There are a couple of more combination videos for sun and shade - ua-cam.com/video/kW2p2zZwqK4/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/RTuTZAwmOK8/v-deo.html. Thanks for watching
Lol not sure how to share the photos. Anyway, some are holly, some look like boxwood but has berries on new growth. They are at least 20 years old. I'm having a tree removed behind them and the tree people said they would end up destroying the shrubs. How hard can I prune them back? Currently are about 5 ft.
Fabulous segment! So helpful seeing the plants swapped out. Would like to see this done again with different combos. Would also like to see a "This or That" segment in someone's yard as they are adding things to an existing landscape or to a certain spot in their yard - you'd need a pallet of plants for the shoot.
My struggle now is this major heat wave plants can’t take up enough water... it’s bad here on gulf coast enemies with ton of mulch etc... it’s so Damn hot!!🤬🔥🔥
One of my biggest struggles is companion planting This was one awesome video and it was a tremendous help!!! Please do more like this! A perennial companion planting ideas would be great!!! I've had a Soft Caress Mahonia for 4 years and have moved it twice trying to find the right setting - now I have the answer. Thanks Jim for this video!!!
It's so hot in Central Texas 8b that the weeds are dying. Triple-digit days with no rain and nothing better in the forecast. Update on weather: 98 for next Tuesday with 20 % chance of rain.
Thanks so much for sharing a beautiful video today and sharing about all these beautiful plants and such great information and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie
that gardenia is the best gardenia in the whole world. its very industrial I have transplanted it and moved it more than 5 times in two years in Texas heat too and its still going strong. I didn't lose it in Texas freeze, it did lose all of its leaves though since it was newly planted, I cut it back to make it thicker and now its thriving. all my other gardenias demand a lot from me. this one is not fussy and looks very beautiful even if it doesnt bloom I would still buy it.
I've watched this twice now and will be watching the others you've noted. Thank you so much for all these options. This year, finally, I have a clue and I'm excited to get things changed up. Watching your new home landscape come together is so exciting, and I love how you're interested in pollinators, more natural gardening and including a wide variety of plants. Something I am working to emulate. Thank you.
Well if you have a blank screen, that’s when you call Jim Putnam to landscape for you because HE KNOWS HIS PLANTS👍❤️. Thank you Jim, I have learned so so much🥳
Jim, this was the most helpful to me as a homeowner working to do our own landscaping. Since we lost most of our foundation shrubs in the Snowmagdden here in Texas a year ago, we had to replace it all. I'm happy with some of it, especially the sunshine ligustrum. But some others aren't doing so well. This is giving me hope of replacing some of our initial replacement shrubs with several of these great combos. Thank you for all the great videos and content and information you share.
My white weddings were planted as 3 gal last June. In one year they are over 4 ft tall 3 ft wide and the blooms are just getting going good and in a week or 2 we wont see any green! Absolutely stunning!
Thank you! Definitely a video I will continue to refer back to. If you are looking for an idea to build on videos like these, I would be interested in videos explaining continuing care after planted. I tend to get excited and seek out a particular plant and then sometimes leaves yellow, pest, or other issues that I am not sure what to do next. I get so frustrated. I try hard to keep my plants healthy and growing, it is definitely not easy for beginners like me. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
To quote the great Lefty Kreh - "if it ain't chartreuse it ain't no use!" :) Applies to plants as much as fishing to me... I've taken so many ideas from you on plants in this range like the Brigadoon St. John's Wort, Florida Sunshine Illicium, Carex's, and of course the Sunshine Ligustrum.
Jim,I love this video! I would like to see other combination videos. Sometimes, i run out of ideas for combos so this had given me inspiration for my new yard. Thanks so much!
Jim, do you have Japanese beetles, I’ve never heard you mention them. I am so tired of the daily chore of picking them off early morning, have tried bags, ugh! I’m committed to organic gardening, don’t want to hurt my beneficials, HELP!
I have a whole garden bed that is chartreuse and black. Absolutely great color combo, I have Designer Jeans hosta, dwarf loropetalum, black mondo grass, stained glass hosta, lime and black linten rose, Lime Light hydrangea and coral bells in both shades as well.
I’m a huge fan of chartreuse in the garden too. One of my favorite chartreuse pieces in my garden is a Neon Burst dogwood; it’s glorious. I keep eyeing that Lemon-Lime Nandina, but I just don’t think it would handle our cold, wet winters very well. It’s rated to 6a, and I’m 5b, so I might try it, one of these days. Btw, this Northerner particularly enjoyed you Southerners saying “lemon-lime”. 😄
I heard that too ☺️ Such a sweet cadence in their accent when they say the “long i” words! (I’m a northerner who hasn’t successfully picked up the NC accent yet, but my children have ❤️)
Absolutely excellent video. This was sooooooooooo helpful. I just acquired 5 Carex Everillo. Now I know that I am going to put in the back yard rather than front because it should be in the shade. Would have made a very bad mistake there. Thanks JIM. EXCELLENT!!!!!
Love your show Jim. I can always find what a need to know on this channel. I may have missed admitting I just scanned through but I would love to see more Abelia. They are absolutely beautiful and have a lot of colors.
These are such beautiful options. I have added several of these sun choices after watching your videos and they are gorgeous around my property. Thank you for your videos and expertise.
Really appreciate the advice in this video. Its going to be a great help in deciding what foundation plants will go well with what I already have. Thank you so much.
This was excellent! One of the most useful garden videos I've watched. Love the shade combinations, but unfortunately, I don't have any shade yet. I'm looking forward to that experience.
I love this, thank you for sharing. If you do a next one, could you discuss plant combos that have different textures/leaves/blooms/shapes. I feel like I'm in a rut with similar textures throughout my garden.
I liked the variety of textures of the Soft Caress Mahonia, Mojo Pittosporum and Carex EverColor Everest. I am in Pacific NW (South Puget Sound area) where there is always a great range of colors (especially greens) and textures. That combination is more calming to the eye.
@@marcoswilliams2261 I'm good. A first year gardener and have already learned a lot of not to do. No veggie gardening for me. My trees are all mature and I'll not be taking them out anytime soon. That being said, I've been scouring your videos for ideas for shade plants 3 ft. And lower for shade areas.
I really loved the Jewel box Distylium/ Obsession Nandina/ Sunshine Ligustrum combo, as well as the Diamond Spire Gardenia/ Lemon lime Nandina/ Loropetalum combo. The red options you showed were beautiful though (red is my favorite color), so I’d probably swap out the loropetalum for something a bit more red. ❤️🌿
Maybe it is just me but I don’t put that much (conscious) thought into planting. I keep it simple and everything seems to come together nicely: be conscious of how big stuff gets, how much sun it needs/can tolerate, vary color and texture (red,blue, yellow, green in every area if possible, various seasons of interest, and repetition (especially white) to keep the eye moving around the garden and add cohesion). Oh, and how much work it requires because I am a lazy gardener and don’t like fussy plants. But, I like cottage gardens so…. To each his own
Hydrangea, Loropetalum, Nandina combo is very sweet. I dislike Nandina because it's completely overused, but that one is OK. Are the Nandina and Beberis sterile? Another home run segment, Jim!
This was helpful! I have a little hedge going of invinceabelle ruby hydrangeas in a part sun/mostly sun spot but looking for suggestions on plants to complement and fill in gaps - any suggestions?
Wish you’d do this with native plants. Nandina berries kill cedar waxwings, barberry is invasive. Help us make environmentally healthy yards and gardens.
The new nandinas are sterile cultivars. But I'd also like to point out that cedar wax wing story is the same story told a thousand times. Not defending an invasive plant, but that is just overblown internet cut and paste hyperbole.
Do you have Japanese beetles? I have never heard you mention these pests, I’m sick of the daily chore of picking them off every morning, I’ve tried bags, ugh! I’m committed to organic gardening and don’t want to hurt my beneficials, help!
Such pretty combos. Could you do a video for multi-season color/blooms too, Jim? I'd love to see what you suggest. Also, where is the best place to buy Southern Living plants? Online? I haven't seen them anywhere for sale.
Barberry and nandina are both invasive level 2 plants in Maryland, which means they require a warning sign where they’re being sold. Are these cultivars also invasive?
Will you please list the most sun and heat tolerant hydrangea for direct facing west sun from 12 noon til 7pm. I don't care the size, I just want ANY that will survive direct hot hot burning torching sun in Atlanta Ga.
@@JimPutnam Thanks, I'm a newbie to them and just needed some advice. I watch you all the time and purchased the 3 Jubilations, 4 ScentAmazing Gardenias and 2 butterfly bushes based on you, which are all doing wonderful.
Love this style of video! Disappointed to see so many invasive plants featured, though. I will never buy a barberry, for instance, because in addition to being thorny and invasive and thus a curse upon your neighbors when they end up having to remove the seedlings on their property, barberry also creates excellent habitat for ticks! As someone with family members who have chronic Lyme and is currently fighting it in the early stages myself, I'd like to see that particular environmental and human health hazard banned entirely. Please consider doing similar videos with non-invasive and native plants instead!
The world does change occasionally. Orange Rocket is one of many new sterile cultivars of Barberry. We have seen this in plant breeding with several invasive plants.
Also the nandina and the privet are sterile. This will be the case with most new plants going forward. Unfortunately no one can rewind the past, but there does seem to be a commitment to not make the same mistakes now.
Thank you for the reply! I'm glad such varieties are being developed, but I'm not sure I can trust such a thing as a "sterile" plant. That's what Bradford pear was supposed to be, iirc. Is it less likely that these new cultivars of nandina, etc. could revert to fertile than the Bradford pears? I'm curious to know the differences.
Bradfords weren't sterile they just didn't have the right dance partner. Unfortunately because they had some problems and other trees were introduced that allowed it to seed. There is a big difference between sterile and only having male or female plants in the population.
Unfortunately, several of the selections are glorified deer food-----I know from experience. So selecting plant combinations have other wrinkles that if ignored will end up with a disappointing result in terms of viability of the landscape. Something that must be considered in making choices.
I no longer talk about deer on this channel. Literally every plant that I have ever called deer resistant has a comment below it about a deer that ate it.
@@JimPutnam Jim understand your rationale about plants and deer. And yes if deer get hungry enough they will literally eat anything (I've even seen them sample oleander) But depending on the environment where one lives, deer can be a major consideration in selecting plants. That's the only point I was making.
There are a couple of more combination videos for sun and shade - ua-cam.com/video/kW2p2zZwqK4/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/RTuTZAwmOK8/v-deo.html. Thanks for watching
Thank you Jim. Can you identify this Shrub? I thought it was a boxwood but after seeing the different Holly you have shown, I'm not sure.
Lol not sure how to share the photos. Anyway, some are holly, some look like boxwood but has berries on new growth. They are at least 20 years old. I'm having a tree removed behind them and the tree people said they would end up destroying the shrubs. How hard can I prune them back? Currently are about 5 ft.
Great segment! Would love to see more like these if possible. I've always struggled on plant combinations.
I agree this was great!
Fabulous segment! So helpful seeing the plants swapped out. Would like to see this done again with different combos. Would also like to see a "This or That" segment in someone's yard as they are adding things to an existing landscape or to a certain spot in their yard - you'd need a pallet of plants for the shoot.
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Which of these is your favorite? Mine is the Soft Caress Mahonia, Mojo Pittosporum, and Buttered Rum Heucherella. Thanks for watching.
Agreed!!!...gonna use the purple heucherellas I already have tho
Sane for me 😊
Buttered Rum Huecherella, Gold carex and that gorgeous camellia!! This video is right on time!
I just planted 5 soft caress mahonias !
My favorite though is Florida Sunshine Anise & Jazz Ruby Coleus for shade combos.
I may try Heucherella again. Zone 8b Gulf Coast.
My struggle now is this major heat wave plants can’t take up enough water... it’s bad here on gulf coast enemies with ton of mulch etc... it’s so Damn hot!!🤬🔥🔥
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One of my biggest struggles is companion planting This was one awesome video and it was a tremendous help!!! Please do more like this! A perennial companion planting ideas would be great!!! I've had a Soft Caress Mahonia for 4 years and have moved it twice trying to find the right setting - now I have the answer. Thanks Jim for this video!!!
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More videos like this would be helpful. Thanks for this Jim
It's so hot in Central Texas 8b that the weeds are dying. Triple-digit days with no rain and nothing better in the forecast.
Update on weather: 98 for next Tuesday with 20 % chance of rain.
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Thanks so much for sharing a beautiful video today and sharing about all these beautiful plants and such great information and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie
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Southern living is my favorite brand of plants. All do well in my Texas 9a weather😊
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that gardenia is the best gardenia in the whole world. its very industrial I have transplanted it and moved it more than 5 times in two years in Texas heat too and its still going strong. I didn't lose it in Texas freeze, it did lose all of its leaves though since it was newly planted, I cut it back to make it thicker and now its thriving. all my other gardenias demand a lot from me. this one is not fussy and looks very beautiful even if it doesnt bloom I would still buy it.
I've watched this twice now and will be watching the others you've noted. Thank you so much for all these options. This year, finally, I have a clue and I'm excited to get things changed up. Watching your new home landscape come together is so exciting, and I love how you're interested in pollinators, more natural gardening and including a wide variety of plants. Something I am working to emulate. Thank you.
Well if you have a blank screen, that’s when you call Jim Putnam to landscape for you because HE KNOWS HIS PLANTS👍❤️. Thank you Jim, I have learned so so much🥳
Jim, this was the most helpful to me as a homeowner working to do our own landscaping. Since we lost most of our foundation shrubs in the Snowmagdden here in Texas a year ago, we had to replace it all. I'm happy with some of it, especially the sunshine ligustrum. But some others aren't doing so well. This is giving me hope of replacing some of our initial replacement shrubs with several of these great combos. Thank you for all the great videos and content and information you share.
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This was great! Always looking for new ideas and combinations.
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Very helpful!
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Love these “serving suggestions” for sun and shade. Thanks, Jim!
Thanks for the ideas! Great video.
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My white weddings were planted as 3 gal last June. In one year they are over 4 ft tall 3 ft wide and the blooms are just getting going good and in a week or 2 we wont see any green! Absolutely stunning!
Thank you! Definitely a video I will continue to refer back to. If you are looking for an idea to build on videos like these, I would be interested in videos explaining continuing care after planted. I tend to get excited and seek out a particular plant and then sometimes leaves yellow, pest, or other issues that I am not sure what to do next. I get so frustrated. I try hard to keep my plants healthy and growing, it is definitely not easy for beginners like me. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
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Excellent episode. Colour, form and shape and texture combinations are important to me so more please!
I love foliage color and combining them!
Great ideas and combinations to consider, thank you so much!!
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Great video!
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Enjoyed watching the different combos. Would like more of these for zone 5
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Love that Mahonia, and camellia
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Very helpful video. Would love to see more like this.
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To quote the great Lefty Kreh - "if it ain't chartreuse it ain't no use!" :) Applies to plants as much as fishing to me... I've taken so many ideas from you on plants in this range like the Brigadoon St. John's Wort, Florida Sunshine Illicium, Carex's, and of course the Sunshine Ligustrum.
That's great! Thanks for watching
Don't forget the gold foliage Agastache!
Red/green is my favorite color combo, whether they be shrubs, bulbs or something else.
I always struggle with picking combinations, so thanks for sharing this video!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for all the info
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Jim,I love this video! I would like to see other combination videos. Sometimes, i run out of ideas for combos so this had given me inspiration for my new yard. Thanks so much!
I am a visual person and this video was awesome!! Thank you so much for showing us some combos that would look great in the landscape.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you😃 wonderful choices.
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Jim, do you have Japanese beetles, I’ve never heard you mention them. I am so tired of the daily chore of picking them off early morning, have tried bags, ugh! I’m committed to organic gardening, don’t want to hurt my beneficials, HELP!
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Love to see these recommendations especially with different leaf textures and foliage colors!
Fantastic, helpful video!! Thanks Jim!!
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Great video! I’ll be watching it again and taking notes.
Great video, Jim! Please do more like this.
I have a whole garden bed that is chartreuse and black. Absolutely great color combo, I have Designer Jeans hosta, dwarf loropetalum, black mondo grass, stained glass hosta, lime and black linten rose, Lime Light hydrangea and coral bells in both shades as well.
I really like this episode because it’s nice to what groupings go together.
I enjoyed seeing the combos!
Great video. Wish you would do this more often. Then replay the videos next Spring.
I’m a huge fan of chartreuse in the garden too. One of my favorite chartreuse pieces in my garden is a Neon Burst dogwood; it’s glorious. I keep eyeing that Lemon-Lime Nandina, but I just don’t think it would handle our cold, wet winters very well. It’s rated to 6a, and I’m 5b, so I might try it, one of these days. Btw, this Northerner particularly enjoyed you Southerners saying “lemon-lime”. 😄
I heard that too ☺️ Such a sweet cadence in their accent when they say the “long i” words!
(I’m a northerner who hasn’t successfully picked up the NC accent yet, but my children have ❤️)
I will look up Neon burst dogwood - thank you for sharing !!
Absolutely excellent video. This was sooooooooooo helpful. I just acquired 5 Carex Everillo. Now I know that I am going to put in the back yard rather than front because it should be in the shade. Would have made a very bad mistake there. Thanks JIM. EXCELLENT!!!!!
Love your show Jim. I can always find what a need to know on this channel. I may have missed admitting I just scanned through but I would love to see more Abelia. They are absolutely beautiful and have a lot of colors.
Terrific. Great inspiration
This was very helpful. Wonderful idea for a video.
Love the vid, need more of it
I work for a nursery that sells Encores. Your videos are great.
Wonderful video! Thank you.
These are such beautiful options. I have added several of these sun choices after watching your videos and they are gorgeous around my property. Thank you for your videos and expertise.
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Really appreciate the advice in this video. Its going to be a great help in deciding what foundation plants will go well with what I already have. Thank you so much.
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This was excellent! One of the most useful garden videos I've watched. Love the shade combinations, but unfortunately, I don't have any shade yet. I'm looking forward to that experience.
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I really enjoyed this.
I love this, thank you for sharing. If you do a next one, could you discuss plant combos that have different textures/leaves/blooms/shapes. I feel like I'm in a rut with similar textures throughout my garden.
Great tips! Thank you!
This was really helpful! So many plants I’d like to use and some great design suggestions.
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Very educational thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you! These are awesome combos for the landscape
I liked the variety of textures of the Soft Caress Mahonia, Mojo Pittosporum and Carex EverColor Everest. I am in Pacific NW (South Puget Sound area) where there is always a great range of colors (especially greens) and textures. That combination is more calming to the eye.
This helps a lot as things can and do get confusing with such a large variety to choose from out in the garden centers.
Could you please do another of these with shade plants? Also can you add a short ground cover with these, like a creeping thyme?
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@@marcoswilliams2261 I'm good. A first year gardener and have already learned a lot of not to do. No veggie gardening for me. My trees are all mature and I'll not be taking them out anytime soon. That being said, I've been scouring your videos for ideas for shade plants 3 ft. And lower for shade areas.
@@shannonboroff9981 wow I’m glad you learn something from it.
I would like to see your garden!
@@shannonboroff9981 I’m Marcos from Texas but I’m originally from Brazil.
How about you?
@@marcoswilliams2261 from the USA. In Southeast Oklahoma.
I really loved the Jewel box Distylium/ Obsession Nandina/ Sunshine Ligustrum combo, as well as the Diamond Spire Gardenia/ Lemon lime Nandina/ Loropetalum combo. The red options you showed were beautiful though (red is my favorite color), so I’d probably swap out the loropetalum for something a bit more red. ❤️🌿
Fantastic, helpful video!! Great ideas for sun and shade!!
Jim, what camellia is best for shade?
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Maybe it is just me but I don’t put that much (conscious) thought into planting. I keep it simple and everything seems to come together nicely: be conscious of how big stuff gets, how much sun it needs/can tolerate, vary color and texture (red,blue, yellow, green in every area if possible, various seasons of interest, and repetition (especially white) to keep the eye moving around the garden and add cohesion). Oh, and how much work it requires because I am a lazy gardener and don’t like fussy plants. But, I like cottage gardens so…. To each his own
Hydrangea, Loropetalum, Nandina combo is very sweet. I dislike Nandina because it's completely overused, but that one is OK. Are the Nandina and Beberis sterile? Another home run segment, Jim!
This was helpful! I have a little hedge going of invinceabelle ruby hydrangeas in a part sun/mostly sun spot but looking for suggestions on plants to complement and fill in gaps - any suggestions?
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Great video title/idea
Wish you’d do this with native plants. Nandina berries kill cedar waxwings, barberry is invasive. Help us make environmentally healthy yards and gardens.
The new nandinas are sterile cultivars. But I'd also like to point out that cedar wax wing story is the same story told a thousand times. Not defending an invasive plant, but that is just overblown internet cut and paste hyperbole.
Do you have Japanese beetles? I have never heard you mention these pests, I’m sick of the daily chore of picking them off every morning, I’ve tried bags, ugh! I’m committed to organic gardening and don’t want to hurt my beneficials, help!
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So hard to pick just one favorite.
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Can you do one for Zone 5 and lower please. Thanks
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Such pretty combos. Could you do a video for multi-season color/blooms too, Jim? I'd love to see what you suggest. Also, where is the best place to buy Southern Living plants? Online? I haven't seen them anywhere for sale.
Southern Living Plants are available at Lowes.
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The Obsession Nandina doesn’t spread like the Gulf Stream Nandina, right?
Barberry and nandina are both invasive level 2 plants in Maryland, which means they require a warning sign where they’re being sold. Are these cultivars also invasive?
No, they are both sterile cultivars. So is the privet
@@JimPutnam that’s great!
Will you please list the most sun and heat tolerant hydrangea for direct facing west sun from 12 noon til 7pm. I don't care the size, I just want ANY that will survive direct hot hot burning torching sun in Atlanta Ga.
Any hydrangea paniculatas
@@JimPutnam Thanks, I'm a newbie to them and just needed some advice. I watch you all the time and purchased the 3 Jubilations, 4 ScentAmazing Gardenias and 2 butterfly bushes based on you, which are all doing wonderful.
Love this style of video! Disappointed to see so many invasive plants featured, though. I will never buy a barberry, for instance, because in addition to being thorny and invasive and thus a curse upon your neighbors when they end up having to remove the seedlings on their property, barberry also creates excellent habitat for ticks! As someone with family members who have chronic Lyme and is currently fighting it in the early stages myself, I'd like to see that particular environmental and human health hazard banned entirely.
Please consider doing similar videos with non-invasive and native plants instead!
The world does change occasionally. Orange Rocket is one of many new sterile cultivars of Barberry. We have seen this in plant breeding with several invasive plants.
Also the nandina and the privet are sterile. This will be the case with most new plants going forward. Unfortunately no one can rewind the past, but there does seem to be a commitment to not make the same mistakes now.
Thank you for the reply! I'm glad such varieties are being developed, but I'm not sure I can trust such a thing as a "sterile" plant. That's what Bradford pear was supposed to be, iirc. Is it less likely that these new cultivars of nandina, etc. could revert to fertile than the Bradford pears? I'm curious to know the differences.
Bradfords weren't sterile they just didn't have the right dance partner. Unfortunately because they had some problems and other trees were introduced that allowed it to seed. There is a big difference between sterile and only having male or female plants in the population.
The gardenia? How tall and wide does it get?
Unfortunately, several of the selections are glorified deer food-----I know from experience. So selecting plant combinations have other wrinkles that if ignored will end up with a disappointing result in terms of viability of the landscape. Something that must be considered in making choices.
I no longer talk about deer on this channel. Literally every plant that I have ever called deer resistant has a comment below it about a deer that ate it.
@@JimPutnam Jim understand your rationale about plants and deer. And yes if deer get hungry enough they will literally eat anything (I've even seen them sample oleander) But depending on the environment where one lives, deer can be a major consideration in selecting plants. That's the only point I was making.