What to cut back in spring and how to cut it, and how coppicing can help your garden. Plus what’s looking good now.
00:00 Welcome
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00:51 Description of the Middlesized Garden with weather
01:15 Your gardening weather or ‘zone’ is based on how cold your winters are.
02:09 Storm Eunice trying to get next door’s trampoline over the wall
03:00 What’s looking good in the garden now?
03:15 Striped plants are Phormium variegata and the dwarf pines are Pinus mugo
04:19 6 perennials that bloom all summer: https://youtu.be/xZr4n75Cr6g
05:20 What is coppicing and how it helps your garden
05:46 Video: Best trees for small gardens https://youtu.be/i3Om4PJRNMY
07:30 How to prune your hydrangeas (video): https://youtu.be/SX8KCNUAQWA
07:41 How to prune roses: https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/blogs/news/pruning-an-english-shrub-rose
08:07 Time to renovate the north facing border
09:50 How to cut back ornamental grasses
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28 Comments
I’m so glad you didn’t have any damage from that horrible wind, wavy birdbath notwithstanding. I also hope the neighbor’s trampoline stayed on its side.
Another great video 👍 A coppicing video would be good if you could do one. Best wishes.
My privet has not raelly lost its leaves ( so far ) and indeed the green outline has reavealed the first stages of bud burst , I think I will need to trim 3 times this year ( very unusual ) which shows seasons are changing
Great tutorial Alexandra, Thank you! I have a whole fence line of various lilac shrubs that I have cut over the years to form like trees so that I could plant multiple items under and around them. I'm not quite sure if coppicing is the technique I have done to these shrubs, but it is pretty close I guess. Almost all of the lilacs are over 10ft tall and the various shrubs and flowers around them thrive beautifully. I planted these lilacs 20 years ago. Four of those lilacs came from my English neighbour, Molly( a wonderful woman and avid gardener). When she passed, I asked her son(he was planning to sell her home)if I could have her lilacs, he happily said yes. They are still healthy and thriving in my garden and I remember her every time I look at them.
Informative and inspirational, great video, thank you.
Super video once again! I’m zone 9 too, but we’re mire Luke a semi desert and must deal with drought conditions. Late winter and early spring are weeding times and cutting back my bites trees to about 3-4 ft. I love your videos and channel. Always seems to be the right information at the right time. Thank you
I think you are in Sandwich, Kent. Are you opening your garden in the yellow book?
Of the many cultivars of eucalyptus available in our New Zealand nurseries only a few are coppicing varieties. A good catalogue will tell you. The silver dollar gum coppices well.
Thank you for your vlog, I look forward to it every week. I garden here in Oregon and am always amazed at how mild your winters are. My reason for commenting is I think you really made the correct choice taking out the hedge. The are may look slightly bare for now but that always changes rather fast. Keep up the good gardening!
Hi Alexa if I coppiced my pussy willow would I cut it after its got its fluffy pussies and then would it still get them the following year please
Just trimmed my miscanthus grasses and filled three bags with the clippings.
I’m going to dig one up and try and split it as it’s taken over in one area.
Doing a bit of cleanup every few days here in rainy
BC 🇨🇦
Your garden is never bare nor barren….the evergreens and always blossoms here and there in whatever months of the year…..Mothere Nature never fails to amaze us
Sight of snow drops….another spring and new life in the garden..
Thanks so much for sharing this video…💝💐
So love these little videos! Keeps us on the right track us gardeners! So thank you. I enjoy pollarding Catalpa Bignonoides in the gardens I look after, as the new growth is immense, large leaves and fresh! One question, with the video you made on hydrangea pruning, with Macrophylla do you take off ends of stem if there’s a leaf right at the end? Been bugging me.
I always look forward to your videos! Thank you🥰
I'm behind on purchasing seeds and plants. All well. My winter garden looks alright, but it badly needs mulch. I planted early bulbs for the first time hoping to extend my growing season. They haven't come up yet. I don't blame them. It's -17C/0F today.
I think your boarder looks so much cleaner and tidier, so much better.
do you have high heat in summer
I was thoroughly enjoying watching this and feeling all spring….then you mentioned the dreaded slug and snails….they will eventually destroy my garden…pests!
This has been rather helpful in making my Spring Garden check list! Thank you!
I was just wondering if you had any advice on layout designs for kitchen gardens or cut flower gardens? It's my first time being able to garden at my rented town house and have learned that I am working with a zone 3 (Winter -30 degrees C & Summer +30 degrees C), Northwest-by-West facing long narrow yard. It's. a rather new area of town so there are no trees properly established yet, and while there is a bit of a fence, it does very little to protect from the strong winds we get… Your video on Windy Garden Tips gave me the idea of creating tall ornamental/pampas grass buffer to boarder off the front but now I am a bit lost on how to protect my plants from a windy, full sun, Summer..
As always – thank you so much for the videos you make. They have been solace over the Winter and these strange times.
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It’s that time of year we’ve been waiting for! 🌱 ☀️
Love your videos! Thank you for always giving Fahrenheit in addition to Celsius so I don't have to pause the video and look up the conversion! Your gardening info is good for me here in North Carolina, USA, Zone 8a.
Lovely video, thank you for the helpful advice. Hopefully the weather will start to warm up soon, it seems to have been a very long Winter
I do not care for any tree to be topiarized. It’s butchering a beautiful tree in my own opinion. Trimming lower branches or dead, broken branches is the only reason I would trim evergreens or some over growth, not to make them look like a particular shape. No thank you. I prefer natural growth, not overly groomed. I’m not into formal gardens at all. I prefer woodsy cottage styles.
Have you got rid of your stipa tenuissimas?, enjoyable video as per usual thank you
Hi! First time home owner here, and now budding rookie gardener! I absolutely love your videos, they’ve been such a massive help for getting into gardening! Thank you!
Onviously, I'm binge watching your channel today. Just yesterday, I finally, except for the root ball, got rid of "THAT" holly shrub with 1-2" spikes on it. It opened up the area so much I'm going to transplant the herb garden that was next to it, incorporate the herbs into my front cottage garden, and put an Asian pear tree there to enhance the garden. I've been wanting a fruit tree for my front garden but the only space available was partially shaded and so close to the house that I worried about a tree's root system. The area where the pear tree will go now is the "inside" semi-circle of the circular driveway, well away from the home's foundation.
"At least, that's the theory" lol Thanks for being honest!