If you have a small garden, its easy to think you can’t do much with it. But with careful planning even small gardens can be beautiful!. In this video I show you a simple design trick that works if all you have is a patio sized space.
First of all, if your garden is mostly hard surface, I recommend pressure washing the area. This instantly makes a difference and makes it safer to walk on. Sometimes it can look like a new patio even by giving it a good clean.
Then I construct a set of softwood planters, painting them a subtle neutral colour to show of the plants. These will become the ‘walls’ of my garden room and by putting them on casters I can change the look of my new garden whenever I want. I then plant one of them with stunning spring colours.
ALAN IS USING:
Linear Planter with wheels from Forest Garden – https://rb.gy/8h6182
Paint from Protek (Alan’s choice is Protek Royal Exterior Warm Clay) – https://rb.gy/hbu4vk
RE130 Plus Pressure Washer from Stihl – https://rb.gy/ksi4je
Plants from Blue Diamond Garden Centres – https://rb.gy/0ehb4p
Sylvagrow multi-purpose compost From Melcourt – https://rb.gy/bj640s
Wall mounted hose from Gardena – https://rb.gy/3fhmt3
Multi-functional sprayer from Gardena – https://rb.gy/isyati
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Pressure Washing The Patio
1:55 Preparing My Planters
3:55 Arranging The Planters
4:40 Choosing Plants For My Window Planter
7:48 Watering My New Plants
My name’s Alan Titchmarsh, and I’m absolutely delighted to welcome you to my YouTube channel! I’ve been a gardener for over 60 years and I can safely say that gardening is one of life’s greatest joys, and I can’t wait to share it with you.
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10 Comments
😂 a bit of fluff
Absolutely brilliant to see Alan on " TV" again. No one else has his way of making gardening seem achievable. I'm hoping I can watch a bunch of these back-to-back as shorts while I'm making dinner
Please please film in landscape not portrait xx
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So very beautiful. ❤
Thankyou for this wonderfully helpful channel.
I have decided a garden is like a child for it to flourish it must be cared for.
Thyme!! Not time for heavens sakes please!!
I’ll have to enjoy my planting of new plants vicariously through you Alan, as we’re going into a drought here in Australia, and as I live on tank water, every drop is precious now! So no new plants for me for a while, to the end of this year it seems 😢 and possibly beyond 😢😢😢
I have a small north facing patch, i want to put in some containers like these instead of the sad lawn i have. Is there a way to work out good planter fellows that will last through until the Autumn/winter?