I love the shady corner bit. Nice to have a different focus to the garden… texture versus colour. We are a few shady areas too but sadly slugs and snails devour hostas here. They’re such lovely plants, often overlooked

I did wonder about the missing notification! The hostas(?) with the white and green leaves are beautiful! Will have to rewatch and make some notes, as I need something pretty for a patio that's in completw shade for most of the day.

Hi Eli & Kate, grear video, thanks for sharing and take care 😊

We've got so many Hosta! We divide them, every few years and give the bits away. Deep Green, a deep green and yellow, a verigated green/bluish, and ALL? clearly the tiny tips when they come up, are bunny munching food. We see the bunnies, when the hosta first pop, feasting on the tender shoots of Hosta.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Oh they are just perfect for bunnies!!!!

Great video. Love the impromptu videos.

Gorgeous fence bed and the hosta mixed in really does pop. You have quite an eye for color, composition and the artistry of gardening. Learned a lot-thank you.

@eliandkate

27 күн бұрын

Awwwwwww 🥰🥰🥰

Thanks for the update , I did catch the last video and loved this part about shade gardens. May I suggest a Japanese Painted fern if you have a spot? It stays relatively small and has wonder color, just look it up. As for hostas, I’ve gone down the rabbit hole with them and they are my favourites. I have a bigger problem with deer however that can come in and decimate all of them overnight. At least with slugs, I have a chance. Good luck with the garden , it’s looking great.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

there's no garden we don't have to share is there? It slugs or deer or rabbits etc

Looking grand! And, actually, I prefer being taken along as you walk from one place to the next versus "fancy editing." I like all the tantalizing glimpses of the areas you aren't currently focused on.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Ha ha like sneaky peaks

I think Kate's corner is beautiful! I live on the north side of an apartment building so i like to see different things i can grow on it. There's a 2ft strip at the railing that gets any sun, the rest is full shade. One of my favourite things has been coleus. I like that fern, and great to learn that astilbe does well there. I may recreate that!

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

I wasn’t convinced by ferns to start with but I’m growing to love them!!

Well I caught the "Get out of the garden' video, and then found this one next morning, so win win situation for me getting to see Eli two days running.😆👌🌱

@eliandkate

28 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Beautiful shade areas. I love hostas too!

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

I have to admit… I’m starting to fall in love with them too

Aye, nay worries down here, I saw yesterdays video, which was a gem; but was super chuffed to see an extra offering 😊 As I watch am potting my tomatoe, aubergine & chilli pepper plants after the prompt from yesterdays video.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Oh nice We afternoon of garden work 😀

By this time next year that variegated Hosta will be all round the bottom of the tree and looking great.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Let’s hope so

I wondered why it showed up in my recommendations yesterday, but not in my subscribers feed. I'm glad I caught it.

@eliandkate

28 күн бұрын

Luckily a few of you guys saw it recommended or up next.

I like that: Accidentally fell in the basket when I was shopping. :D

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

it's terrible when that happens :D

Yay bonus! Love the shady corner plants. I have a shady border and grow ferns. Hostas don't do so well due to snails and slugs.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

They do seem to ring a bell and shout buffet!

@franceswatts4001

29 күн бұрын

My shady corner used to house my Square Foot Garden container for my lettuce in summer. Neglected dock weed patch the rest of the year. This year I have removed the SFG container, bought a GreenStalk (Eli’s fault), and planted hostas and ferns in the corner. Three applications of slug nematodes at intervals appears to have worked so far 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

@franceswatts4001 really, my fault? Oh I think not 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@franceswatts4001

29 күн бұрын

@@eliandkate well… jury’s out on that! 😜

Whew! At first I thought you meant you made a rookie mistake in the garden. Luckily it was just forgetting to push a button. NBD! I'm expecting I'll be making a lot of rookie mistakes in my garden. This will be the 3rd full summer I've been in my new place. I've been concentrating on finishing the hardscaping first before selecting ornamentals. This will be the first year planting a full veggie garden versus a handful of containers. I'm just starting to learn what I can/can't do here and how to adapt to work around issues I haven't had to face before. Case in point: I have new nickname for hostas: Deer salad. There's not a lot of slugs in my area of Montana (mountain arid, very similar to Gardener Scott's zone) but they were so numerous where I lived in Oregon that I thought they should have been the state mascot. In Montana the deer can be a real nuisance to gardeners. They can wipe out a garden overnight. My neighbor lost all her hostas one night a couple weeks ago when the single doe that had been hanging around found them. Ate them to the ground. We're about 10mi outside of one of Montana's largest cities but being in town doesn't keep your garden safe from deer as there are several hundred "town deer". My #1 criteria for ornamental plant selection now is "deer resistant" and plan on interplanting with pungent plants that the deer avoid to mask any plants that the deer may still be attracted to because "resistant" is not equal to "proof". (The veggie garden has netting over it to dissuade the deer.)

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Pest are… well a bloody pest!!

Good morning Eli, I watched the other video last night as it popped up in the sidebar of recommended vids - YT knows I want to see your content even if you forget to notify! Lovely to see an unexpected video today though, I'm just having a cuppa before filling my last few Easy Fill hanging baskets for the front of the house with trailing begonias and sweet william (which apparently Scots call stinking billy?!) and hoping that slugs haven't learned how to parachute yet. Have a wonderful day x

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

yay you remembered me talking about the sweet williams :D mmmm tea.... there's an idea

Great bonus video 😀. I have permenant shaded side to my garden. I grow, amongst other plants, begonias. They do well in the shade and provide beautiful flowers and colour

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

yeah, we had begonias along the fence the other year and they did fabulous! Hmmmmmmmmmm

@mags9536

29 күн бұрын

@@eliandkate I've put them in pots hanging on the fence too. Ordered more pots to make more of a feature of them. 😊

So funny. I did wonder yesterday why I didn’t get a notification. Even double checked that I had notifications on.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

You automatically assumed it was you and it was in fact ME!!!!

I saw your video yesterday so all is well 😁 If you want to hear a really rookie mistake... I was so thorough this year in labelling every plant I've grown, every single one. No mistakes this year! I tried two options the wooden lolly stick approach and the indelible marker on plastic labels. The lolly sticks absorbed water and the ink ran leaving the names of the plants indecipherable... Even worse the 'indelible' marker I used basically turned into invisible ink when subject to UV in sunlight 🤣

@eliandkate

28 күн бұрын

oh we'e all been there!!!

@alicemcilroy8805

27 күн бұрын

Jessie from Plot 39 uses pencil on her lolly sticks and says it seems to work.

Yesss a bonus video .... thats great 😊😊😊

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Kate's corner is great. I also love ferns and hope to find a spot other than my very sunny garden. How about heuchera for that empty spot?

@eliandkate

28 күн бұрын

You know we actually have one out front… it might get moved lol

Thanks for the video, about the video 😂

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

ha ha ha we're going meta now!

Khu vườn xinh đẹp ,rất vui vì bạn đã chia sẻ bạn thân mến.

It’s all good, I was out in the garden and didn’t see a notification but when I came in found the video. So how doesn’t matter just that it does!

Oh, no worries, your vid came up in the Notifications lineup and I got to see it, so folks who have notifications turned on for your channel were told that you had something new out there.

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Good to know!

Its like notification inception. I got a notification to a video which was notifying us we didnt get a notification for a video hahaha

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Yup that about covers it. We’re going full meta, it’s the new thing 😜

💖

Like the couturtee (or however that's spelt). I need that for my shady spots. And I did get an announcement for yesterday's video. 🤔

@eliandkate

28 күн бұрын

there wasn't an announcement for the video but I shared a post with the link on it, so some people may have gotten that one :D

Your garden looks so beautiful and green. Congratulations

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Awwwww thank you

Love the shady corner, the ferns are beautiful! If you are on the look out for another plant, maybe take a look at Brunnera macrophylla. The leaves are hosta like and they flower too, brilliant little plants for a shady spot! 😊

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

ohhhhh we actually have a small one out front :D

Yesterdays vid came up in my feed. Sure, no notification, but who looks at notifications anyway?

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

Hi eli it's good to see plants that like the shade i havd a shade spot and often struggle i do have a large hosta that i desperately try and protect from slugs, thanks for the extra video 🎉

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

:D a sneaky bonus video and a bonus of something completely different

@lorainemcguire5795

29 күн бұрын

@@eliandkate loved it I remember seeing kates helibore plants I went too late to the garden centre to get one so I shall definitely get one early winter 🥰

I've got nothing at all against "bed head videos". I like seeing real people doing real things in their real lives.

Sweet

Bonus! ❤❤❤

Hi not commenting on video but looking for advice- yesterday I received a 5 tier leaf greenstalk filled with soil and water! Wanted to starting to transplanting into it but found that the compost was damp but bone dry everywhere else! Should I soak the compost now before putting anything into it? Hoping you can advise thanks x

@eliandkate

24 күн бұрын

Hey Isabelle I always give any plant a good soak after I plant it, regardless of what I’ve planted it it. It just gives the plant a chance to settle after that shock of the transplant 😀

@isabellegray9247

24 күн бұрын

@@eliandkate thank you did that looking forward to see how it goes! Fingers crossed everything thrives!

🤣Love you anyway...I thought you said horses! LOL Your lovely accent is sometimes hard to understand in my Southern USA ears. LOL

@franceswatts4001

29 күн бұрын

Closed captions helps. I live in Scotland but I am not Scottish so I can empathise.

Good morning Eli😊 it all looks lovely and the ferns are quite pretty. Not something I’ve grown but may do now. Have you painted the troughs ? 😊

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Good morning Nope, that’s the colour the troughs came in. It’s a bit of a theme in the garden, we have a few planters and pots in this range all in these colours 😀😀😀😀

I am rather shocked to learn that you have a shady corner in your life!!

@jenkitching43

29 күн бұрын

😆🤣👌

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Ha ha ha don’t we all??? 😂😂😂😂

@franceswatts4001

29 күн бұрын

😂😂

This is me telling you I saw the video. If we don't make mistakes, we tend to get complacent. Btw "doofus" comes from French, deux face, two faces/faced. So technically you're not a "doofus", sorry 😔

@eliandkate

29 күн бұрын

Ha ha ha nope It is a Scot’s version of goofus where we used the word doof which I think was actually Germanic originally. We use it for someone who makes mistakes cause they don’t listen or pay attention. 😁