Quick Jobs For Easter Series - No.3 of 6 - Hostas In Bottomless Pots 💚

Oh my goodness, today is just so beautiful. I'm making the most of every single moment that the sun shines. Lottie. Lottie. It's just beautiful. Lottie. Over the other side of the fence, you may or may not know, let's see if we can get up there and show you, there's just nothingness. And often there's little animals or foxes or things over there and she can hear them. So she's often talking. This is quite a nice view of the garden actually. See, this would be the view if we were up on our roof. If you saw my video of the April Falls, you'll know what I mean. Anyway, a little spring series of six videos of doing a very quick job every day to inspire you hopefully to get out in your garden in what I hope is a few days off that you might have from work during the Easter holidays. And we're focusing back on Shady Corner because my friend Linda Reinhart, who lives in Parksville on Vancouver Island in Canada, suggested when I said I'd love some hostas but the slugs get them, she thought why don't you put them in raised pots. But I think they can climb, admittedly. So I've got some raised pots which are my bottomless pots which, let me turn the camera around and I'll show you what I'm thinking. These are the bottomless pots which I made last summer after the great idea from Julie Doubley. She suggested that and I have one there with my rhododendron and I thought what I could do is dig out next to it, put this one but I'll put it lower about this deep and I have another one as well over there which has got nothing in it. That's a little baby size so I might do a little grouping of three of them and try a hosta. I need to move this, this is a little dicentra for bleeding hearts and that's just come back perennial so I need to move that out the way, move that somewhere nearby because that is very pretty and I'm just going to put it here just a little bit further forward. This is another very good plant for a shady area so that's that and I'll give that a watering at the moment and I'll just quickly dig out my holes. I think we'll have one back here. I want it quite deep. Yes, I think I like that so that's where they're going and I need to fill them in so I'm just going to tamp all these down, firm it all around the edges, go and get my soil from the car and then we can plant them. So this beautiful one is called an undulata so that's very pretty, that's that one and I've got a small one here which is called a tardiana group, halcyon, so we'll give them a go. Let's put those in, as I say I don't want to put it in too deep because the soil does tend to sink in these bottomless pots. I think that's going to be a nice pop of colour there, lovely, and then we've got this little one which is the hosta tardiana group halcyon, very pretty. There's a little bird waiting, oh look, that little bird up there is it's a robin, it's waiting to come down and dig in my new soil so let's back up. But I love it, what do you think? A quick little fix, I think that's a nice pop of colour. Let's see if the slugs get those hostas, I hope not, come on bird you can come now, let's zoom in a and I will see you tomorrow.