Here in MI were like 3 weeks to a month behind schedule some trees are not even fully leafed out with frost possible the next 2 nights 🤦♂️🤷♂️ this spring has been nuts
Wow, Jim, your garden is reaching the level of maturity where you can really see the layering, varying textures and color contrast. It is very beautiful and another reminder that gardening is at least 50% patience!
Everything looking great and all the upcoming construction is very exciting! I love these garden tours. I look forward to watching them after busy and hectic days. 🙌🏼
I followed your advice on cutting back small 4” pot plants I’ve planted and so glad I have they respond so well and get fuller!! Love your garden and much needed advice!!! Thanks so much!!!❤
looking great! Can’t wait for my garden to mature and fill in!!!! I ALWAYS have something to do out here … it’s never “finished” keeps me very busy active and happy gardening is definitely a lifestyle … my grandpa was 100 years old bless his sole he was out here everyday along with my grandma tending the very land I am now it must be great for your health!!! Thanks for all the invaluable knowledge you share with us !!! Sending Love Luck and Flowers!!!! 💚🤍🖤💚🤍🖤🌸🌺🪴🌿🌳🍀🍀🍀🐞🐞🐞
I am such a fan for the third year now watching your landscape unfold and shine, go from NOTHING to a gloriously populated garden, a fascinating watch. [Question: HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR WOODCHIPPED PATHS WEEDED.. do you put down anything before the chips???] You are truly converting me to an avid mulchist like you. I'm in the same zone in Greenville SC suburb and the way your plants just luxuriate in our clay tells me mulching really does feed and build our soil!!
Jim, you have helped me so much. Your garden is an inspiration on patience as it takes about 3 years for things to fill in. You taught me that and many more wonderful gardening tips.
Jim, the garden is doing great this year. We are in zone 6B (KY) and we're a few weeks behind you but we're seeing the same thing...early spring flowers and some mid/late summer flowers ahead of schedule after the 'gap'. We are still in the 70s this week with maybe a stretch to 80 if we're lucky. Plenty of rain so far this year and now we need the warmth and sunny conditions to help everything bloom and grow to full potential. Thanks for sharing with us!
It just looks beautiful! Love to see the garden's progress. Thank you so much for sharing your enthusiasm and love of plants with us. I am finished with the big spring push for planting, and my arthritic body says time to take a break from digging and just concentrate on watering. I discovered a wild bird store a couple of miles from my house, and my next priority is to restore some of the bird habitat that was destroyed when we had trees taken out or limbed up last summer. Think I'll try a bat house, too!
Projects, projects, projects.....I am experiencing the same. It can be exciting and keeps life interesting, but sure can feel overwhelming at times. I keep hoping to see the finish line looming on the horizon, but most tell me there's no such thing as a finish line when you own a home and have gardening as a hobby. Your gardens look fantastic! Love hearing about all the varieties and your experience and lessons learned in growing them.
Everything is looking awesome💚💚💚 My hosta have exploded too, 8a North Texas. I hope you'll do a video on the patio process. I want to put a landing in front of my greenhouse. I'd like to diy it and seem to learn well from your videos. Thanks for all you and Steph do!
It’s amazing just a little change in a spring season from year to year will make things grow differently than they have before. We have a full blood malamute so we definitely know about the shedding of double coats 😂
Great video to watch on a rainy day in Georgia! Wow your Pow Wow White Echinacea is covered in buds. Looks great! Wild Berry is putting on a show here. I also love the Sombrero series. Magnus, Kismet raspberry, prairie splendor, & primadonna deep rose have done well for me too.
Agree 100% with your comments regarding Echinacea PowWow white, in particular. A real real power house! Comes back reliably & more vigorous every year. PowWow wild berry isn’t as vigorous for me in Zone 7a, Maryland. Alas, I do keep trying to make “fetch happen”. I really want to see those two together, blooming away in a patch in my garden. So do the Goldfinches.
Even a Hosta I planted for a friend, saw it last weekend. 3 flower spikes! I checked the huge, old Chapel Hill Lantana at the courthouse. There's a few sprigs but it doesn't look good. Such bizarre weather since last year. I've got disfigured leaves on the Gold Agastache but growing through it. Wish my space looked half as good!
Maybe my fennel is a different variety, but mine wants to be everywhere. It also has a really deep root. I've had to dig some up that were in "the wrong place". We needed a pick/maddock to dig those puppies up, even though they were only 2 years old. Be careful.
I’ll definitely heed this warning. I planted Florence fennel last spring and it grew to about 18”, then died back over the harsh winter. To my surprise new growth sprouted from the same plant in Jan/Feb and now the plant is over 5 feet tall!
@@Kylie4Queen Also, NEVER let it go to seed. I cut a bunch of stalks down and set them on the side of the driveway for a few days before cutting them up and "sending them away". That was 4 years ago and I am STILL pulling up little seedlings from that area.
Wow. It’s come a long way in a short time! Curious about your farfugium, you haven’t shown them in a while. I’m so frustrated with mine. I see them growing in medium strips in Savannah, but mine is such a wimp, she has her own fainting couch. I nearly dug it up this spring, but didn’t get around to it.
Hey Jim, what brand of shoes are you wearing? Are they garden shoes? Great tour video, as is all your videos! Your variety is absolutely fantastic! You are a great teacher; your knowledge is outstanding!
Things are crazy down here in the Gulf Coast area of the Florida panhandle zone 8B. My Ever Midnight and Ever White agapanthus have been blooming since early April, my Soft Caress mahonia bloomed all May instead of this past winter, my very healthy White Wedding hydrangea which had been planted for a year and a half bit the bullet during the winter and I thought my marginal Lime Sizzler was gone but just in the last week, there are some tiny leaves appearing from the root. Happily, my Little Honey hydrangea which I thought was dead too, is now coming up from the roots and there are some leaves now on the bare stalks. I was glad you pointed out some of your coneflowers are not reliable as I have found that to be true here also. The most reliable ones are our native purple ones. My 3 red drift roses have been flowering for over 2 months in abundance this year. I lost a Chef's Choice rosemary this winter and am wondering why it died since yours looks very healthy and untouched in zone 7b. The 3 Sunshine Ligustrums have looked naked until just recently. This certainly has been a strange growing year so far.
My Empress of China never does that! One of mine has never bloomed in 4 years. The other one gets like 3 buds. I'm in 7a and they are in part sun, since this plant is marketed as a part shade/shade plant. I'm thinking I need to move one to full sun like you have yours in and see if I can get some flowers. That plant looks amazing in your yard!
The white butterfly towers buddleia seems to be a more vigorous grower than the magenta one. I have two of the magentas and one white and the white one is nearly twice the size of the magenta ones. Maybe just environmental but that is how they have performed so far in my garden.
Ok, I’m convinced the purple screening plant behind the St John’s Wort Brigadoon is a loropetalum now that I’ve seen it up close. Can you tell me what variety it is?
Can you do a video in details on how to make hydrangeas dark blue using the aluminum sulfate? I know youve done hydrangea videos, but can you go into detail on how to make them dark blue please? I thought the aluminum sulfate would turn them pink, but I want them to be dark electric blue, and they only get light blue right now. Great video! Thank you 🤗
Jim! Help! Something started eating the roots of my perennials. I dont notice until the plant is wilted over and I go take a close look😮 Chipmunks? Moles? Voles? What to do??😢
Here in MI were like 3 weeks to a month behind schedule some trees are not even fully leafed out with frost possible the next 2 nights 🤦♂️🤷♂️ this spring has been nuts
I just chopped my sedums in half to reset them, everything is moving kinda fast but I’m taking advantage to propagate.
Great idea! I may do that today as well. #freeplants ❤
Wow, Jim, your garden is reaching the level of maturity where you can really see the layering, varying textures and color contrast. It is very beautiful and another reminder that gardening is at least 50% patience!
Everything looking great and all the upcoming construction is very exciting! I love these garden tours. I look forward to watching them after busy and hectic days. 🙌🏼
I had so many things die. We're planting new things. Hopefully they live.
I followed your advice on cutting back small 4” pot plants I’ve planted and so glad I have they respond so well and get fuller!! Love your garden and much needed advice!!! Thanks so much!!!❤
looking great! Can’t wait for my garden to mature and fill in!!!! I ALWAYS have something to do out here … it’s never “finished” keeps me very busy active and happy gardening is definitely a lifestyle … my grandpa was 100 years old bless his sole he was out here everyday along with my grandma tending the very land I am now it must be great for your health!!! Thanks for all the invaluable knowledge you share with us !!! Sending Love Luck and Flowers!!!! 💚🤍🖤💚🤍🖤🌸🌺🪴🌿🌳🍀🍀🍀🐞🐞🐞
Hi Jim and Stephanie
Beautiful garden
Thank you for sharing
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I am such a fan for the third year now watching your landscape unfold and shine, go from NOTHING to a gloriously populated garden, a fascinating watch. [Question: HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR WOODCHIPPED PATHS WEEDED.. do you put down anything before the chips???] You are truly converting me to an avid mulchist like you. I'm in the same zone in Greenville SC suburb and the way your plants just luxuriate in our clay tells me mulching really does feed and build our soil!!
Good question!
Jim, you have helped me so much. Your garden is an inspiration on patience as it takes about 3 years for things to fill in. You taught me that and many more wonderful gardening tips.
Thank you Jim and Stephany. 🌷💚🙃
Always excited for the garden tours. Thanks Jim
WOW! Looking fantastic!! Good morning Jim and Stephanie 👋
Thank you for following along with it!
In Houston, zone 9a, my agapanthus have not even budded out yet! Crazy year!
‘Juliet’ cleyera does not exist. Every nursery, online or local have been “out of stock” for the last 12 months. Or they have discontinued selling it.
Hi Jim . Your garden looks so beautiful with these amazing plants . Have anice day .
Super Garden!
Thank you!
Everything looks great! I’m excited to see the patio and the house remodel 😊
Jim, the garden is doing great this year. We are in zone 6B (KY) and we're a few weeks behind you but we're seeing the same thing...early spring flowers and some mid/late summer flowers ahead of schedule after the 'gap'. We are still in the 70s this week with maybe a stretch to 80 if we're lucky. Plenty of rain so far this year and now we need the warmth and sunny conditions to help everything bloom and grow to full potential. Thanks for sharing with us!
All of my hostas have been out since February in zone 8a.
So full and lush!
I love your Juliet Cleyera! It’s one of the best purchases I’ve made for my garden. ❤️ And I love the dramatically purple loropetalums too.
It just looks beautiful! Love to see the garden's progress. Thank you so much for sharing your enthusiasm and love of plants with us. I am finished with the big spring push for planting, and my arthritic body says time to take a break from digging and just concentrate on watering. I discovered a wild bird store a couple of miles from my house, and my next priority is to restore some of the bird habitat that was destroyed when we had trees taken out or limbed up last summer. Think I'll try a bat house, too!
Cant wait to see the patio!
beautiful, beautiful Jim and Steph... the colors are amazing and so peaceful to watch.
I can just see bird nests lined with holly hair:)
That's why I left it there!
@@JimPutnam I do it too, human or critter, someone can use it!
Projects, projects, projects.....I am experiencing the same. It can be exciting and keeps life interesting, but sure can feel overwhelming at times. I keep hoping to see the finish line looming on the horizon, but most tell me there's no such thing as a finish line when you own a home and have gardening as a hobby. Your gardens look fantastic! Love hearing about all the varieties and your experience and lessons learned in growing them.
So many interesting plants! I agree about this being a bit odd year weatherwise, in terms of when plants are blooming, or lack thereof.
My fall mums are blooming
My Hosta are, everything seems out of phase.
Everything is looking awesome💚💚💚
My hosta have exploded too, 8a North Texas.
I hope you'll do a video on the patio process. I want to put a landing in front of my greenhouse. I'd like to diy it and seem to learn well from your videos.
Thanks for all you and Steph do!
Yes, all looking wonderful there Jim. We have the Chelsea flower show over here all week….ever tempted to visit?
I definitely will some day. I have lots of friends participating in different ways
It’s amazing just a little change in a spring season from year to year will make things grow differently than they have before. We have a full blood malamute so we definitely know about the shedding of double coats 😂
Great video to watch on a rainy day in Georgia! Wow your Pow Wow White Echinacea is covered in buds. Looks great! Wild Berry is putting on a show here. I also love the Sombrero series. Magnus, Kismet raspberry, prairie splendor, & primadonna deep rose have done well for me too.
Agree 100% with your comments regarding Echinacea PowWow white, in particular. A real real power house! Comes back reliably & more vigorous every year. PowWow wild berry isn’t as vigorous for me in Zone 7a, Maryland. Alas, I do keep trying to make “fetch happen”. I really want to see those two together, blooming away in a patch in my garden. So do the Goldfinches.
🪴🌳🪴🌺LOOKING GREAT‼️🌸🪴🌳🪴
It's looking fantastic you guys! Keep up the great work! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for the tour. I look forward to seeing the progress of the ageratums.
My hostas are starting to bloom as well. Pretty early for Maryland.
So much visual interest in your gardens! Pow Wow series has done really well for me as well.
Even a Hosta I planted for a friend, saw it last weekend. 3 flower spikes! I checked the huge, old Chapel Hill Lantana at the courthouse. There's a few sprigs but it doesn't look good. Such bizarre weather since last year. I've got disfigured leaves on the Gold Agastache but growing through it.
Wish my space looked half as good!
My hostas are sending up flowers too! So early. Pretty wild
Interesting about putting aluminium sulphate on half the pot. I’ll try that thanks
Maybe my fennel is a different variety, but mine wants to be everywhere. It also has a really deep root. I've had to dig some up that were in "the wrong place". We needed a pick/maddock to dig those puppies up, even though they were only 2 years old. Be careful.
I’ll definitely heed this warning. I planted Florence fennel last spring and it grew to about 18”, then died back over the harsh winter. To my surprise new growth sprouted from the same plant in Jan/Feb and now the plant is over 5 feet tall!
@@Kylie4Queen Also, NEVER let it go to seed. I cut a bunch of stalks down and set them on the side of the driveway for a few days before cutting them up and "sending them away". That was 4 years ago and I am STILL pulling up little seedlings from that area.
@@cherylsmith5097 thank you for the advice!
Wow. It’s come a long way in a short time! Curious about your farfugium, you haven’t shown them in a while. I’m so frustrated with mine. I see them growing in medium strips in Savannah, but mine is such a wimp, she has her own fainting couch. I nearly dug it up this spring, but didn’t get around to it.
😂
Hey Jim, what brand of shoes are you wearing? Are they garden shoes? Great tour video, as is all your videos! Your variety is absolutely fantastic! You are a great teacher; your knowledge is outstanding!
Beautiful
Our hostas got a bit ahead of themselves too, Jim…I’m in NH, temps got to 32 a few nights ago…had some damage to leaves…ugh! 😥😣😢
thanks for all the great videos! Kind regards from Denmark
Hello. I was in Denmark a week ago. Beautiful place!
@@JimPutnam oh so great! :) I hope the weather was ok!
It was perfect while I was there!
Things are crazy down here in the Gulf Coast area of the Florida panhandle zone 8B. My Ever Midnight and Ever White agapanthus have been blooming since early April, my Soft Caress mahonia bloomed all May instead of this past winter, my very healthy White Wedding hydrangea which had been planted for a year and a half bit the bullet during the winter and I thought my marginal Lime Sizzler was gone but just in the last week, there are some tiny leaves appearing from the root. Happily, my Little Honey hydrangea which I thought was dead too, is now coming up from the roots and there are some leaves now on the bare stalks. I was glad you pointed out some of your coneflowers are not reliable as I have found that to be true here also. The most reliable ones are our native purple ones. My 3 red drift roses have been flowering for over 2 months in abundance this year. I lost a Chef's Choice rosemary this winter and am wondering why it died since yours looks very healthy and untouched in zone 7b. The 3 Sunshine Ligustrums have looked naked until just recently. This certainly has been a strange growing year so far.
My Empress of China never does that! One of mine has never bloomed in 4 years. The other one gets like 3 buds. I'm in 7a and they are in part sun, since this plant is marketed as a part shade/shade plant. I'm thinking I need to move one to full sun like you have yours in and see if I can get some flowers. That plant looks amazing in your yard!
The white butterfly towers buddleia seems to be a more vigorous grower than the magenta one. I have two of the magentas and one white and the white one is nearly twice the size of the magenta ones. Maybe just environmental but that is how they have performed so far in my garden.
The white is definitely faster growing! I've had both
Beautiful garden!
AMAZING ❤
Loved this video!! As always LOL 😊
❤🙏hello, fun gardening.
Ok, I’m convinced the purple screening plant behind the St John’s Wort Brigadoon is a loropetalum now that I’ve seen it up close. Can you tell me what variety it is?
Can you do a video in details on how to make hydrangeas dark blue using the aluminum sulfate? I know youve done hydrangea videos, but can you go into detail on how to make them dark blue please? I thought the aluminum sulfate would turn them pink, but I want them to be dark electric blue, and they only get light blue right now. Great video! Thank you 🤗
How many of the Brigadoon St John’s wort did you plant there? They look great.
Is it helpful to remove the flower spikes on hostas? Are they spray done growing for the season?
Jim! Help! Something started eating the roots of my perennials. I dont notice until the plant is wilted over and I go take a close look😮 Chipmunks? Moles? Voles? What to do??😢
Do you cut ageratum to make it bushier as well?
Where did you get the brigadoon st johns wort?
My asters are blooming now. I wonder if they’ll continue to bloom through fall??
It's all good questions. I think my fall anemones are going to do the same thing.
My asters are blooming as well
Would you ever give Dahlia bulbs to a local that doesn’t have any?
Beautiful garden, Jim. What is the blue, sparkly shrub at 16:59-ish?
What is the variegated plant next to the Weigela? I want to say it's a variegated fatsia.
Similar. It's a fatshedra
Do you have to pinch the Raspberry Ripple Zinnias?
I have pinched mine. They will be fuller for it
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