Ken Crowther looks at a bed made up of plants that were all discarded. He’s able to see that a fabulous display can be achieved by recycling these plants.
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[Music] This is a bed that you may have seen us planting up. And these plants were actually they’re recycled. They’re basically come out of beds and gardens where people didn’t want them. Okay, there’s the odd failure. And I mean the odd one. Just one ceos that’s died back. If you look at the front edge, it’s got growth coming. So next spring you cut back off all your old growth that’s not growing and that will grow into a bush a bit like this one here. As we walk along you can see there’s an apita there’s a bit of weed there I’ve missed plenty of aena grasses Annabels. Now remember Annabels uh from the garden they came from they were just shoots event shoots originally and then they came into plants in the garden that is in the back of where we are now. And these are now clumped up. Rosanne, of course, takes off and gives you color right through to the autumn. A really bargain plant indeed. I don’t know which roses these were cuz I think the contractor planted these against this border originally when the houses were built cuz it’s a new build estate. I think this one, one of these I think is part of the county series where they did Essex, Sufffort, Norford. They were a nice series because they were quite a low growing masses of fuettes of gorgeous flowers. There’s a white one at the back and a pink at the front. Uh and of course if we go forward we’ve got heebies at the back. Gristalinia which uh in the center here I can show you that there’s a window each side. You could grow it up high in the middle and then just cut it back around the windows. Roses, grasses, uh French lavender here. Another hydrangeanger. bit different colors and we go along the um the the mic daisy or aster as they’re called are just coming into flour. Bit of mildew on those but we won’t worry about that too much. Let them flour and then cut them hard back. Christmas roses helib plenty of those and they were bought three years ago in another garden and the people then move them around to this part of the border. Uh more sa cocka there a bit yellow aliums flowering will hookra now you just look at this little hookah I’ll tell you a little story about this little hookah see that little hookah there when that was first planted has three leaves on it and okay was 6 months on when you may have seen us planting this bed but they are now that’s what they will do they’ll come into flour like that that’s a lovely hukra more sarcocka and you’ll see that the up the end here. Uh they’ve been I’m wrong. These are sa cocka. I’m going to go back and tell you I’m wrong on that cuz this is actually uh not a sa cocker at all. It’s a green spire. There you are. That’s green spire heei. A very old leggy one that was dug out again from the back garden here. And if you look look at all that lovely new growth that’s coming from the middle. Would I cut it back now? You could be tempted, but we don’t know what the winter will throw at us again. Um, so I would wait till the spring and then cut it hard back and all that lovely new growth will come. Did I say about the hydrangeas? Paniculata. Really gorgeous. Going from a greeny white through to white and then you get this pink flush on them. Really good value for money. So they are as you look along the border. Yes, this is the lawn that I tried the uh steel battery mower on as well, which you may remember me walking up and down. The lawn again was a council or partly estate, not council, but uh the management committee, but this resident has bothered to uh look after it a bit, get some weed killer onto it and feed it. So there are you end up with a lovely border. So when you’re looking at plants, offer them to your friends. Don’t just throw them away because it might be a benefit to somebody else that can enjoy them. They are a border created from secondhand or maybe thirdand even plants. Nothing like a bit of recycling in the gardening world, is there? More gardening on World Radio Gardening. [Music]
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