🌳🌻🌳 BACK YARD BORDER in the Potager // Linda Vater

[Music] well i appreciate the heck out of you guys helping me in the garden today i have been promising for a long while that i was going to finish up this beautiful allium border stewart if you don't mind kind of doing a turn around so people can see the length of the border but that i was going to finish working up because all working this up and getting it looking really nice because um the alliums and everything will be coming into bloom pretty soon and i'm almost finished so i thought i would ask you guys to help me with just a little bit more of the things that need to be done i didn't require your presence a little bit earlier i started working without you but now that you're here i would have you help me at the other end of this border do what i'm doing here with these hedge clippers so i am clipping back pretty hard all of this tall phlox and you may be wondering well hasn't bloomed yet it's still early in the year why are you doing that well one of the reasons i'm doing it is because it's already got powdery mildew the other reason is because i want it to thicken up i'm doing that chelsea chop where i'm cutting back perennials early in the season so that they will get thicker and it will also delay their bloom time so i've just got my long handled pruners and that's making short work of all of this i've already done it at the other end and i've come back in and i have also already cleaned up some of the long stuff these long vines of this virginia creeper i actually like the way the virginia creeper looks as you know climbing across the top but i don't want it to go down and start growing in my garden beds so i'm cleaning that up now today i thought it would be fun to introduce you to some of the products that are that's in my linda vauder signature gardening collection that's going to be on qvc now i don't know exactly what time but i'm going to have an hour long show on may 6th introducing you to some of these products and i don't even know price points yet everything is very fluid because we put this collection together pretty quickly and but as soon as i know details i will let you know with all sorts of links etc etc directly to the products and to show time and everything this is one of them that's in the collection this is part of my kobo basket i just love these lightweight weatherproof baskets and you can see that i'm even using it for my garden debris and they're just they're just wonderful you guys i don't care about them getting wet i don't care about them getting dirty or rotting out at the bottom bottom in fact you know me the dirtier they get the better i like it and so these are just wonderful and i could use this for a pretty purpose but right now i've got one that i'm just using for a utilitarian purpose to catch my garden debris now you may be wondering why i have all of these boxwood clippings around the base of my boxwood well here's why because i just shot a video for lively lithium power tools and yes instead of my long-handled pruners i use these battery operated [Applause] hedge shears now i used it on both of these at the ends and i think they're going to be great i don't know that i'll be using them yet on the boxwood hedge but i wanted to really try them out and it they worked brilliantly you guys i'll put a link to this below but the reason that there are clippings because you know i normally put a tarp around the base of whatever it is i'm shearing is because i i really clearly wanted to show in that video what it looked like um and it wouldn't have it just wouldn't have worked with a white tarp underneath that so i've got these clippings to clean up there's not a whole lot of them so that shouldn't be too much of a problem so i'll continue to work on this end over here you guys i've i think i may have already pointed out to you that i i potted up the bay tree some pineapple guava a little miss figgy and i want to show you a couple of things if i can do it without impaling myself on these head shears so stuart let me go back in here this is kind of some of my uglies you guys but look at this miss figgy it came back i'm so excited it came back and i happen to know that once it gets hot this is going to grow like gangbusters now over here stewart i don't know if you can contort yourself to get in here but looky there this was a pineapple guava gambino pineapple guava bambino pineapple guava from the southern living plant collection i did not think this made it you guys i cut it back hard and look at those little green buds on there those little green projectiles that's so exciting to me so that tells me that it's got really good strong root development and it will come back and hopefully be beautiful and very vigorous and a nice gray juxtapoint against this glossy green wintergreen boxwood now i also i had something different uh i can't even remember what i had in this broken pot whatever it was it didn't make it through the arctic blast so i repotted it with some of these olive trees and by the way recently i saw some olive trees at lowe's and i think at home depot but i'm pretty sure it lows they were small but i i had a number of these smaller olive trees that i took out of the greenhouse this year and at my friend john's and i brought them back and i re-potted two or three of the smaller ones into this one bigger pot and i'm really going to try to sculpt them a little bit more this year because i really want to define the architecture of the trunks and then at the base i planted some of this beautiful creeping thyme that you may recall in some of my other videos and stills it turns a fabulous purple color in the wintertime so by the end of the summer i anticipate that that will spread over the entirety of the surface of this pot and i do love i just do love the broken shard quality of this i think it reminds me of of native american ruins my husband is kind of into anthropology and archaeology and it kind of reminds me of that and of course i've got it mulched in gravel now let's talk a little bit about gravel gravel is a very subjective thing um you guys know that i love it and i love all forms of gravel all kinds of gravel but i don't necessarily like them all together so in my own garden for example i only use this i believe it's earth naturals from lowe's pretty much exclusively now indoors is if i was using some i might use some black uh black stone some black gravel or something along those lines maybe even white for a different kind of look inside but because i want them to harmonize with the gravel that i've got in the pads and in the beds i want to use the same thing pretty much the same thing in the same color palette because i think that creates unity and harmony with the rest of the garden and i i really don't want anything to kind of stand out so if i had white gravel or something i think it would really scream that it was different from the rest now that's just my my thinking you may like the contrast of different kinds of gravel and different colors of gravel and by all means you do what speaks to you in the garden because my way isn't necessarily the right way it's just the way that i do it so you guys have your own style and your own predilections when it comes to those kinds of things so something else that i'm doing is okay let me let me kind of get regroup here stuart for just a moment so you guys for the longest time have been asking me about these lattice work plant supports in my garden and i never could really give you a good answer on where you could find them because there was no place to find them until now so this is another thing in my qvc line these are going to come in three different finishes this is black they're going to come in a galvanized metal in fact stuart if you want to kind of slowly pan over there you can see one in the galvanized metal that matches the buckets perfectly i love it when they match another feature and then i don't have it here to show but they're also going to come in a burnished copper which is really high end now there's a million different ways you guys can use these i would love for you to comment below on how you would use them in your garden here's just a couple of different ways but i love the way this looks against these black titan poles from those are from gardner supply but look i planted in this pot which is weatherproof as promised i told you i was going to do it and i did i planted i transplanted a couple of those baby cardoons that finally had germinated as part of my bucket brigade planting and i transplanted them in here and then because i told you i wanted to do a gray montage look i've got these garbanzo beans planted around the edge and these i think are going to twine and kind of climb this metal to tour just beautifully this metal support so it will both be very decorative and very beautiful and then around the perimeter i have this french tarragon so this will all get big it will be mature and be gorgeous once it's mature but until it does this plant support will kind of hold its own again as soon as i know when those are going to be available i will let you know now another thing because i told you i was really trying to consolidate a lot of my pots this year and mother nature made it easy because so many things died i had in this i think i told you i had an arizona cypress topiary that was had three balls it died i cut it off and now i'm transplanting its contents and one of the things in there was be careful backing up stuart there's a bucket right behind you got it okay stu stuart and i we just one thing i love about stuart is he just is he's like a little kid and he constantly just marvels of the beauties and the wonderful qualities of just nature in general he's like a little kid seeing things for the first time aren't you stuart yep you kind of are okay so i'm going to plant i've already planted one bunch of it let me come back here because i need to get my scissors if i can find them and maybe i can't shows why i need to have my gardening apron on but i'm going to plant some of this creeping woolly thyme stewart if you can show them the batch that i just planted here i'm planting this along the border for it to creep over the edge it was in that pot previously and i'm going to plant some here now i've got because it wants really wonderful drainage i'm amending the soil here which by the way i've got clay soil and clay soil is really nutrient dense so i don't really have to worry especially for herbs that don't like a lot of supplemental fertilization i don't have to worry about that too much but what i do always make sure that i've got and that's good drainage so what i'm doing is adding some coarse builders sand to the mix anytime i want to have really good drainage to something oh alliums lilies uh thyme mediterranean kinds of plants then i'll add some sharp coarse builder sand not play sand which is finer and i'll mix that in with the existing soil and i'll put that in place and there's already some gravel in here now you see that there's some winter kill on some of this time but that's what i was looking for my scissors for i'll clip that out and pretty soon as soon as it warms up it will start spilling out over the edge and i think be really beautiful because i need something to spill out over the edge and i want it to be in kind of a mediterranean language which is why i had that rosemary here before that chef's choice rosemary which lasted for so long until the arctic blast and then it was gone and stuart and i were just commenting that now the wind is starting to pick up it was really beautiful and quiet this morning and there was just no no telltale gust of wind but now it's back like an old friend an old penny that keeps turning up okay so i've all of these now are pretty much in position to bloom the poppies the allium i may move around my pots a little bit and do a little bit more with them you can see that some of the iris i think i pointed out the other day the iris are starting to get big buds on them and pretty soon like for example in the back the sunshine ligustrum behind these emerald green arborvitaes that's starting to come back all of this with warmth and the wonderful rain we had will really start to come into its own so the only thing that i'll have to do then after cutting back the rest of that tall flocks i've done my pruning i've done what transplanting i'm going to do and then the only thing that i will have remaining in addition to just a little bit of tidying up the only thing that i'll have remaining to do is to just mulch okay and then you know i'll show it again i've showed it a million times i love this happy grow landscapers mix because it just creates a really fine textured base and what it can do is just cover a multitude of uglies so let's see right here i just toss some of that in place i'll spread it around and i'll have this beautiful homogeneous look all up and down the border and that'll be it really then it will just be ready to strut its stuff and just be absolutely gorgeous and wait for the color to arrive once i get down this mulch i'll probably start planting some zinnia seeds and some other cut flowers that i want to come in to replace the things that will have faded from bloom over time and i will i will do that but for right now once it gets all mulched all beautiful i think it'll be really pretty i appreciate your help in the garden um now it's just a waiting game so i'm going to finish mulching this and all in the thumbnail how about that stuart and the thumbnail we'll put it looking all pristine and beautiful so right now i'm going to finish up thank you guys for helping

Channel: Linda Vater

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Length: 18min 38sec (1118 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 24 2021