Ya! I started to plant perennials only on the ground, too, because I realized after gardening during COVID that I spent so much on annuals that I can't bring myself doing that again. So when I'm planting on the ground, those are perennials. If I'm growing on planters, I use annuals, and I used annual seeds this year! Instead of entirely grown-up plants, I had to wait a minute before seeing any action, but now I have flowers at less cost.
Hooray for a fellow perennial gardener, Thania! Yes, annuals can be so expensive. And to me, the worst part is tossing them away at the end of their flowering season. I added some marigolds to two planters in our backyard, and other than the ageratum and lantana as some "filler" spots, I prefer perennials. I love that you grew annuals from seed this year! I was going to do that -- had the best intentions -- and never had time. What did you grow? I'm always looking for ideas! I definitely want to try this next year. 🌺 🌸 🌻
Thanks Bea! Glad to meet a fellow gardener who feels the same way when you stumble onto a smart idea . . . as well as a "Why didn't I think of this sooner?" idea! 😉 😃
I’m laughing out loud! 🤣 But, not laughing at the darn groundhog eating your flowers. ☹️ Last year I said that the rabbits gave my Fothergilla shrub a hard pruning, even though the shrub didn’t need it. 😜
🌼🌻🐝☀️🌺👨🌾 I love your garden!! Such a great inspiration to me as I am also a gardener and UA-cam creator. You put a lot of work and love into growing your garden! All the hard work is paying off. I still have so much to learn about gardening and I appreciate your tips, tricks! I’d love to learn more about gardening from each other. Happy Harvest!
Thanks for your video! I see you’re using one of those garden kneelers…hubbie keeps encouraging me to buy one. I just use a kneeler foam mat, and a small 4 wheel low cart (?) to sit on while I’m deadheading. Wondering how you feel about the kneeler, you have? What do you like about it? Easier to get up, I imagine?
Hi Missy, Pardon my delay in responding! You're in luck because I did an entire video all about this garden kneeler and the pros and cons of using one. Overall I absolutely love mine! Here's the link to the video: ua-cam.com/video/f5WqTnyTjJ4/v-deo.htmlsi=mHozpm7qbflBO9jy I hope it helps you decide if you want one or not! 😃
You get a lot more sun than I do. So my perennials don't look as good as they could. However, I find it impossible to live with just shade plants. No roses or sedums or flowering plants or salvias etc. So, unless I cut down all my trees (I do pruned them but it's never enough)I will enjoy my inadequate full sun perennials - and keep pruning more branches off my trees. Love your choice of plants like Rozanne and salvias but oh that sweetspire!
As my trees grow, I find myself pruning the branches to get more sun as well. 🌞 The Geranium Rozanne and the Starship Deep Rose Lobelia do fine in partial sun/shade, and a beautiful shade plant is Dicentra - also called Bleeding Hearts, which you might like. Also Foam Flowers (Tiarella), Heucheras, and Astilbes flower in shade. (However, I’m about to rip my Astilbe out, as it never blooms long enough before the flowers turn brown for me.)
Thank you Anna! 😊 You can cut back tall Sedums - such as Autumn Joy and Autumn Fire, as two examples - in the Spring. By then, you will probably have new growth already coming up. 👍 I just showed my own Autumn Fire in my latest video (February Garden Tour) as it already is starting to grow again from the base of the plant. That video may help to show you what the new growth looks like. I hope this helps?
Glad to know my “experiment” to see if this works will most likely succeed! Thanks for letting me know! (And now I’m looking at the gravel areas in our backyard!) 👍 Happy gardening! 🌸
Great suggestion, and I actually have hardy Ageratum (aka mist flower) in several of my front yard beds now! I love it. (I'm editing my latest video - a mid-September garden tour - that will show all of the hardy Ageratum blooming now!) Thanks for your comment! 😀
I did not know that flies are considered pollinators. I get tons of them in my yard every summer & I put out fly traps to help get rid of them. Is that wrong to do?
Not at all Sammy! You have to be able to enjoy your outdoor space. You’ll never get them all, so take heart in knowing some will help pollinate things. I notice flies on certain plants and not on others. Like the Manhattan Euonymus which is covered with them when the tiny flowers appear in mid Summer. It’s weird to see, but happily doesn’t last long! 🪰🙂
I'm actually going to dig up and pot some of the Veronica, as the shorter variety hasn't been happy so far. Once nursed back to "health" then I'll plant it in a better spot. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for asking, Jarrett! I'm in zone 7 in southern New Jersey at the shore, but not "on" the shore -- just a bit inland. I'm glad you asked, because I need to remember to include this info in my videos. I do it sometimes, but this is a great reminder, so thank you! 👍
Just came across your video and enjoyed it,therefore I subscribed. Live in zone 9b Northern California. I so would like to do more gardening but age is limited me to a degree age 82
Thank you for subscribing JoAnn - I appreciate it! 😊 I understand your point about age. After having my double hip replacement in 2017, I had a renewed want to garden “for the future” so I won’t (hopefully) have as much work to do. That’s why I plant perennials and shrubs moreso than annuals. Because I have no idea what the future holds for me and want to be smart about it. Do you have any containers of plants or flowers to enjoy? 🌺🌸🪴
Yes, I do have many containers on my very large patio area. I have limited my annuals in most of my landscaping in the backyard due to water mostly. Like to go to the garden centers however, I buy just what I feel I can plant when I return home. Smart idea to cut back on some work as you are so right we never know if we will be able to continue our love of gardening.
@@joannschultz3679 Yes JoAnn, I feel the same way about annuals: they need so much water, sometimes even more than other perennials and shrubs do. When I’m at the garden centers or nurseries, my husband has a standard question before I bring any plants home: “Where is it going?” 😀 It’s a running joke between us, yet it makes sense for me to only buy plants that I already have a place for! 💚🪴😀
Thanks for asking! It's called Blue Star Kalimeris. Sometimes you'll see on the plant tag the name of False Aster, with Blue Star Kalimeris listed underneath. I've noticed that switch the past two years, and my guess is they are calling it False Aster more and more because it sounds easier to remember. Or sells better? Who knows! But Blue Star Kalimeris is a wonderful plant that truly blooms all Summer into the Fall. I hope you can find some to enjoy!
There's another plant I've been meaning to grab.... sweetspire. It's so beautiful in bloom. I have a couple veronicas but yours is so so pretty! Who can resist hardy geraniums? One of my favorites. Autumn sedum will root very easily. If you ever get a chance to buy thread leaf coreopsis, moon beam, do not hesitate! Every year mine get more and more pretty. Their small yellow blooms almost glow and hover over this airy, fern like foliage.
What’s also great about Sweetspire is the red color in Fall that lasts quite long. The red leaves stay on the plant into December for me! 👍 I used to have coreopsis years ago and definitely want to add it back into the garden. I agree the thread leaf varieties are so pretty and look so delicate. I couldn’t decide which variety I wanted this year. 🤣
Nice video, but I have to say I really can't understand the (mostly) American obsession with blobs of single plants in an ocean of bark or mulch or bare ground, instead of nice plants flowing and growing together, covering the ground so (almost) no weeds can grow there anyway. I'd rather see beautiful plants with flowers than bark.
Thanks and your comment gave me a good smile! 😀 Many of the perennials I showed in this video are new plants -- just planted this year, so they haven't had a chance to fill in just yet. I can't wait until they do! You should have seen my garden beds the very first year when everything -- including the trees -- were small! Lots of wood chip mulch indeed. 😂 Yes, Americans do seem to love mulch around plants -- and especially around trees. There's a term "mulch volcano" because many homeowners will just make a giant volcano-type of hill just with mulch around a single tree. It's the strangest thing but very common here. I'm hoping for a happy medium over time as things fill in. Everything flowing more together with less mulch visible, yet still not looking overgrown. I'm enjoying the process of watching everything slowly fill in and make friends with each other. Thanks for weighing in -- and I'd rather see beautiful plants with flowers than bark too! 👍🌸
I bet some people think we are crazy …. We plant flowers/shrubs and let them grow & then chop them down .. some don’t understand that things will bloom again . 😉
I like your sedum mushrooms popping out of the ground! If they don’t root, it’s easy to divide the clump. I think California poppies would look great amongst the hardy geranium. I don’t have much luck growing things from seed, but maybe a nursery has them.
Oh Will, I have several sedum mushrooms sticking up right now! 🤣 I hope they take, but thanks for the reminder that I can divide the plants too. 👍 I love your Poppies suggestion, but I worry that rabbits would eat the plants before I get any flowers. I’ve read that 🐰 eat them, and also that they avoid them. 🤔 I may order some plants in the Fall…because the flowers are so pretty! (I don’t have the patience for seeds just yet!)
Thanks for the Chelsea chop tutorial. I've been wondering why my sedum is blooming so early-some buds have actually browned. I guess I'll cut them back this weekend.
You’re welcome! I was amazed at how early my sedum began forming its flowers this year. Sounds like yours are even further along than mine. Keep me posted on how yours do after the “chop” as we go further into the Summer. 🙂
I’ve never seen them in the big box garden centers either, and was pleasantly surprised when I found them at my local nursery a few years ago. I snapped up so many of them! 😀 Now I want to try and propagate them. 💙
@@mahoganyblue2571 Will do! I actually just bought a few more Geranium Rozanne plants that were still sitting at my local nursery -- I was shocked they hadn't been scooped up yet!
The garden looks so nice Laura! Geranium Rozanne is my fav too! love how long it blooms and the color is a standout for sure! I love the ease of perennials! love your garden ❤️
Thanks so much Priti! 💙 Every time I think of adding another perennial geranium, I always come back to adding more Rozanne! And for just the reason you said: they are easy! 😀💙
@@missprettyplants7217 Sooooo....I just bought three more that I found still available at my local nursery. I need to plant them, but at least I have them now! 💙 😀
@@GardenSanity and I appreciate YOU!! I love long videos and I was giggling because yesterday I divided the autumn joy sedum by planting the flowers in the ground from the mother plant……… we are in synch! 😂🌸🌸🌸🌸
Laura there is no doubt yours will grow first! Wisconsin has such unpredictable weather……. But I bet we will have found a way to edge our gardens with the sedum if it works 😂
@@chrisolson1755 It better work because now I've sold myself on having this happen! 🤣 I looked at them yesterday, and they all look exactly the same. At least they aren't dying. 🤣
Ya! I started to plant perennials only on the ground, too, because I realized after gardening during COVID that I spent so much on annuals that I can't bring myself doing that again. So when I'm planting on the ground, those are perennials. If I'm growing on planters, I use annuals, and I used annual seeds this year! Instead of entirely grown-up plants, I had to wait a minute before seeing any action, but now I have flowers at less cost.
Hooray for a fellow perennial gardener, Thania! Yes, annuals can be so expensive. And to me, the worst part is tossing them away at the end of their flowering season. I added some marigolds to two planters in our backyard, and other than the ageratum and lantana as some "filler" spots, I prefer perennials. I love that you grew annuals from seed this year! I was going to do that -- had the best intentions -- and never had time. What did you grow? I'm always looking for ideas! I definitely want to try this next year. 🌺 🌸 🌻
I love your energy and your hihihihi laughter when you got a good idea of multiplying your plants for free:) I am the same:)
Thanks Bea! Glad to meet a fellow gardener who feels the same way when you stumble onto a smart idea . . . as well as a "Why didn't I think of this sooner?" idea! 😉 😃
Just found your channel, love your videos from palestine 🇵🇸
Thank you! 😀
Does it count as a Chelsea chop if a groundhog ate my Daisy and Coneflowers lol?
I’m laughing out loud! 🤣 But, not laughing at the darn groundhog eating your flowers. ☹️ Last year I said that the rabbits gave my Fothergilla shrub a hard pruning, even though the shrub didn’t need it. 😜
🌼🌻🐝☀️🌺👨🌾 I love your garden!! Such a great inspiration to me as I am also a gardener and UA-cam creator. You put a lot of work and love into growing your garden! All the hard work is paying off. I still have so much to learn about gardening and I appreciate your tips, tricks! I’d love to learn more about gardening from each other. Happy Harvest!
Thanks for your video! I see you’re using one of those garden kneelers…hubbie keeps encouraging me to buy one. I just use a kneeler foam mat, and a small 4 wheel low cart (?) to sit on while I’m deadheading. Wondering how you feel about the kneeler, you have? What do you like about it? Easier to get up, I imagine?
Hi Missy, Pardon my delay in responding! You're in luck because I did an entire video all about this garden kneeler and the pros and cons of using one. Overall I absolutely love mine! Here's the link to the video: ua-cam.com/video/f5WqTnyTjJ4/v-deo.htmlsi=mHozpm7qbflBO9jy I hope it helps you decide if you want one or not! 😃
You get a lot more sun than I do. So my perennials don't look as good as they could. However, I find it impossible to live with just shade plants. No roses or sedums or flowering plants or salvias etc. So, unless I cut down all my trees (I do pruned them but it's never enough)I will enjoy my inadequate full sun perennials - and keep pruning more branches off my trees. Love your choice of plants like Rozanne and salvias but oh that sweetspire!
As my trees grow, I find myself pruning the branches to get more sun as well. 🌞 The Geranium Rozanne and the Starship Deep Rose Lobelia do fine in partial sun/shade, and a beautiful shade plant is Dicentra - also called Bleeding Hearts, which you might like. Also Foam Flowers (Tiarella), Heucheras, and Astilbes flower in shade. (However, I’m about to rip my Astilbe out, as it never blooms long enough before the flowers turn brown for me.)
Can you cut back Sedum at anytime? Your garden is beautiful and you
give excellent, practical information.
Thank you Anna! 😊 You can cut back tall Sedums - such as Autumn Joy and Autumn Fire, as two examples - in the Spring. By then, you will probably have new growth already coming up. 👍 I just showed my own Autumn Fire in my latest video (February Garden Tour) as it already is starting to grow again from the base of the plant. That video may help to show you what the new growth looks like. I hope this helps?
I chop a small piece of Sedum stem and stick it under dirt and Boom new plant. Grows anywhere. I've grown it in pea gravel. lol
Glad to know my “experiment” to see if this works will most likely succeed! Thanks for letting me know! (And now I’m looking at the gravel areas in our backyard!) 👍 Happy gardening! 🌸
Plant mist flower in place of the annual Ageratum. The bees will live it and it's similar in looks.
Great suggestion, and I actually have hardy Ageratum (aka mist flower) in several of my front yard beds now! I love it. (I'm editing my latest video - a mid-September garden tour - that will show all of the hardy Ageratum blooming now!) Thanks for your comment! 😀
Great Video! Very educational and as always, your gardens are beautiful!
Thank you! 😊 Flowers in bloom always make a garden prettier…now I can finally add mulch! 😀
Yes! What a nice looking garden and video!
@@gardenvistas Thank you so much! I appreciate it! 🌿🌺
I'll be watching your sedum experiment this summer! Thanks for another enjoyable video full of useful information :)
You and me both re: the sedum experiment! 🤞Glad you enjoyed the video - I packed a lot in there! 😀💚
I did not know that flies are considered pollinators. I get tons of them in my yard every summer & I put out fly traps to help get rid of them. Is that wrong to do?
Not at all Sammy! You have to be able to enjoy your outdoor space. You’ll never get them all, so take heart in knowing some will help pollinate things. I notice flies on certain plants and not on others. Like the Manhattan Euonymus which is covered with them when the tiny flowers appear in mid Summer. It’s weird to see, but happily doesn’t last long! 🪰🙂
Cut the flowers of the Veronica that's struggling so that it can focus on its roots.
I'm actually going to dig up and pot some of the Veronica, as the shorter variety hasn't been happy so far. Once nursed back to "health" then I'll plant it in a better spot. Thanks for the suggestion!
Can you share your location / planting zone, please.
Thanks for asking, Jarrett! I'm in zone 7 in southern New Jersey at the shore, but not "on" the shore -- just a bit inland. I'm glad you asked, because I need to remember to include this info in my videos. I do it sometimes, but this is a great reminder, so thank you! 👍
Just came across your video and enjoyed it,therefore I subscribed. Live in zone 9b Northern California. I so would like to do more gardening but age is limited me to a degree age 82
Thank you for subscribing JoAnn - I appreciate it! 😊 I understand your point about age. After having my double hip replacement in 2017, I had a renewed want to garden “for the future” so I won’t (hopefully) have as much work to do. That’s why I plant perennials and shrubs moreso than annuals. Because I have no idea what the future holds for me and want to be smart about it. Do you have any containers of plants or flowers to enjoy? 🌺🌸🪴
Yes, I do have many containers on my very large patio area. I have limited my annuals in most of my landscaping in the backyard due to water mostly. Like to go to the garden centers however, I buy just what I feel I can plant when I return home. Smart idea to cut back on some work as you are so right we never know if we will be able to continue our love of gardening.
@@joannschultz3679 Yes JoAnn, I feel the same way about annuals: they need so much water, sometimes even more than other perennials and shrubs do. When I’m at the garden centers or nurseries, my husband has a standard question before I bring any plants home: “Where is it going?” 😀 It’s a running joke between us, yet it makes sense for me to only buy plants that I already have a place for! 💚🪴😀
Hi! What is the name of the purple daisy like flower? I love it soo much! Thank you
Thanks for asking! It's called Blue Star Kalimeris. Sometimes you'll see on the plant tag the name of False Aster, with Blue Star Kalimeris listed underneath. I've noticed that switch the past two years, and my guess is they are calling it False Aster more and more because it sounds easier to remember. Or sells better? Who knows! But Blue Star Kalimeris is a wonderful plant that truly blooms all Summer into the Fall. I hope you can find some to enjoy!
@@GardenSanity thank you so much! I love them!
There's another plant I've been meaning to grab.... sweetspire. It's so beautiful in bloom. I have a couple veronicas but yours is so so pretty! Who can resist hardy geraniums? One of my favorites.
Autumn sedum will root very easily.
If you ever get a chance to buy thread leaf coreopsis, moon beam, do not hesitate! Every year mine get more and more pretty. Their small yellow blooms almost glow and hover over this airy, fern like foliage.
What’s also great about Sweetspire is the red color in Fall that lasts quite long. The red leaves stay on the plant into December for me! 👍 I used to have coreopsis years ago and definitely want to add it back into the garden. I agree the thread leaf varieties are so pretty and look so delicate. I couldn’t decide which variety I wanted this year. 🤣
Nice video, but I have to say I really can't understand the (mostly) American obsession with blobs of single plants in an ocean of bark or mulch or bare ground, instead of nice plants flowing and growing together, covering the ground so (almost) no weeds can grow there anyway. I'd rather see beautiful plants with flowers than bark.
Thanks and your comment gave me a good smile! 😀 Many of the perennials I showed in this video are new plants -- just planted this year, so they haven't had a chance to fill in just yet. I can't wait until they do! You should have seen my garden beds the very first year when everything -- including the trees -- were small! Lots of wood chip mulch indeed. 😂 Yes, Americans do seem to love mulch around plants -- and especially around trees. There's a term "mulch volcano" because many homeowners will just make a giant volcano-type of hill just with mulch around a single tree. It's the strangest thing but very common here. I'm hoping for a happy medium over time as things fill in. Everything flowing more together with less mulch visible, yet still not looking overgrown. I'm enjoying the process of watching everything slowly fill in and make friends with each other. Thanks for weighing in -- and I'd rather see beautiful plants with flowers than bark too! 👍🌸
I bet some people think we are crazy …. We plant flowers/shrubs and let them grow & then chop them down .. some don’t understand that things will bloom again . 😉
😀 You are so right! It does sound crazy - yet it seems perfectly reasonable to us! 🤣🪴
I like your sedum mushrooms popping out of the ground! If they don’t root, it’s easy to divide the clump. I think California poppies would look great amongst the hardy geranium. I don’t have much luck growing things from seed, but maybe a nursery has them.
Oh Will, I have several sedum mushrooms sticking up right now! 🤣 I hope they take, but thanks for the reminder that I can divide the plants too. 👍 I love your Poppies suggestion, but I worry that rabbits would eat the plants before I get any flowers. I’ve read that 🐰 eat them, and also that they avoid them. 🤔 I may order some plants in the Fall…because the flowers are so pretty! (I don’t have the patience for seeds just yet!)
love this
Thanks so much William -- I appreciate you watching! 😊
Beautiful looking tour! Thanks so much for sharing!
You’re welcome! And thank you for the compliment! 😊🌸
Thanks for the Chelsea chop tutorial. I've been wondering why my sedum is blooming so early-some buds have actually browned. I guess I'll cut them back this weekend.
You’re welcome! I was amazed at how early my sedum began forming its flowers this year. Sounds like yours are even further along than mine. Keep me posted on how yours do after the “chop” as we go further into the Summer. 🙂
@@GardenSanity thanks. Will do.
Your garden is looking gorgeous! I just love your laugh Laura! 😁
Thank you so much! 😊 Laughter is good medicine - along with gardening - so I’m glad you like mine! 😀🌺
I recently came upon geranium rozanne and love them! Couldn't find them in big box nurseries. Had to buy them online.
I’ve never seen them in the big box garden centers either, and was pleasantly surprised when I found them at my local nursery a few years ago. I snapped up so many of them! 😀 Now I want to try and propagate them. 💙
@@GardenSanity please do a video of it when you do.
@@mahoganyblue2571 Will do! I actually just bought a few more Geranium Rozanne plants that were still sitting at my local nursery -- I was shocked they hadn't been scooped up yet!
The garden looks so nice Laura! Geranium Rozanne is my fav too! love how long it blooms and the color is a standout for sure! I love the ease of perennials! love your garden ❤️
Thanks so much Priti! 💙 Every time I think of adding another perennial geranium, I always come back to adding more Rozanne! And for just the reason you said: they are easy! 😀💙
@@GardenSanity They are the best! I don’t think you can have too many! I added a couple more this year as well 😀
@@missprettyplants7217 Sooooo....I just bought three more that I found still available at my local nursery. I need to plant them, but at least I have them now! 💙 😀
I want to add geraniums to my garden. Full or part sun? Do you fertilize them? Thank you! Love your channel and style!
Thanks for sharing 👍💐
You’re welcome!
This was Wonderful! Thank you so much 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼
You’re welcome Chris and thank you for watching! 😊💕 I appreciate it and you! 🌼
@@GardenSanity and I appreciate YOU!! I love long videos and I was giggling because yesterday I divided the autumn joy sedum by planting the flowers in the ground from the mother plant……… we are in synch! 😂🌸🌸🌸🌸
That’s so funny! Now we will wait and see who has their Sedum grow first! 😀 Great gardening minds think alike!
Laura there is no doubt yours will grow first! Wisconsin has such unpredictable weather……. But I bet we will have found a way to edge our gardens with the sedum if it works 😂
@@chrisolson1755 It better work because now I've sold myself on having this happen! 🤣 I looked at them yesterday, and they all look exactly the same. At least they aren't dying. 🤣