A Tour of our Foundation and Side Gardens and the Beginning of a New Garden Design || Grow For Me 5b
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- In this video we take you on a tour of the gardens in front of our home and along the east side. We have some exciting changes coming to these beds that we touch on and at the end we begin to brainstorm a pretty major expansion of our garden. We would love your thoughts and ideas!
I love what you fellas have done to your front yard. It is a true work of art!!! I think you need to add a huge window box underneath the front window to balance out the space above your hydrangeas. It would be a fantastic place to showcase colorful seasonal annuals. The color of the flower box would be pretty in the same color as your home's trimming. It also would balance the flowering pots in front of your garage. Happy Gardening guys!!!
We considered a window box for awhile but last fall added more big hydrangeas so it wouldn’t be visible
Beautiful gardens! A hydrangea room with a area for a bistro table would be beautiful! I love little hidden seating areas! Whatever you decide it will be beautiful!
Thanks. It’s an exciting idea…lots of digging!
Your garden is beautiful! A Hydrangea room is a wonderful idea, beauty and privacy, you can’t go wrong with that. I’m looking forward to all your future garden endeavors. Blessings to you both.
I can’t wait to see how it comes out!
Beautiful garden you guys have done a great job! Keep up the beautiful work work! God bless many blessings!
Thank you thank you
Stunning garden! You guys know exactly what you're doing. I can see why you would have a garden tour scheduled. Love the idea of extending the bed from the tree around to the fence.
That’s very sweet. I’m excited to get digging this fall.
I been binge-watching, sometimes twice lol I love how clean and organize your garden is! Every plant shines! You guys are my inspiration!
Awesome! Thank you!
Totally agree !!!
I have no ideas for you new area, but I'm here for it! Looking forward to seeing your garden continue to evolve!
Thank you!
Love the entrance. Beautiful!
Thanks so much! We are actually planting annuals around the front today for our Tuesday video
Beautiful garden! I'm sure whatever you all decide to do is going to be amazing!
I hope so!
Gentlemen, thank you for touring the back of your home. I foumd that video and you mentioned you purchased your pergola and chairs from Costco. I was elated, and have copied your setting. I have a small home, really its a tiny home but there is no reason it cannot be beautiful. Im inspired and planning and planting little garden rooms. Love, love, love your channel. Thank you both for sharing.
I’m so glad you were able to find the pergola and chairs! It’s a great look
Love that you named the Royal Birch "Queen Elizabeth"! 😊
We’ve named a few of the trees actually.
Love how you pollard willow. With under plantings makes the area have more depth.
Like idea of hydrangea room and shade seating area. Would think about adding plants that would give more structure all year round - from road side especially- so when fall, winter and early spring (which is 3/4 of the year, unfortunately) you still have that room structure. Boxwood or Nordic Holly “wall” that faces toward road and with fence gives you your structure. Perhaps a few evergreen plants, a droopy or unique small conifer and a few other smaller ones scattered in with hydrangeas.
If you want to blow the budget a water feature and a couple of comfy outdoor longe chairs would make a great spot to hang out during those hot dog days of summer.
Everything looks great!
We love a specimen evergreen so the idea of a unique plant is a definite. We have a blue point juniper to go over there which will help get us started.
I’m in with the hydrangea room! No matter what you do I know it will be beautiful 🌸🌷🌺
Yes! Thank you!
You both are very creative! Whatever you guys do with your garden, I'm excited to see it all.. from the beginning to end. ❤
Thank you so much!
So happy you started a CZcams channel 😊. I’ve been following your beautiful garden on instagram for sometime now, and this channel just puts the cherry on top🥰🍒. An Incrediball hedge with an Invincibelle Ruby hedge in front of it would be spectacular. 🤍🩷
That’s wonderful! We are going to start drawing up a plan for how to create the hedge
Love your new garden ideas! Of coarse more hydrangeas! I sympathize with you on the deer problems. I get a large supply of Irish Spring bar soap (Costco) & in a pinch I use a metal grater & grate the soap onto the base & around the plant until I spray with deer spray. Another idea, I add a few drops to my sprayer of Ghost Pepper Scorpion Habanero (Amazon) oil concentrate! Just don't spray on a windy day day, lol, I learned the hard way, but it works!!! Good luck, love watching you guys!!!
We will try that!!!
I love how you pruned the dappled willow you bought for $5.00, very artistic and perfect for the underplanted shade area. Ok...my opinion for your hydrangea room, all I can say is go for it, I love little vinettes that you can name. I would place a little fountain just for some soft noise. Morning cup of coffee to start your gardening day in your hydrangea room..perfect! Love, love your garden😊
Thank you!! I’m pretty proud of it. The willow isn’t the easiest to maintain…the stinker sends up shoots everywhere on the trunks!
So pretty and everything flows so nicely with the different colors and shapes. You guys have done an awesome job! Thank you for sharing your landscaping with us. Blessings.❤
Our pleasure!
Hi! I just found you. I live in Syracuse zone 5B so I’m very excited to see what you grow and where you put it. 😁❤️
Awesome! Thank you!
I love hydrangeas period 😁😍Any kind will look great in my eyes 🥰😍🌺🌺
It will be hard to go wrong
I don't know if you have already done the new border, but I am looking through your older videos and came across this one. A lovely combo for the new border would be Black Stockings Joe Pie Weed in the back, by the fence, with whichever hydrangeas you plant in front of the Joe Weed. It seems some vertical interest is needed if you plan such a long swath against the fence, so perhaps you can also work in a couple of Purple Pillar Rose of Sharon in the border as well? Love following you two. Your garden gets more lovely with each new planting. 🌷🌱🌺🌿
That is a really good idea. You’ll just have to check out the updates in spring to see what we did!! Haha
I love the idea of creating “rooms” or nooks to create privacy from the street. Kind of secret garden spaces and meandering paths
Lots of digging to do! haha.
Love love yr backyard..sooo gorgeous
Thanks so much
The royal frost birch is such a cool structure, looks great there! And I love that it may resist Japanese Beetles as we are currently battling them!
Some of our other trees got hit hard but this one stayed pretty clean!
@@growformegardening that's good to know! Ours here are currently attacking our standard rose the hardest 😪 working everyday to get rid of them though!
@@TrowelandError I hate to admit it....but sometimes it's worth using a systemic. Ideally we avoid chemicals but these buggers are tough!
@@growformegardening We are about there in our struggle. I've tried all the "first line defense" things, but trying to give it just a little longer before we drench them! Might be time though!!
Your garden is. Very beautiful
I appreciate that!
What you did to the willow they call that lolly popping. Trimming off all the lower branches. I haven’t tried that on a willow yet but after seeing yours. I love it ❤ so I am going to do the same.
It takes some work because it sends out lots of shoots but it looks great
A hedge of hydrangea sounds awesome. I have one also. At year three they gave off a wonderful smell at their peak in June and july. I got mine in pint containers so it took 3seasons/years for mine to fully mature.
Its so wonderful to watch them grow from babies...but I don't know if we will be able to be patient enough!!
@@growformegardening lol I don’t blame you. They were the first plants I bought after I moved into this current home being new to gardening and all, but if I was to do it again I would have gotten them at a much more advanced stage.
@@klosettreat I guess it will come down to availability!
Beautiful garden!
Thanks!
Perfect plan for the side of the fence ❤you can not have too many hydrangeas..love them.
More more more!!
12:41 you did such a beautiful job trimming this tree up! I love this look! It sounds easy yet terrifying 😂
thanks!
Your gardens (and lawn!) are beautiful! I love the idea of a hydrangea room!
Thank you so much!
So pretty! ❤
Thank you! 😊
This has got to be the best gardening chanel
Oh my goodness thank you
Whatever you do, I know it will be gorgeous !
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for including your growing Zone. So beautiful!
You bet!
You guys are the best! Hydrangea room idea with bistro area sounds wonderful. Hydrangeas are my favorite shrub, so anything that includes them, I’m all for it. Garden show? Hope you will be showing that video as well. I’ve had garden tours in the past and would love to get some ideas on how you do your shows/tours. Thank you.
We were thinking about that actually. I think it will be a lot of fun.
All your plants look really happy, well done.
Many thanks
Yes! Double stack with hydrangeas. Check out north lawn gardens. She did something similar.
I love her videos!
A hydrangea room? Heck yeah! I can't wait to see it! 😆
We are going to start drawing it out!
So I’m new, and I have one question, How?? How do you guys do this?? This is amazingly beautiful. How do you keep this all up? How do you design this? How do you get anything done outside of sitting in the garden and marveling at your garden? How????😵💫
Haha it takes a lot of work but we love it
If you train your climbing roses more horizontally you will get many more blooms instead of 'second story' blooms. Love your gardens!!!
We are starting the process of wrapping the longest canes around the trellis as they grow. The canes are all brand new and tiny so training hasn’t been necessary
This video came up on my CZcams page. Never heard of you guys BUT I absolutely love love love what you’ve done with this space. Much love from Philly ❤
That's great! We've just started this new CZcams adventure. It's great to hear that you found us!
Enjoying your videos! I also am in 5b but in Northern Illinois.
Do you watch Linda Vater? She just did a brick "rug" in her new backyard. It's so beautiful.
Thanks for watching!
Oh we did see that. It’s such a nice idea.
I just pulled out some Weigela that wasn't doing well from my front foundation bed and replaced it with Double Play Blue Kazoo spirea. It doesn't seem as popular as some of the new varieties but yours looks fantastic. I hope mine will look like that next year.
It’s just a lovely multicolor blanket in the landscape.
Love your garden and enjoy watching how well you work together! 😊
Thanks so much! 😊
Love your videos. I’m in Fl, zone 9b trying to figure it out with with trial and error. It’s so hot but I’m getting there. Love your garden.
oh gosh you must be roasting in the heat!! Look for Mr Gardeners...they are down your way and do beautiful work!
@@growformegardening I subscribed to their channel. Thank you for the recommendation.
Watching on CZcams is so different from stories because I have a million things to say and keep forgetting by the time you reach the end! I’ll have to rewatch. I love the variegated hydrangea though. It’s so unique. Maybe you had a late frost that zapped the buds? And I vote a big yes to the hydrangea hedge and seating area!
I really wish that hydrangea would perform better for us. The leaves are so good. I'm glad you enjoyed the video! It's a new adventure for us.
Your videos are delightful and I love your plant pairings! Inspiration for days! 😊
Thanks so much! 😊
Thanks so much! 😊
Greetings from TN!Beautiful garden, and thanks for IDing the plants!
Welcome! I hope the tags are clear enough. Should I have them stay on the screen longer?
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Every year I hard prune my smokebush back like they do to crepe myrtles. That way I don’t get the ‘smoke’ which I don’t care for, and the size is controlled. Keep up the good work I’m enjoying your vids and you.
I'm really with you there on the "smoke". I prefer the foliage, especially on the golden varieties.
That sounds like a fabulous idea. Love it.
I think so too!
Lovely tour. Thank you. Just found you and I love your idea of a private garden space like you described.
We are starting to draw it out!
Love the idea of hydrangea expansion. What type of grass do you have? Very lovely.
That’s a good question. I know it’s a blend. Over the years Eric has done some overseeding with a product called Thick’r Lawn.
@@growformegardening I will look into that.
I think I know what you might be adding to the front garden, lol…love these gardens also…sooo when you finish your gardens and get bored you can come to Jersey Shore and design mine😂
Haha on the way!!!
Beautiful garden, love your gatpy pink hydrangea, how long it's been in the ground? It's so happy. I recently bought one last summer
It is so tiny right now hope it survive this winter. U love hydrangea like myself. Beautiful ❤❤
They do look rough their first year. The big one is close to five years now. It it absolutely incredible.
A hydrangea room how can you go wrong with that!
Right?!
Spilled wine wigelia is a low grower, try a taller one or a dwarf nine bark that gets only about three feet tall.
We have a spot in mind that will be perfect for them!
Beautiful gardens! great idea for the hydrangea hedge. maybe some winter interest with pines along with?
Great idea! We have some spruce but only one pine.
The garden is beautiful. Please take us along the journey as you make over the side yard. I’m sure whatever you do will be amazing.
btw - lighting on this video is great. Was it taken on an overcast day or early morning/late afternoon?
Thank you. This was early morning. We are trying to figure out the best times so this is great feedback.
Loved it
Thanks
How about an evergreen hedge arborvitae’s from the birch to the fence that would give you more privacy and then you can plant whatever you want down the fence
That is definitely an option. We may try mixing some evergreens too
Do you follow Danielle from Northlawn Flower Farm? She has a tremendous hydrangea room with great variety, and a lovely stone rug area with a bench and her grandmother's lamb's ears. Might be good inspo if you don't already watch her videos!
Yes I do! We may be borrowing a few ideas from her.
Lovely plant combinations!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you! Cheers!
A hydrangea room sounds fantastic. Would the seat face the new planting or the opposite side. Considering the best view would matter. Also, an inscription on the seat/bench would add meaning.
That's a great idea! I think it would be nice to have something more personal for the seating.
You two have done a beautiful job. I appreciate your critiques of the plants, too.
Okay, here's my two cents regarding the hydrangea room: I know you will pick hydrangeas that will give you the look you want. I have found that a lot of areas are ruined by the use of the wrong stone (paving), the wrong furniture, etc. Take your time selecting the base or elements surrounding the hydrangeas. Don't be tempted to have a goofy, wavy edge to your paved area. Make it straight and clean. The plants will soften everything.
I think I've said this before: Look to Mr. Maple (especially their 10 @ 10:00 which airs at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time every Tuesday so you can order at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time when the site opens for business. Note: A maple featured on 10 @ 10:00 will not show on the website until 10:00. Then it suddenly appears. Nearly all of the other maples will show on the website, even those that are out of stock. Don't forget: A lot of Japanese maples will do well in a large pot.
Great tips!!! Thank you!
Love the hydrangeas everywhere! Such variety adds interest. Really love your idea about expanding that other bed and adding a bench or seating. What about tucking in a fountain over there too?
Thanks so much! 😊 We have a big fountain right around the corner, but maybe a small little one would be pretty
@@growformegardening Also forgot to say that in the front, I really like your drifts of plants or groups. That makes such an impact instead of one or two things here and there.
@@karenschrantz2307 When we first started gardening we would pop single plants all over and it looked messy! Now its 3 minimum and usually 5+
@@growformegardening Yes, I need to rethink some things in my yard! Messy is a good description 😩
Beautiful garden. Tri-color beech has a tendency to revert to solid or bi-color when first planted. Tricolor will return 3rd or 4th year, be patient it will pay off!
That’s good to hear! Thank you.
My hydrangea has developed some brownish black spots.
What could be the cause? Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden!
This time of year it could be lots of things. We see some fungus on the leaves when it gets humid and hot.
Beautiful garden! May I ask how many Gatsby Pink do you have on the East side of your home?
Two! The bigger one is right behind the Tricolor Beach and the other is tucked in by the terrace.
Your Firelight Tidbit Hydrangeas are do much bigger than mine. I can’t wait for mine to look like yours. On your tree, those were probably gypsy moths. They are terrible. They killed my ornamental plum tree. How tall of hydrangeas do you want for your Hydrangea Room? What a beautiful addition to your garden!
Thank you! I think you are right about the moths, they are terrible. I think 5 foot for the hydrangeas.
What about incrediball white in the back and invincible ruby in the front
That’s definitely a contender!!
@@heathersmichigangarden that is definitely a front runner. There's also the potential for adding sublime in there...or mixing a panicle with a big leaf. Quick Fire Fab is really a knockout and blooms early enough to hang out with an invincibelle
Tri color beech get 30’ tall 20-25’ wide, maybe to close to the house
It is further from the house than it looks!
I love your gardens....Just wondering how you protect your hydrangea from deer in the summer......
Believe it or not we only have one variety of hydrangea that the deer go after.....quickfire! We have 91 total hydrangeas and they only nip eat from the front of the four quickfires. At this point it is kind of funny how oddly shaped they are. In a year or two they will be big enough to bury the damage.
In my garden they love Bobos,,,,I sprayed them every week with repellent and it didn't help at all....Thank you for letting me know
Your new plan is a good idea go 4 it
Welcome! So much has changed since we filmed this, check out some of our newer tours.
Beautiful gardens. Everything is so lush. I have just discovered your channel and love it! I am just beginning to develop some hydrangea beds, and planted my first shrubs last summer. Three are growing nicely, no blooms yet, but I am impatient. One poor hydrangea is really struggling after being attacked by earwigs and slugs. It’s just barely surviving. Should I pull it out and plant new, or do you think it will recover?
Hydrangeas are tough!! Give it a winter to recoup and see how it does. We have actually had some mite damage on our limelights so I know the pain!
Your David Austin roses look great! I also live in a Zone 5 B but in NH. Japanese beetles have hit our roses hard this year. What do you do to manage them? I pick them off and toss them into a glass of soapy water twice a day but even that does not seem to be often enough.
Knocking on everything....we haven't been hit too bad this year. One of our neighbors two houses away put up the traps which could be helping. I started immediately when I saw one doing a weekly spray of captain jacks deadbug brew mixed with some horticultural oil (I read that it helps it stick and last about a week). We also do something a little controversial, which is systemic. There are granular and liquid versions, but they save the roses from the early sawfly larvae, and help a lot with japanese beetles.
@@growformegardening Thank you so much! Your advice was most helpful! The sawfly was horrible this year too. I will try the granular systemic .
Check out Garden with Marta. She just released a video showing off her hydrangea border. Amazing garden.
I will head over there now to see!!!
@@growformegardening Let me know what you think. Check out her June garden tour with roses.
So good. Oh my goodness those roses!!
I try and try to grow cat mint but have no success😢
That’s no good. Make sure to not fertilize them or water too much!
@@growformegardening Good advice. Will give that try.