00:00so as you can see here I've been creating a perennial bed basically and this is basically
00:27all clay and stones that I've dug out and I'll show you all the stones that I pulled out I'm putting
00:33in through topsoil and compost there's quite a bit going in because there's quite a lot coming out
00:40all the sods have been cut off with all the reed a lot of these roots are reeds as well it's very
00:48very poor soil so once I get it leveled out a bit more compost on it then I can start marking out
00:55and putting in perennial flowers in here one thing that's uh helpful when you're planning a new bed
01:03is a wee sheet just marking down what you have which plants you have and then mapping out the site
01:11in this case is just a big oval and just marking where you want to have them and the name of the
01:18plant beside them just so when they die back in winter you'll know what you planted where
01:22and the next thing I'm going to do is map out which plants I want to go where on the bed
01:28so here we have the plants all on the ground and I'll just explain to you what I have here
01:34so these are rudbegia goldstrom which are perennial everything in here is a perennial
01:43and so there's four of them there you usually should plant I have another one like you should
01:51usually plant in odd numbers um I don't know why it's an old gardening thing just for aesthetics I
01:58think it is behind them a related plant some of these are very small they're perennials as well
02:05they're these are echinacea you may have heard of echinacea that's for these ones
02:13and here we'll put into it another a wee peach one these will be like almost like a sunflower a deep
02:21orangey yellow color with a black center the echinacea will be a purple cone flower and they'll be shaped
02:27like cones and they should get around maybe 60 70 centimeters and the echinacea a bit higher and then
02:38up behind them we have on here a couple of astalbies these are all bare roots that I bought
02:49you can see there they're thriving already and they're only in the ground and the four different
02:54colored ones what these will do they actually do quite well in clay soil and they prefer shade but
03:01I'm hoping they'll do okay here quite a lot of bright sunshine here um what they'll do is they'll
03:10form a clump and then they'll shoot up plumes of airy kind of uh foliage and very bright colors so
03:18there's a white one here uh I think this is a dark pink and then I have a light pink and a peach as
03:26well so that's them and down here we have some yarrow which have been grown from seed these will get
03:34quite tall as well I'll just have to keep an eye on them because they're known to spread and beyond that
03:41we have echinaps it's kind of hard to imagine everything at the moment how it will look because
03:46everything's so new but there we have some echinaps and these are big blue thistles they're like big
03:54globe thistles and they are very a stunning color of blue and we have some gladiolas and they're a white
04:03variety they'll come back every year and allium here in the middle you can already see a purple head
04:10coming on that that's a purple allium and then we have some theatris which are tall spike flowers it's
04:18nice to have a mixture of flowers and i have quite a few flocks on here as well so this is probably the
04:24biggest of them that is the biggest of them so far i got this one first and flocks are uh can reach
04:33about a meter some of them are can get much taller than that and then i have smaller flocks too
04:39in the front and these produce masses of colorful flowers on the top and just little sample flowers
04:47but really really nice colors and you're supposed to get a lot of them here's more i'll still be at the back
04:54here and then on down the front i've left a space for i've got perennial geraniums which will come back
05:01every year and they spread as well so they should spill out over the the edges there and another flocks
05:12there and another one there see what else we have on here more recognition around this way here i have
05:21a michaelmas daisy which is shoot it's called purple dome it's from new england in america it's where it's
05:28native but it should form a big purple dome in late summer autumn time and that'll be like daisy like
05:38purple daisies just be covered on them apparently and then here we have a couple of dahlias that were
05:44grown from seed these are the purple butterfly scabiosa there's three of them it's a perennial type
05:56and these are all the little phloxes and this one here is a chrysanthemum a pink and white chrysanthemum
06:04which is a perennial one as well so there's plenty in here and it just really has to be given time
06:10now they bed on and do its thing hopefully they all survive
06:26and this one here is a chrysanthemum
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