"They are really considerate regarding how they place themselves." All said with a straight face 😊. You are a treasure Alexandra! Thanks for another interesting video!!!
Also made me chuckle 😅 .... like Alex's throw away, "flowering its socks off", comment, she catches you off guard in amongst all the incredible information 🙏🏻 ...love this channel ... thank you Alex
Alexandra, watching your videos, especially the ones where you show us your garden, fills me with such joy. I do so love how your garden is allowed to grow as it will, without descending into chaos!
Your best video yet in my opinion. Beautiful framing, great close ups of the plants. Excellent advice and you revealed the name of the plant I have wanted in my garden since I saw it growing in a crack in a pavement on a long journey, but have not seen in garden centres and could not find by describing it online. No way I would consider the purple toadflax a weed. Brilliant to include shortcuts to each plant as well. Thank you, much appreciated!
How beautiful your garden looks. Loose and colourful. I'm sure you know this already, but the flowers of Borage look wonderful in ice cubes and served with summer drinks look so attractive.
Revolutionary! Learning to release some control, look at what nature says and wants to do, and letting it happen rather than fighting it. How fantastic and beautiful!
Thank you Alexandra for this lovely video! After redesigning the garden in our new house I have noticed new plants started appearing. They turned out to be self seeders. Since I have never seen them before I took a risk to keep them and did not regret that decision. They are Gilia leptantha and Limnanthes douglasii. They create lovely spring - early summer carpet following forget - me - not and night scented stock, create visual interest before other plants have appeared or fill the gaps between early perennials and shrubs. The weeds hardly grow under this protective cover and bees love them all. I also have lots of alyssum, poppies, ox-eye daisies, Foxgloves and Nigella. All of them spread freely in my garden. Verbenas officinalis and bonariensis also Eryngium come to bloom later in a season. I have noticed that Thalictrum delavayi started to self - seed. The beauty of self-seeders is that they create the mass of bloom, reduce the amount of weeds in a garden yet are very easy to remove where they are not welcome or when they have passed their best. Wish Cornflowers were more self - seeding.
Good morning Alexandra, what a pleasure to listen to your garden advice and what works for you with the self-seeding. I find it such a bonus when I discover a new plant in the garden, then the choice is mine, do I wish to keep it, grow it for fun and see what happens. I am sure we should also be careful re invasive plants. I think the list has become quite long by now. I also can't understand the fuss some people make, just keep quiet and remove them. The colour pallet is so lovely, a welcome sight. I am now deciding no more delicate gardening for me, just a little for colour and maybe fragrance. I am wanting a fuss free garden, and that is not difficult to achieve. Just take an extra minute or so, walk around the garden centres, sections see what is available and start deciding what you wish to do. Love the lawn daisies, so ordinary yet so beautiful. My Mexican daisies change from the vibrant pink to a pale pink flower, still lovely to enjoy. We are now right in the middle of our winter season, and the orange and yellow daisies I planted, not one sprouted, my son said the seeds were old! What a disappointment. Well it is my garden I might grow some out of season, just for that beautiful orange colour. These are self-seeding hence they grow like wild fires in the Karoo area. They have hardly any competition as well. Thank you for your lovely garden talk, so much to remember and put to the test. Have a wonderful weekend. Many blessings. Kind regards, Elize.
I’m in Los Angeles zone 10 and almost nothing self seeds. Not my columbine, not my Rose Campion, and not my foxgloves. Bummer! I adore my rose camping and I’m so glad you have it in your garden. None of the other Garden channels so I watch seem to have it. I look forward to it every year.
I am in northern Italy (zone 9 circa) and in my experience plants like columbine and foxgloves need cool wet summer to self seed. However annuals that have a cool season cycle (germinate in autumn, take advantage of cool seasons rain and flower in spring) like poppies (red poppies, opium poppies, California poppies), calendula and nigella self seed abundantly. I also have verbena bonariensis (was given a plant as gift a few years ago and now it pops up everywhere) and a ricinus (castor oil plant) with big red palmated leaves, and in more shady spots viola odorata and iris foetida. Imo a big factor for having a lot of self seeders is to be a bit sloppy. If you are a very neat, tidy and diligent gardener always on top of dead heading, weeding and heavy mulching everywhere there’s no much occasion for self seeders to grow. I have volunteers popping up everywhere, even trees and shrubs from seeds brought by birds. 😅
Self-seeders for us don't tend to do as well because of our dry heat and we tend to "over love" our plants and gardens. Self seeders in our area tend to drop their seeds much earlier in the year than they should and the seeds either get eaten or die shortly after sprouting due to the heat. I combat this by keeping a close eye on my seeders and when I notice some empty pods (like my borage, for example), I will give a healthy watering around the area and the lightest mulching to help retain some of that water. I'll add mulch slowly as the plant grows. When I go to weed, I will not pull anything if I'm not 100% certain of what it is just in case it's from one of my seeders. I have racoons, cats and birds that like to trample my sprouts or eat my seeds so I stick some wooden cabob skewers pointy side up throughout the areas I don't want harmed. I'm proud to say that, after doing these 3 things, I have been able to successfully have my garden self seed successfully and in abundance for over 2 years. 😁
An interesting debate about self seeders in hotter climates and dry heat. We are, for Britain, relatively hot and dry (relatively being the operative word) but this cool, wet spring has really encouraged the self-seeders in this garden.
Thank you for sharing the temperature these are good to. I live in cold Canada. Last winter we had-40 temperatures. I like the idea of plants that can continue to grow and thrive without much worry.
I had a plant self-seed into my 4th storey balcony pots, and it is Phacelia tanacetifolia. The flower structure is so peculiar: it begins as a globe, but then the globe splits into multiple arms that unfurl like a fern frond, and blue-purple flowers (with super long stamens) open successively along the length of each arm. It's originally from the southern US states and Mexico, and apparently is grown over here in the UK as a green manure (there are several local-ish allotments, so I presume that's how it found its way up to my balcony). It is such an unusual and "alien" flower structure, I love it! The only downside is that the stems and leaves are covered in hairs that can cause irritation for some people, so probably not good for a location where people will brush up against it.
I absolutely love toadflax, I think it’s a great addition for free! My verbena bonariensis spreads like wildfire 🤪🤪 and my Mexican fleebane (Erigeron) 🙌🏻🌿
Love this topic! I am one of those diligent weeders but I’ve learned to recognize what all the tiny seedlings look like. The big self-seeders in my garden are nigella, cosmos, bachelor buttons, echinacea and native agastache. This year the columbines and poppies have taken off, and I’ve also noticed several liatris seedlings this spring! Grateful for self-seeders that allow us to share plants!
Yet another delightful informative video. Your perspective and knowledge opens up an approach to what some of us regard as nuisance plants. I shall be much more tolerant towards what I had regarded as uninvited invaders. ❤
And i will have some peace there for peace comes dropping slow dropping from the vail of the morning to where to where the cricket sings, Yeats, Alexandra TY for shareing your garden with us.
I am enjoying the alliums that I planted last fall and am thrilled to hear that they may self-seed. My nigella and my bachelor's buttons from last year surprised me by self-seeding. Thank you for this informative video! 🦋🦋🦋
I caught myself at the urge to save all of your videos. We live in high altitude with pretty cold winters and your diligence about marking the hardiness of the plants gives me a lot of hope eventually to get the garden I dream of.
Thank you! Since I've started doing that, I've been amazed at how many quite hardy plants there - several in this video are fine for Zones 2 and 3 in the US.
Love this. I have self seeding foxgloves along my front bank. It’s a delight to do the washing up looking out now. My Grandmother always used to say that any plant is a weed if growing in the wrong place.
Such a useful and enjoyable video as usual thank you Alexandra. Great timing too as a gardening customer of mine needs to refil a border cheaply and this has reminded me of some lovely, economical options.
Alexandra - so have enjoyed your channel since finding it last fall. I really appreciate how you always seem to be learning and encouraging us to do our research, esp with invasives! it seems like there's a broad social consciousness rising about how we garden for ourselves, communities, and planet. love this list and will certainly be getting some seed packets! hello from USA zone 5b (: thank you for all your delightful videos.
Love your informations. Thanks, Alexandra. Yes, some selfseeders are everywhere and love to spread themselves and others don't like my garden. Just so!
I always enjoy your videos - and THIS - is by far the most charming! I am enthralled to view how your garden simply takes care of itself, ❤ Here in North Carolina, US, there are far too many aggressive weeds (Bermuda grass, crabgrass, goldenrod, dog fennel, etc.) and it is a constant battle against them. I am just learning about these self-seeders and I think these may offer many solutions. Rose Campion & hellebores spread happily and my zinnias return each year. Thank you for giving me more ideas. I’ve got borage and nasturtium planted with hopes of encore performances.
Thank you - and I find that having lots of aggressive ones means that at least they slug it out between them. I envy you the zinnias, mine have never returned.
Ooh- I just discovered your channel. What a wealth of information! Also, your voice is delightful to listen to. Now I've subscribed, thank you very much!
This is my third summer in my garden. I've tried not to do too much to it apart from fill some gaps where the snow killed some shrubs. There is an acquilegia that I hope spreads some more, though it is currently being outcompeted by some love-in-a-mist which I absolutely love as it lasts for so long. I did plant some alliums so hopefully with patience I'll have more. And some Erigeron is in its second summer and doing well. And forget-me-nots are spreading well!
I feel like I'm making a confession. I found a couple violets that had forced their way up through concrete parking pads. I tried, unsuccessfully, to pry a couple up but they were too tight. I finally got one; it has self seeded in all my pots. I love it. Many people don't. I don't see it on invasive lists where I'm at. It is easy to pull up. And I should mention I'm in an urban area with little open ground that isn't as hard as concrete. So it hasn't spread that I know of. So I keep loving my violets. PS. I've always wanted rose campions and money plants to seed but don't have anywhere near enough sun. Oh, well. PPS. Your purple shades are really beautiful💜💜.
Beautiful self seeders! I’m planting flowers this year that will self seed in a meadow area that I’ve created. Right now I have some serious (native) invaders but are perfect for bees and butterflies especially the Gulf Fliteries . They are on the lower end of our property so I leave them. However a few have jumped the path so I’ve got to get them out. I cut the lot of them down in fall. They come back tripled the next spring I believe. lol all my perennials that I got last spring came back this year. After last year’s drought and heat wave I was concerned. All is good overall. Love your videos and invaluable insights that you share. 🌱🪴
I tried for many years to grow Verbena from seed and never had any luck. They don't like "care". A kind lady told me to throw the packet of seeds in a gravel area and that was the method that finally got me my most beloved plant. Now it is migrating to all more borders and I can't believe just how much I adore them.
Wonderful selection of self-seeders, thank you, Alexandra. I love how considerate foxgloves are in placing themselves just where they work with the colour palette! :) Beautiful glimpses into your garden too.
Soo true about cerinthe… oh how I coveted thee… in 2018 was when I 1st saw one… one 4” pot for $4.95(US)… for an annual! My garden budget was non existent that year, but I got it, and it promptly died. Before setting seed😡! Well I researched & finally tracked down some seeds…. 3 different seed company pack later I finally got a couple to germinate, and the rest is history! They are now my most beautiful weed. & the lychnis… it was a polite self seeder in my more protected town garden, but when we moved out here, I almost lost her… but 6 years later, she’s found her niche. Same with the verbena b. 1st couple of years I only had one😳 new plant per season self seed, then 2, I grew a few from cuttings, and last year I finally got more than 5 self seeders. LOVE your videos!!
As ever Alexandra, I love this particular blog, so helpful and reassuring. I agree how wonderful the free plants are and where they choose to be is often surprising. Thank you
Natives that are prolific can be described as "aggressive," but non-native aggressive plants are properly called invasive, as they are invading territory that they are not native to. ♥♥♥ Gorgeous garden!
I raise my hand for less weeding, lol. How wonderful that you know a bit about the history of your house and garden. In my experience, self-seeded plants are always the best, as they really want to live! My main self-seeders here in Southern California are red nasturtiums and white alyssum, though I have one huge rosemary and a few Spanish lavenders that have out-paced their parent plant by miles. Before I moved I had a good shady bed for foxgloves. I preferred the pink and purple, so I would harvest seeds from those, label them, and replant the next year. I'd dig up the extras and give to friends. I love how gardening has created a world-wide community. Thank you for helping to foster that. :)
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I also wanted to thank you for your beautiful explanation of the red poppies we see worn for remembrance by members of the Royal Family and others. As an American, we have Memorial Day in May, and Veteran's Day (Nov 11th), but the red poppy on the lapel, being associated with WWI veterans, does not seem as prevalent here. I'm glad to know the story.
Hi Alexandra, Thank you for this wonderful, informative video! I have been following you for many years now. Your garden has always been lovely, but I think your garden has really taken off in the last 2 years. Partially this might be due to consciously letting nature making decisions on what she might prefer in certain aspects (as shown in this video), but also most certainly because you are so keen on learning from the best in the field. Again, thank you for taking the time to make these videos. You are certainly making a positive contribution to the gardening world.
Thank you so much. I am beginning to feel more confident in my decisions (twenty years of reading books, interviewing experts and going to workshops and I still feel like a beginner gardener!). But it feels more like 'my garden' now - although I always think it's really the plants' garden and that they view me with amused tolerance.
Self-seeding is great for a cottage garden vibe. My prolific self-seeders are Cosmos, Daisies, Pink Poppies, Hollyhocks, and Dames Rocket. I'm a seasoned gardener with decades of experience and how delightf_l to learn of Wild Glads! They are too cold to winter-over in Minnesota, b_t I'm more than happy to dig and store them in the fall to replant the following Spring. They are simply gorgeo_s! (Yo_ may have g_essed that my keyboard won't type the letter "yo_") 😉😄
Wonderful video with lots of great information packed! I loved your perspective and I’m gonna order a lot of those seeds and I’m sure I will find them and I want those in my garden ❤❤❤ I just subscribed and thank you for sharing the knowledge and taking the time to post this video ❤❤❤❤
I'm glad you mentioned about the aquilegia as I have a tiny little clump which comes up every year but has never spread. I haven't actively taken seeds from it so maybe I need to do that and see if I can get it to grow and flower elsewhere.
I loved this video. It’s interesting that your less seeding plants are my most reseeding plants. I’m on the Southern Oregon coast. We have a ton of Aquillegea and Nigella took over my yard before. I didn’t like it and finally got rid of it. I’ll be happy if my purple Allium reseed. Thanks for your work.
I love self seeders. I had something that seeded itself in my pond, i put it in a basket and back in the pond. Its grown and now I realise its a bullrush 😊
Enjoyed the self seeding video. I don’t get all of these, but I get some that are unique here in USA. Monarda is one of them. Also obedient plant - summer plants native to this are.
I’ve grown several types of four-o-clocks (mirabilis) and they are prolific self seeders in my garden. I also get volunteer hardy geraniums in our gravel area. Cleome self seeds for others but I can’t seem to get it growing here. I’m trying again this year. Oh, and Jewels of Opar is a very reliable self seeder as well.
I vary on whether I use common or botanic names, and there's no real pattern to it, but because viewers come from all over the world, the common names vary so much, so in theory the botanic names are better. But thank you!
Just stumbled upon this video and enjoyed it. I wish my foxgloves were as considerate as yours! Love in the mist is a very prolific self seeder in my garden in New Zealand.
"Conesiderate about how they place themselves..." It has been my most amateurish observation of my flowering plants that some really display an awareness of their sourrounding and have a will and ability to choose their colour to accompany neighbouring flowers. I observed this with foxgloves, lupinus and annual dahlias. It is fascinating and I love it is being mentioned, nicotiana as well.
"They are really considerate regarding how they place themselves." All said with a straight face 😊. You are a treasure Alexandra! Thanks for another interesting video!!!
Made me laugh! ☺️
Also made me chuckle 😅 .... like Alex's throw away, "flowering its socks off", comment, she catches you off guard in amongst all the incredible information 🙏🏻 ...love this channel ... thank you Alex
@@thegreenwoodelf8014 she’s got a classy sense of humour.
Thank you so much!
Alexandra, watching your videos, especially the ones where you show us your garden, fills me with such joy. I do so love how your garden is allowed to grow as it will, without descending into chaos!
Great info! Lovely garden and commentary. Thank you!
Thank you!
Without a doubt one of the best gardening channels around. ❤
Thank you!
True.
Yes!
Your best video yet in my opinion. Beautiful framing, great close ups of the plants. Excellent advice and you revealed the name of the plant I have wanted in my garden since I saw it growing in a crack in a pavement on a long journey, but have not seen in garden centres and could not find by describing it online. No way I would consider the purple toadflax a weed. Brilliant to include shortcuts to each plant as well. Thank you, much appreciated!
Agree with Eve said here! Perfect video today, thank you
How beautiful your garden looks. Loose and colourful. I'm sure you know this already, but the flowers of Borage look wonderful in ice cubes and served with summer drinks look so attractive.
Revolutionary! Learning to release some control, look at what nature says and wants to do, and letting it happen rather than fighting it. How fantastic and beautiful!
Thank you!
Hollyhocks! Fantastic self seeding plant. ❤️ Thanks for your lovely long list, Alexandra!
Your border looks gorgeous.
Thank you Alexandra for this lovely video! After redesigning the garden in our new house I have noticed new plants started appearing. They turned out to be self seeders. Since I have never seen them before I took a risk to keep them and did not regret that decision. They are Gilia leptantha and Limnanthes douglasii. They create lovely spring - early summer carpet following forget - me - not and night scented stock, create visual interest before other plants have appeared or fill the gaps between early perennials and shrubs. The weeds hardly grow under this protective cover and bees love them all. I also have lots of alyssum, poppies, ox-eye daisies, Foxgloves and Nigella. All of them spread freely in my garden. Verbenas officinalis and bonariensis also Eryngium come to bloom later in a season. I have noticed that Thalictrum delavayi started to self - seed. The beauty of self-seeders is that they create the mass of bloom, reduce the amount of weeds in a garden yet are very easy to remove where they are not welcome or when they have passed their best. Wish Cornflowers were more self - seeding.
Thank goodness for self seeders, they provide most of the flowers and color in my garden. Thanks for the useful tips!
Alexandra, you outdid yourself on this video. So full of useful information and such a marvelous delivery. I always enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Your garden is really gorgeous!😍
Borage flowers taste good, as well.
Good morning Alexandra, what a pleasure to listen to your garden advice and what works for you with the self-seeding. I find it such a bonus when I discover a new plant in the garden, then the choice is mine, do I wish to keep it, grow it for fun and see what happens. I am sure we should also be careful re invasive plants. I think the list has become quite long by now. I also can't understand the fuss some people make, just keep quiet and remove them. The colour pallet is so lovely, a welcome sight. I am now deciding no more delicate gardening for me, just a little for colour and maybe fragrance. I am wanting a fuss free garden, and that is not difficult to achieve. Just take an extra minute or so, walk around the garden centres, sections see what is available and start deciding what you wish to do. Love the lawn daisies, so ordinary yet so beautiful. My Mexican daisies change from the vibrant pink to a pale pink flower, still lovely to enjoy. We are now right in the middle of our winter season, and the orange and yellow daisies I planted, not one sprouted, my son said the seeds were old! What a disappointment. Well it is my garden I might grow some out of season, just for that beautiful orange colour. These are self-seeding hence they grow like wild fires in the Karoo area. They have hardly any competition as well. Thank you for your lovely garden talk, so much to remember and put to the test. Have a wonderful weekend. Many blessings. Kind regards, Elize.
Excellent plant choices!!!! Your purple/blue area looks stunning!!!
Alexandra, You nailed it again, brilliant video, no excuse for dull garden. So well explained. Thank you
Thank you!
I’m in Los Angeles zone 10 and almost nothing self seeds. Not my columbine, not my Rose Campion, and not my foxgloves. Bummer! I adore my rose camping and I’m so glad you have it in your garden. None of the other Garden channels so I watch seem to have it. I look forward to it every year.
I am in northern Italy (zone 9 circa) and in my experience plants like columbine and foxgloves need cool wet summer to self seed.
However annuals that have a cool season cycle (germinate in autumn, take advantage of cool seasons rain and flower in spring) like poppies (red poppies, opium poppies, California poppies), calendula and nigella self seed abundantly. I also have verbena bonariensis (was given a plant as gift a few years ago and now it pops up everywhere) and a ricinus (castor oil plant) with big red palmated leaves, and in more shady spots viola odorata and iris foetida. Imo a big factor for having a lot of self seeders is to be a bit sloppy. If you are a very neat, tidy and diligent gardener always on top of dead heading, weeding and heavy mulching everywhere there’s no much occasion for self seeders to grow. I have volunteers popping up everywhere, even trees and shrubs from seeds brought by birds. 😅
Self-seeders for us don't tend to do as well because of our dry heat and we tend to "over love" our plants and gardens. Self seeders in our area tend to drop their seeds much earlier in the year than they should and the seeds either get eaten or die shortly after sprouting due to the heat. I combat this by keeping a close eye on my seeders and when I notice some empty pods (like my borage, for example), I will give a healthy watering around the area and the lightest mulching to help retain some of that water. I'll add mulch slowly as the plant grows. When I go to weed, I will not pull anything if I'm not 100% certain of what it is just in case it's from one of my seeders. I have racoons, cats and birds that like to trample my sprouts or eat my seeds so I stick some wooden cabob skewers pointy side up throughout the areas I don't want harmed. I'm proud to say that, after doing these 3 things, I have been able to successfully have my garden self seed successfully and in abundance for over 2 years. 😁
An interesting debate about self seeders in hotter climates and dry heat. We are, for Britain, relatively hot and dry (relatively being the operative word) but this cool, wet spring has really encouraged the self-seeders in this garden.
Same from LA! Commenting just in case someone comes up with self seeding flowers in our area.
Seed seeding plants are very reliable and beautiful.
Yes definitely love self seeders, and your garden looks stunning 💚
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing the temperature these are good to. I live in cold Canada. Last winter we had-40 temperatures. I like the idea of plants that can continue to grow and thrive without much worry.
I had a plant self-seed into my 4th storey balcony pots, and it is Phacelia tanacetifolia. The flower structure is so peculiar: it begins as a globe, but then the globe splits into multiple arms that unfurl like a fern frond, and blue-purple flowers (with super long stamens) open successively along the length of each arm. It's originally from the southern US states and Mexico, and apparently is grown over here in the UK as a green manure (there are several local-ish allotments, so I presume that's how it found its way up to my balcony). It is such an unusual and "alien" flower structure, I love it! The only downside is that the stems and leaves are covered in hairs that can cause irritation for some people, so probably not good for a location where people will brush up against it.
Aren’t they incredible? I love them too, as do the bees!
one of my absolute favourites.
Thanks a lot for your once again brilliant and beautiful video! 🙏✨️👏
I absolutely love toadflax, I think it’s a great addition for free! My verbena bonariensis spreads like wildfire 🤪🤪 and my Mexican fleebane (Erigeron) 🙌🏻🌿
That's exactly how I garden. I love the loose tapestry of form and colour.
Thank you!
Love this topic! I am one of those diligent weeders but I’ve learned to recognize what all the tiny seedlings look like. The big self-seeders in my garden are nigella, cosmos, bachelor buttons, echinacea and native agastache. This year the columbines and poppies have taken off, and I’ve also noticed several liatris seedlings this spring! Grateful for self-seeders that allow us to share plants!
How wonderful to have cosmos and agastache self-seeding. My cosmos don't come back and the agastache don't last the winter.
Watching from kenya. You teach me a lot. Be blessed Alexandra.
Yet another delightful informative video. Your perspective and knowledge opens up an approach to what some of us regard as nuisance plants. I shall be much more tolerant towards what I had regarded as uninvited invaders. ❤
Really lovely and so informative, Alexandra. Thank you!
Uuhh thank so so much!! I love your garden and your videos! ❤
And i will have some peace there for peace comes dropping slow dropping from the vail of the morning to where to where the cricket sings, Yeats, Alexandra TY for shareing your garden with us.
I am enjoying the alliums that I planted last fall and am thrilled to hear that they may self-seed. My nigella and my bachelor's buttons from last year surprised me by self-seeding. Thank you for this informative video! 🦋🦋🦋
Thank you!
Very useful advice -- thank you!
Your advice and knowledge has been at the forefront of my garden design in my new garden. I'm learning so much from your videos, thankyou x
Thank you!
Really enjoyed this video Alexandra, the gladioli look beautiful!
Ah, thank you! I feel that this is their garden, not mine, because they've clearly been here for so long. Hope you're well!
Wonderful to see you again!
Thank you - I had a gap in doing videos due to various things but back now!
I really love these videos, i love seeing all of the plants ❤
They are so gorgeous 🌸🌱🌼👍
Beautiful garden
Your garden is looking stunning. In my cottage garden I let everything self seed as it gives a very natural look which suits my old stone cottage
Thank you!
Kia Ora & Good Evening from NZ ...
Good morning!
I caught myself at the urge to save all of your videos. We live in high altitude with pretty cold winters and your diligence about marking the hardiness of the plants gives me a lot of hope eventually to get the garden I dream of.
Thank you! Since I've started doing that, I've been amazed at how many quite hardy plants there - several in this video are fine for Zones 2 and 3 in the US.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden, thank you for all of your hard work!
Love this. I have self seeding foxgloves along my front bank. It’s a delight to do the washing up looking out now.
My Grandmother always used to say that any plant is a weed if growing in the wrong place.
Thank you so much for this information. Just the info I was seeking. Your a wealth of information as usual.
Such a useful and enjoyable video as usual thank you Alexandra. Great timing too as a gardening customer of mine needs to refil a border cheaply and this has reminded me of some lovely, economical options.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm so glad to have found your channel.
Welcome!
Just the best information! I look forward to your videos. Thank you.
Thank you!
You captured gorgeous images. I enjoy your garden so much!
Thank you so much!
Another wonderful video. I would love to hear more about the artist that lived in your house, examples of their work or photos..
Alexandra - so have enjoyed your channel since finding it last fall. I really appreciate how you always seem to be learning and encouraging us to do our research, esp with invasives! it seems like there's a broad social consciousness rising about how we garden for ourselves, communities, and planet. love this list and will certainly be getting some seed packets! hello from USA zone 5b (: thank you for all your delightful videos.
Thank you so much!
I left purple toadflax in a border and to me it looks wonderful. :)
Love your informations. Thanks, Alexandra. Yes, some selfseeders are everywhere and love to spread themselves and others don't like my garden. Just so!
I always enjoy your videos - and THIS - is by far the most charming! I am enthralled to view how your garden simply takes care of itself, ❤ Here in North Carolina, US, there are far too many aggressive weeds (Bermuda grass, crabgrass, goldenrod, dog fennel, etc.) and it is a constant battle against them. I am just learning about these self-seeders and I think these may offer many solutions. Rose Campion & hellebores spread happily and my zinnias return each year. Thank you for giving me more ideas. I’ve got borage and nasturtium planted with hopes of encore performances.
Thank you - and I find that having lots of aggressive ones means that at least they slug it out between them. I envy you the zinnias, mine have never returned.
Ooh- I just discovered your channel. What a wealth of information! Also, your voice is delightful to listen to. Now I've subscribed, thank you very much!
Thank you and welcome
Fabulous! Thank you, Alexandra!
Thank you!
Very informative!
This is my third summer in my garden. I've tried not to do too much to it apart from fill some gaps where the snow killed some shrubs. There is an acquilegia that I hope spreads some more, though it is currently being outcompeted by some love-in-a-mist which I absolutely love as it lasts for so long. I did plant some alliums so hopefully with patience I'll have more. And some Erigeron is in its second summer and doing well. And forget-me-nots are spreading well!
I feel like I'm making a confession. I found a couple violets that had forced their way up through concrete parking pads. I tried, unsuccessfully, to pry a couple up but they were too tight. I finally got one; it has self seeded in all my pots. I love it. Many people don't. I don't see it on invasive lists where I'm at. It is easy to pull up. And I should mention I'm in an urban area with little open ground that isn't as hard as concrete. So it hasn't spread that I know of. So I keep loving my violets.
PS. I've always wanted rose campions and money plants to seed but don't have anywhere near enough sun. Oh, well.
PPS. Your purple shades are really beautiful💜💜.
How lovely. My brother in law once got a very good crop of rocket which had self seeded itself in a parking lot.
Really enjoy your informative videos here in British Columbia., Canada, My flower beds are filled with self seeders, love them all.
Sounds great!
Beautiful self seeders! I’m planting flowers this year that will self seed in a meadow area that I’ve created. Right now I have some serious (native) invaders but are perfect for bees and butterflies especially the Gulf Fliteries . They are on the lower end of our property so I leave them. However a few have jumped the path so I’ve got to get them out. I cut the lot of them down in fall. They come back tripled the next spring I believe. lol all my perennials that I got last spring came back this year. After last year’s drought and heat wave I was concerned. All is good overall. Love your videos and invaluable insights that you share. 🌱🪴
Those daisies are looking lovely, I would like to see them one day in my garden
Brilliant Channel Alexandra.. I love watching your videos.. you've transformed my Border.. Thank you ❤
Thank you!
I tried for many years to grow Verbena from seed and never had any luck. They don't like "care".
A kind lady told me to throw the packet of seeds in a gravel area and that was the method that finally got me my most beloved plant. Now it is migrating to all more borders and I can't believe just how much I adore them.
I so agree! They definitely decide where they want to be and at the moment, mine are happy.
Wonderful selection of self-seeders, thank you, Alexandra. I love how considerate foxgloves are in placing themselves just where they work with the colour palette! :) Beautiful glimpses into your garden too.
Thank you!
Soo true about cerinthe… oh how I coveted thee… in 2018 was when I 1st saw one… one 4” pot for $4.95(US)… for an annual! My garden budget was non existent that year, but I got it, and it promptly died. Before setting seed😡!
Well I researched & finally tracked down some seeds…. 3 different seed company pack later I finally got a couple to germinate, and the rest is history! They are now my most beautiful weed. & the lychnis… it was a polite self seeder in my more protected town garden, but when we moved out here, I almost lost her… but 6 years later, she’s found her niche. Same with the verbena b. 1st couple of years I only had one😳 new plant per season self seed, then 2, I grew a few from cuttings, and last year I finally got more than 5 self seeders. LOVE your videos!!
Thank you, and how interesting that you've had a similar experience with Cerinthe. It is so beautiful
As ever Alexandra, I love this particular blog, so helpful and reassuring. I agree how wonderful the free plants are and where they choose to be is often surprising. Thank you
Thank you!
Thank you for this beautiful explanation.You navigated so well. It was a joy watching snd listening to you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another brilliant video! I’m glued to the end!! ❤
Thank you!
Absolutely brilliant video..... subscribed ❤
Thank you and welcome!
Great information, thank you!
I would love considerate Foxgloves 😁 I think I’ll try them
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As always, you've hit on a topic of great interest and produced another excellent video! Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brilliant. I appreciate this lady very much.
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Thank you so much. Had to subscribe. Just wonderful.❤️🇨🇦
Welcome to the Middlesized Garden!
so much great information!!! You are amazing and so magical to listen to...like a fairy godmother!
Thank you!
Natives that are prolific can be described as "aggressive," but non-native aggressive plants are properly called invasive, as they are invading territory that they are not native to. ♥♥♥ Gorgeous garden!
Yes, that's a good distinction.
I raise my hand for less weeding, lol. How wonderful that you know a bit about the history of your house and garden. In my experience, self-seeded plants are always the best, as they really want to live! My main self-seeders here in Southern California are red nasturtiums and white alyssum, though I have one huge rosemary and a few Spanish lavenders that have out-paced their parent plant by miles. Before I moved I had a good shady bed for foxgloves. I preferred the pink and purple, so I would harvest seeds from those, label them, and replant the next year. I'd dig up the extras and give to friends. I love how gardening has created a world-wide community. Thank you for helping to foster that. :)
Thank you. I meant to include nasturtium as I had some really pretty nasturtiums for years and they disappeared, as self-seeders sometimes do.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I also wanted to thank you for your beautiful explanation of the red poppies we see worn for remembrance by members of the Royal Family and others. As an American, we have Memorial Day in May, and Veteran's Day (Nov 11th), but the red poppy on the lapel, being associated with WWI veterans, does not seem as prevalent here. I'm glad to know the story.
Hi Alexandra, Thank you for this wonderful, informative video! I have been following you for many years now. Your garden has always been lovely, but I think your garden has really taken off in the last 2 years. Partially this might be due to consciously letting nature making decisions on what she might prefer in certain aspects (as shown in this video), but also most certainly because you are so keen on learning from the best in the field. Again, thank you for taking the time to make these videos. You are certainly making a positive contribution to the gardening world.
Thank you so much. I am beginning to feel more confident in my decisions (twenty years of reading books, interviewing experts and going to workshops and I still feel like a beginner gardener!). But it feels more like 'my garden' now - although I always think it's really the plants' garden and that they view me with amused tolerance.
Glad I found your videos! Awesome
Glad you like them!
Wonderful video, so much great information, thank you! I think I’m a busy gardener with moments of laziness, or perhaps the other way round 🤔
me too.
Love your gardens so pretty. I love rose campion too also love in a mist - nigelia ...my neighbors also have love in a mist 😂
Self-seeding is great for a cottage garden vibe. My prolific self-seeders are Cosmos, Daisies, Pink Poppies, Hollyhocks, and Dames Rocket. I'm a seasoned gardener with decades of experience and how delightf_l to learn of Wild Glads! They are too cold to winter-over in Minnesota, b_t I'm more than happy to dig and store them in the fall to replant the following Spring. They are simply gorgeo_s! (Yo_ may have g_essed that my keyboard won't type the letter "yo_") 😉😄
wish cosmos and hollyhocks would self seed for me.
love your videos!
Thanks for this video it’s really useful ❤
You're welcome 😊
Wonderful video with lots of great information packed! I loved your perspective and I’m gonna order a lot of those seeds and I’m sure I will find them and I want those in my garden ❤❤❤ I just subscribed and thank you for sharing the knowledge and taking the time to post this video ❤❤❤❤
Thank you and welcome to the channel.
I'm glad you mentioned about the aquilegia as I have a tiny little clump which comes up every year but has never spread. I haven't actively taken seeds from it so maybe I need to do that and see if I can get it to grow and flower elsewhere.
I loved this video. It’s interesting that your less seeding plants are my most reseeding plants. I’m on the Southern Oregon coast. We have a ton of Aquillegea and Nigella took over my yard before. I didn’t like it and finally got rid of it. I’ll be happy if my purple Allium reseed. Thanks for your work.
I love self seeders. I had something that seeded itself in my pond, i put it in a basket and back in the pond. Its grown and now I realise its a bullrush 😊
What a lovely Flowers
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Thank you too
Also love self seeders. Welsh poppies appeared in my garden several years ago and has persisted nicely. An unusual plant in a western Oregon garden.
I love Welsh poppies.
Enjoyed the self seeding video. I don’t get all of these, but I get some that are unique here in USA. Monarda is one of them. Also obedient plant - summer plants native to this are.
Monarda is beautiful!
I’ve grown several types of four-o-clocks (mirabilis) and they are prolific self seeders in my garden. I also get volunteer hardy geraniums in our gravel area. Cleome self seeds for others but I can’t seem to get it growing here. I’m trying again this year. Oh, and Jewels of Opar is a very reliable self seeder as well.
Lovely garden you have.
Thank you
Your taste seems to come naturally to me. I wonder if it is my abundance of English (Walton) DNA? I appreciate your presentations. Thank you so much.
Thank you!
Alchemilla Mollis gets to 4 feet tall in my borders. I have loads of Miss Wilmotts ghost that come back from seed each summer.
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🇬🇧 I love Valerian and so do the 🦋
Me too. Wish I had some, it has so far not landed in the border!
What a fabulous share, although I wish you used some of the more common names! Thank you so very much🌺
I vary on whether I use common or botanic names, and there's no real pattern to it, but because viewers come from all over the world, the common names vary so much, so in theory the botanic names are better. But thank you!
Just stumbled upon this video and enjoyed it. I wish my foxgloves were as considerate as yours! Love in the mist is a very prolific self seeder in my garden in New Zealand.
Thank you!
Thank you.
"Conesiderate about how they place themselves..."
It has been my most amateurish observation of my flowering plants that some really display an awareness of their sourrounding and have a will and ability to choose their colour to accompany neighbouring flowers.
I observed this with foxgloves, lupinus and annual dahlias.
It is fascinating and I love it is being mentioned, nicotiana as well.
I agree, it's really something I've observed with amusement. I often feel my garden is in charge of me rather me being in charge of the garden.