My Garden Highlights - MAY

[@annecanty1227]

Gorgeous vegetable garden and lovely video. Love seeing more of your own garden.

[@nancylawlor8738]

You are so lovely. Thank you for all these videos - they make me beyond happy and inspired. 💚💚💚

[@TheEnduringGardener]

Ever the optimist, your garden is looking lovely Bunny 😊

[@goldenineke]

Love your videos. From Australia

[@seachange17]

Your garden looks about 45 days ahead of us in USA zone 5. That island of yours is so much warmer than our prairie state location. Sweet peas, lettuces, kale and spinach doing well (planted seeds 1 May). Yes to flowers in the veggie beds. Watered today and noticed our perennial sage went to flower, glorious purple flowers. Love your land, raised beds, glass houses and your smart bunny shirt!

[@michelerich3242]

Beautiful garden and interesting video!

[@MargaretUK]

I love your garden Bunny, so much going on! 😀

[@heatherstephens9295]

Your gardens are so beautiful ❤

[@carwen8653]

I love your channel, thank you for your videos of your beautiful garden.

[@nellamiller1307]

Love to see and hear everything you share here Bunny! Terribly interesting and informative...I learn something every time! Many thanks!!

[@user-fb3pu3qx3t]

Agree. She’s a natural teacher and presenter. Don’t know why she doesn’t have her own show on tv!

[@mikeq6384]

Thanks for sharing your garden and greenhouses with us !

[@kellybrown685]

What a Glorious video. So wonderful in a time of Covid and Quaranteening

[@bertibear1300]

I just read you have been working 45 yrs designing gardens but you look about 35 .? Love your videos.Please carry on to make us happier.

[@bunnyguinness]

I think if you saw me in the flesh you might think differently - but many thanks!🐇

[@juliozamora8994]

Thank you for sharing your garden, It's a joy to see how you design and tend to your garden. I hope you will continue to show more as the season progresses!

[@noneavailable9121]

Wonderful garden! I enjoy your videos very much and appreciate all the info/tips you share. Happy Spring!!

[@miranduri]

I noticed the espallier. ❤️

[@theweatherisaokay4964]

Looking at vegetables gardens always gave me a calm feelings. Yours is super calming. Thank you for sharing. My country just started total lockdown....yet again....this video really release stress.

[@YalisCommunity]

Fantastic garden and so many wonderful blooms! Great tips on the hedging and glad the weather is getting warmer for you to enjoy! Thanks for sharing.

[@jenniewilliams1668]

Amazingly, Tarragon made it through our 5A winter this past year! Its such a delight to see things pull through. Warm regards Jennie

[@bunnyguinness]

That’s interesting, was it the Russian tarragon not the French, that is much hardier🐇

[@jenniewilliams1668]

@@bunnyguinness I wish I could say - when I planted the Tarragon I was at a very different level gardening level - wasn't documenting as much as now. Your work is both admirable and delightful by the way. Yours Jennie

[@estherfarrell3115]

I love your garden thank you for sharing it with us

[@Cenepk101]

So glad you showed the French tarragon. My favorite herb for flavoring. It's hard to find here and I bought 2 tiny little plants. One looks dead and the other is half it's tiny starting size. I thank you for showing me what it's supposed to look like !!!!!!!!!

[@martinaohare5129]

I put mine in a terracotta pot with gritty compost as it needs free drainage, its doing well

[@Cenepk101]

@@martinaohare5129 Should have kept mine in the pot until it got larger. It’s still holding on for dear life. But not growing. It has great drainage. Oh well.

[@pinkpeony2056]

Bunny, you've given me the courage to do the Chelsea Chop! I also like the concept of hurrying the green house for warmth in winter. It's the reverse of a root cellar to keep produce cool in summer. Thank you for another informative video.

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

I love the trousers and the video. Thanks

[@bunnyguinness]

From eBay as ever! Many thanks 🐇

[@JoannaLouise200]

Love your mature rhubarb ~ fascinating to see the flowers....quite elegant! I think you've started a new trend Bunny, as few of us have probably ever seen vegetables/salads crops/herbs reaching their full maturity to flowering. We call it 'bolting' as if it is some type of dreadful event in the garden, but now you have me thinking, and I'm going to experiment see what crops look like if I let some of them go on to full maturity.

[@queeniesongs]

Thanks for the tips, especially about sedum!

[@atkakrajewska5780]

Thank you for all the tips!

[@kathyberal5623]

I wish I had the courage to cut my box hedges like yours. ..nonetheless I am inspired.

[@marthamckeon278]

Love your gardening videos - only ones on youtube that I subscribe to. Many thanks for the heads up on cutting the sedums - that's something that I've wanted to do, and consistently forgotten to do for decades. Off with their heads today!

[@helenachase5627]

I envy your warm climate. I am in zone 3.

[@marcusd2380]

Love the green house my first I built when I was 15 and 30 years later I am still using it built the same as you but with a per specs roof. Just bough two replacements for it today. Mine is above the ground like ur first one

[@georgiacinq-mars1899]

Thank you, informative video.

[@kristinastoltzfus6032]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden! We had Lady Slipper Orchids when we moved into our home and had to cut down the pines that had a beetle and then slowly all the Lady Slippers died. I found out too late that they live off of a fungus that grows on the pine needles. 😭 I would have tried putting pine straw down if I had known. Is there anything special you do for your orchids?

[@Biddybee]

Thank you. Very informative.

[@ludmilabevan3283]

Thank you for your interesting tips how to grow the garden. Now I wonder if I can Chelsey crop my chrysanthemums that grow too tall or is it better done later in a year? Love your videos. Always find them very knowledgeable, inspirational and useful. Thank you so much!

[@flowerfairy1950]

I didn't think you could cut into old box wood. Have recently moved into a property which has 80-year-old low box hedging so good to know as some hedging has bare wood due to other plants being allowed to grow over them. Thanks for info.

[@joannmicik1924]

I always said you can't have too many parsnips. I was wrong. I have a huge HEDGE of parsnips from last year in my veg. I love the plants, they look a bit like angelica, and the butterflies love the flowers.

[@susanfryer1616]

Lovely garden will the box grow back

[@bunnyguinness]

Yes no Dodd at all but might be two years before it looks bushy throughout - will let you know!🐇

[@julieblauvelt1649]

I just watched this and was shocked at the hard pruning that you gave to the boxwood. I find this amazing! Can you tell what zone equivalent you are to the zones in the US? I would love to give this a try but am concerned that our winter weather would kill the boxwood. Also, would you only do this in May so that the shrub has time to rebound?

[@bunnyguinness]

I am in USDA zone 8. I was really amazed at high fast it has grown back it is now early July and a good half of the dead wood is covered with green shoots, I think it will be fully green by the end of the growing season. It has helped that it has been an abnormally wet summer this year here. The risk of cutting it later than May is it would not get enough water to spur on the new growth but you could always irrigate. Hope this helps you.🐇

[@anorthfacinggarden9045]

I see what you did here 😉🐰Guinness.

[@1958pobs]

Goodness, how tall do parsnips grow? I may have to grown them just for the screening properties.

[@bunnyguinness]

Well they are now 1.5m high! Have just shot up rapidly in last 3 weeks or so to flower, normally are far less tall! 🐇

[@kgardennerd]

What type of orchid was that near the end?

[@zanyzoo6767]

when Im in my garden ,my new quote................... what would Bunny do?

[@1lunarin]

i bought a plumabgo plant after seeing you use it in pots around the patio, any tips to get it to bloom continually ?

[@bunnyguinness]

Mine have not started to flower yet I reckon they will in around 4 weeks time, but everything is very late this year in the uk. Keeping them in a warm sheltered place or under glass really brings them forward. At the end of the year they just go on sometimes even till up to Christmas if warm. High potash feeds are meant to aid flowering in many plants but I don’t over force feed mine but many would.🐇

[@1lunarin]

@@bunnyguinness thank you so much for the advice ill put them under some large domes i have and see if they do better and feed them if not, any tips on over wintering them ?

[@outoftownr3906]

Actually - Thuja Plicata ( western red cedar) can be cut back to old wood and rejuvenate. Upward cuts when hedge-cutting please.

[@bunnyguinness]

I had not realised that about western red cedar good point. I do know that English grown trees produce wood that is not very durable unlike the Thuja we import for the joinery trade, which is durable. When we have removed these trees we get very little money for the timber. Re upward sweeps on cutting - the only reason for this is so that the cuttings fall away from the plant. For some shapes I find this not so easy so just cut as feels best and then clear clippings away as necessary. Many thanks for your comments! 🐇

[@lynnscholes1617]

Amazing garden and such an informative video...just hate all the ads. Not having ads but just so many??

[@pansepot1490]

KZbin places the ads at their discretion. Skip them or use an ad blocker.

[@vnickcolvin4971]

What is that blanching pot called so we can purchase in US?

[@bunnyguinness]

That’s a rhubarb forcer ie used for forcing or blanching rhubarb and sea kale. Without light you get more succulent tissues so are more tender. 🐇

[@tamarawilcox6954]

Actually there has been research done on companion planting: Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden by Jessica Walliser

[@rosie40ify]

Our Rhubarb always dies, any advice?

[@alisonburgess345]

Er, it doesn't actually "die", just kind of hibernates for winter. The crown, or rootstock, of the plant is still alive and well under the surface. If you're in a cold, snowy climate it's a good idea to cover it with a bit of straw, especially in early spring when any fresh new leaves can be damaged by frost. I have about 3 or 4 rhubarbs which I LOVE ! Unless of course it truly does die and doesn't come back in which case it could be bad drainage..

[@krisbaker9427]

What zone are you in? Needs a cold winter and if the summer is too hot it might temporarily die back. Soil too wet? If the conditions are right it should grow easily for many years.

[@joanrossington6932]

Too many ads all the way through spoilt the viewing of excellent content.

[@brm1279]

The amount of commercials is obscene. I know it´s a youtube decision but their greed is going to push viewers away.

[@vickimaiorano5763]

Agree. What was with that? Not normally that bad with other videos I watch.

[@jfreeman2047]

I only got one?

[@aprilhatfield79]

I just skip and continue on. Nothing will get in the way of my watching Bunny in action. You could always pay for KZbin, no commercials. $$$ makes the world go round, and if you spent a much time recording, editing and producing... well, I hope you would be well rewarded for your efforts.

[@vickimaiorano5763]

@@aprilhatfield79 alas the adds I got gave no option to skip 😭. Just ploughed through.

[@Biddybee]

It’s a small price to pay for free content, surely?