Charlie's remark was hilarious. Such is life, when your folks are plants-men + -women. Looking very much forward to "Junipers Don't Get Enough Love". Lol.
Great work. Would love to see more campus tours like this. That mulberry is JC Raulston's oldest Morus incisa (bombycis) 'Unryu', a contorted Asian clone he donated to campus. It was too big for the Arb. and campus accepted it. There is another big one at Duke Gardens.
Yes to more of these videos! Your and Steph's love of plants comes through beautifully. It is a pleasure to take a virtual walk with you. I always find some inspiration for my own garden. I am looking forward to the juniper video. We are in Z 6b/7a Hudson Valley, side of a mountain so very well draining site, and I have been looking for native or nativar evergreens that will survive sunny, dry conditions in the wilder parts of my property and junipers just keep turning up. I wish I could find more mature specimens in the nurseries. Someone has to plant something other than arbs (which took a beating here in the drought of 2022).
I find these videos fascinating. An extension of this could be a less edited version of your public and private garden discoveries (a.k.a. Jim and Steph Unplugged) which would give the proverbial “fly on the wall” or insider’s look into what it’s like to enjoy a “walk about” with two incredibly talented, intelligent, friendly, down-to-earth individuals. Maybe strap a GoPro to your heads…😂🌸🐝
How about a similar campus tour over at UNC in Chapel Hill. Let folks see all the plants that captured Charlie's attention. You've got the campus, the Coker Arboretum & the North Carolina Botanical Garden. You can even visit the magical Southern Magnolia at the Horace Williams House that looks like something out of Harry Potter.
Loved the video. Nyssa sylvatica 'Wildfire" is my favorite underused native shade tree. Amazing tree I wish could replace all the Red Maples I see in new neighborhoods with it. Seeing some good examples would be cool.
Thanks Jim & Steph for another informative and interesting video! I am a tree & shrub buyer for a magical nursery in Oregon and your videos help me with my knowledge of all things green💚
Excellent tour! Hope you can capture the tunnel of Camellias in bloom! I planted 2 Hollywood Junipers on my rear line and hope they go crazy like those someday!
Yes I absolutely LOVE your walk about videos...Public spaces, gardens, etc. So fun!!! Thanks Jim!!! Have you done a video at Juniper Level Botanical Garden yet??? I live in Angier!! Lol.
I had the opportunity to visit the gardens on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville quite often and really learned a lot in doing so. I even attended a few horticultural classes there. That would make a great garden tour if you are ever in the area.
Seconding what you said about Kentucky Yellowwoods. I have two that I added to my yard several years ago, and they are absolutely beautiful trees with four seasons of interest. I bought the only two I’ve ever seen for sale (they were larger ~1-2” caliper trees), but if I ever come across more, I will be buying them. Can’t recommend them enough!
Yes, love these walk around videos. Enjoy your commentary as well when something has just been "left" and how to remedy that or next steps if needed. If you ever are in the Coastal areas of NC as well, such as Wilmington or New Bern. Would love to get your take on some of the urban plantings and /or the public gardens such as Airlie or NHC Arboretum. The Historic Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington has some amazing and old Camellias which may be in bloom! Thanks again!!
I really enjoyed this campus botanical tour! When I was a student at NC State (a long time ago), I was not yet interested in plants or gardening. Therefore, I paid little attention to all the interesting plants on the campus. Thanks for another great video!
I really enjoyed this video! My husband's an NC State alum, and we go there several times a year. Those were some cool plants that you highlighted in some interesting places. As for the junipers that outgrew their containers, it's ironic a school that teaches horticulture would have happen. Sometimes the maintenance people don't get the right directions.
I agree with the mulberry comment Jim we have them here in southern MI and you cannot distinguish between native and non. I mean in Detroit when you go to whats left of a lot of the neighborhoods and there’s mulberry that are 4-5ft in diameter, you’ll see tree of heaven that big as well. Both incredibly weedy as you can imagine
The story about your son noticing the plants--too funny! My adult kids also do this and it warms my heart. More walk-arounds, please. There is always more to learn.
These tour videos are great. Love to see standout plants across the US and facts about them. I feel the same way about invasive trees that are already everywhere. Where I live in FL, the flamegold tree (Koelreuteria elegans) is unfortunately invasive but it’s easily the most beautiful showy tree in our “fall.”
I enjoyed this walk around of my alma mater. (Go Wolfpack!) As a student, I don't think I had a great enough appreciation for all the wonderful trees and shrubs on campus. What I did appreciate was the milder climate. I grew up in the western part of the state, so I was always in awe of how late the falls were and how early the springs are in comparison to the mountains. For an idea of a potential walk around, I would like to see one focusing on lovely landscapes that withstand deer, please.
Great tour around campus, I find as a professional gardener that many time things get forgotten over time and I find that the tree is holding up the stake rather than the other way around, 🌲🌳
I find these walkabouts very valuable for many reasons. At this time of year when I am planning new spaces, I especially appreciate that they show us all sorts of mature plants. My neighbourhood is virtually all 'builders grade' plantings, so I have to go online to find out what interesting plants look like at maturity.
Excellent video. It’s so interesting to see examples of trees and shrubs that have been able to grow unfettered. They have such unusual and artistic habits.
Jim, my wife and I love your walkabouts of neighborhoods and campuses. I was lucky to have spent my career on and around campuses, most of them well landscaped. They feature less common and larger plants, as you showed. And I've found campuses usually do a better job of structurally pruning trees instead of butchering them.
I really enjoy these walk around videos. Sometimes you just can’t picture a mature plant and it’s nice to see it. Also I’m right there with you loving junipers. They’re so underrated.
Definitely like the walking tours, keep em comin! I garden in Z8b Oregon, very interesting seeing how your Z8 differs, or not, from our west coast version.
Yellowwood is also one of my favorites. I planted one about 12+/- years ago and it succumbed to the Ambrosia beetle. 😡 It suckered a bit before dying so I allowed a couple to grow and now it’s about 15’ tall and dying again but not from the beetles. I don’t think they like the central Bluegrass area. Landscapers started using them here about the same time I originally planted mine and they are slowly dying. ☹️
Absolutely love seeing plants in the wild and how they’re used. Keep these kind of videos coming very educational and give the viewer great ideas for their own landscape.
Ever since I started gardening and design I too look at landscapes and what I noticed lately is that a lot of established trees and shrubs and groundcovers are being ripped out and replaced with maple trees, grasses and tons of mulch - even on slopes, and over time these once beautiful landscapes are struggling, with weeds and dying trees. I think back then building architects worked with landscape architects and designers in order to get stellar design. Now these people just hire landscapers that are the cheapest and let them have carte blanche and I do miss seeing the older beautiful landscapes like the one here.
I don’t see how those last 3 trees in those broken planters are even alive with all that concrete. I saw no open soil anywhere near them. I don’t see how their roots get oxygen or water.
Jim, question on the KY Yellowwood tree how it is branching at the bottom and looks like could split and introduce rotting. We have a KY Coffee tree that is the same and we were told we should take it down which I really hate to do.
For a university with an Architecture School and Horticultural School the campus and it's plantings are not very attractive. Examples of much more appealing campuses with similar programs include Virginia Tech and Clemson.
I love these walk around videos! It gives us a chance to see plants in their mature state. Thanks y’all!
Enjoy very much learning about plants in the area. Must compliment Steph’s behind the scenes camera work again such a good job videoing.
Thank you so much
Charlie's remark was hilarious. Such is life, when your folks are plants-men + -women.
Looking very much forward to "Junipers Don't Get Enough Love". Lol.
Thanks, Jim and Steph, for another great video. Yes, live videos showing different plants, especially if the plant is "allowed" to just grow.
Great work. Would love to see more campus tours like this. That mulberry is JC Raulston's oldest Morus incisa (bombycis) 'Unryu', a contorted Asian clone he donated to campus. It was too big for the Arb. and campus accepted it. There is another big one at Duke Gardens.
Thanks Larry! That's great information! Still want to get together sometime soon
Yes to more of these videos! Your and Steph's love of plants comes through beautifully. It is a pleasure to take a virtual walk with you. I always find some inspiration for my own garden. I am looking forward to the juniper video. We are in Z 6b/7a Hudson Valley, side of a mountain so very well draining site, and I have been looking for native or nativar evergreens that will survive sunny, dry conditions in the wilder parts of my property and junipers just keep turning up. I wish I could find more mature specimens in the nurseries. Someone has to plant something other than arbs (which took a beating here in the drought of 2022).
I find these videos fascinating. An extension of this could be a less edited version of your public and private garden discoveries (a.k.a. Jim and Steph Unplugged) which would give the proverbial “fly on the wall” or insider’s look into what it’s like to enjoy a “walk about” with two incredibly talented, intelligent, friendly, down-to-earth individuals. Maybe strap a GoPro to your heads…😂🌸🐝
Love all these plant tours great education!!! Thanks Jim & Stephanie ♥️
I love that Hollywood Juniper 😍 Thank you Jim and Stephanie for a great walk around video! I love these!!
Love the walk around and all garden tours. More...more....
How about a similar campus tour over at UNC in Chapel Hill. Let folks see all the plants that captured Charlie's attention. You've got the campus, the Coker Arboretum & the North Carolina Botanical Garden. You can even visit the magical Southern Magnolia at the Horace Williams House that looks like something out of Harry Potter.
I go to NC state and I didn’t realize the benefits of going to a horticulture school until I noticed all the plants around campus. It is the bestttt
Yes, always love these videos!
I enjoyed seeing this walk around and you explaining the plants with all the differences.
Loved the video. Nyssa sylvatica 'Wildfire" is my favorite underused native shade tree. Amazing tree I wish could replace all the Red Maples I see in new neighborhoods with it. Seeing some good examples would be cool.
Wow. That Torulosa was amazing.
More unpruned, and very old, plants like this.
And the Raphiolepsis umbellata trees !
Love the walk around videos, and definitely more junipers, PLEASE.😊
Love them, and yes, I agree more junipers please!
It’s helpful to see what some of these plants will do if left unpruned. The Hollywood Juniper was astonishing. I had no idea it would get that big.
Yes, please do more of these around Raleigh public spaces so I can go look at them! 😄
Thanks Jim & Steph for another informative and interesting video! I am a tree & shrub buyer for a magical nursery in Oregon and your videos help me with my knowledge of all things green💚
Love the neighborhood walk-arounds, Jim. Looking forward to more! 😊
Thank you for the trip back to campus (NCSU Class of 98). I don't get back to Raleigh enough.
Excellent tour! Hope you can capture the tunnel of Camellias in bloom! I planted 2 Hollywood Junipers on my rear line and hope they go crazy like those someday!
Yes please!! More walk around. So interesting seing plants in all kind of ages and places. Both good and bad 😄
Yes I absolutely LOVE your walk about videos...Public spaces, gardens, etc. So fun!!! Thanks Jim!!! Have you done a video at Juniper Level Botanical Garden yet??? I live in Angier!! Lol.
I had the opportunity to visit the gardens on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville quite often and really learned a lot in doing so. I even attended a few horticultural classes there. That would make a great garden tour if you are ever in the area.
Seconding what you said about Kentucky Yellowwoods. I have two that I added to my yard several years ago, and they are absolutely beautiful trees with four seasons of interest. I bought the only two I’ve ever seen for sale (they were larger ~1-2” caliper trees), but if I ever come across more, I will be buying them. Can’t recommend them enough!
Love them!
Hey Jim, this is Parke from north Alabama. We love the walk around videos.
Yes, love these walk around videos. Enjoy your commentary as well when something has just been "left" and how to remedy that or next steps if needed. If you ever are in the Coastal areas of NC as well, such as Wilmington or New Bern. Would love to get your take on some of the urban plantings and /or the public gardens such as Airlie or NHC Arboretum. The Historic Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington has some amazing and old Camellias which may be in bloom!
Thanks again!!
I really enjoyed this campus botanical tour! When I was a student at NC State (a long time ago), I was not yet interested in plants or gardening. Therefore, I paid little attention to all the interesting plants on the campus. Thanks for another great video!
I really enjoyed this video! My husband's an NC State alum, and we go there several times a year. Those were some cool plants that you highlighted in some interesting places. As for the junipers that outgrew their containers, it's ironic a school that teaches horticulture would have happen. Sometimes the maintenance people don't get the right directions.
I agree with the mulberry comment Jim we have them here in southern MI and you cannot distinguish between native and non. I mean in Detroit when you go to whats left of a lot of the neighborhoods and there’s mulberry that are 4-5ft in diameter, you’ll see tree of heaven that big as well. Both incredibly weedy as you can imagine
The story about your son noticing the plants--too funny! My adult kids also do this and it warms my heart. More walk-arounds, please. There is always more to learn.
These tour videos are great. Love to see standout plants across the US and facts about them. I feel the same way about invasive trees that are already everywhere. Where I live in FL, the flamegold tree (Koelreuteria elegans) is unfortunately invasive but it’s easily the most beautiful showy tree in our “fall.”
I also love these videos so we get to see really mature sized different things. Thank you!
I enjoyed this walk around of my alma mater. (Go Wolfpack!) As a student, I don't think I had a great enough appreciation for all the wonderful trees and shrubs on campus. What I did appreciate was the milder climate. I grew up in the western part of the state, so I was always in awe of how late the falls were and how early the springs are in comparison to the mountains.
For an idea of a potential walk around, I would like to see one focusing on lovely landscapes that withstand deer, please.
Great tour around campus, I find as a professional gardener that many time things get forgotten over time and I find that the tree is holding up the stake rather than the other way around, 🌲🌳
I find these walkabouts very valuable for many reasons. At this time of year when I am planning new spaces, I especially appreciate that they show us all sorts of mature plants. My neighbourhood is virtually all 'builders grade' plantings, so I have to go online to find out what interesting plants look like at maturity.
Excellent video. It’s so interesting to see examples of trees and shrubs that have been able to grow unfettered. They have such unusual and artistic habits.
Very interesting and informative! I would definitely watch more videos like this.
Jim, my wife and I love your walkabouts of neighborhoods and campuses. I was lucky to have spent my career on and around campuses, most of them well landscaped. They feature less common and larger plants, as you showed. And I've found campuses usually do a better job of structurally pruning trees instead of butchering them.
I love your walk around videos, and all the others too! ❤
I really enjoy these walk around videos. Sometimes you just can’t picture a mature plant and it’s nice to see it. Also I’m right there with you loving junipers. They’re so underrated.
Definitely like the walking tours, keep em comin! I garden in Z8b Oregon, very interesting seeing how your Z8 differs, or not, from our west coast version.
Yes Jim, enjoy the neighbor hood garden tour videos. Keep them coming. From your neighbor down in Sanford,Nc
Yes I love the neighborhood walks! Showing real gardens and mature plants … THANK YOU as always great video!!!! 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴
Really enjoyed this tour. I'd love to see you revisit it in a few months when everything is blooming. Thanks for sharing.
Yellowwood is also one of my favorites. I planted one about 12+/- years ago and it succumbed to the Ambrosia beetle. 😡 It suckered a bit before dying so I allowed a couple to grow and now it’s about 15’ tall and dying again but not from the beetles. I don’t think they like the central Bluegrass area. Landscapers started using them here about the same time I originally planted mine and they are slowly dying. ☹️
Absolutely love seeing plants in the wild and how they’re used. Keep these kind of videos coming very educational and give the viewer great ideas for their own landscape.
Being from Raleigh, I loved the tour.
Yes,I love to see what other people are planting❤
Really enjoyed the tour. Interesting
Can't wait for the juniper video!
Love the walk around videos. Very interested in the junipers get no love video too. Thanks for sharing!
Great college campus plant tour! I’ve derived inspiration in the past from some of the plants on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
Should've showed the big deodar cedars next to the Belltower!
Junipers get no love video - Yes!
Love your walkarounds
It is so true that once you focus on the plants that is all you see. I’m so glad that is how I view everything!
love the walk abouts.
Thanks for the tour! It was very interesting! 😊👍
Love the walk around videos ❤
I love Barkitecture!
Ever since I started gardening and design I too look at landscapes and what I noticed lately is that a lot of established trees and shrubs and groundcovers are being ripped out and replaced with maple trees, grasses and tons of mulch - even on slopes, and over time these once beautiful landscapes are struggling, with weeds and dying trees.
I think back then building architects worked with landscape architects and designers in order to get stellar design.
Now these people just hire landscapers that are the cheapest and let them have carte blanche and I do miss seeing the older beautiful landscapes like the one here.
Please get Atleast a photo of that Camelia Japonica tunnel when it blooms.
Oh my please video the camellia japonica tunnel in bloom
❤hello everyone. 😊
that’s me walking around auburn’s campus.
Jim,
Can all mulberry leaves be used for tea or just the Chinese?
Thank you. 😊
Love this ❤
Jim,
Is there a plant that has leaves & flower clusters that look like Abelia, but has long, skinny thorns?
Thank you. 😊
I don’t see how those last 3 trees in those broken planters are even alive with all that concrete. I saw no open soil anywhere near them. I don’t see how their roots get oxygen or water.
Could you post a video update when those camellia's are in bloom?
Jim, question on the KY Yellowwood tree how it is branching at the bottom and looks like could split and introduce rotting. We have a KY Coffee tree that is the same and we were told we should take it down which I really hate to do.
Yep
Junipers get no love… 😂😂😂
For a university with an Architecture School and Horticultural School the campus and it's plantings are not very attractive. Examples of much more appealing campuses with similar programs include Virginia Tech and Clemson.
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Southern magnolia is a horrible tree. Drops leaves all season.
Cool plants