YouTube Tuesday – Green Fingered Friends
Good afternoon, folks.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been rather green-fingered during Lockdown. I am usually, I might add, but not leaving the house so much means I’ve been able to focus on activities in the house – one of which is keeping cacti and succulents and a pine sapling I discovered in the garden I’m hoping to bonsai! Also, we moved house in January and if you’d have seen our back garden – man alive – so overgrown. There has been a lot of cutting back to be done. I mean, who plants seven buddleias in one garden?
Anyway, that’s enough about my green fingers, now it’s time to talk about Paul Church’s green fingers. In this week’s YouTube Tuesday video, he’s all about our fantastic Floral Friends Fresh Cut Dies. Using Designer Paper, Floral Friends and Nested Circles Dies, he’s got some great tips and tricks to show off as you learn how to create a beautifully-floral masterpiece.
Click the image above or the link here: https://youtu.be/V9ZRyKhMyEY to view the tutorial on our YouTube channel.
As always, there is 20% off the selection of essentials from the video, so you can try out the project at home. You can browse the selection here: https://claritystamp.com/collections/youtube-offers.
And, as always, we love yo see your artwork. Why not send us a little pic of your projects and let us know how you got on with Paul’s tutorial. Email us gallery@claritystamp.com and we might even show a few right here on the blog 😉
Well, that’ll do from me for now. But how about a little game to end? Who can tell me what the bush below is? It’s in my garden and it smells AMAZING! I’ll reveal the answer next Tuesday.
Clarity matters. It really does.
Stuart
Could it be Mexican Orange Blossom? (Choisya ternata in case you call it something different in the UK)
I’ve planted a few lettuces and some spinach, but that’s all that can grow safely this time of year where I live.
Think your plant is Philadelphus, more commonly known as Mock Orange.
I thought a Choisya but do they flowers this early? Definitely not a philadelphus, the leaf is wrong. How lovely to have something with a gorgeous scent.
I’d say Jasmine – the smell is wonderful.
I have a row of pots on my bedroom window sill. They are orchids and really like the north facing aspect. I only have to water them once a month and feed them a few drops of special food on the 1st Sunday of every month and they flower gloriously. It seems when one finishes flowering, another one takes up the baton. They absolutely thrive on neglect, which is a jolly good job!
I’m 99.9% sure it’s Choisya × dewitteana ‘Aztec Pearl’
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Drat – not sure what happened there
I think Gill W is right, leaves not right for a Philadelphus, flowers look more like a Choisya.
I love a good research hunt, so have a look at these pics and see what you think:
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https://gardeners.s3.amazonaws.com/p/297211_3.jpg
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Happy Gardening, Claire
Hi, I think it’s a Choisya. They do smell fantastic my mum has one and it’s covered in flowers.
Hello, I think its Choisya ternata White Dazzler. I have one in my garden – lovely scent and covered in flowers at the moment. It also has a smaller flush of flowers in the autumn.
My choice would be Choisya – I hadn’t realised there were so many varieties. We have a golden one, took a while to start growing but now has lovely white flowers in the spring. Think this may be
– Choisya x dewitteana ‘White Dazzler’
I moved in March and have so far removed over 60 trees and shrubs. Just to give a flavour, there were four full size trees and three shrubs in a triangular corner bed with sides less than two metres underplanted with literally hundreds of daffodils and sedum – but the weeds still found space to grow through everything. Honestly, it is really small but with the plants for a park! I assume they were cute when small?! Good luck with your bonsai and cacti. I was given a cactus when I was 18 and had it 27 years. I was heartbroken when it had a mishap. But the key to good growth here is a small plush sausage dog with red and white striped jumper called Reindeer. I’ll have to investigate dinosaurs! Thanks for the tip, Stuart.
Loved Paul’s teach in with the asymmetric ring. So clever and effective.