Seems odd to say, but I would offer up asparagus. I planted a root crown in my flower bed, and if you let the spears grow, it provides such a pretty feathery structure for a full sun spot. People ask me all the time what it is and are always surprised to hear it’s an edible.
Love your garden. Thank you. I'm going to have morning glories. And bluebells to bbn my garden one day when I get my home. Your garden is absolutely beautiful.
I live in New York State and love Solomon's Seal for a shady area. The small flowers are bee friendly, but the leaves turn golden in autumn and are so pretty! I planted some in a corner where we were having trouble growing anything and it filled in the space a bit more every year!
I’ve been watching you for years and this video was amazing. I’ve watched you because I’ve been gardening for 50 years and I’m always interested in others gardens and you have a great relaxed way. This video showed so much more than we’ve ever seen in other garden tours. Excellent video and I’m very impressed by this view. It’s over and above the average garden.
One underused plant is bugbane Cimicifuga, stays nice looking all year, dark foliage, white flowers late season and the bugs don’t eat it and I’ve never had deer munch on it either. Grows in a shady location.
Just a refreshing joy to watch someone that loves gardening and lives in the real world. I'm always glad to see when you have a new video. And it so makes me smile to hear you say "Mr. Much More Patient"
I loved this video! I discovered Bluestone Perennials about 15 years ago and have ordered from them pretty much every year!. We don't have a good local nursery so shopping online is the only way I can find unique perennial plants. The first gardening show I watched years ago was A Gardener's Diary with Erica Glasener where she toured home gardens all over the country. It changed my whole view of gardening! I've also subscribed to a lot of gardening magazines over the years (Fine Gardening, Country Gardens), which made me aware of all the great plants available.
I have to say your voice made it a lot easier to just listen as I did some work. So thank you for the few minutes of being able to focus on you. I will be going back to watch everything a little better. Thanks again. Love your channel!
Thanks for all the info!! Love the new varieties i never knew about, it takes a lifetime of gardening to learn all of them. That to me is the exciting part!!! So happy your sharing, my ch thanks!
One of our favorites that we don't see in other gardens much is chelone obliqua. It grows in fairly deep dappled shade for us (under a dense grapevine) and blooms prolifically with pink snapdragon-like flowers in late summer through fall. Shade + color + fall blooming are all wins in our book.
I spent the last 3 hours researching how to get dahlias launched in my garden next spring, and I'm now utterly obsessed with your channel. You are really good at this. Every video is informative, inspiring, and confidence-building. I have developed a list of about ten new things to add to my existing endless list of projects. Also, you're really cute.
Love that you included Barrenwort in this presentation. I planted it for the first time when I did a massive hosta "rearrangement" and moved almost 50 plants from the driveway entrance of my home to the fenced in back yard. I finally had enough of feeding a local deer herd. The project was overwhelming. The following year I was just getting the rhythm of caring for the new fence border when I was weeding and very nearly plucked out the Barrnwort! What stopped me was the most beautiful teeny tiny flower imaginable.....almost made me want to believe in fairies. This wirely little rascal is a dream plant and well worth your mention.
I love that you garden in Wisconsin! I see all of these gorgeous plants on so many YT videos from places like California & Florida; things that I could never grow in Illinois. I've not heard of *any* of your profiled plants, so many neat new things to look for! Thank you!
Hands down you are one of the best Garden you tube channels out there. I will agree with a previous post your voice is so nice as you take us through the garden or even when you act a little funny. I learn so much from you this year since finding your channel and love that you dont have all the normal box store plants. You have inspired me to find Nurseries where I can find other plants that are not normally found. by the way love your two beautiful dogs. Keep up the awesome work you do and as many of your followers I am always looking for your videos when they post.
I love that you are talking about unusual plants. I have thalicrums, I first saw them when I took a trip to Bainbridge Island , Washington. Arranged by Horticulture magazine, guest speakers and tours of various gardens, best trip ever. I got to visit Dan Hinkley's Heronswood, before it was sold, so many unusual plants, we were able to buy plants, too. I brought home Black Stockings. And now I'm retired from our business, and I have my dream job. I work seasonably at a family owned nursery for my cousin taking care of plants, selling etc. It's a wonderful nursery, if you're ever in Chicago area, actually NW Indiana, you should come visit us.
For me, I prefer plants that give striking autumn colour like Cutleaf Sumac, Amur Maples, Amsonia, Spireas, Colocacias, and several others that I haven't learned the names of. I like plants with unusual leaf shapes and colours so that I can rely less on flowers, which usually come and go so quickly.
I absolutely love love Mountain Mint (in your video.) Yes, it spreads. But in my front garden against the house, it hasn't gone crazy. I really appreciate that I don't have to weed b/c it's so dense. One thing I love about it: the architectural stiff stems/flower heads over the winter. I love to cut some in the spring and spray paint them & stick them into my pots of pansies. I haven't seen anyone else do this. They look fantastic.
I love all the filipendulas but my favorite is, "filipendula rubra queen of the prairie, with its 5 ft. tall fluffy pink flowers. It too has legs but doesn't take over, it slowly travels. Another is wood poppy(celandine)Stylophorum diphyllum - semi shade, intriguing foliage and yellow poppies. It blooms in front of my white bleeding heart(Dicentra Spectabilis). I love yellow flowers with white flowers .
Have to agree with you about the mountain mint! It is constantly covered with such a wide range of pollinators all different species of bees, butterfly and pollinating flies.
Thank you so much for mentioning pycanthemum muticum! It is a beautiful plant, one that I could pretty much only find in native garden centers, and it is such an important one for pollinators, especially for down here in Maryland. I had not considered it's use for flower arrangements, I will absolutely start doing that!
I absolutely love my epimedium! I discovered this plant at a local garden club plant sale and it turned out to be the classic yellow flower. Thinking they were all yellow I found another in my garden center and planted it also in my new shade garden under a magnolia tree. Surprise! Next early spring when it bloomed, It bloomed pinkish red! And the leaves have a gorgeous red border on chartreuse leaves the rest of the year! I look forward to the both of them filling out the space under the magnolia as I see it outside my living room picture window in a little secret shade garden. ❤
Thank you, Erin, for featuring epmediums. They are a workhorse in many of my shade areas which are very dry competing with trees or underneath eaves. Another little plant I love planted in groups is sisyrinchium campestre-prairie blue-eyed grass. Any of their varieties are nice and there is a yellow variety too. One more, if you like red, is silene regina which attracts humingbirds and is also a native plant. Okay one more. Culver's root-veronicastrum virginicum is under used and very unique with it's tall, spikey white flowers. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and realistic experience with plants and their true habits in contrast with descriptions which can be misleading in catalogs or online.
Lisa I too have Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass!! It is - in my opinion - quite possibly the cutest of the tiny flowers! I found it growing wild here in Central Texas while visiting a horse pasture, and after seeing it, I could not get it out of my mind. I was obsessed!!! I researched it. Then found out where to buy the seed. So basically I Garden Stalked it until I had it my own hands!! How had this little 4 inch beauty been growing beneath my feet all these years without my noticing it until now?!! I think the way it looks just like a lawn grass when it's not in bloom is a fantastic trick, which I immediately incorporated into my own lawn. Now every Spring they pop up their beautiful tiny blue blooms, which transform my lawn into a real fairy field! This is one I think should be used more in residential areas. Especially those with Bermuda grass lawns. The Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass blends in so very well ! And the pollinators LOVE it in the Spring!!! ♡
Greetings from Scotland ! I really enjoy your channel - love the informality of planting and green backdrop to all your screen shots! My gardening is full on moist/wet and shady but allows me for great selection of hydrangeas, ferns, birches and Japanese acers.. dont have to worry too much about watering! What I noticed that many of US gardeners I watch, including yourself do not plant hebe!? I am absolutely in love with this little evergreen :) it flowers in all shades, pollinators are crazy for it and it can be pruned to shape - I use mine as substitute to boxwood balls.
I have a hebe! I think most people don't use them because they can't handle the winter temperatures in much of the US. I live in the PNW in a mild climate, so they survive here
Lavender Mist Meadow Rue. Such a pretty flower, unique stem and lacy quality. It’s self seeding but very easy to control and transplant. I continually transplant seedlings for the back of my perennial beds. The tall, sturdy stems are unique as well!
I love that plant! They do lean for me, so I go to Home Depot or Lowe's and get rebar cut into 4 ft. lengths to use for support. They really need it in my garden, or they will snap.
Yes, epimediums! Love them! They perform in dry shade and deer and rabbit resistant-winner! Thanks for these other suggestions, I’m all about using unusual plants and combinations. The hunt is on!
VIBURNUMS! I began falling in love with them about 2 years ago - 'Spring Bouquet', 'Shasta', 'Shiny Dancer',' Wabi-Sabi', and more. They are so easy to grow, and have a variety of leaf forms. Some are evergreen, some are deciduous. All are great.
Yes! I love them too. Unfortunately viburnum beetle is becoming a real issue here so I've been sort of sticking to the doublefile varieties that they don't care for as much. But the viburnum world is fabulous. Thanks for the great suggestion.
@@vgil1278 I have a viburnum I don't necessarily love, but keep for the gardenia-like fragrance of the flowers for about 3 weeks each spring. Well worth it!
Brand new subscriber here! I am new to gardening as it's my therapy now that I'm on disability and unable to work. I just wanted to say, with no disrespect at all, that you are so very beautiful! I look forward to learning from your videos. Thanks ahead of time and much love from Fall River, MA!
Erin- thank you for this video! You are such a joy to watch! Love these shade plants! I grew Angelica in my 1st garden 40 years ago. Loved it! I am re-doing my current garden and I think it's time to bring it back. I also like tansy in my garden. It brings in another texture.I really like the button flowers and fernlike foliage. They are great in arrangements. Thank you again for sparking a lovely memory from the past. 💐
The Bleeding Heart not many around. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about them. And for 3 years now I have been sharing with others in the neighborhood just too be able to enjoy them.. And to see where they bloom better.. They supposed to be for shady areas but, do nicely in the Sun, Part Shade as well.. I like to know and hear more of them.. Thank You in advance.. YOU TRULY HAVE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN SPACE... ❤️
Lovely plants indeed!! I have two species and seeds of another one. They do enjoy the (hot Mediterranean) sun, but I've noticed they are like Clematis, they are totally happier if their "feet" are in the shade (at least in my climate and in containers).
I had a very large white blooming one in Michigan. I really want one again now that I'm in NC, but I find them a bit difficult to find as well. I do find the pink, but I'll have to keep searching for the white. Mine in Michigan probably got probably 6 hours of mid day sun, maybe a bit more and did great.
@@michelleh7133 here in Greece, it's the other way around, you can find Clerodendrum thomsoniae everywhere, but any other species is impossible to find.... I wish I could send you one.
I have a pink variety in a shadier spot & love it. It reminds me of my grandmother who had them. I'm in southeastern Wisconsin & for me the foliage starts to fade & flop around the beginning of August. However, it's one of the first plants to emerge in the spring. Such beautiful & unique flowers!
Erin, I don't know what to pay attention to, you or the plants...you look so natural and beautiful...giving them so competition. 5'2"...you present so much taller.
Just picked up our first vervain. Flowers smell nice, tall, attractive foliage. Saw photos, then looked at it in a lovely garden. Looking forward to seeing it with my tall verbena (also a favorite for us and pollinators & hummingbirds.)
I am so glad that I found your channel! I adore out if the ordinary interesting plants in my garden! Your videos are educational, professional and engaging! Thank you!
I really think that elephant ears are incredible and easy to grow! Mine get 8 ft tall with huge jungle-like leaves about 4 to 5 feet across and they double or triple the bulbs each year. Also my caladiums double in size in my containers each year. So beautiful, like flowers all summer long.
A shade plant that I like to use because of it's colorful foliage is Persicaria (? Spelling). Also referred to as "Painters Pallet". I don't see it in other gardens and my visitors always inquire about it. Also love the graceful Solomon's Seal.
Love your videos. I just discovered you channel. I am taking notes and finding inspiration! You helped me have a great day in my Massachusetts garden. God bless! And thank you Erin.
I have 4 of those, I should get the rest! Thanks for covering this topic. Lately I have been exploring natives. Sanguinaria Bloodroot has great foliage and pretty flowers in early spring. Trilliums are beautiful.
Glad to see barrenwort - I learned about it because the last owner planted three different varieties in my yard. From your list, I'm most interested in the Black Stockings and Sun King. I don't often see sea thrift, which is so cute. I plan to get some of the Dreameria line with the long bloom time.
I love meadow rue! I have three plants that I put in a few years ago and I hardly do anything to them. I forget them and they bloom beautifully every year. A great plant that very few people know about.
Great suggestions! I remember seeing Thalictrum when I was at the nursery last week. I may have to go back & see if they have any left! I added an Actaea simplex "Brunette" & "Black Negligee" in a shady spot this year. The dark foliage is beautiful. I love balloon flowers. I think I have platycodon grandiflorus "Fuji White". The only care I give them is cutting them back by half in the spring to keep them from getting over 4 feet tall & flopping. They still end up being as tall as the nearby Rudbeckia. The bees & bumblebees love the flowers.
I realize this is a year old video but STILL incredibly helpful. I recently found a wholesale perennial farm that’s open to the public on Saturdays. Their plants are amazing and they have almost everything you recommended, Erin. Guess what I’m doing this weekend?!?!
Kimberly Ames I bought three joe pie weed plants but haven’t planted them yet, as here in the south, it’s just way too hot to plant right now but the bees and butterflies are all Over these plants from sun up to sun down. I wish I had bought a couple more now.
Yes indeed!! Dry, shade plants - and for me, HOT - I live in zone 8b, and last year our heat index got up to 115 degrees!! My climbing hydrangeas (which were newer, but doing well before) died, and now I need a shady evergreen climber that isn't so invasive. Hard to find.
We have gigas growing naturally (or something almost identical) in a ditch/marsh along the trail by my house. It stretches quiet far down. Very beautiful when in full bloom because the flower head is so huge! The ditch dips down quite a few feet so the flower heads are right at eye level. Awesome for photos.
I love hellebores too! I am not familiar with any of the perennials you mentioned but I am definitely going to check them out! Thanks for the good info!
I know I am horrendously late to the discussion, but my latest favourite new plant, that I can sadly only plant one of, because I have a small city garden, is the Paper Bark Maple tree. We planted it in place of a removed (horrible, messy, ugly) Mulberry Tree. The bark is incredible, the shape is beautiful and it won't "take over the yard". The leaves in fall are a lovely orange as well.
Fantastic topic! Keep spreading the word about these lesser known beautiful plants. My current house was landscaped by previous owners with the full rogue's gallery of generic plants: crepe myrtle, liriope, spirea, boxwood, etc. Most are on my removal hit list. 🤣🌱☠
Great job, been watching for a short while and find your vids are informative, done with great skill and your voice is very nice to listen to, your diction and cadence are lovely! It’s so pleasant to be able to see a lovely host showing what is of particular interest...you definitely have a passion for growing lovely plants. May l add that l never continue to watch videos when a host asks (or almost demands) to like and subscribe before one can watch and make those decisions based on what is presented...how rude can one be? Also loved the presentation of the grass you shared, it is lovely! Having lived in the desert southwest, grasses are sometimes about one has to choose unless you like cactus! 😆 Muelly grasses can be fun but now living in the FL panhandle, lm excited about the hostas, ferns and particularly the gorgeous limelight hydrangea- hope to find that one to include in my garden soon. Thank you for a job WELL done! 😁👍👏👏👏👏👏
After I watched this last year, I kept looking for the Seslaria Grass you mentioned. Finally found some, when my daughter and I drove up to Northwind Perennial Farm. What a wonderful place!
My suggestion: Corylopsis spicata Golden Spring - great yellow/chartreuse color - winter-blooming - ideal to create an understory in a woodland garden, particularly against green bold foliage such as umbrella plant or yellow wax bells... And, unlike most winterhazels it is hardy to zone 5!
I carve out quite time (few and far between 😂) just for your videos because I really want to listen. I always learn so much and this one was great. I love unique and special plants. Your garden is just one of the tops. And you are a beautiful, fun, joy to watch. Thanks, Erin!
Datura, I wasn't a fan but now it's a favorite. I moved it from the back yard to the front where it hangs down 4' to the sidewalk and upwards 5' where it boasts 40+ large white flowers a night...
The shade plant I think doesn't get enough love is Solomon's Seal. It's pretty, tough as nails and easy. It fills a nice big area with those arching stems, with the tiny white flowers, are just soft and lovely.
Jaclyn Spencer I agree, I have a variegated variety and it looks great in the shade through the whole season, long after it is done blooming! Surprisingly, Jim Putnam did not speak highly of it, not sure why. May be it becomes too invasive down South.
@@ip4265 possibly. Here in central Iowa it will spread slowly. But I grow in dry shade, which helps to keep it from going bonkers. In Washington state, where I grew up, it was a bit of a thug.
Seems odd to say, but I would offer up asparagus. I planted a root crown in my flower bed, and if you let the spears grow, it provides such a pretty feathery structure for a full sun spot. People ask me all the time what it is and are always surprised to hear it’s an edible.
Love your garden. Thank you. I'm going to have morning glories. And bluebells to bbn my garden one day when I get my home. Your garden is absolutely beautiful.
I live in New York State and love Solomon's Seal for a shady area. The small flowers are bee friendly, but the leaves turn golden in autumn and are so pretty! I planted some in a corner where we were having trouble growing anything and it filled in the space a bit more every year!
I’ve been watching you for years and this video was amazing. I’ve watched you because I’ve been gardening for 50 years and I’m always interested in others gardens and you have a great relaxed way. This video showed so much more than we’ve ever seen in other garden tours. Excellent video and I’m very impressed by this view. It’s over and above the average garden.
Another similar plant to this list: Aruncus dioicus aka Goatsbeard. It is an amazing part-shade plant. It's pretty much a giant astilbe.
One underused plant is bugbane Cimicifuga, stays nice looking all year, dark foliage, white flowers late season and the bugs don’t eat it and I’ve never had deer munch on it either. Grows in a shady location.
“...You need moments in the garden....” love that!
Just a refreshing joy to watch someone that loves gardening and lives in the real world. I'm always glad to see when you have a new video. And it so makes me smile to hear you say "Mr. Much More Patient"
I loved this video! I discovered Bluestone Perennials about 15 years ago and have ordered from them pretty much every year!. We don't have a good local nursery so shopping online is the only way I can find unique perennial plants. The first gardening show I watched years ago was A Gardener's Diary with Erica Glasener where she toured home gardens all over the country. It changed my whole view of gardening! I've also subscribed to a lot of gardening magazines over the years (Fine Gardening, Country Gardens), which made me aware of all the great plants available.
I have to say your voice made it a lot easier to just listen as I did some work. So thank you for the few minutes of being able to focus on you. I will be going back to watch everything a little better. Thanks again. Love your channel!
I love having plants that aren't common to every house. Thanks for these recommendations.
Thanks for all the info!! Love the new varieties i never knew about, it takes a lifetime of gardening to learn all of them. That to me is the exciting part!!!
So happy your sharing, my ch thanks!
One of our favorites that we don't see in other gardens much is chelone obliqua. It grows in fairly deep dappled shade for us (under a dense grapevine) and blooms prolifically with pink snapdragon-like flowers in late summer through fall. Shade + color + fall blooming are all wins in our book.
I spent the last 3 hours researching how to get dahlias launched in my garden next spring, and I'm now utterly obsessed with your channel. You are really good at this. Every video is informative, inspiring, and confidence-building. I have developed a list of about ten new things to add to my existing endless list of projects. Also, you're really cute.
Love that you included Barrenwort in this presentation. I planted it for the first time when I did a massive hosta "rearrangement" and moved almost 50 plants from the driveway entrance of my home to the fenced in back yard. I finally had enough of feeding a local deer herd. The project was overwhelming. The following year I was just getting the rhythm of caring for the new fence border when I was weeding and very nearly plucked out the Barrnwort! What stopped me was the most beautiful teeny tiny flower imaginable.....almost made me want to believe in fairies. This wirely little rascal is a dream plant and well worth your mention.
Hellebores, I love the flowers in the spring because they last so long and their foliage is pretty the rest of the summer.
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I'd grow Hellebores but they are toxic to dogs.
2 of my viburnums didn't make it through winter 🥲
Bottle brush is such a beautiful and interesting plant. And the fall color!!! I had one in my garden at my old house and it was amazing.
I love that you garden in Wisconsin! I see all of these gorgeous plants on so many YT videos from places like California & Florida; things that I could never grow in Illinois. I've not heard of *any* of your profiled plants, so many neat new things to look for! Thank you!
This is why I love your channel. You aren't a cookie cutter gardener. My go to for inspiration in these cold months. TY
"You need those MOMENTS in the garden"
Love it
Hands down you are one of the best Garden you tube channels out there. I will agree with a previous post your voice is so nice as you take us through the garden or even when you act a little funny. I learn so much from you this year since finding your channel and love that you dont have all the normal box store plants. You have inspired me to find Nurseries where I can find other plants that are not normally found. by the way love your two beautiful dogs. Keep up the awesome work you do and as many of your followers I am always looking for your videos when they post.
Yes, it is a soothing, but not boring, voice. Even my husband comes into the room to see who is speaking - now he knows it is Erin!
You are so kind. Thank you!
So true. I find putting unexpected plants in your garden creates impact, conversation and uniqueness to the space. Great topic!.
Happy that zone 9 was included! Linda
I never get tired of watching u. U have already taught me so much. Thank u.
Trooper being that close to the pollinators!! 😂😂😂
I love that you are talking about unusual plants. I have thalicrums, I first saw them when I took a trip to Bainbridge Island , Washington. Arranged by Horticulture magazine, guest speakers and tours of various gardens, best trip ever. I got to visit Dan Hinkley's Heronswood, before it was sold, so many unusual plants, we were able to buy plants, too. I brought home Black Stockings. And now I'm retired from our business, and I have my dream job. I work seasonably at a family owned nursery for my cousin taking care of plants, selling etc. It's a wonderful nursery, if you're ever in Chicago area, actually NW Indiana, you should come visit us.
For me, I prefer plants that give striking autumn colour like Cutleaf Sumac, Amur Maples, Amsonia, Spireas, Colocacias, and several others that I haven't learned the names of. I like plants with unusual leaf shapes and colours so that I can rely less on flowers, which usually come and go so quickly.
Great suggestions there. Thank you!
I have Amur maple . Beautiful but prolific seed scattered. In my Illinois location they r invasive.
I absolutely love love Mountain Mint (in your video.) Yes, it spreads. But in my front garden against the house, it hasn't gone crazy. I really appreciate that I don't have to weed b/c it's so dense. One thing I love about it: the architectural stiff stems/flower heads over the winter. I love to cut some in the spring and spray paint them & stick them into my pots of pansies. I haven't seen anyone else do this. They look fantastic.
I love all the filipendulas but my favorite is, "filipendula rubra queen of the prairie, with its 5 ft. tall fluffy pink flowers. It too has legs but doesn't take over, it slowly travels. Another is wood poppy(celandine)Stylophorum diphyllum -
semi shade, intriguing foliage and yellow poppies. It blooms in front of my white bleeding heart(Dicentra Spectabilis). I love yellow flowers with white flowers .
Thanks I have a new list for the garden center!
Have to agree with you about the mountain mint! It is constantly covered with such a wide range of pollinators all different species of bees, butterfly and pollinating flies.
Thank you so much for mentioning pycanthemum muticum! It is a beautiful plant, one that I could pretty much only find in native garden centers, and it is such an important one for pollinators, especially for down here in Maryland. I had not considered it's use for flower arrangements, I will absolutely start doing that!
I absolutely love my epimedium! I discovered this plant at a local garden club plant sale and it turned out to be the classic yellow flower. Thinking they were all yellow I found another in my garden center and planted it also in my new shade garden under a magnolia tree. Surprise! Next early spring when it bloomed, It bloomed pinkish red! And the leaves have a gorgeous red border on chartreuse leaves the rest of the year! I look forward to the both of them filling out the space under the magnolia as I see it outside my living room picture window in a little secret shade garden. ❤
Thank you, Erin, for featuring epmediums. They are a workhorse in many of my shade areas which are very dry competing with trees or underneath eaves. Another little plant I love planted in groups is sisyrinchium campestre-prairie blue-eyed grass. Any of their varieties are nice and there is a yellow variety too. One more, if you like red, is silene regina which attracts humingbirds and is also a native plant. Okay one more. Culver's root-veronicastrum virginicum is under used and very unique with it's tall, spikey white flowers. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and realistic experience with plants and their true habits in contrast with descriptions which can be misleading in catalogs or online.
Lisa I too have Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass!!
It is - in my opinion -
quite possibly the cutest of the tiny flowers!
I found it growing wild here in Central Texas while visiting a horse pasture, and after seeing it, I could not get it out of my mind. I was obsessed!!!
I researched it. Then found out where to buy the seed.
So basically I Garden Stalked it until I had it my own hands!!
How had this little 4 inch beauty been growing beneath my feet all these years without my noticing it until now?!!
I think the way it looks just like a lawn grass when it's not in bloom is a fantastic trick, which I immediately incorporated into my own lawn. Now every Spring they pop up their beautiful tiny blue blooms, which transform my lawn into a real fairy field!
This is one I think should be used more in residential areas.
Especially those with Bermuda grass lawns. The Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass blends in so very well ! And the pollinators LOVE it in the Spring!!! ♡
Greetings from Scotland ! I really enjoy your channel - love the informality of planting and green backdrop to all your screen shots! My gardening is full on moist/wet and shady but allows me for great selection of hydrangeas, ferns, birches and Japanese acers.. dont have to worry too much about watering! What I noticed that many of US gardeners I watch, including yourself do not plant hebe!? I am absolutely in love with this little evergreen :) it flowers in all shades, pollinators are crazy for it and it can be pruned to shape - I use mine as substitute to boxwood balls.
I have a hebe! I think most people don't use them because they can't handle the winter temperatures in much of the US. I live in the PNW in a mild climate, so they survive here
I love them too. A lot of the ones they sell here in Oregon at not very cold hardy.
Dang! Just as I was falling in love with that grass you added the caveat of the hot and humid summer aversion!
Lavender Mist Meadow Rue. Such a pretty flower, unique stem and lacy quality. It’s self seeding but very easy to control and transplant. I continually transplant seedlings for the back of my perennial beds. The tall, sturdy stems are unique as well!
I love that plant! They do lean for me, so I go to Home Depot or Lowe's and get rebar cut into 4 ft. lengths to use for support. They really need it in my garden, or they will snap.
and the fabulous mint smell on the mountain mint, that stays even when dried!
Yes, epimediums! Love them! They perform in dry shade and deer and rabbit resistant-winner! Thanks for these other suggestions, I’m all about using unusual plants and combinations. The hunt is on!
VIBURNUMS! I began falling in love with them about 2 years ago - 'Spring Bouquet', 'Shasta', 'Shiny Dancer',' Wabi-Sabi', and more. They are so easy to grow, and have a variety of leaf forms. Some are evergreen, some are deciduous. All are great.
Yes! I love them too. Unfortunately viburnum beetle is becoming a real issue here so I've been sort of sticking to the doublefile varieties that they don't care for as much. But the viburnum world is fabulous. Thanks for the great suggestion.
If you appreciate fragrance, some viburnums will perfume the whole garden.
@@vgil1278 I have a viburnum I don't necessarily love, but keep for the gardenia-like fragrance of the flowers for about 3 weeks each spring. Well worth it!
Stunning! And I had never heard of these...thanks!
Brand new subscriber here! I am new to gardening as it's my therapy now that I'm on disability and unable to work. I just wanted to say, with no disrespect at all, that you are so very beautiful! I look forward to learning from your videos. Thanks ahead of time and much love from Fall River, MA!
Erin- thank you for this video! You are such a joy to watch! Love these shade plants! I grew Angelica in my 1st garden 40 years ago. Loved it! I am re-doing my current garden and I think it's time to bring it back. I also like tansy in my garden. It brings in another texture.I really like the button flowers and fernlike foliage. They are great in arrangements. Thank you again for sparking a lovely memory from the past. 💐
I grow African blue basil! It is fragrant and has beautiful color. People often mistake it for salvia in my garden.
The Bleeding Heart not many around. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about them. And for 3 years now I have been sharing with others in the neighborhood just too be able to enjoy them.. And to see where they bloom better.. They supposed to be for shady areas but, do nicely in the Sun, Part Shade as well.. I like to know and hear more of them.. Thank You in advance.. YOU TRULY HAVE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN SPACE... ❤️
Lovely plants indeed!! I have two species and seeds of another one. They do enjoy the (hot Mediterranean) sun, but I've noticed they are like Clematis, they are totally happier if their "feet" are in the shade (at least in my climate and in containers).
I had a very large white blooming one in Michigan. I really want one again now that I'm in NC, but I find them a bit difficult to find as well. I do find the pink, but
I'll have to keep searching for the white. Mine in Michigan probably got probably 6 hours of mid day sun, maybe a bit more and did great.
I have the pink variety in zone 6, Overland Park, Ks. It grows quite well in basically total shade for me.
@@michelleh7133 here in Greece, it's the other way around, you can find Clerodendrum thomsoniae everywhere, but any other species is impossible to find.... I wish I could send you one.
I have a pink variety in a shadier spot & love it. It reminds me of my grandmother who had them. I'm in southeastern Wisconsin & for me the foliage starts to fade & flop around the beginning of August. However, it's one of the first plants to emerge in the spring. Such beautiful & unique flowers!
Erin, I don't know what to pay attention to, you or the plants...you look so natural and beautiful...giving them so competition. 5'2"...you present so much taller.
Yeah, she models her garden well. Compatible vibes. Like 2:20 is a "magazine shot".🌻
Just picked up our first vervain. Flowers smell nice, tall, attractive foliage. Saw photos, then looked at it in a lovely garden. Looking forward to seeing it with my tall verbena (also a favorite for us and pollinators & hummingbirds.)
I have never heard of these plants not seen ever them on the internet. Thanks for letting us know about these beautiful plants.
I am so glad that I found your channel! I adore out if the ordinary interesting plants in my garden! Your videos are educational, professional and engaging! Thank you!
Loved listening to your enthusiasm, l will be looking in my garden centre for these different plants which l had never heard of, thank you.
Linda
Really enjoyed this, thank you!
Thanks for the great tips! Sometimes the most beautiful plants get overlooked.
I really think that elephant ears are incredible and easy to grow! Mine get 8 ft tall with huge jungle-like leaves about 4 to 5 feet across and they double or triple the bulbs each year. Also my caladiums double in size in my containers each year. So beautiful, like flowers all summer long.
Do you collect and eat the elephant ear roots?
Epimedium is one of my all time favorite plants!
A shade plant that I like to use because of it's colorful foliage is Persicaria (? Spelling). Also referred to as "Painters Pallet". I don't see it in other gardens and my visitors always inquire about it. Also love the graceful Solomon's Seal.
I haven’t planted any of these but the bonus one you mentioned I’ve been wanting to get. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I love the recommendations for shade plants!
First time to your channel and I enjoyed your perspective and the plants you shared. Thanks!
Love your videos. I just discovered you channel. I am taking notes and finding inspiration! You helped me have a great day in my Massachusetts garden. God bless! And thank you Erin.
I have 4 of those, I should get the rest! Thanks for covering this topic. Lately I have been exploring natives. Sanguinaria Bloodroot has great foliage and pretty flowers in early spring. Trilliums are beautiful.
I don’t know I could be without either of those plants. They are the most charming little guys.
Couldn’t agree with you more about subtle plants among those bolder ones. We love unique plants and native ones also.
Love this page it about her own personal garden
I completely agree about the moments in the garden. I really like Durantra Geisha Girl as more of a background shrub.
Glad to see barrenwort - I learned about it because the last owner planted three different varieties in my yard. From your list, I'm most interested in the Black Stockings and Sun King. I don't often see sea thrift, which is so cute. I plan to get some of the Dreameria line with the long bloom time.
Thank you for telling us about plants I didn’t know about. You are giving me so many ideas for my gardens.
I have three Aralia Sun King in my full shade garden. They get no sun and they just glow. I love them. Great video!
I love meadow rue! I have three plants that I put in a few years ago and I hardly do anything to them. I forget them and they bloom beautifully every year. A great plant that very few people know about.
Love love love that Autumn Moor grass. Hope I can find it locally. Thank you
Great ideas I love my purple beauty berry and fire spike for fall
Cimicifuga for shade. Especially all of the new varieties. Love it. Great list. Thank you!
Great suggestions! I remember seeing Thalictrum when I was at the nursery last week. I may have to go back & see if they have any left! I added an Actaea simplex "Brunette" & "Black Negligee" in a shady spot this year. The dark foliage is beautiful. I love balloon flowers. I think I have platycodon grandiflorus "Fuji White". The only care I give them is cutting them back by half in the spring to keep them from getting over 4 feet tall & flopping. They still end up being as tall as the nearby Rudbeckia. The bees & bumblebees love the flowers.
I realize this is a year old video but STILL incredibly helpful. I recently found a wholesale perennial farm that’s open to the public on Saturdays. Their plants are amazing and they have almost everything you recommended, Erin. Guess what I’m doing this weekend?!?!
Love this video. I enjoy plants that attract pollinators. And Joe Pye Weed is a great one for that.
Kimberly Ames I bought three joe pie weed plants but haven’t planted them yet, as here in the south, it’s just way too hot to plant right now but the bees and butterflies are all Over these plants from sun up to sun down. I wish I had bought a couple more now.
Thanks! I enjoyed your presentation and I can't wait to watch your other ones! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing that 🙏 very informative. Listening from Ireland 🍀
WOW! Thank you for "the list"- I'm going shopping!
Thanks, I love seeing new plants. You give such good information too. Love your garden!
Pretty please do a video on dry shade plants 😁 Erin I need some ideas please
Yes indeed!! Dry, shade plants - and for me, HOT - I live in zone 8b, and last year our heat index got up to 115 degrees!! My climbing hydrangeas (which were newer, but doing well before) died, and now I need a shady evergreen climber that isn't so invasive. Hard to find.
We have gigas growing naturally (or something almost identical) in a ditch/marsh along the trail by my house. It stretches quiet far down. Very beautiful when in full bloom because the flower head is so huge! The ditch dips down quite a few feet so the flower heads are right at eye level. Awesome for photos.
I love hellebores too! I am not familiar with any of the perennials you mentioned but I am definitely going to check them out! Thanks for the good info!
I can't wait for an update video on your new garden!!! I love seeing how the gardens develop over time.
I know I am horrendously late to the discussion, but my latest favourite new plant, that I can sadly only plant one of, because I have a small city garden, is the Paper Bark Maple tree. We planted it in place of a removed (horrible, messy, ugly) Mulberry Tree. The bark is incredible, the shape is beautiful and it won't "take over the yard". The leaves in fall are a lovely orange as well.
Oh those are so beautiful!
Fantastic topic! Keep spreading the word about these lesser known beautiful plants. My current house was landscaped by previous owners with the full rogue's gallery of generic plants: crepe myrtle, liriope, spirea, boxwood, etc. Most are on my removal hit list. 🤣🌱☠
Great job, been watching for a short while and find your vids are informative, done with great skill and your voice is very nice to listen to, your diction and cadence are lovely! It’s so pleasant to be able to see a lovely host showing what is of particular interest...you definitely have a passion for growing lovely plants. May l add that l never continue to watch videos when a host asks (or almost demands) to like and subscribe before one can watch and make those decisions based on what is presented...how rude can one be?
Also loved the presentation of the grass you shared, it is lovely! Having lived in the desert southwest, grasses are sometimes about one has to choose unless you like cactus! 😆 Muelly grasses can be fun but now living in the FL panhandle, lm excited about the hostas, ferns and particularly the gorgeous limelight hydrangea- hope to find that one to include in my garden soon.
Thank you for a job WELL done! 😁👍👏👏👏👏👏
After I watched this last year, I kept looking for the Seslaria Grass you mentioned. Finally found some, when my daughter and I drove up to Northwind Perennial Farm. What a wonderful place!
How lovely they all are.....wish I could find them......🌻
My suggestion: Corylopsis spicata Golden Spring - great yellow/chartreuse color - winter-blooming - ideal to create an understory in a woodland garden, particularly against green bold foliage such as umbrella plant or yellow wax bells... And, unlike most winterhazels it is hardy to zone 5!
You have a naturalistic style. I like your plant selection. Thanks for sharing!
Came upon your channel today. Love love LOVE your gardens!
Thank you Joyce! 💕
I carve out quite time (few and far between 😂) just for your videos because I really want to listen. I always learn so much and this one was great. I love unique and special plants. Your garden is just one of the tops. And you are a beautiful, fun, joy to watch. Thanks, Erin!
Well explained and surprisingly entertaining 👏
Datura, I wasn't a fan but now it's a favorite. I moved it from the back yard to the front where it hangs down 4' to the sidewalk and upwards 5' where it boasts 40+ large white flowers a night...
Highly poisonous !
Great video! Good plant choices and a really helpful summary. Thanks
You have given some great ideas for shade. I have so much shade and some areas it seems only weeds will grow. I am excited to try these.
The shade plant I think doesn't get enough love is Solomon's Seal. It's pretty, tough as nails and easy. It fills a nice big area with those arching stems, with the tiny white flowers, are just soft and lovely.
Jaclyn Spencer I agree, I have a variegated variety and it looks great in the shade through the whole season, long after it is done blooming! Surprisingly, Jim Putnam did not speak highly of it, not sure why. May be it becomes too invasive down South.
@@ip4265 possibly. Here in central Iowa it will spread slowly. But I grow in dry shade, which helps to keep it from going bonkers. In Washington state, where I grew up, it was a bit of a thug.
Thank you! Love your channel! Gonna get moor grass for sure! And black stockings and epimedium! Googling now!
Love love your flowers. They are looking Gorgeous. :D
my new interest this year is Joe Pye Weed ......Great Plant.....reminds me a bit of your Angelica.
Next year
I LOVE the unusual things in life..... thanks for this post... will be looking for some of these for my garden!!
St. John's wort, beautiful yellow flowers and red berries