Lyle's survived the stone age!

Given that several species of cussonia are present in the garden, and possibly pollinated by insects, did they get any Cussonia hybrids as well? I would like to see pictures if that did happen.

My cat murdered my peace lily.😢

Well the cat will learn not to eat the poison ones lol

I bought this in from France as Acanthus Eminens early in the summer. It's in the ground and just been through three nights of -1°c for a few hours. Looking a bit sorry for itself. But it was rated to -5°c. Next week has +5°c at night. Might just dig it up as I love it's jurassic look.

What is the plant your standing in front of

This question is gauged towards the orchid grower. I have an encyclia and over the last summer it put out a new psuedobulb but because of some misfortune I had it lost all the roots twice stunting the growth of the pseudobulb but ever since September it’s been doing alright and the pseudobulb has continued to grow my question is whether that bulb will still flower or will I have to wait for another bulb to mature. Also love y’all’s channels you two have taught me so much❤

Thanks so much, great show

I live in Israel. Nurseries sell tubers of the C. Persicum which is also common in the wild. I was able to grow the tubers for many years. However, the florist's cultivars have been very challenging to me. Although they belong to the Persicum species, they seem reluctant to go dormant in summer. They initially went dormant but soon began to re-sprout. When I watered them they rotted. If I tried to keep them dormant and hold watering, the tuber would shrivel and dry. All I get is an empty wrinkled shell. Plant sellers tell me these don't grow tubers, but my experience show that they do. However, they don't last long. Is there a way to keep them for more than just a season?

Wonderful informed descriptions of gardens and your tours m, plus relevant information on the their histories as well. Thanks chaps.

Hi from Mosselbay in South Africa Gentlemen. I just bought Dicksonia Antarctica (before doing my homework....!) and was fascinated by the name, googled it and struck gold by finding your wonderful video about this wonderful fern! Thank you so much for all the info. You have a new follower.

I've just started collecting viburnum in my zone 6 British Columbia garden. Nannyberry, wayfaring bush and the viburnum plicatum, there's always room for more. I especially like the red fall foliage!

This was so fun! Just saw V japonicum for sale the other day. Incredibly glossy, elegant foliage with a pretty red berry. Need to go back for it.

Hello, question: the Chinese snowball in my garden only flowers for about two weeks. Is there anything I can do to encourage longer flowering?

Hi , and thanks. I'm in Melbourne, Australia. Are the berries bird friendly, and how long do these beautiful plants live? Kind regards, Carol

My Chinese Snowball Viburnum blooms in both the spring and fall. It blooms for two months or longer in both seasons with a glorious show! I highly recommend this plant!

Lanarth is a garden on the edge of a village called St Tudy in cornwall,I expect you already knew that.

19:29 - What else to say about Viburnum? Viburnum opulus, the one which goes by guelder rose, is perfectly edible (btw, Wikipedia article lies about toxicity). Berries are collected after first frosts and layered with sugar (1:1). It could be left for couple months or cooked immediatly into jelly. Fruit preparations made of Viburnum is quite common in Eastern Europe (e.g. the one made by Agrana Fruit). Viburnum is an icon of peaceful countryside lifestyle in Eastern Europe. "Kalinka-malinka" song is about Viburnum (along with raspberry, literally "petite guelder rose, petite raspberry").

Oh dear, I think I might have to plant some in my garden now, thanks guys.. 🤣🤣

So nice to see lovely shrubs and different types. I have a high bushy cranberry viburnum trilobum that is over 20 ft tall. Love the fall color and berries.

They are arbeautiful!

Nice mullein behind you when you’re discussing capitata.

Ciao, ragazzi. I finally found flowering quinces in Home Depot. Two gallon containers. The problem was that they all contained two plants with the central stems flush against one another. I guess they thought it made them look fuller to catch the purchaser’s eye. I left them as I thought this was not a good way to plant them and that I’d damage them when trying to separate them. Was I wrong.?

The bodnantense in the corner of a front garden near where I live in England smells lovely at the moment when I walk past! It looks like it's been pruned as part of a hedge and has a not-particularly-attractive blocky look but never mind!

Another advantage of viburnums is that in my experience possums don’t eat them !

Thank you for yet another entertaining video :) - Virburnums, yes, I like edible stuff and have a couple of Viburnum lentagos or Nannyberries in our garden in Denmark. Have you heard of any other Virburnum where you can eat the berries or other parts of the plant?

I’ve planted Macrocephalum in my shrub border. It’s flanked by a white Brugmansia with Montanoa bipina ifida on the other side of that & a variegated Brugmansia the other side. A crepe Myrtle & Euphorbia cotinifolia in front. I’ve tucked Luculias either side of it & further down the border are two Dombeya. Walichii & tilacea. Salvias infilling & perennials around them. We’ve had so much rain the growth rate has been phenomenal.

Thank you!

Thank you, very interesting. Love learning 😊

Ah, it seems I've been confused over white flowered shrubs 😆 . Will definitely be giving the viburnum Snowball a go, the geulder rose type having lost its auunal fight with sawfly. Viburnum 'Dawn', although gangling and twiggy, earns its space in my tiny UK garden. In our deciduous winters, all but devoid of flowers, the wonderfully scented little pink flowers are an absolute joy, worth growing for the sake of a twig or two in a vase on the Christmas dinner table😊 Thanks guys 😊 Keep up the good work 👏

I worked for the Chicago Park District and obtained some cuttings from the Garfield Park Conservatory of Viburnum Carlesii (Korean spice) the blooms have the most amazing fragrance and the aroma can detected from many yards away, nothing smells quite like it that I’m aware of. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for the video. Viburnams are very interesting and varied.

Thank you, gentlemen! What a wonderful tour of various Viburnums and how to site them!

Oh wow a horticultural tart 🤣 now I know.

Hi guys. How do I get rid of acanthus mollis. I have tried digging it out but it's spread further😢 I live in central Vic Australia

Living in a colder climate with a zone 5 garden in Canada, I am particularly drawn to these stunning gardens. What a treat. Thank you.

Helpful, I didn't know this

Regarding Clethra barbinervis, Michael Dirr in his book 'The Tree Book' (co-authored with Keith Warren) says that somebody needs to get to work developing superior selections of the tree-like Clethras with truly spectacular, more colorful bark!

Great video! Over the years I've grown H. virginiana in cold Minnesota, Arnold Promise in Boston, Diane and Sunburst in Washington and now Jelena in Oregon. Oddly, Jelena has been blooming with incorrect yellow flowers in summer followed by the correct orange flowers in winter. Might be related to climate change/extreme, extended heat. Gardening friends here in Oregon report that Rochester has the best fragrance by far, but the flowers are otherwise unimpressive, and it retains almost all of its dead leaves.

Watching from India.

Hi Stephen, I once had a small conifer, which died and thus turned brown, so I spray painted it green.. no one knew. 😊😊😊😊

Hi there :) I am currently searching for the solution to keeping birds, namely king parrots and blackbirds, off my fruit trees. I believe that there must be a better way than netting because it is now expensive and also a bit unsightly. I recently tried smearing sticky tree guard on branches of my apricot near the new fruit after it had started to get eaten and since then no more has been touched and I was pleased to find a wad of blackbird feathers on one of the branches. Problem with this method is that it's also time consuming and very messy, especially time consuming when you have many fruit trees. But it was a nice little unusual success. Another thing I was pondering is using spare grapefruit to hang in other fruit trees seeing as the birds despise them, I thought they might be foolish enough to think the other fruit trees are grapefruit trees and leave them alone, I'm yet to try this. I am certain that there must be a number of ways to outsmart birds and if you have any ideas of novel ways I'd really appreciate hearing about it. A new problem I have is a particular blackbird that has zero fear of me and has been building her nest in my grapevine while I'm about a meter away from her! It's easy to solve the problem when they scuttle away full of fear and are thoroughly unlikeable but when they fly up next to you and think you have built the garden for them and that when you squirt them with the hose you are being kind it's baffling! I can't bring myself to chase away a friendly bird.

💝🎉Thanks for that. Ok, time to plant 🌱 💞

What a wonderful video. I am in Tx in zone 8a-8b. I am interested in a number of the Solanacae plants and i have had some success. I have been able to grow the pallid Henbane and also the Datura Inoxia. There are other plants i have not had success with or tried. I have not tried Hellebore/Christmas rose and i was not able to strengthen a seedling of the Monkshood for it to achieve maturity. I have 5 seeds of Mandragora in cold stratification and i can only hope that they will prosper when planted near the solstice. Merry met dear gentlemen.

It is a very big garden and has many different varieties of flowers and you gave very good information. You are a good gardener.

By the way: there are at least two species of Solomon's Seal native to Europe. It grows as a woodland plant.

Please don't eat Solomon's Seal - it's quite poisonous!