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Early summer garden tour - tips on self seeding plants + what to do now for beautiful flowers later
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- Tour the early summer garden to discover self-seeding plants and flowers - all free and no work! But find out why self-seeded plants don't suit everyone. Plus the quick 'Chelsea chop' to make your late summer flowers more abundant and less likely to flop. And how to pinch out your dahlias.
1:12 Self-seeding flowers - free, easy and no-care or not for you?
6:44 How to 'Chelsea chop' your plants for more flowers later on
8:09 How to pinch out your dahlias and thin the stems
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Thank you for for stating the U.S. hardness zone. You know your audience well. As someone who is new to gardening, I really enjoy your videos.
Thank you. I'm gradually learning that people watch from all over the world and that the USDA hardiness Zones are the quickest way of giving people some idea of what the weather is like.
Had to pause to make myself a cuppa...
Your garden tour always a treat for my day...
Love your attitude of allowing mother nature to take its course....
Thanks for sharing..❤💖💝
Thanks so much 😊
Dear Alexandra,
Thank you for all these wonderful and informative videos.
To the „carrot“:
There is one little thing, that only wild carrots own, what makes them unique: Each of those beautiful large Flower has one very small black or deep dark violet bud in their center.
If your Flowers don‘t have this tiny dark bud, it isn‘t a wild carrot.
If you rub one of her leaves, it Must smell without doubt like a fresh carrot!
And, please, beware, some of their Family are absolutely deadly, but I‘m sure, you know that already.
Hemlock, Water Hemlock and Dogs Parsley smell a bit like ammoniak or urin, when you rub their leaves. If so, please wash directly your hands.
It‘s such a big, beautiful and interesting family, but so many are looking quite similar.
Greetings from Hamburg.
I'll be very careful, thank you. In the end, it did turn out to be wild carrot, but sadly it didn't self seed so it never came back after that one year.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I think Daucus carota is biannual. So it flowers on the second year, but there must be versions that flower alresdy on the first year. Mine didn't.
You look stunning in blue 😊 Thank you again for the information you put together & share with us, I have learnt a lot which is most appreciated 🙏
You are so welcome!
Thank you Alexandra. Your aliums are beautiful. I bought a pot of bulbs at Tesco in the daffodil season and when the "daffodils" didn't flower I emptied the bulbs into the garden at the back of a fkowerbed. A few weeks ago I noticed the alium buds emerging and now they're in full flower. I much prefer them to the daffodils anyway😊
It was lovely to spot Lottie disguising herself as a flower near the end of the video!
How lovely. It's surprising how often plants and bulbs get mislabelled, but of course when they're being packaged in the winter, they all look a bit alike. I hoped people would spot Lottie, she wasn't up for being in the film properly. Too busy hunting squirrels.
A plant I let self seed in my garden is feverfew. It is one of the first to bloom and shoots out all these tiny daisy flowers. The flowers last for almost a whole month!. I just cut a bunch of stems and put them in a vase and they look so classy.
They look lovely especially in large numbers.
I love feverfew in arrangements, and it lasts so long.
Love your channel Alexandra. I've been fortunate to have foxgloves & poppies self seeding in my garden. 46 foxgloves! And the poppies are just in bud, they're not the perrenial type but they're big! The birds must've brought them in because I never planted them. The bumble bees are in a frenzy out there. Thanks for the great videos I look forward to them every month. Keep safe, Steve.
Thank you! and that sounds beautiful. I love foxgloves, they are such a presence.
Glad to see you back, Alexandra.
I love how you 'anthropomorphise' your plants: choose to live here , parks itself wherever it wants, are very considerate on the colour scheme... :)
I didn't know about top-pinching dahlias; thanks for the tip.
Thank you!
Beautiful garden! I love my self seeders in my garden as well I love how they just grow naturally without any work from me.
It's wild carrot. I grew up with them and recognize the white hairs on the stem and the flower itself. We had to learn wild carrot from hemlock from anise. This looks just like wild carrot where I live.
I'm fairly sure it is as I found a video where I could compare each part of it. Still not sure how it came to be here.
I tried to be on top of the weeding this year. I wanted my self seeders to thrive, so I spent hours looking up pictures of seedlings so I could recognize the difference between the weed seedlings and the desired plant seedlings. That strategy seems to be working.
Well done, so glad to hear.
Same here, that is the reason why I am pulling out the weed blocking fabric from my garden, I love when things show up that I didn't plant
Absolutely, we got rid of weed blocking fabric, too.
Absolutely agree!! get rid of the weed blocking fabric from your garden...now you will find the soil with improve from sunshine, rain and the composting that happens naturally as plants shed their leaves, and the best part are what I call “Gods plants”, the ones that just appear in our gardens!
Vera Wallace I cannot imagine ever using weed blocking fabric in the first place. Proper weeding is to be done by hand. Wilkins, the gardener, and a small boy assistant are at the weeding five days a week in the summer. Most of their work is in the long herbaceous borders. I do the weeding in the kitchen garden myself. Herbaceous material is allowed to self seed and when too many seedlings arrive they are plucked out carefully and potted up and put in the greenhouse or in cold frames. I hired on two extra garden helpers this year. It is difficult to get good labour anymore since the war.
@@garywilliams7454 Points well taken, but am also curious which war are you referring to, if you don't mind me asking
@@verawallace9055 World War 1. After the war cheap labour virtually disappeared. Its impossible to find good servants nowadays. How about you. Same problem?
I know the carrot plant as Queen Ann's Lace.
I think it is Queen Anne's Lace.
Maybe ammi major
My picture is queen Ann’s lace
I agree we call,it Queen Anne's lace
Interesting comment about the Foxgloves, Alexandra. Here in Scotland, I dug up and replanted some purple foxgloves which were overtaking my Mum's garden to my own, and planted some Suttons Apricot seeds, both which came to nothing, and this year for the first time some pink and a yellow foxglove have arrived from 'somewhere unknown'. Happy to see them, but I'll need to try to make sure they don't take over!
Those foxgloves do seem to have a mind of their own. We did dig quite a few up this year as they seemed to be taking over the veg patch.
You are looking especially pretty today. I think your hairstyle is very flattering. Thanks for the gardening tips.
Thank you so much!
Thanks for all your encouraging and helpful ideas! A propos preventing slug damage - at Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, I asked advice from a woman with a hosta display, and have used her method very successfully ever since - boil up a couple of garlic cloves in a litre of water, and dilute 1:10 garlic mix: water. I spray it on most plants and this far its worked.
That's a good one! Thank you.
Just love the self seeders takes care of the weeding. So they packed the borders and no space for weeds ..only the early spring weeds i have to do..so have seeders for all seasons and you have a none stop show.
I adore your garden and it's the style I'm aiming for. After years away I've returned to find a jungle of unwanted saplings, bramble forests, bindweed, nettles, comfrey, ground elder, mares tail and a broken heart. However I got stuck in in November and now have recovered my vegetable garden using Charles Dowding method. I'm now tackling the flowers. All I have are David Austin Rose's I planted before left which i thought had died but after removing the weeds covering them and pruning hard they look stunning. I'm fortunate to have large specimen trees to give structure. I shall focus first of all on self seeding plants. Thank you so much for this. I'm also in Kent, Sutton Valence, so have steep terracing before I reach the level area. Challenges are keeping me in the garden for 8 hours a day and I'm loving it.
Thank you! It sounds rather lovely though I sympathise with the ground elder.
I’ve been trying to maintain a 10-15 minute weeding schedule. Last year we were overrun with weeds and I gave up by July. But I love the thought of plants spreading themselves to the places they want to be. Great video, as always!
Thank you!
I love these videos. Very inspirational and practical and you seem such a lovely woman too!
Thank you so much.
Love the self seeders! Beautiful Graden. Thanks for the tour.
Thank you!
I love your voice and British accent!! So soothing
Thank you.
What a delightful find! Really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I agree I always chelsea chop 1/2 of the stems, It makes the bloom time last twice as long.
I enjoy your tolerance, which comes through on more occasions than simply weed chat!
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This is our first year with flower beds (pots up till now) so excited to see what self seeds. Very informative video, thank you.
Laura H Pots?? I could write a book about the disaster of trying to grow flowers in pots. Too little water, too much water, roots pot bound, root rot, and on and on. Even a small border is better than pots. My border is 200 feet long and 14 feet wide.
Love you and your gardens. I’m a Herbalist so I look forward to self seeded flowers and ‘weeds’. I make medicine from them and pot up and sell them.
Lovely!
We bought a house this year with a small front yard and decent, workable sized back yard. It is sadly all paved with tiles and gravel and I hate it. I would rip it all out at once, if spending lots of money for plants wasn't an issue🌿🌺🌹I love your videos to learn more about gardening. It will be a natural, cottage style garden for sure. I would love to have areas where weeds and self-seeders can do what they like. I have seen once a big pile of dirt that transformed from weeds to varieted species of wild self-seeders in all colours, it was beautiful 🥰 I love how your garden looks with all the soft colours🥰
I have recently subscribed to your channel. I love your garden and your approach to gardening. I also like the fact you make room for wildlife in your garden. I always look forward to your videos and I have gone back and watched your earlier ones, I have learned so much. Many thanks!
Thank you so much!
Thank you from Bulgaria , I wish I could find the wild gladioli ,Im still looking ! I am also intrested in the Smynium ? looks lovely and fresh , however I will check the hardy zones , Cerinthe can grow here as long as you winter sow it becomes an anual . too hot in the summer. I quite agree our garden is our master, I have everlasting sweet pea growing everywhere, annual sweet pea will not grow to hot ? Great fun trying out all these ideas , happy days !
Thank you. I hope you find some wild gladioli. I don't know whether smyrnium would grow in your climate, but if cerinthe does, it comes up at a similar time. Good luck!
Your wild carrot flower, I think, is a queen anne's lace. It's a beautiful "wildflower". They are all over the place in Michigan, U.S.A. I have seen them a lot since I was very little. They are my favorite flower.
Yes, I think you're right. I was hoping it would self seed, because I agree that they are so pretty but it didn't come back last summer (the video was shot the summer before).
I often have problems collecting seeds, as many flowers require deadheading to have a long blooming season. Self-seeders are just wonderful! I don't need to buy anything and there's no hassle.
Really enjoying your channel. Thank you
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for all of this excellent information, Alexandra! I love the surprises in the gardens that happen each year. I am a very lazy weeder for the most part and rely on my beloved plants to eventually shade them out. There are a few, such as goldenrod that will take over if I allow it, so I must pull those before they grow to 6 ft tall and flower, spreading even more seed. I always leave a few in some areas for their brilliant fall color, but they are quite a thug here (zone 8b/Louisiana USA). Also, I must say that you look especially lovely in the cornflower blue! I love your scarf as well! Hope you are safe and healthy! 🙌💚🌿🌷
Thank you so much and I hope you're well, too.
A delightful post Alexandra🌱
Thank you!
I haven't tried self seeding yet but don't have much room on my patio. I'll definitely try this when I have more space!
That was interesting Alexandra - snipping the top of the dahlias - I'm going to try that right now!
Thank you!
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden - Top snipping is to keep the plants from being too leggy ? Will that also encourage more blooms, more flowering ??
Great information! Thank you!
Thank you!
My garden is on eastern Long Island, US zone 7 and many years ago wild carrot/Queen Anne's lace suddenly appeared. It reseeded freely and was charming at first but eventually a little too random for my front lawn. After a couple of years I pulled out all the seedlings and haven't seen it since.
I'm also a big fan of self-seeders My latest discovery is the signet marigold, Tagetes tenuifolia. To me they're attractive plants, but it's their deer-resistance that is the big draw. No blooms yet but their foliage has a very strong smell when touched.
I understand that tagetes can also help clear ground elder - I keep meaning to try it.
Great video! I have been hoping to hear about self seeders and the Chelsea chop so great timing! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I do find some of my plants just self seed everywhere and engulf my other plants. Purple Sage, Verbena bonariensis, Lychnis coronaria and Alliums. I just have to keep pulling them up and giving them to friends. The Euphorbia oblongata and E. cerotacarpa I just love as that beautiful lime green foliage makes a wonderful contrast to other plants and is easy and long lasting. I planted mine with blue Nigella and blue Eryngiums. This is all very good advice.
Thank you, you have many of the same ones as I do.
Lovely video, thank you. I also have Lychnis or Rose Campion which I must have bought originally maybe 20 yrs ago, and it pops up every year in all kinds of places. I have just planted a few roots of Calendula which a friend kindly gave me and I believe this self-seeds too? After planting them I cut off the blooms, buds and seedheads so they look a bit sorry and small at the moment! Looking forward to seeing if they will still bloom this summer, or if it's too late, no problem!
I think they're pretty good at self seeding - I have a few here too.
Lovely! For my experience, it doesn’t seem a wild carrot, but maybe an ornamental type or another species of Apiacaee. Daucus carota grows wild in my garden and the flowers have always a shape similar to elderberry ( sambucus), a sort of disk where all the singular blossoms stay at the same level, and not in a sphere shape . I’m from Italy so maybe it’s a different subspecies ( we have to many to remember 🤷♂️)
We do! Also the camera angle can be confusing. Thank you.
Thank you Alexandra. I appreciate your admission that you don’t always get to the weeding. I do really well in April and by July I just try not to look so closely. Here in the Willamette valley in Oregon my garden has many of the same self seeders. Euphorbias, foxgloves and mollis for examples.
Thank you - I looked up Oregon's climate and you have an amazing range of zones, although around the same-ish latitude as the UK, I think.
The Middle-Sized Garden its a big state. My part has a mild temperature range with plenty of rain. We are famous for Pinot noir wines, hazelnuts and Christmas trees.
What you referred to as wild carrots, here in Michigan we call it Queen Anne's Lace.
I think we also call it that, which is interesting because it means it could have come from one side of the Atlantic to the other in Queen Anne's time? Possibly.
Every year a new plant appears in my garden which I never had before, Tradescantias, Campanula.Double welsh poppies in red ,orange and yellow..This year its a hybrid foxglove with pale pink outer petals and pale lemon inside.I think a common foxglove has hybridised with Digitalis Luteus. I used to weed out the common yellow Welsh poppy but one was growing at the base of a shrub where I cuold not get at it and the seedlings were all double yellow and orange ,the red ones appeared later.
I planted daucus carrot 3 years ago , but it hasn't reseeded. However I used weedsuppressing membrane which does help to control weeds , but self seeders don't work as well. ! Yours does look like it . K
I Chelsey chop my lavender. Here in Australia they get huge and very woody. So I prune them to less than 6” after flowering. That way they always look young and fresh and also I get multiple flower flushes each season.
I can imagine lavender loving the Australian climate. Good tip
I have Queen Anne's Lace growing wild in my garden, a gift from the birds. I use shredded leaves as mulch and it does diminish the self seeders somewhat unfortunately. This spring I have many ferns and dicentra surprises that have appeared.
That sounds lovely.
Definitely wild carrot, which we call Queen Anne's Lace in the States. Really enjoying your channel, I just discovered it and am going to subscribe. I strive for a mix of cottage gardening with flower borders and permaculture food forest, so your videos are very relevant.
Thank you! As it went over, it got more and more wild carrot like, so that's definite.
the wild carrot you were puzzled about we call Queen Ann's Lace in Pennsylvania. its my favorite wild flower, and mother has tried for years to get them to grown in her garden but my father would weed wack it every time! lol but she finally has it coming this year :) love your garden! thanks for this video!
Thank you, yes, I think some people here also call it Queen Anne's Lace. I wonder why.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I google why its called Queen Anne's Lace.... "The plant is said to have obtained its common name from a legend that tells of Queen Anne of England pricking her finger with a drop of blood subsequently landing on the white lace (similar looking to the flower) in which she was sewing."
After pulling up as weeds most of my turtlehead plants, I started placing a stick by each new plant. Of course, I neglected to do it for some and only afterwards realized I had torn up another plant. I can’t seem to recognize the weeds from the plants. They all look alike as seedlings. Alchemilla doesn’t spread in my garden - it dies. I finally gave up on it. Yours looks beautiful. I love the relaxed wild garden look.
Thank you!
We grow both Daucus carota and Ammi majus at the public garden where I work. Daucus has a dot in the center of the flower, and is more weedy looking, to me anyway.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden We also grow Daucus carota 'Dara' which is a pinkish colored version. It's pretty, but most of the self sowers that result revert to the standard white.
Delightful and informative. Thank you!
Our pleasure!
My friends in Sussex call the white flower Cow Parsley. I think most of us here in America though call it Queen Anne's Lace.
Cow parsley is quite similar but not exactly the same. I think Queen Anne's Lace is Wild carrot here too. I think they are both very pretty.
If you have compact enough veg patches you can use copper tape around them. It lasts several years. The copper reacts with the slime on slugs and creates an electric charge. Doesn’t kill them but makes them feel unwanted.
Interesting. I think the RHS in the UK is doing some studies on this, but they are not yet complete.
Lovely garden 🥰
Thank you!
I am such a poor weeder that today, right next to the spot where I always sit to have my morning coffee, I saw a foxglove in full bloom. Where did that come from??? RE: Forgetting what you plant: but what a delightful surprise when something you forgot about comes up! Like having an invisible gardener!
Absolutely.
I am in zone 3 in Canada.... We can grow self seeders but I envy your vast choice of perennials.
I don't cut mine down in fall so they seed more...
Alexandra check out Joe Pie weed..
It grows 5 ft high here in Saskatchewan and is just hardy enough
I did - it's lovely. Generally called Eupatorium here, and apparently it's not too invasive in the UK. Must get some!
Supper and very informative.Hope this will help me at the near end of the growing period for a better display.
Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Interesting! Thank you for sharing.
Glad you're back, Alexandra. I missed you last weekend. What about self-seeding when I keep a good layer of mulch on my beds?
Thank you - I was rather tired last weekend, possibly a minor bug but not the dreaded virus. I was once told by very experienced gardeners that mulching would mean no self seeders, but I do mulch my garden and I get self seeders. So I'm not sure whether it's one of those things that sometimes reduces the number of self seeders but doesn't get rid of them all.
Wild carrot? We call it Queen Ann's Lace here in the US
Be careful what you wish for. Yes you have wild carrot or Queen Anne's Lace. Here in the Midwest in the U.S. it's a major thug. Our highways are lined with these plants for miles. Lovely while in bloom, and a sad looking, brown, crispy thing afterwards.
I think mine has just done the sad and crispy bit. I had better hack it down, I think.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden you need to get out the whole tap root, and hope it didn't throw out too many seeds before it shriveled.
That really is a lovely garden! I’m afraid I’m a weeder, oh well 😔.
Klaus
You can be both!
I think you might mean a 'weeder'? Although you might be a welder, too. But thank you!
The Middle-Sized Garden whoops, yes I did, I’ll edit that now!
There’s A Girl In The Gardens I know what you mean, I recognize dill weed at the first leaf stage and let it grow! We always need more dill!
Klaus
What We Do I honestly thought you were a busy busy welder 😂😘
Your cotinus is beautiful! Small, but eager 😊
Thank you! 😊
You can identify wild carotte easily. Look if in the center of all the little white flowers is one black flower. If yes, then it's a wild carotte.
Thank you, yes, it is, I believe.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden 👍😊
Dear Alexandra,
Really adore your videos:)
One question Ive never got a good answer for:
Won’t mulching (with compost for example) kill all your selfseeders?
Up to now Ihave never dared mulch because I love
Selfseeders so much…
I agree that there's definitely a balance between adding mulch and loving self seeders. I've usually found that self seeders survive mulching (they don't survive weeding, however), but some don't. I think it's a question of trial and error....
Do you remember me asking about dahlias being out all winter in the non stop rain? You said they might survive, and they have! All of them. So I'm very interested that you cut out stems when there's rather a lot. The "Totally Tangerine" was rather disappointing it's first year in my garden, looking messy and floppy with not a lot of flowers. I realize now that the stems were too many and crowded, and it's trying to do the same again. Thanks to your video I can get it to behave more like "Red Bishop" which is as stately as it sounds!
That's great to hear. I have to say that I have found Totally Tangerine a bit disappointing too, it just seemed a bit half hearted, so it may be not our fault! But I don't think I will grow it again.
I grew Totally Tangerine in two raised beds (my Dahlias don't seem to like my 'improved' clay soil so in future am only going to grow them in pots or raised beds) and they were very happy, and so was I!
I have to say Alexandra, I’ve also had the pleasant surprise of a plant I’ve wanted randomly appearing in my garden to my joy- but later deep confusion when I realised how unlikely it was that it had occurred by random and wondering to myself: “did I plant something whilst sleepwalking and completely forget about it?”
I've had that experience too. Several times!
I live in South Florida zone 10b. I had no idea that there were areas of the UK that are equivalent to zone 9. While there may be some things that you talk about that don't exactly meet my garden needs, it's not as much of a difference as I thought.
The various zones don't quite marry up as our summers aren't usually as hot as a Zone 9 - but on the other hand, recent ones have been. But I think Zones are quite helpful to mention, although they won't be wholly accurate.
The white flower may be what is called Ammi here in the U.S. it looks similar to Queen Anne’s Lace but is less invasive
I'm now fairly sure it's Daucus carota also known as Queen Anne's Lace, and I await to see how invasive it is in this garden. There are some quite invasive plants already so it will have a battle on its hands.
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I did not know allium self seeded wow
Hardy Osteospermums interbreed and self seed in my garden as do hardy nemesias.
Interesting, thank you.
Queen Anne's lace is what we call it here in Tennessee USA.
I think we are all coming to an agreement that it is Wild carrot, otherwise known as Queen Anne's Lace. Interesting that one of the common names does cross the Atlantic.
if your flower got a little dark dot in the middle of the "flower" and it smells like carrot and it forms a nest when it finishes flowering than it is a wild carrot.
I think it's got a little dark dot, and I think it smells like carrot...
Hello Middle sized Garden, your suspected Carrot plants, are they Ammi Majus?
I love them very delicate, Lacie and Edwardian don't you think. Love your channel and hope to visit your garden in Kent one day.
I think there is now a general consensus that they are Daucus carota or Wild carrot/Queen Anne's Lace, as they don't quite fit either cow parsley or Ammi Majus. Hope to see you in Kent one day. This year our open gardens event had to be cancelled, of course, but we hope to get it back next year on the last Sunday of June.
I love that ice cream cone shaped plant in the middle of the garden. What are those puffy round lilac flowers?
They're allium Christophii, I think - a low growing allium which self seeds here. And the plant in the middle is a boxwood spiral in a pot.
The main difference between the wild carrot and the (very similar and highly toxic) hemlock is that the wild carrot has a black spot in the centre (from a distance it looks like a mosquito perched on the plant).
I am a weeder but have learnt to recognise seedlings of good plants and just leave them alone.
That's excellent, but you must be quite a knowledgeable gardener. But it comes with practice - my problem is getting distracted from the weeding.
yes doesn't take long for the leaf shapes to give them away
Wild carrot is known as Queen Anne’s Lace in Pennsylvania, USA.
I think we also have that as a common name too, rather beautiful.
Unfortunately I’ve had to remove our Euphorbia due to it being unsafe for our pet cat. Glad you mentioned Smyrnium Perfoliatum which features a similar lime green colour. Do you know if it would be safe for pets?
Yes, I understand Smyrnium perfoliatum is safe for pets
I can always count on verbascum, nepeta, feather grass, lupine and columbine. I never get fox gloves. 😭
Interesting - I didn't think my verbascum was self sowing, but perhaps it is, because it's been in the garden for quite a few years now.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I have a few different ones, Alba and violetta do for sure. I have Southern Charm that is not as prolific as the other two. I also have Olympicum, but that one looks a lot like our wild one's, so I have not let that one even get close to reseeding. We are farmers and my husband would kill me if it got in the alfalfa fields! Lol
Im very curious about that wild gladiola ...would love to buy some seeds I'm herein the USA
I'm not sure who sells them in the US and also you may need to check whether they'd be invasive, depending on where you live. They're pretty good do-ers here, which suggests they could be invasive in the wrong place.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thank you
Very informative. Thanks for sharing. I have a question. Can self seed plant grow on mulched garden? Should I get rid of the mulch before the plants drop seeds? Very confused.
Yes,that is my question too.
Wil mulching kill your selfseeders?
@@jankeelliott7801 I have sone selfseeders growing on mulch successfully this year.
I love what Americans call Queen Anne's Lace (Caucus carota). It grows wild along the roadways. You can't buy the seeds because they are considered a weed!
I think they're a weed here too, but you can buy seeds.
Where.do u find these seeds...what catalogues do u use...about 20 years ago i got a british catalogue with seeds from all over the world..I SURE WOULD LOVE TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT..THE FLOWERS SEEDS I GOT WERE.FABULOUS..
Over 20 years, the seed companies may have changed, but I use or have heard good things about Sarah Raven (sarahraven.com), Special Plants (specialplants.net), Thompson & Morgan (thompson-morgan.com) and Plants of Distinction (plantsof distinction.co.uk)
Great subject and really like your channel. I want to try this but how would you know what’s what? It’s tough to tell seedlings apart when they’re small.
Yes, it is really difficult to tell tiny seedlings apart. Experienced gardeners can do it, so they can have the best of both worlds, no weeds and self seeders, but that's beyond my pay grade, certainly, and many other garden lovers I know.
The Middle-Sized Garden Yes, Thank you. I figured that out as I was reading some of the other comments, so I’m thinking what Im going to do is devote one bed to this endeavor until I get familiarized with the seedlings. Larkspur for example might be easy to recognize but others like snapdragons are not so I’ll start with that I guess. That or I was thinking about placing rocks around the areas I seed to mark the areas. This is going to be tough for me but “gulp” I’m going to try to be a little more relaxed about my gardening in that one bed. ❤️🌿🌸
If your supposed Wild Carrot has a purple/burgundy/red dot in the middle of the open bloom, then it would be a Daucus carota, commonly known as Queen Anne's Lace.... or it could be Ammi majus, commonly called bishop's weed, false bishop's weed, bullwort, greater ammi, lady's lace, false Queen Anne's lace, or laceflower, is a member of the carrot family Apiaceae.
Thank you, I'm now pretty sure that it's a Daucus carota as it dried into that very distinctive shape the heads have.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I am glad for you. I think they are beautiful. I have many in my garden! Many of mine will rebloom if cut back after the first flush. They do not like the dead heat of Summer. My blooms appear in Spring and a few in the Autumn.
I have grasshoppers eating the entire flower head of my dahlias! Any suggestions?
I haven't personally had experience of this, but the remedies generally suggested include keeping chickens or making your garden bird friendly, as chickens and other birds feed off the larvae and using a garlic & Chilli spray on the flowers. I hope that helps, it does sound like a difficult problem.
Oh, dear, I haven't had to deal with that, but the suggestions I have found include keeping chickens and spraying your dahlias with a mix of a garlic and hot pepper spray. Many people also suggest making sure your garden is bird friendly, which means not using any chemical pest control as it could damage other pests that the birds live off. Others suggesting planting flowers that grasshoppers don't like, such as dianthus (but I would hate to give up my dahlias personally.)
Oh man, I went outside last night and killed what must have been 30 slugs on my delphiniums. Feeling a lil guilty about that.
Don't think you need to feel too guilty!
Don’t feel guilty. They don’t feel guilty when they munch over your green leaves. 😋
I'm thinking it's not wild carrot. It doesn't seem to have the tiny dark flower in the center of the flower. You've probably already looked online, but here's a link to an article comparing them. They're all pretty, so it doesn't matter unless you plan to eat them!
dengarden.com/gardening/How-to-Identify-Queen-Annes-Lace-Wild-Carrot
I wonder about Ammi visnaga.
That is the slightly puzzling thing - I keep thinking I can just see a tiny dark flower in the centre. I'll have a look at the video - I've seen one that talks about a hairy stem, which mine does have. Thank you.
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the only weeding I do is the self seeded sycamores from next door. Otherwise I have a 'survival of the fittest' approach
Absolutely.
There is something to be said for not being too neat in a garden.
Indeed.
Have you got any fee seed. X
Sorry, I don't think so.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden np x
We.have so.few.self.seeding.flowers here i this hell hole
Just scrolled down and saw how many people said the same. 🙈