August Garden Tour of My Carolina Garden | North Carolina full sun gardens
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- Take an August Garden Tour of My Carolina Garden and my North Carolina full sun gardens! Mother Nature has taken a toll on my August garden, with a period of drought this summer, some tropical storm flooding, and heat indexes in the triple digits. With all of that in mind, the gardens are looking a little tired. In this last week, the temperatures have dropped just a bit. That has helped motivate me to get out in the garden cleaning up, weeding, deadheading and clipping back some plants.
My name is Nicole Roggeman, and I am a gardener in zone 8B in coastal North Carolina. Gardening is my passion, and I like to try new combinations of plants together, I plant for fun and try not to worry too much. Since My Carolina Garden is in Wilmington NC, we have hot, humid summers, and have sandy soil here. These are all things I keep in mind throughout the growing season. If you like my video content, please subscribe, and stick with me as my gardens grow!
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Nicole, your garden has been through a lot but it is coming back to life. I can see the improvement since the rain has left. Keep up the good
gardening. Here in Il we have had drought and high temps. Thanks for sharing. See you next time.
Goodness, the more I hear from people, the more I can see no area is immune to challenging weather. We have a lot to battle through with Mother Nature, but that's why they say gardening is a labor of love. Thank you for your kind & supportive message! See you next time! 😄💚
The north may have luscious gardens right now but very soon they will be frozen and ours will be rejuvenated. But I do understand what you are mean! Your garden is still very beautiful
It's true, our gardens work in phases, and rejuvenation is heading our way soon. I just didn't want to be showing a boring garden, and I think it got in my head 🤪
Thank you for this message!! 💚
still beautiful. i loved the video, you do such a great job with colors and the plants. thank you for sharing your garden with us. i love all your videos.
Thank you for this awesome message! I love the support the gardening community gives to help us get through the blah times of year. Our gardens are tired now, but the heat won't stay forever. Have a great day!
Your garden looks great. At this point in summer I'm just happy to see anything blooming. Those blue birds look so good where you have them and keep the whimsy look of the shrubs, I like them like that 😁
@sharonhart1232 awe, thank you! 💚 I'm really happy to hear that. I think seeing other's more shady or more northern gardens got in my head. 😅 I'm also loving those sweet blue birds 🐦💕 Thanks again!
@@mycarolinagarden I get bummed out watching videos of northern gardens right now too lol but I have to remind myself how I was planting in February while their ground was still frozen and that makes me feel better 🤣
I was always getting bugs on my crapemytle. This year I cut all the bad branches and used one application of Bioadvanced Tree and Shurb Protect and Feed I'm so glad they are beautiful this year ❤️ try it
THANK YOU! That's a wonderful suggestion, and I will try it!
It's Beautiful 😍 what are the green and white spiky plants along the peninsula? It's all part of gardening you are doing great job keep it up
Thank you for your sweet message! The green and white plants that look like "scary" spikey are Golden Sword Yucca. But if you're talking about the lower/smaller ones lining the front of the garden, that's Liriope. ☺ I'm a big fan of both. 💚
Hi there! Thanks for taking us along your real life garden journey where not everything is perfect all the time. I feel you show gardens that are obtainable for the average person. I look forward to seeing more of your southern garden. 😀
What a great message to get, thank you! I certainly don't want to make boring videos, so I worried a bit (clearly) that what I have wasn't showy enough. It's real though, and more than anything I want to be genuine. Anyway, I appreciate you. ☺️
I can’t agree more !
I almost gave up gardening looking at all the professionally groomed yards. The reality is different and I should keep on trying and give myself credit for the effort. Thank you for being genuine . And by the way - your yard is perfect - you have a generous size garden and it looks amazing. I have only 3 small flower beds and a small veggie garden - and they are not any near this gorgeous :(
Hi Nicole, The front garden I would leave the shrub looking whimsy, they are beautiful! I was thinking that maybe when you had the flood from the storm, all that water was running off other peoples property. There may have been weed killer, or salted pool water mixed in. That could have taken its toll on some of your misfits. Just a thought. However, your garden is still very beautiful 😍
Thanks so much for this sweet message! You're right - I hadn't even thought about what else the flood water could have had in it. Ah, just a little extra challenge to battle through. The life of a gardener! 😁
Yep things in my garden are looking very tired and already have leaves falling from an oak tree earlier than normal! My potted plants are mostly still going strong and I would enjoy them more if the mosquitos weren't so bad right now and I could sit out on the porch! Thanks for showing us around your lovely garden!
Gosh yes, the mosquitoes are a problem for me as well. It'll be nice when the stage we're in fades out and we get relief in the temps, humidity and bugs ☺️ Thanks so much for your message!
Your hard work really shows. You deal with dollar weed, I deal with wild violets . I have always passed up purple hearts but having seen them in your pots next year I'm going to try them and see if they do as well for me as they do for you. I'm with you on the abelia let them grow freely they look great!
I love this message so much! Purple Heart is at least worth a try. It's so easy to grow in soil OR water, and it roots fairly quickly. And thanks for the thought on the Abelia! I'm thinking it stays wild, too! 😁💚
Stef crepe Myrtle look straggly for one of two reasons not enough sunlight or over pruning otherwise it would be beautiful in my opinion check those things out.
Thanks so much for your suggestions! I appreciate it.
@@mycarolinagarden You’re welcome your garden looks great!👍🏼
Don't feel bad about your garden. I think we all experience tired gardens come August, no matter where you live. I live up north in New Hampshire and we had an extremely humid and hot summer with not much rain. Gardens usually bounce back once the cooler weather returns. 😊🌸
Your message is exactly why I love the gardening community! Just the support you need to get you through a blah moment. Thank you for reaching out from New Hampshire! 😄💚
Hi Nicole🌺. Your garden looks amazing in August and you can add some flowering plant like vinca, snapdragon, creeping plumbego, amsonia, bee palm monarda , blue color of rose of Sharon , tecoma , blue lobelia, penstemon , agastache , Carolina jasmine . If you trimmed the abelia shrubs beautifully you can add hydrangeas behind them . Have a great day.🌺🌻🌺
Thank you for your thoughtful message! You have lots of beautiful ideas 😄💚I have been looking at the blue rose of sharon, as well as purple! Hope you're having a great day, and thanks for writing!
Your gardens are just beautiful! I am starting out in Charleston with trying to plant a large front and back yard. I am just so excited for what’s to come!
I am so excited for you!! I love Charleston so much. I was there a couple of weeks ago and it was so hot and humid, just like Wilmington, so we have a lot of similar conditions to deal with. But nevertheless, we live in beautiful areas, and I hope you keep me posted about gardening in your Charleston yard!!!
Your gardens are lovely & I like the names you gave each area especially ( my miss fit toys )so cute. I’ve cut back most things here & some have a second bloom but we’ve had none stop high 90 & 100 degree temps. I’m just doing good to keep them alive. Happy gardening 😊
Thank you so much for this sweet message! That's right, it's all you can do some days to just keep things alive 😁 Gardening is indeed a labor of love 💚I appreciate your messages!
Exactly, my balcony is poor in flowers now and 2 weeks ago it was gorgeous, but we have a lot of other plante to bring us joy. That little tree is not little at all!
@goctalis3064 yes, our plants show their beauty in phases, and we have to be thankful for those moments, knowing they may pass too soon. But as you said, there are other plants to bring us joy ❤️
Put toothpaste on fire ant bites and wasp stings will take all the pain out I got stung several times yesterday by a wasp I immediately put tooth paste on the arm where I got stung. It took all the pain out in just a few minutes. The same with fire ants.
@lindamartin8614 great tip!! I didn't know that!
gorgeous August garden!
@@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard thank you so much!!
We all have our challenges. Love how you and the frog are sitting in the same pose at the end.
Yes indeed we do. Thank you ☺️💚
Beautiful garden 😍 thanks for sharing!
@@SammieProm thank YOU for writing! ☺️💚
Girl, the fire ants. One moment everything is fine and the next you are covered out of nowhere. I know you are looking at your garden with a critical eye, but I see beauty and resilience. Im jealous that you can find such great plants on clearance. I check all my places once a week, and all they have is plumbago. Not even joking 😂
And the dang fire ant bites take forever to heal on top of it!! I'm so itchy today. 🤣 It's disappointing to see the garden centers clear out all the goodies, especially when you WANT TO BUY STUFF. Ugh, mums and croton is all there will be moving forward...
@@mycarolinagarden I feel the same way! 😄
No matter what, your yard is always impressive. Tfs
I appreciate that SO much. Seriously. 💚
@@mycarolinagarden you're SO welcome
Another great video! I struggle with creating shapes/ovals to create new gardens! How do you do it? 😅 Your mic sounds great! Would you mind sharing the recording gear you use for your content?
Ooo, creating curved beds is my favorite thing. My husband probably curses me when he mows, but I love the way it looks 🤣 I'm old school and just use a foot edger, nothing fancy. Yes, I'm happy to share the recording gear I use. The mics are Hollyland Lark M1 Wireless Lavalier Microphone. Maybe $100 or so on Amazon. 😄
@@mycarolinagarden Getting my inspiration from you! I'm sure your husband doesn't mind at all! Thanks for the info on your mic! Do you use a camera or a phone for video? TIA!!!
@@SouthCarolinaTransPlant I use a camera - Canon 80D. It's not the newest by now but I love it!
@@mycarolinagarden Thank you!
Northerner here! Don’t be jealous!
Went from rainy spring where slugs pretty much decimated everything, to extreme heat and drought. My garden looks horrible. We are finally dipping down next week and I plan on doing an entire revamp. Our summers are starting to rival yours and I think it’s time to rethink how and what I plant. I just can’t keep up water wise.
And just want to add -Wilmington is my dream location! I love it there. 😊
And your garden still looks beautiful. I can’t believe it after that flooding you had!
Please keep up the videos,I am really enjoying them!
@cshamber I am so thankful for your message - I think it shows the grass is always greener. Thank you for the perspective ☺️ As for Wilmington, you have good taste. I often think it's a dream living here, because it's like vacation all the time. I hope you get your dream come true 💚 Have a great night!
It all still looks really pretty and colorful. 🌱 🌸 😁
@debbie2917 I appreciate that. I think seeing other more shady or more northern gardens got in my head ☺️💚🌺