Hello from the Lake District UK, I'm so glad I found your channel. I already have many of the plants that you grow but after watching a previous video I have bought two Verbena Bampton. I'd never come actoss this plant before, so thank you for showcasing it. Fingers crossed it survives the cold wet winters here. 💚
THANK YOU so much for checking in on us :) We're fine here.. just watching the garden go to sleep. Not much going on until we start winter sowing in January :) Hope you're doing well, too!
I didn't know those fluffballs from the anemones were seeds! I am totally collecting the white version to grow in my garden this year - hurrah! ^^ Also LOVE the monk's cap plant, want to get that too!
Yay!! I've missed you both 😊 Wow, the Aconitum is beautiful and it is so nice to see the Bee's loving life. Hope you all are doing well, in my area they are calling for wet snow tomorrow night!! It's a month early....but then next week it's an Indian Summer of 20...maybe, just maybe i will get things done before the real snow begins ❤🇨🇦
I agree with your garden practice of leaving the plants to age gracefully. i didn't always do it this way but but now enjoy the leaf colors and seed pod structures until they are covered with a blanket of snow. As always, your garden looks lovely.
We didn't always do this way either... but we've learned to just be patient and enjoy as much of 'gardening' as we can. From seed starting to collecting and all the colors the plants offer in between. There's beauty out there... even if that beauty is a hard stem with a seed pod.
@@perennial-garden I think this kind of thing and what you are willing to tolerate is a matter of personality...some people are very neurotic and wouldn't be able to 'let it be'.
@@mapndo2337 Very true! AND some people are way too busy in the spring... so autumn makes sense for them. In the end, you have to make gardening work for you. Otherwise, it'll lose the joy.
@@perennial-garden yes...I think if you take care of as much as you can in Autumn, then winter and Spring become that much easier and you dont have to dread being locked up in the cold season knowing that a NIGHTMARE awaits in the Spring.
My garden has some beautiful asters now. The leaves on the contorted hazel are dropping off only to leave those elegant catkins. I love shrubs with berries i.e cotoneaster, callicarpa and the pyracantha. Always have loved plants. We can grow heathers here too for winter interest. Just bought three Albert's gold ericas💞💯
Heathers are super pretty! The cemetery garden has so many in gorgeous shades of purple... really nice! We only have a few. We do have hellebores that will get their chance to shine come winter tho :)
I agree 100%. Leave it and enjoy it. Its mid October and I still see so much beauty here in Maine USA where we get plenty of snow. You guys are the best and I love you're videos. Can't wait for the next one.
AHHHH Thanks so much! Hope you're having a great start to winter down there :) We've already had snow... which means there's really not much to do in the garden these days. A Christmas greeting would be smart for us to do tho! I'll see what we can get done. Happy weekend to you!
Alen and Lars such a great job REALLY ❤😂❤. Your thinking far ahead of time and space. Your seamless design. Your hard work. Even the deadheading ... you guyyyzz are a source of pride and devotion to that beautiful love of flowers we all share ❤. I'm speechless blue for those Aconitum monkshoods. Fan tass tiq!! 10 kilograms of grapes 🍇 🍇 ❤😊 that's only the beginning.. I wonder what you're contemplating for next year. But i know what I'm planning... I must tell you... Much love and happy gardening Mishmish
Thanks for that! We are very happy with the garden this year. We did move a few things around -- some things just didn't work so well where we put them this season. But otherwise, we'll let the garden rest and see what happens next spring :) Hope you get a great gardening weekend ahead!
The autumn & winter garden is just as appealing as the spring & summer garden, it’s just differently appealing. Texture, structure, form; nature’s designs are simply, quietly beautiful.
You have me hooked on seed saving!! It's like a whole new hobby. Also leaving my perennials up for the winter per your advice. Because of lack of rain, our tall pines are dropping their needles in mass and my gardens are covered with them for the winter. It's a dreaded chore in the spring to clean them all up. This fall video is my favorite. So much info!
Sad to see the beauty of the garden fading away. But everything has to have a time of rest. We are experiencing some of the coldest temps for October in years. Daytime temp in the 60's and for the next 3 days nightly Temps in the 30's. Thursday morning is supposed to be 33. Yes it does get cold in northwest Georgia in October. I'm in my early 70's and I can remember when we usually had a frost by the 15 of October ever year and the it changed to around the middle of November. Thank you and Lars for all the awesome videos.
That is really cold already! It is crazy to notice how the climate has slowly changed over the years. Even here in Denmark... it used to snow heavily every year (Lars grandparents even remember parts of the bays freezing every year)... but since I've been here (since 2009), we're lucky to get a week or 2 of snow - and very light at that. I went to university up in Rome, GA... so I know how chilly it can get up there. A really gorgeous part of the state tho!
@@perennial-garden I can remember as a kid getting a snow about every other year. Now it's probably been 10 years sine we had a snow , other tan a dusting. We sometimes get in the singer digets for a day or tow.
Nice seed saving opportunities and beautiful fall October garden! I'm waiting to collect more seeds and sow some randomly around and then save the reset for saving. Love your shows Alen and Lars. I like also the chopping down of plants but leaving the roots. I do this also.
Your monkshood looks amazing! Here in Wisconsin, USA we are due for our first killing freeze this week. I leave everything standing in the fall and clean up in the spring. This also helps to trap snow on top of plants, and I find this helps more tender perennials survive the winter with the extra insulation.
You have a short summer too I guess! We know how you feel. (Altho here on the coast, we have until November for our first heavy frost (even tho it's 2C today! Jeepers)
In my french 9A garden I still have lots of zinnias, dahlias, my yellow version of your mesa peach is still in blooms (but bought it late this year), roses having their last flush I guess. This afternoon I did some hard work and my body isn't thanking me 😅: Dug out a few shrubs and moved most of them to their new place, I still have lots to do, I need to place my path differently because new plants need more room, I'm thinking about putting dwarf fruit trees from pots to the ground to better control moisture in summer, not sure because that's also a lot of work, bulbs are coming....I hope in one year I'll still have a few nice things to do but not so much 😅 I wonder, your messy tree, could you tell us what it is ? Did you make a video where you talk about it ? Your salvia viridis I really like, it's the 2nd time I notice it in your garden, I wonder if I have a place for that, but I love colourful bracts that stay on for long, I've just added a heptacodium tianshan that does exactly that 🤩
You ARE busy! My goodness.. but it all sounds wonderful. So glad you're having good weather and be out in it :) As for that tree... you know... we aren't sure what type it is! I think someone from Lars's work told him one time (they have tree experts there), so I'll have to see if he knows. It's pretty... and the bees LOVE it when it blooms -- those tiny berries don't do anything but make a mess tho... not terrible... just messy :) That salvia viridis is so lovely! We grew it from seed last year and then it self-seeded and grow this year. We never see it in garden centers (grown) here... but you can find the seeds online. It's one of our favorites because it gives bright color still at this time of year for us :)
@@nadia_rem8511 dungeon of death indeed and since I'm a Goth let me just say I've gone there before with this plant? The horror and dangerous side to it is seriously appealing....heart attack anyone? Awe c'mon it's just like a kitty and wants you to pet it..😎😰
Same here. We usually use this website www.landbrugsinfo.dk/public/a/9/2/plante_jordtemperatur_malinger to find what's going on with the ground here :) I'm sure there are other ones out there, too.
Hello from New Hampshire, USA, zone 5b! Your gardens look beautiful this time of year! I like to cut back many of my perennials in Fall as it's a big chore for me in the Spring when I have a lot of other chores to tackle, but I do appreciate why you leave your perennials up all winter. Also, we get a lot of snow here which just covers all the perennials anyway so you can't see/enjoy them. I am also busy collecting flower seeds this time of year. So much fun. Happy gardening, friends! 😊🌸
That's a really really good point! And something that we talk about a lot ... gardening has to fit your schedule, too. So if you have the time now... then now is the perfect time to cut back :) For us... we're sooooo eager to get started in the garden at the end of winter, so this way gives us something to really look forward to also. Have fun collecting seeds! Now is the perfect time here, too 💚 And thanks so much for commenting :)
Good to know about that with the roots being left in the soil with the annuals. Will have to do that in the future. Thanks for the tip on the Wisteria. I would love to see you trim it in the spring. Please and thank you. When do you cut back your roses? Wow my Pulmonaria has long been gone. 😊. I guess it’s just different zones as well as my Hostas. Beautiful as usual. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for commenting! Love hearing from you :) We'll be sure to show the wisteria in the spring... it's so pretty. As for roses, we don't have any. Not even one. They are so beautiful tho.. but we've just never grown any. Maybe we should try ;)
Your garden is looking lovely. Here in Scotland we had a very early first frost third week of September but it didn’t damage anything but last night we had a frost which has started the dahlia wilting process. Seems so sad that summer is over. Still busy though collecting seeds sowing hardy annuals etc.
You've still got some lovely colour in your beautiful garden. Do you ever get birds nesting in your little houses by the Wisteria? I've not noticed those before. I was given a feeding station as a Christmas present last year and I started taking an interest in birds as I could only recognise robins before! Now that so many birds visit my garden I've noticed a reduction in aphids especially on my roses. Thanks for the tour. I really enjoyed it.
We have a little pair nesting in them in this spring. Those boxes get too much sun (that's what I think) so the birds aren't super fans of them. But we're not bird experts... so maybe it's the size of the hole or something. Maybe that pair will come back. We need to get some birds in here to help cut back on aphids! We've added boxes to the pergola in the back.. so maybe that will bring some in, too :)
I´m working in my garden along with you - there is so much to do. Especially taking inventory: What did well, what was a total flop. And hey your Hostas still have leaves???!!! Mine are gone a long time ago - I don´t even know where exactly they are (there are not even stems left) - slugs .. No more words needed. 🙄 I lifted some of them (had to divide them anyway) and I´m not sure if they will go back. Have a wonderfull fall! 🍁🍂🍁
SLUGS! Did you have a terrible time with them, too? Seems like this year was way worse than previous years. Not sure why... but hopefully it's a fad and next year will be back to a 'normal' amount.
Yes and no :) (That's a terrible answer! haha) Our compost bin is quite full... so we'll spread some out in a few of the beds... but nothing official or uniform. In the spring (or late winter when we cut everything back), we'll spread out more.
So beautiful! Impressed by the Salvia Viridis? Can you wintersow these? (I have watched your very informative video about wintersowing in your glasshouse, but don't remember if this one..)
Aren't they great! You can either sow them indoors before the last frost and then transplant them out... or wait until the spring. They're late bloomers anyway... so doing them in spring is plenty of time :) Here we wrote a bit more about it, if you're interested: www.perennial-garden.com/post/salvia-viridis-grow-and-care-guide
Hi So pleased to hear from you. I have mostly left perennials to over winter as is. Elderberry jam is also very nutritious. Do you have a shrub? Will you be showing how you dig up and store the dahlia tubers?❤❤
Hope you're doing well! How's the autumn coming along over there? And Elderberry jam sounds wonderful! We made juice from it... but never have tried jam. Might have to add that our list! We're pretty stocked up each year with grape jelly tho. haha -- even after we hand it out to everyone we know :) And yes! We'll be sure to show how we dig them up and store them. We do wait for the frost to hit tho... usually in November.
@@perennial-garden autumn here is ,well, as you would expect it to be. No freakish weather yet,like snow or hail. Very wet,and overcast. I had half an hour out there today and whoosh,down came the rain again. Thanks for asking 💞💞
i live in Malmo and I found your videos very useful since the climate is very similar. I also love your demonstration of winter sow sine most american-dominated videos use the gallon milk-jar, which we don't have in the Nordic. After watching your series, I started to collect seeds from everywhere, especially in the parks. There is a lovely place in Malmo called "Katrinetorp Lander" where they have lovely vegetable and flower patches, and a lovely cafe. I just came back with so many types of seeds. Maybe you will also enjoy this place if you happen to be in Malmo some day. Just subscribed your channel since I will be following your steps and hope next spring I will have good seedling. One question - I have been failing again and again with Delphinium germination. Any advice?
We've visited Malmo a few times but never to the place you mentioned. It's on our list for next time tho :) Tusind tak! As for delphiniums... One of the key tricks is to give them a cold stratification period. This mimics the winter conditions they need to break dormancy. You can do this by placing the seeds in the refrigerator for about 2-3 weeks before planting. A good method is to wrap them in a damp paper towel, place that in a plastic bag, and pop it into the fridge. If you'd rather skip that step, you can also plant the seeds directly in a moist seed-starting mix and refrigerate the whole setup. You can also winter sow... that's what we do (so we can keep our fridge free! haha) th-cam.com/video/HR7yFd33C2c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=aLqPdPMOVqcAuebq When it’s time to plant, make sure the soil stays cool. Delphiniums germinate best in temperatures around 15°C to 18°C. If it’s too warm, they might not sprout, so avoid using heat mats and keep the tray in a cooler spot if you're starting them indoors. Another important point is that delphinium seeds like darkness to germinate, so after sowing, cover them lightly with soil or vermiculite to block the light. Keep the soil moist but not waterlogged-too much water can cause the seeds to rot, while letting it dry out can stop germination altogether. You can cover the seed tray with plastic to maintain moisture, but make sure there's a little airflow to prevent mold from forming. Delphiniums can take a while to sprout-sometimes 2 to 6 weeks-so be patient. Once you see those little seedlings popping up, move them to a brighter location and make sure they stay cool to encourage healthy growth.
1. You can do what you want, but: 2. Ivy is an excellent nectar source for late autumn. You shouldn't prune it untill about february! Just in case you didn't know. - But: I like your garden. It is beautiful and an inspiration.
Thanks for sharing! We did know that about the ivy, but we make the choice to take it down now when we can rent a trailer to haul it and the grape vine to the compost (that the kommune provides).
Stunning as always! I did want to ask, when you chop things back (maybe a bit less this year as you said!) and start to plant bulbs, how close do you generally plant them to your perennials? I know you're close planters anyways, but I've always wondered if bulbs being too close could negatively impact the growth of the perennials come spring? Or is it fine? I'd love to hear as I don't want too many gaps when things are coming through, when I could have bulbs!
We plant bulbs wherever we want actually 😅 ...so that's pretty close to everything else. The bulbs won't hurt the perennials... but their foliage (especially with tulips) will cover the perennials as they start to grow. (Tulips are always earlier than the perennials here.) To help with this, we cut the tulips down way earlier than we should. As soon as the flower petals start to fall, we cut the whole tulip down. We sometimes leave the stem.. but usually we cut it all down. If we don't, and if we let the foliage yellow like we ''should'', then the perennials under them won't get enough light and they'll be really slow to grow. This is how we do it. If you read any gardening blog, they say to make sure to let the foliage yellow, etc -- giving the bulb all the energy it needs. But... we do it our own way ;) So... to sum it all up 😂 We plant bulbs very close to our perennials.
Good morning from Michigan 6A!! I had no idea you can leave the roots in the ground for all the good reasons 😮. Will do next year, I've learned alot from yall in this 1st year of gardening, and I'm so thankful.❤ I have alot of tiger grass and another unknown variety, whens the best time of season to split them? Thank you both❤
So glad you can use our annual root tip for your garden. Only the annuals tho... perennials will just come back from those roots. And for grasses... Lars divides the ones at the cemetery garden (where he works) in early spring... just before new growth emerges :)
Hi! Thanks for all the nice videos! Question about Phlomis tuberosa, if i sow from seed Will it flower the first year? Or should i buy plants now and overwinter in greenhouse?
Thanks for watching! As for Phlomis... Typically, it won’t flower until its second or even third year because it likes to establish a good root system first. So, if you start it from seed now, you’ll probably be looking at foliage for a couple of years before you see any blooms. If you want flowers next season, your best bet is to buy young plants now and overwinter them in a greenhouse if possible. This will give them a head start, and they’ll be ready to flower much sooner once spring arrives. The greenhouse protection helps them grow a bit faster and come out stronger when it’s time to plant them out. ...and phlomis do not like really wet soil (which we get a lot of in the winter!)... so overwintering the smaller plants in the greenhouse is a great idea. Once the roots are established in the larger plants, it's a little less tricky with the wetness we get here in the winter.
It's Ageratum houstonianum -- not exactly sure what the common English name is. Wikipedia says ''flossflower, bluemink, goatweed, blueweed, pussy foot or Mexican paintbrush''. In Danish it's called 'blue broom' :)
Your garden is still lovely. I also do not decorate with pumpkins. I just enjoy the garden as is. I also am a seed collector. It gives me something to do in January. I start alot of things and then plant them out and loose the tags so I have to wait and see what I have. Thanks for the video.
@@sannaericditsler4034 Losing the tags! We know how that feels... fortunately Lars is good at recognizing everything. For me, I end up weeding things away without him 😅
Hi guys, a question for you regarding perennials. I recently bought 2 geraniums and a Tricytis horta and as I'm keeping them in pots, I divided them. It is advised to do this in Spring but is it okay in October? It shouldn't cause any harm here, in the UK? What do you think? Also, I found an old packet of Roman Camomile seeds which expire in 1/25 so I sowed them & they have sprouted, question is will they survive the winter? Should I keep them in the greenhouse? Thanks.
We divide most perennials now as spring is so busy with other tasks - so we support you 💚 .. divide away :) And the Roman Chamomile should be fine - it’s perennial but maybe not down to super hard winter temps (not sure what you have there) - you can always put them in the greenhouse to be safe… otherwise, they are quite tough and can handle the winter outdoors.
Quick question...I see how you have pruned the wisteria on the wall but the one that is a climber, do you go up and cut the top bits or are you just pruning what you can reach? All videos I have found show the 5 bud method, but no one really explains what to do up above. I don't want to prune too much or the opposite...not prune enough. I would be grateful for any guidance ❤
We prune what we can reach … and we leave some that we are training for length, etc. There are a few on the sides that we’ve left for several years … because we’d love it to cover more of the wall. For us, it’s worked fine. Plus this one he’s a lot of sun (which it loves). The one in the back … bless it … it’s so shady and doesn’t give us as many flowers. Argh. But, it’s green and pretty 💚
10C is around 50F. So you plant tulips when the daytime temps is 10C or 50F. Right? I've never seen Salvia viridis for sale in garden centers where I live in south central Pennsylvania. I like the pretty color of the leaves at the top. We don't have all the plants that are grown in Denmark and Europe to buy in the U.S.. Thanks for saying the Liatris needs cold temperatures to germinate. I just collected some seeds from Liatris and will put them out on the back porch for the winter. I love the dark blue Aconitum napellus 'Monks Hood' planted with the cream colored Anemone. My Monks Hood plant died over the summer. Not sure why, maybe I gave it too much water during the very hot summer days. I might try that plant again. Digitalis is poisonous too, which you know. The entire plant is poisonous, according to experts. But the leaves, in particular, contain more concentrated toxins, but is useful in creating medicine for the heart. Bees fall asleep on some of my flowers in cold weather which makes me smile. Thanks for the tour of your beautiful October garden.
We plant tulips when the ground temperature is around 10C (50F). We check on a website that updates those types of things - similar to county extension offices in the USA. That salvia viridis is really pretty - we had to grow it from seed… otherwise we don’t find it in stores here either. And we did know that about the Digitalis… crazy how some of the prettiest plants are so dangerous. Creation is amazing that way 💚🤓
Loved the message at the end 💜 So that we can take a lesson from nature and slow down, breathe and rest too
That's true, right? Otherwise we miss what is happening. 🥰
I love the salvias and delphiniums. The blues and purples are stunning ❤❤❤seed saving is gold to the garden and reduce future cost
So true! Seed saving is the way to go :)
Your autumn is so much better for the wildlife than all that autumn decorating
That's true... plus, we like it :)
We like it too! Please keep doing what you do 💜@@perennial-garden
@@ImaaniMoz Thanks so much! 🧡
Hello from the Lake District UK, I'm so glad I found your channel. I already have many of the plants that you grow but after watching a previous video I have bought two Verbena Bampton. I'd never come actoss this plant before, so thank you for showcasing it. Fingers crossed it survives the cold wet winters here. 💚
How great! I hope you enjoy them as much as we do. And it should be hardy down to -20C ... so it should survive the winter. Hope so :)
Hope all is well with you both and your families ❤
It's unusual not to see new videos, so I'm sending hugs and hopes that all is well.
THANK YOU so much for checking in on us :) We're fine here.. just watching the garden go to sleep. Not much going on until we start winter sowing in January :) Hope you're doing well, too!
As always, beautiful tour. I loved the lungwort's foliage. So pretty! I will have to add that to my list for next year's garden. Thank you!
Glad you found something for inspiration 💚. Thanks for watching!
I didn't know those fluffballs from the anemones were seeds! I am totally collecting the white version to grow in my garden this year - hurrah! ^^ Also LOVE the monk's cap plant, want to get that too!
It’s super poisonous - so don’t eat it 😂 And handle it with care … but it’s really pretty at this time of the year when everything else is yellow. 💜💜
Yay!! I've missed you both 😊
Wow, the Aconitum is beautiful and it is so nice to see the Bee's loving life.
Hope you all are doing well, in my area they are calling for wet snow tomorrow night!! It's a month early....but then next week it's an Indian Summer of 20...maybe, just maybe i will get things done before the real snow begins
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Oh my goodness! What an up and down forecast you’ve got there. We’ll send good vibes to get the to-do list done in time 🤓💚
I agree with your garden practice of leaving the plants to age gracefully. i didn't always do it this way but but now enjoy the leaf colors and seed pod structures until they are covered with a blanket of snow. As always, your garden looks lovely.
We didn't always do this way either... but we've learned to just be patient and enjoy as much of 'gardening' as we can. From seed starting to collecting and all the colors the plants offer in between. There's beauty out there... even if that beauty is a hard stem with a seed pod.
@@perennial-garden I think this kind of thing and what you are willing to tolerate is a matter of personality...some people are very neurotic and wouldn't be able to 'let it be'.
@@e.manshreck9850 love this comment....gardeners def mature.
@@mapndo2337 Very true! AND some people are way too busy in the spring... so autumn makes sense for them. In the end, you have to make gardening work for you. Otherwise, it'll lose the joy.
@@perennial-garden yes...I think if you take care of as much as you can in Autumn, then winter and Spring become that much easier and you dont have to dread being locked up in the cold season knowing that a NIGHTMARE awaits in the Spring.
My garden has some beautiful asters now. The leaves on the contorted hazel are dropping off only to leave those elegant catkins. I love shrubs with berries i.e cotoneaster, callicarpa and the pyracantha. Always have loved plants. We can grow heathers here too for winter interest. Just bought three Albert's gold ericas💞💯
Heathers are super pretty! The cemetery garden has so many in gorgeous shades of purple... really nice! We only have a few. We do have hellebores that will get their chance to shine come winter tho :)
I agree 100%. Leave it and enjoy it. Its mid October and I still see so much beauty here in Maine USA where we get plenty of snow. You guys are the best and I love you're videos. Can't wait for the next one.
Well said! There's so much to look it... if you can find beauty in all stages of the process :)
Great tour guys, you have so much patience with pruning your wisterias! It's a lovely time of year with so much changing colour. 😁💛
We'll do what we can to make sure it blooms! They smell sooooo good and last for only a week or so.
I always learn so many little helpful tips from you two- thank you!!
That's wonderful to hear! Thank you for taking the time to comment and watch with us :)
Hi there. I miss you. It would be nice if you could do a Christmas Special. Greetings from Germany. Heinz
AHHHH Thanks so much! Hope you're having a great start to winter down there :) We've already had snow... which means there's really not much to do in the garden these days. A Christmas greeting would be smart for us to do tho! I'll see what we can get done. Happy weekend to you!
Alen and Lars such a great job REALLY ❤😂❤.
Your thinking far ahead of time and space.
Your seamless design. Your hard work. Even the deadheading ... you guyyyzz are a source of pride and devotion to that beautiful love of flowers we all share ❤.
I'm speechless blue for those Aconitum monkshoods. Fan tass tiq!!
10 kilograms of grapes 🍇 🍇 ❤😊 that's only the beginning..
I wonder what you're contemplating for next year.
But i know what I'm planning...
I must tell you...
Much love and happy gardening
Mishmish
Thanks for that! We are very happy with the garden this year. We did move a few things around -- some things just didn't work so well where we put them this season. But otherwise, we'll let the garden rest and see what happens next spring :)
Hope you get a great gardening weekend ahead!
The autumn & winter garden is just as appealing as the spring & summer garden, it’s just differently appealing. Texture, structure, form; nature’s designs are simply, quietly beautiful.
Well said! ''Simply, Quietly Beautiful'' -- what a great way to describe it!
@@perennial-garden ☺️
You have me hooked on seed saving!! It's like a whole new hobby. Also leaving my perennials up for the winter per your advice. Because of lack of rain, our tall pines are dropping their needles in mass and my gardens are covered with them for the winter. It's a dreaded chore in the spring to clean them all up. This fall video is my favorite. So much info!
Wonderful! Welcome to seed collecting :) Once you get started... it's hard to quit. haha
Sad to see the beauty of the garden fading away. But everything has to have a time of rest. We are experiencing some of the coldest temps for October in years. Daytime temp in the 60's and for the next 3 days nightly Temps in the 30's. Thursday morning is supposed to be 33. Yes it does get cold in northwest Georgia in October. I'm in my early 70's and I can remember when we usually had a frost by the 15 of October ever year and the it changed to around the middle of November. Thank you and Lars for all the awesome videos.
That is really cold already! It is crazy to notice how the climate has slowly changed over the years. Even here in Denmark... it used to snow heavily every year (Lars grandparents even remember parts of the bays freezing every year)... but since I've been here (since 2009), we're lucky to get a week or 2 of snow - and very light at that.
I went to university up in Rome, GA... so I know how chilly it can get up there. A really gorgeous part of the state tho!
@@perennial-garden I can remember as a kid getting a snow about every other year. Now it's probably been 10 years sine we had a snow , other tan a dusting. We sometimes get in the singer digets for a day or tow.
@@JamesWhite-yf2cw Times are changing 😅
The particular blue of those delphiniums with the particular red of those dahlias!??! GORGEOUS
That delphinium was supposed to be finished... but it insisted on coming back :) And we're glad it did!
I love this wonderful Aconitum. It's great!! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for commenting 💚
Nice seed saving opportunities and beautiful fall October garden! I'm waiting to collect more seeds and sow some randomly around and then save the reset for saving. Love your shows Alen and Lars. I like also the chopping down of plants but leaving the roots. I do this also.
Isn’t seed saving and seed starting the best? A great way to save some money! 💚
Of course, not only that it is very satisfying! Something inner that feels right!
Your monkshood looks amazing! Here in Wisconsin, USA we are due for our first killing freeze this week. I leave everything standing in the fall and clean up in the spring. This also helps to trap snow on top of plants, and I find this helps more tender perennials survive the winter with the extra insulation.
You have a short summer too I guess! We know how you feel. (Altho here on the coast, we have until November for our first heavy frost (even tho it's 2C today! Jeepers)
In my french 9A garden I still have lots of zinnias, dahlias, my yellow version of your mesa peach is still in blooms (but bought it late this year), roses having their last flush I guess.
This afternoon I did some hard work and my body isn't thanking me 😅: Dug out a few shrubs and moved most of them to their new place, I still have lots to do, I need to place my path differently because new plants need more room, I'm thinking about putting dwarf fruit trees from pots to the ground to better control moisture in summer, not sure because that's also a lot of work, bulbs are coming....I hope in one year I'll still have a few nice things to do but not so much 😅
I wonder, your messy tree, could you tell us what it is ? Did you make a video where you talk about it ?
Your salvia viridis I really like, it's the 2nd time I notice it in your garden, I wonder if I have a place for that, but I love colourful bracts that stay on for long, I've just added a heptacodium tianshan that does exactly that 🤩
You ARE busy! My goodness.. but it all sounds wonderful. So glad you're having good weather and be out in it :)
As for that tree... you know... we aren't sure what type it is! I think someone from Lars's work told him one time (they have tree experts there), so I'll have to see if he knows. It's pretty... and the bees LOVE it when it blooms -- those tiny berries don't do anything but make a mess tho... not terrible... just messy :)
That salvia viridis is so lovely! We grew it from seed last year and then it self-seeded and grow this year. We never see it in garden centers (grown) here... but you can find the seeds online. It's one of our favorites because it gives bright color still at this time of year for us :)
I asked Lars :) and he says his colleague thinks it's a Crataegus crus-gallii tree.
Still looking beautiful! Our weather is getting wet now but we have those amazing fall colours to look forward to.
Same here... got to enjoy them before the rains wash all the leaves away :)
Le jardin prend ses couleurs d'automne, tout est encore très beau ❤
The yellows, browns and golds are so great!
The garden looks so beautiful in Autumn guys xx😍
We love the colors now :) Happy autumn to you!
Monkshood! It really does have that robed acolyte in a dungeon vibe plus the toxicity and halloweenish bloom time. Love it.
@@nadia_rem8511 touch it....go on with your bare hands and wait for the colours.....😨😰☠🖤
That’s a great description 🎃
Dungeon vibes for sure.
@@nadia_rem8511 dungeon of death indeed and since I'm a Goth let me just say I've gone there before with this plant? The horror and dangerous side to it is seriously appealing....heart attack anyone? Awe c'mon it's just like a kitty and wants you to pet it..😎😰
Have been worried about my bulbs because the ground is so wet here in Gentofte. Waiting til November makes perfect sense. Thanks.
Same here. We usually use this website www.landbrugsinfo.dk/public/a/9/2/plante_jordtemperatur_malinger to find what's going on with the ground here :) I'm sure there are other ones out there, too.
Hello from New Hampshire, USA, zone 5b! Your gardens look beautiful this time of year! I like to cut back many of my perennials in Fall as it's a big chore for me in the Spring when I have a lot of other chores to tackle, but I do appreciate why you leave your perennials up all winter. Also, we get a lot of snow here which just covers all the perennials anyway so you can't see/enjoy them. I am also busy collecting flower seeds this time of year. So much fun. Happy gardening, friends! 😊🌸
That's a really really good point! And something that we talk about a lot ... gardening has to fit your schedule, too. So if you have the time now... then now is the perfect time to cut back :) For us... we're sooooo eager to get started in the garden at the end of winter, so this way gives us something to really look forward to also.
Have fun collecting seeds! Now is the perfect time here, too 💚 And thanks so much for commenting :)
A lovely October garden 🧡!
@@PrettyLittleGarden2930 Thanks so much! 🧡
Always love to see your beautiful garden. Thank you
Hope autumn brings you good weather too 🧡
Good to know about that with the roots being left in the soil with the annuals. Will have to do that in the future.
Thanks for the tip on the Wisteria. I would love to see you trim it in the spring. Please and thank you.
When do you cut back your roses? Wow my Pulmonaria has long been gone. 😊. I guess it’s just different zones as well as my Hostas.
Beautiful as usual.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for commenting! Love hearing from you :)
We'll be sure to show the wisteria in the spring... it's so pretty. As for roses, we don't have any. Not even one. They are so beautiful tho.. but we've just never grown any. Maybe we should try ;)
@@perennial-garden I wasn't sure about the roses. Looking forward to seeing the Wisteria being prunted.Thanks.
Love you guys! Thank you for the posts! :)
Thanks for watching! And for commenting :)
Your garden is looking lovely. Here in Scotland we had a very early first frost third week of September but it didn’t damage anything but last night we had a frost which has started the dahlia wilting process. Seems so sad that summer is over. Still busy though collecting seeds sowing hardy annuals etc.
Glad there's still a bunch left to do in the garden... even with the dahlias wilting. Ours will be that way soon... it's getting colder every day.
You've still got some lovely colour in your beautiful garden. Do you ever get birds nesting in your little houses by the Wisteria? I've not noticed those before. I was given a feeding station as a Christmas present last year and I started taking an interest in birds as I could only recognise robins before! Now that so many birds visit my garden I've noticed a reduction in aphids especially on my roses. Thanks for the tour. I really enjoyed it.
We have a little pair nesting in them in this spring. Those boxes get too much sun (that's what I think) so the birds aren't super fans of them. But we're not bird experts... so maybe it's the size of the hole or something. Maybe that pair will come back.
We need to get some birds in here to help cut back on aphids! We've added boxes to the pergola in the back.. so maybe that will bring some in, too :)
I´m working in my garden along with you - there is so much to do. Especially taking inventory: What did well, what was a total flop. And hey your Hostas still have leaves???!!! Mine are gone a long time ago - I don´t even know where exactly they are (there are not even stems left) - slugs .. No more words needed. 🙄 I lifted some of them (had to divide them anyway) and I´m not sure if they will go back. Have a wonderfull fall! 🍁🍂🍁
SLUGS! Did you have a terrible time with them, too? Seems like this year was way worse than previous years. Not sure why... but hopefully it's a fad and next year will be back to a 'normal' amount.
Really enjoying your garden. Will you put compost on your beds in fall?
Yes and no :) (That's a terrible answer! haha) Our compost bin is quite full... so we'll spread some out in a few of the beds... but nothing official or uniform. In the spring (or late winter when we cut everything back), we'll spread out more.
So beautiful! Impressed by the Salvia Viridis? Can you wintersow these? (I have watched your very informative video about wintersowing in your glasshouse, but don't remember if this one..)
Aren't they great! You can either sow them indoors before the last frost and then transplant them out... or wait until the spring. They're late bloomers anyway... so doing them in spring is plenty of time :)
Here we wrote a bit more about it, if you're interested: www.perennial-garden.com/post/salvia-viridis-grow-and-care-guide
@@perennial-garden Thank you!
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So pleased to hear from you. I have mostly left perennials to over winter as is. Elderberry jam is also very nutritious. Do you have a shrub? Will you be showing how you dig up and store the dahlia tubers?❤❤
Hope you're doing well! How's the autumn coming along over there?
And Elderberry jam sounds wonderful! We made juice from it... but never have tried jam. Might have to add that our list! We're pretty stocked up each year with grape jelly tho. haha -- even after we hand it out to everyone we know :)
And yes! We'll be sure to show how we dig them up and store them. We do wait for the frost to hit tho... usually in November.
@@perennial-garden autumn here is ,well, as you would expect it to be. No freakish weather yet,like snow or hail. Very wet,and overcast. I had half an hour out there today and whoosh,down came the rain again. Thanks for asking 💞💞
@@77sun222 Sounds so much like here! But it's sunny today... so I shouldn't be talking bad about the weather :)
Sorry hit that thumbs down by mistake😢
@@GlendaClark-ns7cm No problem! 🥰
i live in Malmo and I found your videos very useful since the climate is very similar. I also love your demonstration of winter sow sine most american-dominated videos use the gallon milk-jar, which we don't have in the Nordic. After watching your series, I started to collect seeds from everywhere, especially in the parks. There is a lovely place in Malmo called "Katrinetorp Lander" where they have lovely vegetable and flower patches, and a lovely cafe. I just came back with so many types of seeds. Maybe you will also enjoy this place if you happen to be in Malmo some day. Just subscribed your channel since I will be following your steps and hope next spring I will have good seedling. One question - I have been failing again and again with Delphinium germination. Any advice?
We've visited Malmo a few times but never to the place you mentioned. It's on our list for next time tho :) Tusind tak!
As for delphiniums... One of the key tricks is to give them a cold stratification period. This mimics the winter conditions they need to break dormancy. You can do this by placing the seeds in the refrigerator for about 2-3 weeks before planting. A good method is to wrap them in a damp paper towel, place that in a plastic bag, and pop it into the fridge. If you'd rather skip that step, you can also plant the seeds directly in a moist seed-starting mix and refrigerate the whole setup.
You can also winter sow... that's what we do (so we can keep our fridge free! haha) th-cam.com/video/HR7yFd33C2c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=aLqPdPMOVqcAuebq
When it’s time to plant, make sure the soil stays cool. Delphiniums germinate best in temperatures around 15°C to 18°C. If it’s too warm, they might not sprout, so avoid using heat mats and keep the tray in a cooler spot if you're starting them indoors.
Another important point is that delphinium seeds like darkness to germinate, so after sowing, cover them lightly with soil or vermiculite to block the light. Keep the soil moist but not waterlogged-too much water can cause the seeds to rot, while letting it dry out can stop germination altogether. You can cover the seed tray with plastic to maintain moisture, but make sure there's a little airflow to prevent mold from forming.
Delphiniums can take a while to sprout-sometimes 2 to 6 weeks-so be patient. Once you see those little seedlings popping up, move them to a brighter location and make sure they stay cool to encourage healthy growth.
1. You can do what you want, but: 2. Ivy is an excellent nectar source for late autumn. You shouldn't prune it untill about february! Just in case you didn't know. - But: I like your garden. It is beautiful and an inspiration.
Thanks for sharing! We did know that about the ivy, but we make the choice to take it down now when we can rent a trailer to haul it and the grape vine to the compost (that the kommune provides).
@@perennial-garden understand.
Stunning as always! I did want to ask, when you chop things back (maybe a bit less this year as you said!) and start to plant bulbs, how close do you generally plant them to your perennials? I know you're close planters anyways, but I've always wondered if bulbs being too close could negatively impact the growth of the perennials come spring? Or is it fine? I'd love to hear as I don't want too many gaps when things are coming through, when I could have bulbs!
We plant bulbs wherever we want actually 😅 ...so that's pretty close to everything else. The bulbs won't hurt the perennials... but their foliage (especially with tulips) will cover the perennials as they start to grow. (Tulips are always earlier than the perennials here.) To help with this, we cut the tulips down way earlier than we should. As soon as the flower petals start to fall, we cut the whole tulip down. We sometimes leave the stem.. but usually we cut it all down. If we don't, and if we let the foliage yellow like we ''should'', then the perennials under them won't get enough light and they'll be really slow to grow.
This is how we do it. If you read any gardening blog, they say to make sure to let the foliage yellow, etc -- giving the bulb all the energy it needs. But... we do it our own way ;)
So... to sum it all up 😂 We plant bulbs very close to our perennials.
@@perennial-garden Thank you, that’s great advice!
Good morning from Michigan 6A!! I had no idea you can leave the roots in the ground for all the good reasons 😮. Will do next year, I've learned alot from yall in this 1st year of gardening, and I'm so thankful.❤ I have alot of tiger grass and another unknown variety, whens the best time of season to split them? Thank you both❤
So glad you can use our annual root tip for your garden. Only the annuals tho... perennials will just come back from those roots.
And for grasses... Lars divides the ones at the cemetery garden (where he works) in early spring... just before new growth emerges :)
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Hi! Thanks for all the nice videos! Question about Phlomis tuberosa, if i sow from seed Will it flower the first year? Or should i buy plants now and overwinter in greenhouse?
Thanks for watching! As for Phlomis... Typically, it won’t flower until its second or even third year because it likes to establish a good root system first. So, if you start it from seed now, you’ll probably be looking at foliage for a couple of years before you see any blooms.
If you want flowers next season, your best bet is to buy young plants now and overwinter them in a greenhouse if possible. This will give them a head start, and they’ll be ready to flower much sooner once spring arrives. The greenhouse protection helps them grow a bit faster and come out stronger when it’s time to plant them out. ...and phlomis do not like really wet soil (which we get a lot of in the winter!)... so overwintering the smaller plants in the greenhouse is a great idea. Once the roots are established in the larger plants, it's a little less tricky with the wetness we get here in the winter.
@@perennial-garden thanks for your help!
Hello gentlemen......it's been a minute......what are the pink and lavender flowers to your left of that Zinnia plant in the beginning of this video.
It's Ageratum houstonianum -- not exactly sure what the common English name is. Wikipedia says ''flossflower, bluemink, goatweed, blueweed, pussy foot or Mexican paintbrush''. In Danish it's called 'blue broom' :)
@@perennial-garden Jesus! This plant has more names than Him.😀🤣😂
Your garden is still lovely. I also do not decorate with pumpkins. I just enjoy the garden as is. I also am a seed collector. It gives me something to do in January. I start alot of things and then plant them out and loose the tags so I have to wait and see what I have. Thanks for the video.
@@mapndo2337 haha -- Mexican paintbrush is a good name tho. Altho Pussy Foot is just funny! 😺
@@sannaericditsler4034 Losing the tags! We know how that feels... fortunately Lars is good at recognizing everything. For me, I end up weeding things away without him 😅
Hi guys, a question for you regarding perennials. I recently bought 2 geraniums and a Tricytis horta and as I'm keeping them in pots, I divided them. It is advised to do this in Spring but is it okay in October? It shouldn't cause any harm here, in the UK? What do you think? Also, I found an old packet of Roman Camomile seeds which expire in 1/25 so I sowed them & they have sprouted, question is will they survive the winter? Should I keep them in the greenhouse? Thanks.
We divide most perennials now as spring is so busy with other tasks - so we support you 💚 .. divide away :)
And the Roman Chamomile should be fine - it’s perennial but maybe not down to super hard winter temps (not sure what you have there) - you can always put them in the greenhouse to be safe… otherwise, they are quite tough and can handle the winter outdoors.
Quick question...I see how you have pruned the wisteria on the wall but the one that is a climber, do you go up and cut the top bits or are you just pruning what you can reach?
All videos I have found show the 5 bud method, but no one really explains what to do up above. I don't want to prune too much or the opposite...not prune enough.
I would be grateful for any guidance ❤
We prune what we can reach … and we leave some that we are training for length, etc. There are a few on the sides that we’ve left for several years … because we’d love it to cover more of the wall.
For us, it’s worked fine. Plus this one he’s a lot of sun (which it loves). The one in the back … bless it … it’s so shady and doesn’t give us as many flowers. Argh. But, it’s green and pretty 💚
10C is around 50F. So you plant tulips when the daytime temps is 10C or 50F. Right? I've never seen Salvia viridis for sale in garden centers where I live in south central Pennsylvania. I like the pretty color of the leaves at the top. We don't have all the plants that are grown in Denmark and Europe to buy in the U.S.. Thanks for saying the Liatris needs cold temperatures to germinate. I just collected some seeds from Liatris and will put them out on the back porch for the winter. I love the dark blue Aconitum napellus 'Monks Hood' planted with the cream colored Anemone. My Monks Hood plant died over the summer. Not sure why, maybe I gave it too much water during the very hot summer days. I might try that plant again. Digitalis is poisonous too, which you know. The entire plant is poisonous, according to experts. But the leaves, in particular, contain more concentrated toxins, but is useful in creating medicine for the heart. Bees fall asleep on some of my flowers in cold weather which makes me smile. Thanks for the tour of your beautiful October garden.
We plant tulips when the ground temperature is around 10C (50F). We check on a website that updates those types of things - similar to county extension offices in the USA.
That salvia viridis is really pretty - we had to grow it from seed… otherwise we don’t find it in stores here either.
And we did know that about the Digitalis… crazy how some of the prettiest plants are so dangerous. Creation is amazing that way 💚🤓