I had a moment of garden despair earlier this summer too, feeling overwhelmed by an assortment of pests and diseases. It can be disheartening for sure. You’re doing the right thing by working one chunk at a time, breaking things down into manageable pieces. From a viewer perspective, it’s encouraging to see a KZitem garden that is what “normal” folks have, so I take heart and don’t feel so bad when I look at my own. Thank you for keeping it real!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 ай бұрын
Thank you! It has really been a difficult gardening year, at least here. Too much rain, not enough sun, too many slugs and snails.
@stellakotsia3357
2 жыл бұрын
Alexandra, since I discovered you, a couple of weeks ago, I'm watching you videos back to back. I really think you are the best at what you are doing - and HAVE I SEEN A LOT! Or at least the best for my taste. Always to the point, not useless details - not missing information. Excellent use of the language, articulation - very helpful for us foreigners. Pleasant personality, smart, classy... I don't know why others are shouting/screaming/cheering or the opposite, act like it's open heart surgery - relax, it's gardening. You are exactly what I need to learn and enjoy at the same time, THANK YOU!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@suepercy8390
3 жыл бұрын
The best in show garden was stunning. If I had seen those purple chairs in a shop I would have thought oil but combined with the flowers and cushions- fabulous
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊
@swsunsetseeker7285
3 жыл бұрын
Love the Pink Gaura! Have 3 new ones here in challenging Santa Fe, NM. I bought seeds for white ones so I'll have more out next year in my gardens. We love our flowering enclosed gardens here. I don't see any Agastache ( Hyssops) in your videos. Beautiful group of cold hardy flowering perennials that are hummingbird magnets. Some smell great
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
You're right, I haven't grown or featured agastache, but I must look into it.
@carolfield8803
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know how I found you but I learn so much from you. This was exceptional and gave me some great ideas. Thank you. I'm wanting to put a nice unique fence around my new and very small veggie/flower garden. Love some fence ideas. I love your "goodbye" so I say back to you "goodbye" and of course thank you ❣️
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it
@TheImpatientGardener
3 жыл бұрын
These are always my favorite of your videos, Alexandra. Thank you for always bringing us along to the shows and giving us these great run downs. Looks like it was a great show this year.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It was really nice to be out at a real live show, because they just don't work so well online.
@gerdaho1
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this lovely video. My husband is a cyclist, and I recycle as much as I can, tying together my stakes and trellises with inner tubes, using tires and wheels to stake plants, but this pergola... Wow. He needs to bring in more wheels, obviously!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you - like the idea of using the inner tubes!
@anitahadley2871
3 жыл бұрын
I just loved the use of the water in the purple garden. It must be magical when the fire is lit. So many wonderful gardens, hard to choose a favorite. Thanks for the tour.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@bettinaschmid1158
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Alexandra, I love your videos! You speak so well and explains everything just right. Thank you!!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@swsunsetseeker7285
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful ideas! I'll have to watch this again
@christinathompson1630
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you; you are great at noting new trends and also seeing through the ‘spin’ to the reasoning behind the gardens. I enjoy these videos so much. I live in Italy where there are very few shows and those that exist are not inspiring at all.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@orchidgarden3124
3 жыл бұрын
What a delight this video is! My favorite is the nostalgic/rural garden❤️
@aprilm9551
3 жыл бұрын
Regarding the first garden type: tropical - inspired: that's my style. I'm in the US (midwest now, zone 5), but lived in Hawaii for about 8 years. The plants there suited me so well, and I keep that look going wherever I am. One plant I love that does well as an indoor/outdoor plant is ti (Cordyline fruticosa). I grow it in pots only, and it does fine indoors over the winter. Then when the nights warm up to 50 degrees F or above outside (usually in late May) I bring the ti plants outside and put them in a partly shaded area. That's when they do their growing for the most part, and indoors they just keep their leaves and don't really grow but still give me the lush tropical look.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting - cordylines are fine outside here, though they get a bit ropey-looking in the winter. Lovely plants.
@paul2559
3 жыл бұрын
What a great episode. I loved the meadow garden and the recycling one was fun! Dealing with drought here in California, I appreciate the use of hardscape and using plants to soften the edges. Such a great channel and I appreciate that you don’t focus on just one theme but remain open to so many ideas.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@QueenAnnesLace13
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Alexandra, for sharing, for those of us who could not be there in person. Such a wonderful array of displays for inspiration. I especially like the twist of cottage and meadow garden plants.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@DalhiaSun
3 жыл бұрын
So many gorgeous gardens. Everyone was my favorite 🤩. Thank you so very much for this post. I don’t know of any “garden shows” here in the summer. Now I’ll be on the hunt to find all the wonderful things you’ve just introduced. Yes, “falling in love” with these looks was exactly what I’ve done.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@penelopehammerton2907
3 жыл бұрын
Another great video Alexandra. I especially enjoyed the meadow inspired border, thank you so much for sharing the latest from the garden shows, which some of us can not get to 🤗
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@chriskelly1825
3 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/zpp7q6CkgqOHaH4
@anne-marietuikka3036
3 жыл бұрын
I also loved the meadow inspired border as it seems practical way to bring nature to urban environment. Would be great to learn more about it ☺️
@chriskelly1825
3 жыл бұрын
Stick a little wildlife pond in there
@charlottecolloff-hinde7657
3 жыл бұрын
Great episode! Some lovely and very accessible ideas picked up. Well done Alexsandra, a very enjoyable watch!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@marilyncoburn4936
3 жыл бұрын
This was a very inspiring video. I haven’t been to a garden show in years. Each garden was fabulous. Many design ideas. Thanks again.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
@mikeq6384
3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always, thank you Alexandra !
@yvonnehall544
3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed your videos. Good gardening suggest ions..short and packed with in formation ..There is always something to take from each video It also supports ideas I have and in doubt of...You are the best
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@karenabendshien846
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing the tips from the show! I love the hurdle and woven obelisk idea! 🌿
@HBomb1983
3 жыл бұрын
Love this video Alexander. Thanks for sharing. The reclaimed, rustic garden style with old fashioned flowers is just delightful 😊
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@PotenzaW
Жыл бұрын
Your videos, all of them, are simply wonderful. Your presentation is succinct, informative, and understandable. Thank you.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@MyFocusVaries
3 жыл бұрын
What a great collection of inspirational gardens. Too many beautiful options to pick a favourite! Thanks.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@lulajohns1883
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Alexandra, lovely to see new ideas.
@karlagrant3405
3 жыл бұрын
You gave me an idea for how to use the used plastic lattice that's been in our back yard forever ... sigh. Thank you, Alexandra!
@usamom
3 жыл бұрын
Love all the inspiration you give!
@donnasmith4333
8 ай бұрын
I appreciate the time and effort you apply to your videos, learn so much, excited to apply to my yard this year, regards from albetta Canada.
@itsallaboutlight
3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved this video! You're teaching ability is both educational and enjoyable. Thank you. I love that it was longer than your normal videos.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@athomewithfrancsicio
3 жыл бұрын
Happy Saturday 😊 love 😍
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
You too!!
@edithclarke5143
3 жыл бұрын
Although I am in NY zone 6 I absolutely take the time to watch your videos. Very informative,. Thanks for sharing!!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And I'm surprised at the number of plants we grow that are also grown in zones 5 and 6, although they sometimes need different treatment in the winter.
@feeonaghchambers7403
3 жыл бұрын
A super round up of design ideas. I am particularly interested in ways in which I can replace what little lawn I have in my small urban garden as I am more interested in growing plants & veggies than having a small lawn. Thanks Alexandra.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@sueo4528
3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this. So many great ideas. Thank you. Glad you told us England is zone 7 - 9. I have wondered about that. I live in the United States near Lake Erie in gardening zone 5.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
I'm always so amazed that the summer plants in Zone 5 are very much the ones we grow too here, it's just in the winter that your weather is so very different!
@MissSandraK
3 жыл бұрын
I do like the hard scrapes in these gardens, and the use of pots. Thanks!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
@kareeseboone6011
3 жыл бұрын
I just wanted to share I'm from Texas zone 8 I grow Giant Elephant ears from bulbs. They come back every year even after the cold snap that shut down TX ..They last all the way up until the freeze Tips for growing them. They don't need special soil but they do need partial shade and they work great in areas that puddle up with rain water. We get enough rain on avg in Houston that I don't need to water them, but they do love water. You can clip them back before the freeze and dig up the bulbs and replant them or leave them during winter and they will come back up We've been growing them for 5 years from one plant
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, and interesting! They're such a stunning plant.
@johnarcher8090
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, as always another great video. What a ton of ideas… I too like a feel of natural space in my design. As I am slowly decreasing my lawn for more plantings with seasonal color and texture. Thank you for sharing🥰
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@jerrywatts3016
3 жыл бұрын
Loved it. Lots of excellent ideas. Thanks!
@heathermcelroy7171
3 жыл бұрын
Woohoo! More great ideas.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@amyjones2490
3 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this video. Thanks
@roundrobinsonny9792
3 жыл бұрын
Lovely ideas so many different styles
@BangladeshvlogerMary
3 жыл бұрын
wow so wonderful Garden my dear friend ❤️❤️❤️
@yaninamagali3786
3 жыл бұрын
Best video of the year! Thanks!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you too!
@eileenmc8808
3 жыл бұрын
Loved that meadow inspired border. Great info as usual. The best in show garden was over-the-top chic. I have also been "shopping"my own stash of junque to use as planters and garden ornaments but will now think about what I have that can be used as fencing possibly. Better control the use of junque so it doesn't turn into Junk though! Cheers!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Very good point! thank you.
@sarahmarti141
3 жыл бұрын
Such great info. Thank you!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you too!
@tubssamterracegardeningvlo1251
3 жыл бұрын
Hi dear friend great content 👍 stay safe stay connected ❣️
@DownButNotOutYet
3 жыл бұрын
What a delightful talk show, you make gardening so interesting. In this video there is a good selection of ideas for various Gardeners. I love the pretty manner in which the cobbles were used, it does add a feature of neat and tidy as well as the grouped pots of various flowers. I think the advantage of garden pots are you can move them about and try various ideas. Maybe when you are having friends or tea and cake in the garden😄 so lovely to enjoy after you have been working or tidying up! Looking forward to the next garden chat. Go well.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Jo-fk6sc
2 жыл бұрын
Well this is my new favourite blog
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Chimchimenys
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Alexandra, great video - the jungle garden was lovely and I'm just starting to create my own jungle container garden at home (on a stone walk way alongside a raised lawn) and need flower ideas so this was really useful. In terms of suggestions for future videos, perhaps something on climbing plants? I've got some ugly fence and an ugly pebbledash garage wall in my garden and I'd love to make them beautiful with climbers but I'm a real novice and it's hard to know where to start. For the fence I'd like to stick with the jungle theme as that is in the same area, but the garage wall is a bit out on it's own between the jungle theme, lawn and wild area - so I could do anything with this. This is just a video idea, I'm not asking you to solve my very complicated gardening layout!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you - and here is a video that may help you with your climbing plants problem: kzitem.info/news/bejne/03ups6CYnXVipW0 It sounds as if you have an interesting layout
@Chimchimenys
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Ideal thank you. Yes our garden is quite a unique shape and I'm a very novice gardener! After doing some research I've found clematis cirrhosa 'freckles' which I really like so I'm going to give that a go this Autumn.
@handyvickers
3 жыл бұрын
Very inspirational!! Can you perhaps list some major annual garden shows that we could diarise at the beginning of the year? I find that, by the time we hear about it, it's too late. We're all busy, and life just takes over! Thanks..
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Good idea! And this website runs a continuous diary of events so you might like to know about it. www.thehub.earth/
@bluesky7226
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Thank you!
@convinth
3 жыл бұрын
The Great Dixter tagetes, featured in their garden, are great for hot borders. I've been using them for a few years now and provided you dead-head regularly they'll flower for weeks on end. AS for the gardens on show, I just wonder how many can maintain their style over the course of a few years, particularly the jungly one.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Show gardens are definitely show gardens - you couldn't keep them looking like that for longer than a few months. But I've seen quite a few 'jungle' gardens in real life and you can maintain them to a high standard throughout the summer. I'd call them a plant lovers garden and certainly not low maintenance, but if people love plants and have a restricted area in which to grow them, I think it works very well. I'll be returning to the subject in about six week's time!
@lesliekendall5668
2 жыл бұрын
My two cottage garden areas in the front are like yours where they're two sides of a front walk. One was a small rectangle lawn area between the walk and driveway while the other was a larger lawn area. Didn't want to overwhelm myself in the beginning so I put the cardboard down on the larger lawn side just to make a 3-4' border....now hiding a smaller lawn "room". Last year I had the border side in perennials and the other in a wildflower mix. But I don't like how the annual side is barren until I can sow the annuals again. So this year I'm planting/transplanting both sides in @ 60% perennials and will sow the wildflower mix in between the perennials.
@ollvebranch
3 жыл бұрын
Hello. I too want to create the similar, “under bench planting, with rockery,” look, on the West-facing side of my square small/middle sized garden. Can you tell me some of the planting under the bench in the video, as well as offer any suggestions for perennials/texture year round interest that won’t just turn this side of my garden into a crazy overgrown mess?! BTW, I’m very much into sitting within my borders, rather than just looking at them.
@pamd1861
3 жыл бұрын
Great ideas! Thanks
@trafficface
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this!
@prettypothos4me290
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful gardens! I loved seeing the orange and purple jungle. Orange echinacea don’t make it through my zone 6 winter, so I buy a few each year. Very inspiring!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
I think echinacea are quite tricky even in our theoretical Zone 9 - very few of mine have ever made it through more than one winter.
@daiseegray9110
3 жыл бұрын
Great inspiration as always.
@karinhayden5154
3 жыл бұрын
Great video Alexandra
@beautifulgreenery2314
3 жыл бұрын
Love this informative video, question if I grow flower from seeds how to achieve the cluster that showcase in garden center or in a border? Thank you
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
You could try planting them just a little closer together than recommended on the packet. Also making sure they have enough nutrition - ideally add garden compost or well rotted manure to your soil at least once a year, and maybe also feed the plants if you're not getting the effect you want.
@cinziadeluca5074
3 жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@wandajazz1061
3 жыл бұрын
Your programs are so relaxing and inspirational.😊What do you have in- store for winter?
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. We've got jungle garden style for temperate climates coming up and also an evergreen garden on a hill.
@joanmeademeade9391
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant great data an leads
@kevinjamesparr552
2 жыл бұрын
I too rather liked the winning small garden water fall table . from this one could certainly set wood fired oven in wall above table and make it a worthy setting for dinning out
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@folee_edge
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@sizzles48
3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to know where to buy that wooden curved bench that featured showing the purple cushions in the video intro.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
I'll see if I can find out...
@DeborahCaldwell77
2 жыл бұрын
Nice Thank you
@summerholiday12
3 жыл бұрын
Hi like to know what is it called the lime green grasses in a group? Front of a border in video 11:08. Use vertical space- unusual walls or fencing
@PGTV101
Жыл бұрын
i love Gardening i teach how to grow natural food
@a.j.b.8658
3 жыл бұрын
Hi everyone, does anyone know roughly when we should expect the first frost of autumn 2021 (Central Lancs)?
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
You can find a local 'last frost date' and 'first frost date' for your area if you google it, although of course, that will only be based on the past, so not a complete prediction. The way we're going now, I'd say next Saturday....but some say we'll get an Indian summer.
@a.j.b.8658
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Aw thank you so much for your reply🥰 The reason I asked is because I can't really make sense of my Google searches.. 😳 all suggested websites are _really_ hard to understand (or even believe!!) For example: Reading can't possibly expect first frost before Preston 🤯 I know it's an unknown.. but I wanted a 'best guess' from a super. I'm poised you see!! With an awful lot to do 😆 need to protect all my beautiful babies.
@joprent6727
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. New subbie.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome!
@jab4634
Жыл бұрын
There's a joke in there somewhere recycling bike wheels 😂😂
@annabella2294
3 жыл бұрын
The opposite of purple on the colourwheel is yellow,not orange,that is opposite of blue and red of green...
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes, sorry I should have been clearer - they're opposite in the sense that they at '10 to' and '10 past' if it's seen as a clock face, as one is blue moving into red and the other is its opposite yellow, also moving into red. Or perhaps I should have said 'one of the opposites on the warm side of the spectrum.' Thank you anyway.
@lesliekendall5668
2 жыл бұрын
I think we need a new category of garden. I know a cottage garden will have up-cycled things (even I have an old metal milk cannister next to my MILKweed) but when they go over the top and start painting bicycles or making up-cycled sculptures, we should call them "a whimsical garden".
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
2 жыл бұрын
I agree
@janewoods870
3 жыл бұрын
🥰🥰🥰
@Artzenflowers
3 жыл бұрын
Your information is interesting, but I would prefer to see the plants as you’re speaking rather then your image. It’s off putting to get just a flash of what your referencing before flashing back to yourself.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
I'm experimenting with that, so thank you for the input.
@Artzenflowers
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden you’re so kind to respond, I see this in so many videos online and on the Telly, though the hosts/guests offer great input, really it’s the flowers and plants that is viewers like to see. I do enjoy your channel so please know I offer this feedback with sincerity not criticism. 💖
@roslauchland4006
3 жыл бұрын
The opposite of purple is yellow.
@TheMiddlesizedGarden
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, sorry, I meant 'opposing' (if you look at the colour wheel, you can see purple at 10 to and orange at 10 past the clock, so they have the same relationship to red but on opposite sides...)
@roslauchland4006
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden but orange makes a richer enhancement for purple than yellow does. So I agree with your choice. Enjoy all your videos too, thank you. ❤
@HBomb1983
3 жыл бұрын
🤦🏻♀️ Alexandra
@ravvin4147
3 жыл бұрын
is this Christopher Walken in disguise?
@jab4634
Жыл бұрын
She talks more than she shows us
@jilladcock5648
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I definitely got some inspiration-especially to put some small panels or fencing around wild annuals or even perennials. Brilliant design idea.
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