Summer Garden Update: A Subtropical Garden Tour
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- Join me for a summer garden overview in my Florida Garden. Whether you are new to living in the subtropics or the heat, humidity and sun are making you fell like you are done for the season; this summer garden update will be sure to inspire you to add tropical garden plants or Florida native plants!
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The property looks amazing. It’s so cool how it comes alive. Hard work, patience, and lots of love truly pays off.
So true Nancy! 🥰
The blue eyed grass grows wild along the treeline at blue springs, mostly high shade
Jaqueline, the Mexican petunia, although contained, can still hybridize with the native petunias and thus altering the genetic make up of native petunias. It is best to get rid of it and replace it with native petunias. But I agree, it is a pretty plant.
Good point Georg! I just have to figure out what I'm doing with that area.
@@WildFloridian Old fashioned pintas. I know, I keep saying that, but it’s a foundation butterfly plant. Plus they’d be very happy there.
On the frangipani take a cutting (any size) stick in the ground and it will grow. I now have 6 from just 1.
OMG Sonnya! 6 plants from 1. You are a Plumeria Master! New project!
Ok, with this video you convinced me to plant sunshine mimosa
Yay! Get some sunshine in that front walkway bed!
You should try propagating your frangipani. That way you can save it before it gets diseased from the split in the trunk.
I think you are right. It would be sad to lose it and miss out on those flower.
Thanks for the content. You may want to consider a non-native sweet almond bush (Aloysia Virgata-South America). They grow about 6 foot wide and well over 8 feet high without pruning. They produce many small white flowers on the ends that smell like fabric softener. Some say the smell is vanilla and almond. The wasps, native bees, butterflies and other pollinators love them. This is their second year in the yard and I haven't had any issues with pickle worms or cucumber beetles on the few cucumber plants I have near them probably because of the wasps.
In North Florida they are deciduous and cold sets them back like it does our native firebush, but I just do heavy pruning on the four I have. It tolerates heavy pruning and they recommend 3-4 times a season between blooms so that it doesn't get taller. Jasmine and gardenias smell better, but the sweet almond bush does so well in my backyard that gets full sun. We only have one firebush, but I plan on adding at least one more in the future. The firebushes are so beautiful and the hummingbirds love them.
Fun! Thanks for sharing. You asked about gallardias (blanket flower). Personally I dead head mine until the leaves start to fry and then I let them go to seed. It's the only flower that I deadhead regularly because they do bloom better. Love threatening fruit trees. My dad was talking to a guy under a non-producing mango tree and he suggested pounding an iron stake into the tree. Flowers started appearing the next day (just from the threat). Your fire bushes look AMAZING!!! Mine are 2 years old and one is really struggling. I don't see any gray-leaf tea bushes. I don't know how they would do in your area, but mine are a happy buzzin bee buffet. Love how the vines share space. I was worried about mine cohabitating until I saw how happy yours are. TY!
My Everglades in a pot died too.... right after I pulled a ginormous plant out of my raised beds... I was relying on the potted plant to give me tomatoes and now I have to start all over again. 🤣 I have had no pollination going on with my white beauty eggplants. I've been hand pollinating to no avail. Meanwhile, right nearby I have ants swarming over the Thai beans, the sunflowers, the pattypan squash.... everything else is getting pollinated somehow.
Oh no Martha! Win some... lose some. Hang in there 😅
I've got Everglades 2.0 coming soon!
Love the whole tour. I have a black sapote too, but not nearly that big.
Thank you 🥰
Thanks for showing us your back yard again. Hopefully more videos will follow of you back yard.
You bet Georg!
You're amazing!! I mentioned you/your channel on my latest video (I'll be uploading it today) because I saw your mulberry pruning video (45 day, 4x production) and was inspired to prune mine, which was done on June 21st, and WOW! It bounced right back and now I have fruit forming on almost every branch (before pruning, it only had fruit on 2-3 branches). Thank you so much for sharing all that you do - you truly inspire me, and I love your sense of humor!
You are a sweet heart! 🥰 I just watched your central florida garden tour! You are doing amazing! You are really rocking those peppers! I definitely took some notes on type... need to try more of those in the fall. I'm so happy you are seeing results on your Mulberry. Keep going with your TH-cam channel. I will tell you .... the beginning is the absolute hardest. Lots of work... and very few views. But you can do it. Persistance is the biggest key to success. Editing and all the technical stuff you'll get along the way. Cheers! Jacqueline
Hello @Florida Backyard Gardening can you add a link to your channel? I’m searching for it but it’s not coming up.
@@rosieviz Hi Rosie. The link is m.th-cam.com/channels/aIAnq1qdWoJMymjVuCFh0A.html
I'm learning so much from Jacqueline at Wild Floridian - it's been real fun. Thank you for your support :)
Wow, just beautiful!! Your native wildflower video inspired me to create a similar garden. Can’t wait to see more butterflies! The plumeria can be transplanted from cutting one of the smaller branches off and sticking it in the ground. Should flower the second year. Happy Summer!!!
Awww... hugs Elle... I'm so happy you are adding native wildflowers 🥰 You're right I should get that plumeria propagating. Happy Summer!
Great tour! I always learn so much from you. Can't wait to see what you do with the backyard! If your eggplants are flowering and not getting fruit try pollinating them yourself. I walk around every morning with a soft paintbrush and gently pollinate my eggplants and I have lots of eggplants on my plants.
That’s a great idea for the eggplant 😄
the mexican petunias at my house managed to jump all the way from my backyard to my front yard 😩I had no idea they were so invasive! We're renting, so all I can do is try to control it's spread, but it has been such a challenge!
I cut back my blanket flower by about 1/3 (past two years I haven’t) and it’s looking great.
I think I’m gonna do it again this week.
So it will be about 4 or five weeks between cutting back.
Also, you can cut back your Stoke’s Astor. I may or may not bloom more.
Another great place to order seeds is from echo.
Good to know!!! Thanks Ben and Kim 🥰
I am afraid to transfer my sunflowers to the ground because a hurricane may break them. I put some along the fence, but really would love to have them in front of the house.
So inspirational! gave me lots of ideas for our property! Thank you!
Yes! Awesome. Thank you! This is inspiring.
You are so welcome! 🥰
Your yard is sooo beautiful!!
Thank you Kathy!!
Great tour the gardens are looking lush.
Thank you Kim! 🥰
Love that intro. Kinda felt like the wild Wild West lol. Your garden looks awesome!!!!!
Oh and I commented a while back about struggling with raspberries because of the constant rain in summer but I’ve found success with blackberries because they tolerate the rain. Yay! The variety I’m having success with is called sweetie pie; just wanted to share in case you like them.
Awww! Thanks Cool Guy! Thanks for the tip on the blackberries. I want to add some... I just got to figure out where. Where did you get the sweetie pie blackberries from?
@@WildFloridian mine do surprisingly well in part sun (about 4-5 hours dappled). I actually found them at lowes this year but in the past I got mine from FloridaHillNursery online. These things are soooo resilient. I had a prime ark blackberry that died so quick but both of my sweetie pies are still here and doing so good. This variety fruits on 2nd year canes and these are literally the only brambles I’ve been able to grow. I think you’ll like these! 😃
If you want to up your pound count, fertilize that star fruit! Thanks for the tour!
You are SO right Dave!!! I hadn't thought of it.... but I am missing out on tropical harvest by not putting down that fertilizer. Ok! I'll get my butt into gear and do it.
This is AWESOME! Looks soooo good! I am working on my garden to get it to look like yours! Great work.
Great update, your yard is fantastic...I need some native Firebush, yours are beautiful! Happy pruning 🙂
Thank you! You too!
Our native firebush just started to flower, but no hummingbirds yet. We did put out some feeders in case a few pay us a visit.
Awesome tour and update! We are going to give those everglades maters a try for a fall harvest. Our Edox F1 tomatoes are surviving the heat and still producing. Eggplants are doing same, blossoms but no fruit yet. Thanks for sharing your wonderful looking garden!🌱👍
GREAT TOUR THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR GARDENS AND ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU ALREADY MY EVERGLADES TOMATOES ARE GOIN GANG BUSTERS AND I HAVE THEM IN A MORNIN SUN ONLY SPOT THEY ARE FLOWERING , WOOHOO , CAN'T WAIT FOR MY FIRST FRUITS 😀
You are so welcome Marci! And I'm wishing you oodles and oodles of everglades tomatoes! 🍅
Are you planning on adding any fruit trees to your yard? Mango, Sugar Apple, passionfruit could all do well there. (Avocado too but florida avocados are tricky to grow and dont tastle like the haas)
I love the update! I saw you have an orchid. You should try growing our native Encyclia tampensis and Prosthechea cochleata! They are easy to find for sale and are pretty simple to grow
Talk about hard to garden? Here in Fort White the deer, rabbits, possums, coons, bugs and heat make it real tough. I just had to put up an 8 foot fence system around my home and garden area. Putting up an 8 foot fence around the whole 1 1/2 acres is too costly, so I rigged a cheap fence with 8 foot wildlife netting and nylon rope with T posts. It seems to be working pretty good. I used already over 600 feet of the netting. Deer don't like netting. It seems to be working pretty good at a fraction of the cost of a steel wire or chain link fence. I am hoping my fall and winter gardening is more successful now that I have some barrier against the deer that run this neighborhood like a local mascot or something.
Jimmy, you are a country man! 1.5 acres! I know we love wildlife... but not when they eat the veggies. That is some ingenuity!
@@WildFloridian The dang rabbit munched on my peanut patch and the deer ate up my pumpkins and lots of veggies. I knew I would lose a lot of it but I just had to try something and see what grows good here. I did pull off some garden corn, some Indian corn, some tomatoes, mustard greens and radishes, so they did not eat everything.
I sprayed the rabbit with my hose one day and he came back that night and ate all my peanut plants down. He has an attitude.
At the 5:05-minute point you pointed at a Crape Myrtle, but to me it looked like a Cranberry Hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella). Maybe I just didn't get a good enough look at it on my little screen, but the leaves looked to be a dark maroon color.
It’s a black diamond crape myrtle 😄
Yay! I'm with you grass is boring and we are some of the few people on our block that we don't waste time and water up keeping our grass. In the future I would like to transform our front yard some how an my backyard I have the sides of the back with garden areas and will work on establishing a native plant area again. New dog kinda destroyed my native area.😮💨
Yes! Grass is boring. Looks good on the first look.... but after a minute... what are we looking at. Native plants keep it interesting! That's a bummer that doggie got into the natives. You'll bounce back! 😄🥰
In 9b, Florida and I have tried so many times to grow sunflower seeds with no success. Yours look so good!
Oh no, sorry to hear that 🙁
I have some growing right now. It showed up in a pot of cucumbers. I had 3 pineapples ready to pick but some animals stole them and ate them.
Hi! I love watching your videos. I have to play catch up today lol. I was wondering if you could touch on native alternatives to grass? What can we grow in our yard to substitute grass? Thank you.
LOL. Lisa!!! I have a video coming out this month on lawn alternatives 🥰😄 Last Friday of July 👍
@@WildFloridian oh! Perfect timing! Thanks I’ll look out for it.
im gonna try evergkades toms in missouri in the summer its soo hot
🙌 Would love to hear how they do!
@@WildFloridian i am looking for easy plants i hope it works i was in a horrific car accident in august so looking for minimal effort maximum yield plants
My oregano constantly stays in bloom, and it attracts wasps so well.
Love it! Wasps are amazing!
My purple passion vine died😢. It was a rescue from the nursery…it was chewed to about nothing. It got about 18 inches long then caterpillars got it and left no leaves. Now it’s just a twig, however, the native passion vine with inedible fruit is trying to take hold across my front yard🙄…so frustrating…
LOL! Butterflies need to get it together and get the memo... Nature is crazy sometime. Sounds like you need some bug netting for the next edible passion vine. Hope it works 🤞
U gotta get you some ground cherries 🍒
😍!!!! Looks great! The starfruit may do better in a shady spot. I’ve seen they actually like a little bit of shade.
Thank you!!! I agree. I may plant a mango in front of it... give it some shade... get me some fruit. Also we are talking about adding some slash pines in the back... shade for the next generation. Just have to figure out placement.
In CFL a neighbor has their star fruit tree on the south side of the yard which gets lots of sun. Has fruit year round which they've heard isn't typical. It's at least 10 feet tall and has a diameter of about 12 feet.
Maybe some more time. Could be the roots need to get established, could be too much grass competition. Plants are strange sometimes 😝
Your garden looks great love your dogs . It’s to hot my tomatoes are finishing peppers are burnt out. How do you stay green grass.
I have not had any luck with peppers this year- they are all struggling for some reason! Love the dune sunflower- I am growing it as a groundcover and it is taking its time to spread 😆 seems to be doing nothing and then I look up and it is suddenly 5ft larger, then repeat
It happens to us all... one year a crop does great.... then whoosh. And yes... I find native plants will just hang back for a minute and then BAM! They have have gone all over the place. Cheers!
Have you ever tried stir fried sweet potato greens? SO much better than raw if you're in to cooked greens.
Your garden looks great!. And nope,that's not ginger. Your little aji is probably not getting enough sun. Mine is bushy and full of flowers and I've been harvesting for a while.Your orchid is just gorgeous. I just got 2 greenstalks so I can grow some more cubanelles because my plant is not happy where is at. I think my plantain might bloom before the end of the year, so thanks for the advice on fertilizing it. My okra was doing great and I harvested enough for 3 dinners but then out of the blue the plant turned yellow overnight and started dropping the blooms it had and just looked awful. I trimmed it down to some green growth on the bottom and am waiting to see what happens. Also, I don't know what is wrong with my tomatillo. It looks like it has powdery mildew. Any thoughts on what to do?. I have sprayed it with Monterrey Complete disease control and am hoping for the best. My previous plant was full of tomatillos and it just died. Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Thank you Sandra! Awww man... darn it... I was hopeful. I'm so glad your ajise is doing well. My established ajise is doing well. I think I need to start some seeds in a shadier location before moving them into such direct sun. Yay! I'm so happy that you are going to get some plantains. That is interesting about the okra. I don't know what would cause that. Is your tomatillo off the ground and prunes to get some air flow? Pest pressure is really up... so some things may be succumbing to pests. Also depending on the amount of sun. Sun intensity kills off many breeds of veggies during the summer unless they are bred for our area. Just guesses here.
Well, they are well pruned and off the ground . It has sun but not enough to cause trouble because all the other tomatoes are doing great. Do you think I have bad seeds?. I have run out of ideas. Thanks for the quick answer though.
Looks amazing!! Where would I find fire bush seeds?
Good question Elizabeth! In firebush berries 😂 Honestly, I don't know. If you know anyone with native firebush... they propagate really easily from cuttings (which I've done a few times) or... how I got a couple was digging up the little "weeds" from Mr. Cliff's yard (with his permission).
Have you tried perennial peanut? If not, its a very interesting ground cover. Stays less than 12", usually and it's a nitrogen fixer.
I haven't. Do you have some? Sounds like you have some good experiences.
@@WildFloridian I did, then I got some goats. Goats will eat it to the ground. Here in lee County they plant it in the median. You should look into it before you plant it. It runs like crazy.
Im a newbie gardener, and our yard has been swallowed by Virginia creeper and poison ivy, and I’m not sure where to even begin. We don’t use chemicals at all, and we are being taken over. This stuff is worse than kudzu (which our woodchucks love).
I’ve no idea where to start. And when I say it’s taken over, I mean it’s covered the yard.
My husband doesn’t care about the yard, but I do, and since I have SLE I have to be very careful about sun exposure… which means I need a game plan that will get the job done quickly.
I need advice.
Are you think of extending out your planting to the street? That’s prime planting are that that grass is taking up. Sunshine mimosa? Perennial peanut? Yellow top? More beach sunflower? ☀️
That's the plan! Ben and I have been having lots of chats about what is going to happen with the grass up front and the back yard. It may even be more than a ground cover... more wildflowers... native grasses like Muhly... we are even talking about how we are going to add some pines back into the yard.
I was curious where you get your Dune Sunflowers? I looked everywhere at my local nurseries. Thanks.
Hi, I know this was posted last summer, but boy am I feeling this video! The heat wave outside this year is intense and it's only June. I've been meaning to ask you if you could recommend native plants to plant under the canopy of a a Florida Oak tree. I'm from South Florida (Kendall area) and I have a 25-20 yr old Oak tree in the front between the street and sidewalk area and it looks very lonely. Any suggestions? Thank you. :)
Hello Jackie, everything looks great!!, I wanted to ask were did you get your dune sunflower plants from, have a great weekend :)
Hi Peg!!! I got mine from Wilcos Native Nursery in Largo. I also have seen them at Little Red Wagon in Tampa. Happy Friday!
I got dune sunflowers from Wilcox nursery in Largo too. I think there's a typo and it should say Wilcox nursery.
@@WildFloridian Ok great thanks Jackie :)
@@lauriehessler8639 Thanks Laurie :)
Hi I'm in SE FLORIDA, QUESTION: At what point are the Dwarf Cavendish BANANAS ready to pick the stock. My 1st time. There are about 6 bunches and they are about 3-6 inches. And do I have to move the pups? TIA 😊
Hi jackline I would like to ask you wich species is that passion vine with oval leaves do you know its exact Latin name? Thanks for your help.
LOL... I didn't. But I looked it up... just for you 😄 It is passiflora multiflora or multiflorus. I saw it listed both ways. Apparently it is endangered.
How about white Sapote instead? High fruiting perhaps?
Maybe 🤔
Is the June sunflower a ground cover? Where can I get it? I'm a born and raised Floridian and gave never seen it.
Yes Dune sunflower is a native ground cover. Usually found on the shorelines. Most native nurseries carry it.
What is the name of that fast growing tree? I probably missed it in the video.
Where do you get those 4th of July tomatoes?
I bought the seed packets at Lowes. It’s by Bonnie seeds, I think, so you may find the seeds at Home Depot or Target or I think you can buy direct online
You have people come in and do your landscaping???
Yep. They mow the lawn and edge the sidewalks and driveway (this is how they killed some wildflowers.... they went too deep from the grass). They also trim the hedges in the back yard. They don't touch the food forest, wildflowers, vegetables, or florida native plant landscaping areas. Once in a blue moon... they get a new guy... and then they chop up something or pull a new plant.
@@WildFloridian I had people come in and landscaping companies and had the same problem. Then they didn't want to come back because it's a couple of acres.
Not ginger