6 perennial flowers that bloom all summer – plus a bonus plant
6 perennial flowers that bloom all summer – plus a bonus plant
Long-flowering perennials make your garden look gorgeous for months on end. Here at Doddington Place Gardens in Kent, the owner and the head gardener pick their favourite 6 long-flowering perennials, plus I choose a bonus plant. Click on ‘show more’ for plant list.
Doddington Place Gardens, short-listed for Historic House Garden of the Year 2021, is open to the public for 2 days a week between April and October. See: https://www.doddingtonplacegardens.co.uk/
0:00 Welcome
0:18 The Sunk Garden Garden at Doddington Place Gardens
0:31 How to create beautiful borders with Tom Brown of West Dean Gardens: https://youtu.be/SQRTVeCLHmE
1:22 Anthemis tinctoria, otherwise known as Golden marguerite or Dyers chamomile
2:15 The small red flowers are Knautia macedonica
3:45 Penstemon ‘Stapleford Gem’
4:40 Euphorbia ceratocarpa (Horned spurge)
5:08 Euphorbia characias subs ‘Wulfenii’ (Mediterranean spurge) is the plant with citrus green flowers at the centre of the screen
5:28 Geranium psilostemon (Armenian cranesbill)
6:55 Knautia macedonica (Macedonian scabious)
7:37 How to do a ‘Chelsea chop’ to stop plants flopping
8:08 Astrantia major ‘Claret’ (Masterwort)
8:20 Astrantia major ‘Roma’
8:41 Astrantia major ‘Billion of Stars’
9:17 Rose ‘Felicia’. All the roses featured in this section are ‘Felicia’.
9:32 Tips on growing roses in herbaceous borders
10:45 Anthemis tinctoria (Golden marguerite, Dyer’s chamomile)
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Thank you !! I found my new favorite show to watch with my morning tea .So informative! Love the tips and wonderful scenery Thank you for including usda zones. I am in the hot dry part of 9 but with a good cold snap that makes lilacs and peonies happy but with a summer heat that makes plants and Englishmen question what there doing here. 🤣
ID like to know a dartington guard sunken garden The Hedge that goes around what actually is that tree
I’m going to try the tip about cutting back the front of a tall flowering perennial clump,and then doing the same to the back later on. I have clumps of Shasta daisies that may do well with that.
Loved that tip at the end: clip 1/2 the chamomile, then the other 1/2 later.👍🏽
Good….but you talk to.much
I dont know about the place where u live but i live in Finland and all those do NOT flower all summer. 2 months max, not even that
I’ve watched many of your videos several times. So much great information and so many wonderful ideas for this Pacific Northwest gardener! Thank you. Your voice is so soothing, I should try listening at bedtime to get to sleep!
At first, I was disappointed upon clicking to see that these recommendations are for England! I initially assumed that my climate would render the recommendations meaningless, but I found that, even though I’m in Texas, there are some useful and interesting plant ideas that I can look into.
I felt really at home when the "Chelsea chop" came up. It has a name! I began to do that to my John Fanick phlox years ago – because it’d rain, and they’d flop into the mud and never really recover. I had to do SOMETHING, and although I wasn’t sure if it was the BEST thing to do, picking up the flower heads out of the mud, then spending our Very Long summer with a messed up, trashed phlox was NOT the ideal. Nice to have a green light from the experts. It works. Smaller, more diffuse heads are fine if I don’t want them for cutting, and I’d rather have a productive garden display throughout the season.
So, I can’t plant your recommended varieties, but we have native and adapted, and you’ve given me some new ideas to intersperse with the canna lilies, lantana, hiibiscus and bluebonnets.
Thankyou
I really enjoyed this video. The first time I have seen this channel, and I definitely subscribed. The UK excels at herbaceous perennial borders, who better to look to for advise?
Appreciate you take the time to be aware of how a plant behaves in different countries!
Thank you so much!
How many of them keep flowering after they burst into flames?
Thank you!
Hi Alexander, thank you so much for the informative chat, now we can pick and choose what we wish to grow. There are quite a few old time favourites which always work and compliment our gardens. It’s lovely to grow perennials with the roses, each can compliment the other and also helping butterflies and bees with their pollination schedule for the day. Doddington Place has a beautiful garden lay-out alas, they do require the assistance of extra hands! It was so enjoyable to watch as always. Have a wonderful day, regards Elize 🙂
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Thank you for this informative video. I live in the US Zone 5 and I am on a sand ridge….quite a challenge for growing flowers. Your tips were very helpful.
Thank you for your lovely video … it reminds me to plant Astrantia in my garden, plus after a bit of research Valarian too, as I see it growing so well in my neighbourhood. Could you please explain how to fertilise with Seaweed – is it a liquid fertiliser or a powder? Thanks for your help
What growing zone are you in? My zone is zone 5.
I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Can you suggest a YouTube podcaster I can follow that is as informative as your podcast. I have been looking but can not find one. Thank you so much.
Thank you! I just love your channel, it is always so interesting and educational!
I LOVE your videos! They’re are so well thought out and curated. Thank you SO much!!! 😊🙌🥰💜🌷🌺🌹🌸
Fabulous channel, such great information
Very informative thank again!!!
Thank you. I subscribed and looking forward to seeing more of your videos!❤️
I adore your channel! I’ve learned soo much from your videos! In American, it’s so hard to find gardening information for creating English style gardens, which is what I love. Your videos are helping me adjust and fine tune my borders, and they are looking amazing! Much thanks!
Lovely…. thank you.💐
I love all this just wish all the info was down below . So I could read the names . I’m almost deaf and have to strain to here the names.Keep making these vid. pLEASE .You are one of my favorite you tuber also.
I like how full the gardens are
My favourite long flowering plants are Alstroemerias. Hardy osteospermums. Erodium manescavii. They flower for months And I just remembered perennial nemesias
Generally lovely and very informative video… the only topic that maybe you could include would be soil type? We have a very wet clay garden, and just can’t grow most of these (roses, geraniums and euphorbia yes… none of the others will last more than one season!)
Nicely done.
Love the video but I would like a written list of the flowers discussed
Just your typical Australian garden but where are the gnomes ✌
Invasive? Thanks for the English Ivy.
Wonderful plants the knautia.
Lovely. Just wondering how I could apply any of this to Arkansas where I am? I’m afraid they would all be cooked by late June.
I love these tips – especially since I am a New York gardener and seek out the other variants of the "top sellers." Thanks for a great focused presentation – it is certainly one of your strengths.
Dyers chamomile? Is that also called dyers woad?
What a fab channel! Easy to understand for the novice gardener as well as the more experienced person. Best youtube find i have made. Thank you.
THANK-YOU SO MUC!!
Thank you all for all gardening tips wow
What zone are you in?
This is the third Middlesized Garden video I’ve watched and I’ve now subscribed. The gardens are always beautiful, the production quality is great, and the content well thought-out.
What a delightful find you are! Thank you so much!
Why are so many of your you tube British programs not closed caption to understand better
Less people, more plant