Please do more videos about CA Native Plants. Would love to see manzanitas, deergrass, coyote mint, matilijiya poppies. Thanks for the great video. New plants need watering unless it has rained a lot during the first year. Usually people do need to water their new plants every week when it hasn't rained.
I am keeping my flowers 🌻🌼 pretty simple. Sunflowers, borage, morning glory and milkweed. I have some Iris and roses 🌹 that are perennials. Gonna let my herbs and Brassicas go to flower.... But not too many ornamentals this season
Back in central/western NY, I grew in raised beds, always interplanting veggies, flowers, and herbs. My next-door neighbor, who I adored, grew a conventional all-veggie, row garden with chemicals and lots of conventional beefsteak tomatoes. He could not understand why I grew flowers in my veggie garden. We had a friendly competition. One summer he grabbed one of my tomatoes, I think it was an Amish paste or an Opalka, and put it in his sandwich - said it was the best tomato he had ever eaten and conceded, finally, that maybe I was on to something. He bought our house and land when we moved to Colorado almost 12 years ago. Our house, very old and in need of extensive repairs, was demolished and our neighbor is sadly, no longer with us. But his family continues to garden exclusively in our old raised beds, still productive after all these years. The beds had originally been filled with 10 year old composted horse manure from a friend whose sister kept horses on her farm and who kindly delivered truckload after truckload to us. Such a nice memory. Still miss that garden, although I have a new one now. Sorry so long.
Very cool story, sometimes tasting is believing! Most people start off using practices they are used to and resist change so that is cool to hear about
Just seeing all those flowers made me feel happy. I've always favoured veggies in my garden and somewhat ignored flowers but I'd love to walk outside and see all that colour and life. Random info but what you call plumeria is known as frangipani in Australia.
Pineapple sage is a beautiful plant and a quick grower. When they flower the plant is just one giant explosion of cardinal colored blooms. One of my favorites in the herb garden.
I liked pineapple sage so much, it got me into a whole herb thing. I have 2 greenhouses for herbs. Its funny how these things happen. What beautiful plants!
Interesting last several years watching the changing gardening trends. More people (me included) are specifically doing flowers in the veggie garden. I'm also sensing a trend away from varieties that have interesting colors but not much else. Also "no dig" is officially "digging is okay just not too much." And synthetic soluble fertilizers correctly used, sensing a trend that is okay now.
I agree that no dig Is something that is context dependent leading to it being okay to some level. The flowers are interesting to see expanding, they tend to require a lot less work compared to veggies, at least I find that to be true. Less pruning, less supporting, still look good under less than ideal conditions and help make the garden feel like an ecosystem rather than a vegetable market. I still don't use synthetic fertilizers because they are just not good for the soil life compared to organics.
Such great points! I've only been gardening for 3 years and the change from the past year is insane. I'd never thought some of the most exciting things of my day is seeing the variety of pollinated bees attracted to my mammoth sunflower! Also, the idea of creating a productive ecosystem for my plants, insects and inevitably for myself 😊 It's almost as nice as seeing a good harvest from a crop. You and epic gardening have made a huge difference in the way gardening is viewed in such a "less stress, more fun" way imo. Thank you so much!
I find it interesting that I have only been gardening 1 full year but realizing that while I love growing all sorts of veggies and herbs I am very busy and just dont have time to eat or store my harvest properly with such little time. I started incorporating a lot more flowers and now all the bees, hummingbirds and ladybugs are everywhere. Will definitely be growing more flowers and ornamental stuff along with vegetables in the same space. My borage and sage have grown massive each taking over a 3 x 6 space.
Pride of Madeira -- OMG! Finally know the name of that stunning wall of purple along your fence. Thanks for all the inspiration and all the love to the pollinators your flowers bring.🐝
Cheers from Oklahoma , where's it's raining and 40° hahaha but getting my garden up and running this year just started my first corn crop (peaches and cream) can't get enough of your videos and love the chemistry between you and Kevin
Everything is looking SO beautiful!! I absolutely love pineapple sage!! I always grow it for the hummingbirds and me!!! Did you know that you can use the leaves to make teas or in salsa? Love picking the leaves to rub and smell!! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
Thanks for the tour of your flowers! I want to incorporate more pollinator-friendly plants in my garden, and now I have a list (from your video) of flowers to try.
I have an african blue basil that has been flowering non-stop for about 5 years! I haphazardly water it and it doesn’t care. It is always covered in bees! I think it is finally reaching its end but it has been amazing in my garden and low maintenance! I am in East County San Diego where it is hot and dry for most of the summer and this still flowers (even after most of my native plants are done)! Thank you for showing all of your wonderful blooms!
Love all the flowers you showed us. I wasn’t aware of all the varieties that grow here in San Diego! My CA poppies are growing amazingly for the first time!
I love to incorporate flowers and vegetables together, not only for the benefits, but beauty, as well. I want to explore different calendulas in peachy colors, but a few years back I brought a few seeds from my mother's garden in 🇧🇬 and I'm afraid they might cross pollinate. *sigh*
I was literally wanting to know today what flowers I could grow for the Valley Carpenter Bees that are frequent visitors to my garden and you completely answered my question along with a treat snippet video of my favorite bee!
I’m hoping for a variety of flowers this year. The alyssum has flowered and some of my marigolds are budding, so hopefully flowers soon. I also planted zinnias, bachelor buttons, daisies, impatiens, and a few others, hopefully some come up. This is my second year gardening, and I love the charm flowers add to the vegetable garden.
Love this time of year so much! everything is blooming and vibrant. I can't get enough of all the beautiful fragrances filling the air in my yard. Am keen to try growing the Lacy Phacelia now if I can find the space LOL Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden! 🐞🐝🦋💮🏵🌺🌻🌼
That Pride of Maderia is such a lovely, stately piece! Still waiting for planting time in my 6a, tempermental zone so it's nice to live a bit vicariously through your beautiful greenery, haha.
I started growing flowers, then vegetables. Thats how I started growing, i never knew how many awesome flowers existed. When the epic gardening tour of your garden first came out i was amazed to see how many flowers you had, and just interesting plants. Pineapple sage has been in my growing list since!
4:50 I grabbed a 1 or 2gal from my local nursery maybe 9 months ago and it basically quadrupled or quintupled in size since I planted it and threw out a ton of beautiful blooms this year. I was shocked at how quickly it grew and it basically needed no water!
Beautiful garden! 😍 I’m expanding my garden and adding lots of flowers!!! I need to get some pineapple sage for the hummingbirds. Thanks for another great video!
These flowers look beautiful. An interesting fact: the phacelia can also be used as a cover crop an green manure. It also improves the soil by losening it and has a ton of biomass in their root System.
I so love having poppies in my garden. However, the gophers loved them too. It seems some people in my neighborhood got aggressive against the gophers because I haven’t seen any activity in a long while. Sooo….I have tons of poppies that were seeded in previous years. They are truly lovely.
Love your videos. Just a note on the etymology of chamomile from Wikipedia "The word chamomile is derived via the French and Latin, from the Greek χαμαίμηλον, khamaimēlon, 'earth apple', from χαμαί, khamai, 'on the ground', and μῆλον, mēlon, 'apple'."
Love this. Just this year, I started gathering and starting seeds for native flowers for the Midwest such as Indian Blanket, Dense Blazing Star and Plains Coreopsis. Echinacea (coneflower) also does well here - and I starting a variety of different colors. I going to watch this again to jot down names; my hope is to find some varieties that are cold tolerant enough to be perennials. GREAT vid - thank you.
Coneflowers seem to hate me, they struggle to germinate and size up and then seem to quickly fail in ground. I haven't spent the time to figure out why that is yet but I want them!
@@jacquesinthegarden , Same! I’m in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley (10a) and have the worst time with coneflowers. I can’t figure it out. This year I got a whopping one plant to both germinate and get past the seedling stage. I have it in a pot and am babying that thing like no other. It’ll be cocktail time if and when I actually get a bloom!
I bought a white one from a catalog. They sent me two bareroots. One survive and one didn't. Before that my son bought me a container of pink one.i was moving all around with no luck. I decided to put in on the sidewalk where I had a rose of Sharon. It's doing better at that spot nothing added to the soil just water
You can fill in your native garden bare ground with native annuals like baby blue eyes, tidy tips, ca blue bells, and elegant clarkia. Elegant clarkia is new for me this year. Blooms after the baby blue eyes and tidy tips are going over. Looks good with orange ca poppies and calendula. I like the height. Sow seeds in fall after the first rain.
We used to have a lot of annuals like you in our garden (borage, poppies, cosmos...), coz it's easy to sow, but now we've shifted towards more variety and perennials. We have alkaline clay soil, often dry in summer, so we had to find plants that can handle it. There are a few great plants that flower in spring and die down in summer, before putting leaves in autumn again. Stuff like perennials poppies (Papaver orientale) and my favorite, centaurea montana. Centaureas are a must in the garden, all of their species are great. Centaurea orientalis, centaurea dealbata... All amazing. The achillea family is also amazing for clay soils. And there are some that tolerate (and demand) dry soil like achillea filipendulina (quite a classic for flower beds). 2 types of plants that people really don't use enough are echinops and eryngiums. They put out great deep blue flowers, the first one in globe flowers, the second one in a spiky thistle like flower. In my opinion the best flower bed is to have perennials, with annuals self sown filling the gaps, some tall grasses to structure the bed, and possibly a tree or a couple of shrubs. I'm not mentionning asters or campalunacaes coz with your dry summers, only a handful of species would survive. Knautia macedonica is a must for hot summers though, as well as a few species of agastache and monarda that can tolerate dry soils. For echinacea, the purpurea type will do poorly, but echinacea pallida will do just fine. Sedums do great in dry clay soils too, like sedum telephium 'matrona', a classic.
Thanks for sharing Jacques... I've been working on improving my pollinators & natives this year and seeing this shows just how far I have to go. Inspiring!
Looking great brother, I love the Lacy's! we are getting close in Colorado Springs but I'm itching to get some flowers in the ground. I don't know if the epic family has heard, but the local community of Manitou Springs was just named the worlds first 'Pollinator District'. Id recommend looking into it, as the message they are spreading is so incredibly important, especially for our little bee friends! Have a great day everyone!
Love the garden!! 😍So much life there! With so much bee activity, do you plan on starting a bee hotel? I know there's a lot to do regarding care, but it might be a nice addition. 🐝🐝
Hi Jacques! What a great tour of your flowers, thank you so much for sharing. I have a request not related to the flowers, but I wonder if you might consider doing a video about your espalier apples? I planted my first apple trees last fall with the intention of espalier-ing them, and would love some of your practical advice.
Jacques, can i direct sow most of those flowers you’ve shown here? If they are new for your garden this season, when did you sow/start them to be so luscious as they are today?
Some of these were direct sown and then just keep self propagating. By allowing them to self seed I always have flowers year round and they just keep popping up at different time periods. Many of these I either put in during the fall or in late winter! Some were transplanted, ie the Lacy Phacelia, and the pollinator patches were scatter sown.
Can you do a video on garden envy? Because honestly up here in Canada it is hard to believe how beautiful your garden looks at this time of the year. We are excited that the snow has melted 🤣🤣🤣
Man I'd love a garden like that I'm definitely going to plant some sage once I find some, I'm my garden at the moment I have bluebells, aquilegia,Three-cornered garlic,red campion,lesser celandine,tulips, lots of forget me nots and a clematis coming into bloom
Love all the flowers! I grew borage in my garden last year but it was so top heavy and kept flopping over. Do you stake your borage plants to keep them upright? Thanks!
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Please do more videos about CA Native Plants. Would love to see manzanitas, deergrass, coyote mint, matilijiya poppies. Thanks for the great video. New plants need watering unless it has rained a lot during the first year. Usually people do need to water their new plants every week when it hasn't rained.
Got to love when a new Garden Hermit video hits the feed!
I have sunflowers, nasturtiums, zinnias, marigolds, roses, and calendulas everywhere.
Love west coast gardens! So beautiful!I'm on the east coast .Just got 5 plants and bushes native to New Jersey.The way to go!
I am keeping my flowers 🌻🌼 pretty simple. Sunflowers, borage, morning glory and milkweed. I have some Iris and roses 🌹 that are perennials. Gonna let my herbs and Brassicas go to flower.... But not too many ornamentals this season
Back in central/western NY, I grew in raised beds, always interplanting veggies, flowers, and herbs. My next-door neighbor, who I adored, grew a conventional all-veggie, row garden with chemicals and lots of conventional beefsteak tomatoes. He could not understand why I grew flowers in my veggie garden. We had a friendly competition. One summer he grabbed one of my tomatoes, I think it was an Amish paste or an Opalka, and put it in his sandwich - said it was the best tomato he had ever eaten and conceded, finally, that maybe I was on to something. He bought our house and land when we moved to Colorado almost 12 years ago. Our house, very old and in need of extensive repairs, was demolished and our neighbor is sadly, no longer with us. But his family continues to garden exclusively in our old raised beds, still productive after all these years. The beds had originally been filled with 10 year old composted horse manure from a friend whose sister kept horses on her farm and who kindly delivered truckload after truckload to us. Such a nice memory. Still miss that garden, although I have a new one now. Sorry so long.
Very cool story, sometimes tasting is believing! Most people start off using practices they are used to and resist change so that is cool to hear about
I'm growing a ton of flowers this year, giving my pollinators a variety.
Just seeing all those flowers made me feel happy. I've always favoured veggies in my garden and somewhat ignored flowers but I'd love to walk outside and see all that colour and life. Random info but what you call plumeria is known as frangipani in Australia.
It's known by both names in the U.S. Here in South Florida, it's very popular to grow, as it loves our climate.
Frangipani is another common name but honestly Plumeria just sounds better to me haha
Pineapple sage is a beautiful plant and a quick grower. When they flower the plant is just one giant explosion of cardinal colored blooms. One of my favorites in the herb garden.
I liked pineapple sage so much, it got me into a whole herb thing. I have 2 greenhouses for herbs. Its funny how these things happen. What beautiful plants!
Interesting last several years watching the changing gardening trends. More people (me included) are specifically doing flowers in the veggie garden. I'm also sensing a trend away from varieties that have interesting colors but not much else. Also "no dig" is officially "digging is okay just not too much." And synthetic soluble fertilizers correctly used, sensing a trend that is okay now.
I agree that no dig Is something that is context dependent leading to it being okay to some level. The flowers are interesting to see expanding, they tend to require a lot less work compared to veggies, at least I find that to be true. Less pruning, less supporting, still look good under less than ideal conditions and help make the garden feel like an ecosystem rather than a vegetable market. I still don't use synthetic fertilizers because they are just not good for the soil life compared to organics.
Such great points! I've only been gardening for 3 years and the change from the past year is insane. I'd never thought some of the most exciting things of my day is seeing the variety of pollinated bees attracted to my mammoth sunflower! Also, the idea of creating a productive ecosystem for my plants, insects and inevitably for myself 😊 It's almost as nice as seeing a good harvest from a crop. You and epic gardening have made a huge difference in the way gardening is viewed in such a "less stress, more fun" way imo. Thank you so much!
I find it interesting that I have only been gardening 1 full year but realizing that while I love growing all sorts of veggies and herbs I am very busy and just dont have time to eat or store my harvest properly with such little time. I started incorporating a lot more flowers and now all the bees, hummingbirds and ladybugs are everywhere. Will definitely be growing more flowers and ornamental stuff along with vegetables in the same space. My borage and sage have grown massive each taking over a 3 x 6 space.
Great tour. I've only just begun delving into the flower gardening world. This was inspiring. Thanks
Love the flowers. I'm looking for pollinator friendly but NOT invasive. I'm in the process of removing something I made a mistake planting.
Pride of Madeira -- OMG! Finally know the name of that stunning wall of purple along your fence. Thanks for all the inspiration and all the love to the pollinators your flowers bring.🐝
You have lots of flowers . Beautiful.
Cheers from Oklahoma , where's it's raining and 40° hahaha but getting my garden up and running this year just started my first corn crop (peaches and cream) can't get enough of your videos and love the chemistry between you and Kevin
Fingers crossed for you to have steady spring weather! I know it can get pretty wild out there with winds and hail!
SE OK here too 😂 today's in the 50s for me.
@@samslens7793 agree agree me to I should have looked lol
@@scottiegrav still sucks for the end of April. I want my garden season here
@@samslens7793 yesssssss
Growing chamomile from seed this year. Lots of beautiful color Jacques. Loving that Pride of Madeira. 🐝🐝🐝🦋🦋🐞
Nice!🌺I’ve let a lot of my Asian greens go to flower.🌼I don’t taste a difference and the bees like them.🌸My alliums too.🌻Beautiful!🌾
Great collection of flowers!
lovely. wonderful job
I love love love your amazing garden of gorgeous flowers!! Thanks for this precious video Jacques😊
Absolutely beautiful ❤
Congratulations on a well maintained garden. I love when flowers are left to bloom and fill in.
Everything is looking SO beautiful!! I absolutely love pineapple sage!! I always grow it for the hummingbirds and me!!! Did you know that you can use the leaves to make teas or in salsa? Love picking the leaves to rub and smell!! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
We use it occasionally in teas and I like to eat watermelon with it! But overall I just love smelling the leaves and rubbing a leaf between my fingers
Absolutely gorgeous
Beautiful. And so much natural medicine in that garden.
I grew lacy phacelia this year for the first time on accident (from my botanical interest seed pack 😉) and I absolutely love it. It smells so good!
Your flower garden is just beautiful!!!! I loved this video 😍 thank you so much.
Thanks for the tour of your flowers! I want to incorporate more pollinator-friendly plants in my garden, and now I have a list (from your video) of flowers to try.
I have an african blue basil that has been flowering non-stop for about 5 years! I haphazardly water it and it doesn’t care. It is always covered in bees! I think it is finally reaching its end but it has been amazing in my garden and low maintenance! I am in East County San Diego where it is hot and dry for most of the summer and this still flowers (even after most of my native plants are done)! Thank you for showing all of your wonderful blooms!
Love all the flowers you showed us. I wasn’t aware of all the varieties that grow here in San Diego! My CA poppies are growing amazingly for the first time!
All the flowers I miss from my days as a desert gardener: phacelia, escholzia, salvia.
I had to pause few times to add seeds to cart LOL
i love it when there os a buzzing in the garden from the bees. there are not a lot of bees this time of year here but have seen the odd ones.
I love to incorporate flowers and vegetables together, not only for the benefits, but beauty, as well.
I want to explore different calendulas in peachy colors, but a few years back I brought a few seeds from my mother's garden in 🇧🇬 and I'm afraid they might cross pollinate. *sigh*
Love how you “undersell” your work which is pretty terrific. Will keep watching.
Thank you and welcome!
That's a fabulous flower garden. Thanks for the tour #GardenGoals
i went and visdited the superbloom reserve in lancaster this last weekend it was flowers as far as the eye could see
I was literally wanting to know today what flowers I could grow for the Valley Carpenter Bees that are frequent visitors to my garden and you completely answered my question along with a treat snippet video of my favorite bee!
This is incredibly helpful, even in my zone 6a-b (mountains). Thanks, Jacque!
Fantastic information for my California garden. Thank you for sharing yours❤
i didnt realize sage was a flower! ive been pulling it in the winter, nice to see its so hearty
Hi Jacque, Love your flowers, beautiful
I'm always an advocate for lupins: bumblebees and other solitary bees love them, and they help improve the soil.
Loving all the different types of calendula and nasturtiums. I'm growing a ton of different flowers this year
Stunning garden. Feeling inspired. Thanks for the tour!
phacelias popped up this year from a bunch of seeds i guess i dropped last year, but didn't come up. so excited because they are so pretty.
I am going plant shopping tomorrow and already had a list. After watching your video I now have a longer list! Thanks, Jacques … I think. 😉🤣😂
I’m in S. Calif. too and pride of Madeira is growing amazing everywhere here.
I’m hoping for a variety of flowers this year. The alyssum has flowered and some of my marigolds are budding, so hopefully flowers soon. I also planted zinnias, bachelor buttons, daisies, impatiens, and a few others, hopefully some come up. This is my second year gardening, and I love the charm flowers add to the vegetable garden.
Oh wow! I now need more flowers in my garden ❤
I love to see your dog wandering in the background
Love this time of year so much! everything is blooming and vibrant. I can't get enough of all the beautiful fragrances filling the air in my yard. Am keen to try growing the Lacy Phacelia now if I can find the space LOL
Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden! 🐞🐝🦋💮🏵🌺🌻🌼
My wonderful catnip plants can grow very large and lures numerous species of bees and cats🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🖤
Cat nip is a great flowering herb!
@@jacquesinthegarden haskaps are also a wonderful pollinator in my garden! Beautiful yellow flowers too my Jaques!
Loving the flower garden so far! I look forward to future videos
That Pride of Maderia is such a lovely, stately piece! Still waiting for planting time in my 6a, tempermental zone so it's nice to live a bit vicariously through your beautiful greenery, haha.
Pineapple sage is and will always be in my garden. The flowers are so pretty and I use them for garnish on tons of salads.
That red ahhhhhhhh!
Such a nice herb!
I started growing flowers, then vegetables. Thats how I started growing, i never knew how many awesome flowers existed. When the epic gardening tour of your garden first came out i was amazed to see how many flowers you had, and just interesting plants. Pineapple sage has been in my growing list since!
4:50 I grabbed a 1 or 2gal from my local nursery maybe 9 months ago and it basically quadrupled or quintupled in size since I planted it and threw out a ton of beautiful blooms this year. I was shocked at how quickly it grew and it basically needed no water!
Very fast grower for sure!
You look so thrilled to be talking about all your flowers. I envision this as frolicking through the flower gardens :D
This is fantastic. What you've done with the space is great. Its got a nice vibe. I have to have that Madeira plant!
Beautiful garden! 😍 I’m expanding my garden and adding lots of flowers!!! I need to get some pineapple sage for the hummingbirds. Thanks for another great video!
Pride Madeira is gorgeous!
These flowers look beautiful.
An interesting fact: the phacelia can also be used as a cover crop an green manure. It also improves the soil by losening it and has a ton of biomass in their root System.
We're expanding our meadow-scaping this year so this is super helpful and interesting! 🥰
Wow, had to watch this twice. Love it❤
I so love having poppies in my garden. However, the gophers loved them too. It seems some people in my neighborhood got aggressive against the gophers because I haven’t seen any activity in a long while. Sooo….I have tons of poppies that were seeded in previous years. They are truly lovely.
I LOVE THIS! Thank you for letting us see the beauty and learn the wonders!
Love your videos. Just a note on the etymology of chamomile from Wikipedia "The word chamomile is derived via the French and Latin, from the Greek χαμαίμηλον, khamaimēlon, 'earth apple', from χαμαί, khamai, 'on the ground', and μῆλον, mēlon, 'apple'."
Makes sense, it does have nice apple tones to it!
Love this. Just this year, I started gathering and starting seeds for native flowers for the Midwest such as Indian Blanket, Dense Blazing Star and Plains Coreopsis. Echinacea (coneflower) also does well here - and I starting a variety of different colors. I going to watch this again to jot down names; my hope is to find some varieties that are cold tolerant enough to be perennials. GREAT vid - thank you.
Coneflowers seem to hate me, they struggle to germinate and size up and then seem to quickly fail in ground. I haven't spent the time to figure out why that is yet but I want them!
@@jacquesinthegarden , Same! I’m in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley (10a) and have the worst time with coneflowers. I can’t figure it out. This year I got a whopping one plant to both germinate and get past the seedling stage. I have it in a pot and am babying that thing like no other. It’ll be cocktail time if and when I actually get a bloom!
I bought a white one from a catalog. They sent me two bareroots. One survive and one didn't. Before that my son bought me a container of pink one.i was moving all around with no luck. I decided to put in on the sidewalk where I had a rose of Sharon. It's doing better at that spot nothing added to the soil just water
How great! Thanks for taking the time to show us such detailed look.
You can fill in your native garden bare ground with native annuals like baby blue eyes, tidy tips, ca blue bells, and elegant clarkia. Elegant clarkia is new for me this year. Blooms after the baby blue eyes and tidy tips are going over. Looks good with orange ca poppies and calendula. I like the height. Sow seeds in fall after the first rain.
Love the video. Maybe include more info about the plants (zone, perennial/ annual) next time. I would definitely watch a longer video.
Will do!
You have inspired me!!!
My mallow is coming up from last year's roots in southeast Ohio 6a/b
They do seem to be able to regrow from stumps easily!
@@jacquesinthegarden looks like it survived 2 28 degree nights in a row
Your garden looks amazing!
We used to have a lot of annuals like you in our garden (borage, poppies, cosmos...), coz it's easy to sow, but now we've shifted towards more variety and perennials. We have alkaline clay soil, often dry in summer, so we had to find plants that can handle it. There are a few great plants that flower in spring and die down in summer, before putting leaves in autumn again. Stuff like perennials poppies (Papaver orientale) and my favorite, centaurea montana. Centaureas are a must in the garden, all of their species are great. Centaurea orientalis, centaurea dealbata... All amazing. The achillea family is also amazing for clay soils. And there are some that tolerate (and demand) dry soil like achillea filipendulina (quite a classic for flower beds). 2 types of plants that people really don't use enough are echinops and eryngiums. They put out great deep blue flowers, the first one in globe flowers, the second one in a spiky thistle like flower. In my opinion the best flower bed is to have perennials, with annuals self sown filling the gaps, some tall grasses to structure the bed, and possibly a tree or a couple of shrubs. I'm not mentionning asters or campalunacaes coz with your dry summers, only a handful of species would survive. Knautia macedonica is a must for hot summers though, as well as a few species of agastache and monarda that can tolerate dry soils. For echinacea, the purpurea type will do poorly, but echinacea pallida will do just fine. Sedums do great in dry clay soils too, like sedum telephium 'matrona', a classic.
My favorite thing about calendulas is rubbing and smelling the leaves.
They do have a very satisfying almost smell that just feels good.
So beautiful..so admirable..so lovely and wonderful..
Thanks for sharing Jacques... I've been working on improving my pollinators & natives this year and seeing this shows just how far I have to go. Inspiring!
Love it!
Looking great brother, I love the Lacy's! we are getting close in Colorado Springs but I'm itching to get some flowers in the ground. I don't know if the epic family has heard, but the local community of Manitou Springs was just named the worlds first 'Pollinator District'. Id recommend looking into it, as the message they are spreading is so incredibly important, especially for our little bee friends! Have a great day everyone!
Very cool to hear about!
Euphorbia lambii is a real stunner!
Love the garden!! 😍So much life there! With so much bee activity, do you plan on starting a bee hotel? I know there's a lot to do regarding care, but it might be a nice addition. 🐝🐝
I have thought about it! The bees definitely love my garden 🐝
So lovely, garden goals
Hi Jacques! What a great tour of your flowers, thank you so much for sharing. I have a request not related to the flowers, but I wonder if you might consider doing a video about your espalier apples? I planted my first apple trees last fall with the intention of espalier-ing them, and would love some of your practical advice.
I really like the idea of native and low-maintenance flowers. Now I just need to find some some space for them 😅
Wow! So many! Amazing Thank you
I loved watching this video. ❤
Beautiful flower gardens, Jacques! 😍 Those Euphorbia are listed as an invasive species.
I believe it, they explode seed out everywhere, I actually have to pick it out of my garden every few weeks, 20+ feet away!
To me chamomile has a very sweet Honey like sent with an undertone of Apple 🍎
Thanks for the great ideas!
I threw some hemp in my garden and I recommend trying it, it grows as fast as a sunflower, It went from a seed to a full size tree in 6 months
I have tried once before but it got wrecked with caterpillars while I was gone on vacation. Definitely on the list!
Beauriful flower's !!!
Jacques, can i direct sow most of those flowers you’ve shown here? If they are new for your garden this season, when did you sow/start them to be so luscious as they are today?
Some of these were direct sown and then just keep self propagating. By allowing them to self seed I always have flowers year round and they just keep popping up at different time periods. Many of these I either put in during the fall or in late winter! Some were transplanted, ie the Lacy Phacelia, and the pollinator patches were scatter sown.
@@jacquesinthegarden I live in inland Santa Barbara 9b and hot in summer. Is it too late to direct sow gaillardia and others now?
I am pretty confident you should be clear to sow now!
Can you do a video on garden envy? Because honestly up here in Canada it is hard to believe how beautiful your garden looks at this time of the year. We are excited that the snow has melted 🤣🤣🤣
Pride of madeira is gorgeous
The Bob Ross of the Garden
Holy crap. I've had Lacy Phacelia growing in my backyard and never could find the name of it from Googling. I'm so happy now that I know what it is 😂
Man I'd love a garden like that I'm definitely going to plant some sage once I find some, I'm my garden at the moment I have bluebells, aquilegia,Three-cornered garlic,red campion,lesser celandine,tulips, lots of forget me nots and a clematis coming into bloom
Yay for native species!
Love all the flowers! I grew borage in my garden last year but it was so top heavy and kept flopping over. Do you stake your borage plants to keep them upright? Thanks!
I haven't staked it, for whatever reason mine don't flop over. Perhaps the self seeded ones are hardier than transplants.