Gardening Simplified is essential for all gardeners! My lined yellow notepad is scribbled full of the wonderful information you share on your channel and a long wish list of plants. Thank you!
Quickfire (Standard tree form) was the first Proven Winners hydrangea I bought in 2021 when I started gardening. I now have another Quickfire and am opening a spot for a Little Quickfire this year. I love the earlier blooms. This plant is phenomenal! The bees, butterflies love it! The color and blooms just keep giving all Summer long into Fall. Hardy, beautiful and strong plant.
I was having problems with poppies, thanks to Brie my poppies are now selfsowing, I was out in the cold of winter sowing seeds and it didn't disappoint ❤
We love Brie and have learned so much from her channel so it was nice to hear from her. For us, the easiest plants to grow are hostas, daylilies, catmints, salvias, echinaceas and daisies. We can practically ignore them in the garden and they will do just fine. Daisies have become almost like weeds to us and we find ourselves pulling them out and they just keep coming back and multiplying year after year!
I have been so happy to see more Proven Winners plants being offered in the garden centers here in North Texas this year. The word must be getting out! I just planted a Pugster and an El Niño Desert Orchid in pots and they look great! I need that Amazel Basil! 😉 Thank you for annnother great show! 👍👍
Pee gee! Thanks for the tip. In 2021 I purchased a house built in 1979 that had two mature hydrangeas. I pruned the old flower stems hard to chest level in early spring . I thought I made a mistake because they didn’t flower until the end of summer. The new growth is easily 3-4 feet! Every year I use some of the prunings to trellis peas. I couldn’t identify what I had and I didn’t think anyone would believe me if I said it was about 10 feet tall.
Hi Stacey and Rick. I live in Australia in a little historic village in Perthville NSW. I have removed 90% of my lawn and replaced it with trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs. Everyone in the village thought I was mad! But I’m out there very little now (after 4 years of planting, fertilising with composted cow manure and homemade compost, and mulching) and I now just deadhead and pick out little weeds. This “maintenance” takes an hour a week (I’m on a third of an acre). Whereas the rest of my village have mainly lawns with a few garden beds - but they are out there a minimum of 2 hours a week mowing , cutting edges and strimming - and that’s just their lawns! My garden is full of pollinators- I grow roses, Russian sage, nepeta, penstemons, shasta daisies, echinacea and some grasses as my group of perennials and rely on forget-me-nots, larkspur, hollyhocks, pansies, violas, nigella and pansies as prolific self seeding annuals. I also planted daffodils, bluebells, jonquils, ranuncula , muscari, anemone poppies and Dutch iris as naturalising bulbs. I have loads of different shrubs - buddleja, viburnum, euonymus, euphorbia, magnolia, lilac, forsythia, flowering quince, rock rose and teucrium. I could go on and on. Most of these require once a year maintenance and maybe a bit of regular deadheading. The annuals I leave to flower and die down - then I “chop and drop”.
Oh, wow! Your garden sounds absolutely amazing! 😍 Keeping up an established garden can be much less work than a lawn and it sounds like you've certainly taken the opportunity to grow more lovely plants 🥰 If you ever want to share any pictures, we would love to see them ☺
@@pwcolorchoice - I’m happy to share some pictures . I’m trying to spread the word about removing lawn (especially in countries like mine that often suffer from severe drought). Do I just email them?
@@ValeCreekCottage Thank you so much, that knowledge and awareness is important to share and I appreciate you sending them over! Yes, you can send them to Help@GardeningSimplifiedOnAir.com ☺
The local Nursery actually recommended Little Quick Fire as being one of the few Panicle’s that would color up pink Not just brown here in hot humid MS z8. I took out the Bobo’s and put in a shadier spot in back yard and replaced with LQF and they are doing nicely! Love Brie and hope to meet her when she comes back to Memphis! I do get a lot of Sawfly damage on my perennial Hybiscus too. Just sprayed with organic Bonide Deadbug.
My "easy" plants have to be easy to get to, or require little to no bending over for long periods of time. I have back and other lower body joint issues that will cause much pain if more than a little heavy lifting or bending over is involved. Thank you for all of these suggestions! Prayers going out to Brie, too!
My favorite shrubs are Sonic bloom weigela…blooms all spring/summer. I also love Double Play Doozie spirea. These don’t even need pruning. Just super plants!
I get that all the time from my neighbors. "You are creating a lot of Work." I don't think so. We had close to 25KSQF of lawn and 10K sqf of trees. That is too much. For the first 2 years, we had those people come by and do the fertilizer, but we never saw a difference. Last year, I did it using Jonathan Green, and it finally looked good, and even neighbors were impressed. But it's exhausting doing a lawn, not fun. Taking care of my plants is fun. Plus, being a corner unit, everyone sees when walking and turning into our development. I feel pressure to make it look welcoming. And Plants do that.
It's interesting how people don't see lawns as being so much work compared to gardens! And like you said, taking care of plants can be a lot more fun and interesting ☺
Many examples of people growing bananas here in Canada with an unheated greenhouse. Just needs to have quite a large volume so that the air temp is more stable!
Can the regular Quick Fire be kept small in size? I planted 2 regular size Quick Fire hydrangeas & would love to cut them back. Thank you for your response.
Great question! While you can continue to prune Quick Fire back hard each year, the plants will still continue to push out growth to reach that mature size, so it will be a lot of work and you could end up stimulating more new growth from pruning hard like that. You could consider getting a more dwarf variety like Tiny Quick Fire, Little Quick Fire, or Quick Fire Fab. Here's a link for you to check those out ☺ www.provenwinnerscolorchoice.com/all-plants/?jsf=epro-products:sheight&_s=quick%20fire
Planted 2 agastache twice since it didn’t come back last year and this year same thing!! I’m giving up on this perennial… anyone with the same situation? Zone 5b 6a
Sorry to hear that! My suggestion is they need a hot, sunny planting site with quick-draining soil of low fertility. Agastache likes well drained soils. Clay or water retentive loamy soils can be a problem. If the area you are planting them has automatic irrigation it could be the problem.
Hydrangeas are not the “go to shrub” you describe if you have deer pressure as they can be decimated by deer. Only oakleaf hydrangea are somewhat safe from deer even when using deer spray.
Thank you for the feedback! If you are ever interested, you could submit a photo and plant recommendation request to our feedback line here ☺ www.provenwinnerscolorchoice.com/contact-us/
I don't agree at all about pannicle hydrangeas being easg to grow anywhere. I'm in zone 8b southeast. Its way too hot and humid for the flowers to turn the pretty pinks advertised. I've tried several varieties and every one of them bloomed cream or white and then turned brown....YUK!! I have 14 hydrangeas, various types. They are sll beautiful. Don't waste your money on pannicles in hot humid areas.
It can be frustrating, but the payoff for the hard work can be worth it! If you have any specific insect or disease issues you can always send us photos so we can assess the situation 🙂
Mangave?? In the last week, I have seen 5 well-known gardening channels on youtube pushing this horribly ugly plant. It's apparent that they are being told by Proven Winners to push the sale ofcthis monstrosity. Sad.
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Right plant, right place makes all the difference.
You guys are such good hosts!
Thank you so much! 😄
Gardening Simplified is essential for all gardeners! My lined yellow notepad is scribbled full of the wonderful information you share on your channel and a long wish list of plants. Thank you!
What a compliment! Thank you so much, that is so wonderful to hear! 🥰🤗
Thank you for the feature Rick, Stacy, and Adrianna! Love the show
Thank you so much for sending in your awesome photos Collin! It was so fun to see them 🤗🍌
Quickfire (Standard tree form) was the first Proven Winners hydrangea I bought in 2021 when I started gardening. I now have another Quickfire and am opening a spot for a Little Quickfire this year. I love the earlier blooms. This plant is phenomenal! The bees, butterflies love it! The color and blooms just keep giving all Summer long into Fall. Hardy, beautiful and strong plant.
The Quick Fire hydrangeas really are such amazing plants, so glad you're enjoying them! 🥰
I was having problems with poppies, thanks to Brie my poppies are now selfsowing, I was out in the cold of winter sowing seeds and it didn't disappoint ❤
Yay! Brie is a wealth of knowledge and such an inspiring person 🥰
We love Brie and have learned so much from her channel so it was nice to hear from her. For us, the easiest plants to grow are hostas, daylilies, catmints, salvias, echinaceas and daisies. We can practically ignore them in the garden and they will do just fine. Daisies have become almost like weeds to us and we find ourselves pulling them out and they just keep coming back and multiplying year after year!
Brie is so wonderful and inspiring! ☺ Wow, definitely sounds like an abundance of daisies! 😄
I’m definitely a fan of Brie’s! Thanks for inviting her to your channel!
Brie is such a lovely person! So glad we got to have her on the show! 🥰🤗
I have been so happy to see more Proven Winners plants being offered in the garden centers here in North Texas this year. The word must be getting out! I just planted a Pugster and an El Niño Desert Orchid in pots and they look great! I need that Amazel Basil! 😉
Thank you for annnother great show! 👍👍
Yay, that is wonderful to hear! What great plant selections you have, can't wait to hear how they do for you this year! 🤩🤗
Pee gee! Thanks for the tip. In 2021 I purchased a house built in 1979 that had two mature hydrangeas. I pruned the old flower stems hard to chest level in early spring . I thought I made a mistake because they didn’t flower until the end of summer. The new growth is easily 3-4 feet! Every year I use some of the prunings to trellis peas. I couldn’t identify what I had and I didn’t think anyone would believe me if I said it was about 10 feet tall.
Oh yes, they can grow to be really big! I like your idea of using the cuttings to trellis your peas ☺
I really enjoy your show!!!
Yay! Thanks so much for watching 🤗
LOL, I loved the QR code labeling comment!!
Thanks for all of the wonderful tips. 😊
😂❤ Thank you for watching!
Hi Stacey and Rick. I live in Australia in a little historic village in Perthville NSW. I have removed 90% of my lawn and replaced it with trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs. Everyone in the village thought I was mad! But I’m out there very little now (after 4 years of planting, fertilising with composted cow manure and homemade compost, and mulching) and I now just deadhead and pick out little weeds. This “maintenance” takes an hour a week (I’m on a third of an acre). Whereas the rest of my village have mainly lawns with a few garden beds - but they are out there a minimum of 2 hours a week mowing , cutting edges and strimming - and that’s just their lawns! My garden is full of pollinators- I grow roses, Russian sage, nepeta, penstemons, shasta daisies, echinacea and some grasses as my group of perennials and rely on forget-me-nots, larkspur, hollyhocks, pansies, violas, nigella and pansies as prolific self seeding annuals. I also planted daffodils, bluebells, jonquils, ranuncula , muscari, anemone poppies and Dutch iris as naturalising bulbs. I have loads of different shrubs - buddleja, viburnum, euonymus, euphorbia, magnolia, lilac, forsythia, flowering quince, rock rose and teucrium. I could go on and on. Most of these require once a year maintenance and maybe a bit of regular deadheading. The annuals I leave to flower and die down - then I “chop and drop”.
Oh, wow! Your garden sounds absolutely amazing! 😍 Keeping up an established garden can be much less work than a lawn and it sounds like you've certainly taken the opportunity to grow more lovely plants 🥰 If you ever want to share any pictures, we would love to see them ☺
@@pwcolorchoice - I’m happy to share some pictures . I’m trying to spread the word about removing lawn (especially in countries like mine that often suffer from severe drought). Do I just email them?
@@ValeCreekCottage Thank you so much, that knowledge and awareness is important to share and I appreciate you sending them over! Yes, you can send them to Help@GardeningSimplifiedOnAir.com ☺
Your videos are so useful and always look forward to all of the excellent information.
That's so nice to hear! 🥰 Thank you so much for watching and supporting our show 🤗
The local Nursery actually recommended Little Quick Fire as being one of the few Panicle’s that would color up pink
Not just brown here in hot humid MS z8. I took out the Bobo’s and put in a shadier spot in back yard and replaced with LQF and they are doing nicely! Love Brie and hope to meet her when she comes back to Memphis! I do get a lot of Sawfly damage on my perennial Hybiscus too. Just sprayed with organic Bonide Deadbug.
Wahoo! So glad to hear that 🤗 Brie is fantastic! Always love having her join us on the show ☺
My "easy" plants have to be easy to get to, or require little to no bending over for long periods of time. I have back and other lower body joint issues that will cause much pain if more than a little heavy lifting or bending over is involved. Thank you for all of these suggestions! Prayers going out to Brie, too!
That makes total sense! Thank you for watching and supporting our show, friend ☺
Glad you mentioned city plantings. Here in California we see lantana and day lily's planted alot.
City plantings can be a good indication of plants that grow in that area and require little work ☺
My favorite shrubs are Sonic bloom weigela…blooms all spring/summer. I also love Double Play Doozie spirea. These don’t even need pruning. Just super plants!
You have some great taste, my friend! 😄🤗
I saw my hummingbird first time yesterday!!
Yay!! They're so cute and fun to watch 😍
So sorry Brie about your tick illness. Those are brutal. I will remember you in prayer. Lord have mercy on the sick in our community.
My mom has Alpha Gau and it has changed so much of her life...
I cut the woody base stem of lavender in halve in the spring. Keeps the plant looking young.
Show it love a pothos I have for 25 years my friends all have babies and my three daughters as well all in water and beautiful rocks
That is so sweet! 🥰🥰
I get that all the time from my neighbors. "You are creating a lot of Work." I don't think so. We had close to 25KSQF of lawn and 10K sqf of trees. That is too much. For the first 2 years, we had those people come by and do the fertilizer, but we never saw a difference. Last year, I did it using Jonathan Green, and it finally looked good, and even neighbors were impressed. But it's exhausting doing a lawn, not fun. Taking care of my plants is fun. Plus, being a corner unit, everyone sees when walking and turning into our development. I feel pressure to make it look welcoming. And Plants do that.
It's interesting how people don't see lawns as being so much work compared to gardens! And like you said, taking care of plants can be a lot more fun and interesting ☺
Many examples of people growing bananas here in Canada with an unheated greenhouse. Just needs to have quite a large volume so that the air temp is more stable!
Oh wow, that's so cool! 😄
Can the regular Quick Fire be kept small in size? I planted 2 regular size Quick Fire hydrangeas & would love to cut them back. Thank you for your response.
Great question! While you can continue to prune Quick Fire back hard each year, the plants will still continue to push out growth to reach that mature size, so it will be a lot of work and you could end up stimulating more new growth from pruning hard like that. You could consider getting a more dwarf variety like Tiny Quick Fire, Little Quick Fire, or Quick Fire Fab. Here's a link for you to check those out ☺ www.provenwinnerscolorchoice.com/all-plants/?jsf=epro-products:sheight&_s=quick%20fire
Cool! Is it in Canada?
Planted 2 agastache twice since it didn’t come back last year and this year same thing!! I’m giving up on this perennial… anyone with the same situation? Zone 5b 6a
Sorry to hear that! My suggestion is they need a hot, sunny planting site with quick-draining soil of low fertility. Agastache likes well drained soils. Clay or water retentive loamy soils can be a problem. If the area you are planting them has automatic irrigation it could be the problem.
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Hydrangeas are not the “go to shrub” you describe if you have deer pressure as they can be decimated by deer. Only oakleaf hydrangea are somewhat safe from deer even when using deer spray.
I wish you would include zones when showing plant info. I’m in NW Florida, zone 9 and I’m still trying to find the right plant for the right place.😂
Try Dahlias
They’re only showing Proven Winners plants typically. You can search their website and filter for your zone and conditions.
Thank you for the feedback! If you are ever interested, you could submit a photo and plant recommendation request to our feedback line here ☺ www.provenwinnerscolorchoice.com/contact-us/
I think there was a bug in Rick’s coffee. 16:00
LOL I was being bugwiser
@@rickvuyst 😂😂😂
My Quick Fire get covered with insects. Find i don't get many flowers.
Do you know what type of insects they are?
I don't agree at all about pannicle hydrangeas being easg to grow anywhere. I'm in zone 8b southeast. Its way too hot and humid for the flowers to turn the pretty pinks advertised. I've tried several varieties and every one of them bloomed cream or white and then turned brown....YUK!! I have 14 hydrangeas, various types. They are sll beautiful. Don't waste your money on pannicles in hot humid areas.
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Brie is the best! 😄🤗
Easy as you go ?!
I want something disease and insect resistant. I feel like I am constantly fighting these two. It is expensive, time consuming and frustrating!
It can be frustrating, but the payoff for the hard work can be worth it! If you have any specific insect or disease issues you can always send us photos so we can assess the situation 🙂
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nepeta is not an easy plant. it does not like wet soil. i have tried twice
Mangave?? In the last week, I have seen 5 well-known gardening channels on youtube pushing this horribly ugly plant. It's apparent that they are being told by Proven Winners to push the sale ofcthis monstrosity. Sad.