Summer Cottage Garden Tour - New Wildlife Pond, Box Moth Nightmare & Bountiful Vegetables

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Welcome back to our cottage garden. I was hoping to show you around during August but things have been very busy, so here is a look round in the last few weeks of Summer. We have a new wildlife pond and have been trying to tackle box moth caterpillar. In the polytunnel our tomatoes are doing great. Hope you enjoy having a look around.
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@imogenhardy5610 9 ай бұрын

Water lilies will struggle with the lack of sunlight but water hawthorn is a lovely alternative for cooler, shadier spots and actually has a really nice scent (I used to work at an aquatic plant nursery and you could smell then every time you walked past the tanks). Hornwart is a great british native oxygenator and veronica beccabunga (brooklime) is really pretty, will raft out across the surface and will be great for newts and tadpoles. You could also add something upright like water spearmint so dragonfly larvae can climb out to pupate.

@rareandwonderfull 10 ай бұрын

......... 17:12 Yes, in ancient times, the lawn was very small, all else was crops, flowers and scruffiness, which is as things should be in my opinion. I love the retro look.

@shivv7877 9 ай бұрын

The best pond-plants are the ones that are native to where you live to help polinators

@rosaarias7128 10 ай бұрын

your gardens are beautiful. thank you for sharing 🤍🕊

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ❤

@lauraluzpadillarengifo Ай бұрын

Maravilloso lugar

@marykappesser5145 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for showing us your garden, the good and the not so good. It helps me to realize no garden is perfect, especially when you do things yourself.

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for writing this. So true it’s very hard for one person to keep on top of it all

@LiaInuma 4 ай бұрын

Roses beautiful

@jennifersleeper3907 10 ай бұрын

Your video's make me so happy! xoxoxo

@user-bc1kp8jh5v Ай бұрын

Que lindo paisaje

@sarahjones-jf4pr 10 ай бұрын

The obvious Water lillies! I have grown them in the past with overhanging greenery.

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

That’s great to know, thank you! 🪷

@angienicoleperedarodriguez6290 Ай бұрын

Wonderful

@kimberleedenevi1207 9 ай бұрын

Looks like your pond has a waterfall, you should look into a pump to circulate water

@WhiteThreadCrochet 9 ай бұрын

What an amazing garden! So green and peaceful! I just found your channel, and it's going to be my online escape! A cup of tea, my dog dosing on the floor next to me, a crochet project in hands, and watching your channel! Thank you so much!

@laurahale5774 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Thank you for sharing the wins and the losses.

@duirfriend 10 ай бұрын

Royal pickerel is a lovely tall flowering plant, there's a few water irises like black gamecock, and rush grasses, and for oxygen I would use some hornwort and fairy fern. You could even do some cold-hardy pitcher plants to help with bugs. I have two small water gardens with those types of plants, and I've added goldfish about 5 years ago. They are still thriving and have survived being frozen (I'm in zone 8 on the west coast of the US).

@duirfriend 10 ай бұрын

Additionally, consider growing some comfrey if you aren't already. It's a great pollinator, has wonderful medicinal uses, and it's a nitrogen fixer, so you can cut spent leaves and make a tea to use as a fertilizer for your other plants. The ducks love eating it as well!

@imogenhardy5610 9 ай бұрын

Unfortunately fairy fern is an invasive plant in the uk but hornwort is a good option

@frenchiemillie1699 10 ай бұрын

Merci ❤

@daniellereid01 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the tour of your beautiful garden. It was both inspiring and soothing ❤

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ❤

@juansantos2799 Ай бұрын

Excelente.

@susyveronicaromeroaguilar7975 Ай бұрын

Excelente video

@Gladioli10 10 ай бұрын

Can't wait to see the bulbs that your ordered :)

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! So excited 😊

@hattyflame3889 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful garden,thank you 💚🌻🌱🌷

@JenymarlitaMurayarimacuy-kb6nn 2 ай бұрын

Excelente

@rareandwonderfull 10 ай бұрын

1:09 It looks like a wonderful rosemary shrub to YOUR right side. My rosemary is 20 years old, 3 feet tall, looks all twisted and gnarly like a bonsai. 3:20 Here in Ohio, it is so relaxing to the busy brain that won't turn off at night at bedtime to hear the frogs in springtime and summer in the pond that we had put in 45 years ago. All kinds, big bull frogs with their "oompah band" and smaller frogs with their high pitched choir. Go to sleep with the sound of frogs. 5:00 Yes, I prefer non chemical controls, however, when confronted with the lost of important plants I use whatever chemical will solve the problem, the result is that in my 50 years of gardening, I am 90% organic. 6:46 I think that I would keep a corn broom with me, stab it into the boxwood hedges and grind it about at least every other day to make the worms lives a living hell. 7:50 I like your lightly rusty white bench, the shabby chique look I like. I think that the subconscious feeling that it evokes is a connection to the past, a sense of permanence and stability. In fact, I would spray a clear weather resistant sealer on it to stop the oxidization at it's current state. 8:16 Yes! Springtime is my favorite time of year, so retro, old, vintage beautiful, before the complications such as box hedge worms and countless other frustrations present themselves. Springtime is the honeymoon time of year when garden life is so nostalgic, simple, and uncomplicated, for me, springime is dreamtime. 10:29 yes, I can 80+ quarts of tomatoes out of my garden every year. This year we had an UNUSUAL long , hard rain, which suffocated the tomatoe roots , leaves dying, if I get 80 quarts, it shall truly be a miracle. 11:40 Flowering tobacco, wonderfull high note evening fragrance, and hummingbirds adore them. 13:01 To YOUR right, beauitiful Dino Kale, aka, Lacinato, aka, Cavalo Nere. Four years I was of the mistaken impression that it needs to be planted in August to avoid running to bloom because of long days. This year I planted it during early July, now I have beautiful Lacinato. For making Italian rissotto. 16:40 Springtime is idyllic, dreamtime, but summertime in the garden I call warfare. If we do not lose sight of that fact that succeeding in the summer garden is warfare against blights, molds, mildews, predacious animals, weeds etc. etc then we can better rise to the challenge and not be emotionally beaten down when impending failure looms. But if wee succeed in the battle, then arrives the restful autumn , the gathering in, which can really be a metaphor for old age, because if life has been successful, then old age can be a restful, stress free time of our existence. I have been gardening for 50+ years and i know of nothing more gratifying than having an idyllic garden. Our vegetable garden is 50 feet wide by 300 feet long. Double strand electric fence around it to keep the deer out, they belong in sausage casings and stew pots and not in the gaden. Then low chicken wire fence to keep out the hares. Thank you for sharing your pleasant, hard work adventure💚💚💚.

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

This is so sweet! Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts across so many details 😊 really appreciate it ❤

@carloscontreras7657 Ай бұрын

Bonito

@XeniaSketchbookPages 9 ай бұрын

Your greenhouse is amazing! I don't have one. But I have a few tomato plants in my garden. It was a pure pleasure to grow them from seed ❤

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 oh that’s lovely, tomatoes are such a joy to grow

@vintagegarden93 9 ай бұрын

❤ Love the relaxing moment

@GidaVasquez-me8ut Ай бұрын

Bien

@marshagaravaglia8149 9 ай бұрын

Lovely ❤

@DantericardoPerezrengifo-ys3fo Ай бұрын

Genial

@tanjakirk-rauh 9 ай бұрын

Tanja, here from Germany. I would love to watch and listen to you plant the bulbs. I also received my delivery of 220 crocus bulbs on Friday. But here we still have 32°C during the day and 15°C at night. I'll put them anyway. What you think? Greeting’s 🌞

@tanya_temp 10 ай бұрын

Gardeners world said best way of dealing with box moth is leaving the box alone (no cutting it for at least a year) and it will recover x❤

@karlitobergkamp8082 9 ай бұрын

Yeah that’s what Monty Don does. Depends on your circumstances as well though. If you want your garden looking good at all times then take them out and replace if you have such a large garden you don’t mind then you can afford to leave them. I personally would get rid and find another plant to replace them as done here as I cannot be having that every year or so.

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

I thought Monty burned all of his (apart from a few very old ones) in 2021? I wouldn’t be up for taking the risk of leaving the big ones with how persistent the caterpillars are. But thank you nonetheless appreciate your comment❤x

@Karincl7 9 ай бұрын

@@monalogueI think it s in his book actually that he removed them

@mariaceciliaguadalupechave127 Ай бұрын

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@johnswinson1668 9 ай бұрын

I just want you to know that if you cut all the rusted cucumber leaves and feed the plants and keep watering normally, the plants will be recovered and produce fruits as normal. I did this method this year and so pleased for the outcome of doing this.

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 will give it a try!

@Patricksutti 6 ай бұрын

Buen video

@awildapproach 8 ай бұрын

I'm a sucker for the wild areas. Your garden is lovely all around, though! Thanks for sharing. 😍

@nathanelliot1596 9 ай бұрын

bloody awesome - more, more, more content. With you all the way.

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your encouragement 😊 needed this today!

@missragsdale 9 ай бұрын

Your garden is such a dream!

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊

@daisyb452 9 ай бұрын

Hi, I'm a new follower, I only came across your channel this morning! I was looking for tips on planting bulbs. I live in Dorset! I absolutely adore your channel and have binge watched several videos. I'm also intrigued as you have Japanese Spitz! My mum and dad (sadly no longer here) had several in the 80's (when I was a teenager). They were absolutely beautiful, great memories! I'm so happy to have discovered you. Have a lovely week, it's such a glorious day today. 🥰🐝🌿x

@juliecahill7550 9 ай бұрын

What a nice garden tour. Your really blessed to have figs and other fruit tree. 😊

@monalogue 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊 really grateful for them especially this year

@jackstone4291 9 ай бұрын

Lovely garden. Frances Tophill off of Gardeners World esque Lovely wildlife pond Great size and look

@jordanyeager9220 9 ай бұрын

Saw her on Gardener's World! 🌿 🌎

@nickiramsay2421 9 ай бұрын

Your wildlife pond looks fabulous now. I think hornwort is a really good oxygenator and as for water lilies, our native frogbit is ok for shade and has very delicate white flowers and more suited to a small pond than some of the big water lilies. Water forget-me-not and Brooklime are good marginals that your newts will like laying their eggs on. I would recommend you check out Joel Ashton’s Wild Your Garden channel, he has a lot of good advice on pond plants. Your veggie area and orchard are looking amazing, it’s so rewarding when you get some edible results from your hard work.

@sharonphelps 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful video tour, as always! I love the Asters in the cut flower garden. Do you know the name of that variety, and the colour? I would really like to grow some next year. ❤

@annared07 9 ай бұрын

I lost two 15 year+ box hedges this year and have seen lots of skeletons in the area (Bristol) I won't be replanting box, it's too stressful, your alternatives looks amazing

@celis727 10 ай бұрын

Have you considered pyracantha varieties? I was on a quest to find a particular variety bred here in the states for over a year. My searches resulted in UK nurseries mostly. I have deer pressure, zone 8a in Atlanta, Georgia with legendary humidity and powdery mildew … I wanted a flowering hedge shrub that can withstand my environment and tolerate shade. Sounds like a unicorn but eventually I was able to source some Teton firethorns and they have performed exceptionally well (with neglect). My understanding is that pyracantha are native to Europe so, you may have even more success.

@bobbilynnmiller742 9 ай бұрын

What type of Asters are your lovely pink / coral ones ?

@CarmenvalescaArevalo-sh7pk Ай бұрын

@selvarajkannan7023 7 ай бұрын

Do you have Asclepius Tuberose Weed plant which butterflies likes 💅.Excellent your flowers garden and gladden our heart 👏🙏🇮🇳.

@lynnwalters224 10 ай бұрын

Will you kindly share the variety name of the lovely peachy pink aster?

@bobbilynnmiller742 9 ай бұрын

I love your videos! I have a question about Erigerone daisies . You mentioned the cold got them , and you’re working on rebuilding them . What does that look like ? I’ve never grown them , but really want to . However I’m concerned since we have cold winters with a lot of snow and freezes during the winter . Any tips ?