Thank you so much for adding the Zones tag to your overlays. As someone who lives in subtropical 9b, I often find myself pausing videos of more temperate gardens to look up plants to see if they work in my zone. With yours, I get to go, "Oooh, that looks nice but NOPE, Zone 8 and lower."
Great episode Jim.😊 Please do more of these closeups of the plants. I straddle the geographic line between zone 9b and 10, so am so excited to find the blue spruce sedum! Didn't even know about it until today's video. 🥳❤️
He's going to do THIS, with their entire garden. This is the second one: First one was drone-views & description of the overall plot. I've been crazy-happy about this little Series.
Hey Jim. Question: I haven't seen your bee house for quite awhile. What happened to it? I am loving this close up series. The blue spruce sedum is beautiful and I'm excited it could possibly live in my 10a FL zone. Now I just have to find one! Thanks for always including the growing zones in your videos. I always appreciate it.
I'm in downtown Raleigh. I've found that those new agastache varieties cannot tolerate a wet winter. I've pulled mine out of the ground, potted them and placed them where they get full morning sun down to the crown of the plant. Just another plant that I have to find a spot for full morning sun (like a lot of the herbs). If I dead head in mid summer, I pull way back on water till there is a re-flush of new growth.
My creeping Jenny, drove me crazy this past spring. It was beautiful but aggressive as hell. I dug a lot of it out. I noticed it slows down when it gets hot.
Rosa's Blush Blueberry is fantastic. I bought my plant last fall. We've had a four day heatwave with temps at 100° and this plant is still looking fantastic. I love it.
Moon Dance Hydrangea has been sold out online since I first saw it in one of your earlier videos. Do you have insiders info on when it might be available again?
Love these videos! Question: Do you ever have issues with ground bee/yellow jacket nests,? If so, how do you handle? I garden organically, and love my pollinators, but don't want to get stung. Just west of you, and have this problem at least once a summer.
Thank You Jim, for this video! Now I want some Darrow's Dwarfs. I love all your vincas. I have some too, and they are one of my favorite summer flowers.
We have great luck with creeping thyme. It is easy to start from seed. Yes the first year one might be underwhelmed, but once established it really fills in the edge of a bed. Plus when it blooms generalist pollinators find it quite attractive.
Very excited for the detailed garden tours! Here in N TX I planted vinca, I think it was Bright Eyes, white petals with bright pink center. They actually reseeded and came up solid white the next couple of years.
I love these detailed videos! I'm very excited to try cora cascade vinca next year in my hanging baskets. I've already added them to my list of seeds I want to purchase for next year.
I have also found the new agastaches to be annuals. I am in 7a Hudson Valley NY. I think our winters are too wet and I had some planted on a very well drained part of my garden. You get even more rain than I do! These do very well in the dry Southwest. Maybe a hint to breeders to work on these further -- they are definitely beautiful.
In this Sunday Q&A, Jim, could you please explain about vinca problems. Yours are obviously gorgeous. I had the vinca disease in an annual planting area about 10 years ago. After much compost and soil conditioner, I was hoping that the soil would be okay again. I tried vinca in this area again this year. About half of the plants look okay. The other half totally shriveled up and I pulled it out. No roots had even grown. I think I'm going to give up on this but would like your opinion. They are so totally low maintenance and deer / rabbit resistant which is exactly what I need there. Thanks, Jim and Steph... Always great info on your videos.
Hey Jim, I have a lot of day lillies I want replaced in my backyard in zone 6 clay area. I'm looking to add some color perennials that can handle full sun. I'm so over day lillies now.
I quit using Vinca several years ago because of its issues, guess I'll try them again. We finally got a heavy rain in north Georgia last night, it's been very dry. Looks great there Jim, enjoyed Holly's photo bomb 😂
I planted vincas this year in a flower bed. I’m in Southern Ontario Canada. Zone change this year to 7 I believe. Mine are very tiny do you fertilize frequently and what is your watering schedule for your location. Mine have been in the ground for several weeks. Hope they grow and fill in like yours have. Was a bit behind on planting this year. 😊 Beautiful garden. Look forward to your next video.
Your Vinca looks so healthy. I've had trouble over the years getting mine to live long enough to get established; this year same story. I've planted twice and the second flat did better, but still have several that wilted down and died. What's the deal? Memphis, TN area, zone 8a or 8b - not sure.
hey Jim, I have had different bushes planted for weeks then all of a sudden they are all turning brown. How often do you water a big foot cleyera, sunshine ligustistrum etc, im in zone 8 and not sure what I did.
You mentioned growing groundcovers to prevent weeds, however I live in zone 9a Gulf coast (used to be 8b) and my soil is quite sandy. I worry about keeping up the fertility of my soil because of the sand, considerable watering in this heat and the fact that I live on a hill. I do have considerable groundcovers to avoid weeding (It's too darn hot here in summer). I add some leaves from my river birch tree (the positive side of this tree is small leaves that break down very quickly and the groundcovers don't seem to mind) but I do think I need to add compost/manures to improve the soil. What are your suggestions on continual improvement of sandy soils when you have groundcovers?
Hey Jim and Steph can y’all remind me of the name of the Russian sage at the end of your driveway? If you’re facing the house it’s on the right of your driveway. My husband asked me again and I forgot to write it down when Stephanie told me. Thank you so much.
Skyscraper is a perennial here. The gerbera daisy doesn't like wet feet in the winter. You can plant now but make sure it isn't a wet area in the winter
I always used vinca for annuals because of their dependability. However…my soil has apparently been infected with some sort of organism that causes a fatal “wilt disease” exclusive to vinca. I’m told there’s no way to eradicate this from the soil so vincas are no longer an option for me. 😞 Has anyone else experienced this?
Yes, I have. We are in the NC Sandhills zone 8A. It happened about 10 years ago in an area where I always planted vinca year after year. Then the blight happened and I read that it's really difficult to get the soil back to normal. Over the years, I have composted and mulched with soil conditioner type mulch all while planting other annuals that did just fine. I have recently retried growing annual vincas in this area. Oddly enough, half of them are gorgeous and thriving and the other half shriveled up just like in the past. I think I'm going to give up on this plant in this space.
@@michaelmalone8742 Thank you for your response. I’ve come to the same conclusion. No more vincas in that space. Quite unfortunate. Here in central Mississippi our summers are brutally hot and very few annuals will tolerate the duration and intensity of our summers as well as vincas.
My White weddings got wiped out yesterday we had a really hard rain thunderstorm and they are all laid over will they straighten back up 3rd year set of 3 I tried to knock the water out but they still stayed flopped 🤦♀️🤍🤍🤍😕😕😕 any suggestions!???
You need some dianthus! Mine has bloomed since I put it in last last fall!!!! It always has pretty white blooms I put the white vinca with it staggered for my “annual border” I love them so much I have all my beds bordered with them 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 I’ve spread my sedums out all around and adjuga
Thanks for doing the full tour again. It's so very interesting to see all the plants and the changes over the years.
Thank you, Jim, Steph, Holly. 😊
I love the clown college of gardens. Your garden is beautiful!
Thank you so much for adding the Zones tag to your overlays. As someone who lives in subtropical 9b, I often find myself pausing videos of more temperate gardens to look up plants to see if they work in my zone. With yours, I get to go, "Oooh, that looks nice but NOPE, Zone 8 and lower."
I can totally relate. 9b Florida here!
We NEED a Clown College of Landscape Design Tee!! 🤡💚 Thank you for the tour videos, love these!
Great episode Jim.😊 Please do more of these closeups of the plants. I straddle the geographic line between zone 9b and 10, so am so excited to find the blue spruce sedum! Didn't even know about it until today's video. 🥳❤️
He's going to do THIS, with their entire garden. This is the second one: First one was drone-views & description of the overall plot.
I've been crazy-happy about this little Series.
Hey Jim. Question: I haven't seen your bee house for quite awhile. What happened to it? I am loving this close up series. The blue spruce sedum is beautiful and I'm excited it could possibly live in my 10a FL zone. Now I just have to find one! Thanks for always including the growing zones in your videos. I always appreciate it.
Love the in depth tours. Thanks Jim and Steph. Our vincas and hydrangeas are exploding with blooms here in southeast PA as well.
I'm in downtown Raleigh. I've found that those new agastache varieties cannot tolerate a wet winter. I've pulled mine out of the ground, potted them and placed them where they get full morning sun down to the crown of the plant. Just another plant that I have to find a spot for full morning sun (like a lot of the herbs). If I dead head in mid summer, I pull way back on water till there is a re-flush of new growth.
My creeping Jenny, drove me crazy this past spring. It was beautiful but aggressive as hell. I dug a lot of it out. I noticed it slows down when it gets hot.
Rosa's Blush Blueberry is fantastic. I bought my plant last fall. We've had a four day heatwave with temps at 100° and this plant is still looking fantastic. I love it.
Moon Dance Hydrangea has been sold out online since I first saw it in one of your earlier videos.
Do you have insiders info on when it might be available again?
Love these videos! Question: Do you ever have issues with ground bee/yellow jacket nests,? If so, how do you handle? I garden organically, and love my pollinators, but don't want to get stung. Just west of you, and have this problem at least once a summer.
You may have just changed my mind about vincas. Yours look great!
They are so good now. Way less maintenance than other annuals
I commented above, I'd quit using them. Guess I'll try the newer ones
@@JimPutnamsomething is eating the flowers but not the leaves
The Moon Dance Hydrangea, Scobiosa black night, and all the annuals are stunning! Thanks for all the tips and info.
Lovely garden. Huggicates to you!😊
Loved the deep dive into plantings!
Thank You Jim, for this video! Now I want some Darrow's Dwarfs. I love all your vincas. I have some too, and they are one of my favorite summer flowers.
I enjoyed the plant by plant tour.
This is a great presentation and series of reference videos for us to catch on the names of the plants-flowers. Thank you!
I wintersowing Black Knight Scabiosa for the first time this year. It's just starting to bloom for me. It really sat their a while. Central AR 7b
Awesome tour! ❤ no Mexican petunias in the garden?
I've never heard of this. I'll have to check it out. Thanks 😊
I just read that they are super aggressive 😮
We have great luck with creeping thyme. It is easy to start from seed. Yes the first year one might be underwhelmed, but once established it really fills in the edge of a bed. Plus when it blooms generalist pollinators find it quite attractive.
Very excited for the detailed garden tours! Here in N TX I planted vinca, I think it was Bright Eyes, white petals with bright pink center. They actually reseeded and came up solid white the next couple of years.
I love these detailed videos! I'm very excited to try cora cascade vinca next year in my hanging baskets. I've already added them to my list of seeds I want to purchase for next year.
I have also found the new agastaches to be annuals. I am in 7a Hudson Valley NY. I think our winters are too wet and I had some planted on a very well drained part of my garden. You get even more rain than I do! These do very well in the dry Southwest. Maybe a hint to breeders to work on these further -- they are definitely beautiful.
In this Sunday Q&A, Jim, could you please explain about vinca problems. Yours are obviously gorgeous. I had the vinca disease in an annual planting area about 10 years ago. After much compost and soil conditioner, I was hoping that the soil would be okay again. I tried vinca in this area again this year. About half of the plants look okay. The other half totally shriveled up and I pulled it out. No roots had even grown. I think I'm going to give up on this but would like your opinion. They are so totally low maintenance and deer / rabbit resistant which is exactly what I need there. Thanks, Jim and Steph... Always great info on your videos.
How's that Serviceberry tree doing? I see it's still staked. I remember there was almost nothing around it a few years ago LoL.
How many hours of sunlight does this section of the garden get during the summer?
Almost 12 hours. Really very hot
Hey Jim, I have a lot of day lillies I want replaced in my backyard in zone 6 clay area. I'm looking to add some color perennials that can handle full sun. I'm so over day lillies now.
I quit using Vinca several years ago because of its issues, guess I'll try them again. We finally got a heavy rain in north Georgia last night, it's been very dry. Looks great there Jim, enjoyed Holly's photo bomb 😂
Did your bluebeard survive?
I planted vincas this year in a flower bed. I’m in Southern Ontario Canada. Zone change this year to 7 I believe. Mine are very tiny do you fertilize frequently and what is your watering schedule for your location. Mine have been in the ground for several weeks. Hope they grow and fill in like yours have. Was a bit behind on planting this year. 😊 Beautiful garden. Look forward to your next video.
Your Vinca looks so healthy. I've had trouble over the years getting mine to live long enough to get established; this year same story. I've planted twice and the second flat did better, but still have several that wilted down and died. What's the deal? Memphis, TN area, zone 8a or 8b - not sure.
Q: The Dwarf Hanoki Cypress is cute. Would it work in the back of the flower bed, that is part sun, in front of some windows, in zone 6?
hey Jim, I have had different bushes planted for weeks then all of a sudden they are all turning brown. How often do you water a big foot cleyera, sunshine ligustistrum etc, im in zone 8 and not sure what I did.
You mentioned growing groundcovers to prevent weeds, however I live in zone 9a Gulf coast (used to be 8b) and my soil is quite sandy. I worry about keeping up the fertility of my soil because of the sand, considerable watering in this heat and the fact that I live on a hill. I do have considerable groundcovers to avoid weeding (It's too darn hot here in summer). I add some leaves from my river birch tree (the positive side of this tree is small leaves that break down very quickly and the groundcovers don't seem to mind) but I do think I need to add compost/manures to improve the soil. What are your suggestions on continual improvement of sandy soils when you have groundcovers?
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Which creeping time do you use?
Hey Jim and Steph can y’all remind me of the name of the Russian sage at the end of your driveway? If you’re facing the house it’s on the right of your driveway. My husband asked me again and I forgot to write it down when Stephanie told me. Thank you so much.
'Crazy Blue'
@@stephanycoakley7352 thank you!!! You’re the best!
My sedums just planted this spring in full sun seem to flatten out and expose the middle crown. Is this normal?
Is the Skyscraper salvia a perennial in your area? Is the gerber daisy something you can plant now and it will survive the winter?
Skyscraper is a perennial here. The gerbera daisy doesn't like wet feet in the winter. You can plant now but make sure it isn't a wet area in the winter
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Jim have you tried the Heatwave vinca series that Baker Creek sells? If so, how does it compare to the varieties you've grown?
I always used vinca for annuals because of their dependability. However…my soil has apparently been infected with some sort of organism that causes a fatal “wilt disease” exclusive to vinca. I’m told there’s no way to eradicate this from the soil so vincas are no longer an option for me. 😞 Has anyone else experienced this?
Yes, I have. We are in the NC Sandhills zone 8A. It happened about 10 years ago in an area where I always planted vinca year after year. Then the blight happened and I read that it's really difficult to get the soil back to normal. Over the years, I have composted and mulched with soil conditioner type mulch all while planting other annuals that did just fine. I have recently retried growing annual vincas in this area. Oddly enough, half of them are gorgeous and thriving and the other half shriveled up just like in the past. I think I'm going to give up on this plant in this space.
@@michaelmalone8742 You could try growing them in containers.
@@michaelmalone8742 Thank you for your response. I’ve come to the same conclusion. No more vincas in that space. Quite unfortunate. Here in central Mississippi our summers are brutally hot and very few annuals will tolerate the duration and intensity of our summers as well as vincas.
I’ve found termites in my pine bark mulch…. Any suggestions?
Did I miss Pt. 1?
I labeled the drone video as part 1 from last week. Just to show an overview of the whole garden.
@@JimPutnamThank you!
My White weddings got wiped out yesterday we had a really hard rain thunderstorm and they are all laid over will they straighten back up 3rd year set of 3 I tried to knock the water out but they still stayed flopped 🤦♀️🤍🤍🤍😕😕😕 any suggestions!???
You need some dianthus! Mine has bloomed since I put it in last last fall!!!! It always has pretty white blooms I put the white vinca with it staggered for my “annual border” I love them so much I have all my beds bordered with them 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 I’ve spread my sedums out all around and adjuga