Lantana! Begonias! Autumn Joy Sedum! Elephant Ears! Caladium! Little Lime Hydrangeas! Veronica! Lemon Coral Sedum!My Zone 6 absolute faves!!!! I love these plants because they still r looking great with minimal effort by me 😊👍🏻
Hi Linda Rudbeckia in 7a southern New York does great every year no matter how abused they get. Sedum autumn joy coming into play now. Cone flower is also a survivor. Russian sage and the giant flowered hibiscus is surviving the heat but need water. Butterfly bush and limelight are happy but I put a soaker hose on them every morning for 45 minutes. I do that by a manual timer. Surprisingly the dragon leaf begonia has held up with some neglect. Happy you told us about that one. It adds a nice pop of color in the shade of a dogwood. Thank you😊 for your tips ! I have added new specimens bc of your recommendations !
My caladiums are just beautiful this summer thriving in the full sun or shade. Most are Proven Winners varieties that are in the sun. We have had heat index of 108. Zone 8a
Zone 5b Wheaton, Illinois . A complete Linda fan, I have put in a small patio like yours. I have added so many so many evergreen and shrubs to my garden. What a difference the “Linda Influence “ has made to my gardening. My problem this year has been lack of rain. I water, water, water. But one good rain coming down turns everything so happy. This years performers are Annabelle, little lime, lime light, hydrangeas. I also have a perennial sweet pea vine that really performs every year. Phlox are also doing well.
I’m in upstate NY, zone 5 … we have had extreme heat & drought… unfortunately we have a well so I can’t water like I would like… my winners are Russian Sage, cone flowers, catmint, lambs ear & yarrow ❤️. Love your videos! Thank you!
Here in central Oklahoma 7a I planted a vitex in the spring and some mealy cup sage (salvia) at the beginning of the heat wave. Both grew like weeds and never wilted during the heat of the day.
Hi Zone 8b NC. My successful plants are knock out roses and limelight hydrangeas for sun, For shade acuba, iron plant and plum yew. Thanks as always for sharing your ideas and information.
Lantana does well in summer heat and sun, zone 9 here. Menifee, Ca 102* today. Dusty Miller, agapanthas, euryops, plumbago, crepe myrtle, star jasmine, alisum and lavendar are all good. Texas privet , plumeria.
I’m in the Dallas area and we’ve been at over 100 pretty much every day since about mid June, and only recently had rain this last week for the first time since I think early June or maybe even may? My lantana is the only thing thriving 🤣
Hi Linda, You were right. I planted Oakland hollies for a hedge this summer and they are doing very well with lots of new golden growth. I also planted lots of lantana in front garden and they are as happy as can be, it has become my go to summer annual. I’m in NC zone 7B. Love your show!
Edmond, OK Z7b: My Summer winners this season we're Okra (gorgeous flower & foliage- I chop & freeze the pods for fall/winter soups), Sun coleus (I used them to grow in front of my shade Heuchera during summer & it did the trick to protect from summer sun), & Yarrow (fern-like foliage softened my drought tolerant gravel bed & didn't even blink at the heat- the petite sedum-like flowers blended right in!) 🌿
Team asparagus fern here 💯! It keeps my part shade patio looking lush and green even here in Phoenix, AZ 9A 🔥 🥵🌵 It looks absolutely amazing mixed with tradescantia purple heart and dichondra silver falls spilling out of containers. I also LOVE asparagus fern as a bouquet filler and it lasts forever in a vase 🌿💚
I don't have anywhere to house my topiary in the winter. Is there anyway to protect it so the root won't die? My first one and it looks so beautiful now! I would appreciate any info!
My number one is Denim and Lace sage! Definitely going to plant more. They are beautiful all summer in the heat and drought. Also angel wing begonias have done great in planters. as far as shrubs, sunshine ligustrum can take the heat! Zone 7b
In California this is our summers. Drought drought drought. My salvias always pull through. Purple fountain grass loves the heat. My sedum ground cover thrives and gives off beautiful white precious flowers. Trumpet vine is loving it. You just learn to adapt and its always a learning challenge. Especially with hungry, starving critters like gophers who BTW ate the roots of my palm trees, yes, palm trees! Grrr.
Linda, enjoyed your video while having my morning cup of tea. One of my favorite parts of your garden is in the back garden. Under your window box where you have yew, Nandina, oakleaf hydrangea. It looks like a miniature forest with the shade, the leaves underfoot and just a sweet woodsy vibe. Love it!
In addition to the decimation caused by the heat and drought in my yard (which is a former cattle pasture, North TX, zone 7b), it is being and has been devastated all summer by grasshoppers! Literally hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers. Many plants that might have survived the heat and drought just couldn't withstand the onslaught of the grasshopper plague. The one shining star for me has become the lowly Portulaca, or Moss Rose plant. While nearly all surrounding plants are defoliated, dried, dying or dead, the Portulaca, with it's succulent or sedum like leaves, is blooming it's heart out. For some reason the grasshoppers are not interested in it. It is easy to cut back if it gets shaggy, and though the color of the leaves do seem to fade a bit in the heat if neglected, it does green up with a bit of fertilizer. But a major plus for me is that all of it I have growing right now, both in pots and in the ground, were reseeded from just a few transplants I purchased 2 years ago! I've decided this plant is such a keeper I just made a bulk purchase of seeds which I plan to use as a ground cover next year. It is the number 1 winner on my list.
Everything looks fantastic Linda! We are a zone 6b. Sunny Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada Hydrangeas, boxwoods and coleus are doing well. Despite the hot weather. Have only lost two petunia pots. All good! Enjoy your yard! 😎🌺🌿☀️💚
A big winner in my zone 7b NC garden is agastache (hyssop). Caladiums in sun (came from Southern Bulb Co). Also, distyllium - I just don’t have to worry about this shrub
San Antonio zone 9...Lantana, rock rose, Arizona cypress, sweet potato vine, dichondra silver falls, coleus, euphoria, gardenia, echinacea, galadium, yaupon Holly, boxwood, viburnum all are doing well with regular watering.
This year, so many of my plants passed away...they didnt stand the heat for weeks! But my olive, fig, bougainvillea and oleander are still alive and i will buy more of them! They online need a little bit of protection in winter. I' living in southern gernany (7a....)
Williamsburg Indiana, zone 5b winners, Echinacea, Russian Sage, hyicenth bean plant, black eyed Susan and butterfly bush cedar bush. And milkweed for my Monarch.
So I was mentioned again about caring for figs. You mentioned that little figgy was producing fruit but the fig in the ground was not. In March I tip my figs with a light pruning then throw a couple of handfuls of bone meal and one handful of holly tone because I learned figs like soil slightly acidic. If you prune you will have new growth and more branches of leaves to decorate with and fruit! Make 2023 your fig tree priority!
7a Maryland. My biggest problems have been deer and rabbits. The winners have been boxwood, obsession and lemon/lime nandinas, lorepetalum, sunshine ligustrum, hollies, pitisforum, salvias, veronica, echinacea, angeolina, pieris, hydrangheas and dahlias. I've put netting on my hostas but won't plant them or daylilies anymore. Deer candy. Deer and rabbits have decimated my asters and am replacing with agastache. Have a gorgeous jasmine that deer have left alone but they have browsed on mandivilla flowers.
North Texas Zone 8a: Happily blooming away is the Pride of Barbados, Lantana, Crepe Myrtle, Angelonia, Ixora, Salvia, Firecracker flower, Pentas, Calibrochia, and my Southern Living White Wedding Hydrangea. What's continuing to grow and thrive are my native and cultivated Nandina, Hollies, Golden Euonymus and Pink Jasmine.
8a Eastern Virginia Absolutely love millennium and serendipity allium! Passion pink salvia did well too. Planted cats pajamas in abundance. More will be revealed next spring.
The eggplant really is a beautiful plant too with the purple blossoms. I hope you received the Caponata recipe, but another cooking option is a pickled eggplant that pairs well on a charcuterie board. I’ve also made pans of eggplant parmigiana with my Japanese eggplant to freeze for later meals. I love eggplant but have never grown your variety. I will also look for seeds for that one. 😃🪴
Daylilies here in 8b Weatherford Tx. I divided 2 clumps into 10-12 clumps not knowing how brutal this summer would be! They continue to grow and while they’re a little sunburned, they are continuing to grow. I inherited them in my new home so I’m not sure the type. Since they are yellow, they are likely plain old Stella de Oro.
I’m in zone 6B, Western North Carolina. This year I plant coleus (for the first time) in full sun. Beautiful!!! I’m not a big annual girl but coleus will top my list next year.
I'm in Virginia 7a. My red clay soil pH is 4.7, so it's very acidic. Every year Limetta hydrangea is a winner for me. It's low maintenance, the blooms last months and if I cut it back it will rebloom. I have LImettas planted in full sun, part sun, and shade and they do well now matter what. They are super low maintenance and nothing seems to slow them down.
Plant that have thrived in the Summer heat in Alabama 7b- Sunshine Ligustrum Annual Vinca-all colors Drift Rose Sun Coleus Potato Vine-green and purple Yuca Plant Dragon’s Breath Illicium Black Eyed Susan’s Blue Owl Juniper Love your videos! 🌺
I live in zone 6A outside of St Louis. A few of my winners this summer are: Catmint. Various coreopsis varieties. Bobo Hydrangeas in pots and heliopsis
My Chiffon series, blue and white, Rose of Sharon love the heat and dryness. They've bloomed their hearts out this summer. On the downside, some Green Beauty boxwoods I planted last year got the blight and I've ripped them out. I mail ordered these last year and one showed the disease that summer. This year, pretty much all. As I have other boxwoods and didn't want to spread the problem, out they went.
Zone 5A my winner for ground cover is Lamium (spotted dead nettle) it’s thriving and blooming. Things that are blooming currently and doing great are hibiscus, roses, lavender, yarrow, dahlias, sun flowers, morning glories, day and ornamental lilies, lambs ear, geraniums, hostas, (lime light, white wedding and oak leaf) hydrangea, catnip, bee balm, cosmos, caladiums, salvia and coleus. Vegetables are tomatoes, pumpkins, potatoes, zucchini. It’s been a tough year with no rain and high temperatures. Spider mites are loving it here!
Hello! I have a wide variety of plants that can easily tolerate intense heat, but perhaps the leaders are: lavender, Thunberg barberry, catharanthus, titonia. I really enjoyed today's video. Have a nice day🌻❤️💐👍👌
NC zone 7b winners are Latana, Sedum, and Swamp Mallow. Elderberry is huge and did produce some berries, but the Japanese beetles really limited it's output.
Here in Pacific Northwest 8b, Japanese holly, hyssop, boxwood, hosta, many hinoki cypress, sedums as ground cover and plants, and barberry are holding up well.
Winners in my OKC 7a garden are hardy hibiscus, bleeding heart false sunflowers, pentas, lady in red salvia and the reliable old fashionied black eyed susans. Shrubs that are doing well are boxwoods, sunshine ligustrum and crepe myrtles.
My various nandina’s also look great. Rudbeckia and Russian sage look great too. Garden in zone 6b. I’ve been watering shrubs and trees on and off all summer. We are so dry, but not in water saving mode yet here.
Baltimore - Zone 7b - my double play doozie spirea's are amazing - just a sheer mid-summer and they flush back our as always - I've moved mine a couple of times also and they've handled, not only heat, but full on sun. Love these! Your gardens are beautiful Linda!
Linda, how do you treat your plants when you bring them in during the holidays so as not to bring in any unwanted critters? Do you repot them in fresh soil?
My winner hands down is my sweetspire. It has grown like crazy even in zone 6b heat. The other is my red twig dogwood. I expected to see issues this year because of the heat, but they have done better than my spirea!
My winners in my Zone 8b garden are my Teddy Bear Magnolia, Euphorbia, Juliet Cleyera, Spirea, Japanese Maples, Spring Bouquet Viburnum, Florida Sunshine, Cryptomeria, and Sunshine Ligustrum.
I have my back garden under a shade cloth also ….gardening in Modesto CA zone 9b is hard. The leaves get crunchy fast. We have put the shade cloth up for 2 seasons now and it has been a game changer( we take it down during winter)
Hi, Linda! NW OKC - My snowball is just gorgeous as it the Buford Holly. My roses are doing very well as well as is my butterfly bush. Annuals which are doing great include standard and angel-wing begonias, coleus, geraniums, and caladiums. My cherry tomatoes are still going strong, and my egg plant is doing well for foliage. Mint and rosemary are both doing well as is my kaleidoscope abelia and gerbera daisies.
Oh how I wish I had volunteer little trees.... but I don't. I am in zone 9and geraniums in white and burgundy wine are one of my prolific staples, plus I love Ivy topiaries, boxwoods and lantana all do very well here in California's Bay Area.
In Springfield, Missouri we are 6a I think. Everything has survived with regular watering but the Limelight Prime has not bloomed (just planted late last summer) and my mountain hydrangeas have not put on any blooms since early summer. It also seems that nothing has much of a fragrance (butterfly bush in particular) and I find this odd. My flox and my bee balm were cut completely back as they had spider mites. Bee balm seems to be coming back.
All the plants you listed have done very well here zone 9a pensacola fl.. it was so so hot today .. Thanks Linda.. great info video!!! I’m so waiting for just abit less temps as we all are!! 🥵🥵👍👍♥️
I'm in zone 6B (CT), and I have had great success with sun coleus, geraniums, panicle hydrangeas and new boxwood topiaries I planted from your inspiration, Linda! I was wondering if you mulch your boxwood that is planted in ground. I hear different advice about how to mulch boxwood especially getting close to the base of the plant. What is your advice?
I have been looking for Tara Hydrangea forever! I can't find it in stock anywhere. I'm in Arizona and it's HOT. I have a limelight that i started growing this year but it really does need sun and once I put it in the sun, it fries. I'm trying to find a Tara Hydrangea because I understand it grows well and blooms with low light, which would be ideal for me. Where can I find one!?
Jack Frost and Silver Heart brunnera both do well for me with drought, heat deer and rabbits. Unfortunately, I lost a tree this year and now they are suffering from too much sun. I am hoping that watering it well will help it get acclimated and survive the sunnier conditions. Buddleia is tough as nails. Vitex handles anything. Nepeta, gaura (I bought the last one at the produce market that was much darker colored than I have had before and, while I am ashamed to say it's still in the can, it's flowered all summer long. I want more but the variety name isn't on the tag), lavender, fuchsias (with plenty of water and deer protection), stand by me clematis, lorapetalum, which so far the deer are leaving alone and they are a great break from all the green. Verbascum and foxgloves, both volunteers here, although I have planted them previously. Cannas, cotinus, crepe myrtles, daisies, etc. I will try the variegated Abelia. The only ones I have aren't variegated and yours is nicer.
...how did the cryptomeria (dragon prince) perform? I'm on zone 8B (facing west) and my 4 year established thujas (round ball arborvitaes) have died even with supplemental watering, and I'm thinking of changing those with dragon prince cryptomeria, bur I'm unsure if they'll hold up next summer.
I don’t recall if you ever mentioned in your vlogs if you’ve used geo-textile under your gravel paths? Thanks and your garden is still beautiful, even during all the heat you have been having!
Linda, how does your artificial grass stand up to this hot, hot weather? Your AG doesn't seem to ever get direct sun, correct? I asked because I am thinking seriously about AG in my front yard, that is small, but has a great deal of direct, hot Denver sun (Zone 5b). I've heard steady, direct sun can damage AG over time. Any thing like this going on with your AG? As always, Thanks!!!
Great. Fading isn’t a problem, and it doesn’t break down. It does get very hot in areas that get direct sun. In the shade is not an issue. Have had very few issues with it over the years… Suitable for a very small patches of lawn, not for large spaces. Also, the quality of the turf is very important!
(...that was Carolina wren fussing in the background at the nandinas...) I'm in Maryland, zone 6b, and the dew points have been in the 70s here of late, which = 🥵! Profuse sweating! Buckets! Tried and trues in my garden are: nepeta (catmint); sedum; Russian sage (perovskia); perennial salvias; echinacea (coneflower); rudbeckia (black-eyed susan); lantana; cuphea 'vermillionaire'; perennial grasses (miscanthus, calamagrostis, panicums, bluestems); caryopteris (blue spirea)... Some of these purposely get no water or fertilizer (they splay open) and they are thriving beautifully... others do get some water but they don't need coddled, and they take the harsh sunshine and heat beautifully. In my little greenhouse, I have gerbera daisies, believe it or not. They're in porous clay pots, and as long as I keep water in their saucers, they're happy in the 100+°! If they were in plastic pots, they'd rot. Another amazing plant in the hot greenhouse is lemon cypress. It takes the heat like a champ...rosemary, too. 🙌👌🌳💞👩🏼🌾💚 =^..^= (naturegirl7777-IG)
Zone 7b, W. TN My Blackeyed Susans have done better than any other plants. They face west, and receive all the after noon sun. All the other plants that have been thriving are in shade gardens: hostas, 3 diff kinds of begonias, caladiums, and sweet potato vine. Oh! And I have 2 Lg pots of foxtail ferns way down the hill from our house that are thriving. Facing SW in part sun/part shade.
Lantana! Begonias! Autumn Joy Sedum! Elephant Ears!
Caladium! Little Lime Hydrangeas! Veronica! Lemon Coral Sedum!My Zone 6 absolute faves!!!! I love these plants because they still r looking great with minimal effort by me 😊👍🏻
Hi Linda
Rudbeckia in 7a southern New York does great every year no matter how abused they get. Sedum autumn joy coming into play now. Cone flower is also a survivor. Russian sage and the giant flowered hibiscus is surviving the heat but need water. Butterfly bush and limelight are happy but I put a soaker hose on them every morning for 45 minutes. I do that by a manual timer. Surprisingly the dragon leaf begonia has held up with some neglect. Happy you told us about that one. It adds a nice pop of color in the shade of a dogwood. Thank you😊 for your tips ! I have added new specimens bc of your recommendations !
My caladiums are just beautiful this summer thriving in the full sun or shade. Most are Proven Winners varieties that are in the sun. We have had heat index of 108. Zone 8a
Zone 5b Wheaton, Illinois . A complete Linda fan, I have put in a small patio like yours. I have added so many so many evergreen and shrubs to my garden. What a difference the “Linda Influence “ has made to my gardening. My problem this year has been lack of rain. I water, water, water. But one good rain coming down turns everything so happy. This years performers are Annabelle, little lime, lime light, hydrangeas. I also have a perennial sweet pea vine that really performs every year. Phlox are also doing well.
I’m in upstate NY, zone 5 … we have had extreme heat & drought… unfortunately we have a well so I can’t water like I would like… my winners are Russian Sage, cone flowers, catmint, lambs ear & yarrow ❤️. Love your videos! Thank you!
Here in central Oklahoma 7a I planted a vitex in the spring and some mealy cup sage (salvia) at the beginning of the heat wave. Both grew like weeds and never wilted during the heat of the day.
Love the little bug in the intro!
My Blue Point Juniper also did well during our hot, hot dry spell. WI Zone 5
Hi Zone 8b NC. My successful plants are knock out roses and limelight hydrangeas for sun, For shade acuba, iron plant and plum yew. Thanks as always for sharing your ideas and information.
Thanks
8a in Central Texas. Plumbago, celosia, Texas Sage, Angelonia, Lantana, regular and Trailing, Crepe Myrtle, Pentas, Holly shrubs, Dwarf Nandina, Mexican Petunias, Veronica and native Texas Shrimp Plant.
Lantana does well in summer heat and sun, zone 9 here. Menifee, Ca 102* today. Dusty Miller, agapanthas, euryops, plumbago, crepe myrtle, star jasmine, alisum and lavendar are all good. Texas privet , plumeria.
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I’m in the Dallas area and we’ve been at over 100 pretty much every day since about mid June, and only recently had rain this last week for the first time since I think early June or maybe even may? My lantana is the only thing thriving 🤣
9B Mandavilla, fox tail ferns, Eugenia topiary, pentas!
Hi Linda, You were right. I planted Oakland hollies for a hedge this summer and they are doing very well with lots of new golden growth. I also planted lots of lantana in front garden and they are as happy as can be, it has become my go to summer annual. I’m in NC zone 7B. Love your show!
Edmond, OK Z7b: My Summer winners this season we're Okra (gorgeous flower & foliage- I chop & freeze the pods for fall/winter soups), Sun coleus (I used them to grow in front of my shade Heuchera during summer & it did the trick to protect from summer sun), & Yarrow (fern-like foliage softened my drought tolerant gravel bed & didn't even blink at the heat- the petite sedum-like flowers blended right in!) 🌿
i love your voice you make me feel so calm
Team asparagus fern here 💯! It keeps my part shade patio looking lush and green even here in Phoenix, AZ 9A 🔥 🥵🌵
It looks absolutely amazing mixed with tradescantia purple heart and dichondra silver falls spilling out of containers. I also LOVE asparagus fern as a bouquet filler and it lasts forever in a vase 🌿💚
Great recommendations
Zone 5B
Central Illinois
Winners for me:
Moss rose, zinnias, black eyed susans, sunflowers 🌻
I don't have anywhere to house my topiary in the winter. Is there anyway to protect it so the root won't die? My first one and it looks so beautiful now!
I would appreciate any info!
My number one is Denim and Lace sage! Definitely going to plant more. They are beautiful all summer in the heat and drought. Also angel wing begonias have done great in planters. as far as shrubs, sunshine ligustrum can take the heat! Zone 7b
In California this is our summers. Drought drought drought. My salvias always pull through. Purple fountain grass loves the heat. My sedum ground cover thrives and gives off beautiful white precious flowers. Trumpet vine is loving it. You just learn to adapt and its always a learning challenge. Especially with hungry, starving critters like gophers who BTW ate the roots of my palm trees, yes, palm trees! Grrr.
Oh no!
Linda, enjoyed your video while having my morning cup of tea. One of my favorite parts of your garden is in the back garden. Under your window box where you have yew, Nandina, oakleaf hydrangea. It looks like a miniature forest with the shade, the leaves underfoot and just a sweet woodsy vibe. Love it!
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In addition to the decimation caused by the heat and drought in my yard (which is a former cattle pasture, North TX, zone 7b), it is being and has been devastated all summer by grasshoppers! Literally hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers. Many plants that might have survived the heat and drought just couldn't withstand the onslaught of the grasshopper plague. The one shining star for me has become the lowly Portulaca, or Moss Rose plant. While nearly all surrounding plants are defoliated, dried, dying or dead, the Portulaca, with it's succulent or sedum like leaves, is blooming it's heart out. For some reason the grasshoppers are not interested in it. It is easy to cut back if it gets shaggy, and though the color of the leaves do seem to fade a bit in the heat if neglected, it does green up with a bit of fertilizer. But a major plus for me is that all of it I have growing right now, both in pots and in the ground, were reseeded from just a few transplants I purchased 2 years ago! I've decided this plant is such a keeper I just made a bulk purchase of seeds which I plan to use as a ground cover next year. It is the number 1 winner on my list.
Everything looks fantastic Linda! We are a zone 6b. Sunny Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
Hydrangeas, boxwoods and coleus are doing well. Despite the hot weather.
Have only lost two petunia pots. All good! Enjoy your yard! 😎🌺🌿☀️💚
Zone 5, caladiums are doing great!
A big winner in my zone 7b NC garden is agastache (hyssop). Caladiums in sun (came from Southern Bulb Co). Also, distyllium - I just don’t have to worry about this shrub
You have beautiful specimen in your garden. They can truly take the heat? I may able to have some of them in my zone 6 garden.
San Antonio zone 9...Lantana, rock rose, Arizona cypress, sweet potato vine, dichondra silver falls, coleus, euphoria, gardenia, echinacea, galadium, yaupon Holly, boxwood, viburnum all are doing well with regular watering.
Hi Debra from another Debra! I’m in San Antonio and my zone is 8b! Odd about the various planting zones isn’t it?
This year, so many of my plants passed away...they didnt stand the heat for weeks! But my olive, fig, bougainvillea and oleander are still alive and i will buy more of them! They online need a little bit of protection in winter. I' living in southern gernany (7a....)
I have had a lower Nandina for at least 30 years and the beautiful colorful leaves are great
Williamsburg Indiana, zone 5b winners, Echinacea, Russian Sage, hyicenth bean plant, black eyed Susan and butterfly bush cedar bush. And milkweed for my Monarch.
Springfield, Missouri winners are Oak Leaf Hydrangea, Shasta Daisies, Heuchera and Cone Flowers. Again, zone 6a
Hello my friend. This is more than just a video, you put love and passion into it. Great job! New power for your channel. Good luck! 🌹👍
Loved those lavender flowers🌸 on that eggplant.
My cucumber , peppers, and herbs are performing very well this season, despite the high temperatures 🥵
Zone 8 in N GA , winners are plumbago! Cone flowers, dahlias, roses!
So I was mentioned again about caring for figs. You mentioned that little figgy was producing fruit but the fig in the ground was not. In March I tip my figs with a light pruning then throw a couple of handfuls of bone meal and one handful of holly tone because I learned figs like soil slightly acidic. If you prune you will have new growth and more branches of leaves to decorate with and fruit! Make 2023 your fig tree priority!
Lol. Okay!!😁😆
7a Maryland. My biggest problems have been deer and rabbits. The winners have been boxwood, obsession and lemon/lime nandinas, lorepetalum, sunshine ligustrum, hollies, pitisforum, salvias, veronica, echinacea, angeolina, pieris, hydrangheas and dahlias. I've put netting on my hostas but won't plant them or daylilies anymore. Deer candy. Deer and rabbits have decimated my asters and am replacing with agastache. Have a gorgeous jasmine that deer have left alone but they have browsed on mandivilla flowers.
SC 8b Crepe Myrtle Trees, Sunshine Ligustrum, Coleus, Calidiums, Ferns, Shamrock, Hostas, Spiderplant, Roses, and a Sweet Autumn climbing over my picket fence.😊
The winners in my área are roses, love high temperatures and moisture.
North Texas Zone 8a: Happily blooming away is the Pride of Barbados, Lantana, Crepe Myrtle, Angelonia, Ixora, Salvia, Firecracker flower, Pentas, Calibrochia, and my Southern Living White Wedding Hydrangea. What's continuing to grow and thrive are my native and cultivated Nandina, Hollies, Golden Euonymus and Pink Jasmine.
8a Eastern Virginia Absolutely love millennium and serendipity allium! Passion pink salvia did well too. Planted cats pajamas in abundance. More will be revealed next spring.
The eggplant really is a beautiful plant too with the purple blossoms. I hope you received the Caponata recipe, but another cooking option is a pickled eggplant that pairs well on a charcuterie board. I’ve also made pans of eggplant parmigiana with my Japanese eggplant to freeze for later meals. I love eggplant but have never grown your variety. I will also look for seeds for that one. 😃🪴
I just got it and your sweet note today! When I make it I’ll post!
Zone 6A - cleome!
Zone 9b: Louisiana. Lantana, supertunia jazzberry, butterfly bush, Mexican petunia, sunshine ligustrum, gomphrena, Pentas, Angelonia, salvia, sweet potato vine, monkey grass, and coleus ☺️
Daylilies here in 8b Weatherford Tx. I divided 2 clumps into 10-12 clumps not knowing how brutal this summer would be! They continue to grow and while they’re a little sunburned, they are continuing to grow. I inherited them in my new home so I’m not sure the type. Since they are yellow, they are likely plain old Stella de Oro.
I’m in zone 6B, Western North Carolina. This year I plant coleus (for the first time) in full sun. Beautiful!!! I’m not a big annual girl but coleus will top my list next year.
6b in mid Missouri Lime light hydrangeas are my winners.
Zone 6B West Virginia - Russian Sage, sedum, skip laurels
Just lovely thanks for sharing your winners I agree. ❤️
I'm in Virginia 7a. My red clay soil pH is 4.7, so it's very acidic. Every year Limetta hydrangea is a winner for me. It's low maintenance, the blooms last months and if I cut it back it will rebloom. I have LImettas planted in full sun, part sun, and shade and they do well now matter what. They are super low maintenance and nothing seems to slow them down.
Plant that have thrived in the Summer heat in Alabama 7b-
Sunshine Ligustrum
Annual Vinca-all colors
Drift Rose
Sun Coleus
Potato Vine-green and purple
Yuca Plant
Dragon’s Breath Illicium
Black Eyed Susan’s
Blue Owl Juniper
Love your videos! 🌺
I live in zone 6A outside of St Louis. A few of my winners this summer are: Catmint. Various coreopsis varieties. Bobo Hydrangeas in pots and heliopsis
Oh forgot my beautiful crepe myrtle
Love your winners !
Also macho ferns and they can take Full sun in zone 8a. I plant them in pots every year
My Chiffon series, blue and white, Rose of Sharon love the heat and dryness. They've bloomed their hearts out this summer. On the downside, some Green Beauty boxwoods I planted last year got the blight and I've ripped them out. I mail ordered these last year and one showed the disease that summer. This year, pretty much all. As I have other boxwoods and didn't want to spread the problem, out they went.
I'm in 6B!
This my first time with sweet potato vine..it is amazing and out growing everything 😚
sweet potato vine is just so wonderful to grow and show everyone slways asks what is that plant then that gets them started to plant it also
Zone 5A my winner for ground cover is Lamium (spotted dead nettle) it’s thriving and blooming. Things that are blooming currently and doing great are hibiscus, roses, lavender, yarrow, dahlias, sun flowers, morning glories, day and ornamental lilies, lambs ear, geraniums, hostas, (lime light, white wedding and oak leaf) hydrangea, catnip, bee balm, cosmos, caladiums, salvia and coleus. Vegetables are tomatoes, pumpkins, potatoes, zucchini. It’s been a tough year with no rain and high temperatures. Spider mites are loving it here!
The sun coleus is stunning!
Hello! I have a wide variety of plants that can easily tolerate intense heat, but perhaps the leaders are: lavender, Thunberg barberry, catharanthus, titonia. I really enjoyed today's video. Have a nice day🌻❤️💐👍👌
Sun coleus is a beauty. Will have to remember to plant next year
Although your gravel ,stones and bricks were in the shade Linda 🤣😂😅🤣
NC zone 7b winners are Latana, Sedum, and Swamp Mallow. Elderberry is huge and did produce some berries, but the Japanese beetles really limited it's output.
👍👍very educative and informative,
learnt a lot, Thank you very much , Best Wishes 🙏🙏
Here in Pacific Northwest 8b, Japanese holly, hyssop, boxwood, hosta, many hinoki cypress, sedums as ground cover and plants, and barberry are holding up well.
Winners in my OKC 7a garden are hardy hibiscus, bleeding heart false sunflowers, pentas, lady in red salvia and the reliable old fashionied black eyed susans. Shrubs that are doing well are boxwoods, sunshine ligustrum and crepe myrtles.
My various nandina’s also look great. Rudbeckia and Russian sage look great too. Garden in zone 6b.
I’ve been watering shrubs and trees on and off all summer. We are so dry, but not in water saving mode yet here.
Vienna, Austria , my olive tree, geraniums and sage salvia.
My blue point junipers both died! They were about four years old planted in the ground in zone 6B. Not enough water I assume.
Baltimore - Zone 7b - my double play doozie spirea's are amazing - just a sheer mid-summer and they flush back our as always - I've moved mine a couple of times also and they've handled, not only heat, but full on sun. Love these! Your gardens are beautiful Linda!
Linda, how do you treat your plants when you bring them in during the holidays so as not to bring in any unwanted critters? Do you repot them in fresh soil?
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This is the video she did last year: Debug your plants to bring indoors for winter
Thank you!
My winner hands down is my sweetspire. It has grown like crazy even in zone 6b heat. The other is my red twig dogwood. I expected to see issues this year because of the heat, but they have done better than my spirea!
My winners in my Zone 8b garden are my Teddy Bear Magnolia, Euphorbia, Juliet Cleyera, Spirea, Japanese Maples, Spring Bouquet Viburnum, Florida Sunshine, Cryptomeria, and Sunshine Ligustrum.
Lots of SLPC plant!
I have my back garden under a shade cloth also ….gardening in Modesto CA zone 9b is hard. The leaves get crunchy fast. We have put the shade cloth up for 2 seasons now and it has been a game changer( we take it down during winter)
Hi, Linda! NW OKC - My snowball is just gorgeous as it the Buford Holly. My roses are doing very well as well as is my butterfly bush. Annuals which are doing great include standard and angel-wing begonias, coleus, geraniums, and caladiums. My cherry tomatoes are still going strong, and my egg plant is doing well for foliage. Mint and rosemary are both doing well as is my kaleidoscope abelia and gerbera daisies.
Oh how I wish I had volunteer little trees.... but I don't. I am in zone 9and geraniums in white and burgundy wine are one of my prolific
staples, plus I love Ivy topiaries, boxwoods and lantana all do very well here in California's Bay Area.
Do you bring the potted blue points inside during winter?
Thank you for being so religious about sharing your “garden experience” with us. Cheryl Great Grandma, zone 6b 😎
In Springfield, Missouri we are 6a I think. Everything has survived with regular watering but the Limelight Prime has not bloomed (just planted late last summer) and my mountain hydrangeas have not put on any blooms since early summer. It also seems that nothing has much of a fragrance (butterfly bush in particular) and I find this odd. My flox and my bee balm were cut completely back as they had spider mites. Bee balm seems to be coming back.
Hi, Susie! Also in Springfield, MO! We are 6b. My limelights have also been slow this year, but are now finally putting out a few blooms.
Linda where do you get all of your pots from?
Anywhere and everywhere
All the plants you listed have done very well here zone 9a pensacola fl.. it was so so hot today .. Thanks Linda.. great info video!!! I’m so waiting for just abit less temps as we all are!! 🥵🥵👍👍♥️
Why are the hollies in cages? Just curious. Learning every day.
Just ornamental interest:)
From Mysore, I also had the same question,
Got the answer, Linda Thank you very very much, 🙏🙏
I'm in zone 6B (CT), and I have had great success with sun coleus, geraniums, panicle hydrangeas and new boxwood topiaries I planted from your inspiration, Linda! I was wondering if you mulch your boxwood that is planted in ground. I hear different advice about how to mulch boxwood especially getting close to the base of the plant. What is your advice?
Yes mulch… But don’t get too close to the main trunk :-)
Zone 6 for me in NE
I have been looking for Tara Hydrangea forever! I can't find it in stock anywhere. I'm in Arizona and it's HOT. I have a limelight that i started growing this year but it really does need sun and once I put it in the sun, it fries. I'm trying to find a Tara Hydrangea because I understand it grows well and blooms with low light, which would be ideal for me. Where can I find one!?
Jack Frost and Silver Heart brunnera both do well for me with drought, heat deer and rabbits. Unfortunately, I lost a tree this year and now they are suffering from too much sun. I am hoping that watering it well will help it get acclimated and survive the sunnier conditions. Buddleia is tough as nails. Vitex handles anything. Nepeta, gaura (I bought the last one at the produce market that was much darker colored than I have had before and, while I am ashamed to say it's still in the can, it's flowered all summer long. I want more but the variety name isn't on the tag), lavender, fuchsias (with plenty of water and deer protection), stand by me clematis, lorapetalum, which so far the deer are leaving alone and they are a great break from all the green. Verbascum and foxgloves, both volunteers here, although I have planted them previously. Cannas, cotinus, crepe myrtles, daisies, etc. I will try the variegated Abelia. The only ones I have aren't variegated and yours is nicer.
...how did the cryptomeria (dragon prince) perform? I'm on zone 8B (facing west) and my 4 year established thujas (round ball arborvitaes) have died even with supplemental watering, and I'm thinking of changing those with dragon prince cryptomeria, bur I'm unsure if they'll hold up next summer.
How long can you keep a Golden Oakland Holly in a container? I don’t have the space for it at its mature height in my zone 7b garden.
It depends on the size of the container and the size of the plant itself. I have successfully kept them in containers for three years
I don’t recall if you ever mentioned in your vlogs if you’ve used geo-textile under your gravel paths? Thanks and your garden is still beautiful, even during all the heat you have been having!
Nope! Just a layer of crushed gravel before the P gravel on top
Zone 8b south Alabama
Salvia: Amistad, Mystic Spires, Rockin Fuschia, Roman Red
Limelight Prime Hydrangea
Quietness Rose
Ginger Lily
Linda, how does your artificial grass stand up to this hot, hot weather? Your AG doesn't seem to ever get direct sun, correct? I asked because I am thinking seriously about AG in my front yard, that is small, but has a great deal of direct, hot Denver sun (Zone 5b). I've heard steady, direct sun can damage AG over time. Any thing like this going on with your AG? As always, Thanks!!!
Great. Fading isn’t a problem, and it doesn’t break down. It does get very hot in areas that get direct sun. In the shade is not an issue. Have had very few issues with it over the years… Suitable for a very small patches of lawn, not for large spaces. Also, the quality of the turf is very important!
(...that was Carolina wren fussing in the background at the nandinas...) I'm in Maryland, zone 6b, and the dew points have been in the 70s here of late, which = 🥵! Profuse sweating! Buckets! Tried and trues in my garden are: nepeta (catmint); sedum; Russian sage (perovskia); perennial salvias; echinacea (coneflower); rudbeckia (black-eyed susan); lantana; cuphea 'vermillionaire'; perennial grasses (miscanthus, calamagrostis, panicums, bluestems); caryopteris (blue spirea)... Some of these purposely get no water or fertilizer (they splay open) and they are thriving beautifully... others do get some water but they don't need coddled, and they take the harsh sunshine and heat beautifully. In my little greenhouse, I have gerbera daisies, believe it or not. They're in porous clay pots, and as long as I keep water in their saucers, they're happy in the 100+°! If they were in plastic pots, they'd rot. Another amazing plant in the hot greenhouse is lemon cypress. It takes the heat like a champ...rosemary, too. 🙌👌🌳💞👩🏼🌾💚 =^..^=
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Zone 7b, W. TN
My Blackeyed Susans have done better than any other plants. They face west, and receive all the after noon sun. All the other plants that have been thriving are in shade gardens: hostas, 3 diff kinds of begonias, caladiums, and sweet potato vine. Oh! And I have 2 Lg pots of foxtail ferns way down the hill from our house that are thriving. Facing SW in part sun/part shade.
The beating sound (music?) is very annoying.....just talk without the sound, please!
That's interesting, because I really liked the sound.