Late Summer Garden Jobs

[@JRP58]

Your garden is beautiful! I really love all the rooms you’ve created and I look forward to following the redesign of the borders in the rill garden.

[@harryhj5981]

Amazing what a difference the wood chips make!

[@VancouverIslandgirl]

Looking forward to the update on the perennial garden, your gardens always look amazing .💐

[@ginamansfield4376]

Hi Jenny! Loved this video of your present Garden tasks. Thanks for making it. Great information on the techniques you use to trim & treat your boxes, good visual on how to sharpen tools, when to cut back flowers/roses, laying out wood chips/mulch in the Tree Garden, etc. Enjoyed seeing your great vegy harvest, and how you utilize your garden area with newly planted plants after harvesting. WOW what lovely espalier pears & apples you have grown. I love seeing the before & after photos of your Gardens. Very impressive. Can’t wait to hear about your trip to Arley Hall Gardens to view the borders & speak with the Gardener there for tips on your new borders! Thanks again! Blessings!

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank Gina as always for your kind comments and positivity!

[@jeanioneill6610]

You are inspirational . I am also in need of redesigning my boarders . Looking forward to your visit to Arly ( spelling) Hall for ideas.

[@a760541]

Totally agree with you on most things. A garden's is a process as opposed to a place. Our place is now 21 yrs old since inception. The main activity we have is pruning / thinning and splitting. For the last few yrs we've not brought anything in.. we're at the stage where we have a healthy supply of stuff that grows well. Given up playing king canute, regarding exotics. Our focus was always shallower borders. Using a lot of seasonal green interspersed with flashes of interest (colour). It works as it avoids the ehhhh after any spectacular splash of colour. Regarding the citronella & salvia - it's sometimes cruel to be kind. (Well after the insects have had their fill).

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you for your comments, good to hear your experiences of caring for your garden over 21 years, after a while you learn what works for you and what doesn’t in favours of fads!

[@sunitashastry5270]

Your tree soak idea is great!}

[@MurphysGarden]

It seems to be really effective!

[@johnsmith-ls4rc]

Looking forward to see how you re-design the borders. Getting a succession throughout the season, has proved the hardest part of gardening for me - but keeps the challenge and interest going. A packet of Cosmos and Dahlia 'Bishops Children' can work wonders in the meantime ! Really enjoy sharing your progress.

[@MurphysGarden]

Hi John The more I learn about perennial borders, the harder I think it is to do it really well. I’ve still got a lot to learn but I think you will find what Gordon, the head gardener had to say very useful, I know I did!

[@johnsmith-ls4rc]

@@MurphysGarden Aster Monch is currently saving the day for me, with Verbena Rigida doing well at the front of border and Verbena Bampton in the middle. To slightly contradict myself, Comos Santos seemed to get mildew during a wet spell, so even they are challenging me this year. Next year will be better !

[@MurphysGarden]

Good suggestions but do bampton and rigida self seed everywhere like bonariensis, I have grown to dislike verbena bonariensis because it appears everywhere!

[@johnsmith-ls4rc]

@@MurphysGarden That could be a problem. Rigida only seeds into my gravel path, not my heavy clay soil. But Bampton seeds very freely everywhere; although I did seed Rosy Hardy recommending deadheading Bampton to avoid this. Hard to time that right I am guessing ? That just leaves Monch, which is a winner in my book !

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you for your great tips!

[@carlas872]

The garden is looking amazing! You mentioned how beautiful the smell is of the Desdemona rose, do you have seating nearby to enjoy it? I hope you take us along when you go to Arley Hall. It's so much fun to see different places for inspiration. Thank you Jenny!

[@MurphysGarden]

They do smell great but there is nowhere to add seating as it’s more of a transitional area linking different parts of the garden. I sometimes perch on the sides especially when film videos and I get to smell them when deadheading them! Arley Hall was amazing, went yesterday and was definitely the best herbaceous borders I’ve ever seen! I’ll do the video soon, thanks for watching

[@Karl-p6h]

Some big jobs off the list in this video 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 those caterpillars eating your roses are rose slugworm I think which is part of the sawfly family. As for the Camassia you may find tilling just moved them around and you might miss them I had to clear a border similar to yours of Spanish bluebells it took me weeks of digging and sieving but it paid off as I know have none in the border and I can enjoy the perennials and shrubs I planted up without any of their horrid foliage rotting away and going all slimey.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you for your advice, yes, I think your idea of sieving the soil is going to be necessary if I am to stand any hope of getting rid of them all, good to know it worked for you! Re: the rose slugworm, should I do anything about them, are they likely to return next year, any suggestions welcome on getting rid of them!

[@Karl-p6h]

@@MurphysGarden the RHS website says to try and be vigilant from June/July and pick them off. But to be honest I’d read all the information on the RHS website that way you can truly understand their life cycle and ways to control them. It’s always where you don’t want a plant to be getting damaged that these pests turn up isn’t it???! Good luck with them and if I were local to you I’d offer to come and help dig through that border of camassia 👍🏻

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you

[@cheriedodd9358]

Great video,, loved it, thank you. Have you done a past video of your journey from your original garden space? Seeing those small clips astounded me of how much you have done! Would love to see more. Very inspirational ❤

[@MurphysGarden]

Glad you liked it. If you want to see the progress and the before and after shots, I did two videos a while back called ‘How I designed my garden- Part 1 and Part 2’, links below: How I Designed my Garden (Part 1) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJzJf6uCZteLjsksi=t8bpvBHznpPmJdTC How I Designed My Garden (Part 2) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJLMXmqpe8-Ll80

[@sunitashastry5270]

The late summer garden needs lots of work.

[@MurphysGarden]

It really does, that’s why my favourite month is May, all of the enjoyment without the hard graft!

[@LivingwithBIGdogs]

How do you hang your flowers to dry? They look pretty just drying there ❤

[@MurphysGarden]

Easy peasy, just tie some string around them and I hang them on nails upside down on the beams in our kitchen. Our kitchen is perfect as it’s north facing and cool, I think they look gorgeous (perhaps a few too many at the moment) but they do occasionally drop bits including bugs onto the table, not great when you’re eating🤣 but I have a very tolerant husband who only grumbles a bit!