Tour of my Garden in May - gardening chat & great-looking plants

Welcome to my May garden tour and Douentza Garden is looking lovely. We did have a late snap of frost, which has done some damage, but the bees are out in full swing and early summer has arrived.
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[@suzanawanggai4507]

Wow beautiful garden with exotic plants

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for visiting.

[@niallgardens]

Your garden is stunning! Just beautiful! The late frost hit us too (glad to know we’re not the only ones!) and has taken out most of the fresh growing tips on the top of our beach hedges ❄️

[@GardeningatDouentza]

It has been a worrying development. love your hot composting video by the way and clever camera work. Hope to watch more.

[@niallmccauley2097]

@@GardeningatDouentza Thanks very much - I really appreciate it! This is the first house we've owned so to have a garden that belongs to us feels really special (and odd to be able to do whatever I want without having to check with a landlord first)!!

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

What a treat, always so pleasant to walk around your garden. Thank you.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@srobs1216]

Oh my, what a treat to have found your channel! Thank you so much for the splendid tour of your spectacular garden. I wish I could tour it in person. You showed a number of plants that are new to me. Happy gardening. Your tour has made me very happy.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Welcome to the channel!

[@gardener5857]

Stunning. Thank you.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you too!

[@dtomlinson734]

An incredibly beautiful garden. Greetings from New Brunswick, Canada. Glad I found your channel.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Greetings right back to you. And welcome to the channel.

[@suethompson6497]

What a beautiful garden🌼🌺 Hope you make another tour this coming spring.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you. Of course, I will. There were a few more garden tours after this one so, in case you're looking for something to watch, here the playlist of all my garden tours... kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6vUXoStgrWHpJI

[@suethompson6497]

@@GardeningatDouentza Thanks for the link, most certainly will be watching them all and all your orchid videos. 🌸

[@hasmukhpatel7972]

Thanks

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Welcome

[@ingadd5231]

Beautiful garden ❤️...

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for visiting

[@dannisorchidjourney]

What a great and lovely tour! Thank you so much for sharing the beauty with us all.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching.

[@Cesc8170]

Hello, if you like Sedum, there's one, Sedum sediforme, that grows wild where I have my cottage on the roofs, for instance, and I can send cuttings to you, whenever we are allowed to do that again.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for your offer but I probably have enough sedums. Stay well and let's hope this is all over before too long.

[@Cesc8170]

@@GardeningatDouentza If people behave, it will. hhhh It's all right. :)

[@robertforrest7956]

Greatly enjoy these strolls through your beautiful garden and see it in splendid glory through the seasons. 😃 Thanks Rachel....👍

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You are very welcome. Enjoy the rest of your day.

[@Martillo_de_Dios]

Wow! What a beautiful garden… and in Ireland, an enchanted place to one day visit for my wife and I. Thank you for your videos… I started watching and became a subscriber today after watching your division of the red hot pokers. I’m glad I came across your channel! Looking forward to more of your garden! Have your red hot pokers bloomed yet?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Hi there and thank you for watching and subscribing. I hope my channel will give you lots. The red hot pokers sure did reflower the following year. Here's the video... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYfHZ6aepbKHmLc

[@rusticanrefined]

Everything looks just beautiful!💚

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you! 🤗

[@Fabdanc]

Perfect, just what I needed to ignore my office job on Monday morning. Thanks, Rachel!... also making me jealous as I just replaced all my tired winter/spring plants for my summer plants. Sprout my little seedlings... SPROUT!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Oh those summer plants will get going really soon and do you proud! Happy growing.

[@_hometv7894]

Your garden is really beautiful. It seems to be so happy to walk on the grass path. I envy having a garden like this. I like Korean wildflowers. Your video is very interesting. I am looking forward to the next video.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for visiting

[@valiumsurbanjungle2041]

One of the most beautiful and stunning gardens I've ever seen... Simply amazing!! 💚😻

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Wow, thank you! You are very kind.

[@valiumsurbanjungle2041]

@@GardeningatDouentza I mean it!! ☺️ In my next life I'd love having a garden like yours!! 😁

[@benwinkel]

Really lovely Rachel, thank you. I lost my Acer Dissectum, i had pruned it back hard last year and it didn't like that. But my seedling cherry tree flowered for me this year for the first time in 20 yrs! I can see fruits developing! These late frosts can sneak up on you unexpectedly and do a lot of damage. Hope your plants will recuperate from that.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Congratulations on the cherry from seed. There are few feelings more satisfying than seeing a tree we grew from seed eventually flower.

[@benwinkel]

@@GardeningatDouentza Thank you!

[@jaelene1431]

Great video!! You have my dream garden!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much

[@lilybadwar8980]

Lovely garden love it mam🤗🤗

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks a lot

[@karensicard7304]

I love your garden tours. Never heard of peeling birch bark, but it works.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Happy growing 😃

[@ems1277]

I came across your channel today while I was searching how to prune my Black Lace which unfortunately got badly damaged in the strong winds! Ive subscribed straight away and delighted to find an Irish gardner to follow that is down to earth : )

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You are very welcome to the channel. Emma. Black Lace is a fabulous elder and I love it. Those winds were bad but hopefully that's the end to them!

[@maureen6710]

So much to look forward to in this spectacular garden! Shame about the frost damage to the beautiful Rhododendron.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Lots of frost damage, Maureen, but I'm sure the plants will recover. Thanks for watching.

[@miche7032]

How lovely ! Thank you for the tour.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rdarrett3635]

I like your channel because you have so much diversity in your garden. You introduce me to varieties that I don’t know as a new gardener. Also, your garden is so different that the ones in the US, specifically Indiana (6B).

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you. You are very kind. Greetings to Indiana

[@KVsPlantsOrchids]

Your garden look very beautiful, appreciate the effort taken by you.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks a lot

[@GardeningWise]

Very beautiful garden. I am in the process of setting up my new garden and the plants are just baby plants. Your garden tour give me some idea how my garden could look after many years and also some more plant ideas.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

So glad you have found the video useful and happy planting!

[@benwinkel]

Laburnum and Wisteria, two favorites of mine. I hope your Laburnum will continue to perform for you, many years to come and you may enjoy its sweet yellow blooms spring upon spring. However, should it ever decide to give up and pass on, do not discard it. Many artisan woodworkers value it's wood and make lovely pieces from it.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

That is good to know, Ben. I know that laburnums don't last indefinately but I will enjoy mine while it is here. It is my son's favourite tree too. Thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of your day.

[@glorias6517]

Thank you

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You're welcome

[@frankanderson3503]

I left my dahlias in over winter and never lost one .A wise old gardener suggested to leave them in

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Lots of people leave their dahlias in the ground and I am glad if you are happy with that procedure. Check out my dahlia lifting video if you want to learn more.

[@johnmitchell1614]

Hello Rachel, what a nice garden you've created. What did you wash your Birch trees with? Best regards.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good morning and thank you for your kind words about my garden. I use a little washing up liquid in a bucket of water to clean my birch trees.

[@ellawagemakers8882]

Haven't been for a while ... it is lovely, as usual. Greetings!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Hopefully when this is all over...

[@potatomami718]

Woww😍😍😍 what a gorgeous garden. So much hard work has been put in. I should make a garden tour on my channel even though it will be pretty small still cute😇

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Go for it!

[@alinaangelescu4519]

Magnificent !

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you

[@wandashaw3551]

So pretty! 😍

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you!! 😊

[@simonwhite5535]

Hi Rachel, thankyou for the video. Could you please identify the grass behind the hosta @ 12.30mins into the video. Warm regards. :)

[@GardeningatDouentza]

It is Chionochloa rubra, one of my favourite grasses

[@simonwhite5535]

@@GardeningatDouentza Thanks

[@jeromegagnon8335]

Oh my!!! I’m shock.... The “life in a border”, can’t wait to hear what happened with the coniferous

[@GardeningatDouentza]

😲

[@tamino27]

hello Rachel, I might know the names of your Heucheras from the beginning of your video. The one with the bigger leafs on the right side is Palace Purple and the other ones are Black Beauty.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You could be right. Thank you

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

I know what is missing from your garden! Symplocarpus foetidus. It adds an interesting olfactory presence to the garden. 😉

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Symplocarpus foetidus is an amazing plant. Unfortunately it is not wet enough anywhere for it in my garden. Although mine is flowering size, it struggles from the dry conditions and only sends up leaves.

[@ianskjalg4498]

Hi Douentza ! Thank you so much for a very beautiful garden tour ! So many exciting plants and flowers !! What are the 2 silvery plants next to the Acer palmatum ? ( 20:15 min. in the video ) Greetings from Norway :)

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You are very welcome and thank you for watching. The two plants you mentioned are Verbascum bombyceferum, one of my favourites. You may enjoy enjoy these two videos about it... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHO5hpqrndt3ldk kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3y9f5ePebCcg9k

[@simranarora6393]

Beautiful garden. What is the silver leaved shrub at 19:06 please?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you. The perennial you are asking after is Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis'. I also feature it in this short video, if you are interested... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHrHkJqklspko5o

[@chrisdooney5374]

Hi fab garden I have big back garden very open, any advise or ideas how I can tie it together? all advice very much appreciated

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Buy books, look at lots of pictures, decide what styles and plants you like and go from there!

[@chrisdooney5374]

@@GardeningatDouentza Thank you

[@janwhite6212]

Thank you so very much for sharing your lovely garden. I had to watch this twice to see everything!! Could I ask you what the plant was at the bottom of your bell? Kind of silvery green with red blooms?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for such lovely feedback. It is really appreciated. The plant you saw was a helianthemum. It is one for a well-drained site in full sun. It has, however, been a long time since that position was full sun but it still gives me a smattering of flowers. Happy growing.

[@beeler178]

How did you wash the birch trees?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

With a soft cloth and a bucket of soapy water.

[@karlsorchidparty2395]

If I may aks: What ist the plant in front of Hosta Empress Wu at 19:35? The one with yellow, reddish leaves? It looks really nice!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

It is Pseudowintera colorata 'Mount Congreve', one for acid soil.

[@karlsorchidparty2395]

@@GardeningatDouentza Thank you very much! :)

[@gracedowner3233]

Where is this?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Douentza Garden, Wexford, Ireland