10 brilliant fall garden tips and plants - and why planting in autumn is better than spring...

[@aiai-j7i]

I find this gardening channel to be the best on KZbin. I learn so much from each video! Thank you so much from Chicago!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you so much!

[@jackie6343]

Your welcome from the UK ❤

[@margefield8520]

Many years ago I was visiting Mount Stewart Gardens in Northern Ireland with a freind. When we came to a display of huge white lillies she exclaimed loudly and with delight "Oh look at the beautiful cardiocrinum gigantium" Of course she was showing off but I promised myself then that I would learn the Latin names of flowers. Now 50 years later I delight in remembering all those wonderful names but for the life of me I can never remember peoples names. Best wishes Maggie

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I know what you mean, though I have terrible trouble remembering plant names. I have to look every single one of them up, over and over again! Although it does mean I'm checking them properly.

[@clarecollins2547]

Just to say thank you to Alexandra for visiting all these gardens to enlighten us all on garden practices. For someone elderly and infirm it means i can “ visit” them in the comfort of my own home! Thank you again Alexandra!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@j.m.7056]

This was a wonderful video for autumn! Packed with valuable information. Thank you, Alexandra for all your work in creating these videos!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you so much. It was quite complex to do (lots of 'moving parts') so I really appreciate that.

[@meredith3588]

I'm in Atlanta, GA, US and the Honorine Jobert has spread throughout my flower bed, and the pink varieties seem to stay put. Honorine is my favorite, though, partly because that was my great grandmother's name but also because it is a beautiful flower. Funny how that is different for me here in the US, maybe the soil?

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

It's so interesting the way the same plants behave differently in different places. It may well be the soil. My pink ones, which have been actively thuggish for years, have suddenly started to struggle.

[@dyanalayng5507]

What a great parade of plants and ideas. Springs 🇨🇦 can be very dry so fall planting can be very helpful to plants. And to the gardener, refreshed after a summer (more or less) "off". I had a tall grass which only bloomed late in our fall. Lovely curled heads all winter 💖💕 Love that bulb planting tool at the end.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you! I keep thinking that I must take my own advice and get planting! New border coming up.

[@juliabinford6500]

You provide such wonderful and inspirational videos. I simply can’t thank you enough. I see your followers growing in number, and it’s well deserved. Each of these interviews was helpful on their own, and you’ve packed them into one video. I’ve made a design change to my garden based on your last video. Now I’ll be fall planting based on this one:)

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you so much!

[@kathyfoster181]

Love how you give other experts a voice and opportunity to showcase their plants and products. Again, so much timely and useful advice. Thank you. 🌿

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad it was helpful!

[@1Kent]

In the spring and summer I putter, in the fall and winter I work!

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

Thank you for encouraging gardeners to plant in fall. In South Carolina it’s still too warm for daffodils, but I can plant garlic, Japanese maples, and camellias. Finally it’s cool enough to work outside.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you! It is still oddly hot where I am at the moment.

[@katiewilliams6591]

Thank you Alexandra, as ever yet another helpful and inspiring video, with plenty of options for choice of plant(s)

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@sm8315]

I had a big barbeque lunch and then came up into my bedroom saying I will look for some videos on autumn planting and lo and behold here you are Alexandra.. what a delight

[@pongop]

Great video! I have Japanese anemone/thimbleweed, and it really does get super tall in the summer! So much taller than the leaves. And it dies off to small twigs in the winter, but comes back fuller and taller than ever the next year. It's pretty cool.

[@jeanniemeagher1774]

Love the autumnal outfit you wore for this video! I'm excited fall is here. Sacramento has hot, hot summers. I've been waiting to plant and today we had our first rain since last Spring! The air is clear and I can't wait to get outside. Love the ideas presented today. Thank you!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you! And enjoy that first rain, it is always so lovely after a hot spell.

[@nancyjensen6409]

I used to live in the Sacto area. Now I’m in Northern Utah. The heat was getting to me so we came home to our roots and the cold!! I really enjoyed this presentation! 🎉❤🎉

[@audreyseymour1857]

Great thanks love this very easy garden videos ❤❤❤

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you like them!

[@libbysingscontrezzo8419]

I try to plant in fall whenever I can. Sept/Oct it's still plenty warm with regular rain, and the ground doesn't freeze until very late November or December. (US zone 6b) The problem with spring is that we can have frosts until mid-May, but we can also get 90 degree days starting in late May, so you put in the plant and it's immediately facing extremes with little time to settle in. I actually start planting in late March if the plants are hardy and I can dig. The exception is shrubs that aren't really cold hardy here, which I plant in spring to give them more of a chance to get established.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I'm always very grateful for our relatively mild weather when I hear what some of you have to deal with! Although last year's weather kept us guessing.

[@upnorth21]

Thank you, always enjoy your informative videos. I love how you always ask the right questions of the experts!

[@slomo1716]

GREAT VIDEO - I have four Lavender plants I'm planting tomorrow. In the past the bulbs I ordered only arrived in the fall, so of course that's when I planted them.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Good luck!

[@mitzi605]

Loved hearing everyone talk about their plants.

[@Splashypath]

This is my favourite video so far, please do a seasonal one of these if possible!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Good idea!

[@DownButNotOutYet]

Good morning Alexander, What a lovely video and I so love the "plant road show"!! What a brilliant introduction. You must have enjoyed a great time talking with the owner growers. They have loads of information on the plants they are selling which is much more we can get from some nurseries. There is a more personal detailed discussion for Autumn planting which to my own experience is a beautiful time to plant trees and shrubs. Depending on your area, after planting you can take the necessary precautions of protecting the item, mulching as well as wrapping. I was looking at the Japanese Anenomies with a bit of envy as I had to give up on trying to grow them! There is always so much to learn from your gardening talk videos, thank you for sharing and introducing new plant varieties and gardening techniques, plus those gorgeous garden tools for planting bulbs. They are treasures!! Happy gardening, we are enjoying a beautiful sunny morning, it is all quiet without any wind. I have much work to do, sorting out empty plastic pots as well as painting some faded clay pots which I wish to use shortly. Fortunately my husband James is giving me a helping hand which I appreciate so much. It is nice to have muscle power alongside it is for free just a cup of tea afterwards as a thank you reward. Many blessings, Kind regards, Elize.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you so much! like you, I've had trouble establishing the white Japanese anemones, but I think I failed to notice how dry the area was where I planted them, and I didn't water them while they were getting established. But I am now inspired to try again.

[@DownButNotOutYet]

@@TheMiddlesizedGarden The pink are lovely but the white for me makes a much better display and they look so lovely. I wish you all the best, you have learned your mistake and you know what to do. Blessings.

[@cindydamrow1031]

This was as brilliant as the title! Loved it all, and greetings from central Wisconsin!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sunitashastry5270]

Fantastic video. - would like even more like this one. All suggestions were great ones.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@guyintheburbs]

Thank you! So informative!

[@ladyjrider666]

A perfectly timed video. Thank you, I've been feeling the autumnal garden blues.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@wjs5773]

Thank you and all the excellent contributors. Such a helpful and informative video as always .

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jerrywatts3016]

Thank you for always bringing us so much useful info and tips!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@debs-more-plants]

Another fabulous video from you! You put it all together so we’ll. Very fun and informative!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@user-travelbug79]

Enjoying this episode so much!!!

[@bobhill5791]

!just discovered your channel this week and LOVE it! Hi from New Jerey USA.

[@jonkaranis2604]

greetings from brooklyn ny, also loving your channel!!

[@bobhill5791]

@@jonkaranis2604 Are you in Midwood? I haven't been too Di Fara's in a while!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Welcome to the channel and thank you!

[@laurenb6451]

What a lovely video. Thank you for it. I would like to say though that the Penisteum is reslly a pernicious self seeder in my USA NYS zone 6 garden. I spent lots of time weeding out the seedlings from the border only to find that one or more is tangled with a hemerocallis. Surgery is scheduled for the spring. 😡 The seed heads must be clipped soon after they’ve bloomed because they definitely shatter. So no winter interest. The anemones are my enemy. I can grow them in a square that is surrounded by the house and asphalt and paver walkways. They always try to escape.

[@dianepuskas6362]

Thank you for another great video. The topic is so timely! I will rewatching and taking notes. I especially am interested in the Japanese maple information. I have two seedlings that I want to put in large pots and hope to keep on the shorter side. Nice to hear that pruning in the summer will not have a negative effect. Thanks again.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I thought that was very interesting, too.

[@Painsmelody]

Thank you so much Your videos & presentation have aided this self taught gardener in so many ways.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you so much!

[@angelnocte]

Another really interesting and informative video. Thank you!

[@FLlife]

Excellent visit to the plant fair! Wish I could be there shopping!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@KristiinaBerg]

This was an excellent video even for someone who gardens in Finland.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@Loters-ed4pf]

That was wonderful. Thank you👍🏻🌺❤️

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you too

[@dustyflats3832]

Surprised by asters this year I forgot about. Nice ideas!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Asters are brilliant

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

Love your posts! Thx🌿

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

You are so welcome!

[@sheilaquinn2087]

Really interested in the drought tolerant planting ideas. Thank you from Madrid

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@lisaleray7173]

Bravo! Excellent video.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you liked it!

[@tmy1065]

Oh so that’s why my tulips were malformed. I should wait until November. Found helpful advice as usual!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

But if you've got tulip fire in your garden (as I now have), don't plant tulips anywhere near that place. It might be safer to grow them in pots, keeping the pots well away from where the infected tulips were.

[@henniejacobs8496]

Do you think it's a coincidence that so many of the people you've interviewed are now appearing on Gardeners World (Tom Brown being the latest)!? Love your channel. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

What an interesting thought...some people say there is no such thing as coincidence. Thank you!

[@5262janna]

So informative ! I want one of those tulip trowels right now :))

[@verawallace9055]

I bought the white aster this spring now it's blooming,it's also came bareroots

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Bare root plants are great.

[@dwoodbury]

Always great advice. Thank you.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bettinaschmid1158]

Thank YOU! Again a great video!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you too!

[@ria2159]

Wonderful vid. I'm really not a fan of planting Japanese anenomes unless they are in a very small contained area of the garden where their runners can't spread. They are difficult to keep under control and remove once they grow into the roots of surrounding plants. I wish they came with a warning label. I'm doing correctional work for a few customers who have had garden designers plant multiple pink anenomes in their newly established borders. I do agree that the white variety is less invasive.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@barbkenas5663]

Great video and info!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rhondaduncan7602]

Thank you for another very informative video, Alexandra! May I suggest that you please give us more time to view the beautiful pictures you include and read the information/commentary. I have to pause the video quite often to be able to read the info and get a good look at the subject. Also, no Jamie Butterworth this go-round? He was missed.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you and I'll bear that in mind. Jamie Butterworth has appeared in a couple of my videos, but I haven't spoken to him recently - but you are right, he's great on screen.

[@belwynne1386]

Do you knit? I love your jumper. Very appropriate for this video! Excellent vlog.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I used to knit, very slowly and badly, and gave it up a long time ago! But thank you.

[@donnavorce8856]

I'd attend an Autumn Plant Faire. None in my area. Probably, unless I start one, there never will be. Cheers

[@DanandPatKerr]

Can we see a show on the "no name garden" drought-tolerant perennials, please? Dan and Pat, Bruce Mines, Ontario, Canada.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

You may have seen this (it was the video after this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/omi5eJ14hMesa6s and for drought tolerant perennials (that don't mind a sudden bout of wet weather!), there's this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/borImpuna5aSirc

[@rezkerry8809]

Those asters look just like the wild ones we have here in Ohio, USA.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

They probably are the same, or a close relative.

[@ruralangwin]

Do you ever organize garden tour trips? From California.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I don't, I'm afraid, sorry. Sometimes people ask me to recommend gardens when they're visiting, but most of the gardens I visit are in the South East of England, so I wouldn't necessarily be able to recommend ones in other parts.

[@leiim7070]

Very interesting and useful information, thank you! Also why are you standing so far away from the interviewees ? Sorry just wondering

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

It's an interesting point and one I was thinking about myself. It's mainly because we compose the picture to get the right distance for a good, well framed shot when the interviewee is talking (when you just see the back of my head). It's actually a reasonably natural distance when talking in real life, but the composition of the full length shots wasn't very good, so I think it would probably look less of an awkward distance if I changed the angle of the second camera (I think there was a tree in the way!). Anyway, a slightly technical reply but it's always helpful to hear comments, so thank you.

[@PlantsAndInsects]

Super dope!!!! But was this spit as a freestyle off the dome?

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

They all know their plants really well, so yes, the information is in their heads, but it's probably not 'off the dome.'

[@LouciferFlump]

Are there ANY plants that really are better off planted in the spring…? I think everything I’ve ever put in my garden enjoyed being planted in Autumn so much more, establishing (& surviving!) way better. Autumn is such a lovely time, the soil smells and feels so inviting and wonderful. I find Summer rather boring and static. Nothing’s nicer than a calm, warm, beautifully lit, Autumn afternoon ❤🍂🍄🍁

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

When I did my salvia interview with William Dyson, he advised that salvias are probably better planted in spring, but if your winters are mild (like ours are), then you're probably able to plant most things.

[@TJ-bn2cn]

Aster pink buttons doesn’t seem available in the UK, maybe it has a different name?

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

It isn't very widely available, although Steve Edney at the No Name Nursery has it. That's why we were recommending asters generally, because although it's nice to hear about an unusual variety, it's a bit frustrating not being able to find it!

[@dovinhgardenfarm]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@andrewnichols1240]

And there is fun of starting seeds. Wow more rewarding n vercital. Cost well if you're on a budget! Prestarted nursery is not afordable.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

absolutely

[@RoseMary-vs3io]

👍💚✨

[@dianakenney2963]

Surely it's called Autumn?

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Fall and autumn are both English English - words that derived from the UK originally. Now fall is used more often in the US and autumn in the UK, but having spent some of my childhood in an American school, I prefer to use them interchangeably.

[@Flower_hoarder]

🪴ENJOYED 🪴

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!