10 Takeaway Ideas from Arley Hall’s Head Gardener

[@amyjones2490]

I really enjoyed this video and your discussion. One take away I got was support the plants and leave a small space for maintenance.

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, it is a lot of work but the result speaks for itself! Thanks for watching

[@lindat5321]

Love hearing you & your daughter discussing your visit. She is going to be an amazing gardener.

[@MurphysGarden]

@@lindat5321 Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 💕

[@dianefields6056]

What a great thing that your family shares your enthusiasm for gardening.

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, it’s lovely to share our passion

[@sunitashastry5270]

Great video. To both of you - I think looking at the garden, your talk to the head gardener and your lessons learned session was a great series. It’s exactly how I like to do it. Visit someplace and take back from that some ideas, tips and lessons to implement in your garden. Your lessons most appropriate was, not having everything flower at the same time, and right plant right place. Olivia’s - being early in her career was following your vision - and not being trendy all the time, and learning the logistics of bed maintenance. All in all, this series was well worth all the effort yout put into it.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much for your positive comments

[@patriciahogg5763]

Great Girl Team! Olivia is quite knowledgeable! Her confidence is impressive, as well! 🌻🌼🌺🌸🌻

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you. She is a great sounding board for me and often makes me see things from a whole new perspective, she is always so enthusiastic and positive, we have such good fun together!

[@SB_McCollum]

The man's a philosopher, "What the eye hasn't seen, the heart can't grieve over."

[@olsonlr]

I quite like the larger leaves of tropicals. Adds great contrast from a distance.

[@MurphysGarden]

I absolutely love them too but I don’t think it would necessarily work in our traditional garden or maybe it would???

[@rachelbarth1271]

So fascinating! The Arley Hall gardens are gorgeous and I really appreciated that you put the flower list in the description. The conversation with the head gardener was informative, and I came away realizing that I need to do a better job of allocating a specific place for each plant, staking and providing access at the back of the border for maintenance. Thanks for bringing us along!

[@MurphysGarden]

Many thanks, glad you found it helpful

[@carlas872]

Wow, look at that plant list! Be still my heart! Thank you for sharing the interview with Mr. Baillie (nothing sexier than a Scottish man talking about gardening!). Great information! For so many years I was afraid to move plants in my garden. After watching you and other KZbin gardening videos, I'm more confident to try.

[@MurphysGarden]

🤣Glad you found it helpful . There are a couple of missing plants that I couldn’t make out from the shine on the glass (I just photographed the list in the building)! Gordon was lovely and so is his Scottish accent! We talked to him for about another half an hour after we had finished the interview and we learnt so much from him. Moving plants is very necessary, it’s not always possible to get things right first time!

[@carlas872]

@@MurphysGarden it definitely takes me several times to get things in the right spot, or close enough 😄

[@happygardener77]

healing garden❤❤❤ it's very beautiful🎉🎉🎉

[@MurphysGarden]

@@happygardener77 Yes, it certainly is!

[@imahappygal1]

Love seeing English gardens they are beautiful and very inspiring. I’m in USA

[@MurphysGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it, we are lucky to have some very beautiful gardens here, glad you could join us!

[@Marie0306]

Another great video. My son was at university in Sheffield and we visited for his graduation this year and I was very impressed with the city planting areas, so natural but full of colour. I’m looking forward to your next video.😀

[@MurphysGarden]

Good to hear you were impressed with Sheffield too, I think it’s incredible what’s been done, it really does make a big difference to people’s lives! Congratulations to your son, they all seem to love Sheffield University, it was great to get a glimpse into life there, although I didn’t get to experience the night life, which I believe is quite good too!

[@susanwhite1641]

Great video ladies, thank you for sharing your day with us. Looks like you both got a soaking too ❤

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, but it was worth it! 🤣

[@johnsmith-ls4rc]

The plant list is such a fantastic treasure trove - I shall be sifting through those varieties over the coming weeks for sure. Thank you for sharing it. Just a thought - to help get more late season colour in your borders, could you plant Viticella Clematis against your obelisks? Not sure if they classify as classic herbaceous border plants (?) but they are still in full flower for me.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you, I think the clematis is a great idea, I want to remove the roses as they aren’t really the look I want Thanks for watching Jenny

[@latoyaferguson3566]

Wow!

[@MACandGEEZE]

Inspiring - not just from Arley, but from both your comments and Olivia’s. Does Olivia have her own KZbin channel? If not, she should!

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much, no Olivia doesn’t have her own KZbin channel just on instagram, she hasn’t got time! She regularly appears on Murphy’s Garden when she’s home from university which is very much a family affair! As she’s beginning her career into Landscape Architecture, we can follow along and get an insiders view, she has some very interesting projects coming up!! Thank you for joining us Jenny

[@diannedolha2318]

Awesome garden, thanks for sharing. Curious if that was Iris pallida in the Fish Garden?

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you, I’m not sure what type of Iris it was, I confess I missed that but I think it was chucking it down by that point and we were getting soaked! 🤣☔️

[@annmariemcintyre6989]

Very helpful information 😊

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you

[@eileenchang2173]

Thank you, such valuable information! And no wonder I have never been successful with echinacea! 🤣 Constant thawing and freezing temperatures did them in! 🌸🇨🇦

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, I didn’t know that either! Thank you glad you found it helpful too!

[@stephenlaw1782]

loved the video thank you both

[@MurphysGarden]

Many thanks

[@helenyoung8012]

Thank you again. I agree pretty much with everything said. I live in a very wet area of the country and Echinacea is a big no no along with a lot of other prairie style plants. I am surrounded by stone walls so lean towards plants that are slug and snail resistant, so no lupins or delphiniums😟 Dahlias are tricky except for merckii which thrives. It has taken me a long time to get to where I am and to learn to celebrate and enjoy what thrives. I do so enjoy listening and watching what you do with your garden. Good luck with the plans for the long borders. I shall follow with interest. Will you take out the camassias as they seem to have become quite thuggish in your garden.

[@MurphysGarden]

Hi Helen Good to hear your experience, being in Shropshire, we are quite wet but our light soil means that the water runs straight through so leeches nutrients, I plan to switch to prairie plants that seem to do well here but struggle in your garden. It’s interesting that everyone’s garden is so different, it’s taken a while too but I am finally learning to stick to what works and hopefully make the longer term maintenance easier! Thanks for watching Jenny Oh and yes, I plan to remove every last camassia, that’s going to be fun!

[@pharisj1]

Thank you. The video was knowledgeable. There is one take away, it would have been nice to see the border.

[@MurphysGarden]

Have a look at last weeks video for a full tour Thanks for watching

[@yesidtac7863]

Muy buen dia

[@harveyfennell6251]

Hi there so I’ve seen you pop up here and there talking to everyone in your quest to create your perfect garden and yours does look fabulous. But from afar, if I may,suggest that you are possibly suffering from idea overload, perhaps simplify your thinking and design as in the brief clip of your border with rope top edging and box hedge, do you need both? As for the autumn clear up I’m with you clear it move it mulch it .. I’m in the south where it’s just wet and soggy most winters and everything has turned to mush before there’s any sign of frost

[@MurphysGarden]

@@harveyfennell6251 Hi Harvey, yes I believe you are right. I have suffered from FOMO (fear of missing out) in the past!!! However as I revisit areas of my garden I am definitely trying to simplify the design, to make it look better but also to make the maintenance easier in the longer term (I’m not getting any younger!) Although I loved Arley, I will not be trying to copy the planting in their long borders as it is very high maintenance and not suitable for our soil type but the way they are cared for was very interesting. I am learning to embrace my conditions and work with it, choosing plants that will flourish in light, free draining soil. The box hedging in the long borders will go as it adds nothing to the design and I am looking forward to having a big sort out in the these borders! Thank you for your helpful feedback

[@olsonlr]

A case for not cutting in the fall is to. leave habitat for the native insects to overwinter. Now I hear you should not cut till as late as you can in the spring for the critters.

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, it’s a balancing act, leaving things for wildlife but if you have a big garden then if you leave it too long you can’t get round everything before the new growth begins to come through!

[@sunitashastry5270]

Also, like your point about being true to the house setting etc. I find also that a lot of these “ wild” borders and gardens are disappointing, if we went ed to see a wild flower dado we would go to a place that has an open setting with wildflowers not to a formal garden. Also, I tried the rewilding thing in one bed and the “ wild flowers” really took over. With a managed garden space you cannot rewind so easily because your soil has been enriched and been managed. So it is no longer the native soil. This is a point not well understood by most people.

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, I completely agree with you!

[@Aaron-vx9og]

What is the type of plant used for those scrolly hedges around the wall ?

[@MurphysGarden]

It’s yew

[@Aaron-vx9og]

English or Japanese?

[@MurphysGarden]

It’s English yew, they looked great didn’t they!

[@elizabethdewar6956]

Leaving borders in a drier climate is probably OK but in high rainfall areas with wind ,eg here in scotland ,everything ends up a flattened soggy mess !

[@MurphysGarden]

Oh yes, never thought of that! We must all do what works best for our own situations Thanks for watching Jenny

[@debg2359]

Wonderful interview, but why did you talk over him? It made it so hard to follow.

[@MurphysGarden]

Apologies if you thought I did

[@LindaOsier]

to much talking. Lets see the gardens

[@MurphysGarden]

@@LindaOsier The previous video entitled ’A visit to Arley Hall’ shows the beautiful gardens. This video was to get tips from the head gardener for anyone interested in how to manage a perennial border.