Early Spring Garden Tips & Tour - get out your secateurs and shears!

What to cut back in spring and how to cut it, and how coppicing can help your garden. Plus what's looking good now.

00:00 Welcome
00:51 Description of the Middlesized Garden with weather
01:15 Your gardening weather or 'zone' is based on how cold your winters are.
02:09 Storm Eunice trying to get next door's trampoline over the wall
03:00 What's looking good in the garden now?
03:15 Striped plants are Phormium variegata and the dwarf pines are Pinus mugo
05:20 What is coppicing and how it helps your garden
08:07 Time to renovate the north facing border
09:50 How to cut back ornamental grasses

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[paulinewqi]

Your garden is never bare nor barren....the evergreens and always blossoms here and there in whatever months of the Nature never fails to amaze us
Sight of snow drops....another spring and new life in the garden..
Thanks so much for sharing this video...💝💐

[TheImpatientGardener]

I’m so glad you didn’t have any damage from that horrible wind, wavy birdbath notwithstanding. I also hope the neighbor’s trampoline stayed on its side.

[DalhiaSun]

I think your boarder looks so much cleaner and tidier, so much better.

[northeasthardytropicals]

It’s that time of year we’ve been waiting for! 🌱 ☀️

[joyceaitchison]

Love this time of year - deciding what to keep - what to improve - what's new - Thank You

[vickiebrannon]

Hello from rainy Tennessee! I enjoyed this video and particularly liked that you showed before/after pictures of taking out the hedge on the north wall. You have a beautiful garden!

[ryanharvey]

I also love the sound of rain! Really appreciate your knowledge as I’m doing my spring garden clean up! Thank you!

[junesmart]

Love your videos! Thank you for always giving Fahrenheit in addition to Celsius so I don't have to pause the video and look up the conversion! Your gardening info is good for me here in North Carolina, USA, Zone 8a.

[juliepardo]

Great tutorial Alexandra, Thank you! I have a whole fence line of various lilac shrubs that I have cut over the years to form like trees so that I could plant multiple items under and around them. I'm not quite sure if coppicing is the technique I have done to these shrubs, but it is pretty close I guess. Almost all of the lilacs are over 10ft tall and the various shrubs and flowers around them thrive beautifully. I planted these lilacs 20 years ago. Four of those lilacs came from my English neighbour, Molly( a wonderful woman and avid gardener). When she passed, I asked her son(he was planning to sell her home)if I could have her lilacs, he happily said yes. They are still healthy and thriving in my garden and I remember her every time I look at them.

[irairod]

Those winds were terrifying! Glad to hear your home suffered no damage.

[mattc]

Hi! First time home owner here, and now budding rookie gardener! I absolutely love your videos, they’ve been such a massive help for getting into gardening! Thank you!

[flowerpixel]

Great timing! I'm cleaning my garden today. I didn't know about leucojum flowers! Learned a lot for only a 10 minute video 🤓

[nbod]

Our overwinter garden is not looking amazing right now, we have the evergreens but they need to mature. You can either buy cheaper and wait or buy bigger and more expensive.
I didn't know you could copice shrubs. I have a forsythia that I am hoping will develop strong tree-like stems just to keep it manageable. The November clean up always makes me sad. The March Clean up makes me happy because I get to take a look at each plant waking up. Just don't mention the weeds, they can stay asleep

[allanrobinson]

Lovely video, thank you for the helpful advice. Hopefully the weather will start to warm up soon, it seems to have been a very long Winter

[heatherbanfield]

I liked the clean wall after the pyracantha was taken off. 😊

[glen]

Hi Alexandra, super helpful as always. So glad your garden wasn’t damaged by the terrible winds last weekend.

[Michael-Bennett]

My garden in Toronto is still buried under the snow, but I'm sure Spring will arrive eventually.

[birds-and-blooms]

Yes, perfect timing for this weekend. We just had 3 nights of frost in a row.
Have a great week 😀

[lisagarian]

I always look forward to your videos! Thank you🥰

[lynhorley]

Very useful, thank you, have learnt quite a bit .
Your garden is really lovely, the pollarded trees are great .
LOVE your beautiful dog💕. Many thanks x