American girl from Michigan grew up watching your shows. I would watch you on the Saturday PBS shows in afternoon. Anyhoot, now I am older and just live your nice voice and all your knowledge. You are a household name in Michigan. We know who you are. We just keep to ourselves and work hard. Planting and watching you is a perfect day for me!
They "are" listening and their reasoning is called ad revenue. Turn off your phone or set it in another room when you are thinking out loud or want a bit more privacy.
I live in southern Alabama & am so happy I found your wonderful channel! You are a natural born teacher! I especially love your "9th grade humor"😀 We call those jokes "dad jokes" down here! Thank you so very much for sharing your wealth of botanical knowledge with us! I'm binge watching all of your videos & need to stop because I'm spending entirely too much money at our nurseries lately!😂
Hi Mr. Smith! My husband and I live in a stone house built in 1856, on a small heavily wooded farm in the geologically gorgeous “Driftless Area” of Southwest Wisconsin. We adore your videos on UA-cam, and we’re so proud of our whimsical woodland garden that you inspired us to build behind our home. It’s creating an oasis that has a dramatic impact on our mood and general well-being, and we’re so thankful for your inspiration and education! We dream of coming to see your farm some day. Love from Wisconsin, Willie & Rodney
My Mother turned me on to you with all your talent and knowledge. I'm retired and limited to gardening now but love to still watch and learn from you👏🏼👏🏼😻
When you have deer eating your favorite plants insert thin black metal poles connected with black string from which you hang bells. When the deer brush against the string as they lean down to eat or start to enter the garden bed, the bells ring which spooks the deer away.
@Mark, I have deer tracks in my little vegetable garden. : ( They've been nibbling on my cucumber leaves. Every year my son plants purple-hull peas and deer have a feast. It's very disheartening! I'll tell him about the bells.
Hi Alan, I have watched you for years on my local Iowa PBS channel. Nice to find you here. Your home and gardens are beautiful. Thank you for the garden tips.
This could not have been posted at a more opportune moment! I plan on planting up a shaded area behind my house and need some inspiration. Greetings from Norway
Hello from SE PA. One of my favorite native ferns is the maidenhair. I planted a cinnamon fern about 15 years ago and it is quite magnificent now! I live pretty close to Longwood Gardens and Chanticleer in Wayne, both excellent sources for inspiration.
I’m starting to like hostas and ferns more and incorporating them into the garden. I hope astilbe around to enjoy them for many years. Thank you from Illinois Zone 5.
Hello from the north GA mountains. I’ve always enjoyed watching you, always learn so much! I have lots of shade, at various levels and I use texture and layering for effect. I transplanted Cinnamon ferns from my daughter’s property in Charleston SC and they are doing great; they are so architectural. Thriller, filler, spiller... love that!
I’ve watched your program for years and years. I started watching your show on WTTW back when I lived in Chicago. Even though I lived in an appointment, I had dreams of having my own garden one day. Well now, I live in Southern California and I have a garden out back and in the front. So Allen, you now have your long-time fan who is both from Illinois and California!❤️❤️
I personally am not particularly fond of Hostas either! And they are always the number one suggestion for shade gardening. I love that you had so many others to suggest. I have planted Astilbe in the corners of my shade garden, and have been collecting Hellebore this year and I am in love. Greetings from this Nepenthes grower in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee!
I'm a Hostacolic!!!! I have 14 different varieties and still looking for more!!! In the Buffalo- Niagara Falls area, our Buffalo Botanical Garden has a Hosta sale every year and I'm always amazed at finding new ones. Thanks for helping novices like me.
This Dutch Garden has at least 440 varieties of Hosta. The owner is a Hostacolic too. He hangs them in trees because he does not know where else to put them. ua-cam.com/video/6Nn96ddnBFg/v-deo.html
I have watched this video before, but it is worth listening to again to remind me of the variety of choices of shade plants. I have a good sized "hidden" shade garden I am trying to populate and reminders of shade, texture, and varieties of these plants is very helpful!
Just found this gentleman today. What a fount of information and he's entertaining as you go only. Very in depth but not overwhelming, just the right mix for me!
Love the content in this VLOG! I recently moved to a larger property with a woodland out back and I am enamored and immersed into shade gardening possibilities and techniques. I love it! The possibilities are endless. Thank you
I planted creeping Jenny in containers years ago and it crept right out of the pot and into my lawn. I actually like it as a ground cover but word of warning to others who would not want it on the lawn, trim it before it sets roots!
I was going to mention creeping Jenny. Thought it was great it escaped a pot and survived my zone 5 winter. This year I'm taking out as much as I can and hope I didn't introduce a thug into the garden. 😮
I have watched you on TV and now watch you on videos❣️ You definitely know your plants👨🏫❣️ Thank you so much for all of the knowledge that I have collected from you that has helped me with all of my beautiful plants❣️🌹❣️
I am watching from the UK these plants will work for me in the shady part of the garden, thanks for all the information great video. Lovely to hear you mention the RHS !
The deer in my Michigan neighborhood feast on the hostas in the middle of the night when we and our dog are asleep! Otherwise our little Lhasa Apso tells them firmly to stay out!
Hello from Asheville, NC. Zone 7a. Thank you for all the wonderful garden wisdom! I love foxglove but I do think it’s toxicity is always worth mentioning. In low doses it is a medicine - digoxin - but even a small amount of plant matter can be lethal to pets or others that ingest it. That’s why the deer leave it alone.
Michigan here…just plant 30 various types of hostas, 3 Salomon Seal and a handful of begonias for a pop of color. Also handed a plant I don’t have any experience with - a Cimicifuga ramosa Hillside Black Beauty Snakeroot. Excited to see this mature and blossom.
Ohio here! 🙋♀️. I've had herb and medicinal gardens, and I have become inspired over the winter to bring them all together as a huge cottage garden ...most my front yard is shade ( some morning light and dappled throughout). I've planted hostas, heuchera, foxglove, hydrangea, rodadendrum a lot of others.. I have been coming home from work straight in to planting and making paths...its turning out so beautiful! I am so encouraged by the you tubers I've been watching! Thank you so much for information!
I live in Wisconsin, and have many Hostas planted all along our wooded area right behind our house. We often see deer feeding back there. I spray all my plants with the product Liquid Fence. I do spray often. Maybe every two weeks. But it doesn’t take long using an inexpensive pump pressure, continuous sprayer. Works well for me. For deer and rabbits.
From California, lived in the South for 20 years and I fell in love with hydrangeas and hostas. Finally, created a shady spot in my garden to plant both!! I love your content. Thank you for sharing great informative how to’s for this budding gardener.
Michigan here! Your videos are so wonderfully informative! We counted ten deer hanging out on the farm this Spring, about double our usual number. I don't know if it will work with so many deer, but what I usually do is grate up a couple of bars of Irish Spring soap and sprinkle it around the garden fence edges and hosta; once in Spring and once again in Summer. Apparently the deer dislike the scent because they stay away from it. I only have 4ft and 5ft fences, so the fence is not much of a deterrent for deer. I also like to use the lightweight foil holiday streamers/flag/pennants because they constantly move with any breeze and flash any light source, day or night and make a slight noise. I believe both help deter deer a great deal. Before I did these things they would decimate my vegetable gardens. I still see deer and tracks all around the farm but they avoid the gardens as do the rabbits. Thank you for the videos!
Allen, I have always loved listening to and watching you in the early Year and here you are still teaching us planting and landscaping. Yes! I’m from the “show me State” Missouri near Gilbert H wild. Thank you for everything you do and encouraging us along🙏🏼
Hello from Elgin, Il. !!! Just starting tuning into your videos, P. Allen Smith. Your expert knowledge, experience and great down-to-earth teaching ability make your videos a pleasure to learn from. I know you're "down South", but thank you for teaching us "Northeners" too. I'm learning so much! Your gardening videos are the best in my humble opinion.
A novice gardener from central Alabama....focusing on potted plants for the patio (which is part covered, part open, receiving morning sun.) Thank you for sharing....so much helpful info!
A woman from Michigan is just beginning to watch you, because I didn’t have a yard AND You Tube at the same time! Now I do, but I’d rather watch the videos and dream of what it would look like if I felt well enough to plant and tend them.
Oh goodness you made me laugh! I won’t be able to lose that vision...The Garden Salad Bar...lol! I moved to NE Oklahoma in 1994. I have to say this and I’ve lived all over..I have heard some of the best sayings from people in this part of the country. Thank you for teaching and sharing and inspiring .
Connecticut here! Transplanted from the south, I have to re-adapt to zone 6. I love to experiment, and have been watching your broadcasts for years! I miss Virginia and South Carolina, where I could plant just about anything! My challenge has been the Japanese maple. I'm not giving-up, I'll just have to get a hardier larger tree; rather than tender young trees that can't take our winters. Other people have them, so will I... eventually!
This was most helpful for a beginner gardener here in Montana, zone 4. I have a lot of shade and now, I have more ideas of what plants would do best for these areas. I’ll share my pictures once spring comes to show my results. This was extremely helpful. Thank you so much!
Don’t forget about Alaska ! It’s so beautiful up here and we are able to grow so many varieties! Love your gardens and your wonderful insightful knowledge! Cheers and blessings
Here's a fun fact about Fiddle-heads, they are a local favourite dish, cooked in butter on the frying pan in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Who would have thought! - Toronto, Ontario
Remember picking fiddleheads here in Connecticut USA, LOL with my parents as a young child. One time I went to pick up a fiddlehead and I picked up a garden snake! LOL
This was very helpful and educational for a beginner gardener. I’m in Montana, zone 4. I have a lot of shady areas. I now know what I can plant for a beautiful garden. Thank you so much for a great presentation.
Upper Illinois here: I am so happy to follow your educational programs and videos. Thank you for making detailed information easy for me to understand.
Hi from Virginia, thanks for including wet and dry shade plants! I didn’t know why I wasn’t always successful with the plants, this video is very informative, thank you.
British gardens esp the great houses, Kensington, Sissingnurst etc use color so strikingly...chartreuse again st purples, lots of contrast in shapes, textures but my admiration is for their bold use of color brightening shades areas.
Your site is an oasis in the gardening desert-thank you for doing a tutorial about shade loving plants!!109 different varieties of Hostas....I was given one and it,s turning into a much-welcomed Triffid!!108 to go....PHEW❣❣❣😍
Thank you for steering me down the garden path with shade tolerant plants. I am in Zone 8a & 8b and have a front entry that is in constant shade. Oh boy heuchera hostas here I come!
I used to listen to you on PBS when I lived in Virginia. Just to add to your collection of states, I'm now in Vermont close to Lake Champlain, Zone 5/6. In my 50's I finally was able to have a real garden and ended up building shade rock gardens because I had to work with dry shade under large trees/semi-woodland area. Dry shade, especially clay soil, is really hard to deal with. Cinnamon fern worked for me, and heuchera and woolly thyme between stones, in ameliorated soil. And hosta of course. And native northeast woodland plants like arisaema, Solomon's Seal and Mayapple. Stone mulch (pea gravel) pulled it all together. For me the colors of perennials - like Johnson's Blue cranesbill - are more intense in the hours there are shade. Plus shade may allow you to grow mosses! Thank you for this program - I just found you on UA-cam.
I'm from Minnesota and love shade gardening, I used to have a huge ash tree, but we had straight line winds take it down. But, I still have enough shade to plant mostly wildflowers. Spring is my favorite time of year, so many wild flowers! Been watching you since pbs had your show, really nice to see you.
What a great presentation on this very common problem. I just moved from Michigan , where I had NO shade, to Illinois--where I have too much shade and heavy clay soil. This video is really helpful. Thanks so much
Sweet Woodruff and Solomon’s Seal are great for shade. Sweet Woodruff just finished blooming in mid May. It’s delicate white flowers that look like lace. Hostas are deer food. They’re excellent plants if your goal is to feed the deer and they are not behind a fence. That joke was funny:-)
Around here (PNW - Washington) the slugs looove hostas!! I spray 1/2 & 1/2 ammonia water when they're just coming up in the spring & it kills slug eggs. If I need to respray later I cut ammonia to 1/4. It works great!!
@@mickyunit Let me know how it goes. This works great for me. I was thinking I was going to have to buy stock in slug bait before I found this on the internet.
Enjoying your channel in zone 6B Kentucky! I'm lukewarm about hostas but they have been holding up well for me. Thanks for explaining the different types of green and variegation! I think coral bells might be just what I need.
My grandmother grew a row of marigolds and zinnias the length of the garden. She dusted her garden with all purpose flour 3 days before new moon. She did not have pests and worms.
Sunny spots, Shady spots, planters for balconies with Northeast exposure, episodes by zone, indoor plants with not much light, etc... like this show today would be fantastic, thank you.
Oh how I wish you would have either put the names of the plants you mentioned in the description box, or adding them on the screen so we can take screenshots. Thank you for considering it. 😉
Ferns do great in dry shade. Columbine. Ajuga rep tans there are a lot. Even if a plant needs moist they don’t need as much as you may think. Mulched shaded soil stays moist underneath for a long time between watering. So what if you water once every 2 weeks? Experiment.
I am not able to use most of the plants you do outside because I am in zone 3a technically (Edmonton Alberta, Canada). However, you present so many ideas ... the why you plant things a certain way ... that I always come away inspired. Thanks.
Hi. I’m from Wilmington Delaware and I learned of your horticulture expertise from my husband who has been your driver when you visit Winterthur. Love learning from you.
Love watching your videos. I live in SW Michigan and have extensive sun and dappled shade gardens. We have a wide variety of colored hostas mixed with astilbe and ferns. The combos are simply stunning!
Hello Mr. Smith, from Illinois, love your show so much been watching for a long time. Just discovered you on u-tube channel love very much, keep up the great work. Take care and Thank you so much! 😊🤗
At home here in London where I’m talking about my hostas and how to fill the shady areas of my garden. I can’t believe my luck to have your video pop up. You have a great video format here. As a beginning gardener, Gardener’s question time on Radio 4 (here in the UK) can be pitched a little towards the expert gardeners for me, but your style is very warm (charming to hear that quaint southern American accent), engaging and informative. Loved your ‘filler, spiller and thriller’ concept! I’ll be applying that method this afternoon. Thanks again for making this great video. I just subscribed as I’d like to I see and hear more from you. Good luck!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on horticulture! You have expanded my ideas on how to deal with my shady wall. There are so many plants in the garden center that I don’t know what to buy that will work best for me.
Hello from North Carolina, I am in zone 8a tooo!!! I love your info for the shade plants, I struggle every year with what to plant in the large pots on my porch, I did do creeping Jenny in there last year, it done great, and I also did the hostas, but I moved them outside, I done elephant ears in them once and they got to large, so I moved them to, so here I am again trying to figure it out..... Thank you for these type of videos I sure need them. .
This is exactly what I needed. As a recent transplant (ha, ha), just over a year, to the UP in MI, I'm doing some new planting around our home, so it seems to be either full shade and then full sun as the sun travels around the house. I used to garden in zone 5b-6a in PA and now it is 4a. I'm having lots of fun learning! Thanks again for a great vlog!!
Loving the consistent good quality videos. A few years ago it was hard to find good content for gardening, now I feel spoilt.
Agreed. Between this and Garden Answer's channel, it's such a treat. 💐
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You are funny! I thought i was the only one posting signs to the deer. “The neighbors yard has better tasting stuff to eat! Keep walking”😂😂😂
American girl from Michigan grew up watching your shows. I would watch you on the Saturday PBS shows in afternoon. Anyhoot, now I am older and just live your nice voice and all your knowledge. You are a household name in Michigan. We know who you are. We just keep to ourselves and work hard. Planting and watching you is a perfect day for me!
Same here...grew up watching him on PBS, lol
I love the vision of the deer reading the menu cards and emaiing their friends....🥴😀😊
2021 - I was outside going over plans for a shaded area. I am convinced the UA-cam is listening. This video showed up😳
They "are" listening and their reasoning is called ad revenue. Turn off your phone or set it in another room when you are thinking out loud or want a bit more privacy.
True. It picks up conversations and hrs later news items show up with the same topics that had recently been discussed!
@@jessewright3296 ever wondered how your battery goes down 13% before an hour of the day is passed? your phone is literally busy uploading data on you
They do. Google - UA-cam.
2023 here, umm yep, but I appreciate it at this time only 😆
I live in southern Alabama & am so happy I found your wonderful channel! You are a natural born teacher! I especially love your "9th grade humor"😀 We call those jokes "dad jokes" down here! Thank you so very much for sharing your wealth of botanical knowledge with us! I'm binge watching all of your videos & need to stop because I'm spending entirely too much money at our nurseries lately!😂
Hi Mr. Smith! My husband and I live in a stone house built in 1856, on a small heavily wooded farm in the geologically gorgeous “Driftless Area” of Southwest Wisconsin. We adore your videos on UA-cam, and we’re so proud of our whimsical woodland garden that you inspired us to build behind our home. It’s creating an oasis that has a dramatic impact on our mood and general well-being, and we’re so thankful for your inspiration and education! We dream of coming to see your farm some day. Love from Wisconsin, Willie & Rodney
This man, P. Alan Smith has his garden, his entire empire in AR. This is definitely the place to visit and have lunch in Arkansas.
I live just around the lake from him. Planning a visit this spring!!
My Mother turned me on to you with all your talent and knowledge. I'm retired and limited to gardening now but love to still watch and learn from you👏🏼👏🏼😻
When you have deer eating your favorite plants insert thin black metal poles connected with black string from which you hang bells. When the deer brush against the string as they lean down to eat or start to enter the garden bed, the bells ring which spooks the deer away.
@Mark, I have deer tracks in my little vegetable garden. : ( They've been nibbling on my cucumber leaves. Every year my son plants purple-hull peas and deer have a feast. It's very disheartening! I'll tell him about the bells.
Hi Alan, I have watched you for years on my local Iowa PBS channel. Nice to find you here. Your home and gardens are beautiful. Thank you for the garden tips.
This could not have been posted at a more opportune moment! I plan on planting up a shaded area behind my house and need some inspiration. Greetings from Norway
Hello from SE PA. One of my favorite native ferns is the maidenhair. I planted a cinnamon fern about 15 years ago and it is quite magnificent now! I live pretty close to Longwood Gardens and Chanticleer in Wayne, both excellent sources for inspiration.
I’m starting to like hostas and ferns more and incorporating them into the garden. I hope astilbe around to enjoy them for many years. Thank you from Illinois Zone 5.
Hello from the north GA mountains. I’ve always enjoyed watching you, always learn so much! I have lots of shade, at various levels and I use texture and layering for effect. I transplanted Cinnamon ferns from my daughter’s property in Charleston SC and they are doing great; they are so architectural. Thriller, filler, spiller... love that!
How lovingly you talk about plants. Warms my heart to see other likeminded souls. 💚🌱
Mr. Smith, thank you from Indianapolis, Indiana. We have gained so much from you, and our plants thank you.
I’ve watched your program for years and years. I started watching your show on WTTW back when I lived in Chicago. Even though I lived in an appointment, I had dreams of having my own garden one day. Well now, I live in Southern California and I have a garden out back and in the front. So Allen, you now have your long-time fan who is both from Illinois and California!❤️❤️
Michigan born and raised 70yrs. Love to watch you
I personally am not particularly fond of Hostas either! And they are always the number one suggestion for shade gardening. I love that you had so many others to suggest. I have planted Astilbe in the corners of my shade garden, and have been collecting Hellebore this year and I am in love.
Greetings from this Nepenthes grower in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee!
I'm a Hostacolic!!!! I have 14 different varieties and still looking for more!!! In the Buffalo- Niagara Falls area, our Buffalo Botanical Garden has a Hosta sale every year and I'm always amazed at finding new ones. Thanks for helping novices like me.
Me too! I love hostas, I got to collect them all lol
This Dutch Garden has at least 440 varieties of Hosta. The owner is a Hostacolic too. He hangs them in trees because he does not know where else to put them. ua-cam.com/video/6Nn96ddnBFg/v-deo.html
@@francisc1854 a clump of "hosta paying hands" gives a fantastic effect in a large pot on a high pedestal; 1,5 meters.
@@williamwaterford8114 that’s an awesome garden I’d love to do one like it
@@francisc1854 do you have a garden, do you have hostas?
I have watched this video before, but it is worth listening to again to remind me of the variety of choices of shade plants. I have a good sized "hidden" shade garden I am trying to populate and reminders of shade, texture, and varieties of these plants is very helpful!
Just found this gentleman today. What a fount of information and he's entertaining as you go only. Very in depth but not overwhelming, just the right mix for me!
Love the content in this VLOG! I recently moved to a larger property with a woodland out back and I am enamored and immersed into shade gardening possibilities and techniques. I love it! The possibilities are endless. Thank you
Love this guy and watching him for years. Glad to see him on utube!!
I planted creeping Jenny in containers years ago and it crept right out of the pot and into my lawn. I actually like it as a ground cover but word of warning to others who would not want it on the lawn, trim it before it sets roots!
Yipes!
I was going to mention creeping Jenny. Thought it was great it escaped a pot and survived my zone 5 winter. This year I'm taking out as much as I can and hope I didn't introduce a thug into the garden. 😮
I want a garden just like you. It's so relaxing and peaceful after a long day at work.
I have watched you on TV and now watch you on videos❣️ You definitely know your plants👨🏫❣️ Thank you so much for all of the knowledge that I have collected from you that has helped me with all of my beautiful plants❣️🌹❣️
You are so welcome! 💚
I found this very inspiring . Ive been planning my next years plans in the gardens as a way to pass the winter.
I am watching from the UK these plants will work for me in the shady part of the garden, thanks for all the information great video. Lovely to hear you mention the RHS !
My cure for deer here in Wa State is my little red cattle dog Stella. She runs everything off :)
The deer in my Michigan neighborhood feast on the hostas in the middle of the night when we and our dog are asleep! Otherwise our little Lhasa Apso tells them firmly to stay out!
Oh, maybe you'd be willing to rent out Stella then?
Hello from Asheville, NC. Zone 7a. Thank you for all the wonderful garden wisdom! I love foxglove but I do think it’s toxicity is always worth mentioning. In low doses it is a medicine - digoxin - but even a small amount of plant matter can be lethal to pets or others that ingest it. That’s why the deer leave it alone.
Michigan here…just plant 30 various types of hostas, 3 Salomon Seal and a handful of begonias for a pop of color. Also handed a plant I don’t have any experience with - a Cimicifuga ramosa Hillside Black Beauty Snakeroot. Excited to see this mature and blossom.
Ohio here! 🙋♀️.
I've had herb and medicinal gardens, and I have become inspired over the winter to bring them all together as a huge cottage garden ...most my front yard is shade ( some morning light and dappled throughout). I've planted hostas, heuchera, foxglove, hydrangea, rodadendrum a lot of others.. I have been coming home from work straight in to planting and making paths...its turning out so beautiful! I am so encouraged by the you tubers I've been watching! Thank you so much for information!
Iowa here. Just got done planting a lot of sun lovers. But I LOVE hostas, ferns & lily of the valley
I live in Wisconsin, and have many Hostas planted all along our wooded area right behind our house. We often see deer feeding back there. I spray all my plants with the product Liquid Fence. I do spray often. Maybe every two weeks. But it doesn’t take long using an inexpensive pump pressure, continuous sprayer. Works well for me. For deer and rabbits.
S___ is really hitting the fan here now in Michigan. Nice to watch our UA-cam friends. Also prayers to all those still working out there. Stay safe❤
From California, lived in the South for 20 years and I fell in love with hydrangeas and hostas. Finally, created a shady spot in my garden to plant both!! I love your content. Thank you for sharing great informative how to’s for this budding gardener.
The elephant ears "point" toward the water source they can tolerate - up for rain, or down if they don't mind wet feet.
Michigan here! Your videos are so wonderfully informative! We counted ten deer hanging out on the farm this Spring, about double our usual number. I don't know if it will work with so many deer, but what I usually do is grate up a couple of bars of Irish Spring soap and sprinkle it around the garden fence edges and hosta; once in Spring and once again in Summer. Apparently the deer dislike the scent because they stay away from it. I only have 4ft and 5ft fences, so the fence is not much of a deterrent for deer. I also like to use the lightweight foil holiday streamers/flag/pennants because they constantly move with any breeze and flash any light source, day or night and make a slight noise. I believe both help deter deer a great deal. Before I did these things they would decimate my vegetable gardens. I still see deer and tracks all around the farm but they avoid the gardens as do the rabbits.
Thank you for the videos!
Hello from Cape Cod. Thank you for your garden teaching, my neighbors love my beautiful yard!
Have yourself an WONDERFUL day!❤❤❤
Allen, I have always loved listening to and watching you in the early Year and here you are still teaching us planting and landscaping. Yes! I’m from the “show me State” Missouri near Gilbert H wild. Thank you for everything you do and encouraging us along🙏🏼
Hello from Elgin, Il. !!! Just starting tuning into your videos, P. Allen Smith. Your expert knowledge, experience and great down-to-earth teaching ability make your videos a pleasure to learn from. I know you're "down South", but thank you for teaching us "Northeners" too. I'm learning so much! Your gardening videos are the best in my humble opinion.
A novice gardener from central Alabama....focusing on potted plants for the patio (which is part covered, part open, receiving morning sun.)
Thank you for sharing....so much helpful info!
Just here to say how much I’ve enjoyed binging my favorite gardener on UA-cam! Greetings from central Texas!
I think Halcyon is probably the bluest of all the hostas, it's a beauty.
Hello, from Cornwall, England🙂
Thank you P. Allen
Been watching you a very long time!💖
Hello from north western Oregon! Glad to learn more about these plants because as my yard matures it is getting more dappled or partial shade!
I am from Wisconsin. I learn so much from your videos. You are helping me transform my gardens. Thank you!
A woman from Michigan is just beginning to watch you, because I didn’t have a yard AND You Tube at the same time! Now I do, but I’d rather watch the videos and dream of what it would look like if I felt well enough to plant and tend them.
Oh goodness you made me laugh! I won’t be able to lose that vision...The Garden Salad Bar...lol! I moved to NE Oklahoma in 1994. I have to say this and I’ve lived all over..I have heard some of the best sayings from people in this part of the country.
Thank you for teaching and sharing and inspiring .
Connecticut here! Transplanted from the south, I have to re-adapt to zone 6. I love to experiment, and have been watching your broadcasts for years! I miss Virginia and South Carolina, where I could plant just about anything! My challenge has been the Japanese maple. I'm not giving-up, I'll just have to get a hardier larger tree; rather than tender young trees that can't take our winters. Other people have them, so will I... eventually!
This was most helpful for a beginner gardener here in Montana, zone 4. I have a lot of shade and now, I have more ideas of what plants would do best for these areas. I’ll share my pictures once spring comes to show my results. This was extremely helpful. Thank you so much!
Don’t forget about Alaska ! It’s so beautiful up here and we are able to grow so many varieties! Love your gardens and your wonderful insightful knowledge!
Cheers and blessings
I enjoyed this video. I am sorry about your loss. I am glad you have this video what a treasure.
Moved to Michigan a year ago from Florida and fell in love with hostas. I'm planning out my garden for spring.
Thank you for a wonderful video.
Thanks for sharing from OHIO
I watch you on tv as well your great !
Here's a fun fact about Fiddle-heads, they are a local favourite dish, cooked in butter on the frying pan in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Who would have thought! - Toronto, Ontario
+ParteeDowne 💚😋
I liked to pick them when I was a child but I will NOT eat them! My family boils them and some like to add vinegar.
New Brunswick, Canada.
Remember picking fiddleheads here in Connecticut USA, LOL with my parents as a young child. One time I went to pick up a fiddlehead and I picked up a garden snake! LOL
Also in Alaska. Yummy😊
This was very helpful and educational for a beginner gardener. I’m in Montana, zone 4. I have a lot of shady areas. I now know what I can plant for a beautiful garden. Thank you so much for a great presentation.
You've got fans in Canada too! :)
Thanks so much Mr. Smith, great video as all the ones you have done!
Blessings from Elk Grove, California 🌞
Quebec Canada here! Great shows - beautiful and informative!
Upper Illinois here: I am so happy to follow your educational programs and videos. Thank you for making detailed information easy for me to understand.
I am from the Philippines and I love your channel very much. Lots of knowledge and information. Thank you.
I’m in Oregon. You were new to me two years ago. You have practical advice and beautiful designs! Thanks.
Hi from Virginia, thanks for including wet and dry shade plants! I didn’t know why I wasn’t always successful with the plants, this video is very informative, thank you.
I'm also in Va. Love shade plants.....
British gardens esp the great houses, Kensington, Sissingnurst etc use color so strikingly...chartreuse again st purples, lots of contrast in shapes, textures but my admiration is for their bold use of color brightening shades areas.
Ottawa Ontario Canada, great video, pleased to have found you🐛🦋🍁🌷
Your site is an oasis in the gardening desert-thank you for doing a tutorial about shade loving plants!!109 different varieties of Hostas....I was given one and it,s
turning into a much-welcomed Triffid!!108 to go....PHEW❣❣❣😍
Thank you for steering me down the garden path with shade tolerant plants. I am in Zone 8a & 8b and have a front entry that is in constant shade. Oh boy heuchera hostas here I come!
I used to listen to you on PBS when I lived in Virginia. Just to add to your collection of states, I'm now in Vermont close to Lake Champlain, Zone 5/6. In my 50's I finally was able to have a real garden and ended up building shade rock gardens because I had to work with dry shade under large trees/semi-woodland area.
Dry shade, especially clay soil, is really hard to deal with. Cinnamon fern worked for me, and heuchera and woolly thyme between stones, in ameliorated soil. And hosta of course. And native northeast woodland plants like arisaema, Solomon's Seal and Mayapple. Stone mulch (pea gravel) pulled it all together. For me the colors of perennials - like Johnson's Blue cranesbill - are more intense in the hours there are shade. Plus shade may allow you to grow mosses! Thank you for this program - I just found you on UA-cam.
I'm from Eastern NC, I've been a fan for years, so has my friend from Charlotte
I'm from Minnesota and love shade gardening, I used to have a huge ash tree, but we had straight line winds take it down. But, I still have enough shade to plant mostly wildflowers. Spring is my favorite time of year, so many wild flowers! Been watching you since pbs had your show, really nice to see you.
Thank you! Be sure to subscribe to the channel!
My hat off to you &the RHS for your grounding.I always felt U had an almost English way of presenting your expert sdvice.cheers
What a great presentation on this very common problem.
I just moved from Michigan , where I had NO shade, to Illinois--where I have too much shade and heavy clay soil. This video is really helpful. Thanks so much
Sweet Woodruff and Solomon’s Seal are great for shade. Sweet Woodruff just finished blooming in mid May. It’s delicate white flowers that look like lace. Hostas are deer food. They’re excellent plants if your goal is to feed the deer and they are not behind a fence. That joke was funny:-)
Around here (PNW - Washington) the slugs looove hostas!! I spray 1/2 & 1/2 ammonia water when they're just coming up in the spring & it kills slug eggs. If I need to respray later I cut ammonia to 1/4. It works great!!
@@terisalund3367 thanks for sharing...i sprinkled some slug treatment, but was thinking that could get to be costly. I'll try your recipe...
@@mickyunit Let me know how it goes. This works great for me. I was thinking I was going to have to buy stock in slug bait before I found this on the internet.
Hello,from Arizona. So wonderful to have found your show!
Hi Allen I'm living in Ireland and love your posts Our weather is very different to yours but your tips and information apply to all Thank you Eleanor
I am from Michigan, and I like your program. I like flowering gardening, and your information was helpful.
Enjoying your channel in zone 6B Kentucky! I'm lukewarm about hostas but they have been holding up well for me. Thanks for explaining the different types of green and variegation! I think coral bells might be just what I need.
My grandmother grew a row of marigolds and zinnias the length of the garden. She dusted her garden with all purpose flour 3 days before new moon. She did not have pests and worms.
Sunny spots, Shady spots, planters for balconies with Northeast exposure, episodes by zone, indoor plants with not much light, etc... like this show today would be fantastic, thank you.
We have peace lily, need no sun water once every 3 weeks.
Oh how I wish you would have either put the names of the plants you mentioned in the description box, or adding them on the screen so we can take screenshots. Thank you for considering it. 😉
Gita Yahyai I use the closed captions option
You can see the names of the plants in the description of the video 🙂 look for a little down arrow symbol, next to the name of the video!!
Thank you so much for such wonderful and knowledgeable videos. 😃💐💚💚💚💚💚💚
Hello, I am from Georgia, USA, so glad i found you , been wanting to learn about plants for shaded areas...my yard is mostly shaded....so excited.
The real challenge isn't the shade... it the DRY SHADE! Oh my goodness. Most of those perennials like constantly moist soil. What about dry shade?
Ferns do great in dry shade. Columbine. Ajuga rep tans there are a lot. Even if a plant needs moist they don’t need as much as you may think. Mulched shaded soil stays moist underneath for a long time between watering. So what if you water once every 2 weeks? Experiment.
Epimedium and pachysandra are great in dry shade
@@elsagrace3893 when you plant something, add a soil with a water retainer. Mulch well. When you water, soak thoroughly.
Michigan here! Love, love, love you and your show!
Thank you!
I am not able to use most of the plants you do outside because I am in zone 3a technically (Edmonton Alberta, Canada). However, you present so many ideas ... the why you plant things a certain way ... that I always come away inspired. Thanks.
Hi. I’m from Wilmington Delaware and I learned of your horticulture expertise from my husband who has been your driver when you visit Winterthur. Love learning from you.
Love watching your videos. I live in SW Michigan and have extensive sun and dappled shade gardens. We have a wide variety of colored hostas mixed with astilbe and ferns. The combos are simply stunning!
Hello Mr. Smith, from Illinois, love your show so much been watching for a long time. Just discovered you on u-tube channel love very much, keep up the great work. Take care and Thank you so much! 😊🤗
Thank you!Such great lessons and advice. I can listen to you all day❤
From hot, dry, windy or cold Santa Ynez, California! Than you for sharing your knowledge so graciously 🌿
At home here in London where I’m talking about my hostas and how to fill the shady areas of my garden. I can’t believe my luck to have your video pop up. You have a great video format here. As a beginning gardener, Gardener’s question time on Radio 4 (here in the UK) can be pitched a little towards the expert gardeners for me, but your style is very warm (charming to hear that quaint southern American accent), engaging and informative. Loved your ‘filler, spiller and thriller’ concept! I’ll be applying that method this afternoon. Thanks again for making this great video. I just subscribed as I’d like to I see and hear more from you. Good luck!
thomas chapman thank you! 💚
thomas chapman Try Garden Answer it’s an American lady planting up her massive garden ...well worth checking out.
Holly Hocks thank you for your kind tip, I’ll give that a try! Wishing you a lovely day. Thomas
Ok Allen I am in North Idaho!!! Can have some very heavy winters for some reason my hydrangeas struggle! My favorite!
Love your videos you have educated me so much! Keep them coming!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on horticulture! You have expanded my ideas on how to deal with my shady wall. There are so many plants in the garden center that I don’t know what to buy that will work best for me.
Hello from North Carolina, I am in zone 8a tooo!!! I love your info for the shade plants, I struggle every year with what to plant in the large pots on my porch, I did do creeping Jenny in there last year, it done great, and I also did the hostas, but I moved them outside, I done elephant ears in them once and they got to large, so I moved them to, so here I am again trying to figure it out.....
Thank you for these type of videos I sure need them. .
This is exactly what I needed. As a recent transplant (ha, ha), just over a year, to the UP in MI, I'm doing some new planting around our home, so it seems to be either full shade and then full sun as the sun travels around the house. I used to garden in zone 5b-6a in PA and now it is 4a. I'm having lots of fun learning! Thanks again for a great vlog!!
Cream edge colored hosta is gorgeous - favorites 👍
Thank you so much for all the new info from BC, Canada