Creating my first Show Garden

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In this video we discuss the plans and work involved in creating a show garden at the RHS Tatton Flower Show. We chat to Olivia who explains the process of designing the first show garden of her career and she explains what is involved and what influenced her garden. We go and collect the plants from the nursery and lay out some of the key features to see how it works together with the plants and also check we have enough plants to cover the space. Join us on the ups and downs of this new experience!

hello and welcome to Murphy’s Garden and you join me today surrounded by weeds and a rather lovely poppy um but the reason I’m here this is the this was our old vegetable patch and since we moved the vegetable patch up to there it’s been a bit of a dumping grind for Plants and Things where we bring things on um last year we had intended to do something with it and Olivia did a design for it and we cleared it all ready to do something and put this the plans into place however it never really happened can’t remember why I think we got distracted as we often do doing other jobs and and we had covered it all in um black plastic but over the winter the black plastic got blown up um got blown off and then we haven’t done anything with it and as you can see the weeds have just come back with a vengeance again which is really annoying cuz I’ve Got to Now weeded all again but what I want to use this for um Olivia as I’ve mentioned is doing this um Garden for the tat and flower show lives back tomorrow so we’ll have a chat with her tomorrow when she’s back but what I want to spend today doing is just clearing all of these weeds because we need somewhere to put all her plants she’s going to be picking up plants next week from the nursery um we have I think solved sort of solve the rabbit problem um I don’t think they’re getting in however we did have a few um remaining rabbits that were then stuck in the garden we caught one did a little short little um reel on that and um we have caught another one since that so I think there’s certainly not as many rabbits there may be one or two left but on the whole I think we’re quite rabbit free however we don’t want to take any chances so we’re going to use this area and we’ll put some fencing up or netting or something so nothing can get in here and this will be our protected Zone but obviously got to get rid of all these weeds before we do that and then we’ll cover it all with black plastic um so this is that’s the plan so I’m just going to get on and wait I’ve just gone have made a good start a bit of a start um but I am just just gone to get some better gloves CU I was getting a bit stung with all the Nettles so that’s my plan so that’s a bit of a difference isn’t it so we’ve covered the whole area there are still obviously some remaining weeds but the majority of them are got out and then we had a big bit of sheeting and which we’ve put down we’ve just pegged it all down alist have pegged it all down and then what I’ve done here is just to Mark out the size of Olivia’s Garden with the bricks so the sort of dotted line um used um using the bricks marks like the size of the garden so you can see what size it is so it’s actually um 7 m by 2 m just under that cuz it’s going to be a raised border so just give gives you a little bit of a feel for the size so we’re Wai now for Olivia to come home and we can make a start with exciting bit hello we’re off to blueb Cottage nurseries to go and collect 71 plants for my garden at taton and this is the team so far we’ve got more members to add at a later date but this is the team um Newen is called small actions big impact so we’re off to get the plants and um make a start on this lovely garden and Blue Bell Nursery is owned by a called Sue Beasley who Olivia’s met I haven’t met Sue but this is Anne who Olivia’s been dealing with um and she’s been growing and preparing all the plants for Olivia so they’ve she’s kept them all here in this poly tunnel um however seeing all the other lovely plants of course we’ve seen a few that we didn’t have on the list but we thought would um also make a lovely addition so we have been tempted by a few other ones as well so we’re just picking some of those out too and then Olivia has just finalized the list this is the list hello we’re here at Blue Bell Cottage Gardens now and we’ve just collected all the plants and um put them all onto the van so we’re going to cover them and then take them back home and hope that they don’t blow over in the wind or get snapped or anything um but yeah it’s very exciting we now need to go and plant them all um or lay them all out in the garden around the side to make sure that they’re all going to be okay and look after them until it’s ready for the show but first I would like to look around this beautiful garden it’s absolutely stunning so we’ll just take have a quick Wiz around the garden before we head back and this is Sue’s um lovely Moon Arch and as we head in through it we come into this little Woodland area which is quite approve for this hot weather that we’re having it’s really quite hot today so lots of nice Woodland planting down here got this beautiful little wild flower area stunning lots of um oxide daisies and there little geraniums mixed in there and Dand lines and things and it looks so pretty and lots of butterflies on it this is a little shady spot we’ve got some brera there so fine example there’s some eupatorium fine example of all the plants that they’re growing in the nursery um just showing us how to lay them out it’s lovely lovely little building at the end and we really like the U hedge look how they’ve done their U Hedge flus uranium strania lots of nice grasses the importance of grasses to add movement to the Garden is evident here a COR is cus like car is just going over starting to go over a little bit and we’ll head now into the um vegetable garden on H there liking all the um sang orber so much so that we’ve bought some different varieties of sangura um which we’ll show you um when we get back home this is quite effective where they’ve just built some brick um columns for an archway looks lovely so this lovely little kind of Arbor um if we just look at it in a bit more detail so it’s just four um brick columns and then on top they’ve just used um sleepers so it’s a really effective way of creating an arch right it looks really really lovely this is a very nice seat made of some interesting Driftwood and this is the vegetable garden so similar to what alistar’s created for me at home it’s looking quite similar to that and it’s lovely and we’ve got this Moon Arch which is very effective and that goes into the Woodland Garden good to see all the plants in the nursery growing how to grow them in your own garden and the nursery’s got a little t- room and then all the plants are growing here and they specialize all in um perennials Alice has put them all into the trailer little Peak under sneak peek um just so we get them home safely without and getting blowing a bite too much so we just were offloading the trailer and Olivia noticed a little rabbit and it ran out of here and this is a point that we didn’t notice that there was a little hole there so I’ve just bricked up and hopefully they can’t get in now hello and you join me in the shed with my daughter Olivia here’s here um she’s back from University and so just thought it’ be nice to catch up with her and just find out a little bit more about this Garden that she’s designing for the tattn flower show so probably the first question is why did you want to Do It um well I’ve always been really interested in the whole show aspect of hor culture and um we went to our first rhs Chelsea back in I think it was 2019 round um Co it was the one that was in September and it was absolutely incredible it was completely lifechanging and it was a whole other world that we’ve never really experienced um and then after that we went to Tatton and we’ve been going to both of those for about three or four years now and you went to mulvin um so I think um compared to Chelsea taton features quite a lot of young designers so it’s a really good place to kind of see upand cominging talent and to see who has kind of just graduated and is kind of going into landscape architecture and ha culture so it’s quite exciting Chelsea sometimes can seem quite um a bit too aspirational yeah whereas tatton’s a bit more achievable and it’s also a really good place to talk to Young designers and to get a bit of inspiration some of the students are from your University some of the older students so it’s quite nice to see them as well and to see what they’ve gone on to do yeah it’s nice so so the process of Designing a show Garden um what’s the kind of Lee time on it in terms of timing when did you apply to to do a garden um well it was a bit even though I had in my mind that I want to do it for a really long time because I was balancing uni work as well um at the back of my mind I was thinking I don’t know how achievable this is going to be so I did kind of end up leaving it to the last minute the um deadline for the longboard category which is what I’m doing was in um I think it was early February I think they depend depending on what category you’re going into but um I spent Christmas and then um all of January doing um my design and kind of thinking about the planting and things like that and the brief that I wanted to do so then you have to submit a design um and like all of the requirements um and things like that and then you don’t get approved until March I think um and then you’re in like constant communication with the rhs you get given a mentor who helps you with your like planting if you need any changes you get feedback on your design which is really good um and yeah it’s it’s a good process they’re really good at um communicating with you if you’ve got any questions um and they’re really quick to come back gu I mean other Gardens like Chelsea or probably bigger gard it’s a longer process think chse is a a few years ahead isn’t it it’s a good one to start on so the category that Livia is doing is the long border she said um which is what’s the size of the bord uh 7 by two M so it’s quite a good space it’s not it’s not too big and it is raised as well so it’s not just flat on the ground so um it’s quite nice you don’t need to like excavate into the soil they just have like a lot of nice top soil already on on on the site it’s nice that we’ve been before so we’ve got a IDE so if you’re thinking of it it’s probably a good idea to go along to T I’m going looking back at all the pictures that we took last year though were like zooming in loads whereas look before you look at it with a new completely new eyes even like oh how did they do that or like what was the planting like and that sort of thing and even like what they included on their signage and things like that so what was the theme that you were given so I think it changes every year they’re really loose themes so it doesn’t matter too much and usually you can kind of coordinate whatever you already had in your head to fit the theme but the one this year was make an impact so um I wanted to base my garden on an urban front garden um and show people what they can do with a really small space and um create um really lovely uh green corridors going throughout a city so kind of trying to show people the importance of yes the city can be filled with loads of green Parks um and Sheffield which is where I’m at University that is a city um which is is like that it’s got loads of parks and green spaces but yes you can have loads of really nice biodiversity in a park but if you don’t have green corridors to allow that biodiversity to flow through the city then you can end up with um inter breeding and things like that just within the park and the wildlife can’t spread throughout the city so creating front Gardens which act as green corridors allows biodiversity wildlife and birds to kind of bounce through the city and you yeah so it’s really good point they can kind of go through the city and spread and ultimately create more and more biodiversity so the garden that you’ve designed what have been the influences for you to come up with this Garden um well as I was walking to University every day I think it’s quite um Stark looking at some of the houses some of the streets look really lovely and they’re filled with plants the one that I was living on last year was one of those it had loads of trees um along the the street and people it was quite um res a yeah a residential area so loads of people would have pots out and things like that and it was really nice even though they were renting and I tried to do my bit got my little Terra Cotter pot and put some plants in it um but yeah but then when you’re walking through some other parts of um Sheffield there’s just no Greenery at all no Street trees whatsoever concrete and willly bins yeah exactly and um doing my ecology module that I did this year um and along with like planting design modules it kind of really made me think about um how to kind of change that and I think the biggest way to do that is through front Gardens and just showing people what they can do even if you’ve got the tiniest tiniest space every little counts and everything can add up to make a big difference so in your head what was the kind of look that you were going for with this Garden um I wanted it to be quite wild and quite um free flowing I didn’t want to use loads of new materials so I’ve used quite a lot of reclaimed bricks and um we’ve got like kind of Paving that we’re going to use on our own front garden so it’s kind of um a good connection that way luckily we hadn’t got R to it had it for several years yeah um and then then I’m using um a front I’m creating a front door um and there’s a really lovely local Willow sculptor who I contacted and um and I’m working with her and she’s created a really really beautiful Archway for me um which I’m absolutely thrilled about I’m going to collect it next week so I’m really excited to go and see it and she’s also made me A really lovely and S cat which is so cute to go in the doorway um so yeah like woods and then you you’re making me a a wreath to go on the door as well and then I’ve got um a steel planter which I’m using as sort of like a rain Garden so it’s going to be have some Aquatics in and filled with water which would also help for biodiversity and things like that in the garden that’s just we’ve borrowed that from my friend Mike the blacksmith it’s an animal troll yes so it’s quite nice to think about what it was before um and then I’ve also a company that we bumped into at um uh anyc show um landscape show yeah they were really lovely they do um be posts made from Douglas fur trees um and they’ve got loads of little holes in and um I’ve got three of those going into my garden and bees absolutely love them so and I think like other insects as well it’s not just bees but um it gives them a little place to kind of hibernate and have a little recluse of Their Own um so well let’s just talk about like the practicalities of doing the garden so what have been the the biggest challenges would you say um I think I’ll tell you what I think you go for I think um I think the coordination of it has been quite difficult and even like try like contacting companies sometimes you contact people and you don’t hear anything back and you get really excited about certain things and you don’t hear anything so you kind of have to just go on to the next thing regardless of what you can’t really hang around with it too long um and then I think it is quite time consuming and um you do have to be quick on replying to emails and be good at like getting things done for specific deadlines so that’s been quite difficult balancing that with all of my other university deadlines but it’s nice now that I finished and I can put my heart and soul into this and not have to worry about anything else um and then I guess for you probably growing all of the PS I think trying to get things to FL at a certain time is quite challenging um when the weather like weather I cut everything back cuz I thought I don’t want it to flour yet and then I cut everything back and then it went very cold and I panicked that it wasn’t but I think a fingers crossed I think it’s all looking quite good isn’t it yeah it’s looking really good I think that’s the thing as well you sometimes have a vision in your head of what you want the planting to be like but you have to remember it’s for a really specific time period in July so is it going to be flowering is it going to be big enough is it going to be feasible is it going to look nice um you have to be prepared to compromise even if I really really wanted to have GMS in my garden but um I just they’re not going to they’re not going to be flowering and you can cut them and try and get them to repeat flour but so maybe choosing something that’s orange and then trying to find a repeat exactly um I think the other issue I’ve probably encountered is my tree so the tree I’m guessing for my Garden is a cragus personis prunifolia um which is a variety of um wh Thorn um and it’s got It’s got quite long um uh points on it what are they called Thorns yeah um has really lovely berries and um really really nice Blossom as well in the spring um and it’s multi- stemed it looks really nice so we found an initial tree supplier and it was all going to go ahead we were kind of about to buy it looked really good um and then they contacted us to say that it had leaf spot and and I was all the wet weather wet and initially I was thinking oh that’s okay you know well we’ll have to we’ll get a different one cuz they had quite a few and then they came back and said all of the all of that variety all has leaf spot which is really lovely that they told us because we could have quite easily bought it and then it turned fine if it was for your own garden but for show Garden we then contact to the rhs and they said no you would be Mark D on so it’s things like that as well plant health is a really big thing um so you need to make sure everything is in pristine condition which I’m a bit concerned about because when we went and collected all of the plants we put them in the back of the trailer and uncovered the trailer and some of them had fallen the pot holes going through CH some jumped out of the thing we’re going to have to reconsider that for the journey going down I think we might put it in cars for a softer Landing in case they do all over but um yeah things like that learn yeah but I’ve got a really lovely tree now I went to go and um see the nursery they’re called Deep gel they only do wholesale and kind of things for designers and clients and things like that but um really really really really good Nursery it’s absolutely enormous it’s based in Cambridge here um and yeah I went in and it was absolutely mindblowing it was insane and put our um Sur hi’s jackets on and walked around and there were massive massive trees being Lo unloaded off these lores and I was like oh my goodness they grow them in is it called airpods yeah they grow them in airpods airpods or airpods airpods anyway that’s something we’ll we’ll talk about when we get the tree CU it’s really interesting technology there yeah really interesting but that’s being delivered on site so um we’ll have to wait and see with that one yeah but you’ve physically seen it yeah I went and picked the tree out myself so I know what it looks like and everything and then I would like to talk about our biggest challenge which has been the um ra the rabbits so we’ve had a rabbit invasion um so we had to stop everything that we were doing luckily aliser had done the um raised borders for my vegetables which I had intended incidentally to grow vegetables in but I’ve had to um sacrifice that this year for a favor of protecting Olivia’s plants so they’ve all gone into the raised borders um in the vegetable area and the advantage has been with that I’ve buried the pot in the soil and I think that’s easier to look after the plants because it’s easier that’s another thing to note so when you’re doing an rhs Garden because the breakdown the turnover for it has to be so quick as soon as the show day is finished you’re got a day yeah you’ve got a day to literally take the whole garden apart and transfer it back to wherever it’s going so um you have to plant everything in pots uh which kind of makes sense but it’s something that you don’t usually think about when you’re just visiting like whenever we first went to the show that I never really considered that yeah so as well as designing it to kind of look aged and look like it’s been there for a long time you also have to bear in mind that you are going to have to take it all down so you want it to be as easy and quick to take down as it is to put up yeah and with it being a show in July we have to we’ve had to keep potting plants on into the next size pot but as Olia pointed out you don’t want to in too big a pot because you have to plant them close together so that they look natural so the pot can’t be too big so it’s all these things fine it’s a fine balance and even having enough pots normally think I’ve got so many plastic pots and I’ve been you know kind of wanting get to get rid of them but now I’m really glad I didn’t because we’ve used every one I think and we’ve had to get some from other people so um that’s been um a bit of a learning curve um but with regard to the rabbit so those plants were safe but then when we went to pick the new plants up last week um we we thought well we’ll keep them safe in the what was our old vegetable patch so um I’ve shown you the footage of where we’ve cleared the vegetable patch and the plan was to put everything in there and put a fence up and then know that that area at least to sa if we have had I think we’ve caught how many have lost kite maybe five or six rabbits so we thought they’re still getting in even though um we’ve rabbit proofed right the way around the whole perimeter and we couldn’t figure out how they were getting in but when we off loed the trailer the other day we were just about to put them in and Olivia said oh my gosh there’s a rabbit there a little tiny rabbit and it just it went straight through we’ve got this white gate at the bottom of the garden and it was running towards the gate and I was thinking there is no way you’re going to fit through there and it just went through squeez through a little hole at the bottom so that was good because the plan had been to put all the plants in there and then block it off so the rabbits would have been caged in with all her plants so we’ have come the free helpself kit Buffet all you can eat buffet so that was so we managed to catch that one um and we blocked up the hole and um yeah but we think that this still might be the odd one getting in so we’re not we we’re a bit still a bit on tender hooks with but so far the plants are plants are looking good so I think now is that everything you wanted to say I think so yeah so I think it would be nice to um go and have we just show you where we’re at with the garden the we’re really fortunate in that we’ve got this area around at the side a lot of people I don’t really know what other people do how they manage but this area is just exactly the right size isn’t it the length of it is just seven MERS um so although we should have we in hindsight we should have um leveled the area a bit because it’s a bit rly but anyway it’s not a big problem but we’re going to play around with the path she wants to get the path um so that we know exactly how it’s going to go down um so we’ll go and have a look at that and we’ll go and have a look at some of the plants and then perhaps in another video we can go through plant by plant exactly what we’ve chosen that’d be quite nice to have even for a record or for for a s and you’ve grown some really lovely annuals and and things that are really good for cutting Gardens as well which is nice I think the the aim for the garden was to have a kind of um multifunctional space so it’s not just going to look really pretty I’ve put some edibles in the garden like herbs and things like that which are combined with other planting and then my tree is really good for like blossom in the spring it’s really good for berries um so yeah it’s trying to be a bit multifunctional and and also to to show and encourage people that you can create a lot of plants for pennies you know with seedly yeah and I think us was growing some of our own for the um Garden I think I really wanted to do that because really wanted to show people that um yes we do have this gone and we’re really really lucky to have all this and we have greenhouse and things like that but it is feasible to grow your own plants and even like at my uni house last year we were I got all the girls that I live with really into um plants and we um planted loads of seeds and things like that um so it’s just it’s it’s just about doing your bit and doing whatever you can to brighten up um front garden and just create a bit of biodiversity um no matter how small it could even just be a little pot or I don’t know just like a little water tank with a few aquatic even like all these little we’ve been doing all these little plants and things haven’t we and I think that was inspired by the urban show wasn’t trying to my my bit of coriander in a tin but um yes it’s I think the contrast for me having lived in the countryside than going to a city is just that I don’t know here it seems like there were just I don’t know it’s difficult to wrap your head around that there just isn’t enough biodiversity in a city because here we’re just absolutely surrounded by you he you hear the birds constantly like there’s millions of rabbits in our garden rabbits we’ve had owls we’ve had all sorts it’s like there’s so much biodiversity so many bees in our garden and then going to a city it was such a St contrast it was like oh my gosh I suddenly feel really disconnected from nature and it’s only when you walk in a park or something like that is when you get that boost of um Greenery and Outdoors but I think as well creating a really lovely front garden just for passes by and people on foot and people commuting to work it just really enlivens your day and completely changes your mood and puts a smile on exactly it’s not mental health and it’s not all about Wildlife as hum for your own wellbeing so beneficial and just being able to kind of tend to a little space that’s your own and look after and care for something just really has um benefits for yourself other people and nature so yeah so let’s go and have a look um outside what we’re up to so this is the vegetable patch I don’t actually think I’ve showing you it’s not completely finished but it’s nearly there so here we’ve just got some gate posts um that we’re going to put got this beautiful gate that we had at the front um it’s a lovely old gate and we’re going to get that hung on here and that will just make um this area seem you know more um just a Zone in itself so what we’ve got here the raised borders in fact I think Livy these are the height aren’t they the height that the borders are going to be at the show garden they’re three sleepers high and here we’ve just got some of the plants that I’ve been growing so we’ve got lots we’ve got loads of niosi and you can see that it’s in pots um we’ve got um zeners and they’re all at a good level where they’re just budded um that one is has come out and some Cosmos um and also some anms there Apple Blossom Anum and then over here we’ve got this is just my vegetables that’s my one bed of for my vegetables so that’s not Olia stuff here we’ve got um Cosmos we’ve got this is the Salvia NE car neosa caradon is it R caradon neasa whichever way Nea um and this we cut I cut this back cuz it was going to FL too soon so I hope I’ve done the right thing quite a lot of little buds on there and things so I think it’ll be I think it will be good and this is the grass this is steeper tenuissima um we’ve got quite a lot of that haven’t we yeah we’ve got some more around the other side so I want to have that quite a lot of that just flowing throughout the garden so repeating it quite a lot apologies for the noisy neighbors this is ammy Mages um again I think that’s at a good stage we’ve got got some of the um this is Flores deal um there is more of that elsewhere which we might need to dig up actually I’m not sure then this is the other kind of um um Amy as well um and then we’ve got the anra here um which I’ve just I just dug some of that up from the um butterfly borders and these are the napita these are the cuttings that you did Olivia back in um in Easter time so it’s good to see they in FL so that’s good and then over here um I did actually put these in the grind simply because I didn’t have enough pots but these are a type of skaras and I see that two have died I think perhaps I’ve overwatered them I’m not sure and this is craspedia glosa which is the lovely little yellow pom pom flow that we saw such a lot at Chelsea and we’ve got quite a bit of that I’ve got more of that somewhere out here I’ve got another row of it here so hopefully that will come on a bit this is creeping time and that’s doing really well because what Olivia wants that for is um putting in all between all the bricks little nooks and crannies and they’ve got lots of this this is lagaras ovus appropriately we’re growing this because this is also known as bunny tals so if you wonder what’s happened to all the bunnies not not of the issues a nod yeah a nod to the rabbit problems that we’ve had and now this is um purple vine Bell which is beautiful plant but I just don’t know whether it’s going to get big enough in time we’ve only got really what another three weeks two weeks so I don’t think we’ll be able to use that but the idea was that was going to grow around the door I can still put it in but it can just yeah I might get a Claus to go around for yeah you might need to we should feed that give it a little boost to try and encourage it then here this these are all the plants I was growing for cut cut flour Gardens really it wasn’t necessarily growing for living is Garden but as it’s doing so well I think you would like it wouldn’t you so this is um lots of different types of lonian um this is a nice one and then we’ve got the yellow one this is just lovely this is a mobian mum which is the Everlasting straw flower just love that more Nana more of the am more Anum and this is more of the florist Dill I don’t think you’re going to use that but that was the um amaranthus and these are the rest of the just incidentally these are the rest of the um cut flowers that we’re we’ve been growing and after them initially being eaten off by the rabbits actually the rabbits may have done me a favor because I think they’ve given everything a Chelsea chop and it’s made everything grow with lots and lots of um stem so I think it’s all doing quite well but if there’s anything else Olivia wants you could perhaps dig up some and put them on there’s more of that credia gbosa there and the amaranthus I’ve been using I’ve been drying some of that because we might use that on the wreath so we’ll go now down to the um the the old vegetable patch incidentally that looks a bit ugly there because that’s going to have a little step dying to this part and we do need to um put pink gravel on here as well so this is the greenhous this is um where it’s all happening it’s bit of a a bit of a chaotic mess but here we’ve got some more plants kind of sitting around whether they’re needed or whether they not I don’t know but we’ve bought these um these are um some ptis Borum um these are tooram nanam yeah something like that um then we’ve got some there’s some grasses here I’m not sure if they’ll be ready or not but they’re there it’s a type of Malika um we’ve got some tomato plants that Olivia may use uh there’s a little did you want that Rose yeah I think a little delicate little Rose it’s called um the fairy um some more grasses there this was the um oh this is the um eonia um white sworn that I’ve been growing but that won’t be ready but I want that for my big borders here we’ve got this lovely um hydranga which was called momy momy and we’ve got a lovely deia there which you keep Dead Heading um that’s not a great example of a tomato it’s got Leaf curl but we’ve got some herbs under there um we’ve got the eper medium which is lovely for a shady area and it’s got nice foliage we’ve got some mint if she wants it we’ve got some ferns there um some other things that we won’t really use what have we got in here Li uh there’s more origer on there um some gypsophilia um what’s that oh penum which I might use oh I potted that didn’t know whether you wanted to have some kind of little cuting and things sitting on the side that’s a little hydr picul the Limelight one yeah and then this is um you got this from someone you know it’s a self Cedar I thought one of the things about show garding is to look as if it’s really natural so like we’ve got a dug up a little bit of that um ala mollus just to put in like a Nook and a cranny just to look as if it’s self-seeded try and make it look natural and then at the back there I just grew some some more lettuces and things I don’t know whe whether they’ll be ready or not but we shall see so Alistar gets all the good jobs he’s going around behind in between a hedge which is a holy hedge and a fence finding looking out for holes and he find how many two holes two holes so he’s where the metal has just the metal of the chicken wire is kind of rusted a little bit so he’s um repairing that so that’s good um and then our hoarding Instinct has paid off because these are all the things that we hold on to it’s quite heavy go on heavier than looks but may he goes to the gym so that’s all right what do you reckon spot on 80 the door is what one meter do you want wi here or do you want it um the door’s going to be open onto it is it huh is the door going to be open onto the no I’ll open the other way oh opening no a door opens outwards that’s what Daddy told me off the dirty oh the door opens inwards anyway the front door oh yeah door is you’re right he said not to he said do the other way it’s there we’re not that far you want to make it a bit wider then yeah uh actually no I don’t because look that’s all Meed like that okay fine no that’s perfect okay so yeah we should have um smoothed on the soil before we put the cover on we didn’t think of that so it’s making putting the bricks on a little bit wibbly wobbly but never mind you get the gist I think that’s going to be perfect W and then the Rope edging yeah that’s literally perfect almost like you measured it must have a good eye I wonder why we’ve got so many tiles left over because that’s not that much smaller than our no that’s about 2 m we got two steps we’ve got two steps in yeah but that’s probably about 1.82 M yeah it’s lovely nice and uneven oh Chad what are you doing more light what are you doing if you find any more holes so we just did the path and then we realized it wasn’t in the middle so we’ve had to redo it so the garden as I said starts here where this Edge is and it runs right the way down to that um red brick at the very very end so it’s it’s actually a little bit bigger than this area you’re right Liv yeah it’s just so wobbly every time I all right you could put a could you put a brick either side of it to hold don’t let go it so we brought all of the bigger plants down not the ones growing in the vegetable patch but all the bigger ones um quite an interesting process when I’ve gardened in the past I’ve always had like little plants that I’ve brought on from quite small plants I’ve never done this where you’ve got all the plants and it’s just a case of laying it out really fun process really quite enjoyable and um aliser came along we all chipped in and gave our opinion on things but Olivia is pretty good at all this she’s got that artistic flare that I don’t really have so um she knows what she wants so very much leaving up to her the cat can be chasing the mice it so we’ve had a good little play around with some of the plants we’ve got obviously a lot more still in the vegetable patch but it’s nice just to get a feel isn’t it we’ve got the overall feel of the planting and things like that and it’s quite nice to see it all laid out to see how much you’ve got and what else I think we’ve got the right way to M don’t you yeah I think we’ll be just about there and I think um obviously the trees not in place yet so you got to imagine a bit of bit of height here so as well oh yeah the archway yeah it’s coming together really ni you with it and final finishing touch oh is this little snail we thought the hostage got a little bit of um Leaf damage from the snails so I thought if we put a snail underneath it then could be our excuse we might get away with it so thank you very much for watching um don’t forget to like And subscribe and come and watch us in the next video I’m not sure what that will be we might be talking about the individual plants but we’ll see we’ve got lots to do and certainly um watch The Garden going in which will be quite exciting so thanks again and see you in the next one bye for now