10 week cottage garden - Gardening with Brendan
It’s not quite there yet but I thought I’d give an update this week (I’m actually off on holidays so doing this a week in advance) on a section of my garden where I wanted to create a cottage style, random flower bed from scratch this year. I dug the ground 10 weeks ago and put in hundreds of young plants grown from seed. Here's how it is looking so far...
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00:00So as you can see here I've just been digging up a part of the garden and getting it ready
00:22for planting some plants in.
00:23So I'm just going to take you through this little cottage garden patch here that I've
00:31created.
00:32Down at the front it's a wee bit bald looking, so I've planted some oxide daisies in there
00:40and there's some plants I was noticing.
00:46These oriental poppies are really tall, we're talking about four foot maybe.
00:53Different colours, I'll just take you up close to them.
00:57There's different ones there.
01:00And we have these red ones as well.
01:06Some with a black centre, some with a white centre.
01:12If I just show you the size of them compared to my hand, they're really massive.
01:26And then we have a whole pile of marigold in bloom, a few more pansies and cornflowers
01:36down here spilling over, and all these California poppies, they only open in the sun.
01:44Today there was a wee bit of sun, so they're all starting to open now.
01:49I have a whole pile of codicia or clarkia in bud here, but there's no sign of them opening
01:57yet, they've been like this for a few weeks.
02:01So I'm expecting them, they all open around the same time.
02:08And down here you can see all the nasturtiums are opening, and there's a wee bee going on,
02:19I'll just disturb them.
02:21Here we have some lupins.
02:24So all of this was planted from seed back in February, March time.
02:30Some weeds down here as well and amongst things, but it's come up so well I don't want to go
02:36traipsing through it.
02:40There's loads of bees, loads of wee insects flying about up the back here, sweet peas
02:45starting to take off.
02:47Black cock, delphiniums, some stasis I think you call it, or status, like up the back there,
02:55white ones, and then some brussel sprouts up there.
03:01There's dahlias in here, and what else, there's quite a few different things in here.
03:09There's wildflower seeds, some other kind of dried flowers as well, ones for cutting
03:18for drying, like around there.
03:26So this was just a bare patch of grass before, some gladiola up there, they were here already.
03:33Just see some of the sweet peas starting to open, and these are all hollyhockies, big
03:41giant leaves, taken off the last few days in the heat, and they seem to be producing
03:47flowers, which is, I thought there wasn't going to be flowers until next year, because
03:53they're not in long, and we can maybe get in here and do some weeding.
03:59There's another one.
04:04It's fascinating to see what a little bit of sun and warm weather will do to things.
04:12More releasing of the cosmos as well in here, see one here, a bud on it, more cornflowers,
04:21a little sweat on there, and I think that just about covers it for now.
04:28We'll see what else comes up now in the next few weeks.
04:31Oh aye, and here we have some baby's breath.
04:37We're also growing some seed, there's more out the front.
04:41It's done better in pots actually than it has done in the ground.
04:45Of course a lot of things were eaten as well that went in, but most stuff survived, which
04:51I'm pleased about.
04:53So, that's it now.
05:14Thanks for watching.
05:44Thanks for watching.