Channel Title: Planted with Ian Cooke Channel Description: Planted is dedicated to the enthusiastic gardener, home owner or landscape professional that is looking to achieve more with plants. Ian Cooke shares his 30+ years of horticultural experience and shows you how he grows his plants in his Connecticut courtyard. He dismantles the many myths and fables about plant culture and can set you on a path to success. If you want more color, more texture, more fragrance, more flowers and more success with your plants you have come to the right place. Ian Cooke is very enthusiastic about plants and planting, if you want to move beyond the usual and overused plants then Ian can help you select, buy and manage a unique plant collection. Have an estate and want more interest? Ian can help deliver a vibrant plant palette from specialist growers across the US. <video> Dig up Musa basjoo side shoots Description: I have grown this hardy banana for many years and it is a favorite with pedestrians. The they find out it is permanently planted year round and requires just a thick layer of leafs in mid December once cut back to 3 feet tall they are delighted. In this video I show you why and how to establish this plant in your garden </video> <video> Ivy Leaf Geranium - an easy, colorful and graceful plant anyone can grow Description: I have grown this plant for decades with outstanding success. it is a flowering machine with color from May - September. Anyone can grow it </video> <video> Begonia grandis - Hardy Begonia Description: This is a zone 6 Begonia that will reliable stay in the ground year round and never need replanting </video> <video> Salvia possibly 'Rocking Deep Purple' Description: There are many Salvia plants but a few of them are so good they make it into my garden . I believe this Salvia is 'Rocking Deep Purple' it came to me with no name tag. Well behaved, very long flowering window, hummingbird magnet and easy to grow what more can you want. Plant in the ground in Early May for endless flower production. As see Salvia Amistad. https://youtu.be/RfDaoTpvImY </video> <video> Erythrina x bidwillii - Coral Bean Plant Description: I have grown this plant for 5 years and it continuers to amaze me. Healthy, tough, needs winter protection in my area and us a hummingbird magnet with the spectacular flower clusters. Well worth the effort </video> <video> Hardy Fiber Banana - Musa basjoo. Add a touch of tropical foliage even in zone 6! Description: If you want a talking point in your garden, this is the plant for you. The Hardy banana. Plant it in the ground, on a south facing location and cover it with leafs in the winter and you will get this huge foliage next spring. Hardy to zone 6 </video> <video> Corkscrew Vine, Vigna caracalla, Cochliasanthus caracalla Description: The most popular plant I grow, exotic, spectacular flowers and fragrant </video> <video> Cobaea scandens alba Description: A very elegant vine plant that will scramble over fences and grow through plants, Easy to grow but difficult to find </video> <video> A reliable fruiting Fig in Connecticut - Long of August Fig Description: I live in Connecticut in Zone 7b and this is a remarkable fig that ripens fruit every year </video> <video> Elephant Ears - Colocasia esculenta Black Runner Description: If you like big foliage this plant is for you. Not hardy in Connecticut but these plants thrive planted in the ground in early May and then lifted and over wintered in early October </video> <video> Ribbon Plant - Homalocladium Description: Widely available and often grown as a house plant, but if you give it space it will reward you with sweeping architectural foliage </video> <video> How to score free plants Description: October is a wonderful month to find and pot up spare side shoots and seedlings its a very easy skill and will give you lots of plants you can trade for plants you don't have In this video I carefully dig up a Tetrapanax, a Mimosa and a white Plumbago, I prune the roots and plant them into pots with new potting mix. for more on the white plumbago ave a look at this https://youtu.be/OzcEGyMS-6I </video> <video> Lotus jacobaeus Description: This is a very disarming plant. It's muted, elegant with very attractive dark chocolate flowers. Give it bright sun and free draining conditions and it will reward you with constant flower production through the summer months and into October It requires winter frost protection </video> <video> Papyrus Description: If want to grow an easy architectural show stopper then this is it. Papyrus is the common name and is the origin of paper. Not hardy, requires frost free winter conditions but is well worth the effort. Plant it in the ground and do not let it dry out and you will be rewarded with huge arching stems </video> <video> White Plumbago Description: The widely available pale blue Plumbago is a garden favorite, but this white form is remarkably beautiful. Tough and resilient with a very long, uninterrupted flowing window from April to October here in Connecticut. Plant it in the ground rather than in a pot and stand back for endless flower production </video>

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Planted is dedicated to the enthusiastic gardener, home owner or landscape professional that is looking to achieve more with plants. Ian Cooke shares his 30+ years of horticultural experience and shows you how he grows his plants in his Connecticut courtyard.
He dismantles the many myths and fables about plant culture and can set you on a path to success. If you want more color, more texture, more fragrance, more flowers and more success with your plants you have come to the right place.

Ian Cooke is very enthusiastic about plants and planting, if you want to move beyond the usual and overused plants then Ian can help you select, buy and manage a unique plant collection. Have an estate and want more interest? Ian can help deliver a vibrant plant palette from specialist growers across the US.

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