April Garden Tour + Project Updates! 💚// Garden Answer

[Laughter] [Music] hey guys how's it going this is our April garden tour I have so many beautiful things to show you in our garden things are just waking up super fast and there's some beautiful bulbs blooming I want to also give you some project updates because we have a lot of those going on too so there's a lot of things kind of Midway done or not even started yet and then I want to end up on the new property at the end of this video and show you everything that's going on up there because things are moving along quickly it's very exciting there's just like never a dull moment this spring it feels like so I wanted to start right here because this redbud tree is the most glorious red but this is an Eastern redbud that I've about ever seen and I am super partial anyway to multi-trunk trees like this I think they're super interesting to look at in fact when I planted some birch trees on the west side I couldn't find a multi trunk so I just planted three pots three three potted birch trees all together in the same hole because I wanted this effect in the end and it's just a live with honeybees and it's a live with blooms and it's just so beautiful I love this time of year it's one of my favorite views especially because it kind of goes over creates a canopy over our outdoor fireplace area here which if you move in this way a bit you can see the Korean spice viburnum right there is also in full glorious bloom and it smells so wonderful so yeah definitely a good choice for viburnum this one is also it's evergreen in our garden I don't know if it reacts that way in all gardens but it keeps its leaves all winter and it's just always a really nice background shrub right here we've got the lilac that I had attacked last year you might remember what it looked like it was full of suckers and you can see they're all growing back so I'm going to have to come up in here and clean them out again and really I just did that kind of rejuvenation prune to clean the tree up I know it's not going to last forever it's got boars pretty bad and I'd have to put a lot of chemical in the ground to kind of counteract all of the boars that are in there so I know we'll probably only get a year maybe two out of this tree but I want to keep it cleaned up and looking like this because again multi-trunk shrub looks really beautiful and you can see that it's blooming as well I think I think yeah I noticed some color on there this morning so those panicles are just starting to open up and they're looking beautiful so this is just a light lavender colored lilac and I like that now that it's opened up you can see through it so you can see the other flower beds now I planted some agapanthus in here last year five of them as just kind of a fun plant because I had never planted them before there is own seven and so they're an annual typically here for us but we had such a mild winter that they're starting to come back which is so exciting to me we did mulch them up with leaves so this is like the only spot on the entire property that had a big thick layer of leaves over the top of the plants to just like see what would happen and see if we could get them to grow again and they're doing it which is awesome this is dead you can tell I transplanted this from in front of the gazebo last year it did really good all season and I was out here I think it was yesterday and I kind of like had to come over and take a closer look at that yep that is dead that totally kicked the bucket this winter which if you look inside of me a super woody it only had green growth right on the tips I was hopeful for it but I have an extra one in the greenhouse from a container project last year that I'll pop in its place right behind that I've got a really beautiful drift of tulips which I thought I planted the brownie variety which is much more orange which clearly this is not it and those came up behind the gazebo I don't know what variety this is I'm going to have to look it up they're not labelled up hocks those I planted up where the other ones are these are more a pink and the LaBelle's are a little bit more smokey mauve but they're beautiful double with really thick stems which I really like that in a tulip behind that we've got the Vidal tulip blend which it's just starting to go out of prime especially like right in here which is kind of odd these are starting to lose petals but I'm really happy with how the whole blend came back I don't think we lost any they all bloomed there was a time when this entire hedge was just in full thick white bloom and I noticed too that it looks like all the varieties that were in here came back and I noticed in some of our other tulip blends I'd have like a specific variety come back very weak so I'll show you that behind the chicken coop but this one came back beautifully I planted a few little white stock they're just little annuals and they only really do spring here in our area but they add a really beautiful scent into the air we've got the hid coat lavender not hid coat Munstead lavender hedge right here which we did a cutting back video earlier and they're all coming back beautifully we are gonna have to do a little bit of work on this bed who cries that will fill in I have bleeding hearts and hostas and ferns that are just barely coming up so it does look a little scamp right now but you know how it goes flower buds just take awhile sometimes to fill in I have some hydrangeas here that just have always struggled these are the AHA hydrangeas I have a little growth at the base here I just have I have a hard time with macro filos in general in my garden which is really too bad I'm gonna keep trying but I just don't think this is the area maybe because they're not getting enough Sun they are shaded in the early part of the morning by a locust that's on my right they get a little block of Sun and then they're shaded for the rest of the day so I just made it think that they're not getting enough Sun and not loving it in this spot so I'm gonna it's kind of a new opportunity to plant something else which is really exciting this one is also going to be removed this is a Tater Tot ARB which I don't know what happened to it other ones beautiful and I have one in front of me I'm going to be digging up and moving to this spot and that just happens you know usually after the course after a winter you might lose one or two or three things in your garden depending on the size of your garden and then moving this way you can see the Korean spice viburnum there look at this like if you stand here you can see the little Belle Epoque tulips the Korean spice viburnum and then the red bud in the background so many beautiful layers and there's a lot of interest too of course with the furniture and the the fence section there I still have to mulch almost everything I've only mulched a few like a handful of beds so you can still see drip tubing and stuff but that's just kind of a normal spring chore that we get to as we get to it you know so it just they wait until we have time to do it this area here I designate for annual so I usually put coleus in here and then some kind of plant in the front I've got some white mums I planted here les all that I will dig up and move probably to the Westside I had kale in here and when I pulled all the kale up it kind of messed up my tulips right there which is no big deal I can fix that hello bars are still going strong these are the pink frost and this is kind of how their blooms aged so this is a little bit of a younger bloom here and then they aged out to more of a kind of solid color so see that younger one there and a more aged one and they look like that for most of the season which is awesome so they'll just hold their blooms that look a little bit more I guess less vibrant but I don't even mind it I think it's really beautiful so let's swing around to the lawn so this side right here if you take a look at just the section I do have the hydrangeas I think they're the invincible rubies and they are pretty much all coming back really strong lots of hellebores in here this is something new that I planted in our bulb planting video this is like summer snowflake I think is what it's called look at how beautiful those are they're like snow drops but tall like like daffodil foliage a long tall stem and then these beautiful just magical looking fairy flowers and I'm hoping they naturalize and spread I've got them all over in a spread they kind of wrap around this whole lilac they're just starting to bloom right now so they came out later than a lot of my tulips but I really like that texture in there and then I've planted a bunch of bright lights pink osteo sperm um or African Daisy right here and we'll see how they do this area gets quite a bit of Sun lots of good strong Morning Sun and I think that they'll do well I've had to list them in this spot before but I thought it would be fun to choose something that got a little bit taller but these don't get enormous I mean eight to twelve inches tall I thinking about that wide so they should fill in this space really beautifully and then Harris the hair needs a new hairdo very badly I would probably not get clothes on him I like the structure of him right here but I think what I'm gonna do is pull off all the old simp plant material take the drip off and I might just pop new moss in him and just let him be a moss bunny and not even try to grow something on him it's too hard to irrigate and I don't like having things that I have to drag hoses out I can't have that many things I'll do a handful this whole area pretty much is iceberg roses I've got a few volunteer trees that have seated and are coming up so I need to take care of those I see one right there that's a pretty good sized locust tree Lewis anybody need the locust tree yeah so that's kind of growing out of the base of a rose right there I need to take care of and then underneath the pines which I need to refill my bird feeders these have been so wonderful and the birds are just crazy they like the black oil sunflower seed it's the best and I just ran out so I need to go to the store and get some but we've got the Brenna this is the Jack of Diamonds I think or Queen of Hearts I can't remember which one we planted right here but I love the mass of them and they should as they mature they can't like 30 inches wide so it should be a solid drift of Brenna which have these beautiful light blue forget-me-nots looking flowers and I love through the lamium to kind of fill in this area as well we've got autumn Frost hostas that actually swing around the whole front side and these are the lemony lace elderberries which I didn't know how they would do exactly under this in like at this light sort of situation but they do get a little bit of Morning Sun and then it's filtered because the pines aren't super thick and then they get a pretty strong block in the late afternoon but they've done really well they did great last year I have a Japanese maple planted in between the two pine trunks right there and then we've got some hookah rus' the wild berry hookahs in here and more autumn Frost hostas this has been a really fun area this is where we do plan on putting a brick walkway at some point but when we get ready to do that that's going to mean all of this comes up and we're going to redo this whole area so this will probably just be able mulch walkway for a little while got some tulips that are beautiful I think there's some that are still in their prime these are the a barons look at this look at how gorgeous that tulip is it's like different layers on the outside double kind of creamy yellow with the red edges there you can see a lot of them are starting to fade out at this point but boy they've been beautiful here I have the Kelly carpet I planted boy purple rolls or program can't remember any names today pearl glam cala carpet they clearly have not done very well in this area I thought we were gonna make it last year they were showing signs of chlorosis so in iron deficiency we've treated them I just I think they like acidic soil and we just can't give it to him and calloc karpas and the idea is the summer sweets they just don't do well for us and I've tried multiple times but again we'll take these out and put something in something new which will be fun a new opportunity so let's check out the tool shed area I really like this spot since the tool shed has been painted white this whole structure leans a little bit to one side but it is on a concrete pad I had our guy that does a lot of projects around here for us he came and checked it out and said it's sound it's not going anywhere but we thought about maybe even having a roof kind of like changing the roof into a planting area to do a roof scape I don't know if that's what you call it but I love seeing those like where you where people have planted sedum and grasses and things like that on top of a roof that might be something that we tackle at some point but I did plant a David Austin Rose right here maybe the poet's wife no not the poet's wife it's a climber so I will be putting a trellis of some kind here and training the Rose to go up kind of over the window and I also wanted to show you the boxwood this is the boxwood that came out of one of our front flowerbeds the very first season we lived here planted it in this big giant container and it looked like kind of a macaroon for the length of its life in this container but so heavy we put it in this brick circle kind of elevated it up in here for one year while this was still all planted up with like cactus and lavender and some other native things and so it was kind of the centerpiece when we redid it we moved it over there and there it still lives and it's doing really well like it looks better than it ever has in that container and I had a lot of people say that I was going to kill that box would be digging it up so I always feel like I want to point it out and say look the boxwood lives and it's doing really well now my Ruby glow you euphorbia doesn't look so hot it looks like it's it suffers a little bit I don't know what's going on here is it just really dry no this is what we do with things like oh look at that it looks pretty good oh I planted a Colette another Colette Rose on this trellis I have collapse on the are birds that go into our vegetable garden and I really like that climbing rose so I think that'll be really pretty and I've got a clematis and some herbs out here already the rosemary and the oregano I had planted in here we did a little spaghetti planter last year and I had a tomato and basil and garlic and one of the garlic I clearly missed it when I harvested garlic out of here but it's still here the rosemary and oregano are original and then I added some chives and catnip and a little ornamental strawberry back there along with the clematis it's kind of fun when you have containers with leftovers from last year and you can just add a few things and be done this area is really quite fun so the chicken coop flowerbeds were brand new last year because you know the run was built on last spring about this time last spring it wasn't done until the very end of April so this whole area was all new this this soil is really interesting because it was previously just gravel and it wasn't necessarily a place where people parked it was just a place where nobody ever had worked up the soil and done in the event so it's really hard soil especially right in front of the coop but I came in amended it tilled up the soil and then made just this little brick edging to kind of create a border between mulch and gravel so we didn't have a constant mess going on and I like distinction I like to have like that's why I like fences around things like a bra my vegetable garden and I like the boundaries that that gives and I like boxwood hedge and all of that so the brick kind of gave that to this area and then we extended our pallet walkway which the new pallets that we put in because it only came to here previously this was about where it ended so all of these were new and they were all bright and shiny last year and they have aged out to that nice grey patina and this will be the third season with this walkway with this section and it's still just like as good as new now we live in a very dry climate and we had two really nice mild winters that weren't very what so that probably contributes to the fact that it still looks so good and these what pieces of wood are just sitting right on top of mulch there's no special under layer or anything it was just kind of a inexpensive quick way to make something of this area when we didn't have the time or resources at the time to put any anything fancier and now I love it there's something really magical and whimsical about this space I think and it's been fun to fill in so we did the cottage garden last year which I've got for Lady Gardener roses some serendipity alliums cat's pyjama nepeta which I then repeated I need to cut him back already because they were blooming a little early and this is an avalanche perch right here which I'm hoping grows really really fast because we need a good source of shade around this chicken coop and I'll show you the other tree I have to plant here in a second but I just had annuals in this space last year so I'm trying to decide what I want to plant and then in front of the chicken coop more nepeta these are peachy cream roses so they're just a really nice light peach color this is a Miss violet buddleja so dark purple butterfly bush with that peachy color rose purple nepeta this is a zephyr and rouen climbing Rose planted last spring and these are thornless rose bright pink flowers that I clearly need to do a lot of training so I think we'll do a video when I get ready to train these and start attaching them to the coupe which should be should have been earlier than now because they're kind of getting out of control weeping Colorado blue spruce right here in this one I will just allow to grow about this tall and then it can kind of just do its weepy thing and be a nice winter accent out here we've got the rooster statue that one of you guys got for us which is really awesome this is our resident rooster since I don't keep roosters I just have hens I'm and then just a smattering of tulips that I have leftover from up front of the Frizzle sizzle blue pansies and the boxwoods I love the little three little box ones in here I trimmed them kind of early so a little bit of tip damage from a cold night and then I've been loving like everything is really dry cuz it was really windy last night loving the yellow miraculous with the light yellow violas I think that's been really pretty but if you look at this view check this out the tulips like the pink and purple tulips and then you see the yellow ridiculous and then the pink red but in the background I think it's so pretty and I did a lot of repeat of this light yellow color so I did it in these containers those two the one in front of the toolshed the ones in front of the gazebo the four in front of the barn and I loved the repeat of color I think it brings some harmony to this space and there's not like just too much going on because we just tend to always have a lot going on so the brick edging actually ends right here because we were going to have and we're still going to take the pavers up on this side because these were here when we moved in and we lost a big elm tree last year so that was our huge shade and our huge structure that I missed so much but we'll be replacing that with an October glory maple which these grow 50 by 35 I want to say so a really good sized tree beautiful deep deep red fall color but I want to get these pavers picked up and then just continue the brick edging on and we were gonna have the landscaper who helped us with the brick walkway on the west side do it but now we kind of have shifted our project priority which I'll talk about when we're at the new property and so we are not going to spend the budget on doing the brick edging professionally I'm just going to do it myself so it won't be done professionally but it'll look kind of like the ones in front of the chicken coop and it will serve its purpose for now we'll get rid of the pavers will have the brick there to keep the mulch in the gravel separate and it'll just be a more harmonious look because these I don't think are meant to be used like this so but this is the penitent tulips right here last year was the first year in our soil planted and they were really really thick and beautiful still beautiful but not near as thick and I don't know if it was because we had such a mild dry winter that some of our tulips have struggled a little bit but I noticed there's one particular variety here that's got like green petals with a pink fringe that was much more prevalent or prom in this mix last year and I'm only seeing just a handful like five in this whole area that came back so that's what I was talking about up front how some blends like maybe there's a variety in there in that blend that doesn't quite have the same vigor as the other ones oh we're gonna get a little Sun here may be such a nice overcast day but you can see the pallet walkway how it kind of winds through this area the Avalon daffs right here these always come back beautifully and these are kind of unique looking they've got the yellow outer petals with the creamy white centers just something different right here I love that and then this Japanese maple I just transplanted from right behind the chicken coop because I had to make room for that maple so I just dug it up a couple days ago and put it right here and I'll just keep it nice and trimmed kind of over the walkway here we've got a oak leaf hydrangea a lot of things coming back in here more you euphorbia there's more climbing roses more Brunner ax right in here isn't that just such a beautiful perennial they do so well for us here and there's such a gorgeous spring show and I honestly like I love the flowers but I wouldn't even mind if they didn't have flowers because their leaves are so interesting and every every variety is just so different look at that look at the buds kind of look pinkish and then we've got a hedge of Care Act's that kind of swoops this whole thing I planted that container last year that's a mahogany monster huger Arella heuchera and a hosta in there the fern that was in there didn't make it but I'm happy that the other two did and there's Japanese maple in here lacy leaf green one and some hydrangeas I haven't done any box with trimming yet this spring so these I like to keep in a spherical kind of shape and I've got them on each side of this pergola area so on this side in this side so I'm gonna be coming out here in the next probably week or so now that it doesn't look like we're gonna be dipping below freezing I think we're good to start trimming and I'll get these all tightened up really nicely the trout lilies are looking beautiful so so pretty I'm so happy with this bulb this is a one I tried out for the first time last year so I year before last in the fall and I just planted this little patch right here because I thought well I don't know we'll see how these do I've never seen them growing here and they're just the most beautiful like woodland looking plant I love the bold leaves I love the bright yellow flowers and so we added 200 more of them in this area and since it wasn't as a moist I don't think that they came up quite as strong so I've noticed though since we got our drip going more consistently everything has picked up and is doing a lot better I've got some Hardy orchids here this is one that we unboxed recently this one is a hardy ground orchid called Yokohama and these are where I put the double Winkie blue columbines little drift right here and now let's head out and look at all these bulb containers which I probably should have done an update sooner because a lot of them are starting to fizzle out so we lied all 14 of the containers up and you can see like from when you stand back you can see a lot of the beautiful color down there this one I'm about ready to pitch because I had irises in the center and I have one kind of coming up I have some sweet peas I had some extra seeds I popped in here but all of these these are brownie tulips they just did this weird thing I don't know what the deal is but like the buds are just like drying up in there and they didn't do that I don't think in any of my other containers so anyway this one was kind of a fail looking in before we head that direction you can see the back formal garden which we haven't done a whole lot waste but I wanted to show you fluffy this is the fluffy arm that we planted last year and it actually bronzed out pretty good during the winter months and I thought oh boy hopefully like it's not dying hopefully that's just the winter color and it just bounced right back up to it's beautiful bright yellow so I'm really thrilled with this evergreen we planted some of these in the church landscape project that we did and those are looking good too but this whole area we haven't course I think I just said done much too because I think we are while erin is pushing for us to have a very formal Rose Garden in this area and I am excited about that because I have wanted a Rose Garden since about day one but Aaron wasn't wanting in a rose garden for a while and now he's kind of turning around and he can see it in this space and this spot gets full Sun all day yeah I mean morning Sun it's just like the trees are perfectly positioned to where the only shade that they cast are just right underneath them everywhere else it's all Sun and this grass is weird we have a really hard time irrigating it and you can see it's two different varieties there was at one time gravel here and then there was a square of grass in the center and when they took the gravel out and receded they weren't sure what kind of grass to use and so you know of course it looks a little bit different so every winter the big large square around the center square always Browns out while the center square stays green I think what we will do since the irrigation doesn't quite do it back here we have to still pull sprinklers back here all the time to hit dry patches I think will take all the grass out probably will redo the sprinkler lines will take out all these pavers will reassess all the plants that are in this area and then we'll start putting in some formal cutout Rose beds and walkways benches I think it'll be beautiful but I don't if it was up to Aaron he'd have this whole area all ripped out already and ready to go but I I am a slow mover I only like to have maybe two or three projects going at one time like preferably one I would like to get one project completely buttoned up before we move on to the next one but the way Aaron this is kind of funny when he was a kid the way he would clean his room or his closet is he would take everything out of it to where there was zero items in his closet and then one at a time he'd put him back in and that's how he attacks life and that's how he would do it here like everything would be torn up all at the same time but he can kind of rise above the chaos and he can see the end and me I feel like I get in golfed in the mire of chaos and I can't function like that so we only have a handful of projects going at one time so this might be one that we tackle this fall it might be next year we'll see how far we get on the other projects but anyway back to the subject at hand were the containers this is queen of night tulip so glad I've labeled all of these so aren't those beautiful when this is all done I plan on taking this particular one out and popping them up where the cafe noir is which I think they're probably the same tulip around the urn in Versailles they've renamed tulips all the time so these look awful similar and I have some patchiness up there so these will end up there this right here these are Star of Bethlehem which looks like Medusa hair I've never grown this plant before but look at this it's like chaos and there's no bloom stalks yet so we'll see it's very interesting this one here where is the tag that tag must have got pulled out okay so I will look back because we did I did a video where I planted these so put the name of these on the screen because aren't those gorgeous the burgundy with the yellow tips and I like the pointy petals as well and then there's some sort of daffodil planted around the outside which is not bloomed yet it's kind of odd to not have that one bloom the back side looks a lot thicker on that one with daffodils this one is about ready to be done this one's called clouds of cotton it looked very pretty a few of them didn't do very well again these were in the cold frame it was incredibly warm in there all winter we did these probably received more moisture than the ones out in the landscape did but I think the warmth suggest really threw everything off but you can kind of see right here this is like a miniature versions of the open this one that one's pretty fresh and that pretty purple and kind of a light silver color next up is this mix this is queen of night and peace flame so we have Queen of night one and then peace flame right here which is it really pretty these will go out in the landscape all the colors that I like will stay in our garden these right here are the red Devon daffodils which I did post a picture of here's kind of kind of a fresher one right here so yellow with the orange Cup in the middle very simple very bright these are the double beauty of Apeldoorn see this is what a lot of mine did this year just very short malformed tulip heads these are still yet to bloom a lot of them are so we'll see if this one picks up it had one bloom that was beautiful you can kind of see the colors like kind of the yellow apricot reddish and they are a double no blooms on this one yet they're getting started this is the artist tulip so these will be kind of a well I have the tag these will look like this when they bloom so these are a late bloomer this is the pin for tune which only kind of halfway came up just a clear white this was probably my favorite one this was really full these are the tourist daffodils these are going to be planted out on our landscape here is probably the freshest to maybe great in here so creamy kind of whitish and then these started out a lot deeper apricot color and I got caught a beautiful picture of this with the sunset in the background we will put on the screen so you can see it this one's done but these were the Darwin orange and this was full of like the most garish orangish red tulips ever I'm glad it's done blooming they didn't fit in in our garden very well and then this was a apricot sunset blend so the crocus came up they were yellow and they bloomed already like way early in fact they're foolish see this is what happens the fuller starts to yellow and die back a bit so these are ready to be cut back pretty much the hyacinths have been done for a long time too they were kind of an apricot pink color and then we've got these beautiful look at this isn't that gorgeous I don't know what variety a tulip it was just part of the blend but I think that the little fringy edge these are kind of wild looking but it wasn't really pretty bloom and it did very much so bloom in order crocus hyacinths and then tulips but I kind of wish that they would all be blooming at the same time I think that would be a little bit prettier and then this right here is just a gorgeous container this is the dream touch and wedding gift so the dream touch is this one here the darker one and then the wedding gift is the lighter one I just love how thick these double tulips how thick their stems are it's awesome okay let's head this way back into the yard Oh first off though all of this is done out here pretty much so I wanted to show you these are the containers we got from unique stone and just recently all the gravel they pulled all the gravel back we had a professional come in and work on the water in this air so they pulled all the gravel and then had a big deep trench and ran us new water lines so that we have now a hose bib on this end right here so we have live water down here I love how they did this instead of just having a pipe like kind of lashed to the front of a board they put it on the back and ran it through so it looks a lot fancier a little bit cleaner and then they even kind of like beveled the top right here so that it looked a little bit more just nice so there's one on this end and one all the way on the other end but they also built a base so they did this just like they do our brick walkways and they did a layer of road mix pack down a layer of that sand stuff and they pack that down and then they put the brick in so now all of the containers are level they all are like they're not going anywhere and they're all at the same height on the fence post as each other so with the other containers they were always kind of like tippy and they never like fell over but they never were exactly level with each other and I really like that look when everything is a very uniform in a situation like this anyway and then they did like this little kind of like concrete ish gravelly it's I don't know it's bonded somehow but it keeps everything in like that and we are going to have more gravel bright in later on this season once we kind of recuperate from all the projects that we have going on and then we'll have the gravel brought up so it kind of hides that but it kind of shows really nicely the infrastructure now the only thing we have to do they ran new drip as well with a bigger line at waterline so we had more water flow it's all come in with our angled grinder and I will grind a little valley in the bricks right to where the middle of the container is so that this can slip right underneath and into the container so that will be my chore later on this season this right here is the thundercloud plumb that Aaron and I planted last year I love it it bloomed beautifully I posted a picture of it I also planted three Vanessa Bell roses in here they came in bare root so there's some weeds too there's one here here and here and they're just the palest of yellow well David Austin roses and I'm gonna plant some meteor shower verbena in here so we've got that yellow and the purple I think it'll be really pretty and then we may get an another bench there was one here when we moved in but it was starting to crumble and that's why the owners left it because they're like you can keep it because if we move it it's going to break so we had it there for a couple of years and it finally if I leave completely broke that this area here's another one where I will be doing a brick edging this is where the Oaks were of course and we were waiting to plant these trees until the edging was done so that I knew exactly where we needed to put them and now that we know we're going to do that ourselves I can get working on it so I'm going to be moving some gravel working up the soil putting in my brick edging and at that point I've got to fix the drip system in this area and then we can get the trees planted and get it almost so it feels buttoned up I'm and at the same time we were gonna have a new walkway brought in because you might remember you can kind of see the old brick walkway was fairly narrow this is the edge of it right here and it came right here and then it kind of flared out right here and it was very charming and there was an arbor around it but we couldn't get any of our equipment in or out of the yard on this side and we really need to have easy access like for more than just one area so I think we'll put in a walkway that mirrors this one to that little formal garden there and so I might put in something very temporary just so that we have the space allocated for that but it won't be anything very it won't be professional we'll have somebody to come do that who knows what they're doing later on the white cube tulip mix that I had planted under did not come up as strong as it did last year and it could be because of the winter and these suffered some damage these came up early and I don't know what exactly I don't know - if we had a water issue erin was over here because we figured out some of our drip lines weren't even emitting any water and it kind of looks a little patchy like maybe the tulips just right in this section we're not getting any water at all and maybe those were so you know every a year you just have to look at stuff and adjust and figure things out I'm going to leave them all of course and I'll wait until you know I'll start cutting back these really bad looking ones but you really do want to wait until the foliage looks pretty much like this on all of them before you cut them back because you need to allow those tulip bulbs to soak in moisture or not moisture energy from the Sun through the leaves in order to build up enough energy to produce a good show next year so we might have a really wonderful show next year now that we've kind of addressed some of the issues but you can kind of see here where maybe it was getting more water how pretty that mix is they start off kind of this pale yellow which looks really good with the burner and then they age to a white I really enjoyed the color okay I want to show you the lettuce in Versailles that I planted Oh almost got nailed by a branch first off let's stop quick and show you how these these are the bright lights pink these are more of those African daisies that I thought it would be really fun to try in this spot this is kind of a tricky one for light I have a lot of hostas lamium there's a huge section of Columbine that's a light yellow color back in there and some irises so I'll be interested to see how this does but I think it looks really sweet right now you don't those tulips look like the queen of night that we just looked at in the containers and I've got some holes where we had water brought in last year see that kind of gap that'll be perfect I'll just pop those queen of nights out of the pot put them right down in here and problem solved i seeded some lettuce in here boy it's been I don't know how long it's been now because I thought you know we and it's like coming up everywhere I don't know what's going on here all of a sudden and we usually have this spot just empty for months until we're ready to plant supertunias or whatever we put in this spot for that year so I thought well it'd be fun to kind of utilize some of the space and grow some lettuce and see what happens it needs water right now I can tell the ground looks really dry and it's coming up okay and some spots and not okay and others I had to seed the green lettuce twice and I've been trying to be diligent about turning the sprinklers on but sometimes I forget so anyway I think now that we're gonna get some consistent Heat I think it'll really take off and once the less is all big it might be the most beautiful thing ever but I think the chickens will really like thinking about putting like a chicken wire like just rolling out some chicken wire and letting them go to town in here but it's a fun experiment what's up you turn on the water Erin rude okay let's look in here because aliens are gonna be glorious I'm so excited this was a new flowerbed a year before last after we kind of created it there were no box hoods over here there was privet hedging that went kind of like over here and stopped and then this used to all just be gravel and it didn't mirror the other side so he wanted all the boxwoods to mirror each other so we created this flowerbed so I've been just adding things here and there and I popped some aliens in last fall and you can see them all look they're like so awesome look at how gorgeous and they're all in just groups and they're all throughout this whole flowerbed so I think it's me so pretty when they start like showing their big purple heads up here it's gonna be beautiful and I don't remember what the thing these are globe masters so they should get should get about this tall and you might be able to see him when you come in through the entryway but like I said I still need to do all my boxwood trimming last October we had a really sharp dip in temperatures so we thought everything was fine we were in the 40s at night so we thought we're gonna do just a little trim on the boxwoods and they've got trimmed a little bit too deep I think one and then we had a sharp downturn where it turned nine degrees one night and so it damaged so much of that really tender growth that was exposed from underneath which is such a bummer the other side looks worse I'm hoping that I can shear off a little bit of that which I'm going to be doing here in the next week or two and then hopefully they'll flush back if not we may be replacing some boxes but I also have some other damage in older hedges like this right here this is still this is damaged from that really hard winter I thought I could get it to come back because it was looking like it had smashed down from all the snow load and it just never really fully recovered so that's ok I'll cut out oftentimes they'll just grow and fill in again alright let's head this direction the bright yellow ridiculous have been really fun definitely eye-catching same with the window boxes those have been really fun as well and then the containers by the front door were the ones the earliest containers I planted this year that was right before we went to Cleveland they're still going for it and then if you look from afar they probably look a little better from afar right now because they're starting to peter out but the tulip blend that's the gamma blend from color blends up there and that's been such a fun like riot of color along with the yellow ridiculous and blue pansies it's just been really kind of a neat area our crabapple is going for in terms of blooms here this is my favorite time with this tree and I think I this tree of course was here we have two new gopher mounds Erin in here you gotta be kidding me look at this [Music] look at that gopher it's just like so nervy getting into the flowerbed so I'm gonna expose its run right now came up right next to a hosta more summer snowflakes so look at that they're so pretty you know to take care of that problem ding it so we had this was the one that came up first I just noticed this one through the window last night and I posted pictures of this area this morning and someone's like you have a girlfriend I don't yes I do and there's a new one over here by the grass I don't know what it is but they love just this island and I wasn't diligent I don't think enough with the repellent and now that we're doing work over there with equipment I think it's gonna push more into our yard anyway the crabapple I think that variety is Donald Wyman that's my best guess based on its growth habit its blooms the type of berries it gets it's a beautiful beautiful tree we did some really heavy pruning last year Erin and I and I think it actually really helped the tree out it looks a lot better okay so moving on to the front flowerbeds I'm about ready to take after them and deadhead all of the spent blooms but I'm really happy because when they first came up they looked an awful lot like the ones in the pots back there that were really short and I thought oh all that work and I'm gonna have these tiny little short tulips and really they started to grow once they got some consistent water they started to grow quite a bit and quite quickly the limelight hydrangeas are doing really well and this is the best that this Japanese maple has ever looked I planted this one boy maybe like two years ago or three years ago I can't remember now but it was a sick sick one in the nursery and it was one of those that came in the big like wood box it was a fancy one and I got to bring it home because it was not doing well at all and it looked bad and looked bad looked bad and now it finally is looking like maybe it's hit something it likes in the soil I do need to do a little bit of pruning just to cut a little bit of dead out but not much the leaves are gorgeous so excited about that and then this area here I had some hydrangeas that I took out because they didn't didn't survive and I've got some hostas in here I'll pop probably some more hostas maybe some different varieties because they do so well on this space I just planted these ferns here because I thought that that would be a nice contrast in texture and this area looks very dappled light right now but in the summer it is quite shady because of this huge locust tree up above me we've got Brenda is here and I just moved this back out I planted this last year and wintered it over in the cold frame we've got the Sentara double blew right in here I love this lilac oh it smells so good I need to cut some of these Erin and bring them inside so so beautiful and I planted this one because I love lilacs so much and it does get to be quite large this old one right here is full of bores like I said the ones in the front are the same way this is one of the trunks that I cut off last year because it was completely dead look at all that bore damage right there like there was a bunch of frass or like where the bores go in and they kick out like a bunch of sawdust there was a bunch of that all over the place and then I could just I actually found some some Boris like actual living ones in one of our other lilacs on the other side of the house so anyway they just need some attention some of these older ones but I had planned on probably having this one taken out because it is really malformed based on how much debt I had to cut out of it so we planted this new one and then also planted a red point maple right behind it to kind of take up the space and once it's gone it won't feel like oh my goodness we have this huge hole it won't feel like that I don't think because that red point maple has put on so much good growth right there and then it'll give us more room to plant some other things this is the new area on the west side that I'm absolutely loving you'll be able to see the next step that I'm going to be taking over here I'm going to be planting these four box woods I chose winter Gems we have a mixture here mostly sprinters and we do have winter gems as well winter gems tend to be they grow a little bit more rounded sprinters have a little bit more of an upright growth which is you can tell these are sprinters right here I like sprinters better in the fact that they grow faster and they're tougher for winters but I think that this is like they don't brown out these hedges were here last winter same as the ones up front and the ones at front are all brown and these are still all green but I think these will be protected enough and these have kind of the shape that they stayed a natural shape I want them to so I want four really tight spheres to kind of ground the corners I guess on either side of this circle and then right in between the two I'm gonna be planting a really fun perennial that grows beautifully and I've had a really good luck with so we'll do a video on that later but this whole blend of plants has been really really fun I think it's really soft I think the urns beautiful so anyway this has just been so so much fun and but I would like your opinion on this end here do have some beautiful new hookahs and hostas in this area this part of the path still isn't done yet but what I want to know is if it was your area would you mirror this would you mirror the boxwoods on this side when you look at it from the other angle it looks beautiful just having this one hedge and then maybe if we filled it with soft things but when I look at it from your perspective right now I feel like maybe it should be the same I don't know I just love to know what you guys would do if it was your space that will bring a lot more formality to the entrance but it is a formal space in terms of bone structure so it wouldn't be altogether bad but this a really beautiful angle right here if you look right through the boxwood hedge there's a Katsura Japanese maple you can see all the beautiful blooming lilac viburnum tulips red bud I just really love it and then we'll go down this area real quick and show you what's going on but this is the moon garden over here with the Vidal tulip land look at this look I mean it's just there's so absolutely glorious I just love them the Sprinter boxwoods have done great these are a Green Mountain boxwood which grow more conically just by Nature so these I want them to be very tight cones while this will be a nicely shaped lower boxwood hedge and then right here this summer we're going to be planting a fun annual in here and usually when I plant my annuals I plant them right over the top of my tulip bulbs because usually they coincide right at the same time like when I get ready to plant my annuals is about the time I need to cut back the tulitt foliage so it allows me to know exactly where all the tulip bulbs are so I can just plant in between and that's what my hope is so that I don't damage a whole bunch of tulips because I love this show to be here again next year and I just think it's so pretty to see that repeat and these are red point maples right here all five of these and they're starting to leaf out and do real well and this is this sign is becoming a little bit easier for me to envision I'm going to be planting things that don't get like I already planted 40 white delphiniums these are Guardian white and I made sure that they were pretty much for the most part either in line or maybe slightly in front but mostly behind the urns from whichever way you look because these will grow about 30 inches tall or so and I don't want anything too tall to mask the urns I want these to always be what shines over here because I want the arms to be a green wall and then I want like I can have a little bit more height toward the center maybe but then it needs to kind of graduate down and kind of become a well around each one of these urns so that the urn is what really shows but the puri cyma blonde tulips have done amazingly well in these two urns I mean you can see them all the way down the leaves are beautiful the the tulips are beautiful and these actually have lasted longer than the one the gazebo we had a nice hailstorm come through the other day and I was watching from inside and I could see the hail removing all of the tulip petals from my peering semi blonds in front of the gazebo it was kind of a sad sight the tree on this end because I hadn't decided that I was actually gonna do the moon garden over here so I have a few things that have some color in this space the Showtime crabapple it's just it's so beautiful the beautiful huge pink blooms I think this one grows about 15 feet tall maybe ten feet wide or so but I have it centered with this walkway here so that when you walk in here and I'll show you you walk in you see that front and center and then right in front of it I have the white echinacea and the white Veronica which these two types of perennial in particular for me look good pretty much the whole season and because that's our Vista in here I wanted it to all look really beautiful and then this one has darker red color leaves the rest of this space I'll be leaning more on different shades of green and blue leaves and then white blooms let's walk through here I do want to end up behind the greenhouse before we pop out into the new land vegetable garden is looking good I do need to run the drip actually Erin can I borrow your phone I'll turn the drip on Zones vegetable garden run soils looking a little dry I still need to top dress all of these and I'm going to be using the raised bed mix from ass Poma to do that because I think I have looked at the drip long enough to know it's covering everything really well so I always leave things exposed for long enough to know that the water is working then out the top dress it with that raised bed mix and oh look make it look really like rich and beautiful and finished we're gonna run to the back of the greenhouse to look at the raised beds back there I still don't know what I want to do with this space you guys maybe you'll have some ideas I'm thinking like before we go any further I'm thinking right here of cutting grass out and just making a big swoopy flowerbed back here I still want there to be grass under here because isn't this beautiful it's just so magical underneath a weeping willow if I had like it's a great place to like throw out a blanket Benjamin loves to play under here but this is the side that I'm like okay so do I like make more grass do I make a big circle of grass like come out into the driveway a little bit more and get rid of the corners so that sharp corner isn't gone this is the last of the grass that's left for when we moved in because there was grass from corner all the way to the other corner so it's been a huge project but yeah I'm still trying to decide what to do in this space because it's kind of an odd one to me head through here this is a magical place right now the green house is full of beautiful things we have ready for projects want you to show you these raised beds you might have already seen the video where I planted them up but I'm just I'm in love with these because they're so unexpected to come back behind a greenhouse like you would expect to see maybe like empty pots extra soil maybe some extra plants that are waiting for projects but these raised beds these are the cedar ones from gardeners supply that I just stacked one on top of the other and attach them together and I have drip running up into him now and I decided to plant mostly perennials because I just wanted something in here that could survive and Erin just surprised me with this Asian pear espalier tree and when I first very first put it in there I was like oh my that's a little tall but it's gonna create a really a block while not being a thick block because I do like my neighbors and they've got raised beds back there that I didn't want to shade so anyway I think that this is a perfect kind of screen and then we've got some perennials down below with strawberries this one I'm growing hops up the trellis which I have this trellis screwed into the bed like it's not going anywhere and then we've got strawberries around the perimeter cat's pyjamas nepeta which bloom most of the season and this is the only annual I used back here and this is the bright lights purple African Daisy isn't that just happy I mean there's a honey bee on it right now look at this I might have to come in and top dressed with something other than mulch like maybe some straw or something to help the raspberry or the strawberries rather okay so now let's make the walk up to the new property so this is the first very exciting space right here you can see that it's all plowed up it's just this big giant rectangle it's a hundred and seventy five feet long a hundred and fifteen feet deep this is going to be my cut flower /but vegetable garden this year and it's a very temporary this is not where it's going to stay and it's gonna end up in the back corner but our reasoning was this we thought you know what if we could just keep the areas where we know we want to work on fencing and more hardscape things and maybe a structure in the back corner if we can keep that area empty without all of my stuff that I've got growing it might be easier to get equipment in and out this is kind of out out of the way of everybody so I can put all of my temporary stuff in fact we're gonna put up a temporary fence everything that I'm planting is annual in here so it's all going to be cleaned out anyway and then next year hopefully we'll have the space ready and we can move the vegetable garden there but I'm gonna be doing boy I've got like 250 some dahlias I've got corn all my vine crops so pumpkins which I have 25 varieties of those watermelons cucumbers all those sorts of things will be out here because I don't have enough space in our current vegetable garden to try out all the varieties I want to try and then a ton more flowers I think will be heavy though on zinnias sunflowers and dahlias just because I know how to grow those I am planting a bunch of other things that I've had a little experience growing but not a lot lots of things going on I've got a lot of structures to like arches and Oh bliss it's going to probably be a little bit of a mess but it'll be very fun and a very good way to just try out the soil out here I don't know I think it's just going to be a really good learning experience so there's a digger right there which Chad is gonna come probably in the next couple of days and trench around the exterior of the property we're gonna have electricity just taken around the exterior exterior as well as some water pipes because we did have a well dug and we'll take you over there that was just finished up last week and so we're excited that we have the water access now but we know we have to do the pump the electricity and then running of the actual pipes we're going to be trying out drip tape in this area instead of overhead water or drip tube so it's going to be it's gonna be an all brand new year of ultra trying out bar new things before we go over to the well let's take a look at the arbor vitae hedge now we didn't do a video of this because like we just figured how many are badges do you want to see us plant you've already seen this plant the one along our current west side you saw us plant the one at the church this is essentially the same thing but I wanted to explain a couple of things first off you'll see that we did use landscape fabric which we will be cleaning the rest of the soil off of this look at our native soil like it's just it's just white and powdery but it's really hard especially on this side it's probably because there was more driving being done on this side but it's super compacted in this area but we put landscape fabric down because we have bindweed so so bad and when I don't want to have to spray an enormous amount and if bindweed comes up around these are providers there's no spray in it and there's no pull in it like you're just gonna have a bindweed hedge for the rest of your life most likely so landscape fabric help keeps that noxious weed population down so typically under hedges like this or like our boxwood hedges that we put in we put in landscape fabric and it helps really smother out that bindweed other areas in our garden we don't use the landscape fabric so I just want to explain that and then our water system here we've got the black poly tubing with the two gallon per hour emitters there's two of them one on each side of the root bulb and that tends to work really well for us but yeah these were watered like days ago and this soil holds on to a lot of moisture so be interesting it's crazy how much different your soil can be from one section like not very far away to another let's get on the Gator and go check out the well so this is the well right here I had never seen a well be dug before it was really interesting to watch what kind of equipment they had and kind of the process so when they were digging up all the extra stuff from the hole kind of shot out over there he said it would make an enormous mess I don't really feel like that's a big mess when you look at the rest of the property not bad at all um so we will have a little like a pressure tank and our pump will be right here of course as well but we positioned it here on purpose because we will have an access road running on the entire perimeter of the property so it'll come out to like about here or so there'll be enough room for a truck and a trailer to make all the corners like we'll make sure the corners are really nice and wide so that we could access everything really nicely and then we're hoping to do like big deep flowerbeds and planting areas out here there just so much room for so many different opportunities and different different things to plant so that's it you guys that's where our garden stands at the moment and all of our new projects that we have going on out here so we have a lot a lot to do and a lot to show you guys and we wanted to thank you so much for watching our channel and supporting our what we do and just yeah just being around and being with us through this whole process because you guys are the reason why we're doing this and why we're able to and we really do appreciate that so much and we plan on showing you like every step of the way what we have going on and how we're dealing with certain things and I'm expecting to have a certain amount of successes but also a certain amount of failures because like with anything like this when you're trying out new things and you're in a new space you're just gonna run up against a whole bunch of different things so we are excited to share it all with you guys so anyway hope you're all having a really good April and we will see you in the next video bye

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Length: 59min 10sec (3550 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 26 2020