How to tweak your flower colour to perfection
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- Is your border too green? Does it have as much flower colour as you'd like? I've re-visited Frances and Paul Moskovits' amazing long border to pick up tips on what you can do now to make your herbaceous border look stunning from midsummer until the first frosts.
This video also answers some of your questions from the previous video on Paul and Frances' garden - How to Make a Flower Border Look Amazing: • How to make a flower b... . It also answers some of the other herbaceous border questions you've been asking.
Frances uses Darlac Snips: amzn.to/3qsdFln and Darlac Compact Shears amzn.to/3h33mja (note that links to Amazon are affiliate, see below)
0:00 Welcome
0:28 The pink rose is 'Generous Gardener.'
0:50 The difference between a low maintenance garden and a 'wow factor' border
1:03 Videos on how to have a beautiful low maintenance garden: *10 Low Maintenance Plants for a Stylish Garden: • 10 low maintenance pla... *Easy Low Maintenance Wildlife garden tips: • Easy, low maintenance ... *Best Low Maintenance Front Garden Tips: • Best low maintenance f...
2:30 Frances' update on the border. They will be open for the National Garden Scheme Kent at some point - look for 'Ouden' on ngs.org.uk/find-a-garden/
3:31 Keep a pair of 'snippers' in your hand when you're wandering round the garden! Frances uses Darlac Compact Shears amzn.to/3h33mja and Darlac Dead-heading Snips: amzn.to/3x0P1e4 (affiliate links, see below)
3:55 The best way to dead head flowers
4:35 What to do when the border seems too full of green growth and some plants are taking over.
5:04 The sword-shaped leaves are crocosmia.
5:29 What to do if you want more flowers but don't have any more room to plant in the border
6:39 The dark leafed plant is colocasia. It looks as if it's planted in the border, but it's in a pot, so it can easily be taken into the greenhouse in winter. Some of the banana palms are in pots too.
6:59 Make more space by cutting back leaves on the alliums
7:25 How to pack your border full of plants so they intermingle but don't look messy or flop into each other.
9:42 from left to right: single chestnut pole plant support, several u shaped metal plant supports, single upright metal plant support, hidden or almost hidden is a simple bamboo cane.
9:54 Simple bamboo cane plant support with top to prevent injury
9:59 Single upright metal plant support
10:04 How to deal with pests
10:29 How to use wool-based slug pellets
11.30 How to get into a deep herbaceous border without damaging other plants?
13.32 What percentage of your border is annuals or perennials?
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We don't have genuine gardening shows ( programmes) in America. Everything is either a makeover or a contest.
Interesting point.
I watched Frances’ first video and went to work creating my own border. I live in Zone 9 in Florida. I walk in the garden at least five times a day, starting at 5:45am through my bedtime. I do not struggle with pruning any more. In a short time, I learned that the flowers would flush back three-fold. My first purchase was Verbascum. I purchased three plants and one, to my absolute delight, bloomed this year. Also, at her suggestion, I purchased Bee Balm. I have never planted from seeds but tried it. Now the garden is full of sunflowers and zinnias. I am struggling with foxglove and lupine; on my third attempt. One of these times, they will flower. When my neighbors pruned their Crepe Myrtle in early spring, I gathered the branches and use them as stakes. We, also have lots of willow in our area. I use the larger pieces for stakes as well. We have many butterflies and bees. Please convey to Frances the joy she and her garden have brought to me, from so far away. I look forward to her fall tour and thoughts on putting the border to bed for the winter. A faithful viewer, Lisella
I loved reading this report on your garden life. Your plants are obviously enjoying your care and love. Funnily enough I don’t have much luck with lupins. Have had a couple I grew from seed last year,flower well this year, but this is an extra bonus for our garden. Foxgloves have definitely taken up residence now and I like the height they bring. They love the shady damp areas of the garden. I wish we could grow Crepe Myrtle here as I’ve always admired them when visiting gardens abroad. Can’t have everything I suppose! Thanks for your very kind comments.
Frances
Thank you! And that's a lovely account of your garden.
One of my dogs loves gardening with me. He follows me around inspecting everything I do and nibbles on veges and edible ornamental plants. I make sure we have enough of what he likes. So we're all happy😁
Thanks so much to Frances and Paul , allowing us to have another armchair visit of their garden...fabulous border flowering bed....gorgeous blooms...
Thanks for another super summer video...💝💐...love your summery top...💓
Thank you!
Love the garden but also there passion. Dogs first and then garden. Just a fantastic garden with such inspirational people.
Thank you so much and family members and friends so much!!together!!together!!
Your top is perfect for talking about gardening!
Oh thank you!
Family, dogs & garden are my priorities and joys too🥰
Another beautiful video with lots of interesting information. You put in so much effort with your guests, plant names on screen and time stamps, this is very much appreciated. Thank you 😊
Thank you! It's very nice to hear that.
Thank you, Alexandra for uploading this update! I just came in from working in our vegetable garden and found this as a lovely surprise. During the quarantine, my wife, two kids, and I built a small double circular patio out of left-over bricks just big enough for a firepit with chairs in one circle and a table and chairs in the other one. For Father’s Day last year, I was surprised with a small pond dug for me and made out of an old tractor tire. I did not know what to plant around this patio, but when I saw your “Wow Border” video, I knew that was what I wanted to try. My wife liked the idea of planting where no weeds can grow in. I did not know how to start a wow border, so I did it this way: I cleared 6 small ovals (about 2 feet by 1 foot) of grass/weeds and added a bought top-soil. I moved a German iris, a Dutch iris, a chrysanthemum, a rose campion, and a spiderwort into each oval. Then, I planted a mixture of zinnias and cosmos in each oval. I’ve ordered seeds, and I bought a small PVC pipe/plastic cover greenhouse that I have started to propagate for next year with minor success on foxglove, Russell lupines, and coneflowers. I’ve added more flowers around these ovals and hope to gradually spread them out until they meet each other (we already had some flowering shrubs planted). Right now, it’s just a “Meh!” border, but hopefully, it will be a wow border in a few years. (I remember Frances saying that one of the things it took was time.) I live in Alabama, USA, zone 7b. Thank you three - Alexandra, Frances, and Paul - so, so much for this wonderful inspiration!
That sounds great. I think it will look lovely when it settles in.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thank you!
Gardening is a PASSION! That says it all!
Such a delight to revisit this wonderful garden. Thank you Alexandra for another great video and Frances and Paul for allowing us to come for another visit : )
What a good idea!
Sorry, that was a reply to the next comment! But thank you.
Well done - the video and the border
Great video! So lovely that Frances and Paul both love gardening so much. what a wonderful passion to share!
It really is!
Alexandra, you are the best! This is another great video, thank you 🙏
Thank you! 😃
Love the dogs, they look so happy!
They do, they're gorgeous.
Never ever hard work, you just love doing it….can totally relate. It’s therapy!
I love the Moskovitz garden! I learn so much from these episodes.
Thank you!
Thanks for visiting this inspiring garden again Alexandra. I think we all find it so wonderful because unlike the borders of stately homes, this is more achievable, at least in part, for us amateur gardeners. I would love to have a garden even a tiny bit as beautiful as Paul and Frances patch of paradise. Please let us visit again soon! x
I hope so!
I love it. The original video is one of my favorites and I re-watch often. Great to see a follow-up with such great tips.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love this style of gardening. Adding new annuals and perennials to the garden for a full, abundant effect is what I am striving for. I like the naturalistic style of gardening. I call my garden an urban cottage garden because I am still learning how to master the weeds!😄
I think we're all still learning how to master the weeds!
There's aways something of value to take away from each episode of 'The Middle Sized Garden' because the Gardeners are all hands on people with experience in the real life practicalities of gardening who willingly share their mistakes and successes. Gardening never becomes boring because there are always new things to see and ideas to explore and an endless diversity of interesting people to meet.
Mr and Mrs Moskavit, Paul and Francis share the same feelings that I have towards tearing ourselves away from garden+home: we couldn't bear it. The idea of leaving is out of the question. A Summer Vacation isn't for me I'd rather be home in and out of the garden too. It's much more enjoyable and engaging and relaxing than traveling. If I were away I might miss a nice event or, an unusual happening that's going on at home perhaps in a corner or somewhere inabout the Garden.
I think lots of people feel like that (and there are some lovely places to holiday in winter ). Thank you.
I love Frances & Paul's garden. We would also enjoy seeing their propagation practices in their greenhouse ! Maybe an entire playlist of the Moskovits'.
What a good idea!
Great idea 👌💡
love this idea as my success with seed sowing and growing on is a little bit hit and miss and I wonder maybe I am simply making school girl errors!
What a stunning garden and great advice, thank you 🌷. Who on earth gave this a thumbs down?
Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing so many beautiful flowers love the beautiful roses everything looks so beautiful in the garden hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy until the next video
Thank you too
Alexandra, you seem to ask all the right questions. Thank you for the lovely video. Their garden and lifestyle was interesting and inspiring.
Thank you!
My new rule this year, don’t go outside without your clippers.
Saves many a step inside to go get them.
Absolutely!
This is a great video ...love the wild in the formal setting ..something i do in.my little garden.It gives such an interest. One's garden certainly reflect s one's personality...Just so enjoy your videos marvelous tips
Thank you!
Take the advice that is easier and if that doesn't work try the one that is more work 🤣. It's never easy but it's fun! Thanks for your candid sense of humor 😉
Wow! Just come in from cutting and removing as much bramble and ivy from my fence and shed under an old pear tree - nightmare! This is all beside a small pond with newts in. So much still to do. I was immediately inspired to carry on the hard work as I watched your video. Thank you.❤️
I hope you haven't been too scratched by the bramble. Sounds like good work.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden yes got a few scratches unfortunately inspite of wearing a thick denim shirt with long sleeves.
I love the path behind the border. Sadly I don't have room for a path behind my deepest border, so seeing to the climbing roses and clematis can be a problem. I have a few strategically placed flat stones (about the size of my foot) that I step through the plants for access. It's better than nothing.
Good idea. It’s always a challenge to dead head no matter what you have in place. Sounds like you have the best option for you.
All the best and thanks for your tip on the flat stones.
Frances
Still my favourite gardening channel. Always top quality, thank you for all your work making these beautiful and informative videos!
Thank you1
So beautiful
Thank you!
Fantastic. Amazing Gardens❤
Thank you!
Enjoyed Frances's garden clip the first time round and am still very much in awe at what she has achieved with her flower border! BTW, the silver-grey in her hair looks great, too.
I'm so happy you came back to this border garden! I loved the last video so much.
Thank you so much!
Such a helpful video 🇦🇺
Glad it was helpful!
Beautiful garden and good tips. Loved seeing the bird walking along the wall!
me too
Hi Alexandra, how great timed this video is! I look forward to your blog every week and you always tell me exactly what I didn't even know that I wanted to know...until you show me! Keep going! And Thank you very much :-)!
You are so welcome!
I love this garden. After watching the last video, I planted a similar type garden in the subtropics in Australia, I only wish I knew about the paths before! I have Frances in my head when I garden "shove it in", "if you have a lawn", "manure". Thanks for another wonderful video on this garden.
Thank you, that's lovely to hear.
Alexandra, you asked all the questions I too would have, so thank you for this video!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm totally inspired . The garden looks great. I'm a fan of water bodies in a garden. Although we live in a place where we don't have large sized gardens yet I've got wonderful tips on how to manage and maintain my small garden with perennials. Perhaps I'll finally get myself a small pond tucked away in some corner someday. Thank you for this great video. 👍
Thank you!
Loved it! It’s like gardening academy, I learn so much from each episode. ♥️
Thank you!
Informative vid ☘️🌸🌸🌸🌸
I'm loving this update thanks so much for sharing I'm gonna have to watch it a second time and take notes!!!!
Thank you!
Your passion has paid off 100%
I have added 2 borders (one a moon garden) where I can garden this way with everything growing into each other with a little bit of intention & design, and I have to say they are giving me the most pleasure out of all my other borders! Tucking little things into corners & letting them surprise me is what gardening is truly about. I have learnedly a lot from Paul & Francis’s videos in particular, for example I adopted the advice from her last video on compost being the secret sauce & that has helped my garden more than anything I ever did in the past. 💗🌸🌺 🙏
So glad to hear, thank you for letting us know.
It's obvious that Frances and Paul love their garden very much. It is truly lovely. Using a grass snake for pest control is a first for me!!!
It is lovely, I agree.
Wonderful as always 👌 we have slow worms which help to keep the slugs at bay but we often have to rescue them from the cats.
Interesting!
How about a plant list? Love this garden!
Thank you! I've named some plants in the description below the video, with time-stamps. I'll try to add a few more.
What an absolutely stunning garden! Their passion and love for gardening is evident. Great video and thank you so much!
Thank you!
Oh my gosh this is the most beautiful garden tour you’ve done such a wonderful job putting everything together so beautifully thank you so much for sharing it with us I always enjoy a beautiful garden tour my awesome friend. Hugs and kisses
Thank you so much!
Gorgeous peaceful garden. Thanks Alexandra.
Thank you too!
I love their small pond within the bed of gorgeous flowers.
It's lovely and works so well in their border.
Absolutely beautiful! I'm not sure I could deadhead 2 times daily.
Me neither, but it has encouraged me to dead head more!
Another great video, thank you Alexandra. Thank Frances and Paul for generously sharing all your gardening tips. I hope one day to visit your beautiful garden through the NGS scheme. We have a rescue dog, who unfortunately loves chasing bees; there has been more than one casualty in my borders, but I wouldn't be without him :-)
Thank you! We have a rescue dog too, but love her to bits. Occasionally seen with a 'stick' with the roots still attached...
Fabulous as always.
Thank you!
Simply gorgeous. I understand her passion for the garden. Thank you for another outstanding video full of information, guidance, and beauty. Please revisit this garden again!
Many thanks!
i love the look of these borders , a unprejudiced range of plants... very much my style also . If its a great plant , grow it why not
Absolutely lovely!
Thank you! 😊
This was a fabulous video. Thanks for the great tips.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the idea of putting hidden pots in the border. Will definitely use this.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video - pleased to hear about cutting allium leaves and your question about how you get into the border
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful garden and beautiful sighthounds!
They are!
Just catching this video, August 2022, sitting on my deck enjoying my garden. I really enjoy watching your visit to this couple’s amazing garden! I’ll save it to watch later in Winter when it’ll remind me of summer days & what all the hard work can bring! Thank you, Alexandra 💕. Gillian
Thank you!
Absolutely gorgeous garden
Her tips on pots in the border are great! I am awed at the work they do on their borders. Alexandra we are facing days of heat in the next week ranging from 40 to 46C in the Pacific NW USA, hotter than I've ever seen here. Hope your UK summer is more temperate going into July. Thank you for the regular videos, they are so cheering 💚🍃
Thank you! And I don't envy you that heat, it would make me wilt.
So glad you revisited this garden at another time of year. Your questions really helped explain their garden process. The section on staking was outstanding! Loved seeing the doves walking on the back wall. Also liked seeing different aspects of this garden such as the paths behind the borders. Delightful people who put their pets first & I loved how she emphasized this. Thank you Alexandra for an educational and beautiful video. (Your shirt is lovely).
Thank you so much (shirt is a favourite of mine, so nice when it's warm enough to get it out again.)
Thank you Alexandra. Majestic garden and it works when both are avid gardeners!! cheers
I'm quite envious as my other half really doesn't enjoy gardening, although he does like the garden
Thank you so much for this upload. I quite appreciate your site and look forward to new offerings with a passion. Take care, DA
Such wonderful tips, esp. about the 6 Crocosmia or 60, as she said when the show is over then you have an empty spot, why not put more color in! Great tip. I have a huge swath of Queen of the Prairie, beautiful in bloom, but huge empty spot when over and leaves are getting crispy!
I agree, my crocosmias are definitely going to be thinned out!
🌱🌿🪴GREAT INFO, GORGEOUS GARDEN ‼️
Thank you!
Another wonderful video! I have never seen a pond in a garden border. That was a nice surprise!
Glad you enjoyed it
That is such a beautiful garden. All of our travel plans are pushed back 2 years, but I think our next trip to the U.K. is going to include a lot of garden tours! (So happy to see in the description that the bamboo supports had toppers for safety. A friend of mine suffered a terrible accident when she tripped in the garden and fell on a bamboo stake. Just terrible chance--the stake went in her mouth. She had to be rushed to hospital. Had she fallen a little harder, the fall would have been fatal.)
Thank you. I so agree with you about bamboo canes, they terrify me.
I love to see her garden so much inspiration and great advise. Thank you so much
You are so welcome!
I would love to make a border like that. I have the know-how and resources. The only problem I have is a large herd of Deer that walk through my garden twice per day...
Oh, dear.
Thank you for posting this video! I thoroughly enjoyed it as it answered a few questions I've had for quite awhile!
(How to plant and move around when you have a packed border, what to do about unexpected gaps, etc).
I'm from the US and my grandmother was from Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire) and always had a larger border garden at her home in Oklahoma. She's my inspiration in the garden!
Glad it was helpful!
What a good set of questions. Never thought of grass snakes as pest control. There is one in the field next door that I shall have to encourage in. I do have 3 hedgehogs but they've made no impact (seemingly) on my slug population this year.
How lovely to have the hedgehogs, though
I have a blue tongue lizard instead of a newt in Vic Australia. Very informative questions and loved the border.
Hedgehogs don't actually eat many slugs, also slugs often carry harmful parasite eggs that infect hedgehogs. I have several hedgehogs visiting the garden, sometimes overwintering in a house. Sadly I still have an ongoing battle with slugs every year. I save all my egg shells, grind them up quite fine, and sprinkle thickly around emerging dahlias. That seems to work. Unfortunately things like salads and peas have to be fenced and netted away from wildlife and liberally slug-pelleted!
The birds also play a huge part in our pest control. The sparrows love picking of the aphids and blackbirds collect up grubs. Robins always busy and starlings invaluable for keeping the lawn healthy from leather jackets and chafers etc. Plenty of nest sites and we reap the benefits.
Thank you Alexandra for revisiting this garden border at a different time of year.
The flower border and the process has been great to learn from.
Best wishes to Francis and Paul’s garden.
Thank you!
Fantastic video which I always come back to for inspiration! I would love to hear from Paul and Frances again about how they coped with last year’s dry Spring and Summer heatwave and if they’re planning to make any alterations this year.
Hello Fiona. Thanks for your kind comments. We found last summer extremely challenging knowing we had to keep appearances up as the open NGS dates loomed. So it was hard work but we managed it. However as the summers now seem to be hotter and drier we certainly are planning big changes. So this year we are not in the open garden scheme which gives us time to tweak the garden. Also time to think. Want it to be right and will see what comes through the winter. Big changes most likely.
Frances
Our local Van Dusen Gardens in Vancouver bc paint their stakes a grassy green and they just completely disappear into the foliage! Brilliant! Lovely video! Thank you!!
Fabulous garden!!
Hope one day you can pop over and see it! Not that any of us will be travelling anywhere soon...
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Love to!!
Another really good helpful video from the Middle Sized Garden Thank you.Mary Ann.
Thank you!
So happy to revisit!
I think Jane Reel pretty well covered it, took the words right out of my mouth =^)
Terrific. Wonderful to see their border at a different time, and to hear more ideas, advice, trade secrets. ; ) I've been quite influenced by this garden. Changed my thinking about color. It's been freeing. Except, of course, when I start second guessing myself, which happens twice on Tuesdays, three times on Fridays, and then again on Sundays and Mondays....mmm......
I know what you mean! I think it's nice to stop obsessing too much about specific colourways and I'm always amazed at how much the garden sorts its own colour scheme out no matter what I do.
You have such a great approach to gardening topics. So glad YT suggested your channel. I'm working on a garden revival from a magnificent flourish of crab grass, zone 4, 🇨🇦. This is 2nd year, quite good but always room for change. Love the ideas 💖💕
Thank you. I often hear comments about crab grass and how invasive it is, and we do have it here, but somehow it doesn't seem to take over in the same way....I hope I'm not speaking too soon!!
Thank you for your great videos, kind regards from the Netherlands
Thank you!
I love their garden and all the tips she gives. But the garden and my garden would be history if I ever came across a snake in it! OMG!!!
Thank you! I love this garden!
Me too!
Another great interview. Thank you.
Lovely garden.
Lovely garden and wonderful commentary! Thank you. 💝
Thank you!
Great stuff!
Great garden!!
Thank You ❤
I find crocosmia quite invasive and can take over but the flowers look lovely in a vase ,, I’m the same with holidays and tend to go in the winter ,, especially when there’s so much to eat snd harvest in the summer and autumn ,, the garden looks beautiful 👍🏾
It does!
This guy is so great!
Very nice. I've used pots in my garden to pump up an easy maintenance, wild looking, cottage garden into a wow factor one. It's fun and easy, and it can be done while weeding to add something new, or waiting on the sidelines, for a place to come available. It's also a quick way to spruce it up for guests. But, like she says, gardening is a hobby. You do it becasue you get something out of the process. It's like one of those people you just adore, so you put up with their habits and idiosyncrasies.
Absolutely!
Fabulous vlog, I'd lòve to see a full tour of the plants with names. Stunning inspirational garden 😊
Beautiful…Love this! So passionate and proud! Unfortunately so many in the USA residential areas have no pride. Would love to have you, as well as this couple as our neighbors. Thank you so much! ~ John from Louisiana
Thank you!
It's not a lack of pride - it's a lack of imagination