Garden Tidy Ep 3 Styling With Fairy Lights Pretty Plants

Good morning everyone and welcome back to my tiny courtyard garden. It's very windy today. The microphone's got his woolly jumper on. So yeah, today is my favourite part of gardening and I I think it's most people's favorite, adding all the beautiful details. It's taken a while, a few weeks I've I've been working on this. If you remember, episode one was all about the planning, adding my rose. archway, tidying up the clematis along the drain pipe and planning out my brick planter and then The last episode was actually about building that brick planter right beside me. That was tough. It's ready, it's filled with compost. So we're ready to move on now and add the plants today. climbers. I'm going to rearrange my furniture; I'm going to put the wire on the trellis on the wall. I'm going to paint the wooden trellis here with some green paint that matches the gate. My plant pots—I've got some annuals, I've got some perennials, and I just generally put everything in there. back together so that I can have that lovely outdoor space once again, where I can sit and Enjoy. That's planned for today's video, so obviously I'm going to go and get changed because I'm probably going to make a mess. Let's get going! What a gorgeous evening! So the trellis is Done. I've given it two coats of paint; it looks really pretty. It should have been painted last [time/week/etc.]. year, to be fair, but yeah, it looks really pretty, really happy with it. So that'll dry and it's an outdoor paint perfect for preserving wood that will protect the trellis, and now I can put plants against it so they can climb up. I don't have to worry about that, and then I've got all This gorgeous prettiness to do so tomorrow drill the holes. I have a nest upon the wall, I'll show. you and that's why you can hear the birds because it's full of little baby sparrows ready to come out Out. Yeah, that's why it's so noisy—because it's literally right above my head, on the side of the house there. But yeah, gorgeous evening, I can't wait to be sitting out here properly where it's All tidy, and I can sit back and relax. I'm nearly there—can't wait, can't wait for that moment. Good morning, a new day, so today is about wrapping up today, and it's windy—hope this works out okay. So my lovely neighbor Mike came and drilled all 15 holes in the wall for me, ready for me to install my shelves. the screws and my wiring—this has saved me hours and hours. I was dreading doing that job because Drilling isn't one of my strengths; I don't have the strength, so he just knocked on the door this time. Good morning, and he said, "Do you want me to drill your holes?" I said, "Do I?" So he's just I've done all that. All I need to do now is add the screws and then the wire. I hope I have enough. wire, and behind me you can see the trellis that's had two coats, so that's ready to go, but I've had A little idea came to me last night, as usual. I still have some spare chicken wire left, so I'm going to add it. Some chicken wire to the back of the trellis, staple gun it. Two climbers that I've got to go. up there, I've got even more to climb onto, and hopefully I'll cover it better, because obviously It will be climbing in the wire rather than just climbing around the trellis part, so the holes will also be filled in eventually, hopefully. I'm just going to drink my coffee and then I'll do the wire trellis. So once I've done the trellis, I'll come back and show you the plants I have. I've got climbers, I've got perennials, and I've got annuals, telling me where things are supposed to go. I'm going to go, hello, then get this garden put back together, get everything planted, tidied up, Furniture rearranged, fairy lights turned on, and it'll be job done. Right, I wired up the trellis; I couldn't figure out how to get the shape at first, but I worked it out. That's done; I had to go get some more wire because I ran out. and I put the chicken wire on the back of the trellis, so I've got a little bit left over. Add on to the downpipe there if I need to, the sherd, so these are what I've got to go in this. New brick planter—I have three climbers: fairy gift ivy and a gorgeous delicate jasmine. So the plants are all in; I still have some space left, but that'll come in time—I mean it seriously. can't put any more in, my budget is, well and truly, blown, so all I've got to do now is sweep up all the mess because I've got compost everywhere, rearrange my furniture, and then we'll take a quick final look and see how it all turns out. I've really enjoyed working on this garden, and I hope You've enjoyed following me along on this little mini-series; I'm absolutely thrilled—there's still areas that need plants, it's very deceiving when you think you've got plenty, when you actually put them in You haven't. My little secret courtyard and I can't wait to watch it grow and mature, and you. know that the wall behind me will hopefully be completely covered in green next year. All I have to do Now is the pièce de résistance: adding my solar fairy lights, and then fingers crossed they'll lit up tonight. Until next time, thank you so much for joining me—I hope you've Enjoyed watching me in my garden, and I'll see you in my next video. Bye for now.