Thank you for this video . You do look like you're in a winter wonderland ! The Colors of your coat and scarf with the trees in the background are lovely .
Very good tips. This made me realize why the summer months always pass me by so quickly: I only choose flowering perennials and mix them with bulbs, planning carefully what colors are in bloom at the same time. I go from day to day, from week to week waiting for the next flowers in the next shrub to open, and before I know the summer’s gone. Maybe I should concentrate on leaves and greens this season.
My Japanese ferns taught me about sun and soil. Big and lush in fertile, shady area, tiny and weak in dry, half sunny area. When I hear your advice about importance of sun and soil, I hope viewers really follow it. I learned my lesson the hard way because I didn't listen to such advice. I watch both garden channels, and I go back to videos to watch again. I love garden books and magazines, but for me, not as fun. You're all in my house having a chat about gardening - oh and I do make comments while watching. But most of all, to know that both make mistakes, dig up, start over in spots, learn advice from others, etc. has been liberating and confidence building!
The 8 dislikers think they have never made a mistake in a garden hah! Thanks for nice video. I think very common mistakes are actually overwatering, crowding seedlings and not planning the garden space.
Think I have made all of these mistakes. Even hired a friend hobbiest vegetable Gardner that seemed to also know about plants to weed eat and mow on regular basis. He “weeded” my favorite lilac completely to ground level! It never came back 😞 Thank you for all these tips ❤️ Makes me feel human and a good reminder to not repeat!
Thank you Erin! I seem to make the same mistake each year🤣 I over plan what to plant. I crave simplicity in the garden and love flower abundance. By august my garden feels like an explosion of chaos. Beautiful, though still chaos (to me). Having restraint is very difficult when feeling inspired. So this year I am trying to stay in a color palette to bring the calm I desire in the garden. As always you are Amazing!
I follow Alexandra’s channel and have found you via her channel. I live in Ontario Canada and seeing you standing in all that Winteryness, I thought I should pop in to see what you have to say. Looking forward to following your channel.
Love love your gardens and the new path and I love lovel this lighting. I need them so badly. You have the best blog of any other blog that I follow. I also love your drink you shared with all of us, “HUMMER”and my neighbors love them too. Ive told you this before and its still a HUMMER here at my house. Keep doing what your doing as we all love your style and your knowledge you share with us. Oh, I love your dogs too and Mr. oh so a patient. Hugs, KarenTandy
I wish I would have listened to this video two years ago! I removed several “boring” evergreen boxwood shrubs to make room for “pretty” flowers and left my garden looking absolutely desolate in the winter. *sigh* I am now in the process of rebuilding by adding back in some interesting evergreen shrubs that will even flower in the summer (Diamond Spiral Gardenia) and add a pop of color throughout the year (Blush Nandina). Also agree that buying in multiples is smart - helps to balance everything. Thank you, Erin and Alexandra!
You said something I want, a garden with little to no flowers. I’m allergic to a lot, and allergic to bee stings. I want to be amongst my garden and not have to worry about getting stung.
Great collaboration. I loved seeing Alexandra on your channel, she is one very knowledgeable lady. Good advice also from both of you and I think we are all guilty as charged for one or more of these mistakes
Guilty of most of the above--and I have a small yard. One comment though, I am famous for buying 1 to 3 plants at a time because they are just so expensive and just so small when locals have little choice and you have to go online to get what you want. So my beds are always a work in progress as I have a plan in mind and fill in same plants to tie all together as the years and dollars allow. No instant gratification but eventually I hope to get there. I am experimenting with growing from seed this year. Thanks for all your advice!
I think you are the normal gardener , if you're doing it all mostly yourself its really a challenge,but then it wouldn't be satisfying to me to just pay someone ITS THE EXCITMENT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT .
Yeah i think as long as your intention is massing through propagation, buying singles is fine to maintain a reasonable budget. It's when you have been gardening in a space for years and you still only have multiple onesies that it becomes visually disappointing. Plantings without weight will always feel lost in a space.
@@JAYNEmM1962 You are right. When I lived north of Houston, everyone had a gardener and lovely though my yard was, I didn't touch it. Now that I'm back in small town Iowa, no one has one and you couldn't find one if you wanted one--I tried. I have a guy that comes once a month to treat the lawn. i'm retired now and just learning.
Same! I’m currently obsessed with the idea of a sea of purplish-leaved hardy geraniums but they’re too expensive if you can even find them. So I bought seeds from the UK and I’m hoping for the best. 3 seedlings up so far 🌱🤞
Great tips! I have moved so many plants around that I haven’t place in the right spot. However, I do like to buy one plant, and then propagate it to make multiples to keep costs down; but, of course, it takes longer, so that practice requires patience. I have learned through trial and error which plants are easiest to do that with. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱😃
You can buy one of something and divide it over time to acheive a pleasant grouping. Hostas and daylillies are some of the easiest to divide and voila you have more plants!!
Wonderful! .....but i think she was speaking of folks like me who go and by one perfect phlox and agonize if it was a good decision, only to get it out of the car, set it on the soil and IMMEDIATELY wish i had gotten more, only to return to the garden ctr next day to witness a sell out!😩
1✔️2✔️3✔️4✔️5✔️I've done 'em all. Still fighting the acid thing because I'm nuts about pink hydrangeas (I'm slowly doing more whites). I have to check the sun requirement because I might get 6 hrs in one or two spots, but the spots are small. I still throw the spade in and find something and I put a pot on top of a hosta one winter. Darned if the thing came up around it anyway, and once I moved the pot, it was perfect. Great advice. It's taken my far too long to get these points. Take heed people!!
I wish I could have seen this video years ago, I've already made most of these mistakes! Especially trying to grow a lavender hedge along a walkway in my part sun acidic heavy soil. I finally figured out that nepeta gets me the look i wanted and I have two beautiful pots of lavender in well draining soil in my sunnier potager garden. Love this collaboration of my two favorite gardeners!
Being a new Gardner and making lots of mistakes I have learned so much from both of your Channels. I have made my husband move several plants because of those mistakes and he grumbles a bit and I like to show him how you make mistakes and I say look she’s a longtime Gardner! 😂
Great video, and yes I already follow both of you. Mistake guilty as charged, buying one of, planting a full sun in part sun, are at the top. Erin I have to share my thoughts about how good you look in green with your beautiful snowy background. Thanks to the both of you and can’t wait to spend my time planting some seeds ( yes I’ll label them 🤔 ) . Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
Making mistakes and trying to learn from them are a constant source of me attempting to educate myself. Learning from gardeners like you goes a long way towards that endeavour - so thank you Erin :)
Just finished the movie you suggested and what a treat...another post from you! You look so nice in that color of green. I like to see you in blue too.
All long time gardeners have made most or all of these gardening mistakes. I've made all of them, plus a few you didn't mention, like planting shrubs way too close together or too close to the foundation of my house. Removing large overgrown shrubs can be a real PITA! I've been there and done that more times than I care to mention. YIKES! Of course, even after making all of the mistakes, I've learned a valuable lesson from each of them. I'm sure I'll continue to make mistakes in the future, and that's okay because, with each trial and error, I have fun planting new cultivars, watching them grow, and learning from the experience. I tell my friends and family that I don't do drugs, don't drink excessively, and I don't smoke! However, I do cuss, and I plant things! ~Margie
Oh so many mistakes 🤦🏻♀️ But we live and learn right? Spend the winter thinking about what was good and what was bad, and dream about the season to come 🥰
I am guilty of the "one plant" garden which I am in the process of correcting over the last season and will continue this upcoming season. I love so many plants and flowers but in a small garden, I really have to make choices on what works best and then add what I can in containers on the patio. I'm so looking forward to bring a more cohesiveness to my garden in 2021
Love your jacket and scarf, Erin! That's a very flattering color on you. And you look especially pretty with the snowy background. I love to see collaborations like these with other TH-camrs. I've been following you and Alexandra for quite awhile and really enjoy your videos. Great information and ideas!
The biggest mistake I see is planting things inappropriately. You touched on sun and soil requirements, but more than that, I see size issues all over. Especially with trees. People plant little trees right up against their house, under power lines, etc. When in 20 years, that plant will need to be removed because it's full size was not taken into account.
This is the first time I’ve watched this and it’s all terrific advice. I’m a garden designer and I like to design the structure (the skeleton) in the garden first so it looks just as good in winter as in summer. I love to hear the opinions from both sides of the pond too. A great idea!
I would love it if you or the middle size garden would talk about cannas. I feel like they are a tropical plant and I would need to make my entire backyard tropical looking for it to fit in. my flower bed at the time fits into a cottage style garden theme.
Thanks for the comments about planting in larger numbers. Makes me realize, I'd rather have my long row of lavender where it is. I was considering breaking it up and replacing a lot of it with single plants. 😅
I think when researching what a plant likes, or researching what kind of plants you want before going to the nursery, you should also find out how invasive a plant might be. I made a mistake with an invasive plant, and it just ran all over!
Erin, this was very timely. Two years ago I started landscaping my yard based on plants I like. Were they right for the area...NO. Now I am in the process of redesigning my landscape and replanting. Starting over! This time I am doing my research and making a plan.
There are times when you can't avoid buying onesies like when the plant is brand new on the market and for your region. Buy one to see how it does, then add to that grouping.
You are so right! I definitely made mistakes #1 and #5. I wish someone would have given me this advice a long time ago because it took me years to realize those were the mistakes I was making. It was really only in the last couple of years that I realized how important foliage and the 'structure' plantings are, especially on my zone 4 property! Really great advice guys! Now I'll go watch the other video to learn more about what I SHOULD be doing!
Since you never know what a plant center has on a given day, how could anyone plan exactly what to buy before you leave home? There are many plants I would never need or want several of! If it does well that's wonderful and I'll divide it. It isn't that you need to repeat the same plant to look nice, it is more how the plants you put in work together. If you love having a botanical zoo, then have exactly that. It is not a mistake in your garden if you love it!
Also, how sad it would be to tell yourself that you are forbidden from spontaneously falling in love with a plant at a garden center b/c it isn't on your list. What a joy it is to discover a plant you've only seen in a book, finally in the flesh! (or in the leaves, haha..) I don't indulge every impulse, but when you know you really should not walk away, then don't.
I would also add to not make your garden so big that you can’t take care of it , which is easy to do because when you love gardening you can never have too many plants. You keep expanding till you’ve created a monster. I did this when my kids went off to college. I threw myself into my garden to keep busy and have something to nurture but now I’m 70 and it’s a lot of work. Your back will thank you.
One time I bought 2 Helleborus but only one survived after one season. I don't know why. Since then I have been able to transplant few baby helleborus from the one surviving one. This made me think that sometimes it may be good to just buy one big healthy plant. Divide and propagate at home in pots first to make several smaller plants and use them in different spots. Another time, I bought 2 Brunneras Hadspen Cream. After transplant one of them due to bad location, it reverted to its original colour, lost the cream coloration. In both cases, I bought 2 but ended up with just 1.
One gardening mistake that I can think of is sowing seeds for poppies and amaranthus caudatus too late for the coming growing season; I think that it's possible that they wouldn't even work for the year after that.
I have done the mistakes of buying just one plant 🪴 many many times and then it doesn't do well.. 😔😪 I just can't resist myself when I see something n sometimes its easy to hide one plant in the landscape from my husband than more 😂😂
Thank you Erin and Alexandra for the great advice. I have tricky garden spots when it comes to lighting. One raised bed is west facing in front of some tall pines, so it’s completely shaded in the morning but then gets the hot afternoon/setting sun. It’s hard to know what to plant there. I never know if I should plant shade or sun loving plants in it. 😑
Good advice, see my video Bunny Guinness / A garden For My Family and Other Animals and My Top Time Saving Gardening Hacks!
Thanks for stopping by, Bunny! I enjoy your channel.
I love combining Erin and Alexandra!
2 of my favourite gardeners in one place 🥰
Thank you for this video . You do look like you're in a winter wonderland ! The Colors of your coat and scarf with the trees in the background are lovely .
Hey, Erin! You and Alexandra are my favorite gardeners on TH-cam. Thanks for all you do.
Very good tips. This made me realize why the summer months always pass me by so quickly: I only choose flowering perennials and mix them with bulbs, planning carefully what colors are in bloom at the same time. I go from day to day, from week to week waiting for the next flowers in the next shrub to open, and before I know the summer’s gone. Maybe I should concentrate on leaves and greens this season.
My Japanese ferns taught me about sun and soil. Big and lush in fertile, shady area, tiny and weak in dry, half sunny area. When I hear your advice about importance of sun and soil, I hope viewers really follow it. I learned my lesson the hard way because I didn't listen to such advice.
I watch both garden channels, and I go back to videos to watch again. I love garden books and magazines, but for me, not as fun. You're all in my house having a chat about gardening - oh and I do make comments while watching. But most of all, to know that both make mistakes, dig up, start over in spots, learn advice from others, etc. has been liberating and confidence building!
Nice collaboration with Alexandria. I enjoy her channel as well. You guys should do more of these
I’ve done all of Erin’s no-no’s and learned the hard way - listen to Erin! 😆🙌
Your best tip for me is to mass plant flowers to get the best impact👍🏽 great tip thanks 😊
You should do plant tours for kids! It can really get them into it they love it :D
The 8 dislikers think they have never made a mistake in a garden hah! Thanks for nice video. I think very common mistakes are actually overwatering, crowding seedlings and not planning the garden space.
Think I have made all of these mistakes. Even hired a friend hobbiest vegetable Gardner that seemed to also know about plants to weed eat and mow on regular basis. He “weeded” my favorite lilac completely to ground level! It never came back 😞 Thank you for all these tips ❤️ Makes me feel human and a good reminder to not repeat!
Love these channels combining forces from time to time. Erin and Alexandra rock!!
Thank you Erin! I seem to make the same mistake each year🤣 I over plan what to plant. I crave simplicity in the garden and love flower abundance. By august my garden feels like an explosion of chaos. Beautiful, though still chaos (to me). Having restraint is very difficult when feeling inspired. So this year I am trying to stay in a color palette to bring the calm I desire in the garden. As always you are Amazing!
I follow Alexandra’s channel and have found you via her channel. I live in Ontario Canada and seeing you standing in all that Winteryness, I thought I should pop in to see what you have to say. Looking forward to following your channel.
Love love your gardens and the new path and I love lovel this lighting. I need them so badly. You have the best blog of any other blog that I follow. I also love your drink you shared with all of us, “HUMMER”and my neighbors love them too. Ive told you this before and its still a HUMMER here at my house. Keep doing what your doing as we all love your style and your knowledge you share with us. Oh, I love your dogs too and Mr. oh so a patient. Hugs, KarenTandy
Thanks for your informative videos. Would love to see you do a top 5 for ground covers, shrubs, perennials, etc.
Great video! I really enjoyed the format. Well done.
I wish I would have listened to this video two years ago! I removed several “boring” evergreen boxwood shrubs to make room for “pretty” flowers and left my garden looking absolutely desolate in the winter. *sigh* I am now in the process of rebuilding by adding back in some interesting evergreen shrubs that will even flower in the summer (Diamond Spiral Gardenia) and add a pop of color throughout the year (Blush Nandina). Also agree that buying in multiples is smart - helps to balance everything. Thank you, Erin and Alexandra!
You said something I want, a garden with little to no flowers. I’m allergic to a lot, and allergic to bee stings. I want to be amongst my garden and not have to worry about getting stung.
Great collaboration. I loved seeing Alexandra on your channel, she is one very knowledgeable lady. Good advice also from both of you and I think we are all guilty as charged for one or more of these mistakes
Guilty of most of the above--and I have a small yard. One comment though, I am famous for buying 1 to 3 plants at a time because they are just so expensive and just so small when locals have little choice and you have to go online to get what you want. So my beds are always a work in progress as I have a plan in mind and fill in same plants to tie all together as the years and dollars allow. No instant gratification but eventually I hope to get there. I am experimenting with growing from seed this year. Thanks for all your advice!
I think you are the normal gardener , if you're doing it all mostly yourself its really a challenge,but then it wouldn't be satisfying to me to just pay someone ITS THE EXCITMENT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT .
Yeah i think as long as your intention is massing through propagation, buying singles is fine to maintain a reasonable budget. It's when you have been gardening in a space for years and you still only have multiple onesies that it becomes visually disappointing. Plantings without weight will always feel lost in a space.
@@JAYNEmM1962 You are right. When I lived north of Houston, everyone had a gardener and lovely though my yard was, I didn't touch it. Now that I'm back in small town Iowa, no one has one and you couldn't find one if you wanted one--I tried. I have a guy that comes once a month to treat the lawn. i'm retired now and just learning.
Same! I’m currently obsessed with the idea of a sea of purplish-leaved hardy geraniums but they’re too expensive if you can even find them. So I bought seeds from the UK and I’m hoping for the best. 3 seedlings up so far 🌱🤞
these mistakes are the BEST! from long time gardener & Master gardener...still learning
Great tips! I have moved so many plants around that I haven’t place in the right spot. However, I do like to buy one plant, and then propagate it to make multiples to keep costs down; but, of course, it takes longer, so that practice requires patience. I have learned through trial and error which plants are easiest to do that with. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱😃
Erin, I learned from you to stop buying one plant last year. This winter I ordered in batches of 3, 5, and nine. Thanks.
You can buy one of something and divide it over time to acheive a pleasant grouping. Hostas and daylillies are some of the easiest to divide and voila you have more plants!!
Yes, that’s what I do!! And irises! I’ve given away lots of daylillies and irises once I’ve divided up enough for my own garden.
Wonderful! .....but i think she was speaking of folks like me who go and by one perfect phlox and agonize if it was a good decision, only to get it out of the car, set it on the soil and IMMEDIATELY wish i had gotten more, only to return to the garden ctr next day to witness a sell out!😩
Love when you collaborate with others. Have been watching Alexandra since you introduced her. Thanks 🌼☀️
Thank you, Erin and Alexandra, for the great tips. By the way, you look fabulous in that scarf and coat, Erin.
Good job , nicely done. Very good Tipps. Thank you so much. Have a good one and take care. See you soon. 🌻
I really enjoy both you and Alexandra so this is a double win! Gotta go. I,m heading across the pond......
Oh I learned the rule of one and paying the price. I am always buying one to see if it does good and then when I go back the plant is gone! Lol!!!
Two of my favorite gardeners!
Thank you!
You're welcome, thank YOU for all the great information, it's so helpful for new gardeners like myself!
New Subscriber here! I loved all of the tips!
1✔️2✔️3✔️4✔️5✔️I've done 'em all. Still fighting the acid thing because I'm nuts about pink hydrangeas (I'm slowly doing more whites). I have to check the sun requirement because I might get 6 hrs in one or two spots, but the spots are small. I still throw the spade in and find something and I put a pot on top of a hosta one winter. Darned if the thing came up around it anyway, and once I moved the pot, it was perfect. Great advice. It's taken my far too long to get these points. Take heed people!!
Great tips. I have made all of these mistakes also. Love having both of you together. Hope you plan more of these videos together!
Thank you Erin, all great tips! Don’t ya just love evergreen trees with snow on the branches.💚🙃
I wish I could have seen this video years ago, I've already made most of these mistakes! Especially trying to grow a lavender hedge along a walkway in my part sun acidic heavy soil. I finally figured out that nepeta gets me the look i wanted and I have two beautiful pots of lavender in well draining soil in my sunnier potager garden. Love this collaboration of my two favorite gardeners!
Wonderful video plus love seeing what you have and haven’t done in a garden.
Great tips. I like the mix of the 2 of you.
Being a new Gardner and making lots of mistakes I have learned so much from both of your Channels. I have made my husband move several plants because of those mistakes and he grumbles a bit and I like to show him how you make mistakes and I say look she’s a longtime Gardner! 😂
Thank you both for your experiences. Yes, I'm guilty for doing some of those too😁
Great video, and yes I already follow both of you. Mistake guilty as charged, buying one of, planting a full sun in part sun, are at the top.
Erin I have to share my thoughts about how good you look in green with your beautiful snowy background. Thanks to the both of you and can’t wait to spend my time planting some seeds ( yes I’ll label them 🤔 ) . Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
1-3 is all the ESSENTIALS!!! 👍🏻
Making mistakes and trying to learn from them are a constant source of me attempting to educate myself. Learning from gardeners like you goes a long way towards that endeavour - so thank you Erin :)
I just spent a whole day moving plants around because I placed a full sun in a full shade. And yes, I got lots of single plants in my garden....
Just finished the movie you suggested and what a treat...another post from you! You look so nice in that color of green. I like to see you in blue too.
Love alexandra! Shes amazing and in so glad u two found each other. Her content is so informative and wide ranging. 🤗🤗🤗
What a great collaboration
THIS WAS AWESOME. Great view point and so helpful
All long time gardeners have made most or all of these gardening mistakes. I've made all of them, plus a few you didn't mention, like planting shrubs way too close together or too close to the foundation of my house. Removing large overgrown shrubs can be a real PITA! I've been there and done that more times than I care to mention. YIKES! Of course, even after making all of the mistakes, I've learned a valuable lesson from each of them. I'm sure I'll continue to make mistakes in the future, and that's okay because, with each trial and error, I have fun planting new cultivars, watching them grow, and learning from the experience. I tell my friends and family that I don't do drugs, don't drink excessively, and I don't smoke! However, I do cuss, and I plant things! ~Margie
Hi Erin & Alexandra!
Wait a minute?! My two favs!
Oh so many mistakes 🤦🏻♀️ But we live and learn right? Spend the winter thinking about what was good and what was bad, and dream about the season to come 🥰
Love this collaboration, learn so much from both of you!!
I am guilty of the "one plant" garden which I am in the process of correcting over the last season and will continue this upcoming season. I love so many plants and flowers but in a small garden, I really have to make choices on what works best and then add what I can in containers on the patio. I'm so looking forward to bring a more cohesiveness to my garden in 2021
Love your jacket and scarf, Erin! That's a very flattering color on you. And you look especially pretty with the snowy background. I love to see collaborations like these with other TH-camrs. I've been following you and Alexandra for quite awhile and really enjoy your videos. Great information and ideas!
I Like your Channel Very Very Very Nice
God Bless you and your family
The biggest mistake I see is planting things inappropriately. You touched on sun and soil requirements, but more than that, I see size issues all over. Especially with trees. People plant little trees right up against their house, under power lines, etc. When in 20 years, that plant will need to be removed because it's full size was not taken into account.
Such a fab video. Relatable. Thank you!!
Excellent video. Thank you ladies.
So nice that you and Alexandra got together. Love the tips. Thanks!
This is the first time I’ve watched this and it’s all terrific advice. I’m a garden designer and I like to design the structure (the skeleton) in the garden first so it looks just as good in winter as in summer. I love to hear the opinions from both sides of the pond too. A great idea!
I would love it if you or the middle size garden would talk about cannas. I feel like they are a tropical plant and I would need to make my entire backyard tropical looking for it to fit in. my flower bed at the time fits into a cottage style garden theme.
Thanks for the comments about planting in larger numbers. Makes me realize, I'd rather have my long row of lavender where it is. I was considering breaking it up and replacing a lot of it with single plants. 😅
Great video!!!! Many lessons learned and universal to all gardeners.
Great tips. Great mashup. Thank you! 💗
Ty for all your tips
I love that you keep it real
I think when researching what a plant likes, or researching what kind of plants you want before going to the nursery, you should also find out how invasive a plant might be. I made a mistake with an invasive plant, and it just ran all over!
Great point!
Erin, this was very timely. Two years ago I started landscaping my yard based on plants I like. Were they right for the area...NO. Now I am in the process of redesigning my landscape and replanting. Starting over! This time I am doing my research and making a plan.
I did the same! I bought things that were sentimental and had in my garden as a child. They ended up dying. I think gardening is a journey.
Loved the green jacket and scarf on you!
Thanks for the tips. You both are favorites of mine!!
My two favourite gardeners!
what a great source of tips. Thank you!!
There are times when you can't avoid buying onesies like when the plant is brand new on the market and for your region. Buy one to see how it does, then add to that grouping.
So many great tips and things to consider!
You are so right! I definitely made mistakes #1 and #5. I wish someone would have given me this advice a long time ago because it took me years to realize those were the mistakes I was making. It was really only in the last couple of years that I realized how important foliage and the 'structure' plantings are, especially on my zone 4 property! Really great advice guys! Now I'll go watch the other video to learn more about what I SHOULD be doing!
Thank you for showing us the middle sized gardener. She's close to the same zone as me. She has a new subscriber!
Good tips for a successful landscape. Many of us have learned the hard way with mistakes like these.
Thankful we made mistake 1 and mistake 5 in our old gardens and learned our lessons...hopefully...Thanks for reminding us again Erin 👍🏼
Thank you both!
Love it! Plus another gardener to follow. 💚
Since you never know what a plant center has on a given day, how could anyone plan exactly what to buy before you leave home?
There are many plants I would never need or want several of! If it does well that's wonderful and I'll divide it. It isn't that you need to repeat the same plant to look nice, it is more how the plants you put in work together. If you love having a botanical zoo, then have exactly that. It is not a mistake in your garden if you love it!
I have a very small, narrow garden. I often buy one of something to see how it does and if it’s happy I can divide it.
Also, how sad it would be to tell yourself that you are forbidden from spontaneously falling in love with a plant at a garden center b/c it isn't on your list. What a joy it is to discover a plant you've only seen in a book, finally in the flesh! (or in the leaves, haha..) I don't indulge every impulse, but when you know you really should not walk away, then don't.
Great info!
I would also add to not make your garden so big that you can’t take care of it , which is easy to do because when you love gardening you can never have too many plants. You keep expanding till you’ve created a monster. I did this when my kids went off to college. I threw myself into my garden to keep busy and have something to nurture but now I’m 70 and it’s a lot of work. Your back will thank you.
I feel like I’m in the slow moving version of making this exact mistake
Very helpful!
Love these tips! Thank you
Great advice! Thank you
Excellent information and a wonderful collab!!!!
great tips! thanks!
One time I bought 2 Helleborus but only one survived after one season. I don't know why. Since then I have been able to transplant few baby helleborus from the one surviving one. This made me think that sometimes it may be good to just buy one big healthy plant. Divide and propagate at home in pots first to make several smaller plants and use them in different spots. Another time, I bought 2 Brunneras Hadspen Cream. After transplant one of them due to bad location, it reverted to its original colour, lost the cream coloration. In both cases, I bought 2 but ended up with just 1.
One gardening mistake that I can think of is sowing seeds for poppies and amaranthus caudatus too late for the coming growing season; I think that it's possible that they wouldn't even work for the year after that.
Such good reminders
I do the buying multiples of 3 but now I have permission to buy 5 or 7 or 9!
I wish I had seen your video earlier! I bought one peony online because I’ve never grown them before and now I want to get 2 more! 😩
Aa always, a great video! I did find your channel from your last collaboration with Alexandra, oh I guess a year ago? Always good tips! Thank you. 😁
I have done the mistakes of buying just one plant 🪴 many many times and then it doesn't do well.. 😔😪 I just can't resist myself when I see something n sometimes its easy to hide one plant in the landscape from my husband than more 😂😂
Excellent!
Thank you Erin and Alexandra for the great advice. I have tricky garden spots when it comes to lighting. One raised bed is west facing in front of some tall pines, so it’s completely shaded in the morning but then gets the hot afternoon/setting sun. It’s hard to know what to plant there. I never know if I should plant shade or sun loving plants in it. 😑
I have done all of them.