Beauty everywhere! Your little section of grass is barely noticeable. My eyes are on all of the color and interest that b the flowers. Thank you for sharing your ideas for interplanting. I love it. I am kicking myself for putting Dara Purple kisses and Buplurem in two separate rows. I could have put them together. Next time for sure. I snagged some screen shots to remind me to make notes for the next planting. Keep being you, Danielle. We all can’t get enough.
Your garden just takes my breath away. I want to get rid of my lawn, front and back, and have nothing but flowers and shrubs instead. If I could snap my fingers and make it happen, it would look very similar to yours as we have similar tastes in plants, especially hydrangeas. Anxious to see the upcoming changes you have planned.
Danielle I am so glad I’ve found your videos. I enjoy them and find them to be a great escape. I grew up in New England, but now live at high altitude in Colorado. It is so hard to grow anything here. I love seeing your green yard and deciduous trees. Beautiful flowers!! My heart leaped when I heard the cardinal!!! We don’t have them here and I miss them.
I live in Denmark, zone 8b, we are having a drought too and in some places it hasn't rained for 4 weeks. Other places, we are having short thunderstorms with a ton of rain. My experience with grass, is that it always bounces back. Mine is all dry and yellow, but a few days of rain will sort that out 🙏💐 Loved this video and the bouquets ❤️
Thanks for including the bouquets. After all your hard work all year it’s nice the see the results. You make the most beautiful bouquets and arrangements. 🌺💕🌸
Wow, those bouquets were absolutely beautiful!!! The lilies added such a pop of color. I think they worked perfectly. Thank you Grace for making an appearance. Always great to see the fur babies. Can't wait to see your new hedge along the road. Everything you've done is wonderful.
Beautiful garden and arrangements! It takes me away from the sad reality that I don’t garden anymore😞 appreciate if you can also show the arrangements you do from all the beautiful flowers you pick from your garden! God bless!
With every new video your garden becomes more beautiful. I really love all the new changes. I’m surprised you’re having a drought year I’m in Massachusetts and we are cold and wet. Because of the cold nights 40’s -50’s my flowers are lasting longer but as soon as my peonies started to really pop we had a very hard rainstorm with pea sized hale that killed my peonies. It broke my heart. I love giving away bouquets. Thank you so much for your generosity doing all this work for us. I’m hoping you don’t have a drought year and I wish you a sweet day
Royal sunset is my favorite. I grow them in part sun. The color is apricot or orange in the center and terra cotta on the tips. It goes very well with Italian white sunflower and cornel bronze, great silence dahlia.
Sorry to disagree but, I would say hardscape is very definitely a strong suit for you, that flagstone patio and stonework rug would beg to differ also lol. Bouquets were particularly pretty as well. Hope you got enough rain, my area is experiencing a very dry stretch too, hoping to get some here soon. 😎
LOTS more brick edging! Stone really makes a garden look permanent and established I like the quality the bricks have. Plus it could be a way for you to experiment with a section not being a grass pathway like you said!
Hardscaping is a wonderful way to add to the garden. Brick border all the way down the path and winding around the beds would be lovely. If you decide to add more to the stone path surrounding it with gravel could solve your potential problems with the grass. Would look classic. Love the wall fountain idea too!
Absolutely love the color of the royal sunset Lilly’s! Gorgeous! Would look good with that reds yellow’s n pinks . I agree to remove the stone border but maybe add more to the ground
Your garden is still lovely despite no rain for a month. I live in central Illinois zone 5 and we too did not get any rain for over a month. If fact we broke a record for one of the driest springs. A few days ago we thankfully got an inch but we could sure use more. I love those Royal Sunset lilies! They make your bouquets pop! I am excited to see your garden after the tree removal and hedge planting. I have a lot of shade due to mature oak trees. I am getting one cut down this summer and it will be interesting to see how much more light my garden will get. Looking forward to your next video! Happy gardening!
Here in Oregon zone 8 we have had no rain in my garden for as long. I gave up grass a long time ago because of the high maintaince. I just use free wood chips in my pathways. Your garden is lovely.
I think you should eliminate the bricks altogether in the main flower walk because they are not necessary. Just define a clean, neat border like the other borders you have. In the main flower walk I would continue the stepping stones you have. The stepping stones would also help with the grass situation because the grass is being flattened by walking on the center area of the walkway. Everything looks so nice and welcoming.
I watch your videos every morning as it gives me such a good start to my day. I love your garden, wish mine look half like yours but really hard to grow in south Florida.
Have you thought about a terracotta colored or tradition brick color for the edging? The warmth of the color would reflect in orange hues within the garden, while not being to strong of a contrast that it draws your eye right to it. ❤
Agree 100%. I am not a fan of that bright 'white' brick. Too jarring. I agree that natural terracotta brick would look more natural. I also thought that where the brick ends, she could add something that would act like 'punctuation' so to speak, showing it's definitively ending and not just trailing off. Example: a low cement sculpture. Something I have would work nicely here: a cement pillar remnant from who knows where, maybe 2 or 2 1/2 feet tall, that I painted a dark, somber teal.
Everything looks lovely, Danielle! I think the formal brick edging fights a bit with the romantic nature of your garden. What about picking up every other brick or every third brick and seeing how that looks? Then you could sort of have it trail off under the mint and maybe pick it up again on the other side, but again, sort of intermittent, more of a gesture than a wall? 🤔 💚
I think you should have put de bricks the other way, I mean in the lenght, it 's in the mind that every brick you have put in this way is a stop while if you put them in the lenght it will be a curving way along the gras and the flowerbed. The eyes and the brain works that way. love your garden
@ 8:42 the deck may benefit by having Candy Tuft around the edges or Allysum or something to soften the edges...thinking it would make it more complete looking and not hard....
The Royal Sunset lilies I got from The Lily Garden is definitely different than yours. The petals look like they’re painted with soft orange and magenta brush strokes. If you want to give Royal Sunset another try, I would c look into The Lily Garden! I definitely recommend them!
Absolutely stunning! My Potomac Snapdragons are also producing long stems this year (3.5-4" tall!) even though I pinched. Once again you have given me more ideas for filler flowers. My garden is a combo of you, the Impatient Gardner, Y Garden & Flower Hill Farm, quite eclectic, always changing and evolving, and a never ending journey.
So happy to fond a garnder near me. I live just outside Harrisburg. Thank you for great videos and inspiration. Going to look for feather poppies and some of those snapdragons. I am turning my little pocket front yard into a flower explosion garden to avoid mowing....❤
Beautiful collection. Love the Saponaria and need to try that next year. Would love to hear more about what's the best time of day to pick some of the flowers, vase life, etc. The Orlaya and Saponaria look really nice together. Glad you got some rain. Had to laugh when you said to Grace "tummy" and "taco shells", she did look like she fully understood what you meant!
It looks lovely Danielle nice and full. Your snap dragons are beautiful especially the Lavender. I have a cottage garden here in Australia and I don’t have any lawn at all it gets too hot in summer and too hard to keep it looking green. I have bark chips instead. I also have brick edging around my beds but my bricks are upright instead of flat and they slightly graduate. You might like to try that it looks really nice
Zone 10b jealousy that you still have cool flowers. On our urban flower farm, the thrips go for the white blooms first and the dark blooms last. We have our entire backyard and former front lawn space interplanted. All no till flowers and zero grass. 😂
I agree with Jackie Opperman. Your bouquets are beautiful and should be featured more often. On another note. I tried mixing clover seed into the lawn mix and it was a fail, needed too much water and too much time to establish. I am in zone 4, hot dry summers. I’m still looking for a ‘lawn’ for a yard with a lot of rock. Thank you for your showing us your inspiring garden.
Blue and yellow sticky traps are used for thrips (asking other pets) because those colors are most attractive to them. Makes sense they’re attracted to those flower colors maybe. I always seem to see thrips preferring white flowers in my garden and at a greenhouse I worked at 🤔
Lawn grass is only cultivated in my front yard. I plan on replacing the rear grass pathway with gravel, and then appropriate groundcover over the gravel/between stepping stones, like fragrant creeping thyme, creeping veronica, scottish/iris moss... as well as short perennials/annuals like creeping phlox, groundcover sedums, hens+chicks, blue/white clip bellflowers,
My vote is: Yes, edge the border; but I think the whitish-gray pavers are too big and too white for your garden. I vote for brick. It's darker and more slender and I think you can lay a nice border yourself. Of course, that's more money; and cutting the grass away from it is a pain. All of these upgrades should come with staff. (There was an article 15 years ago in one of the British gardening magazines that said a particular gardener took care of his garden "without staff." We all thought that was funny.)
I think she was thrown off because the images online show it as having pink/purple tips but in reality they are red, but I image searched and found several pics with the red tips. It’s odd the sellers would manipulate the image to make it look like it’s a different color than it actually is, but they do that a lot.
I grow royal sunset and that Lily does not look like mine. Mine are much larger, and the color is true to what I'm sure you were expecting. Its more of a melon peach shade that blends into a rose purple. Stunning! And a Prolific multiplier.
Your snapdragons are gorgeous!!! I successfully overwintered two snapdragon plants that I have in my garden, which I started from seed last year. I mounded shredded leaves all around the plants. They are getting ready to bloom. They are not as tall as yours!! Never seen anything like it! As far as the border you are installing, I would recommend moving it to another area where you have no other hardscape. The reason is that you have the pathway right there, and with the border there too, it's too much of a similar color and takes the focus away from the path. I would recommend a partial border somewhere, that disappears under a plant and stops. Then it becomes its own focal point and doesn't compete with anything else. Hope this helps.
All the changes sounds exciting and can't wait to see it when it's done. I love the brick pathway, I'm hoping to do that to my garden at some point. As usual love your channel
When it doesn’t rain…..keep your grass and flowers watered by hose. Don’t you ever water by hose. In Idaho our sprinklers are going all the time. We go months w/out moisture !!!
On your advice, I just sowed larkspur this afternoon, after keeping them in the freezer for a week (first month of a sub-tropical winter here). After no success last year, I was going to give up on them, but your little prod was enough to give them another go. So pretty - I sure hope it works!
Just gorgeous! I envy your raised bed soil- built mine last year but i definitely don't have a good mix of nutrients, going to try to send in a soil sample and remedy 😊
Can’t wait to see the changes coming up! I threw a bunch of white clover seed down this spring (I’m zone 3 we have a late spring) clover is supposed to help make a grass lawn more lush & green & supposedly it withstands dog pee really well, as well as attracting bees if it flowers
Grace is adorable. I love how her face shows all that expression. I have not given up on grass, just on cool season grass like Kentucky Bluegrass. It only looks good for a short while so it's not worth it. I have a very course fescue that does great in high temperatures and drought and have just been spreading that around.
I just happened to grow 50 Royal Sunset lilies this year, and they look very different than yours. Mine are a softer sherbet kind of orange inside, and the tips lean toward a dusty rose tinted darker burgundy kind of orange. Also, the whole flower color is a softer shade, whereas yours are very "in your face with intensity". Wish I could include a photo of mine, as they are now my favorite lily, and I plan to spread them around everywhere. I'm in zone 9b and we do not get cold winters, nor snow, if that could possible make any difference in the color difference.
We have been very dry in Michigan too. This past week was the 1st time we got some rain--it was very little, nothing that would soak into the soil very far. When it's very dry, we go longer before mowing. And when we do, we use the highest setting on the mower so the lawn isn't scalped. We do have a lot of clover in our lawn. They are flowering big time right now.
I absolutely LOVE the Royal Sunset lilies in the bouquet. In my mind, it's really hard to think of a color combo that doesn't work when we're talking flowers... not true when it comes to clothes, though!
Your garden looks wonderful even with the lack of rain. One thing that I do find jarring is the flow of your flower walk path. The section where it is curved out on both sides doesn’t look or feel right. I think it needs either a definite circle of lawn at that point or the curves to be in the same direction, if that makes sense?
I’ve removed most of my grass paths and it’s way better. Yes, they look great in the spring but they look horrible in the summer and early fall. Grass is just becoming harder to grow with continuous higher temperatures and drought most spring and summer.
Dealing with grass is the bane of my existence. It’s more trouble than it’s worth. What variation of cat mint do you have growing along the main flower walk?
Your gardens are so beautiful. My two cents: I’d remove the bricks and continue with the English edging. Why switch? With your limited acreage I think simpler is better.
Everything is looking so beautiful Danielle, can’t wait to see the new changes! I’m a huge fan of interplanting as well, I think I may have learned that from you a couple years ago. 😃 I love all of the hardscape and you’ve done a great job! I do think the brick lining looks a little out of place. Maybe some clay bricks would flow with your look or some good ole’ Virginia rocks? ☺️😉 Or-maybe just soften up the bricks with some creeping Thyme or something like that. Anything you decide will be fabulous!
I realize everyone is their own worst critic, but despite your concerns, your garden looks AMAZING!!! Thank you for sharing and inspiring.
Beauty everywhere! Your little section of grass is barely noticeable. My eyes are on all of the color and interest that b the flowers. Thank you for sharing your ideas for interplanting. I love it. I am kicking myself for putting Dara Purple kisses and Buplurem in two separate rows. I could have put them together. Next time for sure. I snagged some screen shots to remind me to make notes for the next planting. Keep being you, Danielle. We all can’t get enough.
I didn't want this video to end!!! Thoroughly enjoyed all of the beauty!!
Please share more cut flower vlogs, putting them together and all. I love going along when you get ready for your stand. 🙏
Your garden just takes my breath away. I want to get rid of my lawn, front and back, and have nothing but flowers and shrubs instead. If I could snap my fingers and make it happen, it would look very similar to yours as we have similar tastes in plants, especially hydrangeas. Anxious to see the upcoming changes you have planned.
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Danielle I am so glad I’ve found your videos. I enjoy them and find them to be a great escape. I grew up in New England, but now live at high altitude in Colorado. It is so hard to grow anything here. I love seeing your green yard and deciduous trees. Beautiful flowers!! My heart leaped when I heard the cardinal!!! We don’t have them here and I miss them.
Thank you for the tips on spacing and interplanting. I grow cut flowers on a suburban plot too, so space is at a premium.
For the grass pathway, perhaps an approach would be to inter-sow white clover. It has drought tolerance. Loved the review of your garden!
I live in Denmark, zone 8b, we are having a drought too and in some places it hasn't rained for 4 weeks. Other places, we are having short thunderstorms with a ton of rain. My experience with grass, is that it always bounces back. Mine is all dry and yellow, but a few days of rain will sort that out 🙏💐 Loved this video and the bouquets ❤️
Thanks for including the bouquets. After all your hard work all year it’s nice the see the results. You make the most beautiful bouquets and arrangements. 🌺💕🌸
Your garden is so lush and beautiful. It is such a pleasure to see it and to learn all the useful and interesting information you share.
Your garden is magnificent! Such a beautiful labor of love. Thank you for sharing it.
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Wow, those bouquets were absolutely beautiful!!! The lilies added such a pop of color. I think they worked perfectly. Thank you Grace for making an appearance. Always great to see the fur babies. Can't wait to see your new hedge along the road. Everything you've done is wonderful.
Garden looks beautiful👍😊💜🌸🌸🌸🌺🌺
Beautiful garden and arrangements! It takes me away from the sad reality that I don’t garden anymore😞 appreciate if you can also show the arrangements you do from all the beautiful flowers you pick from your garden! God bless!
With every new video your garden becomes more beautiful. I really love all the new changes. I’m surprised you’re having a drought year I’m in Massachusetts and we are cold and wet. Because of the cold nights 40’s -50’s my flowers are lasting longer but as soon as my peonies started to really pop we had a very hard rainstorm with pea sized hale that killed my peonies. It broke my heart. I love giving away bouquets. Thank you so much for your generosity doing all this work for us. I’m hoping you don’t have a drought year and I wish you a sweet day
Royal sunset is my favorite. I grow them in part sun. The color is apricot or orange in the center and terra cotta on the tips. It goes very well with Italian white sunflower and cornel bronze, great silence dahlia.
Sorry to disagree but, I would say hardscape is very definitely a strong suit for you, that flagstone patio and stonework rug would beg to differ also lol. Bouquets were particularly pretty as well. Hope you got enough rain, my area is experiencing a very dry stretch too, hoping to get some here soon. 😎
Laura and Aaron on "Garden Answer"..Sorry I forgot to mention that!
Your flower arrangements are absolutely gorgeous! I love those lilies too!
LOTS more brick edging! Stone really makes a garden look permanent and established I like the quality the bricks have. Plus it could be a way for you to experiment with a section not being a grass pathway like you said!
Same here in west Michigan Danielle, very dry here. Praying daily for rain. We also still have cloudy wildfire hazy skies.
I like to fertilize my lawn in the spring right before some rain...it really helps to green it up!
Espoma makes an organic lawn conditioner and fertilizer.
Hardscaping is a wonderful way to add to the garden. Brick border all the way down the path and winding around the beds would be lovely. If you decide to add more to the stone path surrounding it with gravel could solve your potential problems with the grass. Would look classic. Love the wall fountain idea too!
Absolutely love the color of the royal sunset Lilly’s! Gorgeous! Would look good with that reds yellow’s n pinks . I agree to remove the stone border but maybe add more to the ground
the flower garden is very pleasant, the flowers are very beautiful.
Your garden is still lovely despite no rain for a month. I live in central Illinois zone 5 and we too did not get any rain for over a month. If fact we broke a record for one of the driest springs. A few days ago we thankfully got an inch but we could sure use more. I love those Royal Sunset lilies! They make your bouquets pop! I am excited to see your garden after the tree removal and hedge planting. I have a lot of shade due to mature oak trees. I am getting one cut down this summer and it will be interesting to see how much more light my garden will get. Looking forward to your next video! Happy gardening!
Everything looks so good. I'm really enjoying seeing all your flowers. Just lovely. ❤
Ahh Grace ♥️♥️♥️
Excited about the fencing 😁
Yes, my garden was very excited about that nice rain for a couple days 😉
Your garden is stunningly beautiful! And I love your bouquets.
Here in Oregon zone 8 we have had no rain in my garden for as long. I gave up grass a long time ago because of the high maintaince. I just use free wood chips in my pathways. Your garden is lovely.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden love all the colors 👍😊🙏❤️
I think you should eliminate the bricks altogether in the main flower walk because they are not necessary. Just define a clean, neat border like the other borders you have. In the main flower walk I would continue the stepping stones you have. The stepping stones would also help with the grass situation because the grass is being flattened by walking on the center area of the walkway. Everything looks so nice and welcoming.
Beautiful bouquets! I think the Royal Sunset looks really striking and goes well with the other flowers.
I watch your videos every morning as it gives me such a good start to my day. I love your garden, wish mine look half like yours but really hard to grow in south Florida.
garden looks like a painting! :O
Have you thought about a terracotta colored or tradition brick color for the edging? The warmth of the color would reflect in orange hues within the garden, while not being to strong of a contrast that it draws your eye right to it. ❤
And it would also match the red brick on the house front
Agree 100%. I am not a fan of that bright 'white' brick. Too jarring. I agree that natural terracotta brick would look more natural. I also thought that where the brick ends, she could add something that would act like 'punctuation' so to speak, showing it's definitively ending and not just trailing off. Example: a low cement sculpture. Something I have would work nicely here: a cement pillar remnant from who knows where, maybe 2 or 2 1/2 feet tall, that I painted a dark, somber teal.
Absolutely beautiful! Love the Royal sunset.
Everything looks lovely, Danielle! I think the formal brick edging fights a bit with the romantic nature of your garden. What about picking up every other brick or every third brick and seeing how that looks? Then you could sort of have it trail off under the mint and maybe pick it up again on the other side, but again, sort of intermittent, more of a gesture than a wall? 🤔 💚
I think you should have put de bricks the other way, I mean in the lenght, it 's in the mind that every brick you have put in this way is a stop while if you put them in the lenght it will be a curving way along the gras and the flowerbed. The eyes and the brain works that way. love your garden
@magdad7989 Yes, that's another way to go. Try it, Danielle, and see what you think, just don't put them right next to each other?
@ 8:42 the deck may benefit by having Candy Tuft around the edges or Allysum or something to soften the edges...thinking it would make it more complete looking and not hard....
The patio area looks so good Danielle!
The Royal Sunset lilies I got from The Lily Garden is definitely different than yours. The petals look like they’re painted with soft orange and magenta brush strokes. If you want to give Royal Sunset another try, I would c look into The Lily Garden! I definitely recommend them!
Absolutely stunning! My Potomac Snapdragons are also producing long stems this year (3.5-4" tall!) even though I pinched. Once again you have given me more ideas for filler flowers. My garden is a combo of you, the Impatient Gardner, Y Garden & Flower Hill Farm, quite eclectic, always changing and evolving, and a never ending journey.
I’m not a flower farmer…just love flowers.. snap dragons are outstanding! I have never grown any that beautiful!
The flowers are so beautiful!! We need rain so bad her to!!
I cannot wait until my garden is as private as yours
So happy to fond a garnder near me. I live just outside Harrisburg.
Thank you for great videos and inspiration.
Going to look for feather poppies and some of those snapdragons. I am turning my little pocket front yard into a flower explosion garden to avoid mowing....❤
Love the clarkia color!😍
Beautiful collection. Love the Saponaria and need to try that next year. Would love to hear more about what's the best time of day to pick some of the flowers, vase life, etc. The Orlaya and Saponaria look really nice together. Glad you got some rain. Had to laugh when you said to Grace "tummy" and "taco shells", she did look like she fully understood what you meant!
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I'm glad you decided you liked the Royal Sunsets because they looked really pretty with your other flowers.
It looks lovely Danielle nice and full. Your snap dragons are beautiful especially the Lavender. I have a cottage garden here in Australia and I don’t have any lawn at all it gets too hot in summer and too hard to keep it looking green. I have bark chips instead. I also have brick edging around my beds but my bricks are upright instead of flat and they slightly graduate. You might like to try that it looks really nice
Zone 10b jealousy that you still have cool flowers. On our urban flower farm, the thrips go for the white blooms first
and the dark blooms last. We have our entire backyard and former front lawn space interplanted. All no till flowers and zero grass. 😂
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love the idea of a wall fountain there
I’m growing the same sweet peas from Floret and they smell heavenly! The variety is ‘Balmoral’.
So beautiful Danielle. Your bouquets are just gorgeous!!
I agree with Jackie Opperman. Your bouquets are beautiful and should be featured more often. On another note. I tried mixing clover seed into the lawn mix and it was a fail, needed too much water and too much time to establish. I am in zone 4, hot dry summers. I’m still looking for a ‘lawn’ for a yard with a lot of rock. Thank you for your showing us your inspiring garden.
again, I really love the sunflower bench area!!
Blue and yellow sticky traps are used for thrips (asking other pets) because those colors are most attractive to them. Makes sense they’re attracted to those flower colors maybe. I always seem to see thrips preferring white flowers in my garden and at a greenhouse I worked at 🤔
Wow those bouquets are beautiful 😍
Love your lush garden. Great job.
Your arrangements are so beautiful!!!!
Lawn grass is only cultivated in my front yard. I plan on replacing the rear grass pathway with gravel, and then appropriate groundcover over the gravel/between stepping stones, like fragrant creeping thyme, creeping veronica, scottish/iris moss... as well as short perennials/annuals like creeping phlox, groundcover sedums, hens+chicks, blue/white clip bellflowers,
My vote is: Yes, edge the border; but I think the whitish-gray pavers are too big and too white for your garden. I vote for brick. It's darker and more slender and I think you can lay a nice border yourself. Of course, that's more money; and cutting the grass away from it is a pain. All of these upgrades should come with staff. (There was an article 15 years ago in one of the British gardening magazines that said a particular gardener took care of his garden "without staff." We all thought that was funny.)
Think the sunset lilies would look faboulous with just bupluerum(sp)
Royal Sunset i have grown is more deep dark orange on the tips and solid orange in the center. I absolutely love it so brilliantly beautiful.
I think she was thrown off because the images online show it as having pink/purple tips but in reality they are red, but I image searched and found several pics with the red tips. It’s odd the sellers would manipulate the image to make it look like it’s a different color than it actually is, but they do that a lot.
I grow royal sunset and that Lily does not look like mine. Mine are much larger, and the color is true to what I'm sure you were expecting. Its more of a melon peach shade that blends into a rose purple. Stunning! And a Prolific multiplier.
Bouquets beautiful! Risers sounds good
So much beauty
Your garden is just lovely
Beautiful flowers❤
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Your snapdragons are gorgeous!!! I successfully overwintered two snapdragon plants that I have in my garden, which I started from seed last year. I mounded shredded leaves all around the plants. They are getting ready to bloom. They are not as tall as yours!! Never seen anything like it! As far as the border you are installing, I would recommend moving it to another area where you have no other hardscape. The reason is that you have the pathway right there, and with the border there too, it's too much of a similar color and takes the focus away from the path. I would recommend a partial border somewhere, that disappears under a plant and stops. Then it becomes its own focal point and doesn't compete with anything else. Hope this helps.
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All the changes sounds exciting and can't wait to see it when it's done. I love the brick pathway, I'm hoping to do that to my garden at some point. As usual love your channel
Think the stone should round off. I love thr clarkia….yard looks like you live on an English countryside 💓
Loved your bouquet’s.
For the grass I’ve seen people put compost on it to feed it, it may be worth a try
When it doesn’t rain…..keep your grass and flowers watered by hose. Don’t you ever water by hose. In Idaho our sprinklers are going all the time. We go months w/out moisture !!!
I think a pea gravel or wooden pathway with brick edging would look nice
On your advice, I just sowed larkspur this afternoon, after keeping them in the freezer for a week (first month of a sub-tropical winter here). After no success last year, I was going to give up on them, but your little prod was enough to give them another go. So pretty - I sure hope it works!
Just gorgeous! I envy your raised bed soil- built mine last year but i definitely don't have a good mix of nutrients, going to try to send in a soil sample and remedy 😊
My royal Sunset was more of a muted red brown pink color way; almost antique looking.
Can’t wait to see the changes coming up! I threw a bunch of white clover seed down this spring (I’m zone 3 we have a late spring) clover is supposed to help make a grass lawn more lush & green & supposedly it withstands dog pee really well, as well as attracting bees if it flowers
Grace is adorable. I love how her face shows all that expression.
I have not given up on grass, just on cool season grass like Kentucky Bluegrass. It only looks good for a short while so it's not worth it. I have a very course fescue that does great in high temperatures and drought and have just been spreading that around.
Also dry here in coastal NC. For the month of June, we have so far had .60 inch rain. Add the heat and my garden is suffering.
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I just happened to grow 50 Royal Sunset lilies this year, and they look very different than yours. Mine are a softer sherbet kind of orange inside, and the tips lean toward a dusty rose tinted darker burgundy kind of orange. Also, the whole flower color is a softer shade, whereas yours are very "in your face with intensity". Wish I could include a photo of mine, as they are now my favorite lily, and I plan to spread them around everywhere. I'm in zone 9b and we do not get cold winters, nor snow, if that could possible make any difference in the color difference.
We have been very dry in Michigan too. This past week was the 1st time we got some rain--it was very little, nothing that would soak into the soil very far. When it's very dry, we go longer before mowing. And when we do, we use the highest setting on the mower so the lawn isn't scalped. We do have a lot of clover in our lawn. They are flowering big time right now.
I absolutely LOVE the Royal Sunset lilies in the bouquet. In my mind, it's really hard to think of a color combo that doesn't work when we're talking flowers... not true when it comes to clothes, though!
Your garden looks wonderful even with the lack of rain.
One thing that I do find jarring is the flow of your flower walk path. The section where it is curved out on both sides doesn’t look or feel right. I think it needs either a definite circle of lawn at that point or the curves to be in the same direction, if that makes sense?
how goorgous!
Do you have a schedule of when and what to plant during the season? I could really use that help TIA
I’ve removed most of my grass paths and it’s way better. Yes, they look great in the spring but they look horrible in the summer and early fall. Grass is just becoming harder to grow with continuous higher temperatures and drought most spring and summer.
Here in SoCal 9b we got tons of rain this winter but we gave up on our grass walkways between raised beds and filled it all in with pea pebbles.
Dealing with grass is the bane of my existence. It’s more trouble than it’s worth. What variation of cat mint do you have growing along the main flower walk?
Your gardens are so beautiful. My two cents: I’d remove the bricks and continue with the English edging. Why switch? With your limited acreage I think simpler is better.
I am growing royal sunset this year which is more mauve and not that vibrant.
Everything is looking so beautiful Danielle, can’t wait to see the new changes! I’m a huge fan of interplanting as well, I think I may have learned that from you a couple years ago. 😃
I love all of the hardscape and you’ve done a great job! I do think the brick lining looks a little out of place. Maybe some clay bricks would flow with your look or some good ole’ Virginia rocks? ☺️😉
Or-maybe just soften up the bricks with some creeping Thyme or something like that. Anything you decide will be fabulous!