Award-winning plant grower Rosy Hardy of @RosyHardyGardening shares her secrets on how to choose the best plants when you’re plant shopping in nurseries and garden centres.
00:00 Welcome
00:14 Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants nursery: https://www.hardysplants.co.uk/
00:21 How to choose plants when shopping
00:37 Check the base of the plant!
01:48 Make a list or plan
02:00 Is your border sunny or shady?
02:25 Think about your theme or feel for that border
02:50 When is the plant going to flower and how long will it flower for?
03:17 Contrast flower shapes and foliage textures
03:50 Use ‘see-through’ plants
04:13 You don’t have to have all bigger plants at the back and smaller ones at the front
05:03 Think about how wide the plants will be when fully grown
05:35 Use annuals and biennials to fill gaps
06:08 How far apart should plants be planted? (easy tip)
07:09 Always ask the questions
07:42 Most plants will grow in pots
08:43 Plant into a pot just a little bigger than the plant’s rootball
09:45 Brilliant borders playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZRLHPUbGmA5kOEitfgzW9HlMKLUsOZp
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30 Comments
Good to hear this excellent advice, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the choices at the plant nursery. I hope you'll give another live chat soon, they are fun and your husband is great reading the questions behind the camera, very like Geoffrey Palmer, it works well 😊
I got to hav it all!
I love you two walking garden plant encyclopaedias, I wish I had your knowledge on what to put what and where. Always a tonic to watch.❤💐🌸🌿
I love Rosy's channel. Her combination of supreme practicality and enthusiasm for beautiful plants is right up my street [or rather, down my garden path].
I do love the way Rosie puts plants together…lupine sand alliums look divine! You get the best interviews.
I just got some native Colorado plants and a peony and a jostaberry.
In dryer climates, as well as shady or sunny need to ĺnow the irrigation or not?? Where i live we have no need for irrigation, low, mod, lots of water needed!!
Excellent advice from Rosy as always.
Wish I had seen this at the beginning of spring. I bought x2 grasses in Feb/ March at £15 each, from a well known garden centre.. Both looked after, but both looking dead. Still only dry stumpy stems, no sign of regrowth. If I'd seen this before, I'd have invested my money in something more healthy 😏
I can really get in trouble at nurseries. Fortunately, my wife appreciates my gardening.
Love your channel.
4:30. What are those white barked trees?
I could tell by the wind blowing your hair, it was a very windy day, BUT I didn't hear any wind from your mics.! Brilliant! I watch a horse channel and every time it's windy outside, we're unable to hear or understand what is being said, so they do voiceovers. I suspect the fuzzy bit on your mics answered the wind problem. I love learning more and more from your channel and guests. I love foxglove but fail to grow it. Thank you!!
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Another helpful interview:) Thank you!
Off topic, but am searching without success for a video I believe was yours of a gentleman gardener who gardens almost entirely in containers. Help?
Great video. I have also wondered if I should try somethings in containers before planting a small plant in the ground and its roots are not strong enough yet to compete with what is around them.
Good morning Alexander, so nice to see you again, a pity about the wind almost a good day to fly a kite!! So enjoyed Rosy's practical approach to the placing of plants. If you do plant that lovely tangerine and mauve together, it always makes a beautiful show. Today I would like to plant some bulbs for a lovely spring show, I hope they will do well, sometimes your plants can be disappointing with no fault from yourself. Our winter is now in full swing, fortunately we have clear skies and sunny days. As always thank you for a lovely garden talk, and yes, you are very encouraging regardless of the seasons we are in. Do take care, keep snug and carry on gardening. Many blessings, kind regards.
Great vid. Great info 💕Lol I did exactly that. Planted perennials too close.
But now I just dig them oot and put somewhere else ir in a container
Nice plant
Sadly many garden centres don't have staff around to chat to and ask questions or even help with heavy bags of mulch, compost. I searched for help and found no-one on different days too. Nice garden centres , nice plants, invisable staff.
Love Rosy💕
Just filled a huge pot with sand a grit for my herbs ffs 😂
Excellent advice all around 🙏
So incredibly helpful as I embark on buying plants for my first garden – thank you
It's so exciting to arrive at the plant store, with all the beautiful colors and everything looking perfect! I just want to load up my cart! Sometimes I put things in, and after thinking about it (mostly the cost!!), I put them back, lol. Rosie has great knowledge, and as always your questions stimulate excellent responses. I also look for multiple plants in the same pot; you might get three tomato plants instead of one. Due to the hotter micro-climate, clay soil, and rocks at my new home, I've continued using containers as I did at my old house (the back garden was very small and mostly taken up by a wooden deck). We also have gophers that keep coming back. I have full size olive trees , roses, lavender, bulbs, etc. in containers. If the larger plant is well established and will tolerate it (and they have similar watering requirements), I'll add something like alyssum, lobelia, poppies, etc. to grow in the same pot.
I must say lve never commented on your videos, but lve learnt a lot from you Alexandra, thank you, lve taken a big challenge of designing my garden, its hard but lm enjoying it❤
Rosie says buy what you like. My problem is that I absolutely adore all plants, ha ha. My garden is planted much too closely bot an inch of space. I really should allow more space between my plants- forever having to chop bits off to allow the weaker neighbouring plant more space. Alstromeria has taken over an area , such a bully, but i find ity hard to cut back as it looks so pretty, so i usually allow it to flower first and then yank it out, which is a bit late for the health of its' neighbours. Thank you for a great Vlog 🙂
Love this channel and here is another one that is helpful
https://youtu.be/Vfpdrm6NxaE
Not my experience of most garden centres or even nurseries. To many staff are utterly clueless on plant knowledge, I've found. Worse these days than a few years ago. I went to Horticultural college in the 1980s so I've basic horticultural knowledge and I research plants etc. I've even educated some garden centre staff on plant matters on occasions. To many of their customers are I'll advised now days. But sadly that's the way it is sometimes.
Also good to stagger when the plants bloom for the pollinators! Big problem for bees in some areas with June gap