Karen is the cream also a tanner? Looks beautiful. Thanks for taking me to see Monty Don. Sorry it was raining. Yes I would embellish your stylish poncho. Get Catherine to use her cricket and create a flower border. They will sell like hotcakes. ha ha Flower beds are really pretty and full. Love all your grasses. Enlarge your flower beds and move them forward to plant everything that will need to be moved. It will provide space to plant out everything. Then you will not have to worry about the builders tearing everything up. Have a great week. Send Texas some rain. Thank you.
Hello Karen, I know your pain in planting and find everything been eaten by slugs. A few years ago I had some really bad back problems yet I was not going to be put off planting lots of lovely lobelia to edge my boarders that went around my garden on 3 sides in raised beds. It took all my strength and energy to get on my hands and knees and plant all the way round, it took me ages, it hurt like hell, but I perservered and managed it. The next morning I went out to see my hard work and I was presented with rows and rows of little stalks, the little b*****ds and eaten every single one! I have learnt over the years, and I now don't have many problems with slugs and snails, I keep a chemical free garden and use natural remedies and bit by bit, I find I can live along side these creatures. Sure I get the odd plant eaten (I still cannot grow hostas so quite simply I don't) but egg shells, gravel, all sorts of ways help, but nature sorts it out in the long run in my garden right now. Your garden is lovely and your enthusiasmn is infectious, so you keep at it and don't lose faith, you're doing a grand job x Thank you
Aw thank you so much for that. Also, I’m so sad the little feckers ate all of your newly planted blooms!! That sore, tired feeling in the evening after a good day’s planting is great, but less so when everything is gone the next day!
Hello Karen 😊 Between the slugs and the squirrel...... well, I get how you are feeling 😢 Salvaged what I could, and I'm now thinking 🤔 winter veg. So I'm hoping and praying this will be OK. Love your content, and your garden enthusiasm is contagious. Between you and Catherine, I often have giggles to myself over some of the videos I've watched and the situation I'm trying to deal with in the garden. Complete joy 😊
Hello how fun to see Monty Don. In the states we put beer in a cup and sink it in soil to lip of cup, the yeast from beer attracts slugs they drink and drown. My aziatic lilies were defoliated by a black bug, never before I think from so much rain. Take care.
Happy Sunday Karen! Thanks for the extra footage of your trip to see Monty Don with Catherine and Nadine! Lots of rain but you looked like you all enjoyed yourselves. The slugs are brutal this year. They are feasting on my cabbage as I write this😡My worst nemesis are the cucumber beetles. So annoying. I use food grade diatomaceous earth to help with them. Have a lovely week ahead!
Summer is a great time to build any structural supports for vines, birds, bees and storage for bulbs ane the potatoes you are going to harvest. So love that you were at Chelsea and saw Monty!🤩
I think I’m in limbo this year with structures in the garden etc with the upcoming work, but I’m definitely going to plan what I want for next year’s garden!
You are not the only one Karen I have not gone this year to any garden centers plus no rain and tons of extreme heat feel your pain hugs support ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
Hi Karen, I live in the UK, the slugs have eaten everything, the sun flowers I planted from seed, lots of other plants I grown from seed, every time I plant a new plant it gets eaten, I think I planted my tomato plants out in there pots when they were a bit smaller then I usually do, they started to eat them, so I bought a .white fine plastic mesh you can buy to keep bugs off, it lets the light and water through, until they grow larger,it worked they are now large enough to take it off, good for veggies starting. Slugs are not so keen on snapdragons I have learned😁🌸🌼
Next year put dry grass around your veg. I went to Kew Gardens and when you go through the gardens what evers on the left handside is on the right handside. You should go with Catherine to Chelsea next year.
I’ll definitely have to go back to Kew and have a proper wander! Would love to go to Chelsea if they give me a press pass! Fingers crossed, next year 🤞
I saw something in a famous garden in Harrogate years ago called strulch I think, that was in all their beds. I think it was a combination of two things - maybe straw and mulch?🤔
Oh Karen, those damn snails! I planted lettuce and carrots, and I was so excited to see the lettuce had sprouted and was 3 inches tall! I couldn't wait to check on them the next day...nothing but nubs were left! I didn't see any signs of snails, but I did see lots of rabbit poops. Ugh! I have a helpful tip for snails, my grandma had a beautiful garden, and she would sprinkle coffee grounds around the base of her plants to repel snails. You can buy a repellent to put around your vegetables and plants a copper mesh I saw online. I hope this helps.🤗
That’s David Austin Queen of Sweden. If you wait until It is a bit colder, you can order it as a bare root online. By summer time next year it should be settled in and flowering.
Hi Karen, I enjoy your vlogs and your sense of humour, very much. I just wanted to say don't move your buddleia bush from your back garden altogether. As you will know its known as the butterfly bush because of the nectar content. Apart from the scientific reasons of good pollination properties. Just to sit and watch the huge variety of butterflies slowly drinking the nectar, sometimes in swarms, seem to destress you really quickly. I like to think its because the flutter of their wings in sunlight are in sync with a heart beat at rest. As for the slugs don't get me started I now find myself reduced to being a night time nutter armed with gloves, a bucket and a torch-Grrrr!
Thanks for watching! I think the buddleia will be too big for that space, take over the border and block off some of the sunlight we get on the patio in the evenings, when we’re out there. I have plenty more plants that will keep the pollinators happy!
So jealous you saw Monty and stayed with Nadine, she's lovely! I put lots of 1p and 2p pieces all around my plants and on the trellises where the leaves are and it does seem to be working fingers crossed, as i think my garden is 'the' nightclub for slugs and snails. I've heard copper wire is effective too xx
Hi good to see you. Yes I agree slugs are rampant this year. I have lost a lot of plants this year. My zinnia were tall but the slugsmunched the stems and that wat that. You put so much time in growing them fro seeds and in a second there gone. Xxxxxxx
I seen on a garden page the guy put bits of wood flat near his plant and he went back it was covered in slugs , I don't know if it will work for me but I'm going to try it.
The slugs have been so bad this year, they have even started to eat my lavender. I’ve been putting down “slug pubs” which seem to be working. Only problem it’s seems such a waste of beer.
I read about putting furry leaved plants amongst the plants that slugs like, as the slugs don't like them. Also that buddleia is an invasive plant. Forget the details but it was amongst talking about plants like Japanese knotweed!
Unfortunately if you haven't managed to control the slug/ snail issue first, they will eat anything no matter how large the plant is. Im just lucky I did not remove my paving slabs this first year of having my garden and went with a container garden instead. So much easier to go around each pot after a rain and pick them up before they cause too much damage. Snails got to my runner beans after they had reached nearly 2 meters in height.
O I´m so sorry. It´s exactly the same in my garden. They eat EVERYTHING. They even were on my tomatoes and onions. Can you believe it? I plantet new salat last week and most of it was gone two days later. And I have very high raised beds - no way is to far for them! I tired very thing. There are just so many - nothing works. It´s frustration!
Really nice to see your footage of Month Don. Lots of lovely plants in your garden, Karen. I love hydrangea too and you have some unusual ones 😍
It's been a terribly wet summer here in the Netherlands too! Lovely content as usual, you're such a joy to listen to
Let’s hope we get a bit more sun for the rest of the summer!
Karen is the cream also a tanner? Looks beautiful. Thanks for taking me to see Monty Don.
Sorry it was raining.
Yes I would embellish your stylish poncho. Get Catherine to use her cricket and create a flower border. They will sell like hotcakes. ha ha
Flower beds are really pretty and full. Love all your grasses. Enlarge your flower beds and move them forward to plant everything that will need to be moved. It will provide space to plant out everything. Then you will not have to worry about the builders tearing everything up.
Have a great week. Send Texas some rain. Thank you.
Hello Karen, I know your pain in planting and find everything been eaten by slugs. A few years ago I had some really bad back problems yet I was not going to be put off planting lots of lovely lobelia to edge my boarders that went around my garden on 3 sides in raised beds. It took all my strength and energy to get on my hands and knees and plant all the way round, it took me ages, it hurt like hell, but I perservered and managed it. The next morning I went out to see my hard work and I was presented with rows and rows of little stalks, the little b*****ds and eaten every single one! I have learnt over the years, and I now don't have many problems with slugs and snails, I keep a chemical free garden and use natural remedies and bit by bit, I find I can live along side these creatures. Sure I get the odd plant eaten (I still cannot grow hostas so quite simply I don't) but egg shells, gravel, all sorts of ways help, but nature sorts it out in the long run in my garden right now. Your garden is lovely and your enthusiasmn is infectious, so you keep at it and don't lose faith, you're doing a grand job x Thank you
Aw thank you so much for that. Also, I’m so sad the little feckers ate all of your newly planted blooms!! That sore, tired feeling in the evening after a good day’s planting is great, but less so when everything is gone the next day!
Hello Karen 😊
Between the slugs and the squirrel...... well, I get how you are feeling 😢
Salvaged what I could, and I'm now thinking 🤔 winter veg.
So I'm hoping and praying this will be OK.
Love your content, and your garden enthusiasm is contagious.
Between you and Catherine, I often have giggles to myself over some of the videos I've watched and the situation I'm trying to deal with in the garden.
Complete joy 😊
Ah I’m so glad we give you a laugh! Hopefully your winter veg will be more successful 😭
Hello how fun to see Monty Don. In the states we put beer in a cup and sink it in soil to lip of cup, the yeast from beer attracts slugs they drink and drown. My aziatic lilies were defoliated by a black bug, never before I think from so much rain. Take care.
Happy Sunday Karen! Thanks for the extra footage of your trip to see Monty Don with Catherine and Nadine! Lots of rain but you looked like you all enjoyed yourselves. The slugs are brutal this year. They are feasting on my cabbage as I write this😡My worst nemesis are the cucumber beetles. So annoying. I use food grade diatomaceous earth to help with them. Have a lovely week ahead!
Summer is a great time to build any structural supports for vines, birds, bees and storage for bulbs ane the potatoes you are going to harvest. So love that you were at Chelsea and saw Monty!🤩
I think I’m in limbo this year with structures in the garden etc with the upcoming work, but I’m definitely going to plan what I want for next year’s garden!
You are not the only one Karen I have not gone this year to any garden centers plus no rain and tons of extreme heat feel your pain hugs support ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
It’s been a tough year for us gardeners!
Hi Karen,
I live in the UK, the slugs have eaten everything, the sun flowers I planted from seed, lots of other plants I grown from seed, every time I plant a new plant it gets eaten,
I think I planted my tomato plants out in there pots when they were a bit smaller then I usually do, they started to eat them, so I bought a .white fine plastic mesh you can buy to keep bugs off, it lets the light and water through, until they grow larger,it worked they are now large enough to take it off, good for veggies starting.
Slugs are not so keen on snapdragons I have learned😁🌸🌼
Oh I must look up that plastic mesh because that sounds like it’d do the job nicely!
Next year put dry grass around your veg. I went to Kew Gardens and when you go through the gardens what evers on the left handside is on the right handside. You should go with Catherine to Chelsea next year.
I’ll definitely have to go back to Kew and have a proper wander! Would love to go to Chelsea if they give me a press pass! Fingers crossed, next year 🤞
I saw something in a famous garden in Harrogate years ago called strulch I think, that was in all their beds. I think it was a combination of two things - maybe straw and mulch?🤔
Oh Karen, those damn snails! I planted lettuce and carrots, and I was so excited to see the lettuce had sprouted and was 3 inches tall! I couldn't wait to check on them the next day...nothing but nubs were left! I didn't see any signs of snails, but I did see lots of rabbit poops. Ugh! I have a helpful tip for snails, my grandma had a beautiful garden, and she would sprinkle coffee grounds around the base of her plants to repel snails. You can buy a repellent to put around your vegetables and plants a copper mesh I saw online. I hope this helps.🤗
Oh that’s good to know re the coffee grounds! Your poor plants!!
So good to see you Karen! Really enjoyed your video. Have a good week.
Thanks so much for watching!
That’s David Austin Queen of Sweden. If you wait until
It is a bit colder, you can order it as a bare root online. By summer time next year it should be settled in and flowering.
Yeah I’m going to hold off and get it later in the year. Trying to resist temptation is hard 😂
Keep your eye on the prize 👍🏻
💚
Hi Karen,
I enjoy your vlogs and your sense of humour, very much.
I just wanted to say don't move your buddleia bush from your back garden altogether. As you will know its known as the butterfly bush because of the nectar content. Apart from the scientific reasons of good pollination properties. Just to sit and watch the huge variety of butterflies slowly drinking the nectar, sometimes in swarms, seem to destress you really quickly. I like to think its because the flutter of their wings in sunlight are in sync with a heart beat at rest.
As for the slugs don't get me started I now find myself reduced to being a night time nutter armed with gloves, a bucket and a torch-Grrrr!
Thanks for watching! I think the buddleia will be too big for that space, take over the border and block off some of the sunlight we get on the patio in the evenings, when we’re out there. I have plenty more plants that will keep the pollinators happy!
So jealous you saw Monty and stayed with Nadine, she's lovely! I put lots of 1p and 2p pieces all around my plants and on the trellises where the leaves are and it does seem to be working fingers crossed, as i think my garden is 'the' nightclub for slugs and snails. I've heard copper wire is effective too xx
Nadine is the best! And it was a joy seeing Monty! That’s a good idea with your 1
and 2p pieces!
Hi good to see you. Yes I agree slugs are rampant this year. I have lost a lot of plants this year. My zinnia were tall but the slugsmunched the stems and that wat that. You put so much time in growing them fro seeds and in a second there gone. Xxxxxxx
My poor zinnia have no leaves on the stems! They’re so top heavy but I’m hopefully that they’ll flower soon 😭
@@Lovelygirliebits I hope so too
I seen on a garden page the guy put bits of wood flat near his plant and he went back it was covered in slugs , I don't know if it will work for me but I'm going to try it.
It’s been such a wet summer so far hasn’t it? Surely there can’t be any more rain left up in the sky? 🙈
We have crocosmias but they are orange! Very brilliant orange. I love your red ones they are so gorgeous.
I have orange ones in the park close to me and I love them!
@@Lovelygirliebits I just got my first crocosmia bloom yesterday! wahoo!
The slugs have been so bad this year, they have even started to eat my lavender. I’ve been putting down “slug pubs” which seem to be working. Only problem it’s seems such a waste of beer.
Hi Karen. You look great in that green color top❤❤
Oh thank you! I have it in pink too and wear them both so much 😂
I read about putting furry leaved plants amongst the plants that slugs like, as the slugs don't like them.
Also that buddleia is an invasive plant. Forget the details but it was amongst talking about plants like Japanese knotweed!
That’s good to know re the furry leaves plants!!
Thank you for sharing with us. Btw - your eyes are the same color as your shirt!😊
Oh thank you! I do love that sweatshirt!
Unfortunately if you haven't managed to control the slug/ snail issue first, they will eat anything no matter how large the plant is. Im just lucky I did not remove my paving slabs this first year of having my garden and went with a container garden instead. So much easier to go around each pot after a rain and pick them up before they cause too much damage.
Snails got to my runner beans after they had reached nearly 2 meters in height.
So frustrating😭😭
Aww Karen I feel your pain , but my pests are deer , they’re eating all my roses!
Pesky deer!!
O I´m so sorry. It´s exactly the same in my garden. They eat EVERYTHING. They even were on my tomatoes and onions. Can you believe it? I plantet new salat last week and most of it was gone two days later. And I have very high raised beds - no way is to far for them! I tired very thing. There are just so many - nothing works. It´s frustration!
They’re just so rampant this year, it’s heartbreaking 😭
Lost ALL my melon seedlings to bugs! 😢
Nooooooo 😭😭😭
The slugs and snails have decimated my dahlias and lupins I’m going to research and replace them with plants that are more slug/snail resistant.
I think so many of us will end up doing that too 😭