Backyard Garden Oasis

[Music] welcome to heart tube my name is jim putnam in this video i'm going to be giving you a garden tour of a beautiful landscape in raleigh north carolina zone 7b the backyard where i'm going to start is mostly shady there's three large oak trees and a large pine that you'll see in a minute that kind of dominate this space there's a fantastic path that leads you through the garden it allows it to kind of unfold as we walk around the front yard is definitely a little more sunny and you'll see that when we get around to uh to that space but this is a beautifully detailed landscape i hope you guys appreciate i've talked about the use of stone uh creating raised spaces that make a very flat terrain seem like it's got some uh some grade to it uh this retaining wall that's right behind the patio see my tripod there that's where i was filming of that intro this is a uh a brick ranch um actually a split level over there on the right kind of a traditional 70s home that a lot of us grew up in a very very similar style this is a raised patio up here that allows you to sit and actually look over this beautiful garden space which i i really really like you know allows you to sit up big and tall over top of it and take it all in there's lots of japanese maples in this yard this is a cut leaf variety here you know weeping green and then right up above it you've got a possibly a blood good japanese maple again this retaining wall there's lots of lysa machia out here the gold creeping jenny there's another spot of it right below my feet and since i'm facing the camera this direction this is the direction we'll go around counter-clockwise around this circle there's a camellia cesanqua obviously a kind of a low or growing dwarf variety you can tell kind of how you know that something uh rather than going upright like a lot of chameleous the sync was due most of the limbs are kind of going horizontal so definitely looks like a dwarf variety there's some fennel coming up behind it there's a couple knockout roses in this bed that are just waking up i'm guessing they're knockout roses but we'll stick to the left on this path and i'll show you the the right side of it the wall splits right here and creates two different heights hostas are just coming up i'm filming this right at the beginning of april so a lot of the perennial things are are not waking up yet this may be a hibiscus that got cut back in that space lots of other hostas coming up here's that other knockout rose that's on the other side and there's various irises coming up in this bed more of that lysa machia which it has to be controlled occasionally other various perennials coming up there's a dwarf uh there's a dwarf rose a spreading rose of some kind it's right there they're already butted up right here at the beginning of of april there's some ajuga that's firing away coming back to coming back to life and again this one has a wheelchair accessible ramp to get up to that to that back patio to look over to look over this garden there's a uh gardenia right here which actually may be radicands it may be spreading gardenia it's just gotten taller because of all the shade another camellia it's a sanguine and then then there's a path a gravel path right here that splits off and leads you around one side one side of the house and we've got you can hear the birds crazy amount of birds out here there's some camellia japonicas uh back on the back they're still flowering i'll show you some on the other side of the house you can see the flowers soon they have a mix of whites and pinks and reds to create the border here and then there's some shindo viburnum which are very fast growing evergreen shrubs to create a border between the houses here these are small urban lots that's mostly what i end up showing on this channel because i am in an urban area in in raleigh so lots of uh evergreen things have been used to to create a border down below it there's some indica azaleas these are look like formosas they've been kept smaller this plant can get quite large but they've been cut pretty vigorously over the years i can see cuts on them and they've been kept almost as a spreading almost as a spreading element in the garden i'll back you out of that slowly there's a big leaf hydrangea that's just that's just coming out and then if i come up above the sun is trying to uh to to play a big part this morning there is a purple foliage uh red bud that's just leafing out it's just finished flowering and the leaves which are purple are just are just emerging on it i'll come back down slowly there's some lisamachia on this corner there's a gold mount spirea coming up in the middle of it's kind of hard to see because it's a yellow inside of a yellow and then there's some hookers that are also yellow there's a big big splash of yellow on this uh on this corner again i'm just going to stay to the left of the path i'll show you the center elements when i come back around this is a larger growing holly of some kind burford or dwarf burford uh there's a mahonia that would have bloomed several weeks ago that uh the the fruit is uh is forming now these will turn purple the birds will take these um these are uh invasive unfortunately because the birds do spread the seed the seed around but uh pollinators love that plant uh in the winter time and here's another shindo shindo viburnum a little seating area uh on the path i hope i'm showing you enough of this path so you can appreciate it it turns left here and goes to a uh and goes to a shed which i'll walk around here and show you and show you real quick a nice shed and then i think this is a buckeye leafing out uh hidden back here in the corner there's some unfortunately some english ivy that's crept into this garden from from neighboring gardens this is you know um english ivy never makes for for a good neighbor but uh i'm battling it as well at my place uh there's some variegated solomon seal that's just emerging uh it'll be quite decorative here in a couple of weeks another uh indica azalea of some kind this is a pink flowering one you can tell they just have larger leaves these again i say this quite often these tend to be a little more a little more industrial in the landscape as we're moving along here there's another shindo viburnum uh they've used quite a few of these to create a screen uh in in key in key kind of spots they didn't cover every single window here but you know just kind of choose some spots where you want to block and and use it there's some a lot of hellebores in this garden they're still blooming pretty heavily they've been blooming in my area here for gosh two months now at this point and we haven't gotten any kind of serious cold the uh the new foliage is coming out on them now it's best to cut that old foliage back you see down here at the bottom as the new flowers are emerging every year a little harder to find it once the new growth has has started on them it's good to clean them up at that time there's some camellia cesanqos that are already putting on their new growth these would have bloomed in the fall and need to back out there's a dogwood in this space and it is not it's got a few flowers right up on the top of it that you won't be able to see but it's definitely underachieving and almost too much shade they're they're understory shade loving trees but there's a definite uh limit to that another little seating area here what looks like some autumn ferns before we get to it and then in between these two seats is what looks like a miss kim uh lilac this is a korean lilac they haven't started to open yet these are more heat tolerant these korean lilacs then then the other lilacs it's not a great substitute for what you know folks in the north uh enjoy on lilacs they're very short bloomed the fragrance isn't quite the same but sometimes it's the best you can have if you want a lilac i have one in the in in the yard at the house it's about maybe five by five pretty easily controlled around six by six uh if you want that variety again it's a poor substitute for for better lilacs in the north there's an oak leaf hydrangea on the left of the path we're coming slowly but surely coming back around to the uh where where we started uh coming around this circle uh there's a rhododendron that's doing uh quite well here we have sometimes have issues growing these in the flat areas in north carolina despite them being native to north carolina tend to get root rot on them down here in the clay soils in the piedmont iris coming up there are various pieces of of a garden art throughout this garden i'm going to leave the path and come back here into the wooded area and show you some interesting things there's some may apples coming up that are colonizing this is a these will have little white flowers oh they do hold on let's get in here a little closer uh let's see one of these uh right there there's a little flower coming along the uh coming along the stems and they'll be quite showy they kind of retreat uh when it gets hotter later in the summer i see a red buckeye back here so let's go check that out this they've kept the spots off the path just as a woodland area really but here's a uh red buckeye that's uh that's starting starting to open up camellia is camellia cesanqua it looks like it was just planted there's a podocarpus a taller growing podocarpus against the fence and then again another uh another neighbor back here with ivy growing that's definitely problematic there's actually a distillium planted right here a taller growing more upright distillium or maybe it's more upright because of the shade but here's another neighbor giving out their free ivy and uh here's a white uh flowering azalea this could be delaware valley white i'll show you some more of those coming up and here's a dogwood that has a few flowers but again um they're a little sparse just because i think these trees are almost too much we're gonna go up here there's a white pine i had not noticed that until i just took the camera up we don't have many white pines in my area it's usually when you're driving up interstate 95 out of north carolina into virginia that you start seeing white pines so that one's don't see many of those this far south and then you have oaks there's a loblolly pine and i'll spin us back around toward the sun there's another large oak here i believe there's a white oak that's leafing out that's where i left the path there's that rhododendron uh here's the fatsia which was super interesting last year i've never seen them flower as much as they did last year i've seen them flower of course but um this past year they flowered like crazy and then we had a winter where the seeds were able to to set this one is i can't tell if it's variegated or so pollen covered it's actually variegated i think this is spiders web everything is just coated in pine pollen right this minute here is a dwarf or a a weeping a cherry that uh looks fantastic it was blooming a week or so ago when i came and looked at this garden for the first time but it's quite the quite a big element in this garden lots and lots of bird feeders throughout this garden and you can hear the birds i'm sure as i'm as i'm walking around so now i'll show you the interior area of the path that i just circled this is an edge worthy uh uh i'm six feet tall and this thing is taller than me so this is this is a quite a large specimen obviously it bloomed uh several weeks ago you can see the spent where the flowers were here the leaves are just coming out on it these actually are very beautiful foliage plants as well uh it's a cluster of five leaves once they uh fully fully open and it will just completely fill that space up once it's leafed leafed back out we'll go to the right this time this is a sweet box that has bloomed bloomed out as well really nice really nice foliage plant regardless of whether it has the fragrant flowers in the in the late winter or not a uh azalea that has almost reached peak flower i'm here i'm here maybe a week before the azaleas will be fully fully open and showing off but if i'd have waited another week the camellias that i'll show you in a minute would have been without flowers lots of bulbs throughout this garden daffodils are almost finished at this point there's a nandina domestica here this one tends to be on the invasive side there's a few there's actually a few things that tend to be a little invasive in this garden that mahonia over there the nandina here of course they can't do anything about their neighbors english ivy coming into the yard but we all know that to be invasive as well and uh coming around here there's a smaller red azalea that has not opened up and lots of these indica azaleas used in the center of this garden near this oak tree because they will compete with it there's not a lot you can see the the spread on the roots on this tree just how dominant this thing is in this landscape there's some other more interesting more interesting daffodils here that almost bloomed out but super interesting here's a variegated solomon seal again and you know we can see how invasive honestly this thing is you know when it comes back every year you really need to go and get it under control because it'll creep into areas that you don't want it i mean it's a beautiful little splash of variegated color on this little bend here uh unfortunately it won't stay there so each year when it comes back up so it's worth having but it's something you need to stay on top of uh this is ifeon this little bulb here this this one you can get to come up in in turf there's a couple places in my neighborhood where people actually use this in their lawn uh it will another bulb that will naturalize in the landscape just kind of come up wherever it wants to i just noticed there's actually drip irrigation in this bed right here along the bottom of that cherry i hadn't noticed it anywhere else so that's how this is getting uh that's how this is getting uh irrigated by the uh lots more ferns out here i believe again this is uh autumn fern which is always pretty reliable some ginger lilies along the front of these uh the chairs and as we keep moving around obviously these bulbs will be you know a few more weeks they'll get the energy back down to the bulb and then and then kind of disappear and there'll be some other things popping up in this garden some other perennials that are just waking waking back up and again we'll finish uh well hold on i have one more thing i'm gonna show in just a second here's a white flowering uh indica azalea here's that blood good japanese maple i showed right at the right at the beginning when i was talking about japanese maples under it interestingly i'm getting my shadow out of this here's another invasive that needs to be removed here um they didn't plant this this is a vitinia uh this hep this is a photinia seratofolia years ago we used fertinia frazier to as a screening plant like where i showed you over here unfortunately this is back into the sun i've shown you these uh uh viburnum the shindo viburnum that we're using for screening used to be all over the city of raleigh we had fatinia fraser eye it got a disease problem wiped most of them out i'd still see some red titania here and there but nothing like it used to be this is another fatinia that was sold during that time called spatinius erotifolia serrata folia means serrated edge um it's got a serrated edged leaf on it um not as red as it's leafing out in the spring as uh red tip vitinius were but it's not an unattractive plant has a super stinky flower on it and unfortunately is invasive seeds itself all over the place and there's an example of one who's come up at the bottom of this blood good japanese maple so before i leave the backyard i just want to quickly walk around this path and show you how i navigated the back i started up here to the right of the camera filming myself down on the path over here and then shot toward the house where the camera is to start with but this path is just fantastic it leads you through the entire space it's super easy to walk on this was an older person house and the paths were created to allow them to navigate this garden easily and just fantastic as i walk around this path new angles every angle that i see as i'm looking in any direction is like a completely different garden almost it's just really amazing how this place is laid out i got back home with this video and realized it was going to be between 35 and 40 minutes long and i have decided to break out the backyard tour from the front yard so i'll get the uh front yard edited uh very soon it's a very different garden space with a with a little more sun and and different varieties so it's almost a different kind of garden tour anyway i'm standing in front of my miss kim lilac i shot that video that you're watching about three weeks before um you're seeing it and uh the lilac wasn't in bloom over there but my miss kim lilac is in full flower now so don't forget to subscribe to the channel uh hit the little um bell notification so you're up alerted when i upload a video because i'll get the second part of this video up very soon thanks for watching

Channel: HortTube with Jim Putnam

Views: 169,107

Keywords: gardening inspiration, garden design, landscape ideas, garden oasis, garden tour, backyard oasis ideas, beautiful garden, backyard design, backyard oasis 2021

Id: UHzJHCIse74

Length: 20min 2sec (1202 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021