Today, I “shopped” in my yard! I had plants that needs to be divided and moved, transplanted a few plants that would be happier in a different spot…moved some containers, statuary and garden art around. It gave it a new, fresh look! Always shop your yard first! (A lesson learned from you, Linda! Thanks 😊) The yard looks fabulous! The greens are so much brighter after a good rainfall 😉
i am totally shopping my yard this year too .... i need to move a buttefly bush, and fill in the gap with various perennials i started from seed, and move some irises too. it's so much fun. gardening has taught me that nothing is permanent and we can change things as we change. it's so much fun!
My project was putting in a mailbox with post next to my she shed to keep hand tools and gloves inside. I used a small used tire at the base for a planter and I planted Shasta Daisies in it.
I pulled weeds 👍🏻 to keep ahead of them. And moved some aggressive spreaders, beautiful flowers on it but takes over so it was rehomed to behind the shed.
Yesterday I went on a 6 home Spring Garden Tour and had the time of my life and of course got so many ideas! I live in zone 9 and as a result, we have VERY hot summers and are constantly living in a drought situation. One of the gardens I saw yesterday had little jade trees tucked into many corners in unusually beautiful pots. (They need very little waterI) In one area I saw a mixture of medium size topiaries with small jade trees mixed in. It looked very cute! I also saw one other great idea. On the side of one of the homes they had 3 or 4 smallish shiny galvanized trash cans to store potting soil, compost, humus, etc. Each was labeled in a cute font and a vintage shovel was propped beside them. It looked so much better than all my bags of soil, etc.
Wisconsin, zone 5b....we've had such a chilly & wet April but Saturday it was 70° & beautiful so I worked on cleaning up my flower beds & getting the vegetable beds ready for planting. My garden is my sanctuary! I'm no more at peace than when I'm outside in the garden 🤗
Hi guys! Me and my husband have discovered the power or mulch. A local farm store had it on sale at 1.25 so we cleared them out. Paired with weed/landscaping fabric underneath it makes the world of difference. We have been putting black mulch around our trees, walkways, shrubbery and flagpole. It really makes the greenery and color of flowers pop. Not to mention helps cut back on watering and helps when mowing around trees and such when we added a rock ring. Super cheap. Super effective. Love all of you fellow green thumbs!
I use a folding "TV table" my neighbor was pitching and a large tile from Home Depot as a portable little "potting table" I can use around some areas of the house.
Another “tile” use in the garden - I use some small 2” tiles under pots instead of pot feet. I like that they barely raise the pot off the ground so I don’t see them but still get drainage and ant prevention.
Zone 7a (middle Tennessee) husband installed 2nd trench drain to help with erosion of our very angled yard. Also installed rain collection barrel on one if our garden sheds.
Zone 6b- Today I transplanted 2 blueberry bushes that were not getting enough sun, and a hydrangea that was getting too much! Hopefully, everyone will be happier this season! Great ideas, I’m going to try the lettuce in buckets on my porch. Thank you!
Thank you Linda and Stewart. Great strategy to use the shape of the pot to cut out a template from your ground cover. I loved the way Stewart panned over the front yard when you forgot something and he placed that signature music. Gave us a chance to really peruse the garden without any talking and just allow our eyes to analyse what spoke to us. Love from sunny Sydney, Australia.
I'm putting epoxy chemicals to put together a broken clay pots and re painting them with chocolate brown color instead a old terracota shine. we only have two seasons dry and wet.😊
Today I made a small bed at the center area in between my shed and orchid house . I made a tuteur for roses. Eventually my four columns that frame this are will have a top for David Austin roses I’ve planted. Next project will be to reface my garden shed into a pretty place to pot things up!👍❤️ zone 9 b
I spread compost in our window boxes and in the courtyard soil where I will plant annuals. I also cleaned our courtyard furniture and scrubbed and tweaked the back porch. Zone 6b
Projects accomplished! Planted 100 corn plants and up-potted my lettuce, spinach, kale, peppers and tomatoes. The biggest accomplishment of the weekend was convincing hubs to take me to buy evergreens. And we both lived through it! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🥳🥳
@@LindaVater Hi, what State are you gardening in, I'm in MI. Zone 6. I would love to know if everything you have planted would do well here, thx ! Your yard looks beautiful !!!!!❤️❤️❤️
I may be moving soon. In anticipation, this week and the few to follow I will be digging up plants and taking cuttings of things I want to take with me.
I make my own stepping stones - I got most of my containers to make these stones at a thrift store - cake pans - plastic containers that I sprayed with cooking oil .the only thing is that they take 30 days to cure before using them , but their soo gorgeous .. I buy ceramic bowls at thrift stores or antique stores to put water in them for a homemade bird baths - just dig a hole in your garden & place the bowl , then add water.
Zone 8 here. Spent the weekend continuing to tidy up for spring. Leveling birdbaths, and a small water fountain for my obsessive self. A main goal was spray painting garden items like pot stands, a few plastic pots and things like that. I was also thinking I needed to get more flagstone to place these heavy pots and plant stands on…..for exactly the reason you mentioned. They sink in the ground! The tiles will be much more budget friendly and easier to transport. They have already been added to my Lowes list!
I have been told by a couple of gardeners that hair clippings keep squirrels away. One uses her dogs hair and the other uses human hair. Both said it works. I’m going to try it this year.
Zone 8a I weeded, added a new coco liner to my one and only hanging basket and refilled with fresh soil and compost and planted it with petunias. The soil was so dry it no longer held any moisture. I spent the rest of my time cleaning up the mess it made from the wind blowing the soil everywhere, including on me. Ugh! So I refreshed my compost with the leftover soil and watered it really well. Really enjoying your book!
Zone 5b. My project was not pretty but rewarding nonetheless! I organized my various hoses, sprayers etc and outfitted them with brass quick connectors. This project started because I needed an easy way to remove the hoses from the AWESOME motion detector deer repellent sprinklers to use for another purpose.
Our neighborhood has a lot of trees oak & maple. They 're seed all over the lawn and flower beds. Every year I tell myself I'm going to dig a few up and try to turn the sapling into a bonsai tree. Hopefully this is the year I get that done. One year I found a Japanese Maple and I did jump on that. I transplanted that one to the front yard to replace a tree we lost in a hurricane here in 8b.
I needed this video to encourage me to start planting a few flowers and shrubs purchase in past 6 months. I’m in zone 5b and we are late bloomers for spring gardening. This weekend I started yard cleanup and a projects placing stone tiles in front of shed door where water drainage problems exists.
Love your ideas and energy for gardening! You remind me of my grandmother from whom I got my love of gardening! Love watching! She is no longer here but she had such good info like you. Really appreciate you!!! Just did weeding this weekend and planted some zinnia and daisy seeds my aunt gave me! Zone 8a.
Went to the farmers market and bought a beautiful perennial salvia with deep bronze foliage, planted an endless summer hydrangea, and a ruby spice clethera, moved a couple of shrubs to better areas, planted dill in the herb bed and began moving succulent arrangements and some houseplants outside for the summer. Zone 7a Maryland. Love the container sedum idea.
The garden is looking lush, and lovely Linda 🌿. The project I'm working on is taking back a neglected raised bed along the west border of our property. It has been claimed by the oak tree saplings the rise from its roots amongst other nuisance weeds for the past 5 years. Previous attempts to tame the area have all failed, but with your tips, and enough other garden successes, I think I'm finally going to get it done this time 💪😂 🌳
I live in zone 3-4. I took on landscaping my own yard. I am working on choosing plants that provide good privacy from the street and neighbors. Maybe some lilacs. Happy to have found your channel!
I love using ground cover in containers. I have some with needle-like foliage that blooms in various shades of daisy-like flowers at this time of year. The smaller version will trail over planters, while the large grows more upright and both grow well from cuttings.
Started pruning roses and pulling grass creeping into the front rose bed. But the wind was so horrific I had to stop before I got done. A cold front came through and we had very high winds again. So I have much yard work to do, but our weather has not cooperated at all. My crabapple trees are just beginning to bloom. They are so late this year due to the dry winter we had.
Zone 9b. I have a courtyard with concrete pavers. The weeds grew in between the pavers. Used a dull knife to dig out the weeds and am using a solution of 1 gallon of white vinegar, 1 cup of salt and 1 tbsp of Dawn dish detergent in a sprayer to ensure the weeds don’t grow back.
Zone 9b here, and my hubby and I worked on an espalier along a wall on our patio. Because it gets very hot sun exposure, we’ve had problems getting anything to grow in that area. We planted star jasmine, and used gravel as our mulch….we saw this on one of your episodes! Wish us luck!
My garden project was indoors today. I'm attending a seed planting workshop this week and I went through my seed library and selected seeds I won't be using this year to share with the gardeners.
Renovating the bed around the mailbox. Removed a large mugo pine and a juniper. Put in 3 Danica arborvitae and will fill in with perennials and a few annuals. I have removed most junipers from our yard because they are too prickly and get so big. Also moved some perennials. Zone 5b in Ohio.
Love these project ideas. My favorite is the first one with the tile under the pots with planting to disguise it. In zone 9b we had a really nice rain so yesterday I did weeding in a bed that I has been largely ignored because no one sees it in my backyard. It looks so much better:) I also cut back some perennials and a shrub that was growing over my window. It was very satisfying to see things looking so much better.
here in Rural KY, we have no neighbors....but, I would so LOVE to have you as a neighbor! Love all of your gardens, even though my own garden is SO different than yours. I might even have to trim up a topiary for my greenhouse, inspired by you of course! HAPPY GARDENING
One of my very good gardeningfriends is having a digger in her garden and she needed to throw away plants were the digger is going to work. So my husband and I are going to stand buy and ”catch” those plants to put in our garden 🥰
Love the sedum idea! Here in MI zone 5b doing yard cleanup but mostly enjoying the spring ephemerals: Dutchman’s breeches, Virginia bluebells, trillium and trout lillies. 🌺💕
I enjoyed this immensely! My parents whom are getting up there in age 80’s and 90’s have recently purchased some acreage which includes a beautiful pond. My current project is helping out to beautify this already amazing terrain by adding our own touches to make it our (their) own. This is a family adventure and a second farm purchase in several years! Mom and dad always have something up their sleeve and I enjoy rolling sleeves up! Parents had a beautiful koi pond at her last residence. The new pond is at least an acre (with fish but not koi) we are needing to keep it clean. Wow proving to be a chore even with a filtration system. I’m looking to plant water Lily and water Iris just to name a few to help naturally clean and filtrate the water (will see). I live almost two hours away from my folks new adventure so this is a great little weekend getaway! Happy adventures, Zone 7
Zone 7b in NC. I have a plant support from Gardener’s Supply that we call the Tesla Tower. I bought a dark purple clematis (don’t remember name of it) and have ordered 2 black eyed Susan vines, one is white (Coconut A-peal) and the other is orange (Tangerine Slice A-peal). All will be planted on the Tesla Tower.
I am a happy daily follower. Never miss an episode! Please consider a “skip intro” button for those of us who tune in and know the information - or include it at the end of the videos so we can opt out. I do enjoy the outfit du jour - so please leave that in the main body of the video… ;) Ordered your book. Waiting on new QVC items. Loooove your show and learn so much!
@@LindaVater you have inspired me to redo my whole yard on my own. I lost my job during covid but was at retirement age. I found your YT and started gardening. I can't believe what I have done, my neighbors walk by and comment how beautiful it is everyday. This wkend did my side yard by myself!! I would love to send you a few pics as it was you who got me started!! Thank you!! I love your channel ❤️
You can double tap on the right side of the video as it’s playing and it’ll scroll past the intro (might need to do it a few times to cover the whole intro though).
First I am also growing out my hair and just love the way your hair looks! Second I love the way you used the 2 tiles you had to make a sturdy base and covered it up with gravel. We would never know it was there if you didn't tell us. Great tip!
Wedding out a corner of my garden. Covering it in garden fabric into a quarter pie shape. Edging it with log slices and filling it with bark chippings and replacing my bench. Hopefully the difficult to weed corner has been solved.
This weekend we planted 5 baby boxwoods, a low growing juniper, a hydrangea, some autumn joy sedum roots, and an azalea. Oh, and a couple of hostas and heuchera in our shaded east side garden bed.
Tackled two overgrown Japanese maples this weekend and some other shrubs that needed trimming and some spring clean up in zone 6 New England. Finally had a couple of warm enough days to work outside.
Yesterday I took an egg carton (plastic), drilled a hole in each egg slot bottom and used it to start some impromptu purple basil seeds. It might be a little late to be starting seedlings, but I don’t think the seeds know that. I’ll be replanting in some thrifted pots to give to friends and keep some for myself to put in cut flower arrangements. It’s says on the package that it will be good in salads too. Most of all I can’t wait to see how the purple leaves will look in my sage green pot by the front door. Maybe a little white alyssum to go with? Growing plants in my head is fun! Hope it works out. Zone 6b or 7a depending.
Getting rain is a blessing in areas that don't receive enough. I love the baskets of lettuces as presents. A neighbor had just returned from his mother's funeral. Instead if a casserole, I took them freshly picked lettuce. Next fall I will have baskets of lettuce as gifts. I like your baskets because they are easier to lift than most containers.
For water/mulch maintenance, I edged one of my beds with bricks in a pleasing pattern, love the look. Also planted three orange rocket barberries. My signature color is orange.
Zone 6. This weekend I’m thinking I’ll take some various random cheap planters I’m getting tired of and rub them with paint and dirt to give them an aged patina & make them all “go together” - Linda you did a video last year on the technique I want to try so I’ll watch that again for inspiration. My garden “style” is colorful and eclectic, like a life-sized fairy garden full of repurposed items and whimsical details, so Ill probably use swirls of colorful paints and sort of dull them down here and there with globs of dirt and moss. Should be fun way to spend an afternoon :)
Love the tile idea! I have a grouping of French pots that contain lavender in an area covered in soil amendment, instead of bark. Every time it rains, there’s “dirt” splash-back and I have to spray the sides of the pots to clean them. I have extra tile in the garage! Let’s see if this prevents dirty splash-back!
I broke my femur in November and today I was able to putt around in the front yard garden, trimming dead wood out of my hydrangeas, cleaning up my geraniums and propagating some. Than I finished with planting some ground cover, Lamium. I took some foliage cuttings off of some other things and put them in vases to bring the outside in. Oh what a wonderful day to be back in my garden again. :)
Needed to transfer a topiary to a new pot from a broken pot. Checked my pot stash and went "shopping" there instead of buying a new one. Also enjoyed our first warm day, and cleaned up my main flower bed and observed what is coming up and what didn't make it. Watching a boxwood topiary that is all browned, cut off a small branch and it is green so it has life, do you think it will make it?
Linda, your backyard garden is looking so absolutely beautiful! Love it! I'll be doing more spring cleanup tomorrow. Instill have some leave mulch on some beds because of the chance of late frost.
Zone 5 here, I did yard clean up and had a glorious time! Love the sedum idea, I have tons of that growing, I usually pull it out and throw it away, but I will try snipping it.
I have a lot of projects - ongoing projects of the yard. One is that I have been moving daylily's inward from edge of sidewalk and driveway to allow more room for flowers to bloom, the daylilies seem to take over and hog the sun. :)
Such a lovely video. Spring is oh so beautiful here in OKC. All the colors and green foliage feed my soul. And such quick and easy ideas to grow our gardens.
I just painted my front door to compliment the brick edging we installed this spring. I picked a chocolate plum color because I love the color plum so much. It’s a Glidden paint called chocolate sparkle. It took me an afternoon to paint the door. I love it! Cape Cod zone 7A.
Last year I put concrete bricks under my concrete Chinese lantern, which had sunk almost 4 inches into the dirt! It was literally disappearing. Now it looks so good, and the periwinkle vines are camoflaging the bricks. BTW, your garden looks so lush after the rain.
Zone 5a - I will be working on thinning out seedlings and small plants that are growing where I don't want them. And like many others I will move things around. I still need to trim down my russian sage as well. I have salad greens in a raised bed that are coming in nicely. I will take your suggestion when they are ready to be thinned and gift them to someone.
Took down a tree and put up a new fence last year, so this year we are completely re-doing our yard. This weekend, I got a Proven Winners order of shrubs and bushes in and replanted some last minute seeds that did not come up over the winter... hopefully this time they will!
I’m going to keep building a bund for a planting behind my kids’ sandpit, in a zone similar to 11b. We’re enjoying this year’s torrential rain right now so it makes sense to plant things on mounds for better drainage.
This weekend I pulled out old bushes to put in a new garden and gravel fire pit area. I am in zone 6a and it’s a little cold here still. I went flower shopping for the first time this season. So I picked out some purple lime green and white flowers and bushes. I am so excited for this color palette for the new garden.
My weekend project in my zone 8b garden was to begin pulling back my winter leaf mulch so that I could slug bait my emerging hosta plants. The succulent transplant project was ingenious, getting a perfect shape and size.
I love that small shovel that you have! It still does the job without being heavy and clumsy. I also love your idea of growing a pot of lettuce, and giving it as a gift. I think I might do that for my sister-in-law who loves to garden, but has not been able to do so.
I love the tile idea. I redid my bathroom and my tile guy was discarding 18” square tiles in my dumpster he had taken up to redo a pool area on another job. I asked for some unbroken ones and he gave me about 30. I have been trying to decide how to use them. I also like clipping the moss, ground cover. I plant sedum ground cover in large limbs that fall and use them to edge some of my larger beds away from the house. Zone 6a.
In 7a, my weekend project was working on getting the gazillion seedlings I started indoors planted outside. (Note to self, start fewer seeds next year!😄) Linda, keep an eye out for Muir lettuce seed. Muir holds up better and bolts slower in summer heat.
Today, I “shopped” in my yard! I had plants that needs to be divided and moved, transplanted a few plants that would be happier in a different spot…moved some containers, statuary and garden art around. It gave it a new, fresh look! Always shop your yard first! (A lesson learned from you, Linda! Thanks 😊) The yard looks fabulous! The greens are so much brighter after a good rainfall 😉
i am totally shopping my yard this year too .... i need to move a buttefly bush, and fill in the gap with various perennials i started from seed, and move some irises too. it's so much fun. gardening has taught me that nothing is permanent and we can change things as we change. it's so much fun!
My project was putting in a mailbox with post next to my she shed to keep hand tools and gloves inside. I used a small used tire at the base for a planter and I planted Shasta Daisies in it.
What a great idea!
I did this a number of years ago. I found a darling old galvanized one at an antique store. It holds quite a lot and all stays dry. Love it!
I pulled weeds 👍🏻 to keep ahead of them. And moved some aggressive spreaders, beautiful flowers on it but takes over so it was rehomed to behind the shed.
I am planning to dig up a hosta that volunteered outside the flower bed put it in a pot and add a solar light
I lining my steps with them !
Yesterday I went on a 6 home Spring Garden Tour and had the time of my life and of course got so many ideas! I live in zone 9 and as a result, we have VERY hot summers and are constantly living in a drought situation. One of the gardens I saw yesterday had little jade trees tucked into many corners in unusually beautiful pots. (They need very little waterI) In one area I saw a mixture of medium size topiaries with small jade trees mixed in. It looked very cute! I also saw one other great idea. On the side of one of the homes they had 3 or 4 smallish shiny galvanized trash cans to store potting soil, compost, humus, etc. Each was labeled in a cute font and a vintage shovel was propped beside them. It looked so much better than all my bags of soil, etc.
Wisconsin, zone 5b....we've had such a chilly & wet April but Saturday it was 70° & beautiful so I worked on cleaning up my flower beds & getting the vegetable beds ready for planting. My garden is my sanctuary! I'm no more at peace than when I'm outside in the garden 🤗
Hi guys! Me and my husband have discovered the power or mulch. A local farm store had it on sale at 1.25 so we cleared them out. Paired with weed/landscaping fabric underneath it makes the world of difference. We have been putting black mulch around our trees, walkways, shrubbery and flagpole. It really makes the greenery and color of flowers pop. Not to mention helps cut back on watering and helps when mowing around trees and such when we added a rock ring. Super cheap. Super effective. Love all of you fellow green thumbs!
I use a folding "TV table" my neighbor was pitching and a large tile from Home Depot as a portable little "potting table" I can use around some areas of the house.
Transplanting Hostas split and add more under my burning bushes
Another “tile” use in the garden - I use some small 2” tiles under pots instead of pot feet. I like that they barely raise the pot off the ground so I don’t see them but still get drainage and ant prevention.
Zone 7a (middle Tennessee) husband installed 2nd trench drain to help with erosion of our very angled yard. Also installed rain collection barrel on one if our garden sheds.
Today 9B, fertilized everything and trimmed all the boxwood’s.
Zone 6b- Today I transplanted 2 blueberry bushes that were not getting enough sun, and a hydrangea that was getting too much! Hopefully, everyone will be happier this season! Great ideas, I’m going to try the lettuce in buckets on my porch. Thank you!
Hello Linda. The concrete block planter is always a great idea. My weekend plan for now is to keep on planting rosemary. Warm wishes to everyone.
Linda I just love your saying, rob Peter to pay Paul !! I definitely have some plants that need to be relocated, thanks 😀
Thank you Linda and Stewart. Great strategy to use the shape of the pot to cut out a template from your ground cover. I loved the way Stewart panned over the front yard when you forgot something and he placed that signature music. Gave us a chance to really peruse the garden without any talking and just allow our eyes to analyse what spoke to us. Love from sunny Sydney, Australia.
I'm putting epoxy chemicals to put together a broken clay pots and re painting them with chocolate brown color instead a old terracota shine. we only have two seasons dry and wet.😊
Today I made a small bed at the center area in between my shed and orchid house . I made a tuteur for roses. Eventually my four columns that frame this are will have a top for David Austin roses I’ve planted. Next project will be to reface my garden shed into a pretty place to pot things up!👍❤️ zone 9 b
I spread compost in our window boxes and in the courtyard soil where I will plant annuals. I also cleaned our courtyard furniture and scrubbed and tweaked the back porch. Zone 6b
Projects accomplished! Planted 100 corn plants and up-potted my lettuce, spinach, kale, peppers and tomatoes. The biggest accomplishment of the weekend was convincing hubs to take me to buy evergreens. And we both lived through it! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🥳🥳
Well done!!!
@@LindaVater Hi, what State are you gardening in, I'm in MI. Zone 6. I would love to know if everything you have planted would do well here, thx ! Your yard looks beautiful !!!!!❤️❤️❤️
I am planting my syngonium in pots.
I may be moving soon. In anticipation, this week and the few to follow I will be digging up plants and taking cuttings of things I want to take with me.
I make my own stepping stones - I got most of my containers to make these stones at a thrift store - cake pans - plastic containers that I sprayed with cooking oil .the only thing is that they take 30 days to cure before using them , but their soo gorgeous .. I buy ceramic bowls at thrift stores or antique stores to put water in them for a homemade bird baths - just dig a hole in your garden & place the bowl , then add water.
Zone 8 here. Spent the weekend continuing to tidy up for spring. Leveling birdbaths, and a small water fountain for my obsessive self. A main goal was spray painting garden items like pot stands, a few plastic pots and things like that. I was also thinking I needed to get more flagstone to place these heavy pots and plant stands on…..for exactly the reason you mentioned. They sink in the ground! The tiles will be much more budget friendly and easier to transport. They have already been added to my Lowes list!
I have been told by a couple of gardeners that hair clippings keep squirrels away. One uses her dogs hair and the other uses human hair. Both said it works. I’m going to try it this year.
Zone 8a I weeded, added a new coco liner to my one and only hanging basket and refilled with fresh soil and compost and planted it with petunias. The soil was so dry it no longer held any moisture. I spent the rest of my time cleaning up the mess it made from the wind blowing the soil everywhere, including on me. Ugh! So I refreshed my compost with the leftover soil and watered it really well. Really enjoying your book!
Hi Linda! Nothing should be noticed. Yes!
Zone 5b. My project was not pretty but rewarding nonetheless! I organized my various hoses, sprayers etc and outfitted them with brass quick connectors. This project started because I needed an easy way to remove the hoses from the AWESOME motion detector deer repellent sprinklers to use for another purpose.
Our neighborhood has a lot of trees oak & maple. They 're seed all over the lawn and flower beds. Every year I tell myself I'm going to dig a few up and try to turn the sapling into a bonsai tree. Hopefully this is the year I get that done. One year I found a Japanese Maple and I did jump on that. I transplanted that one to the front yard to replace a tree we lost in a hurricane here in 8b.
I needed this video to encourage me to start planting a few flowers and shrubs purchase in past 6 months. I’m in zone 5b and we are late bloomers for spring gardening. This weekend I started yard cleanup and a projects placing stone tiles in front of shed door where water drainage problems exists.
Moved and divided bleeding heart and a grass to differ areas of my yard plus cut grass. Zone 5 Indiana. Shopping my yard this year to save$
Love your ideas and energy for gardening! You remind me of my grandmother from whom I got my love of gardening! Love watching! She is no longer here but she had such good info like you. Really appreciate you!!! Just did weeding this weekend and planted some zinnia and daisy seeds my aunt gave me! Zone 8a.
Went to the farmers market and bought a beautiful perennial salvia with deep bronze foliage, planted an endless summer hydrangea, and a ruby spice clethera, moved a couple of shrubs to better areas, planted dill in the herb bed and began moving succulent arrangements and some houseplants outside for the summer. Zone 7a Maryland. Love the container sedum idea.
The garden is looking lush, and lovely Linda 🌿. The project I'm working on is taking back a neglected raised bed along the west border of our property. It has been claimed by the oak tree saplings the rise from its roots amongst other nuisance weeds for the past 5 years. Previous attempts to tame the area have all failed, but with your tips, and enough other garden successes, I think I'm finally going to get it done this time 💪😂 🌳
I live in zone 3-4. I took on landscaping my own yard. I am working on choosing plants that provide good privacy from the street and neighbors. Maybe some lilacs. Happy to have found your channel!
I love using ground cover in containers. I have some with needle-like foliage that blooms in various shades of daisy-like flowers at this time of year. The smaller version will trail over planters, while the large grows more upright and both grow well from cuttings.
In zone 4b, I will do some weeding and get soil in my raised beds for veggies!
Started pruning roses and pulling grass creeping into the front rose bed. But the wind was so horrific I had to stop before I got done. A cold front came through and we had very high winds again. So I have much yard work to do, but our weather has not cooperated at all. My crabapple trees are just beginning to bloom. They are so late this year due to the dry winter we had.
Creative ideas! Love the way Stewart gave us a sweeping view with music to fill in!
Zone 9b. I have a courtyard with concrete pavers. The weeds grew in between the pavers. Used a dull knife to dig out the weeds and am using a solution of 1 gallon of white vinegar, 1 cup of salt and 1 tbsp of Dawn dish detergent in a sprayer to ensure the weeds don’t grow back.
Zone 9b here, and my hubby and I worked on an espalier along a wall on our patio. Because it gets very hot sun exposure, we’ve had problems getting anything to grow in that area. We planted star jasmine, and used gravel as our mulch….we saw this on one of your episodes! Wish us luck!
Good luck
Wonderful Hyppeastrums. Never saw such a beautiful cluster.
My garden project was indoors today. I'm attending a seed planting workshop this week and I went through my seed library and selected seeds I won't be using this year to share with the gardeners.
I’m really enjoying looking at your gardening videos during this frosty weather.
Thank you Linda and Stewart for the peace and joy you brought me in your video today. I loved the music!
Renovating the bed around the mailbox. Removed a large mugo pine and a juniper. Put in 3 Danica arborvitae and will fill in with perennials and a few annuals. I have removed most junipers from our yard because they are too prickly and get so big. Also moved some perennials. Zone 5b in Ohio.
Love these project ideas. My favorite is the first one with the tile under the pots with planting to disguise it. In zone 9b we had a really nice rain so yesterday I did weeding in a bed that I has been largely ignored because no one sees it in my backyard. It looks so much better:) I also cut back some perennials and a shrub that was growing over my window. It was very satisfying to see things looking so much better.
I hear you
here in Rural KY, we have no neighbors....but, I would so LOVE to have you as a neighbor! Love all of your gardens, even though my own garden is SO different than yours. I might even have to trim up a topiary for my greenhouse, inspired by you of course! HAPPY GARDENING
One of my very good gardeningfriends is having a digger in her garden and she needed to throw away plants were the digger is going to work. So my husband and I are going to stand buy and ”catch” those plants to put in our garden 🥰
Well played😁
@@LindaVater Thank You! ❤️
Love the sedum idea! Here in MI zone 5b doing yard cleanup but mostly enjoying the spring ephemerals: Dutchman’s breeches, Virginia bluebells, trillium and trout lillies. 🌺💕
I love the layered greens in your outfit, which perfectly compliment your garden 😍
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I enjoyed this immensely! My parents whom are getting up there in age 80’s and 90’s have recently purchased some acreage which includes a beautiful pond. My current project is helping out to beautify this already amazing terrain by adding our own touches to make it our (their) own. This is a family adventure and a second farm purchase in several years! Mom and dad always have something up their sleeve and I enjoy rolling sleeves up! Parents had a beautiful koi pond at her last residence. The new pond is at least an acre (with fish but not koi) we are needing to keep it clean. Wow proving to be a chore even with a filtration system. I’m looking to plant water Lily and water Iris just to name a few to help naturally clean and filtrate the water (will see). I live almost two hours away from my folks new adventure so this is a great little weekend getaway!
Happy adventures,
Zone 7
What a treasure you are!
@@LindaVater I don’t know about that but thank you. You are a treasure too
Barley balls keep algae at bay..
Zone 7b in NC. I have a plant support from Gardener’s Supply that we call the Tesla Tower. I bought a dark purple clematis (don’t remember name of it) and have ordered 2 black eyed Susan vines, one is white (Coconut A-peal) and the other is orange (Tangerine Slice A-peal). All will be planted on the Tesla Tower.
I am a happy daily follower. Never miss an episode!
Please consider a “skip intro” button for those of us who tune in and know the information - or include it at the end of the videos so we can opt out.
I do enjoy the outfit du jour - so please leave that in the main body of the video… ;)
Ordered your book.
Waiting on new QVC items.
Loooove your show and learn so much!
I’ll ask Stewart how to do that… Great idea :-)
@@LindaVater you have inspired me to redo my whole yard on my own. I lost my job during covid but was at retirement age. I found your YT and started gardening. I can't believe what I have done, my neighbors walk by and comment how beautiful it is everyday. This wkend did my side yard by myself!! I would love to send you a few pics as it was you who got me started!! Thank you!! I love your channel ❤️
You can double tap on the right side of the video as it’s playing and it’ll scroll past the intro (might need to do it a few times to cover the whole intro though).
First I am also growing out my hair and just love the way your hair looks! Second I love the way you used the 2 tiles you had to make a sturdy base and covered it up with gravel. We would never know it was there if you didn't tell us. Great tip!
Great ideas! The greens are doing great!
Wedding out a corner of my garden. Covering it in garden fabric into a quarter pie shape. Edging it with log slices and filling it with bark chippings and replacing my bench. Hopefully the difficult to weed corner has been solved.
I have muscali (grape hyacynth) popping out all over my yard. I'm collecting them into bunches to add into the flower patch.
This weekend we planted 5 baby boxwoods, a low growing juniper, a hydrangea, some autumn joy sedum roots, and an azalea. Oh, and a couple of hostas and heuchera in our shaded east side garden bed.
Small project, we spray painted our black metal obelisks!
Tackled two overgrown Japanese maples this weekend and some other shrubs that needed trimming and some spring clean up in zone 6 New England. Finally had a couple of warm enough days to work outside.
Yesterday I took an egg carton (plastic), drilled a hole in each egg slot bottom and used it to start some impromptu purple basil seeds. It might be a little late to be starting seedlings, but I don’t think the seeds know that. I’ll be replanting in some thrifted pots to give to friends and keep some for myself to put in cut flower arrangements. It’s says on the package that it will be good in salads too. Most of all I can’t wait to see how the purple leaves will look in my sage green pot by the front door. Maybe a little white alyssum to go with? Growing plants in my head is fun! Hope it works out. Zone 6b or 7a depending.
Purple ones have a lot of medicinal properties. Do add a few leaves to the water when you are making some tea.
Getting rain is a blessing in areas that don't receive enough. I love the baskets of lettuces as presents. A neighbor had just returned from his mother's funeral. Instead if a casserole, I took them freshly picked lettuce. Next fall I will have baskets of lettuce as gifts. I like your baskets because they are easier to lift than most containers.
What a brilliant and thoughtful idea!
For water/mulch maintenance, I edged one of my beds with bricks in a pleasing pattern, love the look. Also planted three orange rocket barberries. My signature color is orange.
I just loved this home and garden!! Love looking back🌺🌷🌸💓
Morning from Australia 🇦🇺
I love the simplicity of those projects. I will certainly be using those ideas.
Brilliant video. Love your garden.x
Zone 6. This weekend I’m thinking I’ll take some various random cheap planters I’m getting tired of and rub them with paint and dirt to give them an aged patina & make them all “go together” - Linda you did a video last year on the technique I want to try so I’ll watch that again for inspiration. My garden “style” is colorful and eclectic, like a life-sized fairy garden full of repurposed items and whimsical details, so Ill probably use swirls of colorful paints and sort of dull them down here and there with globs of dirt and moss. Should be fun way to spend an afternoon :)
Love the tile idea! I have a grouping of French pots that contain lavender in an area covered in soil amendment, instead of bark. Every time it rains, there’s “dirt” splash-back and I have to spray the sides of the pots to clean them. I have extra tile in the garage! Let’s see if this prevents dirty splash-back!
What is that gorgeous tree in the back with those white pom-poms?!? I'm in love!!😍😍😍
I broke my femur in November and today I was able to putt around in the front yard garden, trimming dead wood out of my hydrangeas, cleaning up my geraniums and propagating some. Than I finished with planting some ground cover, Lamium. I took some foliage cuttings off of some other things and put them in vases to bring the outside in. Oh what a wonderful day to be back in my garden again. :)
Yes! Mend quickly!
Our projects this weekend were many: cleaning, preparing, weeding, and planting up some containers and raised beds with my daughter. Zone 5
Needed to transfer a topiary to a new pot from a broken pot. Checked my pot stash and went "shopping" there instead of buying a new one. Also enjoyed our first warm day, and cleaned up my main flower bed and observed what is coming up and what didn't make it.
Watching a boxwood topiary that is all browned, cut off a small branch and it is green so it has life, do you think it will make it?
I am taking the "heart" feed back that there is hope for my topiary
That looks dead!
Linda, your backyard garden is looking so absolutely beautiful! Love it! I'll be doing more spring cleanup tomorrow. Instill have some leave mulch on some beds because of the chance of late frost.
I'm cleaning out my flagstone pathway. The cracks are full of things I don't want growing in there.
Zone 5 here, I did yard clean up and had a glorious time! Love the sedum idea, I have tons of that growing, I usually pull it out and throw it away, but I will try snipping it.
Zone 4. Weeded two of my backyard flower beds.
I have a lot of projects - ongoing projects of the yard. One is that I have been moving daylily's inward from edge of sidewalk and driveway to allow more room for flowers to bloom, the daylilies seem to take over and hog the sun. :)
Your hair looks especially pretty today!
Such a lovely video. Spring is oh so beautiful here in OKC. All the colors and green foliage feed my soul. And such quick and easy ideas to grow our gardens.
I just painted my front door to compliment the brick edging we installed this spring. I picked a chocolate plum color because I love the color plum so much. It’s a Glidden paint called chocolate sparkle. It took me an afternoon to paint the door. I love it! Cape Cod zone 7A.
Last year I put concrete bricks under my concrete Chinese lantern, which had sunk almost 4 inches into the dirt! It was literally disappearing. Now it looks so good, and the periwinkle vines are camoflaging the bricks. BTW, your garden looks so lush after the rain.
Brilliant solution using rough side up on tile. Smooth side is probably better for drip line too.
Yup!
I just love those colors.
I like your garden beautiful
Zone 5a - I will be working on thinning out seedlings and small plants that are growing where I don't want them. And like many others I will move things around. I still need to trim down my russian sage as well. I have salad greens in a raised bed that are coming in nicely. I will take your suggestion when they are ready to be thinned and gift them to someone.
Took down a tree and put up a new fence last year, so this year we are completely re-doing our yard. This weekend, I got a Proven Winners order of shrubs and bushes in and replanted some last minute seeds that did not come up over the winter... hopefully this time they will!
I’m going to keep building a bund for a planting behind my kids’ sandpit, in a zone similar to 11b. We’re enjoying this year’s torrential rain right now so it makes sense to plant things on mounds for better drainage.
This weekend I pulled out old bushes to put in a new garden and gravel fire pit area. I am in zone 6a and it’s a little cold here still. I went flower shopping for the first time this season. So I picked out some purple lime green and white flowers and bushes. I am so excited for this color palette for the new garden.
My weekend project in my zone 8b garden was to begin pulling back my winter leaf mulch so that I could slug bait my emerging hosta plants. The succulent transplant project was ingenious, getting a perfect shape and size.
Great ideas- thank you!!!♥️
By the way, that gold variegated holly is 😍😍!
I love that small shovel that you have! It still does the job without being heavy and clumsy. I also love your idea of growing a pot of lettuce, and giving it as a gift. I think I might do that for my sister-in-law who loves to garden, but has not been able to do so.
Still waiting for our real spring to arrive in Vermont so I am still cleaning up from winter.
Your ideas are treasure! Your garden is magically imperfectly perfect!-
It is the way of "wabi-sabi". Thank you, beautiful Linda!
Que bonito se ve todo esas piedritas le dan elegancia
I love the tile idea. I redid my bathroom and my tile guy was discarding 18” square tiles in my dumpster he had taken up to redo a pool area on another job. I asked for some unbroken ones and he gave me about 30. I have been trying to decide how to use them. I also like clipping the moss, ground cover. I plant sedum ground cover in large limbs that fall and use them to edge some of my larger beds away from the house. Zone 6a.
Great job Linda. Everything looks great. I have a bunch of hostas that I need to divide as project for me today. Enjoy your day!
Our projects for this week is to put in a new fountain bird bath with stacking stones on our patio and more planting and rearranging.
In 7a, my weekend project was working on getting the gazillion seedlings I started indoors planted outside. (Note to self, start fewer seeds next year!😄) Linda, keep an eye out for Muir lettuce seed. Muir holds up better and bolts slower in summer heat.
Thank!
Today I am creating a bed for flox that already has some liriope so extending it. This will be in my front. yard.