Garden Tour - Early June Zone 6A Southeast Michigan Garden
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- In today's video I am taking a stroll through the garden and taking note of some of the things I need to work on. I like to create a to-do list for the garden that I use to keep me on track with things that need to be done.
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I found your account not too long ago and have been binging all of your videos. I was looking forward to seeing how things are progressing this year after all the changes your garden went through. The fountain hedge recovered so beautifully!! Thank you for sharing your garden with us.
Hello and thanks for following along. I am glad the fountain boxwood filled in. They were looking so pathetic after I trimmed them last season...ha ha. Thank goodness nature is tough, right?
I love this! I am so happy to see those boxwoods looking amazing by now... your alliums looked so beautiful and all the textures in your backyard are just so calming!
Hi Roxana and thanks so much for your kind words and for watching the video.
Thank you for a walk in the garden, Absolutely beautiful.
Thank so much. I am glad to hear you enjoyed the video and appreciate you watching.
The garden is looking majestic as usual! The yellow corydalis looks very pretty by the sidewalk and the garden is so cute that even the deer's and bunnies want to come visit.
Thanks so much friend. I appreciate you being here.
Your garden is spectacular! Thank you for an enjoyable walk-thru!
Thanks so much. I appreciate your kind note.
Your garden is just beautiful! Reminds me of many English gardens. Your zone affords a very lush look!
Thank you so much 🙂
Love to-do list in the garden ‘cause they never end! Enjoy being in the garden!
Thank you and thanks for watching the video.
Beautiful looking garden, Its the bees knees.
Thanks so much. I am always excited to see those bees in the garden too.
Great tip about digging a deep trench to keep an eye on invasive plants, thank you! And I will definitely be re-watching this video to catalogue plants that will work in my 4b zone. Beautiful video, and great exposition of specimens!
Thank you. I have had great luck containing that pachysandra using that trench, but I am always staying on top of the creeping stems along that side and removing them. Thanks for watching.
@@GardenMoxie😂and the astilbe and poppies and…..😂
I NEVER thought of that!!
Thank you for the tour, your landscaping is lovely! I especially like your Mary/Allee garden. It reminds me of European gardens I've visited, and you really nailed that style! I also lost trees in the Michigan winter ice storm of 2023, 9 fullsize arborvitae. We just relplaced them with Green Giant Arbs and they are stunning! Thank you again for the tour❤
Thanks so much. That story we got in 2023 was such a bummer. I lost a lot of trees and the arborvitae hedge is a mess. I am going to check into the green giants you mention. Thanks for sharing that.
You're welcome. Also, I priced the Green Giant arbs at English Gardens, and they are crazy expensive there. My landscaper installed mine for a little less, and the quality was much better.@GardenMoxie
@@GardenMoxieI wonder if junipers would be tougher. The giant may be too big of scale for your garden. I’ve got my eye on a moonglow juniper. Very pretty during full moons. I just planted arbs last fall and they don’t take kindly to heavy snow either. 😅ours were leaning a bit to start spring. And I definitely have to have fencing here. It’s a battle with nature.
@@dustyflats3832 I wish I could grow holly. The variety 'Nellie Stevens' makes an incredible hedge, but it is a Zone 6 plant. I don't like to be right on the zone limit for expensive plants especially after the polar vortex we had several years back. Can you image losing an entire hedge row? Yikes!
Looks very serene. I like the Mary sanctuary.
Thanks so much. The Mary garden is such a great, peaceful space. It's a great place to hide from the world..ha ha.
Thank you for the garden tour. Everything looks so beautiful. Wish I was there.
Thank so much for checking out the video.
Greetings Sue, I garden in Frankfort, Kentucky which is growing zone 6B. Your garden is so beautiful. It's very peaceful and reminds me of an English garden. I also grow Aralia Cordata "Sun King" in my shade border. I love to have lots of chartreuse color combined with purple/blue, pink, and white. I really enjoy watching your videos. Happy gardening, James
Hello and thanks for your kind note. I love Kentucky. Your color scheme with the chartreuse and purple/blue, pink, and white sounds amazing. I love those colors together in the garden. Thank you for being here.
Lovely garden, Sue. Thanks for the walk about.
Glad you enjoyed it Peggy. Thanks for your note.
Swallowtail seeds have seeds for a white/light pink lychnis if you’re interested for your Mary garden. I’m very pleased with the ones I purchased last year.
Thanks for the suggestion. I was giggling when I read your note becuase...I kid you not...I just bought those seeds 2 days ago. I thought I can germinate them this season so they bloom next season. I appreciate you sharing that information. I'll let you know how they do.
Your garden is lovely. Thank you for sharing it. I am very inspired. 🌺
Thank you and thanks for watching the video. Now I just need to start working on that to-do list 😂
Really nice and how often do you get a bunny cameo? 😂
LOL. That bunny had a mouthful of flowers...little stinker. Thanks for watching.
Your garden is just beautiful.
Thanks so much.
Thank you so much for sharing :) You're such an inspiration! I've watched your "removing that lawn" video on repeat for over a year. Now I have a lawn that's way too large for me, and I want to draw inspiration from you!
Thanks so much. I do not regret removing that huge lawn section. It has saved a ton of mowing time for me.
@@GardenMoxie I’m happy to hear that! Your yard is just gorgeous too :) I’d like some lawn but I’m one person so I don’t need a huge field of it or anything. I’d rather have plants and low maintenance shrubs like you’ve done :)
A lovely tour, Sue. God bless. ❤
Thanks so much. I appreciate you being here.
Im also a SE MI gardener! I’m so excited to see this channel, and I’m a new subscriber! Everything is gorgeous! 🩷I lost arborvitaes in the ice storm, too. 😢
Thank you for posting the species of plants, which I didn’t realize were there until the end!
Hello and thanks so much for subscribing. It is awesome to have another Michigan gardener here. That ice storm last season was brutal. I still want to cry when I look at my white pines...ha ha.
Your garden is lovely. It inspires me - I want to remove some lawn and replace it with a lush variety of plants, such as you show throughout; especially the large bed that you show at the end - beautiful.
Thanks so much. I find it much easier to manage the flower beds versus the lawn. I recommend giving it a go.
Such a lovely tour of your garden, Sue - I grow many of the same plants, I love the Heuchera americana, it does well for me too and is native in PA. I've also been growing Heuchera villosa, another native and a great grower and doesn't mind my clay soil and heavy rainfalls. I always enjoy seeing your garden and hearing your thoughts about the plantings.😊
Hi Lynn and thanks so much for your kind note. I appreciate you watching the video. Thanks for the heuchera recommendation too.
A Beautiful garden 🪴😍
Thank you and thanks for watching.
Wow!!! 6 ma zone here in Colo… so happy I found you! Love love Mary garden
Hello and thank you. The Mary garden is a nice quiet space to hang out.
I so loved this video! I missed your videos.
Hi Bernadette,
How wonderful to see your name here. Thanks so much for watching the video. I hope all your seedlings are doing well in the garden. I can't wait to hear how things are growing this season.
The gardens look great Sue!!🌺
Thanks so much. I appreciate you watching.
I’m so glad I came across your account. I subscribed after the first video. It’s such a different world from where I live, where the soils are poor and the weather’s hot and dry. The plants here are woody and firm, and we stay away from the soft herbaceous things you’ve got because they end up looking scrappy. But seeing them in a climate they were meant for is a world of difference. I wish I had a yard as big as yours to layer like you’ve done. Well done.
Thanks so much for subscribing. I imagine it is a challenge to garden in a hot and dry climate. It's amazing how different the conditions are where we each create our spaces.
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Beautiful as usual. 😊
Thank you! 😊 I appreciate you being here.
Gorgeous Sue 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks so much 😊 and thanks for watching the video Jasmine.
Hi Sue! Everything looks so lovely! The geranium you spoke about, is it called Hardy Geranium? I, too, have not had success growing Heuchera in my garden. I love all the beautiful colors available, but they never last for me.
Thank you for the tour of your beautiful garden spaces!
Happy Gardening 🌻
Thanks so much. I have a two different geraniums under the redbud trees. One is a scented geranium (that is the one with the pink flowers in the video) and that is called Geranium Bevan's Variety (Cranesbill, Perennial Geranium). The other geranium is a native which is called geranium macultatum. I am with you on the fancy heuchera. I purchased roughly 15 heuchera 'Fire Alarm' plants a couple years ago and all but one didn't make it through winter. Ugh! That was an expensive lesson learned. I love how they look, but they don't like my garden conditions. I have great luck with heuchera 'Obsidian' which has a deep purple leaf. The red and chartreuse colored leaved heuchera don't like my garden at all. Thanks for watching the video. Happy gardening!
Looking lovely
Thanks so much!
Garden looks lovely. I have native plant suggestiones for you! First, I think you'll like Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) given your love for the Corydalis lutea. I also think Culver's Root (Veronicastrum virginicum) would look great. Its a tall, architectural plant, with pastel purple or white flower spires that would look good in your formal areas.
Thanks so much for the native plant suggestions. I am not familiar with either plant. I checked the catalog for my local native nursery (Wildtype Native Plants) and they sell both. How exciting! I appreciate the recommendations. Thank you.
Great suggestions. Be forewarned: zizea self seeds prolifically.
@@rosemama9995 Thanks for the heads up.
Couple of plants I’ve never grown but I’m going to give them ago after seeing them in your garden, Corydalis lutea and lamium which appears to be such a popular ground cover. Your pollinator garden is looking great already, I especially like the achillea coronation gold. Good luck with the bunnies I gave up a long time ago 😉
I think you will like the lamium and corydalis lutea. They are great performers in the shade which makes them such a great plant. I am with you on giving up on bunnies...😂
Dear Sue, the boxwoods are doing beautifully! I lost some of my variegated box this winter which I’d planted around the base of my fountain. 😢 Need to plant something else there.
Hello. I am sorry to hear that you lost your boxwood. That is hard. I hope you are able to find something that works for your area. I love boxwood, but I worry about all the issues they are developing. Thanks for watching the video.
With the bee balm I ontain it to a patch in the border wiht buried plastic edging.
That is a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Sue. I’ve just discovered your channel. I loved your garden tour. It looks like such a peaceful place. I was interested to hear about your use of Heuchera americana in your shady areas. I, too, have had it with those beautiful, but one-season, heuchera hybrids. My mind refuses to think of them as annuals so I can never be happy with just one season out of them. The americana is not native here in the Pacific Northwest. But years ago, I stumbled upon a plant that is native here, Tellima grandiflora, and I use it just like you use H. americana: as a filler at the front of my shady beds. The tellima has apple green foliage that contrasts beautifully with what I have near it: native sword ferns, a blue-green hosta, Acanthus spinosa, dark-leaved hellebores, a variegated rhododendron, and native trilliums. Both the tellima and a native carex (deweyana) weave around the larger things to fill any holes. They both re-seed, but politely. The tellima looks a lot like your H. americana in its leaf shape and its tall flower stems. Even after a light wind the stems are flopped over and look messy so, like you, I prune them off to restore the pleasing look of the foliage. I’m looking forward to hearing about more adventures in your garden. I’m subscribed!
Hello and thanks so much for your kind note and thanks for subscribing. Your garden sounds stunning. The Pacific Northwest is the envy of American gardeners for sure. Such a beautiful area. I am really happy with how the H. americana is growing. I have purposely not watered that area much and all the natives are thriving. One season I made the mistake of buying 12-15 Heuchera 'Fire Alarm' for my front garden. The foliage was incredible. I love all but one plant and the survivor looks like it will give up the ghost any day. What a waste of money. I have had good luck with Heuchera 'Obsidian' in my garden, but my days of buying hybrid heucheras are over. Happy gardening!
Lamium maculatum. Lam - eee - yum.
Thanks for watching.
Beautiful! What is that shrub at 2:12 with the green and purple leaves???
Thank you. That is a purple smoke bush. It needs to be moved into an area where it gets more sun. The leaves are typically deep purple similar to the Japanese maples, but they are too shady in this space. That is one of my to-do list items. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks so watching.
About poppies-I am being taken over by red poppies. I pulled many and should have taken a few more to give room for other plants. I failed last year with Lauren’s Grape and a couple breadseed poppies Lucille and Jimi’s Purple Haze, but successful this year. Well, I planted all 3 in clump fashion and am now a bit nervous as they look much bigger like giant Romaine lettuce and knowing the habit of the red poppies…I don’t know what I’ve created 😮. If the new ones bloom I think I will need to be deadheading as the red have jumped ship into the vegetable garden. I do want them to reseed ‘a bit’ but not as thick as I see they are capable of.
The Astilbe have decided that they like where they are at and growing at a faster rate with the shade from ever expanding oak. I’m not sure yet how easy or not they are to move.
It’s strange how all of a sudden some plants just take off. I have a small version of Evening Primrose and after a decade it just took off like wildfire. It’s odd and thankfully it’s easy to pull. I added them to a back area that we are working on getting rid of nettles and thistles.
I don’t suspect the new poppies to bloom this year 🤷♀️ but if they do I might figure out if they cross pollinate. Just curious if there are any flowers that stay true when mixing varieties.
Thoroughly enjoying the success I’ve had with foxgloves. The bumblebees love them.
The soil here must be improving from arborist chips as coneflower, hollyhocks and Columbine are also quite vigorous. I think next year I will start most all seedlings later and in the greenhouse or winter sow and keep the mess outside. I just got the shed organized and seedling supplies back outside. I’ve figured out the location for winter sowing in warm winters also and gad great success this year. I better get going to water a few things as the heat dome is moving in.
A very nice spring this year and we are out of the drought 😁. Thank you for the tour. Always a joy!
Thanks so much for sharing your gardening experiences. Your garden sounds amazing. I appreciate you watching the video. Thank you.
Thanks for wonderful garden tour today and thanks for sharing such a beautiful garden with us
Thanks so much for your note. I appreciate you being here.
I find your garden really beautiful. It seems to me that the location is really quiet, isn't it? I struggle with filming and recording the sound at the same time as I am surrounded by noise of all kinds. It hardly ever stops. I hope you don't mind me asking, have you got a "cameraman"?
Hello and I never mind your questions. Thank you for your kind words. I film and edit my videos myself. I understand what you are saying about noise. I have found myself cut off a few times due to road construction noise in my area. I find it best to try to film earlier in the day if possible.
@@GardenMoxie Thank you for your reply. Sadly, it seems to me that in my case filming and adding the voice-over later is the only option. It is relatively quiet here only on Sundays, really early in the morning, then the "madhouse" opens its doors, so to speak.
@@gardensenglishandbeauty I understand completely. Most of my videos need to be done with voice over as well. Your videos are lovely so it is working out wonderfully. Your roses look stunning!
@@GardenMoxie Thank you for your understanding and appreciation!
What is the nursery that specializes in native Michigan plants?
The nursery is located in Mason, Michigan and it called Wildtype Native Plant Nursery. They offer at least 2 weekends devoted to retail buyers. You can check their website for details. I attended an open day last season and really enjoyed it.
www.wildtypeplants.com/
How old are your willow trees?
This is their 3rd season.
What type of trees are in the beginning of the video?
The trees over the path are redbuds. The variety is 'Forest Pansy'. I bought them for $25 each at the home depot. They were about 3ft tall when they were first planted.
@@GardenMoxie Thanks!
I'm a SE Michigan gardener too. Really enjoyed your video, your garden is fabulous!
Hello fellow Michigan gardener and thanks so much for your kind note!
I am too! I’m in Rochester. 🩷
Beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing it with us 💗💗💗
Thanks so much and thanks for watching.
So lush and green. A very calming garden. Those scented geraniums look like something I would like to add to my shade garden. I do love scented foliage, an added layer of beauty. Yesterday I was just pondering how to bring a bit more calm and order to my Secret Garden, looking at your garden helps me wrap my chaotic brain around that. Thank you for the inspiration.
Hi there and thanks so much for watching for your kind words of encouragement.
Beautiful garden tour Sue. Curious if the box moth has decided to join in your tours?
Thanks so much Jo. I have not seen the boxwood moth in the garden yet, but my understanding is they are in Windsor so it is just a matter of time. And then...it will be time for a new garden design I fear. Thanks for watching the video Jo.
What a beautiful garden space you have. I've just subrscribed as you are a channel close to where I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Just a heads up and I think a somewhat important one for those with boxwoods. Yours are beautiful! Here in Windsor we have been hit by "boxwood moth" Thankfully, I only had 6 to lose. My neighbor has had to tear out all of hers and she's been growing them for years. Please look this up, for your sake, I can't even imagine the heartbreak of possibly losing them. The only thing that kills them is BT and that has to be done every 7 to 10 days? I do pray these little monsters don't make it over the lake. Thank you for sharing your lovely garden :)
Hello and thank you for subscribing. It is great to have you here. I have been following the boxwood moth issues. I know it is only a matter of time. Ugh! That is going to be a sobering lesson on why you shouldn't plant too many of the same kind of plant. I know this, but the boxwood are one of the few evergreens that can create short hedging that remain deer resistant during Winter. I is always sobering to see what happens when a pest is released in an area it is not meant to live. Thanks for watching the video. I appreciate it.
There is a low growing yew, that might be the answer? I replaced my boxwood, only 3 with them and hope they will serve my purpose. Just a thought.@@GardenMoxie
@@kimdowhaniuk1855 That is a great suggestion for the areas that are fenced in. The deer here go crazy for yew. They love them.
Just found your site! Beautiful! I am in Glen Arbor, MI. Are you able to grow Butterfly weed down south? I have good luck with it up here!
Hello fellow Michigan gardener. Thanks so much. Oh...Glen Arbor is a beautiful spot. My parents lived on Lake Leelanau. I have not tried growing butterfly weed so I am not sure. Is it a great plant for the garden?
@@GardenMoxie Yes, beautiful orange Native and great food for Monarchs!
@@marciawright2600 Awesome. Thanks for sharing that.