118 Video Views·Apr 8, 2024
Not everything works out well in my garden, and today is a perfect case in point! 😊
4 months ago I made a video for you all, and trialled digging up my pelargoniums and storing them in paper bags over the Winter, and today I’m finally getting them down to groom them up and replant them all ready for the coming season.
Or so I thought! 😂 here is the result of my experiment … needless to say I have now made my 4 month old video “unpublic” - never to see the light of day again. You win some, you lose some!
But here’s a look also at how the garden was looking during the depths of Winter and comparing it to how it looks now at the start of Spring 💚
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Have fun in your gardens!
Janette, The Enthusiastic Gardener
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Today’s music is calked “Piano Store” by Jimmy Fontanez_Media Right Productions and is available on the YouTube Audio Music Library.
come sit here with
Mama hello everyone it's Janette here
from enthusiastic Gardener first of all
welcome to all my lovely new subscribers
I know everyone is so excited about
gardening this time of year in spring so
you all look for new channels so thank
you for finding mine it's so lovely to
welcome you we are a lovely Garden
community and uh Everyone is always so
nice and kind and uh apart from one
person because was he always watches he
always puts a dislike dislike don't know
who he is but sometimes his brother
watches too because sometimes there are
two dislikes I did block one person once
I think it was two or three years ago
she always put horrible comments and she
always complained about what I'd done I
shouldn't have done that that looks
awful next to there you've done it all
wrong and I never claim to be a perfect
Gardener I just show you what I I'm
doing and believe you me I make mistakes
and lots of things die but anyway she
was constantly criticizing and I thought
no go so she has gone apart from that
everyone is lovely absolutely lovely so
thank you for joining me and thank you
for watching all my four videos last
weekend in Easter which we did four
which was a lot and we did uh tidying up
Shady corner cut all THS down tided that
up the next day we uh put the leaf
sculpture out the front and said fond
farewell to purple head who's now gone
and uh no idea where kind of miss him
really but I'm sure he'll be happy some
of you though you loved him and uh but
it was a lot of fun that was a fun video
and the next day we put my beautiful
braided Willow Harley Quinn design a
couple of you were quite concerned told
me what are you thinking with all those
10 m of roots and your house will fall
down Etc but I want to reassure you that
I have Googled as everything gets
Googled in this house and I have been
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reassured
and because you effectively bonsy it
cutting it off at the top keeping the
top uh trimmed Etc the height will never
get any bigger and The Roots will not
spread like you would if you were
planting a proper big willow tree so I
just want you to confirm that for you um
I'm not worried and you might have
noticed when I planted the root balls
The Roots were going round and round and
normally I would tease that out to let
them spread but I thought no you can
stay going around just in case so that
was lovely and then the last video was
my IV wreaths and also my beautiful new
fairy lights in my uh old lampshade
balls that's turned out a great success
and they stay on until the morning and I
would never have thought of that if you
hadn't given me that idea uh but hidden
amongst that video was an April fools
joke because it was the first of April
and I appreciate the fact that not all
of you watch to The Bitter End of my
videos and you won't have realized that
what I was telling you was not actually
true so that video is linked at the end
of this if you want to check it out
again and see did you believe what I
said but today I have been put in this
off about 4 months ago I had the
wonderful idea so I thought of digging
up all my janian storing them in
paperback bags putting them in the
rooftop the attic space of my garage and
all I've done is watered The Roots
they're upside down in a paper bag
altered The Roots once a month end of
story now the the thing that I would
have liked to have done it was a lot of
work and I'm thinking so easy to just
buy a tray of new beautiful geraniums or
better still just sew some from seed giv
myself all this work and I would have
deleted that video and and hoped that
none of you remembered but my friend
Tracy Thomas she's never forgotten and
uh we've been messaging each other she's
already got hers out she's got hers
groomed up she's got hers potted in
little pots ready to go out in the
landscape and I've promised her I will
have a look today so that's what I'm
going to do
today let's go and have a look and see
what's happened to them this is where
they are
in
here up the
stairs and uh those four videos I must
say are hats off to anyone who does
daily Vlogs because it's a
lot and uh yeah hats off and you're not
if you're a gardener you're not only I
got to get up with one hand you're not
only just walking around filming things
you're actually gardening as well I let
just show you this because Mark when I
came up before he liked this picture
sorry about the light it's a
cinsky but I never liked it Richard
liked it but it's in the Loft anyway
yeah it's a lot of work when you're
doing daily
Vlogs definitely here they are there's a
lot of them I've no idea what they look
like so I'm going to bring them all down
and then we will
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unveil well I told you there was a
locked and I'm not going to lie to you I
kind of wish I hadn't done it if this is
no so good I'm going to delete that
other video so that other
people so other people don't do
it that's a
no well I'm going to show you some
I think the video's got to be
deleted right let me show
you let me show
you just so you you know I'm telling the
truth and I'm not just I can't be
bothered to do it I've put the you by
the fountain so at least you get some
beauty right here we go I just got to
see oh yeah because zo if I was in
Focus that's what they look like and
they are all
squashy and
absolutely rubbish oh
dear there's no sign of green life
anywhere at all ashamed of
myself oh dear
well I am ashamed of
myself
so Tracy well done for doing yours but I
think you will agree that was much a
success and I won't be doing that
again however I do think it was a good
trial but I will delete my other video
because I don't want anyone else doing
this let's talk about something more
alive there you go I actually do deserve
some dislikes for this
video I
admit yes a little disaster I must
confess but we need to draw a line under
all mistakes and move forward and and uh
it's spring now but let's have a quick
look at what the garden looked like in
the
winter it is the first day of December
2023 and we have finally had our first
Frost so you can
see the plants are Wilt in in the frost
but it is very very beautiful crisp
morning and it was - 3 today on my dog
walk the fatsy is drooping in the
cold but it's a lovely crisp
morning and I'm so pleased to say that
all my bulbs are in my spring bulbs are
in
and lots of leaves were cleared at the
weekend mostly from the
circle
oh my poor droopy fats here but that
fats here and the other one will rebound
they are such good
plants with the start of a new Garden
year is the
winter let's see what it's
like in a month's
time
it's January and it's so windy my chairs
have blown across the
garden look at my poor era
mafida oh he's looking very Tatty very
Tatty
indeed winter interest
Mahonia how beautiful
yes it's all very
bare very bare in the garden in
January
and now here we are today in the
beginning of
Spring well I promised you something
that's
alive so let's have a look at the ferns
which I cut down a week
ago because I noticed this
morning that we do have
some new little can you see that that
there is is a bunch of new
unfurling FRS quite a lot and
here these
ones how cute is that some more there
this one's most
advanced more advancement there and of
course these which you saw a week ago
are doing tremendously
well
very
nice so they're doing well and uh we
have
some beautiful color of
course this is my CIS
canadensis forest pansy Red Bud let's
put my hand there that's what YouTubers
do budding up
nicely first
ever flowers on the pear tree
so will we have peirs will we who
knows that's my cloud pruned uus which I
will come along and I will uh give it a
little little bit more of a shape it's
now been doing its thing for a couple of
weeks and you can see I still have all
the little steadying sticks there
they're still in
place
the lavender which I moved when my ilex
Stokes died see things do die in this
Garden but look the new n on the
lavender is looking very
beautiful that's my apple
tree no blossoms on the Apple
Tree I don't
think yes it's all looking
okay my little reath are doing
well we have a
few new little
tulips popping
up and uh there's my lovely braided
Willow that's my Victoria
Plum few more
tulips and that's it
so I thought I'd come back to the spot
where I promised you four months ago
that the pelagonians were going to be
fine all would be well and uh you should
try this too I've been in I have made
that video unpubl so no one will ever
see it again not all is always well in
Garden but it's all a lot of fun and uh
yes please forgive me desire faster
today but never never mind I'm Janette
I'm the enthusiastic Gardener I hope you
are having an amazing week and I hope
you're getting your Gardens all planned
and sorted and being down the garden
centers it's very exciting so thank you
for watching I'm Janette I'm the
enthusiastic Gardener take care and have
a fabulous week
bye