What NOT to do (yet!) in your garden, plus see the Middlesized Garden in the frost. How to avoid back pain from gardening and where to tune into top gardening experts for live lectures and webinars. Featuring@The Impatient Gardener @Gardening at Douentza
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How to deal with winter damage to shrubs: https://youtu.be/qztajrla4aU
How to prevent back and knee pain in gardening: https://youtu.be/mCueffhgnts
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Sorry to hear about your bad back Alexandra, take care and totally agree that after being cooped up without gardening for several weeks our enthusiasm gets the better of us and we pay the price later. Here our last frost date is 7th April (officially, but sometimes an unexpected frost can hit right up to end of April), so I usually sow my seeds towards end of February. I'm still waiting for my new seed order to arrive, but not panicking because I have time.
Greetings from Downunder. I would assume you know about Garden Masterclass (Annie Guilfoyle and Noel Kingsbury) some marvellous stuff! abd Talking Dirty (with Alan Gray and Thordis and Iam) Get Gardening Podcast wonderful stuff!
Hello from Alabama, USA. Love your channel, have learned so much! The link to preventing knee and back pain is the same as that for dealing with tree damage.
You are the first person Whose mentioned the physical consequences of gardening. I’ve had sciatica and trigger finger since starting gardening about 3 years ago. I dug out trees, hammered away at the earth, and did whatever else you can imagine to beat myself up. Sigh 😔 Now I’m trying to be smarter about it all. Thanks for your advice!!!!
Thank you so much – your videos are so interesting, informative, and entertaining. I bet I'm not the only one who anxiously waits for you dog to make a cameo appearance in your videos. 🙂
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Hello from USA, Illinois zone 6b. The colors you have on look great on you today Alexandria. I love watching the dog zoom around too 🧑🌾
Really enjoyed this!
Thank you Alexandra! another great video 👍
New pot-scaping design, loving it !
Thanks, Alexandra. I'll save this to my Community Page now.
Your tip about when to sow "all-year-round seeds" and not using the whole package is gold. Been there, learnt the lesson.
Thanks so much! Excellent information Alexandra! I really enjoy your channel!….from Oklahoma USA 🌟😁🌟
What not to do – love this idea! BTW In much colder climates (i.e. H6 or H7) many of us have our hands full sowing seeds using the winter sowing method. This is to my understanding especially helpful for seeds that need to be stratified…
Thanks Alexandra for the online gardening club ideas. Try Shoot.co.uk also for free online webinars and a membership only garden planning tool.
Thanks for sharing, even your mishaps, makes us all realize it’s a process for everyone!
Very interesting, thank you.
The perfect gardening networks tip video! Thank you!
Just in time to scratch my itch for playing in the garden. I live in Toledo zone 4. Started my walk about in the garden borders and did some pruning on some shrubs that have overcome my driveway this past 2020. Forced myself to hold back pruning. Just purchased a new truck to prevent scratches from the branches.
Excellent reminders.
Gardening is not my current problem, snow is! My garden in central Europe is covered by at least half a metre of snow and I don't know how much time I have recently spent clearing the snow from the public pavement in front of my house (my plot along the pavement is rather long and all the shovelling is much better than the gym, for sure). The temperature is minus 16 now and, apparently, it's going to be even colder tomorrow; I hope my rambling and climbing roses survive the cold spell.
I’d like to know what you do about leaves on the flower beds – leave them? Lift them and if so when? I have lots from surrounding trees.
I love seeing what can be done in the Winter! Thanks for the tips
I highly recommend the book Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy, who is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. I have heard him speak in public but I've heard that many of his talks are available on YouTube.
While I love Longwood Gardens (just down the road from me), I like Mt Cuba even better. And they have excellent classes, many of which are online. https://mtcubacenter.org/
Fantastic thanks so much! Sent to friends and family xx
This blog was very informative thanks so much Alexandra.
Relatively recent subscriber, and you’re actually one of the channels I really look forward to uploading a video now ☺️
New subscriber, hallo 👋 from Massachusetts but German Born and raised
An especially helpful video this time, Alexandra. Lots of other sources to learn from – thank you for the links! And take care of your back & knees!
I could listen to you talk about gardening all day. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and thoughts.
Hi, Alexandra. Here's a tip from Gardener Scott for winter sowing when we don't have a greenhouse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTnJowrS-x8
Hi there, can you please tell me if I can plant allium bulbs in February? thanks!
Alexandra I love your channel. thank you so much for another wonderful video. Learned something very new and your tips were so helpful. Thank you.
Pruning and patience is so key for all gardeners and I am glad you emphasized it for the winter shrubs damage. Thank you.
D'oh! I just sowed my packet of sweet pea! Ah well! I'll try pinching them out to make them bushier!
Hello! Thank you for all this info. I used to be a member of NYBG but they’ve become kind of stuck up in recent years so I quit. I’m a member of Mountain Top Arboretum that presents some pretty good webinars. Fine Gardening has a good podcast called “Let’s Argue About Plants,” but the female cohost acts pretty nasty to the guy sometimes and lots of other FG content is only available to paying subscribers. Right now, besides YOUR videos, my faves are on Youtube, A YEAR IN A BRITISH NURSERY GARDEN (I have learned an infinite # of things by watching Malcolm Hockham and been quite amused simultaneously) and John Lord’s Secret Garden. And old videos of Geoffrey Smith’s Garden. 🌱❤️💖I did plant onion seeds, they are in my very cool greenhouse and so far they are looking good. Also mixed species and varieties of dianthus. Sitting on my hands before doing anything else but that’s good cuz for a change the house is clean ha ha.!
Hi Alexandra, I have a question if I may about the pines in pots, which I think are a very beautiful and quite unusual feature. Are those a form of Pinus mugo and how much growth do they put on in a typical year? Thank you.
Great warming up to garden work tip!
Hello from across the pond. I absolutely enjoy your videos! I purchased a property a year ago with zero gardens. Last year I started a rose garden in the front and a vegetable garden in the back yard. This year I am expanding those, but my focus will be on an herb/ cutting garden in the side yard. My challenge is to plan a commercial garden that is also pleasing to look at since this will be work and home. Any help is welcomed.
Alexandra Hello,
When buying perennials, is it better to buy potted or bear root plants. Are they both going to perform the same first year?