RABBIT IN THE GARDEN! / A WEEK IN MY SMALL LONDON GARDEN

Good morning, guys. Welcome back to my garden diaries. My name's Emma. These are my home gardening diaries. I put these up every Sunday on my YouTube channel at 9:00 a.m. And for the rest of the week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I vlog all about my a lotment plot in South London. So, if that sounds like your jam, please subscribe to my channel. Follow me along. Hope you're enjoying these garden videos. I think a lot of you are, which is why I'm carrying on doing them. I'm absolutely loving it. I love just being able to pick the camera up whenever sort of throughout the week and then just vlog bits and bobs. We're about to head out to the garden center. I just wanted to show you super quickly the state of our front room. This is one of the reasons why I'm so happy that I've worked so hard on my garden this year and that the weather's been nice as well because I've got an additional place to sit at the moment. Our front room, we're getting it all sort of redone, stripped back to the wall, replastered, all the rest of it, and it's unusable at the moment. I'm very grateful that we're actually getting all this done because it really needed it. It's an old Victorian house, so it is all like lam plaster, I think is the word for it, where we've got like horse hair in the plaster. So, it's all been taken back to brick. We're getting it all redone. Got all my paint. Got all my paint ideas on the wall over there. We've got a new wall being built over here. Just a bit of a mess at the moment. And we just don't have anywhere nice to sit. So, that's why I'm really glad we've got the garden. Right, we are off to the garden center. I don't want you to think that all these vlogs will start with a trip to the garden center, but I need to pick up some ericacious soil and some bedding plants. So, that's what we're going to do. Right, let's head to the garden center. Right, here we go. Ericacacia soil. This is what we need for the hydranger apparently. So, I'm going to dig it in around my hydranger. It's from Westland. Right. I'm looking for bedding plants now. Just plants that are plants that are quite small kind of like bedding plants. These little garden cocktails. And these are $11.99 which is quite good quite good price. I think these are probably are these for hanging baskets? These I normally see these little are these patunias. They're normally in hanging baskets, aren't they? So maybe not them. And I'm not a big fan of beonas, but if you are lots of bagonas here. Geraniums are always quite a good choice. I think they are perennial. Are they perennial? Am I wrong with that? That doesn't look salmon. It says it's a salmon color. This looks more salmon to me. Apple blossom. That's quite pretty. Or maybe we'll just do the classic pink. All right, let's get one of these. Some lovely little geraniums. These are nice colors. These tuners, aren't they? Isn't that gorgeous? And these ones names are very sweet as well, aren't they? Sweet junior starfish. Gorgeous. And then this one is the queen of hearts. That is very, very sweet. This plant's called Dracula. I wonder why. This is what we're looking for. Summer bedding plants. Lots and lots to choose from. I don't actually know what these are, but they do look beautiful. Right, let's get some of these Right, that was a shorter trip, which is a good thing because it means it was more concise and I did not buy too much. So, we got some bedding plants, got some aricacious soil, and I will show you more when we get back. Um, but that was quite successful and it's not too busy today, which was lovely. Right, back home. Right, like I said, I'm back from the garden center. I'm going to show you the plants that I picked up. So, I was really looking for something to go in my borders um as sort of bedding plants. And a lot of you did suggest deraniums, which are very hardy. Um are they hardy? Yeah, I think they are. I think they're perennial. I think they're quite hardy. A lot of you suggested deraniums, um which make a really good border plant. I think they're quite hardy as well and they have lovely flowers. I went with the pink one. So, that should be nice. They are very small at the moment, but I'm hoping they'll grow a bit bigger over the years. I'm, like I said, I'm happy for things to sort of take their time in my garden to sort of grow and get bigger over the years. And aren't the leaves lovely? Look at the two different colors. Isn't that beautiful? Picked up some of these because they were on offer. I've never seen these before. I'm not going to lie. They are I don't even know how to pronounce that. Osteo Osteopro Pyramum. Not even going to try. the blue-eyed beauty and we've got a double steel blue and then I picked up this one which is called sunshine beauty. So just the three colors that they had which I think would be quite nice in containers at the back. So these are going to go into pots. Couldn't resist picking up a couple of cosmos. This is the what's this one? This is called carmine and it's a really deep pink which is beautiful. And then this one is the more sort of traditional looking cosmos and it is called pink. Oh, it's just called pink. Cosmos pink. How lovely. They are pricey. They're7 $7.99 a pot and I know that I am growing them from a seed at the a lotment plot, but you know what? I don't have them at home and they're already really well established plants. I think they're going to look lovely in the borders. And I also picked up a little chive. I've been trying to grow this from seed for ages and it keeps failing on me. So, I picked it up as a pot. I know, I know. I really should try again from a seed, but it does keep dying. And I really want this in a pot and I wanted to flower because I think the flowers are beautiful and edible as well. Also, a lot of you said I need ericacious soil for my hydrangeanger. So, I did pick up a little bag of ericacious soil, but I looked it up on Google when I got back and apparently it just affects the color of the hydrangeanger flower. So, if you want the flowers to go to blue, use ericacious soil. And if you want them to stay pink, don't. I'm sort of quite happy for them to stay pink if I'm honest. But what I actually do have is a blueberry plant in a pot which has not had ericacious soil ever. So I might top it up with that and see how that does this year. But that's what I got from the garden center. Not too much. I didn't go too crazy. Okay. Right. I'm going to put some geraniums along the front here. Um, all the plants that I've got in this uh this little border here. So, even the hydranger and whatever this is behind, I can't remember what it is, but these all get really big. So, eventually the the deraniums will need to be moved, but not this year. Not today. So, they're going to go in here now. I think these are probably going to get a lot bigger than what they are right now, which is excellent. That's exactly what I want. Kind of want all the plants in my garden to grow away like crazy. And you know, I'd like my gardening problem to be that my plants are too big and I've got to move them. That would be a great problem to have. That's an excellent problem. Right. I actually think that this bed here is a little bit empty. I've got the wisteria at the back and I've got some lavender at the front, but as soon as all these forget me knots die back, I think it's going to look quite empty. So, I'm thinking cosmos. It'll add a nice little pop of color just in there. Yeah, it will. Look at that. I think this is three plants planted into one pot. Should I divide them? All right, I am going to attempt to divide these cuz I think they will do a bit better if they're their own plants. I think otherwise they'll become crowded and stuff. Yeah, they're coming away quite easily. So that's one plant then. That's one cosmos. So I've got three cosmos plants for $7.99. That's not bad, is it? Yeah, it is. It's three plants. Great. Okay. And then we'll also put in the three remaining geraniums into here as well. Little bit of continuity in the garden, you know. Young driver an old Right. And again, this cosmos also seems to be three plants. So, should I just break this one up as well? I think I will. I think I will. So, then I can have three of them down this border, which look really nice. So, I have like one here, one up near this way. Or is that too close to the dia? Maybe up over there. And then this one nearer to the front. Cool. Okay. Don't know if I've broken them up correctly or what, but I don't see why they wouldn't grow nicely. I don't know to be honest. I really don't know. We can only try. But from my gardening limited gardening knowledge, it does look like three plants in one pot. So, you know what? Maybe that's why it just looked so big and bushy and vibrant. It made me buy it. Maybe I sort of subconsciously knew I was getting a really good bargain. Bargain of the century. You know what I will do? I will put some more compost in here. Actually, let's grab some. I'll do everything I can to keep them alive, I think. So, this is just some compost going into the bottom of the hole. Sugared the roots. A nice little head start hopefully. I don't quite know the science behind it. You don't always need to. Right in he goes. It looks like a very healthy little cosmos plant. I wonder if they pinched it out. Woohoo! Woohoo! Why are you so unbothered? Look what your mother did. You got two in red. It's amazing. Right, guys. It's a beautiful day today. So, I'm going to plant those other flowers that I got into some of the pots. Now, some of my pots are kind of finished. They've had bulbs in them, basically, and the bulbs are finished. So, I'm going to take the bulbs out, put them somewhere else so I can plant them out next year. and then replant them. All these lovely flowers and things that I've got. So, this one here had some blue bells in it, I think, something like that that sort of going to seed now. So, I could take all of that out. This one here has some daffodils that unfortunately didn't flower at all. So, I'm not quite sure what's going on with that. And then just behind here, I have another little pot here that I can uh sort of take the things out. So, let's do that. And that way all the foliage can die back. And um hopefully I can replant them next year. God Heat. Heat. These are my Jackby little pumpkins in here. I brought them all outside to the outside greenhouse and they're all doing very, very well. Loving all the sunshine. I think I might get these out in a couple of weeks time at the aotment plot. I might just risk it because the weather is so good and we are not having the slug problem we had last year. But yeah, some of them are getting really big, really, really good. So, they're doing really well. Also got lots of other plants in here. Let me show you all the sweet corn that we putotted on in the last video uh last Sunday. It's all doing really well. Getting nice and big. The brassacas I want to take out of these trays and pot them on and grow them on a bit bigger because they're not going out yet. And the tomatoes are desperate to get out. I think I'm going to plant a couple at home. And in fact, we could do that now because some of them are just honestly really needing to come out. The corette is going to go at home as well. And that is going to go Where are you going to go? Oh, in my vegetable planter at the front. And then the lettucees will come back to life and they're doing amazing. So these will need to go to the a lotment plot soon. Right. So just putting the tomatoes into these big plastic pots which I think will be fine for them. I always end up with a bit of an overspill of the veg from the a lotment plot just because I grow so much and I grow it in such big quantities. But you can never have too many tomatoes. Right. What I'm going to do is this. Yes. Very good. Right. And then I think I'm going to stick this corette into here. The idea is to have it around the sweet corn. And I know the sweet corn looks really small at the moment, but the corette can kind of grow in between it. That's sort of the idea on a smaller scale. And anyway, I've got nowhere else to put it in. So, we're going to have to go for it. Right, apologies for this guys. I've had to move to my phone for the end of this vlog because my vlogging camera has finally completely died on me. To be fair, I do put them through quite a lot. Um, I always like put them in the mud and I drop them and Einstein lands on them and and they hit rocks and stuff. So, it did really well to hold on as long as it did. But, it is finally dead. So, I've just had to order a new one. What I'm going to do today, it's Friday morning. It's beautiful sunshine. It's honestly, it's just amazing today. It's going to be highs of 25, which is so different than what it's been very recently. I'm going to take advantage of it. I'm going to clear some of my borders from the forget me knots. The forget me knots have kind of come to the end of their life. they're not looking as good anymore. So, I'm going to clear the borders and spruce it up a little bit. And that's what we're doing today. You see what I mean by they've just sort of um had enough. All the flowers are finishing now and they look a little bit messy. In fact, I know they will selfseed and they always do. So, it doesn't matter when I take them out. I will always get forget me knots because they just come back every year. So, I'm going to take them all out now. No. Oh no. I shouldn't have done that. Oh, that was really annoying. Oh, sorry, Dia. Right. It does look a little bit bare now. I will admit that. But it is looking neater and they can't stay in forever. Apple tree looks a lot better, doesn't it? And also because I've got things like the cosmos in now and some sunflowers, the forget me knots are in danger of becoming slug and snail hotels because they can hide in them easily. And now that I've cleared it, I feel a bit better about it. And I do think there's some room for some more plants along here, which is never a bad thing. Let's be honest. We like lots of plants. I did decapitate a bit the dia, but you know what? I think it will recover. Um, so yeah, it's looking good. Sorry, mate. That was my bad. Hopefully he'll just sort of grow back now. Bet you're wondering what this is for. This is going to be a run for my rabbit. I've got a house rabbit called Pippen. We usually put him out in a smaller run, but it's too small for him and I wanted something a bit bigger and this was perfect online. It's actually made for a dog. It's like a dog pen or something like a play pen for a dog. Um, but perfect for a rabbit as well. There he is. Look, I've got a sheet over it. So, he's got some shade. I have to bring the water out in a minute cuz it is getting very hot. He's loving it in there. Right, that's it for me today. I hope you've enjoyed watching. I'll see you again at the aotment plot on Monday and I'll see you back in my home garden next Sunday. Thanks for watching, guys. Bye. Pippy, say bye.