🌿 Last Day of August Garden Update 2025: Cuttings, Seeds & Big Decisions! 🌞
Join me on this beautiful sunny morning as we dive into the heart of the garden at the end of August 2025! In today’s video, I’m sharing three exciting things every gardener needs to know right now:
🌱 How to take easy cuttings from your favourite plants to multiply your garden for FREE next year
🌼 Which seeds are just about ready to harvest and how to collect them for a thriving 2026 garden
🌳 Plus, I’m sharing some major garden changes I’m planning — and I need YOUR advice on a tricky planting dilemma!
Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just getting started, this video is packed with practical tips and inspiration to get your garden growing strong into autumn and beyond. Don’t miss the part where I reveal which plants I’m moving, which ones I’m saying goodbye to, and how I’m reshaping my garden space.
👉 Watch till the end and help me decide: Should I move the Borinda to a windy spot or keep it cozy? Your input means a lot!
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Good morning everyone on this beautiful sunny morning in the last day of August 2025. In this video, we are going to look at three things. We’re going to look at cutings and seeds because it’s that time of year where we need to go around the garden and check to see what stock we can take for next year. We’re also going to have a look at some changes that I’m going to be making in the garden this year. And then finally, I’ve got a dilemma which I need your guys help with. So stick around and we’ll have a look at that towards the end of this video. So it’s been a mixed bag of weather this week. We’ve had rain, much needed rain, which has given the garden a whole new lease of life. Plants have started flowering more. Seed pods are developing faster and everything’s looking lush and green. [Music] [Music] With autumn just around the corner, we need to start looking at where we can get free plants for next year. There are many plants which produce seeds. But we also have a large variety of plants that we can take cutings from like this amazing strobalanth. Things like purs are also a very good choice to take cutings from. In fact, it’s very easy to take cutings. So, let’s have a quick look at how we do that. So, we want to select a stem that has got plenty of leaf notes on it. Once we selected a stem, we can cut it off. And as you can see, there’s lots of leaves on there. Now, the leaf nodes is where the hormone sits that will produce the roots when we put it in water. So, we’re going to cut it into sections just by cutting below a leaf node. And we can continue this all the way down, cutting into sections. Once we’ve got our sections, we then just pinch off the leaves. We don’t want uh the energy of the plant to be into the leaves. We want them to produce in roots. Just very simply pinch them off leaving one at the top. So then we take our cutings, we get a glass of warm water, tepid water, and what we’re going to do is just pop them straight in and go and plunk them on on a sunny winter sill. And as you can see, these are rooted now. So they’re in pots. So plants we can take cutings from are lots of different herbaceous plants like oh pilia. You can even take it from fatsas. You can take cutings from euphobias. And of course there are still plants which are flowering away creating a beautiful display as we move into autumn. So another way of propagating and getting free plants for next year is through collecting seeds. So let’s have a look at a few plants in the garden which are producing seed pods. Not quite ready to harvest yet, but they will be soon. These seeds may not be ready just yet, but we need to take stock of these seeds just so that we can collect them when they are ready. When the seeds are ready, we can harvest them and store them until they’re ready to sew next year. Plants like this amazing salon massinatum producing seed pods. Plants like canners also readily produce seed pods. And then of course crocosmias which are prolific at producing seed. So my plans for next year. Now I’ve never been really 100% happy with this shady bed. The gunner. Now do I get rid of it or do I keep it? Do I give it another chance for another year and let it develop into a bigger plant? It is in a windy location and it will get afternoon sun or do I replace it with something different? But what I am going to do is the Aurelia elata this magnificent tree. This is going to get moved and it’s going to get moved into this location here. The fighter lacker is coming out. I’ve had all kinds of trouble with this. I’ve had to prop the stems up from various different stakes that I could find around the garden and it just takes up far too much room and crowds everything out. So, it’s going to go. My plan is to take the Aurelia Relata and put it where the one on the left is. The one on where the right is. Well, the wag is going to get moved behind that. So, we’re going to put in its place this beautiful lowquat tree. This should give a real evergreen backdrop. So with the Aurelia elata on the left and the loquat on the right, it will give a good bit of screening into the other part of the garden, but you can still see through the Aurelia. So as I said, I’ve got a bit of an issue because I have this beautiful bamboo here, but I also have this binda tucked in the back in here. Now, what I want to do or what I’m thinking of doing and what I need your help with is can I put this barinda here? I know it’ll do well in the summer, but in the winter it’s a bit of a wind tunnel. Is the CS1046 hardy enough to withstand the winds that go through this section of the garden? The garden will only get to around about -6 in the winter. Fingers crossed. In this area here, the philistakus will have a lot more room to maneuver. There is a 3-FFT drop to the garden below on the other side, which means there’s a good retaining wall there, so it won’t break through that. Lots of space for it to spread out. And I think the Binda would look absolutely fantastic in this spot. Of course, the annuals like the salana won’t be there next year. Everything’s getting moved around. So, I need your help. What do you think? Should I move the barinda or should I keep it where it
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Beautiful, very enjoyable to watch.