Tour My English Garden in May 🌺🌺🌺

hi everyone it's Janette here enthusiastic Gardener I've just realized we are in May and I don't believe I have filmed a garden tour yet in 2024 so I've come home from work it's beautiful and warm it's not raining it's not windy it's calm it's not noisy and the perfect opportunity here's my garden in England May 2024 so I think we'll start at this end here because this is the most newly planted end now you have to excuse the weeds in the courtyard area but here we are we have a recently planted ground cover so we have three varieties of th we have creepy flocks that's another time and then we have a Jer over the back there we have this which is my newly planted as well it's the chili and potato tree which has just flowered and as you can see the bees are enjoying the flowers on the chili and potato tree and we have the honeysuckle the lon s stina something like that which I've just planted here the honeysuckle so they'll both go up the obelisks hopefully and uh if they join together then so be it I have here a forum brown sugar which I've just trimmed away all the old leaves when I went round weeding I was kind of trying to tidy up any any old leaves or anything that needed doing in this is very pretty it's ianus and they there are three of them as you can see and they overwintered here in my USDA hardiness equivalent to a Zone 8 so that doesn't really equate to our summers it's more the mildness of our Winters we have down the bottom at the front these are Hardy uranium I did have three but as you can see only two seem to have survived and you'll notice all my Duff deals which are these here around the garden I have actually cut all the foliage in half now I know you're not supposed to do that but if you watch Dr Armitage who's a friend of Jim Putnam over on H tube he's a wonderful wonderful lovely lovely man and a fantastic gardener he always cuts his foliage in half and he says it's been fine and I can't bear looking at it so that's what I've done and I did do that last year as well and they came back fine this here is my pinus vanderwolf's pyramid which I planted a year ago now these are really pretty that's really beautiful that's the blue in my garden bed this Rose is called shne and it's just erupting in the most beautiful white flowers absolutely gorgeous and down the bottom we have the accus ice blue that's called doesn't last long flowers very early but that's very pretty we have some dusty miller the silver foliage is Dusty Miller this is a u then I have an apple tree see the buds there they may well be apples we have flowers for the first time ever it's been in for 3 years I planted it February 2021 which is when I planted all my fruit trees as you'll see as we go around there are other fruit trees as well this is a sedum and it's an Autumn joy and I really should have divided it it's too late now but I should divide it next year cuz it is massive this is my container garden and it's beautiful the colors mostly from the hookas so you can see the hookas here and they've been in a couple of years these one is particularly big I do know this one's called Dark secret and I have great success with hookas in my garden here and I always think if you find something that loves your garden then just keep planting them so I'm so fortunate to be able to plant hookas this here is a Chinese plumbago that will be beautiful blue flowers later on and uh usually sort of end of the Summer and Autumn and then next to it to the left we we have a budle that's the Miss Ruby I only planted this last year last summer so I haven't actually seen any flowers as yet so I'm hoping this will be the year that we might see some flowers on the bulia Miss Ruby in fact this looks like a a little flower there yes we do have some flower buds quite a few so that's nice the blue around the container they are junipers blue stars and they'll they'll get even more Bluer as there's more sunshine and then around the base we have lavender and that's doing really well and I moved that there last end of last year and it's overwintered we have a unanimous green spire that is the plant which is in the container and then with some Ivy this is my beautiful try carpus Fortune ey I planted This I Believe In The Summer of 2021 so we're coming up to 3 years now it's done very very well it's withstands any wind it withstands any cold I do come out in the snow when we have snow and I shake the snow from it you can see some of the frons such as this one at the back that's yellow in this one's yellow in a little bit now so when that happens it's time really to cut cut it off at the base so I'll probably come in and I do have special fertilizer just for this tracky Carper so I must remember to do that as we come around this is the uus which I Cloud pruned or I was trying to train it it was a straight up Bush as you can see I had sticks I've taken those sticks out but I had one left there so you can see the general idea was to prize each stem apart and what I will do I've been letting it grow a little bit but what I I need to do is come in and reform the balls so I'm hoping that that looks nice but it's a slow process Rome was not built in a day as they say over at the back this is my blue arrow so it's a juniper blue arrow next to that we have Salvia it's a version similar to Hot Lips I can't remember what it's called but they're like little ballerinas a little dancing girls very pretty and that has overwintered as well which is great I'm letting the ivy grow which comes the other side of the fence and I am letting it grow but I am trying to control it what I'm doing is not letting it grow horizontally I'm pulling it away so just hopefully lots of vertical vertical bits of IV the Mahonia is beautiful now I've had this Mahonia it looks absolutely stunning in the winter all these are bright yellow flowers and as you can see they turn into these berries this time of year a lot of them have gone now the birds come and eat them but I'm very very fond of the Mahonia because it takes no work at all it just does its own thing very very spiky though this is a Nandina and the Nandina is just stunning color most of the Year particularly in the Autumn as you can imagine and then next to that to the left we have an osmanthus in this pedestal planter that's just another uous you will notice I have a lot of un uous because like hukas they just do so well this is another fa and this has been in a year now it's called a Fatina pink crispy and you can just see the last of the pink tinges on the new leaves the new leaves come out beautiful and pink which is where it gets its name but it's a lovely variegated foliage which I really really do like that now this Rose is practically the only thing thing that has been in my garden longer than me everything else I've planted myself but I have no idea what this Ros is it's usually very beautiful though a lovely coral color so in a couple of weeks time we should be able to see the flowers on those roses and I don't spray anything I used to do my garlic spray and I would only do the garlic spray if I was doing anything to control aphids but what I've decided last year and it worked is that obviously if you kill all the aphids no beneficial insects will come to your garden because there's no food so I didn't do anything last year and I saw ladyb birds or ladybugs so that's what I'm doing and we have slugs and snils are plenty this is a patina Red Robin which is another stunning plant in the spring so it's bright red all the new leaves as it fades as the summer goes on the aliums are very beautiful these are all purple Sensations which I always plant purple Sensations and you will see that I've taken all the leaves off all of my purple Sensations and I've read quite a bit and seen a few YouTube videos of people saying you can do that with aliam because aliam they're not like tulips or daffodils they have everything they need look at that beautiful bee they have all they need in their bulbs and I can't bear all the foliage this here is wonderful lamium and it's called Purple Dragon that is spread like Wildfire as they say this is a cisserus a little topi behind it this one which is going to be beautiful this is a David Austin Rose and it's the Olivia Austin beautiful pink flowers this here which is getting in golf let me see if I can just move that so you can see this is the three ball toy that I created needs a haircut but I created that from uh vanov tusin totem pole Cyprus which was uh straight up and down and basically I just cut out the middle and made little balls and as we walk around this way this is erysimum that's been there a few years I did cut half of it away actually because it was beginning to look very straggly but that comes back well that's there all year it never goes away next to it on the right this is a cinus and it's called young lady and I was given that by my friend Edie she didn't want it she gave it to me it was in her garden so this will be the first year that I've seen what the cus young lady smoke bush does this is my pear tree this pear tree had flowers on it for the first time it's grown really tall this is about 8 ft tall I think so maybe we will have peirs I'm not sure to the left of that is another Rose another David Austin and that one is called the James L Austin there's a flocks just in front of it this is a lemon Cyprus this is one of my most favorite things in the garden it is the Pisa pons Blue Spruce and it's called hoopsy eye and I don't know if the color comes out as good on the camera as it does it's icy blue it's wonderful and next to it here another very beautiful tree which I only planted last summer it's a forest pansy Red Bud cers Canada SES so I'm pleased to say that survived the winter fine and that's interesting for me to see what sort of colors come out on that next to of course we have one of my favorites a Fier Japonica and you can see that I like to make my FAS into tree forms so what I do is I take off all the leaves down below CU you can have them big bushy plants and the new leaves that grow in the spring I just leave those and these are the new leaves which grew in the spring it's just that I think it looks like a little bit more tropical architecture this is a nine bark probably called the lady in red very very pretty very pretty indeed this Rose here here is called Fab at 60 which I was bought by my friend Juliet and that will be red red roses and then to the right of that you can see one red bud there that one is called the 40th anniversary ruby wedding so that's three years ago now that I had my 40th so yeah time's flies some more back up for some more hookas this is the cam IUS as well more hookas this here is my ASA Japanese maple called little princess so that's a look at that whole bed there and then we come to Shady Corner which I named Shady corner now Shady corner I haven't weeded so you have to bear with me I've weeded everything except Shady corner and of course I need to start again we have a lot of uous different varieties I'm going to go in and shap them all so the green ones seem to be growing the quickest as you can see they're the tallest and the the little variegated ones next to it they're quite short so I might come in and just take the tops off everything I'll keep the sides I won't prune the sides cuz then they'll get bushier but I might just take off the tops but the idea was to form a little pathway I did used to have boxwoods but we got hit with the Box tree moth and the Box tree caterpillar and I lost them all you can't see so much at the moment because the bruners are going wild so they are um overhanging all my little uous pathway which goes up here and I'll probably what I'll do very soon now you can see most of the BR flowers are all falling off they will form seeds if you let them drop but if you tidy them up the way to do it is go back to this is the flowering stem take that all the way down cut it right down into the bottom of the plant then you're left with these and these are lovely slugs and snils do not like them because they're all furry so I'll come in and tidy those up but they have been it's been so pretty and frothy as you can see the ferns are doing amazingly well I did cut off all the old frons and we were left with the tiny little new new ones and they've all unfilled they are very very happy here I'm pleased to say and this pathway leads to my garden illusion gate I get lots of people asking me for links so you can see it's a mirror a rather dirty mirror actually but that's all it is is a mirror and it's the way that the wood is cut gives the illusion of the open door and this is a dark Shady corner of my garden and I just think it adds a little pop of Interest we have a flower on the road to denden I think we're only having one this year yeah some years is successful oh we have another bud so I think we'll have two flowers this year I wait all year to see what's happening with the roaded dendron this year's quite disappointing but that is another toy that I've made need to TI it up it's uh another uous another uous there this here is my apple tree not particularly doing very well with curling leaves in fact I think I need to take this out but what I want to do at the moment it's just a good good uh bit of structure for this area but what I do need to do is find a tree that likes the shade is happy to stay in the shade this is what Richard affectionately calls the stick because most of the year it that is literally what it is that stick there and then it's it's called an aalia alata it probably would do so much more if it was in some sunshine but I'm quite fond of it we've had bleeding hearts they have uh now finished and they will disappear what else do we have we have so that shady corner and this is a hyd ranger vanilla phase as we pan around you can see I have H crocosmia and they are the orange crocosmia some more hookas here and lung wart just finishing I need to the bees have loved this but I need to cut those off now and then I'll be left with these leaves just have some carots there they need to be tiedy up in fact I'm not so sure this is long for Life anyway so that's that we've seen all this we've seen all this let's go around this way more hookas this is a geranium and that is a gerani u sorry a hranger a mop head no it's not a mop head it's a macrophilia the lace cap ones the lace caps this here is my ilex konata cloud pruned towy this here is an Alber Spruce we have some more depil cut down another Sedum neon Joy this one the tall plant there is another uous what I think I'll do is dig up all my daffodils because what I've noticed is all the daffodil seem to be in one big Clump around the area we're just coming to on the right and uh nowhere else so I think I'll dig all the daffodil up and I might put them all in one big pot mix them all up and randomly replant them and that will be fun so here we have another cerus this is my cherry tree and you can see we have loads of cherries it does do well and I do eat the cherries let's just see more cherries see there's lots lots of cherries and I I'm sure that tree was quite small when I planted it I think it was smaller than and the yamus and it's grown so big let's go around this way um another neon neon Joy seeden some Carr just over there we have another lemon Cyprus another geranium this has gone a little wild needs a trim it's a Victoria Plum and you can see I have lots of plums lots of plums very happy this um year I did cut away a big branch which was growing in the middle so hopefully I thought that it would be more Airy inside and I think it's helped but yeah that's gone a little crazy this is quite new this was from Easter time I love it it's my Harley Quinn braided Willow it's so pretty I just love it now I do get the only thing you need to do you'll see here you get little bits growing so you just have to come along and rub them off just every now and then just a quick little job otherwise of course it'll all start growing from there and you're supposed to be exposing the beauty love that aliens are delightful and then this is a Bay Tree which always grows all these suckers in America I believe there's bony and they have Sucker Punch well I've looked there's nothing like that over here this is a lily this be a white lily this here is veronic ason which does look lovely I meant to divide that this spring and time got away with me and I didn't divide it but I do need to Stak get my steaks the same as this Salvia here need to get my steaks quickly before they start flopping and these will be all purple flowers as well and then here we have another blue spruce which is called uh Pia Pon super blue seedling and look how beautiful all the new growth is isn't that delightful so basically that they're very very slow grow they will grow big eventually but very very slow that's that's what it will do in one year you can see the new growth which is like about 2 in at most this is a Nandina another pretty Nandina and we have another hooka so that's the main Garden we just walk over here I did sew some zenas last well a week ago it's supposed to take seven to 10 days this is just a rose that I severely [Music] pruned so at least it is alive but but I sewed some zenas a week ago and they're just germina if you look that's exciting and I sewed some in the other pot just here and yeah they're germinating tiny little plants are appearing or are they weeds these are the Ivy waths I made at Easter time and they're doing very well they're just made out of coat hangers I copied it from Laura at Garden answer looks so easy I made one for Mom now let's just finish off over here we have a walnut tree here that's my walnut tree it's not a black walnut but even so they're quite harmful they can be harmful to other things in your garden particularly fruit tree so I just never wanted to plant it directly into my garden we have a pedestal here with my only hosters because the snugs and snails eat the hosters and you can see they found these ones as well I found two snails on there this morning it's been so wet so they went over the fence I have to say and this is a clst Justa and it's just beginning to flower that's very pretty and that's surprisingly does well considering it's always in the shade there's no sun here and i' it's been in here since I think I planted it in 2020 down there is my compost which is uh going quite well I do think that I will upgrade and get some actual proper compost bins but I'm just measuring measuring and trying to find the right size at the right price now I want to introduce you to Lancelot Lancelot has been named by my lovely friend Bron bronwin she lives in Sydney Australia and she always comments on my video videos we always chat and she named him for me lelot because she said he's got a coat of armor as Sir lelot would have had in the Medieval Nights of the Round Table stories and he guards Woodland Courtyard which is this area here so he is befitting of Sir lelot so I love that thank you Brun let's head into Woodland Courtyard one of my most favorite areas and it's just filled with a lot a lot of stuff but it's given me such pleasure it's filled with ferns from my friend Mark border sent me all these cuttings and we just have a lot of Whimsy it's just my little magical Woodland Co yard as you can see we have lots of bits and pieces we have little birds we have hookas we have ferns we have lamium it's it gives me a lot of fun I have to say and we have uh some nice things inside my Victoria in wall tall Greenhouse which is more of a Cold Frame really but I like it it FS this space it's it's all I could have in this small garden we have more fans and I lined all my baskets with artificial grass so that's what what they're lined with this is the basket that I planted Richard and I both planted a basket each this is the one he planted as you can see his one had the fire alarm HRA yes so we have more ferns these are in the pots hanging on the hanging ra which is actually a radiator turned on its side we used to have this Radiator in our kitchen and well it broke basically so we have a mixture of CarX and an enemies which Mark bord and my friend sent me and they're doing very well very well indeed sent me little cuttings and it's just a collection that was a piece of fatsia that I pulled off one of my big ones I thought I'd see if it Roots more Whimsy and little birds and dragon flies and wooden mushrooms hanging plants we're nearly at the end now more hanging plants it's very uh quite Shady around here this is my lovely new Japanese maple which is a blood good so we I've put it in here for the time being this wall does get about 3 or 4 hours of sunshine in in a day and then I have in my little bird planter that's some basil which smells lovely because I thought if I sit on my seat in Woodland Courtyard it would be nice to smell that and this is some mint which is um Apple mint this plant here I have no idea no idea what that is lot's uh she's getting bored she wants me to go in we have hookas here uh fattier spiders web now I didn't realize I think it's a little bit too hot which is a shame most of the leaves are okay so I'll pull off these ones the answer are good and then I'm sure it'll rebound and one more planter my little pixie so that's Woodland Courtyard and we've done a full circle full circle of the garden in May it's been quite wet so far but I hope you've enjoyed my garden tour as I say we should have table and chairs which I'm so excited about very soon well I hope you enjoyed my garden tour for May 20 24 we have next week I'm hoping that the chairs will all be finished and we'll have a beautiful table and chairs to show you uh we're kind of halfway there but that's something to look forward to and I am very excited so thank you so much for watching I'm Janette I'm the enthusiastic Gardener take care everyone have a great week and I'll see you next week thanks for watching bye