welcome to the October garden tour in this video we're gonna be taking
a look about what you need to look out for in the
month before us and how you can add some little bits of colour into your garden
with October's come the end of summer and the start of the rain the rain has started to take
its toll on the patio and I will publish in a upcoming video about a review of a Karcher
pressure washer i've just bought and how to clean up some of the hard landscaping in your garden one
of the things I've been battling this month is couch grass I've tried all different things but
in the end the best way to get rid of it is to dig the plant up and try to separate the couch
grass from the plant as it tends to be quite invasive and grows right into the root ball of
neighbouring plants you can see just how poor the drainage is in my garden this was the spot
where the grass was dug up from and you can see with some rain fall it's just filled up
with rain if you experience drainage issues in your garden drop a comment in the section
below and let me know the things you've tried to overcome it the next plant in the garden is
the hydrangea macrophylla you can see the blooms are still going on in October and they perform
really really well I've been feeding regularly with an ericaceous feed which i'll link in the
description to below and I'm really impressed with the result only six percent of the people
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it really helps me out grow my channel you can see here the rhododendron I cut right back has started
to produce fresh growth and I'm hoping next year the plant will really start to thicken out again
here's another hydrangea called endless summer and you can see now even in mid-october it's producing
fresh blooms and they look absolutely amazing you'll see they start in a white colour and
then move to a reddish tone I think overall I'm going to need to move one of the hydrangeas back
a little bit because it's too crowded for both of them but I'm really impressed with the feature
the grasses are really still coming to a world of their own at this time of year
and you can see some fountain grass looks great in the garden and it really contrasts
the red leaves from the snow ball tree which is just up behind it this tree has
got a really good year-round interest and you get the white flowers early in
the spring and then as the flowers start to fade the leaves turn a magnificent red
colour for the autumn and it really gives a long season of interest for the plant
hanging baskets are looking bit worse for wear I need to cut them back and I'll be doing that in
a future video I'll probably take them down just to clear some space and have a think
about if I want to replant with some winter interest or do something different with them
the plant of the month in the garden this month is the pampas grass it's put on some
really good flowers which add a lot of structure to the garden and they contrast
the green foliage of the plants around them I think it really adds a touch of class it also
breaks up the texture a little bit between the two hedges that I've got planted and carries
on the theme of the grasses and I think it really knits the garden together really well
the next plant to have a look at is the winter fire dogwood you can see
the leaves again have started to turn from a green to a nice reddish colour and the
stems are being exposed underneath below and this is a really good winter interest
plan it's not an evergreen it will lose its leaves but the beauty of this plant is the
red stems that are left behind and they add a really good winter focal point of the garden
here's some plants that I haven't put in the garden yet I just picked these up at the garden
centre there and Pennisetum fireworks again I think they tie really well into some of the
Reds that are starting to show in the garden I'm going to put them towards the front of one of the
borders I just need to find the right place and hopefully again I can contrast between the greens
and the Reds in the garden at this time of year these grasses have put on some great growth they
started off just as little seedlings at the start of the year and these are a carex and they'll be
ready to pot up into the garden next year here's a clematis that I picked up from one of the garden
centres should have been £24.99 and i got it less than half price at the time of purchase
and it didn't have any flowers on but I've potted it on and even in mid-october this is in the UK
we still produced wonderful pink flowers this is quite a large clematis dr. rupert and it grows up
to 3 by 3 meters I'm hoping to put it as a feature at the back of the garden there maybe tie into a
black obelisk or some sort of growing feature but that's a project that will come in future videos
we're going to take a look at a couple of plants that aren't doing so well in the garden this month
and my Azalea seems to be really struggling and I've sprayed for pests and tried to remove
any dead and damaged leaves but the whole plant really seems to be suffering with these copper
Brown leaves if you have seen something like this yourself and you've got any recommendations
please let me know in the comments of things that I can try to do to to save that plant
the next plant that seems to have quite a bit of a shock is the trachelospermum jasminoides
I bought this as an evergreen climber and I was hoping that it would carry on growing and climb
up the trellis that you've just seen above but since the winter months of have come it
seems to be dropping a lot of its leaves again any advice for me in the comments i would much
appreciate it it's in its second year at growth so I'd really be expecting you know the plant
to be withstanding some of the colder months but it doesn't seem to be performing very well at all
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