Same here in Kentucky. Yesterday ( Monday ), it was a real feel of 93! This is after being in the 60's and 70's. Today 80's with bad storms then back to cool weather by weekend. This is really stressful to plants and animals. Hope everyone is prepared for the Pole Shift! Everything in your Garden is extraordinarily beautiful! I decided I wanted a lush Garden like yours so started winter sowing, and, starting in flats flower seeds to fill in quickly. This is my list of flowers: 1) Cherry Bronze Snapdragons 2) Purple Floral Showers Snapdragon 3) Day and Night Snaps 4) Apple Blossom Snaps 5) Supercascade Burgundy Petunias 6) Double Cascade Pink Petunia 7)Duchess Apricot Aster 8) Geum Lady Strathedon 9) Pastel Shades Yarrow 10) Verbascum Southern Charm 11) Delphiniums Magic Fountains Sky Blue 12) Dalmation Peach Foxglove 13) Nepeta Blue Carpet 14) Salvia Pretensis 15) Salvia Pink Sundae 16) Floret Dahlia Bee's Choice 17) Munstead Lavender 18) Armeria White and I am sure there are more that I have forgotten. Ordered 3 David Austin Roses, The Pilgrim, Princess Margereta and Windmere to add to my KORDES Laguna, Polka, Golden Opportunity and Rosarium Utersen climber. I had great success with winter sowing and will do it again next year. ( Yes! Too many seedlings! ) It may not be a Butterfly garden but it does attract bees, birds, butterflies and the occasional Hummingbird Moth; What could be better? Love the Silver Mist Helichrysum!
Oh my goodness, Jamie! I can just see all the gorgeous color and textures that you will have in your garden this year! How incredible!!!!! You are a go getter!!! I am blown away by the diversity!!!!! All of their names are so wonderful in themselves! What a dreamy garden!!! I hope the weather will cooperate for you to grow all of those beauties!!!!!
I have learned to use pots in the garden with plants that don't do well in the ground. Thank you for inspiring me that its ok to have a flower pot garden😊
Oh, yay!!! I’m so glad that you have been inspired by my containers!!! I love that we can have a garden wherever, and we don’t have to accept our limitations! We can adapt and have as much plant beauty as we have room for!
You are so funny, I loved your conversation with that “pink” rose and the snap dragon trying to convince otherwise! 😂 It sounded like a scene from the garden in Alice in Wonderland with the sassy flowers lol! Thank you for taking us around your beautiful garden this Sunday!
LOL!!! It’s true that there are sassy flowers! Lewis Carroll sure did peg some of them, didn’t he? - I hope you can have some fun conversations with sassy flowers, too!!!
My friend thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us again today you always do such a beautiful job with everything that has to do with the garden
Hey Rachel!😊 I tell ya, the perk of having things in pots is that you can move them around to have the design & placement of your desires. So many beautiful colors & textures you have! I like the uniqueness of your garden. (By the way, I really like the paint color of your house.) A couple of gardening friends & I went to the local Dogwood Festival yesterday. There was a vendor there selling the coolest, largest monkey cup/pitcher plant hanging baskets I had ever seen for sale. I had to have one & paid $40 for it but I felt it was worth it because it was so large & had several plants in it. That was definitely what you would call “an unexpected purchase.” lol I’ve got it hanging outside near a palm tree. He’s gonna be happy there until about Nov & indoors he’ll have to come until springtime again. Other than that I went to Lowe’s for a few things & went by the clearance rack & they had flats of Proven Winner purple petunias & some purple verbena. I grabbed some of those. (unexpectedly) lol We had two days of gusty 35 mph winds this past week which deterred me from wanting to work in the yard but I did manage to get a couple of my wooden benches waterproofed (Thompsons Water Seal.) They dried in no time. Always such a joy to see you❤ Hugs from your GA friend
Oh, yay, Linda!!! I didn’t know what a monkey cup looked like and I just looked it up and WOW! They look so neat!!! I bet it will catch ALL the flies in the neighborhood! - Oh, I love dogwoods and I don’t think we have them down here. I saw so many in bloom when I went to Birmingham a few weeks age. We tried to grow one in our front yard a few years ago and a deer came and rubbed all of the bark off of it with his antlers and killed it. My husband was livid. LOL! - I love that you found some PW bargains!!! I bet your garden is a purple paradise now!
Beautiful visit today! Critters, lizards, bird song, butterflies, and FLOWERS! I love the leaves, also, even if I don't capitalize them! I'm thinking the silver, grey, mossy green, chartreuse, slender, fat, sparse, thick, pink, hot pink, purple, blue, yellow, white, cream, and ceramic blues are making a vision better than Monet! Of course I saved the best to last - your contagious smile. I sure enjoyed my walk today, thank you.
Awww, Mary!!! You are a poet!!! All of those descriptive words for the leaves reminded me of a performance piece of poetry! I hope you are surrounded by all kinds of lovelies this spring!!!!! - I was just looking through a book about Giverny the other day. Monet was a genius with color in the garden!!! - I know from your sunny disposition that you also have a smile that lights up the room!!!!!
Thank you, Lesha! I’m so glad that you are getting to garden at your river camp!!! Isn’t it incredible to see how things grow by leaps and bounds as the season progresses?!?
Good morning, Rachel. The grey one, Artemesia Powis castle, you did not know how big it gets and whether it can be propagated: Yes, they get very big and a cutting stuck in the ground looks wilted for a couple weeks, but the comes from the ground! I bought two plants originally, and translplanted all over the garden, because it is instant impact. Just cut away what you don't want. I am in zone 9b/ Central Texas, but water them frequently and by the sprinklersystem once a week. They are performers!
Oh, yay!!! That is good to know, Gabriele! I want a jillion of those artemesia! I oove everything about them, even their scent. It’s such a weird fragrance, I can’t describe it properly!
They seem to do pretty well! There’s a guy in Tallahassee who has a CZcams channel called Roses & Orchids in Tallahassee, FL and he REALLY does well with them! I haven’t had time to see if he tells his secrets on how he grows them. I don’t think he tells in his videos, but maybe he does in the comments section. - I just throw some Osmocote Plus in my containers, and hope for the best. I’m afraid to try to use organic fertilizers because I’ve using them several times in the past and raccoons dig it out and eat it. Ugh!
Man have you got a lot going on! What a spread. Always fun to see your weekly videos to see how fast things ate growing. Maybe you should sell some of your seedlings and use money to find other things you would like to add to your garden. Looks like you are painting the house right now
LOL, Wesley! I can’t sell my seedlings! They’re my babies! But I can give them to a good home! - Yes, my husband is in the process of painting the garage and fortifying it to withstand any storm that comes our way. It’s now sturdier than the house!
Hi Rachel. I so look forward to your videos, and I'm never disappointed. I bought a Gertrude Jekyll rose last autumn as a bare root, so it was great to see what I can expect. I've just planted my first salvias, too. You see how influential you are . Your garden changes from one week to another, it's incredible how quickly your plants grow, here we are quite used to waiting waiting waiting 😅, another reason why I love your videos. Have you pruned your hydrangeas? I'm not an expert, but maybe they'd like a trim 🤷♀️. And wow your hollyhocks 😮 they do get very big and tall, the leaves will be massive. In my village, they grow everywhere, I love them along with fox gloves. Thankyou for sharing your wonderful world I shall almost certainly watch it again. Happy gardening ❤
Yay, Kim!!! You are going to LOVE Gertrude Jekyll! She smells the absolute best out of all of my roses! And I hope the salvias will be super performers for you, bringing all the butterflies and bees to your garden! - I did clip off a bunch of dead stuff on the hydrangeas last night. They still look scraggly. LOL! But there are weird buds on them in odd place. I hope they will fill out soon! - I love that you get to have foxgloves! What an ultimate cottage garden flower!!! They sell them at the nurseries here, but they can’t take the heat and therefore, have to “get out of the kitchen” by promptly dying as soon as the temps ratchet up. LOL! - Don’t you have apple trees? What was it that you planted under them last year?
Yes I have an eating apple tree and a crab apple tree. I planted camomille last year and it was a great success. I love the smell and so do the pollinators. This year it's coming back alone in stronger bunches so I'm very hapoy about that and I'm sure the apple tree is too. Companion planting is a must in a garden where no nasty chemicals are used 😀
I believe the tag you couldn’t read is Wooly pipevine you are so fortunate to have so many pipevines I bought 2 last fall and they are just showing some growth 🦋 The toad looks like a cane or bufo toad I’m not an expert but please look at some photos on google because if it is it isn’t a good toad. Absolutely enjoyed today’s garden tour it’s amazing how quickly the garden changes in a weeks time.
Oh, thank you for warning me about the toad!!! I looked up a video from our extension office and they showed the difference between the Southern toad and the cane toad, and thank God, he was a Southern toad! I didn’t want to destroy him, but I would have if he was the invasive kind. I’ve heard horror stories about invasive toads and frogs! - I hope your pipevines will get growing! We need all the pipevine swallowtail butterflies that we can get!
Verbascum gets tall! Very pretty though. It comes back in my garden every year. My hydrangeas aren’t looking great either. We have had a colder than normal winter. I don’t know if that’s why. Your garden is looking real lovely already!
Thnk you, Kelli! I’m so glad to find out that you have been successfully growing verbascum AND wonder of wonders, it comes back! I’ve been dreaming up a way that I might be able to plant some of mine in the actual ground! I hope to do it Saturday afternoon! - We did have some weird cold snaps this winter! Everything took an incredible hit from that for sure! I hope your hydrangeas will bounce back!!!
I love how you said you had to “liberate” some of your pots from the plants so you could plant other plants 😂 I usually play plant musical chairs with my plants too. I cannot believe how full, bushy, and lush your garden looks even from last week! I love your beach blossom acquisitions, that patio baby eggplant is adorable! You made me lol about your hot and spicy shape shifting pink/red rose 🌹 and the snap dragons calling her out 😂 daaaang girl you are the seedling growing queen!! Oh my gosh, those caterpillars are just growing so strong and healthy! I need one of those critter keepers asap! Your yard is such a butterfly sanctuary!
Haha, Claire! Yes, I’m very thankful to have most things in pots since I can change my mind about where things need to be as long as my back will hold out!
I garden on the opposite side of the country in Seattle, but I’ve been watching your videos for about a year now. I absolutely love your garden and I love the way you do your videos. And good for you for trying to help the butterflies out.😊
Thank you!!! And it’s so cool that you live in Seattle! My sister lives near you, and she has her own CZcams channel about gardening and urban homesteading and cooking! It’s called Claire’s Cottage Aspirations
LOL, Marvette!!! I do have some really pretty pots! I’m so thankful that I found some really good bargains years ago because prices for pottery from Vietnam is through the roof now! - I’ll have to go to Street’s in Fairhope and video their collection for sale. They have some beauties!!!
Florida betony is my nemesis!!!! It just overtakes and chokes everything else out. I must have gotten some from mulch or compost years ago and I fight it every year. I did find out the tubers are edible… so there’s that!
Oh, Denise! I feel your pain!!! David the Good says to, “Compost your enemies.” I’m assuming he means our plant enemies. LOL! So how cool is it when we can EAT some of our plant enemies?!? Haha! I have eaten the betony tubers, and can attest that they are tasty! Like water chestnuts, super crunchy without much flavor.
@@denisemouledous7352 Yes! I have, but they say to eat them raw in the spring. Here’s what the Florida Extension says…..”Florida Betony is a common wildflower that spreads prolifically and is very attractive to pollinators. Almost the entire plant is edible to humans, including the tuber roots. These tubers give the plant it’s nickname of rattlesnake weed since they appear like the rattle of a rattlesnake. The roots can be harvested in spring time when they are white and crisp then eaten raw, pickled, or cooked in a dish.”
I think your darker rose is lovely. It has “cool,” red tones which blend with everything else. I think it may be a Louis Philippe or a Cracker rose. It was brought here hundreds of years ago, and falls in the China class. I grow Vietnamese hollyhocks here in Tampa, and they do very well. I have to stake them at about 2ft. They reach about 7ft! I am making a trip up Petals from the Past this weekend. I am SO EXCITED!
Yay, Cindy!!! I hope you have plenty of space in your vehicle to bring back ALL the awesome plants from Petals from the Past!!!!! - You are right about that rose! I need to make a plant marker for it! It IS a Louis Philippe! I love the history of it and also how prolifically it blooms and also how it seems to not mind heat and humidity! It’s a stalwart rose, I gotta say! - Oh, I finally looked up what my hollyhock is. It’s zebrina, malva sylvestris zebrina. I hope I can grow it well! What is the exact kind of Vietnamese hollyhock that you grow and where do you get the seeds? - God bless you and protect you on your adventure to Petals from the Past!!!!!
The Hollyhock seeds were a pass along from my neighbor. They are kind of a light ruby color. Maybe a little pinker that the rose. I think I planted the ones just finishing now in January. I wish I could send you a photo
LOL! And that’s what I’m working towards! I’ve planted fennel on purpose so that butterflies will lay eggs on them and their caterpillars will have food, then I will have more butterflies in the garden!
Oh!!!!!! What a good idea!!!!! I just looked it up and it did say that they will grow in my zone! And they are lovely AND they have a lovely scent! Oh! I hope I can get one to try it!!!!
Goodness those forget me nots are amazing! **puts on next year’s list** Any tips on the globe basil? Mine is still one inch tall. Do you ever fertilize them? The border is sublime. Perfect combination. And that pink salvia is such a delicious raspberry pink.💕 I’ve got my millet going but it needs to take a page out of your book. It’s just not getting bigger! The eggplant is awesome! And the surprise dahlias! (My dahlias were like, “Surprise! Somebody threw us away after the freeze! Maybe don’t put us in a garbage bag when you bring us inside? Byeeeee! 🫠😵” I’m DYING LAUGHING. “You are so red. ” Same, girl. SAME. I *definitely* bought geraniums that were *definitely* hot pink at the nursery. Ummmm. They’re SO RED. Your seedlings!!!! 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I love the kale! As Linda Vater would say, it’s one of your “signature touches”. I can’t wait to see how the hollyhocks go. I gave up trying with them. The rust situation was terrible! Your Beautyberry is #goals 💕 EBS cats! So fun! That toad is such a cute little potato! Your jewels of Opar with the dark green leaves are so pretty. Both times I’ve bought them online, I’ve ended up with the chartreuse leaves! (I’m waiting for my seeds to ripen so I can send you some!) Thank you for such a wonderful tour! Inspiration everywhere!
I love your jewels of opar! Those chartreuse leaves make me so happy bringing light wherever they grow! I will save seeds from mine and trade you seeds from yours! - We are having a weird spring because things aren’t growing as fast as they usually grow. I’m guessing your globe basil wishes it was warmer? I would try putting it in a bigger pot and in the sunniest spot and see what happens. It will either love it or die. LOL! Same for the millet. Mine were slow growing and I put them in bigger pots and they grew, but not fast, then I put them in bigger pots. Things are just taking longer than usual to get going But your garden is looking so full and lovely! It seems like y’all are weeks ahead of us! - Haha about the toad being a cute little potato! I love your turns of phrases!!! You are a hoot!!!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I’ve got a little seed envelope full of jewels of Opar seeds for you! The seeds are starting to ripen every day! I’ll pop it in the mail to you! Thanks for the help on the basil! It’s seriously making me crazy!
Thanks, Wendy! Most of my roses are in pots, but the James Galway, Emily Bronte, Generous Gardener, and California Dreaming are in the ground. Thankfully the armadillos haven’t dug them up…..yet.
Thank you!!! - I have to mostly use containers because armadillos come along in the night and dig holes everywhere. They sometimes dig up a whole plant and toss it aside. They seem to especially like to dig up tender seedlings the most.
They will if I put them in the potting shed, and I only did that for a few things last year. This year I hope I will have energy and be motivated to save everything! But here’s something crazy, I bought some petunias in late summer and just left them outside for the entire winter and they didn’t even die when it got down into the low 20’s for several nights. I paid $1 for them, and they are alive and kicking right now and blooming their heads off!
Oh, Jan! You are going to love sweet spirit! And what a great rose to commemorate your sweet Prince!!! I’m sorry to say that I should have pruned my sweet spirit, but instead, I let her get scraggly and leggy. She is blooming, but looks so scrawny and thin!
Oh, Stephanie! I wish I could give you an answer! I know that mine are the Chinese variety. They get full sun most of the day, and I didn’t plant the seeds. I just sorta threw them where I wanted them to grow.
Same here in Kentucky. Yesterday ( Monday ), it was a real feel of 93! This is after being in the 60's and 70's. Today 80's with bad storms then back to cool weather by weekend. This is really stressful to plants and animals. Hope everyone is prepared for the Pole Shift!
Everything in your Garden is extraordinarily beautiful! I decided I wanted a lush Garden like yours so started winter sowing, and, starting in flats flower seeds to fill in quickly.
This is my list of flowers: 1) Cherry Bronze Snapdragons 2) Purple Floral Showers Snapdragon 3) Day and Night Snaps 4) Apple Blossom Snaps 5) Supercascade Burgundy Petunias 6) Double Cascade Pink Petunia 7)Duchess Apricot Aster 8) Geum Lady Strathedon 9) Pastel Shades Yarrow 10) Verbascum Southern Charm 11) Delphiniums Magic Fountains Sky Blue 12) Dalmation Peach Foxglove 13) Nepeta Blue Carpet 14) Salvia Pretensis 15) Salvia Pink Sundae 16) Floret Dahlia Bee's Choice 17) Munstead Lavender 18) Armeria White and I am sure there are more that I have forgotten. Ordered 3 David Austin Roses, The Pilgrim, Princess Margereta and Windmere to add to my KORDES Laguna, Polka, Golden Opportunity and Rosarium Utersen climber.
I had great success with winter sowing and will do it again next year. ( Yes! Too many seedlings! ) It may not be a Butterfly garden but it does attract bees, birds, butterflies and the occasional Hummingbird Moth; What could be better?
Love the Silver Mist Helichrysum!
Oh my goodness, Jamie! I can just see all the gorgeous color and textures that you will have in your garden this year! How incredible!!!!! You are a go getter!!! I am blown away by the diversity!!!!! All of their names are so wonderful in themselves! What a dreamy garden!!! I hope the weather will cooperate for you to grow all of those beauties!!!!!
Your container garden is just breathtakingly beautiful so many different color shapes and sizes. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks so much, Grandma Sandy!!! I hope that you are having fun in your garden this spring, too!
I have learned to use pots in the garden with plants that don't do well in the ground.
Thank you for inspiring me that its ok to have a flower pot garden😊
Oh, yay!!! I’m so glad that you have been inspired by my containers!!! I love that we can have a garden wherever, and we don’t have to accept our limitations! We can adapt and have as much plant beauty as we have room for!
Luv your forget me nots w blue theme pots. You are an angel! Oooh the silver theme rocks too. Pop those armadillos!!
You are so funny, I loved your conversation with that “pink” rose and the snap dragon trying to convince otherwise! 😂 It sounded like a scene from the garden in Alice in Wonderland with the sassy flowers lol! Thank you for taking us around your beautiful garden this Sunday!
LOL!!! It’s true that there are sassy flowers! Lewis Carroll sure did peg some of them, didn’t he? - I hope you can have some fun conversations with sassy flowers, too!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening oh yes I sure will! 😂💗🌸
My friend thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us again today you always do such a beautiful job with everything that has to do with the garden
You are so kind! Thank you!!!
Hey Rachel!😊 I tell ya, the perk of having things in pots is that you can move them around to have the design & placement of your desires. So many beautiful colors & textures you have! I like the uniqueness of your garden. (By the way, I really like the paint color of your house.)
A couple of gardening friends & I went to the local Dogwood Festival yesterday. There was a vendor there selling the coolest, largest monkey cup/pitcher plant hanging baskets I had ever seen for sale. I had to have one & paid $40 for it but I felt it was worth it because it was so large & had several plants in it. That was definitely what you would call “an unexpected purchase.” lol I’ve got it hanging outside near a palm tree. He’s gonna be happy there until about Nov & indoors he’ll have to come until springtime again.
Other than that I went to Lowe’s for a few things & went by the clearance rack & they had flats of Proven Winner purple petunias & some purple verbena. I grabbed some of those. (unexpectedly) lol
We had two days of gusty 35 mph winds this past week which deterred me from wanting to work in the yard but I did manage to get a couple of my wooden benches waterproofed (Thompsons Water Seal.) They dried in no time.
Always such a joy to see you❤ Hugs from your GA friend
Oh, yay, Linda!!! I didn’t know what a monkey cup looked like and I just looked it up and WOW! They look so neat!!! I bet it will catch ALL the flies in the neighborhood! - Oh, I love dogwoods and I don’t think we have them down here. I saw so many in bloom when I went to Birmingham a few weeks age. We tried to grow one in our front yard a few years ago and a deer came and rubbed all of the bark off of it with his antlers and killed it. My husband was livid. LOL! - I love that you found some PW bargains!!! I bet your garden is a purple paradise now!
Beautiful visit today! Critters, lizards, bird song, butterflies, and FLOWERS! I love the leaves, also, even if I don't capitalize them! I'm thinking the silver, grey, mossy green, chartreuse, slender, fat, sparse, thick, pink, hot pink, purple, blue, yellow, white, cream, and ceramic blues are making a vision better than Monet! Of course I saved the best to last - your contagious smile. I sure enjoyed my walk today, thank you.
Awww, Mary!!! You are a poet!!! All of those descriptive words for the leaves reminded me of a performance piece of poetry! I hope you are surrounded by all kinds of lovelies this spring!!!!! - I was just looking through a book about Giverny the other day. Monet was a genius with color in the garden!!! - I know from your sunny disposition that you also have a smile that lights up the room!!!!!
hi Rachel! I just love watching you always! mwah!
Awww, Christine!!! LOL! You are sweet!!! 😘 Back atcha!
I enjoy your videos. I started a small garden at our river camp. The sandy soil is challenging but I'm amending as I plant. The roses are beautiful.😊
Thank you, Lesha! I’m so glad that you are getting to garden at your river camp!!! Isn’t it incredible to see how things grow by leaps and bounds as the season progresses?!?
Good morning, Rachel. The grey one, Artemesia Powis castle, you did not know how big it gets and whether it can be propagated: Yes, they get very big and a cutting stuck in the ground looks wilted for a couple weeks, but the comes from the ground! I bought two plants originally, and translplanted all over the garden, because it is instant impact. Just cut away what you don't want. I am in zone 9b/ Central Texas, but water them frequently and by the sprinklersystem once a week. They are performers!
Oh, yay!!! That is good to know, Gabriele! I want a jillion of those artemesia! I oove everything about them, even their scent. It’s such a weird fragrance, I can’t describe it properly!
I need to try roses in pots . Never had luck in the ground. Can’t wait for your next post❤️
They seem to do pretty well! There’s a guy in Tallahassee who has a CZcams channel called Roses & Orchids in Tallahassee, FL and he REALLY does well with them! I haven’t had time to see if he tells his secrets on how he grows them. I don’t think he tells in his videos, but maybe he does in the comments section. - I just throw some Osmocote Plus in my containers, and hope for the best. I’m afraid to try to use organic fertilizers because I’ve using them several times in the past and raccoons dig it out and eat it. Ugh!
Man have you got a lot going on! What a spread. Always fun to see your weekly videos to see how fast things ate growing. Maybe you should sell some of your seedlings and use money to find other things you would like to add to your garden. Looks like you are painting the house right now
LOL, Wesley! I can’t sell my seedlings! They’re my babies! But I can give them to a good home! - Yes, my husband is in the process of painting the garage and fortifying it to withstand any storm that comes our way. It’s now sturdier than the house!
Beautiful as always! ❤
Thank you, Gina! 😊
Hi Rachel. I so look forward to your videos, and I'm never disappointed. I bought a Gertrude Jekyll rose last autumn as a bare root, so it was great to see what I can expect. I've just planted my first salvias, too. You see how influential you are . Your garden changes from one week to another, it's incredible how quickly your plants grow, here we are quite used to waiting waiting waiting 😅, another reason why I love your videos. Have you pruned your hydrangeas? I'm not an expert, but maybe they'd like a trim 🤷♀️. And wow your hollyhocks 😮 they do get very big and tall, the leaves will be massive. In my village, they grow everywhere, I love them along with fox gloves. Thankyou for sharing your wonderful world I shall almost certainly watch it again. Happy gardening ❤
Yay, Kim!!! You are going to LOVE Gertrude Jekyll! She smells the absolute best out of all of my roses! And I hope the salvias will be super performers for you, bringing all the butterflies and bees to your garden! - I did clip off a bunch of dead stuff on the hydrangeas last night. They still look scraggly. LOL! But there are weird buds on them in odd place. I hope they will fill out soon! - I love that you get to have foxgloves! What an ultimate cottage garden flower!!! They sell them at the nurseries here, but they can’t take the heat and therefore, have to “get out of the kitchen” by promptly dying as soon as the temps ratchet up. LOL! - Don’t you have apple trees? What was it that you planted under them last year?
Yes I have an eating apple tree and a crab apple tree. I planted camomille last year and it was a great success. I love the smell and so do the pollinators. This year it's coming back alone in stronger bunches so I'm very hapoy about that and I'm sure the apple tree is too. Companion planting is a must in a garden where no nasty chemicals are used 😀
I believe the tag you couldn’t read is Wooly pipevine you are so fortunate to have so many pipevines I bought 2 last fall and they are just showing some growth 🦋 The toad looks like a cane or bufo toad I’m not an expert but please look at some photos on google because if it is it isn’t a good toad. Absolutely enjoyed today’s garden tour it’s amazing how quickly the garden changes in a weeks time.
Oh, thank you for warning me about the toad!!! I looked up a video from our extension office and they showed the difference between the Southern toad and the cane toad, and thank God, he was a Southern toad! I didn’t want to destroy him, but I would have if he was the invasive kind. I’ve heard horror stories about invasive toads and frogs! - I hope your pipevines will get growing! We need all the pipevine swallowtail butterflies that we can get!
Good to hear the toad was a good guy!
pot arrangement looks awesome!
Thank you 😊
Verbascum gets tall! Very pretty though. It comes back in my garden every year. My hydrangeas aren’t looking great either. We have had a colder than normal winter. I don’t know if that’s why. Your garden is looking real lovely already!
Thnk you, Kelli! I’m so glad to find out that you have been successfully growing verbascum AND wonder of wonders, it comes back! I’ve been dreaming up a way that I might be able to plant some of mine in the actual ground! I hope to do it Saturday afternoon! - We did have some weird cold snaps this winter! Everything took an incredible hit from that for sure! I hope your hydrangeas will bounce back!!!
I love how you said you had to “liberate” some of your pots from the plants so you could plant other plants 😂 I usually play plant musical chairs with my plants too. I cannot believe how full, bushy, and lush your garden looks even from last week! I love your beach blossom acquisitions, that patio baby eggplant is adorable! You made me lol about your hot and spicy shape shifting pink/red rose 🌹 and the snap dragons calling her out 😂 daaaang girl you are the seedling growing queen!! Oh my gosh, those caterpillars are just growing so strong and healthy! I need one of those critter keepers asap! Your yard is such a butterfly sanctuary!
Haha, Claire! Yes, I’m very thankful to have most things in pots since I can change my mind about where things need to be as long as my back will hold out!
JUST BEAUTIFUL 😍 ❤
Thank you! 😊
I garden on the opposite side of the country in Seattle, but I’ve been watching your videos for about a year now. I absolutely love your garden and I love the way you do your videos. And good for you for trying to help the butterflies out.😊
Thank you!!! And it’s so cool that you live in Seattle! My sister lives near you, and she has her own CZcams channel about gardening and urban homesteading and cooking! It’s called Claire’s Cottage Aspirations
My favourite pot garden. Your plants are lovely but honestly I come to view your flower pots. I love love love them 💗
LOL, Marvette!!! I do have some really pretty pots! I’m so thankful that I found some really good bargains years ago because prices for pottery from Vietnam is through the roof now! - I’ll have to go to Street’s in Fairhope and video their collection for sale. They have some beauties!!!
Florida betony is my nemesis!!!! It just overtakes and chokes everything else out. I must have gotten some from mulch or compost years ago and I fight it every year. I did find out the tubers are edible… so there’s that!
Oh, Denise! I feel your pain!!! David the Good says to, “Compost your enemies.” I’m assuming he means our plant enemies. LOL! So how cool is it when we can EAT some of our plant enemies?!? Haha! I have eaten the betony tubers, and can attest that they are tasty! Like water chestnuts, super crunchy without much flavor.
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening so you eat them raw?
@@denisemouledous7352 Yes! I have, but they say to eat them raw in the spring. Here’s what the Florida Extension says…..”Florida Betony is a common wildflower that spreads prolifically and is very attractive to pollinators. Almost the entire plant is edible to humans, including the tuber roots. These tubers give the plant it’s nickname of rattlesnake weed since they appear like the rattle of a rattlesnake. The roots can be harvested in spring time when they are white and crisp then eaten raw, pickled, or cooked in a dish.”
I think your darker rose is lovely. It has “cool,” red tones which blend with everything else. I think it may be a Louis Philippe or a Cracker rose. It was brought here hundreds of years ago, and falls in the China class. I grow Vietnamese hollyhocks here in Tampa, and they do very well. I have to stake them at about 2ft. They reach about 7ft! I am making a trip up Petals from the Past this weekend. I am SO EXCITED!
Yay, Cindy!!! I hope you have plenty of space in your vehicle to bring back ALL the awesome plants from Petals from the Past!!!!! - You are right about that rose! I need to make a plant marker for it! It IS a Louis Philippe! I love the history of it and also how prolifically it blooms and also how it seems to not mind heat and humidity! It’s a stalwart rose, I gotta say! - Oh, I finally looked up what my hollyhock is. It’s zebrina, malva sylvestris zebrina. I hope I can grow it well! What is the exact kind of Vietnamese hollyhock that you grow and where do you get the seeds? - God bless you and protect you on your adventure to Petals from the Past!!!!!
The Hollyhock seeds were a pass along from my neighbor. They are kind of a light ruby color. Maybe a little pinker that the rose. I think I planted the ones just finishing now in January. I wish I could send you a photo
@@cindyenglish3130 I think you could share it with me on Pinterest! I’m at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening there as well!
Boom video muchas flores
Thank you, Yesid!!!
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LOL! And that’s what I’m working towards! I’ve planted fennel on purpose so that butterflies will lay eggs on them and their caterpillars will have food, then I will have more butterflies in the garden!
What would look awesome on your fence is climbing Hydrangeas if will grow in your zone...😊
Oh!!!!!! What a good idea!!!!! I just looked it up and it did say that they will grow in my zone! And they are lovely AND they have a lovely scent! Oh! I hope I can get one to try it!!!!
Goodness those forget me nots are amazing! **puts on next year’s list**
Any tips on the globe basil? Mine is still one inch tall. Do you ever fertilize them?
The border is sublime. Perfect combination. And that pink salvia is such a delicious raspberry pink.💕
I’ve got my millet going but it needs to take a page out of your book. It’s just not getting bigger!
The eggplant is awesome! And the surprise dahlias! (My dahlias were like, “Surprise! Somebody threw us away after the freeze! Maybe don’t put us in a garbage bag when you bring us inside? Byeeeee! 🫠😵”
I’m DYING LAUGHING. “You are so red. ” Same, girl. SAME. I *definitely* bought geraniums that were *definitely* hot pink at the nursery. Ummmm. They’re SO RED.
Your seedlings!!!!
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I love the kale! As Linda Vater would say, it’s one of your “signature touches”.
I can’t wait to see how the hollyhocks go. I gave up trying with them. The rust situation was terrible!
Your Beautyberry is #goals 💕
EBS cats! So fun!
That toad is such a cute little potato!
Your jewels of Opar with the dark green leaves are so pretty. Both times I’ve bought them online, I’ve ended up with the chartreuse leaves! (I’m waiting for my seeds to ripen so I can send you some!)
Thank you for such a wonderful tour! Inspiration everywhere!
I love your jewels of opar! Those chartreuse leaves make me so happy bringing light wherever they grow! I will save seeds from mine and trade you seeds from yours! - We are having a weird spring because things aren’t growing as fast as they usually grow. I’m guessing your globe basil wishes it was warmer? I would try putting it in a bigger pot and in the sunniest spot and see what happens. It will either love it or die. LOL! Same for the millet. Mine were slow growing and I put them in bigger pots and they grew, but not fast, then I put them in bigger pots. Things are just taking longer than usual to get going But your garden is looking so full and lovely! It seems like y’all are weeks ahead of us! - Haha about the toad being a cute little potato! I love your turns of phrases!!! You are a hoot!!!!!
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I’ve got a little seed envelope full of jewels of Opar seeds for you! The seeds are starting to ripen every day! I’ll pop it in the mail to you! Thanks for the help on the basil! It’s seriously making me crazy!
I'm amazed at the beauty of your roses. Are they all in pots?
Also what is the variety of the lavender?
Thank you for your weekly tours!
Thanks, Wendy! Most of my roses are in pots, but the James Galway, Emily Bronte, Generous Gardener, and California Dreaming are in the ground. Thankfully the armadillos haven’t dug them up…..yet.
Oh! I can’t remember what variety that lavender is. I will show you on my video this Sunday!
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Love your garden. ❤ Is there a reason you do mainly containers?
Thank you!!! - I have to mostly use containers because armadillos come along in the night and dig holes everywhere. They sometimes dig up a whole plant and toss it aside. They seem to especially like to dig up tender seedlings the most.
The perennials that you have in pots, do they survive through the winter?
They will if I put them in the potting shed, and I only did that for a few things last year. This year I hope I will have energy and be motivated to save everything! But here’s something crazy, I bought some petunias in late summer and just left them outside for the entire winter and they didn’t even die when it got down into the low 20’s for several nights. I paid $1 for them, and they are alive and kicking right now and blooming their heads off!
Ps...how is your sweet spirit rose doing? I planted one in memory of our pony Prince.
Oh, Jan! You are going to love sweet spirit! And what a great rose to commemorate your sweet Prince!!! I’m sorry to say that I should have pruned my sweet spirit, but instead, I let her get scraggly and leggy. She is blooming, but looks so scrawny and thin!
I am trying to grow forget me nots from seed but not doing well and I am not sure why? I am curious on how much sun do your forget me nots get?
Oh, Stephanie! I wish I could give you an answer! I know that mine are the Chinese variety. They get full sun most of the day, and I didn’t plant the seeds. I just sorta threw them where I wanted them to grow.