THANK YOU! I love this. Like all gardeners, I have fails each year too. But I have way more successes than in the past, thanks to whom my husband calls "your youtube lady." Thank you both for sharing your knowledge and creativity with us.
This is helpful for everyone. I tried a bulb in pots this spring I’ve never planted before. Yes-it was a lesson. I will try again because I love the aspect of constant learning in gardening and I love that particular flower. Neighbors think I know so much but I don’t, I know a few things. I am in a perpetual state of learning as I try new things-it’s GREAT!
This was a well thought of video. I have been gardening a long long time. I have never seen a video where failure to thrive plants were talked about or shown. I was thinking I was the only one with failures. This had been a great year for my day lillies but I have never had so many unexpected plants die. So disappointed but seeing he video was a enlightened experience. Thank you so much. Love watching you and your family.
I have a limelight hydrangea that didn't bloom this year because it was shaded by a maple. Trimmed enough branches for it to grow tall but to late to set flowers. Will be keeping the tree pruned.
Thank you so much for this video Laura. I always thought you just put anything in the ground and it grew beautifully. I was getting discouraged with the plants that just didn’t perform the way I had hoped. There are so many things to consider with a garden that I hadn’t anticipated but I do want to keep trying and learning from past failures if possible. It is encouraging to know that someone with your knowledge still struggles with issues in the garden.
Thank you. I do the same thing. I show the good, but I also point out the fails. I don't want someone to ruin their plants by trying something that was awful. Learn and grow isall I can hope to do. Thank you for putting this video out there
Our fails let us know when we should do something different the next season. I learned quite a lot about the finer points of watering this year and water pH. My deep well has a higher pH than I realized so chlorosis issues. New plan for watering. Good luck to everyone trying to figure out their garden spaces!
Laura we live in Vancouver Canada . We have arborvitice and had the same issues . No herbicide was near them. We have found that when it's really hot they go into a shed (my word) even with lots of water. But so far they have bounced back.
thank you! you are so right: it's encouraging to see the professionals struggle with stuff, too, so thank you for showing us yours... it's been a bad year all over for plants, hasn't it?? the weather is definitely changing where i live: the things i used to be able to plant just cannot survive in our now very hot, intense sun summers.... and it is discouraging to work so hard, have a fairly pretty spring, then BAM! watch it fry, curl up and die in the heat... not to mention the price of water! i'm working on my 2022 plans now, and making changes/tweaking around what worked and what didn't... here's to gardens and gardeners and our resilience and willingness to keep on keepin' on!! we never give up! 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤
I had many fails this year, just too hot and too dry for new plants. I stopped planting and will try later this month. It has been so disappointing and of course expensive. I don't spray, I just blast the webs out with the hose. YOU have squash bugs, and we have fought them all summer. I water them and it brings the adults up and I "squash" them and then I pull the leaves with the eggs and I have found entire leaves loaded with the nymphs. HIDEOUS!!!! So, as we get toward fall, I'm hoping the plants will start new growth, and blossoms. I have SOME fruit but the bugs will just devour the blossoms. Not planting squash next year, I'm exhausted.
Thank you for sharing this. Now I will admit that out of over 20 calla Lilly bulbs I planted in containers ,only 1 came up. Ive planted them before…they are my favorites… 1 came up 🤦🏾♀️😥😥. Do I leave them? Pull them out…I don’t know 😢
Yes we all have fails in our garden sometimes,it’s part of the process o f learning...I love seeing things grow ,so it’s sad when it fails...look on the bright side another planting video🎉🌱
I think this summer has been a trying time for a lot of people. I know in the northeast, we’ve dealt with a lot of rain this summer. Aphids we’re terrible this year along with Japanese beetles. Probably like everyone, I’m planning for next spring already!! Lol. Laura it’s so good to see your jeans with dirt on the knees, just like mine, it warms my heart! Hahahahah
For the north pole arborvitae- do you think because of their location with the glare of the wall and the heat of the rocks below - the plant may have gotten overheated?
What about the other ones she showed in a different area? It could definitely be different reasons why they are stressed. Considering the extremes in weather this summer it’s not a typical growing season.
Thanks so much for doing this. I was just thinking last week after watching one of your videos, does everything she touches work? I see your stuff thriving and doing well and I have some things in my garden that are not doing well, and I think what’s my deal? I so appreciate your sharing this.
The tomato plants will recover so let them be in the ground, you have such a long growing season. My tomato plants did the same in June/July when we had very hot suddenly and they had leaf curls so bad and didn't do much for 5 weeks, but in August once it cooled down they are in full bloom and are loaded with tomatoes now. Next year I will have a shade clothe ready. I have a small glass cold frame it gets very hot when the sun is out here in Sweden.
How about the dahlia's? Last year they were so pretty, made me want to try and this year I kinda feel like you have glanced over them (I know you have alot going on) I was here last season for the whole packing them away and planting them this season. Mine are just blooming (in zone 6a)
hooray for reality checks! thanks for keeping it real. I'm so sad about the demise of my less than a year old thuja "fluffy" which just went brown for no reason. the other 2 look great; go figure.
Blue Hubbard is often grown as a trap crop for squash bugs and cucumber beetles because apparently it is very attractive to those bugs. So I think if you think of it like that you get to move that one to the win column. 😀
Not only is this "fail" video helpful for learning from our mistakes, it's also wonderful to see all the solutions being generated by our community of friends.
Allison, I immediately thought the same, and searched for a comment like yours to agree with. I bet if you put a palm on that metal structure it would burn your hand.
I actually like that you did this. It's really discouraging when you watch someone have so much success doing something in their garden (sometimes it's next door which is worse) and you can barely get a rock to survive... There's always a bright side in the garden, and everything is a learning curve. Just try again next year.
Laura, something to consider about the browning arborvitae behind the cold frame is the metal structure that is right behind them. The 100+ heat beating on the metal structure probably cause an 'oven like' environment and just baked and dehydrated the plants. Just something to consider for future planting there and possible replacements.
As a fairly new gardener, I appreciated this video so much! It was truly encouraging and has motivated me to keep going, growing and learning! Have a blessed day! 💚🌸
Laura, you may have proved a point I've been reading about with the blue Hubbard squash. I read if you plant one away from your other vining crops the bugs go to the blue Hubbard and stay away from the rest. Thanks and i will try this next year in my garden.
I always tell my children that life doesn't throw you "fails", but it will give you life lessons. Thank you for sharing these projects that may not had the best success, but in return, it teaches so many that may have the same struggles or problems.
It’s refreshing to see that even a professional can have challenges in their garden, especially when we usually just see the miles of success. Thank you! On the positive side, you live and you learn! Next year you likely won’t see any of these as a repeat “fail”
Spruce needs to entirely dug up and everything removed and then replanted. There is NO way around it. Correct it properly instead of half-heartedly. You also need more wood chip mulch over all your trees shrubs and perennials, esp for your dry and windy and very hot climate. Relying on drip in an era of climate change is laughable. As your location is a xeric climate, you should demonstrate planting more xeric plants instead of water hogs.
Laura, this was so timely for me! It's so comforting to know that I'm not the only one....I had much failure in my vegetable garden as well as spider mites. Gardening is so enjoyable and rewarding and knowing that I'm in good company is so encouraging so thank you for sharing! (You could have kept this from us and we would never have known....you're the best! : )
Big veg garden fails for me too. Spider mites, many attacks on all my cucs, pumpkin, squash. Squash bugs, on everything. I will spray next season. In south central Virginia.
@@lisafeck1537 Yes, this year has been the worse! But I guess that goes with the territory....it is discouraging, though, isn't it? Thank God we have Laura to guide us! Have a great day, Dawn!
Betty, I've been using DE (diatomaceous earth) food grade in my garden for years. I dust the leaves (underside) of my plants when I see an issue, and, of course reapply when it rains. This has made a huge difference with pest control. Natural and safe for both children and pets.
This is definitely encouragement. I get sooo frustrated when I have failures in the garden. Glad to know it also happens to the best of the best. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 💚
In reference to the wire cages. We ordered two evergreens many years ago zone 5a, the crew that planted them left the burlap twine and cage in place. By the second year they were showing great distress. I did everything I could but nevertheless they still died. When we dug them out those wire cages and the burlap we're all still intact. 1 wire cage I still can't get out of the ground and it's not eroding. I've come to realize always remove all cages twine and burlap no matter what the nursery tells you. We have since replaced those evergreens and spread out the roots so that they didn't girdle now we get multiple feet of growth every year. That definitely was an expensive lesson to learn. I hope your tree does well your property is looking beautiful.
Thank you for showing the “fails.” Better yet, thank you for sharing your outlook that the various fails are part of the foundation of our other successes. Each one informs the other! Love what you do on your videos; I always learn useful information!
Thanks for sharing Laura, it gives me hope in my many garden failures! I always enjoy and wait for your videos! Love your family and garden even when was a mess! Hugs🤗🤗❤
About the wire spruce tree-you’re probably ok digging out that tree, taking the wire off, and then putting that tree back in. I’ve been moving young trees this year on my property and they seem to bounce back really well if you just make the hole a little bigger, and add a little compost, and then keep the area moist for the next month. This June, I moved 2 Leyland Cypress that had already been planted a year, and they look great.
Good morning Laura and Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸 Thanks for sharing your "Oops" along with your "Ahhs"... You have very few "Oops" Always good to see a pro like you teach an old Gardener like me that we are not ALWAYS going to have success. 🌿💚🌿
It’s hard to view them as failures when there are lessons learned. It’s nice to know we are not alone in the challenges we face at times while gardening. Thank you for sharing.
I have to say, "one plant per container" project looks stunning! 😁 also,, thank you so much for this video, makes me feel better about my "fails" this year.
Thank you for sharing real life gardening. It’s rare and appreciated. When you also share your fails it absolutely makes all of us feel more comfortable with our own struggles.
I loved this! Thank you for sharing the “down” sides of your garden. I planted a big garden this year, half veggies and half flowers(totally inspired by you!) All was good and then I went on vacation! When I got home the level of grass and weeds was unbearable! I still haven’t won! BUT, I have found the beauty in my mess! Even though there are weeds and lots of them, the flowers are shining above! I can still see the beauty of my hard work!
My husband's idea of gardening is "one and done". You have a plant, you find a spot for it and plant it and there, done. Gardening in my experience is more fluid. I'm no expert, just have personal experience. I love how the row of gorgeous supertunias was a "fail" spot. Hubby built me a 6' window box on our shed. The first year I filled it with all kinds of plants, million bells, fuchsia , ivy, and double impatiens. By the end of the summer my "failed" box was FULL of double impatiens and you could see little else. From that time on, I just planted the impatiens and some ivy for spillers. Why fight perfection?
Laura, we viewers truly appreciate you doing this video. I know that no one likes fails but (at your expense LOL) it is very reassuring to know that even Laura from Garden Answer has discouraging garden fails. I always look at them as lessons...Lesson being: Don't ever do that *ish again LOL!!!! Great video!
I could fill a whole days worth of video with my failures…moving from the North ( New York) to the South ( South Carolina ) has led to some interesting learning curves :)
Laura as someone who has been doing landscaping for over 50 years, I can tell you a bit about the browning. I am on cape Cod and I have noticed the Alberta Spruces and Arbor Vitaes browning out. I put on a white glove and grabbed a spruce branch and there it was red streaks. Red Spider loves hot humid weather to attack Alberta Spruces treatable using Sevin or Isotox. Now for the large shrubs browning out I have seen that all over Cape Cod. A perfectly beautiful row of plants with a few browning out. We were exceptionally dry last year and I think there are a couple things at play. First a very dry hot 2020 summer and not much wet weather snow etc in the winter causes dehydration. Secondly although I have never seen it it could be the hot humid weather has also caused red spider on the Arbor Vitaes . I know you are watering properly I would try for the heck of it to use white glove or paper towel grab a branch see if there are any red streaks. just my thoughts but you are not alone it is everywhere on Cape Cod as well.
I really like how you show the "fails". I've had a few this last year and I feel much better now! ;-) -- You truly inspire me to get out and work on my gardens!!!!
when was the metal thing behind them placed there? is it possible that sun reflects of the metal surface and burns them significantly hotter than you would think? it wasn't there when you put them in the ground, so might be that
Yes, this is very encouraging to me. I aspire to have a beautiful lush garden such as yours and learn so much from you. I've had some fails this year as well. But you've told us in past videos that if say a young tree dies that sometimes it just happens. Doesn't always mean I did something wrong. I always appreciate your honesty and helps. So yes, you're always encouraging. Thanks Laura ❤
I had two lavender (out of 15) fail and a whole section of dianthus that never took. I moved flower pots into areas that failed, and then moved my daffodil bulbs under a tree… but recently realized it won’t get enough sun after the leaves come out! So many mistakes. Thank you for sharing yours and, often times, solutions or how you’re going about working with them.
Your daffs will have finished by the time your trees leaf out. They'll be fine! Add some bluebells! They come out after the daffodils, and love the dappled shade under the trees.
Oh my gosh! Thank you so much for this!!! It is encouraging…but I have learned so much from you even though I am on the East Coast and not at all desert climate.
Thank you so much for sharing your fails with us.. I feel like my garden is never complete and there are always spots that don’t look great or aren’t in bloom. I also wanted to say I’m completely shocked someone turned you in for trying to save the quail eggs!!!! You and Aaron are the sweetest couple and I’m so thankful you share your channel with all of us. I will never understand people who comment negatively or dislike your videos… just know you have so many followers who understand and appreciate what you do! ♥️
It's the first day of school here in Virginia. I'm a little sad the house is now empty. I'm so glad I had Garden Answer this morning to keep me company with my coffee. ❤
I love seeing the arborvitae progress along each fence line! The old “moon garden” tree hedge is looking phenomenal! I would love to see a video doing some growth updates with those and the boxwood hedges at some point. 😁
Love your authenticity! It is very encouraging to know that behind the scenes of a beautiful garden there are still those mishaps that we all encounter from time to time. Thanks for keeping it real.
I love that you’re sharing this type of video! I feel like in my cut flower garden I’m fighting morning glory so badly this year!! It is taking down sunflowers and zinnias because it just winds wraps so tightly! It’s a struggle!
Arborvitae just…fail. In Denver here, basically the same climate and soil as yours, they are (were) so popular but every day you drive around and see catastrophic death for one reason or another. Lots of tree nurseries stopped selling them in recent years. Unless you’ve got decent shade and wind protection, they’ll probably suffer. I’m planning on trying upright junipers instead 🤞
I’ve seen some people use round up around big aged tree bases to kill weeds, instead of weed eating. Does that do damage over time, would it eventually kill the tree? Love watching!
Roundup say 'No,' but evidence is proving otherwise. It takes YEARS for it to damage and kill an old tree, but it WILL kill it. And, by the time you realise there's a problem, it's probably too late to save the tree. Avoid Roundup at all costs.
Growing tomatoes in high heat/wind areas.....I think it's best to let them sprawl over the ground. It gives the ground shade, it's a natural mulch, and they can withstand more heat and wind that way. At least that's what I've experienced in my hot, dry conditions. Thanks for sharing your fails. We had mostly fails this year with drought, grasshoppers, and deer eating everything in sight.
Thank you for sharing your fails. There are 2 quotes , I always remind myself of: if you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener - J C Raulston. A successful gardener knows to throw out the dead plants-anonymous.
Like you, we planted a hedge of 65 arbs. 2 days later we were hit with a 55 mph wind. Half of these arbs aren't going to make it 😭😭 It is good to see a video like this because I do at times get so discouraged. Thanks love this chanel.
Hi Laura, Im a landscaper from South Africa. It looks like your conifers are suffering from something called "Italian aphid". It's a sucking insect too small to see but it causes brown patches and the eventual death of any kind of conifer. You can soil drench with a systemic insecticide called Koinor. After losing one of a pair in a garden once I have always kept a sharp lookout for the tell tale signs of brown patches - if you treat them early enough you will save the trees
this year 2021 is a nightmare for garden, with mild dry winter, cold long spring and scorching summer, brutal storms and heavy rains, all in wrong time
I love that you're sharing this! Make me feel like I'm not the only one out there. We all have gone through it. 🌿😊🤷♀️
THANK YOU! I love this. Like all gardeners, I have fails each year too. But I have way more successes than in the past, thanks to whom my husband calls "your youtube lady." Thank you both for sharing your knowledge and creativity with us.
This is helpful for everyone. I tried a bulb in pots this spring I’ve never planted before. Yes-it was a lesson. I will try again because I love the aspect of constant learning in gardening and I love that particular flower. Neighbors think I know so much but I don’t, I know a few things. I am in a perpetual state of learning as I try new things-it’s GREAT!
This was a well thought of video. I have been gardening a long long time. I have never seen a video where failure to thrive plants were talked about or shown. I was thinking I was the only one with failures. This had been a great year for my day lillies but I have never had so many unexpected plants die. So disappointed but seeing he video was a enlightened experience. Thank you so much. Love watching you and your family.
I have a limelight hydrangea that didn't bloom this year because it was shaded by a maple. Trimmed enough branches for it to grow tall but to late to set flowers. Will be keeping the tree pruned.
Thank you so much for this video Laura. I always thought you just put anything in the ground and it grew beautifully. I was getting discouraged with the plants that just didn’t perform the way I had hoped. There are so many things to consider with a garden that I hadn’t anticipated but I do want to keep trying and learning from past failures if possible. It is encouraging to know that someone with your knowledge still struggles with issues in the garden.
Thank you. I do the same thing. I show the good, but I also point out the fails. I don't want someone to ruin their plants by trying something that was awful. Learn and grow isall I can hope to do. Thank you for putting this video out there
Our fails let us know when we should do something different the next season. I learned quite a lot about the finer points of watering this year and water pH. My deep well has a higher pH than I realized so chlorosis issues. New plan for watering. Good luck to everyone trying to figure out their garden spaces!
Marigolds were my top garden fail this year, planted them twice and not a single one of 20+ plants survived between weather and bunnies.
Laura we live in Vancouver Canada . We have arborvitice and had the same issues . No herbicide was near them. We have found that when it's really hot they go into a shed (my word) even with lots of water. But so far they have bounced back.
Ps we also have pyramid? Ceasars that do the same thing
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thank you! you are so right: it's encouraging to see the professionals struggle with stuff, too, so thank you for showing us yours... it's been a bad year all over for plants, hasn't it?? the weather is definitely changing where i live: the things i used to be able to plant just cannot survive in our now very hot, intense sun summers.... and it is discouraging to work so hard, have a fairly pretty spring, then BAM! watch it fry, curl up and die in the heat... not to mention the price of water! i'm working on my 2022 plans now, and making changes/tweaking around what worked and what didn't... here's to gardens and gardeners and our resilience and willingness to keep on keepin' on!! we never give up! 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤
I had many fails this year, just too hot and too dry for new plants. I stopped planting and will try later this month. It has been so disappointing and of course expensive. I don't spray, I just blast the webs out with the hose. YOU have squash bugs, and we have fought them all summer. I water them and it brings the adults up and I "squash" them and then I pull the leaves with the eggs and I have found entire leaves loaded with the nymphs. HIDEOUS!!!! So, as we get toward fall, I'm hoping the plants will start new growth, and blossoms. I have SOME fruit but the bugs will just devour the blossoms. Not planting squash next year, I'm exhausted.
Thank you for sharing this. Now I will admit that out of over 20 calla Lilly bulbs I planted in containers ,only 1 came up. Ive planted them before…they are my favorites… 1 came up 🤦🏾♀️😥😥. Do I leave them? Pull them out…I don’t know 😢
Yes we all have fails in our garden sometimes,it’s part of the process o f learning...I love seeing things grow ,so it’s sad when it fails...look on the bright side another planting video🎉🌱
I think this summer has been a trying time for a lot of people. I know in the northeast, we’ve dealt with a lot of rain this summer. Aphids we’re terrible this year along with Japanese beetles. Probably like everyone, I’m planning for next spring already!! Lol. Laura it’s so good to see your jeans with dirt on the knees, just like mine, it warms my heart! Hahahahah
Thank you
Thank you for being real! 🌸🌺😎
Tomatoes: the staking system plus pruning opens them up to too much exposure
For the north pole arborvitae- do you think because of their location with the glare of the wall and the heat of the rocks below - the plant may have gotten overheated?
What about the other ones she showed in a different area? It could definitely be different reasons why they are stressed. Considering the extremes in weather this summer it’s not a typical growing season.
My tomatoes did the same thing this year!
Thank you for sharing such helpful info.
Dig the spruce tree up and do it properly. You won’t regret it.
Thanks so much for doing this. I was just thinking last week after watching one of your videos, does everything she touches work? I see your stuff thriving and doing well and I have some things in my garden that are not doing well, and I think what’s my deal? I so appreciate your sharing this.
The tomato plants will recover so let them be in the ground, you have such a long growing season. My tomato plants did the same in June/July when we had very hot suddenly and they had leaf curls so bad and didn't do much for 5 weeks, but in August once it cooled down they are in full bloom and are loaded with tomatoes now. Next year I will have a shade clothe ready. I have a small glass cold frame it gets very hot when the sun is out here in Sweden.
Thanks for sharing your fails as well as successes x
How about the dahlia's? Last year they were so pretty, made me want to try and this year I kinda feel like you have glanced over them (I know you have alot going on) I was here last season for the whole packing them away and planting them this season. Mine are just blooming (in zone 6a)
This makes me feel so much better….
hooray for reality checks! thanks for keeping it real. I'm so sad about the demise of my less than a year old thuja "fluffy" which just went brown for no reason. the other 2 look great; go figure.
Pet that cat and give him some love, pick him up
Blue Hubbard is often grown as a trap crop for squash bugs and cucumber beetles because apparently it is very attractive to those bugs. So I think if you think of it like that you get to move that one to the win column. 😀
Thanks for this information!
Not only is this "fail" video helpful for learning from our mistakes, it's also wonderful to see all the solutions being generated by our community of friends.
I was just coming to say the same thing!
Thank you! My cucumbers got hit hard this year so I will give this a try!
Wow! Pros helping each other out. Love you gals.
I notice metal panelling behind the arbs. The sun might be reflecting off and scorching them?☀️☀️☀️
Allison, I immediately thought the same, and searched for a comment like yours to agree with. I bet if you put a palm on that metal structure it would burn your hand.
That was my thought
Good thinking! That could easily be the case.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I noticed that when they were planted the metal wall wasn’t there.
yeah i also think thats the main reason.
I actually like that you did this. It's really discouraging when you watch someone have so much success doing something in their garden (sometimes it's next door which is worse) and you can barely get a rock to survive...
There's always a bright side in the garden, and everything is a learning curve. Just try again next year.
I love your authenticity! Even your super dirty jeans - looks like my style of real gardening. Just love it! 💚 💕
Yup!!!! I appreciate her lack of perfection.
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My father always said " You learn more from your failures than your success" Thanks for keeping it real.
Laura, something to consider about the browning arborvitae behind the cold frame is the metal structure that is right behind them. The 100+ heat beating on the metal structure probably cause an 'oven like' environment and just baked and dehydrated the plants. Just something to consider for future planting there and possible replacements.
I live in Memphis. We have a lot of arborvitae loses here. I just don’t grow them. We get very hot here
That was my thought exactly!!!!
I am an arborist and I totally agree. If she replants she could just move them forward so air circulates
What’s the problem with the other ones she was showing? They weren’t in the same area. 🤷♀️
Yes!! As soon as I saw that structure behind them I thought the exact same thing. I’ve seen it happen many times.
Hey Laura and Aaron, thanks for keeping it real.
This is why we all love you guys. Cheers from the other Ontario! Xx
As a fairly new gardener, I appreciated this video so much! It was truly encouraging and has motivated me to keep going, growing and learning! Have a blessed day! 💚🌸
I like the look of Aaron’s single plant pots display.
Looks like Aaron’s experiment was a success
Gorgeous!! 👏👏
I love it!!!!!
Laura, you may have proved a point I've been reading about with the blue Hubbard squash. I read if you plant one away from your other vining crops the bugs go to the blue Hubbard and stay away from the rest. Thanks and i will try this next year in my garden.
I always tell my children that life doesn't throw you "fails", but it will give you life lessons. Thank you for sharing these projects that may not had the best success, but in return, it teaches so many that may have the same struggles or problems.
What an absolutely refreshing real-life episode, with your everpresent humility and knowledge. Thank you.
I wouldn't say garden fails completely. There is an element of success in those experiences, since you have taught us so much through them. 🌿
It’s refreshing to see that even a professional can have challenges in their garden, especially when we usually just see the miles of success. Thank you! On the positive side, you live and you learn! Next year you likely won’t see any of these as a repeat “fail”
Spruce needs to entirely dug up and everything removed and then replanted. There is NO way around it. Correct it properly instead of half-heartedly. You also need more wood chip mulch over all your trees shrubs and perennials, esp for your dry and windy and very hot climate. Relying on drip in an era of climate change is laughable. As your location is a xeric climate, you should demonstrate planting more xeric plants instead of water hogs.
This was so helpful and gives encouragement to all of us! Gardening is so much trial and error and love 💕 how you just roll with it! Thanks Laura. 🥰
Laura, this was so timely for me! It's so comforting to know that I'm not the only one....I had much failure in my vegetable garden as well as spider mites. Gardening is so enjoyable and rewarding and knowing that I'm in good company is so encouraging so thank you for sharing! (You could have kept this from us and we would never have known....you're the best! : )
Big veg garden fails for me too. Spider mites, many attacks on all my cucs, pumpkin, squash. Squash bugs, on everything. I will spray next season. In south central Virginia.
Thank you for sharing!
@@lisafeck1537 Yes, this year has been the worse! But I guess that goes with the territory....it is discouraging, though, isn't it? Thank God we have Laura to guide us! Have a great day, Dawn!
Betty, I've been using DE (diatomaceous earth) food grade in my garden for years. I dust the leaves (underside) of my plants when I see an issue, and, of course reapply when it rains. This has made a huge difference with pest control. Natural and safe for both children and pets.
@@sillililli01 Thanks so much, Lilli! Do you apply only when you see pests or as a preventative?
This is definitely encouragement. I get sooo frustrated when I have failures in the garden. Glad to know it also happens to the best of the best. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 💚
Love this video- reassuring, but also really informative. Imagine how much we'd all learn if everyone was more forthcoming about our garden fails!
In reference to the wire cages. We ordered two evergreens many years ago zone 5a, the crew that planted them left the burlap twine and cage in place. By the second year they were showing great distress. I did everything I could but nevertheless they still died. When we dug them out those wire cages and the burlap we're all still intact. 1 wire cage I still can't get out of the ground and it's not eroding. I've come to realize always remove all cages twine and burlap no matter what the nursery tells you. We have since replaced those evergreens and spread out the roots so that they didn't girdle now we get multiple feet of growth every year. That definitely was an expensive lesson to learn. I hope your tree does well your property is looking beautiful.
Gardening is a powerful exercise in humility and acceptance. Great video!❤️
Thank you for showing the “fails.” Better yet, thank you for sharing your outlook that the various fails are part of the foundation of our other successes. Each one informs the other! Love what you do on your videos; I always learn useful information!
Thanks for sharing Laura, it gives me hope in my many garden failures! I always enjoy and wait for your videos! Love your family and garden even when was a mess! Hugs🤗🤗❤
About the wire spruce tree-you’re probably ok digging out that tree, taking the wire off, and then putting that tree back in. I’ve been moving young trees this year on my property and they seem to bounce back really well if you just make the hole a little bigger, and add a little compost, and then keep the area moist for the next month. This June, I moved 2 Leyland Cypress that had already been planted a year, and they look great.
And if they wait til much cooler weather to dig it up that would help also.
Yeah i think they should wait for cooler temps and just dig it up. Lots of soil and get the soil off the new roots
Good morning Laura and Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing your "Oops" along with your "Ahhs"... You have very few "Oops"
Always good to see a pro like you teach an old Gardener like me that we are not ALWAYS going to have success. 🌿💚🌿
We like that you're not afraid to show those lessons learned.
It’s hard to view them as failures when there are lessons learned. It’s nice to know we are not alone in the challenges we face at times while gardening. Thank you for sharing.
I have to say, "one plant per container" project looks stunning! 😁 also,, thank you so much for this video, makes me feel better about my "fails" this year.
Thank you for sharing real life gardening. It’s rare and appreciated. When you also share your fails it absolutely makes all of us feel more comfortable with our own struggles.
Love this video! If I did a video of my garden fails this year it would be a 3 part, 6 hour mini series lol
Lol...me too!😳
Good Morning, Beautiful Laura! You’re awesome! Need I say anything more? We all needed this, I think. Have a happy day, everyone!🌻
I loved this! Thank you for sharing the “down” sides of your garden. I planted a big garden this year, half veggies and half flowers(totally inspired by you!) All was good and then I went on vacation! When I got home the level of grass and weeds was unbearable! I still haven’t won! BUT, I have found the beauty in my mess! Even though there are weeds and lots of them, the flowers are shining above! I can still see the beauty of my hard work!
Wouldn't mulching around the tomatoes have helped with at least some of the dust and moisture loss?
Agree, it still could help some. The wood chips would be perfect and they add nutrients to the soil as well.
Laura: 8 garden fails this year
Me: 8 garden fails this month 😂
We try and try again!
My husband's idea of gardening is "one and done". You have a plant, you find a spot for it and plant it and there, done. Gardening in my experience is more fluid. I'm no expert, just have personal experience. I love how the row of gorgeous supertunias was a "fail" spot. Hubby built me a 6' window box on our shed. The first year I filled it with all kinds of plants, million bells, fuchsia , ivy, and double impatiens. By the end of the summer my "failed" box was FULL of double impatiens and you could see little else. From that time on, I just planted the impatiens and some ivy for spillers. Why fight perfection?
Good night from Japan 🇯🇵
Laura, we viewers truly appreciate you doing this video. I know that no one likes fails but (at your expense LOL) it is very reassuring to know that even Laura from Garden Answer has discouraging garden fails. I always look at them as lessons...Lesson being: Don't ever do that *ish again LOL!!!! Great video!
I could fill a whole days worth of video with my failures…moving from the North ( New York) to the South ( South Carolina ) has led to some interesting learning curves :)
Yes, it WAS encouraging! Even Laura & Aaron have unexplainable fails!
“Fail” more like learning experience. 🥰
We learn by doing and try, try again lol! Your commitment to the process is commendable 😊
Laura as someone who has been doing landscaping for over 50 years, I can tell you a bit about the browning. I am on cape Cod and I have noticed the Alberta Spruces and Arbor Vitaes browning out. I put on a white glove and grabbed a spruce branch and there it was red streaks. Red Spider loves hot humid weather to attack Alberta Spruces treatable using Sevin or Isotox. Now for the large shrubs browning out I have seen that all over Cape Cod. A perfectly beautiful row of plants with a few browning out. We were exceptionally dry last year and I think there are a couple things at play. First a very dry hot 2020 summer and not much wet weather snow etc in the winter causes dehydration. Secondly although I have never seen it it could be the hot humid weather has also caused red spider on the Arbor Vitaes . I know you are watering properly I would try for the heck of it to use white glove or paper towel grab a branch see if there are any red streaks. just my thoughts but you are not alone it is everywhere on Cape Cod as well.
I’m was laying down it’s 4 am for me and u post wow
Good Morning Laura! 4AM here in Arizona. Coffee time with you. Love & Hugs 😘💞💞💞
J'AIME PAS LES TUYAS C MOCHE LA SEVE COLLANTE EST DESAGREABLE ET CA ROUILLE ET CA SENT RIEN ET CA PIQUE !
I really like how you show the "fails". I've had a few this last year and I feel much better now! ;-) -- You truly inspire me to get out and work on my gardens!!!!
when was the metal thing behind them placed there? is it possible that sun reflects of the metal surface and burns them significantly hotter than you would think? it wasn't there when you put them in the ground, so might be that
Yes, this is very encouraging to me. I aspire to have a beautiful lush garden such as yours and learn so much from you. I've had some fails this year as well. But you've told us in past videos that if say a young tree dies that sometimes it just happens. Doesn't always mean I did something wrong. I always appreciate your honesty and helps. So yes, you're always encouraging. Thanks Laura ❤
The arborvitae in my backyard were murdered by all this rain we got. It was tough
I had two lavender (out of 15) fail and a whole section of dianthus that never took. I moved flower pots into areas that failed, and then moved my daffodil bulbs under a tree… but recently realized it won’t get enough sun after the leaves come out! So many mistakes. Thank you for sharing yours and, often times, solutions or how you’re going about working with them.
Won’t your daffodils be up and blooming before the tree leafs out? They might be fine where they are.
Your daffs will have finished by the time your trees leaf out. They'll be fine! Add some bluebells! They come out after the daffodils, and love the dappled shade under the trees.
Oh my gosh! Thank you so much for this!!! It is encouraging…but I have learned so much from you even though I am on the East Coast and not at all desert climate.
Thank you so much for sharing your fails with us.. I feel like my garden is never complete and there are always spots that don’t look great or aren’t in bloom. I also wanted to say I’m completely shocked someone turned you in for trying to save the quail eggs!!!! You and Aaron are the sweetest couple and I’m so thankful you share your channel with all of us. I will never understand people who comment negatively or dislike your videos… just know you have so many followers who understand and appreciate what you do! ♥️
Your Melon looks like what mine looks like every year.i think its vertilculum or fusarium wilt. (Very uneducated guess)
It's the first day of school here in Virginia. I'm a little sad the house is now empty. I'm so glad I had Garden Answer this morning to keep me company with my coffee. ❤
I love seeing the arborvitae progress along each fence line! The old “moon garden” tree hedge is looking phenomenal! I would love to see a video doing some growth updates with those and the boxwood hedges at some point. 😁
Without failures we don’t learn new things - Thank You so much for letting us learn a lot today #1 Don’t get discouraged 🤗
Love your authenticity! It is very encouraging to know that behind the scenes of a beautiful garden there are still those mishaps that we all encounter from time to time. Thanks for keeping it real.
I love that you’re sharing this type of video! I feel like in my cut flower garden I’m fighting morning glory so badly this year!! It is taking down sunflowers and zinnias because it just winds wraps so tightly! It’s a struggle!
CURIOUS: What ended up happening to the gazebo? Did it ever get reestablished at the community park? Or, do you consider that a fail?
Thanks for sharing. Makes me feel so much better. Stuff happens!
Arborvitae just…fail. In Denver here, basically the same climate and soil as yours, they are (were) so popular but every day you drive around and see catastrophic death for one reason or another. Lots of tree nurseries stopped selling them in recent years. Unless you’ve got decent shade and wind protection, they’ll probably suffer. I’m planning on trying upright junipers instead 🤞
Thank you for this Laura. It is nice to see that we aren’t alone when something doesn’t work out in our gardens 😊
Metal backdrop building and gravel mulch. No mystery for the cedar deaths.
I’ve seen some people use round up around big aged tree bases to kill weeds, instead of weed eating. Does that do damage over time, would it eventually kill the tree?
Love watching!
Roundup say 'No,' but evidence is proving otherwise. It takes YEARS for it to damage and kill an old tree, but it WILL kill it. And, by the time you realise there's a problem, it's probably too late to save the tree. Avoid Roundup at all costs.
Growing tomatoes in high heat/wind areas.....I think it's best to let them sprawl over the ground. It gives the ground shade, it's a natural mulch, and they can withstand more heat and wind that way. At least that's what I've experienced in my hot, dry conditions. Thanks for sharing your fails. We had mostly fails this year with drought, grasshoppers, and deer eating everything in sight.
Thank you for sharing your fails. There are 2 quotes , I always remind myself of: if you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener - J C Raulston. A successful gardener knows to throw out the dead plants-anonymous.
Like you, we planted a hedge of 65 arbs. 2 days later we were hit with a 55 mph wind. Half of these arbs aren't going to make it 😭😭 It is good to see a video like this because I do at times get so discouraged. Thanks love this chanel.
Loved seeing the single plant per pot experiment. I think it looks great & am going to have to remember that for next year!
Hi Laura, Im a landscaper from South Africa. It looks like your conifers are suffering from something called "Italian aphid". It's a sucking insect too small to see but it causes brown patches and the eventual death of any kind of conifer. You can soil drench with a systemic insecticide called Koinor. After losing one of a pair in a garden once I have always kept a sharp lookout for the tell tale signs of brown patches - if you treat them early enough you will save the trees
True friends encourage each other in both their successes and failures! :) Thanks for sharing both, Laura!
this year 2021 is a nightmare for garden, with mild dry winter, cold long spring and scorching summer, brutal storms and heavy rains, all in wrong time
Same here, and for many others too! Starts to make me wonder...chemtrails? Humm?