Heat Tolerant Flowers: Garden Home VLOG (2019)

[Music] [Music] the garden home vlog is made possible by the following sponsors gilbert h wild and sun sun patience arkansas parks and tourism ralston family farms first community bank and crystal bridges museum of american art for more information log on to p alansmith.com now back to p allen smith and the garden home vlog well it's officially summer and that means longer days and lots of heat particularly if you live where i live so if you're trying to beat the heat and find flowers for your garden that are going to give you that flower power through those dog days of summer well we're going to talk about that today now i just pulled this particular beauty out of the flower can i cut these this morning so i could show you this is a hyssop and hyssop is a wonderful perennial meaning it's going to come back year after year and i wish you could just smell the leaves if you like licorice this has a very anise like aroma to it it's a wonderful wonderful plant that's going to return in your garden year after year and what i like about it is it has these really tall spiky flowers but more than that this plant will bloom for the longest time it's one of the longest blooming perennials that we grow in our gardens at moss mountain farm and for many of you who have visited us at the farm you've seen some of these perennials growing many of them come from gilbert h wild and sons who've been in business since 1885 and we really try to find the best possible plants for the garden and this one i would rank really right at the top this is hyssop um blue fortune and what what that's the cultivar name and um what the there and there are a lot of hyssops out there by the way um the botanical name is agastacky this is a really tremendous family of plants that you'll want to consider one of the things that i think is worth noting is that this is a very good cut flower so if you're you're wanting to do flower ranging or have some things that you can just bring into the house and you like this tall spiky form which which i do i think it adds a lot of contrast both in the flower garden and in the in the vase as it were this this plant is um very tough and it holds up well and i would recommend that you cut cut them early in the morning that's what i did here and you can see there the spikes are holding up very very well the other thing that's good about this plant and you know i'm crazy about pollinators and creating habitat for pollinators this is one of the best plants you can have in the garden for feeding those bees taking care of the butterflies and attracting them to your garden and as i said this plant is very loyal it's going to come back year after year probably the thing that is going to get your attention more than any one thing is that it is guess what deer resistant um and so that's what's really fantastic about about this in the garden is that the deer just walk on by it has this licorice aroma that i that i mentioned anise like aroma and i think it's the essential oils in this leaf that they're really a turn off to the deer now it's not to say that uh if the deer were very extremely hungry they wouldn't eat them but we've had no problems whatsoever with deer eating this beautiful hyssop or agastaki so there you have it one of the great uh perennial flower power plants that you should consider growing in your garden now let's talk about another one a native the purple coneflower these are just absolutely exquisite blooms i'm gonna pull them out of this container and um talk about this variety this is one called magnus uh but look at these gorgeous blooms aren't they fantastic the coneflower or echinacea is a north american native wildflower grows in a wide range of zones in the country and it's a great perennial so like the hyssop it's going to come back year after year and as you can see when i have them in the container they play very well with each other you get this contrast of bloom shape which i think adds a lot of visual interest in the garden so from a design point these two plants together are very good the other thing about the echinacea is it's great for pollinators so if you're trying to attract those beautiful butterflies and do your part to support the planet think about some of these uh purple coneflowers they will grow both of these plants by the way require full sun you could probably go half day sun and they would do fine um you want to make sure that the soil is drains well neither one of them like wet soggy ground so that's important to remember here if you want them coming back year after year and being very being happy the other thing about echinacea or purple cone flower that i want you to know about is that it it too is deer resistant so again for those of you are having trouble with deer the purple coneflower may be a perennial that you'll want to add to your garden now this plant because of all the hybridization that's gone on comes in really a myriad of colors these days and one of the first ones that came out that was uh really a departure from the idea of a purple coneflower this really is more like a pink coneflower or the white ones one called white swan was popular for years both of these plants by the way are very good uh planted with day lilies so if you can imagine that that beautiful daily bloom again another contrasting flower shape with these they make a beautiful triad in the garden the hyssop the purple coneflower and the daylily so those all three are perennial sadly the daylily is not deer resistant deer love to eat them and and i do too the petals are delicious and those flower buds just before they open are great battered and tempura and deep fried are very good so think about adding a few day lilies along there with them so if you're really getting into this there are a few more perennials that you might want to jot down and and consider another one that i love that blooms earlier than these uh is one called speedwell or veronica very good plant after it finishes flowering i will go in i will cut the blooms off and they will bloom again so think about that we grow pink and purple lots of different colors of veronica at the farm another one is of course the black-eyed susan it's another native wildflower and it just spells summer as far as i'm concerned that's another great perennial that you can really depend on coming back year after year the shape of the bloom of course is very similar to that of the purple coneflower we see here and then another perennial that you may want to add which is a completely different flower form is yarrow yarrow has um an um umbrella-like structure to its bloom um and it's very reliable in terms of coming back year after year um i've had yarrow come back in the garden for five and six years it's really really a fantastic plant and then there is one of my all-time favorites because of its just durability is the russian sage you've probably seen it has an amazing sort of aroma it is a completely deer resistant plant and talk about flower power through the hottest days of summer if you plant this plant make sure that it gets good drainage it does not like wet feet at all it will actually thrive in poorer soils so that's something to keep in mind and what i have found is that once it comes up and blooms and the flowers are are spent cut it in half down to half its size and it will flush again and we do this at moss mountain farm we'll cut it in late july and by october it is re-blooming with the same amount of flower power as it did the first time around which is really kind of unheard of in the flower world we do give it a little organic fertilizer after that first round of bloom because hey it takes a lot of energy to put out those gorgeous flowers and i know i sound like a broken record but it is very good for pollinators so that's another one to add to that list so there's a there's a wide range of really wonderful summer flowers for you to consider all perennial now let's talk about some annuals and maybe some annuals that you could grow and cut as cut flowers who doesn't love sunflowers okay they come in so many different colors these days if you go online and you start looking at the varieties of sunflowers some of them are really dark mahogany others are almost white some are lemon yellow but some of those don't really hold up that well in the vase and one of my favorites um is a variety called vincent now vincent comes in two forms it can be vincent's choice and vincent clear and that just has to do with the center part of the flower one is yellow and one is dark okay so vincent clear is yellow and vincent vincent's choice is dark named after of course vincent van gogh in that amazing uh series of sunflower paintings that that he did so these last a long time this is a point i want to make if you're going to if you like that summer color that summer scale of bloom you're only going to get sunflowers in the hottest time of year you also want there to be longevity in the bloom and what i've found is a bar none the vincent series lasts the longest as a cut flower up to 10 days in the vase that's if you keep the water clean every other day you need to dump the water out and recut the stems a little bit put them back in fresh water and a little bit of floral food also helps them last longer and of course keep them away from direct sun now as i put these cut flowers back in into the into this can i just want to talk a moment about another great one um i think that it's been belied as maybe just too common but it's one that i absolutely adore and that's the old-fashioned zinnia i think zinnias are incredibly beautiful and uh they can be long-lasting in the vase but zinnias will take the heat and you can grow them directly from seed in the soil and they come in as you probably well know so many different colors and flower shapes you can get the single petal ones that look a lot like the purple coneflowers and then those doubles which are absolutely amazing we've grown all colors the whites some of the greens the apricots the deep dark red zinnias but they are very very good now you can't in our part of the world plant early in summer have zinnias blooming as early as late may and expect those to be blooming in november but what you can do is you can do a second sewing of zinnia seed and that's what we do sometimes we'll we will sew them three times about a month apart and then you have that fresh cut flower all the way through the season and the pollinators they love zinnias so there's another flower power plant to add to the garden that can really take the heat it's an annual of course you have to sow those seed every year i like to collect the seed dry them and then replant them the next year wonderful plant now as we move along annuals staying on that theme not a cut flower but a great garden flower are the sun patience and as you can see i've got some of them up here these are really attention getting there's nothing like the color orange to arrest your attention now the beauty of sun patients is they come in so many different colors from white all the way through the palest softest pink to screaming lipstick pink magenta whatever you want to call it to purple into the um reds and and uh like a fire truck red and into these gorgeous sort of orange and salmon tones so they're a they're a really great plant for that flower power during those hot hot days of summer now some things you need to know about using them i like to plant them in moss whether you've got a solid bank of them but they also do terribly well in containers and so we spot them throughout the farm in containers i love using them up on the front porch uh i even try to match the color of the of the sun patient with the the chairs that we have on the porch at moss mountain farm and it's a the color is so cheerful that's what i i love about them and these things just continue to expand and they seem to be completely resilient to whatever heat gets thrown at them through the day if you find that they they wilt a little bit just watering them they will stand up like that just you want to make sure that the soil stays consistently moist we find that sometimes at the end of the day when they're in full hot sun on those hottest august days we can we can see a little bit of drooping or wilting but watering them the next morning they're right back where they were and you don't lose any blooms they don't it doesn't seem to slow their vigor down which happens so often as you may know with plants once they wilt takes them a while to recover the recovery period on these sun patients is really very very short the other thing to keep in mind with sun patients is that you don't want to fertilize them too much i know that seems really odd with this kind of flower power that you're going to see in them these are all very young plants but this these plants are only about two weeks younger than the plants that you see over here in the pot so you can see how quickly they will they will grow and they will three plants like this will fill out a 24 inch tarragona pot beautifully so you can you can place these out on the hottest part of your patio or your deck or or a balcony and just watch them expand but you want to make sure that they get full sun let's go back to feeding them again you may want to feed them once or twice during the growing season with a dilute all-purpose organic fertilizer and that's really about it and just make sure the soil stays stays moist if you do get some wilt water them and then watch them spring back magically yes you need to give these a try you're gonna you're gonna love them now another annual to consider in the heat is the lantana now for our friends that live in the deep south those are basically perennials but for those of us in zone eight uh north i mean you know maybe sometimes the perennial these will come back but typically they don't i don't count on them i plant them every year and i love them because the pollinators are crazy for them and they just keep on blooming but that's a plant that you're going to want to fertilize if you continue to get if you want to continue to get blooms on them let's talk about two shrubs that i think are really powerful when it comes to blooming in the heat one of them is the old-fashioned althea or rose of sharon i know that's an old-fashioned plant i know i'll probably get comments about it but i love it it's like the zenya you know people you know don't have great things to say about alfie oh i don't want that that's too old-fashioned you ought to see some of these new ones like uh pink chiffon and blue chiffon big double flowers love the heat irons bloom right up until the first days of september the other is butterfly bush as the name implies the budlia attracts the butterflies one of the best shrubs you can grow grows all the way up north you can cut them back to the ground at the end of the growing season in the winter and they'll spring up and they bloom on on that new growth and beautiful beautiful sprays of flowers that are just covered in in butterflies now i don't want to keep going on about plants that's my problem i get excited about them i can't stop i've got a few questions over here from you uh we've got kelly from zone seven uh her name's kelly synod and kelly says i have a path around the east side of my house which is a lot of hot sun what steppable plant could hold up in the heat and light foot traffic in zone seven my zone seven garden thanks one that comes to mind right off the top kelly is one called creeping ginny or liz macchia it's hugs the ground a very vigorous grower i absolutely love it it's very chartreuse in color so why don't you give that one a try um here's one from eastern north carolina what would you recommend to plant around a septic tank that will not disturb the tank itself or any of the leech lines i live in eastern north carolina an area that has full sun thank you any put any input is appreciated you know any of the shallow rooted plants that we've talked about today any of these perennials would be fine and not interrupt your septic field so the hyssop for instance the coneflowers would be fine i would even go so far to say that maybe the butterfly bush even though it makes a big shrub i don't think that would probably cause you any problems i know that these perennials that we went through would be ideal for you in in north carolina and then barbara hawkins from southern california says what are the best plants flowers and veggies in my area of southern california zone 10 and 10a well they definitely need to take the heat barber as you as you well know among the among the flowering plants i would stick with lantana you can do well with ice plant your part of the world also agapanthus does extremely well as a as a perennial in your part of the world the butterfly bush would do fine barbara when it comes to vegetables you know tomatoes will not set fruit once the temperatures get you know in the 90s so what i would recommend for southern california gardeners is to think about that fall vegetable garden you can grow winter greens like nobody's business so i'm very envious of what you can grow during the winter months in southern california arugula all the kales cabbages those sorts of things do fantastically there last question here from mary in northern florida my althea or rose of sharon we talked about that does wonderfully but i'm thinking of moving it since it's 12 years old and no longer in a fully sunny spot any advice yes mary i would move that rose of sharon in late winter whenever the temperatures are the lowest you want the plant to be as dormant as possible and you want to get as much of a much of a root system as you can to dig around it what i like to do is measure six inches up on the trunk uh and then look at the diameter and then uh multiply those inches so let's say it's at six inches up it's three inches across you'd multiply that by 10 inches and you'd want a 30 inch root ball and move it to a sunnier location you're very right about the althea's needing full sun they will perform much better when they have full sun well i hope that some of these ideas for plants for the summer garden are helpful to you there's nothing like having this kind of beauty around you through the year but the summer is our sweet spot for having these gorgeous blooms but sometimes it can get so hot it's even tough on the flowers but the ones that i've mentioned you're going to find are going to do extremely well for you thank you for subscribing to our youtube channel and if you want notifications just ring the little bell and keep those questions coming look forward to next time

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Length: 23min 13sec (1393 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 12 2019