LOL, Chris! Sorry about that! I did toy with not adding it, but I thought that including the reality of what it’s like living on the Gulf Coast was necessary. Haha! I did edit out the sound of my daughter gagging when that spider scared us!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening oh all good! It made the tour realistic 😆 I have had one too many of those moments in my own garden and I’m sure my neighbors could hear it haha.
Hi Rachel, Well, your garden is just a cloud of loveliness, colour, and diversity. You must be so happy and it's only the beginning. Those wasps 😮. I've never seen such creatures before. Our wasps are yellow and black, and they sting anything that moves, but they have their role to play in the garden. I wonder if your armadillo also ate those army worms? I envy your warm temperatures and sunshine. Last week it was quite warm around 14⁰c but gales and rain. This week, will be dry and sunny but cold with 0⁰c at night. That's spring!!! I cut the grass but had to leave some since there are lots of poppies growing, and I like to encourage some wild flowers. Oh, your dahlias look so healthy, and you'll get more than just 3 blooms, I think. Can't wait to see them. I haven't woken mine up yet, only the ones I want cuttings from, but I'll get them all out and into soil as soon as this cold spell has passed. I planted peas, and they've germinated, so we'll see how that goes . Yes, it is great to share our garden news. Many thanks for another beautiful video. Have a great week 😀
Thank you, Kim!!! Aren’t wasps weird?!? I didn’t realize how beneficial they could be! But I should have known that they serve a purpose! Everything exists to keep a healthy balance, except for armadillos. LOL! But that is the horror of having invasive species since there is nothing around to balance out their numbers! - Oh, see! You can grow poppies!!! There’s no need to envy my warm weather since it keeps me from growing poppies! Haha! - Thank you for the insight into the dahlias! I hope they will do well!!! I know yours will grow fabulously!!!
Well Helloooo Rachel !! Is it Sunday ALREADY???! It doesn't FEEL like Sunday... My gosh, how time has been flying this week!! And as usual, your garden is once again a SUNDAY FEAST! It's just so colorful & blooming so nicely!! I really do love walking thru it with you! Thank You so much for bringing me along!!
Awwww, thank you, GGO!!! I know that you have been having fun piling generous helpings of your glorious bounty of mulch all over your garden! I hope that you grow an actual forest of mushrooms!!!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening Funny you should mention the shrooms! This cold front that decided to pop in has given birth to 10 NEW LIONS MANE MUSHROOMS!! TEN!! Before that happened, I thought they were gunna be done until next Fall. BUT NOOOO!!! hehehehehe!!! I'VE GOT 10 MORE!!! And yes, they're in a woodchip mulch garden. Which I guess, is what that garden is now... Seems kinda weird. Wait, no - Seems VERY WEIRD!!! You've got flowers blooming. I'm growing soil & mushrooms. Anyway, weird or not, the Lions Mane slurry I've been adding to my coffee every morning is DEFINITELY helping with my memory!! So, Mother Nature is keeping me healthy by blowing in a late cold front! OHHH!!! AND IT'S BEEN RAINING FOR THREE DAYS!!! WHOOO HOOOOOO!!!! I'm SO happy about THAT too!! We've only gotten a total of about 3 inches. Which, when I say that out loud, doesn't seem like much... And in the Grand Scheme of things isn't NEARLY ENOUGH to fill up the lakes... BUT OH MY GOSH IT'S PRETTY GREAT WHILE IT'S HAPPENING!!! I took that opportunity to scratch in some fertilizer for my Daffodils since they've quit blooming now. And as I've mentioned before, there's a lot of them that never did bloom, yet they've got good healthy leaves. I think I might have to face reality that I got some "tainted soil" last year... The only daffs that didn't bloom is where that new soil is. And there's zero weeds growing there too. (that's kind of a big clue!) So yeah, that's a bummer. I guess I'll try to grow some sunflowers in those areas to hopefully draw up the chemicals in the soil... Anyway - Rain AND MUSHROOMS!! I'm a happy camper!!
DANGGGGGG! That's a bumper crop of lion's mane! God has really blessed you with that AND the rain! Wowwww! I am so happy that you are off to a great start this spring! AND the best is yet to come!!!
Rachel your garden is just beautiful! I love your new design with the stepping stones path! I live in Mobile and I bought 2 Butterfly Weed plants. I hope I can grow them in large pots.
Thank you, Rachel. I also love Salvia. Love, love, love your varieties of Salvia. I tend to lean more towards yellow, purple, RED, orange, pinks, and any multi-colored blooms. You have given me a greater appreciation of varied colors of greens mixed together. Look forward to your video every Sunday morning. I have three red Hot Salsa II Salvia, which I love; I'm going to pair with my black and blue salvia. My neighbor had 4' black and blue Salvia in 2021. The hummers went crazy!!!
LOL! Even the word red makes me angry! I have no idea why! But if I had to guess, I think it would be because red is an attention hog. It’s the thing that draws my eye to it most unwillingly. And then yellow is the second color that does that. They are the naughty children of the color world! Haha! - Oh! I’m so glad that you are enjoying different shades of green!!! I love splotches of color! My parents gave me a deep appreciation of impressionist paintings by their own preference for them, and since I can’t paint at all, I’m so thankful that I can attempt to paint with plants! It sounds like you like to paint with plants too! Thank you so much for the encouragement!!!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening LOL!!! I so very much enjoyed your comments. Yes, you have described the heart soul. When I was a small child, my grandmother asked why I was drawing a house plan with the red and yellow crayons (makes orange). Because I wanted my house to be lively and bright. Red (I am sorry I angered you. Haha) because it is love. Yellow because it is sunshine. A house filled with love and sunshine is orange. Yes, my home is filled with different hues of red, not bright and flashy but muted with beige, black, and white. A friend once described my home as truly my personality, plain, simple, yet elegant with an underlying sense of energy. New comers or friends I haven't met yet, when learning where I live, have exclaimed you are the one with the beautiful flowers. I live a ways off the road. The first thing you see when you drive up my drive is not my house but my gardens in the front. Yes, my white lilies are blooming. It's still cold here. Things are not blooming as fast as your garden, which I love to watch, grow, and bloom. It matches your sweet and Southern voice. And I love your collection of hats. I try to paint, but I would rather play in the dirt in my Sanctuary, aka Hoopi/hoop house/greenhouse. I am looking forward to Sunday to see what you have done this week. My favorite color is green!
@@Troupe112 Awwww! I love that! A house full of love and sunshine!!! It’s awesome that your house is known for the lovely and welcoming gardens!!! Whenever I see a place where it looks like a gardener lives there, I know it must be a happy place!!!
Thanks, Christine!!! Dontcha love seeing the plants that you love growing in someone else’s garden?!? It’s like running into a friend in an unexpected place and being very pleasantly surprised and happy to see them!
Thank you, Ruth!!! Yassss! Salvia is the best!!! It loves living here and I see hummingbirds drinking from it everyday! They even seem to favor the salvia over the feeder!
Thank you!!! Oh! I’m glad I reminded you that you can divid perennials! It’s such an easy and super satisfying way to get new plants and/or share with others!
LOL, Kelli!!! I’m with ya on the screaming! I just never expect insects to notice me and then react to my presence in a defensive manner! Haha! I’m used to them scurrying AWAY!
Salvia? Last night I said to myself those exact some words! Your garden so SO BEAUTIFUL!!! You are so ahead of me in so many ways but I'm ahead of you in other ways! I see all your successes and none of the failures - you would see the same in mine - it is hard to look without comparing since we want to make everything so beautiful but you are a joy to me and an inspiration to get out there and work! That's the biggest thing you provide me, I can rest and be inspired while you do all that work. Thank You!
LOL, Mary! We ARE kindred spirits! Thank you so much for the encouragement!!! I’m so thankful that when I think about it, my work in the garden is really small compared with what the plants do what with their actual growing and all. LOL!
P Allan Smith said to grow lavender in cinder blocks. He said it makes the soil sweet and I bet it’s also better for keeping the soil dryer and better drained. I’m trying it this year in New Orleans and so far my lavender seems happy!
Thanks for that suggestion. I'm in Houston town and have tried keeping lavender alive for more than 2 seasons. Out of an experiment with about 10 different varieties, only 2 have made it..Provence and Sweet Lavender. Just bought a lavender from Costco and will try your suggestion! Everyone; wish me good lavender growing!
Oh, my goodness, Jennifer!!! If that works, I can just imagine making a lavender cinderblock barrier around my whole garden!!!!!!!! This could be life changing!!! Which lavender are you growing?
I hope to grow more passion flower vines for the Gulf Fritillary caterpillars! I wouldn't have caterpillars and butterflies if it wasn't for that plant. 🙋♀️🌱🌸💐🐦🐛🦋
Aren’t passion flower vines incredible?!? I love how vigorously they grow and they do it in a somewhat scary way until the Gulf fritillaries come along and eat them down to a nub, just as it should be!
Oh! This was SO Cool!! Check this out - I was walking down my street a couple days ago, and I saw a wildflower I'd never seen before!! (I thought I had seen them all by now!) But that's what I get for thinking so much! I walked into a scrubby piece of land bcuz I was following a patch of Bluebonnets. These Bluebonnets were like a lush carpet begging me to follow their trail. So I did! They swept around this corner of brush, and when I turned the corner, there was this new flower I'd never seen before! There was this whole colony of them! They were dotting the carpet of Bluebonnets looking just like tiny marshmallows floating in a cup of hot chocolate! The flower stands tall at about 14 inches, and the breeze was blowing so gently, it kinda felt like they were waving hello to me!😊 The whole scene was surreal!! I looked the plant up, and the common name is Texas Green Lily, or Texas Feathershank. If you want to look it up, the latin name is: Schoenocaulon tetanus Anyway, the leaves are a small, but a tidy clump of blue/green grass. And the flower is outstanding! It's one long wavy stem, standing above the leaves, and it's kind of shaped like a feather, if a feather was cone shaped. Which is not a great description! But the "cone" part is made up of hundreds of tiny inflorescences, which are white with peach & yellow tips! I mean, it's just pretty fabulous!! If you look it up, the pictures are much better than my description. When I saw it, I was like, "Hey!!" And - "Where have YOU been hiding all my life!?!" Naturally, the flower answered, all nonchalant & cool as a cucumber, (as most flowers do) "I've been right here all along, it's YOU who are late." Pffffthhh 👅💦 !! So yeah, there's a really big patch of them that's kinda tucked away in a little alcove on some unmanaged land. There they are, not 300 feet from my house, and we've been living practically side by side all these years! And I never even knew about them!! I'm thinking I can go snag some of their seeds pretty soon too, since they're flowering right now! I did some reading, and apparently, they can come live in my domesticated yard and they can pretend to be domesticated! So I'll give it a try. After they flower, they'll bring some nice texture to the landscape looking just like a little blue/green Carex grass. And then, since they bloom at the same time as Bluebonnets, the 2 of them will be making a very nice show together! Just as they are right now! I'm still a bit stunned that I never had seen it before, but overall, it's very exciting! That's my story for today! I hope you have a good week! Ciao Doll ! ❤
Oh my goodness, GGO!!! What a find!!! I just looked up the Texas Green Lily and how have they not packaged it up and sold it all over the world?!?! It is lovely!!! I hope that you will save some seeds AND send me some! I would love to grow that!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening I'm going to try for those seeds! I don't know how long it takes to go from flower to seed. Heck, I don't even know what the seed head looks like!! It's only been about 10 days, and it already feels like I've been waiting FOREVER!!! The research says it is a super slooooow growing plant. So yeah... There's that. Maybe the seed making is slow too? Pffffthhh!!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening Yeah, I guess. I went to look at it yesterday, and even tho the flowers are still there, I'm not seeing any seed formation - yet. I found out another thing about it, it's endemic to a very small area. It only grows between here and Houston, and I think that's only in the Hill Country spaces. So it's extremely picky about where it grows! The more I think about it, I may not have a place in my yard that has enough sun for it to be happy... My yard is mostly shade, except this one spot which gets about 8 hours of sun. So 🤷🏼♀️ We'll just have to see!!
I like to watch Garden Answer utubes out of Eastern Oregon. However, she seems to get all the product, any of us could possibly salivate over, from Gardener's Supply and others who apparently sponsor her utubes. While watching it makes me dream of greater things I know it's mostly out of my reach financially. Your videos, Rachel, are more down to earth and real for me and something I can relate to. I look forward to each episode to see what is Rachel gonna try or do next!? Growing everything in containers is initially easy and fun but eventually the day comes when you have to pull the plant out and refresh. I'm doing that now and it's not a fun job for me. Seeing that you need all those current planted pots for something else is no easy chore so my best to you on that! I'm curious, do you refresh the soil mixture that comes out of pots and then reuse it? I've started doing that on the advice of an organic gardener. His suggestion was to refresh the used potting soil with compost, a good organic granular fertilizer and some azomite. I'll see how things turn out. So happy gardening and happy Easter! Wendy/Houston-zone 9a
Oh, Wendy! I know what you mean! I feel the same way when I read English Gardens magazine. I like seeing the estate gardens and am also inspired by them, but I adore seeing small gardens and learning about plants that are available to me and that will want to live where I live! They give me hope!!! LOL! Ugh! You are right! There’s nothing that I like more than to plant up a new container and decide what goodies will go in it, and there nothing that I like less than having to figure out what to do with an overgrown container with contents that either needs to be refreshed or planted out in the garden. I really hate digging holes! It really depends on how big the container is when it comes to refreshing the soil for me. If it’s a huge one, I dump it all out and throw all of the soil with matted roots in the compost, then I take what’s salvageable and put that in the bottom half of the container with new soil on the top half. But with small containers, I use all new. I throw everything in the compost pile, so I don’t feel like I have ever wasting anything. But…I did throw away the entire contents of several pots the other day when I found ants in them and I didn’t want to deal with them. Haha! Oh! I have some azomite! I need to get that out and use it! Thanks for reminding me about that goodies!!!
Those nasturtiums are gorgeous! (Isn’t it infuriating when flowers are gorgeous but ALSO ORANGE! 😂😂😂) I’m loving the euphorbia! Your dahlias are amazing. I pinched the middle of mine when it was so small. Hope it was worth it! It hurt my soul to pinch it so soon. I can’t wait to see your lavender experiment. I finally gave up on it. I sortof channel The Dread Pirate Roberts with lavender: “Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.” #ThePrincessBride I love that little salvia! I have some pink that’s still alive-and I’m so happy. Oh, salvias are the best. THE BEST. Love the coral nymph with the diamond frost euphoria! I literally have that together in a pot! Another sign that we are on the same wavelength! I have all the same salvias you have! (I *also* have forgotten the name of that little one! Lol) Omg that pot with all the baby plants! It will be soooo pretty! I can’t wait to see it! LOVE the seating area. I wish I had chosen white chairs like yours. My are just so blue. So. Blue. 🤦🏼♀️ I’ve been leaving arm worms and hoping the mama birds will take care of them! I’m already saving some caterpillars from the wasps. Ugh. Oh, your caterpillars!! We have one pipevine (“Kevin”) in an enclosure- and he did not choose a convenient place to make his chrysalis, which he’s doing as I write. Our cat Waffles is obsessed with him and sits by his enclosure. Lol. He’s like, “I’m babysitting Kevin for you.” Your garden is magnificent this week!! And you inspire ME!
LOL!!! I’m dying over the Dread Pirate Roberts quote!!! Yassss! THAT exactly! But I LOVE your blue chairs!!! I wanted blue ones! We only got the white ones because my husband found them for a bargain. It was a choice between white ones and red ones. And just the thought of red ones made me mad. LOL!
Oh my gosh!!! I laughed so hard when I saw that you had named the pipevine caterpillar Kevin. I was crying! Of course, Kevin would have to make things difficult! That’s what Kevins do! Haha! But Waffles sounds like he is being a big help!
Apparently, orange is the most healthy color! Haha! - Awwww!!! Thank you for watching!!!!! - Oh! I just was reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden and she planted Souvenir de la Malmaison roses too!!!
Love those nasturtium! I have some red & yellow. Girl, you are accomplishing a lot for a working gal. I’m retired so I have plenty of time for the garden, minus all the traveling out to see my 3 daughters who all live in different states! 😢 We all also meet twice a year in FL for vacation, so sometimes my garden gets neglected…usually in the watering dept. lol I started some more coral nymph salvia seeds this time just sitting them in a warm southern window…hoping for the best. (If I had one flower to choose from it would be zinnias for an annual & salvia for perennial. Hugs from your friend in GA❤
Awwww, Lindy Lou! I know that’s hard to have all your girls scattered like that! What a great way to get together in Florida! Y’all can bask in the sun while you catch up with each other! That’s such a blessing! - Oh! Yasssss! Zinnias are my favorite annual too! They are the flower that keeps on giving, and such a favorite with the pollinators!!! I love how zinnias volunteer to grow so heartily too! - Oh, I hope your coral nymph salvias come up soon!!! I’m saving a big one to take to my Mom for her garden. I can just see swathes of them growing in her garden (she has way more room than I do and doesn’t have to deal with naughty animals), and I can’t wait to see what that salvia can do once you give it it’s head! - Keeping up with the watering is the most taxing business of gardening IMHO!
Thank you, D D!!! I can never remember the name of that salvia. I must have a mental block when it comes to it! Maybe my brain refuses to retain its name because I doubt that I will have it long. Haha! But it’s been way more tenacious than I thought it could be!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I know exactly what you mean. When I saw your response about 3 minutes ago, I thought "That's how I am with the tatume squash I'm growing this year". My brain won't hold on to "tatume". In fact, when I started typing this, I couldn't remember it, then it came back to me, LOL.
Lots of growth in last week. So with all that salvia how much sun are you giving them must it be full all day sun or is some morning or afternoon shade ok? Do you have any red salvia
Oh, man, yes, Wesley! It’s been a surprising week for growth in the garden! As far as I can tell, salvia wants ALL the sun. They will get a little wilty in the afternoon sun, but most things do, then they perk right back up! - I used to grow pineapple sage, which has red flowers when it blooms, but I grew it for the scent of the leaves and to make tea. I haven’t got any this year, but I do miss it!
Oh, wow! Isn’t it crazy how varied prices can be from one place to the other?!? What’s crazy too is that 15 years ago, when I had never grown anything ever, I bought some lavender and some tomato plants. I haphazardly plunked them into the ground and they grew into monsters! They made me feel like I could grow anything or at least lavender and tomatoes, but do you know what? I’ve never been able to replicate that phenomenal success with either plant ever since. I think it’s God’s way of keeping me humble. LOL!
Hi Rachael, could the unknown salvia be a “Veronica”? The 1st year they sleep, 2nd year they creep, 3rd year they leap. Deadhead them to get a new round to flush out.
Oh, I like that saying for plants, Cheryl!!! I think that salvia is the midnight meadow sage, salvia nemorosa. I’ve planted veronica one time and killed it dead within months. However, I did plant it in the ground, so I totally had help with the killing. LOL! I might try to grow it in a pot if I come across it for sale again because I do love its shape and the pale pink variety!
Wow! Beautiful salvia! Beautiful garden! Thank you so much for sharing! Have a wonderful week! 😊👍🦋💕
Thank you, Sylvia!!! I’m super excited about gearing up for the super busy butterfly season!!!
Loved watching your garden! Except the jump scare at the end 😂😂😂
LOL, Chris! Sorry about that! I did toy with not adding it, but I thought that including the reality of what it’s like living on the Gulf Coast was necessary. Haha! I did edit out the sound of my daughter gagging when that spider scared us!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening oh all good! It made the tour realistic 😆 I have had one too many of those moments in my own garden and I’m sure my neighbors could hear it haha.
@@christ4616 LOL! Garden creatures can be both fascinating and frightening!
Your garden is my favorite thing to see ,when I'm in the yard!
Awwww, thanks, Sammi Jo!!! I’m so glad that you enjoy it!!!
Hi Rachel, Well, your garden is just a cloud of loveliness, colour, and diversity. You must be so happy and it's only the beginning. Those wasps 😮. I've never seen such creatures before. Our wasps are yellow and black, and they sting anything that moves, but they have their role to play in the garden. I wonder if your armadillo also ate those army worms? I envy your warm temperatures and sunshine. Last week it was quite warm around 14⁰c but gales and rain. This week, will be dry and sunny but cold with 0⁰c at night. That's spring!!! I cut the grass but had to leave some since there are lots of poppies growing, and I like to encourage some wild flowers. Oh, your dahlias look so healthy, and you'll get more than just 3 blooms, I think. Can't wait to see them. I haven't woken mine up yet, only the ones I want cuttings from, but I'll get them all out and into soil as soon as this cold spell has passed. I planted peas, and they've germinated, so we'll see how that goes . Yes, it is great to share our garden news. Many thanks for another beautiful video. Have a great week 😀
Thank you, Kim!!! Aren’t wasps weird?!? I didn’t realize how beneficial they could be! But I should have known that they serve a purpose! Everything exists to keep a healthy balance, except for armadillos. LOL! But that is the horror of having invasive species since there is nothing around to balance out their numbers! - Oh, see! You can grow poppies!!! There’s no need to envy my warm weather since it keeps me from growing poppies! Haha! - Thank you for the insight into the dahlias! I hope they will do well!!! I know yours will grow fabulously!!!
Well Helloooo Rachel !!
Is it Sunday ALREADY???!
It doesn't FEEL like Sunday...
My gosh, how time has been flying this week!!
And as usual, your garden is once again a SUNDAY FEAST!
It's just so colorful & blooming so nicely!!
I really do love walking thru it with you!
Thank You so much for bringing me along!!
Awwww, thank you, GGO!!! I know that you have been having fun piling generous helpings of your glorious bounty of mulch all over your garden! I hope that you grow an actual forest of mushrooms!!!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening Funny you should mention the shrooms!
This cold front that decided to pop in has given birth to 10 NEW LIONS MANE MUSHROOMS!!
TEN!!
Before that happened, I thought they were gunna be done until next Fall.
BUT NOOOO!!! hehehehehe!!!
I'VE GOT 10 MORE!!!
And yes, they're in a woodchip mulch garden.
Which I guess,
is what that garden is now...
Seems kinda weird.
Wait, no -
Seems VERY WEIRD!!!
You've got flowers blooming.
I'm growing soil & mushrooms.
Anyway, weird or not, the Lions Mane slurry I've been adding to my coffee every morning is DEFINITELY helping with my memory!!
So, Mother Nature is keeping me healthy by blowing in a late cold front!
OHHH!!!
AND IT'S BEEN RAINING FOR THREE DAYS!!! WHOOO HOOOOOO!!!!
I'm SO happy about THAT too!!
We've only gotten a total of about 3 inches. Which, when I say that out loud, doesn't seem like much...
And in the Grand Scheme of things isn't NEARLY ENOUGH to fill up the lakes...
BUT OH MY GOSH IT'S PRETTY GREAT WHILE IT'S HAPPENING!!!
I took that opportunity to scratch in some fertilizer for my Daffodils since they've quit blooming now.
And as I've mentioned before, there's a lot of them that never did bloom, yet they've got good healthy leaves.
I think I might have to face reality that I got some "tainted soil" last year...
The only daffs that didn't bloom is where that new soil is.
And there's zero weeds growing there too. (that's kind of a big clue!)
So yeah, that's a bummer.
I guess I'll try to grow some sunflowers in those areas to hopefully draw up the chemicals in the soil...
Anyway - Rain AND MUSHROOMS!!
I'm a happy camper!!
DANGGGGGG! That's a bumper crop of lion's mane! God has really blessed you with that AND the rain! Wowwww! I am so happy that you are off to a great start this spring! AND the best is yet to come!!!
Rachel your garden is just beautiful! I love your new design with the stepping stones path! I live in Mobile and I bought 2 Butterfly Weed plants. I hope I can grow them in large pots.
Thank you, Allen!!! Oh, I bet they will grow really well in pots! Mine have, and they come back every year!
Thank you, Rachel. I also love Salvia. Love, love, love your varieties of Salvia. I tend to lean more towards yellow, purple, RED, orange, pinks, and any multi-colored blooms. You have given me a greater appreciation of varied colors of greens mixed together. Look forward to your video every Sunday morning. I have three red Hot Salsa II Salvia, which I love; I'm going to pair with my black and blue salvia. My neighbor had 4' black and blue Salvia in 2021. The hummers went crazy!!!
LOL! Even the word red makes me angry! I have no idea why! But if I had to guess, I think it would be because red is an attention hog. It’s the thing that draws my eye to it most unwillingly. And then yellow is the second color that does that. They are the naughty children of the color world! Haha! - Oh! I’m so glad that you are enjoying different shades of green!!! I love splotches of color! My parents gave me a deep appreciation of impressionist paintings by their own preference for them, and since I can’t paint at all, I’m so thankful that I can attempt to paint with plants! It sounds like you like to paint with plants too! Thank you so much for the encouragement!!!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening LOL!!! I so very much enjoyed your comments. Yes, you have described the heart soul. When I was a small child, my grandmother asked why I was drawing a house plan with the red and yellow crayons (makes orange). Because I wanted my house to be lively and bright. Red (I am sorry I angered you. Haha) because it is love. Yellow because it is sunshine. A house filled with love and sunshine is orange. Yes, my home is filled with different hues of red, not bright and flashy but muted with beige, black, and white. A friend once described my home as truly my personality, plain, simple, yet elegant with an underlying sense of energy. New comers or friends I haven't met yet, when learning where I live, have exclaimed you are the one with the beautiful flowers. I live a ways off the road. The first thing you see when you drive up my drive is not my house but my gardens in the front. Yes, my white lilies are blooming. It's still cold here. Things are not blooming as fast as your garden, which I love to watch, grow, and bloom. It matches your sweet and Southern voice. And I love your collection of hats. I try to paint, but I would rather play in the dirt in my Sanctuary, aka Hoopi/hoop house/greenhouse. I am looking forward to Sunday to see what you have done this week. My favorite color is green!
@@Troupe112 Awwww! I love that! A house full of love and sunshine!!! It’s awesome that your house is known for the lovely and welcoming gardens!!! Whenever I see a place where it looks like a gardener lives there, I know it must be a happy place!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening 🌷🌷🌷
Love your channel. We have the same favorites. I'm in zone 9a so we can grow similar plants
Thanks, Christine!!! Dontcha love seeing the plants that you love growing in someone else’s garden?!? It’s like running into a friend in an unexpected place and being very pleasantly surprised and happy to see them!
Love watching your channel. I also love Salvia. They are the best.
Thank you, Ruth!!! Yassss! Salvia is the best!!! It loves living here and I see hummingbirds drinking from it everyday! They even seem to favor the salvia over the feeder!
Beautiful
Thank you, Tiff!!!
Excellent video today! I forget sometimes that you can divide plants.
Thank you!!! Oh! I’m glad I reminded you that you can divid perennials! It’s such an easy and super satisfying way to get new plants and/or share with others!
I screamed bloody murder when the wolf spider jumped! The garden looks awesome!🥰
LOL, Kelli!!! I’m with ya on the screaming! I just never expect insects to notice me and then react to my presence in a defensive manner! Haha! I’m used to them scurrying AWAY!
Salvia? Last night I said to myself those exact some words! Your garden so SO BEAUTIFUL!!! You are so ahead of me in so many ways but I'm ahead of you in other ways! I see all your successes and none of the failures - you would see the same in mine - it is hard to look without comparing since we want to make everything so beautiful but you are a joy to me and an inspiration to get out there and work! That's the biggest thing you provide me, I can rest and be inspired while you do all that work. Thank You!
LOL, Mary! We ARE kindred spirits! Thank you so much for the encouragement!!! I’m so thankful that when I think about it, my work in the garden is really small compared with what the plants do what with their actual growing and all. LOL!
P Allan Smith said to grow lavender in cinder blocks. He said it makes the soil sweet and I bet it’s also better for keeping the soil dryer and better drained. I’m trying it this year in New Orleans and so far my lavender seems happy!
Thanks for that suggestion. I'm in Houston town and have tried keeping lavender alive for more than 2 seasons. Out of an experiment with about 10 different varieties, only 2 have made it..Provence and Sweet Lavender. Just bought a lavender from Costco and will try your suggestion! Everyone; wish me good lavender growing!
Oh, my goodness, Jennifer!!! If that works, I can just imagine making a lavender cinderblock barrier around my whole garden!!!!!!!! This could be life changing!!! Which lavender are you growing?
I do wish you luck with your lavender growing, Wendy!!!!!!! I hope you can crack the code and share you success with us!!!
Looks gorgeous 🥰
Thank you, Cynthia!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening happy Easter 😊
I hope to grow more passion flower vines for the Gulf Fritillary caterpillars! I wouldn't have caterpillars and butterflies if it wasn't for that plant. 🙋♀️🌱🌸💐🐦🐛🦋
Aren’t passion flower vines incredible?!? I love how vigorously they grow and they do it in a somewhat scary way until the Gulf fritillaries come along and eat them down to a nub, just as it should be!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I don't have any growing yet. 😢
Oh!
This was SO Cool!!
Check this out -
I was walking down my street a couple days ago, and I saw a wildflower I'd never seen before!!
(I thought I had seen them all by now!)
But that's what I get for thinking so much!
I walked into a scrubby piece of land bcuz I was following a patch of Bluebonnets. These Bluebonnets were like a lush carpet begging me to follow their trail. So I did!
They swept around this corner of brush, and when I turned the corner, there was this new flower I'd never seen before!
There was this whole colony of them!
They were dotting the carpet of Bluebonnets looking just like tiny marshmallows floating in a cup of hot chocolate!
The flower stands tall at about 14 inches, and the breeze was blowing so gently,
it kinda felt like they were waving hello to me!😊
The whole scene was surreal!!
I looked the plant up,
and the common name is
Texas Green Lily, or
Texas Feathershank.
If you want to look it up,
the latin name is:
Schoenocaulon tetanus
Anyway, the leaves are a small, but a tidy clump of blue/green grass.
And the flower is outstanding!
It's one long wavy stem,
standing above the leaves,
and it's kind of shaped like a feather,
if a feather was cone shaped.
Which is not a great description!
But the "cone" part is made up of hundreds of tiny inflorescences, which are white with peach & yellow tips!
I mean, it's just pretty fabulous!!
If you look it up, the pictures are much better than my description.
When I saw it,
I was like, "Hey!!"
And -
"Where have YOU been hiding all my life!?!"
Naturally,
the flower answered,
all nonchalant & cool as a cucumber,
(as most flowers do)
"I've been right here all along, it's YOU who are late."
Pffffthhh 👅💦 !!
So yeah, there's a really big patch of them that's kinda tucked away in a little alcove on some unmanaged land.
There they are, not 300 feet from my house, and we've been living practically side by side all these years!
And I never even knew about them!!
I'm thinking I can go snag some of their seeds pretty soon too, since they're flowering right now!
I did some reading,
and apparently,
they can come live in my domesticated yard and they can pretend to be domesticated!
So I'll give it a try.
After they flower, they'll bring some nice texture to the landscape looking just like a little blue/green Carex grass.
And then, since they bloom at the same time as Bluebonnets, the 2 of them will be making a very nice show together!
Just as they are right now!
I'm still a bit stunned that I never had seen it before, but overall, it's very exciting!
That's my story for today!
I hope you have a good week!
Ciao Doll ! ❤
Oh my goodness, GGO!!! What a find!!! I just looked up the Texas Green Lily and how have they not packaged it up and sold it all over the world?!?! It is lovely!!! I hope that you will save some seeds AND send me some! I would love to grow that!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening
I'm going to try for those seeds!
I don't know how long it takes to go from flower to seed.
Heck, I don't even know what the seed head looks like!!
It's only been about 10 days, and it already feels like I've been waiting FOREVER!!!
The research says it is a super slooooow growing plant.
So yeah...
There's that.
Maybe the seed making is slow too?
Pffffthhh!!
Oh! That explains why it isn't super well known and widely grown!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening Yeah, I guess.
I went to look at it yesterday, and even tho the flowers are still there, I'm not seeing any seed formation - yet.
I found out another thing about it,
it's endemic to a very small area.
It only grows between here and Houston, and I think that's only in the Hill Country spaces.
So it's extremely picky about where it grows!
The more I think about it,
I may not have a place in my yard that has enough sun for it to be happy...
My yard is mostly shade, except this one spot which gets about 8 hours of sun.
So 🤷🏼♀️
We'll just have to see!!
I like to watch Garden Answer utubes out of Eastern Oregon. However, she seems to get all the product, any of us could possibly salivate over, from Gardener's Supply and others who apparently sponsor her utubes. While watching it makes me dream of greater things I know it's mostly out of my reach financially. Your videos, Rachel, are more down to earth and real for me and something I can relate to. I look forward to each episode to see what is Rachel gonna try or do next!?
Growing everything in containers is initially easy and fun but eventually the day comes when you have to pull the plant out and refresh. I'm doing that now and it's not a fun job for me. Seeing that you need all those current planted pots for something else is no easy chore so my best to you on that!
I'm curious, do you refresh the soil mixture that comes out of pots and then reuse it? I've started doing that on the advice of an organic gardener. His suggestion was to refresh the used potting soil with compost, a good organic granular fertilizer and some azomite. I'll see how things turn out.
So happy gardening and happy Easter!
Wendy/Houston-zone 9a
Oh, Wendy! I know what you mean! I feel the same way when I read English Gardens magazine. I like seeing the estate gardens and am also inspired by them, but I adore seeing small gardens and learning about plants that are available to me and that will want to live where I live! They give me hope!!! LOL!
Ugh! You are right! There’s nothing that I like more than to plant up a new container and decide what goodies will go in it, and there nothing that I like less than having to figure out what to do with an overgrown container with contents that either needs to be refreshed or planted out in the garden. I really hate digging holes!
It really depends on how big the container is when it comes to refreshing the soil for me. If it’s a huge one, I dump it all out and throw all of the soil with matted roots in the compost, then I take what’s salvageable and put that in the bottom half of the container with new soil on the top half. But with small containers, I use all new. I throw everything in the compost pile, so I don’t feel like I have ever wasting anything. But…I did throw away the entire contents of several pots the other day when I found ants in them and I didn’t want to deal with them. Haha!
Oh! I have some azomite! I need to get that out and use it! Thanks for reminding me about that goodies!!!
Those nasturtiums are gorgeous! (Isn’t it infuriating when flowers are gorgeous but ALSO ORANGE! 😂😂😂)
I’m loving the euphorbia!
Your dahlias are amazing. I pinched the middle of mine when it was so small. Hope it was worth it! It hurt my soul to pinch it so soon.
I can’t wait to see your lavender experiment. I finally gave up on it. I sortof channel The Dread Pirate Roberts with lavender: “Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.” #ThePrincessBride
I love that little salvia! I have some pink that’s still alive-and I’m so happy.
Oh, salvias are the best. THE BEST.
Love the coral nymph with the diamond frost euphoria! I literally have that together in a pot! Another sign that we are on the same wavelength! I have all the same salvias you have! (I *also* have forgotten the name of that little one! Lol)
Omg that pot with all the baby plants! It will be soooo pretty! I can’t wait to see it!
LOVE the seating area. I wish I had chosen white chairs like yours. My are just so blue. So. Blue. 🤦🏼♀️
I’ve been leaving arm worms and hoping the mama birds will take care of them!
I’m already saving some caterpillars from the wasps. Ugh.
Oh, your caterpillars!! We have one pipevine (“Kevin”) in an enclosure- and he did not choose a convenient place to make his chrysalis, which he’s doing as I write. Our cat Waffles is obsessed with him and sits by his enclosure. Lol. He’s like, “I’m babysitting Kevin for you.”
Your garden is magnificent this week!! And you inspire ME!
@Jo's TX Garden I also watch your video and love your garden. I found you when I found Rachael's garden. The two of you are so charming to watch.
LOL!!! I’m dying over the Dread Pirate Roberts quote!!! Yassss! THAT exactly!
But I LOVE your blue chairs!!! I wanted blue ones! We only got the white ones because my husband found them for a bargain. It was a choice between white ones and red ones. And just the thought of red ones made me mad. LOL!
Oh my gosh!!! I laughed so hard when I saw that you had named the pipevine caterpillar Kevin. I was crying! Of course, Kevin would have to make things difficult! That’s what Kevins do! Haha! But Waffles sounds like he is being a big help!
Apparently, orange is the most healthy color! Haha! - Awwww!!! Thank you for watching!!!!! - Oh! I just was reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden and she planted Souvenir de la Malmaison roses too!!!
Awwww!!! Thank you, Troupe’s Mom!!! What is your name? I want to call you by it!
Love those nasturtium! I have some red & yellow. Girl, you are accomplishing a lot for a working gal. I’m retired so I have plenty of time for the garden, minus all the traveling out to see my 3 daughters who all live in different states! 😢 We all also meet twice a year in FL for vacation, so sometimes my garden gets neglected…usually in the watering dept. lol I started some more coral nymph salvia seeds this time just sitting them in a warm southern window…hoping for the best. (If I had one flower to choose from it would be zinnias for an annual & salvia for perennial. Hugs from your friend in GA❤
Awwww, Lindy Lou! I know that’s hard to have all your girls scattered like that! What a great way to get together in Florida! Y’all can bask in the sun while you catch up with each other! That’s such a blessing! - Oh! Yasssss! Zinnias are my favorite annual too! They are the flower that keeps on giving, and such a favorite with the pollinators!!! I love how zinnias volunteer to grow so heartily too! - Oh, I hope your coral nymph salvias come up soon!!! I’m saving a big one to take to my Mom for her garden. I can just see swathes of them growing in her garden (she has way more room than I do and doesn’t have to deal with naughty animals), and I can’t wait to see what that salvia can do once you give it it’s head! - Keeping up with the watering is the most taxing business of gardening IMHO!
The salvia at 7:20- I don't know the name of that specific variety, but the botanical name is Salvia nemorosa.
Thank you, D D!!! I can never remember the name of that salvia. I must have a mental block when it comes to it! Maybe my brain refuses to retain its name because I doubt that I will have it long. Haha! But it’s been way more tenacious than I thought it could be!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I know exactly what you mean. When I saw your response about 3 minutes ago, I thought "That's how I am with the tatume squash I'm growing this year". My brain won't hold on to "tatume". In fact, when I started typing this, I couldn't remember it, then it came back to me, LOL.
@@ddgardner5671 Haha!!! That’s how it goes!
Lots of growth in last week. So with all that salvia how much sun are you giving them must it be full all day sun or is some morning or afternoon shade ok? Do you have any red salvia
Oh, man, yes, Wesley! It’s been a surprising week for growth in the garden! As far as I can tell, salvia wants ALL the sun. They will get a little wilty in the afternoon sun, but most things do, then they perk right back up! - I used to grow pineapple sage, which has red flowers when it blooms, but I grew it for the scent of the leaves and to make tea. I haven’t got any this year, but I do miss it!
I love the coral-nymph salvia, where did you buy it?
Isn’t it so sweet?!? I got it at Corner Copia Gardens in Fairhope, but it is super easy to start from seed!
4$ for lavender in 2023 what a steal. It's like 6 bucks at least probably 8 at Lowes here in Memphis.
Oh, wow! Isn’t it crazy how varied prices can be from one place to the other?!? What’s crazy too is that 15 years ago, when I had never grown anything ever, I bought some lavender and some tomato plants. I haphazardly plunked them into the ground and they grew into monsters! They made me feel like I could grow anything or at least lavender and tomatoes, but do you know what? I’ve never been able to replicate that phenomenal success with either plant ever since. I think it’s God’s way of keeping me humble. LOL!
Hi Rachael, could the unknown salvia be a “Veronica”? The 1st year they sleep, 2nd year they creep, 3rd year they leap. Deadhead them to get a new round to flush out.
Oh, I like that saying for plants, Cheryl!!! I think that salvia is the midnight meadow sage, salvia nemorosa. I’ve planted veronica one time and killed it dead within months. However, I did plant it in the ground, so I totally had help with the killing. LOL! I might try to grow it in a pot if I come across it for sale again because I do love its shape and the pale pink variety!
Early in the season, your heaven is already mervellous I'm speechless Bravo Rachel
Awww, thank you, Alexandra!!! It involved A LOT of dragging pots in and out of the potting shed! Thank God that my back held out! LOL!