Magical Garden Tour! Journey Through this Mind-blowing Yard!

what's up everybody Justin at SNK Greenhouse but today I'm back again with the legendary the All-Star Gardener Master Gardener Rose Duncan brother so good to be back so many of you guys watched our last tour and you're like man we got to do this again and it's been a while it's been a whole year and so many things have changed in just one year it's amazing and I'm so excited to show you guys Bruce's handiwork the additions he's made the conifers he's added the new beds he's added so if you watch the last video don't think you've seen everything he has really changed it up so excited to be with you doing this I'm glad yes I'm excited we're right here at your uh backyard we're going to start here this time we're going to work our way through here he's got a new walking trail we're going to go through we got a new we got a vegetable garden to go through and then we'll make our way up to the front yard where we had where we started last time so if you want to start us off Bruce talk about what you got going on back here brother well last year when you were here this is this is pretty much like it was I've added a few more uh beds for some extra flowers of course I've got different flowers this year than I had last year so a few are the same but don't you love the clay on me the spider flower that's that's what sticks out to me and so much I grew that in this bed but it was over in this area last year and all of that came up by seed from last year wow and that's a cleome and that's Clay on me okay Orton also called spider flower okay and I really love it and it'll Bloom up until fall it's just beautiful wow and something I've added some perennials you see the orange flower in front of it and there's some over here oh yeah let's walk over here and talk yeah this this is crocosmia also known as Lucifer plant and I'm really not sure why it's called that the devil plant I guess but uh cause me a little better but it's it to me it's Angelic I love it it's it's beautiful now most uh crocosmia that you typically see is is more red uh my aunts and my mom gave me these bulbs last year and it must be a different kind it's really orange but man I love it and Bruce before we walk too much this way let's just talk about this whole vibe you got going on right here well Alex can you come back on this end of the trail but I like to throw things in my flower beds that you don't expect to see and and as you walk down if you want to follow us down the trail here I want you to see something I hope you see it you should that you you wouldn't expect to see has it hit you yet bam you're you're you're almost on sweet 100 sweet 100 that's a sweet 100 tomato 100 cherries are probably the best cherry tomato oh I love out there the most sugar content they don't call them sweet 100 for nothing sorry I didn't even ask it's like oh you're fine it's like a yeah spit it all over me this is like a candy store to me every morning I come out here and work and water uh I have to eat me some sweet 100 but what what I like about this is amongst these flowers you wouldn't expect to see a sweet 100. that's what I love about your style of gardening you've got you've got some conifers in here you got some annuals in here and he's in here perennial and a tomato growing and a tomato Grill I just thought it was neat you blend all the elements together so nicely but that red color of those tomatoes and and it'll it'll continue this up until fall you see how the tomatoes are growing up the steaks so you'll get that red color All Season how about the this is scented geranium also known as Cranesville this is a perennial comes back every year I love it it'll bloom all summer and for a perennial it really it blooms like an annual right it blooms like an annual it it'll it'll Bloom up until fall which is well and you got some gum Farina over here I see yeah this is a strong blooming annual is this Iris that's an iris and then you got transcanthia this is starting to butt up and blow spider warting out those a month ago uh this is a a gold colored trade a Scania or spider wart and these are the same thing this is the old-fashioned kind a month ago all of this was that high covered in blue blooms wow but after they do that in the early late spring early summer uh the blooms will fade away so what I do is I cut them back like you see I cut them clear to the ground and then I let them grow back and when they grow back they'll bloom again till fall so you'll get I got a brag on Bruce for just a second most people would let their zinnias flop over or grow them through the cages Bruce has individually staked each Xenia that had trouble standing on its own with a little stake and that's why these are standing up so pretty and Tall now in another week or two when they get really mature they'll the stalk will be good enough to stand up on its own but they have a tendency when they're young that stalk is uh not mature yet but it flowers and it gets top heavy and a little rain will just make them fall over so gotcha but in a week or two it won't need those steaks well folks again we are out in Fallston North Carolina Zone 7B in July and Bruce has it been Hot lately I baited you into that one Lord is a fat dog heavy now look at this celosi over here is that do you know what variety of that is I don't okay it's definitely a celosia bright cherry red blooms uh the blooms are unlike any other flower in my opinion smell that ground cover you're standing over okay see if you can tell what it is I'm not sure Alex you got an idea what you think it is no no idea it's a spice it's a spice it's oregano what yeah is that perennial or is that an annual that's actually an evergreen what yeah it'll stay uh in the winter it kind of gets a little darker but uh that's oregano that is awesome it's a new strand of oregano it's called gold oregano and uh I thought that was pretty neat that's awesome folks I don't know if you remember do you want to take them back here I'd love to we're going to do a quick loop I don't know if you remember this we didn't talk about it much last year because this was just a field but Bruce has turned this into a yard area where where we're standing Justin on this uh Edge line last year if you remember it was a jungle yes and I had a guy come in Bush Hog all this and he said Bruce if you'll just keep it cut with your lawnmower you'll be surprised it'll it'll start looking like grass a grassy yard and you can see well what's so unique about this backyard Bruce lives on Main Street in in Fallston so well that's like living in Mayberry yeah but but you don't feel like you're you feel like you're out in a in a very rural area which Fallston kind of is uh compared to other cities but but it's so nice to have these woods behind us he's he's on about what about six acres of land back here and since y'all were here of course I cleaned this area out I've got a nice grass you feel look there's the rabbit Alex there's the rabbit I told you about that's the creature that ate my cucumbers up not long ago remember me telling you oh he's got a looks like he's got a family now or she um that's why I can't be too mad that no I'm not mad but uh you remember I told you about my cucumbers getting to eat up that's why this fence I put that fencing up and folks if you'll hang with us we're about to go in there in just a few moments that vegetable garden is awesome if you've never seen it but anyway uh since y'all were here last year uh over the winter I came in here and made me a little nature trail through these Woods this was all dense wooded area and uh we have our fire pit and I I've kind of neglected this area I used to keep it a little cleaner but we like to sit out here in the fall and winter and build us a fire and it looks awesome but we now have a nature trail and Justin you were here earlier but earlier today when it was probably what 92 93 yeah when we got back here what did it feel like oh it dropped 10 degrees it was amazing that's what that's what's so interesting uh about these kind of areas again we we're in zone 7B in the middle of summer it has been brutally hot here so Bruce has made himself an escape from that back here in these woods now we're we're back here in the deepest part of this wooded section and this is where it really gets the coolest in the middle of the day it's a nice little Retreat and I hope next year right now it's just the way it has been it's all natural but next year I hope to add some I'm going to sow some flower seeds here and there and hopefully have a little color back here next summer Bruce has only been on this property he says now four years four years and the transformation this property has went through is nothing short of amazing oh it's amazing now Bruce you're retired now people are going to wonder as we go through your yard how many hours a day are you putting into this property I think I'm setting you up for this but I think like people think you put a lot more effort than you do I mean I know you put a ton of effort yeah but you got other things going on all right yeah it's it I don't put as much time in this as some people might think I do um if if I had to guess on average per day all year long I probably spend an hour to an hour and a half I have some projects when we moved here of course like this that I've done and I have a few more I want to do and that's going to add that time but that's just a one-time thing it won't be an everyday thing right uh I'm getting older I I can't uh I'm getting at that age where I'm having to think about how much I want to do in the future [Music] well that's a pretty neat Loop don't you think that was awesome so we just went through the loop it's brought us back on this side of his vegetable garden and starting over here and we'll walk back down to where we were but I just want you guys to notice last year this wasn't here this whole bed wasn't here so you just added this I've added all this when you're making a new bed for these annuals what did you put down here did you put any topsoil did you till up the ground well we have a lot of heavy red clay around here we do uh I added some topsoil I had some soil brought in and uh about a truckload not not a whole lot and I tilled it in and uh and then that's the foundation going forward you know I make my own soil by composting and every year I'll add to this a little bit not a whole lot and uh so he's got some vinca right here vinca is a it's an annual here and it takes the sun it takes the heat it takes drought tolerant it blooms all summer and you can see how it's filled in so nicely he's also got is that bubble gum Vista bubble gum Vista bubble gum Vista petunia very aggressive petunia filling out that container he put it in a container to give it some height I'm I'm guessing I did uh and one of my favorites is this uh Inferno what's it called in coleus Cole yes uh but what I think it's called Inferno and that might just be the number I think it is Inferno Inferno is the name of it but it's a it's a it's a it's a rust orange color I love it and and look what he's got in the back this is an addition uh of course this whole bed's new but you you don't this is the only Austrian pine I believe you have on the product It is Well you don't you don't see them and what's unusual about it Austrian ponds are really great in our heat and humidity it almost looks like a cactus from a disc it looks like a desert cactus it kind of has that look but it's a it's an Austrian Pine Oregon green Austrian Pine and it's just beautiful and this will not not fill in this area back here and that plant behind you do you know what that is that's a red twig dogwood this is a red twig that's a red twig dogwood and in the winter in the fall when those leaves fall off it's deciduous uh as the weather gets cold the limbs will turn a bright red wow so it's really pretty uh even without leaves in the winter that bush will give you some really a nice look but if you want to walk us through here and tell us kind of what you what you got through here this is a column to Norway spruce right it is uh I it's a I believe it's called a black Norway but it's it's very uh narrow growing it won't get more than two or three feet wide and uh I see you got some Junior and you know what a typical Norway spruce looks like can't you tell the reason they call that a black it's it's a darker can you tell yeah oh yeah that's a darker green than you typically see on a Norway but I love it oh it's beautiful and of course I have junipers part of the reason for these junipers I I like them but uh it it keeps see how my tomatoes are growing on the fence uh I have some problems with pests that want to come up and eat them so you got this as a barrier so it helps keep the deer and other pests groundhogs they don't like this this uh Juniper's prickly and uh it's aesthetic but it serves the function it does it it does several things and look you got these two raised beds at your doorway but you don't have to put vegetables in there so you've got some beautiful color here this is creeping jenny or listen Makia beautiful ground cover turns copper in the winter time spreads pretty vigorously too and what's funny Alex and Justin uh I didn't plant this uh uh creeping jenny down here I had it here coming down and where it came down last summer it set root and now it's growing here but I it's fine it's beautiful I think it's wonderful it's beautiful I like it so I just left it uh eventually I may have to thin it out a little bit look at this little antique door he's got on like in the entryway here that's just beautiful oh I love it I love stuff like that and I since y'all were here last year I found that Coca-Cola that's from the early 1900s it was an ice box uh it's not in great shape I've seen them in better shape than that but I like The Rustic appeal of that out here that's why I did it and I keep my pots and all that stuff and it's pretty neat I've added these two beds since you were here you may not remember right this was wide open this was wide open I just had not had time I had intended to have these all along just hadn't had time to do it but I've I've got this full of the beds that I want now so you got a bush green bean growing in here is that what that a bush green bean I've got green beans growing on the fence back there uh the the ones growing on the fence is a Blue Lake pole beam and the ones growing here is a tender green or tenderette bush bean and I've I've had these growing here now for about six weeks and in that time my wife and I have already done three runs of of canning green beans that's about a run is about seven or eight quarts so we've got about 24 quarts of green beans already just out of this I have a little addition that you added in this whole thing out of two two beds four by eight beds and what's growing on the fence and we'll probably can a few more before the Summer's over and of course you can see the tomatoes so you put this fencing around and it serves two purposes one you've got deer problems I've got deer you got you got the woods where we were just walking that walking trail you got deer you got rabbit problems so this this fence kind of keeps all that out but it also serves as a really great place to stake your Tomatoes absolutely and and even though these are full of tomatoes and we talked about this last year how I grow my tomatoes I buy it's called Vining I don't have a lot of leaves I keep the leaves trimmed down but uh I showed you the picture earlier and you can you'll be able to put it in this video yes but we'll put that on the screen how many tomatoes he has got you you won't they won't believe it people think when you prune you're cutting off your Tomatoes but you don't chop the balloons off no you leave the balloons yes you cut off the Tomato me and you agree with this especially here in the South you might not have to prune this much if you live up north or less humid area right but here in the South it's so humid fungus spores just ignite like crazy we have a lot of disease problems if you don't trim your some of your plants and there you go but this whole this whole fence was full of tomatoes two weeks ago Julie and I have already we've done about three runs of spaghetti sauce we make our own homemade spaghetti sauce and it's all made out of stuff hey they might want to yeah I want to see a video about Bruce makes the spaghetti sauce it's good you've eaten it oh it's delicious it is it's really good and and to know where it came from and to know it's clean and nothing's been added to it that that makes you feel good too but boy The Taste is off the chart it's so fresh tasting and uh and our dog we have four daughters and every time they come for holidays and stuff they all take back a jar with them so we have to can about 50 jars to have it and you can see here I I agree these These are builtmore tomatoes and I added them about a month after the ones on the fence and you can see how loaded they are in tomatoes that's how the fence looked a month ago Swiss chard uh it's hard to grow collards you know we did our collared video last year I love you know how I love collards well uh collars don't grow good in the heat they want to bolt which means they want to go to flower when when greens do that the leaves aren't real tasty but I have found that Swiss chard does not do that in the heat I can grow it and it has a Collard taste to it you've eaten Swiss chard oh yeah it's good I love it very good for you too it's good for you so I love I love the the inner plantings that you you've got the tomatoes with them Swiss chard and then what's on the back side over here that's cucumbers that's uh that uh pick a bushel cucumber whatever yep and and my squash over here we've been picking squash now for two months and they have just about ended their size Michael we've got a video on pruning squash and zucchini and why you should do it and you can see here Bruce we both believe in pruning oh yeah and what it does for your garden uh it just keeps your plants healthy and it looks neater but uh as I said these are these plants here are well over three months old and they really have come to about the end of their cycle yeah I'm still getting some fruit off of them but I've got new plants coming on and in about a week I'll be digging these up and putting the young plants there hey if you're in our Zone you got plenty of time to start another roll yes and in this area because we'll get vegetables up until usually late October into middle November now what what is this yeah I was going to show you that do y'all know what this is can you tell what it is can you smell it and see if you can tell what it is it I know it's an herb but Alex can you tell oh it smells real good oh yeah that's familiar um cilantro cilantro cilantro I love when I make my homemade salsa with everything I grow in the garden I love a little cilantro but let me tell you I had not intended for it to flower about a month ago it was small and bushy and I thought good and I'll just keep it that way well I cut it back a little bit and all of a sudden it started flowering and I kept cutting this flower stalk off and the more I cut it I'd come out the next day and it would be like a foot tall I'm like what the in the heck's going on so anyway my wife come out here and had a fit for it it's a Danish white flower and she said just let it grow so I let it grow and it's made a real pretty flower beautiful love it of course I got my basil over here got you a pot of basil and and you'll show it I'll send you a picture and so you can put it on the video but just a few weeks ago you Julie and I got about 30 freezer bags full of corn out of this one bed I had corn I thought you couldn't grow corny oh well you can you see wait till you see the picture I send you this is what an eight foot by it's a four by eight foot and here's how I did I did it just like I've got Crowder Peas here in the South we call these field peas Crowder Peas sometimes people are calling fall peas Brown peas but anyway I've got five rows of these peas here well I had five rows of corn and I promise you my corn stalks were no further than five or six inches apart and they still produced and I had five rows of them and each corn stalk I got two to three nice ears off of them you would not believe the corn I got off that off of an eight by four right and I'm gonna tell you why if you know anything about a corn plant a corn stalk it it's it tassels what we call tasseling when the corn stalk gets mature at the very top of it it'll have this plume of brown looking looks like wheat that's the pollen and the corn ears which won't be but one or two inches they'll have the seals come out when they're young and that pollen Falls from those uh the top of the stalk down onto the silks and each silk is what gives the kernel of corn on the ear that's amazing so when you when you grow corn in a in a nice tight space like this you ensure that the pollen will fall down and hit that seal a lot of people when they grow their corn like in rows and they spread them out sometimes they don't get much corn because they're not pollinating enough yeah that's awesome it is awesome and then over here well I'm explaining why you can grow corn in a bed in a tight end in a tight end area perfect and I'm doing the same thing over here with okra now anybody watching this video not from this area not from the south they may not be familiar with growing okra okra is kind of a okra but it is Justin that's a Myers lemon what yeah that's a Myers lemon tree and I'm a little I don't know what's going on with it this year and it may be the cool you know how cool June was yeah and I think that has something to do it should be blooming do you leave this outside all the time I do a Myers lemon can take temperatures down to the low 20s wow and if we have uh in the winter if there's a threat of getting into the teens at night you know that cold I'll uh I'll bring it inside the house or somewhere I'll put it in the wood shop gotcha but uh that doesn't happen here too often can you see the blooms at the top Alex up there this is a sweet Autumn cleminist Vine and when it gets in full bloom they call it sweet for a reason you can walk out the back door when this is In Bloom the whole backyard feels the air with Aroma it's amazing oh yes it's awesome Alex one thing I wanted to mention and Justin in the video we did last year I've read a lot of the comments and there's a lot I I can't I can't believe how many people watch the last tour I mean I can but I can't yeah in the comments I try I thought oh I'm gonna keep up with them every night and answer everybody just no way you can do it but I would I wish I could respond to every person who makes a comment but one of the questions I got asked frequently was how to make your flower bed look this pretty and uh and I'm gonna give two tips and this is just from my experience but two things I think if you do you can have a pretty flower bed like this tip number one don't be afraid to plant too close okay I think a lot of people do not get the effect they want that wow factor out of their flower beds when they plant too far apart plant them closer that's a great point the plant if you've got good soil and you know I'm big on soil you know I and we'll talk we talked about that last year and we probably talk about it again this evening but if you have good soil you can plant your plants very close together and they will Thrive don't worry about it and and planting close together like that really gives you that pretty wow factor and boy does it the second tip I would say to get the look like this is I I don't like I like to plant in bunches so you know just like this uh impatience here this sun patience this orange Sun patience right here there's seven plants right there and uh there's six or seven of the Blue Salvia there's ten of the pink Vista uh and just for reference if I'm sitting behind it look how full this super Vista is how many did you say was it I think there's 10 in there ten nine and you know just me walking back in here I can feel how loamy and soft yeah it's like walking on the spirit the soil is and and again we're in the South we have a lot of clay you've definitely added some soil and that's obviously went a long way you have to the red coleus here uh I there's seven plants here uh there's about 10 or 11 of the Cassandra that's the uh water they call it watermelon it's kind of a a pastel orange color but as you can see I don't want to be redundant but my point is uh I plant plants close together and I plant them in bunches I don't just put one thing here and there's nothing wrong with that I see flower beds where people just put what I call onesies everywhere that's fine it looks fine but but nothing makes an impact visually I I in my opinion like what you got through here I like to do it this way I like to plant in bunches and I really think it gives you a big wow factor foreign [Music] look at them see how they're all up again they've been watching this chickens are the nosiest animals on the planet they were watching this they are watching they I can't do anything out here I have a guest I stop here at defense they watch every movie they love that excitement oh they're they're nosy you still got your compost going I've got my compost going and and just a reminder well what are you putting in your compost again I take grass clippings when I cut my grass uh one back in the late winter early spring when I dug up my pansies and violas that bloomed through the winter and I I now replaced them with the summer flowers I they all go in here good idea when I trim my tomato plants back all that vegetation goes in here so anything vegetation that you're putting in here and when we eat supper and we might have a cantaloupe or watermelon whatever all that goes the rinds all of that goes in my compost bins now this being I started it of course what I do is I'll keep compost all through the winter and come early spring I empty these out and I add it to all my flower beds and then I start over and when I start cutting grass late March early April and and we just start the process over this bed here this compost was started I'm gonna say early April early April and it already looks like that yeah you can say I'm already using it I'm already using it in in some of my beds now and you can see how nice and it's it's warm in there too it is but now it won't be as warm put your hand in this bed over here this is the newest but this bed here is only about two weeks old oh yeah but it's still pretty it's like an oven it's it's hot folks and we're filming here late in the afternoon yeah and this bed is uh I started it probably late May middle May something like that and and it's it's beginning to break down enough it's not quite where I'm beginning to look good but anyway it's it's not far this bed's not far from being used and and now that I've got those three beds filled uh I just emptied this one this is left over from last year I'll start filling that one up and I'll probably between now and September I'll probably empty at least two or three of these but I'll have enough to add to them that I'll I'll be able through the winter I'll have all four of these beds full and come next spring I'll have plenty to start over with and it boy you talking about growing when you have compost that you can add to your soil I I could go on forever about what it does for your plants well folks if you want beautiful flowers you want a beautiful vegetable garden start doing your own compost again all things vegetation table scraps and uh you know even your grass clippings folks if you want some good soil and and in the fall when the leaves fall I'll chop them up with the lawnmower and I'll and I'll put that in what goes in for the winter now this this added I think I thought the beds were here but it looks like you've put some more effort I have I've I've uh I'm still I had a little oopsie over here uh what didn't you have another one of these I had this this is a compact Juniper called a gold cone and in cold weather it turns a real bright ghost real pretty I had two of them here and I I'm almost embarrassed to tell you this but I I've got this is my old Grill I I'm I'm an old school person and I I have my daughters and wife for Father's Day bought me a brand new grill last year it's a it's a gas and a charcoal you can do it either way and I'll still come back here and use this old thing it's it's so bad that the bottom I had to redo I had to take some Old Wire and redo the bottom of the charcoal but I love to smoke on it and anyway a few weeks ago I was smoking something in this Grill and a piece of charcoal fail well landed over here in the pine straw it caught the pine straw on fire and and I thought I wasn't worried about the tree I thought well it trees green and everything and it's not a big flame so I ran over there to get the hose to put this out by the time I got back with the hose I lied to you not that the tree that was right here I mean in a second it went and I was like what are you kidding me I don't mean it just gradually caught on fire I mean it it just went whoop whoop in a second and I'm like what and uh by the time I got it put out have you seen you remember the Christmas the famous Christmas movie Christmas of what's it called with uh oh what's his name you know with Eddie and Clark Christmas vacation you remember when history burned down remember Uncle Lewis went in there and lit that stogie and the tree went woof oh son that thing did the same I I stood there I was like I couldn't believe anyway she's gone now but God Rest her soul I had to dig her up and uh so I I'm gonna have to work on this spot but when you were here last year if you go back and look at that video I had two nice compact kind of uh compact junipers right there folks keep fire away from you Junior so this is is this impatience through here that's impatience so oh okay so you got the shade coming off your tree right there it makes sense and patients are a really great shade annual and I love it around that Juniper looks like you got a pierce right here yeah Pierce Japonica mountain is this one bloom uh pink or white it's the kind of red pink red pinkish color Pierce is another great shade Evergreen that gives you blooms early right um like late February and the foliage is beautiful yeah and the new growth is red that's what I'm saying the new growth is red so the foliage and the blooms together make it a really pretty you got so much character with your weeping Hemlock um let's see Suga canadensis pandula that's it okay that's a weeping Canadian Hemlock folks uh it's got the beautiful little cones on it does great in the shade and I just love how much character it's adding to this little I do too and the cones it's not something it's not a show stopper like you're going to see 20 feet away but if you're up close to it aren't those cones beautiful can you see that beautiful cones yeah I just love the cones and these will open up and of course look like they look like little miniature pine cones my wife loves to take them and use them for Christmas decorations and and I love this little bed here one of my favorite little beds you got creeping jenny so it's a good ground cover let me tell you something very quick this is going to be one of those educational moments creeping jenny the scientific name is lizamacchia reptons repton's where we get the word reptile reptiles crawl so that kind of tells you a little bit but it gets the name Liz and machia excuse me from General lizamacchia who was one of the four Great generals to Alexander the Great if you know anything about world history Greece became great under Alexander the Great and when he died he divided the kingdom into four parts it's even mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Daniel Daniel talks about King Nebuchadnezzar's image and it had the part where it was uh silver and divided into four yeah okay that's all a prophecy about Greek Greece but anyway we'll is a machia was a great General but he was also a physician and everywhere he went he was always looking for plants that had a set of a sedative quality to treat his wounded soldiers with and so a lot of the plants there's a lot of plants that have the name lizamacchia and they're not related to each other but they have that name and what that tells you if you see a plan if you're in the nursery and it says lizamacchia you know it's a sedative gets its name from generalism isn't that pretty neat that is crazy because I do see that all the time I know but they'll be like you said completely unrelated can be a totally different plant but that's where that's where that name comes from here again we've got the uh The Inferno Coleus and you got a Japanese maple behind a garnet yeah beautiful I love the laces Blue Spruce Waldron Blue Spruce it stays small nice and petite please tell them about this ground Cup this is my favorite ground cover uh agita reptons there again it's got that same name I think that's Latin reptens or it might be Greek I can't remember but reptons where we get the word Reptile from I started I started I started this three years ago with three plants that size and you can see how it's grown but what's wonderful is in April and May it sends up a shoot about six to eight inches tall everywhere and it's covered in blue flowers beautiful one of the prettiest Ground Covers you've ever seen when it's blooming and when it's not blooming it's beautiful we have another weeping Hemlock I love how you got it surrounded I love how this is filled in and then what do we got right here beside you there and this is another uh crawling uh Pro what they call a prostate Pine it's a pinus strobus I believe no Pine is a parva floor no it's a pine of Strokes I'm sorry I'm I'm rambling that's a pint of strobus is the scientific name for an Eastern White Pine and this is a prostrate growing it doesn't grow up like a tree it grows on the ground which is pretty unique I love it absolutely beautiful and and I this Indian summer this Indian summer cold yes Indian summer cold it's off the chart isn't it it's beautiful I love it and that's that new uh Sun patient called candy y'all you remember that coming out this year that stuff's beautiful too Club the Dark uh light pink folks and look how beautiful some people don't want to plant annuals that don't Bloom but something like coleus that's just foliage absolutely absolutely beautiful just just with no bullets and this this uh this candy colored Sun patient against that Rusty orange is that not a beautiful combination I think it makes me want to jump up and down it does me too it makes me want to cut it back foot y'all want to go see big sexy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah last last year you might remember we walked around this corner and and Bam right there there she is there she is I call her Big Sexy uh but anyway you know what I did it last year I'm gonna do it again I'm gonna give her a hug girl you just so sexy oh you're pretty give her some love can I give her oh yeah okay but don't you love that Gold forever that's a forever Goldie arborvita against that blue spruce I love it and and then this is kind of my theme this year but growing beneath it I've got more of that Inferno goals yeah with a little bit of Sedum underneath of our little chef's kiss I see it but it it just all that together just makes us pretty combination see you can there's no flowers here but look at the color yeah yeah this whole thing is beautiful and there's not a single balloon and there's not one bloom but yet it's it's it's uh beautiful with color yeah how much has this thing I know we were just here like a year ago that's the Confucius isn't it camera Cyprus Confucius no it's Goldilocks Goldilocks that's it Goldilocks damn it said first Goldie and uh when you planted this my goodness it couldn't hold three foot tall yeah and Camera said first if you remember the video last year that's a great compound for Cameo where we get our word camouflage from and and uh Cypress so camera Cyprus compound word it just literally means false cypress and that's what this is It's a fault Cypress now in a minute we're about to go into the front yard you're kind of seeing the the back view so just hang on folks we're going to show you some more vegetables Bruce has got going on through here and if you remember last year and we'll we'll mention it again this year this this whole garden section was something I did back I taught school for a few years I was not a teacher by profession but I actually taught math and chemistry for a couple of years and the school came to me and said we heard a lot about how you grow stuff would you teach a class in Horticulture and we want you to show how to do an urban Garden to grow food a sustainable food supply in a small area so that's what we did and that's where this came from you've got Tomatoes through here you can look them up to get them off the ground all it is is a one foot wide Box by eight feet long and there's four of them that's all I've got here four one foot by eight foot boxes that I made and look at all the food coming out of this and this is just icing on the cake it's unbelievable I've got cantaloupes here I've got cucumbers here I've got now these are just these I planted late but this is butternut squash I'll last year I got about 30 squash out of that I've got Tomatoes all the way down what kind of tomatoes are they that's called a San Marino Murano look at the shape of these Tomatoes yeah it's kind of like aroma that's awesome and uh it's something I saw on the internet and you know it's your first year trying yeah I love that you experiment like yeah I see I like to just grow stuff and see what it does stuff I've never grown before and this is a new tomato that I grew from seed this year I want your daddy you need to tell him about this and maybe grow it at the nursery it's called Big Daddy have you heard about it I have not heard a big daddy all right let me tell you about it I didn't know I saw it on the internet and I ordered some seed I thought well I'm gonna try it it comes it's a hybrid from Big Boy and y'all Grow Big Boy Nursery well the big daddy is a hybrid from the big boy and it's uh more disease resistant and uh does the tomatoes still grow pretty large they grow there's some now I haven't grown them before but they said it grows bigger than the big boy and I started these late so they're not really that big but just these just started producing Tomatoes two weeks ago and they're already normally when they're young and green like that and they're that big it'll be three times that size by the time it ripened so I think they are going to be big Tomatoes wow but you know I I I like a Big Tomato but the size of a tomato is not important to me it's the taste absolutely and you know when you can we do a lot we can our own spaghetti sauce I do my own tomato soup I do uh we do vegetable we do a tomato based vegetable soup it it don't matter it doesn't matter how big or how ugly that tomato is when you're canning it all you're worried about you just want to taste good that's exactly right and so I grow a lot of air quality that's right absolutely and a lot of heirloom tomatoes aren't real pretty but boy they're the when it comes to eating so don't be scared to eat a tomato if it's not red they're the Mack Daddy y'all know what the Mack Daddy is Alex what did you say we're running out of what sunlight sunlight oh god let's hurry let's do it we've got to go [Music] oh we gotta we gotta talk about these Planters real quick I know that that's off the chain there's nothing fancy my pots are there's nothing fancy about my pots uh the way you plant containers you remember how aggravated I used to get when somebody say what what can I put in this they'd bring an empty pot in there and they'd say what can I put in here and I'd say well I'd show them what this would look good well how many do I need I well if it were me I'd put four or five in there give me two yeah I'm like what do you but anyway I have a combination of scavola dichondria that's Silver Falls Silver Falls that's what's growing down and then I have this Misty Blue Salvia and uh I have about three they're just loving it oh gosh yeah look it's always full of bees so this is great for your pollinating folks but the silver cast of this dichondria with this purple scabola and the blue salvia is that not just a pretty combination beautiful and I've got about five I have uh one Salvia plant three scabolas and four dichondria in each pot and remember what I said a while ago about putting plants close together when you if you want a pretty container cram it full of plants don't worry about thinking absolutely feel it full don't be scared put good soil in it and yeah don't be scared put good soil in it and cram it full you'll get a better much better look and and you know what this is um I know I can't remember the platoon yeah um honey honey this is honey your mom likes to put them in her hanging baskets but I put them I've got about four in this container here plus with this blue salvia you got one on each side and doesn't that look good with the yes it looks with the skate bowl and then we got the same theme over here Escape purple skateboard dichondria and Alabama parking lot coleus that's the name of it Alabama parking lot I love that combination oh yes cavola in Silver Falls and then this hey folks if you want to attract hummingbirds this qfia uh is this for millionaire variety it is this will attract hummingbirds better than almost we've seen hummingbirds slim out here hey Alex while we're talking about Alabama parking lot coleus I just want to tell all you Alabama fans out there uh we my tigers are coming for you this year brother I'm trying to start something up Justin we mentioned it last year but I still have to say it again one of my favorite Pines is this uh angle angle uh blue angle Japanese White Pine and it's the short needle Too Short needle uh beautiful cones uh see that little dark cone on it is that not pretty can you see that Alex yeah oh yeah beautiful and that cone that small cone will eventually turn into that there Limelight hydrange you can't go wrong with them that's the panicle style hydrangeas great for Sun KY boy our provider one of the most interesting arborvitaes in my opinion is Frankie boy it kind of reminds me do you know what you know what a whip cord is yeah it's kind of like a whip cord it looks like a it does but I love it and behind you is a rescue that's a weeping uh Juniper that we thought would never make it and these are extremely rare it's an extremely rare Juniper it's a weeping Universe Bruce is bringing it back to life and it's had a little stretch I almost dug it up last year I really thought it was gone and it's popped up this year and I'm like okay great maybe we're gonna make it what kind of Japanese maples that's a garnet beautiful been around a while Autumn Moon maple one of my favorites beautiful in the fall blue Boulevard Cypress camo Cyprus false year-round blue color year-round blue color Oriental spruce this is the one called Caucasian Caucasian Oriental spruce I love it and and just tell them like here in the South people kind of scared to grow spruces but wouldn't you agree Oriental spruce is probably one of the toughest I yes I have no I've always had success with Oriental spruces they they just seem to grow good in our area so if you want to try one that's you're living a hot area maybe zone seven maybe even to eight a possibly we talked about it last year you can be in in zone seven but zone seven in Oregon ain't the same as zone seven in the Carolinas is it no it's a little different there's been so much moisture in there you could about swim through it yes you can I about took a a dive off the house yesterday and just started swimming through the atmosphere it was so thick a waterfall Japanese maple beautiful lace Leaf uh absolutely unbelie in the fall it'll turn a bright kind of uh lime orange color it's off the chart a red dragon maple gorgeous gorgeous we're back here uh tell me what that is go mop go thread go thread gold thread Cypress go through it Cypress and gold thread Cypress is typically a lot more golden color but it's in the shade uh so it doesn't get that deep golden color but I still love it it's still beautiful but it's also an example of how you can grow some things in the Shell you may not get the right color but it still gives you well a seed option these is this is a great example rheingold arborvitaes they're typically more orange than this Bruce has them in shade but they're doing just fine they look fine they're not the exact color you think of with Orion gold Arbor vital like you said but they still look good true true girl you sexy too if you wake up one morning and this is missing you might find out yeah it might be in your yard I know you are but that's a that's a fire that's also an oriental spray Oreos Bruce there you go it's called a firefly now it it will only grow about two inches a year uh and that's that for for that tree that's a big specimen right there oh it's huge it's huge and the spring color when it's putting on that new growth is just it's unbelief we'll knock you down it is uh we have a column or blue spruce it grows tall and skinny I love it we have a Lodgepole Pine look at the shape on that help me out you know what it's called anyway we'll put it up we'll figure it out yeah we'll figure it out and put it on the video limber Pine I think but uh got the beautiful uh purple Laura petalums through here and abilia a bill you Collide and and what I love about these shrubs Alex is they keep this color in the wintertime as well they don't drop their leaves and the purple and the gold like people a lot of times will say what can I put together what shrubs can I put together different textures and different colors especially purple and gold and Alex you might can get this but my this abelia is beginning to bloom in another two weeks these white blooms will be all over them and that that's really pretty this time of year you got a Louis Pond back there that's a that's an Eastern White Pine called a Louie it turns bright gold in the winter and and I don't want to miss boys this tree right here that's blue Boulevard blue Boulevard Camby said around blue color yeah go figure and Bruce is it tough it's amazing it'll grow anywhere it'll grow about anywhere if you want a pretty blue you cannot prune it you can prune it yeah you can do whatever you want you can shake it you can taupe here it to be a pretty girl she's not too high maintenance what kind of pine is this that's an uh Bosnian Pine yeah that's right it's beautiful got a nice columnar shape to it it fits nicely in this little area I think that's the one they call it's either green era or Emerald era I'm not sure which one but we'll definitely put that on the screen too it's pretty now this Baker's Blue Spruce here we are in the heat of July in this part of the country and it still has look at the blue color on that thing oh it's beautiful because a lot of blue spruces in our area when it gets real hot they tend to lose that blue color but that tree there uh strategically you've got the gold thread again you got the blue and you got the gold now that's the same gold thread as what's on the corner we saw a while ago that's in the shade but you can see how much much more gold than that is because it gets more Sun out here this Pinnacle style hydrangea is that is that Limelight no or a strawberry vanilla okay I thought so because look at this Alex beautiful uh it's already turned in pink and by the end of summer that'll be completely pink right it will and boy you talk about a pretty fall Arrangement my wife will cut those here in another month or two and start making arrangements and it'll stay that pretty color all the way up if you want some cut flowers yeah that's that's a good one it's easy to dry how about this cream puff Cedar didn't you prune that back last year I did it's off the chart it showed you didn't it and look and but here's what I I love to stress this with conifers look at the color variate the contrast between this cream puff Cedar and this blue Globe Blue Spruce this is not a tree form Blue Spruce it's like a shrub it grows small and round probably will ever only ever get four feet by four feet but look at that pretty combination I don't know if the camera portrays this but that's almost white it is it's almost white not green and then add to that the red head coleus this is redhead Coleus and uh and full sun most people think of coleus as shade but out here a lot of them can take full sun this one can you take the gold color of the forever Goldie the Blue Salvia the red coal yes the cream puff Cedar the the blue spruce it's just I know I know it's like let the Angels Sing and and the road the main street is down here so when you're driving by and you're seeing Bruce's house as a matter of fact now you might have a wreck Alex why don't you stand back toward the road and get a good view of all that and look at the color combination the flowers the the foliage the texture the different colors it's amazing and and I I really do not have that many flowers in my front Conifer Garden but look at all the color you get just just from the conifers alone to me it's amazing it's beautiful and then then when you have your conifers like this if you if you arrange them correctly get different colors different shapes different texture all you got to do is add a little bit of color of flour here and there and it's a it's a Rembrandt exactly it's a country boy rembrand well while we still got some light I don't want to leave out this Cedar back yeah that's an electric blue Electra Blue Cedar it's kind of of weeping form weepy a little bit good tucked in back there and Frankenstein has gone crazy we nicknamed it we coined it Frankenstein it's not really called that you can you won't find that at a nursery will you no this is a Norway Spruce weeping Spruce weeping Norway spruce and on the top of it has been grafted a globe Blue Springs this is what you call a double graft it's uh uh you have you have a rootstock and on top of that rootstock you graft this sweeping Norway spruce and then on top of that you graft this globe Blue Spruce so it's it's a double graft and uh I said last year we got this from a nursery in Oregon and they only grew a few of them and they called some of their nurseries and said do you want one and we said yeah and I know those boys was smoking something that day but uh but I'm glad they were because boy bruises out of all the trees you got through here this has got to be top three and to me to me no I'm with you that's a Weeping Alaskan Cedar uh it's scientific name we're not trying to sound too smart but don't you watch some of those Garden shows and some of the women on there and they oh this this is high this is a pendula glauca you know well we're not trying to be like that but the scientific name does give you a lot of information about what the plant is and if you go to a nursery camera Cypress new contensis is the uh pandula uh yeah that's right camacypus new contensis uh pendulum so the Pendle is the Weeping part tells you it's weeping camera Cyprus tells you it's from the fault Cypress family and the new Contents I believe is the shape if I'm not mistaken I think it's that narrow long time so the more Latin you understand yeah the the more you're going to under like this is thusia but this is also uh an arborvitae Arborvitae and uh back here we got pisia avies pisia is Spruce babies is Norway right on right what we have is a Norway spruce and you've got it looking good uh I'm this is another rescue Spruce uh when Bruce bought it it was like rectangular it was like a we we used to laugh and we used to call it piscia refrigerators I'll see a SpongeBob Sponge Bob it's called no shape to it had no shape to it it was ugly nobody wanted to buy it and one day I told Justin I said Justin I'm just going to take it home nobody's gonna buy this thing and I have been slowly pruning it now for four years and it's amazing you've got a beautiful shape I'm just amazed at how it's turned out I never rain that was going to turn out like that we're losing daylight but we're heading over to Bruce's shade area yeah we're going to try to get what we can of it yeah we may not have enough light for this to show up well we we we did a little bit out here like in the video last year but this is my shade garden and it's a very hard place to grow anything the Pines are sucking the life out of these plants the old trees The Roots the the ground is tough you don't have much sunlight but I am learning what will grow back here but I've got this beautiful uh Japanese maple I believe that's a uh I think it's a Red Emperor okay I've got this Cedar I got this from you back in the early spring you remember yes I've got this uh Japanese maple here this is a palm leaf this is a palm leaf and I'm trying to remember I can't remember and typically palm leaf maples grow more upright yeah and this uh crispy Eye camera Cyprus boy uh it's done well back here and I'm sorry no this is beautiful isn't it uh so a lot of times you're saying if you can't get it in the ground and growing good put it in a container yeah and look at this dimpled uh royal blue container with that Sage grass and and that's what I was about to say you don't always have to put flowers in containers this is just regular Sage grass but that silver foliage of the grass with that cobalt blue container shut your mouth yeah yeah what you talking about we've got more red coleus I I forgot what kind that is it's it's different than the redheads is that burgundy trainer it's burgundy train that's what it's called okay burgundy train coleus Sapphire flower got it growing back here uh Justin you featured this on your one of your videos for the shade but Elysium is it is this Florida sunshine or is it banana peel banana peel banana peel is a great shade shrub Evergreen bright yellow foliage all the time put your nose close to the screen and I'm gonna rub this foliage you smell it oh it's beautiful it's got a it smells wonderful it's got a wonderful fragrance kind of like licorice yeah that's exactly what it smells like these are hellebores also called Lenten roses they're an evergreen down here on the ground and in the winter they bloom in the winter so I get some winter Bloom out of these and uh I dug these ferns I was up at no I'm not going to say where I was back that up I was in the South mountains I'll leave it at that and uh and these ferns were growing everywhere and I dug some up and brought them home and man I love them beautiful I can't believe I dug them off a friend's property and uh of course the salmon colored impatience just brighten the dark shade with that Fern growing out of there that's a Indian burn I think that's beautiful or painted firm can I show them this over here Bruce oh absolutely look at these this is hookra or another names Coral Bells ain't they showing out right oh they're beautiful uh this is Evergreen foliage and if you need a perennial that does really good in shade and holds up all winter long and blooms hookah or Coral Bells is a good one and it is in a million different colors yes they do and then I love how you got this uh these in containers back here yeah this is a weeping Hemlock and then you got uh looks like impatience in front of it right and Sapphire flower is that also called Bro Williams okay impatience and an evergreen of course always mixing it up always putting your annuals and your conifers and your perennials all in one area love it and another tip we talked about some tips a while ago but I try to layer my stuff uh something low here something a little bit taller here now I got the elevation of these by putting them in pots and then this is this pulls it all together and that pulls it all together and you get that layered effect that layer effect is what really makes things look good too last year we went on uh Bruce's porch you had this in a container I believe right and now you've planted it in the ground this is a standard uh blue June Blue Star juniper blue our Juniper and then you got um Asiatic snow and summer jasmine growing underneath that's a ground cover and the Evergreen ground cover too right and it does it blue but the new growth on the snow and summer Jasmine is variegated pink white and green oh it's beautiful feels in so nice around this blue star tree and in the winter time when it gets cold that uh Asiatic Jasmine uh will kind of turn more purplish like it's kind of hard to explain but it's a pretty color all year round I love it I love it too and it you got some Mugo Pines around Hugo Pines wow and those things they keep me on the edge of my seat because it's a bumpy ride with me well in our area uh Mugo Pines don't grow very well in our humidity does they grow well in zone seven but not zone seven with a lot of humidity but so far I've managed to keep them alive but I'm always having to clip off every other week I'll come out here and there's a little brown on them but I just clip it off and I don't think you've talked you've told the audience about this but one thing you told me a long time ago and it's always stuck with me especially here in the South when you're growing Pines and spruces you got to keep our native soil from splashing up on the foliage because that causes disease what do you do to keep that from happening I mulch I keep I make sure that I keep a good layer of mulch under all my plants and you're mostly using pine needles right and but you don't have to there's other types of uh of ground of mulches you can use but another uh what I do too Alex especially in our area some of these conifers like these low-grow and conifers have a tendency to want to have a limb grow down and touch the ground I don't allow that to happen I keep the limbs off the ground because uh as as Justin said we have problems with soil borne funguses in our area and you don't want Conifer branches touching the soil where those funguses can easily get on them oil Bruce I think we're running out of daylight yeah it's getting kind of dark I've enjoyed it though I know our audience have enjoyed it thank you I love y'all coming thank you thank you for letting us come over here thank you for coming folks just a few weeks ago the Arts Council came through and people paid tickets to see this house and y'all are getting to see it for free so yeah yeah it was been a treat it was it's funny we laugh about it my Gardens were on the garden tour this summer for our area and and all everybody wanted to talk about was what the vegetable the vegetable garden it is a unique vegetable garden I got I've got all these expensive conifers rare conifers nice conifers and and other plants and things but let me see your cucumbers but everybody want to talk about what's growing in the vegetable garden that's pretty neat that is awesome yeah well Bruce thank you again we've enjoyed it I know the audience has enjoyed it comment down below what you want to see us talk about next because I'm sure there's going to be a lot of questions leave those down below we'll try to get to them and you know what we say at the end of our videos become a plant person I'm a plant person amen [Music]

Channel: S&K Greenhouse

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Keywords: garden tour, garden, landscape, shrubs, conifers, trees, flowers, perennials, landscape design, vegetable garden, vegetable gardening, flower gardening, landscaping, landscaping around your home, how to landscape your house, low maintenance shrubs, low maintenance evergreens

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Length: 69min 4sec (4144 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 31 2023