July Garden Tour 🌿// Garden Answer

hey guys how's it going Laura with garden dancer it's time for our midsummer garden tour there's a lot of things I want to show you in fact you can probably see all the beautiful color right behind me there's a lot of other things I want to show you too and there's some areas where we're clearing stuff out getting ready for new projects also a lot of perennials need some attention it's getting to be that time of year when they've already flushed out and done their first you know first summer bloom we need to cut them back so that they can gather energy and bloom again so I've worked on some of the beds but there are still quite a number of perennials I need to cut back so I'll show you what I've got going on we wanted to start right in the front of the house because of how beautiful it looks how full of color it is we did not do a video when I planted this stuff and I'm really sad that we didn't now it was just that I didn't think I had enough plants in the beginning now I know I had the perfect amount of plants I also didn't know if they were gonna be compatible I didn't really know how it was gonna look usually I can have a vision of how something's going to end up but you know I don't have a whole lot of experience with this meteor shower verbena now I want it everywhere it's just so beautiful now the thing about this area is that it gets water with our grass sprinklers and it gets a lot of water so we've done supertunias in the past of course supertunia bubblegum we did the first year we were in this house it did awesome because superdude supertunia bubblegum will do pretty much whatever you throw at it it'll take and it'll look beautiful no matter what we did supertunia bordeaux here last year it got a little bit too much water I think for that variety so this year I tried supertunia hot pink charm which I've tried three of the charm varieties of supertunia this year and I am totally sold because they're a little bit more compact and they give you kind of a super Belle's look while still being a supertunia which are a little bit easier to take care of we've got the Sweet Caroline bewitched light green which is an amazing potato vine and I wanted to plant this one kind of is like an understory plant for the verbena to kind of trail and fill in you know underneath it so that these could look like they were kind of floating and it's really starting to take on that appearance I just I think it looks so pretty and I think it works water wise because while the verbena and supertunia don't need as much water as the potato wine I think because this area I don't know because I planted the potato vine these are happy because the potato vine is utilizing all the extra water if that makes sense so I think it's a really compatible blend I did notice on this side it actually gets a little bit more water than the other side and the verbena is yellowing a tiny little bit so we're gonna see if we can't adjust things a little bit and that's what it's about you know we experiment with stuff see how it works we adjust water all the time in fact I'll be showing you some of the big water projects we've been working on this year and that was one of our priorities this year right up here supertunia Bordeaux looking beautiful and the lime lights we planted last year are just fantastic so last year I don't know if you remember when I planted them but I think I'm gonna show you where the old growth was but they were only about this tall I think they've doubled since we planted them and of course they've filled in and they're full of blooms and when we planted a muster it was kind of late in the season and I had an umbrella right here to shade them because it gets quite a bit of Sun right here and they were just we planted him when it was hot and it was getting so much Sun in the poor things were struggling a little bit and so I put an umbrella up and they have clearly adjusted to their space and they're doing really well so I'm really thrilled with how they look of course we mirrored it on this side I've got a supertunia Bordeaux and a few supertunia Priscilla mixed in here Priscilla has kind of the same look as Bordeaux but it's a double I love this supertunia I ran out of Bordeaux that's why I had to throw some Priscilla in here and then I've talked about this privet hedge here which does need to be shorn a little bit but it's too hot right now if I you know kind of came in here with some hedge trimmers and exposed any undergrowth it would probably burn we have an overcast day which is super rare this time of year so we thought it would be a great time to show you guys around the garden but not so great time to hedge so this is going to look a little fluffy until it gets a little cooler out later in the summer it is hiding an AC unit that's why it's here many people if many of you guys have asked about why we have this massive chunk of a privet hedge right here and that's why it is hiding something that's worse to look at so right here in the centre of the yard I have not done really anything we do have the heebie fountain which is not running I just can't get her to run properly so I need to do some troubleshooting on her I still love the way she looks I would liked her just to be a planter right here he really liked if I could never get her to run proper I just changed her into planter I do need to come in I'm gonna be removing this is a spider work or Tradescantia which is everywhere in our garden it's a fine plant but it just wants to take over so I want to do something really pretty in front of the he be here so this area is definitely just kind of to me right now it looks a little bit mangy there's not a whole lot of order and I do see a new gopher mount just right now excellent I don't know why but the Gophers love this little circle area under here which totally bums me out so I see new gopher mounds all the time in fact it planted Samantha Sonia's last year on the other side and two of them just got barreled through by a gopher okay one other pot I wanted to show you up here and some beautiful perennials so right on this Arbor I planted some lady gardener David Austin roses to climb up there were some honeysuckles that I had been kind of watching and fertilizing the last two years that were already planted here but they just sat there they didn't do anything and I don't know what variety they were if they just didn't like this spot but I just thought you know what I like David Austin's more so out the honeysuckles came and those were planted they did bloom I need to come in and do some deadheading but they're doing great this right here is supertunia mulberry charm now see this is another one of the charms that I'm trying this year and I'm just totally sold look at that you guys I've done nothing but fertile I fertilized it once a week they have drip system that's run to them so they get watered consistently but that's it no deadheading nothing and look at how that looks that's amazing I love it and you can probably see all the hollyhocks here these were here when we moved in and I love them they get just eaten to death I think by earwigs and usually I'm a little bit more liberal with my bait but I haven't kept up on it up in this area up here but I just think that they're so cottagey and beautiful looking I think we'll always have hollyhocks up here we did tuck in a few supertunia bubblegum I had just a handful of them left after a project I thought Oh it'd be just perfect to pop actually I didn't think that Aaron thought that he told me that I should do that I thought it was a good idea we have a little bit of flour bread that comes out past the fence kind of random so we popped him in there around some drip tube to them and they're doing excellent the west side of the garden while we're up here anyway the trees are doing really good that we planted I went ahead and planted some vertigo Pennisetum and supertunia bubblegum in that little cutout where the elm tree was that we had removed but like you guys know I've told you before we aren't gonna put a pathway in and it'll start about here and I don't know I kind of want to have like some brick columns or something really beautiful with some urns or liked posts or something really pretty because this is the driveway like straight this way so if something really pretty to designate the start of a walkway and it'll take off and it'll kind of undulate through the grass path over here to the vegetable garden so in the meantime because we've so many other projects going on I haven't been able to really focus as much on this side because all the grass is gonna eventually go and it's gonna have pathway with landscaping on both sides I had some extra space so I popped some squash plants in down there there's four different squash plants there's three more Tomatoes right there in that little cutout I've got two Cinderella pumpkins because why not you have empty space that you don't really have plans to do anything with you may as well fill it with something that's going to produce something so I'm actually kind of excited about it I love to see that in other people's gardens when I go and I see like herbs or cabbage or something random tucked into a flower bed it just makes it so much more like magical feeling okay and there's one of the kinsley ghost honeysuckle this is not the one we showed in the video this one's a little bit younger but we don't often show these in tours because they're on the outside of the fence we don't often walk out this way you can see the backside of the hay racks but you guys we are going to put out a video that's just solely dedicated to the excuse me to those hay racks because I wanted to talk more in detail about everything that we've done with them this season and I don't know I just wanted to give you more details so let's head up this direction toward Versailles I have a beautiful hydrangea to show you over here in the corner so right here I planted three quick fire hydrangeas last year which in hindsight I planted them way too close together but one of them is doing fantastic and I just wanted to show you that this happens sometimes you plant three of the exact same thing and one of them will look glorious and the other too it's like hello where are your buds there are no blooms like what in the world like they get the same exact light the same exact water these look like they are either they need some iron maybe there's one bloom it's trying so you know this one doesn't really have the yellowing of the leaves so I don't know if maybe those just need a little bit of extra amending but isn't this glorious I think it's just so beautiful I'm so excited to see it grow and you know I'll probably amend the soil around these with some iron tone just leave them alone for a little while they'll probably kick into gear and that just happens sometimes you just have something random if they continue to not like this spot for some reason I'll dig them up and move them because these will get they get really good size so this one will actually fill in pretty much this whole area just by itself but anyway I wanted to show that to you because I was thinking that it might be an encouragement to you to see what happens sometimes you know there's sometimes there's just no explanation and you just you know whatever it's gardening okay so I don't know if you can see really well that big grass by the privet hedge I forgot to show you up close but it looks so pretty it's called a Miscanthus cabaret and it was something I had in our old garden and I'm so glad that they had one here it's such a statement grass I mean it just comes back beautifully every year so I wanted to make sure to show you that because it looks just the shape of it's perfect okay so here in Versailles I'm the supertunias we chose this year I think our doing really well we've got supertunia latte in two corners and that's obviously the one that's loving the in ground situation and a whole lot safer junior royal velvet it's looking really good full of bloom but it's just not quite pushing out quite as quickly um but they're just both being watered by grass sprinklers again this year and I'm thankful because last year we did Bordeaux and lemoncello the Bordeaux again did not like being water too much lemon cello did okay but these are doing much better so I'm really encouraged you can see on my right hand everything around the urn is doing great that's the denim enlace Russian sage it's in its prime right now now the superb inna dark blue is what I planted around it this year after the cafe no our tulips were done when I planted these I had to cut them back severely because they were so leggy I think I'd put it in a vlog and so it's taken him a while to kind of fill in and start to bloom again so they're a little bit they're not quite as far ahead of the game as my annuals were last year but I kind of like it last year I had Bordeaux the Bordeaux did excellent in the spot because I didn't get as much water and then I had a white knight and snow princess alyssum and it just it filled in everywhere I mean it was coming out in between from between the boxwoods while it was very pretty I kind of liked the more tame nature of this now I don't know if it's gonna stay that way that super beena might take off you know here now that's getting really warm and that might take off and really fill in but I think the colors are beautiful kind of that monochromatic look and the honeybees are everywhere on the Russian stage right now I love that right here this is not planted yet this is another one I set to see if I like it this is the limelight hydrangea stand on standard so it's a tree form hydrangea proven winners actually has a really nice article on how you can train a hydrangea into a tree form if it were me I would just buy it like that because it does take a long time to get it there if you are the type who likes to see the whole process and like nurture a plant into that form excellent I like to buy them like this and just get them in the ground and have them look like this right from the very beginning I in fact I bought four of these this year down at the garden center we got in the most gorgeous load of standard trees like this and I couldn't pass them up because they were really good price so I'll show you the other ones as we go around the house right here in these estate planters I did supertunia bubblegum super beena royal plum wine which they're doing really great I thought the Bubblegum would just take over right away but so far I can still see the super bina and I think that that's a really sweet combination I think those two paints together are really really pretty and then right above it I have blue chiffon Rose of Sharon's standard or tree look at the blooms on this this is a really nice one look at that double blue and it's got buds both of them have buds all over on them so I'm really pleased I did not do a video on this project as well because I have done Rose of Sharon's standards and pots before I don't know if you remember I did a white one was it white chiffon I don't know White Rose of Sharon's standard in those pots and I did not have very good luck and it was because I think I paired things that needed way too much water below it anyway they were not compatible so I thought you know what I'm gonna try this out again before I actually do a video and tell you it works we'll do it this year see what happens and then you guys can decide based on our results the hay racks up here are doing really well there's Russell he's hanging out hey buddy taking a nap so yeah these are doing really good we've got the yellow tuberous begonia boy I can't even remember all the stuff in here Goldilocks creeping Jenny we have some lavender infinity impatiens and then some potato vine everything's doing really good I was kind of wondering if the begonia and the impatiens and potato vine would be compatible with one another water wise but so far so good everything's doing great okay let's move around this side of the house a lot more action going on over here this is one of the beds I need to work on here pretty quick we've got some yellow Columbine that's really pretty but you can see it's like huge there's hostas in here you just can't see him so it's about time as soon as these are done I'll come in and shear back the Columbine and then everything else will kind of fill in and take over so anyway lots of that to be done and then I don't know if you guys saw the video where I planted these hair racks up in fact when I was planting these up Aaron started to freak out and I was like what is going on and we looked up there's a huge doe in our garden oh there's a deer Laura look I always tell people we don't deal with deer no big deal we don't have deer like we're so lucky I don't know where she came from anyway she's beautiful we kind of followed her out Aaron I think got a little bit of camera footage but we were both in like freaking out because we've never seen a deer this far close to town okay so this spot right here I planted up with the double Moonglow osteo spur mums there's also some peach berry ice I think it's what they're called hookah rez those are going to come out next year so I'm just testing them out to see how they do there's some super blue angelonia a beautiful pinky-winky hydrangea back in there that's blooming and then we've got the blushing princess alyssum which we did a video on Oh seems like so long ago that we planted these over here they're completely covering and beautiful the ones over here I actually dug out because I planted them all through this whole area and I thought it received more light and it's because I planted him earlier when the canopies were not so full of leaves so there was a lot more light and then all of a sudden and we got more shade so I dug them up put them out here and I just did that like last week and they're already starting to bloom and perk up so you know just one of the things you have to do every once in a while on this side of the bed this is the front side of the bed with all the yellow Columbine and it's looking beautiful I just love this look hostas lamium there's a boxwood in there this is a wayfaring tree it's a viburnum there's some iris texture in there I just like all the different shades of green green and blue in here it's very soothing to me I really like that I think if Erin had his way we'd have like a bunch of flowers like big color in there he and I it's funny our Styles like Erin wants Erin wants kind of Disneyland ask he wants tons of color and I would be happy with just like all greens and white blooms so we compromise this is one of my most favorite areas like views in the garden - the car in the background the hostas here with the boxwood and then you can see the marooned coleus and then this is where our rose garden was which we'll get over there in a minute most of the roses are gone now so I'll explain that but I just love this in the you guys in the evening it's so pretty so the Sun sets on that side and right before it sets you know like that perfect time when the lights just coming in beautifully it looks like magical I just love it so we move this way you can see some real pretty color we did a video where I showed you some of the perennials I planted in this area some banana cream date daisies which I've sheared back already and they're coming back with a second bloom so those are tucked back in we've got some Wizard of Oz Veronica which I shared back as well but the nice thing about popping some annuals in is that now that these are sheared back and not full of color we still have color because of the annuals and that's why I like to put them in the edges of beds this is sparkling amethyst super bean up it's not pretty that is such a pretty color to me you've got two different colors a purple and then the white that makes it look sparkly and then in this container here that I just popped here we've got a supertunia Bordeaux diamond frost euphorbia this is a wild berry wild berry heuchera and a lemon coral see them there are some super pink aren't pretty much pink I can't remember there's an angelonia in there for some pink color because I have monarda this was the perfectly plumb monarda that I've shared back as well so I don't know that's just something to consider when you're doing an area so kind of note bloom times of everything so that you can always have some color going and I knew I was going to leave some areas for annuals in here to kind of take care of that let's see oh this area here lemon coral sedum is just so pretty look at it up here it's so bright and I've tucked in a couple of supertunia Bordeaux marooned coleus which I did last year and I loved it so much I had to do more of a here plus I kind of pushed them up into that flower bed as well and then we've got some white echinacea there's some delphiniums back in there now this is the midnight masquerade penstemon and I did not cut them back after they bloomed and I'm so glad I didn't and I don't know what kind of seed things are gonna form but they're beautiful they're just beautiful whether or not I leave them here or use them in flower arrangements I mean I think they'd be a great filler for flower arrangements but they matched the coleus like that worked out so perfect and I'm about ready to come in and shear up my box slits for the very first time so I won't top them what I'll do is I'll come in and I'll just shear off the sides and it'll kind of encourage them to fill in because I do want them to grow higher a little bit so I'll let them get a little bit more height and fill in a little bit more before I actually taught them so I'll be doing that these actually get more shade than my other box with so I can do that now and not be worried about them burning okay so now you've probably noticed that almost all the roses are gone from this area the reason why we moved the roses is because one I didn't like all of them and it's one of my things that I have to like what I'm looking at in the garden and I know that that is kind of like for some of you it's hard because it's like a living plant and you don't want to rip something out that's doing well but you know what we had some friends over they dug them out they took them home and they've got them planted again so they're in a new spot we didn't trash them but just don't look at stuff that you don't like it's not worth it put stuff in that you love the other reason why I wanted to move them is that this area does not get enough Sun to make roses happy this I got a little bit more Sun than the other side but they just they got too lanky and they were always leggy and they were always grabbing you when you walk down the sidewalk they the sidewalks too narrow to have roses on either side that get that big and with Benjamin I don't know you know we're carrying him in his um like car seat and he's got a blanket or one of those things over it and it would snag the blanket and pull it off and it just it wasn't a good situation so you can see that I've got some hydrangeas sitting here it's gonna be gorgeous you guys I'm so excited so I've just planted the tiny tots here which is kind of my end piece there's gonna be a lavender hedge right here there'll be a lavender hedge going all the way to the end and this is it right here this is called Munstead lavender this is one of my the ones that I have the most experience with I planted sweet romance in front of the garden space which I'm loving because it stays smaller than Munstead this one gets a little bit bigger so I didn't have enough room out there for this one but this will fill in about a two foot section on either side have the sidewalk and I think it'll do okay Sun wise because this area gets more the edge of this bed gets more Sun than the interior part so we'll see how it goes but I want to mass plant the entire insides with incredible hydrangeas these are looking a little bit worse for wear a couple of them are because they were down at the garden center and in an in a windstorm a huge tree fell right on the top of them so nobody really wanted to buy them but it's kind of faith in planting I know that if I get them in the ground shear them back this next spring they'll come back and they'll be beautiful they've got good roots underneath them and they're a tough plant so I am just looking forward to having a sea of white here and a sea of white on the other side I want it to be a little bit more balanced and a little bit more formal up here I think the biggest bloom might be like look at this look at this poor hydrangea all smashed I think these are like one of the most gorgeous things ever I'm just so excited so I've got five to start off with and then I'll just start adding in as I can get my hands on more I want to show you the fireplace area real quick we just recently did a makeover on that and I wanted to show you how we store our furniture because there are quite a few comments and questions about it this right here is what we've decided to do so in the past Erin and I have not been very good stewards of our outdoor furniture we let the rain fall as it may or whatever and they get ruined pretty fast so there were a lot of people who are like okay so you've got this brand-new beautiful furniture in this area what are you gonna do with it when it rains are you just gonna let the cushions stay out or you come out here every single time first of all it doesn't rain very often here so we're good there but I did choose dark-colored cushions they're midnight navy and Russell and no like to get on them and sleep so I didn't really want cat hair on them you know want to keep them nice so we got these covers it's super easy just to pop them off when you want to use the furniture I know it doesn't look like amazing to have the covers on but if people come over or if Erin and I want to come out here and use them we just pop the covers off quick we can use the furniture then we can put them back on and everything is good to go and safe so I just wanted to show you what our solution was and I think we're gonna start buying these covers for the rest of our furniture as well because we were thinking you know how wonderful would it be these are all weather so you can leave a mount in the wintertime as well and we're gonna leave our furniture right where it sits and then if we have a snowy night where we want to come out and enjoy a fire all we've to do is pop the cover off we've got nice furniture to sit on that's not wet so I'm really looking forward to that so let's just go this way the containers are doing really well out here I've just recently come through this area and I don't know if you can see but I did start sharing up these boxwoods you can really see from my angle down this way they don't look like super tight yet but they're starting to Train and it just gives me I don't know it just makes me excited this spot right here amazing so autumn Frost hostas and dipped in wine coleus it's doing so well and I was worried there for a little bit because something was eating the crap out of my coleus and I didn't know what it was exactly because I couldn't find anything and I came out here when is dark and I couldn't find slugs and I think it was earwigs so I've been out here I spray him with a spinosa and I also baked for slugs an earwig so I figure you know what one of those things is going to take care of whatever is eating on these plants and it has I have noticed some grasshoppers and there's a little bit of damage I think from them but not bad they're really rebounding beautifully and they look so gorgeous there's drip system underneath him so I don't have to even water them I come out here with my fertilizer and fertilize them once a week and that's it and then like I have told you guys before this is going to be a walkway because we take our lawn tractor through here so we're gonna create some sort of walkway here that's why I stopped planting kind of looks like an awkward abrupt stop but there is a plan and then I haven't decided what I want to plant here yet I just came through and cut back all but who's a couple of stems or roses Erin was making fun of me but I just couldn't I couldn't cut these back because when I did this these were just buds and I'm like oh I got to give him their chance to bloom so if I like these random two stems they look beautiful coming back here in a day or two but this whole area fills in with Salvi and I've just cut it all back the calla karpas I think that's the name the choral not coral berry proud berry Cala carpet I think thanks they're doing great so this is one I planted in the video that we did last year and it's got tons of buds this is gonna ton zuv berries and as do the other two so I planted these two after the video was over just timewise it worked out that way and I just wanted this to fill in and be beautiful shrubs with purple berries and I think we're gonna get it so I'm very excited about that and then here is an update on the brick circle area it's doing really well so most of it is we've got three vertical Pennisetum which have grown tremendously since we planted them we've got the mystic illusion Dahlia which have also grown beautifully there is the Vermilion air CUFI and you can see tucked in kind of in between the dahlias and that one isn't growing quite as quickly as a dahlias but they're all very healthy looking they're Bordeaux's they are blooming their heads off but their foliage is very yellow so we've been trying to troubleshoot what's going on I thought for a minute there that I was giving him maybe too strong a fertilizer I don't think that's the deal because all the rest of my supertunias look good and I'm giving him the same ratio so I think that this area was actually getting too much water which is kind of strange and I don't think that this area it gets quite a bit of Sun but not as much as I thought enough to keep everything happy and blooming but maybe if it got more Sun it would dry the area out quicker so here's what I decided to do we had drip run it's actually tapped in over there it runs underneath the bricks here and it's popped up right here so what I did is I went got a valve you can get these valves that just fit right into your poly tubing and see I've got it off right now and then I can come in and turn it on so now I have the ability to control when this gets water so what's getting water every day there for a little while so now when I walk by it every day - you know attend to my other things I'll just flip it whatever it is if it's like it's off today so tomorrow when I'm watering I'll turn it on and then the next day I'll turn it off so it's just every other day and if I have to back off more than that so be it but I mean I can't complain about the amount of blooms that's going on they're looking amazing a couple of hanging baskets with some color just want to show you the jellyfish over here I think I totally did the jellyfish wrong I think what they did in the jellyfish and we'll get the picture and put it up on the screen I think that they fashioned some sort of upside down planter like upside down like maybe chicken wire planted these out the bottom of it and then planted the impatience around like the exterior like cut holes in the Coco fiber planted him in the exterior I think that that's how it was done they're still really pretty and maybe if he's like eventually grow they're kind of just sitting there right now but maybe if they actually grow to their 8 to 10 inch size we'll start to look a little bit more like that but either way it's a learning process and we're learning and I was gonna mention to you've probably I'm seeing some pink flags hanging out around the garden because we are working on our water system this year and this is another one of our big projects like I was telling you before so all of our drip system is a lot of it's hooked into what i can assume more grass sprinklers at one time which is not ideal so you can see all of the pink flags are three four of them in this area they're all indicating where some drip is attached we're gonna have all those areas dug up and capped and that way we can have like have these away from the sidewalk and they leak everywhere and so when we moved in and we noticed that all of the grass sprinklers were connected to all the flowerbeds sprinklers so whenever we needed to run the grass the flowerbeds got it and sometimes flowerbeds need more water than grass does and so it was really incompatible we were creating a really poor root system on our grass because we were giving it so much water while trying to keep our flowerbeds happy so Aaron's kind of spearhead and getting all everything separate so all of our grass zones are going to be separate from our drip zones in the end so right now we have sixteen zones for that we'll hit I think 15 of them are for grass and one of them's for our vegetable garden in the end we'll still have the grass zones but we'll have 28 dripstones it's intense I don't really understand how like everything works but I know what what they've done wherever there's live water coming up like a faucet or a hydrant like this they'll tap into that water line and then they can run into another box so there will be two more boxes like irrigation boxes here they'll separate they'll create I guess I should say create four valves for four drip zones and it's all run by something called a hunter node which these four valves go into they're wired into and you can program them to go off however long you want how often you want them to go it's kind of like a irrigation box that you have on the side of your house but it's inside a box down in the ground and we'll have several of those that will just be feeding for drip zones and so they're battery-operated the only thing we'll have to do probably is come out once a season like right at the beginning of the season where we're maintaining everything and swap the batteries out and they should last a full season that way because you know this year actually we did a video where we fixed some sprinklers that were stepped up and that was what was watering the whole flowerbed so we capped those off and then I ran drip through the whole area it was just way too much drip tubing and the pressure wasn't good enough so it wasn't actually make it to making it to the end of the drip tubing and that's a problem like we need to be able to run everything by drip because we have to harder water to do overhead watering it just ruins our foliage so anyway we decided that you know what that needs to be a priority we need to try to get most of our containers on drip which we've done a really good job I think doing that so far there's still some I haven't gotten on drip yet anyway and maybe at some point I can talk Aaron into doing a video and explaining all of this water issue I can I can kind of grasp it but I'm horrible at conveying that information so maybe he'll do it one of these days right up here I just want to give you an update on these trio containers they're looking pretty good it looks like they've got tons of buds they're kind of like in-between they flushed out beautifully and there's tons of buds about ready to open so the blooms are a little sparser than they were we've got the Vertigo Pennisetum which is growing huge there's lemon coral sedum in that pot supertunia bordeaux supertunia bordeaux there is actually a Dahlia in here which you can see better in this pot which really wasn't necessary to put in here at all because these other plants just get so big and there is another lemon coral see them tucked in on that side right there we wanted to create three that kind of tied together now they just look like one just giant container just kind of the kind of what you want to have happen let's look in the vegetable garden so first off I actually started planting either side which is really exciting so that's where two of the other limelight hydrangea trees went I thought that'd be a really pretty thing to do now this is a total experiment because this whole area gets full Sun all day long typically hydrangeas in our area can't handle our Sun because it's so hot and so unforgiving but these are a type of hydrangea paniculata that are the type that can take the most amount of Sun so I'm just doing an experiment we'll see how they do if they start to look really sad I'll move them but everything out here in the vegetable garden has done so well and I've been picking so much stuff out of here it's crazy now I'm not going to go through each individual bed like I did in the last tour because our tours probably already pretty long but right now we're just about ready to harvest potatoes and in fact that's something I'm hoping to do today and a couple of new things I've planted our corn I've got corn I just seeded here which should mature about the first part of September nothing really new I did put the tomatoes in these obelisks right here so gardener these are from gardeners supply they're the SX round trellis that Kim actually in a five foot or seven foot size I got the seven foot size but I took one of the rungs out because I thought seven feet would be a little bit too tall but look at that tomato it's insanity now this is a Sun sugar indeterminate variety of course and it's just growing like crazy so next year I will probably put the extra rung in and have the full seven feet because I think this tomato would eventually take that amount of space up I do want to show you it's right in front of me here I want to swing around and show you how the arbor vitae soar looking because I'm so proud of them they look so so good so as you guys know we planted 65 of these last summer it was 104 degrees out the day we planted him which was super dumb Oh a dumb thing to do but they have been sitting in cans since March and it was like I can't remember July when we got him in the ground or June maybe it was really hot and they suffered a little bit last year in fact Aaron kind of took that on it's his project he like babied these Arbor fighters last year make sure they had enough water kept me on like the fertilizing and they have just done so well I mean some of them had a little bit of brown in them last year from burning and I think we've replaced three three out of sixty five is really really good usually I would expect out of that many to have to replace maybe five or six but we've had super great luck they're putting on growth they're widening out they're looking really nice so I just thought you would like to see that we are gonna have to have this tree removed this is something that just happened so this is a globe willow which I was going to have removed eventually anyway because willows are horrible trees in our area they get borås really bad and unless you pound them with chemicals every single year to keep the bores out you just they'll eventually fall over in a windstorm which is what this one is doing so you can see that the trunk is completely leaning and air I don't know if I can do it but like Erin can do this on the tree and you can see the roots lifting up underneath the ground so I have the tree service called they're gonna come and remove this tree we have a red point planted way down there it was one of the group of trees that planted this spring and I tagged three more at the garden center so we're gonna actually both globe willows removed because I know it's gonna eventually happen to this one and I don't want to invest time into that tree and money and I don't want to have to put chemicals on it to keep it nice so we're just gonna have them both removed we're gonna plant three more red points along this driveway and I think it's gonna be really pretty okay couple more areas I want to show you first of all the weeping willow is looking amazing so maybe the prune job Erin gave to it last year wasn't so bad after all it looks so glorious this is how I want them to look I know it's a pain to like mow under these but they're just so magical like I just love this tree these are the willows that I will do whatever it takes to keep them nice because I just I just adore them now right in front of me there's a golden rain tree that's in its prime looking beautiful the thing I like most about this tree love the structure of it the blooms of course are beautiful look at the trunk I don't know how old this tree is but it's beautiful I mean just the whole structure is one two three four five six seven eight eight looking like a trunks down there it's just so beautiful The Velveteen coleus is doing really good underneath it now they bro Walia underneath is not doing the best it did great when it was cooler out it is a shade loving plant and I put it in a spot that gets at Sun I didn't know because the canopy comes over and I thought well for sure it's in shade and in fact the bro Walia toward the back is doing really well but this stuff right here gets pounded with afternoon Sun and every day it's like it's all kind of shriveled up and I give it extra water twice a day water so I'm going to dig these up I'm going to move all of the ones that are out here further toward the back so they'll enjoy their life and then I'll put something else up here that can take the Sun gardening supertunia royal magenta is looking glorious on the barn in both the containers and in the hay rack so these four are on drip and so are so is the hay rack up there that one I do have to take a watering can up the stairs in the barn and I open the window and fertilize that once a week these I can hit with the hose down here so this spot right here I've got an exciting project coming up I bought these in fact the tag still on it these are pyramidal European horn beams you can see right there carpenter spatulas Festa Giada um look how skinny and narrow they are I love the form of them I am going to create I'm going to fashion some sort of form for them probably add a PVC and then I'm going to attach these trees to them and I'm gonna train them into an arch so we have a tree arch back here I think it's gonna be gorgeous of course I already planted annuals in these spots and that's where they kind of need to go so would either have to wait to plant them or move these things somewhere else and I also did put an order in for next year's tree load have two more of these so I can do the same tree art on the other opening down on the far end so we'll have both and then I wanted to show you this area here we've got the rock and deep purple salvia which is doing so great then we've got the tangerine slices appeal from bersia which just like in the last week or two has really started to take off it kind of just sat there for a little while and right now I notice it's filling the ground right below it in fact if I was more active about coming out here and like helping it get started here it would probably fill this teepee a lot faster than letting it do it on its own but I think in the next probably a couple weeks we'll see a ton more growth up the trellis but the blooms are beautiful and I think it's a really pretty mix and then the area right here behind the potting sheds looking still really good we've got white ones Veronica which is still holding on its blooms are still holding on while the other Veronica's have already faded this one still looks nice we've got heuchera and this is a supertunia wild rose which i think is really pretty having the kind of pink tone heuchera with the pink supertunia there it's a really pretty mix all white containers are doing really well back here we've got the double Moonglow Ostia spur mums again super Belle's white diamond frost euphorbia there's a skyrocket Pennisetum some Silver Bullet Artemisia there everything's working well together so far this is kind of fun so you guys we were at Home Depot we're picking up a couple bags of mulch so that we could match mulch that we were we were working at somebody else's house we wanted to match the type of mulch they had when we were there this lady walked past me with like 9 or 10 flats full of lobelia that looked beautiful and she said they were getting rid of it and she'd give it all to me for 75 cents all of them for 75 cents and I counted how many cells there were 540 individual lobelia plants for 75 cents and I thought you know what sometimes lobelia doesn't do the greatest for us in the heat of summer but for 75 cents I will take it and I will plant them somewhere so it kind of just did this sea of blue right here this little patch is actually in the most amount of Sun and it's suffering a little bit but I just planted them so hopefully they all kind of kick it into gear and fill in this area I think it's really pretty actually something I would maybe consider doing again maybe with some other type of annual but the blue is very pretty especially when you look through you can see the hydrangeas and then that dipped in wine coleus back in there it's just really pretty ok one last spot I think the fountains running right there I just adore that fountain that you guys is the Kensington three-tier fountain from Henry studio they came out and helped us set it up this spring if you remember that video and the sound of it is perfect I can open our bedroom window or even like our kitchen window and I can hear that water all the way from our house I just love it I have been working on this spot back here though when the Sun started to come out and so I've just what was here nothing there was nothing here and so I've been kind of trying to fill it in there's some roses and sedum and butterfly bush some baby's breath this is a really pretty no phobia or red-hot poker I've never really liked red-hot pokers because they're usually always red or that really orangish red but these I can't remember what they're called flashpoint maybe but they're that beautiful yellow and then we've got some distant drum roses I put three of them in here and they're really pretty and then it kind of works into I've got some pink angelonia super pink angelonia back in there that'll fill in and then I've got the rest of the bed still yet to plant it's still pretty empty or full of kind of scrubby looking plants and then this space here was the pond which is now nothing until we figure out what we want to put there just we put some mulch in there and just decided to wait on it and kind of think about it and there's a lot of other things to work on so we'll just leave it looking like that for now it's a really pretty view looking this way toward Versailles I think looking and seeing the color of the Russian sage and the really pretty locust trees with the pre I think those are sunburst locusts with that really pretty yellow new growth but if you look back this way we have recently done some pulling out of stuff so we had some go first run through this bed as well and they took out a couple of my sedum but there's a few maestro sedum left back in there the Daisy May daisies which are looking beautiful there's some fruit sweetiepie fruit punch dianthus right in here in fact there is still some here I had him planted here they got so big so fast they were climbing out into the grass and there was grass growing up through them so I cut him back really short and I don't know they'll probably come back but I popped some supertunia real magenta and just for the meantime while they're kind of gaining their energy back if they don't come back I'm okay with that because I've got a ton still right here which I can divide and I can bring some more back up front there but yeah I just recently did a little cleaning up in this area and so everything's just kind of feeling like except for the rose garden because that one's a little bit more under more construction I feel like everything's starting to kind of come together either in theory like in my mind starting to think about more spaces and what we can do with them like I'd love to bring a bench in right here because there's really not a whole lot of anything back here and we need to have more seating I think that's really important in any garden space because you know we could sit right here and we could look out over the view of this lawn and the gardens I think that's important to sit and enjoy some of the fruits of your Labor's so that's pretty much it for this garden tour we saw quite a bit of it of course there's little areas that we didn't show you this time because they really haven't changed since our last tour but we'll be giving you more updates as the season goes you know you know we haven't been doing garden tours on a monthly basis this year just because I don't know we kept ourselves on that schedule last year of doing a garden tour once a month and it gets a little bit tough to keep yourself like to remember to do it and to make time for it all the time so we figured that we're gonna just do one every couple of months as we feel like we've got a lot to show you guys a lot of different things so it's not repetitive and that way you can kind of see the process a little bit faster but I don't know how long this garden tour ended up being but you guys seemed pretty receptive to our hour-long one we put up earlier this spring so I'm hoping you enjoy just kind of taking a slower walk through the garden and like looking a little bit more of individual plants instead of just an overall so anyway thank you guys so much for hanging out today check it out my garden and we will see you in the next video bye [Music]

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Length: 48min 3sec (2883 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 11 2018