Q&A | Watering, new garden, dahlia, dogs, me | The Impatient Gardener
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- Опубліковано 18 лип 2020
- Just a quick Q&A covering some recent videos and your other questions. Let me know if you like this kind of video.
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How I water everything: • How I water everything...
First tour of the new gardener: • The first tour of the ...
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My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5.
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Hi Erin, I really enjoyed this video. I felt like I was sitting across the table from you and enjoying a friendly gardeners conversation and having a cup of morning tea. Yes, more please!
Loved the Q A! Thank u!
LOVED this video! Nothing can compete with real people. When you say "Mr. much more patient" I can't help but smile.
The impatient gardener should have 1 million subscribers. Let’s make it happen for the queen of flip flop gardening!
I love Q & As!
I enjoyed this Q&A!
Erin, I love these Q&A videos! It’s like you were talking to me across the table. Thank you for all you do! Having a full time job as well as doing this is a ton of work! Know that it is very appreciated! 💚🌱
I love you even more than ever! Such honesty! A garden is a personal endeavor that you chose to share with us! Thank you!
Love the way you are so real, being that perfection is so overrated. Now to add I won’t worry about my dahlias, because they haven’t bloom yet. The parts about always seeing the negative parts of our garden is so spot on. Great Q &A, enjoyed hearing your responses, so if you like doing them great if you don’t it’s still okay. Always enjoyable,thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
It’s like having a glass of wine talking gardening with these Q&A’s. Like being invited to a party! Love it! Your3 so down to earth and talk to us like we’re right there!
And yes, yes, yes to more Q&A videos. Your conversational style is half the appeal!
The National Garden scheme videos are fabulous. Thanks for your time answering questions.
I very much liked the Q&A!
And even tho I already knew the name you have for your hubs, I just want to say that every time you mention
Mr. MuchMorePatient - it's his name that makes me smile 😊
Thank You for sharing 👍 💖
Isn’t it “rich”? ....see what i did there?
Regarding garden tours...What u don't understand is that we don't expect perfection. We will love your gardens no matter what because we all know what it entails to keep gardens and there is no such thing as perfection. We basically just want to see what u have done with your gardening to get ideas for ourselves. Thank u 4 being there, Erin. U r a joy to listen to and to watch. Someday maybe let us see Mr. Much More Patient.
The weed distraction was so cute - made me laugh. :-)
That's what I thought too. She is so cute with her humor
This video was great! Great! GREAT! Keep the Q&A coming as often as you like, because we like it!
Here is a another pro why I like when you use botanical names:
I live in Germany and I am hungarian, while I am watching your english videos regularly and it is soo much easier to research, find a plant over here when you use the botanical name 😊So thank you for that! I don't hung up on your pronunciation, since I know how difficult is to speak another languages😊
I was just going to write the same thing! I live in Germany and I'm Brazilian, so the English name doesn't help me while searching for the plant in an European online nursery or going to a garden center. Knowing the botanical name helps a lot! 🥰
With you, more than any other garden video host, I feel like it would be so comfortable to sit down and visit.
This was fun! It was like sitting down for a Saturday morning neighborly visit. Might be nice once or twice per season - but your regular vids are a mainstay. Thanks!
I missed the watering episode and had to go back and watch it. I have a large property with perennial gardens that are not on drip. I have invested over the last few years in four retractable hoses and three stainless steel metal hoses all mounted on 4”x4” posts. These hoses make watering so much easier and I don’t have hoses laying on the ground, much to my husbands delight. He can now mow without having to coil the hoses anymore. Thanks for Q&A session
Never worry about pronunciation of botanical Latin. It is not a spoken language so all reasonable versions are acceptable. Since internet audiences are global, botanical names are much appreciated. By the way, your content and presentation is amongst the BEST offered on YT. Thank you kindly.
Using the botanical names is so helpful to me when I am looking to buy the plant or find more information about them. Enjoyed the q and a very much.
This was my first year planting plugs and I had great success with Moonshine Designs Nursery. For covering large areas with ground over this approach is so much more economical. Yes requires a lot of attention up front, planted immediately in early spring, prayed for no frost and paid a lot of attention to watering and weak fertilizer to help establish. I lost not a single plant. Out of 140. They have wonderful instructions, great communication re your order. Some plants/plug flats you have to wait for so start looking at their website early to match up when you want to plant. I am too impatient to pot on and really wanted to go straight into the ground. If you accept the responsibility of this early maintenance the results can really pay off.
Please please continue to use the botanical names. They are the only ones I know. I get lost in regional common names. Pronunciation is also regional. No worries!! Just love your neighbor and your garden. 🥰
I appreciate that you use the botanical names, especially these days when so many plant tags try and hide the Latin name with brand names!
Oh Erin! I feel your pain! I used to love Saturday mornings = and then I moved. I moved into a neighborhood in the house of my dreams with a wonderful back garden! Little did I know that Saturday mornings are when the pilots fly their private planes, the lawns get weed-whacked and mowed, the houses get pressure washed, etc....Every single Saturday. Rain or shine. Hot or cold. I LOVE your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your gardens!
Lots of head nodding in agreement during the garden tour conversation. Gardens are so personal, the plants become your companion and any negative comment stings a little. I say, keep the garden private 🙂
Santa Rosa Gardens has been a source for plugs for me. They don’t have everything, but they have a lot!
Love the Q and As but I also like how you do your best to answer questions in written form when you have time. I hope you keep doing that. Also I hope your q and a videos don’t replace the other types of videos that you do. Keep them coming you do a great job! Also liked to hear what you do for a living - thanks for sharing!
Love the Q & A format, occasionally. I think it let's us get to know your better. Thanks for sharing your garden and knowledge with us.
Please continue your q and a , love your down to earth presentation, not being phony don’t miss an episode again thank you
Your garden is absolutely gorgeous thank you for being so generous as to allowing us to take a view along with you walking through your garden😎
We were here in Georgia about 5 years when our Real Estate agent told us our yard was chosen to be on a Garden Club tour. I was shocked and made a list of what I planted on a 1-1/2 acre lot that was nothing but dirt and broken glass. The builder said he took down 80 pine trees on the lot! On the day of the garden tour we left to see the other houses on the tour, I was glad because I didn't want to hear what people said.
Came back and watched again…appreciate the-no shaming in the way we call the name of it. You taught me how to “say” astilbe and other plant names over the seasons. Thank you
I really am comforted hearing how real you are. Just plant it and your admitting mistakes. Makes me feel better when I totally acrew up my planting
I agree with the garden tours... it’s like showing your bedroom. I know not everything is in the hamper or put away or the bed made (our son gets in our bed all the time to play)... it’s private and you don’t wanna show it off. I know the garden is a bit different, but I think it’s a similar situation.
Thank you for the Q&A. It’s nice to just have a sit down and listen to what’s on yours and other peoples minds. Thanks also for the reminder to take pictures of our progress in the gardens. It’s good to remember and realize the good work a person accomplishes.
I like Q&A! Your being down to earth is what makes you my favorite gardener to follow and the Q&A is a great ‘get to know you’ format. Strangely enough I got plugs from Walters Gardens (in Michigan where I garden) by ordering them from Harris Seed ( in Massachusetts).
I love the natural look of that stump. I have a couple in my garden as well. Love it when the plants naturally grow around them. 💕👍
I love the fact that you have a full time job. It’s very helpful that you understand that everyone can’t focus on their gardens 24/7.
Erin! Thank you so very much for your so valuable explanations and insights. And for letting us see your magnificent garden! So inspiring! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I know its hard to answer all the comment questions. I think these Q&As are great so you can address the commonly/related questions asked in one place. I like the format!
40 years ago I got a copy of the JL Hudson catalog. (Order one now!) But at the time I didn’t understand a thing they were saying because I didn’t know any of the botanical names. A few weeks later I got my first job in a plant nursery. By the end of the day three people had asked me for spider plants and they were all talking about something different. That made me go home and read the catalog and learn the botanical names! Thank you for listing them and using them! LOVE your videos!
Erin, I am delighted to have found your channel, I am now a subscriber! I enjoy your charisma, knowledge and garden tours. I especially love watching your dogs in the garden with you. Thanks for the show!
Love your answer to the pronunciation people. Don't pronounce it, just plant it! I really enjoy your videos, Thank you!
Thumbs up on the Q&A. I learn a ton from this format vs reading through comments or blogs
Erin, I love all your videos, but the Q & A answers alot of all my questions that i forget to ask in the comment area.
You are a very busy lady, thank you for the videos.
Cant wait for the tour.
So true about noticing all the negatives in your own garden! I always have a list of things that need to be worked on. As my mom always said “It looks great you’re just too close to your own work.”
Erin, if you have never been, I hope that some day you go to the Buffalo garden walk. Hundreds of generous gardeners open their yards to visitors on the last weekend in July. There is also an extensive list of gardens in other parts of western NY that are open on Thursdays and Fridays in July as part of the open gardens program.
Love your philosophy on plant name pronunciation! Just plant the plant! Right!!! Pronunciations can be so regional. There is a reason we have expressions such as.....You say tomato I say tomato! And a rose by any other name is still a rose! Botanical names are so helpful when identifying a plant you are unfamiliar with. Thank you for giving us both common and botanical names.
Erin, I feel the same way about my clematis!!!
It's me again from overseas and here in Germany you can buy plug-plants for a short period of the season, so keep asking the companies for it over there! I got a few plugs(I call them baby plants) this year, for first time and they are performing great, I think because they got used to the climate in my garden very early. I loved that I had to take care of them because there is not much else you can do so early in the season 😊
Oh and yes I loved Q&A! 🤗
I thought that this Q&A was wonderful. However, you are so good to answer all of the comments too, this must be a lot of work for you and I appreciate it, always. It was so nice to hear more about you and your thoughts. I watched it with a cup of tea and a cookie and it was fun. I really liked hearing about your career outside of gardening, I often wondered what you did outside of UA-cam. I think it's so nice to hear that sometimes, there are weeds growing and that's just how it is when you're working full time. I need to hear that sometimes and remind myself of this when I look at my own meagre garden. Thank you for your honesty, I think you're doing a brilliant job. Enjoy the pool lounging, you deserve it!
I love the Q& A please keep them coming. Back a few months ago you did a video on how you put a garden together in design. It was very informative on which plants go together and colors. I thought you were going to have a series. Would love to see you do more of that for us newbies in the garden. . 😘
Thumbs up on Q & A. Every other week or once a month might be a good fit. Add an in depth interview with one of your dogs .. lol
Hi Erin: I so enjoy your videos. Thank you! Just wanted to mention that there is a nursery called Prairie Moon Nursery located in Winona MN that may have plants on the order of plugs. You many want to check out their web site. Enjoy the summer!
Botanical names, yes please! It's the only way to be able to research a plant to see if it might suit my conditions, which are very different to yours.
Q&A videos with Erin...duh, yes, please! And maybe Odin’s bath time?
In my opinion, it is bad form for someone to call out a mispronunciation, plants or otherwise, and I love your response to that.
Yup. If they aren't your kids or your students, it's not your business.
Hey Erin! I really enjoyed this video. You are so right in that we can learn so much from just talking to other gardeners. Keep ‘em coming lady!!!
Hi Erin! I really enjoy your videos. You have a realistic view of gardening along with your no-nonsense approach to gardening AND your humor! I pronounce botanical names all the time, like calendula and I don’t care.
We are all more critical of our own “stuff” versus what others see so we really need to take the time to enjoy our accomplishments. I used to live behind a “master gardener” who spent a great deal of time “working” on her garden (and quite frankly I thought mine looked better) but she never sat outside on her patio to enjoy it. I would play in mine during the day then end the evening sitting on my patio feeling great about what I did, enjoying an adult lemonade with my husband.
I came for the gardening, and stayed for the Newfs
Thanks for answering our questions! Personally, I would love a regular Q & A.
Hi Erin, I like your Q and A videos as much as I like the other type of videos you post. I so enjoy seeing your garden along with Garden Answer, Y Garden, Linda Vater, and Jeri Landers. I get to see your over styles and garden layouts. I do like seeing different gardens just for the sake of beauty, but I really love learning what others do in their gardens and WHY. Then I know what things to try - if I haven't already - and what might work for my garden.
I like Q&A's It helps us learn from one another. I've learned that I can't grow most of what you have because I'm in California, zone 9b...hot and dry. But I love how you incorporate native plants which I started doing a couple of years ago. I keep the nice "pretties" near the house, they get some shade, and the "fend-for-yourselves" on drip irrigation out in the landscape, which is a hotter area. Thanks for sharing!
Mee too! I wish there were more zone 9 & 10 gardeners on UA-cam!
I liked the Q&A video! I feel the same way-my garden is very personal to me, so I would have a hard time doing a tour. As much as I love my garden, I am critical of it too. But, thank goodness you and others do videos like this because I learn so much.
Yes!! The Q&A is great!! Please continue!
Hirts Gardens sells plugs to the public. They are usually 2.5 to 4” containers. I like the small sizes of their perennials. Easy to plant!
Just watching Garden Answer where Laura did a Q&A on FoxGlove. Your channel immediately followed with a Q&A. I like an occasional Q&A so that we get answers to specific questions. I learned more about you that made me relate more to your circumstances. Laura let me know that she failed trying to start celosia this year. As much as I'd love a garden tour there's no way I'd want to put one on in my own gardens. I'd drive myself crazy trying to have color everywhere at the same time and we all know that that just isn't so in most gardens. So, long story short, an occasional Q&A is good :)
Loved the video but I love all you videos. Always honest, real, and fun.
Yes to Q&A's! Thank you for sharing more of your private life, your job with us. I think it makes us feel closer to you. Love your garden's lol. We know what you talking about. Stay safe and see ya on the next one.
Hi Erin. I'm joining the chorus of positives for this video. I love your tours as well. I hope you'll just do what is comfortable for you, so you don't get burned out!! Thanks so much for all you give.
Periodic Q&As are a good thing😃
Hi Erin! Not to sound creepy but I think of you every time I'm looking at my dahlias. Your video inspired me to purchase 5 new ones. Labyrinth bloomed first and now Watermelon is coming out in all it's full glory today, wowza they are gorgeous! (wish I could show photos) Yes, please keep the Q&A and garden tours coming! And I do the same thing on ordering extra plants, he he. They know they've got us.
I like your Q& A videos your are one of those down to earth gardens which I like. Happy gardening
Enjoyed the Q and A, keep doing 😊. I think you were pretty spot on about plug starts. I’ve worked for an independent garden center/ nursery (in MI) and we have ordered plug trays for customers but what I think most people don’t know is that our orders for plugs to grow up to sell next year are being ordered now, in July and August. Also it is a lot of work to keep plugs alive in their trays which is why they get potted up ASAP upon arrival which can be as early as March. I do think that plug growers could offer a retail service but I wonder if the reason they don’t now is that the number of people buying would be such a small percentage of business overall that it isn’t worth the trouble and / or cost.
I loved the q&a! I love hearing more about you and learning about your life outside of your plants. This was so great!
❤️ Q&A, keep them coming! I pronounce plant names with many different influences. Some I only know in Spanish since I was born in Miami of Cuban Parents. Have lived in Japan, Hawaii and now the D.C.area. Plus add in the way you Yuliya and Laura pronounce things I’m all over the map! Have to agree with you, doesn’t matter just plant them! Makes it more fun!!!! You got a keeper...me too!
Thank you for sharing your garden. Do anything, we’ll watch it
I really enjoyed the Q and A. Very conversational and warm.
we had a large tree that had to be removed because it was hollow. I asked to have the stump left in place. This year I took the sod from a different project and dumped it into the empty trunk. I then placed a large diameter but shallow planter, full of supertunias on top of the soil. it now looks like the stump is the container. Its really cool. this was a way for me to get rid of the excess sod without a compost pile or putting it into a yard bag for the landfill.
I like Q&A's. Thank you for taking the time to do it.
I enjoyed the Q&A. I don’t typically read all the comments but liked getting the cliff notes version! I also liked learning a little more about you. I’m in Zone 4 - Vermont and also battle deer. And rodents...and bears...I hear you on tours. My garden has come a long way and people keep telling me I should open it to tours. But I sometimes look at it and all I see are the messy areas! Last, I also have two big dogs! Black labs Fiona and Aengus. They love to ‘help’ me in the garden, especially picking berries and apples! Looking forward to seeing the dahlias!
Thanks for Q&A... keep it going. Love your video's and your garden as well as your dogs!
I love the q&A video. What I love about you is you show us when things don’t work out. That’s a huge part of gardening, trial and error. And how could people not notice clematis (another plant with a divisive pronunciation). Where do you order your clematis from and do you always plant bare root? HD had a bunch marked down but there were no varieties listed, just said clematis. No info on color or height.
The Impatient Gardener, John Lord from Secret Garden, and Yuliya from Y Garden are the 3 gardeners I'd want to have a sit down dinner with. The first because she's so relatable, the second because he can be quite funny, and the third because she's so sweet. What a wonderful trio. I love them all!
Who are we kidding: I’m quite sure that John Lord can’t sit down long enough for dinner. But I’d like to have this party at my house because by the time we got done eating John would have whipped my garden into shape and Yuliya would have answered all my garden design questions.
@@TheImpatientGardener You're right! More wine for us! And it'll be fun for us to watch him wack and toss!
Great visit good information.
I joined a federated garden club several years ago and agreed to do a garden tour the next year. I love for people to see my garden no big deal!!! Oh boy was I crazy or what. I spent the early spring getting things in shape I’m retired so I spent most days working. Then the night before the tour we had a awful storm I lost 3 big old trees awful. I have a screened in porch on 2 sides of my house I had tables and chairs plants decorating the area for coffee and goodies. The storm took every thing on one end of the porch and slung it to the other end and they were not light I have to have heavy furniture because of of the winds I get anyway. So that morning I was trying to cleans dirt from all the plants off furniture sweep it off the porch and I hope I never have another garden tour again. Although I had over 50 people come and they were all very gratuitous we had a good time in spit of the storm
I love listening to your answers to questions
I love your videos, I would say only do a Q&A as often as you do a seasonal garden tour. I just love and prefer to see projects and care tip, my favorite video this year was the spring plant vrs weed video.
I LOVE the Q&A format occasionally, but you are also pretty informative anyway. I have learned a lot from you and others. I'm in 5a, Northern Lower Michigan, and have trouble keeping color going all year. Thank you so much for all the info.
your grandmothers tree behind you looks great!
Love the Q&A format. Very helpful. Thank you!
I have creeping bellflower all over. Dug it out of maybe 100 square feet. Dug Like 18” deep and found roots larger than carrots....
It comes from the depths of hell. That’s why you have to dig so far for it.
I just saw this Q & A video and I liked it very much. You said in this video that you have a fulltime job and have to do your garden in the evening hours or weekends. I can so relate because I have a fulltime job too and I also have to do everything during evening hours or weekends. And it's a lot of work to do, especially in the spring and summer time. Your channel and Garden Answer are the only channels I enjoy watching, so keep up the good work !
The plugs comment reminded me of Terry Simpson's Farm Fresh Produce in North Carolina. It's a great farmstand and sometimes you can get pots loaded with plugs there.
Love Q & A!
Loved it!!!! I live in Eastern Iowa Zone 5. We often have Garden Tours in our Area as Fund Raisers. You buy a ticket and there are several Gardens on the Tour. I think most of the Gardens belong to Master Gardeners. I think you were extremely Brave to open your Garden to a Master Gardener Group. I am Not a Master Gardener though I would LOVE to have that knowledge, I am Not able to do the Volunteer work required. I have enough trouble keeping up with my own Garden. 🥰🥰🥰
Watching in Melbourne Australia love your tan winter here
I think a big reason why dahlias bloom so late is because we're told not to plant them out until very late. I decided to experiment and planted them up super early in March, here in zone 7A. My dahlias have been blooming for weeks now, certainly since July but maybe even June ( I can't even remember now). I did lose one to virus but everything else did just fine despite heavy rains and cold spells. So definitely, I would suggest to plant earlier in the ground, but not too early in pots because they grow so quickly and the stems can be very fragile when transplanting.
Absolutely love this video! I water like you, have diva plants and HATE the dials on watering timers. I think I have found my tribe 😀🤣
Thank you so much Erin for sharing your garden! I love your Q&A video along with all your other videos. You make me laugh! It's a good thing and I thank you for your humor. ENJOY the rest of your weekend!
I very much enjoy your videos, mostly because you are so normal! I feel like I am listening to a neighbor or friend. Thanks so much! Just a side note, I never get notified of videos from You Tube, but not just yours. I check to see if there is something new.
I have ordered from The Gentleman’s Backyard, New Brunswick, Canada. Great results with those plugs and bare roots.
Hello Condo
But don't you have to pay for an expensive license to order from Canada?
V Gil I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. 😎
We use the b-hyve and mostly love it. We were just on vacation for a week and I was able to monitor the water and even run my system from the beach. I’ve found that the smart watering (that supposedly self waters based on the forecast) doesn’t water long enough for my drip system. So I also use a long, deep watering program once a week in addition to the smart watering. We have one for the front and one for the back, and we’re going to get more to set up different zones 👍🏼