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No, not at all. Ice plants are hardy down to zone 5. You don’t have to do anything where you are. It will survive your winter just fine, even if you have it in a pot. I have some in a pot and some in the ground, both ways work. It will go dormant just like all the other plants and wake up in the spring.

I’m sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, your seeds may be nonviable. If you scratched them like I show in the video and soaked them, then you did all you could do. I’d try buying another batch and try again. However, I’d try it in spring, it’s pretty late in the season for canna seeds. You’ll have enough time to get them to maybe a foot tall at most before they slow down in the cool fall weather. Cannas need heat to thrive.. Unless you’re in a tropical area, then of course, go for it 👍 good luck! 😊

😊 my pleasure. You have good taste 👍

No, it’s a full sized floribunda. The flowers are about the size of my palm. 😊 I highly recommend 👍

lol I don’t blame you. That was from when I first started making videos/shorts. I didn’t really think about it, just chose a random song to cover the terrible scratching sounds from the poor sound quality. 😅 I think this was one of the few songs that actually covered it. I like to think I’m getting better at shorts, but honestly, the current ones are probably just as awful in some other way 😆

@@kmanmott6162 it doesn’t matter what direction it points. It could be facing straight down and it will still grow upwards, or vice versa. In nature, when they fall to the ground, no one turns them and faces them in a certain direction. They’ve evolved over millions of years to be able to find up for their leaves and down for their roots. Just drop it in the hole and cover with soil. It will take care of the rest on its own 😊👍 don’t worry about it, you got this 👍

@@GardenGaloreParadise thank you!🙏 😊

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Can’t see why it would die from this, unless it was already dead. This process just makes it so the plant can have maximum hydration. It can’t hurt the plant, unless you leave the bag in the sun, like I explain in the video…maybe you’re mistaken and it just looks dead. Did you do the scratch test? Maybe the branches are still alive. I’ve brought back many hydrangeas that looked completely dead with this method (hydrangeas lowes had thrown out). Try scratching it to see if it’s still green inside.

@@keishac9 thank you Keisha! 😊

Oh thank you so much for the kind compliments. 😊 I got curious as to what zone Bangalore would be equivalent to and it looks like you guys would be a zone 12. Good luck with your seeds! I hope you germinate some interesting ones 👍😊

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@@jfred1924 thank you so much 😊 and yes I love the colors too 👍 might I recommend a hydrangea for your wife? My favorites currently are the pinky winky (pollinator magnet) and strawberry sundae (beautiful color as well. I have a short on it) 👍 it has white, light and dark pink, and lime. Don’t tell the plant police but I’ve propagated the bageezes out of it 🤣 I want it everywhere in my garden eventually lol

Looking for a new one hydrangea along side of the shed, I will look into your suggestions, Thanks

Is your pinky winky a tree or a bush. Curious how big the bush or tree would get when full grown I wood have to make sure to plant in correct space

@@jfred1924 pinky winky gets pretty big. When it’s mature, it gets as big as limelight at 8 feet and each panicle can be 13 inches long. The strawberry sundae is more compact, getting at most 4 feet.

@@jfred1924 I do have the plants on drip. But I still have to water the things in pots that I have scattered around the garden and I do a lot of propagation so those need to be watered. I find it peaceful. I go out there with hose in one hand and coffee in the other and just spray. It also gives me a chance to keep an eye on everything. I can catch when something is suffering much faster that way.

I totally agree. We’ve messed with the natural order of things, taken over their natural habitats and they have no choice but to live in our yards and the small patches of what my town calls “forest preserves” but half a block is hardly a “forest”. That’s why I don’t mind them being around. I think they’re sweet and gentle. They decimate the whole town’s arborvitae every year but, I mean, what else are they supposed to eat 🤷‍♀️? We destroyed the forests and won’t let the grass get tall enough to eat. As soon as it gets above two inches tall, there we are with the mower.. So I’ve just learned to let them enjoy my arborvitae and plant other things around the arborvitae that they don’t like so we’re both happy. They still get to eat and I get to garden. 🪴

Good thing you recognize what zebra mallow seedlings look like because I honestly thought these were weeds. The form was just so different from my other petunias, I never would have guessed “petunia”. They have these huge leaves and yet there’s that petunia flower growing out of it, go figure 🤷‍♀️

I use miracle grow potting mix. They come in different kinds like “moisture control” ect. but it really doesn’t matter which one you use. Honestly any potting mix, from any company, will work. The whole point of it is to have good drainage. If you water your plants and it runs right through and doesn’t sit on top, that’s a good potting mix. And for planting in the ground, Autumn/Fall weather is really good. The scorching heat of summer has passed by then and the baby plants go through minimal transplant shock. And they get a few months to root in before winter 👍

@@Garden-Oasis thank you so much!!

You can buy them on eBay for very cheap. People collect them from their plants and sell them. You can also buy them from online plant stores that sell seeds. I think I’ve even seen them being sold in amazon. I’d just google “canna lily seeds” and go with the best option. You’ll only have to buy them once. Then you can collect your own seeds and store them for the next year 👍

@@Garden-Oasis thank you I found some, you gained a subscriber

@@CookNComedy you’re very welcome 😊

The Tropicana series are hybrids so maybe it’s just something that happens with that variety. It’s probably something the breeders had to accept with that particular cultivar, in order to have a canna with such dark leaves.

@@JoseMartinez-df2db actually if you want to get technical, they are “panicles”. That’s where the name panicle hydrangea comes from. The panicles are composed of both flowers and bracts. But most people don’t know what a bract is, so I used the word “flower”, so people would understand. The point of the video wasn’t flower anatomy 😅

@@lindakincaid4530 thanks for taking the time to comment 😊

@@susanpharr6809 I replied yesterday but somehow the comment disappeared 🤷‍♀️ so let’s try this again lol I was saying that it very well could be the heat wave. I have three very mature hydrangeas (that I’ve never had problems with) whose flowers have gone crispy and brown. I tried and tried to water but it didn’t help. I think the problem wasn’t the lack of water but that the plant couldn’t send water up faster than it was evaporating from the big leaves. So far only the flowers and the edges of some leaves have browned so they’ll be ugly for the season but I think they will make it through the rest of the summer and live. But if yours are worse than that, I’d probably use a shade cloth over them to help them out. Shade cloth is breathable so they’ll be able to get some air. I have other ones that are in full shade under trees that are holding up pretty well 👍 so I know shade makes a big difference…and if yours are already in full shade.. then I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ what you could do to save them. I hope they hang in there long enough for this heat wave to pass

@@InADarkTavern 😊 thanks

@@rachelflamdesign I’m so glad you found it useful! And thank you for taking the time to comment. It’s always encouraging to know people are enjoying the videos 😊 happy gardening! 🌺

@@lisaboggs8377 thank you so much 😊 it’s really heart warming and motivating when people take the time to tell me what they liked about the video, so I can figure out how to make future videos better. So thank you for taking the time to comment 😊

@@SP_REX I did it in July but the month varies for different people because of our different climates. For example, people in zone 4 are a full month and a half behind my zone 7. Because when my plants are leafing out, zone 4 still has snow on the ground. So instead I gave you a better way to figure out when it’s time to trim it. When the leaves go from white to green, that’s when I trim it. You could trim it a little before too, but I like to enjoy the white color as long as I can.

@@nedebruyn leave them in the shade. A dappled shade location works wonderfully if you can manage it, like under a tree, but if you can’t, then full shade like the north side of your house will be good too. You’ll do this till it grows its leaves back and looks healthy again. By that time, the weather will have cooled and you’ll be in Fall. Fall is the perfect time to plant things out

@@pixelsicle thank you so much. I have been making garden tour videos since spring. But the mic on my phone is terrible and I’ve been saving up to buy a better external mic so I can do the voiceovers. As they are, the audio is unusable. It’s all gusting wind sounds and my garbled voice 😅

@@jerridyke8706 I don’t know how you would be able to soak ones in the ground, unless you were planning to dig them back up or cut them off the plant wilted? But yes, if you could somehow soak them in water, it will work.

@@SerenaLongchallon is it a hydrangea? It’s pretty hot right now to be planting anything out. Did you plant it recently? If it’s freshly planted…considering we are in a heat wave… I’d advise digging it back up. It hasn’t had enough time to root in to be able to handle the heat wave. It’ll be better off back in a pot and placed in a shaded or at most dappled shaded spot (like under a tree) till Fall comes. Spring and Fall are the best times to plant out into the garden. Especially things like hydrangeas. So yeah.. that would be my advice if it’s freshly planted. If it’s been in the ground for quite a while, like since spring, then it’s probably just suffering from the heat. And the best you can do is keep it watered till we get through this horrible hot weather. Good luck 👍

No I did it in June.

@@SerenaLongchallon I’d still do what I said above. One month is definitely not enough time. That would be my advice.. good luck

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@@venketeshchandran289 it’s growing zones are 3-9 so I’m not sure. Isn’t topical zone 10? Zone 10 would put you above the temperature that this plant can handle. If I’m wrong and you’re in zone 9, then yes you can grow phlox. And I’d recommend a dappled shade location (because it does need some sun). But dappled shade would work beautifully in zone 9, because it’s on the very edge of what the plant can handle.

@@Garden-Oasis thanks for the info.appreciate it👍🏻

My plants are planted extremely close together, I don’t spray anything because I have pets and I prefer to have a pollinator friendly, organic garden. So basically, it’s survival of the fittest in my garden. 😄 if they get a fungal disease, the best I can do is remove the fallen leaves. We had a lot of rain last year so a lot of the David Austins suffered. But they are doing much better this year. Funnily enough, I have other varieties right next to the David Austins and those ones never get any fungal disease 🤷‍♀️. I think David Austin has roses might just be finicky

@@DebraLivelli thank you! 😊 and thanks for taking the time to comment 😊

@@gracie2298 I have a video where I show you that openly pollinated canna seeds are not true to type. Meaning you could get any color. If you take seeds from an orange flower, some flowers will be orange but some will be other colors. Because the mom might have had orange flowers but the dad or the grandparents might have had other colors. In the video, I take seeds from the same canna and I not only get different color flowers but also some of the seedlings had dark leaves 👍😊🍁 and thank you for the compliment 😊 much appreciated

Would you believe all of this is growing in a 12” pot? I’ve repotted it only once in the 5 years I’ve had it, from the 6” pot it came in to the 12”. And it’s been in the same pot, in the same soil since. I imagine it would get fuller with bigger leaves if I repotted it. But I’m keeping it confined to its 12” prison because I can’t have it taking over the whole house, like in that movie Little House of Horrors🤣 I don’t often water mine either. I wait till the soil dries out and then deep water with a water reservoir under it to catch the runoff and then act as a makeshift self watering container so I don’t have to water for a good long while. If I leave it unwatered for too long, some leaves yellow and fall off (that’s those bare spots lol) and that’s when I know I’ve messed up again and go check the soil. I feel like with house plants, it’s way better to underwater than to over overwater. Overwatering is the kiss of death.

You can cut as soon as when your cucumber vine has 5-6 leaves. You can cut the top two nodes for your cutting and leave the rest for your current plant. It will branch out like any other plant would. If the cucumber vine is super long (as it probably would be by this time in the summer) just cut a piece off. It could be two nodes or as long as you want it to be… I say two nodes because one node would mean the very tip and that’s probably too tender to make it on its own… anyway just place in a glass of water and it will root.

Dormant cuttings are cut in winter. You could cut them in December or wait till just before they wake up in spring. You just want your cut them while the buds haven’t opened yet. Then you just store them in the fridge till you’re ready to use them

Thank you! 😊 I’m in zone 7a

Annabelle hydrangeas are a bit tricky, especially in water. They’re a bit weird that way. I always do Annabelles in winter as dormant cuttings. They work much better and give you less work to do. You stick them in some potting soil while they’re still dormant (in winter) and leave them alone for the most part. You’ll still have to water them once spring has sprung and they’ve leafed out, of course, but the success rate is way higher 👍

Couple of questions then, do you use cuttings that were new growth, old growth. Pretty sure I have to use a leaf nodes for the roots to start. What about rooting hormone? Do you stick it in a sunny window, dark corner? Actually, if you have a website where I can read up on it, I would not have to bother you with a bunch of questions. Thanks so much, Jeff

@@jfred1924 so dormant cuttings are a different animal from regular fresh cuttings. You wouldn’t put them in a window because you leave the pot you put them in, outside. To be snowed on and to freeze along with everything else. They’ll actually NEED to stay cold in order to survive and come out of dormancy when the other plants do, in spring. And they do great as single node cuttings so you can get many more plants from one branch. I’m actually working on a video for Annabelle as hardwood cuttings. I’m waiting to upload till I have a complete start to finish process in one video. I’ll be uploading as soon as it’s ready. You’ll have something to follow this coming winter if you’re interested 😊👍

@@jfred1924 and you do dormant cuttings from that same year’s growth. Basically whatever grew that spring and summer will be your cuttings.

Thank you so much, waiting for a new video

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I highly recommend it. The buds are really cold tolerant and will bloom for you pretty reliably. And that’s on top of the little Smurf flowers 😄❤️

Yes absolutely. If it’s in a spot where it’s getting too much sun, it’s better to dig it up anyway. Otherwise it will definitely struggle when we get to the hottest part of the summer (which is yet to come). Dig them up, put the roots in a bucket overnight (no need to plant it yet, if it’s already dug up) after the treatment, pot in some fresh potting soil and place in the shade. If it hasn’t died completely yet, it should come back for you. Once it has recovered (in the fall), pick a spot with dappled shade as its permanent home. Good luck! 👍

@@Garden-Oasis thanks so much! I’m going to do this. I had a good feeling that your advice wouid be the right path! I’ll keep you posted!😎😎😎

It really is. I highly recommend it 👍😍

Neither did I! People always said the flowers were “inside” the ball. I always thought they were hidden behind the bract (false flowers). Who knew they were actually the little pearls?

Thank you! Cheers! 😊

Get yourself one! 😊 I highly recommend. It’s a pretty reliable bloomer 👍

If you’re in the US, any garden center has them at this time of year. I’d check Lowe’s or Home Depot first as you might get lucky and come across a sale. But if you need to order by mail, then google it. Google will take your location into account and give you the best option for you. Just Google “Delosperma ice plant” and click the “shopping” section. 😊Good luck! 👍

@@Garden-Oasis thanks

Dappled willow are fast growers so you’ll have a mature plant in no time. I love that about them. 👍

I’m not, unfortunately. Though I know I should be. I just don’t think I can fit it in. I would have to post regularly otherwise there would be no point in having it and time is short these days. Maybe sometime in the future 😊