Garden Tour - stroll & chat on late July morning

This is a full tour of my garden, Douentza, the morning of open day
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This video was recorded on 28th July 2019.
Plants in order of video appearance...
Crocosmia 'Lucifer'
Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton'
Penstemon 'Garnet'
Hemerocallis 'Rocket City'
Salvia forsskaolii
Clematis 'General Sikorski'
Stipa gigantea
Francoa 'Pink Giant'
Hydrangea macrophylla
Veratrum nigrum
Roscoea purpurea 'Royal Purple Group'
Paulownia tomentosa
Alstroemeria (Ligtu hybrids)
Acer palmatum 'Garnet'
Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'
Roscoea purpurea 'Brown Peacock'
Roscoea humeana 'Alba'
Roscoea x beesiana
Stipa tenuissima
Penstemon 'Beech Park'
Alstroemeria 'Oriana'
Kirengeshoma palmata
Dryopteris filix-mas 'Cristata Martindale'
Styloporium lasiocarpium
Tetrapanax papyrifera 'Rex'
Chionochloa rubra
Impatiens tinctoria
Malva moschata 'Alba'
Amicia zygomeris
Lilium 'Beverly Ann'
Telekia speciosa
Persicaria amplexicaulus 'Firetail'
Echinacea purpurea
Lobelia tupa
Hydrangea aspera 'Hot Chocolate'
Phytolacca americana
Pseudowintera colorata 'Mount Congreve'
Trachycarpus fortunei
Begonia sutherlandii
Lilium 'Manissa'
Swertia kingii
Lilium 'Lavon '
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Madame Emile Moulliere'
Roscoea purpurea var. procera
Dudleya brittonii
Magnolia grandiflora 'Gallissonniere'
Romneya coulteri
Sarracenia alata hybrids
Sonchus fruticosus
Astilboides tabularis
Roscoea 'Harvington Imperial'
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[@Tea7N]

place were you can sit and relax with a cup of tea

[@frankscales7295]

A lovely garden by a lovely lady, TY

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you 😊

[@ivane.degonzalez7520]

Awesome garden! Love it! Thanks for sharing.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for visiting

[@grahamthomas6283]

So you have a open day BUT you still found the time to video 37mins and 25 seconds for your KZbin A STAR your garden blew my mind it was so gorgeous so grateful thanks for your time 🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much for such a positive response. It is really appreciated. Wishing you a very pleasant evening.

[@Garnetspagrud]

As always - I’m loving your garden and all of its amazing plants! You are a gifted gardener!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for watching and for your feedback. Have a great evening.

[@marialahens9428]

Beautiful blooms.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you

[@vivienneholmes6340]

Thank you so much from Palm Bay Florida USA. You have a most beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You are very welcome and thank you for such a positive comment. Have a great day!

[@VancouverIslandgirl]

your garden is fabulous!

[@benwinkel]

Absolutely magnificent Rachel! I'm sure your visitor's on open day had a lovely time!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you, Ben. Have a great evening.

[@miche7032]

Your garden is beautiful... Thank you for giving us a tour .

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for coming along

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

What a treat Rachel, each tour of your garden is more amazing than the previous ones. I can see plants in your garden I love and have admired in my several flowers books but cannot have either because the climat is not suit or because they grow too huge for my space or simply because I was too lazy to look for them. Keep it coming. I hope you had a lot of visitors on Open day, you sure deserve it.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you, Fernanda. We all have to grow what suits our climate. I do occasionally take chances but, in the end, I cannot be molly coddling outdoor plants. They need to do well for me or die. The greenhouse and houseplants require enough molly coddling :D Have a great evening.

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

@@GardeningatDouentza Molly coddling? I know what you mean but it is a new expression for me... Thank you. Always learning 😄...

[@robertforrest7956]

What a wonderful stroll....😍

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Glad you could make it, Robert 😊

[@toddstropicals]

Everything is just stunning!!!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Aw, thank you so much, Todd 😊

[@toddstropicals]

@@GardeningatDouentza I was gonna say I love Lucifer but I didn't want anyone to take it the wrong way if they read it... 😁👍

[@Footprintsinthegarden]

You have such an amazing garden!!! 😲

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you! 😊

[@maureenmccrackin6933]

Greetings from Canada! Your garden is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much for tuning in, Maureen. Wishing you a great evening.

[@lovepeace4635]

Your garden is beautiful, thank You for sharing .

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much for watching

[@rociovargas9105]

Beautiful garden!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for visiting

[@hafizakhtar7243]

Wow, your garden are beautiful. It is eyes soothing watching your beautiful garden, it's a therapy. Love from Malaysia.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much. Sending best wishes to you all the way in Malaysia and thanks for watching.

[@adamfromgardenofeden]

Hope to have a garden of eden like yours one day 🌺🌺

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I am sure you will.

[@eileentarrant9220]

Well I did have a lovely start to my day ! I watched your video in bed with a cup of tea and a biscuit 🙄 which gears me up to get out into my garden, which is not so big but gives me so much pleasure . At the moment I have a plant called Sanguisorba Lilac Squirrel which I think you’d like as it has interesting leaves and long pink tassels,(keep up the tours) I hope one day to see you and listen to your lovely Irish twang 🤗🤗🤗

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good evening, Eileen, and I'm very glad to think of you enjoying my video as an easy start to your day. I'm sure your garden is beautiful. You know, I saw that 'Lilac Squirrel' at the Tatton Show in UK recently and fell in love with it. No idea why I came home without it :O Have a great evening and happy gardening!

[@barbarabowen2938]

Georgeoús garden

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much

[@BBQNBLUES]

Rachel; at 01:58 you mentioned the need of adding a tree behind that low border: May I suggest a "Forest Pansy" Redbud. it's foliage would compliment that border.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Hello there and thank you for watching and your great suggestion. I do love the Forest Pansy and you probably saw my own specimen later on in the video. The colours and size would suit that border but it may be a bit windy for it. The choice of tree for this position, in any case, will be decided by my eldest daughter, Ishtar. Her birth tree had to be removed last year so I promised her a replacement.

[@cherylanderson3340]

That was such an interesting tour. Thank you! I'm hoping you got to enjoy your tea, later, which you surely earned. I suspect you must have a fairly mild climate there. Most plants were, for me, previously unseen. Those Hydrangeas were the most floriferous I've ever seen, & now just recalled the chocolate variety. I live in US ZONE 5 in Massachusetts, & have slightly acidic soil too , 6.4 or so. One year, after top dressing my old Lace Cap with a blend of compost & aged manure, it's flowers came out in fun pink & blue mottled hues. Your huge soft blue one appeared a soft lavender to me at 1st, so I could barely wait until you showed it a bit closer & ID'd it. How do you get yours to be so large & covered in blooms? Do you cut them in late winter / early spring, & at what height do you cut them? I'm pretty sure you're too busy to reply, so will do my own research, but am thinking if I protect mine over winter, maybe with stakes, for a wrap of burlap, & then stuff the burlap with buckets & buckets of fallen, White Oak leaves. maybe the stems would have more buds surviving up higher on the stems, so I might cut mine taller than in the past, allowing more stems & more flowers. Also - Asian Lily Beetles, wiped out my stunning Rubrum / "Star Gazer" & dark Burgundy ones. years ago. Maybe I could try them again. I'd love to try the tall, White ones with the dramatic name, which escapes me...

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good morning and thank you for watching and commenting. Yes, our climate is mild in Ireland. I guess I am in hardiness zone 8 or 9. As for the hydrangeas, they are moisture loving plants but my pruning of them is very light. Maybe that is the difference. In any case, here's a link to how I prune hydrangeas, which you may find useful. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKLVZJZtnZiqjLc Wishing you a pleasant Sunday and happy gardening.

[@cherylanderson3340]

@@GardeningatDouentza Thank you so much for a thoughtful reply & link on pruning Hydrangea! Your gardening skills & designs are quite impressive! Looking forward to checking out more of your videos! Hope you have a lovely day too!

[@hazelford3358]

Hello Rachel, I've just found you and your lovely garden. What an acheivement! Do you have much help to keep it looking so fabulous? I have a tiny cottage type garden so a lot of your specimens would not look right but I admire your planting enormously. A suggestion, for what it's worth, consider painting the timber arches which act as entrances a soft shade of bluey/grey or perhaps fawny/beige. I know ,I'm being impertinent , telling the expert how to suck eggs but interfering is so satisfying and I really do mean well! Best of luck and happy gardening. Thank you for sharing.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good morning and thank you for your feedback. Your cottage garden soins lovely ans I'm glad you can exprapolate from my videos. They do say that blue is a good colour for my climate and light but, personally, I prefer a more natural look. Thanks for watching and have a great day. 🌸🌼

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

Have you ever tried growing the Himalayan Blue Poppy (Meconopsis betonicifolia)? I would think yours is one of the few climates where it would grow well. And who doesn't love a touch of blue in the garden?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I do love the meconopsis but this year I see they are all gone from the garden. Maybe it was last summer's relentless heat. It's a pity but I will probably try them again when I get the chance. Here's how they looked a little while back... kzbin.info/www/bejne/foeym2ywlMuDfpo

[@cheirodosulcanalblog4758]

Bravo pour ce joli jardin ; ) j'ai découvert grâce à vous "roscoea purpurea royal purple" qui est splendide ! Cette variété n'est pas vendue en France...je vais mener l'enquête pour la trouver à tout prix :) car je la veux dans mon jardin ! Bonne journée !

[@GardeningatDouentza]

319/5000 J'apprends que quelqu'un d'autre adore les roscoeas comme moi 😍 Ils sont également impossibles à trouver en Irlande, à l'exception de R. cautleyoides. J'ai acheté tous les miens du Royaume-Uni. Voici le lien à la pépinière roscoea de laquelle j’ai achetée à Tatton Park récemment, si cela peut aider (ils ne me commandent pas de les mentionner). Bonne chance. www.plantswithaltitude.co.uk/

[@cheirodosulcanalblog4758]

Merci beaucoup pour l'info ! Je vais rechercher cette beauté :)

[@letropchiant]

Whou Oo I will have to take time to watch your videos really good content, thx

[@GardeningatDouentza]

So glad you like it. Thank you for watching and have a great evening.

[@mayalor5081]

Where do you get your plants? They are amazing!!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for watching and I hope you are having a nice day. I have been collecting plants for years and started out by growing many of them from seed myself. It is a long process when you have a big space to fill so I also started with cheap cheap plants but in the last few years have been replacing them with more choice specimens. Hope this answers your question.

[@cheirodosulcanalblog4758]

Bonsoir :) quelle est la variété de cette super belle ligularia dentata au feuillage pourpre devant votre serre ? J'adore la variété des feuillages ! Merci d'avance ...Bonne soirée:) et encore bravo pour le tour du jardin j'en redemande ;)

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Je suis sûre que vous ai déjà donné la réponse 😊

[@cheirodosulcanalblog4758]

Oui c'est bon, merci encore ! Je l'ai déjà commandée :)

[@oneloveRudy]

beautiful garden congratulations. Look at all those beneficial hoverflie's on your beautiful Hot Chocolate Hydrangea 23:26

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much