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Take a look inside the stunning multi-coloured garden in Bristol - which gets redesigned every year
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05/08/2024
An amateur gardener who has become a local legend in Bristol for his multi-coloured garden has says this years garden is "better than ever".
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Hi everybody, my name is Sean Schroeder, I live in Whitchurch in Bristol.
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Starts in February, in the house, where I start from seed, a lot of the bedding is done
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from seed, and then later on in April when the plants start coming out into the garden
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centres, I usually go every Sunday to a few garden centres, I'll buy a plant and then
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come back and then I'll take cuttings from it and start to grow them on, only in the
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house until end of March, because I haven't got a heated greenhouse.
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Takes about two and a half weeks to three weeks to plant everything up, with the back
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garden and the front garden, and I also do the community garden, that is usually with
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plants that I've got left over, I'll plant up the garden for the community.
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Well there's lots of different types of petunias, there's something like 200 varieties, so I
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do about 2000 plants, over 200 pots and containers, I do 500 to 600 cuttings and bring them on,
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so all together I would say there is just hundreds of varieties, too many to count.
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It's been bad this year, because we had a lot of rain, so that brought the garden back
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a couple of weeks, and now it's boiling hot sunshine, which they don't like, so the watering,
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you've got to keep up with the watering when it's like this, at least once, maybe twice
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a day, and bugs, the bugs this year, the whitefly are attacking all the plants, so you've got
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to try and keep on top of that, it's never easy being a British gardener.
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I've adopted it from Bristol City Council, they don't complain, nobody's ever stopped
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me from doing it, and the locals that walk down through the park just comment on it and
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say it's lovely, so I'll keep doing it.
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It brings a smile to their face, and there's nothing like a compliment, you know, and they
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say look, your garden's lovely, I show hundreds of people around the garden, because most
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people just see the front garden and the park garden, so if they're having a good look,
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I'll bring them round and I'll show them the back, and they're always impressed.
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