Chamaerops Fan Palm, Fern Pruning & Frogspawn Update 🌴

hi everyone it's Janette here enthusiastic Garder and it's actually quite chiny out here the very last week of winter spring arrives this end of this week which is just amazing it's still quite cold 2° C which I guess is about um 12 24 about 32 F something like that so I'm very lucky because I've already filmed today's video last Monday after I posted the Frog spawn video which thank you for your lovely comments and there are updates on the frogspawn for anyone who's interested I'll stick them in at the end of this video because there are developments with the frogspawn but before that I planted my brand new beautiful fan palm which I'm about to show you so please have a look at that I'm so excited and while you're watching that you'll see that I'm in Shady corner and I have my beautiful ferns which do so well along here but it's time for me to cut them back and all I do is just go right down to the base of each frond and just chop them all off ready for spring so I'm going to do this while you hopefully watch my beautiful new fan palm planting video and I'll see you afterwards and it will all be [Music] done I have a new Palm it's going to go in this area here just to Jazz this up now I did have an old hura and I had a butterfly bush which I've moved but I think we need to Jazz it up and I've already dug my hole so we're ready to go but before we do that I wanted to just trim off these older tracky carpus leaves the ones that have turned yellow as you can see tracky carpus they turn yellow I've got a yellow one there bit bit of a yellow one there it's so hardy throughout the winter it's marvelous and you can see down below where the other older stems have been cut off so I'm just going to go in chop it off about there just bend it down and chop it so we'll tidy that up also what I want to do this lavender around here well this is a temporary measure so I just put it in last year but I think we can get something far nice it's gone all Woody and awful so we're going to take that out and might move these These are Juniper blue stars might move those not sure yet but we will take out the lavender I'm out of breath cuz I've just I've just been digging the ho well this is my beautiful new Palm it's common name it's a European fan palm or a Mediterranean fan palm because they're not native to the UK but the botanical name is a Shamar Ops humous compactor and it's absolutely gorgeous it's compact as you can see rather dense leaves and is slow growing it's Evergreen so it's always going to look like this throughout the whole year they're not native as I said to the UK but they come from countries such as Spain and Portugal I believe some parts in the USA as well it's absolutely lovely it's got dense fans with narrow leaves and then you can see a new new one there new couple down there and they kind of have a blue tinge to the side which I really like and then they're held on rather short stems each one has short stems a lot different to my truy carpus so the ultimate height is 1 and 1/2 to 2 and 1/2 M but as I said they grow very slowly and that height is 20 to 50 years so I'm not too worried about that uh they like like well drained soil as all plants do really acid stroke neutral they like to be in the full sun or partial shade they like to have an East a south or a west facing aspect so really anywhere that's not North and constantly in deep dark shade and they're happy in exposed areas or sheltered areas and they're Hardy in the UK um coastal areas which is always the windiest blustery parts of the UK and they like mild parts of the UK apparently they can take -5° C so I will be checking on the weather overnight weather for the next couple of weeks and I do have fleece they're not poisonous to dogs either which is always a consideration so that is my beautiful new Shamar Ops and I did want it a little bit over to the left but I didn't realize there's a some concrete underneath this used to be this whole area used to be a big pond before we were here when we moved in which is 20 years ago this year all this here was like a raised bed where there had been a pond and someone had filled it in with Earth so it was uh all crumbling and awful so we we had to take that out but there's the hole and I have my wonderful Hardy [Music] Palm fertilizer slow release Palm fertilizer so you apply every 8 to 12 weeks which I've been doing that to my truy carus that's the only information there is but I bought that from as you can see Hardy palms. co.uk so I'll be adding that I'm not going to add any additional soil if you make it too comfortable The Roots won't stretch out to look for New Habitat it would just stay there we don't want that so if you put it straight in native soil apparently they have to work a bit harder and then they get established quicker so I'm not adding anything new that looks a bit better little bit more upright so the these are the ones I took off and let's get rid of the lavender smells lovely [Music] for [Music] so now it's time for the fun part where you get to watch me struggle you can see that I put the leaves in just thought well they create goodness and I'll put a bit around the truy carpus as well in a minute it's very heavy right we just need to whack it no might just try and cut it easier set than done these secretar I must buy myself a new pair and just keep them for good things because these have been through some tough times and I don't look after them properly I don't think I need to take my coat on yes okay that's got to help keep saying you don't need to go to the gym when you're a g dinner so you have to be careful not to hurt your back there we go perfect I hope I was just checking I hope this is on camera and the camera's turned on I think so we're just loosen in that's it well I don't think there's much of a front or a back I need to check I put it in and see what it looks like okay see what that looks like a lovely this one here I think is broken I cut think I broke it when I was carrying it yeah looks a bit High I'm going to have to Mound it up a bit [Music] first of all I'm going to put some fertilizer on around the edges then I'm going to water it let it sink [Applause] oh I love it I can hear you all shouting at me it's too high yes it is rather High I'm going to water it in round the back it's actually okay cuz this All Slopes but I've put the fertilizer around as you can see going to water it in let it sink and I will need to build it up [Music] what I'm going to do for um instant remedial situation is I'm going to dig up soil from there even if it creates a hole pile it over that way then I can address that maybe I need to just plant something else there then I've got a hole already that's a very good [Music] idea and there we are I love it I think it's just what that little area needed and I will keep an eye on the soil if it drops down I will Top it up again and if it gets below freezing over the next few nights I have fleece that I could wrap it up with and I really like actually seeing more of the green container cuz it's got that ombre colors which gradually come down the pot very happy with that well here's a very quick update because of just check the weather it's a couple of days later and it's going to be zero tonight so I just wanted to show you that I've wrapped up my beautiful new Shamar Ops nice and warm and cozy for the night so that's my beautiful Palm it's uh I have babed it actually every night this week it's been zero overnight temperatures so I've put fleece over it every single night but I'm only giving it till the first day of spring then it's on its own zero or no zero I think it will be fine mean it's tough tough tough but I just was protecting a little bit more than I normally would anyway let's have a look at the fern area which is now all cleared there we go over here whole bag of Fern choppings and all nice and clear there were quite a lot of leaves there still are quite a lot of leaves actually I show you close up you can see the beginnings of the new these are the new ones that are about to unfur and there's some good ones up here there's some big ones here look that's a new one so and there's another one so that's what it looks like before they all start to grow now mustn't leave these here because I be looking for them everywhere one of the things I want to do late winter is weed killer for my patio because it's not too bad at the moment but if you let it get on top of you there'll be weeds everywhere and you may know if you saw me cleaning out my shed I found three big tubs of these and these are quite expensive and I would have gone out and bought more so fortunately I found them and I'm just going to do the patio really really quickly of course lty as you know she always wants to hang around and be with me well I don't want her treading in any of this and getting it on her paes licking her paws we can you can imagine so we'll keep her out the way even though she won't be happy about that so let's kill the weeds [Music] right here's a little update on the frogs born this frogs born I haven't been able to see all week because it was in this little spot here but it kind kind of moved down but now you can see it down here it's just that when I get home from work it's not very good light but you can definitely see it's all still there and it's all still looking very good so that's that one which is marvelous and this one you can see it very very much easier they're getting bigger they're no longer longer little round balls they're definite little long squirly shapes I thought I saw one move then yeah there that one there he's moving I'm sure it is am I imagining yes look it is moving oh my word that is definitely moving maybe they're hatching oh my goodness this exciting the leaves on the patino pink crispy are as their name suggests becoming pink are they crispy no they're soft so that's that oh must fill up the bird bath and the Red Robin as well and we have lovely lung wart pulmon area flowers on that everywhere dotted around very very pretty frons on the fern I've just cut oh and another beautiful pulman area so that's it from me the enthusiastic Gardener Janette and we're heading to to the best best time of the gardener season of The Gardener's calendar spring so I hope it's warming up where you are and you're able to get out in your garden now next week I had promised that we are going over to Tina's Garden Tina's Garden which we've been designing we are I wouldn't even say we're halfway done yet but it's been so far so good that's all I say and I'm excited to show you that so stick around next week for Tina's Garden and have a great one see you soon bye [Music]