💐 Planting Time - David Austin Standard Rose & lots of Spring Colour in the Secret Garden💐

Hello, babe, welcome back, I'm glad to see you. Thank you for joining me. I'm going ahead with the Today is March, and the weather has been very interesting this month of March, because I've been drawing and drawing and drawing every single day. So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to do it. I've also just received news to go to the border ahead here. I'm taking the ferry. I'm going the way too, and I'm going the way that is also, and I'm going the way It's all good, I wanted to do it twice. I'm going to carry on with the froth, Otherwise it would be entirely good, and he must face it. So, a little facing up to it to do it. Everyone looks interesting, but when I do a little, it'll look really interesting, and I hope you'll enjoy watching. Alright, so what I have here is the rose, which has been connected in one year To avoid getting wet, you'll need to get it in a hurry, even though you'll have to go to the problem with them. This is the rose here, the general rose, the graphical point on the disc there, Very well. When you get that, you'll put the network in a year, I have the network, and it has some graphics points here. Therefore, clearly, this is the The graphics on it and the graphics on the network here. I have a good frame and shape, which surely is what I hope for from the David Austin network The label says the frame is for Lady of Shallot. I'm going to put it back there now. I also have a small piece of front wool here, which is quite common. Now, this has been fermenting or, more commonly, has been sitting in the manor of both for many months, and I am Pulling back a little on this network here, and that's interesting. Some people think it's I'm going to start. I'm going to Let's move the front a bit further, see where it's going, then we'll plan it back, and we'll see how it looks. One of the children I'm about to take with me is this one here, and I need you to be grateful for this. This is recognized as one of the items and is also a curious plant, occasionally referred to as Monk's Hood. Many of the names are also like that. Now, these plants are in the Buttercup family, Rhinoculaceae, I think. This is very interesting indeed. Now, these children have been included to quickly get people involved. They might pull it, but it's interesting, so I'm not going to bother doing that. I wasn't realizing you were doing it too. What I'm going to do is come out and take it. I don't know if I can get it here, maybe I could pick it up from Manor School, but as I said, I hope with this, but I'm going to come out and take it. I've decided what to do with this going forward. Themes of problems in the garden, We have poisonous plants and also spreading ones; now it might be nice if you have bamboo in your garden that you enjoy it, but it might not be the case that your neighbours enjoy it too So unfortunately this one has come through from next door, because I can handle it myself. I'm not too worried about it; it's a slowly spreading type, black bamboo, and I've just dug this one up. up, now I didn't want this in my border but it's come through anyway, now this would cost a a fair bit of money at the garden centre, the bamboo here has got big juicy stems coming up, now I don't wanted them in my border because it dries it out and it's not really suitable for this garden, so I've I dug this piece out; I'm going to take it to the old manor house and redo it, but just be careful. If you are planting bamboo, and you do not impose it on others, they might not want it anyway. you could get yourself into trouble with invasive plant species, so in this garden we're very careful about the plants we choose and maintain. Lucky to have this soil—many people would give their back for this. This is lovely. dark sandy loam, and it's beautiful; the problem with sandy soils is that they leach nutrients so it doesn't stay rich for very long, so you have to keep feeding it constantly—it's ideal if you're vegetables and carrots because of the sandy texture, no stones in it, it's the odd one fossils from the ancient riverbeds that once existed here, from the River Humber, but that's about it, So you have to keep it well fed, with plenty of nutrients, and the plants thrive—they're absolutely lovely. fibrous roots, so I'm going to dig the hole for the rose now and get it in position, now I'm going To mix in the lovely well-rotted, sticky horse manure, drop it in there—now this is well-rotted. So if you're using manure that isn't well-rotted, it'll burn the roots, and you don't want to do that. that because you'll damage the plant you spent a lot of money on, and give that a mix in Remove any debris from the soil and bottom there—it's just large enough for the rose to fit in. There, now I want to make sure we plant this rose so it's not too deep; you need to keep the Just above the soil, you can see where it has been grown here—the soil line has been around here. so it wants to be replicated exactly the same, we've positioned it in the hole which is just wide enough for the roots, make sure it's okay, it has enough room to spread on either side, not the back and front, and then we can fill it in with a mixture of horse manure— that's all sticking to my fingers, yuck, and a little soil, mix it in, give it a good start, I'm going to just Tip the rest of this in here—it's almost like soil itself; now this will feed the plant for this. year and do really well, get it established because you don't want to be doing it the wrong way and giving it a bad start in life, we all want our plants to do really well, and that's one way of doing it, give it a pat down, a gentle foam with the foot, I say don't stamp on the roots because you'll Harm it? I'm quite pleased with that. Anything growing back here, I'm going to cut it back and keep it. Away from it, as it will fill up and make this lovely space here, right? So I'm pleased with that. So let's move on to the next phase, okay? So now we have the rose in position. I'm carefully going to put This stake here, I'm going to place it at the back so I don't necessarily have to see it; now there's a Space it in the root, upside down, so place it close to the plant but not right next to it. And we're going to use a heavy, whatever it's called, hammer mallet, and I'm just going to tap this in. Be careful not to hit the rose itself; I'm going to drive this in without breaking the stake itself. And I'll do a little bit more, just careful—I don't want to sprint to the top of this. and I don't want that to transfer onto the rose either, so I'm going to do a little bit more try to keep this out of the way without scratching myself—that's a bit awkward; what I'll do is Use this fork and just wedge it in there slightly, just to hold it back a little. I'll just put this in. In, now if you do this wrong, you won't be able to get out again. Let's see, that'll do. I'm happy with it. That's fine; so now we have one of the two ties. The other one, you may not need it, but I shall use it. both, now you need to place this section here, this fits between that spot and the rose, the Put the rose stem through that part, so I'm going to do it this way around. so you've got a loop, pull it through, it's not too tight but just supportive, make sure you've Got enough on there, pull it back again, support the rose, you put it through the loop over here Make sure it's in the right position; it takes a little adjusting to get it just right. and you loop that through there; now once that's on, you can, if you choose is to put a nail through this to prevent it from slipping up and down, but It's up to you; I think it's quite stable, just needs to be tightened a bit more. so what you need to make sure is that you're going to be doing this, that you don't Ignore this for next year because if this stem here gets larger, it's going to cut into this. rubbery part here, so you need to adjust these all the time, otherwise you're going to lose your Lovely plant; there's one here. I'm going to put that a little bit lower down, and then I think We're good to go; I just give it a good watering, and there we have it—we have the lady of shallot in position, it will grow to a beautiful size; you must make sure that these stems here Don't let any suckers come off them, so if you see any shoots coming from these areas, gently remove them. them, so this should eventually develop into a lovely shape with beautiful, rich orange flowers just like the lady in the painting, the lady of shallot, well I've decided to come in and have a a cup of tea, and I've got some mint tea here, which is good for you—you'll have to go for it to get the full benefit The benefit of it, I love mint tea—it sweetens nicely with a little honey, and a good cup makes everything better. even more special, so now I'm going to say a little bit about why I haven't been filming last year because last year I had a terrible problem with my knee here, and it really made walking difficult and at Times felt like I needed to have a walking frame, so I went to the doctors and I don't like talking. about health, usually because a lot of people do, don't they? It's a bit of a bore, anyway, I went to the doctors and said, "Why is my knee swollen, making it difficult to walk?" I sent him to do physiotherapy and he had a good look and he moved it around, he couldn't find anything other than just age-related wear and tear, which is not at all unusual for someone who's a gardener and so he said, take these tablets for a couple of weeks until you get on track, and actually those The tablets made it go away, and it's been gone ever since, so I'm really pleased about that. And going on with that, well, that got better; I started to notice my left foot had a problem. and it felt a bit like I had a stoning machine; I kept looking in my shooty where the stone was and there actually wasn't one, so as you do I went on to the search engine and typed in Why do I feel like I've got a stone in my foot and my shoe, and there wasn't one? It's actually called Mortising Roma, it's quite a common thing to have, and it's like a build-up of scar tissue. between the third and fourth metatarsals, don't get me wrong about that—I'm not entirely sure, I have to remember what I've read, so I've had an ultrasound done on it and I have a 10-millimeter one Scar tissue between my toes in the bone area further in the foot—that's what I can feel. When I'm walking, it's quite painful at times, so I have to be careful not to make it worse. and hopefully in April I have an appointment to get an injection to make it go away or at least make it a little better; in the meantime, I just have to be careful not to make It's worse or makes it difficult because it actually hurts to walk, and it's not very comfortable. But I know there are worse things out there, so I'm grateful for that. but I just have to make sure I get the right shoes and the right treatments and just be careful with it, so that's probably why you wonder where I was last year and where you might have seen me in Some of my films when I went away with two walking sticks, and that was part of the reason I'm getting Ready for my old age, but I might already be there, and you might have seen this. Before, now this is a little birdhouse I bought a few weeks ago when I was visiting the seaside. You wouldn't expect to find these by the seaside, isn't that beautiful? Now I might not put it. outside because I don't actually think it's that suitable for bird nests, but it's made of rubberwood or something similar—I'm not entirely sure what it is—some additional pieces of roots and other things and trees, but someone has painted a lovely job, so isn't that beautiful? I thought that just makes me feel happy, so I can go with my collection of ornaments and artifacts that are special to me so it'll look lovely; perhaps on a nice day in the garden I'll put it out, yeah, so that's the idea explanation, so I can't stress this enough: take care of your health, don't overwork yourself in the garden, but Make sure you enjoy it, make sure you rest, take your time, and make sure you get the full benefit from the entire process. I thought we ought to spruce up the garden a bit and add some color and the pots are great because you can move them wherever you want them to be, as long as they're not in The pitch black. Now I've got these plants we gave to my mum for her birthday last Sunday. and I thought, well, I can put these in for her so they look pretty; I've got a dianthus, I've got Ranunculus, and I've got these primroses with nice purple hues, so I'm going to dot them around these pots. But I don't have enough for two pots; what I do have are some extras—I'm going to use those. To embellish these, now these are from a local shop for £2.99, which is extremely cheap. and I've been placed away, you can buy four for £3.50, and they look even nicer than these. I love these colors, so let's pop those in—one there, I don't want the same ones next to each other. Then I should place one there—what else do I have for these beautiful double obelisks? There are the daisies; carefully pull those out, place one there, I shall put one there next to it. One, now I think I need something else, some violas or something; I'm just going to see what. I've got them on my store table, so I'm back; now I have these violas, but I don't think they're the right ones. color, all I can see in this pack here is a little blue one coming out, so I'm going to put Put that one in here, between the polyanthes, so they're not next to each other, and I found another. one in this tray, so I'm going to use that one; I'm going to pop it here because it's blue, I've Got two purples and pinks there, so that'll look nice, and I may need a little bit extra in that. one, but I don't really want to put yellow in because it would ruin it; I love it so much The orange may look nice, but it's a little out of place with this selection. So I think that'll probably look quite nice—one, two, three, four, five, six in that one. One, two, three, four, six—in that one, I've got some compost here; I'm just going to fill it in. And if you want to later on, you can always add more plants to the selection. or if anything goes wrong, it's a good idea to have some extras on hand; this compost already has pre-mixed food in it so I don't need to add my own, and by the time these are finished and the The food's worn out; they'll be out of season anyway, so I can get rid of this lot, all the polyanthes. go into the gardens at the old manor house, or you can put them into your own borders if you're wondering what to do with them, so don't overindulge and they'll return year after year, They'll be beautiful; the violas tend to fade away, they won't be throwing anything out. You can move the ranunculus there somewhere as well; I've got two nice pots, I'll just finish up. I'm going to go and place them in the secret garden area at the side of the house. I'm making a bit of a mess here, but it's nice and dry, so for a change, you can sweep it up. Stick it in there, so I'll move these to where they're supposed to go, and then I'll give them a small drink, not too much—we don't want to saturate them because They've already been saturated, you know, just so the compost settles down properly and it gets the Compost the flowers as well, and just check afterward to see if there's any remaining Holes up here, and you can fill them up again, but I think that's really pretty and quite nice. And that was a lovely gift from my mum's friend—the plants, plus the extra ones I already had. Always keep it in stock for you—just in case you never know when you might need to make a little arrangement. So they're beautiful. Thank you so much for joining me again in the garden. It's been Lovely to have you here; I hope you've enjoyed watching—you might have learned a couple of things, I've been busy between the rainstorms, changing shirts because they got soaked planting all the pots up here to create a beautiful display, which you've just seen in the video please like and subscribe if you're able to, help my channel grow, and I look forward to See you again very soon next time, take good care and happy gardening!