Jobs In My Garden : Bulbs, Ferns, Beautyberry, New Garden Art 🌺🌺🌺

Hi everyone, it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener. It's raining, yes it's evening, it's raining, but I did a video montage very recently showing my garden for a whole gardening year and that got me to thinking what it's like to garden in my little microclimate, which we all have our own little microclimates. I always think it's a very good idea when you go for a walk around your neighborhood, which I fortunately do every day because I have dogs, but have a look in everyone else's gardens or their front gardens, don't go in the back, and just see what grows well for them because that's a very good indicator of what can grow well for you. Well I haven't seen my garden for a whole week because at the weekends is the only chance. It's poured down again today, when I go out in the mornings on my dog walk it's dark and when I come home it's dark, so I was thinking last night, now what am I going to do in the garden today? I had two choices, neither of which I was particularly excited about. My choices were number one, start clearing up the leaves, that's not particularly giving me much enthusiasm. This is the situation with the leaves, quite a few as you can see, but they're still on the tree, firmly, nearly the end of November. Anyway, I have what I hope to be a good solution for the leaves, which I'll show you hopefully next week, but that's the situation with the leaves. The second thing, I still haven't planted all my bulbs, my tulips and my alliums. I've got some more daffodils because this side along here doesn't have any daffodils. I've mostly done them in the circle so far, so that's not happening today. So I'll show you the bulbs that I have bought ready to be planted. I have alliums, you can't do without my purple sensation alliums. Eight there, so that's, I've got 24, might get some more. Then I have some tall double daffodils and I'm going to put those over by the fountain and the new container garden, and I think some out the front would be nice. So I have 20, 2, 4, 6, 80 daffodils. I have these tall double tulips, different mix of those. We have 20, so I've got 40 of those two packets, and then these are the tall Rembrandts, very pretty, so I have 80 of those. And then I also picked up some tall triumph tulip, they're a blend as well, so I have 40 of those, they'll be going in. Then I picked up this box, it's just a mix garden bulbs, complete allium collection, so there's 50 bulbs, and all these were half price, as you can see, clearance half price. So yeah, there are the bulbs which are going in, which I will do that when it's a bit of a nicer day. Rather than show you another bulb planting video, I think I will just get on and plant my bulbs, save you from the joy of watching me plant them. You all know how to plant bulbs. I'm not clearing up leaves in this cold, dark, damp atmosphere, and I'm not planting bulbs today. I've got something else that I've bought from Facebook Marketplace, which is very nice, and I bought it last weekend in the dark, brought it home, and it's a piece of wall art, so I'm not sure where it will go, but I couldn't really look as it was dark. It was originally up for sale for £30, but I left it, and then the lady, because I'd shown interest, she said would I be interested for £10, because she hadn't sold it, so I loved it, and it's probably about 800 centimetres wide. Yeah, I don't know where it's going yet. Lots of my trees are now losing their leaves. That's my pear tree. The cirsus here, that's lost its leaves. It has about four left. Still have flowers on the salvia, but what is looking nice are these on the fatsias. The little pom-poms are starting to come out. They are so pretty. I gave this a really, really good prune. I cut off quite a few branches earlier on in the year, because they seem to have died. Fatsias, for anyone who's interested, are so easy to look after normally. Another thing that I need to do is I want to winterise my fountain, so all I'll do, this is made of kind of resin, so it's not concrete, it's not plastic, but it's kind of a resin, so that will be all right to be left out, but I want to empty the water out, so I want to do that. I will get on with that, and I have my other fountain over here, which is looking very green and murky. This is the fountain, the murkiness of the fountain, so I need to tidy that up, clear that out, empty it, give it a wash. That can stay there, because that also is made of the same kind of resin. It's not concrete, it's not plastic, but I like that. Now I've tried other things, that's a really good option for me, because you can leave it out, it's never going to get damaged. Someone suggested, oh I love this suggestion, it's for a woodland courtyard, but I think I could do the same here, said about getting a wooden sign to say woodland courtyard, and then I thought well I could get another one on a post perhaps, shady corner, and then woodland courtyard one could be over here, somewhere at the entrance. I really really love that idea, so maybe a little post, a little signpost type thing with an arrow, woodland courtyard, wouldn't that be fun, and I have a plan also for another project for these ferns, because Mark said that I can do all the polypodiums which I've grouped together, these are the polypodiums, he said that I could plant them straight out, the only problem with that, they have grown, I'm sure they've grown, they're doing ever so well, they are bigger than when he sent them to me, I mean this one looks like it's fropping over, but this is the one that Mark said, it's called the Morrison's Marvel, he said that this one does this, that's why he puts his in hanging baskets, but yes the only reason why I don't want to plant them straight out is because the dogs do wander around and I don't want them to get trampled, when they're a little bit older, not the dogs, the plants, then I will be quite safe to put them out, but I have an idea for an interim because I don't want to, when they're fine in these pots, but they can't stay in here forever and he advised me to put two of them, which are these two, put two of them into the greenhouse, so I've done that, following my advice from my fern expert friend, so yes, oh I also have this Edie, lovely Edie, she keeps digging things out of her garden and I'll find them on my doorstep, now this she's given me and you can see the remnants, oh look at that, that is that not, why does she not want this, it's gorgeous, it's called a Calicapo Bodinieri Imperial Pearl and that's just stunning, so I need to put that in the garden somewhere, it likes sun by the looks of it, it can do with a little bit of shade, it grows two to three meters tall, there's no other information so I'll have to google that, but that's beautiful, so I need to, it's still quite nice and moist so that's okay, but I need to find a spot, google that, find out what it likes and what it dislikes and put that on the wall, what else, the Carexes which I planted a couple of weeks ago now, they're all doing very well, hopefully, is there soil, yeah I could probably do with the water in that, although it rains, you see we have this overhang there, if I stand here you can probably see the overhang, so unless the rain's coming in at an angle, kind of this way, if it's coming straight down, it's not going to get any water, so I'll water that in a minute, I must just thank Janie over at Dig Plant Water Repeat because she very kindly featured my garden in her video yesterday which is on zone 8 gardens and she's doing a whole series from zone 3 every day, zone 3, zone 4, zone 5 etc and she asked everyone to submit some videos which I thought was wonderful, so I sent a video of my garden and she very kindly featured it, so I had some new subscribers from that, thank you very much and welcome to my garden, you haven't come at the best time of year I have to say because things are winding down, but I hope you'll stick around and maybe watch some of my older videos, yes so that was really lovely, Janie lives in Davis which is in California and she's just moved into a beautiful new property, the garden is enormous, there was absolutely nothing in it at all apart from maybe some olive trees and she has so many good ideas and she has a wonderful garden designer called Michael Glassman who is just, if you think enthusiasm is what you need, he has enthusiasm in spades, abundance, he is so cheerful, chirpy and motivating and I wish he was my neighbor but unfortunately he isn't, but anyway thank you Janie for featuring my garden and thank you to everyone who might have come over and joined me because she took the time and trouble and kindness to feature other people in her garden, I watch so many different youtubers it's what I do all the time, I mean I could spend a whole evening and all I've done is watch gardening videos, I can't remember the last time I watched a normal tv program on the main channels, so that's it from me, thank you so much for joining me, I'm Jeanette, I'm the Enthusiastic Gardener, I hope you're having fun in your gardens, wherever you may be, take care and I will see you soon, thanks for watching, bye!