For thirty years, I thought it was utterly pointless to grow anything I couldn't eat. Not a bad policy really. Then on a random whim I bought a rose plant. Then I found this clown. Now I have Gallardia growing in between my chillies and dahlias around my tomato plants and a wall of roses down one side of my garden and Lavendar plants scattered throughout. Thanks Jason, thanks a lot. In jest of course.
I mean, I don't know anything about Gallardia, but you can eat Dahlia roots (although it gives some people really bad gas), and lavender obviously has medicinal uses, so it's not like they HAVE to be only pretty. 🤷 I'm actually trying to grow my first Dahlia this year - to be pretty. 🌼
Love Gaura and so easy to propagate. I also grew hyssop Sangria pink from seed and now they are over 3 feet high. Heliopolis Bleeding hearts grew from seed looks good too. Thanks for the suggestions in the spring for these plants.😊
Thanks - and a great additions to the list. I've enjoyed sedum 'Dark Magic' this year, but the traditional green varieties like the 'Autumn Joy' you mentioned or 'Carl' to put on quite a show for the fall.
Thanks Ronald. Good call - I'll be borrowing a few more ideas from the cut flower trade this coming season, and of course, that means zinnias and dahlias.
I absolutely adore caryopteris. Blue is hard to come by and so it’s such a treat. I’ve never seen such a chunky and compact variety. I’ll have to search that one out. We have several different St John’s Wort but they bloom much earlier in the year. They are gorgeous though, absolutely covered in huge showy yellow blooms and bees of all sorts!
Wonderful perennials. I’m always learning something new! Over here in zone 3 the bee balm , hyssop, scabiosa and blue jean baby sage are looking great, and the sedums and asters are just starting to bloom. Frost is surely coming soon.
I love Daphne Eternal Fragrance too, mine flower at least 5 times a year, they flower on new growth, unlike most Daphne's, so if you give them a tiny trim they will re grow and flower again and again for you, I literally trim the flower heads off after flowering and they immediately re flower and they don't need ericaceous compost like most Daphne's do either. How about Japanese Anemones for the movement or the colour garden they would be hardy in your zone I believe and although they look tender delicate things they are in fact tough as anything and would give you pretty pastel colours in the fall and tons of movement. Masterpiece Sempervirens Candytuft is another suggestion I believe it would be hardy in your zone 8 too, pastel pink or white varieties, it flowers continually for at least 9 months of the year for me here in the UK, it is a low grower so ideal at the front of a display, or under roses, grows here in my garden to about 18" high and wide max, kicks out the most vivid white or pale pink tinged tufts and sits there good as gold doesn't need any fussing, all I do is deadhead the very few heads that do go over and it keeps re blooming, I have a lot of it dotted around my garden and it's been flowering all year long, very easy to grow from cuttings or seed too and really is a hard worker. I do take cuttings they root easily, I lost all of them several years ago when we suffered a deep freeze (rare here) so had to re buy it and start again, ever since I take cuttings and grow on in frost free area in winter just in case haha I do love masterpiece don't I !? Your gardens are looking great with all the variety you've added it really is going to be a spectacular area.
Thanks so much - great picks! My spring candytuft (a pale lavender variety) is still blooming its head off in the greenhouse, and I'm sure it would rather be in the ground. Japanese anemones are so easy too!
Great looking colors Jason! The varieties are wonderful.👌 I like how you are pushing the temperature survival boundaries a bit, the results are fantastic this year. Of course the true test is how well they do when colder weather comes earlier as it does some years. The displays are looking so good!🤙
Thank you so much, sir. You inspire me to beautify my yard. Please keep it up. I really love my yellow hardy chrysanthemums, they really amazed me last year and stayed beautiful well into the frosty cold October. Just got some more at Lowe’s
Thanks gnarmarmilla - I'd love to find more of the old-fashioned hardy chrysanthemums on the local market. Such a sweet garden performer. And thanks for the support!
We have the same fuchsia (in East Van) and my partner was convinced the harsh freeze last winter was its end. OMG nope. It's huge, it blooms and blooms and blooms, and our resident hummingbirds love it. At the end of September it shows no signs of slowing. :-)
Good to hear Rodney - it's a tough one! I have it in the golden-leaved version now as well, and I'm going to have to see which I like better in the landscape.
Saponaria Max Frei starts blooming in July and keeps blooming into late September if deadhead. The same with Scabiosa butterfly blue... starts in June and keeps going with deadheading.
Thank you Jason. I love 4-o’clocks, I didn’t get any planted this year but I plan to next spring. I’m also going to try and save the tubers, I hope I can but they are easy enough to grow if I can’t pull them through the winter. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃
good one Jason. I got a couple good tips out of it, esp that daphne. Your place looks great. Lucky you to be on an island in the Fraser Valley, here in W WA St it has been dry, dry, dry.
Linaria are short lived perennials. I’ve been dead heading all summer and they are still flowering their socks off. Beloved by bees. All the Erigeron types too. There is a wide variety worth investigating.
Michaelmas daisy is my favorite autumn perennial. Zone 7b. *** I know some of the following are not perennials, but they self seed. Currently in my garden are blooming dahlias, Jerusalem artichokes, marigolds, calendulas, non-native polianthes tuberose ( it's fragrance is intoxicating!) 4 o'clock, heliopsis are gone P.S.oh and roses, I forgot the roses, some of them are blooming like crazy!
Monkshood/Aconitum. Muhly Grass. Lots of Asters (now sympho-something or other). Heptacodium. Platycoden, Kalimeris. Begonia grandis. Hamamalis virginiana. I do like the fall Sorry I went rogue with some trees...
No worries - mix and match is all good in the garden. Thanks for your picks! My aconitum is still a few days away from color, but the heptacodium is nice to see in full flower now!
Jason check out the video "no dig dahlias" by YT Channel No-till farmers - as the title implies, they leave the tubers of dahlias in the ground (mulched). They are in Zone 7. Zone 8 should work even better for that, I'd think. m
Thanks! I'm sure it's the details that count - they cut the foliage after first frost, thick dryish mulch layer then *tarp*, and I think that's key because we have such a wet winter here that otherwise they'd rot for certain.
Jason, I went looking for a site to buy Gaura Rosy Jane on different sites, they all say it is a zone 5 perennial (and might be US zone, not Canada). Love Gauras which I discovered 2 years ago but although I am zone 5 they didn’t survive our winters. Would love finding one that is a zone 3! Am I missing something?
Thanks Anne. The hardiness zones sure aren't perfect! A dry mulch or cover at the right timing (early winter, after they've gone dormant) can be helpful.
Yes, sadly the border is a real pain for getting plants across. As much as I wish I could say otherwise, you're probably better shopping at your local nurseries
For thirty years, I thought it was utterly pointless to grow anything I couldn't eat. Not a bad policy really. Then on a random whim I bought a rose plant. Then I found this clown. Now I have Gallardia growing in between my chillies and dahlias around my tomato plants and a wall of roses down one side of my garden and Lavendar plants scattered throughout. Thanks Jason, thanks a lot. In jest of course.
Thanks Brad - and I'm having fun these days sneaking fruit varieties into my ornamental beds, so I guess it goes both ways.
I mean, I don't know anything about Gallardia, but you can eat Dahlia roots (although it gives some people really bad gas), and lavender obviously has medicinal uses, so it's not like they HAVE to be only pretty. 🤷
I'm actually trying to grow my first Dahlia this year - to be pretty. 🌼
Dahlias & roses still blooming like mad in my zone 8b.
Never knew St John Wort is lovely! Never seen or heard guara & obidient plant. Thanks for sharing new stuff, they are all gorgeous!!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Lots of hardy geraniums are still bringing wonderful color as well as my phloxes. I will have to consider the 4 o'clocks.
Love Gaura and so easy to propagate. I also grew hyssop Sangria pink from seed and now they are over 3 feet high. Heliopolis Bleeding hearts grew from seed looks good too. Thanks for the suggestions in the spring for these plants.😊
Thanks Diane. I love those tropical colors in agastache, and I have a couple more on the way in spring
Sedum, Autumn Joy or Autumn Fire are great fall bloomers. Some types of Asters only start blooming in late August/Early September.
Thanks - and a great additions to the list. I've enjoyed sedum 'Dark Magic' this year, but the traditional green varieties like the 'Autumn Joy' you mentioned or 'Carl' to put on quite a show for the fall.
I have good luck with coneflowers and zinnias. zone 7 (Middle Tennessee). Thanks, Jason for your helpful tips
Thanks Ronald. Good call - I'll be borrowing a few more ideas from the cut flower trade this coming season, and of course, that means zinnias and dahlias.
I absolutely adore caryopteris. Blue is hard to come by and so it’s such a treat. I’ve never seen such a chunky and compact variety. I’ll have to search that one out. We have several different St John’s Wort but they bloom much earlier in the year. They are gorgeous though, absolutely covered in huge showy yellow blooms and bees of all sorts!
All perennials are so good and healthy, I like Rosy jane very much and other all and bees on the flowers. Very nice Jason.
I love Heuchera "purple waves"
the orange red purpleish foliage really shines during dark rainy fall weather.
Yes, heuchera! Great foliage fixes everything/
Wonderful perennials. I’m always learning something new! Over here in zone 3 the bee balm , hyssop, scabiosa and blue jean baby sage are looking great, and the sedums and asters are just starting to bloom. Frost is surely coming soon.
Thanks Alligator Pie - great varieites!
Loved all the plants in this video. I had to download it for reference. I have to say that I've never seen a fuchsia shrub. Thanks for the info.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching Aitza
I love Daphne Eternal Fragrance too, mine flower at least 5 times a year, they flower on new growth, unlike most Daphne's, so if you give them a tiny trim they will re grow and flower again and again for you, I literally trim the flower heads off after flowering and they immediately re flower and they don't need ericaceous compost like most Daphne's do either. How about Japanese Anemones for the movement or the colour garden they would be hardy in your zone I believe and although they look tender delicate things they are in fact tough as anything and would give you pretty pastel colours in the fall and tons of movement. Masterpiece Sempervirens Candytuft is another suggestion I believe it would be hardy in your zone 8 too, pastel pink or white varieties, it flowers continually for at least 9 months of the year for me here in the UK, it is a low grower so ideal at the front of a display, or under roses, grows here in my garden to about 18" high and wide max, kicks out the most vivid white or pale pink tinged tufts and sits there good as gold doesn't need any fussing, all I do is deadhead the very few heads that do go over and it keeps re blooming, I have a lot of it dotted around my garden and it's been flowering all year long, very easy to grow from cuttings or seed too and really is a hard worker. I do take cuttings they root easily, I lost all of them several years ago when we suffered a deep freeze (rare here) so had to re buy it and start again, ever since I take cuttings and grow on in frost free area in winter just in case haha I do love masterpiece don't I !? Your gardens are looking great with all the variety you've added it really is going to be a spectacular area.
Thanks so much - great picks! My spring candytuft (a pale lavender variety) is still blooming its head off in the greenhouse, and I'm sure it would rather be in the ground. Japanese anemones are so easy too!
Great looking colors Jason!
The varieties are wonderful.👌
I like how you are pushing the temperature survival boundaries a bit, the results are fantastic this year. Of course the true test is how well they do when colder weather comes earlier as it does some years.
The displays are looking so good!🤙
Thank you so much, sir. You inspire me to beautify my yard. Please keep it up.
I really love my yellow hardy chrysanthemums, they really amazed me last year and stayed beautiful well into the frosty cold October. Just got some more at Lowe’s
Thanks gnarmarmilla - I'd love to find more of the old-fashioned hardy chrysanthemums on the local market. Such a sweet garden performer. And thanks for the support!
Beautiful, great options. Thank you.
My pleasure Debra. Thanks for watching.
ALSTROMERIAS FLOWER FROM SUMMER TO THE FIRST HARD FROST AND COME IN A VARIETY OF COLOURS .THANKS FOR YOUR EDUCATIONALVIDEOS.
Bluebeard...baahahahahaaa...I'm so getting that! :D
I love growing Hardy Hibiscus 🌺 for August flowers that are very showy and tropical! I'm zone 8, Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Good call - they're definitely stars later in the growing season!
We have the same fuchsia (in East Van) and my partner was convinced the harsh freeze last winter was its end.
OMG nope. It's huge, it blooms and blooms and blooms, and our resident hummingbirds love it. At the end of September it shows no signs of slowing. :-)
Good to hear Rodney - it's a tough one! I have it in the golden-leaved version now as well, and I'm going to have to see which I like better in the landscape.
Saponaria Max Frei starts blooming in July and keeps blooming into late September if deadhead. The same with Scabiosa butterfly blue... starts in June and keeps going with deadheading.
Thanks! More great color for fall
Thank you Jason. I love 4-o’clocks, I didn’t get any planted this year but I plan to next spring. I’m also going to try and save the tubers, I hope I can but they are easy enough to grow if I can’t pull them through the winter. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃
Thanks Judy - true, so easy from seed that it's a tough call whether to bother.
I never knew St. John’s wart was so beautiful. I am going to look into that one
You bet Angie - it's a pretty large genus, and I like these florist's hybrids far better than the groundcover.
Hi Jason. Thanks for sharing this video.
My pleasure Annie! Thanks for watching
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides is also nice.
good one Jason. I got a couple good tips out of it, esp that daphne.
Your place looks great. Lucky you to be on an island in the Fraser Valley, here in W WA St it has been dry, dry, dry.
It always seems like the rain is just one more week away...
Linaria are short lived perennials. I’ve been dead heading all summer and they are still flowering their socks off. Beloved by bees. All the Erigeron types too. There is a wide variety worth investigating.
Thanks for adding your picks! It's been a while since I've grown linaria, so maybe I'll give them another shot.
You’re Looking cute, Jason.
Michaelmas daisy is my favorite autumn perennial. Zone 7b.
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I know some of the following are not perennials, but they self seed.
Currently in my garden are blooming dahlias, Jerusalem artichokes, marigolds, calendulas, non-native polianthes tuberose ( it's fragrance is intoxicating!)
4 o'clock, heliopsis are gone
P.S.oh and roses, I forgot the roses, some of them are blooming like crazy!
Thanks for including your picks!
Heliopsis in India are mostly bright yellow in colour
Monkshood/Aconitum. Muhly Grass. Lots of Asters (now sympho-something or other). Heptacodium. Platycoden, Kalimeris. Begonia grandis. Hamamalis virginiana.
I do like the fall
Sorry I went rogue with some trees...
No worries - mix and match is all good in the garden. Thanks for your picks! My aconitum is still a few days away from color, but the heptacodium is nice to see in full flower now!
Jason check out the video "no dig dahlias" by YT Channel No-till farmers - as the title implies, they leave the tubers of dahlias in the ground (mulched). They are in Zone 7. Zone 8 should work even better for that, I'd think. m
Thanks! I'm sure it's the details that count - they cut the foliage after first frost, thick dryish mulch layer then *tarp*, and I think that's key because we have such a wet winter here that otherwise they'd rot for certain.
Jason, I went looking for a site to buy Gaura Rosy Jane on different sites, they all say it is a zone 5 perennial (and might be US zone, not Canada). Love Gauras which I discovered 2 years ago but although I am zone 5 they didn’t survive our winters. Would love finding one that is a zone 3! Am I missing something?
Thanks Anne. The hardiness zones sure aren't perfect! A dry mulch or cover at the right timing (early winter, after they've gone dormant) can be helpful.
I've been trying to find Daphne in Canada for years with no luck. Where did you get yours?
I purchased that one at Port Kells Nursery in Langley
Awesome, thank you!
Your in a zone 8 ? 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃
Yes - a little odd for Canada, but it's our proximity to the coast that keeps it so mild (most years)
is there any difficulty purchasing plants or seeds from you, that need to travel to Washington state?
Yes, sadly the border is a real pain for getting plants across. As much as I wish I could say otherwise, you're probably better shopping at your local nurseries
Where do you buy heliopsis?
Hi Dorothy - I started mine from seed (Jelitto was the source) - and we're now selling the plants too locally.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm I’m considering trying it from seed. Was it tricky at all, or would it be for a non-professional?