One of my favorite things about your show is that you always are thrifty-minded. One of the first shows I watched was on your Goodwill finds for the garden at that point I knew this girl knows what she's doing. No you don't have to be rich to have a great garden and thank you for all of the special reporting you do. Love from Texas
Don't ever feel your wasting our time when your pruning. I love watching you. It's very relaxing and it motivates me to go outside and start pruning things. Love your videos!
I love your thriftiness and common sense approach to gardening. Your style brings it all together. Thank you for another informative video. Thanks to Stewart for his comments and filming skills, too. Have a great week!
I am so here for watching you complete projects. Your " real-timeness" is one my favorite things about your channel. If it ever seems too long, not, I know how to press pause. You are must see Tv 😊
Perfect timing. This morning I dug up a blue star juniper that was suffering in a shady damp area. Potted it and pruned to expose the trunk and branches into a faux bonsai. Love your projects. Really inspire me to look around the garden and see things in different ways.
Linda, this is one of the best videos ever!! Very informative, real, funny and I love it!! Stewart, thank you for being so kind and funny also. Y'all, please keep the videos coming. They are so appreciated. May God bless you both.
I really enjoy watching you repot your plants to a larger pot especially finding that little plant (from birds) you posted up. Love the earrings and shirt. ❤️
Yes I have some hostas not getting to their full potential that I'm going to transplant this year. I was fortunate this year I have many volunteers. 2 Norway spruce which I am extremely happy about, butterfly bush crepe myrtles, etc. I am very busy transplanting 😂. I am happy and grateful mother nature has given me these gifts
I have been moving things from one place to another for years. It’s always such a thrill to find a little gift growing the garden. Love how you are budget friendly. Some gardening videos where they buy huge volumes of large plants are just not practical for most of us. I love the videos where people rescue almost dead plants from the bargain racks and turn them into something beautiful with some love, care, and attention, too. Waiting and watching the transition is part of the adventure.
Okay Linda, wait for it, here it is. Yesterday for the first time I tried my hand at trimming a 2 yr old boxwood into a ball shape. I took my pruning shears, placed them on a branch, closed my eyes and squeezed the shears. Minutes later, there it was!! While it is not perfect, I love it for its imperfection. And on I went to plant number 2. They are in black pots that I repurposed by spraying them black. Wow, am I a gardener in training? You gave me confidence and I thank you so much.
In March, I dug up two large purple-blooming vitex shrubs which I overwintered in my veggie garden and left them there two years. The bees love their “butterfly bush” like blooms, but they were getting so large they were taking up veggie garden space. At about 8 feet tall and 4 feet across, I dug to China to get as much root as possible and then planted them in half wine barrels on the border of the veggie garden. Took me an entire day to get it done, but they survived and are vigorously leafing out. Yay! Gratifying for sure! 🐝🐝. By the way, I love projects like you show in this video. Our plants deserve to shine and they are always worthy of upgrading! ☺️☺️
It's VERY SATISFYING :-) Stuart, you are right ... we enjoy it! Question of the day: I take the volunteer red maples that start sprouting and repot them, raise them for a few years and then give them as gifts!
It was so hot here in Maryland this weekend .I had big plans for yard and flower bed but took a page out of your book and did some mini projects ! Pulled weeds ,took up a couple concrete pads that had sunk into ground and put mulch under them .dug out the area where drain spout meets the ground put down weed barrier and put the river rocks back . I feel like I have done something !
Well, I just LOVED this so much! This year, all I am doing is container gardening and I was thrilled to see your ideas for using herbs and annuals together, I have just done myself! I love using thyme in a lot of my pots to just drape over the sides and enhance the look! Matter of fact, I brought some pots from the other house that I had planted with thyme several years ago! Oh, and let me just add that as you were shaping the first plant, that you dug out of the front garden, I was giggling a little over your delight at how satisfying pruning can be! I spent all afternoon, yesterday, shaping up the LARGE overgrown boxwood in the front. Boy, what a JOB!! It was really hot here in Ky. and I got to going and just kept finding one more place to cut!! LOL! My husband said I reminded him of Johnny Depp in, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS!! GADS!!! Anywho, this was a GREAT watch! Thanks to you and Stewart for a fun evening watch! Sending lots of love and blessings!
Hi Linda and Stewart, Always elevates my day watching your excellent videos. I carry my pruners in a pouch around my waist so I always have them on hand which works really well for me. Isn’t pruning therapeutic 👍 Btw your garden is so special, I love the transition from season to season. Take care. Fiona from Australia 🦘
Linda, I knew you were not going to walk away from that privet, I could sense your determination. “You are NOT going to get the best of me!” I was feeling it for you, myself being very stubborn and competitive! Every week I see your garden it is so much more lush! Beautiful!!! That trim and shaping of the privet was amazing, definitely not like it began!!!
I could watch you garden all day long, LOL!! I get so inspired that I even started my own little garden this year, I live in a townhome community so my outdoor space is limited, however, i've used the space well! I'm keeping my eye on the sunny and shady areas for perennials next year!!! You're a delight, and such a beautiful person
I loved this video. It was so real. Things like this happen to me all the time. You laughed it off and kept on going. A true gardener for sure. Thanks Linda for the tips.
Ok you were already a rock star because of all the things I’ve learned from your channel, but you get major props for being able to garden in white!! Now THAT’S boss! ☺️😊
I can't imagine you discarding a plant any more than I would!!! That's why I have so many plans all around the house and keep sharing plants as well. It's easier for me these days as I've put more and more in containers, rather than directly in the ground. It not only contains things, but makes it so much easier to move around, divide, etc.
I have to give credit to a sweet lil squirrel that decided to hide his hosta bulb in one of my pots. The following spring we had a surprise bloom that has turned into a gorgeous, simple, low maintenance flower pot that continues to get bigger each spring. That random act of a squirrel inspired me to dig out my day lily and put those in pots as well. My deck looks fabulous and it was all free 🪴
You have such creative ideas! Glad you were able to get that privit out of the ground. I wouldn't let it beat me either! Another thing I'm really enjoying is Stewart's voice/comments on video! Really adds to the fun of the video.
Oh my Linda, 3 years ago I took out 36 privets! Those darn roots were here there and deep!!! I ruined 2 garden forks and a favorite spade!! I think the small juniper will be a lot of fun to watch develop!
Sheila McDade in Chattanooga, TN here . . . we once bought a house with a wooded area full of privet. I never saw it as anything but a problem. Yet here you made one into a boxwood look-alike! You amaze me. Yes, the Europeans love red geraniums (we lived in Spain for 3 years). They put them on balconies and in courtyards and almost every house has a balcony and a courtyard! . . . . . it always amuses me that you use those red and white Betty Crocker dollar store scissors 😊
Linda…at first I was wondering did you do what I thought you did….I couldn’t help but chuckle at the playoff and then your comment to Stewart…”did you see that” ? Your facial expression was so cute….you always keep it real….that’s why we love watching you so much!! I enjoyed todays video for more helpful and inexpensive tips on planting those small little things that will hopefully bring us much joy! By the way, I love that terra-cotta pot you planted the geraniums in! ~ A blooper video would be great fun!!! 🌸
I just planted a pot of coleus w/creeping jenny around the edge. I also took your advice, walked in my woods and found 2 evergreen trees that I put in clay pots and surrounded w/ mounding impatiens seeds. Yea!! Thank you!
Loved this video. Have done all of these except the privet. Have a cedar tree that volunteered under my ornamental Cherry tree and am making it into a topiary.
When I first moved into my present home, 32 years ago, I was a novice gardener. I planted a hosta at the bottom of my front steps, where it meets the driveway. Well, the hosta loves this spot, and has grown amazingly, even though it is in full sun. I need to somehow pull it out of the ground and divide it, but I am absolutely sure that it is going to be very difficult to do. I do not look forward to this chore, but I will be attempting it very shortly.
Coral Bells I have found (the hard way lol) do so much better in a lovely white chalk painted terracotta pot Vs the pretty flower bed I made for her 🤣… so glad I found you Linda … I can’t believe how much alike we are … you make gardening look amazing & I love everything about you … I just ordered your book I’m looking so forward to reading it! Thanks so much for being so incredible 🌺🌸💚🤍🪴🌿🌳🍀
Linda, I've just been watching you dig out the privet. Please be careful. I once tried digging out a rose and strained the back of my knee, which resulted in a deep vein thrombosis. That was 10 years ago and I'm fine now and still love gardening! Take care. Love your garden.
I did the opposite of #1 yesterday. I had a small boxwood in my front bed that was just not looking well. So I took it out and replaced it with one that was in a pot in the back yard. The puny one went into the pot to try to restore it a little. I also took up two illumination gardenias from the front and will place in the back. They were in an area that i was not watering as much as they needed. So I will place them in an area that I won’t forget to water them. 🌳🌳🌳
Hi Linda and Stewart That sure was a struggle but the end product on that privet was amazing ! I also use pruners to cut back roots if a sharp spade doesn’t work. The container garden however just does not work for me bc I don’t have a good watering system if I go away. But that’s ok bc I can see yours and appreciate your work. Your garden rewards you. I used to container garden so I know how rewarding it can be. I need to watch you on a big screen to appreciate Stewart’s camera work! See you soon!
Excited to watch this video! I love ALL of them. Your show is my favorite. Just a few minutes in, and I am so with you on getting the privot OUT. Great job. 😁
Enjoyed. Something I am doing. I found you last week and I am so glad I did: someone who likes to do what I enjoy. I just received your book from Amazon and it is wonderful. Thank you so much for writing it. I live in Zone 5/Michigan and I live on a sand ridge....the sand is feet deep so growing hydrangeas is a challenge. You may have done this already, but I would enjoy hearing from you your favorite garden books (my weakness is books also). Now I am off to the nursery.
Fabulous video! Such wonderful ideas! I have two variegated leaf sage plants in the garden that are not doing well. I'm going to dig them up & put them in a pot together & place where it will get a bit more sun. All 3 of your projects were wonderful!
I’m going to dig up a volunteer evergreen, similar to what you have done. I’ve tried a couple times before and they did not survive. I think the watering in may be the key. So, so loved todays episode. The priming I find very intimidating, but you make it look simpler than I was making it in my mind. Thank you.
I’ve been putting together container plantings for my balcony. One more to go! So many plants to choose from, so little space for pots but I manage to have a beautiful garden in my allotted space. I love how you created something of beauty from that poor tortured privet!! 😂 Lastly, a nice pot really makes difference...the geraniums in the terra cotta.
Zone 7b in NC. I had a beautiful pot of dill and last week found it covered with aphids. I cut it to the ground and threw it in the trash. I have never had aphids like I have this year!
Why did I never think to replant a plastic hanging basket into a more attractive planter?? Thanks to you Linda … I will transfer a dragon leaf begonia that was gifted to me into one today!
I buy lantana in hanging baskets and replant into larger pots I place throughout the garden (one of the few annuals the deer don't bother, at least so far!). I also have some wrought iron hanging planters that I bought years ago that are larger than the typical plastic hanging baskets. I repot standard hanging basket plants into these larger hangers, and they perform much better, and grow significantly larger. It doesn't take long for plants to become rootbound in standard plastic hanging planters.
Loved this show! I have a baby Nandina coming up that I want to put in a container. And try topiary with it? Not sure if it will work but I'll have fun anyway! I look forward to each show and have learned so much!
Great ideas. My motto this year to to ages come is, " work smarter; not harder." So anything that falls into that motto, I'm all in! Can you leave terra cotts pots out in winter in your area? I love the look of terra cotta but they will crack in our winter weather. So i shy away from that. YEP, WORK SMARTER. NOT HARDER! I love your idea of mixing herbs snd annuals.
Question of the day answer, I have dug up lots of volunteers, my latest are some baby boxwoods under my American Boxwood, well, actually they are seedlings, yes seedlings. But I also look for those little Junipers (since you showed me their worth) But I have planted up seedlings from hellabores, babies from hostas. And I am that person that will pick up little pieces of coleus from the garden center and root. lol. Garden hint, i use old cocoliners to block holes, but still allow water to flow right through. I never throw anything away. And I just bought big pots of lavender, inside there were 5 in one, 6 in another, much cheaper than buying the individual plants. WIN WIN. Did I miss the link to the gloves, they definitely look like they would be cool!
I dug up a red cedar to shop my garden a la Linda. It will almost certainly turn that characteristic brownish grey in winter but it might be a fun topiary nonetheless.
I have that color red geranium plants but bigger blooms. Probably a different variety. I put a purple Salvia in the hanging basket with it. I enjoy your thrifty plantings. Lorraine
Cost is relative. Depends where you’re coming from. How a garden looks has a lot to do with what the home/backdrop is. While many things are free or cost almost nothing a few well spent dollars makes a big difference. I’ve been able to gift many seeds and cutting as well as receiving cuttings and seeds. Then there’s how much time and patience one has. I have some very pretty plants and shrubs that started in four inch pots.
I love your videos. Thank you so much for them! I need to dig up a very unhappy hydrangea and put it in a pot. But I have more pots standing all around my garden than I would like to have. 😅 Love from Germany 💛🐝💛
Greetings from Pueblo, Colorado(zone 5B) where we just had a heavy wet snow on Friday night. We desperately needed the moisture, so just dealing as best we can with all of the broken tree limbs. Your videos are always so informative and I have learned so much from you. Thanks for the reminder about sharpening our shovels. Before when you suggested the need for sharpening our garden tools, I called our local Ace Hardware and they do not offer this service anymore. Any other ideas of where to take our tools for maintenance and sharpening will be greatly appreciated. Linda, keep doing what you do so well. We all LOVE you!!!!
I have a large hosta that has separated on its own. So I will take out the smaller one to transplant at my neighbours garden! They have a rhododendron that needs more sun. I will replace it with the hosta. It gets just a bit of morning sun. 🌿🌸.
One of my favorite things about your show is that you always are thrifty-minded. One of the first shows I watched was on your Goodwill finds for the garden at that point I knew this girl knows what she's doing. No you don't have to be rich to have a great garden and thank you for all of the special reporting you do. Love from Texas
Don't ever feel your wasting our time when your pruning. I love watching you. It's very relaxing and it motivates me to go outside and start pruning things. Love your videos!
You are cracking me up getting that plant out of the ground--I’m with you-I’m not gonna stop till I get it done--glad we got to see it completed😂
I love your thriftiness and common sense approach to gardening. Your style brings it all together. Thank you for another informative video. Thanks to Stewart for his comments and filming skills, too. Have a great week!
I am so here for watching you complete projects. Your " real-timeness" is one my favorite things about your channel. If it ever seems too long, not, I know how to press pause. You are must see Tv 😊
Linda, you’re so adorable and ‘real’ and we need more of that in this world❣️
Perfect timing. This morning I dug up a blue star juniper that was suffering in a shady damp area. Potted it and pruned to expose the trunk and branches into a faux bonsai. Love your projects. Really inspire me to look around the garden and see things in different ways.
I like hearing Stuart. It's nice to hear the conversation between you two.
Linda, this is one of the best videos ever!! Very informative, real, funny and I love it!! Stewart, thank you for being so kind and funny also. Y'all, please keep the videos coming. They are so appreciated. May God bless you both.
I really enjoy watching you repot your plants to a larger pot especially finding that little plant (from birds) you posted up. Love the earrings and shirt. ❤️
Yes I have some hostas not getting to their full potential that I'm going to transplant this year. I was fortunate this year I have many volunteers. 2 Norway spruce which I am extremely happy about, butterfly bush crepe myrtles, etc. I am very busy transplanting 😂. I am happy and grateful mother nature has given me these gifts
I have been moving things from one place to another for years. It’s always such a thrill to find a little gift growing the garden. Love how you are budget friendly. Some gardening videos where they buy huge volumes of large plants are just not practical for most of us. I love the videos where people rescue almost dead plants from the bargain racks and turn them into something beautiful with some love, care, and attention, too. Waiting and watching the transition is part of the adventure.
Okay Linda, wait for it, here it is. Yesterday for the first time I tried my hand at trimming a 2 yr old boxwood into a ball shape. I took my pruning shears, placed them on a branch, closed my eyes and squeezed the shears. Minutes later, there it was!! While it is not perfect, I love it for its imperfection. And on I went to plant number 2. They are in black pots that I repurposed by spraying them black. Wow, am I a gardener in training? You gave me confidence and I thank you so much.
Well done!!!
Yes! That is exactly it! Linda also gave me the confidence to prune my boxwoods into balls. I couldn't be more pleased!
Good job!
In March, I dug up two large purple-blooming vitex shrubs which I overwintered in my veggie garden and left them there two years. The bees love their “butterfly bush” like blooms, but they were getting so large they were taking up veggie garden space. At about 8 feet tall and 4 feet across, I dug to China to get as much root as possible and then planted them in half wine barrels on the border of the veggie garden. Took me an entire day to get it done, but they survived and are vigorously leafing out. Yay! Gratifying for sure! 🐝🐝. By the way, I love projects like you show in this video. Our plants deserve to shine and they are always worthy of upgrading! ☺️☺️
It's VERY SATISFYING :-) Stuart, you are right ... we enjoy it!
Question of the day: I take the volunteer red maples that start sprouting and repot them, raise them for a few years and then give them as gifts!
It was so hot here in Maryland this weekend .I had big plans for yard and flower bed but took a page out of your book and did some mini projects ! Pulled weeds ,took up a couple concrete pads that had sunk into ground and put mulch under them .dug out the area where drain spout meets the ground put down weed barrier and put the river rocks back . I feel like I have done something !
This was lots of fun. The geranium was so much better in the terracotta. Love that galvanized pot! Hi Stewart. 🌹
Well, I just LOVED this so much! This year, all I am doing is container gardening and I was thrilled to see your ideas for using herbs and annuals together, I have just done myself! I love using thyme in a lot of my pots to just drape over the sides and enhance the look! Matter of fact, I brought some pots from the other house that I had planted with thyme several years ago! Oh, and let me just add that as you were shaping the first plant, that you dug out of the front garden, I was giggling a little over your delight at how satisfying pruning can be! I spent all afternoon, yesterday, shaping up the LARGE overgrown boxwood in the front. Boy, what a JOB!! It was really hot here in Ky. and I got to going and just kept finding one more place to cut!! LOL! My husband said I reminded him of Johnny Depp in, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS!! GADS!!! Anywho, this was a GREAT watch! Thanks to you and Stewart for a fun evening watch! Sending lots of love and blessings!
Everyone should have a Stuart. Thanks for the motivation.
I love that you use the term “2nd Mom”! 💕
Hi Linda and Stewart,
Always elevates my day watching your excellent videos. I carry my pruners in a pouch around my waist so I always have them on hand which works really well for me.
Isn’t pruning therapeutic 👍
Btw your garden is so special, I love the transition from season to season.
Take care.
Fiona from Australia 🦘
It’s amazing how much better geraniums look with some attention. Love your videos.
Linda, I knew you were not going to walk away from that privet, I could sense your determination. “You are NOT going to get the best of me!” I was feeling it for you, myself being very stubborn and competitive!
Every week I see your garden it is so much more lush! Beautiful!!! That trim and shaping of the privet was amazing, definitely not like it began!!!
Ok, I always watch you and Stewart for the last year and today I have enjoyed you both the most. You have made me feel really normal😂
Lol!
I could watch you garden all day long, LOL!! I get so inspired that I even started my own little garden this year, I live in a townhome community so my outdoor space is limited, however, i've used the space well! I'm keeping my eye on the sunny and shady areas for perennials next year!!! You're a delight, and such a beautiful person
Most important - absolutely love that we could hear each and every word of Stewart! The very best!
I loved this video. It was so real. Things like this happen to me all the time. You laughed it off and kept on going. A true gardener for sure. Thanks Linda for the tips.
Love the herb + annual pot idea-very elegant, French and perfect to tie a kitchen garden to the ornamental areas. Can’t wait to try it!
Ok you were already a rock star because of all the things I’ve learned from your channel, but you get major props for being able to garden in white!! Now THAT’S boss! ☺️😊
Lol. Off white😂🤣😂
You are such a kindred spirit! I work out of my wheelbarrow too! I can relate to your projects so much! I can relate to your ideas! Thank you Linda!
This video made me smile💕 and laugh out loud! I’ve repeatedly ALMOST had the same cartoon moments with the shovel. -jojo
I can't imagine you discarding a plant any more than I would!!! That's why I have so many plans all around the house and keep sharing plants as well. It's easier for me these days as I've put more and more in containers, rather than directly in the ground. It not only contains things, but makes it so much easier to move around, divide, etc.
Your garden is like your playhouse! I love watching you piddle in it. I love to do that too, but don't have as large a garden to piddle in.
I place used dryer sheets at the bottom of my pots. They have so many uses, from shining bathroom hardware to dusting baseboards.
I have to give credit to a sweet lil squirrel that decided to hide his hosta bulb in one of my pots. The following spring we had a surprise bloom that has turned into a gorgeous, simple, low maintenance flower pot that continues to get bigger each spring. That random act of a squirrel inspired me to dig out my day lily and put those in pots as well. My deck looks fabulous and it was all free 🪴
True gardening, bloopers and all!!!
You have such creative ideas! Glad you were able to get that privit out of the ground. I wouldn't let it beat me either! Another thing I'm really enjoying is Stewart's voice/comments on video! Really adds to the fun of the video.
Oh my Linda, 3 years ago I took out 36 privets! Those darn roots were here there and deep!!! I ruined 2 garden forks and a favorite spade!! I think the small juniper will be a lot of fun to watch develop!
Yes, Robin I like that about her also--budget minded
The Cinderella Privet- how cool!
Sheila McDade in Chattanooga, TN here . . . we once bought a house with a wooded area full of privet. I never saw it as anything but a problem. Yet here you made one into a boxwood look-alike! You amaze me. Yes, the Europeans love red geraniums (we lived in Spain for 3 years). They put them on balconies and in courtyards and almost every house has a balcony and a courtyard! . . . . . it always amuses me that you use those red and white Betty Crocker dollar store scissors 😊
Linda…at first I was wondering did you do what I thought you did….I couldn’t help but chuckle at the playoff and then your comment to Stewart…”did you see that” ? Your facial expression was so cute….you always keep it real….that’s why we love watching you so much!! I enjoyed todays video for more helpful and inexpensive tips on planting those small little things that will hopefully bring us much joy! By the way, I love that terra-cotta pot you planted the geraniums in! ~ A blooper video would be great fun!!! 🌸
I just planted a pot of coleus w/creeping jenny around the edge. I also took your advice, walked in my woods and found 2 evergreen trees that I put in clay pots and surrounded w/ mounding impatiens seeds. Yea!! Thank you!
I learn so much every time I watch one of your videos. Thanks so much !
Loved this video. Have done all of these except the privet. Have a cedar tree that volunteered under my ornamental Cherry tree and am making it into a topiary.
Love the geranium in the terra cotta pot! Love that look. Right up my alley. Love the tool incident! Too funny it all happens to us! 🌺🌿
I feel totally inspired after watching this! Thanks so much for your generosity in sharing real world ideas that I can try in my own garden. ❤️
I wish I could find all these fun volunteers in my garden. All I've got is clover and these vine plants that try to choke out my shrubs!
When I first moved into my present home, 32 years ago, I was a novice gardener. I planted a hosta at the bottom of my front steps, where it meets the driveway. Well, the hosta loves this spot, and has grown amazingly, even though it is in full sun. I need to somehow pull it out of the ground and divide it, but I am absolutely sure that it is going to be very difficult to do. I do not look forward to this chore, but I will be attempting it very shortly.
I adore these ideas! I have been practicing these ideas this season and it is so much more satisfying than going out and buying plants!!!
Question of the day: I dig up and pot redbud trees that appear in my flowerbeds to gift to friends! Sharing God’s beauty is very satisfying!
Hello Linda, last fall I dug up two baby Cedar trees and potted up to make into a topiary. I plan to trim again in the next few days.
Wow! I was thinking 'throw it out.. throw it out' until I saw how cute you made that awful privet!!😊
I know right?!
I enjoyed this video…..Sometimes I walk around my yard with a shovel, looking for a “bonus voluntary” plant ❤️
Coral Bells I have found (the hard way lol) do so much better in a lovely white chalk painted terracotta pot Vs the pretty flower bed I made for her 🤣… so glad I found you Linda … I can’t believe how much alike we are … you make gardening look amazing & I love everything about you … I just ordered your book I’m looking so forward to reading it! Thanks so much for being so incredible 🌺🌸💚🤍🪴🌿🌳🍀
Hope you enjoy!
I hope your back feels okay tomorrow after battling with that privet. I frequently use a garden fork instead of a shovel to dig things up.
Linda, I've just been watching you dig out the privet. Please be careful. I once tried digging out a rose and strained the back of my knee, which resulted in a deep vein thrombosis. That was 10 years ago and I'm fine now and still love gardening! Take care. Love your garden.
I love your videos, so educational. I have learned so much from you. God bless you.
I wrestled with very mature fern one time. I had to chuckle watching you. Lots of good ideas. I enjoy doing those kind of projects also. Thanks!
Oh my you are so right if I had to buy everything in my garden I would not be happy. Half the fun of gardening is looking to propagate from plants
I did the opposite of #1 yesterday. I had a small boxwood in my front bed that was just not looking well. So I took it out and replaced it with one that was in a pot in the back yard. The puny one went into the pot to try to restore it a little. I also took up two illumination gardenias from the front and will place in the back. They were in an area that i was not watering as much as they needed. So I will place them in an area that I won’t forget to water them. 🌳🌳🌳
Love all 3 projects
Love your bonus projects - soooo much fun !!!
Linda, thanks for your wonderful garden tips. I hope to meet you some day.
Red cedars grow wild on my farm. I'm thinking I will put some in pots for topiary. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Linda and Stewart
That sure was a struggle but the end product on that privet was amazing ! I also use pruners to cut back roots if a sharp spade doesn’t work. The container garden however just does not work for me bc I don’t have a good watering system if I go away. But that’s ok bc I can see yours and appreciate your work. Your garden rewards you. I used to container garden so I know how rewarding it can be. I need to watch you on a big screen to appreciate Stewart’s camera work! See you soon!
Awesome video.. 🌷🌷👌👌
Love the rare form of you two today 😂
Excited to watch this video! I love ALL of them. Your show is my favorite. Just a few minutes in, and I am so with you on getting the privot OUT. Great job. 😁
Enjoyed. Something I am doing. I found you last week and I am so glad I did: someone who likes to do what I enjoy. I just received your book from Amazon and it is wonderful. Thank you so much for writing it. I live in Zone 5/Michigan and I live on a sand ridge....the sand is feet deep so growing hydrangeas is a challenge. You may have done this already, but I would enjoy hearing from you your favorite garden books (my weakness is books also). Now I am off to the nursery.
Welcome!
Fabulous video! Such wonderful ideas! I have two variegated leaf sage plants in the garden that are not doing well. I'm going to dig them up & put them in a pot together & place where it will get a bit more sun. All 3 of your projects were wonderful!
I still find it fascinating that you plant directly into planter without using the containers, I usually place the container into the planter instead.
Guilty as charged , transplanting 😀
I’m going to dig up a volunteer evergreen, similar to what you have done. I’ve tried a couple times before and they did not survive. I think the watering in may be the key. So, so loved todays episode. The priming I find very intimidating, but you make it look simpler than I was making it in my mind. Thank you.
I actually loved the shape of the privet BEFORE you pruned it! It had a perfectly wild and crazy style! 🤪🤪🤪
However, of course, it looked great after it’s “haircut” as well! ☺️
I love projects like this, thank you so very much for sharing.
I’ve been putting together container plantings for my balcony. One more to go! So many plants to choose from, so little space for pots but I manage to have a beautiful garden in my allotted space.
I love how you created something of beauty from that poor tortured privet!! 😂 Lastly, a nice pot really makes difference...the geraniums in the terra cotta.
Thanks for all the gardening tips!
Zone 7b in NC. I had a beautiful pot of dill and last week found it covered with aphids. I cut it to the ground and threw it in the trash. I have never had aphids like I have this year!
Why did I never think to replant a plastic hanging basket into a more attractive planter?? Thanks to you Linda … I will transfer a dragon leaf begonia that was gifted to me into one today!
I buy lantana in hanging baskets and replant into larger pots I place throughout the garden (one of the few annuals the deer don't bother, at least so far!). I also have some wrought iron hanging planters that I bought years ago that are larger than the typical plastic hanging baskets. I repot standard hanging basket plants into these larger hangers, and they perform much better, and grow significantly larger. It doesn't take long for plants to become rootbound in standard plastic hanging planters.
Loved this show! I have a baby Nandina coming up that I want to put in a container. And try topiary with it? Not sure if it will work but I'll have fun anyway! I look forward to each show and have learned so much!
Linda Love hearing you say root ball…sounds Like ruts🤣🤣
It’s the Oklahoma way🤣😂🤣
@@LindaVater it’s charming. We have the Maine way. Some day look into the Coastal Botanical gardens. Can’t say enough…along the coast
Great ideas. My motto this year to to ages come is, " work smarter;
not harder." So anything that falls into that motto, I'm all in!
Can you leave terra cotts pots out in winter in your area?
I love the look of terra cotta but they will crack in our winter weather. So i shy away from that.
YEP, WORK SMARTER. NOT HARDER!
I love your idea of mixing herbs snd annuals.
Agree do not use plastic either thanks for info on budworms will keep look out! Thanks!❤️👍
Does "plastic" include synthetic pots? I have a number of synthetic pots that have a matte finish, and that I think are handsome.
Question of the day answer, I have dug up lots of volunteers, my latest are some baby boxwoods under my American Boxwood, well, actually they are seedlings, yes seedlings. But I also look for those little Junipers (since you showed me their worth) But I have planted up seedlings from hellabores, babies from hostas. And I am that person that will pick up little pieces of coleus from the garden center and root. lol. Garden hint, i use old cocoliners to block holes, but still allow water to flow right through. I never throw anything away. And I just bought big pots of lavender, inside there were 5 in one, 6 in another, much cheaper than buying the individual plants. WIN WIN. Did I miss the link to the gloves, they definitely look like they would be cool!
You always give us such good content🥰
Bravo for today👍🏼
Loving your thriftiness loving your creative ideas, and I’m definitely put them into my gardens 👍🏻🌿⛰
Sorry laughing at your expense so determined to get that plant out. We’ve all been there. Enjoyed the tips.
Looks great!👍😎
Love it!
I dug up a red cedar to shop my garden a la Linda. It will almost certainly turn that characteristic brownish grey in winter but it might be a fun topiary nonetheless.
I have that color red geranium plants but bigger blooms. Probably a different variety. I put a purple Salvia in the hanging basket with it. I enjoy your thrifty plantings. Lorraine
That pot is very unusual - never seen one low and wide with that design👍🏼
Great ideas I overwintered plants and need to repot them today. Also love your clay pot you used for the geraniums
Cost is relative. Depends where you’re coming from. How a garden looks has a lot to do with what the home/backdrop is. While many things are free or cost almost nothing a few well spent dollars makes a big difference. I’ve been able to gift many seeds and cutting as well as receiving cuttings and seeds. Then there’s how much time and patience one has. I have some very pretty plants and shrubs that started in four inch pots.
I love your videos. Thank you so much for them! I need to dig up a very unhappy hydrangea and put it in a pot. But I have more pots standing all around my garden than I would like to have. 😅 Love from Germany 💛🐝💛
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Greetings from Pueblo, Colorado(zone 5B) where we just had a heavy wet snow on Friday night. We desperately needed the moisture, so just dealing as best we can with all of the broken tree limbs. Your videos are always so informative and I have learned so much from you. Thanks for the reminder about sharpening our shovels. Before when you suggested the need for sharpening our garden tools, I called our local Ace Hardware and they do not offer this service anymore. Any other ideas of where to take our tools for maintenance and sharpening will be greatly appreciated. Linda, keep doing what you do so well. We all LOVE you!!!!
I just had pruners sharpened at a local independent hardware store.
Possibly a lawn mower repair shop. They usually sharpen mower blades.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will branch out and try that. 😊
I propagated hostas and planted them in pots.
I have a large hosta that has separated on its own. So I will take out the smaller one to transplant at my neighbours garden! They have a rhododendron that needs more sun. I will replace it with the hosta. It gets just a bit of morning sun. 🌿🌸.