I used to think buying the jumbos was a splurge. It's not. The dramatic difference in plant size is more than worth the additional cost in my opinion, and the amount of effort in planting and tending is the same. I was advised to pinch off the spathes (I have no clue how to spell that) to encourage more leaf production, but after seeing this, I am going to just let them do their thing. Watching your videos is a mixed blessing. I get lots of inspiration while feeling like a complete slacker. Your stunning garden gets even better as time passes. Thanks for sharing!
Hi David! We definitely agree with you when it comes to spending the extra money for the jumbo bulbs! The amount of energy stored in them really gives the plants the extra boost they need to get to their full potential in size. Especially if you're in a growing zone with a shorter growing season, it's definitely worth getting the larger bulbs. Also, you spelled spathe perfectly, lol, and we do a combination of both pinching them and leaving some. If it's a smaller sized bulb, we may opt to pinch them off to allow that extra energy to go back into leaf production. thanks for your constant support and comments, hope you're well!
I wish good cultivars of Caladium were more readily available in Australia. Yours look marvellous! By the way, the combination of sea Hibiscus and white and green Caladium is also wonderful.
We’re definitely fortunate to have them available to us here in the U.S. What growing zone are you in? Also, we’re glad you enjoyed the caladium and sea hibiscus combination! We love it too 😊
El video cautiva, es demasiado hermoso. La enseñanza es dedicación, constancia y saber crear un espacio, ambiente adecuado para cada especie hasta que las hacen transformarse en hermosos adornos naturales. Me quede boquiabierta. Felicitaciones!!!
It’s so true about seeing the progress. I rely on photos to look back on and see how much my plants have grown. Succulents and cactus are just about the only things I have year round, and I’m sure you know how slow growing those can be lol. The photos are necessary! Still waiting on the last frost but I picked up some new succulent varieties from a local small business today🤫😉🪴 It was just what I needed to tide me over! The caladiums look fantastic by the way! All grown in and along with your other plants and trees, you’ve got a lovely tropical paradise growing back there. It’s gorgeous!😀
Thank you for the kind message, Beckie! It's always a good day when you go plant shopping! We love succulents and try to use them occasionally in projects where they are covered, but we get too much rain for them to be happy. On average we receive around 55 inches of rain annually, so they often times get root rot and don't last very long. We hope your last frost date passes quickly so that you can get out into your garden! Thanks for following along on our gardening journey and for your thoughtful comment!
@@MrGardeners I didn’t think about that! You do get a lot more rain than us. I think your garden more than makes up for the fact that you can’t have succulents though. It’s a good trade off😀 Looking forward to seeing what you do next!
Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed them. We're getting ready for another busy season in the garden this year, and are excited to share those projects here on UA-cam soon!
I admire you and Jose's tenacity and loyalty to your garden. Planting crown of thorns in the beds to day. I love those caladiums, need too much water here. I need to plant drought tolerant plants. I believe the ospeosperma must be more of a xeriscape plant , they do wonderful here in South Texas under filtered light
I definitely think you're right about the osteospermum! We had one that wasn't connected to our drip system and it seemed to perform much better for us! The ones that got watered regularly suffered, so they would likely do well for you! One of our favorite dry gardens is the Ruth Bancroft garden in California! If you haven't been before, you should definitely check it out! They receive very little rainfall out there, and have hot days too! Thanks for the kind message!
@@MrGardeners thank you so much for info. My friends have a cabin in New Mexico, l have been to the Phoenix botanical, Tucson botanical, huntington botanical gardens, haven't been to the Ruth Bancroft garden must give it a try . Thank you for the information.
Hello JoAnn and welcome to our channel! Thank you for the kind message, and it makes us happy to learn that you enjoyed the video. California is one of our absolute favorite places to visit! So many beautiful gardens and parks out there, especially love Muir Woods!
I give up on Osteospermums, some also call them African Daisy so I thought they perform well during summer but from my experience, they are great in late spring, early summer, lot of blooms but when summer heat hits, they stop blooming, have just foliage, then in late summer when heat start to fade, they start to bloom again but not prolific as in spring. My conclusion is that they are for more part shade situation, maybe morning sun, afternoon shade, maybe they would perform better in that situation or for cooler zones, I'm from Europe so US zones are not transferable to our climate, I have hot humid summers and cold winters(continental SE Europe). It would be interesting to see how well they will perform in your yard, maybe you will have better luck. Awesome garden you have, just today I found your channel. 😊 Keep up with great work!
Absolutely Beautiful!!! It is only 11 degrees right now here in western Iowa and I can’t wait for it to warm up so I can get outside as well. My gardens are very small and mostly shade so the caladiums would be beautiful but also a great snack for the deer we have but I am going to get some for the pots on my deck this year where the deer can’t get to them.
Thank you so much! Wow, 11 degrees.... hopefully it starts to warm up for you soon so that you can get out in to your garden! I do know that there are many varieties of caladiums from Proven Winners that are deer resistant, but understand that's hit or miss with actually working. We're fortunate that we don't have any deer or pest pressure in our garden. The nice thing about caladiums is that they do well in many types of lighting conditions, so even your shade gardens could support them. :)
Question, just curious ..why do you burn the leaves? Don't they make the best compost? and leaf mulch that will break down in the soil? How exciting getting so many caladiums
Great Question! The amount of leaves that accumulate in these garden beds in the fall creates such a thick mat that takes way too long to break down. We do, however, burn them and put those ashes into our compost! Also, we love our caladiums too! We just planted 250 more bulbs in a video that we will be posting in the future, so stay tuned for that!
I admire your efforts, but the amount of ashes you are likely adding does little, if anything, to change the composition of the soil. It probably doesn't hurt anything, though.
PW caladiums are pretty, but ridiculously overpriced, as are all of their products. Even here in Florida we treat them as annuals because they back at only about half the original rate. (There is no way I'm going to dig and store mine). There are a couple of excellent caladium growers here in Florida that I order from every year. Good luck with your garden!
Thank you very much! We sometimes see them at our big box stores, but we also purchase bulbs directly from the Proven Winners website. You can search for caladiums in their plant search bar, and all of the varieties, and available bulb sizes for them, should populate. They should be getting ready to start shipping them this year very soon! 😬
It really depends on your local amount of rainfall, and how much moisture your soil is holding on to, because you don't want them to rot from being in too much water. We are in Tampa, so our soil is very sandy, so the water just runs through it. Because of this, we water daily when we haven't received any rain. If the beds where you planted your's are more shaded, you may not need as much.
Liked this video [fun fact]~ caladiums like Slightly acidic soil~crushing up half a handful of leaves ~and mixing in with half a handful of Blk Cow manure and big hand full of happy frog soil will make them P0P~ too bad you burned the leaves - I use mulched leaves in all my veggie grow bags~ compost pile ~garden~flowerbeds.. heavy duty tarps save time and are great to use for moving lots of leaves fast
Hi Claudia! To be completely honest, we don't spray in our garden except for fungus and molds. We let nature handle the caterpillars with the wasps and other birds. If you're being bombarded with them though, you can try Diatomaceous Earth as an organic alternative!
Your home garden area is very nice.entertainment for days...😅
caladiums❤..
Nice sharing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻love from India. ❤❤❤❤
So inspired! Thank you for wonderful video!
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching. 🤗🪴
I used to think buying the jumbos was a splurge. It's not. The dramatic difference in plant size is more than worth the additional cost in my opinion, and the amount of effort in planting and tending is the same. I was advised to pinch off the spathes (I have no clue how to spell that) to encourage more leaf production, but after seeing this, I am going to just let them do their thing. Watching your videos is a mixed blessing. I get lots of inspiration while feeling like a complete slacker. Your stunning garden gets even better as time passes. Thanks for sharing!
Hi David! We definitely agree with you when it comes to spending the extra money for the jumbo bulbs! The amount of energy stored in them really gives the plants the extra boost they need to get to their full potential in size. Especially if you're in a growing zone with a shorter growing season, it's definitely worth getting the larger bulbs. Also, you spelled spathe perfectly, lol, and we do a combination of both pinching them and leaving some. If it's a smaller sized bulb, we may opt to pinch them off to allow that extra energy to go back into leaf production. thanks for your constant support and comments, hope you're well!
I wish good cultivars of Caladium were more readily available in Australia. Yours look marvellous!
By the way, the combination of sea Hibiscus and white and green Caladium is also wonderful.
We’re definitely fortunate to have them available to us here in the U.S. What growing zone are you in? Also, we’re glad you enjoyed the caladium and sea hibiscus combination! We love it too 😊
@@MrGardeners I was in zone 8b, but will soon be gardening in zone 10a. So there'll be quite a difference in plant choice!
Absolutely beautiful. The progress is so fun to watch & rewarding.🌸
Thank you so much! We appreciate your kind comment! We are having so much fun working on this space!
El video cautiva, es demasiado hermoso. La enseñanza es dedicación, constancia y saber crear un espacio, ambiente adecuado para cada especie hasta que las hacen transformarse en hermosos adornos naturales. Me quede boquiabierta. Felicitaciones!!!
Gracias por ver el vídeo y por esas palabras tan bellas 😘🤗
How beautiful ❤️
Thank you so much!
It’s so true about seeing the progress. I rely on photos to look back on and see how much my plants have grown. Succulents and cactus are just about the only things I have year round, and I’m sure you know how slow growing those can be lol. The photos are necessary! Still waiting on the last frost but I picked up some new succulent varieties from a local small business today🤫😉🪴 It was just what I needed to tide me over!
The caladiums look fantastic by the way! All grown in and along with your other plants and trees, you’ve got a lovely tropical paradise growing back there. It’s gorgeous!😀
Thank you for the kind message, Beckie! It's always a good day when you go plant shopping! We love succulents and try to use them occasionally in projects where they are covered, but we get too much rain for them to be happy. On average we receive around 55 inches of rain annually, so they often times get root rot and don't last very long. We hope your last frost date passes quickly so that you can get out into your garden! Thanks for following along on our gardening journey and for your thoughtful comment!
@@MrGardeners I didn’t think about that! You do get a lot more rain than us. I think your garden more than makes up for the fact that you can’t have succulents though. It’s a good trade off😀 Looking forward to seeing what you do next!
Beautiful caladiums! Great job Joshua and Jose!🌱👍
Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed them. We're getting ready for another busy season in the garden this year, and are excited to share those projects here on UA-cam soon!
I admire you and Jose's tenacity and loyalty to your garden. Planting crown of thorns in the beds to day. I love those caladiums, need too much water here. I need to plant drought tolerant plants. I believe the ospeosperma must be more of a xeriscape plant , they do wonderful here in South Texas under filtered light
I definitely think you're right about the osteospermum! We had one that wasn't connected to our drip system and it seemed to perform much better for us! The ones that got watered regularly suffered, so they would likely do well for you! One of our favorite dry gardens is the Ruth Bancroft garden in California! If you haven't been before, you should definitely check it out! They receive very little rainfall out there, and have hot days too! Thanks for the kind message!
@@MrGardeners thank you so much for info. My friends have a cabin in New Mexico, l have been to the Phoenix botanical, Tucson botanical, huntington botanical gardens, haven't been to the Ruth Bancroft garden must give it a try . Thank you for the information.
Hello from Northern California. New subscriber to your channel. Enjoyed your video very much. Have a great day.
Hello JoAnn and welcome to our channel! Thank you for the kind message, and it makes us happy to learn that you enjoyed the video. California is one of our absolute favorite places to visit! So many beautiful gardens and parks out there, especially love Muir Woods!
I give up on Osteospermums, some also call them African Daisy so I thought they perform well during summer but from my experience, they are great in late spring, early summer, lot of blooms but when summer heat hits, they stop blooming, have just foliage, then in late summer when heat start to fade, they start to bloom again but not prolific as in spring. My conclusion is that they are for more part shade situation, maybe morning sun, afternoon shade, maybe they would perform better in that situation or for cooler zones, I'm from Europe so US zones are not transferable to our climate, I have hot humid summers and cold winters(continental SE Europe). It would be interesting to see how well they will perform in your yard, maybe you will have better luck. Awesome garden you have, just today I found your channel. 😊 Keep up with great work!
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Absolutely Beautiful!!! It is only 11 degrees right now here in western Iowa and I can’t wait for it to warm up so I can get outside as well. My gardens are very small and mostly shade so the caladiums would be beautiful but also a great snack for the deer we have but I am going to get some for the pots on my deck this year where the deer can’t get to them.
Thank you so much! Wow, 11 degrees.... hopefully it starts to warm up for you soon so that you can get out in to your garden! I do know that there are many varieties of caladiums from Proven Winners that are deer resistant, but understand that's hit or miss with actually working. We're fortunate that we don't have any deer or pest pressure in our garden. The nice thing about caladiums is that they do well in many types of lighting conditions, so even your shade gardens could support them. :)
i really love caladiums..but those varities are rare and expensive here in Philippines.
We love Caladiums too! If we could ship over a few bulbs, we would 🤗
Yeah, the Heart to Heart series is way, way overpriced. There are gorgeous csladiums for a fraction of the cost available from many other suppliers.
Question, just curious ..why do you burn the leaves? Don't they make the best compost? and leaf mulch that will break down in the soil? How exciting getting so many caladiums
Great Question! The amount of leaves that accumulate in these garden beds in the fall creates such a thick mat that takes way too long to break down. We do, however, burn them and put those ashes into our compost! Also, we love our caladiums too! We just planted 250 more bulbs in a video that we will be posting in the future, so stay tuned for that!
I admire your efforts, but the amount of ashes you are likely adding does little, if anything, to change the composition of the soil. It probably doesn't hurt anything, though.
PW caladiums are pretty, but ridiculously overpriced, as are all of their products. Even here in Florida we treat them as annuals because they back at only about half the original rate. (There is no way I'm going to dig and store mine). There are a couple of excellent caladium growers here in Florida that I order from every year. Good luck with your garden!
I'm doing the same today, 225 bulbs
So exciting!! 🙌🏻 Wishing you a successful growing season with them! What growing zone are you in?
@@MrGardeners 9b, here in tampa. Doing all white.
Hello, love your videos😊 Where can u order these PW caladium bulbs?
Thank you very much! We sometimes see them at our big box stores, but we also purchase bulbs directly from the Proven Winners website. You can search for caladiums in their plant search bar, and all of the varieties, and available bulb sizes for them, should populate. They should be getting ready to start shipping them this year very soon! 😬
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I planted some bulbs in a bed,how often do you need to water them???
I've been told one good soaking a week???
It really depends on your local amount of rainfall, and how much moisture your soil is holding on to, because you don't want them to rot from being in too much water. We are in Tampa, so our soil is very sandy, so the water just runs through it. Because of this, we water daily when we haven't received any rain. If the beds where you planted your's are more shaded, you may not need as much.
What did you sprinkle in the holes where you planted the bulbs? It looked like white beaded fertilizer.
We use the Premium Continuous Release fertilizer, from Proven Winners, when we plant most of our annuals and bulbs.
It should have been Bulbtone
Liked this video [fun fact]~ caladiums like Slightly acidic soil~crushing up half a handful of leaves ~and mixing in with half a handful of Blk Cow manure and big hand full of happy frog soil will make them P0P~ too bad you burned the leaves - I use mulched leaves in all my veggie grow bags~ compost pile ~garden~flowerbeds.. heavy duty tarps save time and are great to use for moving lots of leaves fast
Hi I want to know what you use to protect the plants from the caterpillars let me know please thank you so much
Hi Claudia! To be completely honest, we don't spray in our garden except for fungus and molds. We let nature handle the caterpillars with the wasps and other birds. If you're being bombarded with them though, you can try Diatomaceous Earth as an organic alternative!
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