Interruptions to my gardening plans and feeling overwhelmed| The Cottage Garden| Irish Garden

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This weekend I was trying to get the cottage garden area more organized, bringing all of the collected plants to here and laying them out, but the neighbours arborist had also been scheduled to work on a large tree, which meant chainsaw noise throughout the day.
I was trying not let this stop me from gardening, but between this and running out of plants for the area, I opted to change my plans.

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well hello and welcome back to the Garden I was so excited about today’s day because we were supposed to spend our day here in The Cottage Garden and planting up some of them if not all of the plants that I’ve been accumulating and just having these lovely Charming like Quint essential Cottage Garden flowers here would transform this area cuz it’s been so long overdue so this is what I was planning for today to be planting it up with you but our neighbor had an arist over and they were dismantling a big tree so the chainsaws were going consistently throughout the day [Music] [Music] and as I was bringing out all those plants to here so I could lay them out at least around the bed so just to see where they might just fit in with their sizes and shapes I realized I had nowhere enough plants which I sort of knew that I was going to have to go and buy but I really did not have enough plants and over obviously knowing the background noise was so loud um I could not actually speak to you and I got really overwhelmed it probably was just a combination of everything plus having to cuz these are perennials so having to even locate them more thinking okay what did it look like now because there’s no flowers on it it’s only leaves and how big was it going to grow trying to remember all that and I’m no expert in that I’m not a garden designer I’ve said that before as well so um I just do what feels right to me and I try to find the right location for the plants but as such how to combine them I just go with my own God Instinct so I thought the best I could do is just literally leave here and go to Garden Center which isn’t that close there’s quite a drive there but at least I’ll go and see if I can pick up something else something newer and obviously being weather was as it was it was just jam-packed with people so I couldn’t really properly film it either for you and what I was picking and why I was picking and because it was so busy and people were buying a lot of plants the selection wasn’t all as good as it was even in March when I last was there so I still didn’t obviously come home empty and that would be just silly now obviously I have not physically planted them into the ground yet and I won’t do it today unfortunately either because there are actually just a couple of more plants that I want to relocate within the garden itself so I actually could bring a looping in here there’s a pey there not the best time to move those plants at the moment but look needs most and there’s a couple of more stilles I think I might um move as well and then I also still need to physically go and buy more plants and especially more the semi- shade or shade loving plants they didn’t actually have that much of a selection in there for those but I thought at least I’ll show you the type of plants I bought what did I get maybe there’s something familiar and CU actually disclaimer there are so many of those plants there that I’ve never grown before but they look exciting and they look gorgeous and obviously some of the plants I really do want to have in the the garden itself so and some might be new to you and some you might always already growing so it’s that side of it is all so so exciting and at least it won’t be a fully messed up and lost out on opportunity day um to do a bit of gardening still now I had been collecting various of plants over the months and I’ve been talking about them plenty U before as well and these would go just to harmonize with the planting that was already here and the these fresh David Austin G abriel Oak roses so if I start with the biggest of the purchases so this one is a big shrub so this is going to grow like 6 to 8 foot in the height so let’s say 8 foot is about 2.4 M and this is Vella and it’s blossoming in the month of May it has absolutely beautiful green leaves and it has this kind of a stunning pink aging to it and obviously it’s covered with flowers and it was immediately approved by large [Music] bumblebee will you plant your ball as well will we plant your ball yeah we’ll grow an orange tree obviously I’m going to be locating it somewhere around the back and this is what I’m thinking the area could be so there’s still good bit of distance away from The Greenery and I could do more planting in front at the moment I put a small pot with an annabal hyd Ranger in front of it that’s a cutting I took from one of the plants here in the front yard so that’s not new plant but um I haven’t really been talking about it’s just one of my own cuttings but yeah so this is the big Vella and I might be actually pronouncing that word wrong but never grown this before but it’s absolutely stunning also the moment I had it in my shopping basket everybody passing it was complimenting it they all want to know what it was I’m not sure why they passed it as they were laid out in the garden center but maybe you know you get overwhelmed um looking at so many plants as well but but yeah this had definitely a wow factor everybody as I said complimented loved it and wanted to know what it was so that is Vella Rosa another Dr that I bought is a spindle tree or aous it’s a red chief variety that I placed here obviously still in this part just next to the doia behind the sbes and the crocosmia next to this big big Hy Ranger as well and next to the Boda or the butterfly bush so this is going to have fantastic Autumn color and I’m thinking it will um complement nicely with this cotinus that I had at the back here uh Grace I think is the name variety and I was cassing it I was cassing it I was cutting down the big branches I’m hoping for the new growth to come through but the cinus leaf is really deep sort of uh purpley tones so really dark one so I’m thinking it’s going to give a good background to the vibrant grief summer color then this is going to get even more vibrant for winter and this is also going to be really deep red and real firecracker in the at the end of the sort of Border here and obviously then it is going to have these flowers and berries and it’s going to be gorgeous and I want to thank Ally and Dawn for their kind donations there’s a couple of plants with your names on them there thank you so much very very kind of you and anybody else that wants to do something similar there’s a link below then next as shrubs I bought these two dwarfing lilacs and the variety is called pabin and they are absolutely stunning and the fragrance obviously with lilacs is just gorgeous and you can’t have a cot Garden without a lilac it’s an absolute must but yeah it’s it’s a low one um I think the maximum height this would be is about 1.2 so I was thinking I’ll use it at the back of the curve here um and then you’re facing sort of the Rose Garden that way and cuz I’m hoping that maybe if we’d get a bench or something in here so it would be sort of behind you it would waft a little bit over your then as a bigger shrubby flowers is another puny and this one is called the pink Hawaiian Coral so this is going to be a coral colored one and I got a straightaway support for it as well I was also able to pick up a couple of um delphiniums so these ones obviously are purplish sort of like a double petal variety look and then I also got another variety which I have these kind of a purpley flowers and that’s called astoot continuing with these purple tones I suppose I picked up this to sby it was just stunning you see the depth of color it’s nearly even an more extreme version of the cattina um Grace um and the stems are very like the cinus colors but that’s an A stillie so and that’s a still be Chin’s Spotlight but I hadn’t seen this um color before and it’s just stunning I just love the color of the foliage even if the flowers aren’t going to be that Pretty in Pink but just the foliage is stunning so I got a couple of those as well then a couple of pots of stackis they have a stunning delicate flower and obviously again the leaf um design is a bit different and this variety is summer crush and I nearly forgot this little beauty as well it’s another geranium Cambridge is this variety and they only had one of it but it was pink so obviously I had to buy it and then finally um some nap weed now I never grown it but so soft and sort of leathery feeling folage and should had pink flowers as as well no way I can pronounce what the name is so I’ll just put that on the screen for you and that’s the beauty of an English cottage Garden because it’s all about abundance and informality so you can’t really go wrong in a way of um mixing up plants and colors um I do like a bit of Harmony so I usually do stick with sort of m v and pink tones but otherwise once you get the I suppose location right that it’s full sun or semi-shade which I do have a bit of a mix here and then also a couple of weeks ago I’ve been bringing in fresh compost here to all these areas where the new plants are going to go just to prep it because the cottage garden plants do love really rich and well draining soil and our own really heavy clay plus it’s just totally riddled with stone um is just not going to be good enough so we did have to bring in a bulk load of soil this will help us to retain moisture and just provide nutrients to the plants and then obviously adding with the park mulch as well after keeping we’ll keep down the weeding and at the moment as I said I have it sort of around the out Outer areas um and then the fresh soil in the middle so things don’t always go the way we plan them to go that is just life I just still keep working way on the background and if you haven’t seen the video the last video by me of other let’s say kitchen Garden jobs even that I am planning for myself I’m doing already in month of May have a look at that but thank you still so much for joining me today and until next time