Tulip Bulbs Are In & Ideas For Newly Prepped Fountain Garden 🌷🌷🌷

Good morning everyone. Janette here, enthusiastic gardener. And it's a Sunday morning. I've woken up very early, full of enthusiasm. So, strike while the iron's hot. And I'm going to be planting all of my tulip bulbs. Last year, I planted them in September. I did it before the ground got cold and hard. It was so much easier and they came up perfectly. So, let me show you the ones I bought and then I'm going to put it on time lapse because this is not my most favorite job of the garden year, but it's so worth it. So, I'll put it on time lapse and I'll just whiz around and hopefully it will go very fast. And I'm just going to put them all in the bag, mix them all up together, dot them around, and wait until spring. Here are my tulips. We have 105 tulips to plant today. So, we've got a perennial mixed and they I think all flower April stroke May. So, I'm not quite sure. These ones are a mixture. Then we have these variegated leaves. Red riding hood with dark striped foliage. This are lovely copper collection. Lots of those. And this is beautiful as well. Chocolate orange. And then finally we have the purple rain fusion. So, 105 tulips, which I'm just going to empty them all into this carrier bag, and then they'll be randomly mixed. Off we go. So, I just want to explain because I'm just going to divide them all. We've got 105. So we can do, let me think, 21 time five. So we'll do little little groups of five. 21 of them. And I do want to plant. I've decided this area here, which I have cleared out. Need to move that. It's a pulman area and it's in the wrong place. It's in full sun. And I'll move that over to the shade. But I would like to plant this area. I'm not quite sure what with yet. So, I'm going to put the tulips near the front, I think. But what I do know that I'd like to do is I want to divide these three sedum autumn joys, which are beautiful and they're so easy to divide. So, I'll cut those in half. Early spring or late autumn. So, I have three. There's another one over there. And I want to put three groups of them in here because I think that will look beautiful. So, I'm going to put these in the ground in three spots, which is where I'd like the sedums to go. And so, I don't want other things in the way. And hopefully, if I push them right down, it's not going to be obtrusive. And then maybe obviously the fountain the fountain's going to come back around here somewhere, but then I'd like to plant some other beautiful things lower, you know, do a little step down. Let's put these in. I think we'll have we'll have one here. And well, I think I just put them evenly evenly along the back. We have one here and then have one in the middle. Yeah. One here. And then I won't plant any tulips there. and I'll remember next year that that's the spot for the sedums. And then I'll put little markers where I plant the tulips. So 21 groups of five. And then I'll just disperse them evenly around the circle and that border there. And maybe some by container garden. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] That's it. I've done it. I'm so pleased. So, we have 105. I could have bought double to be quite honest. And it's made me realize this area of the garden along here, it's really hard to dig. I really really must improve that area of soil around there. That's got to be Well, I have my compost. Let me show you my compost. I have two compost bins. One is down here, and I've been collecting compost for a couple of years. So, I think let's have a look. [Music] Well, who knows? But I think at the bottom, you open it at the bottom. I won't open it now, but that is definitely something that I need to do. I did all my weeding yesterday. So, I wanted to do the weeding before I tried to plant the bulbs. It's all looking very nice. and my other compost bin is around here. This is woodland courtyard. Woodland Courtyard has been rather neglected this year. It's funny because I have phases of things I'm excited about. I mean, it was so lush and wonderful. Here's my other compost bin. Let's just have a look. Well, I'm sure at the bottom there's some nice stuff. The fat seers, they're spid webs. They're very, very happy here. And you can see I have all this which grows over. But we have a lot of blackberries. Actually, I think I've missed the slot for the blackberries. They seem to have all gone. So, I was too slow there. Anyway, never mind. And uh yes, these are the fatsia spiders webs. These are the pots from all the perennials that I've planted quite recently and didn't do very much here at all. So next year I might be have my enthusiasm back again. I think I overdid it last year and I loved over loved it last year. So bulbs are in. And as for the daffodils, well, I have lots of lovely daffodils, but what's happened is as I've been digging and planting throughout the year, I keep digging them up and I'm stuffing them in anywhere. So, it's going to be a random surprise of what they or where they come up. That might look pretty. I'm going to fill that with pansies when the contrast pelgoniums have finished. I'll do that. And then over here, I will put little markers in quickly so I know where the tulips are. So if I do find anything else to plant there, then I'll know where not to plant. Yes, I'll do that. Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope you're having fun wherever you are in the world, in your gardens, and I will see you again very soon. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Janette. I'm the enthusiastic gardener. Very happy to have got my tulip bulbs planted. Take care. Bye. [Music]