Another informative video! I also have pots with unidentified plants. I need to take your advice from now on and tag them. Your new plants were very reasonably priced compared to mail order nurseries in the United States.
I like the way you get excited about plants , just like me ! Some people just think I’m crazy , I had 1 day Lilly , that was off by itself, so , I dug up & cut it up , made 12 plants !! I love free plants 🌱
Dear Paul, you always manage to cheer me up when i happen to have a drastically bad and grey day in these times. God bless you for your friendly and warm personality. Yours, Meggi
How wonderful to be taken along on your potting and planting adventures. The last frost date in my zone is May 15. You have me itching to get started, but patience, I'm told, is a virtue.
Hello Paul, I have really enjoyed this video and am going to make an order from Thomson and morgan after seeing your healthy-looking plants and 3 for £15 is a great price !! The other day I was walking around the garden to see if I could split some plants to take with me when I move home and could not believe my luck one of my favourite clematises had layered and rooted so I cut it from the parent plant and I have a new plant for FREE yay. It was lovely to see and hear the wildlife in your garden . Thanks for sharing your videos with us . I have sat through a really boring advert but if it helps your channel then that is what I will do in the future.
Hi Joanna, it's brilliant to find a "ready layered" plant, hope you can take plenty of plants when you move. That is so sweet of you to watch the advert - it helps a lot and I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much Paul for sharing the wonders of nature. We have the same opinion about how we can find plants everywhere for free. What a joy to help them grow. I am impressed to see the good state of the plants you ordered! 😍👌🏻💚
Great plant haul Paul. I love the Paniculata Hydrangea. I have 2 on order from my tiny village garden centre, it will be the first time they are stocking them. And a Pinkie Winkie!!!!! I am so envious. I wouldn't worry about the Cistus. The whole of the mountain where I live is covered with it (it's called JARA over here ) and I am a zone 6 and it not only survives but it obviously thrives. When it blooms all together it looks as if the mountain is white with snow. Really spectacular each year and quite the tourist attraction. Love your nature shots as always.
Una - it’s going to be great seeing these paniculatas flowering in our gardens (and videos) - although can’t see mine with big flowers this Summer 😁. Thanks for telling me about your cistus covered mountain - sounds spectacular - wonder if it will feature in a video?
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱. What a lovely collection of plants 😍. I plant unknown specimens in my garden all the time. I call it Christmas in July when you realise what has grown from those unmarked pots. 🌺
Lovely plants, so exciting to get new plants and dream about how glorious they're gonna be in the yard. I myself added 4 Hydrangea paniculata and 1 lacecap to my yard last year, so exciting to see them grow, although in my scorching hot summers (I'm in Italy) they need tons of water. Also added 3 hostas for the first time, I had no idea they took so long to emerge in spring, I even dug around them recently to see if they were alive, turns out they are, I guess they take their time!
@@paultsworld yes! I do the most of my small space, but it could be worse, I could have no yard at all! There are tons of dream plants that I still would love to be able to tuck somewhere, but it's becoming crowded... I love your garden, it has a million interesting things in every season, and some fabulous specimens 😍
Hi Paul. Thanks for the video of the plant haul. Glad to see Hosta and Daylilies. I have lots of each and divide them so I can give them away to everyone I know! The deer have already found some of the hosta. Have a wonderful day.
To buy or not to buy (more Plants)this is the question ! 😀 Beautiful Video, beautiful haul and the Birds are so adorable. We have snow in Germany and the trees are in full bloom . It's so sad .
I didn't buy any plants last year so I've plenty coming this Spring. I can hardly keep up. Our weather has just turned cold with wind straight from the arctic! It's a shame when bad weather hits just as the trees have blossom. I'm pleased you enjoyed my video.
Iv been watching all ur videos,sooo inspiring,I love ur cottage style house.i was seenig so many house styles.at last came across ur house n brown roof,loved it.and decided to make my house like that.thnx a lot.
Daphne is one of my favorite shrubs. Their tiny blooms put out such a lovely scent from spring to fall. The variety I have is a evergreen in my 6b zone, it starts blooming late February.
Looking forward to see all your new plants grow! I have a friend who has filled my garden with day lilies, and I even have some from my mom’s garden, which are extra special since I don’t have my mom anymore. Free is the best! I can’t resist propagating all my prunings. Red twig dogwoods and boxwoods have rooted out really well for me. Wonderful video! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿😃
That's lovely to have all those day lilies as a reminder of your Mum and her garden. That's why I have these deciduous azaleas. It's great to get into the habit of propagating - I must do my dogwood stems!
Daphne is one of my favorite plants! I once bought a home in Oregon where a very large Daphne was growing in the garden bed at the front door stoop. The scent was heavenly everytime I walked past, while it was in bloom. I must check to see if it would last in my zone. I just bought some bleeding hearts, too. At that same home in Oregon, I had some lovely ones growing under the cedar trees... another favorite!
Hello from Vancouver, Canada. This will be the 2nd growing season I’ve followed you and your lovely garden as I work away on developing mine. Your videos are well done and a pleasure. Would love to know ab little more about you Paul and how you became a gardener and U-tube celeb!
Hi Kara, thank you for following my garden's progress and so pleased you like the videos. U-tube celeb 😊 - wow, so far not signed any autographs - I'm in the shadow of the plants and wildlife - they are the stars of the show. I'm just an enthusiast with a love of nature and I suppose gardening falls nicely with that. I started showcasing my photography in the form of slideshows - initially with Britain (as you can see from my early videos) and then I was going to progress to various other parts of the world. I have quite a collection of pictures and videos from 40 years travelling the World as a professional travel photographer. Then one day last April, I went out into the garden and followed a butterfly flitting from plant to plant - talked about the plants and was amazed at the response - so I made more of the garden and here we are back in the month of April - it's been a great year to be in the garden. It's an honour and humbling to have so many gardeners - many much more experienced and knowledgeable than me - also brand new gardeners, all joining in here and enjoying being out tending their 'patch' however big or small.
Hey Paul, I’ve been missing your videos. I will have to binge watch for several evenings to get caught up. Been puttering in the garden all day, so glad spring is here. It was fun seeing what you purchased.
Paul good news, slinky works for the squirrels..🐿 I'm going to work with solar power bird baths, too. I'm so excited, I made out of bowls for baffles. As soon as we, daffodils are down now they faded away the irises are starting to come up over here. Tulips are up already too it's been very warm here it's already spring it kind of rushed upon us and we're still get a lot of cool nights but we don't get that much rain like you do
Glad the slinky worked for you Barb, I like the idea of solar power bird baths - my concrete one cracked in the frost a few years ago. Sounds as though there are a lot of nice flowers in your garden!
What a fun video. 🪴 Phantom is one of my favorite paniculatas...give it plenty of room because it gets huge!! Great tip on the air layering. Free plants are the best. Have a lovely weekend in the garden.
I really like plant hauls 😊 great to see what you purchased and that T&M were a good service Paul. A hydrangea bed sounds divine , that will look stunning. Like you I love buying small plants and growing them on, I've missed that last summer so I don't have anything coming through this year. Maybe I'll manage to pick something up this year as I venture out "a little more" when I return to work. I tend to like finding little £1 plants in supermarkets. I really miss taking my mum shopping, calling for lunch and picking up cheap little plants.....the simple things. I look forward to seeing what your hostas do, I collect the miniatures, particularly the mouse ears......but again I haven't been able to add to my collection lately...........but I will 😊
Same with me Carolina - I also didn't buy any plants last year. Good tip about finding those £1 plants in the supermarkets. That's interesting you have miniature hostas - do you have them outside - and what about the slugs when the plants are so small?
It’s really lovely to see your new plants for this spring. I’ll be getting some as you too, and looking at the birds is too relaxing for me. Hope you do a tour soon 🍃 Good vibes Paul! 🌼
I'll certainly do a tour soon as the plants are really growing so quickly. Hope all your new plants do well Nely. So glad you enjoy the birds - as you know, I love them. 🌺
Wonderful video Paul. Loving the sound of the dove, the birds and the children on the background too. Cheers ooooh the colorful bird toward the end of the video. Who is making you laugh Paul? share share lol
My online haul in pots, which I put by the wall of the house at the weekend, is currently covered in snow (it's snowed all day, on and off, today). I did hope I had seen the last of this year's snow some time ago :-)
Good Evening Paul, thanks for another informative video. Always enjoy your videos. The temperature has taken a dive, it's rather nippy here in the North of Berlin. I was too eager to get my Dahlias in pots. They are growing steadily and my Zinnias and Tagetes seeds are slow. Take care, Silver from Germany🌱🌱🍀🍀🌷🌷🌼🌼
Hi Paul, how exciting, new plants and new beds. You are so funny today. It was funny when you said that the plant online was smaller than you expected and you panned to the segment of you unwrapping it there was deathly silence plus the ruler! Also, all the text correcting yourself was very amusing. Double negative! l was laughing quite loudly by that stage. Thanks for the warning on the impending death of my cistus! haha. Would you believe that the pink diamond is the same paniculata that I planted last Autumn. I have two and you will be pleased to hear, they are growing very well and faster than I expected. Buying and propagating plants is better than a holiday, eh?! So exciting and you now need new garden beds, that will be good to watch develop. Your warm weather sounds delightful. I cannot believe we are having 1degC Monday morning but days are still 20 degC. It jars me that North-West England is warmer by a long way than here. Soon we will be hammered night after night with frosts, while you had two the whole winter? ( insert sulk face emoji here * hahaha)
Hi Margaret, I'm pleased you pick up on the subtleties 😉. I have a thing about double negatives and there I am using one! Sorry to let you know your cistus might be on its last petals - my Philly says she's got a gravestone emoji to spare if you need it 🤣 apparently it was sent by a well-wisher! Great you've got the pink diamond and they're growing quickly - I'm impatient for these to get going. Some parts of Britain did have a very cold Winter - fortunately passed me by - but I do remember seeing a snowdrift at the side of the house which was at least 7mm deep and lasted 20 minutes - luckily I just had time to get my camera out before it disappeared. Those two spates of frost did last for at least a couple of nights if that makes you feel any better.😆 It's only really close on to the coast - other parts of NW England, particularly the higher ground get more than their fair share of cold.
I cannot believe you are using my gravestone emoji against me! that is so funny. My hydrangea is called "Diamond Rouge" I checked the label this afternoon but I am pretty sure it is the very same plant. I forget you are on the coast, we are at 800 m (and two hours from the coast) which gives us cooler temps in summer but definitely more frosts. Oh my goodness we got more snow than you! My mother's relatives are around Knutsford and Weaverham, some on the Isle of Man. (That Irish sea crossing is a whole new story, I can assume you can get terrible windstorms) I forgot to say, there is nothing better than self seeded or self-layered plants. I love the garden that gives! looking forward to seeing your new garden beds.
Isle of Man is pretty mild of course being an island - Knutsford Winter bit colder than me being inland. I've done that Irish sea crossing to Isle of man a couple of times in a small 36 foot yacht - no problem 😅 😉.
I made the crossing only once, it was December, the captain said there was a gale force 10 blowing, Mum laughed, thinking he was joking and I didn't know what that meant.... until we left Liverpool harbour. It should have been illegal 🤢 Were you in yacht races? I hope it wasn't under the same conditions. 😳
Sorry about your horrendous experience - it can be scary. I was making a night crossing as part of a sailing course - it took 12 hours and was so calm we never even put the sails up and had to motor all the way 😂 - mind you it was gorgeous gliding into Port St. Mary at sunrise. At least we managed to sail back the following night as a light breeze came in.
I think I've fallen in love with the Himalayan honeysuckle. The flowers look like chandeliers. Good video, not thought about propagating azaleas this way, I will have a go.
So interesting.... I am looking forward to seeing those Flowers blooming beautifully.... Thank you for sharing your collections of Beautiful Flowers...Paul T's World Good night from North Borneo...😴
I love Cistis too but although we live in the South West of England we still get heavy frosts which they really don’t like. If you buy one I would recommend that you cover it with fleece on cold nights. I decided to replace it with something more suitable to our environment.
It might be worth looking into the white variety of cistus as there is one which is very hardy. Una, who watches this channel, told me in her comment that there is a white variety that covers the mountainside near her home in the mountains of Spain and they get Winters colder than anything in England.
Hi Paul, great plants, I love hostas and I love plants for free, I'm needing a marker for labels might get one thanks enjoy your garden this week, it was snowing a bit here yesterday help 😁🌷💐
Hi Helen, it was/is wintery here - with these large fluctuations of temperature my new plants and seedlings are in and out of the potting shed every 10 minutes! 🌺
I managed to grow Cistus here in Falkirk and they came back each year providing the winter is mild. I love hydrangeas though and grew a number of them and will again after we move house. Thanks, Mel
I have been reading up on cistus and there are varieties that are hardier than others - I think my old one that half died was not very hardy. I really like them so am excited to be getting another. Hope you can take some of your plants when you move house Mel, some people take masses of cuttings.
I actually thought because of the purple flowers that your new daphne was a callicarpa before you said what it was. I like the fact that the branches look spread out in that daphne and that it doesn't cast much shade, like the flowering current really in that respect. Speaking of which it's strange your flowering current self seeded as I didn't think it produced many berries! The cistus looks great too, I like flowers with clusters of stamens too. Dicentra flowers are interesting, remind me a bit of solomon's seal the way they occur in a line and hang downwards. Hydrangea 'Glam Rock'?!!! OK I looked up and kind of see now in the flowers why it has that bizarre name! Paniculata cone shaped flower heads look brilliant and I think in most of them there are still some of the small lacecap type flowers for bees. Goodness me those himalayan honeysuckle seedlings I would have wrongly identified as a goosefoot weed and got rid of! I have himalayan honeysuckle but it is still small and probably won't flower this year.
Good point about the flowering currant - don’t know how it happened but I dug out three seedlings. I also love solomon’s seal - unfortunately I get the solomon’s seal sawfly which totally strips the leaves - at least after flowering. This Winter I moved all the plants so I’m hoping the sawfly larvae haven’t noticed. I’ve chosen (if I remember correctly) paniculata that have at least some fertile flowers for the bees - hope so.
@@paultsworld Have you ever seen any berries on your flowering currants then? They are still meant to produce a few currant berries apparently although they are described as technically edible but not very tasty! Do the birds not eat many of the solomon's seal sawfly larvae or do they seem to avoid them like the cabbage white caterpillars? I would imagine some sawfly larvae fall victim to parasitic wasps as with cabbage white caterpillars anyway.
I have never seen a sawfly caterpillar eaten by a bird - in spite of there being hundreds of them. Maybe they are poisonous? I'll have a closer look at the flowering currants over the year and see what appears.
I have never heard about the Daphne shrub and excited to learn it will grow in my zone. Looking forward to seeing your video on propagating hydrangeas! You may have told us, but just wandering what you use as mulch. My wood chips always fade and look shabby and I am thinking of trying something different.
Glad you like the daphne - totally new to me as well. For mulch I’m just buying wood chips from a local tree surgeon. They are fairly old so do look dark - but I’m OK with that. I’m going to make more effort in getting ground cover plants so there’ll be less soil on show.
How do you keep your borders weed free? They always look good. I'm guessing you spend most of your day in the garden. Always look forward to seeing your videos and loving the birds. Thanks for sharing Paul.
The borders look best from a distance! I’m trying to cover them with mulch this year even though the blackbirds love to throw it onto the lawn looking for worms. I spend a fair bit of time in the garden but this year I’ve added a lot of workload by making more beds. Glad you like the birds Lynn.
Nice one! I was not surprised that you gave that tiny new plant a quick clip straightaway. HAHA! So, not so much with the GLAM ROCK, huh? Lovely unboxing vid. ;)
That little Glam Rock had better glam itself up - it cost £15! - I want a full rock concert next year otherwise it will be consigned to the supporting act.
Great video Paul. Aq Fab idea of looking for free plants in my own garden. I've a few plants with no labels on them. It'll be a nice surprise when I do identify them.
Thanks Paul for sharing your plant haul. I love hosta s. And am on the look out for one called white feather.. Hope our weather warms up. God bless. 🇮🇪
Hello Catherine, yes - you’re getting the best of any warm wind arriving - but back to cold on Friday. I’m excited about the hostas but apprehensive about the slugs waiting in the wings! Oh my goodness - just checked out white feather. It’s gorgeous! It’s on sale on Amazon & J Parkers. All the best.
Chuckling at your lack of labeling issues in trying to identify the plants... I do the same. I bought a double ended pen for labels, but half the time I cannot find it. LOL I put some bulbs in a pot with dirt on top with the intention of planting later... no label, no idea which pot. Then again, they didn't pop up... perhaps I planted them and forgot. LOL.😆
If you are wanting to buy offline and want bigger plants for less then give Gardening express a go. Ive bought alot of plants from them and they are all still going strong
Mine (the ones I showed in the video) come up in the lawn and even between the stones in the patio so I'm pleased to hear there are 'modern hybrid' daylilies that don't do this. Thanks for letting me know.
@@paultsworld There are over 50,000 registered varieties and they will grow in all 50 USA states. We have hundreds of varieties and they are all clumping forms. Dayliies and Hostas are the top selling perennials in the USA. We enjoy your videos.
Thank you for the information. I hadn't realised there were 'clumping' forms. These day lilies came from a very old garden - probably well before these hybrids were developed. I'm going to let these flower for this year then I'll dig them up and replace. Good to know they can be grown all over the States.
Hi Paul, I agree with you about buying small and watching the growth. How wonderful that you can expand and make new borders 😁 I would love to have more space. Could you tell me about that gorgeous bird at the birdbath? Lovely video of course 😁❤️
Hello Vicki, I may be digging too many borders - I’m not going to have the plants! But it is exciting. The bird at the birdbath is a European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). They absolutely love sunflower hearts and niger seeds and are also often seen on thistles and teasel plants picking off the seeds. They are very social and at least 6 visit every day, sitting contentedly at the feeder along with the greenfinches. They are increasingly common in Britain - partly because of garden feeders. Cute aren’t they!
@@paultsworld They are darling !! I love them. My goldfinches love niger seed and also congregate on my sunflowers for a buffet 😁. They are pretty with their bright gold color but I think your goldfinches have them beat 😁
@@paultsworld They ate just darling. I love them !! 😁 my goldfinches like the Niger seed also but they do like to congregate on my sunflowers and gorge themselves. They are very pretty with their bright gold color but I think yours have got mine beat 😁 Have a great week 😊❤️
They are so exotic looking - sounds as though yours have the same taste in seeds - that must be fabulous watching them on the sunflowers - I must grow some teasel - it's a classic Winter scene for artists - goldfinches on teasel in the countryside. All the best. 🌺
Hi, paul its barb are irises are up I'm trying to get the pictures sent to you I just took them cleaned out all of the Tulips cut them and clean them and the daffodils are cut down we're going to start cutting and getting ready for the raised beds and as soon as we get photos I'll put those through to you I think you will enjoy them. I am using water features I found them on the Wish app I don't know if you have access to them are solar powered little pumps that float around in the pool of water or wherever you need them they come with a different adapters they're often they are just really great the birds really like them.
Hi Barb, fantastic - you are obviously really enjoying your garden, all the daffodils, irises and tulips - I am sure it all looks lovely and what a good idea having solar powered pumps for the bird baths.
Paul, I hit the like button before I see the videos. . We cut back a sprawling Acer, and several Buxus, all too big and a couple of Hydrangeas would be good; pro tem, two Tree Peonies in pots are under the two cherries there with terrific scent and huge flowers. A tiny red Acer, supermarket 'bin' is so pretty I'll put it there for shelter under two cherry trees. Have you got H. 'Blue Wave'?
Thank you for hitting 'like' button Wendy - so kind. That's interesting you have tree peonies - I have wondered about them? I haven't got blue wave - looks nice though. My lace caps tend to turn a bit pink so I'd need to up the acidity, which is doable. Does look nice though totally blue.
@@paultsworld I forgot, I have 'Blue Bird' too. One of them can be used to make a 'tea'. Rhubarb is just above ground - spare a thought when you make another pie with brown sugar and ginger. Snow on Tues. and the birds' water was frozen all of Wednesday. Three of my Tree Peonies have special compost in plastic pots, easily moved when they flower .Erratic geology here means acidic soil and limestone; never know what will grow where. In bitter wind and rain things still obey some inner clock but some spring blossom will suffer.
Thanks for rhubarb tip. I must get a tree peony sometime, especially if they scent. Are you high up or well off the coast to be getting those freezing temperatures this last week?
@@paultsworld About 600 ft. just N. of Kendal en -oute to Shap and literally on the serious snow line. Otherwise we get everything chucked at us from Morecambe Bay through a dip in the SW hillside, and from the NW a gap in the fells hurls the wild Irish Sea wet stuff. E. and NE is marginally 'sheltered'. There's a lot of Siberia in that word marginally. It can drizzle in Kendal when we have 2 ft. of snow or the gritters are out.
Yes, you are quite high - what a difference it makes to the weather. Sounds as though everything is chucked at you. I miss a lot of the rain from the Irish Sea as it either heads over to you or Manchester or simply falls on N.Wales. But when it's a glorious day your area - it's fabulous!
I am new to your TH-cam channel! Hi! I have bought some beautiful perennials from Waitrose this year but my favourite online shop is Secret Gardening Club.
Paul should I always cut back herbals perennials in autumn May I ask please? Total novice really! Thanks for excellent descriptions in a normal way, especially suits ‘A gardening want to be but novice of many years’ who manages to keep the odd bit alive...
I am pleased you are enjoying your gardening Sue - you may not be an expert (neither am I) but we have experts on our side - the plants! Give them half a chance: compost, food, sun, water and they know what to do. You can cut back those perennials in Autumn to tidy them up - or you could leave them till early Spring just as they are starting to grow again. It's your choice, they don't mind either way.
@@paultsworld Thanks Paul this is a helpful tip, I hope it’s ok to ask as I watch your videos, and you can always ignore ok, I won’t be insulted. Your video on watching the sun over the course of the day to check the area best suited to the particular plants was such a simple idea (no insulate intended with this comment) and so helpful... I never thought to do something like this, and your comment about moving a plant should it not be doing well to another area, nothing to loose in trying this... so guess I’m doing a little garden investigation today and setting a plan for myself.
Ask away Sue, it's great when we all learn together. I am pleased you have got some ideas from my videos, it makes making them so worthwhile for me and leaving comments and questions is what makes the channel thrive. Oh yes, simple ideas are the best! Good luck with your garden planning.
Absolutely Loved this! 🤩 ....Paul, did you pot up your hydrangeas with multi purpose compost or ericaceous compost please? I’ve only every used multi purpose compost with mine before but I note that you mentioned in previous videos that you plant them in an ericaceous bed With azaleas. I didn’t know they needed to be ericaceous so am thinking of repotting (I’m a container gardener) in ericaceous this year 🤷🏼♀️ what are your thoughts? ☺️
Great, glad you liked my video Dawn! You can choose which compost - however two points: I have heard they respond and take up nutrients better in ericaceous compost and secondly if you have the mophead or lacecap hydrangeas they will be more blue in ericaceous and more red/pink in alkaline (multipurpose) compost. The paniculata hydrangeas' colour isn't affected by the PH of the soil. Having said all that - I always put mine in ericaceous compost and give them ericaceous (azalea) food. If yours are doing well and happy I'd leave them - but if you want to refresh the container and give them an 'umph' you could try ericaceous compost and food. Hope that helps.
@@paultsworld that’s brilliant advice. That makes complete sense as mine are all mop heads/lace caps and all pink! They are doing well (thanks to your previous video giving me the confidence to prune them correctly!) so think I’ll try as you suggest by refreshing with ericaceous and a bit of my azalea feed! Thanks Paul! 👍🏻☺️
Hey, that's going to be an interesting experiment Dawn - you'll have to let me know if the colour changed! Give them a good water afterwards to settle them in!
Hi Paul, I wonder if you have any advice on dog friendly shrubs/plants/flowers? We have a 13 week old puppy and I’ve just spent the last week removing plants that are deemed poisonous according to several websites. Naturally he wants to chew everything right now! 😫 Some sites give conflicting advice like Lavender is poisonous/toxic then others say it’s ideal for dogs!?? 🤷🏻♀️ Very confusing! We want to add some more plants but no idea where to start! Many thanks! Loving the videos by the way!
Glad you like the videos - thank you. I can only think that you could google 'dog friendly plants'. As a starter I would say many woodland and native wild plants are poisonous - so maybe stick to the highly cultivated shrubs and perennials. As a starter these would be OK for you: snapdragons, Michaelmas daisies, camellias, rose, sunflowers, elaeagnus, centaurea (cornflower), impatiens and calendula. Good luck and enjoy your puppy.
According to a map I have just looked at, it says your area has an average low temperature of -3.9c to -1.1c which puts you in Zone 9b. These zones of course only reflect the harshness of the Winter and which plants would survive your average Winter. So on average your Winters are a fraction milder than mine. To read more about these zones google "USDA zones"
Thank you for letting me know the common name of Polemonium. My own personal review so far is positive - apart from the Glam Rock hydrangea which was under par. However I am confident I can get it to thrive.
Always laugh at you correcting yourself with your on screen captions . When it comes to ordering plants online i always use Crocus ... not the cheapest but the best and they are always well packaged. I'm planning on getting two hydrangeas off Crocus. , one called Little Lime and one called Garden Romance.
Glad you've done well with crocus - I have some plants on order with them as well - they should arrive next week. Those hydrangeas sound nice - how big will they be?
Sorry Big D - I meant how big will they be when they arrive in the post 🤣. I’ll have a look on their website. Cheers. I’m pleased you like the captions 😎
Another informative video! I also have pots with unidentified plants. I need to take your advice from now on and tag them. Your new plants were very reasonably priced compared to mail order nurseries in the United States.
Thank you Theresa
I like the way you get excited about plants , just like me ! Some people just think I’m crazy ,
I had 1 day Lilly , that was off by itself, so , I dug up & cut it up , made 12 plants !!
I love free plants 🌱
Free plants - so satisfying. Glad you love your plants!
Dear Paul, you always manage to cheer me up when i happen to have a drastically bad and grey day in these times.
God bless you for your friendly and warm personality.
Yours, Meggi
Hello Meggi, thank you for letting me know how much you enjoy my videos. It means a lot to me. 🌸
How wonderful to be taken along on your potting and planting adventures. The last frost date in my zone is May 15. You have me itching to get started, but patience, I'm told, is a virtue.
It's tough isn't it when it's so close, but better to wait 🌷. Mine is around last week of April.
Hello Paul, I have really enjoyed this video and am going to make an order from Thomson and morgan after seeing your healthy-looking plants and 3 for £15 is a great price !! The other day I was walking around the garden to see if I could split some plants to take with me when I move home and could not believe my luck one of my favourite clematises had layered and rooted so I cut it from the parent plant and I have a new plant for FREE yay. It was lovely to see and hear the wildlife in your garden . Thanks for sharing your videos with us . I have sat through a really boring advert but if it helps your channel then that is what I will do in the future.
Hi Joanna, it's brilliant to find a "ready layered" plant, hope you can take plenty of plants when you move. That is so sweet of you to watch the advert - it helps a lot and I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much Paul for sharing the wonders of nature. We have the same opinion about how we can find plants everywhere for free. What a joy to help them grow. I am impressed to see the good state of the plants you ordered! 😍👌🏻💚
I am sure your garden is looking lovely at the moment Jane - a great time of the year. 🌺
@@paultsworld Yes, it is Paul! It's a pleasure to see it every day. Spring is fantastic! 😍🌸
Great plant haul Paul. I love the Paniculata Hydrangea. I have 2 on order from my tiny village garden centre, it will be the first time they are stocking them. And a Pinkie Winkie!!!!! I am so envious. I wouldn't worry about the Cistus. The whole of the mountain where I live is covered with it (it's called JARA over here ) and I am a zone 6 and it not only survives but it obviously thrives. When it blooms all together it looks as if the mountain is white with snow. Really spectacular each year and quite the tourist attraction. Love your nature shots as always.
Una - it’s going to be great seeing these paniculatas flowering in our gardens (and videos) - although can’t see mine with big flowers this Summer 😁.
Thanks for telling me about your cistus covered mountain - sounds spectacular - wonder if it will feature in a video?
I haven't filmed the Cistus/Jara but it's a good idea!
Go for it - I’d love to see the spectacle.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱. What a lovely collection of plants 😍. I plant unknown specimens in my garden all the time. I call it Christmas in July when you realise what has grown from those unmarked pots. 🌺
Hi Jennifer, that's funny having Christmas in July - when you see what plants you have!
Lovely plants, so exciting to get new plants and dream about how glorious they're gonna be in the yard. I myself added 4 Hydrangea paniculata and 1 lacecap to my yard last year, so exciting to see them grow, although in my scorching hot summers (I'm in Italy) they need tons of water. Also added 3 hostas for the first time, I had no idea they took so long to emerge in spring, I even dug around them recently to see if they were alive, turns out they are, I guess they take their time!
Ha, those hostas suddenly poke up from the soil and then really move. Five new hydrangeas - exciting things happening in your garden!
@@paultsworld yes! I do the most of my small space, but it could be worse, I could have no yard at all! There are tons of dream plants that I still would love to be able to tuck somewhere, but it's becoming crowded... I love your garden, it has a million interesting things in every season, and some fabulous specimens 😍
Thank you, I am so fortunate to have quite a large garden so even if a few things fail there's still plenty of successes at all times.
I love your hydrangeas collection. They will be so beautiful once blooms🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Thank you - I'm really looking forward to them growing!
Hi Paul. Thanks for the video of the plant haul. Glad to see Hosta and Daylilies. I have lots of each and divide them so I can give them away to everyone I know! The deer have already found some of the hosta.
Have a wonderful day.
Hi Jane, I'm really nervous about the slugs eating the hostas - and you have deer! Makes my problem sound small.
To buy or not to buy (more Plants)this is the question ! 😀
Beautiful Video, beautiful haul and the Birds are so adorable.
We have snow in Germany and the trees are in full bloom . It's so sad .
I didn't buy any plants last year so I've plenty coming this Spring. I can hardly keep up. Our weather has just turned cold with wind straight from the arctic! It's a shame when bad weather hits just as the trees have blossom. I'm pleased you enjoyed my video.
Brillant. Pot up the plants as you are cleaning up the yard and decide what to do with them later.
Absolutely - good plan!
Iv been watching all ur videos,sooo inspiring,I love ur cottage style house.i was seenig so many house styles.at last came across ur house n brown roof,loved it.and decided to make my house like that.thnx a lot.
Thank you - I'm pleased you find the videos inspiring - and the house too!
Daphne is one of my favorite shrubs. Their tiny blooms put out such a lovely scent from spring to fall. The variety I have is a evergreen in my 6b zone, it starts blooming late February.
I am really pleased to hear that - just the kind of shrub I wanted and can't wait to plant it in its new border.
Looking forward to see all your new plants grow! I have a friend who has filled my garden with day lilies, and I even have some from my mom’s garden, which are extra special since I don’t have my mom anymore. Free is the best! I can’t resist propagating all my prunings. Red twig dogwoods and boxwoods have rooted out really well for me. Wonderful video! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿😃
That's lovely to have all those day lilies as a reminder of your Mum and her garden. That's why I have these deciduous azaleas. It's great to get into the habit of propagating - I must do my dogwood stems!
Daphne is one of my favorite plants! I once bought a home in Oregon where a very large Daphne was growing in the garden bed at the front door stoop. The scent was heavenly everytime I walked past, while it was in bloom. I must check to see if it would last in my zone.
I just bought some bleeding hearts, too. At that same home in Oregon, I had some lovely ones growing under the cedar trees... another favorite!
I can't wait for my daphne to grow bigger and produce a scent - hope you can grow one where you now live.
Hello from Vancouver, Canada. This will be the 2nd growing season I’ve followed you and your lovely garden as I work away on developing mine. Your videos are well done and a pleasure. Would love to know ab little more about you Paul and how you became a gardener and U-tube celeb!
Hi Kara, thank you for following my garden's progress and so pleased you like the videos.
U-tube celeb 😊 - wow, so far not signed any autographs - I'm in the shadow of the plants and wildlife - they are the stars of the show. I'm just an enthusiast with a love of nature and I suppose gardening falls nicely with that.
I started showcasing my photography in the form of slideshows - initially with Britain (as you can see from my early videos) and then I was going to progress to various other parts of the world. I have quite a collection of pictures and videos from 40 years travelling the World as a professional travel photographer.
Then one day last April, I went out into the garden and followed a butterfly flitting from plant to plant - talked about the plants and was amazed at the response - so I made more of the garden and here we are back in the month of April - it's been a great year to be in the garden. It's an honour and humbling to have so many gardeners - many much more experienced and knowledgeable than me - also brand new gardeners, all joining in here and enjoying being out tending their 'patch' however big or small.
Travel photographer ...that makes sense.
Always interested in what people are buying to fill their beds. Really like the glaucous foliage of the bleeding heart.
Glad it was of interest. That particular bleeding heart has a fern-like leaf and flowers more clustered together.
Hey Paul, I’ve been missing your videos. I will have to binge watch for several evenings to get caught up. Been puttering in the garden all day, so glad spring is here. It was fun seeing what you purchased.
Hi Marti, great to see you back! Nice to be in the garden isn't it!
Paul good news, slinky works for the squirrels..🐿 I'm going to work with solar power bird baths, too.
I'm so excited, I made out of bowls for baffles.
As soon as we, daffodils are down now they faded away the irises are starting to come up over here. Tulips are up already too it's been very warm here it's already spring it kind of rushed upon us and we're still get a lot of cool nights but we don't get that much rain like you do
Glad the slinky worked for you Barb, I like the idea of solar power bird baths - my concrete one cracked in the frost a few years ago. Sounds as though there are a lot of nice flowers in your garden!
What a fun video. 🪴 Phantom is one of my favorite paniculatas...give it plenty of room because it gets huge!! Great tip on the air layering. Free plants are the best. Have a lovely weekend in the garden.
Wow, you've got one - brilliant. So pleased it's your favourite - I'll give it plenty of space. You have a nice weekend as well Mieko.
I really like plant hauls 😊 great to see what you purchased and that T&M were a good service Paul. A hydrangea bed sounds divine , that will look stunning. Like you I love buying small plants and growing them on, I've missed that last summer so I don't have anything coming through this year. Maybe I'll manage to pick something up this year as I venture out "a little more" when I return to work. I tend to like finding little £1 plants in supermarkets. I really miss taking my mum shopping, calling for lunch and picking up cheap little plants.....the simple things.
I look forward to seeing what your hostas do, I collect the miniatures, particularly the mouse ears......but again I haven't been able to add to my collection lately...........but I will 😊
Same with me Carolina - I also didn't buy any plants last year. Good tip about finding those £1 plants in the supermarkets. That's interesting you have miniature hostas - do you have them outside - and what about the slugs when the plants are so small?
It’s really lovely to see your new plants for this spring. I’ll be getting some as you too, and looking at the birds is too relaxing for me. Hope you do a tour soon 🍃
Good vibes Paul! 🌼
I'll certainly do a tour soon as the plants are really growing so quickly. Hope all your new plants do well Nely. So glad you enjoy the birds - as you know, I love them. 🌺
Wonderful video Paul. Loving the sound of the dove, the birds and the children on the background too. Cheers ooooh the colorful bird toward the end of the video. Who is making you laugh Paul? share share lol
I'm pleased you enjoyed all the various sounds in the garden Lola. I'm filming by myself so if I laugh it must simply be for the joy of it.
Great plant haul. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Susan.
My online haul in pots, which I put by the wall of the house at the weekend, is currently covered in snow (it's snowed all day, on and off, today). I did hope I had seen the last of this year's snow some time ago :-)
It’s suddenly got cold here as well - Arctic wind blowing directly down from the North. Hope your plant haul is OK.
@@paultsworld Thank you, I am keeping my fingers crossed for my new "babies", anyway, it is going to be much warmer at the weekend, I hope.
Hope so!
Good Evening Paul, thanks for another informative video. Always enjoy your videos. The temperature has taken a dive, it's rather nippy here in the North of Berlin. I was too eager to get my Dahlias in pots. They are growing steadily and my Zinnias and Tagetes seeds are slow.
Take care, Silver from Germany🌱🌱🍀🍀🌷🌷🌼🌼
Hello Silver, it's gone cold here as well, I'm putting some plants back in the potting shed - quickly! Glad you like the videos. 🌺
Hi Paul, how exciting, new plants and new beds. You are so funny today. It was funny when you said that the plant online was smaller than you expected and you panned to the segment of you unwrapping it there was deathly silence plus the ruler! Also, all the text correcting yourself was very amusing. Double negative! l was laughing quite loudly by that stage. Thanks for the warning on the impending death of my cistus! haha. Would you believe that the pink diamond is the same paniculata that I planted last Autumn. I have two and you will be pleased to hear, they are growing very well and faster than I expected. Buying and propagating plants is better than a holiday, eh?! So exciting and you now need new garden beds, that will be good to watch develop. Your warm weather sounds delightful. I cannot believe we are having 1degC Monday morning but days are still 20 degC. It jars me that North-West England is warmer by a long way than here. Soon we will be hammered night after night with frosts, while you had two the whole winter? ( insert sulk face emoji here * hahaha)
Hi Margaret, I'm pleased you pick up on the subtleties 😉. I have a thing about double negatives and there I am using one!
Sorry to let you know your cistus might be on its last petals - my Philly says she's got a gravestone emoji to spare if you need it 🤣 apparently it was sent by a well-wisher!
Great you've got the pink diamond and they're growing quickly - I'm impatient for these to get going. Some parts of Britain did have a very cold Winter - fortunately passed me by - but I do remember seeing a snowdrift at the side of the house which was at least 7mm deep and lasted 20 minutes - luckily I just had time to get my camera out before it disappeared. Those two spates of frost did last for at least a couple of nights if that makes you feel any better.😆
It's only really close on to the coast - other parts of NW England, particularly the higher ground get more than their fair share of cold.
I cannot believe you are using my gravestone emoji against me! that is so funny. My hydrangea is called "Diamond Rouge" I checked the label this afternoon but I am pretty sure it is the very same plant. I forget you are on the coast, we are at 800 m (and two hours from the coast) which gives us cooler temps in summer but definitely more frosts. Oh my goodness we got more snow than you! My mother's relatives are around Knutsford and Weaverham, some on the Isle of Man. (That Irish sea crossing is a whole new story, I can assume you can get terrible windstorms)
I forgot to say, there is nothing better than self seeded or self-layered plants. I love the garden that gives! looking forward to seeing your new garden beds.
Isle of Man is pretty mild of course being an island - Knutsford Winter bit colder than me being inland. I've done that Irish sea crossing to Isle of man a couple of times in a small 36 foot yacht - no problem 😅 😉.
I made the crossing only once, it was December, the captain said there was a gale force 10 blowing, Mum laughed, thinking he was joking and I didn't know what that meant.... until we left Liverpool harbour. It should have been illegal 🤢 Were you in yacht races? I hope it wasn't under the same conditions. 😳
Sorry about your horrendous experience - it can be scary. I was making a night crossing as part of a sailing course - it took 12 hours and was so calm we never even put the sails up and had to motor all the way 😂 - mind you it was gorgeous gliding into Port St. Mary at sunrise. At least we managed to sail back the following night as a light breeze came in.
Very nice Paul...sorry missed this one..
You are getting our canadian weather..
Certainly are - straight down from the North. It means no rain - would you believe I'm busy watering the garden!
I think I've fallen in love with the Himalayan honeysuckle. The flowers look like chandeliers. Good video, not thought about propagating azaleas this way, I will have a go.
It is a great plant - and many birds like the berries - I love it.
So interesting....
I am looking forward to seeing those Flowers blooming beautifully....
Thank you for sharing your collections of Beautiful Flowers...Paul T's World
Good night from North Borneo...😴
So nice of you - lets see what blooms this Summer. Greeting from England.
Free plants! Great info! Can't beat that!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing my friend
Thanks for visiting
I love Cistis too but although we live in the South West of England we still get heavy frosts which they really don’t like. If you buy one I would recommend that you cover it with fleece on cold nights. I decided to replace it with something more suitable to our environment.
It might be worth looking into the white variety of cistus as there is one which is very hardy.
Una, who watches this channel, told me in her comment that there is a white variety that covers the mountainside near her home in the mountains of Spain and they get Winters colder than anything in England.
@@paultsworld That sounds great. I had a white one but obviously not the same cultivar.
I think the cultivar starts with a 'C' - I'll try and find it again.
Hi Paul, great plants, I love hostas and I love plants for free, I'm needing a marker for labels might get one thanks enjoy your garden this week, it was snowing a bit here yesterday help 😁🌷💐
Hi Helen, it was/is wintery here - with these large fluctuations of temperature my new plants and seedlings are in and out of the potting shed every 10 minutes! 🌺
@@paultsworld hopefully it will get better take care. 😁🌷💐
I managed to grow Cistus here in Falkirk and they came back each year providing the winter is mild. I love hydrangeas though and grew a number of them and will again after we move house. Thanks, Mel
I have been reading up on cistus and there are varieties that are hardier than others - I think my old one that half died was not very hardy. I really like them so am excited to be getting another. Hope you can take some of your plants when you move house Mel, some people take masses of cuttings.
daphnes have a lovely scent ive not had much luck with them i have a hydrangea growing in a pot that i planted from a cutting
Well done getting a successful hydrangea from a cutting. This is my first daphne so I’m hoping for the best.
Paul you know I love your garden. I lost one of my lavenders. I’ll propagate more very soon. Such lovely new additions.😊🌻
Thank you ClausenWorld. Sorry you lost a lavender - at least they do take well from cuttings, so you could take quite a few.
@@paultsworld yes, I’m so glad I was able for the first time last year to successfully propagate by cutting. I can’t wait to try it again.😊
It's so much fun and satisfyingly creating your own new little plants.
@@paultsworld it’s very satisfying.😊🌱
I actually thought because of the purple flowers that your new daphne was a callicarpa before you said what it was. I like the fact that the branches look spread out in that daphne and that it doesn't cast much shade, like the flowering current really in that respect. Speaking of which it's strange your flowering current self seeded as I didn't think it produced many berries!
The cistus looks great too, I like flowers with clusters of stamens too. Dicentra flowers are interesting, remind me a bit of solomon's seal the way they occur in a line and hang downwards.
Hydrangea 'Glam Rock'?!!! OK I looked up and kind of see now in the flowers why it has that bizarre name! Paniculata cone shaped flower heads look brilliant and I think in most of them there are still some of the small lacecap type flowers for bees.
Goodness me those himalayan honeysuckle seedlings I would have wrongly identified as a goosefoot weed and got rid of! I have himalayan honeysuckle but it is still small and probably won't flower this year.
Good point about the flowering currant - don’t know how it happened but I dug out three seedlings.
I also love solomon’s seal - unfortunately I get the solomon’s seal sawfly which totally strips the leaves - at least after flowering. This Winter I moved all the plants so I’m hoping the sawfly larvae haven’t noticed.
I’ve chosen (if I remember correctly) paniculata that have at least some fertile flowers for the bees - hope so.
@@paultsworld Have you ever seen any berries on your flowering currants then? They are still meant to produce a few currant berries apparently although they are described as technically edible but not very tasty!
Do the birds not eat many of the solomon's seal sawfly larvae or do they seem to avoid them like the cabbage white caterpillars? I would imagine some sawfly larvae fall victim to parasitic wasps as with cabbage white caterpillars anyway.
I have never seen a sawfly caterpillar eaten by a bird - in spite of there being hundreds of them. Maybe they are poisonous?
I'll have a closer look at the flowering currants over the year and see what appears.
Hello.....thankyou for your recomendations....i enjoy your video from the beginning till the end....I think is because I love flowers....
I am so pleased you enjoyed the video Grace - it will be nice when the flowers come out.
I have never heard about the Daphne shrub and excited to learn it will grow in my zone. Looking forward to seeing your video on propagating hydrangeas! You may have told us, but just wandering what you use as mulch. My wood chips always fade and look shabby and I am thinking of trying something different.
Glad you like the daphne - totally new to me as well. For mulch I’m just buying wood chips from a local tree surgeon. They are fairly old so do look dark - but I’m OK with that. I’m going to make more effort in getting ground cover plants so there’ll be less soil on show.
@@paultsworld I have deadnettle and bronze beauty ajuga but love mazus for the sweet little heart shaped purple flower....so pretty.
I have some ajuga on order!
How do you keep your borders weed free? They always look good. I'm guessing you spend most of your day in the garden. Always look forward to seeing your videos and loving the birds. Thanks for sharing Paul.
The borders look best from a distance! I’m trying to cover them with mulch this year even though the blackbirds love to throw it onto the lawn looking for worms. I spend a fair bit of time in the garden but this year I’ve added a lot of workload by making more beds. Glad you like the birds Lynn.
Nice one! I was not surprised that you gave that tiny new plant a quick clip straightaway. HAHA! So, not so much with the GLAM ROCK, huh? Lovely unboxing vid. ;)
That little Glam Rock had better glam itself up - it cost £15! - I want a full rock concert next year otherwise it will be consigned to the supporting act.
YEAH! Glam rock hydrangea, EXCELLENT pick ..mine is magnificent in full bloom ,ROLL on summer great download AGAIN!
Thank you Fran. You're the first person who has said they have one - so glad you like yours!
@@paultsworld you will not be disappointed lol
Thanks Fran!
😊 great video!
Glad you liked it!!
Great video Paul. Aq Fab idea of looking for free plants in my own garden. I've a few plants with no labels on them. It'll be a nice surprise when I do identify them.
Ha Jeanie, that’ll be fun when your anonymous plants reveal themselves!
Thanks Paul for sharing your plant haul. I love hosta s. And am on the look out for one called white feather.. Hope our weather warms up. God bless. 🇮🇪
Hello Catherine, yes - you’re getting the best of any warm wind arriving - but back to cold on Friday.
I’m excited about the hostas but apprehensive about the slugs waiting in the wings!
Oh my goodness - just checked out white feather. It’s gorgeous!
It’s on sale on Amazon & J Parkers. All the best.
Our hosta nursery in Michigan do not recommend hosta white feather because the slugs like it because of it thin substance and it is a poor grower.
Great plant haul Paul. I have been looking at paniculata myself, so nice.
Definitely get one Lil - they are spectacular - I have one in the front garden which is brilliant.
Liked it very much. Thanks for sharing
So nice of you Debjani.
Informative and enjoyable as per usual👍👌
Glad you enjoyed it!
Chuckling at your lack of labeling issues in trying to identify the plants... I do the same. I bought a double ended pen for labels, but half the time I cannot find it. LOL I put some bulbs in a pot with dirt on top with the intention of planting later... no label, no idea which pot. Then again, they didn't pop up... perhaps I planted them and forgot. LOL.😆
I am a new man - I label everything - and feel so much more invested in the cuttings now I know what they are!
If you are wanting to buy offline and want bigger plants for less then give Gardening express a go. Ive bought alot of plants from them and they are all still going strong
Thanks Stevie-Marie - I have heard of them and will check them out.
Modern hybrid daylilies DO Not "run" all over. We have a perennial nursery in Michigan(USA).
Mine (the ones I showed in the video) come up in the lawn and even between the stones in the patio so I'm pleased to hear there are 'modern hybrid' daylilies that don't do this. Thanks for letting me know.
@@paultsworld There are over 50,000 registered varieties and they will grow in all 50 USA states. We have hundreds of varieties and they are all clumping forms. Dayliies and Hostas are the top selling perennials in the USA. We enjoy your videos.
Thank you for the information. I hadn't realised there were 'clumping' forms. These day lilies came from a very old garden - probably well before these hybrids were developed. I'm going to let these flower for this year then I'll dig them up and replace. Good to know they can be grown all over the States.
Your Hemerocallis is Aurantiaca which is an old fashioned species. The named varieties do not run.
Thank you for that excellent information - my day lilies came from a very old garden.
Hi Paul, I enjoyed watching your channel, so I subscribed! love your energy:)
Welcome to my channel Tricia, thank you for subscribing! 🌺
Hi Paul, I agree with you about buying small and watching the growth. How wonderful that you can expand and make new borders 😁 I would love to have more space. Could you tell me about that gorgeous bird at the birdbath? Lovely video of course 😁❤️
Hello Vicki, I may be digging too many borders - I’m not going to have the plants! But it is exciting.
The bird at the birdbath is a European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). They absolutely love sunflower hearts and niger seeds and are also often seen on thistles and teasel plants picking off the seeds.
They are very social and at least 6 visit every day, sitting contentedly at the feeder along with the greenfinches. They are increasingly common in Britain - partly because of garden feeders. Cute aren’t they!
@@paultsworld They are darling !! I love them. My goldfinches love niger seed and also congregate on my sunflowers for a buffet 😁. They are pretty with their bright gold color but I think your goldfinches have them beat 😁
@@paultsworld They ate just darling. I love them !! 😁 my goldfinches like the Niger seed also but they do like to congregate on my sunflowers and gorge themselves. They are very pretty with their bright gold color but I think yours have got mine beat 😁 Have a great week 😊❤️
They are so exotic looking - sounds as though yours have the same taste in seeds - that must be fabulous watching them on the sunflowers - I must grow some teasel - it's a classic Winter scene for artists - goldfinches on teasel in the countryside. All the best. 🌺
This was very informative video Paul! Nice !
Glad you liked it Nadine.
Love your plant choices. The prices are less than half of what I’d have to pay at a good garden center.
That's interesting that prices vary so much. I am very happy - the larger plants are of course much more.
Interesting what you are talking about
Glad you liked it.
I like planst❤️👍
Me too, so nice to watch them grow and thrive.
Nice selections.
Thanks for popping by Chris.
I feel like hydrangeas in Oklahoma or the one thing you can count on other than a weed
I also really like hydrangeas.
Hi, paul its barb are irises are up I'm trying to get the pictures sent to you I just took them cleaned out all of the Tulips cut them and clean them and the daffodils are cut down we're going to start cutting and getting ready for the raised beds and as soon as we get photos I'll put those through to you I think you will enjoy them. I am using water features I found them on the Wish app I don't know if you have access to them are solar powered little pumps that float around in the pool of water or wherever you need them they come with a different adapters they're often they are just really great the birds really like them.
Hi Barb, fantastic - you are obviously really enjoying your garden, all the daffodils, irises and tulips - I am sure it all looks lovely and what a good idea having solar powered pumps for the bird baths.
@@paultsworld trying to send the photos
Thank you. I've not received them yet.
Perhaps the pictures are too big for email?
@@paultsworld here I'm going to try sending
barbmaki@yahoo.com
Paul, I hit the like button before I see the videos. . We cut back a sprawling Acer, and several Buxus, all too big and a couple of Hydrangeas would be good; pro tem, two Tree Peonies in pots are under the two cherries there with terrific scent and huge flowers. A tiny red Acer, supermarket 'bin' is so pretty I'll put it there for shelter under two cherry trees. Have you got H. 'Blue Wave'?
Thank you for hitting 'like' button Wendy - so kind. That's interesting you have tree peonies - I have wondered about them? I haven't got blue wave - looks nice though. My lace caps tend to turn a bit pink so I'd need to up the acidity, which is doable. Does look nice though totally blue.
@@paultsworld I forgot, I have 'Blue Bird' too. One of them can be used to make a 'tea'. Rhubarb is just above ground - spare a thought when you make another pie with brown sugar and ginger. Snow on Tues. and the birds' water was frozen all of Wednesday. Three of my Tree Peonies have special compost in plastic pots, easily moved when they flower .Erratic geology here means acidic soil and limestone; never know what will grow where. In bitter wind and rain things still obey some inner clock but some spring blossom will suffer.
Thanks for rhubarb tip. I must get a tree peony sometime, especially if they scent. Are you high up or well off the coast to be getting those freezing temperatures this last week?
@@paultsworld About 600 ft. just N. of Kendal en -oute to Shap and literally on the serious snow line. Otherwise we get everything chucked at us from Morecambe Bay through a dip in the SW hillside, and from the NW a gap in the fells hurls the wild Irish Sea wet stuff. E. and NE is marginally 'sheltered'. There's a lot of Siberia in that word marginally. It can drizzle in Kendal when we have 2 ft. of snow or the gritters are out.
Yes, you are quite high - what a difference it makes to the weather. Sounds as though everything is chucked at you. I miss a lot of the rain from the Irish Sea as it either heads over to you or Manchester or simply falls on N.Wales. But when it's a glorious day your area - it's fabulous!
I am new to your TH-cam channel! Hi! I have bought some beautiful perennials from Waitrose this year but my favourite online shop is Secret Gardening Club.
Welcome to my channel Jo! And thank you for mentioning where you shop online - I’m going to check them out.
Really enjoyed your video 😍😘
Ah, thank you - I appreciate it!
So interesting x
Thanks Maggie.
Nice video
Thanks!
Paul should I always cut back herbals perennials in autumn May I ask please? Total novice really! Thanks for excellent descriptions in a normal way, especially suits ‘A gardening want to be but novice of many years’ who manages to keep the odd bit alive...
I am pleased you are enjoying your gardening Sue - you may not be an expert (neither am I) but we have experts on our side - the plants! Give them half a chance: compost, food, sun, water and they know what to do.
You can cut back those perennials in Autumn to tidy them up - or you could leave them till early Spring just as they are starting to grow again. It's your choice, they don't mind either way.
@@paultsworld Thanks Paul this is a helpful tip, I hope it’s ok to ask as I watch your videos, and you can always ignore ok, I won’t be insulted. Your video on watching the sun over the course of the day to check the area best suited to the particular plants was such a simple idea (no insulate intended with this comment) and so helpful... I never thought to do something like this, and your comment about moving a plant should it not be doing well to another area, nothing to loose in trying this... so guess I’m doing a little garden investigation today and setting a plan for myself.
Ask away Sue, it's great when we all learn together. I am pleased you have got some ideas from my videos, it makes making them so worthwhile for me and leaving comments and questions is what makes the channel thrive. Oh yes, simple ideas are the best! Good luck with your garden planning.
Absolutely Loved this! 🤩 ....Paul, did you pot up your hydrangeas with multi purpose compost or ericaceous compost please? I’ve only every used multi purpose compost with mine before but I note that you mentioned in previous videos that you plant them in an ericaceous bed With azaleas. I didn’t know they needed to be ericaceous so am thinking of repotting (I’m a container gardener) in ericaceous this year 🤷🏼♀️ what are your thoughts? ☺️
Great, glad you liked my video Dawn!
You can choose which compost - however two points: I have heard they respond and take up nutrients better in ericaceous compost and secondly if you have the mophead or lacecap hydrangeas they will be more blue in ericaceous and more red/pink in alkaline (multipurpose) compost.
The paniculata hydrangeas' colour isn't affected by the PH of the soil.
Having said all that - I always put mine in ericaceous compost and give them ericaceous (azalea) food. If yours are doing well and happy I'd leave them - but if you want to refresh the container and give them an 'umph' you could try ericaceous compost and food.
Hope that helps.
@@paultsworld that’s brilliant advice. That makes complete sense as mine are all mop heads/lace caps and all pink! They are doing well (thanks to your previous video giving me the confidence to prune them correctly!) so think I’ll try as you suggest by refreshing with ericaceous and a bit of my azalea feed! Thanks Paul! 👍🏻☺️
Hey, that's going to be an interesting experiment Dawn - you'll have to let me know if the colour changed! Give them a good water afterwards to settle them in!
Hi Paul, I wonder if you have any advice on dog friendly shrubs/plants/flowers? We have a 13 week old puppy and I’ve just spent the last week removing plants that are deemed poisonous according to several websites. Naturally he wants to chew everything right now! 😫 Some sites give conflicting advice like Lavender is poisonous/toxic then others say it’s ideal for dogs!?? 🤷🏻♀️ Very confusing! We want to add some more plants but no idea where to start! Many thanks! Loving the videos by the way!
Glad you like the videos - thank you. I can only think that you could google 'dog friendly plants'. As a starter I would say many woodland and native wild plants are poisonous - so maybe stick to the highly cultivated shrubs and perennials. As a starter these would be OK for you: snapdragons, Michaelmas daisies, camellias, rose, sunflowers, elaeagnus, centaurea (cornflower), impatiens and calendula. Good luck and enjoy your puppy.
@@paultsworld Thanks for your advice Paul, I will keep that list for my trip to the garden centre
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Excellent!
Paul, what is the shrub in the ground behind you?
Hi, it is a spirea bridal wreath. Nice isn't it! It's just coming into flower now.
I live near Loughton so what zone would I be in?
According to a map I have just looked at, it says your area has an average low temperature of -3.9c to -1.1c which puts you in Zone 9b.
These zones of course only reflect the harshness of the Winter and which plants would survive your average Winter. So on average your Winters are a fraction milder than mine.
To read more about these zones google "USDA zones"
Thompson and Morgan are reviewed very badly ,both for seeds and plants.Polemonium is known as Jacobs Ladder.
Thank you for letting me know the common name of Polemonium.
My own personal review so far is positive - apart from the Glam Rock hydrangea which was under par. However I am confident I can get it to thrive.
Always laugh at you correcting yourself with your on screen captions . When it comes to ordering plants online i always use Crocus ... not the cheapest but the best and they are always well packaged. I'm planning on getting two hydrangeas off Crocus. , one called Little Lime and one called Garden Romance.
Glad you've done well with crocus - I have some plants on order with them as well - they should arrive next week. Those hydrangeas sound nice - how big will they be?
@@paultsworld Garden Romance is 1m x 1m and little lime is 1.2m x 1.2m , both are on their website .
Sorry Big D - I meant how big will they be when they arrive in the post 🤣. I’ll have a look on their website. Cheers. I’m pleased you like the captions 😎
I've just had a look at Garden Romance - that's really attractive.