6 perennial flowers that bloom all summer - plus a bonus plant
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Long-flowering perennials make your garden look gorgeous for months on end. Here at Doddington Place Gardens in Kent, the owner and the head gardener pick their favourite 6 long-flowering perennials, plus I choose a bonus plant. Click on 'show more' for plant list.
Doddington Place Gardens, short-listed for Historic House Garden of the Year 2021, is open to the public for 2 days a week between April and October. See: www.doddingtonplacegardens.co...
0:00 Welcome
0:18 The Sunk Garden Garden at Doddington Place Gardens
0:31 How to create beautiful borders with Tom Brown of West Dean Gardens: • How to create stunning...
1:22 Anthemis tinctoria, otherwise known as Golden marguerite or Dyers chamomile
2:15 The small red flowers are Knautia macedonica
3:45 Penstemon 'Stapleford Gem' - hardy to minus 18C/0F
4:40 Euphorbia ceratocarpa (Horned spurge) Hardy to minus 10C/15F
5:08 Euphorbia characias subs 'Wulfenii' (Mediterranean spurge) is the plant with citrus green flowers at the centre of the screen Hardy to minus 10C/15F
5:28 Geranium psilostemon (Armenian cranesbill) Hardy to minus 10C/15F
6:55 Knautia macedonica (Macedonian scabious) Hardy down to minus 20C/minus 10F
7:37 How to do a 'Chelsea chop' to stop plants flopping
8:08 Astrantia major 'Claret' (Masterwort) Hardy down to minus 20C/minus 10F
8:20 Astrantia major 'Roma'
8:41 Astrantia major 'Billion of Stars'
9:17 Rose 'Felicia'. All the roses featured in this section are 'Felicia'. Hardy down to minus 23C/minus 10F
9:32 Tips on growing roses in herbaceous borders
10:45 Anthemis tinctoria (Golden marguerite, Dyer's chamomile) Hardy down to minus 40C/minus 40F
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You're such a fantastic presenter. Always showing various gardens, great subject content, and always asking the best questions.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
1. Penstemon 2. Euphorbia 3. Geranium 4. Chelsea chop 5. Astrantias 6. Roses
@Shravanidakeens1178
6 ай бұрын
7. Anthemis tinctoria
@leonieharry2941
29 күн бұрын
Thanks, but Chelsea Chop is no plant. It is a cut in Mai to strengthen the plant and to to prevent it from tipping forward as it grows larger (as explained in the video too!)
@sarahnelson8814
11 күн бұрын
The fourth plant is Knautia :)
Geraniums are fantastic plants. So easy to grow in any soil , and so many varieties.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
Ай бұрын
Yes they are!
I love how you organize your videos, and how you include information about the plants. This is a great channel.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
How elegant you look! Like a flower yourself. So well spoken and full of practical tips
I learn so much and gather such inspiration. Thank you! My favorite part? Your "goodbye". Puts a smile on my face every time ❣️
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@jacquelynroe9036
2 жыл бұрын
That’s my favorite too 🥰
Thank you for another wonderful episode. I always learn something useful and appreciate the amount of work you do to help us improve our gardens.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I could not be more glad of finding this channel. Thanks and congrats
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
Always grateful for your content! I'm especially happy when your videos spotlight specific species and their care needs - that helps one to focus on plant material that excites.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you so much Alexandra,I have taken lots of notes as usual.Am on a huge learning process and look forward to Saturdays to hear all your tips.Your time and effort is much appreciated.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
That's great to hear, thank you so much for saying so.
Gives an entirely new meaning to I love Lucy. I could listen to her all day. Swoon.
Thank you for bringing the various ways to use the Chelsea Chop to our garden’s advantage.
Appreciate you take the time to be aware of how a plant behaves in different countries!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
just started watching the video and already love how you're explaining everything in such detail!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I adore your channel! I’ve learned soo much from your videos! In American, it’s so hard to find gardening information for creating English style gardens, which is what I love. Your videos are helping me adjust and fine tune my borders, and they are looking amazing! Much thanks!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
Alexandra, I think you are my favorite garden you tuber. I find such peace and knowledge watching your videos. You are right up there with Ygarden, Hortube, and the emEnthusiastic gardener for me , anyways. I ve been seriously gardening for ten years now and have learned that I think english gardens are my favorite. I love the flowy flowery beds with the formal structures of evergreens. Thank you so much for starting my Saturday mornings on a good note. Have a wonderful werkend.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I like YGarden and Horttube too, and will check out the Enthusiastic Gardener.
@TheEnthusiasticGardener
2 жыл бұрын
Goodness me thank you Adra 😍
@adrabruzzese7610
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener 😊
Wow! Such generous, good advice. Thank you for your consistent, concise, expert opinion on making smart choices and thereby enjoying the gardening experience so much more. You are the best.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Absolutely breathtaking!
This channel is literally my happy place. Never stop!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I love this border series. All of the videos are chocked full of great information and are giving me a lot of ideas. Thank you so much for providing this information and beautiful gardens.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
I live in NZ & am currently doing a horticultural course. I play your videos while I'm studying. You are so inspiring! I have learnt so much useful information from you. Keep up the good work! 💕
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I'm very pleased to hear that.
Thank you so much and family members and friends so much!together!and a lot of videos show me to America today and Tomorrow
Great tips here! Really enjoying the videos.
Thank you all for all gardening tips wow
My ground orchids never stopped blooming all summer! Definite favorite
Euphorbia!!!!! Amazing, brilliant, reliable, drought tolerant! Reseeds freely! My number one go to in drought stricken Northern California!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
It is!
I did a Chelsea chop to my salvias for the first time this year, so glad I did! They’re coming back beautifully!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Well done, I always do it completely convinced I'm going to damage the plant. But it turns out fine in the end.
Fantastic channel! Really appreciate how you go to these lovely public gardens and interview professional gardeners
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Loved that tip at the end: clip 1/2 the chamomile, then the other 1/2 later.👍🏽
Such a great informative video. Thankyou for condensing years of your experience in a short video.
Hi Alexander, thank you so much for the informative chat, now we can pick and choose what we wish to grow. There are quite a few old time favourites which always work and compliment our gardens. It's lovely to grow perennials with the roses, each can compliment the other and also helping butterflies and bees with their pollination schedule for the day. Doddington Place has a beautiful garden lay-out alas, they do require the assistance of extra hands! It was so enjoyable to watch as always. Have a wonderful day, regards Elize :)
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Thanks so much for lovely video with all the colourful flowering bushes for borders, useful information Thanks to your guests too. Tqtq...💝💐
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I’ve watched many of your videos several times. So much great information and so many wonderful ideas for this Pacific Northwest gardener! Thank you. Your voice is so soothing, I should try listening at bedtime to get to sleep!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
What a delightful find you are! Thank you so much!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
As always, I come away with significant top tips! Thank you
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear that!
Another wonderful video! I'm so happy to learn about these long blooming flowers. Thank you so much, I'm adding many of these to my garden.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
Thanks so much! You have inspired me to take another trip to the garden centre. 🌼
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
I hope it wasn't too expensive!
I LOVE your videos! They’re are so well thought out and curated. Thank you SO much!!! 😊🙌🥰💜🌷🌺🌹🌸
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Beautiful garden
Fabulous video! Thank you!!
Hello Alexandra, what a peaceful place, I can understand why you like it. Great Video and there are 3 of my favorit plats in it. ❣
I love these tips - especially since I am a New York gardener and seek out the other variants of the "top sellers." Thanks for a great focused presentation - it is certainly one of your strengths.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
This is a marvelous episode of your show. Thank you for posting. DA
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Magnificent plants and installation ❣
@BirdBath1
2 жыл бұрын
Jerri, look at bird bath
What a beautiful selection. Once our heatwave subsides, I'll see what is available locally. Thanks as always.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Good luck with the heatwave, it sounds overwhelming.
What a fab channel! Easy to understand for the novice gardener as well as the more experienced person. Best youtube find i have made. Thank you.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you. Loved this 💚
Your garden is BREATHTAKING
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
It's a beautiful garden, but it's not mine - it's Doddington Place - and lovely, as you say.
Wonderful plants the knautia.
I love your videos Alexandra!! I really appreciate it
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
A few of these recommended flowers will add so much to my borders that need filling in. The tip for repetition is well taken! 😅💚
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Your videos are wonderful, helpful and very enlightening x Thank you so much for sharing x
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
Thank you! I just love your channel, it is always so interesting and educational!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
So beautiful 😍💖
This was so helpful in trying to figure out what types of plants to grow for the summer here in mid Missouri usa. We are zone 6/7
Thank you for sharing all your tips on keeping our garden beds in full bloom. 👍❤️😊
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you so very much…I absolutely love your channel!! Each video is the perfect combo of tips and inspiration. I subscribe to a couple English gardening magazines. Your videos and the magazines have helped me create an amazing perennial garden on a slope in US zone 5. I have designed it to reflect an English border garden and planned the plants to provide year-round interest. So the long-blooming plants video gave me some great new ideas. I love the chelsea chop!! My gardens delight so many walkers and even motorists. They often stop if they see me out working and are so appreciative. It’s my way of sharing the gift and for me, the ultimate joy of gardening-sharing moments of beauty with others. Gardens and flowers do touch hearts…Happy Digging
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you So much, love the sound of your perennial slope.
@ellennuttall2968
2 жыл бұрын
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I’m new to the gardening world. I love your videos, they are very informative. It is so interesting how there are so many different ideas and designs. 🌼🐝🪴
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, that's lovely to hear.
Thank you. Loved this one. ❤
Thank you for this informative video. I live in the US Zone 5 and I am on a sand ridge....quite a challenge for growing flowers. Your tips were very helpful.
No need to reply--I just wanted to say thank you so much for these wonderful videos. Beautiful, soothing, informative--it really is like a lovely mini vacation!
Hi Alexandra, Thank you for sharing this with us! I love your video so much and I wish I could subscribe twice. Instead, I watch your videos multiple times. They are always very informative and well presented. Cheers from Canada!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And it's always so interesting to hear where everyone is from.
@jeanieling7296
2 жыл бұрын
In Kentucky, I save many many Middle-Sized vids to a favorite garden playlist. Alexandra's Middle-Sized Garden channel, Linda Vater (USA), & John Lord (Ireland), seem to be the most-viewed (of course !!! )
I would have never guessed that this was zone 4-9! Simply breathtaking! Thank you so much for the wonderful tour of Doddingtom Gardens and also the important information that you pointed out!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 ай бұрын
Just to clarify - the individual plants are hardy in various zones and I often feature plants that are happy in a wide range of zones, but this garden itself isn't zone 4-9, even though many of the plants in it would be fine in those zones.
As always, another video full of useful info. Thanks, Alexandra :)
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
This video persuaded me to try an Astrantia this coming season. I am focusing on plants for native bees, and I hope that they will like the Astrantia. Thanks for introducing me to this flower.
Nicely done.
Thoroughly enjoyed this, learnt a lot and have subscribed.
Hi, I really love your channel, as a new Gardner from the weat coast of Ireland I am so excited and nervous to be starting my new garden but your videos are so useful, full of common sense keep up the good work! Tomás
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, and good luck with your new garden.
Once again, wonderful.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I like how full the gardens are
That was beautiful and such useful information
Great video as always, excellent suggestions. I do love a bonus plant!
@BirdBath1
2 жыл бұрын
King, look at bird bath
Alexandra ~ This was such a helpful video. I'm loving the perennial purple geranium I planted in my front border and cannot wait to add many more next season to other parts of the garden. It's been blooming fully since I planted it in April and still going strong! Your videos are so informative and knowledgeable. Thank you again! Choosing Joy ~ stephanie
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. I subscribed and looking forward to seeing more of your videos!❤️
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this beautiful and informative video. Your videos do inspire me and I am going to try growing penstemon, that was my striking choice, thank you🙏🏼🌸🌺🌼
@BirdBath1
2 жыл бұрын
Hi, enjoy Jamaica🇯🇲 birds, look at bird bath
Thank you for this!!! 💖💖💖💖
Lovely.... thank you.💐
What a super channel, I have only just discovered you. Such wonderful information! Thank you!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I am from Pakistan and I live in Lahore. I love gardens but as I don't have one, I use my enormous terrace to potter and enjoy both flowers, herbs and even a few vegetables. Our summers ate hot! Pottolacca- I haven't a clue how it's spelt, does really well in pots and this summer I have scores of small bees humming and enjoying these vibrant flowers after the lush petunias faded away beginning of summer. My roses need a lot of care. I just saw a video where you talked about black spot. I am really pleased as I had just noticed a couple of leaves decaying with a similar fungus. So thank you.
@selinainsel6198
Ай бұрын
I love your post so interesting, I’m in north uk, we lack sun. So far yesterday was the first time it appeared and was warm enough 20 degrees to enjoy. Hearing about your wealth of sun got my imagination going imagining what that must be like ! Best wishes and happy gardening to you
Just subbed. Love this subject and well said 🌹
I loved the video and the way you present is easy to understand. Many thanks.😊
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Loved this video as most educational .Weeds are universal and how to stop them is the only tip i need .Though all of your work is worth watching
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
Ай бұрын
Thank you!
Lovely! Many thanks. 🙂
What amazing videos you put out every week!!! Thank you for all the knowledge you have given me. Sending love from NYC in America. God bless.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Thanks excellent advise 😁
A recommendation from zone 6a - I just planted calamint for the first time earlier this summer. (Not catmint but calamint). It has not stopped blooming and looks fresh and plump in this crazy heat wave we’ve all been enduring! I got the soft powdery blue variety (cloud blue, I believe it’s called) but the white is equally lovely. It doesn’t look terribly impressive in photos but let me attest to its power in the garden at the front of the border. And the bees love it, too! 🐝 I did a row of calamint, lady’s mantel and crystal blue profusion salvia and it’s stellar!!
Thanks. Have watched a few of your videos and they are excellent. You have a new subscriber 👍
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Fabulous channel, such great information
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
Great information
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Alexandra. A lovely informative video. I’ve been trying to identify the nautia Macedonica for a while now. I love the one with the almost pale grey leaves. I find that some geraniums keep on flowering like Rozanne but others are over after the first flush of flowers. Most geraniums are good value though.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Good point about the geraniums.
Thank you.Just what I need to know
This is the third Middlesized Garden video I've watched and I've now subscribed. The gardens are always beautiful, the production quality is great, and the content well thought-out.
@MrArtisticGenius
2 жыл бұрын
Also, there's a pale green plant with large leaves at 7:00. I'm quite curious what that might be!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
I've had a look but I can't quite make it out, sorry!
Thank you !! I found my new favorite show to watch with my morning tea .So informative! Love the tips and wonderful scenery Thank you for including usda zones. I am in the hot dry part of 9 but with a good cold snap that makes lilacs and peonies happy but with a summer heat that makes plants and Englishmen question what there doing here. 🤣
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you - and it's interesting on how our climates have some things in common but some so very different.
7 plants.... nahhh 6 plants and one bonus plant... YEEEESSSS!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
That made me smile!
So wish I could plant as these gardens are-without fencing to keep out deer and rabbits. The deer would make Swiss cheese out of those hedges. All so beautiful-thank you!
@gaywizard2000
Ай бұрын
Deer reportedly don't eat boxwood or yew! I have deer and elk to deal with!
I have just found you ! What a fantastic host and conversation on another level with the guests. Well done
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
Thank you Alexandra, you delivered again! Informative, inspirational, well presented, interesting… well done 👌✅
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Thank you so much!
Great choices. I planted Rosa Felicia decades ago. Not in the most ideal site, but it is so reliable and beautiful in my zone 5 garden!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
I think I should try it, although there is hardly a bare patch of soil for it.
@bluesky7226
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden worth it!