Virtual Flower Show 2021 - Show Round Up

welcome to the virtual flower show 2021 [Music] hello welcome to the virtual flower show roundup [Music] as we look around the 3d plant societies in sundries hall let me tell you about what we have to come we have inspirational plants for you to try out [Music] we have highlights from our garden in question and answer sessions we also have advice on the best compost to use for your cacti and succulents [Music] lynn dibbley will be giving us a guided tour of the national collection of streptocarpus we'll see the wild species that have given birth to the beautiful houseplants that we grow today [Music] want some top recommendations for your garden and houseplants here are our experts favorite varieties for spring 2021 [Music] the tinnitus burn plants plant of the year 2021 has got to be pulmonary and gustifolia azuria this is a fantastic hardy perennial that blooms reliably every spring from march right through april with these really rich intense blue flowers it's a wonderful plant for partial to full shade it's totally hardy and it forms fantastic ground cover intake in slightly shady areas of the garden particularly under shrubs and trees hi i'm don billington and i'm from every picture tells the story special item bromeliads more commonly the air plants my favorite one at this moment in time is this one and we call this one curly slim and the beauty of this is the drier the plant gets the more it kills when you watered it all the leaves sort of coming out it can get a little bit taller as well doesn't need to be in soil again just mount it somewhere and get away hello i'm alec white from reservoir pianist one of my favorite pianists this time of year is peony coral sunset which has just been awarded the agm by the rhs the award of garden merit because it's an absolutely outstanding performer in the garden and it's super reliable i can't recommend it highly enough this is what they look like in the nursery right now with these bright red shoots and wonderful dark green foliage and when it flowers it will look like this with deep cerise pink flowers which will fade to salmon then to coral it will eventually fade through lemon and into cream it's an absolutely incredible plant that changes color as it matures it makes an excellent cut flower and it'll grow anywhere in full sun or part shade in any free draining soil and remember plant it at the correct hello my name is tracy from ultramaria select my favorite plant is the australia pandora it has lovely purple mold petal mo flowers also have specks of black and yellow a tall variety so makes a perfect cut flower [Music] if you ask 10 different cactus and succulent growers what they grow their plants in the likelihood is you're going to get 10 different answers the main requirement for cacti succulents is that the compost or the mix that they're growing in should be very free draining what i'm going to show you today is the general compost mix that i use for all my plants so my mixture comprises of equal amounts of john in this number three compost and grit sand mix together with half that amount of grit you can either use a trail if you're using a larger amount or for a small amount like this it's quite often easier just to mix it with your hands make sure you get a good thorough mixing of all the components it's quite a good idea if you've got a large mix of plants in your collection to have one type of compost that you use throughout the entire collection that often helps in terms of watering because the time it takes for the compost to dry will be the same throughout the entire collection obviously sometimes when people specialize they may vary their compost and their growing regimes for different types of plants there are lots of other materials that people use to grow their plants as well some people use pumice some people add limestone to the mix some people have more organic material and a lot of that will depend on the types of plants that you're growing a couple of other materials that you can get from garden centers that are quite useful sometimes are a couple of lightweight materials uh we have perlite which is this sort of white uh lightweight material looks a bit like polystyrene bits and we also have vermiculite again another mineral type material but very lightweight and can be quite useful if you're trying to pot up a big plant that's going to be very heavy if you have a lot of grits and stuff in the soil the important thing is to find out what works under your conditions because what works for somebody on a windowsill will be different to what works for somebody in a greenhouse or a conservatory and so on but whatever mix you decide to use don't forget enjoy growing your plants time to daydream about beautifully made bespoke greenhouses glass houses and orangeries from griffin glass houses [Music] here's a flavor of some of the live guided tours and talks we had at the show and if you come through like so you can have a little look around there and i'll walk you through with this first thing what what what would hit you have you ever come to have a look at it is uh is this is the collection of variations that we have all different types and all different sizes inside this as well we have some of the gaudez which is a new species you will see that we have an awful lot of the talansia hanging around the place as well as other little bits that we're growing for people as well um but this is like our little display of euresias we have got another some more as we go further on so the first thing you need to do to successfully grow plants from seed is to get some really good quality seeds and most important is to keep it in the fridge so um delphinium seed as you can just about see them in that packet it's quite small it's about the size of a pinhead give or take not very big and it goes off quite quickly but if you keep it in the fridge it will last a good few years okay and as long as you keep it in something airtight and dry and cool it'll last you a few years the society the delphinium society produces a seedless every year we have one or two species on the list and then lots of seed safe from plants uh named cultivars and we also have seed that is the result of hybridizing as well another um a little bit of a display now a lot of the props that you'll see as we go through this area we've used at the various flower shows so this bike uh has been at both harrogate and cardiff flower show with with the tulips we displayed at cauliflower show for about five years with tulips harrogate we've been displaying there for about eight or nine years i think now i love this color combination so here we have a variety called granaldo which is a real deep burgundy purple sort of color next to this vivid orange color called ballerina and together they work fantastically well they're such a good color combination on the nurse we use no pesticides at all and we haven't done since 2019 the one thing we do work with here with nature is biological control so this is macromite we also use nematodes and we use these um throughout all that they're growing and so they travel with the plants so when you buy our plants they're introduced into your garden as well and we do this obviously working with nature and trying to protect the bee population um the same as obviously you quite often look that'll be really good for pollinating insects uh we sort of work with nature here as well to protect that for you this is a bench of species streptocarpus we keep in the greenhouse we collect the seed every year to form part of our national collection these ones here are streptocarpus core lessons and it's what's termed as a stemmed streptococcus with its visible tall stems they grow up to about 40 to 50 centimeters in height if you allow them you can pinch them back so it keeps them shorter and more stocky then another form of streptococcus are the unifoliates single leaf varieties they vary in size from the really really big ones like these which are about 30 centimeters in length that is streptococcus grandis and then some smaller ones here with the pale blue flowers they have nice big heads of flowers this is trabeculatus which is a smaller leafed unifoliate and then this one here is denticulatus it gives off a red dye on the back of the leaf if you're not careful and you can stain your fingers this is a nice little rosulet variety the roguelike ones are the tend to be the ones you see in the garden centers rosettes but this variety cyanandrus is actually an annual so we definitely have to keep the seed from it each year then we have a a range of rosulate varieties it's still early in the year for them to come into flower so not much color on them at the moment most of the species varieties only tend to have whites blues pale blues and sort of off-pink flowers anyway and this white flowering variety quenteniensis very small flowers but masses of them and this is the one variety that flowers more in the wintertime than it will in the summer and here we have some more of the stemmed species and some of the stemmed hybrids as well so the blue one at the back there is glandular systems and then this white one is actually a hybrid white butterfly this one here has masses of little blue flowers quirky eye and then this one has beautiful stems tomsonii the stems get quite thick and fleshy glandulosamus this can be quite a big growing variety if you let it grow away really well um but you can pinch it back and it will keep quite a nice tight plant pale pink one here is corlessen's par lessons which tends to have quite a fleshy leaf overall i think we got about 60 plus of the species variety so quite a collection [Music] we were expecting to be able to go to chelsea in may but then it was postponed but we're really really glad to be able to tell everyone that the show will still go on because here at the nursery we have enough room to be able to put up what would have been our last display at chelsea flower show and we're going to be doing it along with candide's festival of flowers which is running right the way through may the display that we're going to put up is going to be done to the same exacting standards as we would do up at the chelsea flower show in front of the rhs judges and we are wanting to make sure that it is built and ready to be previewed on what would have been the preview day which is the 17th of may 2021 the display will be made into the festival flower garden and this can be viewed via live links and videos on candygardening.com throughout the week while it is the show time for those of you who'd love to come and see the garden for yourselves and stroll around and take time just looking at the beauty of it then there is going to be the possibility of being able to book socially distanced timed slots and we are hoping we'll be able to be open to people for at least three weeks because with it being outside we can keep it maintained and looking really really good because we will be building it with plants in containers we will at the end of that time have to take it down we will then turn into a wildflower garden the main idea of the big display this year is pollinators all sorts of insects that are beneficial to our gardens there will be trees there will be hedging there will be seating and the wonderful arch structure will all be there for people to see in years to come we really hope that this garden is a fitting tribute and a fun farewell to chelsea after three decades of being there and exhibiting to the top standards now for a look around the virtual floral hall remember that most of these nurseries have plants for sale on the website [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] our gardener's question and answer sessions have proved exceedingly popular at the show martin is back to host another session well hello everybody and welcome to day two of the virtual flower show 2021 my name is martin fish and i'm with you this morning because we're going to have a gardening question and answer session and our panel members here before you are all well-known exhibitors that you'll see at all the flower shows across the uk normal times you probably didn't see them last year but hopefully they'll be back out on the circuit again later this year but for now we've managed to get them all here all their lovely advice is here for you to pick on so i would introduce them in no particular order we've got vicky fox from plantagogo surrounded by lovely hookers behind us we've got lynne dibbley from dibbly's the house plant specialist and that looks like a lovely streptococcus there lynn we've got matt soper from hampshire carnivorous plants alec white from primrose hall peonies steve hickman from hoiland plant center and rob evans from pheasant taker so that's the panel that we've got and we've had loads of questions in overnight so we'll get cracking with them and we're going to find out a bit more about growing plants from all these specialist growers again so in no particular order um alstroemeria's a questionnaire so i think this one might be for you alec um this is from somebody called uh y cycler um and they would like to plant some alstrom areas in the garden but they've been advised by a friend that they are very vigorous and will take over the garden um they actually want them to grow them as cut flowers so they're a little bit wary so they want to know if all varieties are invasive um and if they can plant them without them taking over the garden so what do you think alec well that's a good question and it's a question that we get asked quite a lot um the older varieties of australia um are anti-akka and such forth and the big tall orange ones and you've got a yellow one as well are great for cutting but they really do run particularly if you've got uh very light soil so if you've got light soil i would definitely avoid those but then the newer cultivated varieties um that you'll see around tend to um clump up and they don't tend to spread so if you want a tall one a yellow one a good one for cut flower friendship is a good one there's evening song there's pandora there's lots of uh varieties that that get um two foot six three foot tall so they make a good cut flower but actually um they're not going to run mostly in the garden center you'll find the dwarf ones um the inter cancer varieties which are great for pots and things but they don't get very tall so they're not so good for cutting so look out for the tournament yeah i uh my bike move on in my garden which is called um indian summer um which you do see in the garden center and it's probably a mid height it doesn't get to three feet but it certainly gets to two feet two feet and and they do make brilliant cut flower because they last for ages and ages in advance don't they so they really do and indian summer is particularly interesting because it has that wonderful dark bronze leaf with the orange flower which is so different so um yeah that makes a really good cutout okay thank you for that one alec um moving over to matt because i think this is probably a a matte question this is about saracinia and this comes in from darren um he's wants to know should he remove the flowers on his saracenia they think they're just starting to form at the moment the reason he asks is because he's been told it helps to do it with the venus flytrap so he wonders whether he should also do it with his saracenia yeah um it does help a lot with the venus fly trap the flower escape is about two foot long and it takes a lot of energy from the plant and so by removing the flower on a venus flow truck you get much bigger traps uh bigger leaf which is what you want the fly trap for it's a foliage plum for the saracenia we removed the flowers mainly because the flowers come up first followed by the pictures and when the pictures come up they sometimes get caught underneath the flowers and distort and bend so when we put a display on the flower shows it's a foliage display to remove we remove the fluff for that reason only i don't find it makes any difference in the growth of the plant by removing the flowers so if he likes the flowers leave them on there if he if he's not that keen on them remove them it's entirely up to him but it doesn't affect the growth of the plant yeah because i think the flowers on the saristini are quite attractive aren't they you know those biggish round flowers on a stalk i think i'd leave them i leave them on mine to be fair but but basically what you're saying is it's your choice it's not going to harm the plan i mean the one the ones that stay on the nursery that don't go to flower shows and they've all got their flowers on them it's only the ones we take to when we get around to chelsea we remove them all because they're a little bit tired compared with the foliage and it's an added bonus you get really nice flowers and nice foliage there aren't many plants that do that so um yeah i'd leave them on there i would personally okay right there you go that's your answer darren it's entirely up to you but um yeah that's the advice from the top man there right tommy g um has sent a question in about hookers um but he's got an area in his garden quite a bigish area that's in double shade and he wants to plant ground cover so he's he loves hookers um and he's looking ideally for ones that are more spreading rather than sort of small compact plants he wants something that is going to cover this area to give it a dense ground cover so are there any that are more suitable for that vicky than others yeah i mean we have trailing ones which are only training because we put them well actually who corellas are not hookers uh they're a cross between a tear out and a hooper but they're exactly the same thing love exactly the same conditions and they're great they have quite long trailers on them um and so in effect what they actually are is creeping ones that we've just all decided to put in a hanging basket really and call them trailers so it they actually come from the um the tiarella the trailing tyrellas which creep around in the forest and everything that they're growing in north america so so so they're ideal and you get them in lovely colors as well every year there seems to be another new variety come out of a training variety which you can use as creepy and and they'll get two to three foot spread on those uh as well there's also there's also bigger hookahs as well you can get ones that have three foot across um like the velocity such as guacamole and mega caramel and everything as well so they cover a large area but the nice thing about the um the trailing creeping varieties are um although they will root they don't like sucker down so if you suddenly change your mind i think gosh i want to get rid of these you can you just you could take them out you're not going to have a big jump on your hand to get rid of them okay that's good so they would give him that lovely carpet like a forest carpet in this area wouldn't it yes yes yeah yeah things like yellowstone falls redstone falls and those sorts of varieties we will look on the look on the website it tells you all of those so he wants to know a bit more i haven't come across the training ones before because vicky so if you were doing a like a perennial hanging basket would they trail down the side of a hanging basket or a wall manger yes yeah they'll get two to three foot trailers on them they get a bit tatty after the winter and and actually we suggest in the autumn just taking a little bit off the length um two to three foot when they're mature do you take a couple of years to mature um and but they start training almost straight away and if you get tatted or just take the scissors to them and just tidy them up you know you you can take you can take a foot off them if you want to and it just makes them bushier okay they're really easy right yeah and where would you get these from funnily enough as you need to get me on your website jolly good absolutely all right thanks vicky good right we've got a question about a house plant so i'm looking at linda with her streptococcus this is from um jean and jean says she remembers her grandma growing a plant and she had pretty flowers she used to grab on the windowsill she thinks it was called a hot water plant and she wants to know if that is right and if so are they easy to grow and how do you grow them and why are they called a hot water plant yes they are are chimneys which uh are related plants to streptocarpus and they grow through the spring and summertime and then die back for the winter and they die back to little rhizomes they're sort of like generally about two to three centimeters long they look like little white or brown maggots almost um and the theory was in the victorian times that you needed hot water to get them growing again this spring so that's where they got the common name from the hot water plant but basically you just need to plant them the rhizomes again in the springtime and they come back again once the temperature in the pots about 15 16 degrees centigrade right hence the water consumption was it to get them started yeah i mean what you can do you can put them in like a warm air in cupboards just until the sprouts start showing and then put them on the window sill but if you put them stuck try and stop them on a cool window sill they will be very slow so you do need warmth to get them going and then once they start growing they grow into like uh bushy plants uh with tall stems generally about 30 to 40 centimeters in height and they have colors of flowers from pinks whites yellows purples they're they're quite a broad range of varieties in there now yeah i remember we used to go when i was uh an apprentice on the plants and because the little rhizomes look like little maggots don't they um yeah yeah he's easily to be confused with um something like vine weevil my grubs as well so you have to be a bit careful because also if you do have vine weevil around um they will go through something like the um rhizomes in the pots through the winter time so your best in the autumn as the plant dies back take the rhizomes out of the compost store them frost free for the winter in a dark place and then re-sow them late springtime once it starts warming up again okay lovely right so look out for those and again i'm sure they'll be available on on a website at a house plant specialist near you won't they good right thank you very much jolly good right um question here from pete wilkinson uh about clivia's and and it's it's very short question to the point why won't my clivia flower i've had it for years and never a flower i want you to know steve this is a genuine question it's not one i've made up because look i'll just get my clipping in here so it's not me asking this question on behalf of somebody else so mine is in full flower so why isn't this clear from pete wilkinson flowering what might he be doing wrong after four years to get no flour right a simple answer as well clevia's of the same family as the agapantas amarillo daisy and we all know that agapantas do flower initially better if the pot bound the same with the clivia the clivia likes to be under potted rather than all the potted so pop them on every two here into acidic compost very well drained and and leave them don't be tempted to put them into too big a pot that's the first thing but the two main things is in the autumn time between september and october they do like a cold spell of about eight to ten a week below ten degrees so if you're growing clivias in your house take them outside onto a shady patio or somewhere in the garden under a tree bring them in before the frost and give them a bit of a chill that will set the bud in the bays for flowering in spring keep them on the very dry side december january that's the resting period and then come february start keeping them moist which is watering probably once twice a week depending how warm your room is and start to feed the feed is quite important the cold store puts the bud in the base the feed brings the stem up above the foliage and it flowers well if you don't feed properly it often flowers in the center of the rosette of leaves and you can't see it or it's not bother flowering at all and that's it in a nutshell really so it may be we don't know we can't ask pete but it might be that if he's been growing them in a warm house all through the year they're not getting that chill which is initiating flower buds so and you must and you must feed yeah okay i think the general purpose feed good balanced hours food slightly on the higher potash side and and you can't go wrong with them they really thrive under the leg from the sunshine a shade of wind to sell or in your room when i was uh or on our website something for the garden okay because you are a bit of a specialist in cleveland you've got have you got the national collection steve now yeah yeah i thought yeah we've got probably about 10 000 years just a few okay jolly good right thank you um right the only person that's not asked the question in this first round is rob so it's your turn now rob so this is um because you you grow all types of bulbs and and dailies but this is about gladiola yes which i know is something right you specialize in um this is from uh i haven't actually got a name for this one i do apologize but it's uh they want to know when is the best time to plan plant gladioli corms because they want them to flower in late august for a family occasion so they want to try and get their timing right right i don't know whereabouts they are in the country either so that probably doesn't help so a little just an idea on gladiolas when they're purchasing combs you want to get a call a decent sized corn to start with the flower late in the season now smaller combs flower quicker it's surprisingly if you the smaller the corm you plant the earlier they'll flower they'll flow in about 90 days but to get flowers for the end this end of august did you say yeah yeah you want to be planting around about the second week of may because the ground is a lot warmer at that time and once the comb breaks through the ground and germinates up through the ground hopefully if we've got normal conditions and we got nice sunny weather the only thing is make sure that they water well just before the sheath is coming through so feel in the stem normally you've got seven or eight leaves on the spike itself and you'll feel the flower stem coming up through the middle it's like a swelling between the leaves and when that's dead that's when they need to water so that's normally around about a month before you think about the flowers so that's an ideal time then but the best time for planting gladiators is from about the middle of april until the end of may to get the sequence of flowers from the beginning of august right the way through till the end of september right so it might be worth doing that as well rather than just exactly them all in one go staggering it over a few weeks so there's always going to be something in flower we have this year we have a customer who's got two weddings unfortunately he said he got two daughters and they're both getting married he said when the beginning of august and one the beginning of september and he's bought 200 gladioli coins and he's hoping to get them all in flower for both weddings so he's planted from as i told him start planting the middle of may and go right the way through to the end of sorry the middle of april until the end of may and you should get flowers for both weddings lovely that's great well thank you everybody and thank you everybody for watching the virtual flower show the other things happening of course and please please do keep supporting our specialist growers and exhibitors we've got some fantastic growers in the uk and we need to hang on to that expertise so they've all got websites that you can check and look at so thank you very much and have a good gardening year goodbye and thank you everybody [Music] you

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Published: Mon May 17 2021