Jim, I believe you have come up with a new definition of weed: "It would be a great plant if it wasn't the most annoying thing ever."🤣❤😂 BTW, your garden is amazing and beautiful!
Love you garden tours and especially that you put the names of the plants as well as the zones they grow in, up on the screen. Thanks! Im in a zone 6 and always watching for blue-green evergreens and/or shrubs to add to my ever-changing garden.
Jim! All of your videos are archive worthy. It’s like watching a movie every time, man. The back yard has grown so much. Awesome! Keep the videos coming.👊🏾😁
Thanks for another informative tour video. "Low-growing windows" made me giggle. Sounds like something I might say. And, "nekked" ALWAYS makes me laugh! Sir, you're adorable!
I live in zone 7a in Oklahoma and my Victoria salvia comes back bigger every year! Crazy because they sell it in annual flats of 18 plants for $20 since it’s really considered an annual here🤷♀️. We had a zone 5 winter and it came back even after -15 degrees. Best kept secret ever! I don’t want the garden centers to re-classify it as a perennial because the price will go up a ton but I try to share this secret with everyone I know😃
Love watching your garden tours. I retired beginning of the year here in zone 6 and started to garden more and loving it along with my bonsai. Your tours help me out emmensly with the plant name on the vedio so I can pause and take screenshots and save them for my reference when looking for perennials. Thank you so much. Keep it up
GORGEOUS. My favorite type of garden since I saw camellias, hydrangea, baby tears and fuchsia in my piano teacher’s backyard. Thank you for all the time you take to show us your beautiful yard. 🙏🏼😍💚
Love learning about the individual plants and how you use them. And thank you for giving their full names as we sometimes have different names in the UK. eg. we usually refer to the big leaf hydrangea as a Macrophylla or mophead, and the Redbud as a Cercis Canadensis or Judas tree.
I just want to tell you, I truly learn SO MUCH watching your videos!!! I’m growing 3 different varieties of Weigela in Vicksburg MS (zone 8b). I planted my Wine & Roses in a more dense part of my garden with a high tree canopy for more afternoon sun & they’re already flowering after just 2 weeks in the ground!! The others are Chezkmark Trilogy Weigela & they too are thriving along a sunnier fence line. But I watch & learn from so many gardeners before I purchase & plant to keep me from wasting time & money. Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher s& garden Role Model & Master Gardener! 🤩🪴❤️🪴
That 'Grand Cascade' butterfly bush in the background at the start of your video looks amazing. I planted two of the 'Pink Cascade' variety this spring but mine were just 3.5" pots so they haven't done much yet. Way too much rain this spring so they really struggled but are starting to put on a lot of growth now.
I have a hosta June in a big pot with one of my Selliginella fern, they look so good together! I just got that variety Heucherella on sale last week, poor thing was in full sun in it's gallon pot. Just noticed how well it looks with a dark Coleus.... If our rain would stop, I'll plant them together!
You have done so much. It looks amazing. I planted a purple Weigela plan about three weeks ago under full sun in NC and the leaves looked so stressed, even though I have watered it consistently. I should move it to part-sun. I really like Podocarpus plants for screening, especially in small spaces as you mentioned in other videos. It's beautiful evergreen.
Good video, especially because I am trying landscape a shady spot at the edge of my entrance area. Gives me some ideas! Always enjoy your videos. Happy gardening from Amy in zone 7b, upper SC.
First time I’ve seen an arbor vitae fern on your vids; I have 10 under a star magnolia, mostly shade, but I have to be careful to watch it for water needs all year really. I’ve planned a place for Roman candle podacarpus for a year now. Thanks for explaining its sun/shade.
I enjoy little shady areas. They seem so unassuming and peaceful. Caladiums are my favorites. I also have a spotted leopard plant that I absolutely love. Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo is literally the only place I have ever seen spotted leopards. They are perfect on the south side with a hosta and begonias.
I need more help with Shade gardening: under tree gardens, and northwest (3 hour afternoon sun) gardening. I'm also in zone 7. I'm new and would love year round interest. My backyard is tree shade and my front yard is North and Northwest. Thanks for helping me chose plants!
Sooooo, we’re not going to talk about the vine at the back of the Apricot Echo? 😂. We have hose here in SWGA … I haaaaaate them. That aside, Beautiful and informative your as always.
Hi Jim, I am new to garden, this year being my first and I have to say what took me so long? Better late than never. I have been planting a lot of perennials and experimenting with things. My goal next year is to plant a lot of my annuals from seeds so wish me luck. I've gain so much knowledge from you so thanks a lot.
I sow sweet alyssum ,forget me not, zinnia and bachelor button from seeds, very easy, zinnia i did in the Spring, the others late winter sowing, I had to do some cut back except for the zinnia, got to try the zinnia, you will not be disappointed, good luck
I love Solomon Seal too... I may try to get a few bits from my fathers garden 🪴. Hoping you may have some advice about clematis...I have 6 different varieties planted in various spots...they have sun to partial shade and I’ve grown other plants near bye to shade the roots. 4 of them started browning about mid June/July from the base and this has continued up the vine and onto the leaves. The vines are probably 3 to 5 years old and start this die back every year since planting. We are in zone 5. I’m blessed to have very beautiful rich soil that is loaded with worms 🐛. Any ideas on what I might due to remedy the situation?
Hey Jim, although this is an old video I hope you will see this question. Your sunshine Ligustrum reminded me. Here we are at the end of April, and mine dropped all of its leaves. Will it rebound?
I’m growing the Valkyrie asters as well and I’m surprised at how short they are. I was expecting them to be much taller. I’m wondering if I waited too long to get them in the ground. Some of mine even died, I’m not sure why.
Hi Jim, hope all good. Just curious what you have growing in the room on the back of your house. I can see plants through the windows. Houseplants???? Take care
Your gardens are beautiful. Thank you for the wealth of info you share. Last year, Jewels of opar ( Flame flower), Tablinum paniculatum showed up in one section of my yard. It is a thug! It's back again this year. After pulling and chopping today, I sprayed it with Bonide Dead weed Brew. I am trying to avoid using Roundup, etc. In your opinion, any chance that I can irradiate it with this approach? Thanks.
Hello Jim May I ask you a question? Can I plant Delphinium near the fences that have row of cedar trees on the other side of the fences. How far should I plant Delphinium away from cedar trees? Thank you
That helebore had a seedling beside it and my guess is you'll wish it gone eventually...I killed every one I had because it took over and was a mess...I tried that podocarpus too and was disappointed in it after a few years...I sound like Debbie Downer but like you say, if it's a dog get rid if it....
@@JimPutnam but when they do reseed,,,,,,, watch out.......they are a pain to get rid of..... they were the craze for a long time but they are not worth it to me...just my view...
I’m in the Raleigh area and am looking a daphne odora. Could you let me know who carries them? Mine never live but a few years and the last one I have us flagging. It’s my favorite fragranced plant.
Your plants look great! I have been following along since I am in Winston Salem, NC. I am dealing with bugs that love to skeletonize leaves and eat petals (shasta Daisy). I have sprinkled organic bug baits to no avail. I am also dealing with powdery mildew or spider mites - can't really tell the difference. I thought the reason may be that my sun/part sun flowers are not getting enough sun, however, as you mentioned in this video, the southern summer is intense. I do not think there is any plant in my garden without some kind of bug/fungus troubles. What do you do to keep your plants from being eaten or infested? Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Your garden areas almost look like they’re glistening! Do you have any in ground irrigation , use soaker hoses or just water a heck of a lot? Here in Va in 7A we’re in a moderate drought period and almost daily watering is required , especially for new plantings. Did you get the Veronica Salvia seeds from Johnny’s seeds and if so what other perennial seeds have you had success with?
Okay, so now I'm worried about my Juliet cleyeras after seeing yours in light shade with only a few hours of direct sun. I'd planned to put them in the front yard, where they'd get sun from 10am-6/7pm, and it is pretty harsh here in near Charlotte. Would they be better off somewhere else? Love the podocarpus so much, and really enjoyed hearing all the towhees in the background!
@@JimPutnam Thanks! Mine will need lots of pruning too I guess, for different reasons, as I'm trying keep them under 5'.👍 Love their variegation and new growth, similar to a hoya crimson queen.
When I bought my sunshine ligustrum, it said the max height was 3 to 4 feet tall, even after pruning yours they look to be at least 6 feet, do they get any bigger than that?
That's so funny. I was so busy thinking about everything else that I messed up the main thing. My point was gonna be it is the south, but it is actually shaded by that tree.
@@JimPutnam That's Okay! And it is remarkable to have so much shade on the south side. Especially good for keeping your home cooler in the summer. Everything looks SO abundant, all around the property. Extreme success!
Jim, I believe you have come up with a new definition of weed: "It would be a great plant if it wasn't the most annoying thing ever."🤣❤😂 BTW, your garden is amazing and beautiful!
Love you garden tours and especially that you put the names of the plants as well as the zones they grow in, up on the screen. Thanks! Im in a zone 6 and always watching for blue-green evergreens and/or shrubs to add to my ever-changing garden.
I could just plant and work in my flowers and landscaping all day everyday.
That Boulder idea for the hosepipe to scrape along and stop it chopping your plants is genius! Great thinking.
Jim! All of your videos are archive worthy. It’s like watching a movie every time, man. The back yard has grown so much. Awesome! Keep the videos coming.👊🏾😁
Thanks for another informative tour video. "Low-growing windows" made me giggle. Sounds like something I might say. And, "nekked" ALWAYS makes me laugh! Sir, you're adorable!
I live in zone 7a in Oklahoma and my Victoria salvia comes back bigger every year! Crazy because they sell it in annual flats of 18 plants for $20 since it’s really considered an annual here🤷♀️. We had a zone 5 winter and it came back even after -15 degrees. Best kept secret ever! I don’t want the garden centers to re-classify it as a perennial because the price will go up a ton but I try to share this secret with everyone I know😃
I think I saw the hummingbird fly by at the start of the video.
I’m getting great ideas for my shaded area from this. Thanks for the details! 🌺
I like growing foxgloves from seed. Such an impressive flowering plant from tiny seeds. Amazing!
Love watching your garden tours. I retired beginning of the year here in zone 6 and started to garden more and loving it along with my bonsai. Your tours help me out emmensly with the plant name on the vedio so I can pause and take screenshots and save them for my reference when looking for perennials. Thank you so much. Keep it up
GORGEOUS. My favorite type of garden since I saw camellias, hydrangea, baby tears and fuchsia in my piano teacher’s backyard. Thank you for all the time you take to show us your beautiful yard. 🙏🏼😍💚
Your garden is beautiful💚👏Not sure how you do it but the lightening in your videos is excellent. It really makes a difference
Love learning about the individual plants and how you use them. And thank you for giving their full names as we sometimes have different names in the UK. eg. we usually refer to the big leaf hydrangea as a Macrophylla or mophead, and the Redbud as a Cercis Canadensis or Judas tree.
I love Solomon’s Seal. Funny how beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
I also love Solomon’s Seal. They make good accent plants. But I hate vinca minor ground cover and the “creepy crawley” lirope.
I just want to tell you, I truly learn SO MUCH watching your videos!!! I’m growing 3 different varieties of Weigela in Vicksburg MS (zone 8b). I planted my Wine & Roses in a more dense part of my garden with a high tree canopy for more afternoon sun & they’re already flowering after just 2 weeks in the ground!! The others are Chezkmark Trilogy Weigela & they too are thriving along a sunnier fence line. But I watch & learn from so many gardeners before I purchase & plant to keep me from wasting time & money. Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher s& garden Role Model & Master Gardener! 🤩🪴❤️🪴
That 'Grand Cascade' butterfly bush in the background at the start of your video looks amazing. I planted two of the 'Pink Cascade' variety this spring but mine were just 3.5" pots so they haven't done much yet. Way too much rain this spring so they really struggled but are starting to put on a lot of growth now.
This video solidified my choice to buy a sunshine ligustrim for my 3ish hours of afternoon sun with dappled throughout the day!! Thank you!
I have a hosta June in a big pot with one of my Selliginella fern, they look so good together! I just got that variety Heucherella on sale last week, poor thing was in full sun in it's gallon pot. Just noticed how well it looks with a dark Coleus....
If our rain would stop, I'll plant them together!
I have 4 of those gardenias in planters on my back porch and they have done so well. Mine are blooming now and have more buds - upstate SC zone 7.
I love working in my shade garden. As soon as I can move some plants this fall, I'm creating a sitting area so I can sit and enjoy that area more.
You have done so much. It looks amazing. I planted a purple Weigela plan about three weeks ago under full sun in NC and the leaves looked so stressed, even though I have watered it consistently. I should move it to part-sun. I really like Podocarpus plants for screening, especially in small spaces as you mentioned in other videos. It's beautiful evergreen.
Good video, especially because I am trying landscape a shady spot at the edge of my entrance area. Gives me some ideas! Always enjoy your videos. Happy gardening from Amy in zone 7b, upper SC.
Yay I saw Holly at 3:55
That sunshine ligustrum grew so much since it was 1st planted … it’s such a great plant
Thank you for showing some shady spot plants! Great video again!
Everything is beautiful live your gardens! You keep everything so neat abd tidy- thank you for the tour
Appreciate the detail you provide in each of your videos!
Love these tours!!
Autumn Clematis is a pretty pain in my garden but the trumpet vine is my nemesis! 😠
Wow beautiful garden
Well-maintained garden
I enjoy your videos so much,very helpful for my shade garden. Thank you
First time I’ve seen an arbor vitae fern on your vids; I have 10 under a star magnolia, mostly shade, but I have to be careful to watch it for water needs all year really. I’ve planned a place for Roman candle podacarpus for a year now. Thanks for explaining its sun/shade.
I enjoy little shady areas. They seem so unassuming and peaceful.
Caladiums are my favorites. I also have a spotted leopard plant that I absolutely love. Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo is literally the only place I have ever seen spotted leopards. They are perfect on the south side with a hosta and begonias.
Everything is looking so good and lush.
Another great tour of your garden, thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
The garden looks so lush, very nice! I thought the asters were daisies the flowers are so large!
Loving these videos of your yard!
I need more help with Shade gardening: under tree gardens, and northwest (3 hour afternoon sun) gardening. I'm also in zone 7. I'm new and would love year round interest. My backyard is tree shade and my front yard is North and Northwest. Thanks for helping me chose plants!
How do you keep your hosta so clean no bugs…?
Always a great time watching your videos. Even though I am unable to grow most of your plants they are beautiful. Zone 6a 😞💚🙃
Was that a Grand Cascade Butterfly Bush I saw further back in the garden? Great video Jim!
Beautiful!
Sooooo, we’re not going to talk about the vine at the back of the Apricot Echo? 😂. We have hose here in SWGA … I haaaaaate them. That aside, Beautiful and informative your as always.
Hi Jim, I am new to garden, this year being my first and I have to say what took me so long? Better late than never. I have been planting a lot of perennials and experimenting with things. My goal next year is to plant a lot of my annuals from seeds so wish me luck. I've gain so much knowledge from you so thanks a lot.
I sow sweet alyssum ,forget me not, zinnia and bachelor button from seeds, very easy, zinnia i did in the Spring, the others late winter sowing, I had to do some cut back except for the zinnia, got to try the zinnia, you will not be disappointed, good luck
I love your videos, thank you
Shade is king
I love Solomon Seal too... I may try to get a few bits from my fathers garden 🪴. Hoping you may have some advice about clematis...I have 6 different varieties planted in various spots...they have sun to partial shade and I’ve grown other plants near bye to shade the roots. 4 of them started browning about mid June/July from the base and this has continued up the vine and onto the leaves. The vines are probably 3 to 5 years old and start this die back every year since planting. We are in zone 5. I’m blessed to have very beautiful rich soil that is loaded with worms 🐛. Any ideas on what I might due to remedy the situation?
Hey Jim, although this is an old video I hope you will see this question. Your sunshine Ligustrum reminded me. Here we are at the end of April, and mine dropped all of its leaves. Will it rebound?
I’m growing the Valkyrie asters as well and I’m surprised at how short they are. I was expecting them to be much taller. I’m wondering if I waited too long to get them in the ground. Some of mine even died, I’m not sure why.
If you're ever in ga I need help in my garden, I'm a beginner Gardner. Where do you find all dif types of plants love your videos
Hi Jim, hope all good. Just curious what you have growing in the room on the back of your house. I can see plants through the windows. Houseplants???? Take care
Yes, lots of houseplants
Your gardens are beautiful. Thank you for the wealth of info you share. Last year, Jewels of opar ( Flame flower), Tablinum paniculatum showed up in one section of my yard. It is a thug! It's back again this year. After pulling and chopping today, I sprayed it with Bonide Dead weed Brew.
I am trying to avoid using Roundup, etc. In your opinion, any chance that I can irradiate it with this approach? Thanks.
Can u put some lattice against the chainlink?
Where do you buy your seeds for the aster and the purple flowering plant, Jim?
Would you believe me if I told you that sweet autumn clematis grows so much faster in my garden than the Japanese honeysuckle, it’s crazy! 🤣
Ugh those impatiens were terrible when I tried them
Hello Jim
May I ask you a question?
Can I plant Delphinium near the fences that have row of cedar trees on the other side of the fences.
How far should I plant Delphinium away from cedar trees?
Thank you
That helebore had a seedling beside it and my guess is you'll wish it gone eventually...I killed every one I had because it took over and was a mess...I tried that podocarpus too and was disappointed in it after a few years...I sound like Debbie Downer but like you say, if it's a dog get rid if it....
It would take a decade for hellebores to take over a space. I've seen it, but it isn't gonna happen quickly.
@@JimPutnam but when they do reseed,,,,,,, watch out.......they are a pain to get rid of..... they were the craze for a long time but they are not worth it to me...just my view...
I’m in the Raleigh area and am looking a daphne odora. Could you let me know who carries them? Mine never live but a few years and the last one I have us flagging. It’s my favorite fragranced plant.
Your plants look great! I have been following along since I am in Winston Salem, NC. I am dealing with bugs that love to skeletonize leaves and eat petals (shasta Daisy). I have sprinkled organic bug baits to no avail. I am also dealing with powdery mildew or spider mites - can't really tell the difference. I thought the reason may be that my sun/part sun flowers are not getting enough sun, however, as you mentioned in this video, the southern summer is intense. I do not think there is any plant in my garden without some kind of bug/fungus troubles. What do you do to keep your plants from being eaten or infested? Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Your garden areas almost look like they’re glistening! Do you have any in ground irrigation , use soaker hoses or just water a heck of a lot? Here in Va in 7A we’re in a moderate drought period and almost daily watering is required , especially for new plantings. Did you get the Veronica Salvia seeds from Johnny’s seeds and if so what other perennial seeds have you had success with?
🌱🌿💙ENJOYED‼️ 💙🌿🌱
How do you keep 🦌 away from the Hostas? They drive me nuts!
Okay, so now I'm worried about my Juliet cleyeras after seeing yours in light shade with only a few hours of direct sun. I'd planned to put them in the front yard, where they'd get sun from 10am-6/7pm, and it is pretty harsh here in near Charlotte. Would they be better off somewhere else?
Love the podocarpus so much, and really enjoyed hearing all the towhees in the background!
The Cleyera will be fine in the sun. Mine is actually gonna stretch and require more frequent pruning
@@JimPutnam Thanks! Mine will need lots of pruning too I guess, for different reasons, as I'm trying keep them under 5'.👍 Love their variegation and new growth, similar to a hoya crimson queen.
When I bought my sunshine ligustrum, it said the max height was 3 to 4 feet tall, even after pruning yours they look to be at least 6 feet, do they get any bigger than that?
YES! Must prune :)
@@paulagarcia8297 thanks
Why is it that we never see the side yard in its entirety ? You seem to
always start from your back porch.
There is nothing beside the house yet. I'm gonna espalier something on that wall.
Thanks . When you don't see something you just get curious @@JimPutnam
Who is doing you video recording?
Now I'm confused. I thought this was the south side of the house. Doesn't your home face east?
That's so funny. I was so busy thinking about everything else that I messed up the main thing. My point was gonna be it is the south, but it is actually shaded by that tree.
@@JimPutnam That's Okay! And it is remarkable to have so much shade on the south side. Especially good for keeping your home cooler in the summer. Everything looks SO abundant, all around the property. Extreme success!
@@JimPutnam And I really like looking at small sections, in detail, in this series of videos. Great idea.
I love how you have broken down the garden more. Easier to make note.
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First 😁
Funny how you always end up filming your tours after a rain.
The colors are so much richer when damp - the soil, the mulch, etc.