I love that you run around barefoot. My kinda girl. Also thank you for not cleaning up and showing the good and bad. You are one of my top gardeners because you don’t embellish or fake anything.
Awesome tour of your gardens! I really enjoyed it. Your husband is a trooper to help with filming your video too! I like watching what you grow as I’m in Zone 8b which is close to yours. So it helps me choose plants that can thrive vs survive. 😅 Happy Gardening!
You can make a wattle fence from the smoke bush branches. I saw Janey from Dig,Plant, Water, Repeat make a wattle fence from branches that she picked around her neighborhood.
Thank you for keeping it real and showing the not so perfect. It makes me feel so much better about the state my garden is in. :D Everything is looking fantastic. I'm just as excited for your garden as you are! :D
It all looks lovely! Cannot wait for your shade garden as I am in your same growing zone (Aubrey, TX) and my back garden is full shade due to a nature trail behind my house. I would love to see what you come up with!
@@shesamadgardener The shaded yard is literally what sold us on the house. And now I sometimes wish I had more sun so I can grow more sun loving plants. LOL
The tulips not getting equal sun: I solved this by finding plastic pots that fit inside the urns and switching them every few days to get equal growth. Lovely garden! Thanks for sharing it!
Amanda thank you for the real life garden tour. My Calloways here in South Arlington is not good about taking back plants within the one year time period. They just make excuses not to take a plant back.
For Crazy Cold weather the forecasts have just changed this morning. A new arctic blast has just grown in strength. Forecasts last week were showing mid 30s to low 40s lows. Now its showing 35/Th 32/Fr 31/Sat 😥
@@shesamadgardener I have two hardy oleanders that died to the ground, they are already shooting up through the ground and greening up. I'll at least cover them overnight just to give the new shoots a little extra protection.
Everything looks so nice, Amanda! Your husband did a great job filming, also! I'm very impressed that you have a Clematis that came back 😯. I see them available in the stores here (in El Paso), but questioned whether they would really grow here. El Paso is also zone 8a.
I will enjoy seeing your side shade garden take shape. I have pretty much no shade due to how my house is sited. When I think of my backyard, sweat immediately runs into my eyes because it is so stinking HOT. Southeastern NC, zone 8a is not for the faint of heart in the summer.
Another great walk through of the garden ❤. I have some seeds from Florets that I am NOT going to use… did not want to set up grow lights and all the stuff… wanted to share them with you
Congratulations on all the structure you added to the garden, especially the 2 redbuds. The perennials will be with you for years and reduce the amount of planting every year. A little less work and more time to enjoy the garden and arrange flowers.
Your tour was a delight, your gardens lovely. And now I MUST add light blue violas to my patches muscari. Stunning. I couldn't help notice the downspout near the oakleaf hydrangea. If you're so inclined, it seems an ideal spot for a rain barrel, beautiful and functional. Of course, I suppose Texas is equally well-known for its abundant rains as for its shade gardens... 🌧 😉. But there is the occasional anomaly, yes? Also, kudos to your husband for his role on your team. Enjoying your channel from the PNW, zone 6b.
I love everything about this! I'm nearby you (over in Frisco) in a small suburban cottage and we just began installing garden beds here last year. We downsized from a larger place where we had developed a mature landscape with many trees (including a willow), shrubs, and perennials, boosted seasonally by annuals as you do. We had a double koi pond with a waterfall and a little footbridge, pergola-covered patios wrapped in flowering vines, and a secret garden of laceleaf Japanese maple, dogwood, and hydrangeas on the shady side of the house behind an arched trellis draped in blooms. It was my dream place but became too much for us at this later stage of life. (Thankfully, it was bought by a friend who loved the gardens as much as I did, so it's in good hands.) Now we've started over. We're in the midst of putting big shade beds in our front and back yards (thanks to several huge trees that are quite welcome in the summer heat). Then I got carried away and decided to add vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, and a few dwarf fruit trees in the few sunny patches of our backyard, so we're working on that, too. We have some vertical planters going (Greenstalk) and are adding some raised beds similar to yours but taller in order to go easy on our older backs and knees. Right now, we're enjoying our spring bulbs in pots and watching the things we put in last fall wake up and flush out. I was thinking we'd postpone doing anything with the side yards for at least another year or two, but seeing your beds there made me eager to get to them sooner, maybe this fall. Anyway, I enjoy your content because it is so relatable to my geography and interests. Thanks! (P.S. I have a weeping redbud, as well, and chuckled at your "Cousin It" description of the Golden Falls. I always think the same thing! 😄
+Becky Winn starting a new green is exciting and daunting as well. But sounds like you have a great plan in place! Be been wanting to do the green stalk planter but just haven’t made the the jump.
Hi friend,, had you been to calloways nursery in mesquite it is at Galloway street, they have so many perennials plants at a very decent price 3.99 they are very decent size you should go.. I got a lot of plants this week 🤗🤭
Thank you for the garden tour. Even though I’m in a different state/zone. I enjoy watching your channel. l like that your excited for a project, you show us such beautiful flowers when they work out and I like when you show us stuff that didn’t work. This has inspired me to just start planting and help me get over when something doesn’t work out because so much more does, anyway lovely garden lovely channel. It has been inspirational for me. Thank you for being you!
Great video!! Nice to see new life in your gardens. Wondering when you plant your snapdragon seeds? Looking forward to planting some in my garden from seeds next year :)
Thanks so much for the grand tour. You both helped with inspiration....especially now as lady winter is making a visit once again here in upstate SC where we're dropping down to frost temps for the next week. All my tenders that popped up have their blankies back on. So, this was the best 30 minutes spent with gardener friends since it's too chilly to venture out here yet! Happy almost spring. Thanks again xoxoxo
Love your garden! Your light blue violas look just gorgeous! I'm waiting to see your garden in progress 😊We are in similar climate zones ( I'm in Italy zone 8b), but we are a week or two late looking at the plants development compared to your place. Another difference is that we have very green grass for all the winter and a very long warm autumn.
I live in Cleburne which is not too far from you. Your garden looks so much better than mine ! You had said you kept your drip attached all year except when really cold comes in. Do you run drip once a week in winter if it doesn’t rain? How often do you fertilize and with what do you fertilize ? Your doing such a great job. It is all beautiful. Well done.
Yes I run once a week if there is no rain. I fertilize about every six months or when I am planting a new plant. I use a liquid fertilizer every few weeks in the spring and summer.
I don't know if you visit the County Research Gardens at Meyers but a tip if you have not, its good to see them experiment all year and then go multiple times to see what each plant type looks like throughout the year. The Master Gardeners had just left when I visited so I had the place to myself to read the signs marking over 400 plantings and do observations. I'll be back throughout the year.
@@shesamadgardener Right now a lot is dormant, but its good way to quickly see what is dormant and what is greening up already. You will have to go later to see more explosive growth and then blooms.
Finally I have found a gardener in my state and Zone(Lewisville, TX)!!!! My bridlewreath spirea is also acting strangely this year. What direction does that wall face?
+Krista Jones I brought them out really early this year … I actually think because I brought them out early, it stunted their growth some due to the cooler nights. They’ve been out about 3 weeks.
Good morning. Just wondering that if you keep cutting back the sweet almond verbeena don't the limbs stay thin and not so strong? Just wondering if at some point you want to harden off the limbs to hold the blooms. Thank you for the tour and Looking forward to seeing your gardens exploding with color.
@@shesamadgardener That is true. I was just thinking that the verbeena is like the twist and shout and the little tidbit or fab fire. Your gardens still look good to me.
Without knowing the details of your neighbor situation, most cities, it is against ordinance to purposely drain rain water or other water onto a neighboring property against their wishes. If the water naturally flows that way, it is allowed. If the are creating a way to make the water go onto your property, not allowed. You can call city all, or county offices to request an inspector look at it. If in violation most cities/counties give 30 days for them to fix it and re inspect. Of course if you don't want to open a can of worms,,, maybe just live w it, cause of course your neighbor will know you complained and that can create problems. (saying all this assuming you have already reasonably talked to your neighbor about it and that got you no results).
+CMN R trust me, we’ve been through 3 years of dealing with this … we’ve had all kinds of work done by the builder and the city. The neighbors have to agree to have the work done on their property and they have chosen not to.
Glad your husband is supportive of your channel and helping to film.
+Life with Ms Dee he is 💚💚💚
I love that you run around barefoot. My kinda girl. Also thank you for not cleaning up and showing the good and bad. You are one of my top gardeners because you don’t embellish or fake anything.
+2Equine 1Dog What a sweet comment! Thank you for making my day! 💚💚💚
I love the Willow tree! Everything is looking so beautiful! Nice garden tour.
+michelle pollino Thank you 💚💚💚
You have so much planted and so much infrastructure! Looks great!
+Jeanne T thank you! I’ve been working on the infrastructure so thanks for noticing!
A wonderful video....keep them coming !!.....Beautiful garden and flowers !!
+Nell Manning Thank you 💚💚💚
Awesome tour of your gardens! I really enjoyed it. Your husband is a trooper to help with filming your video too! I like watching what you grow as I’m in Zone 8b which is close to yours. So it helps me choose plants that can thrive vs survive. 😅 Happy Gardening!
Thank you so much!
You can make a wattle fence from the smoke bush branches. I saw Janey from Dig,Plant, Water, Repeat make a wattle fence from branches that she picked around her neighborhood.
+Frecie Magdirila I love doing that technique! I use my willow branches as they are more pliable … I’ll be sure to post that in the future.
@@shesamadgardener Thank you for replying. Of course, I’ll watch that video.
Hello! I am also gardening in Texas, zone 8a. So glad to have found you! Happy Spring!
+Wendy Weeks hello and welcome!
Such a beautiful garden you have. I love the fact that you're barefoot also!🥰
+Ready, Set, Grow. 💚💚💚
Thank you for keeping it real and showing the not so perfect. It makes me feel so much better about the state my garden is in. :D Everything is looking fantastic. I'm just as excited for your garden as you are! :D
+Terrye T You are welcome! 💚
Love that added the pots through the garden
+Joyce Hancock thank you! It’s going to be fun to plant them up!
Your collection of violas is really lovely.
+Jennifer Duncan Thank you 💚💚💚
Well done. Even when still in progress you've done so much.
Thank you so much!
Lovely garden . Cant wait for your vedios to show all the plants blooming from last year .
+Shalini Paturi Thank you 💚💚💚
Garden looks great! Looking forward to all the growing this season
Me too! Thanks!
Everything looks great. This is going to be an amazing garden season this year 😊
I hope so!
It all looks lovely! Cannot wait for your shade garden as I am in your same growing zone (Aubrey, TX) and my back garden is full shade due to a nature trail behind my house. I would love to see what you come up with!
+Sari Reyes-Burney yay! Yes, there is shade in Texas! 😂
@@shesamadgardener The shaded yard is literally what sold us on the house. And now I sometimes wish I had more sun so I can grow more sun loving plants. LOL
The tulips not getting equal sun: I solved this by finding plastic pots that fit inside the urns and switching them every few days to get equal growth. Lovely garden! Thanks for sharing it!
+Alison Rist that’s a good idea!
Amanda thank you for the real life garden tour. My Calloways here in South Arlington is not good about taking back plants within the one year time period. They just make excuses not to take a plant back.
+JerryRobin Pendleton gosh, I hope mine doesn’t fight me 😬
Beautiful early Spring garden tour! Congratulations on your Facebook container 🥰 excited to watch your shade garden come together!!
+Michelle France thanks Michelle!
That shade area is going to Ben. Don't forget a comfy chair, it'll be nice spot to chill out in summer.
Good call!
Your flowers are beautiful
Thank you so much 😊
Zone 9 here also hot and dry so nice to see what works for you
Yup, this summer is looking rough!
Your hair is so pretty!!
Oh thank you!
For Crazy Cold weather the forecasts have just changed this morning. A new arctic blast has just grown in strength. Forecasts last week were showing mid 30s to low 40s lows. Now its showing 35/Th 32/Fr 31/Sat 😥
+P D I know!!!! Sucks! Thankfully it want be that cold for more than a few hours in my area.
@@shesamadgardener I have two hardy oleanders that died to the ground, they are already shooting up through the ground and greening up. I'll at least cover them overnight just to give the new shoots a little extra protection.
Everything looks so nice, Amanda! Your husband did a great job filming, also! I'm very impressed that you have a Clematis that came back 😯. I see them available in the stores here (in El Paso), but questioned whether they would really grow here. El Paso is also zone 8a.
Thank you so much!
I will enjoy seeing your side shade garden take shape. I have pretty much no shade due to how my house is sited. When I think of my backyard, sweat immediately runs into my eyes because it is so stinking HOT. Southeastern NC, zone 8a is not for the faint of heart in the summer.
+Jennifer Hooks 😂😂😂 I get the same sweat thoughts about my side garden in the summer!
Another great walk through of the garden ❤. I have some seeds from Florets that I am NOT going to use… did not want to set up grow lights and all the stuff… wanted to share them with you
+Donna Joy you aren’t going to use them?
@@shesamadgardener No ~ I wanted to offer to you since you do a lot of training video
Congratulations on all the structure you added to the garden, especially the 2 redbuds. The perennials will be with you for years and reduce the amount of planting every year. A little less work and more time to enjoy the garden and arrange flowers.
+Kathryn Mettelka thank you!
Your tour was a delight, your gardens lovely. And now I MUST add light blue violas to my patches muscari. Stunning.
I couldn't help notice the downspout near the oakleaf hydrangea. If you're so inclined, it seems an ideal spot for a rain barrel, beautiful and functional. Of course, I suppose Texas is equally well-known for its abundant rains as for its shade gardens... 🌧 😉. But there is the occasional anomaly, yes?
Also, kudos to your husband for his role on your team. Enjoying your channel from the PNW, zone 6b.
I can’t have a rain barrel on the outside of the fence due to HOA regulations 😢
I love everything about this! I'm nearby you (over in Frisco) in a small suburban cottage and we just began installing garden beds here last year. We downsized from a larger place where we had developed a mature landscape with many trees (including a willow), shrubs, and perennials, boosted seasonally by annuals as you do. We had a double koi pond with a waterfall and a little footbridge, pergola-covered patios wrapped in flowering vines, and a secret garden of laceleaf Japanese maple, dogwood, and hydrangeas on the shady side of the house behind an arched trellis draped in blooms. It was my dream place but became too much for us at this later stage of life. (Thankfully, it was bought by a friend who loved the gardens as much as I did, so it's in good hands.) Now we've started over. We're in the midst of putting big shade beds in our front and back yards (thanks to several huge trees that are quite welcome in the summer heat). Then I got carried away and decided to add vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, and a few dwarf fruit trees in the few sunny patches of our backyard, so we're working on that, too. We have some vertical planters going (Greenstalk) and are adding some raised beds similar to yours but taller in order to go easy on our older backs and knees. Right now, we're enjoying our spring bulbs in pots and watching the things we put in last fall wake up and flush out. I was thinking we'd postpone doing anything with the side yards for at least another year or two, but seeing your beds there made me eager to get to them sooner, maybe this fall. Anyway, I enjoy your content because it is so relatable to my geography and interests. Thanks! (P.S. I have a weeping redbud, as well, and chuckled at your "Cousin It" description of the Golden Falls. I always think the same thing! 😄
+Becky Winn starting a new green is exciting and daunting as well. But sounds like you have a great plan in place! Be been wanting to do the green stalk planter but just haven’t made the the jump.
I wish I could be walking around my yard in bare feet...Also, the flower pulling works for day lilies.
+Shark Sandwich good to know! Thanks!
Hi friend,, had you been to calloways nursery in mesquite it is at Galloway street, they have so many perennials plants at a very decent price 3.99 they are very decent size you should go.. I got a lot of plants this week 🤗🤭
+Alma Ramirez I haven’t but I’ll add that to my list!
Excellent! Love the plans for the shade garden. Hope you dont give up on the oakleaf,
+eleanor marcellus I’m gonna keep holding out hope for it!
Thank you for the garden tour. Even though I’m in a different state/zone. I enjoy watching your channel. l like that your excited for a project, you show us such beautiful flowers when they work out and I like when you show us stuff that didn’t work. This has inspired me to just start planting and help me get over when something doesn’t work out because so much more does, anyway lovely garden lovely channel. It has been inspirational for me. Thank you for being you!
+Sara Michael aww this is a great comment … thank you 💚💚💚
The verbascum is not an aggressive reseeder for me. If you plant seeds, it will bloom the same year.
+M Kitchens good to know!
Lovely. I’m getting excited for Spring too.
+Life with Ms Dee same! Everyone morning I wake up knowing we are one day closer!
Great video!! Nice to see new life in your gardens. Wondering when you plant your snapdragon seeds? Looking forward to planting some in my garden from seeds next year :)
+stephanie johnson these snapdragons were started by seed in spring of 2022.
Thanks so much for the grand tour. You both helped with inspiration....especially now as lady winter is making a visit once again here in upstate SC where we're dropping down to frost temps for the next week. All my tenders that popped up have their blankies back on. So, this was the best 30 minutes spent with gardener friends since it's too chilly to venture out here yet! Happy almost spring. Thanks again xoxoxo
+Cathy McCall aww this is such a sweet comment! Thanks for making my day, Cathy!
Love your garden! Your light blue violas look just gorgeous! I'm waiting to see your garden in progress 😊We are in similar climate zones ( I'm in Italy zone 8b), but we are a week or two late looking at the plants development compared to your place. Another difference is that we have very green grass for all the winter and a very long warm autumn.
+Iwonna Salak hello in Italy! I wish our grass would stay green all year long!
I live in Cleburne which is not too far from you. Your garden looks so much better than mine ! You had said you kept your drip attached all year except when really cold comes in. Do you run drip once a week in winter if it doesn’t rain? How often do you fertilize and with what do you fertilize ? Your doing such a great job. It is all beautiful. Well done.
Yes I run once a week if there is no rain. I fertilize about every six months or when I am planting a new plant. I use a liquid fertilizer every few weeks in the spring and summer.
I don't know if you visit the County Research Gardens at Meyers but a tip if you have not, its good to see them experiment all year and then go multiple times to see what each plant type looks like throughout the year. The Master Gardeners had just left when I visited so I had the place to myself to read the signs marking over 400 plantings and do observations. I'll be back throughout the year.
+P D thank you! I will check that out!
@@shesamadgardener Right now a lot is dormant, but its good way to quickly see what is dormant and what is greening up already. You will have to go later to see more explosive growth and then blooms.
So pretty! How much sun do your hucheras get in the summer?
+Karen Schrantz this will be their first summer in the garden and they will get about 8 hours before they get afternoon shade.
Finally I have found a gardener in my state and Zone(Lewisville, TX)!!!! My bridlewreath spirea is also acting strangely this year. What direction does that wall face?
Mine face west … I think it was the late freeze that damaged the new leaf growth and that’s why they are off this year.
Watched this to see if your sweet almond verbena made it cause mine looks rough. No growth at the base yet, I have two 😐
Make sure you are watering regularly to get them kick started!
Your March garden tour is off to a wonderful start. Can't wait until I can go barefoot in my zone 5b garden. We are still covered in snow. Bonny
+Rich Bishop I’m usually barefooted if I can manage it!
Love your garden!
At what point did you begin hardening off your seedlings?
+Krista Jones I brought them out really early this year … I actually think because I brought them out early, it stunted their growth some due to the cooler nights. They’ve been out about 3 weeks.
Good morning. Just wondering that if you keep cutting back the sweet almond verbeena don't the limbs stay thin and not so strong? Just wondering if at some point you want to harden off the limbs to hold the blooms. Thank you for the tour and Looking forward to seeing your gardens exploding with color.
+K P I’m not sure but at this point the current limbs are dead and all of the growth is coming from the base so I don’t really have a choice.
@@shesamadgardener That is true. I was just thinking that the verbeena is like the twist and shout and the little tidbit or fab fire. Your gardens still look good to me.
Everything I buy from Blue Stone perennials ends up dying😢❄️💚🙃
+Judy McKerrow oh no! They have a 100% guarantee so be sure to contact them!
Without knowing the details of your neighbor situation, most cities, it is against ordinance to purposely drain rain water or other water onto a neighboring property against their wishes. If the water naturally flows that way, it is allowed. If the are creating a way to make the water go onto your property, not allowed. You can call city all, or county offices to request an inspector look at it. If in violation most cities/counties give 30 days for them to fix it and re inspect. Of course if you don't want to open a can of worms,,, maybe just live w it, cause of course your neighbor will know you complained and that can create problems. (saying all this assuming you have already reasonably talked to your neighbor about it and that got you no results).
+CMN R trust me, we’ve been through 3 years of dealing with this … we’ve had all kinds of work done by the builder and the city. The neighbors have to agree to have the work done on their property and they have chosen not to.