Garden Tour - A Work In Progress

[Music] oh [Music] welcome to heart tube my name is jim putnam this is a continuation of my july garden tour where i'm going over literally every plant that's been put into this landscape in raleigh north carolina zone 7b this is a small urban lot and uh there's a lot of a lot of different varieties out here uh the the space that we're going to walk down today is a back path uh in the back garden if you go back to the original planting that i did for this space and there is a a playlist called new house if you want to go back and see how i got to this point there is a path that runs along the back and there's going to be a a new fence going all the way around this back property and i know people get tired of hearing there's going to be but um lumber is so much right now that i've kind of been wait hopefully waiting for it to come down a little bit but there's going to be a horizontal fence in the back there's about there's a temporary fence back here and there's about three feet on the other side of that it's going to be some additional larger growing green things that will give a backdrop to this space and then there's a few things back here that will probably be moved around at that point because i'm not necessarily satisfied with where everything is sitting there's also empty space back here so i've got the opportunity to add some things so let's get started on what will be the second to last of these uh july tour videos uh the plant that's directly in front of me is a ralston viburnum this is a low-growing low-growing viburnum that viburnum obavadum which is actually a native this is a dwarf version of it it was named after jc ralston from the jc ralston arboretum it is a very pro maybe the longest flowering thing in my in my landscape this will start flowering in october november and it will flower on and off through the winter until it gets hot in the early summer the the library on nc state's campus has about i don't know 100 of these planted in front of them and honestly there's probably flowers on them 12 months out of the year which is kind of amazing maybe not right this minute in the peak of the summer great evergreen low growing plant can't recommend this ralston dwarf viburnum enough beside me is another golden oakland holly there was one in the third tour video in the front yard in a container and it is super tight compact this one is a bit stretched because it's there's some oak tree above me here that puts it in the shade by about one o'clock in the afternoon it's still quite showy and i want to keep it here i want something here that's going to end up quite tall behind these white wedding hydrangeas that i showed in the in the last tour video this space around here um has lots of opportunity for me to find other things to uh uh interesting things to add uh to the landscape this uh there's a native azalea behind it this is one of buddy lee's introductions from the southern living plant collection this is a solar glow is the name of this variety what i want to point out on this deciduous azalea number one here's the flower buds already farming for next year super fun i love deciduous azaleas rhododendrons are kind of this way too native rhododendrons uh where the flower buds start forming the season before and it's kind of you know it's a six month eight month thing getting excited about the flowers coming these are super super bright and showy but the main thing i want to point out on this variety is how clean this foliage is i really have never seen a deciduous azalea that by july isn't just um kind of a train wreck of uh spotted leaves and and losing leaves and chewed up leaves and everything else but this thing um he really knocked it out of the park on uh you know picking plants that uh that look good you know it looks good 12 months out of the year there's some yellow coleus uh planted uh down below there were some things just kind of plopped into place because this is the least planted least planned place uh in the landscape so far and so there were some things added to it just to make it look like you know this path runs through here so i've got the gold coleus there got a variegated coleus that has a pink center a few flowers on it right now there's some impatiens uh in that spot and they're doing they're doing pretty well as you would expect in a shade garden this is a pittosporum that i bid on in a in in a in a rare plant auction uh from the jc ralston arboretum it is literally a pittosporum with a number after it um it is an unnamed an unnamed variety it's doing pretty well in the landscape i honestly don't have any idea um what it will do in the next few years but we'll see we'll see pretty soon i don't know if they've given it a name since i acquired it i need to go over there at some point and uh and ask that question i guess uh we'll jump back and forth uh on the path you'll see my temporary fence uh back here this is basically just to keep griffin um if you're familiar with my two dogs griffin uh in the landscape since i took down the chain link fence uh in the back so again there's about three feet beyond this temporary fence which is quite unattractive i realize but again i'm let i've i've left room back here for an opportunity to plant some larger growing shade tolerant evergreen things as a backdrop to this garden there's a big daddy hydrangea that has uh pretty much finished blooming at this point one issue i have back here on this back line is this oak and these large growing trees back here there's a there's actually a magnolia grandiflora up above this which is native native to our area here uh but the the oak the magnolia and then all the noxious weeds that are back there the ligustrum and the ivy and everything else that's growing back there are very greedy and so this my i have an issue along this back line of things staying a little dry so this hydrangea was definitely in competition for water as it was blooming and uh me being out of town a couple times it did not perform to its peak but still not bad these flowers were probably i don't know eight inches across seven eight inches across and in the future you know they just get gigantic uh on big daddy there's a hosta that was already here uh in the landscape that was just moved uh to this space there's a rhododendron that was planted here back here in a video again i've let it get dry and it's actually dry right now i can see the base of it is a little bit dry and you know i have to be careful not to over water rhododendrons in my clay soil but my situation back here is very opposite i've got root competition for it so it is butting up and i think we'll have some i'll have some flowers on it next season but um we'll see there's a few polka dot plants and some terrenia planted again there's just some annuals that were added into the space just to kind of give it some make it look like i was on my way to something back here which uh has not happened it's not happened yet but i'm i'm on the way i do i have a lot of interesting hellebores along this back line and up at the pine knot uh open house cell you can buy hellebores in little teeny tiny pots and so that is an example of a hellebore from a teeny tiny pot takes two and three years to uh to uh you know have them really uh establish themselves and bloom well in the winter time uh one other interesting thing i have here and you guys somebody has probably watched enough of my videos to remember this akuba japonica i went to a friend of mine's nursery in benson north carolina and he had a group of gold dust acuba which have a lot of spotting on the leaves and intentional variegated spotting on the leaves and i noticed that this was a different one it was in the it was in the group and uh again it had some differences from the other gold dust and it has been in this space uh since then and is looking fantastic and you can see the spotting is irregular and different just a completely different plant i don't think commercially anybody would want this plant because you know but for me it's super interesting because it's definitely a one-of-a-kind akuba japonica maybe call it a cuba japonica hort tube maybe i'll take some cuttings on it here in the next week when i'm doing when i'm doing some cuttings but uh it is a one of a kind akuba japonica and again i just saw a difference on it versus all the other gold dust that he had in his nursery there's a camellia cesanqua here that is a variety that i had found years ago it's a pinkish red um color that is one of 9000 pinkish red varieties that is unnamed and doesn't kind of matter it blooms well it's a good looking plant it's going to not stay here along the path it will jump to the back row because this plant will get 10 or 12 feet tall so once the once the fence is in this isn't this this and a couple other things will probably be dug up and moved backwards and lower growing things will end up here along the path from the camellia cesanqua on the fence side i'll jump back to this side for a minute just go back and forth there's a farfugium planted in this space and you can see how happy and healthy healthy that one is uh it really likes that spot it's actually planted next to an acanthus this cant this this acanthus was newly planted uh late last year and it has not had enough time in the ground to really establish itself yet in flower in the future this thing will be gigantic it'll fill up this entire space and big giant leaves big beautiful flower spikes super super thorny plant huh it's one that you watch where you grab a hold of on campus it can um even the flowers have have spines there's actually four different i can't this planted uh in this space again i just wanted to fill this up and you know flower spikes will be up four or five feet uh next year there's another one of those wire vines uh that i showed in a container up by the uh the porch area that will i've got a lot of ground covers planted into the landscape that eventually will be things to re reduce the amount of mulch that i need and so that's kind of will be the purpose of that uh it does spread um doesn't really scare me it's not like ivy you know spreading or anything like that i can i can take this one out pretty easily uh behind it is a soft caress mahonia uh looking great this is just such a great shade evergreen shrub uh what else can you say about it it blooms in the winter time um not quite as cold hardy as some other mahoney zone seven hardy um the marvel mahonia behind me that i'll show you in a minute zone six hardy but what a great plant just great texture this thing can just go into any shade garden honestly and just kind of blend in with anything behind it are some more impatiens some gold coleus the pittosporum there are three uh evergreen pittosporum dwarf pittosporum i showed uh in the last tour video at green uh dwarf pitosporum this is a variegated one this one's called mojo a great plant planted three of them around the container with the japanese maple in it and there's a purple foliage ajuga behind it and again the shrubs are definitely where they're going to stay some of the you know the annual plantings will be i'll find other perennials that i want to fill in some of these spaces i just this has been out of sight out of mine back here on this back line and so this spring a lot of a lot of annuals were just plugged in here until i you know i'm kind of excited about this space because so much of the rest of the landscape i don't have a lot of space left to put uh perennials and other other flowering things and back here on this back line still have a lot i can do here my contorted japanese maple is in that container i've had this thing for years and years everybody who's been watching the channel for a long time has seen this thing lots of times i have contorted it over the years and in fact i said recently that i need to restake it and and bend it back soon and i will do that and i'll show you when i do it i've just been been a little bit busy i may actually wait for it to lose its leaves um at this point before i uh do any major surgery to it uh it's been in that container for a while for it's been in this container for about a year and a half it was in a small slightly smaller container before that when i pot it up it only goes into a container that's just slightly larger each time why is it not in the ground well it's traveled with me it was a an interesting piece at my garden center for people to see and then it was an interesting piece at the old house and now it's an interesting piece in this landscape so it's just it's it's been a traveling plant so that's why it's always been a always been a container plant back over here on this side there's a brunera here called um alchemy silver just beautiful foliage on that uh brunei there's some empty space in here which uh has some may apples actually planted they came up they didn't bloom for me this first this first season but they will uh i got native may apples and the chinese may apple and i want them to kind of fill in some of this space there'll be some other things planted over the top of them uh in the future because they come up flower and then immediately uh almost immediately die back to the ground they know when the party's over and it's time to uh to time to go home there's a hookerella uh called buttered rum uh and again it's just defining the uh the edge of this space and and eventually this thing will be more organized where i'll have lower things heading up toward taller things at a fence that's coming there's a pierre's on the back of row called mountain snow fantastic variety blooms white in the spring i've had great success with this plant at the old house and here so far except for the fact that again you can see some yellow leaves down in the interior of it that is from it being dry and unfortunately i'm going to have to a double the amount of drip irrigation lines through here when i get all my drip irrigation running definitely going to have to always know that this back line because of the roots from these trees is going to be vulnerable this really beautiful hosta is called blue ivory i've got it in a little bit too much sun what's interesting is about this back line is the further i get toward the shed the less that oak has an impact and so by the time i get here i'm starting to get um whereas over there i'm probably getting three hours of direct sun or even less by the time i'm down here i may be getting four to five hours and it's actually burning this one plus the white foliage hostas tend to be more vulnerable to burning anyway so this one's gonna have to be popped up and moved to a slightly shadier space but what a beauty i mean this this is one of the brightest most beautiful hosta i've ever seen honestly with that really super broad uh white uh variegation but again they are pretty vulnerable to uh to burning uh here's another piece that's gonna get moved uh to the back uh line once the fence is up this is a marvel mahonia you can see it's already reached about four and a half feet in height those of you for unfamiliar with marvel number one this one will grow in zone six where the soft caress over there is definitely again not quite as cold hardy this one will get a flower cluster on the top of it that is two and a half feet wide and two two feet tall uh it's just incredible in the winter time uh very spiny uh but you know i don't have to come back here and hug it or anything so it doesn't really matter it's not something that needs frequent pruning or anything like that so the amount of times you'd ever need to uh worry about it being spiny is going to be very very limited so it doesn't really matter but again beautiful upright evergreen foliage year round and then of course the winter the winter flowers another big giant hosta back here in storage that was already on the property haven't really decided what what's going on with it but this is going to flip to the back line the hostile will likely flip kind of where it is in all likelihood there's an elysium uh in the back here this is a elysium fluoridatium floridanum uh native elysium to the southeast uh it's not a named cultivar this is just the this is just elysium uh there are there's a flower on it here the flowers are super super interesting on elysium this is a great screening plant and i don't know whether i'll move it back a little bit when when the time comes but you can't really mess with this it's evergreen the deer don't eat it the rabbits don't eat it great screening plant those of you who live in the southeast uh you know this is this is a native that can uh that can definitely help make your neighbor go away pretty quickly in a shaded space there's you know so and it's drought tolerant and it's kind of wet tolerant a lot of things a lot of things going a lot of things going for that plant again there's just a ton of hellebores uh planted lots of different varieties i buy these from you know specialty nurseries a lot of new interesting foliage and flowering hellebores coming coming to market this is a another one of those aspadestra with the stripes on it i believe this one's called stars and stripes but initially when you buy one of these interesting ass pedestrians you'll notice that the leaves are almost entirely green and then as they start to mature they'll start to show some of those uh the characteristic that you actually purchased it for but this one this one just from nowhere had five leaves that looked terrible on it out of nowhere it's just you know grown really really quickly i've got a couple rhodia back here that i got from mr maple i've got a regular green rhodia in the front landscape those of you who don't know rhodia these are uh they're almost like evergreen hosta there are i from what i understand you know just hundreds and hundreds of named cultivars in japan and we uh just kind of under use them here in the uh in the states i mean i do see rodia in in gardens but not enough of it really they have spotted ones and striped ones in just all kinds of irrigations you name it uh they're they're they're they're ones that look like what you want them to look like and they're like evergreen hosta uh just a great shade addition there's some impatiens planted in front of it again and some terrenia over here just to fill the space in behind the cast iron plant uh there is a jack in the pulpit that is just quite vigorous this one is uh this one's super super happy in this space i'm going to cover the area along the building in the next in the next tour video and the vegetable garden some other things that i have that i have left i've got my a cart behind me that i've had at the garden center i worked at when i was 16 i pushed this card around way back then and when they closed down i got that cart and so that card will be in a lot of videos because i don't have a great place to store it but i've had it god i've been living with that cart for 30 36 years now 35 years last couple things i'll do i'll cover in this video uh there's an october magic ruby uh camellia this is kind of a double almost red flowering camellia cesanqua blooms in the fall this is another one of bobby green's introductions southern living plant collection variety that is super clean those of us who've been growing camellias and synchros for a long time a lot of the old varieties get very spotted leaves this one is so clean and flowers are double we'll call them red but um most most things we call red are on the pink on the pink spectrum but what a great plant and it's a low spreading variety i mean that thing would look good in any part shade space uh last plant i'll cover in this one this is a san gabriel uh nandina and it'll eventually kind of fill in this this space it has this really fine texture uh similar to that uh soft caress mahonia that i showed you before this is a very young plant uh in the winter time it'll turn kind of an orangey red and the rest of the time it'll just have this you know narrow super narrow leaf it's very newly planted it went in the ground within the last uh one of the last couple of months and it'll probably take a couple seasons to actually you know get any real growth on on that one so thank you guys again for following along uh with these uh tour videos i don't know what number this one is at this point eight maybe uh and i've got this section behind me uh bees are working very hard over here i'll show you in the next round it'll also include peonies that are about to go to sleep and then the vegetable garden and a few other things people have been asking about thanks for watching

Channel: HortTube with Jim Putnam

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Length: 22min 40sec (1360 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021