What Happened to My Exotic Garden

[@stevebacon1026]

Hi ya simon. Talk about unusal goings on in our gardens in this mild climate. Ive still got plenty of life popping up all around ie- hostas cannas, and mind yer own buisness is growing everywhere. Ive cut all foliage off my muso bananna nearly two weeks ago, ive not covered them yet and theyve got a foot of new leaves shooting up from the stalks. I luved your video showing how you cover yours😂. Im just waiting for mr frost to appear hopefully not unanounced!!. All the best . Steve.🌴

[@walkingtalkinggardeners]

Thanks for getting in touch Steve, I will also be cutting off my banana foliage soon. I am just waiting for that first hard frost. I am surprised that your hostas are coming back through, I haven't had that here but they did send out a second flush of blooms which they haven't done before. Kind regards, Simon

[@sereezee]

PAHH-slee??? lolol that cracked me up. It's curly parsley, the kind I grew up with too, but where I am now the parsley is more like a weed. Still, at least it tastes like parsley...

[@walkingtalkinggardeners]

Indeed, it won't go to waste Sereezee. It will end up in some home made tartar sauce. Yummy! Thanks for getting in touch and kind regards, Simon

[@Islandgirl4ever2]

Hiya, Same for me, here in central France.. all the same plants you showed flowering are still flowering here. I don't have dahlias but my sunflowers, coreopsis and cosmos are still all in full bloom. Planted sunflowers really late, in Sept. Also, my acidanthera gladiolus callianthus are in bloom amd last year, they bloomed in summer!! Weirdest thing, second year in a row, my lavender is in a second bloom/ certain ones, and I had cut my gaira back in Sept and it is blooming again. And also, some of my day lilies are bloominga

[@walkingtalkinggardeners]

Hello Island Girl and thanks for getting in touch. It seems that your garden has some very strange 'goings on' too! I cant believe you still have day lilies in boom, wow. Kind regards, Simon

[@adrianqcarter7500]

This looks like a humming bird paradise

[@walkingtalkinggardeners]

Hi Adrian, it's funny you say that as one of the design ideas is to have as many red, tubular 'humming bird' attracting blooms as we can to get the feel of the tropics. Of course there is a lot more to do, and there are a few more plants we want to bring in. Unfortunately, we neither have humming birds or nectar feeding sunbird here in the UK but to have them would be amazing. Thanks for getting in touch. Simon

[@adrianqcarter7500]

@walkingtalkinggardeners i was not sure after the thought

[@walkingtalkinggardeners]

You must live near where there are commonplace. I would love to see them in the wild, which hopefully will be in the new year during one of our garden visits. Simon

[@adrianqcarter7500]

@walkingtalkinggardeners yes and perfect