Like your videos. Some topic suggestions: Making hand weeding easier. When to weed (when ground is soft after watering or rain) and what tools are helpful (dandelion digger, Grandpa’s weeder, hoe, etc). How to help your plants when it is hot (watering, avoiding over or under watering with a moisture meter, shade cloth or just putting g a chair or what you have over a plant). When to water (early morning), when not to water (midday at the hottest) and where to water (at base, not on leaves). How to help your plants survive a freeze. Covering them up with mostly anything if it’s below 40F. Avoiding sun scald. The dessication during the freeze. And how to help them recover when the freeze is over.
I love your channel for so many reasons, but this video was AWESOME! I feel like you really empathize with average homeowners juggling projects in their space. You really take the time to listen and give very specific advice that is easy to implement. It's no surprise to me that your channel is growing quickly... it is much deserved! 👏👏👏👏👏
Over run with Canadian thistle - how do I get rid of it? I've dug it and it comes right back. I'm hoeing it to try to eliminate photosynthesis but no luck so far. Pulling my hair out!!
This is one plant that I have no qualms about spraying chemicals on. I saw a research project showing the growth, over a year, of ONE FOOT of thistle root.... it was about 20 feet wide, and six FEET deep! You will never be able to dig all this up or sap the energy from it!
We have Canadian thistle here and I've tried everything from vinegar, to flame burners to salt water etc. The only thing that I've found to work is to put Milestone into a sprayer and spot spray the thistle. Soak the leaves and make sure there's several hot days in the forecast.. Milestone will kill the roots. I hate using chemicals but sometimes you need to let science work for you.
I agree on the spot spray. They tend to grow in patches. Consider spray, pull, cover with good soil and put in something that completes better and plus mulch that will make the pulling easier. I have it in the lawn. For now I’m spot planting clover and yarrow.
Lots of great tips that I’ll be sure to adapt! I’d love a video that touches on potted plants, specifically container trees. In one of your videos, you show an image of a Japanese maple in a container as a focal point. I love that look and would like more suggestions on small trees that could thrive in such settings.
I actually just found your TH-cam channel tonight, but I’m already loving it; I’ve been *addicted* to gardening since I was still a teenager… began w/ saving plants from Dollar Stores {that genuinely looked *Worse* than half-dead}, that i would then take home & “bring back to life”, as my family put it. Though Unfortunately, I am NoToRiOuS for getting overwhelmed [partly due to my anxiety disorder 😂🤦🏼♀️] so while I’ve always *d r e a m e d* of having my own little garden escape, I’ve basically become resolved the fact that that will likely Never be a part of my reality. However, you lay things out so black & white, and Simple, it makes it easy to stay focused. Which is *impressive* for those of us with ADHD.. 🤩😆 just wanted to say *Thank You for what you’re doing* , and please know it means the world to some of us‼️ ->> Gardening//Nature is THE *BEST* KIND of therapy, bar none. 💪🏼🌱✨
Thank you for the idea of a path through the wild. I get turned in to the city at least once a year, get the nasty letter from the city, tell them to come out and show me ONE weed in my yard, blows over until another complaint comes in. It is constant, and sapping the fun out of working in my yard. I live in a rural town of green lawns, maybe a few foundation plants. The funny thing is that when I am out working in the yard, many people stop and say how much they love my yard and appreciate all the work I do on it. But just one or a few people don't like the style, and turn me in with the inevitable nasty letter following. I have a path of grass through the beds, but maybe a stone path would be more visible and look more intentional. I have been removing some of the plants from my hellstrip, and adding more mulch areas instead of the sea of plants, in hopes of stopping the complaints. It gets old. And is totally a matter of opinion.
What’s the hellstrip?🤔(😆I think it’s hilarious ) Maybe native plants? I just moved into an HOA and it’s pretty lax, but I’m transitioning to water wise so we’ll see. I’m wondering if the complaints come in late winter/ spring? That’s when a landscape riot of color and interest looks like a jumble of sticks. Perhaps more pruning earlier where it’s most visible? Perhaps some trellises or arches that will provide more structure framing things in the winter but hardly noticed in the growing season? I have a neighbor with gargoyles on either side of the driveway and they are decorated with seasonal hats for all the holidays…I just wanted to say that😆…maybe for the hell strip? 🤣 Enjoy your landscape and the compliments! The path sounds like a good idea.
I so enjoy all the masterful advice and helpfulness you provide on designing landscapes. I am currently renovating a historic ranch way up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado (gardening at 8600’ challenging!), working with native plant species. I came across a book I would like to recommend for those interested in landscaping with natives, and shrinking large area of lawn: NATURE’S BEST HOPE, A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard, by Douglas W. Tallamy. It is wonderful, and also has ideas on how to deal with HOAS.
@@cipherklosenuf9242the strip of grass between the sidewalk and road, hard to grow grass there as the hardscaping on both sides keeps temperatures high
@@cipherklosenuf9242 The hellstrip is the area between the sidewalk and the road. The city owns it, but the landowner is responsible for maintaining it. It is usually hot and dry due to all the concrete surrounding it, and often the soil is contaminated with salt and vehicle exhaust. Many gardeners use that term. I do have two arches quite visible to the sidewalk and street. Picket fence. Lovely rocks were terracing the hellstrip (I recently removed them to put mulch down, after removing a lot of the plant material). The complaints are usually right before the 4th, when we have a lot of visitors to town and the parade goes down the road in front of my house. So like June, every year. Always a shock because there are so many beautiful flowers in spring, and still many blooming in June (but not as many as early spring).
0:25 Is a stand of knotweed! Almost gave me a heart attack since I’m trying to get that invasive out of my yard, but glad to see you talking about prioritizing that
I also love a crisp border, containing a wilder landscape. I don't have the time or tools to properly maintain formal looking spaces. So the border makes it look intentional until I can get to it.
I just found your channel today and you are the best! I love that you get to the point, have incredible pictures, you label the type of flower when youre showing pics, and of course your amazing ideas, creativity, and advice. I just started watching 2 of your videos and have subscribed and will watch more. Thank you for creating this channel!!
Great production Eve! Suggestion…promoting/partnering with other channels. For example, irrigation, vegetable gardening, permaculture, native plants, DIYs for hardscape, container plants or whatever. Your focus is designing and planning smart projects…drilling down on the big picture…and it’s really practical. But further specifics like building a tree house or garden arch could be gracefully linked to another channel.😀
Hi there, I live in the country with wild rabbits and lots of deer. Do you have any resources on how to choose perennials and colorful plants that is wildlife resistant. Deer and rabbits in particular. Wasn’t sure how much of your course or other videos address this. Thanks!
Best of luck, whatever advice you receive - we have a rabbit problem in our yard and they love nibbling the supposedly rabbit-proof plants I’ve got, but they won’t touch the hostas I started removing last summer. Still have a 3’x18’ bed half full of the stuff, and I’ve been leaving it there to protect the other plants. Rosemary, yarrow, coneflower, sedge grasses, all crunched right down to the soil. Sometimes they’ll just lop off the taller stems without actually eating anything ✂️
@@daniellerozmus2981the only thing I’ve found to discourage critters and deer from eating my flowers is Repels All. It is sprayed on and the smell and taste on the leaves discourages the animals and trains them to go elsewhere. After a few rains though you have to reapply, especially if there are quite a few animals
how to maintain irrigation when no matter what we have chosen to run an irrigation system gets chewed up by critters, even if buried they will be dug up and chewed to pieces and then dragged all over the yard ; /
Love your channel! A few questions that may help you with video ideas: - how do you know how long it takes for a plant to get established? Our builder recently replaced a dead bush with a 5' crepe myrtle and told us to water it with the hose for ten minutes daily for a few weeks. But after a few weeks, what then? How do I know? Or similarly, our HOA landscapers put an ~8' cedar elm next to our yard and told us to water it for 30 minutes every day for a few weeks, and later a tree guy came back and said that we'd been watering it too much. I feel like this kind of thing arises a lot, and it makes me afraid to make a big investment in other larger plants I might otherwise consider. I'm mostly using native plants where possible, but I still don't know how to handle that transition. - Any advice for creating landscapes out of native plants grown from seeds? I've been learning about the native wildflowers in my area and am trying to create an English garden look around the perimeter of my yard. In the spring it seemed to be going well, but now in July the spring flowers have died off and it just looks overgrown. I also have a big area where I grew a native that allegedly has spring flowers, but they're nearly four feet tall now and have no flowers at all! So I have a big ugly area that I guess I need to fully clear our because I don't want them next year. The nurseries don't seem to sell the things that grow wild around here, which is fine since I can find sources for native seeds, but it means I feel like I'm playing roulette a little bit since I don't know what will come up or what will get outcompeted by weeds or invasives.
I love the idea of arborist chips (free) but is it possible to introduce non-desirable stuff by using it? Like seeds or disease or something? One specific example I'm thinking of is the maple seeds (whirligigs.) I have enough problem with those things, and I certainly don't want to get a truck full and mulch my entire flowers beds with them accidentally.
This channel is *exactly* what I needed, I'm so glad I found you! I recently embarked on a long overdue redesign of our entire yard, and as a fellow PNW-er your advice is extra helpful for me :)
hi, i really enjoyed your video. Was wondering if you can share where you had your shirt made, cause it looks very nice. I have not had luck with online print companies.
Appreciate you trying to show us something to help! However, instead of just talking, why don't you show us how we work or design directly with the help of software?
Like your videos. Some topic suggestions:
Making hand weeding easier. When to weed (when ground is soft after watering or rain) and what tools are helpful (dandelion digger, Grandpa’s weeder, hoe, etc).
How to help your plants when it is hot (watering, avoiding over or under watering with a moisture meter, shade cloth or just putting g a chair or what you have over a plant). When to water (early morning), when not to water (midday at the hottest) and where to water (at base, not on leaves).
How to help your plants survive a freeze. Covering them up with mostly anything if it’s below 40F. Avoiding sun scald. The dessication during the freeze. And how to help them recover when the freeze is over.
I love your channel for so many reasons, but this video was AWESOME! I feel like you really empathize with average homeowners juggling projects in their space. You really take the time to listen and give very specific advice that is easy to implement. It's no surprise to me that your channel is growing quickly... it is much deserved! 👏👏👏👏👏
I'm wondering in wood chip mulch attracts termites 😮
Over run with Canadian thistle - how do I get rid of it? I've dug it and it comes right back. I'm hoeing it to try to eliminate photosynthesis but no luck so far. Pulling my hair out!!
This is one plant that I have no qualms about spraying chemicals on. I saw a research project showing the growth, over a year, of ONE FOOT of thistle root.... it was about 20 feet wide, and six FEET deep! You will never be able to dig all this up or sap the energy from it!
We have Canadian thistle here and I've tried everything from vinegar, to flame burners to salt water etc. The only thing that I've found to work is to put Milestone into a sprayer and spot spray the thistle. Soak the leaves and make sure there's several hot days in the forecast.. Milestone will kill the roots. I hate using chemicals but sometimes you need to let science work for you.
I agree on the spot spray. They tend to grow in patches. Consider spray, pull, cover with good soil and put in something that completes better and plus mulch that will make the pulling easier.
I have it in the lawn.
For now I’m spot planting clover and yarrow.
Lots of great tips that I’ll be sure to adapt!
I’d love a video that touches on potted plants, specifically container trees. In one of your videos, you show an image of a Japanese maple in a container as a focal point. I love that look and would like more suggestions on small trees that could thrive in such settings.
I actually just found your TH-cam channel tonight, but I’m already loving it; I’ve been *addicted* to gardening since I was still a teenager… began w/ saving plants from Dollar Stores {that genuinely looked *Worse* than half-dead}, that i would then take home & “bring back to life”, as my family put it. Though Unfortunately, I am NoToRiOuS for getting overwhelmed [partly due to my anxiety disorder 😂🤦🏼♀️] so while I’ve always *d r e a m e d* of having my own little garden escape, I’ve basically become resolved the fact that that will likely Never be a part of my reality. However, you lay things out so black & white, and Simple, it makes it easy to stay focused. Which is *impressive* for those of us with ADHD.. 🤩😆 just wanted to say *Thank You for what you’re doing* , and please know it means the world to some of us‼️ ->> Gardening//Nature is THE *BEST* KIND of therapy, bar none. 💪🏼🌱✨
Thank you for the idea of a path through the wild. I get turned in to the city at least once a year, get the nasty letter from the city, tell them to come out and show me ONE weed in my yard, blows over until another complaint comes in. It is constant, and sapping the fun out of working in my yard. I live in a rural town of green lawns, maybe a few foundation plants. The funny thing is that when I am out working in the yard, many people stop and say how much they love my yard and appreciate all the work I do on it. But just one or a few people don't like the style, and turn me in with the inevitable nasty letter following. I have a path of grass through the beds, but maybe a stone path would be more visible and look more intentional. I have been removing some of the plants from my hellstrip, and adding more mulch areas instead of the sea of plants, in hopes of stopping the complaints. It gets old. And is totally a matter of opinion.
I'm sorry this is happening to you. Your yard does sound lovely though.
What’s the hellstrip?🤔(😆I think it’s hilarious ) Maybe native plants? I just moved into an HOA and it’s pretty lax, but I’m transitioning to water wise so we’ll see.
I’m wondering if the complaints come in late winter/ spring? That’s when a landscape riot of color and interest looks like a jumble of sticks.
Perhaps more pruning earlier where it’s most visible?
Perhaps some trellises or arches that will provide more structure framing things in the winter but hardly noticed in the growing season?
I have a neighbor with gargoyles on either side of the driveway and they are decorated with seasonal hats for all the holidays…I just wanted to say that😆…maybe for the hell strip? 🤣
Enjoy your landscape and the compliments!
The path sounds like a good idea.
I so enjoy all the masterful advice and helpfulness you provide on designing landscapes. I am currently renovating a historic ranch way up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado (gardening at 8600’ challenging!), working with native plant species. I came across a book I would like to recommend for those interested in landscaping with natives, and shrinking large area of lawn: NATURE’S BEST HOPE, A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard, by Douglas W. Tallamy. It is wonderful, and also has ideas on how to deal with HOAS.
@@cipherklosenuf9242the strip of grass between the sidewalk and road, hard to grow grass there as the hardscaping on both sides keeps temperatures high
@@cipherklosenuf9242 The hellstrip is the area between the sidewalk and the road. The city owns it, but the landowner is responsible for maintaining it. It is usually hot and dry due to all the concrete surrounding it, and often the soil is contaminated with salt and vehicle exhaust. Many gardeners use that term. I do have two arches quite visible to the sidewalk and street. Picket fence. Lovely rocks were terracing the hellstrip (I recently removed them to put mulch down, after removing a lot of the plant material). The complaints are usually right before the 4th, when we have a lot of visitors to town and the parade goes down the road in front of my house. So like June, every year. Always a shock because there are so many beautiful flowers in spring, and still many blooming in June (but not as many as early spring).
0:25 Is a stand of knotweed! Almost gave me a heart attack since I’m trying to get that invasive out of my yard, but glad to see you talking about prioritizing that
How do you best get rid of bindweed? Ive ripped it out roots and all, sprayed weed killer, mulched, sprayed again and it keeps coming back 😢
Thank you for your videos! They are so helpful and inspiring! It is so nice of you to provide this content!
The person cutting that one blade of grass was funny.😅 This is valuable information on creating a garden that is less stressful.
I am enjoying your channel and your content. I don’t have any questions atm, just wanted to give a high five😎
As a Biologist, I prefer a natural, casual garden that I enjoy keeping healthy and neat.
I also love a crisp border, containing a wilder landscape. I don't have the time or tools to properly maintain formal looking spaces. So the border makes it look intentional until I can get to it.
pathway through the wild is a brilliant idea!
your so right .. i used a neighbors weed whacker to give an old lady a land scape hair cut. made her day..
I just found your channel today and you are the best! I love that you get to the point, have incredible pictures, you label the type of flower when youre showing pics, and of course your amazing ideas, creativity, and advice. I just started watching 2 of your videos and have subscribed and will watch more. Thank you for creating this channel!!
Great production Eve! Suggestion…promoting/partnering with other channels.
For example, irrigation, vegetable gardening, permaculture, native plants, DIYs for hardscape, container plants or whatever.
Your focus is designing and planning smart projects…drilling down on the big picture…and it’s really practical.
But further specifics like building a tree house or garden arch could be gracefully linked to another channel.😀
Clay soil…. What do you recommend for a small yard w poor draining clay? Love your videos! Ty
Hi there, I live in the country with wild rabbits and lots of deer. Do you have any resources on how to choose perennials and colorful plants that is wildlife resistant. Deer and rabbits in particular. Wasn’t sure how much of your course or other videos address this. Thanks!
Best of luck, whatever advice you receive - we have a rabbit problem in our yard and they love nibbling the supposedly rabbit-proof plants I’ve got, but they won’t touch the hostas I started removing last summer. Still have a 3’x18’ bed half full of the stuff, and I’ve been leaving it there to protect the other plants. Rosemary, yarrow, coneflower, sedge grasses, all crunched right down to the soil. Sometimes they’ll just lop off the taller stems without actually eating anything ✂️
@@daniellerozmus2981the only thing I’ve found to discourage critters and deer from eating my flowers is Repels All.
It is sprayed on and the smell and taste on the leaves discourages the animals and trains them to go elsewhere.
After a few rains though you have to reapply, especially if there are quite a few animals
how to maintain irrigation when no matter what we have chosen to run an irrigation system gets chewed up by critters, even if buried they will be dug up and chewed to pieces and then dragged all over the yard ; /
Thank you for all your help! You are a Miracle!
How do you deal with poison ivy?
Love your channel! A few questions that may help you with video ideas:
- how do you know how long it takes for a plant to get established? Our builder recently replaced a dead bush with a 5' crepe myrtle and told us to water it with the hose for ten minutes daily for a few weeks. But after a few weeks, what then? How do I know? Or similarly, our HOA landscapers put an ~8' cedar elm next to our yard and told us to water it for 30 minutes every day for a few weeks, and later a tree guy came back and said that we'd been watering it too much. I feel like this kind of thing arises a lot, and it makes me afraid to make a big investment in other larger plants I might otherwise consider. I'm mostly using native plants where possible, but I still don't know how to handle that transition.
- Any advice for creating landscapes out of native plants grown from seeds? I've been learning about the native wildflowers in my area and am trying to create an English garden look around the perimeter of my yard. In the spring it seemed to be going well, but now in July the spring flowers have died off and it just looks overgrown. I also have a big area where I grew a native that allegedly has spring flowers, but they're nearly four feet tall now and have no flowers at all! So I have a big ugly area that I guess I need to fully clear our because I don't want them next year. The nurseries don't seem to sell the things that grow wild around here, which is fine since I can find sources for native seeds, but it means I feel like I'm playing roulette a little bit since I don't know what will come up or what will get outcompeted by weeds or invasives.
I love the idea of arborist chips (free) but is it possible to introduce non-desirable stuff by using it? Like seeds or disease or something? One specific example I'm thinking of is the maple seeds (whirligigs.) I have enough problem with those things, and I certainly don't want to get a truck full and mulch my entire flowers beds with them accidentally.
This channel is *exactly* what I needed, I'm so glad I found you! I recently embarked on a long overdue redesign of our entire yard, and as a fellow PNW-er your advice is extra helpful for me :)
hi, i really enjoyed your video. Was wondering if you can share where you had your shirt made, cause it looks very nice. I have not had luck with online print companies.
Can you recommend hedges that don't attract wasps please?. My garden is small, but I need some screening 😊
Thank you for all the great tips. Do you have anything to help with someone overwhelmed with Horsetail?
New subscriber, here. Will be watching. I loved gardening.
Do you ever get out and show how you do your projects
Great advice 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😃👍🏼
'Promo SM' 👌
thx
Appreciate you trying to show us something to help! However, instead of just talking, why don't you show us how we work or design directly with the help of software?