July Garden Tour || Cutting Back to Keep Flower Beds Looking Fresh

This is the July garden tour of Douentza Garden in Wexford, Ireland and it comes with lots of information on the July cutting back of perennials to keep beds looking well through August and beyond.
Here are some plants mentioned in the video although you will also find labels on the screen...
Lilium 'Lavon'
Monarda 'Cambridge Scarlet'
Aconitum carmichaelii var. wilsonii
Alstroemeria 'Oriana'
Alstroemeria 'Tesronto' (Indian Summer)
Stipa tenuissima
Sedum 'Frosted Fire'
Platycodon grandiflorus
Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'
Cautleya spicata
Mukdenia rossii 'Karasuba'
Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton'
Crocosmia 'Okavango'
Zinnia elegans 'Queen Lime Red'
Francoa sonchifolia 'Pink Giant'
Amaranthus cruentus 'Hot Biscuits'
Zinnia elegans 'Illumination'
Lilium 'Beverly Ann'
Lilium 'Conca D'Or'
Hydrangea quercifolia 'Burgundy'
Mandragora officinarum
Ligularia 'Britt Marie Crawford'
Alstroemeria 'Summer Breeze'
Hydrangea aspera 'Macrophylla'
Lobelia tupa
Watsonia 'Mount Congreve Coral'
Liriodendron tulipifera 'Aureomarginatum'
Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica
Leontodon rigens
Tithonia rotundifolia 'Torch'
Dahlia 'Karma Choc'
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[@kristineobrien8878]

Love the “Magic Wand Sound” 💕🌟💕

[@kristineobrien8878]

Listing to your voice is pure magic🥰

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Wow, thank you!

[@terrysmallwood1755]

Oh my!!! I am so glad I found you. I am in the U.S. but in the same zone. You embrace a style that is so me. There's an element of formality it the overall layout yet within the beds.... you break all the rules! As if you say "try a bit of everything" And by gosh it works! So gorgeous! I will enjoy following you!!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Hello Terry and a great big welcome to the channel. I'm glad you like my style of planting. I find it hard to turn down new plants hence the 'bit of everything'. Hope you find lots of interest on the channel. Now I'd better get out and do some gardening as it's a bright day so I'll say goodbye!

[@rose2fame1]

Hi Rachel, nice Casablanca Lily, clemantis flowers, and pitcher plants. Catski is helping beautify your garden too .

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you, Cheryl. I don't think they are Casablanca lilies although Casablanca ones are gorgeous. Yes, Catsky is such a help to me 😏

[@annier.6976]

You're so inspiring!!! I want to be more like you :) Your gardens are so lovely and I love your garden companion kitty too :)

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Ah, thank you so much. What a lovely thing to say. I'm sure your own garden is lovely too. The main thing is to grow what we love. Thanks for watching and have a great Friday and beginning to your weekend! 🌳😊🌻

[@kathygasnot133]

Thank you for your videos wish are full of acurate advices. I' m delighted to listen to them as here in south of France the weather doesn't give us so contrasting colourful landscape. Thank you Cathy from Albi , France

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Hi Cathy and thank you for your kind words. The south of France sounds wonderful to me now in rainy Ireland.

[@purrrfect6032]

Your flower garden is so beautiful ❤

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much

[@penelopehammerton2907]

Your garden does you great credit Rachel, It's fabulous 😁🤗

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you 🌻😊🌳 it's great to feel it's doing well

[@kristineobrien8878]

My day Lily plants do great in morning/early afternoon sun❤

[@anntodd1233]

Thank you for sharing! Your garden looks so lush and pretty!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Many thanks

[@benwinkel]

We are having a dreadful drought as well in Holland. I hope your expectations for rain came true. Your garden is looking spectacular anyway.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Sorry for your drought woes! We have had rain here and it has helped but there is a deficit. There's always cause for complaint with the weather 😄

[@lissapowell967]

Hi, Rachel! Your garden is so lovely and fresh for July! i particularly like how you have integrated the lillies and grasses (no stipas for me, though, they arent hardy here) into the rest of your garden. I have many grasses but only asiatic lillies I live in So. Indiana, US zone 6b. Our recent weather changes have been more rain in July and August so I'm transitioning from drought tolerant plants (they are keepers, though) to those that like more moisture. The tulip tree or as locals say tulip poplar is the Indiana state tree but I've never seen variegated one. Thanks again for sharing!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Greetings from Wexford, Ireland to Indiana, US. Your climate zone is colder than mine but what I do love about gardening is that there is such an overlap in what we can grow. Thanks for watching and taking the time to share and have a great evening. Rachel

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

all your lilies look gorgeous!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Lilies are so reliable, as long as the lily beetle is under control

[@pamelacorsi]

Beautiful! I moved day-lilies (maybe 8 assorted varieties) due to lack of light and they took 2 years to bloom but were spectacular this year!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for that information. I'm not sure I will have the patience to wait a second year 😏 Hmmmm

[@wandashaw3551]

Hello Rachel, I just love your garden!! Beautiful and so many different kinds of plants. I'm sorry your day lilies didn't do well but I am sure peonies would look great in their place. :)

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you, Wanda. Don't worry about that bed. I'll find something gorgeous to put in it!

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

Yesss, you need to show them who's boss 😂 Such a great, your garden is looking marvellous. Thank you for the walk around😘

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much, Fernanda

[@patrickdempsey9886]

What a beautiful garden and such a beautiful cat I love cats myself only problem with then especially my one is they are such psychopaths

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Haha. Some cats are so. Our Catsky, not so much but she does take fits of over zealousness.

[@chrisdooney5374]

Love the box circle round the tree

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you. It's one of the first things I planted in the garden and I'm glad to have it.

[@hrm266]

My compliments!So many wonderful lillies.When you cut them down?Maybe you have it already,but the last Lily I bought was "the nightrider" a very dark one....

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you. I usually just deadhead the lilies when they finish flowering and leave them until the following spring to be cut back. Nightrider is great

[@benwinkel]

Yay! Garden tour!

[@shaunabattle2371]

Is your property fenced in? No deer pressure? Your lillies are gorgeous

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Nah, there's no fence around the garden but we don't have deer here, just hares and rabbits. Thanks for watching and have a great Friday

[@francismaloney8775]

👏🌹

[@AnastasiaSev]

What the name of your grass near lilly Beverly Ann?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Chionochloa rubra, New Zealand tussock grass

[@AnastasiaSev]

@@GardeningatDouentza спасибо🇷🇺

[@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

I just want to comment to thank you for sharing your garden. I just love to watch your garden grow. Gardeners are my favorite people and There is always so many new things to learn from each other. I garden and make gardening videos too if you'd ever want to visit my garden I’d love to have you! Let’s learn more from each other as we grow!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for watching and commenting. I have recently visited your channel and wish you every success with growing and making videos.