I am with you 100% on nepeta. I have Walkers Low as a 40 ft hedge on both sides of my cut flower garden and also in my landscape beds. Completely covered with bees in the spring and early summer and smothers the weeds and grass that would creep into the beds. Easy to divide and is a work horse in my garden.
What a coincidence that this video came out today, Yuliya! I also planted some nepeta earlier today that I got on clearance. I planted them some millennium alliums! Great minds think alike! 😉
A while back, you gave some tips on how to manage snake root, and I have learned to love it-which is good since it is everywhere. I have a steep slope, and I cut the snake root back, giving it the "Chelsea chop," pretty much once a month until July or so. The roots hold back the soil, and the cutbacks keep the height (mostly) in check. It looks really pretty now and the pollinators are happy too.
I'm so envious of your rain shower. Here in Kansas City it's been so dry in August ans September so far and the forecast looks dry. 😢 I love all your videos,you are so knowledgeable. It shows in your beautiful garden. ❤
Good reminder as I was thinking when the alliums were blooming that I needed to find something to cover the yellowing foliage. I have a lot of nepetas of one sort or another -- they are just such useful plants. Where did the summer go? Now I am trying to order bulbs and some are already sold out. Thanks for another lovely visit to your garden.
Just found my turtlehead blooming after I planted it about 3 yrs ago. It has been hidden under some scrub bushes that I cut back this summer. Really enjoy your channel. TFS.
I love the simplicity of your design. I think the older I get I prefer a lot of shades of green w/ a drift of one flowering perennial. I spent about a week pulling weeds and thug plants across the back fence. I have quack grass, creeping bellflower, lilies of the valley, orange😱 daylilies and tall phlox that crept over from my neighbors' yard. This year, I windowpane-planted smooth hydrangeas (Invincibelle, Invincibelle Blush and Invincibelle Ruby in a hedge I hope knits together one day. I received a back-ordered 'Ann Folkard' geranium yesterday so planted it between the hydrangeas. The dark green w/ chartreuse geranium leaves. Perfection. To ready an area for future hydrangeas (I think I'll repeat the pattern on opposite side of a hedge of 'Therese Bugnet' shrub roses) I dug up and divided some tiny-leaf hostas (maybe 'Mouse Ears'?) and epimedium that invasive weeds sprouted up in the middle of. Gosh! They really expanded when dug up after a decade or more in one spot. I am so envious of your Solomon's Seal. I've tried several times to grow it, but squirrels 🐿️ usually dig them up. I wish we could swap plants. 😊
We are planning to try Henry Eiler’s white flowered skullcap Prairie Snow for forage mid late season - has a bit of height but not giant and because of its relatively compact habit thinking more manageable. Will see!
Appreciate your point of view on white snake root. We let it grow, usually where our Hyssop grows but, like you, we pull it and allows only so much. It’s a wonderful pollinator for later in the year when it is sorely needed by pollinators and is an important host plant. It is aggressive but easy to pull. Its leaves can look very similar to hyssop so it requires paying some attention when pulling since we grow it with hyssop l.
It's so satisfying when you can clean up a space and start with a new design! Looke great. So, you were pulling snakeroot, yet later you showed a beautiful "bugbane or snakeroot' Was one different than the other. I cannot find the sweet spot for bugbane. I have it on the north wall, a west side and both are crispy? Help, lol. I love your trellis. Is it available online?
Hi! Everything is looking great! Glad you’re wearing gloves when pulling that much snake root! Abraham Lincon’s mother died along with many others in the 1800s from milk sickness, caused by cows eating the leaves. Not sure how toxic it is when handling, but better safe than sorry. I have a darker purplish leaf variety that I cut the blooms off of as soon as I see the pollinators are not visiting anymore. I didn’t do that the first year and had a situation the following spring with volunteer plants much like yours. I also cut off all the seed heads from my clumps of northern sea oats before they ripen and drop. Usually when they start getting a burgundy tint. They look great in vases with drying hydrangea flowers for the fall and winter indoors, or in big tied up bunches among pumpkins for fall porch decor. “Invasives” can be great plants when isolated by themselves in beds or controlled by removing seed heads.
Great video, Yulia! I love the idea of hiding the allium foliage with other plants. I'm curious about the variety of llium you have in that area? I had lots of purple sensation along my walkway border. However, I'm finding each year they get smaller and fewer. I am ordering larger allium varieties this year in hopes they naturalize better. Also, I agree the chelone is great! I added a 'hot lips' variety to my garden last year. Now, I would love to find the white glabra variety. I purchased some of the variegated Solomons seal at a plant sale this spring. It is very slow going in my garden. I had a very small bit from a friend that was several years old and not spreading much, so I purchased a larger plant this year. The deer do go after it in my garden so I have to plant it closer to the house 🤞 how wonderful of you to share yours 💚🌱
Thanks Steph! I find that fertilizing my alliums just as the foliage shows up helps a ton! Also dividing them every three years or so. They do need really good drainage
I discovered snakeroot last year when I let the weed grow because I read it had white flowers Sept-Oct. The foliage was nice (mine is more bronze than yours), it was very upright and not floppy (no staking needed), and it provides flowers late fall which I have very few of. This year, I potted up seedlings to grow out a bit and relocate where I want them. I love this weed!😂
I recently planted some turtle head that I bought online in the spring. I didn’t realize how tall it can get. I actually planted it near my variegated Solomon’s seal. I might have to move my Solomon’s seal because every year its leaves are being eaten up by what I think is some sort of brown or Asian garden beetle.
I love it! Amazing how a small change makes such a big difference. May I ask, what brown mulch is that? I live in south Jersey and cannot seem to find mulch that is that fine.
Looks good! I also have a bunch of native plants to clear, but I'm waiting for cooler weather. It's in the mid-80's here. What variety of allium is that? Purple sensation?
Funny, I was just admiring a snake root plant I have in my back shade area. I let most of the natives that find their way in go. Also have turtleheads right near them. I am struggling to get Soloman Seal established. Yours looks beautiful!
I think nepeta is gorgeous, I prefer it to Salvia and russian sage but I can't grow it, the neighborhood cats eat it and roll over it. I know they say cats are not attracted to it but they are in my neighborhood. The bed will be so pretty next year.
Are there some types (species, cultivars) of turtlehead that are more powdery mildew resistant? It seems to me siting in terms of sun is tricky because of this issue
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I am with you 100% on nepeta. I have Walkers Low as a 40 ft hedge on both sides of my cut flower garden and also in my landscape beds. Completely covered with bees in the spring and early summer and smothers the weeds and grass that would creep into the beds. Easy to divide and is a work horse in my garden.
Just discovering this now LOL. But in our case, we just have a small drift - chartreuse on the loose - to echo the gold of our conifers…
Beautiful combo ideas Yulia ❤🎉😮😊
Thank you for the wonderful ideas with plants combination❤❤❤👩🌾
That area looks stunning now!!!! Love nepeta!!
What a coincidence that this video came out today, Yuliya! I also planted some nepeta earlier today that I got on clearance. I planted them some millennium alliums! Great minds think alike! 😉
A while back, you gave some tips on how to manage snake root, and I have learned to love it-which is good since it is everywhere. I have a steep slope, and I cut the snake root back, giving it the "Chelsea chop," pretty much once a month until July or so. The roots hold back the soil, and the cutbacks keep the height (mostly) in check. It looks really pretty now and the pollinators are happy too.
That sounds lovely!
A while back you mentioned planting to hide allium foliage…thanks for the reminder! Your plant combos are gorgeous. 😍
Yes, finally 😄
Such great information!!
Beautiful Yulia. Thank you for the plant combo suggestions. Very helpful.
❤❤love your channel ❤huge fan of nepata too.
It looks great 👍 👌
I'm so envious of your rain shower. Here in Kansas City it's been so dry in August ans September so far and the forecast looks dry. 😢 I love all your videos,you are so knowledgeable. It shows in your beautiful garden. ❤
Thank you!
Good reminder as I was thinking when the alliums were blooming that I needed to find something to cover the yellowing foliage. I have a lot of nepetas of one sort or another -- they are just such useful plants. Where did the summer go? Now I am trying to order bulbs and some are already sold out. Thanks for another lovely visit to your garden.
Nice to see your garden, listen to your educational talk and the beautiful you. Love❤
I adore Solomon seal, it's really really hard to find!!! I'm sure the project you are taking them to will be beautiful. Adore your garden, Yuliya! ❤
Thank you!
Obsessed with that turtle head plant..beautiful..on my bucket list
Awesome!
Just found my turtlehead blooming after I planted it about 3 yrs ago. It has been hidden under some scrub bushes that I cut back this summer. Really enjoy your channel. TFS.
Huge fan of nepeta, too. Due to early bloom time and efficient cut backs,I got 3 bloom periods with mine this year (normally 2).
Wow! amazing
what a wonderful combination , I need to try that in my garden !
Thank you!
I love the simplicity of your design. I think the older I get I prefer a lot of shades of green w/ a drift of one flowering perennial.
I spent about a week pulling weeds and thug plants across the back fence. I have quack grass, creeping bellflower, lilies of the valley, orange😱 daylilies and tall phlox that crept over from my neighbors' yard. This year, I windowpane-planted smooth hydrangeas (Invincibelle, Invincibelle Blush and Invincibelle Ruby in a hedge I hope knits together one day. I received a back-ordered 'Ann Folkard' geranium yesterday so planted it between the hydrangeas. The dark green w/ chartreuse geranium leaves. Perfection. To ready an area for future hydrangeas (I think I'll repeat the pattern on opposite side of a hedge of 'Therese Bugnet' shrub roses) I dug up and divided some tiny-leaf hostas (maybe 'Mouse Ears'?) and epimedium that invasive weeds sprouted up in the middle of. Gosh! They really expanded when dug up after a decade or more in one spot.
I am so envious of your Solomon's Seal. I've tried several times to grow it, but squirrels 🐿️ usually dig them up. I wish we could swap plants. 😊
so funny, Solomon seal is either too aggressive or too slow 😆
We are planning to try Henry Eiler’s white flowered skullcap Prairie Snow for forage mid late season - has a bit of height but not giant and because of its relatively compact habit thinking more manageable. Will see!
Love the simplicity!
Thanks Brad!!!
Looks good! Love the mix of plants and the grass in the background!
Thanks for suggesting the plant combinations.
My turtlehead grows 6×6 it's huge but pretty love the allium nepata combination
Love it
Appreciate your point of view on white snake root. We let it grow, usually where our Hyssop grows but, like you, we pull it and allows only so much. It’s a wonderful pollinator for later in the year when it is sorely needed by pollinators and is an important host plant. It is aggressive but easy to pull. Its leaves can look very similar to hyssop so it requires paying some attention when pulling since we grow it with hyssop l.
Yes! I really like the bloom too, but boy it's aggressive
Great idea 👍
It's so satisfying when you can clean up a space and start with a new design! Looke great. So, you were pulling snakeroot, yet later you showed a beautiful "bugbane or snakeroot' Was one different than the other. I cannot find the sweet spot for bugbane. I have it on the north wall, a west side and both are crispy? Help, lol. I love your trellis. Is it available online?
Great job! ❤
Thank you!
Hi! Everything is looking great! Glad you’re wearing gloves when pulling that much snake root! Abraham Lincon’s mother died along with many others in the 1800s from milk sickness, caused by cows eating the leaves. Not sure how toxic it is when handling, but better safe than sorry. I have a darker purplish leaf variety that I cut the blooms off of as soon as I see the pollinators are not visiting anymore. I didn’t do that the first year and had a situation the following spring with volunteer plants much like yours. I also cut off all the seed heads from my clumps of northern sea oats before they ripen and drop. Usually when they start getting a burgundy tint. They look great in vases with drying hydrangea flowers for the fall and winter indoors, or in big tied up bunches among pumpkins for fall porch decor. “Invasives” can be great plants when isolated by themselves in beds or controlled by removing seed heads.
I have two big patches of snakeroot. Love the way they look in bloom
Great video, Yulia! I love the idea of hiding the allium foliage with other plants. I'm curious about the variety of llium you have in that area? I had lots of purple sensation along my walkway border. However, I'm finding each year they get smaller and fewer. I am ordering larger allium varieties this year in hopes they naturalize better. Also, I agree the chelone is great! I added a 'hot lips' variety to my garden last year. Now, I would love to find the white glabra variety. I purchased some of the variegated Solomons seal at a plant sale this spring. It is very slow going in my garden. I had a very small bit from a friend that was several years old and not spreading much, so I purchased a larger plant this year. The deer do go after it in my garden so I have to plant it closer to the house 🤞 how wonderful of you to share yours 💚🌱
Thanks Steph! I find that fertilizing my alliums just as the foliage shows up helps a ton! Also dividing them every three years or so. They do need really good drainage
@greatgardensforall thanks Yulia! I'll try bulb tone when I see their foliage in Spring
Spitvork❤
You really can't fail with Nepeta!! I tried tutlehead "Hotlips" about 2 seasons ago...total fail. It was in to sunny of an area.
I discovered snakeroot last year when I let the weed grow because I read it had white flowers Sept-Oct. The foliage was nice (mine is more bronze than yours), it was very upright and not floppy (no staking needed), and it provides flowers late fall which I have very few of. This year, I potted up seedlings to grow out a bit and relocate where I want them. I love this weed!😂
I have two big patches of it, and love the bloom at the end of the season ☺️
I recently planted some turtle head that I bought online in the spring. I didn’t realize how tall it can get. I actually planted it near my variegated Solomon’s seal. I might have to move my Solomon’s seal because every year its leaves are being eaten up by what I think is some sort of brown or Asian garden beetle.
Yes, red lily beetles love Solomon seal. I collect them daily during peak season
I love it! Amazing how a small change makes such a big difference.
May I ask, what brown mulch is that? I live in south Jersey and cannot seem to find mulch that is that fine.
Cedar mulch, I prefer hardwood but couldn’t find any
@@greatgardensforall More expensive, no doubt, but looks beautiful.
Olá 👋 boa noite ..vc sosseso. 👍
Looks good! I also have a bunch of native plants to clear, but I'm waiting for cooler weather. It's in the mid-80's here. What variety of allium is that? Purple sensation?
I have different types: ambassador, globe master, pinball wizard, purple sensation
@@greatgardensforall Thanks, Yulia!
Funny, I was just admiring a snake root plant I have in my back shade area. I let most of the natives that find their way in go. Also have turtleheads right near them. I am struggling to get Soloman Seal established. Yours looks beautiful!
I have a ton of snakeroot, about to bloom too. Really beautiful!
I think nepeta is gorgeous, I prefer it to Salvia and russian sage but I can't grow it, the neighborhood cats eat it and roll over it. I know they say cats are not attracted to it but they are in my neighborhood. The bed will be so pretty next year.
Now, We have a black bear digging in the garden! Digging acorns and plants i just put in. And the deer aren’t deterred!
Yikes! 😧
Bulb alliums won't grow in my heavy clay, but the little summer-blooming alliums do very well.
So good to know!
❤🙏
Are there some types (species, cultivars) of turtlehead that are more powdery mildew resistant? It seems to me siting in terms of sun is tricky because of this issue
Not that I know of unfortunately.
@@greatgardensforall Thank you for letting me know that it is not just me
How do you control pachysandra Its smothering out my hosts Thank you
I keep pulling mine where I don't want it
Where is you candle plant ? ( culture root)
In the sidewalk border 😊
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The deer eat the turtle head
Yes, unfortunately, but I've never seen them touch nepeta and alliums