June Garden Tour of our English Cottage Garden

Good morning, welcome back to Sarah's Country Cottage Garden. It is Sunday the 1st of June. It's quite overcast, quite a breeze, and I'm just here in our south garden looking at the front of our cottage. The loopings are looking wonderful. The roses on the end of the cottage wall are all starting to flower. We've had some flowers on the arch over by the front porch. There's more to follow. We've started mulching the beds in the south garden. It's a bit late, but better late than never. Hopefully they'll benefit from it. As we're mulching we can weed. There's lots of pine weed and ground elder to get through, so let's have another stroll. William Robb from my parents. There in the front garden is the Queen of Sweden, looking absolutely beautiful, as is the delphiniums, the loopings and the pita. Really beautiful. This is the cutting in the rose at the front of the house going over the arch. It's a beautiful old English rose. I don't know the name. And this, the first of the putty's done. Robert will be so delighted for it's one of his favourites. This is one of my favourites. I need to remove the bindweed, but there is Sarah Elizabeth Clematis. This gives a magnificent display. I do forget it's name, but the echinops, they'll be lovely. Oh, there's a little green thistle just starting. I'm not sure if I can make it out. Soon it will be blue. Astrantia. A little pink rose. Oxglove in that pot now. It's going to be huge. There's lavender in there as well. I think I need to deadhead the roses. Another new GM coming out. Every time I see a new GM coming out, I take a photo and send it to my father as he wants to have the national collection for GMs. It's a joke between us. I like to send him lots of pictures of ours and say, yes, we're heading for that collection too. Our fruit bed is almost empty. I need to top the compost up and then it's going to become our head bed. As you can see, the agaranthanums aren't the pale yellow that we normally have. They're a lot deeper, but the pale yellow of the pansies are still going. Let's go have a look at the new fruit garden by David Austen's. I'll show you from the other side in a minute. This definitely needs dividing. So all seems to be well after transplanting our strawberries. It's going to be quite a task cutting some steps into this hill, but we need to, to be able to maintain it. We've got trees growing, so our little fruit garden. Raspberries, currants, gooseberries and rhubarb. I know they'll probably outgrow and we might need to cage it if we want any fruit, but we have put netting over the strawberries and I went out the other day to get some straw to, you know, build up the strawberries because they do get heavy and fall over. It's so expensive and I just thought because it still looked green that they were selling me. So we went up onto the hill and cut some of our own grass and I just made swirls of it like I was making birds nests in a way and then tucked it under the strawberries. I could maybe do it a little bit more. You can't see the netting because it's black which is wonderful. What do you think? I hope you like it. Those are our makeshift compost bays. Excuse me, my husband and I are both suffering with a little hay fever at the moment. I do love the bits of garden paraphernalia. While it's been raining this week, I am in the evenings. I've been painting a couple of signs on the strawberry patch which I'm hoping I can hang from the end here. Our mum's called the fruit garden. It's whether I put that on a stick or something, I don't know. This is a little old saw. I picked this up with my mum last week in Kendall from Nutshell. It was only £10 and I just thought it would make a nice little feature in the garden. I planted some pink cosmos in between each of the white. So hopefully as the summer goes on it will make a nice display. Hopefully the plants will fill out and then you'll no longer see the black and just the picket fence and then when the builders behind are finished it'll be better once that fence has disappeared there. So this wire around our roses is still working. Just there you can see one of my David Austens. There's lots more buds to come. I do need to get in here which is more difficult to weed from behind here. It's easier when things are younger. You know you're not standing on anything. This is growing quite nicely. We've a lovely bloop in there and he still is about to bloom as is the foxglove and the dolphinia and the companions. I think it would be nice to separate this from the fruit garden. Maybe continue some picket fence which might bring along here and then I can plant this section out and it'll just complete this bottom garden. I'll probably put this membrane on the other side of this wood just to stop the grasses from spilling onto it. I know it won't stop the seeds from flying. That would be wishful thinking but just to stop it from falling over onto here and maybe down here I'll plant all those huge geraniums that we have. Pink David Austens. My parents took us to David Austen many years ago. I came back with four. If you ever get to go to the David Austen it's well worth a visit especially in June. It just looks beautiful. Let's go inside just see if we can get a close look. Now I was dead head in this rose the other day but right next to it is another bloom. Most unusual. This is beautiful when it opens. The roses are a gentle homo honey, shrub shalad, the generous gardener and I'm hoping this little one here might be my bosca bell. Fingers crossed. We've got the veena growing again. It does seed itself lovely. I never used to do my old garden and I do love the veena. It's a beautiful flower. I pulled up lots of seedlings here in the spring. There's still lots more. So now I need to pull out all this white throughout the cow parsley to make way for everything else. There's delphiniums in here. These are the roses. There's a still there. There is even a hollyhocks and you can't see because of the white froth. So that's something I need to do. I hope you liked the video and I'll see you again soon. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.