The Secret Garden of Louth - Beautiful Spring Tour with Plant Names

Today's video is a visit to The Secret Garden of Louth, a beautiful and completely hidden away Lincolnshire garden created and lovingly developed by Jennifer & Rodger Grasham from a blank canvas over 30 years featuring countless rare exotic plants, towering hardy Trachycarpus palms and bamboo, stunning spring flowers and beautiful planting combinations. This video is the start of a three part series following the development and evolution of this stunning garden through the year and will feature a summer visit looking at the new tropical planting and bedding next, just before they open to the public to raise money for the Salvation Army through the NGS in August, and an autumn episode to really show off the crescendo of their incredible UK tropical style summer display as the plants reach colossal heights. From border inspiration, practical spring plant care tips, raised bed ideas, propagation advice through to incredibly rare exotic plants like Brassaiopsis and Kalopanax jostling with Tulips, Hellebores and Epimediums, there really is something in this garden and video for all garden and gardening lovers.

For me, seeing the huge amount of efforts that go on behind the scenes, literally THOUSANDS of plants and full rooms in the house dedicated to overwintering plants and propagation really is eye opening and outdoors there's certainly a few beautiful ground covers and easy shade foliage plant ideas I'll be adding to my list! The garden transformation throughout the year really will be incredible, the summer planting stunning and it all begins here with this April tour on a beautiful, sunny spring day. Jenny and Rodger open their garden through the NGS and are planning on opening with exotic plant sales and refreshments every Thursday and Sunday in August 2024 (by appointment) but for more details follow The Secret Garden of Louth on Facebook below:

The Secret Garden of Louth - NGS Summer Open Garden Facebook page:   / thesecretgardenoflouth  

The Secret Garden of Louth - NGS Details: https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden...

The Secret Garden of Louth address & postcode:

The Secret Garden of Louth
68 Watts Lane
Louth,
Lincolnshire
LN11 9DG
(½ mile South of Louth town centre, for SatNav & to avoid gate on Watts Ln, use postcode LN119DJ - Mount Pleasant Ave, leads straight to their house)

0:00 Intro
0:17 A walk around spring garden tour of The Secret Garden of Louth featuring spring plants
2:20 Raised koi fish pond, potted succulents, new Butia eriospatha UK hardy feather palm
5:32 New foliage & filler plants for shade - tough, easy and beautiful exotic effect leaves
10:12 Tropical island garden raised bed with hardy palms, Miscanthus grasses, cannas & banana plants
12:33 Stunning Dicksonia antartica hardy tree ferns flushing new fronds in spring after winter protection
15:19 Timber garden bridge, raised Butia odorata feather palm, winter plant casualties and spring beauty
20:08 Old pond, sunken bog garden, fire pit area and raised exotic planting
22:29 Instant screening height with bamboo plants in large barrels
23:17 Beautiful spring Tulip flowers, Hellebores, new exotic shrub growth & scented plants - plant combination ideas
26:45 Daphniphyllum macropodum - check it out at Pan Global Plants
27:26 Trillium, Cyclamen hederifolium & creating beautiful garden borders
29:35 Beautiful & hardy Trachycarpus wagnerianus 'Waggy' palm - great beginner palm for UK gardens
30:15 Creating a garden feel & rooms for small garden inspiration with plant variety, rather than a collection of exotic specimen plants
34:34 Tough ground cover plant tips, combinations & ideas around root competition
38:02 Bruce the beautiful, double headed Dicksonia antartica tree fern specimen!
39:18 Acer palmatum 'Sango-Kaku' Japanese maple and vigorous ground cover & foliage plants
43:09 Acacia pravissima - exotic tree with beautiful yellow spring flowers
43:47 Musa basjoo hardy banana unwrapped, Petasites & spring flowering Clematis armandii
48:24 Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex' giant mature plant & evergreen Eriobotyra japonica Loquat tree
49:23 New steel raised beds project and beautiful spring tulip blooms
52:10 Propagation, greenhouses, polytunnels and overwintering behind the scenes!
54:54 Kalopanax septemlobus maximowiczii & pollarded Paulownia tomentosa fast growing tree with big leaves
57:27 Controlling Red Lily Beetles pests by hand rather than spraying
59:27 Cyathea medullaris tender tree fern & polytunnel full of rare exotic plants
61:28 Oreopanax dacytylifolius, Ricinus & Canns seed growing, Begonias & overwintering tender Banana plants in conservatory
65:45 Bedroom jungle full of houseplants!
67:57 Bathroom Brugmansia forest overwintering!

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George