PLANTING LOTS OF FLOWERS / and some backyard cleanup
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- This weeks video I’ll be working out in the yard to get lots of flowers planted in the front yard and do some clean up in the backyard.
I tried to plant some flowers on the side of the house but the animals destroyed that 🤦♀️
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Hi, Jodi! Cardinals are angels from Heaven! Whenever you see one they come to let you know someone in Heaven is thinking of you! I love my cardinals! I say they’re my late boyfriend who comes to me to let me know he’s here with me! I look for them always. I even collect anything with cardinals and bird statues. Great garden! Butterflies are angels too! You are so lucky to have the outdoor animals and birds coming to your yard! Hugs to all! Your southern neighbor!🦋🦋🦋🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🌹🌹🌹🥰💜
Sharon I love that ❤️❤️
I’m so happy they visit me daily now
My cardinals are Mom and Dad!
I just recalled a funny chipmunk story. My son made a bird feeder from a soda bottle in preK. We had it on the deck filled with sunflower seeds. I saw something in it. We walked out and a chipmunk was inside the bottle with cheeks full of sunflower seeds to the point that it couldn't get out of the bottle. When we picked up the bottle he got scared and spit out the seeds as fast as he could to escape. It was hysterical like something Chip and Dale would have done.
Oh my gosh Joanne that’s so funny and so cute 😂❤️
Ha! That is a funny story !
Your garden is looking beautiful. Keeping ye in my thoughts and prayers 🙏 Mary, Joes wife 🙇♀️👏💪👍🙏💐🦮
I grew sunflowers a few years ago from seeds (grown inside until they were bigger.) When my dad came and planted them outside for me, they lasted 3 days before animals ate them. I was SO SAD! I took all that time being excited and successful growing something, and then days, animals just make them disappear. 😢
I love seeing all the work you're doing with flowers and the birds and butterflies you see. I look forward to seeing a new video from you in my feed. Thank you!! 😊
Isn’t gardening so fun! Challenging at times, but so fun!
You may be interested in winter seed sewing. You can do it in old water/milk jugs. I think you would really enjoy it.
We put chicken wire around young plants that the animals eat until they are robust enough to not be affected by animals. It has helped our hostas , my young rose bush, and some young Hollys in our yard. If you plant sunflowers again maybe put a barrier around them until they are bigger
I also just wanted to say your yard has come so far in the last couple years. So beautiful. You're doing such a great job❤
Thank you so much ❤️
Good morning. A couple of years ago I had a deer eat all of my sunflowers. They were about 3 feet high and to my horror they ate all 4 of them! Also, my mom is 87 and has been an VERY active gardner all her life. Her tip for hanging baskets is to fill a bucket full of water and let the basket sit in the bucket. It needs to suck water up from the roots. Leave it in the bucket for a couple of hours and I do that twice a month. When it is extremely hot we do that once a week. I am telling you your hanging baskets will be so full and healthy looking, give it a try. I live in northern Ontario. Hugs xoxo
Thank you Dayna for sharing your mothers gardening wisdom 🤗🤗 I will definitely try that ❤️
The fuchsia probably just needs consistent water and some fertilizer. The leaf browning/yellowing is from improper care. Most likely too much direct hot sun also. I’d baby it for a few weeks and see before I cut it back. That much budding, flowering and growth takes lots of water and nutrients from the soil. Your yard is looking lovely! 😊
Look at you, Jodi! Sounding like a professional gardener! Explaining the photosynthesis process of daffodils and why we have to leave the leaves for a while. Also, explaining to hubs the level at which you plant. Starting your own plants! You have learned so much in a short time. Got it going on, Girl! Love it!! 😊
My FIL has the funniest contraption to tease the squirrels up at his cottage. It is a wheel with 4 spikes on it, and he puts dried ears of corn on each spikes. When a squirrel tried to get the corn it spins because of their weight and they can get flung off if they persist … but it stopped them from being so interested in the bird feeders. They spend hours trying to figure out how to get the corn. It’s pretty funny. I thought it was mean until I started putting my own birdseed out and the neighbourhood squirrels ate it all in record time. Since the seed was not cheap, I got why he wanted to tease the squirrels. His cottage is on Lake Huron in Ontario.
Lol, you have the right idea for the weed suppression. Clean it up and fill it up with wanted plants. 😊 Gardeners dream. Just a thought, you might do some research on what squirrels like to eat, and plant them some preferred food choices in the woods to keep them out of the bird feeders. Not sure that works, but maybe.
The cone flowers grow so good on their own
Omg the squirrels are driving me crazy this year! My feeders hang on Sheppard hooks and they get up to them no problem.
I planted sunflowers seeds and the squirrels ate all of it. Then I planted a sunflower plant that I got in the nursery and one day the squirrel ate the actual flower and then the next day the squirrel dug up the whole sunflower plant!
Mine too! I hate the squirrels!!
Ugh!!! I’m sure it was squirrels or chipmunks that got mine too
So….that makes you Snow White and the hubs Prince Charming! 😁
I guarantee it’s the squirrel pulling the flowers off of your hummingbird feeder! They are very strong little guys! My squirrels climb the bricks on my house to get to the bird feeder that hangs from my downspout! 🤷♀️😁
Our squirrels in central Indiana are a coppery brown.
For the Hibiscus, You will have rto plant it in a large pot and bring it inside before the frost. My mother in law lives in NJ and she does this and her hibiscus is beautiful all year round. I'm in virginia and we are zone 8b and we also have to do the same.
I love how you talk to all the animals! I’m sorry those squirrels and chipmunks are wreaking havoc 😢
The birds are nice but I ❤❤❤ the squirrels.
I love the blue Jays songs! We get Cardinals and woodpeckers too but those black squirrels are just furry-jerks! They dig up everything in my gardens...so frustrating lol
Cardinals are all that have passed and your angels watching over you... I love to see Cardinals.
Those plants that may be hydrangea in your backyard are probably green perilla. It is a weed with similar leaves to a hydrangea.
Heuchera (coral bells) are shade loving and are really great for attracting butterflies.
Goldenrod (certain species) is a native wildflower and attracts so many pollinators. I guess people consider it a weed if they want nothing but grass growing in their yard but it's definitely not a weed to me! Grass is the invasive stuff!
I look at squirrels and birds as the same, they all want/food. I used to find peanuts in my planters from the squirrels, someone must of been giving out peanuts in the shell.
Hi Jodi. I have a bush in my yard that gets beautiful lavender flowers. Her name is Minnie Root and she's actually a roadside weed that showed up on her own. I nurture her. She is so beautiful! Love all the critters.
Oh my gosh I love that. Minnie root sounds beautiful ❤️
When you were talking about the birds, Yessss, I think they do learn who is friend or foe and seem to be relaxed when you are around. Isn't that so sweet when you yourself realize their behavior has changed around you?😊
Hi Jodi! My grandfather had a chipmunk at his summer camp that would feed from his hand and he would put a peanut on his head and that thing would go up to his bald head for the peanut! 🤣
Awwww that’s absolutely adorable Karen ❤️❤️
I love the fushias too. So beautiful❤
Yes ❤️❤️
Hello hello hello I love watching your videos
Such a wonderful yard❤😊
Hang your fuchsia baskets high so you don’t see the middle. The parts spilling over still look great! 😂
That’s a great idea 😂❤️
You might look into spiderwort for some of the shady areas. I have them in white, light purple varigated, and dark purple. I thought they wanted full sun because of where other people had them planted, but they are blooming so much more than they were once I moved them into full shade.
Hi Jodie lovely video. I now know what the pain I’ve been experiencing is, gallstones. Pain killers and waiting surgical review . I’ve been trying to do a few jobs then rest for a bit . Even sat out in the garden yesterday evening 😊
Oh no Gillhanna! I’ve heard those are painful. Sending hugs and prayers 🤗🙏
Make chocolate chip cookies for the squarles that's what my husband aunt did
We had something knocking our hummingbird feeder off the tree last year at night. My hubby set up a trail cam and it caught a baby raccoon looking at the camera upside down 😂. Such a stinker.
Oh my gosh how adorable ❤️❤️
Lol, Laura from Garden Answer has been planting Lisianthus this year. She has a tendency to cause shortages on stuff she talks about. 😂
I use hot spicy bird seed…or put cayenne In whatever mix you have.
Hi Jodi beautiful flowers 🦋🌹🌷💐🪻🌺🌸🌼
Thank you Sharon ❤️
Hi Jody, my hydrangeas grow in the shade with dappled sun. Full sun burned my mom’s. They need to get a little bigger and older. They need the old growth to bloom and grow. Deer won’t eat your cone flowers or lavender. They do love hostas. 😊. Shasta daisies, are in bloom now and if you dead head them, you should get a second bloom and the same with lavender.
Oh gosh those hydrangeas have been there for probably 20 years 😂 they just aren’t blooming or growing because they get no sun at all back there. Hopefully those Shasta Daisy I planted will bloom for me for this year 🤞 thanks for letting me know they are in bloom right now, I wasn’t sure when they typically bloom ❤️
Goldenrod is nice to keep for wildlife
That swallowtail butterfly was beautiful! We dont get many butterflies here now sadly. X
Was that a swallowtail?? I had some last year but they were much bigger. Oh that is sad. I love to see the butterfly’s
Yes a swallowtail butterfly. It is sad! Theyre such beautiful and gentle creatures! Unfortunately the trends in the uk r for evergreens that hold their shape such as buxus and hebes. Numbers of butterflies in the uk are rapidly on the decline. I am doing my best to plant flowers they and the bees will like but it probably wont be enough x
Hi Jodi, I have a big perennial flower bed in front of our house. I keep adding perennials to it when I find them on clearance or at a good price. With all the rain that we have had, everything has grown in and it now looks like a cottage garden. With it so full, I don't need to mulch and it keeps the weeds at bay. I have some sort of color all spring and summer.
That sounds beautiful Angelica ❤️
Don’t move the Hydrangeas they love it there. They don’t need full sunlight. 🙋🏼♀️
They definitely don’t love it there. They haven’t flowered or grown tall in the 2 years since I’ve uncovered them 😊
English ivy would make a good ground cover and likes shade.
Thank you ❤️
It’s the bunnies! I gave up trying to grow sunflowers in my yard. Such a bummer. 🌻
Yes definitely could have been. We have lots of bunnies around. I was so sad
Jodi, I got chipmunks, moles or squirrels digging in all my flower pots. It's driving me crazy especially for what plants cost me. It can get discouraging if you let it. Okay Snow White thanks for sharing!😂
Omg my mom has a hummingbird feeder but there’s a huge woodpecker that comes and swings from the feeder halfway off and halfway on her patio ledge in order to drink the sugar water
You are starting to be a pro with the flowers and wildlife!!! Birds and animals do start to know you and given time they will definitely come to you!! I absolutely love all that you have accomplished and it definitely helps that hubby is on board!! Well in the backyard just think you have been given a lemon so what you do is make lemonade!! You have wonderful ideas and you will figure out what you want to do and what will work for you! Keep going you are doing amazing!
My snapdragons from last year have been blooming the last month. Lemon yellow first, and white now. Never heard of fuscia..... well, beyond the color.
All your hard work will pay off,as it has but dang it on your 🌻s.. darn critters.😔
I’m working on my vegetable garden and so far I have seen some green tomatoes and the start of squashs
How wonderful Angela ❤️
I'm on a rose bush kick this year. All of my lily's are just starting to finish up blooming. I've enjoyed them so much. I have a whole bed of them that were originally just 2 plants from my dad. It's half amaryllis, which has became 2 different colors. Solid red and a white with red veining. And than day Lillie's that are a burnt orangish color. There still blooming. I have enjoyed them so much. I did plant some veggies too. I have a couple of bell peppers now. Still waiting on the others. I just love fiddling around in the garden beds. I go out every evening. My hubs says, you going to check on the kids? Lol.
It's my favorite part of the day. Love all your flowers and watching you fiddle with them.
The kids 😂 that’s so funny and so true ❤️
Your Lily bed sounds beautiful. I love lilys
@jodidunnmymessylife1847 there so easy here in se texas. No work at all. Just enjoy the blooms
We've been chasing squirrels away for years. I saw someone on TH-cam put a slinky on the shepherds hook pole and the squirrel couldn't climp up to the feeder. I thought it was silly but so far its working. They climb up to the slinky grab the slinky and slide down. Fun to watch.😅😅😅
Hi Jodi. I have Shasta daisys and then really spread. They are blooming now and I live in southeast Michigan.
Thanks for sharing Bernadette 🤗 hopefully mine will like where I put them and give me some blooms this year 🤞
Hey, girl. I had never had experience with peonies until we bought our campsite. The previous owners planted them. When they first blossom they smell heavenly and are beautiful, I have light pink. When they start dying the petals are a pain in the butt. I have to constantly get them out of the garden as soon as they fall. I have 7 plants. I cut them and bring them home sometimes or bring them into the camper. I don't have a garden at home but eventually want to plant more perennial flowers. I have found that if you have climbing rodents like chipmunks you can rub vasoline on the Sheppard hook and they slide down, lol funny as hell. good luck with the plants!! Tell your hubby, HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!😊😎
Hi Jodi,
I planted a couple of bulbs in pots the year. I have some star Lillie’s that are beautiful. The rest of my flowers a still small. I panted marigolds ad dahlias. I am new to planting flowers
Hi Jodi, thank you for sharing your wonderful yard and creatures with us. Your hard work is paying off-looking good!
Baffles won't work if you have the feeders so close to the tree. They jump!
I was trying to get weeds pulled, plants in, rescuing my perennial bed from 2 years neglect. I finally decided to put what was left into pots. The Georgia heat is well on its way, so that seemed to be the best solution. 77 years young and still guardening.
I’m pretty sure it looks plant some Heuchera under the trees, a.k.a. coral bells
I have a hate relationship with the squirrels. They did into my potted flowers, I’ve had to put chicken wire to keep them out. I even put away my bird feeder cause the damn squirrels were eating it.. they are such a nuisance..😡.. good luck.. you should get the mesh garbage cans from dollar tree and cover your sunflowers un till they get more established.
Red pepper seasoning keeps the bunnies, squirrels and chipmunks away
Maybe if you put out a squirrel feeders they will leave the bird seed alone.
Judy i give you lot of credit your flowers are going to look great. Im out side every day taking care of my flowers and my birds love the summer months because fall comes to fast. Thanks so much for you videos. Love when you said hello hello ❤😊❤😊 have a wonderful week and weekend. Your family Marsha ❤
Oh sad! Those poor sunflowers. I would have cried. I just love how you are becoming a flower gardening pro!
I wanted to cry 😂 over a month of growing to have them gone in less than a day 🤦♀️
Hey Jodi! Envy you still planting things at this point I’m just working summer yard maintenance because it got out of hand when we were sick in May 🥴
Weeding & mulching & weed whacking & edging.
Love peonies but they don’t do well in Florida and have problems with flowering plants in general because of all the deer we have. We have hibiscus in the pool patio screened in area though.
The earth doesn’t like to be uncovered! You should try ‘chip drop’. You can get free wood chips Use this as your mulch. It is free and it will help you in the future so you can plant what you like!
I have a huge butterfly bush. FINALLY saw my first butterfly on June 7th. By the 8th, there were a dozen.
How wonderful Patty 🦋
I love fuchsia also! Just needs your TLC! Water, fertilizer and sunshine! Humming birds love them! You will get more with them hanging. Good luck! I love all your flowers!
Thank you Judy ❤️
I see squirrels as rats with fluffy tails. They will eat bird eggs from nests and young birds. We have a battery operated feeder that spins squirrels off. Also, baffles are inexpensive deterrents that go onto poles. Try mixing cayenne pepper in with feed. Supposedly doesn't bother birds, but squirrels won't like it. Good luck! Love the flower beds!
The sunflowers 🥺 Im so sorry! Bunnies and deer always eat my hostas. One year i totally re did my front landscape and put 4 fresh pots full of flowers. I woke up the next morning and it was completely demolished. I repotted and planted what i could and we CAUGHT baby raccoons the next night digging it all up again.
Thanks for the video Jodi! The yard looks great and birds are wonderful. I love my birdbath in my yard. Im in Tamp and I have a large variety , I am by a lake , so we see water birds like Crane along with our cardinals, robins and all the lovies. God Bless. Have a nice week!
Amazon sells baffles. They keep the squirrels and chipmunks out of the feeders. The birds kick enough seed out of the feeders for them.
Hi Jodi. I planted right next to the bulbs WITHOUT cutting stalks. But that's me.
Good idea on direct sowing. Weed barrier will prevent direct sewn seeds from putting roots as deep as they need to go.
I noticed that when you talk to the birds you "baby talk" which means your voice gets higher. Higher tones are warning tones to many birds. It could be warning some of them off.
Coneflower is beautiful!!!
Love Shasta daisies. So pretty. Snapdragons in? Nice!!!
Viviana is absolutely correct 😂
Jodi. Re: squirrels...try the feeders that attach to windows and put on side of house where squirrels won't have tree access to the roof. That MAY baffle the squirrels for a couple of years. 😆
I'm working on: the rug removal a little bit again. Shavu'ot (weeks/ pentacost/ TORAH GIVEN to Möshe/Moses at Mt. Sinai) starts this evening so preparing cheesecake, cheesecake treats, potato&cheese bars and a few more things. Walking. And a few other new things.
Deer eat them as do moose lol😊
If you want to direct seed, to avoid the birds & squirrels getting the seeds, you need to take a flashlight out after dark and plant them. If they don't see you plant them, they won't usually go dig them up. I used to do this all the time, 😂.
Weeds, if you get them before they seed- you can cut way down on their reseeding themselves.
They did get sun before or they wouldn't have grown there to survive. Hydrangeas.
Yep. Lots of nature eating everything 😁
Hey Jodi, since you can’t grow anything in the back, i would pick up all the branches and just mow and keep it short, just a thought! Love all the animals that you have in your yard!
Move your hydrangea in the fall.
Thank you ❤️
Well when you figure out how to keep the squirrels away from the bird feeders would you please let me know? Lol. I've been fighting that battle for years. This year I even have a raccoon that is doing acrobatic pole sliding to get at my bird feeder! I'm sorry to hear that some of your sunflowers were eaten. One year I had rabbits that got into my pepper plants; I was so disappointed. Now I sprinkle a lot of cayenne pepper around the plants I want to protect. I also sometimes use a little bit of fencing to keep the rabbits out of one area of my garden. Love your videos, Jodi.
We have a heavy-duty tote that we have bird food in, and a squirrel chewed a big hole in it to get to the food. We know this because my husband seen him doing it.
Darn those squirrels!
Hi Jodi, the new hummingbird feeder, you have to keep water in the very top to keep ants out.
Thank you Nani 🤗
Boy do I know your struggle with all the wildlife! Last night a deer ate a plant that was growing to well! Frustrating! Your yard is looking really awesome! I hope you have a great week!
Oh no I’m sorry!!! Yes it’s very frustrating
Hi Jodi I know what you mean about sun flower’s being eaten. Neighbor has a ground hog under their shed it came over ate all of my sunflowers and marigolds. I was so mad.
Oh my gosh! I’m sorry Karen. It’s so frustrating
I'm so sorry about your sunflowers! I planted a few pear seeds from a pear i ate last winter & one germinated! It grew to about 6 or 8 inches tall & had several big leaves! It was doing so well, I put the pot outside for it to get some sun & something bit it off and killed it! I was so upset!! I love fuschia too, I wonder if they are root bound & need to be re-potted...?
Oh Karen that’s so sad. I would be so upset too. Oh maybe they do need a repot
Squirrels and deer dug up and are up our sunflowers. And a bunny seems to think the garden is a buffet.
Ugh
Hello, Jodi! Love your garden. You can see that you put a lot of effort into it. Im in a condo, so i just do potted plants. Keep up the good work. Blessimgs sent your way. ❤
Thanks so much Nancy ❤️
Yayyy! A new video ❤ Hi Jodi from your friends in New York!
Hi friends in NY 🤗🤗🤗
Looks Great
This may sound silly, but If you put the feeders on a pole away from the tree and put something slick on it the squirrels cannot get up the slippery pole!
Doesn’t sound silly at all. That’s why I said I need to move them away from the trees ❤️
It's hilarious Hubs called you Snow White. That's who I've been saying I feel like now that I've apparently become a plant lady.
I'm still trying to get the Crows to bring me presents. They get fed the food my Princess cats deem unworthy of eating after it's been on their plates for a few hours. Unless of course the foxes get to it first.
I’ve been thinking of ways to attract Crows to my yard. I love you have them. I bet they start leaving presents soon ❤️
Why not just feed the squirrels, too? My daddy used to love feeding squirrels. One used to come eat food right from his hand. ✝️🙏🏻Get 2 bird bath water basins for the yard. Fill one with food and one with water. They can share. ❤
Well I am feeding them 😂😂
I have 3 water containers out for them. The birds and squirrels drink from them ❤️
i recommend you weed wack the weeds and put down a cardboard layer and pine straw on top? That might keep the weeds down?
I got tired of the squirrels eating all the seed & got a feeder that has a cage around it so baby birds only can access it. 🎉
Can you lay down cardboard as a weed suppressors? Maybe ask family members to keep cardboard for you since you will need a lot for these areas?
Yes I already started and yes I’d need a whole lot 😂
Be careful what you wish for. Lol. They will eat bulbs and seeds if they hunt for their own food.
I’m curious if any gardeners on here have advice about the sunflowers? When I planted catnip, my friend, shawne taught me to plant a birdcage or something similar a little below the service of the dirt and the plant inside it. Then cats/ any other wildlife can only eat the plant down to the edge of the cage and they can’t get any further inside.
Is there such an equivalent or something that grows as tall as a sunflower?
Yes there are lots of things you can do similar to that but obviously on a bigger scale for sunflowers. I just don’t think want to go through the work of fighting them
I don’t think I would either. I am slowly coming back to gardening that takes more of my energy but when I first became a mom, I decided that there would be no princesses in my garden. Anything that couldn’t survive without a lot of extra care. I let die back and let the self-sufficient plants take over. My garden is a little little wilder, but I still love it! Everything has season, and we have so much energy in a day.@@jodidunnmymessylife1847
hydrangeas love shade.
I’ve never heard that and every video I’ve watched says they need sun 🤷♀️
Mine don’t flower in the shade at all
Sorry I'm not helpful on the zinnias. I've never gotten them to grow. Lol.
Our Home Depot has perennials 3 for $10.
Wow great price
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Go ahead and Transplant all the hydrangeas to a sunny spot. I have transplanted everything and every time. You have plenty. Put a whole bunch in the bed where you have your snapdragons.
Thank you. Those poor things are not living their best lives back there
They don't like alot of afternoon sun! Too hot for them. I would plant where they get morning sun and afternoon shade.