Oh wow! The first time I saw a hummingbird moth I thought it was a tiny hummingbird. Amazing critters. I agree about the orange blossom scent. I have several satsumas, kumquats, blood oranges, Ruby oranges, lemons and variegated in my back yard and the smell is AMAZING!
Aren't they so incredible?!? God has made so much variety in plants and critters! I will never be bored while out in the garden! - Oh, I'm so glad that you have so many lovely citrus trees!!! I bet you have a bunch giant swallowtail butterflies around also!
Great video! I always tell people that God is such a great painter. Between the flowers and the sunsets, he’s so colorful! And I am also glad he gave me a love to take care of his flowers. Have a wonderful week! 💜❤️💐🪴🌺
Thank you, Linda!!! I'm so thankful that God is endlessly creative! He loves beauty and color, for sure!!! I'm thankful that we both are able to grow so many lovely things that He has blessed us with! God is so delightful!!!
Wasn't that just the coolest moth?!? - I'm always delighted when I see hummingbirds in the garden, especially when the sun flashes on them just right and they look like flying gemstones!
Thanks, Sylvia! I hope that you've been having a wonderful week too! It's not even technically summer yet, but so far, I've been having a wonderful one!!!
The growth in your garden is astronomical!!! So Gorgeous!!! I love seeing a hummingbird moth in the garden. After painting walls in my daughter's old bedroom for many days, I went to Lowes for trim/door paint. I entered through the garden center to feel the joy of being surrounded by plants. I ended up at the clearance rack. 🤭 I got a cracked plastic pot full of Angelonias for $8!!! 😃 Along with new guinea impatiens and a few other plants. I did go back into the store for the paint. 🤣 After my daughter's wedding I'm going to download Pinterest so I can see your account. 😉 Happy gardening. 🙋♀️🌸🐦🐛🦋
LOL about walking through the plant section on the way to the paint! That's how they getcha! Man, you really racked up with the plants!!! Haha about actually going back into the store for paint! I'm proud of you because I would have forgotten all about getting the paint until I made it all the way back home! - That's so exciting that your daughter's wedding is coming up!!! I hope everything goes well! - I do really enjoy Pinterest! It's a great place to keep gardening ideas all in one place! I hope that you will enjoy it too! - I bet you are having a wonderful day filled with gardening right now! It has been a great week for it, hasn't it?!?
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening it has been a great week for gardening. I've also been working really hard inside getting the house ready for my best friend and my sister to stay with us next week for the wedding. I look forward to seeing your video update tomorrow. 🥰🙋♀️🌸🐦🐛🦋
I would definitely call your garden a success! How lush & colorful! The Chelsea chop…yep, I hear about it all the time & even a good friend of mine who loves to garden has to remind me to do the Chelsea chop. Im good at deadheading but chopping…it’s so hard…but I do have a lot of things that will need it only to watch it flush back prettier than ever…at least I hope! But, for zone 8a, we aren’t at that point yet. Got back from vacation last week & my coral nymph salvia is beginning to bloom. So excited! I wasted so much seed trying to start it in jugs only to find spreading it in an open pot later in the season would be the successful way for me. Easy. Im with you, if it isn’t going to be easy then I wouldn’t do it. Life is difficult enough, right? Lol Hugs from GA
I'm glad that you got home safely from your vacation, Lindy Lou!!! I'm so with you about the Chelsea chop! It hurts! I hurt me while I was doing it to the salvias. I had to keep reminding myself that if I didn't cut them back that they would break off, but the bees were enjoying the blooms so much! - Yay about your coral nymph salvia!!! You will always have it now! It's such a joy! I often think of Keats' line, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" when I'm in the garden! It's even better when it self seeds.
Oh, Rachel, my lavender has done the same thing! It was gorgeous until the hard rain and high wind yesterday. The Cleome is beautiful. I had to plant many of my potted plants in the ground. Now I have many more pots to get ready for my Fall plants. Love your garden and your video every Sunday. Thank you so much.
Oh, no about your lavender!!! Ugh! What a disappointment! - Isn't that cleome just incredible?!? It's the first one that I have ever had! Jo from @jostxgarden has some and they are so magnificent! - Same here! I'm planting out so many things from my pots and then planting new things. My garden looks like a collection of containers again. LOL! - Thank you so much for watching! I LOVE sharing my garden with you!!!!!!
Hi Rachel🌺 What abeautiful tour in your garden all the plants looks amazing also the flowers . I lovet .The dahlias looks wonderful . Have anice day .🦋🌺🦋
Enjoyed todays video❤️. I look forward to them. Glad I found your channel. I just started planting flowers in pots. Made the mistake of planting them in terracotta and in full sun, which the tag said full sun BUT it was just too hot for them. Luckily I think I saved them. I repotted them in plastic pots and moved into semi shade for now to recooperate. It’s a learning process.
Oh, yay, Connie! I'm so glad that you are here!!! I'm also so thankful that you have been able to save your plants! Those terracotta pots dry out so quickly! It's such a shame too because there are so many beautiful ones to be had! - Oh, yes! Gardening never gets boring because everything about it is a learning process! There's not even a time when I am discouraged for long...even when I repeatedly kill lavender, I don't ever give up. LOL!
Hi Rachel. Well it is exactly that, we play outside, and if I can't, for one reason or another, I have a real tantrum 😅. Today the weather is glorious, blue sky 20⁰c and there is the anual flea market in our village. Guess what ? I found some really nice garden pots, so happy. I gave to cut back the borage and phacelia since it's falling about everwhere and although the bees are having a feast, there's only so much I can put up with. These plants get so big that they can't stand up, but I'm not worried because there are many more starting up and I have the agastache and echonops planted so those will follow. The spring was wet and cold in April then dry and cold in May. We haven't had rain now for one month, so thankfully I mulched early to keep the soil moist, so far so good. I hope now with the hot sunshine that the dahlias will grow a littke quicker, yours are gorgeous Rachel and I can't wait to see the new ones you bought. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful garden. Happy gardening 🙋♀️
Oh, yay, Kim!!! That's amazing that you found some garden pots at the flea market! What awesome treasure! - LOL about cutting back the plants that are falling over, even though the bees were loving it! I know how you feel! That's exactly what happened while I was cutting back the salvias. The bees were following me all the way out to the road as I took the wheelbarrow to dump it out. - Wow! It's amazing that y'all can go so long without rain! Do you have to water your garden or does the thick mulch get your through until another rain shower? I have to water things almost every day, but it is probably way hotter here. It's 87 F/30 C today. Everyone's been complaining of the heat already. LOL!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening today was 30⁰ 😓 one extreme to the other. The mulch seems to be holding in the moisture, I check every day, and the soil really is quite wet. I also mulch the tops of the pots with grass cuttings so that I don't need to water every day. I'm keeping it going for as long as I can, but if I see a shrub suffering, I will give it a watering can full, which will keep it going for a while. I'm always surprised how grass can stop moisture from escaping. 🙃
Wooooowwww everything has gone crazy! I love it when overabundance is a garden theme. GORGEOUS. I have the same problem of gravel getting too hot for the plants in the pots. I’ll have to move the succulent theatre eventually. Oh, your cleome! Swoon! And the kitchen window view is dreamy. That millet is amazing. The #1 thing in my COPY RACHEL HANDBOOK. I still can’t get over your dahlias. I’m going to order so many. Hooray for the new ones! Emery Paul is amazing! Lol about the Cheyenne spirit coneflower! I bought some without understanding the “orange factor”, and gave them all away to my friend with an orange and purple border. They look so lovely in her garden! I love the gray blue leaves. They add so much depth in the garden. Your garden knew my garden had a random verbena bonariensis and wanted one too! The bluebonnets are so wonderful! I can’t wait to mail you those seeds! Oooo, definitely throw some seeds into the gravel garden in October! And yes! They are spectacular in a field. (Google Texas bluebonnets images!) The Russian sage and gomphrena and coral nymph salvia together is so lovely! Love those geraniums! I can’t get enough. I’m loving the bright pops of lemon sedum and creeping Jenny tucked into the pots. That lizard looks like he bit off more than he can chew with that dragonfly! 😂😂 The look on his face is very “uh ohhh”. What a dreamy tour! Thank you for bringing us along my friend!
LOL! Overabundance is my jam!!! I'm glad to know that your gravel also gets too hot because I thought that maybe we made a mistake when we chose the type of gravel that we have. I moved the containers off of it and everybody in the those containers is acting like they want to live again. The dahlias have been such a joy!!! I had no idea how much I was going to love them! I know that you are going to have some spectacular ones!!! HAHA about the verbena bonariensis! That's EXACTLY what happened! Didn't that lizard look so hilarious?!? I wished that I had more time to sit there and watch how he was going to handle it! Thank you so much for watching! I can't wait to see how your garden is growing!!!!!!
Gardening abundance!:) Love your garden and those blue Salvias are the perfect backdrop. That Dahlia is amazing - I am experimenting with Dahlias for the first time this year - we'll see how they do. I already have a list of more Dahlias to try so I'll add a couple of yours to the list for fall gardening. I have seen that hummingbird moth in our garden too - so cool.
Aren't those salvias fabulous?!? They make me feel so accomplished. LOL! - Oh! That's exciting about your dahlias!!! I know that you are going to LOVE them! I brought one of my Emory Paul dahlias to work and it has been so fun shocking people when they think that it isn't real and then I assure them that it is and they get to hold it. We might need to start an Orange Beach Dahlia Admiration Society soon! HAHA! - Isn't that moth wonderful?!? I want to make sure that I encourage more of those to live here!
Awww, Thanks, Wesley!!! I'm enjoying the myriad of wildlife that has been showing up! I've even even a few Florida brownsnakes around the garden! I'm going to share one this week! Have you seen any in your garden?
So beautiful! I discovered Corner Copia gardens this week and have my very first HUGE lemon yellow dahlia bloom.. it’s like Christmas every morning going out to see what’s blooming!!! I am trying to bring the butterflies to my garden but haven’t found any eggs yet! Have a wonderful week! 💜💜 Ann Marie (in fairhope) 2:10
Oh, yay, Ann Marie!!!!! I know that you had an adventure at Corner Copia! And your dahlia sounds gorgeous!!! Aren't they just the most addictive plant that you have even grown? Wait. Roses are first and then dahlias. Dahlias are way more prolific for me than roses are, but then roses smell so heavenly. They both win! - They really ARE like Christmas morning! Gardens are like Christmas morning for adults! LOL! - Oh! You will have butterflies soon! Just keep planting larval host plants! That's the key!
I love blue bonnets but be careful with them. Once established they will take over everything!! So put it where you don't care where it goes. Your garden is looking beautiful!!❤
What are you feeding your plants with!! Lol it's amazing how much it's grown. Just absolutely beautiful!! I bought new plants that are so beautiful! I found a local nursery recently. I found plants that are so beautiful. Walmart doesn't have anything like these. I probably planted eight new plants. I've also repotted several things I already had. They have taken off in the pots. I'm seeing lots of bees and butterflies already. What salvias do you have? I really can’t get over how much your garden has grown!!! Beautiful!
Isn't it crazy how fast they have grown?!? When I plant things in containers, if it's a big container, I will put Ace potting soil in the first few inches of it, then top that with Miracle Gro potting soil, and when I dig a little hole in that to put the plants, I throw in a scoop of Osmocote Plus and mix it around. Then I water it in and as the weather warms up, I will probably water everything everyday, unless we get a good, soaking rain shower in the afternoon. - That's so exciting that you got some interesting plants at a local nursery!!! And the butterflies and bees are taking notice!!! You're living the dream now!!!!! I have a lot of different salvias! I have mystic spires, Mexican bush sage (salvia leucantha), coral nymph salvia, Amistad saliva, black and blue salvia, and salvia nemorosa. They are such a joy to grow because they really like to live here! LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I need to take notes on your container gardening. I do love salvia. So far they are doing well. It’s storming here again. Hopefully they will be ok. I hope you get some good rain but not these that beat everything down. Have a great week.
Oh, Donna! I hope that you will get to see one soon! That was the first one that I had ever seen! I've seen Pink-Spotted Hawk Moths several times too. They are so lovely!!!
I'm so glad that you had one come to your garden!!! Aren't they just the coolest?!? I couldn't even see the wings, they were a blur, but they showed up when I was looking at it on my phone as I videoed. Isn't that wild?!?
LOVE your hat! Pretty as a rose or dalia ! I just can not cut my salvia back. I do have a much smaller stand but understood that they grow better and flower profusely again. Just can't do it.
Thank you, Mary!!! It turns out that my grandmother had great taste in choosing hats to paint because that hat is not only beautiful since my grandmother painted it, but it is also the most comfortable one that I own! I use it to garden in more than any of the other ones! - LOL about not being able to bring yourself to cut back the salvia!!! I totally understand! It goes against every bit of maternal instinct that we have!
Thank you, Connie! I think some of the plants that I have in containers are labeled annuals, like the pentas, for example, but I have kept some of them alive by keeping them in the potting shed over winter. I've even saved several of my coleus like that!
Yay, Cheryl! It's so nice to meet another Zone 9 gardener! Thanks for the compliments!!! What time of year is your rainy season? I'm kinda in a weird spot because it doesn't rain as much here as it does just 10 miles up the road. We have a theory that somehow the breeze from the water blows the storms over us and further north.
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening rainy season starts late May and into early June. It will last until late October. You can almost such a watch buy some of the afternoon thunderstorms that we have here in Central Florida. However, this year is a little bit off because of the change in the gulf stream
@@cherylramsey3409 Do your perennials get too much rain? What happens here is that everything grows to a crazy size and flops over or breaks off and I have to cut it back at around this time. Then I replace a lot of stuff in pots and have a second round of growing things. I’ve been planting out the things that have outgrown their containers and hoping that the armadillos won’t dig them up. - Have you been having trouble with your perennials during the rainy season? How do yours behave?
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening sometimes you they get a lot or rain very quickly. I put supports around while they are small or use single stem supports from Lowes or HD. I add a ericaceous non-nutritious bark type soilless mix (that Soilless mix helps the area drain better) homemade compost and some epsoma plant tone when I first plant anything. Also, when I put them in the ground, I make sure the crown or root ball is about an inch above the soil level to reduce the chance of the crown rotting. That way there is a little a better drainage. No not all of my perennials behave that’s why I steak many of them. There are some perennials that I have to treat as annuals because it is much too hot for them in zone nine. So are we buy certain varieties every year ( foxgloves, delphiniums, etc.) There is an action that is called a Chelsea chop. It’s usually done around the time of the British Chelsea flower show which comes the beginning of June. The British horticultural Society says that it will help perennials grow bigger and stronger. Also, they plant a lot of things closer together than we do here in the US.
Beautiful Rachael! I love those random flowers that pop up. Sweet gifts. Do you have a list of your plants? I'd love to see the names of your plants that you are picturing added to your video. I don't know how difficult but it would be nice so we can identify the plants. God is all about details isn't HE.
I do love it when something interesting comes to live in the garden by its own freewill! Those really are gifts from God since He sent them via bird or insect or wind. It's just too cool!!! - I was trying to think of a way to tell about all the different plants that I have and to kind of record what they are all in one place and I think what I will do it make little shorts about each one of them, and that way I will also be reminded of what things are and how they did. It will be like a videoed garden journal! _ Oh, yes! God is very much about details because nothing is too small to escape His notice! I'm so thankful that He is so diligent and caring!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening that’s an awesome idea on the videos. I have a garden journal on all my 🪴 plants. So glad I got to add new ones this year.
I started a container garden on the west side of my elm tree.I normally plant underneath it but Ian practically killed the tree and so I’m afraid to dig by it’s roots. It’s looking nice. Not near as lush as yours but it’s just starting. It’s already been in the nineties every day just about since February. So I don’t know how these things I put in containers will do. Praying for the best!🙏. Your garden looks awesome. Was that hummingbird a moth?
Oh, yay, Kelli! I'm so glad that you found a way to garden around your elm tree! I bet that looks lovely! And I also bet that before long the plants will have grown so big that you won't be able to tell that they are in containers! - Dang! It HAS been hot there for y'all! Ugh! It's just now starting to be really hot and that's not normal for us. We have enjoyed mild weather for so long that I think we all were lulled into thinking that it would always be this way. Haha! - That was a hummingbird moth with clear wings! Wasn't that the coolest?!? I couldn't even see his wings. They were just a blur! Then while I was videoing him, I could see his wings on the screen of my phone. Is that not the weirdest thing?
Thanks, Baerbel! I do fertilize them. When I plant them in containers, I use Miracle Gro potting soil and I put in a scoop of Osmocote Plus and mix it around.
Hey Rachel! Thanks for letting me know that you water with a sprinkler. Do you fertilize each week? I can’t believe how huge your coleus are! Do you fertilize them? Thanks! Have a blessed day!
You're welcome!!! I probably need to fertilize my roses now, but I haven't fertilized anything in a while. When I plant things in pots I use Miracle Gro potting soil and I put a scoop of Osmocote Plus in the hole for the plant and mix it around. That takes care of it until I'm ready to repot it or plant it into the ground. And when I plant things in the ground, I also throw in a scoop of Osmocote Plus and mix that around before I pop the plant in and water it in really well. - Those coleus are ones that I overwintered in my potting shed, so they have never stopped growing since last year. A few were hit by a cold snap before I sheltered them and I had to cut them back hard, but they grew back. - I hope you have been having a blessed week too!
I've always wanted to make a garden journal, except with really good photos. Which, of coarse, the computer is the perfect vehicle for that! Except... I don't WANT it in, or on, a computer. I don't want to have to look at a screen for my journal. I want a PAPER journal, with computer grade pictures! And- Here's the catch: I don't want it to cost money to make it. Yep. Kinda feels like my requirements are holding me back on this lil' project...
LOL!!! I understand! You want a hybrid journal! Oh! I bet you could get some photos printed for free. They always seem to be running deals for that stuff!
So glad I found your channel. Thanks for sharing your garden and love of God with the world.
Thank you, Titi! I'm so glad that you have been enjoying it! We wouldn't have anything at all without God, would we?!? He's blessed us so much!!!
Oh wow! The first time I saw a hummingbird moth I thought it was a tiny hummingbird. Amazing critters.
I agree about the orange blossom scent. I have several satsumas, kumquats, blood oranges, Ruby oranges, lemons and variegated in my back yard and the smell is AMAZING!
Aren't they so incredible?!? God has made so much variety in plants and critters! I will never be bored while out in the garden! - Oh, I'm so glad that you have so many lovely citrus trees!!! I bet you have a bunch giant swallowtail butterflies around also!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening I am blessed. A family of turtles lives here, too!
Great video! I always tell people that God is such a great painter. Between the flowers and the sunsets, he’s so colorful! And I am also glad he gave me a love to take care of his flowers. Have a wonderful week! 💜❤️💐🪴🌺
Thank you, Linda!!! I'm so thankful that God is endlessly creative! He loves beauty and color, for sure!!! I'm thankful that we both are able to grow so many lovely things that He has blessed us with! God is so delightful!!!
Oh my goodness I have never seen a hummingbird clearwing moth 😮. I’m faciated by the hummingbirds . Wow!!! Thanks for sharing this.
Wasn't that just the coolest moth?!? - I'm always delighted when I see hummingbirds in the garden, especially when the sun flashes on them just right and they look like flying gemstones!
Wow! Your garden looks great! Beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I hope you have a wonderful week! 😊👍🦋💕
Thanks, Sylvia! I hope that you've been having a wonderful week too! It's not even technically summer yet, but so far, I've been having a wonderful one!!!
Just fantastic!!
Thank you, Dianne!!!
The growth in your garden is astronomical!!! So Gorgeous!!! I love seeing a hummingbird moth in the garden. After painting walls in my daughter's old bedroom for many days, I went to Lowes for trim/door paint. I entered through the garden center to feel the joy of being surrounded by plants. I ended up at the clearance rack. 🤭 I got a cracked plastic pot full of Angelonias for $8!!! 😃 Along with new guinea impatiens and a few other plants. I did go back into the store for the paint. 🤣 After my daughter's wedding I'm going to download Pinterest so I can see your account. 😉 Happy gardening. 🙋♀️🌸🐦🐛🦋
LOL about walking through the plant section on the way to the paint! That's how they getcha! Man, you really racked up with the plants!!! Haha about actually going back into the store for paint! I'm proud of you because I would have forgotten all about getting the paint until I made it all the way back home! - That's so exciting that your daughter's wedding is coming up!!! I hope everything goes well! - I do really enjoy Pinterest! It's a great place to keep gardening ideas all in one place! I hope that you will enjoy it too! - I bet you are having a wonderful day filled with gardening right now! It has been a great week for it, hasn't it?!?
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening it has been a great week for gardening. I've also been working really hard inside getting the house ready for my best friend and my sister to stay with us next week for the wedding. I look forward to seeing your video update tomorrow. 🥰🙋♀️🌸🐦🐛🦋
I would definitely call your garden a success! How lush & colorful! The Chelsea chop…yep, I hear about it all the time & even a good friend of mine who loves to garden has to remind me to do the Chelsea chop. Im good at deadheading but chopping…it’s so hard…but I do have a lot of things that will need it only to watch it flush back prettier than ever…at least I hope! But, for zone 8a, we aren’t at that point yet.
Got back from vacation last week & my coral nymph salvia is beginning to bloom. So excited! I wasted so much seed trying to start it in jugs only to find spreading it in an open pot later in the season would be the successful way for me. Easy. Im with you, if it isn’t going to be easy then I wouldn’t do it. Life is difficult enough, right? Lol
Hugs from GA
I'm glad that you got home safely from your vacation, Lindy Lou!!! I'm so with you about the Chelsea chop! It hurts! I hurt me while I was doing it to the salvias. I had to keep reminding myself that if I didn't cut them back that they would break off, but the bees were enjoying the blooms so much! - Yay about your coral nymph salvia!!! You will always have it now! It's such a joy! I often think of Keats' line, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" when I'm in the garden! It's even better when it self seeds.
Oh, Rachel, my lavender has done the same thing! It was gorgeous until the hard rain and high wind yesterday. The Cleome is beautiful. I had to plant many of my potted plants in the ground. Now I have many more pots to get ready for my Fall plants. Love your garden and your video every Sunday. Thank you so much.
Oh, no about your lavender!!! Ugh! What a disappointment! - Isn't that cleome just incredible?!? It's the first one that I have ever had! Jo from @jostxgarden has some and they are so magnificent! - Same here! I'm planting out so many things from my pots and then planting new things. My garden looks like a collection of containers again. LOL! - Thank you so much for watching! I LOVE sharing my garden with you!!!!!!
Your garden is so full of color! Looks amazing!
Thank you!!! I'm so thankful to get to share it with you!
Your Garden is absolutely gorgeous. There's so many blooms and it's beautiful!
Thank you so much!!!
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences. I love your videos. God bless you Rachel 😊❤️❤️
Awww, Vicki! Thank you! God bless you too!!! I hope that you will get to enjoy many butterflies this summer!
Muy buen video
Thank you, Yesid!!!
Hi Rachel🌺 What abeautiful tour in your garden all the plants looks amazing also the flowers . I lovet .The dahlias looks wonderful . Have anice day .🦋🌺🦋
Thanks, Lina!!! I hope you have been having a blessed week!
Hiya Rachel !! 👋👋
I just want to comment on EVERY new view you're showing us!!
Each one is SOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!
LOl! Thank you!!! Things are starting to wind down now!
Enjoyed todays video❤️. I look forward to them. Glad I found your channel. I just started planting flowers in pots. Made the mistake of planting them in terracotta and in full sun, which the tag said full sun BUT it was just too hot for them. Luckily I think I saved them. I repotted them in plastic pots and moved into semi shade for now to recooperate. It’s a learning process.
Oh, yay, Connie! I'm so glad that you are here!!! I'm also so thankful that you have been able to save your plants! Those terracotta pots dry out so quickly! It's such a shame too because there are so many beautiful ones to be had! - Oh, yes! Gardening never gets boring because everything about it is a learning process! There's not even a time when I am discouraged for long...even when I repeatedly kill lavender, I don't ever give up. LOL!
Hi Rachel. Well it is exactly that, we play outside, and if I can't, for one reason or another, I have a real tantrum 😅. Today the weather is glorious, blue sky 20⁰c and there is the anual flea market in our village. Guess what ? I found some really nice garden pots, so happy. I gave to cut back the borage and phacelia since it's falling about everwhere and although the bees are having a feast, there's only so much I can put up with. These plants get so big that they can't stand up, but I'm not worried because there are many more starting up and I have the agastache and echonops planted so those will follow. The spring was wet and cold in April then dry and cold in May. We haven't had rain now for one month, so thankfully I mulched early to keep the soil moist, so far so good. I hope now with the hot sunshine that the dahlias will grow a littke quicker, yours are gorgeous Rachel and I can't wait to see the new ones you bought. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful garden. Happy gardening 🙋♀️
Oh, yay, Kim!!! That's amazing that you found some garden pots at the flea market! What awesome treasure! - LOL about cutting back the plants that are falling over, even though the bees were loving it! I know how you feel! That's exactly what happened while I was cutting back the salvias. The bees were following me all the way out to the road as I took the wheelbarrow to dump it out. - Wow! It's amazing that y'all can go so long without rain! Do you have to water your garden or does the thick mulch get your through until another rain shower? I have to water things almost every day, but it is probably way hotter here. It's 87 F/30 C today. Everyone's been complaining of the heat already. LOL!
@Gulf Coast Butterfly Gardening today was 30⁰ 😓 one extreme to the other. The mulch seems to be holding in the moisture, I check every day, and the soil really is quite wet. I also mulch the tops of the pots with grass cuttings so that I don't need to water every day. I'm keeping it going for as long as I can, but if I see a shrub suffering, I will give it a watering can full, which will keep it going for a while. I'm always surprised how grass can stop moisture from escaping. 🙃
You inspire me every Sunday morning!
Awww, that's so sweet of you to say!!! I want everybody to get to enjoy having a garden and seeing butterflies!!!
Wow, very nice. Really cool up here in Virginia, very odd weather of late.
Thanks, Dave! The weather has been very strange! We've had an unusually long and mild spring! It's been such a treat!
Красота!
Thank you!!! I hope you have been having a blessed week!!!
Wooooowwww everything has gone crazy! I love it when overabundance is a garden theme. GORGEOUS.
I have the same problem of gravel getting too hot for the plants in the pots. I’ll have to move the succulent theatre eventually.
Oh, your cleome! Swoon! And the kitchen window view is dreamy.
That millet is amazing. The #1 thing in my COPY RACHEL HANDBOOK.
I still can’t get over your dahlias. I’m going to order so many. Hooray for the new ones!
Emery Paul is amazing!
Lol about the Cheyenne spirit coneflower! I bought some without understanding the “orange factor”, and gave them all away to my friend with an orange and purple border. They look so lovely in her garden!
I love the gray blue leaves. They add so much depth in the garden.
Your garden knew my garden had a random verbena bonariensis and wanted one too!
The bluebonnets are so wonderful! I can’t wait to mail you those seeds! Oooo, definitely throw some seeds into the gravel garden in October! And yes! They are spectacular in a field. (Google Texas bluebonnets images!)
The Russian sage and gomphrena and coral nymph salvia together is so lovely!
Love those geraniums! I can’t get enough. I’m loving the bright pops of lemon sedum and creeping Jenny tucked into the pots.
That lizard looks like he bit off more than he can chew with that dragonfly! 😂😂 The look on his face is very “uh ohhh”.
What a dreamy tour! Thank you for bringing us along my friend!
LOL! Overabundance is my jam!!!
I'm glad to know that your gravel also gets too hot because I thought that maybe we made a mistake when we chose the type of gravel that we have. I moved the containers off of it and everybody in the those containers is acting like they want to live again.
The dahlias have been such a joy!!! I had no idea how much I was going to love them! I know that you are going to have some spectacular ones!!!
HAHA about the verbena bonariensis! That's EXACTLY what happened!
Didn't that lizard look so hilarious?!? I wished that I had more time to sit there and watch how he was going to handle it!
Thank you so much for watching! I can't wait to see how your garden is growing!!!!!!
Gardening abundance!:) Love your garden and those blue Salvias are the perfect backdrop. That Dahlia is amazing - I am experimenting with Dahlias for the first time this year - we'll see how they do. I already have a list of more Dahlias to try so I'll add a couple of yours to the list for fall gardening. I have seen that hummingbird moth in our garden too - so cool.
Aren't those salvias fabulous?!? They make me feel so accomplished. LOL! - Oh! That's exciting about your dahlias!!! I know that you are going to LOVE them! I brought one of my Emory Paul dahlias to work and it has been so fun shocking people when they think that it isn't real and then I assure them that it is and they get to hold it. We might need to start an Orange Beach Dahlia Admiration Society soon! HAHA! - Isn't that moth wonderful?!? I want to make sure that I encourage more of those to live here!
How cool that your garden has grown so much I can see why all the butterflies, hummers and bees are attracted to your place.
Awww, Thanks, Wesley!!! I'm enjoying the myriad of wildlife that has been showing up! I've even even a few Florida brownsnakes around the garden! I'm going to share one this week! Have you seen any in your garden?
So beautiful! I discovered Corner Copia gardens this week and have my very first HUGE lemon yellow dahlia bloom.. it’s like Christmas every morning going out to see what’s blooming!!! I am trying to bring the butterflies to my garden but haven’t found any eggs yet! Have a wonderful week! 💜💜
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Oh, yay, Ann Marie!!!!! I know that you had an adventure at Corner Copia! And your dahlia sounds gorgeous!!! Aren't they just the most addictive plant that you have even grown? Wait. Roses are first and then dahlias. Dahlias are way more prolific for me than roses are, but then roses smell so heavenly. They both win! - They really ARE like Christmas morning! Gardens are like Christmas morning for adults! LOL! - Oh! You will have butterflies soon! Just keep planting larval host plants! That's the key!
I love blue bonnets but be careful with them. Once established they will take over everything!! So put it where you don't care where it goes. Your garden is looking beautiful!!❤
Thank you, Ni ni! That's good to know about the bluebonnets! I will ask my friend for permission before I toss them along the edge of his field!
What are you feeding your plants with!! Lol it's amazing how much it's grown. Just absolutely beautiful!! I bought new plants that are so beautiful! I found a local nursery recently. I found plants that are so beautiful. Walmart doesn't have anything like these. I probably planted eight new plants. I've also repotted several things I already had. They have taken off in the pots. I'm seeing lots of bees and butterflies already. What salvias do you have? I really can’t get over how much your garden has grown!!! Beautiful!
Isn't it crazy how fast they have grown?!? When I plant things in containers, if it's a big container, I will put Ace potting soil in the first few inches of it, then top that with Miracle Gro potting soil, and when I dig a little hole in that to put the plants, I throw in a scoop of Osmocote Plus and mix it around. Then I water it in and as the weather warms up, I will probably water everything everyday, unless we get a good, soaking rain shower in the afternoon. - That's so exciting that you got some interesting plants at a local nursery!!! And the butterflies and bees are taking notice!!! You're living the dream now!!!!! I have a lot of different salvias! I have mystic spires, Mexican bush sage (salvia leucantha), coral nymph salvia, Amistad saliva, black and blue salvia, and salvia nemorosa. They are such a joy to grow because they really like to live here! LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening I need to take notes on your container gardening. I do love salvia. So far they are doing well. It’s storming here again. Hopefully they will be ok. I hope you get some good rain but not these that beat everything down. Have a great week.
I love that humming bird moth I want to get them coming g to my yard
I've only had one and I loved him/her.
Oh, Donna! I hope that you will get to see one soon! That was the first one that I had ever seen! I've seen Pink-Spotted Hawk Moths several times too. They are so lovely!!!
I'm so glad that you had one come to your garden!!! Aren't they just the coolest?!? I couldn't even see the wings, they were a blur, but they showed up when I was looking at it on my phone as I videoed. Isn't that wild?!?
LOVE your hat! Pretty as a rose or dalia ! I just can not cut my salvia back. I do have a much smaller stand but understood that they grow better and flower profusely again. Just can't do it.
Thank you, Mary!!! It turns out that my grandmother had great taste in choosing hats to paint because that hat is not only beautiful since my grandmother painted it, but it is also the most comfortable one that I own! I use it to garden in more than any of the other ones! - LOL about not being able to bring yourself to cut back the salvia!!! I totally understand! It goes against every bit of maternal instinct that we have!
Beautiful jungle ☺️ I love your dahlias 😍 do you have all perennials In your containers? Do they always come back? Thank you
Thank you, Connie! I think some of the plants that I have in containers are labeled annuals, like the pentas, for example, but I have kept some of them alive by keeping them in the potting shed over winter. I've even saved several of my coleus like that!
Good evening fellows 09 a gardener. Your butterfly garden is really pretty. How do you keep your perennials alive during our rainy season
Yay, Cheryl! It's so nice to meet another Zone 9 gardener! Thanks for the compliments!!! What time of year is your rainy season? I'm kinda in a weird spot because it doesn't rain as much here as it does just 10 miles up the road. We have a theory that somehow the breeze from the water blows the storms over us and further north.
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening rainy season starts late May and into early June. It will last until late October. You can almost such a watch buy some of the afternoon thunderstorms that we have here in Central Florida.
However, this year is a little bit off because of the change in the gulf stream
@@cherylramsey3409 Do your perennials get too much rain? What happens here is that everything grows to a crazy size and flops over or breaks off and I have to cut it back at around this time. Then I replace a lot of stuff in pots and have a second round of growing things. I’ve been planting out the things that have outgrown their containers and hoping that the armadillos won’t dig them up. - Have you been having trouble with your perennials during the rainy season? How do yours behave?
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening sometimes you they get a lot or rain very quickly. I put supports around while they are small or use single stem supports from Lowes or HD. I add a ericaceous non-nutritious bark type soilless mix (that Soilless mix helps the area drain better) homemade compost and some epsoma plant tone when I first plant anything. Also, when I put them in the ground, I make sure the crown or root ball is about an inch above the soil level to reduce the chance of the crown rotting. That way there is a little a better drainage. No not all of my perennials behave that’s why I steak many of them.
There are some perennials that I have to treat as annuals because it is much too hot for them in zone nine. So are we buy certain varieties every year ( foxgloves, delphiniums, etc.)
There is an action that is called a Chelsea chop. It’s usually done around the time of the British Chelsea flower show which comes the beginning of June. The British horticultural Society says that it will help perennials grow bigger and stronger. Also, they plant a lot of things closer together than we do here in the US.
Beautiful Rachael! I love those random flowers that pop up. Sweet gifts. Do you have a list of your plants? I'd love to see the names of your plants that you are picturing added to your video. I don't know how difficult but it would be nice so we can identify the plants. God is all about details isn't HE.
I do love it when something interesting comes to live in the garden by its own freewill! Those really are gifts from God since He sent them via bird or insect or wind. It's just too cool!!! - I was trying to think of a way to tell about all the different plants that I have and to kind of record what they are all in one place and I think what I will do it make little shorts about each one of them, and that way I will also be reminded of what things are and how they did. It will be like a videoed garden journal! _ Oh, yes! God is very much about details because nothing is too small to escape His notice! I'm so thankful that He is so diligent and caring!!!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening that’s an awesome idea on the videos. I have a garden journal on all my 🪴 plants. So glad I got to add new ones this year.
I started a container garden on the west side of my elm tree.I normally plant underneath it but Ian practically killed the tree and so I’m afraid to dig by it’s roots. It’s looking nice. Not near as lush as yours but it’s just starting. It’s already been in the nineties every day just about since February. So I don’t know how these things I put in containers will do. Praying for the best!🙏. Your garden looks awesome. Was that hummingbird a moth?
Oh, yay, Kelli! I'm so glad that you found a way to garden around your elm tree! I bet that looks lovely! And I also bet that before long the plants will have grown so big that you won't be able to tell that they are in containers! - Dang! It HAS been hot there for y'all! Ugh! It's just now starting to be really hot and that's not normal for us. We have enjoyed mild weather for so long that I think we all were lulled into thinking that it would always be this way. Haha! - That was a hummingbird moth with clear wings! Wasn't that the coolest?!? I couldn't even see his wings. They were just a blur! Then while I was videoing him, I could see his wings on the screen of my phone. Is that not the weirdest thing?
Do you fertilize all those pots, and if you do with what. Your plnts are Amazing
Thanks, Baerbel! I do fertilize them. When I plant them in containers, I use Miracle Gro potting soil and I put in a scoop of Osmocote Plus and mix it around.
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening thank you getting back with me. Your plants are amazing
Hey Rachel! Thanks for letting me know that you water with a sprinkler. Do you fertilize each week? I can’t believe how huge your coleus are! Do you fertilize them? Thanks! Have a blessed day!
You're welcome!!! I probably need to fertilize my roses now, but I haven't fertilized anything in a while. When I plant things in pots I use Miracle Gro potting soil and I put a scoop of Osmocote Plus in the hole for the plant and mix it around. That takes care of it until I'm ready to repot it or plant it into the ground. And when I plant things in the ground, I also throw in a scoop of Osmocote Plus and mix that around before I pop the plant in and water it in really well. - Those coleus are ones that I overwintered in my potting shed, so they have never stopped growing since last year. A few were hit by a cold snap before I sheltered them and I had to cut them back hard, but they grew back. - I hope you have been having a blessed week too!
I've always wanted to make a garden journal,
except with really good photos.
Which, of coarse,
the computer is the perfect vehicle for that!
Except...
I don't WANT it
in,
or on,
a computer.
I don't want to have to look at a screen for my journal.
I want a PAPER journal,
with computer grade pictures!
And-
Here's the catch:
I don't want it to cost money to make it.
Yep.
Kinda feels like my requirements are holding me back on this lil' project...
LOL!!! I understand! You want a hybrid journal! Oh! I bet you could get some photos printed for free. They always seem to be running deals for that stuff!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening
Who?
Who is running deals for that stuff?
Gosh, I never look at ads anymore!