Planting Hydrangeas // Little Lime // Vanilla Fraise

I'm here from Enthusiastic Gardener. Now today I have two beautiful hydrangeas that I'm going to plant. I've had these for a while and I've kept them in the shade a little bit too long. They need to get out, they need to get some sunshine. This one here is called a hydrangea and it's a beautiful strawberry pink in the late summer. So that is going to look absolutely gorgeous. And this one here is another paniculata and it's called a little lime. So it's a small version of the hydrangea limelight. They're both gorgeous, they're both very similar because this one too is 1.2 metres high and it will go also a beautiful rose pink in the late summer. So they are going to be stunning. They both are very cold hardy as well and they will withstand temperatures up to minus 20. Paniculata is the shape of the blooms so they grow into a cone shape. They grow on new wood which means that you can prune them back down in the early spring and they will always bloom for you because you can't really go wrong. I've got two buckets of water here and I'm just going to give them a nice drink for half an hour or so. So I thought that I would put the first one where this bird bath is and I'm going to move the bird bath that way because this is a lovely big space. It's too much of a waste not to have something nice there. So that is where the first one's going. It's not the most attractive. I showed the flowers before. It's called the cephalaria escabeus and it doesn't do much. I think that a beautiful hydrangea will look so much lovelier. So it's going to go. Chuck it out. It's got to go. So I'm digging a hole, come across some roots which is probably from this euonymus and this euonymus is so old so I don't think cutting a few of its roots is going to do any harm at all. I'm not sure if that's deep enough. Let's go and get one of them. Right so that should have had a very nice drink. Here we are. Now every plant has a front and a back. Apparently I think the front is there. So we want it to be the same height as the pot and of course the soil that we've amended down here, when I do amend it, that is going to drop and sink down and compact so then the pot will go even further down. So we have to plant it a little bit proud in the first place knowing that that is what is going to happen. Let's do my slow release fertilizer. It's very hot today and I'm actually planting in the hottest part with full sun at the moment which is not good. Lots of wetting so this probably needs probably the good height actually. That is a lovely root ball. It's not even and I just got soaked. It's not root bound at all. So it's lovely. There we are. Perfect. Part two of the plant may not be as simple as I need to move this root ball which you can see is well embedded. So I need to dig it all out all the way around. We did it. Right, let's put it in its new spot. We have to move the snake. He's going to have to go somewhere else and leave the green ball. Find somewhere for those to go. You can't have all your ornaments in the same place. It's going to go here. So I've just put this base slab down and I got an app on my phone for a level and I've spent five minutes leveling this because where it was before the water was never level and it always bothered me. However, I am building something in the garden. It's not a root ball on a house and obviously I'm sure this is going to sink anyway. So I've done the best I can. Okay, let's see if it's level. That's good enough for me. So I'm just going to fill that in. The only issue is fill the soil in. I'm not going to put the top on because I'm going to ask Richard to glue the top to this because I would hate for it to come tumbling over because sometimes dogs perch on it to have a little drink and I want it to be safe. Okay, so I'm back to where the birdbath was. Don't you find when you have something in a plan you can't just do the thing. You have to do the first thing to be able to do the second thing to be able to do the third thing and it's just like the big snowball effect and then you forgot what you were going to do in the first place. Anyway, I haven't forgotten we have to do the little lime. So, little lime. Got the hole. We need to put some nicer soil in. I don't think anything has ever been planted in here ever. As we said before, we don't want it to be lower. The little lime has had a wonderful drink and the roots aren't too bad. Is that the right way around? That is the back. That is the side. So, that's got a bit of a dent and of course it will sort itself out. Right, backfilling time. A little green ball there. Lovely. Okay, right, let's tidy up a bit and then have a look at what it all looks like. So, there we are. This is the little lime which looks gorgeous there and it has a lot of lovely room to grow and then just up here we have the vanilla graze with the new bird bath in position. So, I hope you like my hydrangeas. I think they will look beautiful. I've just finished and the sun's gone in. I've been puffing and puffing in full sun and now it's perfect planting time. Typical, that is enough for one day, for me anyway. Pace yourself. I'm Jeanette. I am The Enthusiastic Gardener. Please subscribe to my channel. Please check me out on Facebook at The Enthusiastic Gardener. It's been so fun hanging around with you. Thank you to everybody who watches. I really do appreciate it and I hope I inspire you to get out in your gardens and do something creative and beautiful. See you soon. Bye.