There is gold on Youtube but you have to dig for it. I have found very few gardening channels to follow, but would like to find more, for sure.
@Fire One Youtube gardening channel I quite like is The Middle Sized Garden. It's English (hurrah) and I quite often end up being directed there when I'm Googling gardening questions - so she has obviously encountered the same issues as me. Lots of articles about pruning perennials & shrubs, Chelsea chop etc etc and a useful one on alternatives to box hedging.
Paul Zimmerman (very American, very irritating, but he really knows his stuff!) taught me in a few simple lessons exactly how to train climbing roses - up a wall, round a pillar, through an obelisk, across a narrow trellis etc etc plus dealing with a hopelessly out of control climber. Before that I'd found instructions in my books to be somewhat inadequate and bewildering. He made it all so simple and once you know the basics it really is simple.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I like Paul Z. Some people find him irritating. I don't.
I have started watching Rosy Hardy of Hardy Plants - winners of oodles of Chelsea golds. She's quite squeaky and needs to work on camera technique but is very enthusiastic with tonnes of experience.
Another Paul Zimmerman fan here … such clear explanations. 👍
...they are a bit over-simplified in some cases, I find. I got into a bit of a mess trying to follow some of his instructions that didn't really apply.
My favourite garden youtube channel is John Lord's Secret Garden - I find him very entertaining, in a manic sort of way.
I like John's videos as well but didn't think perhaps experienced gardeners would. You can see he's brimming with knowledge of which you only get the odd snippet occassionally before he dead heads a rose with his spade.
He'd be fun on gardeners world for his pruning techniques amd his prairie garden is amazing, as are most of his borders.
I went back to look at a garden walkthrough video I uploaded last year, to help me remember where my dormant plants are. It's possibly more useful than photos.
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Paul Zimmerman (very American, very irritating, but he really knows his stuff!) taught me in a few simple lessons exactly how to train climbing roses - up a wall, round a pillar, through an obelisk, across a narrow trellis etc etc plus dealing with a hopelessly out of control climber. Before that I'd found instructions in my books to be somewhat inadequate and bewildering. He made it all so simple and once you know the basics it really is simple.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
...they are a bit over-simplified in some cases, I find. I got into a bit of a mess trying to follow some of his instructions that didn't really apply.
I like John's videos as well but didn't think perhaps experienced gardeners would. You can see he's brimming with knowledge of which you only get the odd snippet occassionally before he dead heads a rose with his spade.
He'd be fun on gardeners world for his pruning techniques amd his prairie garden is amazing, as are most of his borders.
Fraser valley rose farm is another I've watched.
https://youtu.be/ZkIqTNP9Y_0