A monthly video ought not be too onerous, and probably wouldn’t be if I was more familiar with what is involved. Here is a mere nine and a half minutes of me doing a quick circuit and stopping off at the odd interesting plant. The footage dates from 17-19 August 2023.
I am already planning for a September mid month movie.
garden ruminations 
It’s great that you make these videos, so lovely to see the garden changing through the seasons, especially having seen it in the flesh. The Begonias look so at home. I tried a couple outside here but they haven’t been happy – the slugs have been though.
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I really enjoyed the tour, looking forward to the September one. You have reminded me to grow cleome again, they are wonderful for late summer.
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Here’s my six for today: https://notesfromtheundergardener.wordpress.com/2023/08/26/six-on-saturday-26th-august-2023/ I might have a go at doing a video sometime too, if I can make my way past all the plants flopping with the weight of the rainfall! Happy August Bank Holiday, everyone!
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Doh – posted in wrong place and can’t seem to delete! I will re-post, sorry Jim.
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Thanks for that guided tour of your stunning garden. I’ve taken notes of a few of those plants.
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This video is excellent and particularly interesting to see the full form of the plants and various combinations. Many thanks.
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Just need someone to buy me an iPhone 14 for Christmas……
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This was 9 minutes of pure bliss. Thank you! Do you leave your salvia Amistad out through the winter? I’ve been lifting mine every winter and bringing it under cover but I wonder if I really need to. Your rhodochiton are triumphant, mine were utterly pathetic this year!
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Glad you enjoyed it. We left some Amistad out and they were slow to get going this spring. Slugs love them and can browse them as fast as they grow. When we got to June they started to outperform the young plants we’d put out this year, presumably because they had deeper root systems, but they were still behind the young plants in starting to flower. There isn’t much difference between them now. We don’t lift and overwinter them, we take cuttings during the summer and overwinter 9cm or 1L plants, which don’t die down, so they have a big head start in the spring.
I couldn’t find a date for when I sowed the Rhodochiton, it was sometime last summer, from just ripened seed off plants that had also been started the year before. This years plants won’t have ripe seed for a while yet, so I then have to choose whether to sow them really late and overwinter very small plants, or sow them in spring. I’ll probably do both. I think ideally I’d sow around August and overwinter 9cm plants on canes.
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This is all really helpful advice, many thanks indeed Jim. I’ll try all of these tips out. Overwintering the rhodochiton never occurred to me – great idea, and maybe I’ve just about got time to snatch a few salvia cuttings 🙂
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What a delightful tour! I really enjoyed that.
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I enjoyed this visit. My hearing has gotten so bad i couldn’t hear what you were saying but it is a lovely garden. Here everything is gone…dead ,or almost, dried up from too many 100 + days of very hot dry weather. Maybe next year will be better.
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I haven’t mastered the sound track side of things. It sounded OK to me before I uploaded it, but not so clear when I played it back.
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I’m sure its me not you.
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Wonderful. This is so inspiring to watch. At 8:59 you stop in front of a large plant and mention your very busy shredder. Unless I misunderstood. Is that the name of the plant?
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It’s Astelia chathamica. My busy shredder is over by the house, the background object you wish you’d moved before doing the video.
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Thank you. I didn’t notice the shredder at all.
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