Revamping “Shady Corner” in the Garden 🌿🌿🌿

Good morning everyone, it's Jeanette here, Enthusiastic Gardener. I'm sitting on my yellow chair in Shady Corner and you all seem to like the panoramic view of my wide-angled lens. It went down a real hit. So maybe every time we can have one shot of the panoramic lens view. Let's go this way. I'm going to revamp Shady Corner which is over here. Thank you so much for all your wonderful suggestions for plants for Shady Corner but a lot of them, even though they're wonderful suggestions, one was toxic to dogs which we can't have and another couple were not actually full shade plants. It looks like sunshine at the moment. All this bit here is in the sun but it's only about half eight in the morning and it will get in complete shade this bit here. We're going to clear the area, see what space we have and then plant shopping. But today as well as that there are three things that need to come out of the garden. A couple of little moving around of ornaments and things. I don't know how much I'll get done. One excitement which I must show you is this. I just noticed on my little morning walk around, do you remember last week or in the garden tour I was explaining that this cherry tree which is in fact loaded with cherries which is wonderful but it was covered with these black insecty bug things and I did actually follow your advice because I was suggested to spray with hand soap mixed with water and things like that which I did do that and it has cleared quite a lot of it but this morning look what I have spotted because as I said they won't come if there's nothing for them to feed on and look at that beauty so that is amazing. I could not be more delighted. So just goes to prove if you do have bad insects the beneficials will come. If you get rid of them all there's no reason for them to arrive so I'm hoping fingers crossed that that's a that's a good idea. Anyway let's get on with it. So here's a close-up of Shady Corner and what we are planning to do. We have beautiful ferns, beautiful beautiful. A couple of weeks ago I cut all the old fronds off so these are all brand new and this one too and they're spectacular plus I have lots of ferns such as this one here and these ones in these ray pots which are the ones that Mark gave me Mark Border and they were tiniest little cuttings. I was too scared to cut the old ones off just in case but I will do that now. So what I need to do is we have one solitary bloom on the this is never never never done very well. It doesn't like my soil. My soil is too alkaline so even though it's in a pot I'm going to take that out. I've had that years. It's never done very well but look at this. This was my lemon cypress tree which was in the front garden. It blew over in storm Burt in February so I thought I'll take the opportunity and I'll move it and I moved it here but it didn't survive unfortunately. Probably didn't have a very good root ball so that is coming out and then you'll see I have this kind of triangular shape which is the bit that I'm going to redo. These brunnera which are fantastic and normally I would leave these up for a little bit longer but because I'm doing a little revamp I'm going to take cut them all off so all I do you can see the main brunnera bush is like a low mound and then these grow up and they do reseed themselves if you leave them so you have lots of little brunneras popping up which is nice but all I'm going to do today is go all the way down to the base of these long flower spikes right down to here and cut it off right down there so that will tidy it up because I want to just see what space I have and I'll do the same there so I'll probably clear all this section, take the big cypress out, take the rhododendron out and then we can review and see what we are left with. Okay so you can see where we're up to I have done this one, this one, this one and the one there so I think now we'll have a go at moving the lemon cypress I think I'll chop it into little bits and then it'll be easier to manage oh well yeah that's it now for my sad rhododendron this is going to come out easily so I think what I'll have to try and do is turn it upside down but it is heavy and try and push it out from the bottom it's a bottomless pot so let's give that a go oh I think this will work yes my beautiful fern it's okay my fern doesn't eat me I think I'm going to take this fern out of the way this is one that Mark gave me polypodium cambricum and it's called Richard oh I didn't realize that yeah wonderful we'll replant that in a moment that's it okay let's get rid of that we need to build the bin up our bins are collected once a week we have to pay for that it costs 50 pounds per year and I do try and compost most things but at the moment both of my compost bins are full to the brim so we don't have any room for a new compost bin anywhere that's looking a lot clearer let's get rid of this this should be easier let's try anyway actually let's take this out first this is called a polystycum setiferum revolvans and another one of the ones that Mark gave me we'll put him there so we don't damage it don't want to damage my euonymous here we go timber that's that one I think I'm going to pop these two up for the time being until I get my new display worked out and they'll be fine so this one can go in here they'll be fine and then I'll do this one as well let's get this one out this one is called just in here I think for the moment we are getting there I'll leave that one there for the moment and I'll leave that one there let's get rid of these right now it's looking rather messy all the way along here so I think I'll just pop up these stepping stones spread out the mulch make it look all beautiful I'm not going to put the stepping stones back in just yet because when I start planting around here I'm bound to make another mess but I hope you can see you have quite a nice area to fill which is wonderful so all that remains for me now is a little bit of plant shopping so at the moment the three pots are there awaiting inspiration of whether they will go well there's not a lot of room is there but they don't have to go in the garden they can go in storage because I do like to change things up as you may have noticed so you know they might come out again in a couple of years time but the other couple of things that I did want to do is take out the other two things that have died one of which is this Ilex chronata which has died and I'd like to move this when I put it in in the winter time everything was a lot barer and I you kind of forget don't you that's a weed you kind of forget how things are going to fill in so I want to move that to its space I think that looks nice and then finally the other thing that died was I had a spider's web Fatsia spider's web which was over in the woodland courtyard and I moved it and this happened to the poor spider's web so let's get rid of that gone and I have no room left in my refuse collection so everything else you're safe you're safe you can breathe a sigh of relief you're staying we do need something tall up there definitely it's turning into rather a fern garden we'll go over to Hillcrest Hillcrest is where I normally get my plants and that's a nursery so they're usually far more cheaper they're wonderful next week I have a whole week to go and look for the perfect plant so thank you so much for joining me today in the corner of Shady Corner where not a lot of people go including myself but I'm very excited because it's plant shopping time now and I'm sorry there's no plants to go in today but I need to go and buy them and find them until then it's been a lot of effort a lot of hard work and it's not all about well you know this gardeners it's not all about planting beautiful shrubs it's a lot of work in the preparation we work hard we do our hobby it's not the easiest you could easily sort of not saying any hobby is easy don't get me wrong but it's not the easiest physically of hobbies especially if you're an older gardener like me thank you so much for joining me I'm Jeanette I'm the Enthusiastic Gardener from Essex in England and next time I see you actually it'll be June June in the garden goodness me take care everyone bye