Stephen's Garden: Winter tour!

This week on The Horti-Culturalists we'll take a gentle stroll through Stephen's garden in mid winter and be surprised by the amount of colour, foliage, flowers, berries, texture and form that still makes the garden an enjoyable experience even at this bleakest of times. Lot's of useful ideas for keeping the garden engaging through winter and we do reference other videos that provide a deeper dive into certain plants and they are all found in this play list: • PLANTS FOR THE WINTER ...
You can also find the play list of tours through Stephen's garden & nursery here: • STEPHEN'S GARDEN & NUR...
The plants we mention in this video are:
Ferula communis
Alocasia
Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis'
Hedera helix 'Glacier'
Aucuba japonica longifolia
Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Tom Thumb'
Mahonia media 'Buckland'
Semele androgyna
Cyclamen hederifolium
Muehlenbeckia astonii
Ruscus aculeatus
Trachycarpus fortunei 'Wagnerianus'
Arisarum vulgare
Crataegus mexicana
Acanthus sennii
Montanoa leucantha var. arborescens
Lepechinia hastata
No ID Abutilon
Iochroma fuchsioides
Acanthus 'Hollards Gold'
Arum italicum 'White Winter'
Camellia amplexicaulis
Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide'

[@mathewhalpin]

I'm over the heat here in Greece and it's not officially summer yet. Watching you two wander around Stephen's amazing winter garden is making me homesick.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Oh and I want to go to Greece! Regards Stephen

[@JackieHamlin-xs5se]

Loved the Birds Nest fern, immediately recognized it. Summer here in No. Wis, USA, love your winter garden. We cannot have most of that here, zone 4, I believe.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@loriedmundson782]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@joanne-et6pm]

Ur garden looks lovely Stephen hopefully mine will look similar to yours one day although a few different plants being on the GC Thanks again for sharing. Matt & Stephen Happy gardening 🌸👍 🦟🐝🦅

[@thehorti-culturalists]

You can do it! Regards Stephen

[@mattlloyd9054]

Here, where we half the year is winter, not really, but the garden is dormant, i always told my clients that if your landscape is attractive in winter, it's attractive all year. Lol i got a sick fascination with the winter garden i have to admit. Its not about flowers really its about frost snow or ice and how it looks on the garden. That said anything that stands out during the winter gets my attention even the flower. I can say id love to grow camellia or acanthus but its too cold here.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

We all have our crosses to bear! Regards Stephen

[@rover790]

I enjoyed todays video of your winter garden very much. Thanks

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it. Regards Stephen

[@user-wd6fr7vm4z]

Inspiring! Thank you.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@sylviahardy4568]

Lovely winter garden 😊 I did have a 'Yuletide'. Unfortunately, its first winter in my uk 🇬🇧 garden coincided with a winter that killed many plants I'd had for years. Such is gardening 🤷‍♀️ After seeing your's, think I'll give it another go 🙂

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Why not , it could work next time and is such a pretty Camellia. Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

Wow! That Tom Thumb is impressive!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Hardly living up to its name anymore! Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

I just planted my seedling Montanoa bipina ifida that appeared following the Bushfire that burned my previous garden under the Mother plant. Taken me four years but I’m thrilled to have it in the ground & sporting new growth already. So lovely to see your Montanoa. One of my favourite plants.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it. Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

Fascinating flower head on that Acanthus! Looks fab.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Great plant but now frosted after the filming! Oh well next year it might flower again. Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

Just wanted you to know I purchased an Aeschynanthus Black Pagoda on the strength of another of your recent videos. Now gracing the eastern end of my enclosed veranda with its sheer curtains. Looking forward to it flowering.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Black Pagoda could in fact be the same plant or at least a form of it. Great thing , I'm sure you will enjoy it. Regards Stephen

[@brocktoon8]

"You devaricate!" 😂

[@thehorti-culturalists]

I will own that! Regards Stephen

[@brocktoon8]

@@thehorti-culturalists 😂 Love it!

[@dogsrule2075]

Thank you gents. I recently watched an episode on your ‘double dig’ method to prepare soil. Having started my garden (Mt Eliza, Vic, Clay soil) about 7 years ago I now realise I did not do near enough to prepare the soil. Is there anything you can do “after the fact” to improve the situation. A fair portion of my first plantings have struggled or up and died. Thank you very much.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Apart from removing any existing plants and truly starting again you can only dig in compost etc around the plants trying not to disturb the roots. Not truly satisfactory but can work. Regards

[@dogsrule2075]

@@thehorti-culturalists Thank you!

[@sannaericditsler4034]

Thanks for the video here in the USA i cannot have many any of the plants you were showing but it was wonderful to see ehat you can have blooming in your winter. Also like all the zinging variegated plants too. Can't wait to see what is up for next week.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it. Regards Stephen

[@tomasck2973]

I'm honestly so surprised you can grow both Snowdrops and Alocasia in the same garden

[@thehorti-culturalists]

The Alocasia does frost and has since filming so now black sludge, it will come back however and the snowdrops are bouncing out of the ground

[@tomasck2973]

@@thehorti-culturalists that's great! I'm in a Sydney-type climate and trying some of the bulbs you guys recommend! I'm still working out what works.

[@margaretsinclair6697]

I’m in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne. Ivy and Bamboo are often become weed like in many gardens up here - and out of ‘gardens’ as well! What do you do to make sure your ivy and bamboo doesn’t get out of control?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Hard work in pruning and digging out the excess. Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

I’m anticipating masses of blue blooms on my Eranthemum pulchella any day now. Do you have any blue flowering shrubs in your garden Stephen?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

A few that could one day make a video. Regards Stephen

[@lilmak889]

!Monday Shorts question 😊 please 😊 I am located in Florida, the soil is literally pure sand, zone 9b, but we do get a slight frost or 2 in winter. Summer - lighter rainfall, had drought past 2 years. How to grow Protea plants and it is true that they will die if I fertilize with a well balances (lets say Osmocote) fertilizer. I do have it interplanted and other plants definitely need a fertilizer from time to time. Any tips to succefully grow it?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Osmocote should be fine as it is quite slow release but I know there is a version here in Australia that is low phosphate for our natives that would be even safer for Proteas. Well rotted compost and leaf mould will be gentle enough as well. Regards Stephen

[@lilmak889]

@@thehorti-culturalists thank you so so so very much 💖 truly appreciate the response 😊

[@tomasck2973]

10:54 Is that Erythrina crista-galli???? Or am I out of my mind?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Yes you are right. Regards Stephen

[@chitrabhakta3820]

The first abutilon I believe is- Victor Reiter

[@thehorti-culturalists]

thanks for the lead. I’ll look into it. Regards Stephen