it the hedgehog highway, so they can go from garden to garden, we also have foxes which are beautiful but a bit destructive ie digging holes, which I fill in and they dig more, it's a game, great vlog, but a lot of cleaning up to do!, take care xxx
Well, Sean, you surely do have a lot to cart over to the homestead! I know you will make a great job of it. Thank you too for showing the garage turned garden centre! What a great use of space. Here, when a service station is closed for alternate purposes, the old tanks have to be excavated the land tested and reclamation process completed prior to sale. So at the expense of the existing owner not the purchaser. It is nice to see a new coffee shop/ diner opening up. It shows people ate optimistic about the future.
Gooseberries make a wonderful jam
Hi Sean lavender shontbread home made marry berry. And gooseberry and rice / crumble lovely
Happy Birthday!!! Hoping your day is or was wonderful!!!
Would be good if you could come back to London to film the Lewisham plots for the competition as its back on this year since it stopped for the lock down and never restarted until now, I'm the guy who won best in borough in 2019 would be good if you could post the 3 videos of the 3 nominated plots.
If I do it will be on my second channel @seanjcameron
so long as you dont find a baby under the gooseberry bush
Haha you did what I would of done in anticipation of plants !!! 😂😂
Hi Sean 👋 never a dull moment on your vlogs, I enjoy every moment of your content. I called them goosegogs growing up. Those lavender plants were healthy and vibrant especially against T&Ms plugs, I stopped buying from there a few years back. Lol I bet every woman was shouting at the screen at the mess you were making 😂 enjoy your rest and see you on the next one 😊
I so enjoy your videos. Glad all your plants you received looked healthy. I thought oh my if that was me I would be tracking straw everywhere even after I cleaned it up. Thank you for making me laugh. The house must have smelled glorious with the beautiful lavender. Thank you 🌺🌸🌺
Save the plain cardboard Sean to put down on on potential no dig beds 🤩
Hi Sean, love the fruit plants. Very well packaged and looking very healthy. I'm the same I get so enthusiastic with things, I do tend to make mess. My eldest daughter who lives with me, she has OCD, etc, whatever, she's got it and is constantly cleaning up after me before I've had a chance to do it myself. Then accuses me of being messy, talk about role reversal. That'll keep you busy planting that lot up. Have a good weekend Sean 😊
Have a sheet of metal cut to put on the piece of wall above your dish drainer for all your magnets !
Hello Sean a lot of fun in the video, useful straw for garden or homestead. You are definitely going to be busy, I buy plants a lot too, my neighbour and friends always ask "where I'll you put it, " my reply I will borrow a bit of sky. My plants always fit in somewhere, raised beds containers , under planting etc, I have a plum , apple, and blackberry tree, I grow mixed salad cut and come again under a cloche for most of the year tomatoes 4 months of the year. cottage garden wild flowers etc.birds bees butterflies squirrels all visit my gardens it is as you say all year round it doesn't stop .that is my idea of healthy living. Can't wait to see your homestead up and running . Great times ahead for you . All the best wishes to you Sean.👍🙏🌹
My word Sean..you are so funny I nearly had a laughing attack 😂..When you opened this lavender box ..oh you are super loose man...oh yah the raspberry are from Belgium then...bravo..😂❤ from since I watch your video's ..I am drinking lots of cups of tea too..😂 rooibos tea..it's a south African Red tea growing in the cape. Very nice. I think you have a great sense of humour man....
The cats and birds 🎉 will love the straw!
I have never seen a hedgehog, in fact in Australia in the burbs we do not get anything other than lizards! (Blue Tongue) 🦎I did have a snake in the garage once though! Regards from Downunder 🦘
We had a lot of soft fruit at home. My least favourite job was picking blackcurrants and worse still, topping and tailing them!
I remember doing that chore too, ha ha ..
I make gooseberry jam I think it makes one of the best jams...I use it like cranberry jelly on Xmas dinner!
You could have done that opening of those plants outside😳🤦♀️😂😂
O BOY, the few flowers i planted which was inspired by your little garden plant up, ive now increased to veggie plants. looking at your gooseberry bush, i hope to get one soon, love them in tarts and jam !
Good morning
What a joy to see that an abandoned garage has been able to make way for a new business and also pretty plants. It's really a very pretty place.
I really like the arrangement of your desk and.... Rusty above the cabinet :D
Is that a vine that you bought?
Have a great weekend
Catherine (from France)
No vine, yet.
You are the best habit, whenever you have a new video, my husband and I reward ourselves for our work-a-day chores by getting a cup of tea and watching your adventures! I thought leaving the straw around for your kitties was a great idea. In the autumn I bring dried leaves in for my cats (5) to play in. The leaves stay down until they're really worn out (the leaves, not the cats). And I do add fresh ones all autumn. Where we live we have just one old cat that we allow outside, she doesn't leave the immediate yard and she's mostly feral anyway. But the indoor cats love the adventure of dried autumn leaves.
We have clean dried straw in the garage, hhhmmm....
Thank you for sharing your charming life with us. From western New York state, US.
ha ha you were having so much fun with that hay. Made me smile. I open plants outside or on the doorstep to save a bit of clean up if there's spillage of packing or soil. Your plants were certainly well packaged and the gardens will love the hay. The greenery looks nice in your office. You need a pot plant on your desk now🪴.
Always fancied Kew Gardens and also the private herb gardens in Kensington I think. If i was heading for London then i would wait until September as it is very busy. I have been a few times, business and visits. Love this video with the plants and scenery xxx
Awww so funny love your channel
all the straw can be used for mulch, either out in your cottage garden or at Rusty's farm; those currants would look awesome planted in front of the iron fence at the back there, raise the beds so you're not breaking your back or your knees; love lavender & can't wait to see your lavender pathway
can't wait til you actually start doing gardening at the farm lot
thanx for sharing
This video is very entertaining Sean, don't worry about cleaning up, just be happy with all your beautiful plants. I'm watching regularly from South Africa, of course we're going into winter so just trying to keep warm.
I love your videos and find Wales so interesting ❤
Hilda Moll,
Montagu
Western Cape
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Buy a magnetic board and put it above those white tiles next to the fridge. ❤️👍❤️
Sean you are entertaining without even trying. Love reading all the good comments you get here from all your followers.
So funny keep up the good work 😂
Hello Shaun. We had a similar site locally, which was finally built on, but not until it had been left for a good many years. Apparently it was necessary to leave it ‘barren’ as it had been used as a filling station previously. It’s certainly a productive use for a disused site!
Another interesting and fun video. You need a couple of horses to come for a visit and clean up your room. Haha. Those plants look so healthy. I love lavender. Just planted some in my garden the other day. Unfortunately I lost all 3 of my 10 year old lavender this spring. No idea why. Our winter here in the Vancouver area was not that harsh but we did have a couple of nights where the temp took quite the dip.Maybe that was the cause. You are going to be a busy guy. But so worth all the effort. Looking forward to seeing your homestead take shape….one day at a time.💕👍🏻🇨🇦
James Mcintyre & sons have brilliant and affordable fruit trees too.. I have bought a few from them and I have always been impressed with the quality and price 🙂
We laughed so much when you were throwing the strew about Sean. Then when the door knock my daft husband said; “that will be the horse looking for his hay”. Daft bugger he is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So exciting to see all the lovely plants and fruit trees. I’m still in awe of how quickly everything has come along so nicely.
Those trees will certainly get a good watering if they’re out on the garden now… rain and thunder storms over here in Lincolnshire. Oh well, we mustn’t complain lots of people would be glad of it.
Thank you for another funny & charming Vlog Sean. Enjoy the rest of your evening. The two old farts 😂❤
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Glorious selection of plants you got there, im currently engaged in a battle with a huge (15ft high) bamboo in my garden, once thats beaten back im hoping to get more variety in. Thanks for another lovely vlog 😊❤
Bore da Sean
I laughed out loud at you with that straw, so funny. Great vlog as always. Beautiful plants.
Wishing you a fab weekend.
Annie🏴
Ive got hedgehog in my backyard most nights when its cold...they crawl through the bottom of the fence... another one comes through my front door and has a nibble on the cats tucker...he's so timid when he hears me he belts outside like the devils after it...
Hi Sean, Maz here from Tasmania Australia, your batteries are CR 2032 button cell.😽😽
You are so funny love your videos
I think your room wil have a nice smell now, like a farm.
Hi Sean. Nice plants, gifts, cards, and magnets! Good luck on the homestead. Take care
So happy to see you got magnets from Colorado and New Mexico-my neck of the woods. 😁
Oh what lovely lavender plants,I have them at the side of a path,it’s lovely to see all bees,mine have gone a bit woody this year,I will need to replace them x
I was looking for baby Jesus in all that straw !
Loved the video , laughed so much , you are funny Sean. 🦋
Great looking plants and very well packaged ,I think I will be spending some coinage there for sure at Chris Bowers .Great stuff Sean that headgehog plant looked really nice and guess rather rare :)
Brilliant lavender plants, I've never seen any that tall or large here in NC, USA. They are about 1/4 or less than yours...Hope they do well for you!!!
Going to say the same the other day did comment on sjc 2 was going out early am put garden light on 2 hedgehogs on the grass. All the plants will look good once their established.
Good morning Sean,
The community garden is a lovely place and the cafe looks nice too, very art deco with it's colour scheme! You said it was rush hour lol I've seen more rush in a snail race 😂 Glad you are such a cheerful person,one of the many reasons I watch the video's. Like the poem Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Laugh and the world laughs with you
Weep and you weep alone. I don't blame you for not wanting to chance taking the fruit home because of the bindweed and mares tail I have bindweed in my garden and it's a royal pain in the backside! Take care Sean 💜
Yes excellent raised beds. But unfortunately wood of that calibre is very expensive today. I like that place. You could buy affordable solar panel for your shed. Just a thought ! You should have opened them outside 😂😂😂 Beautiful specimens, lovely and healthy. It’s exciting when you buy new plants and they are in great shape. Gooseberry pie, and custard yum ! You can buy pastry from most supermarkets. Easy peasy pastry. Great video. Thanks for sharing Sean. 👍❤️👍
Another fabulous video from Sean xx
Oh you messy monkey😅 Im sitting here gritting my whole body watching you unwrap your plants...but I am just the same,make an unholy mess then curse having to clean up 😂.lovely lavender,I have 12 or so plants I grew from cuttings two years ago,still need to be planted out.love how your community has so many little pockets of projects znd that you introduce us to them.Hope you dont get hay(straw) fever when you clean up😅