Helping My Mom Plant a Butterfly Garden! 🦋🙌💚// Garden Answer

hey guys how's it going so today i'm out at my parents house helping my mom with a really fun planting project out by the pool i think you guys will really enjoy it because we're working with some really neat plants but not only that it'll be fun to show you the before now and then what it looks like after we're done today and then what it looks like later on this season now you'll probably notice a bunch of noise i don't know if you can hear it right now but they've got a couple people here helping them with their spring garden clean out so they're using blowers right now blowing leaves out of flower beds and the electricians are here installing a generator we didn't know that everybody was going to schedule their projects for the same day so we're all kind of working in the same area so i just wanted to let you know that that is the sound we're dealing with now i did start up here on the deck because i want to show you the daffodils that we planted out here when i was pregnant with samantha so that was fall before last they're amazing look at all of these these are all the ice follies variety it's one of my dad's favorite daffodil varieties so i thought it would be fun just to kind of mass plant them in this flower bed and once they kind of fizzle out and go away this whole bed fills up with perennials and you can see there's roses in here the tuscan sun variety it's just a really beautiful flower bed huge stand of white david flocks and there's some sedum and lambs here and hearty geraniums and chocolate vine all kinds of stuff in here but these are just so stunning let me find a shady spot so we can really see it isn't that gorgeous so so happy with them and there's one other spot in their entryway we're gonna have to move closer to the blowers to show you the rest of the dafts where'd benjamin go i don't know it's like hi he's good at hiding where's benjamin where'd he go [Music] okay guys so this is in the entryway look at these repeat of the same oh you can see some brenner and bloom back in here and then i had a few extra that i popped right in this area right here you can see oh we've got all the plants sitting there in the driveway now let's take a look at the flower bed where we're going to be working so this is where their pool is benjamin pulled some chairs over here he has his sandwich and uh he has a chocolate bar i see the chocolate bar is gone the sandwich is still there that sounds about right look at the view what a beautiful clear day out here it is a little bit breezy a little bit but you might remember there used to be three giant spartan junipers at the end of the pool and what variety did you replace them with are those blue those are blue arrows and how big do they get they should get about two feet wide by about 10 12 feet high that'll be perfect yeah and so they won't put that much pressure on those rock walls yeah yeah so the spartans that were there spartans always grow bigger than they say huge they stay on the tag what like five to six feet wide at most and they were like 10 12 feet at least yeah yeah so they got really big in their root systems because the flower beds on the back side of the pool which i'll show you in a minute they're all terraced the root system was pushing all the rock walls like crumbling them and so they ended up needing to get those removed before it caused some issues and replace them with something else but let me show you the flowerbed that's where we're heading i keep getting distracted by daffodils and yeah and things oh and benjamin's foam letters out here they look good dude are you getting them all organized chocolate and foam oh there's the chocolate bar it's half gone i saw that it was missing off its plate yeah but the whole sandwich is still intact he's at nana's house yeah okay so this is the flower bed we're working in so it looks like five fine lines yeah that they're just starting to leaf out and they should have that real ferny texture you can kind of see right here and they grow i can't remember what the stats are on this one but like eight feet right what six to eight feet tall yeah and like two to three feet two feet wide so i'm thinking this will be a nice screen without being too blocking because i don't really want to have the view completely blocked but i'd like to have it feel like it's filtered yeah so and then your dad and i ran um drip line and we didn't pit it of course until we have our plants in place so and then on the bottom level we have um i love brower justin brower boxwoods and these get two by two oh i love those a lot these aren't those pretty they have such a deep green like a deep emerald green color and they should be i planted them far enough apart to where i never if i don't want to trim them and prune them i don't have to two by two they've got plenty of room and it'll be little nice round balls yeah that will be perfect and the theme for this flower bed right here oh butterfly it's a yellow and white butterfly garden i'm excited yeah so you probably know where we're going with this i did show you early on and when i was down andrew's working a day um they got in some really neat butterfly topiaries which you have seven of here we're gonna place those as well as a bunch of yellow and white blooming things well we're gonna we're going to have um some gray artemisia um the valerie finish and then we're going to have white gara and the butterflies and then we've got white lavender to plant around the deep as this goes around white lavender i remember planting some things around that yeah and and there's some salvias up there that you planted that when they took the big junipers out they drug them over oh i'm sure i think there's some of them still there but i'm going to transplant you went down there can i time you on your mark get set go one two three oh you might fall down it's pretty steep okay so right around the base here it does look really cleaned up oh that looks so much better doesn't it look good and these gentlemen helped to um to restack some of the walls that had been had been broken because of the junipers it was just quite a mess and they have worked really hard to get it back in place so you can see the uanamis which are evergreen um yellow heavily yellow variegated so that'll be perfect to tie in with your yellow and white theme yes and i do see some salvias still in here there are some salvias so we might be able i think i want to transplant those out where you planted the lupine okay i think those would be really pretty to put out by the lupine garden yeah because that'll be more purples and pinks and things like that out there and there are some missing ones that's pretty i noticed that from uh coming up the driveway yeah just first thing that's really pretty yeah i love that yeah okay so the box wouldn't span the whole distance here and so the white lavender will go in this uh level here but i don't know if i we probably have some good footage when we were planting the salvia of what the junipers were starting to do to this rock wall you do yeah you filmed the whole thing it was really tough working in here and we were kind of scared see the juniper stumps yeah and we didn't dare grind those out because um they're they've got a lot of root system and i don't want these walls to be more compromised no let's go look at the plants okay in the driveway so this this is a phenomenal lavender so we took out some lavender hedges which lavender usually only lasts about four or five years and then it gets really woody and ugly so we actually took it out this year it was about way older than that and some of it had winter killed and it was looking bad so these are phenomenal let me show a tag just real quick they're really pretty they're beautiful phenomenal lavender zone four 24 to 32 inches tall 24 to 32 inches wide oh yes you are so strong are you going to be helping us carry all of these yeah all right oh look at these you guys look at these fun so these are a type of thuya smog not sure oh my oh oh look at you dude oh my god why don't you set it down so we can show everybody oh wow good job you are super strong nice job dude oh nope it's still upright okay so look at these look at how cute the little antenna let me give you a close-up look here because it looks like there are four stems it's probably different for each one of these but four main stems that come up and then they start to branch out i'm guessing that's uh to future proof in case one of them dies out maybe and these are just brand new babies and so you know they're i mean you can see the growth that they put on just since they arrived all this is new and it's starting to fluff out and there are a few little um oh that's from a tree what is that i don't know there's a few little like this you know when they threaded them in there but yeah but those won't last for long so once these put on a little bit more growth you can shear like right over the top of the chicken wire so you don't see the actual form anymore but you can see they're all like facing different directions so it'll be really fun to place those it's gonna be fun yes yeah this is the white lavender it's white french lavender what zone is that one that one is a zone five okay and grows two by two yeah so i think it'll be just the right size i like the size of these holes i know i brought my smaller auger too good yes good and then this is a white gara whirling butterflies which isn't that the right name for this garden you know i think the thing i like about the whirly butterflies we have some of this around our fountain in the corner garden i like the red speckles and red variegation on the leaves because i think it brings more depth to the plant instead of it just being all green with white on the top and it you know it shoots out those beautiful flowers and they actually do look like moving something yeah i remember the size on this one though three by two oh boy yeah okay we're gonna have to place that because it does truly get three feet tall yes it does so have to make sure that it will put this towards the back towards the fine lines and then the butterflies and then the some of the artemisia which i keep cut back so it doesn't get leggy and fall over yeah so as soon as it gets like up to my knee i cut it back that's this one here yeah i love the color of this so much yeah isn't that valerie finis artemisia zone four up to 24 inches tall and 30 inches wide but like mom says she keeps it kind of cut back so it doesn't get that big yeah okay well i think what we need to do is place these things and then maybe look take a look okay and then get them planted super fun you want a water do they need to be watered though i think nana might have already watered them i did water them maybe you can water them once we have them in the ground yeah when we put them in the ground you want to help water them okay perfect dude so tell me what your thoughts are mine is that um the butterflies usually like in everything in nature it's like kind of clustered and then a leader takes off and and takes them on down yeah so maybe have a few of them a little closer together and then a little bit you know fanned out okay what do you think i like that idea you like that so are you thinking like clustering in them where's where's the cluster and then maybe a cluster like start right here maybe like three of them and then four five six seven okay well you kind of trail off toward the bottom i like that yeah that would look nice that's normally how you see them fly together in nature so i thought maybe that would be kind of fun perfect okay let's do this ah [Music] do [Music] it's looking fun it is it's just a happy it is and then also we will be um adding to it you know through the season with like the butter yellow echinacea and white sunflowers oh yeah so this is just phase one yeah the first shift of planting so you can imagine uh you guys like right in here like a drift of butter yellow echinacea with the white whirling butterflies up above and then this will be a strong vertical interest right there and then maybe another drift of either the white sunflowers the short ones or more echinacea it's just gonna be a real fun space okay so the next step is to get all of these in the ground which i did bring out my augers multiple and we'll tack the drip line around the plants once they're all in and then we are going to mulch this thing it's going to look really nice in the end [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] oh it's starting to get shady it only took us about two and a half hours to do the whole thing what do you think it's it's so fun i love it it makes you smile it does yeah so let's start on this side and take a little tour we've got an artemisia there and then you'll notice along the back side all the gara so that will be like the three foot height and then these will be the vertical interest and then the artemisia will be cut back so there's another one there a little bit shorter and we put this one in a group kind of like it's not a perfect group we didn't want it to be like it's it should look natural yeah yeah and then there's another artemisia here and then the next butterfly totally shading it sorry and then that one and then it just kind of like they spread out a little bit further as you get further down oh it looks so good though and it ends you can see clearly where it ends we did not make it to the lavender project we actually only had a couple bags of the what we were using to mulch with left and it's getting a little bit later and again this is the first planting phase you know filling in with some other things the echinacea and then you'd be pretty as some yellow snapdragons yeah just anything that's buttery yellow i don't want anything to be too loud because i want it to be a soft soft and and real mellow kind of garden yeah and just whimsical and storybookish yeah she was also mentioning that it would be fun to get some yellow and white striped cushions and umbrellas for this area i think that's such a fun idea it looks so bright and cheerful out here all year or all summer at least if we did little uh floating um ducks in the pool like rubber duckies yeah rubber duckies rubby duckies sweet duckies we need a cocktail yes speaking of and this is what benjamin worked on for a good portion of the time right there here i can put the shovel away and even though the drip system it has been run and it was tacked in around all the plants we always water everything in at least the first couple of times just to make sure that the soil is really settled around the root balls and they're really comfy in their new spots and you want to keep the whole root ball really moist for the first little bit until they're well established and a drip system sometimes doesn't get all the way around so anyway i'm really happy with how this project turned out and it's going to be so much fun to watch this fill in this summer and give you guys updates later on so anyway thank you guys so much for watching this video we hope you enjoyed it and we will see you in the next one bye cheers cheers

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Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 06 2022