'I planted over 200 hanging baskets' - inside Bristol's most colourful garden - video Dailymotion

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A gardening expert's has revealed his top tip to keep your plants alive ahead of the blistering dry weekend - a £4 product available from most garden centres.  Shaun Schroeder, 60, plants around 140 hanging baskets and fence planters each year in his garden in Whitchurch, Bristol.  He adds that making sure plants get enough water in hot climes can become a "full-time job" and costly.

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00:00Hi everybody, my name is Sean Schroeder. I live in Whitchurch in Bristol. Starts in February in

00:14the house where I start from seed. A lot of the bedding is done from seed and then later on in

00:21April when the plants start coming out into the garden centres I usually go every Sunday to a

00:27few garden centres. I'll buy a plant and then come back and then I'll take cuttings from it and start

00:34to grow them on only in the house until end of March because I haven't got a heated greenhouse.

00:40Takes about two and a half weeks to three weeks to plant everything up with the back garden and

00:45front garden and I also do the community garden. That is usually with plants that I've got left over

00:52I'll plant up the garden for the community. Well there's lots of different types of

00:56petunias there's something like 200 varieties so I do about 2,000 plants, over 200 pots and containers.

01:06I do 500 to 600 cuttings and bring them on so all together I would say that there is just hundreds

01:15of varieties too many to count. It's been bad this year because we had a lot of rain so that brought

01:20the garden back a couple of weeks and now it's boiling hot sunshine which they don't like so

01:26the watering you've got to keep up with the watering when it's like this at least once maybe twice a day

01:32and bugs the bugs this year the white fly are attacking all the plants so you've got to try and

01:38keep on top of that it's never easy being a British gardener. DOP did it from Bristol City Council,

01:44they don't complain nobody's ever stopped me from doing it and the locals that walk down through the

01:50park just comment on it and say it's lovely so I'll keep doing it. It brings a smile to their face

01:57and there's nothing like a compliment you know and they say look your garden's lovely I show hundreds

02:03of people around the garden because most people just see the front garden and the park garden

02:08so if they're having a good look and I'll bring them around and I'll show them the back and they're

02:13always impressed

02:43so

'I planted over 200 hanging baskets' - inside Bristol's most colourful garden

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