Garden ideas for small and middlesized backyards from BBC Gardeners World Live 2024.
BBC Gardeners’ World Live has three garden shows a year, featuring experts from the BBC Gardeners World programme, with talks, show gardens and exhibitors selling plants, garden tools and other gardening things. The main BBC GWL show is in June in the Birmingham NEC. Plus there is a spring show in Beaulieu in Hampshire as well as an autumn show at Audley End in Essex.
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00:00 BBC Gardeners World Live 2024
00:14 Short list of trends
00:30 Logs and wood
00:32 On Our Wavelength by Kim O’Brien
00:38 Step Into Our Garden by Alexandra Bailey (Thrive & Gardening for Health)
01:09 Little Library (Insects Garden) by Elle Hepburn
01:13 Nature’s Embrace by Becky Sibley
01:23 Bark chip paths
02:08 Magic Moments by Steph Haydon
02:13 Stop and Smell the Flowers by Julie Haylock
02:21 Weather It Costa Cadiz by Anna Helps
02:24 Corten steel
02:39 Eco Oasis by Dan Hartley
02:45 Lunatica by Josh Fenton
02:57 Ponds
02:59 Flora and Flavour by Hannah Reid
03:15 Following in My Footsteps by Leanne Wood
03:24 Mixing ornamental gardens and food growing
03:34 The Chef’s Table by Adam Frost
03:51 A Plot Amongst the Chickens by Ben Shutler
04:28 Seating areas close to the planting
05:22 Outdoor kitchens (The Chef’s Table by Adam Frost)
05:43 My Garden Escape by Kitty Kovacs
06:15 The Viewers Garden by Pip Probert
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That was really interesting, Alexandra, thank you. This year, for the first time, I have used Corten steel alongside borders between planting areas and patio. I have two small patios, one at the top of my garden and one close to my home at the bottom. As a disabled gardener with a balance problem, it was worth the effort of tapping in the strips of Corten steel because my 30 x 30ft garden is on a slight slope and heavy rain tends to wash dirt onto the patio and create a slippery hazard. I love the rusty appearance of the steel and it blends in well. I like the gardens you showed that have a natural, 'every-plant-for-itself' kind of appearance and I think the wildlife like that too. My garden isn't pristine, it's a jungle out there, with every plant doing its thing and it works beautifully. Wild Eve rose vies with Lonicera Scentsation, with a dwarf Egremont Russet in front of them. The Lonicera keeps grabbing the Hydrangea Paniculata which I grow like a tree rather than a shrub, and I occasionally have to break the hold like a referee in a wrestling match. 😀 At the top of the slope is Japanese Maple 'Jordan' which I am encouraging to be a multi-stemmed tree. At the bottom of the slope is a line of glorious ferns just behind the Corten Steel bordering the patio. And all that is just on one side of the garden. I'll leave it at that. Sorry, I get really carried away when talking gardens. 😀
Took me half the video to realize it wasn't in fact a goat carcass on the table next to you x)
Do y'all not have mosquitos in Great Britain? Those ponds look like mosquito incubators.
Full of ideas practical and not expansive. Thank you
Nice pick
Good🎉work🎉my new frind🎉❤❤❤
I've been binging on your videos. Thank you so much for also taking the time to post the time stamps, names of the garden reference, and plants when applicable, super informative, and helpful!
These gardens are incredibly inspiring and oh, so beautiful. Thanks Alexandra.
sooooo enjoyed this video!! so many great and beautiful ideas, thanks for sharing!!! I need to make the bug hotels for my garden!! and to use any material I can, it will bring so much character!!! Also loved the idea of using that one word to guide our way to making the garden of our dreams!!!
Love, love your forward thinking for our gardens to bring us joy and to help Gods creation!! 🌿🪵🌱🪴
Great ideas and explanations 🌼🐝
Love your video, thank you. We only have a small garden and therefore mix flowers with vegetables. The long stems of the dark lavender flowers making their way through the fluffy fennel leaves always looks so pretty.
Great chap down in Cornwall (Zac, Gardens of Eden, ex Eden Project) specialises in food based gardens. We've just done a really nice small edible/exotic/cottage garden combo.
I am sorry for nitpicking but…
if you plan to make solitary bee hotels then please do NOT follow the pictures seen in this video.
Instead do this:
When you buy the logs make sure it's already dried hardwood and not freshly cut and green.
Beech, oak, fruit trees are great. Hardwood is important. Dried prior to drilling holes is important as green wood cracks as it dries and the holes will prompt it to Crack right there.
Also, the humidity of green wood makes the brood go mouldy.
Do not drill holes into the cut side of the logs. These will crack with time even if the log already was dry when you bought it. It's just how the fibers are arranged in trees.
Instead drill holes into the round side of the logs perpendicular to the fiber direction of the log, the tree bark sides. Use a sharp drill and maybe even some sandpaper on a stick to give the inside of the hole a really smooth surface.
Bee wings are delicate and if they tear because of splinters the bee is basically unable to fend for itself and thus dead.
That's also the reason for choosing hardwood because you won't be able to create a really smooth surface in soft wood.
It seems as if the garden designers put esthetics over the actual function of bee hotels. I can see the appeal of having the shape of circles repeat throughout the garden so the designer chose to arrange the logs in ways that the circles show and to drill holes into the circle. That's pretty but useless to solitary bees.
Oh my goodness! I've been wanting an inexpensive way to lengthen my chicken run! And I just happen to have some of that cattle panel material. Fantastic!
It's illegal here to have chickens or ducks. 😢
It's a lovely garden❤
Life with flowers will enrich your heart😊
Great video with so much practical information & recommendations!! Thank you for the awesome photos & video content!! I really learned a lot of new ideas in this excellent egg episode —- Thank you!!!
I once invested a very small amount of money in something akin to the bark shreds used to make paths in your video. What I got was sold as mulch, the coarsest grade of “Pine bark nuggets.” It was chunks and sticks, rather than shreds, and that made it easier to rake up before moving it. I used it again and again, for paths, for a patio, and as mulch. It looked to be nearly eternal, and I loved its look.
I am a bit dubious when veg and flowers mix too much – the garden looks glorious but when the contents are analysed, there are few edible vegetables in a huge area. Old vege gardeners would turn in their graves
Hi, Alexandra. Thanks so much for giving us a peek at the Gardeners World Live event this year. So much to see! I had to watch the video three times before I felt I’d taken it all in. I came away with lots of great ideas. Oh, if I only had the energy to implement them all!
Great video ❤ Thanks so much!!
Terrific summary! People have asked me, "Why are you saving all those old sticks?" My friend and I always call it 'playing in the garden', when you combine actual chores like deadheading, repotting, or pruning with letting your creativity flow. Moving things around (I have mostly containers in my back garden), adding natural elements, building trellises from sticks, training vines, all of these wonderful things. The more time I spend outside, the more the ideas come to me. Repurposing is a great way to save money!
Seating areas surrounded by the garden are so lovely. Thank you for the inspiring design ideas.
Great advice Alexandra! I went too and agreed with your take on the gardens. I think the future proof garden will be growing veg and flowers together, getting rid of grass or leaving it long for nature and growing more drought proof plants. Great show and well informed advice. 🌹🌿
Excellent video! Thank you Alexandra! ❤
Great video with some very doable garden enhancements. Thank you ☺️
Those boxwood plants behind you look lovely and healthy. May I know if they are Japanese boxwood? I have heard they are less prone to diseases compared to other varieties. I would appreciate it if you could let me know. Thank you!
Only thing about corten steel ponds is the sludge the rust leaves. Absolutely awful
thanks Alexandra cheers
Hi Alexandra. Enjoyed the video. How do you define a small and middle size garden, size wise?
Gorgeous video!! I also have become obsessed with logs
Nice video. Lots of ideas. I really like the low chicken run that ran alongside the row of flowers.