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Great video!

Interesting video thanks

Great video

This my help some people looking for a solution. My box hedge has been under attack over the past two years. Sprayed a solution of bug clear that failed to have any effect whatsoever. I removed a 14 foot section of hedge leaving another older 30 foot Lesser damaged section in situ with two areas almost as bad as the hedge in the video. The thought of digging out another thirty foot of well rooted hedge was daunting so I decided as an experiment to power wash the entire hedge to see what effect it might have on the many caterpillars chomping away on the leaves. The results have been incredible and after just over a month or so the hedge has flourished and come back like new over its entire length! I just can't believe the result tbh. It seems that the power of the water jet kills the caterpillars the same time as destroying their protective webs. The secret is to move the head of the jet washer quickly over the entire hedge, sides and top and ends. It is quick and easy without chemicals and has certainly worked for me. It also has the advantage of removing many of the dead and partly chewed leaves. Give it a try as a last resort and then wait and watch to see if the hedge recovers before digging it out your. After all, you have nothing to lose and it might just save your box hedge.

Brilliant Mike your diplomacy to get them away from the bar is amazing too!😂

Here in Livonia Michigan US we are having a very different season than the usual. It seems to rain at least every other day here even through July 23. Really kind of nice, don’t have to be watering. (Usually we have a rather wet spring and then it rains a lot in the fall.) a great deal of the rain falls at night! Bev

Gosh, I am glad I don’t have those Gall Midges. Thanks for the informative videos.

Beautiful garden. Thanks for the tour.

What your name? Pleas..

I was born on the Isle of Wight and walking around the Botanic Gardens with my mum and dad is one of my first memories stuck in my head. Great to see you enjoyed it there and showing it off for others

Just discovered you on TH-cam. I just started reading because you were talking about the June gap. I’m in the USA in Zone 5 b central. Illinois. And yes, I do have a June gap. Because of our mild winter, my roses and irises, all bulbs and many other flowers were done by June and unfortunately I had a Garden walk in June.I keep wishing I could tell folks - come back in ----. People choose early June for Garden walks because the spring rains are over and the heat of July and August have not set in. Some of your suggestions are ones I am going to try like that allium - I’ve heard about it but never realized its bloom time was later. I do want to see if the astrantia do well in our area - I hear so much about this flower from English gardeners. So thank you - it was a helpful video and I realized I was not the only one bummed out by my June gap.

I used TOPBUXUS XenTari….says its not harmful to wild life……sprayed mine & they stopped feeding within a couple of hours…did a repeat spray a week later to get the stragglers….sparrows cleared the dead bodies….within days the box started to show signs of life…after a couple of good feeds of chicken pellets & Miracle grow 5 weeks later I now need to get the hedge trimmer out….will of course have to be vigilant ’Forever’ until signs of the next attack occurs

No sun here in Washington state either until july 4th now have had 3 full days of sun and incidentally no spraying the last 3 days either.....

Very informative, playback speed 1.5 keeps things moving.

Much of June for me is foliage flop. If I had it to do over, I'd plant far fewer daffodils. My garden really comes into bloom in July with daylilies, geraniums and heliopsis.

Very useful video. Baptisma is a brilliant hardy plant but I find I have to stake it really well remembering it grows really tall.

I have learned a lot from the very important video, sir. Can I get your contact number? I am also a student of botany.

I’m in the Midwest US I don’t know if it’s a thing in the USA or just in my garden, which doesn’t have enough flowering in the beginning of June!

Great vid. In Canada, and we have quite a bit flowering in June - hollyhock, mock orange, clematis, snapdragons, potentilla, lilies, geraniums, veronica, cupids dart, astrantia, astilbe, zinnia, lobelia, nigella, alyssum, cosmos, celosia... Some of my heuchera have pale pink and even bright pink blooms, and they've been flowering since spring.

New gardener here, southwest US, June might be a thing here too: only yarrows and gaillardias seem to be blooming this month, last month was very colorful... Also, thanks for mentioning roses, I have a pink rose that I actually rescued from a dumpster that has already flowered for weeks, great smell, and I know will go all summer. Thanks for the video!

BUST THIS MYTH! great video!

My mum has cut and dug out all of her many box balls as they were annihilated by the caterpillars. I have a 15ft hedge that runs the length of my back garden it must be 100years or more old as we live in a really old cottage I am panicking that my hedge will be destroyed,it seems to have something that I haven't seen before with patches of dead leaves but as yet I haven't spotted any caterpillars. I am considering underplanting with another hedge beech or laurel so it will be underway when the inevitable happens.

Great video Mike, many thanks for the info.

Yes my Boxus topiary was under attack and going yellow I fought back and now lush green again but you have to be persistent and ever watchful.

Im surprised it only arrived there recently; I had them in Germany 12 years ago and was told it originated in China, arriving then in Holland and France . I moved to Tuscany 10 years ago and sadly all Box that I brought along in vases ( about 15, different shapes and sizes) died in about 2 weeks after moving. I have substituted with thymian and rosmarin which is what I was advised to do by the gardeners at Villa Adriana ( Tivoli, built between 117 and 138 AD, for the RE Hadrian ) If you google it, those gardens are immense and majestic. The Pelicano Hotel also is a great example of rosmarin used beautifully, still .... Nothing is quite like box . Its heartbreaking to see the devastation

NEAM OIL WITH ORGANIC SOAP WORKS WELL, JUST A LOT OF WORK.

Great video keep them coming

Great video, very informative

When would you havest the seed?

Great informative video

Keep these coming!

Never knew daffs had such an interesting background...enjoyed video, very well presented...

Great video!

A whole new concept for me... will give it a try

Great video, well be out pruning ours, keep them coming!

Another interesting video

Cracking video, thanks for sharing, always been nervous of growing dates but I'm going to have a go. Keep the videos coming!

Great video, never thought to use seeds from dates! Will give it a try.

Awesome 😊

How long before you get the first date? 😊

Great video, very interesting. Keep them coming 😊