Winter GARDEN TOUR - plus my TOP WINTER GARDEN PLANTS
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- Plants to give a winter garden structure and style in the Middlesized Garden in December and January. Find out what old-fashioned plants like phormium and conifers can do to improve your winter garden.
To prune lavender to keep it in a tight, sculptural shape for winter interest, see: • How to prune English l...
Many of the plants featured can also be seen in summer on the August garden tour with tips on plants that spread: • August garden tour + t...
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Hello Alexandra ~ you are my inspiration ~ fantastic garden ~ Love your videos ~ thank you x x
Thank you so much. Happy New Year!
Nice video. Thank you. Happy New Year!
Thank you and Happy New Year.
My favorite part was the 12-months' montage. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for your winter garden tour. Happy New Year
Thank you and Happy New Year
seasonal view is great to see , love the July and winter view
Thank you. I was so lucky with the light on the winter view.
Absolutely marvelous video that is so well put together. This is definitely one that I will view repeatedly and take notes. Thank you from Zone 7 in the U.S.
Thank you! And it's always so interesting to hear where people are viewing from.
Thank you for sharing your lovely garden, Happy NEW YEAR
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Even in winter your yard has so many shades of green. Winter has a quiet loveliness all its own. Or not so quiet if one has a joyous dog 🐕. Wishing you a wonderful New Year!
Thank you! I find winter astonishingly beautiful, but very dependent on the light. I was incredibly lucky to have amazing light for some of those photos - possibly the best winter light I've ever seen in this garden. But some of the time it's just brown and grey with a flat white sky.
Yes, sometimes the light surprises one in winter. So lovely.☀️🌲Have a great upcoming week!
Thank you Alexandra....love seeing Lottie running around and your frosty winter garden. Your trees are beautiful ...can't wait to start planting again here in New Jersey. Wishing you and your family a Happy and Healthy New Year!!!
And Happy New Year to you, too, and thank you. I keep meaning to do a Lottie introduction, then something gets in the way. But one will be coming up soon.
The ending year of pictures of your garden was just wonderful. Isn't it amazing how a garden changes continually presenting challenges and strengthening your ability to change with it. Gardens teach us so much! This is one video that I want to watch over and over for inspiration!
Thank you so much!
I love seeing lovely, alive and growing things....like Lottie! Please let us see more of her more often.
Thank you and I keep planning to do a proper 'introducing Lottie' video, probably in January garden tour.
Such a beautiful garden with lots of winter interest. I especially love the little bird on the ivy at 11.08 that pops in and out to see what is happening
Many thanks - and I think that's the humble sparrow, now falling in numbers so I am very fond of ours.
Happy New Year Alexandra from Cheryl in Australia .
Thank you for all the effort put into this video and all the others for this past year. They have been truly enjoyable. Yes I couldn't agree more about trees. I live in a fairly new estate outside of Brisbane so as you can imagine, not too many trees around other than what was in the park next door and the street plantings.
I took it upon myself to start planting small trees as soon as I started the garden. Most people's attitude is they are too messy and big. Not so if the size suits your block they are perfect. And messy, come on a real gardener loves all that organic material for compost.
I am now reaping the benefits as they are growing and providing some shade in very hot summers. There are a few more I plan to put in yet. In summer I can go out into the garden in the shady areas and do something and not be cooked, while I see many houses around me closed up and relying on air conditioning. The garden areas where I have the trees are so much cooler.
So everybody plant more trees and Happy gardening for 2020.
Such a good point. Trees provide brilliant shade insulation for houses as well as shade for gardens. I hope you're clear of the fires - we are all alarmed to see how terrible they are. Happy gardening.
Hi Alexandria, yes we are safe from the terrible fires. But those poor people caught up in it is just horrible. Lives lost, homes lost and wildlife lost. I hope it ends soon.@@TheMiddlesizedGarden
Thank you Alexandra. Lovely video as always. Happy New Year's.
Thank you! Happy New Year.
Absolutely beautiful garden and love the seasonal views. I’ll be adding a few plants you spoke of to my garden next summer. 🌻
Thank you! Happy New Year.
Just beautiful! July is by far my favorite with the lavender blooming! Thank you!
Thank you. It was so interesting to do one month after the other and realise July was the best (early July I think)
Wow. Seeing the garden through the months at the end makes you appreciate it so much more. Those leaf colours are just amazing. 🍁🍁
Thank you! I was so thrilled to be able to do the whole year at one go.
Myrtle might be a good boxwood substitute. Takes well to clipping and flowers in late summer. There are some hardy varieties worth trying.
I'll keep an eye out for it. Thank you.
I remember how mild winters in England were. In Canada, it can get pretty cold but this year so far it's much warmer.
I'm glad you pointed out the benefits of leaving some plant stalks in winter. They as well as the evergreens provide winter interest and make the dormant garden look so much more alive.
Thank you. Happy New Year.
Good point. I'm near Paris. I left my Amaranth stalks and they look great, to me. A little red and zig zag lines. I wonder if it grows there.
@@quicknumbercrunch8691 It's also called Gomphrena. In Ontario Canada, it's an annual plant. One of my favourite TH-cam Channels planted it en masse and it looked amazing. Here's a video of it th-cam.com/video/li4Up4N1Xug/w-d-xo.html
I loved your winter garden video, your garden is lovely and I especially enjoyed the monthly pictures as the end. Lots of changes but each month still so very beautiful. Thank you for sharing your tips and your time. Happy healthy New Year!
Thank you! And Happy New Year to you too.
Great video. I find combing through my stipa the best way of getting rid of dead material
Thank you, that's helpful.
Always appreciate how much effort you out into these videos Alexandra, your forward thinking ideas always give me inspiration, even in the depths of winter, happy new year 🎊
Thank you so much and Happy New Year to you as well.
Such a lovely garden, and so interesting to see the way it changes through the year! Thank you. Will watch the summer one now!
Thank you!
Loved this one! Can’t wait to start adding more staples to my garden here in Canada.
I found your channel a few days ago while looking for information about dahlias, and I enjoyed that video so much, I’ve been watching several more. You have a beautiful winter garden! Thank you for sharing your experience and expertise with us.
Thank you!
I'm watching this on New Year's Day and feeling a bit gloomy about the long wait until spring, but your video has cheered me up no end! Your garden looks beautiful in the winter and I'm definitely going to make a list and incorporate some of your suggestions into my own garden. I love the abundance of June and July in your montage at the end! Happy New Year and I very much look forward to more videos to come! x
Thank you!
You have a beautiful winter garden (you are doing something right!)
Thank you! And I'm glad you're safe from the fires, but do look after yourself. We are so sorry to see how devastating the fires have been and are hoping you will have some rain soon.
Thank you Alexandra. Another fantastic honest video in which I learnt lots. I love to see Lottie too. Happy and a healthy New Year to you and your family. From Natalie in the Midlands xx
Thank you and Happy New Year.
Loved the season changes
Thank you
You've made me appreciate the winter garden just a little more with this video. Your garden is absolutely beautiful.
Thank you!
This video is fabulous!!!!
Thank you, Alexandra, I've enjoyed following your advice and inspiration all the way through 2019. Just what I needed, coming late to gardening last year (in SE England). May your contagious energy and enjoyment continue!
Thank you so much!
Lol i love your dog your garden is a real delight even in the winter thank you for sharing it with us
Thank you! I'm hoping to introduce Lottie by talking about her for a few minutes soon.
What a lovely video. And that tree was absolutely gorgeous. I need more trees in 2020. Happy New Year!
Thank you! We all need more trees!
Ooh yes. I do like that continus. Thanks for the introduction ☺️
Very helpful tips and ideas. Thanks!
THANK you very much for this video. It's incredibly informative. Happy gardening!
Thank you!
I adore your Saluki, I had one once. Loved her so much. I enjoy your programmes. Thanks.
Thank you. They are such lovely dogs.
Alexandra, Happy New Year! You have one of the most beautiful gardens on TH-cam - such an inspiration!
Thank you so much!
Many thanks again for sharing your garden through the seasons. Cyclamen is one of those plants that I would not be without. Interesting foliage from fall to mid spring and then late summer flowers with little effort. And they reseed. I’ve added several to the garden this year and was lucky enough recently to find a local nursery with the winter flowering cyclamen coum. These are great for an area of the garden viewed from the house. Slow to establish but well worth having.
Yes, I love the way they spread. Going everywhere at the moment and they're so pretty.
Lovely to see your garden again, Alexandra. Ivy seems to be great for wildlife too. Yours is full of birds. Great year sequence at the end. Best wishes for the new year.
Thank you. I love the birds and we feed them to keep them going through the winter.
We plant lots of evergreen trees and shrubs in the form of conifers, spruce, pine, and junipers because we have such harsh winters here in Colorado. Love your lavender hedges (I have many lavender plants in my garden, including the x Intermedia varieties) and the fact that you have plants that have "fallen out of favour". If they work in your garden, you should definitely include them. Happy new year!
Thank you! I really want to find out more about conifers etc, and am hoping to interview an expert on them soon. They are such beautiful plants in the right place. Happy New Year.
Your garden is beautiful in every month of the year! Happy New Year and happy gardening!
Thank you! You too!
I love your winter garden! Indeed it’s interesting and just as beautiful if not more compare with other seasons, thank you!
Thank you. Winter can be beautiful - not always but surprisingly often.
The Middle-Sized Garden winter garden is a bonus from Above😊
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Love your videos...and your condensed solid always fabulous advice on all aspects of the garden travail.Thank you
Really enjoy your content and the landscape. Beautiful sky. Have come to appreciate the winter garden so much. Always a consideration when planting. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. The winter garden can be so beautiful - or just dank and muddy. But I was hugely lucky with amazing light.
What a lot of useful information (as always) thank you. I have 3 silver birch trees at the bottom of my garden (actually the neighbour's) and they are wonderful. You're correct about adding a vertical dimension as I find i'm always looking up at them. They were spectacular in autumn when their leaves were golden yellow. I didn't mind raking up the millions of leaves after the first frosts. Best wishes for the year ahead, Alexandra.
Thank you. And I not only dont mind raking up leaves - I think fallen leaves are really rather beautiful (for a few days before they become sludge).
My New Year's resolution for 2020 is MORE TOPIARY! I absolutely love yours and I'm hoping to add a few pieces to my garden this spring. Thank you again for a wonderful informative video.
Great resolution, and thank you!
Wonderful review of these winter plants. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
I just love your garden.
Thank you!
I LOVE your garden and tips and passion I always check in when I need a little garden-spiration 🥰 happy new year I adore your garden visuals in June, July and October really lovely
Thank you!
I've recently added a few dwarf conical conifers in pots and they add so much interest already!
I might try some of those.
Very pretty winter garden.
Thank you!
December is such a great month for looking back on the garden and deciding what worked well and where you need to make changes.
And now that Christmas is out of the way, January should be even better for a bit of cheering garden planning.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Exactly!
Love this unique list that I dont see elsewhere. And seeing it weather through the twelve months is a trest and informative! Great video.
Thank you!
I found this so interesting. I saved this for further reference. Wonderful to see the seasons & all the changes. I realize I really need to take a good look around to see where I could use winter interest. T.Y.
Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for this video, I am creating beds here on the south east coast of the island of Newfoundland, Canada and am trying to keep winter interest plants in mind! I will look to source some of these beautiful plants and check to see if they will overwinter in our grow zone (5b). Sage is a great idea!
Love your videos Alexandra!
Thank you!
Thank you from the Ozark mountains in Arkansas, in the US! I am most appreciative of the work you put into your videos!
That's very kind of you to say - I had to re-shoot this one three times because the audio wasn't right, and it's so encouraging to hear that people notice.
I am interested in growing more things in pots and containers. I wouldn't have thought to put some of the things you use in pots. Thanks for sharing your winter garden.
Thank you, and I'll certainly put that on the list.
I learned so much from your video. I have been afraid to add trees for fear of making the space look cluttered and small. I have three 40 foot pine trees and two Redbuds in my zone 5A Chicago garden. They are around the perimeter. I see now how small ornamental trees could pull the scale together. Your videos are so well organized, thorough and interesting.
Thank you!
Best wishes in the new year! Enjoy all your videos. Have planted a ginkgo tree and dawn redwood this last year and plan to add more trees and shrubs also.
Fabulous tree choices! Thank you and Happy New Year!
Wishing you all the best for 2020 my friend and looking forward to a great New Year :)
Happy new year! Love your videos!! I love my Hamamelis Jelena and Mahonia this time of year. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thank you! Mahonia is fab and sometimes it's the only bit of colour I see in gardens when I walk the dog in January. And I'd love to find a spot for Hammamelis - just seem to be a bit short of good spots!
I love that mugo pine in the container. Oh and your dog is so beautiful.
Your dogs are lovely too. I keep meaning to ask you what breed they are. Am planning to do a short bit on Lottie in the January tour as she does love the garden
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thank you. They are Newfoundlands. Would love a Lottie feature!
Alexandra, this was such a lovely and informative video for designing a garden with year round interest. Your view of it as a winter garden is unique as so many gardeners and novices always want to show and see floral display rather than structure of plants, shrubs and trees. Cheers and Happy New Year
Thank you so much - someone once told me that all gardens are beautiful in the summer, so it's important to focus more on what you plant for winter. It's an interesting thought.
Excellent! Really enjoyed it - thanks so much 🙏
Thank you!
This was a lovely video. I particularly loved the 30 seconds of 12 months in your garden! I watched that a few times and oh in July that lavender 😍😍. I’m from Sth Australia 🇦🇺. I have Portuguese and Spanish lavender- I love how frilly these varieties are. I love your birch tree! I’m a new subscriber and really enjoying your videos.
Thank you! I've just come back from South Australia, as a matter of fact - Welcome to the Middlesized Garden.
Alexandra, just discovered your channel and have really enjoyed your videos. Especially the video calendar at the end which highlighted your garden throughout the year. It has inspired me to do the same here in zone 7b in Arizona. Your garden is beautiful.
Thank you, and it's so nice to hear where people are viewing from.
Great video, thank you! Live in zone 7 in North Carolina. Looking forward to planting a few trees this spring.
Always wonderful to plant trees - thank you.
Love this! It is so interesting how plants go in and out of fashion. I remember dahlias were so 'old school' and now they are gaining their popularity rather fast. Also use of Latin is music to my ears 💚 and your dog is adorable :)
Thank you. I love Latin music because I spent most of my childhood in South America, mainly Peru and the Dominican Republic. It's such a happy sound.
Loved the monthly views, so interesting how the view changes each season. I do need to add some cyclemen in my garden, I really like your white variety. Such pretty color in your winter garden
Thank you, cyclamen are such good value because they just wander round the garden. I found another self-sown clump this morning.
How lovely to see the monthly changes in your garden. Our fall colors are in our trees for zone 8a now. I wish I could send you some privet! It's invasive here and very hard to remove. I should just stop fighting it and make it a hedge :)
It's so interesting as to how different plants are invasive in different places. Privet is fast growing here, but it keeps to its allotted space in the garden.
Happy New Year from a sunny Cape Town. Hugzz
Happy New Year!
Just Beautiful, Thanks for taking the time to make this video, and give us a list, you are very kind.! Makes me wish I was 20 yrs younger, an just starting a new garden. I'll have my daughter watch this, she's just over the past few yrs gotten into gardening. It must be nice looking out there and seeing such gorgeousness. Is the covered patio where that huge, I believe a rose was accidentally cut down.? What a wonderful place to enjoy on a hot summer day.
Thank you. The covered patio is now just a few pavers, but I like seeing the old wall where it was, so I don't think I will replace it with anything.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden the wall is very nice, that's one thing I love about the UK, the walls an hedges in your gardens, they are the icing on the cake, as we say here.
What an amazing video! I loved the first part with so many beautiful photos, obviously taken with love. The trees, the colors, the clouds.... then you went into more specific details. Im in israel and have a tiny garden, so its very different from yours. But the cycalmen really surprised me in your garden! Here they are a protected wildflower. Im hoping i got enough winter pruning of trees and vines done cause i think im close to spring nesting here!
Thank you so much! I didn't realise cyclamen came from so far south (I've just checked and they come from your part of the world, broadly speaking). They seem so hardy here, and I'm sure you're much hotter than we are most of the time. But plants are amazing.
I enjoy your vudeos! The various styles, and your passion for gardening overall. Privet as a topiary? Love it!
Thank you!
Thank you and I shall be watching this again.
My only comment is regarding eucalyptus which in my opinion needs to be kept as a compact shrub for it’s beautiful young leaves.
It makes a dreadful tree! ☺️
Yes, I've seen it get very stalky. But I will keep it very clipped as I love using the leaves for flower arranging (not that I do a huge amount of flower arranging...)
Thank you for a lovely year in your garden. I always look forward to seeing it. Wishing you a very Happy New Year.
Thank you! Happy New Year.
What a beautiful garden, even in winter...
And I absolutely loved that monthly change sequence, I'd like doing that myself!!
We've also been having an unusually nasty winter so far, no frost or any snow (not just yet anyway), but the temperatures have been quite low for a couple of weeks.
Greetings and wishes from chilly Athens, καλή χρονιά!!! 😊
It's so hard to think of Athens as chilly. Thank you for your comments and I hope your winter gets better. Ours is just rain and wind all the time. Even the dog doesn't want to go outside.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden hihi I know I'm probably overreacting about the cold here, but I just can't stand it!! Thankfully we also have lots of sun in spite of the low temperatures (we call them sunny days with teeth). And oh well, it'll be over by March (I hope).
My almost polar cat is always outside, except when it's really windy. He has seen snow twice so far, and his reaction is always super funny!! 😻
Loved seeing your winter garden. I need to add more conifers & evergreens and such for winter interest in my gardens. They are rather blah in the winter. Zone 6 Kansas, United States
Thank you. I'm hoping to do a complete conifer video soon.
Great channel!
Thank you!
Very timely to watch this video in June in Australia because it is winter here now. I did so enjoy your video and the changes over the seasons. Of course eucalypts are common here, in all varieties. I have three Silver Princess eucalypts which have a weeping habit, beautiful large gumnuts after the pretty pink/red flowers, and which attract the honeyeater birds. At times the bark of the tree is white, hence the name of Silver Princess. I was first attracted to these by seeing them outside the medical clinic with other Australian natives plants and roses. The trees had been pruned to keep them growing lower and more spreading. If i knew how to attach a picture to this message i would send one. Thankyou again for your delightful videos.🇭🇲❄
Thank you. I love your Australian eucalypts and the smell is amazing.
Juniper are kind of a "junk" tree around here in s. Michigan so I'll transplant the 2 in our hay field into decorative pots to show case them. Great idea
What is that shrub/tree with the gorgeous red leaves I watched two or three times trying to decide what you are calling it but I haven’t been able to tell. Could you identify it again with its common and if it’s botanical name?
The gorgeous red leaves are the last few leaves of my Cotinus coggyria 'Grace'. It has been suffering from a virus, so I have reduced the size, but the new growth is healthy and it hung on until the first frosts. The leaves are more purple or dark red in summer and then they change to the glowing colours in autumn.
Thank you!
I really like seeing your videos. My garden is on an island outside Stockholm, Sweden, so quite a different setting and probably USDA zone 5 (some parts of it maybe 6, or even 7) but because of that shorter growing season, I have really taken an interest in the evergreens we can grow. They make such a valuable addition in the grey winter months.
One to take a look at is Viburnum rhytidophyllum which is also one of those sort of 70s plants with a bad reputation, but trimmed so it becomes more of a bush than a tree, it looks great.
Another interesting evergreen is Trochodendron aralioides, which is one of those ancient plants around since the dinosaurs.
Speaking of ancient plants, there are also quite a few evergreen ferns which gives a completely different structure to the winter garden.
Interesting, thank you! I like the idea of evergreen ferns - I think I do have one but it's got a bit scrappy so I must investigate further.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden In general the Polystichum family of ferns seems to keep really well, even here with me in zone 5. And they should do great in your, more hospitable, climate. Also they are often beautiful in pots, and to me they blend really well with conifers. That's how our native ferns in Sweden often grow and the two structures match very well.
Also, many do well in dry shade, so maybe under your leylandii next to the hydrangeas?
Love your garden! I think I will try small evergreen shrubs in pots. I'm not sure they will survive in Long Island NY, USA. They look beautiful in your garden.
Thank you! I think some conifers would - I'm planning a video on conifers soon, so I will ask the expert about pots and winter cold.
Hi fron NZ. I do enjoy your site.
Thank you!
A very timely and clear overview as the freezing winter heads our way.
Thanks again, Alex
PS l don’t think much of that gin company - though their Juniper does look handsome in its pot.
Thank you! Juniper trees now growing out of their pots, not sure what to do with them next!
Wonderful & helpful even though our seasons aren’t the same - NZ!
Thank you. I am trying to avoid using months (ie I try to say mid winter as opposed to January), so that at least if someone on your side of the world views them at the appropriate time, then it may be more helpful. But obviously it's quite wrong season when the videos come out.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Different seasons but it is still very interesting to see what grows in your side of the world. The other good point is that if a plant grows in your winter then there is hope for the plant to grow here in NZ in our winter! Oh plus your conifers look amazing in pots...I am pondering moving my very small conifers into pots after seeing yours. Carren.
Could you please do a video on planning a middle sized garden for all seasons... I don’t know how to choose plants and trees so that every season is sensational and unique
I will definitely try - it might have to be several videos, though! Great idea, thank you.
And another thing about ivy. It is invasive and it's extraordinarily difficult to get rid of once it's established.
I really like your tightly clipped lavender. Must check out the linked video. The clips of your garden over 12 months were also great. Stipa tenuissima is one of my favourite grasses by the way. Happy new year.
Thank you! I'm eyeing my Stipa rather nervously as I fear I should be doing something to look after it, and haven't quite found out what. When I asked a professional gardening friend, he said he grew it from seed every year which sounded like too much work to me.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I never cut Stipa tenuissima, unless a piece dies off. It never regrows. It is easy from seed but my plants nearly always come through the winter unscathed so there is no need to replace them. Hope this helps.
I agree fully with your comments about trees in the winter-time. One can see & admire their wonderful architecture, particularly of some of the larger trees. However, when it comes to Leylandii........... no thank-you!
I don't think it has many admirers.
No gin! Darn. Lots of juniper available here in New Jersey
Beautiful in winter as well. I hope the box blight does not arrive there or here. I am south of Paris and have many box plants. I have not seen box at the neighbors' gardens so perhaps I'm isolated enough. I still want you to plant your spiral box somewhere else, but I shall lose that battle. I admire your other topiary plants. Now I regret cutting back my holy bushes rather than sculpting them. The nicest thing in my garden is the flowering jasmine hanging over a fountain. The birch are nice. Happy 2020 to you and yours.
Thank you and Happy New Year. And you may not ultimately lose the argument over the spiral topiary - but it takes me a very long time to make changes. I am certainly bearing your comments in mind. I'm keeping my fingers crossed with box blight - apparently the key is not to buy new box but to propagate the ones you've got if you want more, and also to make sure nobody prunes your box with anything that has been used on other box plants.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thanks for the good news. I'll do as you say. Cheers, The American outside of Paris.
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If you could get a wider lense to capture the majority of the garden, or perhaps at a higher angle. And it would also be lovely to see the monthly differences for the beds. For example... some are not familiar with how cotinus look during the other summer/at flowering and so the contrast with that and the red leaves would be nice. Learn quite a bit, too bad too many varieties are not hardy in my colder region. Looking forward to seeing more of your garden videos.
Thank you - that's a really good suggestion. Every now and then I fantasise about having a drone, but a wider angle lens would be cheaper. And I think showing specific beds or plants over several seasons is an excellent idea.
Such an enjoyable video! After decades of resisting the fast-growing charm of Leylandii, I bought five a little more than a year ago to make a short length of hedge to cover a bare patch in a wire fence. They are gorgeous with their fresh green and cheerful springiness. I am considering transplanting one to the back of the garden to let it grow taller. Is it possible to keep it at a reasonable height using an extension loppers? As I don't want to resort to using a ladder or a garden service.
Thank you. If you cut it regularly to the height you want,then you should be able to go on using loppers. The main thing is not to let it grow too much. If it gets too big, you have to cut it back in a major way, and Leylandii doesn't regrow from old wood so you can get dead patches or an ugly shape. We just cut back the new growth every year (before it gets too thick or woody) and that seems to be successful.
Helebores are blooming in January zone 8 near Seattle, Wash USA
They are so beautiful!
Dear Alexandra
Thank for this lovely video. I couldn't agree more about cyclamen. Have you ever grown Cyclamen hederifolium 'Red Sky'? It is an absolute gem in the autumn garden - sorry, slightly off topic as not a winter plant! :)
I will certainly look that one up, as I am really appreciating cyclamen at the moment, thank you!
Wonderful video, Alexandra. Your garden has a fabulous winter presence, and the frost really sets everything off. Lots of great tips in the video. By the way, I bought two tiny Viburnum Bodnantense Dawn in autumn and planted them out in the front garden in out of the way places, where they immediately flowered with that absolutely stunning pink flower. However in early summer I noticed that the leaves were turning red so I moved one of the two plants into the woodland area (it transplanted with ease) where its leaves are now dark green. The other one that remains in the sunny border still has the red autumn coloured foliage. Some of its leaves look a little torn from heat stress. I am not really sure whether this plant is a shade plant or a sun-loving plant - or is it an all-rounder? So far they are each about twelve inches high. How can I make them grow faster or are they just going to grow slowly no matter what I do? I was unable to buy more advanced plants. This variety is extremely hard to get here and I was lucky to find the young ones that I have.
Thank you! Funnily enough, I've just been looking up photos of my Viburnum bodnantense Dawn for another video, and looking at the leaf colour. Mine is in an exposed East-facing position and probably gets full sun for around 5 hours a day, after which it's shaded by the way the sun goes over the house. Its leaf colour does change over the year - I saw quite a bit of variation as I went through the photos. According to the RHS, it's happy in any aspect, can cope with sun and part shade and isn't too fussy about the soil. But it doesn't seem to grow very fast, and I don't think there's much we can do to change that. It propagates well, and if it's quite hard to find round you, it might be worth propagating it in a year or two. Happy New Year and I hope you're not too close to the fires. The footage we're seeing looks terrible.