00:30So here we have some billy buttons, these are native to Australia and New Zealand, really
00:42striking yellow globes and then over here we have some echinops and these are blue globe
00:56thistles and you can see there some of the flowers are popping out now, let me turn this
01:01italic blue colour just before they are about to flower and I am going to cut some of them
01:07and dry them and cut some, I am going to cut these today as well.
01:11Bully balls are both very good plants for dried flowers but you want to get them before
01:20they go over so now would be the right time to pick some of them and I want to leave some
01:27as well because they are very popular with the insects and there are a lot of butterflies
01:32around this perennial bed here in the last couple of days, there has not been many over
01:36the summer and let me just take a close up and you can see there some more and some of
01:49these I grew from seed, they are quite chunky they grow from seed, they are perennial, those
01:54perennials are quite difficult, they grow from seed compared to annuals and everything in
02:00here was either bare root or grown from seed months ago so I just created this bed in the
02:07spring and other things in there now that are starting to flower are the rudbeckia, these
02:13are the gold strung rudbeckia, come back every year, beautiful gold colour with a black centre
02:21flower.
02:22Comedelia is grown from seed, here are scabias, these are perennial scabias and these are an
02:32absolute magnet for everything, any kind of pollinator at all, I didn't realise just how popular they
02:39would be and a beautiful flower as well, you can see there's wee bee on there at the moment
02:46but they are just covered all day every day, since they started flowering, down here we
02:51have the first, I think it is an Ulster blue if I am not mistaken, it is a veronica or veronicastrum,
02:58these are quite small, shrubby, they form little shrubs, come back every year but beautiful
03:03little money plant there at the moment, here we have, and these have been quite slowly grown
03:10actually, these are hardy geraniums, so they should over the years spread out, I have
03:16got 4 of them in here, only 3 of them are really coming up, the other one is tiny here,
03:21it hasn't really done anything, that is a flax beside it coming up, and some of the flax
03:27are starting to flower as well, I will just show you, these are perennial flax, you get
03:37annual flax as well, these will get very tall, or won't get very tall at the front, there's
03:43ones at the back that should get a lot taller over the years, there's a little pink and white
03:48one, they have all different colours in here, there's more that haven't opened yet, this
03:53is another one here, this bushier one, that's done much better than the others, and we have
04:00a pink and white chrysanthemum, which should flower in the next month, along with a mickelmast
04:05daisy, a purple dome, mickelmast daisy, you can just see the head starting to form on that,
04:12but that will branch out, so everything in here should fall out the bed over the next year
04:16too, these tall spikes are, these are liatris, and you can just see the first of them, they're
04:24also known as gay feather, and they have these bright pink, kind of, better boa effect really,
04:31and more of the goldstrom here, I really like the red beckias now, and because these are perennial,
04:41these come back every year, they're not the prettiest, but they are the most prolific, and you can
04:46see the many heads there, that are coming out, then just down here for ground cover, I have a
04:52potentilla, which I really, really like, it's branching out, you can see the habit there,
04:58branching way out, but the little flowers on it are really pretty, like a peach colour, with a red centre,
05:06you can see all the branching that this is doing, so that will keep grasses and things
05:16at bay, you have to be constantly at the weeding for these things, then more dahlias up the back,
05:30the first of the echinacea here at the open, these were mostly from seed, a couple of bare roots
05:37as well, there's others at the other side, but they take a few years, they develop fully,
05:42so I'm not expecting, I'm expecting that might be the only one that we do get this year, that flower,
05:48there's delphiniums in here, again, will probably not come the next spring, and the estalbes are
05:55all going over now, so, and there's one little, those are false gold speared, and there's one
06:02down here, which is aruncus, which is gold speared, and they're smaller, and you can see there,
06:09it's just, there's two of them actually on here, there's another one there, so they're much smaller
06:14foliage, but, I have a few of them in the other patch as well, delighted now, they see so many
06:22pollinators in the garden, and, just how this patch has come along, it's been brilliant, gladiola
06:30going over here, as you can see, these are all the same type gladiola, and then, oh, lastly
06:39as well, we have the Jarl, the Achillea, which will come back every year too, this is a mix
06:49of colours, there's like a light blue there, a pink there, and there's like a more reddish pink
06:56here, and a white, these self-seed as well, you have to be careful with them, they could
07:01go everywhere, again, just grabbing the weeds, and the grasses, and what they take root, and
07:08take over, but, it's coming on brilliant, and, for some reason I put a white annual chrysanthemum
07:15in the middle of it, by accident, probably thought that was, the leaves look kinda like the scabious,
07:21when they're young, but, a lot of weeds in here too, right now, but, it's just keeping
07:28on top of that, a lot of them look like flocks as well, like, so you have to be careful what
07:37you're pulling out, but all in all, extremely happy with how the first year of this went,
07:44and, hopefully now that's, that's that, they'll not have to plant anything more on it, it should
07:49just come back itself now every year, just keep it weeded.
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