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I’m a zone 2/3 in northern Canada. Definitely need to dig up my dahlias.
I'm still quite the newbie gardener so comprehensive advice like this is invaluable to me. I've always liked Dahlias and felt like they were too ambitious for me, but I impulsively bought one recently that I absolutely love. Hearing that they get on well with Salvias (Nemorosas are another personal favourite) is great to hear but I feel like I've rung the dinner bell for the entire local slug population 😂 Thank you for the tips - the advice will definitely be put to good use.
I’ve found out my plants that love water every day like canna have so many slugs. But my drought plants don’t have a gastropods mollusks in site
I am going to try this as my newer plants do not do as well as the ones i bought years ago. Same with my pricking out and moving seedlings up. They just dont survive.
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I've used peat free compost for some years with plants from seed etc and its got loads better these days. I've also noticed alot more growers using peat free with good results
Oh, interesting. I use coco coir so I'll have to try this.
What was the lovely lime green plant behind you on the bench And the one that was almost charcoal colour please A bamboo???
Why so much focus on peatfree again....its been a thing since the 80s
Even though I’m in zone 3 and it’s vastly different, I still learn from your videos. My assessment time is usually at the end of July when, finally everything that has made it through our winters has emerged. I have to remember to take photos then so the following spring I can assess what I need to plant and where.
That's such good advice. Thank you.
Alexandra, somehow I am not able to click the thumbs up for this video "8 Beautiful Border Plants". I click and the hand disappears?!?
Do you know how i should deadhead Celosia?
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Gosh, pull that garlic mustard fast 😮
brilliant video thanks so much Alexandra! There's so much in here Im going to have to re-watch a few times with a notebook 😅. when you say you thin the euphorbia out, do you cut it back or literally pull it out from the roots? I understand it leaks nasty sap if you cut it. But like you I dont really want to leave big gaps in the border. thanks again 🙂
I sometimes pull it up by the roots, but the big Euphorbia wulfenii often has new stems sprouting from the base, so we've just cut the big old stems out, leaving the smaller, younger stems. And be super careful with the sap, make sure you don't touch your eyes!
Such great info but please could you slow down. Thank you. NZ
Noted!
So beautiful
Thank you so much
I have a chewy cat so I have lifting the most toxic ones out.
Certainly worth adapting for specific pets. Ozzie seems to chew everything except toxic plants.
You can buy rolls of copper mesh in gardening stores, and on line. It’s wide, at about 5 inches so I imagine it can Be cut with sizzors.
I like how each plant was showed longer than usual compared to your other videos while being described. Is very engaging.
Thank you!
*Tellima grandiflora
Yes, you're right - Tim got back to me about that, but it was too late to correct on screen. But I've changed it in the description below.
dhalias are very aromatic, yet slugs love them.
Hm, not sure that my dahlias are particularly aromatic, but I think probably everyone varies in what they would consider 'aromatic'.
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Hi Ms. Alexandria , Greetings & salutations from Georgia USA. If I may, what is the name of the 3 planters ( time stamp 7:17?) Thank you for your time.
Designers make such grand structures out of recycled things because they have immediate access to it and the resources (whole teams of people) looking out for supplies. The normal homeowner has given themselves a weekend or two to tackle a project, so chooses materials readily available which is often found at the store. Even when the rhs is trying to spread a better message the creations are so grandiose and unhumble that it still isn't applicable to me. Look how big that shed is! It would take months (or years?) to source non toxic reclaimed wood that is all the same dimensions for a shed that size. And one year they had quite a few gardens with steel sourced from railroads 🙃. I understand that the show is about inspiration not imitation; all I ask for is some practical homescale solutions thrown in with the ludicrous ones.
Excellent Ive just received a load of tubers so this is th weekend to plant them out. I remember seeing an amazing display of Dahlias at Cristopher Lloyds garden at Great Dixter. They were everywhere and they looked absolutely stupendous.