00:00Hi everybody, my name is Sean Schroeder. I live in Whitchurch in Bristol. Starts in February in
00:14the house where I start from seed. A lot of the bedding is done from seed and then later on in
00:21April when the plants start coming out into the garden centres I usually go every Sunday to a
00:27few garden centres. I'll buy a plant and then come back and then I'll take cuttings from it and start
00:34to grow them on only in the house until end of March because I haven't got a heated greenhouse.
00:40Takes about two and a half weeks to three weeks to plant everything up with the back garden and
00:45front garden and I also do the community garden. That is usually with plants that I've got left over
00:52I'll plant up the garden for the community. Well there's lots of different types of
00:56petunias there's something like 200 varieties so I do about 2,000 plants, over 200 pots and containers.
01:06I do 500 to 600 cuttings and bring them on so all together I would say that there is just hundreds
01:15of varieties too many to count. It's been bad this year because we had a lot of rain so that brought
01:20the garden back a couple of weeks and now it's boiling hot sunshine which they don't like so
01:26the watering you've got to keep up with the watering when it's like this at least once maybe twice a day
01:32and bugs the bugs this year the white fly are attacking all the plants so you've got to try and
01:38keep on top of that it's never easy being a British gardener. DOP did it from Bristol City Council,
01:44they don't complain nobody's ever stopped me from doing it and the locals that walk down through the
01:50park just comment on it and say it's lovely so I'll keep doing it. It brings a smile to their face
01:57and there's nothing like a compliment you know and they say look your garden's lovely I show hundreds
02:03of people around the garden because most people just see the front garden and the park garden
02:08so if they're having a good look and I'll bring them around and I'll show them the back and they're
02:13always impressed
02:43so
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