August Tour Of The Rose Garden

Welcome to the schools in 58 Wales Therefore in this video I would like to present the This school is the closest one Now I have made a mistake maybe a few years ago I will also make a statement at the end of the situation I would like to make a toast now just to show you some of the kids It's going to end end of the situation like these lies The gladioli are also beautiful I will take care of them from now on I will also write the letters because some of them are rhoi ar ddiwedd yn dda ar hyn o bryd and most of the children I will be talking to later I will continue speaking to them in the other videos This area is ahead ahead of the water I will get it When the leaves are full it's much better like this All things are about lies and they work very well through the water Felly we're here some of our whiskey barrels I hoped the petunias would do a bit better This is what I hope would have been done is using the Water I was trying to save money and also keep the kids after next year I hope to have children after next year I don't want to share them next year if I can help them I have put this here and have greatly appreciated it They are working faster and faster The petunias had not been made We will not be able to float them next They won't give full credit after the water We will be applying for them after the year These petunias are doing well The Ensetee ventricosa morellii looks very good now They are beginning to get a little bit of details about them It's starting to seem like a little bit of details They must be very good at the end of the year It would be interesting We are sure you are happy that we will get the next resource We have this rose here It's about giving fully I have shared it greatly We have a little information about them This is the one who came from the school It is not a fragrant rose and I do not know the true variety of it It's very good so I like it very much I am going to leave it there I have also received one of these children here Hefty knowing like a castor oil plant This is the Zanzibar diversity I have one at the school ahead which they have the most ways here This one is the same way but this one I believe Otherwise it's just a small number of ways here It really makes them ways It can go out through the concrete but I believe the school is not very open This one is somewhat different in a few ways But they look very good What I want to do is give them a steak because last year I had a pan I had children from these roads it was a little from these roads I'm at school and I had to do a few things back To make sure I can continue moving forward here We have taken the same path here This one has done a few small tricks with the petunias We have had a few small showers in the past few days This year is looking very good many displays of the petunias They looked really good back then You can see that the environment here is smaller It's starting to go now I hope we will have a few more ways here by the end of the year I am tired it would go a bit in the last few days I have bread and last days Then look ahead here I am getting other pictures These are smaller ways and they are always a bit interesting on this side Because the environment takes up a lot of the year and the resources Therefore you can see They are starting to go to the flowers These ones here are going to be smaller It is obvious that the first year is the hardest You can get some that will be easier They were the first And they looked very good They are not going to be smaller They have not been given them In the past years The past years they had them These are the resources here and they look very good That year It would be a bit smaller But one of the important things I want to focus on in this video Your leaves through the years So I was planting each one of them They have returned from the mountains So this is the first operating unit They were the first operational unit they were very small and they did not come out much and they had to hope the organization was there They were giving I believe this is one of the weights or maybe two weights right now You can see it is being set in frames it looks very good Now unfortunately You have to go ahead to get the first organization because the llyliau In the discussion Perhaps that's a little because it takes them ese few mean but it means but that's two lies so they will take I have two meters up there where they are common plants making them look like that It's very good because we will be able to see them bigger I have done this thing is the choice of the two lies and there are three of each way Therefore This is the same one you can see this is the same was shown and will be important This body is like the many that are working hard and doing well I'm getting another one of the way this works Here's something Many of the machines have been repaired this month and this is the one that was working The same one is still working Most of them have broken and gone off in a different direction so Next year what I really need to do is make sure I stake them quite early on before they start to lean they're only leaning a tiny bit in spring it seemed Okay but then when they became top-heavy they just started to fall down so these are flowering nicely but they are a bit hard to see because as you can see They're right down near the ground you have to go right down low to get the full effect of them and one of the reasons this is one of my more favorite This one has a really strong fragrance it smells really nice The other ones apart from the pink bright pink from which I'll show you A minute they don't have a really strong fragrance so they're just not quite as good I don't think I like to have fragrant flowers when I can just An extra bonus to having nice-looking flowers is also having one that smells really nice so these will flower probably for a few more weeks and then They'll finish flowering and will just be left with the green leaves I'll deadhead them so they don't put too much energy into the seeds and most of the energy will go into the flowers I then went back into the bulb for sizing up next year that's what I did Last year the stems last year were more similar to this kind of size and they're Much thicker this year because they grew larger the size of your lily plant really depends on how well it did the previous season as it gathers all the energy The energy the plant puts into the bulb this year really determines how big it will get next year and how well it will do next season It's interesting to see there are different varieties and they've all been done differently they're all supposed to grow to a similar size eventually bu Some have done better than others so the one I just showed you has done particularly well this one here isn't one of the better positions because it's away from the hedge and he gets plenty of light but it's also a bit more sheltered than the one I just showed you but you can see there's three Of them here they'really nice dark leaves and they're looking really healthy and I've got quite a few flowers on them now but they just haven't grown They are as tall and they are not much taller than they were last year so these are sizing up a little more slowly even though the stems were quite thick I was hoping they would grow a bit more because of that it just remained a bit stunted but I'm quite happy with them hopefully over the years They'll get bigger and bigger and taller and taller and they're quite nice looking lies as well maybe not just a little bit smaller and they're not quite They are not as fragrant so they are not as big a favorite as mine So coming along here we've got three other varieties This is one here This one I don't know why the Leaves have become so damaged that I have been checking for lily beetles and I have been able to stop most of them this year so it's not been a big problem but this Variety is a bit taller than the one I just showed you and it has more of a yellow color again just a quite a nice looking lily and then we come over to Probably my favorite one which is this pink one here now For some reason these have really liked it even though they're quite close to the hedge and I would Expect them to be a bit more stunted these are by far the tallest They don't look particularly tall because they have gone horizontal but you can see if these They would be about six feet tall so these are actually a really nice size already and once they reach their full size it'll be It would be really nice to display them especially as the lies face down so I'll be able to see them nicely I'll bring you around to show you what they look like It might not be to everyone's taste because it is a really quite a strong color as you can see there and it has all these weird lumps on the flowers as well The fragrance from this one is really nice and I also quite like how the pollen on the anthers there just kind of dangles in the wind and they kind of shake around it's just nice to have a little bit of movement to the flower as well the slightest breeze and these shake around you do have to be careful With lies though because the pollen really does stain clothing or things like that now the other lies the anthers on them don't seem to Dangle as much or as nicely as these ones but these ones I do like how they kind of rock around the wind and also the colors really nice and I think this One is actually slightly stronger in fragrance than the first one I showed you so I think this is my favorite and it's the one that's sizing up the most So I think that will have the most potential be interesting to see how big that gets but I definitely need to stake it this year I think it's gone That way because the hedge was there earlier in the year when the sun is a bit lower in spring after midday this is in the shade because of the hedge this time It's not too bad this time of year because the sun is a bit higher but the shade comes on so this is kind of growing out towards the sun so I need to really keep it They stake them otherwise they're going to keep doing that every year and then finally we've got these three varieties down here so another three of one type These ones are a bit smaller that's probably because they're right next to the hedge and they're stunted so I think if these are in a They are in a better position and they can be assessed quite well and I'll show them to you again here They are not quite as centered as the others but they are quite nice Looking at them they seem a little more like Asiatic lies with the coloring they have there so these might be a cross with some of the others Asian lies but they're still quite nice good lies I'm still very happy with how they're doing and it's just nice to have a variety of different ones and not just have all the same and I can always look up online to see what varieties they are from the pack that I got and if there's any ones I I particularly like that I can always get more of them to add to my collection so the other thing in this bed which I'd like to focus a bit of time on today is the Gladioli because they're just coming into their full flowering now they will be slightly better in a few weeks but I don't want to miss them because if I I'll film them later and I'll probably miss the lies so this is a mixed variety I didn't actually buy these when I bought the lies I got them free from the The bulb company would basically give you a free pack of gladioli if you spent over a certain amount normally gladioli do well in Scotland A year or two and then they just kind of lose energy and die out The problem with gladioli is they don't like our climate too much you have to plant them quite early Deep so they don't get killed in the winter but also the summers are a bit cold so they tend to shrink every year getting less and less energy and getting worse Displaying as the years go by I found the gladioli in Scotland the leaves die with the first frost but these ones unusually lasted rig They gathered a lot more energy from the Sun than they would normally and that 's why they stayed green all the way until December even slightly into January Why I think they've done so well so I'm definitely going to be keeping these year after year to see how long they last for me all I need to do is deadhead them once The flower stalk has finished flowering and is now leaving the leaves to gather energy for next year's flowers so these are just a mixture of varieties I didn't I knew which was which when I planted them because it was just all mixed together and there's no way of telling what variety is from the bulb They all look the same so I'm quite happy with the selection we've got I'll try and show you all the ones that are flowering at the moment There might be a few A couple of varieties that will flower later might look slightly different but we have some white ones like these here you can see they have a lovely big white These are some of the largest blooms on them really big flowers We 've also got some nice two-tone ones so there's this one here whic It's probably one of the most stunning looking ones I think could have been shot the most vibrant color the blooms are a little bit smaller but not much and you They have that really nice pink with violet in the middle or bright pink and a kind of creamy yellow as well so that's nice to have A bit of variety now we did have some strong winds which explains why a lot of them are falling over or kind of hanging down So in the future I might have to Think more about tying them up we also have this nice one here which almost has a ruffle appearance so you can see there it's like really crinkly And it's kind of pink and yellowish cream really interesting patterning on the petals I quite like that kind of ruffled appearance It gives it an interesting texture and next to that we have a very similar variety which is a kind of similar color a coral color but They don't have quite as many ruffles so I think they are actually slightly different varieties but they are very similar you can see the main one The difference is that this one's a lot more ruffled than the other so I think that's all the varieties I've got at the moment You can see some more pink and Coral-colored ones down there and more on the left side here there are pink ones coming through and I have some white ones on the other side There's a lot more still to come these are just the first ones starting to flower you can see there's all these shoots coming up so all these spikes These are all gladiola that are starting to appear so they will come right around to the sunflowers There aren't as many on the right On this side here but you can still see there's quite a lot of spikes coming up So there'll be a lot more flowers to come and even these ones down here whic You don't see any spikes yet but these are also going to flower soon so you can see they're just a load of leaves These are big enough that they'll Definitely flowering this year so originally down here you can see in each spot where there are three or four stems there was originally just one plant last year Year the plants did really well and the bulbs have divided so in each spot where I had one plant last year I've now got three or four plants so they're spreading Definitely doing really well sizing up getting more numerous so these will be flowering probably a bit later in the year I don't know why these are further They are a similar size but maybe they just need a bit longer to start flowering They'll be flowering probably in a month or two's time right at the end of the season and because they've clumped up from the same bulb these will be the ones Same variety as this one here so when they do divide they're genetically identical clones so they always have the same flowers as their parent so it'll It's good to see them clump up a bit more and this will be a really nice display from now until probably September maybe even later if we get lucky Some of these down here haven't even got flower shoots yet they'll be flowering probably around September or October and once they do Start flowering like this it does take three or four weeks until it completely finishes flowering so what you get is the first flowers at the bottom and then it just keeps going along the whole stem and as you can see there's probably something like 30 individual flowers and they'll just keep growing The gladioli put on a great display all summer so I'm really happy with them even though it wasn't something I was going to include Just some free bulbs that I got they've done really nicely and I'm hoping year after year we'll get more and more of them I'll just have a really nice Display so I'll show you a few more of the plants I have in the front garden here I've got a lot of plants I won't talk about them all like the wallflowers or Maybe the kale because I'll be talking about them later only on New Year or I've talked about them previously we've got a nice cord line here this has put On a lot of growth this is really quite small This is only about a year and a bit old and as you can see it's grown really well really sizing up and I'm oping this will become a small palm tree type tree and eventually what happens is the old leaves will fall off as it ages you get a clear stem you ge A big head of leaves at the top and it really has this nice palm tree appearance even though in my climate it's not easy to grow palm trees so this One of the hardier types of plants you can have is the palm tree with the appearance of the other one which would be the Trachycarpus palm which is a true palm The palm is actually harder than this but I'm interested to see how it does It survived last winter with no problems but you only had minus six We do sometimes get down to minus 15 and at those temperatures this can be killed down to the root system so hopefully we'll get a few mild winters I'll get a A decent sized plant but we'll just have to see how that does and coming into the main rose beds now you can see the main star attraction at the moment are these Pansies so I thought these pansies would probably do well in the summer heat but apart from one brief heatwave it wasn't too bad up here down in England they If I think 41 degrees Celsius so they had exceptional heat and it was also a really dry low humidity heat which the pansies would have just been burnt to a crisp crisp and dry but when that heatwave was happening down south we would probably only have had around 30 degrees Celsius and I had managed to keep the ground quite dry The ground is damp because I soaked it before the heatwave came so they're done particularly well you can see they're actually starting to spread over and They're starting to smother some of the lobelia that I planted here The idea was as the pansies died back the lobelia would take over but the pansies I think they have taken a lot of nutrients and water out of the soil and are stunting these lobelia so if I pan around to the left this section here some of the Pansies died out because this side is a bit sunnier and therefore a bit drier and you can see how much bigger the lobelia plants are here that's what I mean What was expected to happen with this bed this summer was that the pansies would die out as these ones already were starting to and then the lobelia would take over but it hasn't really happened yet so what I'm probably going to do because we have another warm spell coming up temperatures will be around 20 degrees most days and there's not really any rain forecast What I'm going to do is cut these back but I'm not going to completely remove them and I'll Just get them to rejuvenate from the middle so you can see what happens is when they get quite old they get leggy they fall apart the lower bits start to It turns a bit yellow and just becomes straggly even though it still flowers well and these will keep flowering right through into winter if I do nothing Left them but what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut them back and you can see a lot of them are starting to resprout from the center I'm just going To leave that small central spot there will allow the lobelia to come through a bit better they won't be competing as much e pansies here and then when it comes to winter they'll have lots of nice fresh growth because the problem is although this is looking great now whe We get some strong winds we can get winds as high as 80 miles an hour here so when that happens these leggy growths will get battered around The wind and the stems will get snapped off and it won't survive the winter if I cut this back and just leave that new growth to come through that'll be a lot I'm going to do that today it will look a bit better so it looks really good at the end The moment as I say with loads of pansies on display those pansies will be removed today we'll just have small pansy plants but it will allow the Lobelia will come through and by the end of summer we'll have really good lobelia display also the pansies will start to size up a bit by then and by the time Autumn comes we'll have some reasonably sized pansy plants that will be small enough to survive the winter storms and then when the First frosts come and the lobelias die back the pansies will keep growing because they don't mind the cold weather and they'll give me a bit of display For the winter so the other plants I'd like to focus on today are probably some of them the summer flowering plants that are looking good at the moment So the Roses in particular are looking really nice this one is probably putting one of its biggest displays so far this summer so I've got a lot of them Different varieties of roses I've gone through a lot in previous videos so what I basically did is I looked online and researched all the ones which had the best disease resistance and the best fragrance as well as a couple of them I already knew quite well such as the alpha bell rose over there and The deep secret rose I've grown before and looked after in people's gardens I already knew were fantastic roses but these on the other Some were new to me so this one here is called Fragrant Cloud This one has done really nicely this year as the name suggests it is very fragrant and I jus Add these roses apart from the alpha bell which is a floribunda rose These were hybrid tea roses so with these hybrid tea roses that tend to have Slightly larger flowers and they don't bloom continuously they seem to have flushes throughout the year so this has already had I think most of it They've actually had two flushes so far this is the third I'll probably get four or five in total this year the way I managed to get so many Flushes on my plants is I just keep them really well fed with rose feed it 's a specific feed which has all the nutrients that the roses like and whe You have a rose that's really well-fed it will just keep constantly shooting up new shoots and putting on loads of flowers so you can see this here massive flus At the moment the first flowers were actually bigger than this because they were on individual stems these are all branches you can see with the multiple This one here is completely covered in flowers and you can see lots of buds forming so this will keep flowering for probably three or four weeks weeks and then a new flush will come up and I'll just have a rest for a couple of weeks well that's the fragrant cloud rose really nice red one and It kind of keeps that color quite consistent from the new roses such as this one here or this one here all the way to the oldest ones there's not much There's not actually a huge amount of color change over here we have Dutch gold again which doesn't change too much with color it does change a bit it kind of It starts with a darker richer yellow a very fragrant rose and then it goes to a paler yellow with a lot of peachy or pink color Color coming through and you can see that also on the new rose buds It' s got a bit of red this one it's gone a bit leggy I don't know why maybe I fed it a bit too much and it's another really strong shoot and it hasn't got a lot of bushier growth hopefully it will start to grow some bushier growth when I Give it a prune after it's finished this lot of flowers but you can see this one even though it's got a few more buds in here and it's going to flower for a couple More weeks we've got some new growth already coming up with some flowering buds so this one probably won't have much of a break before its next lot Flowering and then over here we have one of my favorite roses which is the Deep Secret Rose This one has done really well it hasn't grown just one Giant stem it's grown loads of stems but they're all covered in roses it's looking really nice now This is probably one of the more fragrant varieties It is a really dark rose one of the darkest I know of So when it first comes through it has this like almost black petals as you can see here it starts off Really dark and then it starts to open you've got this almost perfectly formed black rose We did have a few wet days recently so the petals are looking a a little bit damaged but like a perfectly formed rose bud there almost black as it continues to open it gets this really vibrant color in the middle really Vibrant red on the outside and it just fades a bit and gets a little looser as it ages looking more like this towards the end but still very fragrant Rose is one of my favorites and it also has slightly darker leaves than other roses so it's just nice for a bit of contrast with the others The new growth does come through it's more of a dark kind of maroon color This is sowing it a little bit but I think most of them are in the flowering phase At the moment there's not much new growth I'll see if I can find some for you Though this one is showing a little bit of new growth but you can See here it's got that really nice dark color and that continues for a surprisingly long time Some roses have this and it disappears as Soon as it leaves it gets a bit bigger but as you can see this new growth is coming up Here it does keep that nice dark color for quite some time so that's another A nice bit of interest with this deep secret rose and over here we've got the floribunda off a bell rose which means it pretty much flowers Constantly and it has to have more multiple shoots on each stem Hybrid tea roses tend to have just one flower on each stem although as you saw some of mine do ave multiple flowers on them but this one's nice because it's got that really glossy foliage especially the newer foliage looks glossy but unusually for Roses that actually keep that glossy foliage even with the older foliage so you can see they'really nice and glossy whereas if I look at the deep There's a bit of shine on it but it's a bit more of a matte color so it doesn't have quite as glossy a leaf and these are all relatively Disease-resistant roses and this one is also interesting because the flowers change constantly so as the flower ages it changes in color and so on a plant Like this you have numerous different colors of roses so it looks quite nice When it first starts off it's almost red in places some of them it does vary From rose to rose you can see some of the younger ones have much more red on them and then as it opens you've got this really deep kind of almost orangey color It doesn't look very orange in the sun here because the cameras are compensating for the brightness but it is almost like a dark rich orange then it opens up to a More vibrant yellow color again the Sun's kind of bleaching it out but it's a vibrant bright yellow then it goes to a really bright pale yellow like this One here and then with the older roses just as they're starting to finish it' s almost white it's just a slight hint of yellowy cream in the middle but it's Pretty much a white rose so that one's nice because it changes color as it ages but also it's really fragrant which is a bit of a rarity for a floribunda rose Most floribunda roses don't have a great fragrance so I've got a few kinds of random plants in here as well I've got some of these tuberous begonias Here I just kind of dotted in because I had a bit of space there's one or two there's one on the end there and there's also one here I just put in Because I had some empty space in the bed I've also got some opium poppies which self-seeded from someone's I had last year so I've just left them because I really like their flowers which are quite unusual with the red and black cross and then the frilly sections and you can also see the castor oil plants here There are a few dots in the bed this is the nice impala variety which has that really nice kind of purpley bronze color to the leaves we do like that variety It's quite stunning and the flowers even look quite nice when they come out although I quite often cut off the flowers because I want to encourage more Leaf growth and get a bigger plant overall Another plant I've got dotted in here is cosmos so I got this as a mixed variety of cosmos and it's interesting How different the varieties actually are so we've got this one for example which has just gone crazy for leaves and hasn't flowered much it's got quite Short flowering stems and it has a pale color almost white and then with pink stripes on the edge with very short stems on the flowers so This one might just flower more later on in the year maybe it's just a variety that flowers later By the moment that's just going crazy for leaves I got some similar ones here I think that's the same variety We've got a more pink one here which is staying quite small We've got a pure white variety which is Staying really small but it's flowering very well you can see long stems lots of flowers that's looking really good and then I think my favorite one but I think there's only one of them unless this one is the same variety but it's unlikely because it's not flowering yet and this other pink one It is flowering really well but I think this is my favorite one so far This has been flowering the best but because it's been flowering so well it stayed It's remarkably small because it puts all its energy into flowering but it has this really nice pink massive flower which is actually quite a large flower for it The cosmos is full of buds and it's just after a big flowering I deadheaded it yesterday but there were a lot more flowers in this one As you can see there are so many buds starting to grow that this is going to keep flowering for quite some time there are loads more flowers coming and It's just going to keep it looking good all summer but it is a bit small It 's getting outcompeted by these other plants but it's interesting to see how These bigger ones do and if they'll be covered in flowers at the end of summer or if they're just going to keep growing with lots of leaves and it's jus It's going to be a bit over-the-top massive shrubby bush with not too many flowers and dotted around among them we have some dahlias Talk too much about the dailies because they're not flowering yet but this is one that's just starting to bud I've had this for years I think it's got a A yellowish orange flower that will be in bloom in a few weeks we also have kaffir l8 which is one of the largest flowering varieties of dahlia Just starting to bud there are about four of them dotted around in this bed and then the only other flowers to really make a note of are the marigolds Here these marigolds are African marigolds they're the ones with really big heads and these grow about one or two feet in height much bigger than the others Small French marigolds I actually prefer these especially because I can grow them above and they don't compete as much with the lobelia that I have down there so these They were actually end-of-stock clearance from a garden center and they'really leggy and torn they weren't healthy at all because they've been in the small pots Pots left too long they cut off the flower buds all they really had was one flower a load of purple leaves and they look really sickly cut that off The first flower put all its energy into lots of new leaves it's got its roots established and they're looking much healthier now and although they're They are not really flowering much at the moment but they put on a fantastic display at the end of the summer once they get going and you can see some of them are Just starting to flower now but it would be good to show you guys at the end of summer because these will be really quite stunning plants by then so I think That's all for the tour here we've also got the inset eventicostum of course at the end there which is looking quite nice but that tends to put most of its growth in August and into September so I'll really focus more on that at the end of the summer when it really starts to grow and becomes a gia But that's all for this video there's a lot more plants in here which I could have talked about but I just want to keep it a little bit shorter so it's not Like an hour-long video that focuses more on what's flowering right now then later in the season I'll give an end-of-summer tour or maybe an early-autumn tour When some of the summer flowers are the biggest and flowering at their best that will probably be the dahlias and the casserole plants will be too Looking particularly good then and we'll also have the sunflowers in full bloom and also the inset eventicostum will be giant banana trees so be prepared I'm interested to see how big they grow That's all for this update and I'll see you guys sometime around September