OMG I'm zone 9b! I LOVE when people actually have my zone! It gives me so many ideas! Also I'm going with the cool tones too! I don't have armadillo problems so I'm planting a climbing rose over my archways and that's where I'm going to get my big pink and yellow fixes from. 😊 Really really beautiful! I love absolutely everything you've done
Thank you, Loren!!! I’m so excited for you on your new gardening adventures!!! LOL about getting your pink and yellow fixes from the roses! That will be DELICIOUS!!!
Thank you for sharing. I love your posts, you garden with the same passion for every little detail in the garden as I do, which makes me come back for all your Sunday morning videos. They make my day, before it starts :-).
Oh, yay, Gaby!!! I’m so glad that we share that same love! Growing things seems to be what we were made for, doesn’t it?!? We’re taking it all the way back to Genesis when we work in the garden! I love kickin’ it old school! LOL! I hope you are having an awesome 4th of July!!!
Beautiful peaceful garden. Love your accent. I was born Southern (Birmingham), raised Yank (Steamboat, Denver, Colorado). Miss that Southern charm and relaxing stroll in a well established, nurturing, flourishing garden. ❤
Awww, Linda! I’m from Bham, too! I know how you feel! I lived in the West for a few years, and when I moved out there I thought I didn’t care if I ever came back to the South, but the South’s in my blood and so is the salt water of the Gulf, and I just yearned and yearned for it until I was sick with the longing for it. I hope you will get to come back for a visit!!!!!! God bless you!!!!!!
Thank you!!! I'm so glad that you are inspired by my garden!!! My hope is that people will see that if I can grow things, then they can too! We want to have as many butterflies as possible!
Thanks for sharing your lovely garden ! Our yard is not very big and i love vintage garden tools and wood boxes and many colors of flower pots like yours . I just found your channel and if you are a mom I hope you have a wonderful mothers day tomorrow.
Oh, wow!!! Do you know what it so cool about you watching from Vietnam? So many of my pottery pots were made in Vietnam! Y'all have a lot of talented craftspeople to make such beautiful and durable pots!!! And it's so wild that hear they are on the other side of the world and you can see what's growing in them now! Thank you for the compliments on my garden! I hope you have been having a blessed week!
When I first saw your comment, I thought, "Surely, that's not THE David the Good!" But then I doublechecked and it was you! Unless, one of your kids got on your computer and is pulling a prank. LOL! - Wow!!! Thank you for the compliments on my garden! That means so much coming from you! You are THE professional gardener! And I bought your Grocery Row Gardening book on Kindle a couple of years ago when I was planning on turning my front yard into a food forest, before I was utterly discouraged by the marauding armadillos. It is a very funny and informative book!!!
I saw a comment that asked if y’all could come down and video my garden, but it’s not here anymore. You and Rachel and your kids are totally welcome to come down!!! I gotta warn you that my garden is really small! But you won’t waste your time if you plan on going to the beach after videoing it! You also will end up talking theology with my husband! He loves nothing more than to talk theology with smart people!!! You can PM me on Pinterest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening.
Thanks, Cindy!!! That's what I love about it too! It would be sad if it was just a bunch of pretty plants. I want to see all the little creatures enjoying the garden, except for the army worms and snails. LOL!
@@monahudson9501 I am plagued by armadillos. They dig everything up and throw the plants aside for the grubs and ants. I’ve embraced my fate and almost exclusively grow n containers. There are a few things that have managed to survive in the ground, but I never count on them to be left alone for long! LOL!
Thank you, Barbara!!! I was just thinking this morning about what I am going to say for a class that I’m going to teach about butterfly gardening, and the first thoughts I had about why I love butterflies it that they delight and inspire! I want everyone to have delight and inspiration in their lives!!! Merry Christmas to you!!!!!
Hi Rachel. Well, your garden and your photography are just amazing. I never tire of watching your videos and witnessing the spectacular changes from one week to the next. Here, everything is progressing slowly but surely, it may be at the same stage as yours at the beginning of August, depending on weather conditions. Everywhere is green and lush, the spring flowers are just finishing, the apple and cherry blossom is the star of the show. There are a lot of plants waiting, under cover to be planted. I've sown, corgette, corn and butternut seeds and My dahlias are waking up at last. Gardening here is an adventure, we can never take things for granted 😅, but what a pleasure it all is ❤. Many thanks for sharing Rachel and have a great week 😀
Oh, Kim!!! You are so very sweet with your compliments about my garden!!! Thank you!!!!! I love that you have apple and cherry blossoms right now!!! They are such delicate beauties! I got to see the cherry trees blooming up in Washington State when I visited my sister and it seemed like everywhere I looked there were more pink beauties to admire! And yay about you finally getting to wake up your dahlias!!!!!!! I hope you have been having a very blessed and happy and fulfilling gardening week!!!
Your videos are a real treat to watch. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden with us. I hear the birds and the bubbling sound of water. A real treat!!
Thank you, Ann!!! I'm so glad that you enjoy watching my videos!!! I do love hearing the birds and the water! They make the garden experience fully immersive with all that sound surrounding and then the hummingbirds zooming by, sometimes it feels a little too immersive. LOL! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
I love the color of your house. It’s a beautiful, soft color and complements your landscape Amazing that you can keep lavender alive in our hot muggy zone nine.! I see your dusty Miller is getting quite large. It looks beautiful next to that pale pink rose. have you thought about trying salvia purple spires planted next to salvia blue ice? That’s a really great combination. Lucky you, I don’t get many hummingbirds at my in my zone nine garden.
Thank you, Cheryl!!! Oh, the lavender is barely make it now. It’s a bummer! - I’ve never seen salvia blue ice for sale! I will have to look for it next spring! I bet that IS gorgeous!!! And that sounds like a lovely combination! - It seems like we get a flurry of hummingbird activity in early spring and then again in the fall around October. I hope you will get some this year!!! I hope you are having an awesome 4th of July 🗽🇺🇸🍔⛱️❤️🎉🎇🦋☀️🌼🌿🐛
Thank you, Margo!!! Isn’t Thai basil a surprisingly pretty plant?!? I especially love how easily it grows from seed and how it will self seed. It loves to live here, and the bees love it too!
Love seeing the changes each week. The bees are awesome, especially that mud dabber collecting mud. Very interesting, thank you Rachel. Have a great week.
Thanks, Jill!!! Aren't the little creatures that are drawn to the garden so entertaining. I wish I could crouch down low in the garden for hours and watch insects for hours like I used to do as a kid! But everything starts protesting and creaking when I stand up these days. I love being able to video things that zoom in later to really see what's going on! So much delightfulness!!!!
Thank you God bless you as well! This is the 2nd video I watched from your channel your garden is spectacular love to see all the little creatures as well. Have a great week! I watch you from Fresno, California.
Thank you, Maria!!! I'm so glad that you are enjoying my garden!!! Isn't it so delightful to see little creatures out in the wild just enjoying life and doing what they do? And that is so cool that we live in the same gardening zone even though we are all the way on opposite sides of the country! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
Oh, yay, Chrissy!!! Thank you! And I'm so excited about you new gardening journey!!! I hope I can help to keep you from making all the mistake that I made and that you can start out being successful without killing as many things as I have. LOL!
Thank you, Christine!!! Aren't the stepping stones fun?!? And I love how versatile and easy they are to move if I don't like what I've done. I like keeping my options open! LOL!
I love your garden. I garden for hummingbirds in zone 10a Arizona. I thought I had challenges but I think you got me beat. At least I don’t have Armadillos 😂
Thank you, Yuma!!! Oh! Y'all have so many varieties of hummingbirds there! I love the Anna's hummingbird! Aren't hummingbirds just the most fun little creatures?!? They are always surprising me AND making me laugh!
Hey there from Texas, This sweet video popped up in my feed, I’m sooo thankful it did. I instantly could tell that you’re a kindhearted and joyous lady. I already liked and subscribed and I haven’t finished the video yet. 🙂🙂🙂 I forget that armadillo live elsewhere. Thankfully they’ve not crossed my path on foot or near my car, they must prefer a more rural area than I live in. I can’t imagine seeing them chomp down on your pretty flowers. 😉😉😉 I’m thrilled that you’re growing my state flower!!! I love the fact that they’re two toned, blue-ish purple with white tops. Sooo lovely to see them growing in mass along the back roads and out in open fields. Sadly they’re mostly seen in north and eastern Texas and not state wide, but that’s ok. To see them in places is better than none, right!?!? I will be very interested to see the progress of the chrysalis. I didn’t know that they change the color of their cocoons to disguise their appearance. Isn’t it amazing how God gives such a vast amount of knowledge, to even the tiniest of living things. 🙏🏻🦋🙏🏻 I love how you gave thanks to our Heavenly Father for providing the blessed rain, for your garden. Sadly too many people take the credit for themselves, or give the glory to the creation (mother earth) and not The Creator… Anyway, I just wanted to chime in and say “Hello”, and to thank you for sharing your lovely garden, along with your faith and acknowledgement of *The One* who created it all. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Have a wonderful week ahead. Take care, and God bless ✝️💟🛐 Maranatha
Oh, yay!!! I’m so glad that you found my channel too!!!!! It seems like y’all in Texas have the best and the largest variety of versatile native plants! I want to grow everything that y’all have! LOL! My friend Jo @Jostxgarden on TH-cam is in Houston, and I am astounded by the amount of things that she can grow there! - Oh, yes, God deserves all of the glory and praise for sending sunshine and rain and holding ALL things together! I’m so thankful that you know that too!!! - Aren’t butterflies such amazing little creatures?!? I’m going to be making more videos about how I raise the different kinds. There are so many fun facts about butterflies! They are such a delight! I’m so thankful that I get to share them with you! - I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
gardens with mostly pots and saw your video then i noticed Gulf Coast and had to visit. I'm from south Or lower Alabama. Not far from you. Maybe a couple hours. Excited to know more about your garden. Its beautiful!
Oh, yay! I'm so glad that you found me!!! You could definitely grow everything that I grow even though we are in different growing zones. Isn't that weird?!? Even Foley, which is just a 15 minute drive away, gets way colder than down here and also they get more rain, which I think is NOT fair. LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening lol we get a lot of rain too. My sister lived just outside Mobile for about 20 years. I’m not sure where. They retired a few years ago and moved to northeast Tn. They were tired of the heat. Lol I was so excited to see what you did with all the pots. That’s all I can do because we live in the woods. I struggle with getting them enough sun. It’s been so wet that I’ve lost plants especially my lavender. Seeds have been completely washed away. Those were in a bed for wildflowers that I made. I have a long way to go. I’ll be Watching this video again. Lol so much to see.
I just found your channel, I love your gardens and I am feeling so inspired to add more containers to my gardens, it has to be easier than trying to get down on the ground to weed all the time, my knees and back are not getting any younger! The mud dabber footage was so interesting, I've never seen that before, I live in PA a mile from Lake Erie, it's still too cold to plant some things(we had snow a few days ago!!) but things are greening up, the azaleas are starting to bloom, and I am anxious to get my pots started.
Oh, yay, Mary!!! Thank you so much for the compliments!!! I'm so glad that you are inspired to grow more things in containers! I do still have to pick some weeds out of my containers, even when I mulch them really well, but thankfully, I don't have to get down on the ground to do it! I like having the plants higher up and closer to my face! - I know that you are just itchin' to get growing!!! I how you have a blessed day!
Your seating area is so beautiful! I just love it. And that lavender looks SO GOOD. The whole entranceway into the garden is so full and fabulous. You must be so happy with how that looks. Honestly! Love that spot of pink. And that diamond frost and verbena is a perfect combo for sure. I am so impressed with your hydrangeas! You are the master. You are going to love that dwarf Joe Pye weed. I think it is one of my new favorite things. The pathway looks great! I am absolutely dying over the queen of Sweden rose. Perfection! That tapestry in front of the fountain is so dreamy. Lol I was just shaking the coral nymph salvia seeds in bare spots this morning. Oooh! That native petunia! And your dahlias!!!!!!! **swoon** The sunflower is cracking me up. I can’t wait to see your topiary adventure. I’m trying my best with that olive tree, but it’s looking pretty sketchy so far. Lol I do love your bog garden. So cool! The bluebonnets look good! I can NOT get over the kale. So big. My copycat kale is not happy where I put it. I think yours looks awesome dotted around the yard. I had a black swallowtail do the same thing. He ignored all my sticks, and made his chrysalis on the fennel stem. Good grief. 🤦🏼♀️ Ok that dirt dauber is insane. I’m so glad you got that video of him! The garden is so glorious. Like a symphony! Thanks for such a lovely tour!❤️
Thank you, Jo!!!!!!! You are the sweetest!!! I don’t know why the hydrangeas are looking so good because they never have before! They’ve been ugly, scraggly things that were just barely hanging on by a few roots that the armadillos didn’t dig up AND they were also covered in brown spots. Either they got their act together because I threatened to dig them up and plunk them into the front yard or they really didn’t like having the lemon tree looming over them. Oh!!! I must have missed it when you talked about making the olive tree be a topiary! That will be lovely!!!!! I’m sure that you will shape it into a masterpiece!!! Aren’t swallowtails just the most ornery of the butterfly world?!? They really are not cooperative as caterpillars or butterflies! Ugh!
LOL! I just want to copy you with all your garden lovelies!!! And I al especially excited about the Joe Pye weed and the cleome!!!!! I’ve seen what yours can do!!!
Thanks, Katie!!! I promise myself that I will just stick to growing the things that I know will grow, but then I see weird plants for sale and I have to try them. That's how I find all my newest loves. LOL!
Your garden amazes me every week! I love it so much! I've been purchasing more plants but have been too busy helping our daughter to move into her apartment these past few days. I hope to do a lot of planting this coming week. The wind needs to calm down. I bought a gardenia, dwarf butterfly bush, purple coneflowers, white butterfly penta, a 'color wheel' perennial, vincas... Plus coleus and caladiums. 😃🥰🌸💐🐛🦋🙋♀️
Oh, Tammy!!! It sounds like you are going to be filling your garden with so many lovelies!!!! I didn't know what "color wheel" perennial was, so I looked it up. Is it sort of like Stoke's aster? That's what I found, at least. LOL about the wind needing to calm down! Yes! We had some gusts too, but thankfully it does seem to have died down...for now. I hope you've had lots of time AND energy to plant all of your goodies this week!!! Full steam ahead!!!
Oh my gosh, your garden is looking beautiful for the first day of me. Thanks so much for sharing such a beautiful, beautiful video with us watch the video from the beginning to the end.
Hey, I'm glad someone else forgets the names of everything simply because they are videotaping. I know them until I have to know them. LOL! Beautiful garden. Love all the color. I wonder if you could use one of those orchid sticks with the clips for the stick your swallowtail chrysalis is on...
LOL! Isn't it just maddening when you say the name to yourself ALL the time, and then BAM! It completely disappears as soon as you want to say it out loud! Thank you for the compliments on my garden!!! I'm having so much fun out there! That's a great idea about those orchid sticks!!! They would use that for sure!
Each Sunday, your garden grows more beautiful than ever. Love how you tell your plants they are beautiful, gorgeous, and amazing. I feel sure this is why they grow and bloom so beautifully. Are you a teacher and/or an artist? I am curious because of your mannerisms, choice of words, and artistic expressions. The combination of your voice and the beautiful garden has the most calming effect. Maybe doctors should prescribe watching your video when stressed instead of a pill (Chuckle).
Awww, that's sweet, Troupe's Mom!!! I do hope that my plants feel appreciated! And I think that they do! - I love that you are calmed by watching!!! Whenever I am not feeling well and if I am able, I will amble around in the garden and being out there really does take my mind off of being in pain. It is very healing to be outside and amongst nature with the fresh air and the birdsong to buoy your spirits! And also when I'm out there I'm thanking God for all that He has made and for how awesome He is! - LOL! I'm neither a teacher or an artist, but my mom is an artist! Thanks for thinking that I was! I'm just an avid reader and I love to watch period dramas, mostly by or about Jane Austen! - I hope that you have been having a blessed week!!!!!
What a beautiful garden, I love your containers as well! You do an excellent job with the videography, so happy to have found your channel :) Since you are a fan of purple and kale, may I recommend the most beautiful kale variety I've ever grown? It's called Dazzling Blue, I think you would love it. What's the plant with yellow heavily jagged/serrated leaves and red-orange stems? I've never seen anything like that before. Thanks for this extremely relaxing tour, I hope you are enjoying the summer! Much love from a brand new sub in California 9b 💚
Thank you!!! I’m so glad that you enjoyed my garden!!! I just looked up that Dazzling Blue kale and I am going to HAVE to HAVE it next year! That’s exactly the color that I love! And kale brings so much drama! It’s also shockingly easy to grow from seed, which is the only kind that I can grow! - Hmmmm. I’m not sure. I want to say that you are talking about the coleus. It is called ColorBlaze® Royale Pineapple Brandy Coleus. It grows massive!!! I hope you are having an awesome 4th of July!!!
I never saw a mud dauber collecting mud before! Very cool! The garden looks great as always! I’m glad the hummingbirds aren’t fighting anymore. I need to get some coral nymph salvia.
Wasn't that just the coolest, Kelli?!? I have seen a dirt dauber flying with an extremely large spider on its way to stuff it into the nest. The whole process is bizarre and also nightmare fuel. LOL! But they are such cute little creatures! - I can send you some coral nymph salvia seeds! You can PM me on Pinterest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening! - Yes, it seems like the majority of the hummers just blew through on the way up north. I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
Well being in southern Ontario AND what is considered the snowbelt Armadillos are certainly NOT a problem 😂😂😂. I was wondering about the astronomical cost of those beautiful containers. Your garden is inspirational. ❤❤
Awwww, thank you!!! I bet you have to deal with moose in your garden and that is way scarier! I bet they can do some major damage if they life to eat your plants!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening lol l live in Southern Ontario. According to my sister deer & moose don't live in the same environment. Something to do with a parasite that doesn't bother deer but is fatal to moose. I'm also in a small rural community so skunks, rabbits and moles and the occasional raccoon are the biggest issues.
@@notasheeple2926 Oh, those can be a pain, but thank God that they can’t kill you like a moose could. Although, I’ve seen some pretty violent raccoons!
I forgot to mention the significance of my sister's input lol. Not only does she live in northern Ontario but she has a college degree in fish and wildlife and forestry. So she is a bit of an expert in the field.
Hey lady!! I live in Fairhope and just found your channel! I’ve become obsessed with gardening and would love to share some tips and plants!! I work at the chocolate shop in fairhope. Come by and swap plants for Chocolate! Your garden is STUNNING!!! Ann Marie
Oh, yasssss!!! That sounds wonderful!!!! What a treat!!! Plants for chocolate! I never even considered such a thing was possible!!! I don't know if I have anything that you would want at the moment. You might want to wait until I have salvia leucantha cuttings that have rooted. Oh! And I have some coral nymph salvia seedlings that I could pot up right now! - You are very blessed to have so much rainfall where you live! Whenever I'm driving around Fairhope I am so amazed by how lush and green and verdant everything is! - Thank you, Ann-Marie, for the compliments on my garden!!! It's been such a blessing to be able to grow things down here!
I love the brief shot of the anole in your garden. I have tons of those in mine I just love walking around outside my place looking for them so much fun
Aren't they just the cutest?!? I had one several years ago who had a bent tail, so I knew that it was him, and he loved to sleep in this particular hydrangea blossom. It was the cutest thing!!! I got many, many photos of him there!
I've never seen mud daubers collecting dirt - thanks! Love how you share the insects and other critters with us. What was that gorgeous pink and white bloom towards the end right after showing the fat bee drinking from the blue eye grass? How do you grow dusty miller? I've tried many times but it always dies - too much water? Your colorful garden is PERFECT tight now in all it's glory and enticing to so many insects. You have found the perfect way to cram so much into each picture/view! What a joy for you and wonderful way for me to enjoy my Sunday morning.
Thank you, Hope!!! I'm so glad that you have been enjoying my garden! The pink/coral salvia is coral nymph salvia and it is SUPER easy to grow from seed! I have them popping up everywhere, and I LOVE them! The bees and butterflies love them too!
What a remarkable garden! Early in your video, you shared a plant that you didn’t know what it was, I have lots of plants that look like that in my yard and what I have is coreopsis. So I’m pretty sure that maybe that’s what you have. No matter what variety of coreopsis it is, they are all very cheerful and add a bright spot to the yard. Do you fertilize your containers? I grow a few things in containers, but they don’t look as lovely as yours and I was wondering if you would mind sharing your secret.
Thanks, Nancy!!! I forgot that I actually had a plant tag in there from when I started them from seed and they are blue daisies. One bud has slowly opened and the color is phenomenal, but something seems to have been eating the edges of the petals. Ugh! - I use Miracle Gro potting soil in my containers and I also toss and mix in a random amount (about a scoop) of osmocote into each hole that I make in every container as I tuck the plants in. - I hope you have been having a blessed week!
Your garden is so beautiful. When you plant in pots Do you just sprinkle the whole seed packet in the large pots? And if they’re annuals do you save the seeds for the next year? I really love how youve done yours. I have clay soil and this might allow me to have some flowers that I haven’t had much luck with previously.
Thank you, Connie!!! I have sprinkled seeds i to my pots before and almost all of the coral nymph salvia that I have right now self-seeded into the pots. I love how it does that! - I did start seeds in the little trays and then potted them up and then added them to my big pots. I’ve tried all different kinds of ways to grow in containers. - I do save seeds from things like my Thai basil and agastache and coral nymph salvia. Some years I’ve been careless, thinking that I would always have them since they self-seeded, and then they didn’t come back the next year, so I am diligent about seed saving now! - I would say that container gardening IS very rewarding and quite easy as long as you keep things watered and fed. And it is so much fun to be free to rearrange things whenever you want! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
What an enjoyable Sunday treat with coffee watching your video. Your garden is so peaceful with plants and welcome beneficial insects. Quite the little sanctuary! Just wondering if most of your larger pots are 14 inch or more???
Oh, thank you, Lois!!! I'm so glad that you got to watch with your coffee! Plants and coffee are a perfect way to get you going in the morning! -Yeah! Most of my pots are at least 16 inches in diameter. I find that the small pots dry out way too quickly during the heat of summer! They require way more watering and whatever is in them gets stressed way more often.
Μία κούκλα ❤ μέσα σέ ένα παραδεισένιο κήπο Υπέροχος κήπος γεμάτο άνθη ❤ καί μυρωδιές Σάς ευχαριστούμε πολύ για το βιντεάκι σας είναι πάρα πολύ ωραίο ❤ Σάς στέλνω την αγάπη μου από την μαγευτική Ελλάδα μας Έλεν ❤
Thank you, Helen!!! And you live in an incredible place! I love that so many of the herbs that we enjoy come from your part of the world! I’ve never visited, but my mother-in-law spent a lovely and memorable week in Santorini and she (who has been everywhere) would love to go back! I hope you are having a blessed day!
Hi Rachel, everything looks so lovely in your garden & your roses are gorgeous! I remember you talking about Thai Basil last year so I planted 3 this year & just love them. I’m also trying your organic carrot trick, they’re beginning to get big, can’t wait for the flowers to come. I keep adding more & more butterfly native host plants, living in S. Fl. I’m blessed with so many butterflies all year. Thanks for all your tips & for being such an inspiration. Have a Blessed week!
Oh my goodness, Rebecca!!! I'm so glad that you are growing Thai basil too! I love to rub their leaves and sniff them! - I hope that your carrots grow well! I made the mistake of putting most of mine in pots that were too small. I didn't know how tall carrots can grow, like 4 feet high or more! - That's so wonderful that you are hosting and planting for butterflies and getting to enjoy them all year round! You are living the dream!!!!! I hope that you have been having a blessed week!!!
I just found your channel and I am loving your butterfly garden with all the pots. I will have to catch up on all of your videos, but do you water your pots with a hose or do you have some other kind of watering system??
Yay, Paula! I'm so glad that you found me!!! Thank you for the compliments on my garden! There is a broken sprinkler system in my yard, so I use regular sprinklers and hoses, but they are hooked up to well water. I videoed how I water the garden this week and I will add it to this Sunday's video! I hope that you have been having a blessed week!
LOL! I'm not offended! I have to plant everything in containers because our neighborhood is infested with armadillos and anytime I plant anything in the ground (especially small plants) an armadillo will come along in the night and rip it outta the ground and dig all up under it and just rip my heart out in the process. Haha! So I don't let them do that to me anymore.
Wow how quickly your garden is growing. Looks like you survived the big storms we had last Thursday. It was much needed for my bananas and cannas. At the 4:55 mark of your video you highlight the large Agastache. Did you grow that from seed? I want to try and grow some. Does it need full sun or can it tolerate 4 hours of strong midday sun. Keep up the great work
Isn't it crazy how fast everything is popping up and filling in?!? Yeah, we got the beatdown with several rain storms, but everything needed a deep drink! - I bought agastache seed from Bake Creek Heirloom Seeds. AGASTACHE, ANISE HYSSOP, (Agastache foeniculum). They have them for sale right now for $3.00 and you will only need to buy them once because you will be able to save seeds once you grow a jillion of them! LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening Thanks for sharing. Might be too late but I will get some seeds from your lead and try and grow them worst case they come back next season
I live in northwest Florida and when I saw 9a USDA zone in Alabama it blew me away because I had no idea there is a zone 9a up here in the top part of the Gulf of Mexico! I thought USDA zone 9a was only in south Florida and south Texas in the continental USA.
LOL, Maggie, I know! It is surprising that Alabama has some parts in zone 9a! And just up the road about a 15 minute drive away, they are in zone 8b. I guess the warm Gulf waters keep us in a higher temp range.
Hi! I think the mystery plant in your sitting area pot is a coreopsis like tickseed. And you are right about bees loving tiny blooms. Native hydrangeas have many tiny flowers in their blossoms and the bees love them for nectar. Unfortunately, growers have cultivated the blossoms to have more large flowers and few tiny flowers. The bees don't get much food from those.
You are close, Cindy! I realized later that I actually had it labeled and it is a blue daisy (Felicia Heterophylla Blue). I got the seeds from Outside Pride Seeds, and it's the first time that I have grown them. I hope that something doesn't eat the flower bud before it opens because it looks like it has been munched on already! Yikes! The color is going to be spectacular if it can just be left alone to do its thing! LOL! - Isn't that so wild about the tiny flowers?!? It makes me appreciate the little weeds that pop up in my yard with the tiny flowers on them!!!
My garden is mostly sunny. There's a little corner that gets afternoon sun, but that's it. Coleus can take shade or sun, and there are so many good different colored varieties! Impatiens like shade and some hydrangeas and ferns and elephant ears and caladiums. Caladiums come in all kinds of patterns and colors. They are very fun and inexpensive to grow from corms. I bought several bags for $20 and planted them several years ago and they come back every year!
No, I don’t. I used to mix my own organic soil enhancer and the raccoons would dig it out of the pots and eat it, but now I use osmocote plus since the raccoons don’t try to eat that. LOL! I’ve never tried Epsom salt; although, I’ve heard that it can be very beneficial. Have you found success with it?
Oh, cool! I do love those swallowtails!!! - I have been using medium pine bark mulch, but there could be a time in the future that I will try using rocks. I'm going to be doing some experimenting!
Thank you!!! I got it at Street's of Fairhope on a lark and now I will never garden without it again!!! I have been saving seeds like crazy! I can send you some! You can PM on Pinerest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening.
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening You are SO SWEET! I really appreciate your reply. I don't do Pinterest (lol!), but it is good to know they grow well from seed, so I will get some. If I ever find one at a nursery I will be sure to pick it up too! I have many different Salvias in my yard, but not this one. Thanks again and Happy Gardening along the Gulf Coast! 😊🐛🦋🌺
@@ButterfliesNBirds LOL! I understand about not doing Pinterest! I had to get off of all social media…except that one. It has all my gardening needs filed in the visual order that I require. Haha! Yes, they grow super easily from seed!
Hey Rachel! Everything looks so beautiful & I can’t believe how full your garden is. All the plants have really grown! I’ve tried sending you my email address but for some reason it gets removed so I will try to just let you know that I have thinned out my Sarracenia plants & wondered if you would like some? I could ship them to you & there would be no charge. I just thought of you when I was thinning them out & instead of just throwing them away, why don’t I send some to Rachel? Lol Anyway somehow let me know. Hugs from GA
Oh, Lindy Lou! You are so sweet!!! That's weird about your email being removed! You can PM me on Pinterest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening. You are so sweet to think of me!!! And want to share!!! I would LOVE to have more pitcher plants!!!!! I would totally pay for the shipping! Do you have Venmo?
@@lindylou3519 Hey, Lindy Lou! Did you get my message on Pinterest? I can’t wait to plant you pitcher plants!!! I hope I can do you proud and keep them alive!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening yes I did! Woohoo! Lol I had to learn a little bit about how to find my messages on Pinterest. I’ll be mailing the pitcher plants tomorrow so be looking for them. Hugs!
Girl, I haven’t even had time to sit and enjoy this yet (I’m still on my second viewing of your last week’s video.) I’m just here to say, “um, 13k views! Wow!” 😲😂🎉
Isn't that crazy, Jo?!? I have no idea why that happened. It has happened before and it must have been some sort of algorithm fluke. LOL! I can never decipher why one video would be any better or more popular than another. All I can guess is that they have decided to promote it for some reason only known to themselves. Haha!
Hi 👋 I woke up with a big ol' headache this morning, so I'm trying not to do much typing... Pffffthhh! We'll see how THAT works! But I just had to come say - hi! I'm thinkin that the headache is from this one pile of wood chips in particular that I was shoveling last night... ? That whole mountain of chips is super dry & very dusty. It's like those chips aren't decomposing like the other mountains are... The wood doesn't stay moist. The thing is, those chips are a different type of wood than all the other woodchip mountains I've got here. The other 3 mountains are from Live Oak trees, I know that for sure. The wood in this one pile is very white looking. When they delivered it, I forgot to ask the guys what kind of tree it was. I was just so excited to get more chips! It never occurred to me it would be a different kind of tree! But obviously, it IS different... Anyway, I was over there goin to town on that one pile for like an hour straight. Instead of filling a bucket and taking the chips to different places in the yard like I usually do, I was just throwing the chips off the fork all over the pathways that are all around the other wood chip mountains. My idea was to try and mix this one different wood with the other oak chips. So I never even thought about it being dusty, and that I might be breathing in all those particles. I think because it was so windy, the "dust" from the pile just didn't seem to be lingering in the air the way dust normally lingers & floats around. So I just didn't notice it... But now! Dang!! What a big dope I was!! Well... live & learn, eh? *Note To Self: ▪︎ DON'T BE A DOPE!!! ▪︎ Wear a mask when working on that pile o' chips. (NOT trying to get political about this subject, but... Is anyone else now rebellious about wearing masks like I (obviously) am?! Yeah, I DEFINITELY find myself with that rebellious feeling on the topic of MASKS these days!) New Bumper Sticker: Masks - just say NO! (except when shoveling dusty wood chips...)
My gosh what a beautiful transition from just a few weeks ago! Gonna have to try my hand at dahlias next year. I had no idea we can grow them here along the Gulf Coast. My small garden is bursting at the seams and going in all directions. It's amazing how much you can squeeze together! I garden in both containers through necessity and some inground. I'm trying to plant more inground as I see how much better they like it. However, looking at your cornucopia of plants in containers, you obviously have "the touch" and your lovelies appear to thrive!
Isn't it crazy, Wendy, how fast everything has grown?!? And I am shocked by how easy dahlias are to grow. Just stake them, for heaven's sake! LOL! Follow the directions and you will grow them magnificently!!! I shall also try to do the same next year; I mean, follow the directions. Not grow them like I did this year. HAHA! Plants do love to live in the ground if they can get away with it! I love that your garden is bursting at the seams!!!!!! One can never have too many plants!!!!!!
Oh, no about your headache, GGO!!!!!! I hope that you are well now!!! But ugh! I would not want to wear a mask ever, ever again. THEY give me headaches! I need to breathe unfiltered air. LOL!
I'm so glad that worked for you, DeAnn!!! We did try that. My husband dearly loves to spread poison. LOL! At first I thought that it helped, but within weeks they were back with a vengeance. Ugh!
Beautiful garden. However, if you are gardening for butterflies and bees try using plants native to your area. The Black Swallowtail is an oddball that will feed on non-natives. But, even they would prefer the native Golden Alexanders. There are so many beautiful native plants from your area. Stay away from Lowes and Home Depot nurseries and look for native plant nurseries in your area. Try using straight native flowers and grasses, not man made cultivars, and your yard will come alive.
Thank you! I have had Golden Alexander in my garden and I’ve thrown out seed for them. The Eastern black swallowtails seem to be more drawn to my fennel. But then again, it varies from year to year. Have an awesome day!!!
That Rosemary looked ok to me... I mean, it's scraggly & all from being shaded, but it probably won't have any problems growing again now that you've repotted it. Are you going to cut it back after it gets over any shock from being repotted? I think I prolly would... Like, about a week from now. Just hack that baby ALL THE WAY DOWN!! Then it can start a whole new life!!
I am so glad TH-cam recommended your video. This is exactly how I want my garden to become.
Oh, yay, Sanhita!!! I'm so glad that you found my channel! I know that you can grow a gorgeous garden too!
OMG I'm zone 9b! I LOVE when people actually have my zone! It gives me so many ideas!
Also I'm going with the cool tones too! I don't have armadillo problems so I'm planting a climbing rose over my archways and that's where I'm going to get my big pink and yellow fixes from. 😊
Really really beautiful! I love absolutely everything you've done
Thank you, Loren!!! I’m so excited for you on your new gardening adventures!!! LOL about getting your pink and yellow fixes from the roses! That will be DELICIOUS!!!
Thank you for sharing. I love your posts, you garden with the same passion for every little detail in the garden as I do, which makes me come back for all your Sunday morning videos. They make my day, before it starts :-).
Oh, yay, Gaby!!! I’m so glad that we share that same love! Growing things seems to be what we were made for, doesn’t it?!? We’re taking it all the way back to Genesis when we work in the garden! I love kickin’ it old school! LOL! I hope you are having an awesome 4th of July!!!
Love meandering through your garden 😁 Thanks for sharing! God is good!
Thank you, Vicki!!! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it! God is good!!! He made some many wonderful living things for us to enjoy and to thank Him for!!!
I love watching, and listening, to you interact with your garden.
Thank you for taking us along.
Thank you!!! I’m so glad that you enjoyed it!!!!!
Beautiful peaceful garden. Love your accent. I was born Southern (Birmingham), raised Yank (Steamboat, Denver, Colorado). Miss that Southern charm and relaxing stroll in a well established, nurturing, flourishing garden. ❤
Awww, Linda! I’m from Bham, too! I know how you feel! I lived in the West for a few years, and when I moved out there I thought I didn’t care if I ever came back to the South, but the South’s in my blood and so is the salt water of the Gulf, and I just yearned and yearned for it until I was sick with the longing for it. I hope you will get to come back for a visit!!!!!! God bless you!!!!!!
Wow, I love your flower garden! Sooo natural and beautiful.I got some inspiration from your garden.Thanks! Subscribe and like 👍
Thank you!!! I'm so glad that you are inspired by my garden!!! My hope is that people will see that if I can grow things, then they can too! We want to have as many butterflies as possible!
This is beautiful!
Thank you!!!
Stunning pics of the insects.
Thank you!!!
Thanks for sharing your lovely garden ! Our yard is not very big and i love vintage garden tools and wood boxes and many colors of flower pots like yours . I just found your channel and if you are a mom I hope you have a wonderful mothers day tomorrow.
Thanks, Tully!!! I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day too! - Your garden sounds beautiful and colorful, just my kinda place!!!
Hello from Vietnam. I love your garden, your garden is so beautiful
Oh, wow!!! Do you know what it so cool about you watching from Vietnam? So many of my pottery pots were made in Vietnam! Y'all have a lot of talented craftspeople to make such beautiful and durable pots!!! And it's so wild that hear they are on the other side of the world and you can see what's growing in them now! Thank you for the compliments on my garden! I hope you have been having a blessed week!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening Thanks ❤️
Enjoyed your garden ,love all the pots different colours
Thank you, Sylvia!!! I'm so thankful that the containers bring color to the garden ALL the time since the flowers come and go! LOL!
Wow so beautiful thank you for sharing your beautiful garden😊
Thank you!!! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it!!!!!
This is a truly excellent garden. You have done amazingly with your space! You're not too far from us.
When I first saw your comment, I thought, "Surely, that's not THE David the Good!" But then I doublechecked and it was you! Unless, one of your kids got on your computer and is pulling a prank. LOL! - Wow!!! Thank you for the compliments on my garden! That means so much coming from you! You are THE professional gardener! And I bought your Grocery Row Gardening book on Kindle a couple of years ago when I was planning on turning my front yard into a food forest, before I was utterly discouraged by the marauding armadillos. It is a very funny and informative book!!!
I saw a comment that asked if y’all could come down and video my garden, but it’s not here anymore. You and Rachel and your kids are totally welcome to come down!!! I gotta warn you that my garden is really small! But you won’t waste your time if you plan on going to the beach after videoing it! You also will end up talking theology with my husband! He loves nothing more than to talk theology with smart people!!! You can PM me on Pinterest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening.
I love your garden. It's so full of life!
Thanks, Cindy!!! That's what I love about it too! It would be sad if it was just a bunch of pretty plants. I want to see all the little creatures enjoying the garden, except for the army worms and snails. LOL!
Beautiful garden!! You work so hard on it and it shows😊Thank you for sharing it! Have a wonderful week! 🦋👍
Thanks, Sylvia!!! You are so sweet to watch my videos!!! I hope that you have been having a wonderful and blessed week!!!!
Why do you have most of your plants in pots?
@@monahudson9501 I am plagued by armadillos. They dig everything up and throw the plants aside for the grubs and ants. I’ve embraced my fate and almost exclusively grow n containers. There are a few things that have managed to survive in the ground, but I never count on them to be left alone for long! LOL!
Very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Joyce!!! I'm so glad that you liked it!!!
Lovely garden!! 🥰
Thank you, Carrie!!! Everyday is an adventure out there!
Love your garden. You're such an inspiration.
Thank you, Barbara!!! I was just thinking this morning about what I am going to say for a class that I’m going to teach about butterfly gardening, and the first thoughts I had about why I love butterflies it that they delight and inspire! I want everyone to have delight and inspiration in their lives!!! Merry Christmas to you!!!!!
Your garden is beautiful! Thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you!!! I’m so glad that you like it!!!!
Menyenangkan salam dari kami Petani Tradisional Indonesia..❤❤❤🎉
Greetings to you too, Potensi! I hope that you are having a successful growing season!!!
Hi Rachel. Well, your garden and your photography are just amazing. I never tire of watching your videos and witnessing the spectacular changes from one week to the next. Here, everything is progressing slowly but surely, it may be at the same stage as yours at the beginning of August, depending on weather conditions. Everywhere is green and lush, the spring flowers are just finishing, the apple and cherry blossom is the star of the show. There are a lot of plants waiting, under cover to be planted. I've sown, corgette, corn and butternut seeds and My dahlias are waking up at last. Gardening here is an adventure, we can never take things for granted 😅, but what a pleasure it all is ❤. Many thanks for sharing Rachel and have a great week 😀
Oh, Kim!!! You are so very sweet with your compliments about my garden!!! Thank you!!!!! I love that you have apple and cherry blossoms right now!!! They are such delicate beauties! I got to see the cherry trees blooming up in Washington State when I visited my sister and it seemed like everywhere I looked there were more pink beauties to admire! And yay about you finally getting to wake up your dahlias!!!!!!! I hope you have been having a very blessed and happy and fulfilling gardening week!!!
Your videos are a real treat to watch. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden with us. I hear the birds and the bubbling sound of water. A real treat!!
Thank you, Ann!!! I'm so glad that you enjoy watching my videos!!! I do love hearing the birds and the water! They make the garden experience fully immersive with all that sound surrounding and then the hummingbirds zooming by, sometimes it feels a little too immersive. LOL! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
I love the color of your house. It’s a beautiful, soft color and complements your landscape
Amazing that you can keep lavender alive in our hot muggy zone nine.! I see your dusty Miller is getting quite large. It looks beautiful next to that pale pink rose. have you thought about trying salvia purple spires planted next to salvia blue ice? That’s a really great combination.
Lucky you, I don’t get many hummingbirds at my in my zone nine garden.
Thank you, Cheryl!!! Oh, the lavender is barely make it now. It’s a bummer! - I’ve never seen salvia blue ice for sale! I will have to look for it next spring! I bet that IS gorgeous!!! And that sounds like a lovely combination! - It seems like we get a flurry of hummingbird activity in early spring and then again in the fall around October. I hope you will get some this year!!! I hope you are having an awesome 4th of July 🗽🇺🇸🍔⛱️❤️🎉🎇🦋☀️🌼🌿🐛
Hello from Foley. Everything is looking great!
Thanks, Jack!!! You know that I envy you all the rain that y'all get there and that just passes right over us! LOL!
❤ beautiful 🌠🌠I adore the thai basil and that is WILD about the Armadillos😮😮
Thank you, Margo!!! Isn’t Thai basil a surprisingly pretty plant?!? I especially love how easily it grows from seed and how it will self seed. It loves to live here, and the bees love it too!
Hare Krishna. So amazing planting 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!!! I hope you have been having many gardening adventures and a blessed week too!!!
I thought I had a lot of containers. Just beautiful.
LOL! Thanks, Jimmie!!! Yeah, I keep vowing not to get more containers, but then there are so many plants that need to get in my garden!
Beautiful garden❤, inspirational!
Thank you, Celine!!!
Love seeing the changes each week. The bees are awesome, especially that mud dabber collecting mud. Very interesting, thank you Rachel. Have a great week.
Thanks, Jill!!! Aren't the little creatures that are drawn to the garden so entertaining. I wish I could crouch down low in the garden for hours and watch insects for hours like I used to do as a kid! But everything starts protesting and creaking when I stand up these days. I love being able to video things that zoom in later to really see what's going on! So much delightfulness!!!!
Thank you God bless you as well! This is the 2nd video I watched from your channel your garden is spectacular love to see all the little creatures as well. Have a great week! I watch you from Fresno, California.
Thank you, Maria!!! I'm so glad that you are enjoying my garden!!! Isn't it so delightful to see little creatures out in the wild just enjoying life and doing what they do? And that is so cool that we live in the same gardening zone even though we are all the way on opposite sides of the country! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
Beautiful. I got a lot of inspiration. I am beginner to gardening and really want a butterfly and humming bird gardens. .
Oh, yay, Chrissy!!! Thank you! And I'm so excited about you new gardening journey!!! I hope I can help to keep you from making all the mistake that I made and that you can start out being successful without killing as many things as I have. LOL!
awesome job! i love the stepping stones.. thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Christine!!! Aren't the stepping stones fun?!? And I love how versatile and easy they are to move if I don't like what I've done. I like keeping my options open! LOL!
I love your garden. I garden for hummingbirds in zone 10a Arizona. I thought I had challenges but I think you got me beat. At least I don’t have Armadillos 😂
Thank you, Yuma!!! Oh! Y'all have so many varieties of hummingbirds there! I love the Anna's hummingbird! Aren't hummingbirds just the most fun little creatures?!? They are always surprising me AND making me laugh!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I love my hummers! They are such spectacular little creatures.
Hey there from Texas,
This sweet video popped up in my feed, I’m sooo thankful it did.
I instantly could tell that you’re a kindhearted and joyous lady. I already liked and subscribed and I haven’t finished the video yet.
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I forget that armadillo live elsewhere. Thankfully they’ve not crossed my path on foot or near my car, they must prefer a more rural area than I live in.
I can’t imagine seeing them chomp down on your pretty flowers.
😉😉😉
I’m thrilled that you’re growing my state flower!!!
I love the fact that they’re two toned, blue-ish purple with white tops. Sooo lovely to see them growing in mass along the back roads and out in open fields.
Sadly they’re mostly seen in north and eastern Texas and not state wide, but that’s ok. To see them in places is better than none, right!?!?
I will be very interested to see the progress of the chrysalis.
I didn’t know that they change the color of their cocoons to disguise their appearance. Isn’t it amazing how God gives such a vast amount of knowledge, to even the tiniest of living things.
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I love how you gave thanks to our Heavenly Father for providing the blessed rain, for your garden. Sadly too many people take the credit for themselves, or give the glory to the creation (mother earth) and not The Creator…
Anyway, I just wanted to chime in and say “Hello”, and to thank you for sharing your lovely garden, along with your faith and acknowledgement of *The One* who created it all.
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Have a wonderful week ahead.
Take care, and God bless
✝️💟🛐
Maranatha
Oh, yay!!! I’m so glad that you found my channel too!!!!! It seems like y’all in Texas have the best and the largest variety of versatile native plants! I want to grow everything that y’all have! LOL! My friend Jo @Jostxgarden on TH-cam is in Houston, and I am astounded by the amount of things that she can grow there! - Oh, yes, God deserves all of the glory and praise for sending sunshine and rain and holding ALL things together! I’m so thankful that you know that too!!! - Aren’t butterflies such amazing little creatures?!? I’m going to be making more videos about how I raise the different kinds. There are so many fun facts about butterflies! They are such a delight! I’m so thankful that I get to share them with you! - I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
Hi 🌺 your garden looks so beautiful . I love all these flowers they attract attention .Jesus bless you and have anice day .🌻🌺🌻
Thank you, Lina!!! I've so glad that you enjoyed my garden! Jesus bless you and keep you too!!! I hope you have been having a wonderful week!
So beautiful
Thank you so much!!!
gardens with mostly pots and saw your video then i noticed Gulf Coast and had to visit. I'm from south Or lower Alabama. Not far from you. Maybe a couple hours. Excited to know more about your garden. Its beautiful!
Oh, yay! I'm so glad that you found me!!! You could definitely grow everything that I grow even though we are in different growing zones. Isn't that weird?!? Even Foley, which is just a 15 minute drive away, gets way colder than down here and also they get more rain, which I think is NOT fair. LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening lol we get a lot of rain too. My sister lived just outside Mobile for about 20 years. I’m not sure where. They retired a few years ago and moved to northeast Tn. They were tired of the heat. Lol I was so excited to see what you did with all the pots. That’s all I can do because we live in the woods. I struggle with getting them enough sun. It’s been so wet that I’ve lost plants especially my lavender. Seeds have been completely washed away. Those were in a bed for wildflowers that I made. I have a long way to go. I’ll be Watching this video again. Lol so much to see.
I just found your channel, I love your gardens and I am feeling so inspired to add more containers to my gardens, it has to be easier than trying to get down on the ground to weed all the time, my knees and back are not getting any younger! The mud dabber footage was so interesting, I've never seen that before, I live in PA a mile from Lake Erie, it's still too cold to plant some things(we had snow a few days ago!!) but things are greening up, the azaleas are starting to bloom, and I am anxious to get my pots started.
Oh, yay, Mary!!! Thank you so much for the compliments!!! I'm so glad that you are inspired to grow more things in containers! I do still have to pick some weeds out of my containers, even when I mulch them really well, but thankfully, I don't have to get down on the ground to do it! I like having the plants higher up and closer to my face! - I know that you are just itchin' to get growing!!! I how you have a blessed day!
Your seating area is so beautiful! I just love it. And that lavender looks SO GOOD. The whole entranceway into the garden is so full and fabulous. You must be so happy with how that looks. Honestly! Love that spot of pink. And that diamond frost and verbena is a perfect combo for sure.
I am so impressed with your hydrangeas! You are the master.
You are going to love that dwarf Joe Pye weed. I think it is one of my new favorite things.
The pathway looks great!
I am absolutely dying over the queen of Sweden rose. Perfection! That tapestry in front of the fountain is so dreamy.
Lol I was just shaking the coral nymph salvia seeds in bare spots this morning.
Oooh! That native petunia! And your dahlias!!!!!!! **swoon**
The sunflower is cracking me up.
I can’t wait to see your topiary adventure. I’m trying my best with that olive tree, but it’s looking pretty sketchy so far. Lol
I do love your bog garden. So cool!
The bluebonnets look good! I can NOT get over the kale. So big. My copycat kale is not happy where I put it. I think yours looks awesome dotted around the yard.
I had a black swallowtail do the same thing. He ignored all my sticks, and made his chrysalis on the fennel stem. Good grief. 🤦🏼♀️
Ok that dirt dauber is insane. I’m so glad you got that video of him!
The garden is so glorious. Like a symphony!
Thanks for such a lovely tour!❤️
Thank you, Jo!!!!!!! You are the sweetest!!! I don’t know why the hydrangeas are looking so good because they never have before! They’ve been ugly, scraggly things that were just barely hanging on by a few roots that the armadillos didn’t dig up AND they were also covered in brown spots. Either they got their act together because I threatened to dig them up and plunk them into the front yard or they really didn’t like having the lemon tree looming over them.
Oh!!! I must have missed it when you talked about making the olive tree be a topiary! That will be lovely!!!!! I’m sure that you will shape it into a masterpiece!!!
Aren’t swallowtails just the most ornery of the butterfly world?!? They really are not cooperative as caterpillars or butterflies! Ugh!
LOL! I just want to copy you with all your garden lovelies!!! And I al especially excited about the Joe Pye weed and the cleome!!!!! I’ve seen what yours can do!!!
Your garden looks amazing!!! So many plants and structure. Thanks a lot for sharing. New subscriber 😀
Thanks, Katie!!! I promise myself that I will just stick to growing the things that I know will grow, but then I see weird plants for sale and I have to try them. That's how I find all my newest loves. LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I totally understand, so hard not to get more plants!!
Love your garden and your video! Thank you for sharing your garden with us, just so beautiful!
I'm so glad that you enjoyed it, Linda!!! It's been such fun tucking things in here and there!
Your garden amazes me every week! I love it so much! I've been purchasing more plants but have been too busy helping our daughter to move into her apartment these past few days. I hope to do a lot of planting this coming week. The wind needs to calm down. I bought a gardenia, dwarf butterfly bush, purple coneflowers, white butterfly penta, a 'color wheel' perennial, vincas... Plus coleus and caladiums. 😃🥰🌸💐🐛🦋🙋♀️
Oh, Tammy!!! It sounds like you are going to be filling your garden with so many lovelies!!!! I didn't know what "color wheel" perennial was, so I looked it up. Is it sort of like Stoke's aster? That's what I found, at least. LOL about the wind needing to calm down! Yes! We had some gusts too, but thankfully it does seem to have died down...for now. I hope you've had lots of time AND energy to plant all of your goodies this week!!! Full steam ahead!!!
unbelievable garden thank you so much for sharing it with us
Thanks, Eleanor!!! Thank you for watching! I'm so glad that I get to share it with you!!!
Oh my gosh, your garden is looking beautiful for the first day of me. Thanks so much for sharing such a beautiful, beautiful video with us watch the video from the beginning to the end.
Thanks you, Sandy!!! You are so sweet!
Hey, I'm glad someone else forgets the names of everything simply because they are videotaping. I know them until I have to know them. LOL! Beautiful garden. Love all the color. I wonder if you could use one of those orchid sticks with the clips for the stick your swallowtail chrysalis is on...
LOL! Isn't it just maddening when you say the name to yourself ALL the time, and then BAM! It completely disappears as soon as you want to say it out loud! Thank you for the compliments on my garden!!! I'm having so much fun out there! That's a great idea about those orchid sticks!!! They would use that for sure!
Each Sunday, your garden grows more beautiful than ever. Love how you tell your plants they are beautiful, gorgeous, and amazing. I feel sure this is why they grow and bloom so beautifully. Are you a teacher and/or an artist? I am curious because of your mannerisms, choice of words, and artistic expressions. The combination of your voice and the beautiful garden has the most calming effect. Maybe doctors should prescribe watching your video when stressed instead of a pill (Chuckle).
Awww, that's sweet, Troupe's Mom!!! I do hope that my plants feel appreciated! And I think that they do! - I love that you are calmed by watching!!! Whenever I am not feeling well and if I am able, I will amble around in the garden and being out there really does take my mind off of being in pain. It is very healing to be outside and amongst nature with the fresh air and the birdsong to buoy your spirits! And also when I'm out there I'm thanking God for all that He has made and for how awesome He is! - LOL! I'm neither a teacher or an artist, but my mom is an artist! Thanks for thinking that I was! I'm just an avid reader and I love to watch period dramas, mostly by or about Jane Austen! - I hope that you have been having a blessed week!!!!!
What a beautiful garden, I love your containers as well! You do an excellent job with the videography, so happy to have found your channel :) Since you are a fan of purple and kale, may I recommend the most beautiful kale variety I've ever grown? It's called Dazzling Blue, I think you would love it. What's the plant with yellow heavily jagged/serrated leaves and red-orange stems? I've never seen anything like that before. Thanks for this extremely relaxing tour, I hope you are enjoying the summer! Much love from a brand new sub in California 9b 💚
Thank you!!! I’m so glad that you enjoyed my garden!!! I just looked up that Dazzling Blue kale and I am going to HAVE to HAVE it next year! That’s exactly the color that I love! And kale brings so much drama! It’s also shockingly easy to grow from seed, which is the only kind that I can grow! - Hmmmm. I’m not sure. I want to say that you are talking about the coleus. It is called ColorBlaze® Royale Pineapple Brandy Coleus. It grows massive!!! I hope you are having an awesome 4th of July!!!
Wow, you have such a LOVELY garden! I'm honestly so inspired! Thank you for sharing your garden with us. New subscriber here :)
Oh, yay, Taryn! Thank you so much!!! And I love how you are growing food in the city!!! It's proof that we can grow things wherever we are!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening thank you! I live in Memphis, TN right now. But I’m considering moving down to the Gulf Coast in my near future.
@@sowinthecity Oh, that’s exciting!!! This is a great place to live!! I’m glad that you will be joining is soon!!!!!
Your garden is beautiful!
Thank you, Nancy!!! I'm so glad that you like it!
This looks like a beautiful setting area and beautiful plants popping up and blooming everywhere. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks for watching, Sandy!!! I'm so glad that I got to share it with you!!!
I never saw a mud dauber collecting mud before! Very cool! The garden looks great as always! I’m glad the hummingbirds aren’t fighting anymore. I need to get some coral nymph salvia.
Wasn't that just the coolest, Kelli?!? I have seen a dirt dauber flying with an extremely large spider on its way to stuff it into the nest. The whole process is bizarre and also nightmare fuel. LOL! But they are such cute little creatures! - I can send you some coral nymph salvia seeds! You can PM me on Pinterest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening! - Yes, it seems like the majority of the hummers just blew through on the way up north. I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
Gorgeous.
Thank you, Katherine!!!
Well being in southern Ontario AND what is considered the snowbelt Armadillos are certainly NOT a problem 😂😂😂. I was wondering about the astronomical cost of those beautiful containers. Your garden is inspirational. ❤❤
Awwww, thank you!!! I bet you have to deal with moose in your garden and that is way scarier! I bet they can do some major damage if they life to eat your plants!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening lol l live in Southern Ontario. According to my sister deer & moose don't live in the same environment. Something to do with a parasite that doesn't bother deer but is fatal to moose. I'm also in a small rural community so skunks, rabbits and moles and the occasional raccoon are the biggest issues.
@@notasheeple2926 Oh, those can be a pain, but thank God that they can’t kill you like a moose could. Although, I’ve seen some pretty violent raccoons!
I forgot to mention the significance of my sister's input lol. Not only does she live in northern Ontario but she has a college degree in fish and wildlife and forestry. So she is a bit of an expert in the field.
My dream garden… Everything is so beautiful ❤
Awww, thank you, Brenda!!! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
Hey lady!! I live in Fairhope and just found your channel! I’ve become obsessed with gardening and would love to share some tips and plants!! I work at the chocolate shop in fairhope. Come by and swap plants for Chocolate! Your garden is STUNNING!!!
Ann Marie
Oh, yasssss!!! That sounds wonderful!!!! What a treat!!! Plants for chocolate! I never even considered such a thing was possible!!! I don't know if I have anything that you would want at the moment. You might want to wait until I have salvia leucantha cuttings that have rooted. Oh! And I have some coral nymph salvia seedlings that I could pot up right now! - You are very blessed to have so much rainfall where you live! Whenever I'm driving around Fairhope I am so amazed by how lush and green and verdant everything is! - Thank you, Ann-Marie, for the compliments on my garden!!! It's been such a blessing to be able to grow things down here!
I love the brief shot of the anole in your garden. I have tons of those in mine I just love walking around outside my place looking for them so much fun
Aren't they just the cutest?!? I had one several years ago who had a bent tail, so I knew that it was him, and he loved to sleep in this particular hydrangea blossom. It was the cutest thing!!! I got many, many photos of him there!
I've never seen mud daubers collecting dirt - thanks! Love how you share the insects and other critters with us. What was that gorgeous pink and white bloom towards the end right after showing the fat bee drinking from the blue eye grass? How do you grow dusty miller? I've tried many times but it always dies - too much water? Your colorful garden is PERFECT tight now in all it's glory and enticing to so many insects. You have found the perfect way to cram so much into each picture/view! What a joy for you and wonderful way for me to enjoy my Sunday morning.
Love your garden
Thanks, Richi!!! I'm so glad that I get to share it with you!
I love your garden! Do you mind sharing with me the name of your pink/coral salvia? It is gorgeous!
Thank you, Hope!!! I'm so glad that you have been enjoying my garden! The pink/coral salvia is coral nymph salvia and it is SUPER easy to grow from seed! I have them popping up everywhere, and I LOVE them! The bees and butterflies love them too!
I Love the Dr.Seuss look too💙💙
Isn’t that fun?!?
What a remarkable garden!
Early in your video, you shared a plant that you didn’t know what it was, I have lots of plants that look like that in my yard and what I have is coreopsis. So I’m pretty sure that maybe that’s what you have. No matter what variety of coreopsis it is, they are all very cheerful and add a bright spot to the yard. Do you fertilize your containers? I grow a few things in containers, but they don’t look as lovely as yours and I was wondering if you would mind sharing your secret.
Thanks, Nancy!!! I forgot that I actually had a plant tag in there from when I started them from seed and they are blue daisies. One bud has slowly opened and the color is phenomenal, but something seems to have been eating the edges of the petals. Ugh! - I use Miracle Gro potting soil in my containers and I also toss and mix in a random amount (about a scoop) of osmocote into each hole that I make in every container as I tuck the plants in. - I hope you have been having a blessed week!
Good job
Thanks, Savitha!!! I'm having way too much fun playing outside! LOL!
Your garden is so beautiful. When you plant in pots Do you just sprinkle the whole seed packet in the large pots? And if they’re annuals do you save the seeds for the next year? I really love how youve done yours. I have clay soil and this might allow me to have some flowers that I haven’t had much luck with previously.
Thank you, Connie!!! I have sprinkled seeds i to my pots before and almost all of the coral nymph salvia that I have right now self-seeded into the pots. I love how it does that! - I did start seeds in the little trays and then potted them up and then added them to my big pots. I’ve tried all different kinds of ways to grow in containers. - I do save seeds from things like my Thai basil and agastache and coral nymph salvia. Some years I’ve been careless, thinking that I would always have them since they self-seeded, and then they didn’t come back the next year, so I am diligent about seed saving now! - I would say that container gardening IS very rewarding and quite easy as long as you keep things watered and fed. And it is so much fun to be free to rearrange things whenever you want! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
What an enjoyable Sunday treat with coffee watching your video. Your garden is so peaceful with plants and welcome beneficial insects. Quite the little sanctuary! Just wondering if most of your larger pots are 14 inch or more???
Oh, thank you, Lois!!! I'm so glad that you got to watch with your coffee! Plants and coffee are a perfect way to get you going in the morning! -Yeah! Most of my pots are at least 16 inches in diameter. I find that the small pots dry out way too quickly during the heat of summer! They require way more watering and whatever is in them gets stressed way more often.
Μία κούκλα ❤ μέσα σέ ένα παραδεισένιο κήπο Υπέροχος κήπος γεμάτο άνθη ❤ καί μυρωδιές Σάς ευχαριστούμε πολύ για το βιντεάκι σας είναι πάρα πολύ ωραίο ❤ Σάς στέλνω την αγάπη μου από την μαγευτική Ελλάδα μας Έλεν ❤
Thank you, Helen!!! And you live in an incredible place! I love that so many of the herbs that we enjoy come from your part of the world! I’ve never visited, but my mother-in-law spent a lovely and memorable week in Santorini and she (who has been everywhere) would love to go back! I hope you are having a blessed day!
Обалдеть, какая красота!!!!! 👍👍👍🌷🌷🌷Все красиво!!! Спасибо за путешествие по саду! С меня подписка и лайк🙋♀️🌷🌷🌷
Thank you!!! That is so kind of you!
너무깔끔하고예쁜모습이네요
Thank you!!!
Hi Rachel, everything looks so lovely in your garden & your roses are gorgeous! I remember you talking about Thai Basil last year so I planted 3 this year & just love them. I’m also trying your organic carrot trick, they’re beginning to get big, can’t wait for the flowers to come. I keep adding more & more butterfly native host plants, living in S. Fl. I’m blessed with so many butterflies all year. Thanks for all your tips & for being such an inspiration. Have a Blessed week!
Oh my goodness, Rebecca!!! I'm so glad that you are growing Thai basil too! I love to rub their leaves and sniff them! - I hope that your carrots grow well! I made the mistake of putting most of mine in pots that were too small. I didn't know how tall carrots can grow, like 4 feet high or more! - That's so wonderful that you are hosting and planting for butterflies and getting to enjoy them all year round! You are living the dream!!!!! I hope that you have been having a blessed week!!!
I just found your channel and I am loving your butterfly garden with all the pots. I will have to catch up on all of your videos, but do you water your pots with a hose or do you have some other kind of watering system??
Yay, Paula! I'm so glad that you found me!!! Thank you for the compliments on my garden! There is a broken sprinkler system in my yard, so I use regular sprinklers and hoses, but they are hooked up to well water. I videoed how I water the garden this week and I will add it to this Sunday's video! I hope that you have been having a blessed week!
Try Chef's Choice Rosemary. A Southern Living Plant. A particularly nice form.
Oh, I will have to try that!!! I’m always on the lookout for new plants!
Not meant to offend… just a question, why do you put everything in pots? Is there a reason for doing that?
One reason may be that garden is elevated
LOL! I'm not offended! I have to plant everything in containers because our neighborhood is infested with armadillos and anytime I plant anything in the ground (especially small plants) an armadillo will come along in the night and rip it outta the ground and dig all up under it and just rip my heart out in the process. Haha! So I don't let them do that to me anymore.
Nope! I just need to thwart the dang armadillos! LOL! But having the plants elevated is a bonus! Good guess!!!
Good for you, I had to do the same thing.
I was wondering the same thing! My plants are in the ground 😊
Wow how quickly your garden is growing. Looks like you survived the big storms we had last Thursday. It was much needed for my bananas and cannas. At the 4:55 mark of your video you highlight the large Agastache. Did you grow that from seed? I want to try and grow some. Does it need full sun or can it tolerate 4 hours of strong midday sun. Keep up the great work
Isn't it crazy how fast everything is popping up and filling in?!? Yeah, we got the beatdown with several rain storms, but everything needed a deep drink! - I bought agastache seed from Bake Creek Heirloom Seeds. AGASTACHE, ANISE HYSSOP, (Agastache foeniculum). They have them for sale right now for $3.00 and you will only need to buy them once because you will be able to save seeds once you grow a jillion of them! LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening Thanks for sharing. Might be too late but I will get some seeds from your lead and try and grow them worst case they come back next season
@@wesleyhackney Oh! And I meant to tell you that they love full sun, absolutely thrive in it, but will grow in part shade, just not as happily.
I live in northwest Florida and when I saw 9a USDA zone in Alabama it blew me away because I had no idea there is a zone 9a up here in the top part of the Gulf of Mexico! I thought USDA zone 9a was only in south Florida and south Texas in the continental USA.
LOL, Maggie, I know! It is surprising that Alabama has some parts in zone 9a! And just up the road about a 15 minute drive away, they are in zone 8b. I guess the warm Gulf waters keep us in a higher temp range.
Hi! I think the mystery plant in your sitting area pot is a coreopsis like tickseed.
And you are right about bees loving tiny blooms. Native hydrangeas have many tiny flowers in their blossoms and the bees love them for nectar. Unfortunately, growers have cultivated the blossoms to have more large flowers and few tiny flowers. The bees don't get much food from those.
You are close, Cindy! I realized later that I actually had it labeled and it is a blue daisy (Felicia Heterophylla Blue). I got the seeds from Outside Pride Seeds, and it's the first time that I have grown them. I hope that something doesn't eat the flower bud before it opens because it looks like it has been munched on already! Yikes! The color is going to be spectacular if it can just be left alone to do its thing! LOL! - Isn't that so wild about the tiny flowers?!? It makes me appreciate the little weeds that pop up in my yard with the tiny flowers on them!!!
What is the name of 5he pink rose?
Is your area mainly sunny, partly shade or shady? Do you have any tips of what to plant in a shaded area? I am in Mississippi around Jackson.
My garden is mostly sunny. There's a little corner that gets afternoon sun, but that's it. Coleus can take shade or sun, and there are so many good different colored varieties! Impatiens like shade and some hydrangeas and ferns and elephant ears and caladiums. Caladiums come in all kinds of patterns and colors. They are very fun and inexpensive to grow from corms. I bought several bags for $20 and planted them several years ago and they come back every year!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening thank you so much for giving me a great starting point. :)
??Do you make your own potting soil..mix??do you use epsom salt??
No, I don’t. I used to mix my own organic soil enhancer and the raccoons would dig it out of the pots and eat it, but now I use osmocote plus since the raccoons don’t try to eat that. LOL! I’ve never tried Epsom salt; although, I’ve heard that it can be very beneficial. Have you found success with it?
Giant swallowtail and black swallow tails lay eggs on rue what kind of mulch do you use
Oh, cool! I do love those swallowtails!!! - I have been using medium pine bark mulch, but there could be a time in the future that I will try using rocks. I'm going to be doing some experimenting!
Beautiful garden! 😊 Where did you get your Coral Nymph Salvia?
Thank you!!! I got it at Street's of Fairhope on a lark and now I will never garden without it again!!! I have been saving seeds like crazy! I can send you some! You can PM on Pinerest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening.
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening You are SO SWEET! I really appreciate your reply. I don't do Pinterest (lol!), but it is good to know they grow well from seed, so I will get some. If I ever find one at a nursery I will be sure to pick it up too! I have many different Salvias in my yard, but not this one. Thanks again and Happy Gardening along the Gulf Coast! 😊🐛🦋🌺
@@ButterfliesNBirds LOL! I understand about not doing Pinterest! I had to get off of all social media…except that one. It has all my gardening needs filed in the visual order that I require. Haha! Yes, they grow super easily from seed!
Curious why you need so many pots? Is the soil very poor?
The soil is poor, but I plant most things in containers because armadillos come along a dig my garden up on the regular.
I love Mexican Heather too!!
Isn’t it fun?!? The honeybees love it!
Did you plant the Rosemary from seed? If so, was it difficult?
I don’t plant rosemary from seed, but I have taken cuttings and grow rosemary like that!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I'm gonna give it a try!
Hey Rachel! Everything looks so beautiful & I can’t believe how full your garden is. All the plants have really grown!
I’ve tried sending you my email address but for some reason it gets removed so I will try to just let you know that I have thinned out my Sarracenia plants & wondered if you would like some? I could ship them to you & there would be no charge. I just thought of you when I was thinning them out & instead of just throwing them away, why don’t I send some to Rachel? Lol Anyway somehow let me know. Hugs from GA
Oh, Lindy Lou! You are so sweet!!! That's weird about your email being removed! You can PM me on Pinterest at Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening. You are so sweet to think of me!!! And want to share!!! I would LOVE to have more pitcher plants!!!!! I would totally pay for the shipping! Do you have Venmo?
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening hey Rachel! Just sent you a msg on Pinterest. I don’t want any payment at all. It’s a gift! 💕
@@lindylou3519 You are the sweetest!!!
@@lindylou3519 Hey, Lindy Lou! Did you get my message on Pinterest? I can’t wait to plant you pitcher plants!!! I hope I can do you proud and keep them alive!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening yes I did! Woohoo! Lol I had to learn a little bit about how to find my messages on Pinterest. I’ll be mailing the pitcher plants tomorrow so be looking for them. Hugs!
Do you have a link for your arbor please?
www.bestnest.com/bestnest/RTProduct.asp?SKU=UAC-VA84240-KIT&src=froogle&kw=UAC-VA84240-KIT&gclid=CjwKCAjw6vyiBhB_EiwAQJRopp0GuWwrAcbwRVgYy9QjV44uEVWqSXnnDqFlNBdM69deepwIUBLHexoCzgMQAvD_BwE
It's the New England Nantucket Deluxe Arbor with Wings, but mine didn't come with a gate. I got it from bestnest.com
Girl, I haven’t even had time to sit and enjoy this yet (I’m still on my second viewing of your last week’s video.) I’m just here to say, “um, 13k views! Wow!” 😲😂🎉
Isn't that crazy, Jo?!? I have no idea why that happened. It has happened before and it must have been some sort of algorithm fluke. LOL! I can never decipher why one video would be any better or more popular than another. All I can guess is that they have decided to promote it for some reason only known to themselves. Haha!
Hi 👋
I woke up with a big ol' headache this morning, so I'm trying not to do much typing...
Pffffthhh!
We'll see how THAT works!
But I just had to come say - hi!
I'm thinkin that the headache is from this one pile of wood chips in particular that I was shoveling last night... ?
That whole mountain of chips is super dry & very dusty.
It's like those chips aren't decomposing like the other mountains are...
The wood doesn't stay moist.
The thing is, those chips are a different type of wood than all the other woodchip mountains I've got here. The other 3 mountains are from Live Oak trees, I know that for sure.
The wood in this one pile is very white looking. When they delivered it, I forgot to ask the guys what kind of tree it was.
I was just so excited to get more chips! It never occurred to me it would be a different kind of tree!
But obviously, it IS different...
Anyway, I was over there goin to town on that one pile for like an hour straight. Instead of filling a bucket and taking the chips to different places in the yard like I usually do, I was just throwing the chips off the fork all over the pathways that are all around the other wood chip mountains.
My idea was to try and mix this one different wood with the other oak chips.
So I never even thought about it being dusty, and that I might be breathing in all those particles.
I think because it was so windy, the "dust" from the pile just didn't seem to be lingering in the air the way dust normally lingers & floats around.
So I just didn't notice it...
But now! Dang!!
What a big dope I was!!
Well... live & learn, eh?
*Note To Self:
▪︎ DON'T BE A DOPE!!!
▪︎ Wear a mask when working on that pile o' chips.
(NOT trying to get political about this subject, but...
Is anyone else now rebellious about wearing masks like I (obviously) am?!
Yeah, I DEFINITELY find myself with that rebellious feeling on the topic of MASKS these days!)
New Bumper Sticker:
Masks - just say NO!
(except when shoveling dusty wood chips...)
Your sweet voice was very soothing for my achin' head to listen to!
Thank You for that! ❤
Oh, and that Loungin Lizard
is HILARIOUS!!! 😅😆😆😂
My gosh what a beautiful transition from just a few weeks ago! Gonna have to try my hand at dahlias next year. I had no idea we can grow them here along the Gulf Coast.
My small garden is bursting at the seams and going in all directions. It's amazing how much you can squeeze together! I garden in both containers through necessity and some inground. I'm trying to plant more inground as I see how much better they like it. However, looking at your cornucopia of plants in containers, you obviously have "the touch" and your lovelies appear to thrive!
Isn't it crazy, Wendy, how fast everything has grown?!? And I am shocked by how easy dahlias are to grow. Just stake them, for heaven's sake! LOL! Follow the directions and you will grow them magnificently!!! I shall also try to do the same next year; I mean, follow the directions. Not grow them like I did this year. HAHA! Plants do love to live in the ground if they can get away with it! I love that your garden is bursting at the seams!!!!!! One can never have too many plants!!!!!!
Oh, no about your headache, GGO!!!!!! I hope that you are well now!!! But ugh! I would not want to wear a mask ever, ever again. THEY give me headaches! I need to breathe unfiltered air. LOL!
Wasn't he a hoot?!? Anoles are just the most droll little creatures!
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I'm so glad that you hearted my garden, Minh!!!
Прекрасный сад! С любовью из России!
Thanks, Bepa!!! I’m so glad that you like it!!!
I had good luck spreading grub poison all over my yard to get rid of moles and other rodents. Try it for your garden. I’m in north Alabama 7b.
I'm so glad that worked for you, DeAnn!!! We did try that. My husband dearly loves to spread poison. LOL! At first I thought that it helped, but within weeks they were back with a vengeance. Ugh!
спасибо! у вас прекрасный сад! 🌷🌷🌷 Великолепно!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much, Olga!!!
Beautiful garden. However, if you are gardening for butterflies and bees try using plants native to your area. The Black Swallowtail is an oddball that will feed on non-natives. But, even they would prefer the native Golden Alexanders. There are so many beautiful native plants from your area. Stay away from Lowes and Home Depot nurseries and look for native plant nurseries in your area. Try using straight native flowers and grasses, not man made cultivars, and your yard will come alive.
Thank you! I have had Golden Alexander in my garden and I’ve thrown out seed for them. The Eastern black swallowtails seem to be more drawn to my fennel. But then again, it varies from year to year. Have an awesome day!!!
That Rosemary looked ok to me...
I mean, it's scraggly & all from being shaded, but it probably won't have any problems growing again now that you've repotted it.
Are you going to cut it back after it gets over any shock from being repotted?
I think I prolly would...
Like, about a week from now.
Just hack that baby
ALL THE WAY DOWN!!
Then it can start a whole new life!!
Oh, yeah! I ain't gonna let it get all crazy! LOL!
what on earth
Oh, no, Gail! What was it?