Thanks, but Chelsea Chop is no plant. It is a cut in Mai to strengthen the plant and to to prevent it from tipping forward as it grows larger (as explained in the video too!)
No need to reply--I just wanted to say thank you so much for these wonderful videos. Beautiful, soothing, informative--it really is like a lovely mini vacation!
I would have never guessed that this was zone 4-9! Simply breathtaking! Thank you so much for the wonderful tour of Doddingtom Gardens and also the important information that you pointed out!
Just to clarify - the individual plants are hardy in various zones and I often feature plants that are happy in a wide range of zones, but this garden itself isn't zone 4-9, even though many of the plants in it would be fine in those zones.
I am from Pakistan and I live in Lahore. I love gardens but as I don't have one, I use my enormous terrace to potter and enjoy both flowers, herbs and even a few vegetables. Our summers ate hot! Pottolacca- I haven't a clue how it's spelt, does really well in pots and this summer I have scores of small bees humming and enjoying these vibrant flowers after the lush petunias faded away beginning of summer. My roses need a lot of care. I just saw a video where you talked about black spot. I am really pleased as I had just noticed a couple of leaves decaying with a similar fungus. So thank you.
I love your post so interesting, I’m in north uk, we lack sun. So far yesterday was the first time it appeared and was warm enough 20 degrees to enjoy. Hearing about your wealth of sun got my imagination going imagining what that must be like ! Best wishes and happy gardening to you
I’ve watched many of your videos several times. So much great information and so many wonderful ideas for this Pacific Northwest gardener! Thank you. Your voice is so soothing, I should try listening at bedtime to get to sleep!
Heh, heh, I noticed that too. But the dirt under nail Polish….how would you know when you are done scrubbing? Anyways maybe she had a manicure for the video..
She didn't have a manicure for the video because she only had a couple of hours' notice (if that) that I was coming and no manicurists in deepest countryside!
Alexandra, I think you are my favorite garden you tuber. I find such peace and knowledge watching your videos. You are right up there with Ygarden, Hortube, and the emEnthusiastic gardener for me , anyways. I ve been seriously gardening for ten years now and have learned that I think english gardens are my favorite. I love the flowy flowery beds with the formal structures of evergreens. Thank you so much for starting my Saturday mornings on a good note. Have a wonderful werkend.
So wish I could plant as these gardens are-without fencing to keep out deer and rabbits. The deer would make Swiss cheese out of those hedges. All so beautiful-thank you!
I adore your channel! I’ve learned soo much from your videos! In American, it’s so hard to find gardening information for creating English style gardens, which is what I love. Your videos are helping me adjust and fine tune my borders, and they are looking amazing! Much thanks!
This is the third Middlesized Garden video I've watched and I've now subscribed. The gardens are always beautiful, the production quality is great, and the content well thought-out.
Thank you so much Alexandra,I have taken lots of notes as usual.Am on a huge learning process and look forward to Saturdays to hear all your tips.Your time and effort is much appreciated.
I live in NZ & am currently doing a horticultural course. I play your videos while I'm studying. You are so inspiring! I have learnt so much useful information from you. Keep up the good work! 💕
A recommendation from zone 6a - I just planted calamint for the first time earlier this summer. (Not catmint but calamint). It has not stopped blooming and looks fresh and plump in this crazy heat wave we’ve all been enduring! I got the soft powdery blue variety (cloud blue, I believe it’s called) but the white is equally lovely. It doesn’t look terribly impressive in photos but let me attest to its power in the garden at the front of the border. And the bees love it, too! 🐝 I did a row of calamint, lady’s mantel and crystal blue profusion salvia and it’s stellar!!
Always grateful for your content! I'm especially happy when your videos spotlight specific species and their care needs - that helps one to focus on plant material that excites.
I love this border series. All of the videos are chocked full of great information and are giving me a lot of ideas. Thank you so much for providing this information and beautiful gardens.
Hi Alexandra, Thank you for sharing this with us! I love your video so much and I wish I could subscribe twice. Instead, I watch your videos multiple times. They are always very informative and well presented. Cheers from Canada!
In Kentucky, I save many many Middle-Sized vids to a favorite garden playlist. Alexandra's Middle-Sized Garden channel, Linda Vater (USA), & John Lord (Ireland), seem to be the most-viewed (of course !!! )
I’m new to the gardening world. I love your videos, they are very informative. It is so interesting how there are so many different ideas and designs. 🌼🐝🪴
Thank you for this informative video. I live in the US Zone 5 and I am on a sand ridge....quite a challenge for growing flowers. Your tips were very helpful.
This video persuaded me to try an Astrantia this coming season. I am focusing on plants for native bees, and I hope that they will like the Astrantia. Thanks for introducing me to this flower.
No, it wasn't, but the plants and tips are appropriate for a middle-sized, or even a small garden. I decided that there is so much expertise in the larger gardens so I would feature them, provided the advice was transferrable and equally valid for small and middlesized gardens.
Hi, I really love your channel, as a new Gardner from the weat coast of Ireland I am so excited and nervous to be starting my new garden but your videos are so useful, full of common sense keep up the good work! Tomás
Thank you so very much…I absolutely love your channel!! Each video is the perfect combo of tips and inspiration. I subscribe to a couple English gardening magazines. Your videos and the magazines have helped me create an amazing perennial garden on a slope in US zone 5. I have designed it to reflect an English border garden and planned the plants to provide year-round interest. So the long-blooming plants video gave me some great new ideas. I love the chelsea chop!! My gardens delight so many walkers and even motorists. They often stop if they see me out working and are so appreciative. It’s my way of sharing the gift and for me, the ultimate joy of gardening-sharing moments of beauty with others. Gardens and flowers do touch hearts…Happy Digging
My favourite long flowering plants are Alstroemerias. Hardy osteospermums. Erodium manescavii. They flower for months And I just remembered perennial nemesias
Doddington Place Gardens, where this video was filmed, is short-listed for Historic Houses Garden of the Year 2021. It really is a beautiful garden, and is open to the public two days a week between April and October.
Wow! Such generous, good advice. Thank you for your consistent, concise, expert opinion on making smart choices and thereby enjoying the gardening experience so much more. You are the best.
Hi Alexander, thank you so much for the informative chat, now we can pick and choose what we wish to grow. There are quite a few old time favourites which always work and compliment our gardens. It's lovely to grow perennials with the roses, each can compliment the other and also helping butterflies and bees with their pollination schedule for the day. Doddington Place has a beautiful garden lay-out alas, they do require the assistance of extra hands! It was so enjoyable to watch as always. Have a wonderful day, regards Elize :)
I’m going to try the tip about cutting back the front of a tall flowering perennial clump,and then doing the same to the back later on. I have clumps of Shasta daisies that may do well with that.
I do that with Shasta daisies, and it works very well. I’ve shaped them into a rounded mound, as well as staggering heights of flowers throughout. You can really do whatever you want. Sometimes I do a mild cutting back of some stalks, followed by more cutting back of other stalks a week later.
I love these tips - especially since I am a New York gardener and seek out the other variants of the "top sellers." Thanks for a great focused presentation - it is certainly one of your strengths.
Thank you so much for this beautiful and informative video. Your videos do inspire me and I am going to try growing penstemon, that was my striking choice, thank you🙏🏼🌸🌺🌼
Thanks Alexandra. A lovely informative video. I’ve been trying to identify the nautia Macedonica for a while now. I love the one with the almost pale grey leaves. I find that some geraniums keep on flowering like Rozanne but others are over after the first flush of flowers. Most geraniums are good value though.
Generally lovely and very informative video... the only topic that maybe you could include would be soil type? We have a very wet clay garden, and just can't grow most of these (roses, geraniums and euphorbia yes... none of the others will last more than one season!)
Thank you. That is interesting. I will certainly do damp garden planting at some point, although it will require me to be quite a long way from home as it is hideously dry here.
At first, I was disappointed upon clicking to see that these recommendations are for England! I initially assumed that my climate would render the recommendations meaningless, but I found that, even though I'm in Texas, there are some useful and interesting plant ideas that I can look into. I felt really at home when the "Chelsea chop" came up. It has a name! I began to do that to my John Fanick phlox years ago - because it'd rain, and they'd flop into the mud and never really recover. I had to do SOMETHING, and although I wasn't sure if it was the BEST thing to do, picking up the flower heads out of the mud, then spending our Very Long summer with a messed up, trashed phlox was NOT the ideal. Nice to have a green light from the experts. It works. Smaller, more diffuse heads are fine if I don't want them for cutting, and I'd rather have a productive garden display throughout the season. So, I can't plant your recommended varieties, but we have native and adapted, and you've given me some new ideas to intersperse with the canna lilies, lantana, hiibiscus and bluebonnets.
Thank you! And you make a good point - the plants work in quite a wide number of zones, but not all would survive in Texas. But ideas and techniques work across zones.
1. Penstemon
2. Euphorbia
3. Geranium
4. Chelsea chop
5. Astrantias
6. Roses
7. Anthemis tinctoria
Thanks, but Chelsea Chop is no plant. It is a cut in Mai to strengthen the plant and to to prevent it from tipping forward as it grows larger (as explained in the video too!)
The fourth plant is Knautia :)
Geraniums are fantastic plants.
So easy to grow in any soil , and so many varieties.
Yes they are!
You're such a fantastic presenter. Always showing various gardens, great subject content, and always asking the best questions.
Thank you
How elegant you look! Like a flower yourself. So well spoken and full of practical tips
You are a treasure
Gives an entirely new meaning to I love Lucy. I could listen to her all day. Swoon.
Your garden is BREATHTAKING
It's a beautiful garden, but it's not mine - it's Doddington Place - and lovely, as you say.
No need to reply--I just wanted to say thank you so much for these wonderful videos. Beautiful, soothing, informative--it really is like a lovely mini vacation!
I could not be more glad of finding this channel. Thanks and congrats
Glad you enjoy it!
Loved that tip at the end: clip 1/2 the chamomile, then the other 1/2 later.👍🏽
Euphorbia!!!!! Amazing, brilliant, reliable, drought tolerant! Reseeds freely! My number one go to in drought stricken Northern California!
It is!
I love how you organize your videos, and how you include information about the plants. This is a great channel.
Thank you!
This channel is literally my happy place. Never stop!
Thank you!
I would have never guessed that this was zone 4-9! Simply breathtaking! Thank you so much for the wonderful tour of Doddingtom Gardens and also the important information that you pointed out!
Just to clarify - the individual plants are hardy in various zones and I often feature plants that are happy in a wide range of zones, but this garden itself isn't zone 4-9, even though many of the plants in it would be fine in those zones.
My ground orchids never stopped blooming all summer! Definite favorite
I am from Pakistan and I live in Lahore. I love gardens but as I don't have one, I use my enormous terrace to potter and enjoy both flowers, herbs and even a few vegetables. Our summers ate hot! Pottolacca- I haven't a clue how it's spelt, does really well in pots and this summer I have scores of small bees humming and enjoying these vibrant flowers after the lush petunias faded away beginning of summer.
My roses need a lot of care. I just saw a video where you talked about black spot. I am really pleased as I had just noticed a couple of leaves decaying with a similar fungus. So thank you.
I love your post so interesting, I’m in north uk, we lack sun. So far yesterday was the first time it appeared and was warm enough 20 degrees to enjoy. Hearing about your wealth of sun got my imagination going imagining what that must be like ! Best wishes and happy gardening to you
I learn so much and gather such inspiration. Thank you! My favorite part? Your "goodbye". Puts a smile on my face every time ❣️
Thank you!
That’s my favorite too 🥰
I’ve watched many of your videos several times. So much great information and so many wonderful ideas for this Pacific Northwest gardener! Thank you. Your voice is so soothing, I should try listening at bedtime to get to sleep!
Thank you!
Can I just say I’m so impressed with Lucy’s manicure 😂 how on earth does she keep her nails looking so elegant while being head gardener!
Heh, heh, I noticed that too. But the dirt under nail Polish….how would you know when you are done scrubbing? Anyways maybe she had a manicure for the video..
She didn't have a manicure for the video because she only had a couple of hours' notice (if that) that I was coming and no manicurists in deepest countryside!
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden but she did! Check out her red nails in your video! Lol
Gel nail varnish. Done in a salon. If done properly it last for weeks and is as tough as nails !
@@elsagrace3893that could be a concern unless you get a clear one. I save all my washing up till the end of the day. That usually is good enough.
Thank you for another wonderful episode. I always learn something useful and appreciate the amount of work you do to help us improve our gardens.
Thank you!
Alexandra, I think you are my favorite garden you tuber. I find such peace and knowledge watching your videos. You are right up there with Ygarden, Hortube, and the emEnthusiastic gardener for me , anyways. I ve been seriously gardening for ten years now and have learned that I think english gardens are my favorite. I love the flowy flowery beds with the formal structures of evergreens. Thank you so much for starting my Saturday mornings on a good note. Have a wonderful werkend.
Thank you so much, I like YGarden and Horttube too, and will check out the Enthusiastic Gardener.
Goodness me thank you Adra 😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener 😊
So wish I could plant as these gardens are-without fencing to keep out deer and rabbits. The deer would make Swiss cheese out of those hedges. All so beautiful-thank you!
Deer reportedly don't eat boxwood or yew! I have deer and elk to deal with!
Thank you for bringing the various ways to use the Chelsea Chop to our garden’s advantage.
Appreciate you take the time to be aware of how a plant behaves in different countries!
Thank you!
I adore your channel! I’ve learned soo much from your videos! In American, it’s so hard to find gardening information for creating English style gardens, which is what I love. Your videos are helping me adjust and fine tune my borders, and they are looking amazing! Much thanks!
You are so welcome!
What a fab channel! Easy to understand for the novice gardener as well as the more experienced person. Best youtube find i have made. Thank you.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing all your tips on keeping our garden beds in full bloom. 👍❤️😊
Thank you!
I like how full the gardens are
Thanks so much! You have inspired me to take another trip to the garden centre. 🌼
I hope it wasn't too expensive!
7 plants.... nahhh
6 plants and one bonus plant... YEEEESSSS!
That made me smile!
Thanks so much for lovely video with all the colourful flowering bushes for borders, useful information Thanks to your guests too.
Tqtq...💝💐
Thank you!
just started watching the video and already love how you're explaining everything in such detail!
Thank you!
This is the third Middlesized Garden video I've watched and I've now subscribed. The gardens are always beautiful, the production quality is great, and the content well thought-out.
Also, there's a pale green plant with large leaves at 7:00. I'm quite curious what that might be!
Thank you so much!
I've had a look but I can't quite make it out, sorry!
Such a great informative video. Thankyou for condensing years of your experience in a short video.
Thank you so much Alexandra,I have taken lots of notes as usual.Am on a huge learning process and look forward to Saturdays to hear all your tips.Your time and effort is much appreciated.
That's great to hear, thank you so much for saying so.
I live in NZ & am currently doing a horticultural course. I play your videos while I'm studying. You are so inspiring! I have learnt so much useful information from you. Keep up the good work! 💕
Thank you so much, I'm very pleased to hear that.
Fantastic channel! Really appreciate how you go to these lovely public gardens and interview professional gardeners
Thank you!
This is a marvelous episode of your show. Thank you for posting. DA
Thank you!
Tulips only has a short life thank you.
What a delightful find you are! Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
As always, I come away with significant top tips! Thank you
Happy to hear that!
Fabulous video! Thank you!!
What a super channel, I have only just discovered you. Such wonderful information! Thank you!
Thank you!
Great tips here! Really enjoying the videos.
A recommendation from zone 6a - I just planted calamint for the first time earlier this summer. (Not catmint but calamint). It has not stopped blooming and looks fresh and plump in this crazy heat wave we’ve all been enduring! I got the soft powdery blue variety (cloud blue, I believe it’s called) but the white is equally lovely. It doesn’t look terribly impressive in photos but let me attest to its power in the garden at the front of the border. And the bees love it, too! 🐝 I did a row of calamint, lady’s mantel and crystal blue profusion salvia and it’s stellar!!
🌿🌳ALWAYS INFORMATIVE 🪴ALWAYS ENJOYABLE 🌿🌳ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL 🌿🌳
Thank you so much!
Always grateful for your content! I'm especially happy when your videos spotlight specific species and their care needs - that helps one to focus on plant material that excites.
Thank you!
Thank you so much and family members and friends so much!together!and a lot of videos show me to America today and Tomorrow
I love this border series. All of the videos are chocked full of great information and are giving me a lot of ideas. Thank you so much for providing this information and beautiful gardens.
You are so welcome!
Hi Alexandra, Thank you for sharing this with us! I love your video so much and I wish I could subscribe twice. Instead, I watch your videos multiple times. They are always very informative and well presented. Cheers from Canada!
Thank you! And it's always so interesting to hear where everyone is from.
In Kentucky, I save many many Middle-Sized vids to a favorite garden playlist.
Alexandra's Middle-Sized Garden channel, Linda Vater (USA), & John Lord (Ireland), seem to be the most-viewed (of course !!! )
I love your videos Alexandra!! I really appreciate it
Thank you!
Nicely done.
I did a Chelsea chop to my salvias for the first time this year, so glad I did! They’re coming back beautifully!
Well done, I always do it completely convinced I'm going to damage the plant. But it turns out fine in the end.
A few of these recommended flowers will add so much to my borders that need filling in. The tip for repetition is well taken! 😅💚
Thank you!
Thank you. Loved this 💚
Great information
Glad it was helpful!
Magnificent plants and installation ❣
Jerri, look at bird bath
I’m new to the gardening world. I love your videos, they are very informative. It is so interesting how there are so many different ideas and designs. 🌼🐝🪴
Thank you, that's lovely to hear.
Thank you! I just love your channel, it is always so interesting and educational!
Thank you!
Loved this video as most educational .Weeds are universal and how to stop them is the only tip i need .Though all of your work is worth watching
Thank you!
Thank you for this informative video. I live in the US Zone 5 and I am on a sand ridge....quite a challenge for growing flowers. Your tips were very helpful.
Thank you all for all gardening tips wow
This video persuaded me to try an Astrantia this coming season. I am focusing on plants for native bees, and I hope that they will like the Astrantia. Thanks for introducing me to this flower.
That was a middle sized garden ???!!
No, it wasn't, but the plants and tips are appropriate for a middle-sized, or even a small garden. I decided that there is so much expertise in the larger gardens so I would feature them, provided the advice was transferrable and equally valid for small and middlesized gardens.
😂 same reaction. I wish my plants do as well as hers. I watch for inspiration and to keep trying.
“Middle” as in between the palace and the lake house.
Thanks excellent advise 😁
Need more about The Blue Campaign esp since Kent residents have been complaining about roadside verges.
Hi, I really love your channel, as a new Gardner from the weat coast of Ireland I am so excited and nervous to be starting my new garden but your videos are so useful, full of common sense keep up the good work! Tomás
Thank you so much, and good luck with your new garden.
Thank you so very much…I absolutely love your channel!! Each video is the perfect combo of tips and inspiration. I subscribe to a couple English gardening magazines. Your videos and the magazines have helped me create an amazing perennial garden on a slope in US zone 5. I have designed it to reflect an English border garden and planned the plants to provide year-round interest. So the long-blooming plants video gave me some great new ideas. I love the chelsea chop!! My gardens delight so many walkers and even motorists. They often stop if they see me out working and are so appreciative. It’s my way of sharing the gift and for me, the ultimate joy of gardening-sharing moments of beauty with others. Gardens and flowers do touch hearts…Happy Digging
Thank you So much, love the sound of your perennial slope.
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What a beautiful selection. Once our heatwave subsides, I'll see what is available locally. Thanks as always.
Good luck with the heatwave, it sounds overwhelming.
My favourite long flowering plants are Alstroemerias. Hardy osteospermums. Erodium manescavii. They flower for months And I just remembered perennial nemesias
Great suggestions!
What amazing videos you put out every week!!! Thank you for all the knowledge you have given me. Sending love from NYC in America. God bless.
Thank you!
Doddington Place Gardens, where this video was filmed, is short-listed for Historic Houses Garden of the Year 2021. It really is a beautiful garden, and is open to the public two days a week between April and October.
🥰
As always, another video full of useful info. Thanks, Alexandra :)
Thank you!
Beautiful garden
So beautiful 😍💖
Another wonderful video! I'm so happy to learn about these long blooming flowers. Thank you so much, I'm adding many of these to my garden.
You are so welcome!
Wow! Such generous, good advice. Thank you for your consistent, concise, expert opinion on making smart choices and thereby enjoying the gardening experience so much more. You are the best.
Thank you!
Great choices. I planted Rosa Felicia decades ago. Not in the most ideal site, but it is so reliable and beautiful in my zone 5 garden!
I think I should try it, although there is hardly a bare patch of soil for it.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden worth it!
Hi Alexander, thank you so much for the informative chat, now we can pick and choose what we wish to grow. There are quite a few old time favourites which always work and compliment our gardens. It's lovely to grow perennials with the roses, each can compliment the other and also helping butterflies and bees with their pollination schedule for the day. Doddington Place has a beautiful garden lay-out alas, they do require the assistance of extra hands! It was so enjoyable to watch as always. Have a wonderful day, regards Elize :)
Thank you!
I’m going to try the tip about cutting back the front of a tall flowering perennial clump,and then doing the same to the back later on. I have clumps of Shasta daisies that may do well with that.
Hope it goes well!
I do that with Shasta daisies, and it works very well. I’ve shaped them into a rounded mound, as well as staggering heights of flowers throughout. You can really do whatever you want. Sometimes I do a mild cutting back of some stalks, followed by more cutting back of other stalks a week later.
I love these tips - especially since I am a New York gardener and seek out the other variants of the "top sellers." Thanks for a great focused presentation - it is certainly one of your strengths.
Thank you!
Absolutely breathtaking!
Hello Alexandra, what a peaceful place, I can understand why you like it. Great Video and there are 3 of my favorit plats in it. ❣
Once again, wonderful.
Thank you!
I LOVE your videos! They’re are so well thought out and curated. Thank you SO much!!! 😊🙌🥰💜🌷🌺🌹🌸
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this beautiful and informative video. Your videos do inspire me and I am going to try growing penstemon, that was my striking choice, thank you🙏🏼🌸🌺🌼
Hi, enjoy Jamaica🇯🇲 birds, look at bird bath
This was so helpful in trying to figure out what types of plants to grow for the summer here in mid Missouri usa. We are zone 6/7
Fabulous channel, such great information
Thanks so much!
Thanks Alexandra. A lovely informative video. I’ve been trying to identify the nautia Macedonica for a while now. I love the one with the almost pale grey leaves. I find that some geraniums keep on flowering like Rozanne but others are over after the first flush of flowers. Most geraniums are good value though.
Thank you! Good point about the geraniums.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you. I subscribed and looking forward to seeing more of your videos!❤️
Thank you!
I have just found you ! What a fantastic host and conversation on another level with the guests. Well done
Thank you so much!
Thankyou
Your videos are wonderful, helpful and very enlightening x
Thank you so much for sharing x
Glad you like them!
Lovely.... thank you.💐
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
Generally lovely and very informative video... the only topic that maybe you could include would be soil type? We have a very wet clay garden, and just can't grow most of these (roses, geraniums and euphorbia yes... none of the others will last more than one season!)
Thank you. That is interesting. I will certainly do damp garden planting at some point, although it will require me to be quite a long way from home as it is hideously dry here.
Being from zone 5, it can get down lower than -20 and that is Fahrenheit not Celsius.
It gets to -30 Celsius here and zone 4 is colder still.
At first, I was disappointed upon clicking to see that these recommendations are for England! I initially assumed that my climate would render the recommendations meaningless, but I found that, even though I'm in Texas, there are some useful and interesting plant ideas that I can look into.
I felt really at home when the "Chelsea chop" came up. It has a name! I began to do that to my John Fanick phlox years ago - because it'd rain, and they'd flop into the mud and never really recover. I had to do SOMETHING, and although I wasn't sure if it was the BEST thing to do, picking up the flower heads out of the mud, then spending our Very Long summer with a messed up, trashed phlox was NOT the ideal. Nice to have a green light from the experts. It works. Smaller, more diffuse heads are fine if I don't want them for cutting, and I'd rather have a productive garden display throughout the season.
So, I can't plant your recommended varieties, but we have native and adapted, and you've given me some new ideas to intersperse with the canna lilies, lantana, hiibiscus and bluebonnets.
Thank you! And you make a good point - the plants work in quite a wide number of zones, but not all would survive in Texas. But ideas and techniques work across zones.
Wonderful plants the knautia.
I loved the video and the way you present is easy to understand. Many thanks.😊
Thank you!