In these gloomy times, these wonderful videos are like a shot in the arm; they remind me of the pleasures to come in my own garden when spring arrives - and I am learning so much!
it was funny to see John sped up, I think he's normally working at that speed anyway! I'm a HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of this page and the content. I'm from the Midwest of the United States, about 90 miles north of Chicago. We get pretty bitter cold winters, last year we had a week of -35F (not sure the Celsius, sorry) and for the most part the perennials are LONG past here. Please keep this channel going and adding to the content as well. It's a joy to watch and I've learned more than you can imagine! Much success to you John!!
The new shape looks great! Liatris is a plant I hope to add next year. Really loved how the camera pulled back to let us see Teddy watching from a safe distance. Thank you!
This past week my 91 year old Mom was in the hospital for a heart valve replacement and my brother and I, while waiting, took a walk all around the whole hospital complex and saw a large drift of Liatris, all gone to seed. So of course I took some seeds to be sown later on! And our Mom came through just fine, thankfully! 🙂❤️
Excellent video as always. I love the "put the dirt in the hole, take the dirt out, put the dirt back in the hole" - very funny, but also makes a lot of sense as a way to mix the different soils together.
I have a corner that I would like to make a border to look nice. I procrastinate and still not done. After watching your video a couple of times, I feel its time I do it. You inspired me to do it. All I need now is to borrow your energy LOL
I've never grown liatris so it was interesting to see how this plant can be used. Clearly one liatris does not look great on its own, as you demonstrated, however that group of 15 plants looks great! As for flowers, the foliage looks pretty without flowers. I will be interested to see the massed display in flower so I hope you will show us when they flower. 😊 Great video, thanks!
Lovely. First time I've ever seen John add anything to the soil! But now I'm confused about Liatris. Mine, which look just the same as what's in the video, blooms in July. I've had the same four plants for over 20 years, and they've always bloomed then. Zone 7a, Connecticut. But I see other people on this thread and all the places I've just looked up say late summer. So, yeah, really confused now.
The warmer the weather the faster a plant will bloom and Connecticut would have warmer weather than Ireland so around July makes sense to me. The cooler summers in Ireland slows them down. Thanks for all your comments and thanks for watching!
A useful tip (for me) Mix compost with soil... otherwise not much use. Thank you. Enjoyable channel. Who's your camera person... keeping up with you? Great job lol.😀
Nice guidance John! Q: you didn’t work the roots before dropping it in the hole and it looked a little root bound; just wondering why? (Of course it might just be the fact that you were moving fast. 😀 )
If a plant is root bound the easiest way of getting around the issue is to just ensure it has sufficient water to get established. Depending on the plant this could range from daily watering to once a week. In most cases the roots will adapt to the soil and the roots will begin to grow. Thanks to Ireland’s rainy weather, once our plants get established we never water it again!
@@johnlordssecretgarden Aha ! So, trying ' to tease out some roots ' ( and just demolishing the roots, if not the plant in the process ) ...is an unnecessary waste of time and a risk !!!!.....Tst ! no wonder the roots just break, with actual properly pot bound plants then !.
John, do you have any small borders recommendations to show us? I love yours, and have the acreage, but I’m 68 and can’t do the upkeep on such huge borders.
haha you see that bone john tossed out from the hole? you're uprooting the work of teddy! would love a video about stone path maintenance. praise jah! amen.
Of all the plants in my garden, how do YOU keep liatris from flopping over without putting in wickets to stake them up?? I tried early pruning; the "Chelsea chop" but they always catch up to the growth restriction attempts and by mid summer the heavy flower stalks are on the ground before the fully open. So I use decorative wire fence wickets (panels) about 14in to 32 tall, push them in the ground close while they are still low and just filling out their foliar skirts - that will grow through the panels giving it a more natural draping look, and create a tighter boundary. They'll have to lean on each other to stay upright because once they start to flop over the flower stalks will curve back in up an attempt to straighten and the whole flower stalk is a twisted ruined mess. Not the best border planting decision i ever made but it is what it is...
Seriously? really? : I've been looking at plant supports recently for similar reasons. I am in Australia and am always putting in canes and tying them together with string as there aren't any tall supports for tall perennials such as shasta daisies. When it's windy, these types of flowers fall over. Even tall daffodils are lying on the ground. The gardening industry does not provide suitable supports. Anything reasonable is very expensive and always unavailable due to high demand. What is a decorative wire fence wicket? I recently ordered a Luster Leaf (973) 20” Round Grow Through Grid w/ 30” legs from Amazon, however I don't know if it will do the job.
“Take it out of the hole, put it back in the hole, take it out of the hole”.... couldn’t blame someone for overhearing this and thinking it ain’t about gardening 🤣
Awesome! I tried Liatris one year here in Pennsylvania (USA). Rabbits munched it down to the ground and killed it :( A constant battle finding what those guys, or the occasional Deer won't eat.
I’m in south central PA, border 7,000 of state gamelands. I have liatris around the house and no one eats it. I have herds of deer, dumb luck I guess. I use tons of purple coneflower, any member of mint family including Agastache, Walkers Low Catmint in all of its forms, goldmound spirea, sedum, geranium, butterfly bush, monarda, blanket flower, coreopsis and ornamental grasses. Blue Jeans Baby catmint blooms for three months without a rest here. Just ordered Valarie Finnis. Good luck!
Love your videos, but I am not a fan of Liatris. Not only it flops like crazy, mine changed color from pink to white! At first I thought I was going crazy, then I looked at my garden pics from 3 years ago and sure enough, I was right. Also I do not like how it starts flowering from the top and leaves that ugly brown stem. Am I alone with such dislike towards the plant lol?
I love the foilage, I love the blooms, hate the dead stems. I would cut them off but I am very rural and have tons of birds during the winter. I don’t feed them but they feast on seedheads of coneflowers. I have never figured out if they eat liatris. If I find out they don’t, I’ll cut them back.
@@johnlordssecretgarden Thank you John; our contractor removed all the top soil from a huge area, leaving one long border - N. facing with drainage pipes beneath and a tall hawthorn hedge. Fields on three sides so no bamboo there. Every weed , Sycamore and Ash grow in limestone gravel. . Age etc. caught up with me so I'm now planting best things in bottomless pots .
Looks like the worst soil on planet earth (cement?)... but it’s IRELAND 🇮🇪 so I must be wrong. (Opposite of “loamy” 😁) I love visiting Ireland 🍀. (I’m Irish from Central Maryland, USA 🇺🇸)
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In these gloomy times, these wonderful videos are like a shot in the arm; they remind me of the pleasures to come in my own garden when spring arrives - and I am learning so much!
This makes me smile so much 😊☺️ I just love seeing people gardening and being in the moment
it was funny to see John sped up, I think he's normally working at that speed anyway! I'm a HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of this page and the content. I'm from the Midwest of the United States, about 90 miles north of Chicago. We get pretty bitter cold winters, last year we had a week of -35F (not sure the Celsius, sorry) and for the most part the perennials are LONG past here. Please keep this channel going and adding to the content as well. It's a joy to watch and I've learned more than you can imagine! Much success to you John!!
-37.2 Celcius - so they're almost equivalent in the negatives. I'm in Ontario Canada. Last winter was brutal.
So that makes you either zone 5a or zone 5b.
@@MJ-cc4uf I'm 6a
@@MJ-cc4uf Yeah I think it's zone a, I'm in Milwaukee.....Chicago is more zone b
@@barbll000 Yeah it was the first time I ever stayed home from work because it was too cold, the place I worked at actually closed for 2 days.
I do enjoy watching you as you remind me it is always ok to edit your thoughts on plants needed. Thanks!
The new shape looks great! Liatris is a plant I hope to add next year. Really loved how the camera pulled back to let us see Teddy watching from a safe distance. Thank you!
So glad to have found your channel. Picked up plenty of tips and look forward to each upload. Respect from the Midlands ✌🏽
This past week my 91 year old Mom was in the hospital for a heart valve replacement and my brother and I, while waiting, took a walk all around the whole hospital complex and saw a large drift of Liatris, all gone to seed. So of course I took some seeds to be sown later on! And our Mom came through just fine, thankfully! 🙂❤️
I wish I had your energy and your vision! Really marvelous!
Thanks for sharing! Always enjoyable!
Excellent video as always. I love the "put the dirt in the hole, take the dirt out, put the dirt back in the hole" - very funny, but also makes a lot of sense as a way to mix the different soils together.
Looks absolutely wonderful - you make it look easy! Thank you for sharing your garden.
I have a corner that I would like to make a border to look nice. I procrastinate and still not done. After watching your video a couple of times, I feel its time I do it. You inspired me to do it. All I need now is to borrow your energy LOL
Thank you Sir, I will apply this to my garden! 🙏🏽
Always enjoy your tutorials! From Roseburg Oregon
Oh now I wish I could find some liatrus in our area, they look amazing! Also, I like your borders.
Thank you for the great ideas.
Always love your videos. Thanks!
I've never grown liatris so it was interesting to see how this plant can be used. Clearly one liatris does not look great on its own, as you demonstrated, however that group of 15 plants looks great! As for flowers, the foliage looks pretty without flowers. I will be interested to see the massed display in flower so I hope you will show us when they flower. 😊 Great video, thanks!
Lovely. First time I've ever seen John add anything to the soil!
But now I'm confused about Liatris. Mine, which look just the same as what's in the video, blooms in July. I've had the same four plants for over 20 years, and they've always bloomed then. Zone 7a, Connecticut. But I see other people on this thread and all the places I've just looked up say late summer. So, yeah, really confused now.
The warmer the weather the faster a plant will bloom and Connecticut would have warmer weather than Ireland so around July makes sense to me. The cooler summers in Ireland slows them down. Thanks for all your comments and thanks for watching!
@@johnlordssecretgarden Ah, thanks very much. That explains a lot, actually.
Thank YOU for the videos and your responses! Appreciate it so much.
A useful tip (for me) Mix compost with soil... otherwise not much use. Thank you. Enjoyable channel. Who's your camera person... keeping up with you? Great job lol.😀
It looks beautiful. The liatris are unusual I think , must get some for next year .
Great job!!!
Thank you!!!
John let me not be afraid to trim my plants when Necessary
Curious if crab and wire grasses grow in Ireland.
Nice guidance John! Q: you didn’t work the roots before dropping it in the hole and it looked a little root bound; just wondering why? (Of course it might just be the fact that you were moving fast. 😀 )
If a plant is root bound the easiest way of getting around the issue is to just ensure it has sufficient water to get established. Depending on the plant this could range from daily watering to once a week. In most cases the roots will adapt to the soil and the roots will begin to grow. Thanks to Ireland’s rainy weather, once our plants get established we never water it again!
@@johnlordssecretgarden Aha ! So, trying ' to tease out some roots ' ( and just demolishing the roots, if not the plant in the process ) ...is an unnecessary waste of time and a risk !!!!.....Tst ! no wonder the roots just break, with actual properly pot bound plants then !.
John, do you have any small borders recommendations to show us? I love yours, and have the acreage, but I’m 68 and can’t do the upkeep on such huge borders.
Love it
haha you see that bone john tossed out from the hole? you're uprooting the work of teddy! would love a video about stone path maintenance. praise jah! amen.
organicky love it!!!
What was that tree behind you cropped back please?
Of all the plants in my garden, how do YOU keep liatris from flopping over without putting in wickets to stake them up?? I tried early pruning; the "Chelsea chop" but they always catch up to the growth restriction attempts and by mid summer the heavy flower stalks are on the ground before the fully open. So I use decorative wire fence wickets (panels) about 14in to 32 tall, push them in the ground close while they are still low and just filling out their foliar skirts - that will grow through the panels giving it a more natural draping look, and create a tighter boundary. They'll have to lean on each other to stay upright because once they start to flop over the flower stalks will curve back in up an attempt to straighten and the whole flower stalk is a twisted ruined mess. Not the best border planting decision i ever made but it is what it is...
Seriously? really? : I've been looking at plant supports recently for similar reasons. I am in Australia and am always putting in canes and tying them together with string as there aren't any tall supports for tall perennials such as shasta daisies. When it's windy, these types of flowers fall over. Even tall daffodils are lying on the ground. The gardening industry does not provide suitable supports. Anything reasonable is very expensive and always unavailable due to high demand. What is a decorative wire fence wicket? I recently ordered a Luster Leaf (973) 20” Round Grow Through Grid w/ 30” legs from Amazon, however I don't know if it will do the job.
how Do you stop having weeds in your gravel.
Nice
Nice to know I’m not the only gardener getting into ants. Lol
“Take it out of the hole, put it back in the hole, take it out of the hole”.... couldn’t blame someone for overhearing this and thinking it ain’t about gardening 🤣
Awesome! I tried Liatris one year here in Pennsylvania (USA). Rabbits munched it down to the ground and killed it :( A constant battle finding what those guys, or the occasional Deer won't eat.
I’m in south central PA, border 7,000 of state gamelands. I have liatris around the house and no one eats it. I have herds of deer, dumb luck I guess. I use tons of purple coneflower, any member of mint family including Agastache, Walkers Low Catmint in all of its forms, goldmound spirea, sedum, geranium, butterfly bush, monarda, blanket flower, coreopsis and ornamental grasses. Blue Jeans Baby catmint blooms for three months without a rest here. Just ordered Valarie Finnis. Good luck!
What is the name of the tall white plant you shake at the beginning of your intro?
Veronicastrum 'Album’. Thanks for watching!
Hello John
Liatris : is for this year or next ?
It’ll bloom this year. Thanks for watching.
I notice when he plants he never minds the pot-bound issue.
Again the gardening job growing legs 😁😀😆😀
Love your videos, but I am not a fan of Liatris. Not only it flops like crazy, mine changed color from pink to white! At first I thought I was going crazy, then I looked at my garden pics from 3 years ago and sure enough, I was right. Also I do not like how it starts flowering from the top and leaves that ugly brown stem. Am I alone with such dislike towards the plant lol?
I love the foilage, I love the blooms, hate the dead stems. I would cut them off but I am very rural and have tons of birds during the winter. I don’t feed them but they feast on seedheads of coneflowers. I have never figured out if they eat liatris. If I find out they don’t, I’ll cut them back.
Gravel laid on Teram, and with no soil - my nightmare garden. Every weed on earth grows on it. I wonder if your gravell is on soil.
We put our gravel straight onto the soil with no underlay. Over time it compacts nicely. We don’t have that much trouble with weeds.
@@johnlordssecretgarden Thank you John; our contractor removed all the top soil from a huge area, leaving one long border - N. facing with drainage pipes beneath and a tall hawthorn hedge. Fields on three sides so no bamboo there. Every weed , Sycamore and Ash grow in limestone gravel. . Age etc. caught up with me so I'm now planting best things in bottomless pots .
Looks like the worst soil on planet earth (cement?)... but it’s IRELAND 🇮🇪 so I must be wrong. (Opposite of “loamy” 😁)
I love visiting Ireland 🍀. (I’m Irish from Central Maryland, USA 🇺🇸)