Green Fingered Hell #5 - Garden Centre Madness & Wisteria Hysteria
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2018
- Mark and Nadia are finally making "progress" ... even though the patio still looks a complete mess!! garden Centres have been visited and Wisteria Hysteria is setting in!!!!
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Love you guys for giving it ago, that’s what gardens are all about. Trial and error. To liven up old pots buy plants that will hang, trailing geraniums are so pretty and easy to maintain. Don’t forget that veg in pots can also be very pretty.
Loving your episodes of your garden Saga lol , can’t wait for the next episode 👍🏻 xx
They look like they have good prices. Looks like a good garden center too.
1. Wisteria will be the same no matter where you get it from. Good questions to ask are when did the last shipment come in, and are they part of that shipment. That will tell you how fresh they are. Generally, when a plant reaches a stage of first bloom, it's shipped to a garden center. 30 Quid isn't bad for 3 foot Wisteria. That's about roughly $29 US. That's right on price for what my Lowes would sell it for. With Wisteria, they naturally droop since the flowers are heavier than the stem can hold upright. They're supposed to look like that. What you WILL wanna do, is get some galvanized small circumference pipes or bars, put them in the pot and tie the main trunks to them with zip ties or bread ties. This will help hold the entire plant upright.
2. I don't blame you Nadia!lol I'm in the market for a new BBQ Grill as we speak. CharBroil, Kingsford are good brands, propane or charcoal. I use propane simply because there's a refill place just right down the street.
3. Like Mark said, brown doesn't mean it's all dead. You prune the brown off, and more grow. They wouldn't sell plants that are completely dead, and THIS early in the season NOTHING is dead that they're selling. If this were August/September and it looked like that, I'd say it was a lost cause, but nothing right now, is dead. They're either the earliest blooms that are ready to be pruned, sun scorched from poor watering, or on a damaged limb that isn't receiving water to create the right amount of chlorophyll for that FLOWER to live. You snip that branch/stem off and it'll keep growing new blooms.
4. The Begonias will bloom in about 12-14 weeks. They're supposed to started 8 weeks before the last frost. So you'll have them by September. They are not perennials. You'll wanna bring them inside once cold weather starts, but BEFORE the first frost.
5. I should have mentioned this a while back, but I failed to do so, make sure what you're buying for OUTDOORS, are perennials. That means they'll die off by winter, but will grow back in the spring and summer continuously. Obviously, your veg won't, but you know that I think. They'll have to be year after year re-purchased and re-planted (If you save and set aside seeds, you can grow them indoors during the off season for an earlier start). Annuals will just bloom once, and last a while, but not come back once the plant dies.
6. No, you can't eat those Pyracantha Orange. Those aren't oranges. That signifies the color. They aren't fruit oranges. They're small, small berry like growths that are mildly poisonous.
Both of you are doing a brill job and love seeing how your garden progresses....
Mark Just a suggestion when you take a plant out of its original pot have a look at it's rots at the bottom (as they maybe in a tight ball)if they are gentlely separate the rots so when you put it in another pot or ground the roots will have a better chance of feeding from the New soil and when they are watered....
love to put pics on here to show you my daughter's Wisteria they have...
Looking forward to your next update 🌻🌹🌳🐝🦋
Hi Nadia and Mark
Please loostern the roots once 're potting. This gives them a helping hand in growing quicker.
Also water new plants every day as they are used to this in the Garden centre/nurseries.
Wisteria grows like mad and smells soooo lovely! Give it something to creep up on. 💜💜...add string to the trellis wall for the wisteria. Occassionally spritz the greenery and blooms if rain has been a bit low
Get some Geraniums on your decking in pots, they spread quickly in pots and look beautiful. Keep going guys, you’re fab xx
You’re doing a good job Mark and Nadia. Great start. Nadia, have faith. Once the plants are repotted, just give them a good water each day and they’ll be right. You’ll see the fruits of your labour come spring.
Put a stake/stick in the wisteria and loosely tie it back. Then when it’s bigger weave it thru the latticework.
To get an idea of what plants to buy, maybe go to 1-2 nurseries/garden centres in your area and ask what grows well in your local area in regards to climate/area you want to grow eg shaded, full sun, partly shaded with little sun.
Go on, put in a water feature. I said it was a good idea for that corner. 😁 🌺🌿
You two are Giving me inspiration 👍
Brilliant what Mark said at the end of this video.
Hahahahaha all the excitement is priceless ... it’s like Christmas when nadia sees all the Christmas decorations 😂 !! I actually feel so proud how far you’ve come with your garden already 🌺💛😂 ! I still think you should have a “ mindful “ area with a water feature so you can relax 💛 x
My 72 year old mum said stop picking on mark he's doing a great job.. and them bloody plants were not dead they were fine 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 she was a gardener use to grow everything from scratch xxx
thats a win for me!!! Thank your mum!! mark x
Hi guys! The Wisteria you have bought is beautiful. There are three different types of wisteria, your type looks like it is the American Wisteria called “wisteria frutescens”. The flowers are not as long and cascading as the other two types but it’s much less invasive than the other two types. There is also Wisteria sinesis which is Chinese wisteria and Wisteria floribunda which is Japanese wisteria. I’m only a newbie at gardening as well but I really wanted one of these so I did my homework! It just depends what type you prefer, I have both the American and Chinese types and they are both beautiful in their own way! The type you have bought is better suited to a pot, but if you did want to put one in the front of the house in the ground I would go for a Wisteria sinesis or floribunda. I hope that helps! Xx
That isn’t creeping oranges. That’s pyracantha or firethorn. Bless you😂 Be careful though, they get vicious thorns on. X
Love your videos! Especially the garden escapades 😂👍
These gardening episods are my favourite videoss in thee whole of youtube
Loving watching your garden makeover, it’s already looking better guys. X
Mark : "I could just keep weeing in the corner" LOL
Great series and amazing progress so far! Mark is right you have to plant them to better enjoy the fruits of your labor. Can't wait to see the garden center set up and running!! Inspiring me with my mini garden, thanks :)
So proud of you both. And so excited to be part of the journey!
Good luck with wisteria. Read up on it guys. They are very difficult to grow.
It’s looking so good though! Bbq heaven!
Looks stunning. And Nadia got her pots.
Loving these....lovely plants.....its gonna be soo pretty....👍👍🍃🍃☘🍀🌿🌱🌹🌺⚘⚘x
Oooh you got a Japanese maple... my fav!! You've done so much this weekend! Well done! xx
Hahaha first she couldn't live without the pots now that's done she will not be happy unless there's the water feature. I feel you Nadia hehe. Your garden is gorgeous and does it help Mark with his depression doing the gardening?
Mark that orange bush is a climber. It needs trellis and a wall. It will triple the height by winter. The bulbs will flower in late summer. Trellis for wisteria it will grow like a week lovely.
Hi guys used be a supervisor at Homebase - i wouldnt describe it as a garden centre sorry haha... home improvement centre is more accurate tbh - usually very good prices though espcially with the home deco stuff (miss my discount however. - damn couldve leant you my card 😆😆)
How's the wisteria going? I've heard that they're aggressive with their root system and will also take over whatever it's growing next to ie a wall or pergola. Personally, I'm enthusiastic but a bit brain dead on the whole growing trees etc. Hope you're in full bloom and enjoying it all
Oooo nice one guys..i love going to garden centres...just to look around..i buy cactus plants alot!! Lavender is such a great smell. But I look around as though i know what I'm looking for when really I never have a clue..basically I try to blend in...never works lol lol
That colour of pink suits you so much !!!! xx
You need to find out what soil type you have and plant your plants in the position they like . Look each plant up before planting so you know if they will like that place 👍🏻
Try a big b&m that does has a larger garden section because you can get compost there quite cheap and lovely garden bits ie pots lights decor 😊
Homebase are closing down in the uk so might not be there longer
That isn’t a creeper orange tree it’s a pyracantha
Good choices of plants 🎉you should learn how to take cuttings 👍🏻also local plant nursery’s will be cheaper guys 😘
Not always. They have more invested in equipment and overhead, and also get less customers, so they can't afford to give breaks on price. Places like they went, or places like Lowes and Home Depo in the US can afford to sell cheaper because they don't just sell plants and get tons more customers.
I wouldn't buy any plants or trees from Homebase. YOu need a proper nursery where they grow the plants and trees from seed. They will die pretty soon from Homebase as they are forced in greenhouses.
Ive got them purple flowers, bought them from B&Q, the flowers and pots work out to be cheaper there.
Amazing
loving these videoes. Homebase no longer owned by Sainsbury's
Never mind about the water feature, get a proper watering can without a hole in it!!
I bought a wisteria from Homebase like that too x I’ve had it year now
Progress. Yes. Aussie Bob. Xx
Go to Dobbies - they are proper dedicated garden centres and not an add on like the big DIY stores - You will get proper gardeners there and you can ask them about plants etc.
Gardening should eventually help with anxiety and stress...when you start to have things that are fairly established and you can potter around your very own paradise. Homebase is ok but going to a proper garden centre such as Wyevale will give you a wider choice of plants. If you love lavender...you could grow mini hedges of it as a walkway around part of your garden or to section part of it off. Sectioning off can help when you have a large area to tackle so you can do one bit at a time and it doesn’t seem so daunting. Re the brown leaves...if you ge4vlike me you can become OCD and dead head as much as poss to keep things looking as lovely as poss. You don’t really need to tie-in the Wisteria, it should find it’s own way as long as it’s getting enough light.
Mark, you can learn loads about gardening on TH-cam. Always water when the Sun is off the plants. Say 7ish. If you water them in the day the water becomes boiling hot.
Go to Secret Garden behind Sainsburys ( Westow Street)
You Pair !!!!!! 🤪👍🏻
Mark do you find gardening helpful for your depression? X
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