Mid-Year Garden Update: Reflections on Obstacles, Wins, and Lessons Learned with
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Welcome to this month's garden chat video with Karen from @lovelygirliebits and me. As we reach the halfway point of the year, we thought it would be a good time to give an update on our gardens, discuss our challenges and successes, and share what we've learned so far.
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🌼Hello Karen and Catherine and friends watching from around the world. I’m 67 and a Master Gardener living alone in an apartment now. I lost my home and garden in divorce five years ago, so I live vicariously thru you two and many other videos like yours. I do know after many years experience, gardeners are the nicest people in the world! Thank you for brightening my days and for being so very nice. Your kindness is extraordinary. Happy gardening everyone from southeast Michigan USA. 💚💛🌼💚💛🌼💚💛
That's sad to lose your garden. I hope you have a balcony to do some window box gardening
Your story parallels mine, quite a bit.. I just turned 68 yesterday, the 29th and I’m just beginning to get my feet back under me.. I’ve put so many gardens in, for friends and family but, starting over from scratch at my age now ,is very daunting. With these high 90 temperatures in Tennessee US.. what I was able to put in this Spring is struggling in this heat and I can’t get out in that extreme heat and so the plants are struggling from my neglect.. looking forward to fall planting.. you girls are such an inspiration ❤️❤️
Hey! I just turned 70 & live in GA, although I did live in TN for 8 yrs & loved it. I’ve been living at this one house for 25 yrs & Im ready for a change but unfortunately we can’t afford to move now with the crazy housing market the way it is. So, I just keep adding more gardening beds but you are right in this heat all I can get done is watering & some weeding. I, too, look forward to fall. I’ll be heading to NC to the mountains to visit my daughter in October & can’t wait!
Same for me only im not a master just a forever student of the garden. I pray we both get a home and a garden of our own again soon.
The same thing happened to me! If you’re a gardener then you’ll understand giving up hours and hours of investing in a landscape, then leaving it.😔 Now that I’m sixty-one, I garden in my little yard, but when I rented and couldn’t garden I found volunteering helped me so much, and I still do it! I’ve planted at my grandson’s school with grounds beatification, spreading mulch at the local high school, joining a local garden club (definitely not one of those that do country club afternoon tea…these ladies are spunky!) and landscaping with another plant lover on my church property. I’d be honored to work along side of a Master Gardener, so use that gift! I hope your knowledge and love for plants can be used to brighten someone’s corner in our world! Bless you sweet friend!🌿
My neighbour grows her marigolds by saving the whole blossoms & drying them well. In the spring she digs up the soil, and using her hands just crumbles the dry flowers and digs them into the soil well. She ends up with a beautiful dense mixture of blossoms that changes every year. She even scavenges blossoms from neighbours if she sees some she likes in their gardens.
! If I didn't know better I'd swear you were talking about me! 😆
I'm with you on the echinachea I've pla yed five in the past three years and I never get t g em to come back. The Japanese Beatles have eaten away my azalea and my roses. Very bad this year
Collect the vine weavel grubs and leave them in a pot saucer for the blackbirds they love them.
Wow that’s brilliant 😍😍 sounds like she’s got it down!
Thank you, it was like sitting in the garden with two friends. Spilling the tea, the laughter and the epiphany moment.😂❤️
Another Ridley!👍😊
I thought that very same thing 🫶
Aww so glad to hear that! We love the garden chats 🤍❤️
@@DaintyDiaries the garden chats are the highlight of my month! I’m ready for another after each one 😂
Agreed
I do enjoy you two, individually and together, you’re such a joy.
I watch gardening videos from every climate so I’ll be prepared for whatever our gardens turn into.
I love watching both your channels. You two together,improve my mental health 100% 💜 Heather
I’m so glad to hear that Heather 🩷🩷 thanks for stopping by xx
Hi I really enjoyed a Sunday evening watching the two of you, its so relaxing and I love how you go off at tangents onto different subjects. Keep up the good work. Catherine I believe echinacea are a short lived perennial so it might not be that you are doing something wrong. Thank you got sharing x
No judgement zone…’so what you kill’😂 So much much ladies❤️
It made me snort my tea over my keyboard.
Hi Catherine, what a lovely video just two wonderful women talking about life in their gardens with beautiful colourful plants. Thanks for the journey. Brilliant x
"If you're happy & you're growing" CLAP YOUR HANDS! Thanks for the fun video, ladies. Love having the garden chats with you two!
I literally sung that when Catherine said it!😄
Ideas: How about recovering diy and gardening mistakes, storing harvests on a small scale, and determining what to purge vs to keep? There are so many large garden harvest videos out there. Yours are better match the reality of our small dwelling and lifestyle.)
Can you do a vlog for what to plant now to get autumn / christmas flowering shrubs/plants/bulbs. Thankyou ❤
Hydrangeas will bloom June to October/November and they change colours with their flowers and some with their leaves. Plant amaryllis, beginning October for Christmas blooms.
Oh my goodness I totally could sit with you girls and be part of your chat. I relate to EVERYTHING you guys were saying. I was laughing and agreeing right along with you when you were talking about what you killed or didn't "give them their best life" 😅 lol.
I had my list as well. Karen when you said " I wanted them to fulfill their destiny "
I totally relate. And I loved your chat about microclimates.
If you ever want to come see what grows here in New ENGLAND Massachusetts you will have a place to stay and a cup of tea waiting for you both❤❤❤
Omg you two are a riot!!! Love the chats!!💖
Oh Catherine, I was surprised to see your video today. Last week you mentioned time off to have a mini vacation…but it’s so great to see you today and together with Karen for some fun chatty time in the garden. You both bring so much joy to my day and I get to learn some great tips for my own little garden on my balcony. 🥰🪴🌻 Oh, I just realized my confusion about when you were taking some time off filming videos…enjoy and I’ll see you then on your next video 😊.
I love watching the two of you interact, not into gardening at all, just watch cause love you as people. Can't wait for the next installment ❤
ty so much for the smiles and the laughs. I love my flower beds and I love sitting outside an crocheting to help keep my head clear. That is what I do for my mental health.
So glad to hear that Diana ❤️ it’s so important to do things that are good for the soul and clear your head xx
Love the green fence. Great color to show off her flowers. The colors pop. You’ve got the best friend with Karen.
Really enjoy you and Karen’s chatty garden video, always makes me laugh . Garden looking good Karen ❤
I was watering my pots the other night and was lucky enough to see a hummingbird hawk moth, never seen one b4 and I dought if I will again. Love your channel and love how down to earth you are.❤ from Wales
Oh I love them! I have video of one.
They’re beautiful birds aren’t they 😍😍
We have 6 months of winter here in Michigan so I have many houseplants to occupy my winter. I’m so grateful for growlights.
You 2 are so much fun to watch together!
Many years ago I grew a "dinner plate Dahlia". It was as big as a dinner plate and beautiful. If you get a chance to grow one plant it against a wall or fence to support it and it is spectacular.
I love having a garden journal! I keep my plant tags and tape them into a sketch book (it has sturdy pages) and write notes next to the tag about when I planted and where. I’ll also go back and make notes about how/when they died or what type of extreme weather they survived. 🪴💚
Success is fulfilling your purpose in life, whatever that may be. It is being a whole person. Its knowing truth....not fiction. Its beating the odds and being the greatest version of yourself. Loved when you said, you feel full (re the garden), money can't give you that, soo true. Passions, hobbies, gifts, interests, talents give such joy and make you uniquely you. Blessings lovely friends 🙏🩷🌺
My garden has been a lifesaver for me so so beneficial for my mental health has got me through so very tough times ❤ . As a cancer survivor twice it’s been better than any therapy. Just love you both so positive and fun 😊
I’m so glad to hear that you’re able to find peace in your garden ❤️❤️
I enjoy all your videos and yes I find gardening therapy for my soul. Thank you for sharing.
I love when you have this garden chat I love it so much!!!!!
You re a treasure!Be blessed!
Thank god for the garden great for getting out to clear the head 🙌 Remember girls there are no garden failures only experiments 😊 good luck with your cuttings and here's to the autumn season all the fun of planning for spring and bulb shopping!
Gardening and watching you guys is therapeutic to me .Thank you for being you❤️❤️
Hi ladies. I'm rolling Catherine's videos for her behalf. I saw the chit chat. I'm 3 glasses of wine in. OMG the inspiration. I wanted to get my weed wacker and go at my Berumda grass. 😂😂❤
Isn’t great to see how others plan their garden, and see the different varieties of plants. Just loved this visit with your plant-buddy.👏🤩🌸🌱
My joy is watching in my back yard the bird squirrels and Raccoons sometimes bunnies!! And my Hydrangeas are beautiful this summer!!
Karen and Catherine my 2 favorite girls ! Thank you for making a video together again ! Love the video and your experience you guys share ! You got rain and yes here in AMERICA is brutal with the heat poor plants in my garden are suffering with the heat I have to keep watering my plants in the morning and by the time I get home from work they are so dry I feel so bad they having a hard time surviving in this heat ! Many hugs !!!
This video was so fun for me. My front and back doors are open, a breeze running thru. I have birds and nature making a racket outdoors and now indoors. My cat is having a heyday. ❤😊
It’s 109 degrees here in southern state in the U.S.
Only 77 in Oregon.
That sounds like the dream 😍😍
You are both so blessed to have each other. I totally loved listening to you both and your sense of hummer together, it reminded me of my lifelong friend who has passed away now, but we did go through all the ups and downs of life both on separate journeys but always there for each other and we turned each drama into a fun crisis. Thank you for that 🌈☘️
Aww I’m sorry to hear about your friend Joan 🤍 it sounds like you both had a special friendship! That’s so important to have ❤️
Your videos give me great joy !! And help with my mood and mental health for sure … digging the soil and trying figure out how I’m going to plant all the plants I bought from the store 🤣🤣… my best friend loves cutting the grass . And I love seedlings . Xxx
What a tonic ,Keep bringing them, I will try the hydrangea cuttings, love seeing all the plants , the chat from both of you, so interesting. ❤️❤️❤️😊
Oh I just love watching you 2 lovely ladies . 🥰 it makes my heart happy 🥰🌸 Chehalis Wa USA
I love nosturtium! In German it's called Capuchin Cress,and it does taste a bit like cress.
I like watching you girls chatting and laughing. Seeing your gardens in bloom helps me pass this weird winter we are having down here. Temperatures are climbing up to 25°C once a week, plants haven't gone dormant. I was hoping to transplant a few but I couldn't. My winter bulbs are up but only a few daffodils are in bloom. Last summer I lost half of my plants to the extreme drought and heat but I learned a lot. Now I know which plants will thrive in harsh conditions and that will make my live easier, we just have to adapt, save water, protect our environment and use more natives. That will help native species as well. Keep enjoying your gardens, girls!
I just read an article that was saying gardening is now considered as exercise. And we all know that’s true lol but they also said it was good therapy for mental health. I know it helps me. I feel great all day after some time in my 🪴 garden.
You two are soooo fun!!!
I really enjoyed watching you two, it was fun. I am now starting to garden again. I lost my two mulberry trees in the front yard a few years ago and my front yard went to pot. I now have green grass , a couple of ever greens and a few flowers. My backyard looked like a park and then my two bearing mulberry trees died. So did my fig tree, and now my yard is a blank slate, with the exception of two tall evergreens. I have plans for how I'm going to landscape my backyard. Thanks for the fun video and inspiration.❤ 🌳🌻🌼🌷🪻⚘️🌱🪴🌴🌵🌾🌿☘️🍀🍁🍂🍃
Hi, I’m in Los Angeles county and it’s in the high 90’s right now with next weekend to be 100 😂 too hot it’s been like this for weeks. I love the Pacific Northwest and much cooler weather and fog and rain! Ireland looks so lovely! Love your style and channel! Take care and blessings to you and your friends! ❤
Crazy heat all over expect Ireland it seems 🤣🤣 thanks for stopping by! ❤️
It’s always a pleasure to watch you girls. Cheers from Australia 👍🦘
Thankyou so much for this lengthy video it’s so nice ❤ you two are fantastic together and individually, it’s like we are there with you having a cuppa and chat ❤
Loved spending some time with you ladies. You two are a joy.. and I have a black and blue thumb! I kill every plant with love. Ahaha but i ❤watching others garden.
I love both of your channels, and communities. They bring me joy because we can share all the things, failures and successes. There are too many negativities out there, and we have no time for them : ). I appreciate how hard you both work, I look forward to your videos, thank you ladies!
Challenges and mistakes is where we all learn the most 🥹 thanks for watching and stopping by xx ❤️
Nasturtiums have a lovely peppery taste. You can chop up the flowers to mix into butter for a delicious peppery butter that has a deep orangey colour (they take on the colour of the flowers used).
Great gardening girls ☘
Hi Jaren and Catherine, that garden chat was such fun. I gave myself downtime and enjoyed 😉 ❤
I found gardening a chore until the pandemic but now I feel blessed to have my outside space & have never planted bulbs but am so excited to be getting close to bulb planting season 😂 ❤
I have lots of evergreens in my garden, I really admire how you gals know all about plants & flowers. I love the chats between the two of you, I feel like I'm one of the gals just having a cuppa and the chats. Well done Catherine and Karen
Aww thanks Deirdre ❤️❤️ it’s like we can all have a cuppa together!
I was just told I need cataract surgery and I got on UA-cam and found Karen describing her experience. I recognized her because of your friendship with her. Love you both.
Lovely video! A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon! Thank you❤️💫
The verbena bonariensis, tall purple plant is the best for pollinators.
Nasturtium are peppery...very nice in salads.😊
Jo.
Two lovely friends having tea and chat and enjoying your planting and gardens. ❤
❤ love you two!
Hey gardening friends. Enjoyed the conversation and laughs. I share plants and vegtable harvest. I have a critter that destroyed my corn just as tassels were growing. I believe its some residential raccoons. Take care enjoy your break. I relax in the garden but can lose time 1 hour can easily be 3.
I love you girls!! Your gardening conversation is so enjoyable ❤❤ 😊😊 Have a wonderful week ! Here in North Carolina it has been a very hot week, 90° F!!!!😂
Hard to get out and do the gardening when there is a heatwave like in Raleigh NC where I am. I wind up getting my head under the faucet to cool off! Looking forward to planting when it is not 100 degrees out. Love these chat videos!
Would love for you to see East coast Mountains in USA for Fall foliage
Thanks for sharing, i've learnt so much frim you lovely ladies - i have been looking after my elderly neighbours garden after she passed away - i had no idea about roses or sweet peas and your videos helped me take care of them better. She loved her garden and i've been trying really hard to keep it how she liked it. I'm loving my garden this year and have sowed foxgloves for next year. Thanks again 😊🥰
I love love hardy geraniums. So beautiful.
I keep telling everyone, plant verbena lilacina - it grows into a lovely airy bush and smells delicious. I’m with you ladies too, I adore hardy geraniums. They glow amongst everything else 💜
😂 😅😊 Love my garden and certainly enjoy you Ladies!!
Ps have a lovely well deserved summer holiday Catherine 🏖️🍻 😚
I totally agree with you,living in the Woods with a garden and a river running through your Land is pure Bliss.😍
Absolute heaven 😍😍
What a lovely chat & sharing!🙏 I just love the casual way both of you share ur experiences.. it definitely resonates with me as a gardener. Both of u are so natural and genuine! U should be on Gardeners World ❤️ Keep doing this!
High enjoyed watching and learnt a lot from your chit chat. This year I have noticed there are no little birds around. Normally I wake to the sound of birds but this year nothing. I still put feed out but not getting eaten. Have still got the hedgehogs to feed , you have not mentioned if yours still around ?.. catch you next time 😊😊
Lovely sitting with you both in the garden my garden has been a work in progress like in i bought pots 3 years + ago nothing in them!! 😅 so this year ive gone pot crazy 🤪 plants not progressed to ground but maybe for next year
But i know when the grass is cut and now some colour it makes me smile though with all the Rain here in England constant for the last month solid and full on for the next week I've not had to water as i believe they would float away
I get the mental health benefit i love to craft too crochet, knit, amigurumi, sewing tilda dolls well you get it i love seeing something turn into something you didn't think it would be its all good for the sole
I thank you for a day in your lives and friendship 😊 negative people need to turn off and not dump.
You guys just keep doing what your doing you crack me up ❤
Great chat, thanks for sharing. Laurie
What a lovely treat today. Love your chats girls and the progress of your gardens. Have a lovely break Catherine 🌺🌸💕
Hi, Have you seen the Kathy Browns edible flower book? She makes some amazing cakes from flowers in her beautiful garden in Bedfordshire. Lovely watching you and getting lots of inspiration for my garden. Thank you x
I’ll have to check that out 😍😍
I keep my echinacea in a large clay pot. With casters so I can move it . I live in Tennessee USA and we can have very cold winters and very hot summers (it's 97°f with a heat index of 103°f right now at 7pm!) She's survived 4 years now. But in winter I have to cover her up really well or she'll freeze. 2 years ago, a tornado touched down just a few miles from me and did some damage to my little cottage and garden but other people suffered much worse ; so I'm not complaining
Howdy from Dallas, Texas. I so love your chitty chats. You ladies crack me up. So.. what has been the bain of my existence? I have started foxglove from seed three times. and three times I fail. They take forever to germinate, they get about 1/4 inch high, then die on me. I probably over water them, under water them, or not give them enough fertilizer or too much fertilizer, not enough heat or light. Who knows. I had a bad few years with hydrangeas too. But now we seem to get along better. No hard feelings.
Thank you for your inspiration
Successful events this year: i had three rose cuttings that took. Tons of petunias self seeded from last year so i didnt have to buy ant at all. I managed to keep seven coleus alive through winter by bringing them in the house. Planted them outside in june and they are doing great.
I live in the northeasy USA we had a cool spring with frost in June so lots of trees have brown leaves at the tip where thet were starting to leaf out.
Exactly my thoughts I feel like I am just hanging out with my friends .I love everything .I look forward to my Sundays and my Thursdays with you and live when you and Karen get together such a blast 😂😊
Hi girls! Loved the chitty chat. I'm in Quebec and the weather in has been so weird this summer. So hot and heavy rain. The veggie garden is doing ok but was definitely better last year. Can't complain about the rain though bc it's helping with the forest fires. It's very strange to not be able to see the sun bc of the smog😞
I'm super busy with work so I purchased less plants (veggie/herbs, annuals and perennials) and the only plant that had an issue was an annual Aster bc of aphids 😡. Miraculously, I was about to compost it and saw new leaves so I popped it back in the pot lol
Enjoy your vacation Catherine!!
So love the way you two are in sync
Nasturtium is the best! I grow them to eat! Every salad gets a hit of them. Also grow calendula. Which I call caLENDula. Accent on 2nd syllable. No rules…just how I do. Verbena bonariensis (sp) is a perennial here in Indiana zone 5. Thank you ladies!!!❤`❤❤
Always a joy to watch you both...
Hi from Pennsylvania US. Very unusual weather here this year. Mild winter with no snow, cold spring followed by six weeks of no rain May-June and then smoke from the Quebec wildfires. Hard to draw fair conclusions about what worked and what didn’t 😅
Hi girls, having a great time watching this. Everything old is new again so keep going back to the old ways and the world will be a better place. We didn't even know about biodiversity we just put things in the ground to go. Mostly information was passed down.
Gardening and touching dirt, laying on the grass under the tree are things that ground you. I throw kids out the back to play in the dirt, always good for their mental health and their bodily health.
We plant native Australian bushes, trees, shrubs in Australia because they take the extreme heat and not in need of so much water once established. Just about all natives flower and can look like a cottage garden. Not sure that you'd have native plants that like heat. ♥♥
Nature and gardening is absolutely good for the soul! I’m sure the little ones love it ❤️
@@DaintyDiaries yes even the toddlers love it. Sometimes not the mother's getting their kids back dirty. But you know what, it all washes off. 😊♥
Echinacea and astilbe like it dry and hot. I water mine once a week (if at all) in a full-sun garden. I grow in a zone 6 in Kansas. I haven't killed much in my garden this year, but did have trouble with squash bugs on my zucchini and my pumpkin plant is iffy at best. I have lots of blooms, but no fruit and possibly more squash bugs. I tried Nicotiana "Peace Pipe" for the first time this year not realizing how big it gets. The leaves are huge! I planted them all over to see where they would do best. Sun or shade it didn't matter - they did great. They were not water hungry either. Most of my gardening leans on the dry and hot side because Kansas typically doesn't get rain in the summer having had all the rain in the spring. Shasta daisies, lamb's ear, Artemesia, Mexican feather read grass, most ornamental grasses, and true hyssop have been doing amazing in my garden.
I tried to catch what those gorgeous purple long stemmed flowers are, but probably missed it. So, girls, what are they, please tell me. I'd love to try growing them. Thank you so much. Love your blogs, you travels, your visits.
I'm still waiting for the heat to arrive. I'm in Cumbria and it never knows when to stop raining 😊
There's a garden saying about plants and that is the first year they sleep, the second year they creep and the third year they leap 😄😄😄
What can I say. You two are just lovely. You bring me joy. Have you ever watched John Lord on you tube. He has a lovely nursery somewhere in Ireland. He is a bundle of fun like you and he gives so much advice. Thanks again. From the West of N Ireland, where it is raining constantly.
Enjoyed the chats girls. Hope you keep the channels going.
Love your chats. Unfortunately due to extreme drought here in Midwest USA, I’ve had many failures this year. I’ve lost many Verbena which I truly love. She’s like a long legged beauty on the catwalk 😊. It is an annual plant here in my zone 5 garden and is a bit difficult to find at the garden center. I have saved some seed heads and will try to grow in pots in early spring next season. Happy gardening sweet girls ❤❤😊
Thanks Girls. ❤
Loved this video, especially the story about taping the sunflower back together! I’m in Sacramento, CA. This season I have killed dill (who even does that??), echinacea, and of all things, tomatoes! 🤷🏻♀️
haha, that is okay, a good gardener will kill a few along the way, that's how we learn x
Such a beautiful garden! ❤
I'm going to be waiting and watching you doing the cuttings and propagation so I can do the same 😊
We need colour
in the garden for winter girls there must be something out there to bring us joy
The Achillea seem to resist being supported, but I’ve housed bamboo canes to cage the in. It a brilliant plant for stopping bleeding, treating burns and assisting in quick wound healing. Just snip off some leaves, add it to aloe Vera gel and wrap it around the wound, you can also dry it for the same treatment. X
Hey Karen and Catherine! Another great visit with you both. I'm with you ... Autumn is my favorite season and I'm just counting the days as it gets closer. I've always thought that lovely smell is from the leaves changing and falling and becoming a natural sort of mulch. I'd love to see what sort of autumn leaf colors your area has if you'd like to take us out for a little ramble in October!
Oh we will have all of the leaves and autumn vibes soon 😍🤣