I read a book decades ago, called "The Witch Family" by Eleanor Estes. In that book was a character named Malachi, the Spelling Bee, who spelled almost everything he said, when it wasn't rhyming poetry. One of his lines has stuck with me all these years: "Henbane and hellebore, that's what I'm looking for. That's for the likes of me; food for a witch's bee." I've never forgotten it all these years later.
You have a very calming voice and ,to top it off you always do such a fantastic job of anything you do. Much respect from a 65 year old that still does her own lawn and vegetable gardening ❤
Oh wow, what a lovely thing to say 😊 I very much appreciate it. Although it must be said, I can't stand my own voice 😂 but I have been listening to it for quite a while i suppose haha. Well done, you. Keep up the good work. 👍 remember, we don't stop gardening because we get old....we get old, because we stop gardening 🥰 Thanks again Martin.
Hurray, have just found you, a British You Tube gardening channel! Most impressed by your well filmed and edited content, and the quality of information provided. Look forward to more!
Oh hello 👋 well I'm super glad you found me as well 😊 Truly, thank you so much for the compliment. It's well received. I've been gardening for decades, but I've only been filming it for a matter of months 😂 so I'm glad it looks OK 👍 Thanks again All the best from Nottinghamshire. Martin.
I love gardening in the winter before spring. It's so easy to see what needs to be tidied up and you can see the first signs of life returning. Beautiful garden and lovely job pointing out all the plants!
I love robins too. They're so fearless and cheeky. I've been working on befriending the crows, though. I've got a couple of places now where the resident crow comes to say hello whenever I'm there.
They are awesome, aren't they 😂 so brave and charming. They don't seem to care about sparrow hawks or any other animal that would try and eat them. Some days, they are the only company I get all day 😅
Sticky bombs is what we used to call "sticky willy" as a kid, It was great fun seeing how many you could attach to someone before they noticed :D (which I still do to this day)
Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one that can't resist still throwing it at people's clothes 🤣 although it's normally my kids on the receiving end. It's surprising how big a clump of this stuff will still actually stick 😁 Thanks for the comment 👍 Martin.
This is simply fine gardening. I’ve had a love of gardening for many years But still have plenty of room to learn more. I love your style of calm pragmatic gardening. The plants are in safe hands with you.
Always room to learn more, I heartily agree 👍 😊 I learn something everyday about gardens and other things. And I hope this continues until the day I die 😁 I'd get so bored otherwise, haha. This is why you'll see me quite a lot with one earphone in my ear. I'm always listening to a book, but I keep only one in so I can hear the environment as well. And they say men can't multi-task 😊😂
Well, thank you very much, Trish 😊 what a lovely comment to read first thing in the morning. You've made the day brighter 😁 and the day is already looking quite bright. 15 degrees, apparently, perfect gardening weather. Thanks again Martin.
Hi Martin, its really good to see someone who knows their plants, who is thoughtful about positioning, doesn't takeaway all the leaves which are good nutrient for the garden, trims what's needed and doesn't scalp the shrubs, has pleasant music and a gentle and caring approach to nature and gardening, thank you, cheers, even though this was posted 4 months ago I hope you read my comment!!👍👍👍🙏
Oh, thank you 😁 Yes, I read every single comment. It doest matter how old the video is to me 😊 I'll truly never get bored of reading lovely people's lovely comments 😁 So, thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. You're a star. Martin.
I'm from the west coast of Scotland and we called it sticky willy too since I was a child, it stuck to our clothes at the play park. I luv your vlog which I've only recently discovered, thank you.
Greetings, my northern neighbor 😁😊 Oh yes, we used to have lots of fun with this plant as kids as well. What amazed me was the sheer size of the clumps that would still stick to clothing 😂 Thank you for watching, I'm glad you liked the video. Much appreciated Martin
Thank you for the lovely comment 😊 I've quite a few videos the way, it's full on gardening mode for me now. I'm struggling for time to edit them! 😂 I hope you continue to enjoy them. Thanks again Martin.
Thank you 😊 I like getting stuck in, muscle power instead of horse power 😂 Although the older I get, the more my knees hurt 😅 Thanks for the comment Martin
I love this way of vlogging. Lots of information. What a beautiful place to work in. A proper secret garden with the surrounding wall. Its all looking fresh and neat now xx
Thank you 😊 🙏 Yeah, it's a lovely little garden. I hope I'll be doing an update video when I'll get the mulch down and sort the shrubs and trees and also get some more plants in. It buzzing by Spring 🤞 I'm glad this sort of video interests you, I like doing this far more than just mowing and strimming overgrown gardens. So thank you very much. All the best Martin.
Thank you, that honestly means a lot to me. Thank you for the lovely compliment. I find the gardening bit easy. The filming, on the other hand, is something quite new to me 😅 All the best Martin.
Martin I so enjoy watching you work a garden. You move around in them as if you are part of them! 😊 I love you talking through them, talking about the birds and critters as well as identifying the plants. So relaxing to watch! You are a true gardener, it’s wonderful you are able to make a living doing something you obviously love! 💚 from Texas
Best of luck with your garden, it's a lovely time of year, I think. The beginning 😊 I'm excited about what the gardening year will bring. Thanks, and all the best Martin
I am enchanted by your tools, especially that sort of hoe-scissors with which you delimit the flowerbeds.. thank you for such an axhaustive video. Can't wait for the developments. Greetings from Italy😊
Oh thank you, I do love my gardening tools 😂 As a boy, I went from loving toys to garden tools when I got older. And it's never worn off 😅 I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thank you for the comment 😊 Martin.
Thank you, Pauline 😊 I feel like I've been staring out of the window for months, just dying to get in the gardens again. It's been so wet though 😂 Fingers crossed for the perfect spring 🤞❤️ Martin.
What you are showing with barely recognisable (to the novice) plants proves that when you move to a new house the best thing is to live with the garden for a few months before trying to change things or dig things up through ignorance!
Haha, I've a few choice words I call it sometimes to 😂 although, like most things, it's only a real problem when it gets out of hand. I hate it when it grows under shrubs or trees, I can't get to. Good luck with yours 😅👍
I think this is my favorite video of yours, due to the plant identification. So many of the plants that grow so well for you, there, I adore, but they just do not do well in the midwest of the US. I have never had success with Ladies Mantel, nor Foxglove, nor anemones. I have many varieties of sedum. They do well. And I can grow lavender, but it never looks as lush as it does in England. Thank you for this video!
Oh, thank you 😊 very lovely comment. I suppose we're quite lucky here. It's quite temperate and can grow most things ok. But I bet your garden still looks amazing anyway. I love succulents like sedum. And there are so many varieties that you could probably have an awesome garden just growing them 😁 Have you ever tried the hardy English lavender? It's quite tough and copes well with most weather. Thanks again for the comment 👍 All the best Martin
I think the lavender I have is the English variety. I planted it decades ago, and it survives, but doesn't thrive here. I have about five varieties of sedum, both tall and short. I grow a lot of day lilies, lilies, coneflower, bulbs, and shrubs. But many of the plants in traditional English cottage gardens just don't survive here very long. That was the look I was going for, when I started. Now, at 66 and arthritic, I am focusing on what grows without too much fussing. I do love watching your channel. @@martinthegardenguy
Lovely, I collect the spent flower heads and stems of seedum and use them as dried winter / spring indoor arrangements. They're a gorgeous brown bronze colour. Love these plants and the gorgeous neat garden you've created. Perfect 😊
Oh yeah, I've seen them in flower arrangements before. Far outside my expertise, but I do think the autumn and winter arrangements are particularly beautiful. Thank you for the lovely comment. Martin.
Friend, here in Switzerland there is a natural museum, Ballenberg Freilicht Museum, and you can find many herbs including this one that you throw away. Excellent work. Good evening🤗😊
I hope you enjoy them, I've only been doing this a year, so hopefully, they keep getting better 😁🤞 Gardening for decades, but filming is a whole new ball game 😅
Great early spring clean up, Job beautiful down! I'm gardening in zone 5, clean up will start in March. Subscribed your channel and wait to see your beautiful garden next month.Thanks for sharing!
Oh, thank you. How very kind. It's much appreciated. I'll have to google zone 5 to see what sort of weather you've been having. 😁 Best of luck when you get to tidy up and cut back. Thanks again for the lovely comment. Martin.
Awesome, that stuff really gets around, doesn't it 😂 apparently you can eat it, and it's supposed to be very good for you. I have not tried it myself, though 😂
Great tidy up, Martin and I spotted the snowdrops in the little urn! I have had a Sedum Spectabile (now has a new name which I forget) in a very hot, sunny south-facing spot for about 30 years(!) and it's so happy there I can't bring myself to move or divide it. Full of bees when it flowers into the early Autumn. Thank you for a lovely video.
Thank you 😊 super kind of you to say. Oh yes, sedum is becoming one of my favorite wildlife plants. It's a cracking little plant, really. Very adaptable and pretty easy to look after, and watching the bees bounce from one flower to another is totally joyful. Thank you for the lovely comment. It's truly appreciated Martin.
It’s so nice & tidy ✨ Love the snow drops in the urn/cement flower pot. Ours are just starting to pop up here. Couple of nice days & they will be blooming. Zone 6a here 🇺🇸
Haha, you found the snowdrops in the urns! Well done 😊 I thought they looked pretty good, too. Have you any other bulbs coming? I've noticed blue bells and crocus as well as daffodils seem to be getting going well this year. Thanks Martin.
Hi there. Greetings from south Wales. Just discovered your channel and subscribed straight away. Enjoyed watching this winter tidying video just after I've started getting mine ready for the coming seasons. Great to finally have some dry and warmer weather, not much need for watering where I am. Only other gardening channel I subscribe to is Garden Answer from Oregon USA. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Cheers 👍
Hello South Wales, greetings back at you from Nottinghamshire. I'm really glad you liked the video, I've been working on actually getting more actual gardening in my videos 😅 It's been relatively mild here, still wet and cool but as you say, at least we don't have to water 😂 I've loads of plants starting to make a move in my own garden. Everything seems to think it's spring, so who am I to argue 😊 Best of luck in your garden. Here's to a great gardening year 🍻 All the best Martin.
Hello and good to see you friend! I have missed you! I am in Florida (near the middle) now so we don't have seasonal changes like in other parts of the country. Here there is always color, always something blooming or coming to bloom. I live in a 55+ community of manufactured homes that are mostly manicured and with only a little variation from one to another. There are over 300 homes in this community. I do like to get out each day and see what Mother Nature is doing and how the neighbors are nixing it in the bud, so to speak! Take care. George
Oh, hey George. It's great to hear from you. Sounds amazing where you live, mate. Hope you enjoy it there, I've only been to Florida once, and all I did was eat. I put on a lot of weight 😂 the beer and food were just too good for me to handle. Everyone I met was extremely friendly, though. These are the main things I remember. Thanks for the comment Martin.
St.John’s Wort….wort is an ancient name for herb…otherwise known as Hypericum…flowers around 23rd June, StJohn’s feast day…I know this because it appeared in my little patch one day…lovely spear tip shaped leaves..firstly, yellow star shaped flowers…then pink berries…turning to red berries and finally black ones….another visitor is Italicum….Orange Candle Flower…..and the last one is Scilla Siberica Alba…Siberian Snowdrop…..none of them cost me any money at all…I hope I got the names right😊
Ooooo, the dreaded ground elder. That one is one of my least favorite. I've figured out ways to get rid of most invasive plants. But never managed to eradicate that one. We can blame the Roman's for bringing that one in 😂
Hello there. That's made for some very happy plants! I know that weed, but I have never had a name for it. We're really dried off here, the grass crunches underfoot and is bleached straw coloured. Wild fires are breaking out in the forestry plots around the South Island. Some homes in Canterbury have been destroyed. Bring on the autumn showers.
Hi Catherine, great to hear from you. Very sad about the wild fires. I hope it's safe where you are 🤞 They've not reported it over here, I don't know what's worse. The wild fires, or the fact it's happening so often that they done report about it internationally anymore. Stay safe. And as always, thanks for the lovely comment. Martin.
Yeah, it's a crazy plant really. Tiny little root system as well, it's not even that difficult to pull up. It just always seems to come back! 🤣 Apparently, it's really healthy to eat, so perhaps I'll just keep eating it until it goes 😁
I'm with you. I like crisper edges. I think you are taking a bit of a chance that you won't have a freeze....we usually do in March. But thanks for identifying everything as you go!
Haha, yeah, it was a bit of a risk. But it's been so mild. I thought I'd give it a go 😅 Plus, I was getting bored and eager to get out and work 😊 As luck wouldn't have it, there was a little frost the very next day! Fortunately, none of the plants were harmed. They are all very frost hardy. Thankfully I'd forgotten to water then in as I was going to. Although the old gardeners saying "it's better to be too late, than too early" sprang to mind. Thanks for the comment Martin.
Howdy from North Texas, Martin. Thanks for the plant identification, especially the "sticky willy." Unfortunately, I have encountered it in my back yard. I love digitalis, but it does not like my growing zone in Tx. We usually substitute larkspur for a similar look. I had some lovely ajuga in a small patch outside my back door, but developed some problems in the soil and lost it. But I have another location where I planted some last fall. Now I'm interested in finding some Lady's Mantle to plant as a companion for the ajuga. Thanks Martin for giving me my little taste of those beautiful British Isles. What part of the UK are you located?
Hi, North Texas. Lovely to hear from you. And thanks for the awesome comment. Larkspur is a great substitute, I'd be happy with that. It's one of my favorite plants. I have delphinium all over my garden. Can't get enough of it 😁 strage that the foxglove won't take though. I'm in Robin Hood County (Nottingham) 👍 it's been a very mild winter and feels like spring already. Good look with the garden, it sounds lovely. Martin.
Good job, will look fantastic, come spring and summer. The clump of snowdrops that you lifted, I would have split them to give you several more clumps.
Thank you 😊 🙏 much appreciated. You're right about the snow drops, and indeed, I did divide them 👍 Check out the two stone urns at the end of the video, the ones in the wall. That's where I put them. Great minds think alike 😁👍
That is a beautiful garden. I really enjoy watching what you do. Thank you for explaining what you are doing as you are going and telling us what the plants are and if they are useful or not. I am learning a lot! I do hope to see an update on this garden when it is in full bloom.
Oh, I'm not sure how I missed this comment. Very sorry 😞 There will certainly be an update video, I'm in full gardening mode now. We've even had some days without rain! 😂 I'm glad you liked the video, hopefully the next one will be even better. Especially as more things come into flower 🌼 I can't wait 😊 Thanks again Martin
Great to see you back Martin reminding us Spring is coming 🎉 I used to call them Stickybacks, I think that was probably because as a child we'd throw them on each others backs 😂
Stickybacks, I love it 😅 what a cute and yet logical name 😁 I know most gardeners don't like the plant, but I love it. Although I do spend quite a bit of time digging it up. I should start eating it, apparently it's very good for you. 😂 Thank you so much for the comment, it made me smile.
Thanks for all your inspiring videos. I don’t know if that you are aware that Sedum (Stonecrop) is edible. The flowers are really good in sallads and the stems and leafs are good in woks and such. Looking forward to future videos. 🌱
Indeed, I did not know it was edible 😅 I should have done, though. I'm quite interested in edible plants. I've been on a few foraging courses over the last few years. Thank you very much for the education 👍🙏 much appreciated. Martin
Great vid! I see you have the wolf garten handle and tool heads. If you get the small tine sweep rake head you can use this standing up to do a lot of the clearing around perennials this time of year. Keeps you off your knees a bit.
Yeah, that's a great idea. I'll check it out 👍 I'll be happy when I have the whole collection. They are truly awesome garden tools! 😁 I love em. Thanks for the comment. Martin.
Hi Martin it's great to see you back I notice as you are digging up the clay a robin came to snatch a juicy worm I also noticed a lady bird I haven't seen those for years we used to call them God's cows and as to the sticky backs I also remember them.
Thanks Avril, yeah it was a lovely show from the wildlife. There was quite a lot going on to say it was midwinter. It's been very mild here though. Gods cows? I love it 😊 what a cool name. I've never heard that one before. Thanks Martin
Just found you, a British gardening blog, great. Would be helpful if you could say, what sort of soil and sun/shade you are working on, as it relays to why the plants work in that particular garden. Also please name more plants.
Thank you, that all sounds doable 👍 I'll give it a go to try and expand on the information in the next video. Thanks for the comment 😊 Much appreciated. Martin.
Thank you, it's a very lovely garden. And it only gets better throughout the year. Buzzing with activity ❤️ 😁 you mite say. I'll be doing some more planting in spring as well 🤞 Thank you for the comment Martin
Thank you. Yeah, I sure will do an update. I've got all the mulch to put down and all the trees and shrubs to prune as well. As well as more plants to get in, by the end of spring it should be in full bloom and ready for the summer flowers 😊👍 Thanks again Martin.
Nice job. I'm also a gardener and I find it easier to wait a little longer to pull your sticky willy out when it gets bigger and no I'm not being rude 🫣 So satisfying seeing the speeded up clearing as I've often thought of doing the same thing but haven't a clue with set up. Thanks for sharing and I hope you have more special moments with nature in the many gardens you visit my fellow worker of the land. 🙏😁🍁🪻🌷
Yay, Martin….good to see you! Lady’s Mantle! My favorite. I’ve got it all over my yard. I’ve not seen that double handled weeder you’re using. Wolfgarden?
It's great to hear from you to 😊 thank you (as always) for the comment. I love Alchemilla, it's a tough and yet beautiful plant. Plus it's awesome for creepy crawlies 🥰 win win.
Yeah! Turns up everywhere in my garden! We were told the leaves had something to do with the Virgin Mary. I've got a cheeky robin too. I think a garden really shows its strong features when it's neat and tidy, even in Winter, perhaps even more so then.
Oh hi, yeah that's quite normal. There are lots of different varieties. One I like is called "christmas rose" that nearly always flowers for christmas. Some don't flower until early spring. Thanks for the kind comment. I really appreciate it Martin
It's a very fitting name, I think 😅 I've recently learned the Germans' name for Velcro is also derived from what they call this plant. Well, thank you, Texas. I appreciate the comment. And thanks also for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video. Martin
My kind of gardener! Bung 'em in and see what happens! I suppose you removed the ivy growing on one of your trees off camera. Ivy is the only plant I won't tolerate in my garden. My son dug one out of a building he was renovating. It had done a lot of damage and was the circumference of a car tyre with roots coming off it. He estimated it was centuries old. Ivy is best in graveyards for obvious reasons!
Haha, that's as tough as it needs to be, really. Bung em in and see what happens 😁 although I like to know a little about the plants first. Right plant, right place is my motto. P.s I kinda like ivy, I grow it quite a bit. Although I can see why most don't. The difference for me, I suppose, it's they never get a chance to get out of control. As I prune them regularly. Thank you for the comment All the best Martin.
Cheers 👍 I'm sure you know what a learning curve it is trying to film and garden at the same time. I now have a work phone and private phone now that are both capable of filming. For those times I forget my gopro 😂 Are you ready for spring? I'm like a whippet ready to launch from the starting gate! 😅🤣
@@martinthegardenguy I seem to forget things for my gopro 🤣 i need to get another one so i can film multiple angles. I am ready for the season ahead, i know its gonna be a busy one.
Yeah, fingers crossed mate. I'm getting jobs booked in now, so should be all ready to go. It's that time of year when I start looking at shiny new kit 😂 half of which I don't really need. Best of luck dude 👍 and stay in touch. Martin
@@martinthegardenguy Hopefully the weather holds of for us, been really heavy rain here. I havent brought anything new yet, im trying to be good and not get carried away like usual. See you in the next one buddy.👍
Мартіне!!! Я чекала на тебе!!! ¡ дуже рада тебе бачити!!!!!!! Ти проводиш багато часу на колінах. Підстелюй щось. Дякую тобі за назви рослин... У нас оті прилипала звуть - підмаренник
Підмаренник, це чудово звучить англійською. Мені дуже подобається 👍😊 Я справді проводжу багато часу на колінах, лол, це небезпека роботи. Дякую за чудовий коментар. Все найкраще Мартін.
Oh, thank you. Very kind of you. This garden isn't too bad to weed really, there are loads and loads of plants during the growing season. So it really cuts down the amount of weeding needed. So probably will be OK to do weeding 4-5 times a year. Not including dead heading and pruning. Thanks again Martin.
Oh dear! Where abouts in the world are you? Last week, we had the tiniest bit of snow here, which didn't even last an hour. I'm not sure whether I'm lucky or not, I love snow.....but I also like gardening 😂 Thanks Martin
@@martinthegardenguy I’m in Halton Hills, Ontario. Nothing surprising about the foot of snow this time of year but it was refreshing and inspirational to see you in your garden. And the snow drops made my heart sing 🍀❤️🩹
Well, you sound quite accustomed to the snow. So hopefully you're well ready for it. One foot of snow would bring most of my country to a screeching halt! 😂 Wow, I bet you can build some serious snow men with that sort of snow fall. Best of luck when it thaws, I hope your garden tools are ready 😁
I just call them edging shears. Or long handled grass shears. But I must admit, I get a lot of comments asking about them from the U.S. maybe there not that popular over there. Or people prefer to use a weed Wacker. I like old school kit, though 😁😅 Thanks Martin
I got the half moon edging iron from Amazon, and the edging shears from a local hardware store. There with very handy 😁 tools of the trade. There are links in the description 👍
Haha, can you whisper it to me? 😁 It's not actually that bad to get rid of, as long as you get it early and before the hundreds of seeds get produced and spread around. It's worse when it's growing under/within shrubs and trees when you can't get to the root. But perseverance is key 👍 Or you can eat it all, it's supposed to be good for you 😂 Thank you for the comment Much appreciated Martin
Oh dear, where abouts are you? It must get very, very cold. They are normally, very cold hardy plants. You could try improving the drainage of the soil below the plant, and this should help the roots never get frozen too badly. Thanks for watching 👍 Martin
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I read a book decades ago, called "The Witch Family" by Eleanor Estes. In that book was a character named Malachi, the Spelling Bee, who spelled almost everything he said, when it wasn't rhyming poetry. One of his lines has stuck with me all these years: "Henbane and hellebore, that's what I'm looking for. That's for the likes of me; food for a witch's bee." I've never forgotten it all these years later.
Thanks for identifying plants!
No problem, I'm just glad you didn't get bored. I do tend to waffle on where plants are concerned 😂
Thank you 😊
Martin
its so hard to find a British Gardener on TH-cam. Glad I found you
You have a very calming voice and ,to top it off you always do such a fantastic job of anything you do. Much respect from a 65 year old that still does her own lawn and vegetable gardening ❤
Oh wow, what a lovely thing to say 😊 I very much appreciate it. Although it must be said, I can't stand my own voice 😂 but I have been listening to it for quite a while i suppose haha.
Well done, you. Keep up the good work. 👍 remember, we don't stop gardening because we get old....we get old, because we stop gardening 🥰
Thanks again
Martin.
Love the plant identification you give as you’re working along.
Thank you 🙏 I'm glad you liked it. Hope I didn't waffle on too much 😂
Thanks again
Martin.
I can just imagine how gorgeous this garden will be in Spring.
Hopefully, an update video will be on during spring. This garden is certainly worth the wait, most of the plants are still hiding under the soil 😅
Hurray, have just found you, a British You Tube gardening channel! Most impressed by your well filmed and edited content, and the quality of information provided. Look forward to more!
Oh hello 👋 well I'm super glad you found me as well 😊
Truly, thank you so much for the compliment. It's well received.
I've been gardening for decades, but I've only been filming it for a matter of months 😂 so I'm glad it looks OK 👍
Thanks again
All the best from Nottinghamshire.
Martin.
I agree! Great to find an English Channel with great information!
😊@@martinthegardenguy
And a big thank you to you as well 😊🙏
I love gardening in the winter before spring. It's so easy to see what needs to be tidied up and you can see the first signs of life returning. Beautiful garden and lovely job pointing out all the plants!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍 ☺️
I e actually got a summer update filmed for this garden, I've just not gotten around to publishing it yet 😅
I love robins too. They're so fearless and cheeky. I've been working on befriending the crows, though. I've got a couple of places now where the resident crow comes to say hello whenever I'm there.
They are awesome, aren't they 😂 so brave and charming. They don't seem to care about sparrow hawks or any other animal that would try and eat them.
Some days, they are the only company I get all day 😅
Sticky bombs is what we used to call "sticky willy" as a kid, It was great fun seeing how many you could attach to someone before they noticed :D (which I still do to this day)
Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one that can't resist still throwing it at people's clothes 🤣 although it's normally my kids on the receiving end. It's surprising how big a clump of this stuff will still actually stick 😁
Thanks for the comment 👍
Martin.
I hope we can revisit this garden in the summer or later in the year and see how things are getting on. ❤
That's a great idea, it's a wonderful garden. Maybe all 4 seasons would make a nice bit of content 😊👍
That was so informative for me. Thanks for taking the time to explain things. Beautiful job.
Oh, thank you. 😊
I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
This is simply fine gardening.
I’ve had a love of gardening for many years
But still have plenty of room to learn more.
I love your style of calm pragmatic gardening.
The plants are in safe hands with you.
Always room to learn more, I heartily agree 👍 😊 I learn something everyday about gardens and other things. And I hope this continues until the day I die 😁 I'd get so bored otherwise, haha.
This is why you'll see me quite a lot with one earphone in my ear. I'm always listening to a book, but I keep only one in so I can hear the environment as well.
And they say men can't multi-task 😊😂
Beautiful job as always. You are a true friend of the garden and it is so wonderful to hear you talk about the plants. 😊
Well, thank you very much, Trish 😊 what a lovely comment to read first thing in the morning. You've made the day brighter 😁 and the day is already looking quite bright. 15 degrees, apparently, perfect gardening weather.
Thanks again
Martin.
Hi Martin, its really good to see someone who knows their plants, who is thoughtful about positioning, doesn't takeaway all the leaves which are good nutrient for the garden, trims what's needed and doesn't scalp the shrubs, has pleasant music and a gentle and caring approach to nature and gardening, thank you, cheers, even though this was posted 4 months ago I hope you read my comment!!👍👍👍🙏
Oh, thank you 😁
Yes, I read every single comment. It doest matter how old the video is to me 😊 I'll truly never get bored of reading lovely people's lovely comments 😁
So, thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. You're a star.
Martin.
You’ve a lovely voice, I could listen to you all day
Oh, thank you 😊 that's a super nice thing to say. Personally, I can't stand my own voice 😂 but I'm awfully glad you do 😁
Thanks again
Martin.
Hello. Bravo, good work! Lets do something good for nature, plants and animals around the world! Have a beautiful day. Bye. Rudi.
Thank you very much, I agree. Let's get nature at the forefront 👍 a little at a time, and big things will happen.
Thanks again
Martin.
What a lovely interesting garden! Hope you share again once Spring has finally sprung!
Indeed I shall, it's quite amazing when everything is out and flowering.
Thank you 😊
Martin
I'm from the west coast of Scotland and we called it sticky willy too since I was a child, it stuck to our clothes at the play park. I luv your vlog which I've only recently discovered, thank you.
Greetings, my northern neighbor 😁😊
Oh yes, we used to have lots of fun with this plant as kids as well. What amazed me was the sheer size of the clumps that would still stick to clothing 😂
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you liked the video.
Much appreciated
Martin
You are so informative and fun to watch. Thank you for your gardening videos. Please keep them coming.
Thank you for the lovely comment 😊 I've quite a few videos the way, it's full on gardening mode for me now. I'm struggling for time to edit them! 😂
I hope you continue to enjoy them.
Thanks again
Martin.
U get down and clean up and move things around U are a blessing have a good day
Thank you 😊 I like getting stuck in, muscle power instead of horse power 😂
Although the older I get, the more my knees hurt 😅
Thanks for the comment
Martin
I love this way of vlogging. Lots of information. What a beautiful place to work in. A proper secret garden with the surrounding wall. Its all looking fresh and neat now xx
Thank you 😊 🙏
Yeah, it's a lovely little garden. I hope I'll be doing an update video when I'll get the mulch down and sort the shrubs and trees and also get some more plants in.
It buzzing by Spring 🤞
I'm glad this sort of video interests you, I like doing this far more than just mowing and strimming overgrown gardens.
So thank you very much.
All the best
Martin.
@@martinthegardenguy 👍xx
Lovely garden and a lovely job you made of tidying it. I like your video style and information you give. Thank you.
Thank you, that honestly means a lot to me. Thank you for the lovely compliment.
I find the gardening bit easy. The filming, on the other hand, is something quite new to me 😅
All the best
Martin.
Martin I so enjoy watching you work a garden. You move around in them as if you are part of them! 😊 I love you talking through them, talking about the birds and critters as well as identifying the plants. So relaxing to watch! You are a true gardener, it’s wonderful you are able to make a living doing something you obviously love! 💚 from Texas
You are super lovely 😊 you say the kindest things.
It's is truly appreciated 😊👍
Thanks again
Martin
It's very satisfying to watch another tidy up the garden. Now, when the weather warms up a bit more, I'll get my hind endnotes and tidy up my garden!
Best of luck with your garden, it's a lovely time of year, I think. The beginning 😊
I'm excited about what the gardening year will bring.
Thanks, and all the best
Martin
I am enchanted by your tools, especially that sort of hoe-scissors with which you delimit the flowerbeds.. thank you for such an axhaustive video. Can't wait for the developments. Greetings from Italy😊
Oh thank you, I do love my gardening tools 😂 As a boy, I went from loving toys to garden tools when I got older. And it's never worn off 😅
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thank you for the comment 😊
Martin.
Great video Martin, nice to see a garden get spruced up and not just grass being cut, makes you want to go out and do a tidy up. ❤❤Pauline. Wiltshire
Thank you, Pauline 😊
I feel like I've been staring out of the window for months, just dying to get in the gardens again. It's been so wet though 😂
Fingers crossed for the perfect spring 🤞❤️
Martin.
Nice video, thank you for your detailed additional information about the plants. I like your videos very much. Greetings from Germany
Greetings right back at you, thanks for the lovely comment.
I really appreciate it ☺️ 🙏
Martin.
Сапибо боььшое за прекрасно проведенные минуты! Восхищаюсь Вашей работой! Успехов Вам и здоровья Мартин...😊
Oh, thank you, that's very kind 😊 and very much appreciated.
I'm glad you liked the video.
All the best for you.
Martin.
What you are showing with barely recognisable (to the novice) plants proves that when you move to a new house the best thing is to live with the garden for a few months before trying to change things or dig things up through ignorance!
Couldn't agree more 👏 👌 😁 you're spot on. Always wait and see what happens.
Most are pleasantly surprised with what happens.
We also called cleavers sweethearts because they cling. It comes up all,over the place in my garden so my private name for it is " oh heck".
Haha, I've a few choice words I call it sometimes to 😂 although, like most things, it's only a real problem when it gets out of hand. I hate it when it grows under shrubs or trees, I can't get to.
Good luck with yours 😅👍
Oh 🐦🐞🐛 Beautiful work Martin 😊🇩🇰
Thank you super muchly 😅😊
I think this is my favorite video of yours, due to the plant identification. So many of the plants that grow so well for you, there, I adore, but they just do not do well in the midwest of the US. I have never had success with Ladies Mantel, nor Foxglove, nor anemones. I have many varieties of sedum. They do well. And I can grow lavender, but it never looks as lush as it does in England. Thank you for this video!
Oh, thank you 😊 very lovely comment.
I suppose we're quite lucky here. It's quite temperate and can grow most things ok.
But I bet your garden still looks amazing anyway. I love succulents like sedum. And there are so many varieties that you could probably have an awesome garden just growing them 😁
Have you ever tried the hardy English lavender? It's quite tough and copes well with most weather.
Thanks again for the comment 👍
All the best
Martin
I think the lavender I have is the English variety. I planted it decades ago, and it survives, but doesn't thrive here. I have about five varieties of sedum, both tall and short. I grow a lot of day lilies, lilies, coneflower, bulbs, and shrubs. But many of the plants in traditional English cottage gardens just don't survive here very long. That was the look I was going for, when I started. Now, at 66 and arthritic, I am focusing on what grows without too much fussing. I do love watching your channel. @@martinthegardenguy
Lovely, I collect the spent flower heads and stems of seedum and use them as dried winter / spring indoor arrangements. They're a gorgeous brown bronze colour. Love these plants and the gorgeous neat garden you've created. Perfect 😊
Oh yeah, I've seen them in flower arrangements before. Far outside my expertise, but I do think the autumn and winter arrangements are particularly beautiful.
Thank you for the lovely comment.
Martin.
Friend, here in Switzerland there is a natural museum, Ballenberg Freilicht Museum, and you can find many herbs including this one that you throw away. Excellent work. Good evening🤗😊
Thank you, some great information 👍
It is very much appreciated.
All the best
Martin.
Binge watching your videos 😊
I hope you enjoy them, I've only been doing this a year, so hopefully, they keep getting better 😁🤞
Gardening for decades, but filming is a whole new ball game 😅
Great early spring clean up, Job beautiful down! I'm gardening in zone 5, clean up will start in March. Subscribed your channel and wait to see your beautiful garden next month.Thanks for sharing!
Oh, thank you. How very kind. It's much appreciated.
I'll have to google zone 5 to see what sort of weather you've been having. 😁
Best of luck when you get to tidy up and cut back.
Thanks again for the lovely comment.
Martin.
Beautiful! I wish I had that kind of green thumb! I have to work with rock hard dirt and cactus!! The different colors of sage I really like.
Haha, I think you have got a green thumb 👍 😊 it sounds like you do amazingly well to say you live in a desert 😂 I wouldn't know where to start! 😅
Absolute food for the soul. Loved it, thank you!
Oh, thank you also. What a lovely comment.
All the best
Martin
From my part of the world on the South Coast [ Stickie Bud ].
Great clean up, it’s going to look amazing with mulch 🙌🙌🙌
Yeah, I agree. It really finishes the look off great. And as a bonus, it's amazing for the soil health 😁👍
Thanks for the comment
Martin.
We have "Sticky Willy' here in Virginia, too. I never knew what it was called until now!
Awesome, that stuff really gets around, doesn't it 😂 apparently you can eat it, and it's supposed to be very good for you.
I have not tried it myself, though 😂
Thank you for your great explanation as you went along.
I have actually learnt so much.
You're most welcome 😊 I'm glad you liked the video.
Thank you so much for the comment.
Martin.
Great tidy up, Martin and I spotted the snowdrops in the little urn! I have had a Sedum Spectabile (now has a new name which I forget) in a very hot, sunny south-facing spot for about 30 years(!) and it's so happy there I can't bring myself to move or divide it. Full of bees when it flowers into the early Autumn. Thank you for a lovely video.
Thank you 😊 super kind of you to say.
Oh yes, sedum is becoming one of my favorite wildlife plants. It's a cracking little plant, really. Very adaptable and pretty easy to look after, and watching the bees bounce from one flower to another is totally joyful.
Thank you for the lovely comment.
It's truly appreciated
Martin.
Thank you so much. I’ll have to see if I can get one out there is USA.
It’s so nice & tidy ✨ Love the snow drops in the urn/cement flower pot. Ours are just starting to pop up here. Couple of nice days & they will be blooming. Zone 6a here 🇺🇸
Haha, you found the snowdrops in the urns! Well done 😊 I thought they looked pretty good, too.
Have you any other bulbs coming? I've noticed blue bells and crocus as well as daffodils seem to be getting going well this year.
Thanks
Martin.
I have just found your channel. Brilliant. Keep up the good work.
Thank you 😊 🙏 I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I really appreciate the comment.
Martin.
Hi there. Greetings from south Wales. Just discovered your channel and subscribed straight away. Enjoyed watching this winter tidying video just after I've started getting mine ready for the coming seasons. Great to finally have some dry and warmer weather, not much need for watering where I am. Only other gardening channel I subscribe to is Garden Answer from Oregon USA. Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Cheers 👍
Hello South Wales, greetings back at you from Nottinghamshire. I'm really glad you liked the video, I've been working on actually getting more actual gardening in my videos 😅
It's been relatively mild here, still wet and cool but as you say, at least we don't have to water 😂 I've loads of plants starting to make a move in my own garden. Everything seems to think it's spring, so who am I to argue 😊
Best of luck in your garden.
Here's to a great gardening year 🍻
All the best
Martin.
@@martinthegardenguy Cheers. Looking forward to more videos and some plant life
Hello and good to see you friend! I have missed you! I am in Florida (near the middle) now so we don't have seasonal changes like in other parts of the country. Here there is always color, always something blooming or coming to bloom. I live in a 55+ community of manufactured homes that are mostly manicured and with only a little variation from one to another. There are over 300 homes in this community. I do like to get out each day and see what Mother Nature is doing and how the neighbors are nixing it in the bud, so to speak! Take care. George
Oh, hey George. It's great to hear from you. Sounds amazing where you live, mate. Hope you enjoy it there, I've only been to Florida once, and all I did was eat. I put on a lot of weight 😂 the beer and food were just too good for me to handle.
Everyone I met was extremely friendly, though. These are the main things I remember.
Thanks for the comment
Martin.
St.John’s Wort….wort is an ancient name for herb…otherwise known as Hypericum…flowers around 23rd June, StJohn’s feast day…I know this because it appeared in my little patch one day…lovely spear tip shaped leaves..firstly, yellow star shaped flowers…then pink berries…turning to red berries and finally black ones….another visitor is Italicum….Orange Candle Flower…..and the last one is Scilla Siberica Alba…Siberian Snowdrop…..none of them cost me any money at all…I hope I got the names right😊
This was fun to watch and very informative. Thankyou for a touch of Spring.
Oh, thank you, it's a little bit different, isn't it 😅 I much appreciate your contagious positively 😊
All the best
Martin.
I have always called it cleavers 😊
Me to 👍 but that's the gardener in me. I prefer sticky willy or sticky back 😁 sounds more fun.
Thank you
Martin.
My dad taught me that. Another old name was Squitch or commonly known as Couch grass. That and ground elder are among my most disliked weeds 😊
Ooooo, the dreaded ground elder. That one is one of my least favorite.
I've figured out ways to get rid of most invasive plants. But never managed to eradicate that one.
We can blame the Roman's for bringing that one in 😂
Hello there. That's made for some very happy plants! I know that weed, but I have never had a name for it.
We're really dried off here, the grass crunches underfoot and is bleached straw coloured. Wild fires are breaking out in the forestry plots around the South Island. Some homes in Canterbury have been destroyed. Bring on the autumn showers.
Hi Catherine, great to hear from you.
Very sad about the wild fires. I hope it's safe where you are 🤞
They've not reported it over here, I don't know what's worse. The wild fires, or the fact it's happening so often that they done report about it internationally anymore.
Stay safe. And as always, thanks for the lovely comment.
Martin.
Good for royalties,garden
Sticky ball weed. Always amazed at how masses of it grow from a stem no more than a couple of m.m. thick.
Yeah, it's a crazy plant really. Tiny little root system as well, it's not even that difficult to pull up. It just always seems to come back! 🤣
Apparently, it's really healthy to eat, so perhaps I'll just keep eating it until it goes 😁
I'm with you. I like crisper edges. I think you are taking a bit of a chance that you won't have a freeze....we usually do in March. But thanks for identifying everything as you go!
Haha, yeah, it was a bit of a risk. But it's been so mild. I thought I'd give it a go 😅
Plus, I was getting bored and eager to get out and work 😊
As luck wouldn't have it, there was a little frost the very next day! Fortunately, none of the plants were harmed. They are all very frost hardy. Thankfully I'd forgotten to water then in as I was going to.
Although the old gardeners saying "it's better to be too late, than too early" sprang to mind.
Thanks for the comment
Martin.
Magyarul "ragacs" Ragadós Galaj, Róka fogta csuka, a gyomnövény neve 😉😉 Jó munkát, szép a kerted télen is, majd fogom nézni később is. 🥰
Excellent, thank you very much.👍
I really appreciate it.
Martin.
Howdy from North Texas, Martin. Thanks for the plant identification, especially the "sticky willy." Unfortunately, I have encountered it in my back yard. I love digitalis, but it does not like my growing zone in Tx. We usually substitute larkspur for a similar look. I had some lovely ajuga in a small patch outside my back door, but developed some problems in the soil and lost it. But I have another location where I planted some last fall. Now I'm interested in finding some Lady's Mantle to plant as a companion for the ajuga. Thanks Martin for giving me my little taste of those beautiful British Isles. What part of the UK are you located?
Hi, North Texas. Lovely to hear from you. And thanks for the awesome comment.
Larkspur is a great substitute, I'd be happy with that. It's one of my favorite plants. I have delphinium all over my garden. Can't get enough of it 😁 strage that the foxglove won't take though.
I'm in Robin Hood County (Nottingham) 👍 it's been a very mild winter and feels like spring already.
Good look with the garden, it sounds lovely.
Martin.
Good job, will look fantastic, come spring and summer. The clump of snowdrops that you lifted, I would have split them to give you several more clumps.
Thank you 😊 🙏 much appreciated.
You're right about the snow drops, and indeed, I did divide them 👍
Check out the two stone urns at the end of the video, the ones in the wall. That's where I put them.
Great minds think alike 😁👍
That is a beautiful garden. I really enjoy watching what you do. Thank you for explaining what you are doing as you are going and telling us what the plants are and if they are useful or not. I am learning a lot! I do hope to see an update on this garden when it is in full bloom.
Oh, I'm not sure how I missed this comment. Very sorry 😞
There will certainly be an update video, I'm in full gardening mode now. We've even had some days without rain! 😂
I'm glad you liked the video, hopefully the next one will be even better. Especially as more things come into flower 🌼
I can't wait 😊
Thanks again
Martin
Great to see you back Martin reminding us Spring is coming 🎉 I used to call them Stickybacks, I think that was probably because as a child we'd throw them on each others backs 😂
Stickybacks, I love it 😅 what a cute and yet logical name 😁 I know most gardeners don't like the plant, but I love it. Although I do spend quite a bit of time digging it up.
I should start eating it, apparently it's very good for you. 😂
Thank you so much for the comment, it made me smile.
I love the little robin
He's a right little beauty. He follows me around every time I'm in this garden. He's very brave 😍
Here in Germany we call the sticky plant Klette or Klettkraut. Our word for Velcro is derived from that plant.
Wow, thank you for the education 😊 I had to google how to pronounce it 😅
I like how it's likened to velcro, very sensible.
Thanks again
Martin
We in America call it stick tite.
Very nice!❤
Thanks 👍 😊
Nicely done. Cheers from
North Carolina USA 🇺🇸 ❤️
Thanks, North Carolina ❤️ very much appreciated.
Martin
@martinthegardenguy
you are most welcome my friend 🧡
Спасибо Мартин за перевод очень интересно и поучительно !!!👍👍👍
Спасибо, надеюсь, Google Translate работает нормально.
Я очень ценю ваш комментарий.
Мартин.
Good job! 👍 I have to do this next time too in my garden.
Good luck 👍 hope the weather is as nice as it was when I did this one. It's was very mild ☺️
Thanks for the comment
Martin
Thanks for all your inspiring videos. I don’t know if that you are aware that Sedum (Stonecrop) is edible. The flowers are really good in sallads and the stems and leafs are good in woks and such. Looking forward to future videos. 🌱
Indeed, I did not know it was edible 😅 I should have done, though. I'm quite interested in edible plants. I've been on a few foraging courses over the last few years.
Thank you very much for the education 👍🙏 much appreciated.
Martin
Great vid! I see you have the wolf garten handle and tool heads. If you get the small tine sweep rake head you can use this standing up to do a lot of the clearing around perennials this time of year. Keeps you off your knees a bit.
Yeah, that's a great idea. I'll check it out 👍 I'll be happy when I have the whole collection. They are truly awesome garden tools! 😁 I love em.
Thanks for the comment.
Martin.
Hi Martin it's great to see you back I notice as you are digging up the clay a robin came to snatch a juicy worm I also noticed a lady bird I haven't seen those for years we used to call them God's cows and as to the sticky backs I also remember them.
Thanks Avril, yeah it was a lovely show from the wildlife. There was quite a lot going on to say it was midwinter. It's been very mild here though.
Gods cows? I love it 😊 what a cool name. I've never heard that one before.
Thanks
Martin
Just found you, a British gardening blog, great. Would be helpful if you could say, what sort of soil and sun/shade you are working on, as it relays to why the plants work in that particular garden. Also please name more plants.
Thank you, that all sounds doable 👍 I'll give it a go to try and expand on the information in the next video.
Thanks for the comment 😊 Much appreciated.
Martin.
😊😊😊 very good
Thank you 😊
Lovely!!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.
Much appreciate the comment.
Вы огромный труженик! Уважаю! Здоровья и удачи!
Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate it.
All the best to you also.
Martin.
BEAUTIFUL!🎉❤
Thank you, it's a very lovely garden. And it only gets better throughout the year.
Buzzing with activity ❤️ 😁 you mite say.
I'll be doing some more planting in spring as well 🤞
Thank you for the comment
Martin
Very enjoyable and informative. Would you please do an update later when the plants are all in bloom?
Thank you. Yeah, I sure will do an update. I've got all the mulch to put down and all the trees and shrubs to prune as well.
As well as more plants to get in, by the end of spring it should be in full bloom and ready for the summer flowers 😊👍
Thanks again
Martin.
@@martinthegardenguy that will be great. Thank you.
I remember hearing about that plant
We call them "hitchhikers" in Pennsylvania
An awesome and descriptive name 👍☺️ the bloody things get everywhere. Especially the seeds.
Nice job. I'm also a gardener and I find it easier to wait a little longer to pull your sticky willy out when it gets bigger and no I'm not being rude 🫣
So satisfying seeing the speeded up clearing as I've often thought of doing the same thing but haven't a clue with set up. Thanks for sharing and I hope you have more special moments with nature in the many gardens you visit my fellow worker of the land. 🙏😁🍁🪻🌷
Haha, I think we may share a similar sense of humor as well as occupation 😂
Thank you for the comment 👍
Martin
Очень красивый садик под вашим чутким взором. Ещё бы мойку под давлением для бордюров и вазонов, и вообще было бы идеально.
Thank you so much 😊
I appreciate your comment.
Martin.
Yay, Martin….good to see you! Lady’s Mantle! My favorite. I’ve got it all over my yard. I’ve not seen that double handled weeder you’re using. Wolfgarden?
It's great to hear from you to 😊 thank you (as always) for the comment.
I love Alchemilla, it's a tough and yet beautiful plant. Plus it's awesome for creepy crawlies 🥰 win win.
Yeah! Turns up everywhere in my garden! We were told the leaves had something to do with the Virgin Mary. I've got a cheeky robin too. I think a garden really shows its strong features when it's neat and tidy, even in Winter, perhaps even more so then.
My hellebore is already full flowering , is that normal ? . Thank you for a great informative video . 😊
Oh hi, yeah that's quite normal. There are lots of different varieties. One I like is called "christmas rose" that nearly always flowers for christmas.
Some don't flower until early spring.
Thanks for the kind comment.
I really appreciate it
Martin
Sticky willy here in Scotland mostly 😊
Nice one 👍 I didn't know you guys called it that up there.
Is it also a pain in the arse north of the border? 😂
Yeah, I remember going for walks when I was small and sticking them to our friends etc 😄 🤣
Me to 😂 I was always surprised how even gigantic clumps of it would still stick to my friends when I threw it at them 😁
We call it Velcro weed here in austin, Texas!
It's a very fitting name, I think 😅 I've recently learned the Germans' name for Velcro is also derived from what they call this plant.
Well, thank you, Texas. I appreciate the comment. And thanks also for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video.
Martin
My kind of gardener! Bung 'em in and see what happens! I suppose you removed the ivy growing on one of your trees off camera. Ivy is the only plant I won't tolerate in my garden. My son dug one out of a building he was renovating. It had done a lot of damage and was the circumference of a car tyre with roots coming off it. He estimated it was centuries old. Ivy is best in graveyards for obvious reasons!
Haha, that's as tough as it needs to be, really. Bung em in and see what happens 😁 although I like to know a little about the plants first. Right plant, right place is my motto.
P.s I kinda like ivy, I grow it quite a bit. Although I can see why most don't.
The difference for me, I suppose, it's they never get a chance to get out of control. As I prune them regularly.
Thank you for the comment
All the best
Martin.
Another quality job mate, Hopefully the weather holds of to get things done. Nice camera work as well. Hope your keeping busy?
Cheers 👍 I'm sure you know what a learning curve it is trying to film and garden at the same time.
I now have a work phone and private phone now that are both capable of filming. For those times I forget my gopro 😂
Are you ready for spring? I'm like a whippet ready to launch from the starting gate! 😅🤣
@@martinthegardenguy I seem to forget things for my gopro 🤣 i need to get another one so i can film multiple angles. I am ready for the season ahead, i know its gonna be a busy one.
Yeah, fingers crossed mate. I'm getting jobs booked in now, so should be all ready to go.
It's that time of year when I start looking at shiny new kit 😂 half of which I don't really need.
Best of luck dude 👍 and stay in touch.
Martin
@@martinthegardenguy Hopefully the weather holds of for us, been really heavy rain here. I havent brought anything new yet, im trying to be good and not get carried away like usual. See you in the next one buddy.👍
Гарна робота!
Thank you 👍
Мартіне!!! Я чекала на тебе!!! ¡ дуже рада тебе бачити!!!!!!! Ти проводиш багато часу на колінах. Підстелюй щось.
Дякую тобі за назви рослин... У нас оті прилипала звуть - підмаренник
Підмаренник, це чудово звучить англійською. Мені дуже подобається 👍😊
Я справді проводжу багато часу на колінах, лол, це небезпека роботи.
Дякую за чудовий коментар.
Все найкраще
Мартін.
@@martinthegardenguy Мартіне, я з України, з Криму.....
A great job. Fine weeding like that takes time. How long before it has to be weeded again?
Oh, thank you. Very kind of you.
This garden isn't too bad to weed really, there are loads and loads of plants during the growing season. So it really cuts down the amount of weeding needed.
So probably will be OK to do weeding 4-5 times a year. Not including dead heading and pruning.
Thanks again
Martin.
Мне нравится твой ручной инструмент с красными ручками.
Wolf Garten tools 😁👍 they are pretty good.
🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻 subscribed
Thank you 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed it.
P.s I love your username 😊🐝
@@martinthegardenguy Thank you
We just got a foot of snow today 😢well, at least I have TH-cam 😅
Oh dear! Where abouts in the world are you? Last week, we had the tiniest bit of snow here, which didn't even last an hour.
I'm not sure whether I'm lucky or not, I love snow.....but I also like gardening 😂
Thanks
Martin
@@martinthegardenguy I’m in Halton Hills, Ontario. Nothing surprising about the foot of snow this time of year but it was refreshing and inspirational to see you in your garden. And the snow drops made my heart sing 🍀❤️🩹
Well, you sound quite accustomed to the snow. So hopefully you're well ready for it. One foot of snow would bring most of my country to a screeching halt! 😂
Wow, I bet you can build some serious snow men with that sort of snow fall.
Best of luck when it thaws, I hope your garden tools are ready 😁
WOW, looks great can’t wait to see in Spring. I am zone 7 in Maryland and I love that tool with the handle what is it called?
I just call them edging shears. Or long handled grass shears.
But I must admit, I get a lot of comments asking about them from the U.S. maybe there not that popular over there. Or people prefer to use a weed Wacker.
I like old school kit, though 😁😅
Thanks
Martin
Where did you get the two edgers that you are using? Your gardens look very nice.
I got the half moon edging iron from Amazon, and the edging shears from a local hardware store. There with very handy 😁 tools of the trade.
There are links in the description 👍
Really enjoyed seeing the process. How long did it take you overall?
Oh hi, thanks for the comment.
It only took a few hours, it may have gone a bit quicker if I wasn't photographing wildlife 🤣
Thanks again
Martin.
Definitely Sticky Willie's 😂
Haha, it's definitely the coolest name I've heard so far. I'm still waiting to hear a better one 😂
I think I may get removed if I tell you what I call sticky willy, it's a blooming pest, any suggestions on how to get rid? Blow torch?😊
Haha, can you whisper it to me? 😁
It's not actually that bad to get rid of, as long as you get it early and before the hundreds of seeds get produced and spread around.
It's worse when it's growing under/within shrubs and trees when you can't get to the root.
But perseverance is key 👍
Or you can eat it all, it's supposed to be good for you 😂
Thank you for the comment
Much appreciated
Martin
I love heleborus. Wish I could grow it here, but it snows and will kill the plant.
Oh dear, where abouts are you? It must get very, very cold. They are normally, very cold hardy plants.
You could try improving the drainage of the soil below the plant, and this should help the roots never get frozen too badly.
Thanks for watching 👍
Martin
Привет, Мартин. Твои колени на холодной земле. Это плохо. Почему не используешь теплый коврик или наколенники из теплой губки?
Very true 👍 😁 I'll try to remember to take them next time.
Have to ask about the hand trowel. Would you be so kind as to share where it can be purchased?
Hi, check out the links in the description. They are made by a company called Roam Wild.
I got mine from Amazon.
Hope that helps 👍
@@martinthegardenguy Thank you!!