Love that so much Niall! Maybe you should start an annual fruit guild challenge and invite people to create their own, test it out, and share results? Could turn into something epic!

@Aesroc

7 ай бұрын

Great idea, my bareroot fruit trees just arrived this morning! Haha

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Huw! 🥰 I think that could be brilliant - I’ve got some big plans for them next year and that would tie in nicely!

@HuwRichards

7 ай бұрын

@@niallgardens amazing!!!

@spudsandroses

7 ай бұрын

That's a fantastic idea 😀

Very informative. About six weeks ago I planted pear, plum, peach trees in my yard. I am already visioning in my mind how I could complete what you have done with your garden/guild. My growing zone is 5B about the same as Ireland/Scotland (I think :). Keep this great info coming.

Wow I really love this video. I have fruit trees with onions as repellors, flowers for pollinators and comfrey as accumulator. I will widen the dug area and plant some more!!

@niallgardens

22 күн бұрын

So nice of you, thank you!

This video is brilliant. Just one thing. Please research dandelions medicinal uses. They only appear next to plants that need their help. They are sometimes the only food for bees at certain times of year.

It’s terrific that your fruit guilds were a success! Fruit Trees are, in my opinion, quite finicky in the first year! Even during the first few years! The guilds most certainly help with the variety of plants!

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I’ve been so impressed with them!

@adultpersonman4612

7 ай бұрын

Especially finicky if you live somewhere with extreme weather. I don’t blame my trees for struggling so much when the snow was taller than them their first years, and it rains so much in our summer. It really does take a good bit of planning and care after planting to get em past their defenseless baby stage. Always worth it though.

Thank you for your superb explication!❤

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

Lovely to see you back. They look great, I love the idea and look

@niallgardens

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I gave myself a month of to just chill and relax! How are you keeping?

It's wonderful to see you again, Niall. May you and yours have a wonderful Holiday Season. Take care, DA

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Hi Donald! Same to you and thank you for your support and lovely comments this year

I love the riot of color and texture. Looking forward to seeing the beds mature in the coming years. Thank you for another beautiful video.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Elizabeth! Expect to see much more of them next year!

Well done Niall. Stay safe my friend ❤

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Incredibly beautiful! Amazing results, feel so inspired now to get my hands in the dirt😊

@niallgardens

3 ай бұрын

I’m delighted you enjoyed it! Go for it and enjoy!

So nice to see you. Fruit Tree Guild worked beautifully. Plant choice was stunning. I love the multi color blooms and diverse texture of each plant. Looking forward to a cleanup and cut back for winter so I am able to see your fruit trees. Thanks for the video.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊 Funny, that’s where I’m at currently - stripping everything back! Expect to see much more of them next year!

Love this, thank you.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Hi Niall 😃 Happy Sunday

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Hello 👋 Hope you had a lovely Sunday!

Loved this video, I’m going to have a go at these. Didn’t it look just beautiful as well. Thanks for sharing this with us 🤗

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! I really loved the look of them and they give so much freedom to make some special

Good to see you back. Inspired by you and Maiju I planted around my small apple trees purchased a few years ago from Morrisons and Aldi! Looked really attractive, had an excellent crop of fruit albeit marked but definitely edible. Like you I went a bit mad with flowers thinking they would be low maintenance. They looked great and certainly attracted the insects particularly the comfrey, phacelia and cosmos but I will tone it down next year. I hack my comfrey down this time of year add it to my butt of comfrey tea, lay it straight on cleared beds as a mulch and any over goes in the compost heap. Once again great to see you back.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Hi Honore! Thanks - I took a few weeks off as a wee break to just chill and enjoy the garden. That's really cool that you had success planting around your fruit trees too. Glad that it's not only me that went a bit mad with the flower planting!!! I think this year I'm going to lay the comfrey leaves on the soil and avoid the stinky comfrey tea smell! ha! Definitely back and loads of plans for great things you'll enjoy! Take care xxx

Lovely garden, Niall! You have done a wonderful job of creating biodiversity in your garden. I have many of the same flowers and herbs as you growing in my orchard. It is so beautiful to see all of the pollinators and other beneficial insects enjoying all of the annuals and perennials that I've grown over the last several years. I love growing a large variety of flowers to make bouquets throughout three seasons in my zone 8a. Knowing that the flowers and herbs not only provide lovely bouquets to enjoy, but they also do the job of fixing the soil with nutrients, providing for the trees and insect population makes being a gardener such a joy!

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for such a lovely comment and it’s really nice that you like what I’ve created. I completely agree with you about the benefits of all the flowers - such a positive thing to have in the garden

I could see the path of success when you laid them out. My idea of perfection formality and working with the environment. Yes, it will keep improving with age.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Jeffrey, that’s really lovely of you 😀

I enjoyed the video as always, Niall.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Susan! And thanks for watching!

@SusanEdgely-vg4dp

7 ай бұрын

@@niallgardens I forward it to my friends here in Boston. & to my brother in law in Drogheda. Wishing you a beautiful peaceful Christmas!

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

That’s really kind! Thanks Susan!

I'd love to hear from you! What do you think of the fruit tree guilds?

@TheFarmyardGarden

7 ай бұрын

They look beautiful. Think I need to google what fruit tree guilds are as I think you only scratched the surface of explaining to someone completely unitiated. I’ve just planted some trees and have been keeping the ground under them clear, apart from a few bulbs, wrongly thinking they needed no competition! Now I find out they need a community of their own. 😮😂 Lovely to see you again. You’ve been absent for a while.

I really love this idea, hopefully I'll be able to put in my own fruit tree guild maybe next year. I do have a quick question, what's the best way to deal with bindweed? I have a lot of it to get rid of🌱

Excellent video as always 👌 😊 Your guilds look 10 times better than mine 😂 You have so many wonderful plants in them, and you're so right to refer to the guild harvests as treasure hunts 🥰 The one major benefit from the guilds to my apple trees has been that so far none of the apples had any coddling moth larvae damage, but they had plenty of it to the apples in the orchard (not using any fermone traps)... I am absolutely delighted to see how successful and beautiful your guilds were/are ❤ Well done for the great planting combination 🤗👏 Maiju 🌿💚

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Maiju though the funny thing is that I feel the same about your guilds- your choice of planting is so subtly beautiful 😍 Thank you for introducing me to them

@spudsandroses

7 ай бұрын

​@niallgardens 🤗 Keep spreading the love and joy of the guilds 🥰💚 There is no reason why every garden, that has a fruit tree, couldn't have a guild planted around it 😀 Best wishes, Maiju 💚🌿

These guilds are such a terrific idea. You got excellent advice from Mayou (sorry if I’ve got the spelling wrong) and clearly followed through with a great selection of plants that worked really well. It’s a pleasure to see that your enthusiasm for this style of planting has paid off. Will look forward to seeing how your plans develop in the coming year. Good luck!

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I was so glad to have been introduced to them through Maiju. I’ve been so pleased with how they work - gonna keep them going now!

I'm sorry if I missed in the videos, can you share the dimensions of your L-shaped beds?

Are dandelions native for you? If they were native for me I'd definitely keep a little around, they accumulate a lot of minerals. I pull mine out, remove the flower stalks and leave them on the soil surface when I weed.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

They are very much native.... way too native!! 😂 So I keep a few and remove a few

Hi Niall I also have a bindweed problem in my garden. Have you any advice please ?

@niallgardens

3 ай бұрын

Aw no! Bindweed is such a problem. The more sure-fire way of knocking it back is to use a systemic weedkiller, though this is obviously not organic. Otherwise, it's a case of trying to remove it manually, ensuring that no root fragments are left to form new plants. Alternatively, leave the bed free from plants other than the bindweed and cover to exclude light for 12-18 months. Sorry, because I know it's a problem and there's no easy fix

@caroltunney2709

3 ай бұрын

@@niallgardens thank you Niall. Your garden is lovely and your advice in your videos is helping me a lot

You forgot to set up the end screen 😅

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

Aha! Proof that you watched to the end! Thank you! I’ll fix that now 😂

Dandelions are edible and medicinal. A few are welcome in my guilds.

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

I feel the same actually - providing they’re not seeding everywhere, the foliage doesn’t bother me too much

Like 15 here from Mr. Garry. How are you Niall?

@niallgardens

7 ай бұрын

I’m great thanks! You?