Thank you so much for all the beauty, variety, & knowledge that you put into your videos. I live in New Jersey, in zone 7, behind a major highway. For years we didn’t do much with the backyard (other than a deck) because of the excessive highway & truck traffic noise. But your videos, as well as Garden Gate magazine, & the desire to create beauty, & make use of the land we’re fortunate enough to have, inspired my husband & I to turn our backyard into a perennial garden. My husband took down the scruffy pines & spindly oaks & replaced them with an evergreen border of Thuga on the highway side & Skip Laurel on the other side that borders our neighbors. We also have another border with some big beautiful hemlock trees (that we just treated for woolly adelgid) in addition to creating a vegetable garden, that we had to completely enclose because of all the critters, we also built a shed where we store some potted plants, along with the lawn equipment. At the center we have all types of perennials, mostly bought on sale, with an in the ground drip system & lots of cedar mulch as well as a birdbath, though we’re planning a water feature with a small pond, that pumps the water over a series of rocks. And we’re not sure what to use for our paths yet…We love it! Funny thing is, I hardly notice the traffic noise when I’m back there, instead it feels peaceful. And it’s a fun challenge to keep making it more beautiful, & incorporate some of the lovely things we’ve seen from your garden!
Love Allen’s garden style and wonderful content! ❤️ Planning a new border, and this contains good advice about building one with evergreen structure. The best proof point is garden in Wales shown in this video
I only grow perennials. I dont see a point in buying over and over every year. Bought my home 3 yrs ago n have spent $ on perennials each year for 3 different spots. Now all I need to do is divide n re arrange @ play with them. Every year there are more of everything n new beds will be born. For free.
It's like being in horticulture school, and any wise gardener should be taking notes. Allen could charge a fortune for such excellent advice; and here we are getting all this free!!! Don't you think for one minute I'm not putting these jewels of knowledge to work in my own garden! I love his ideas at the end of the video for that Texas home. I'd love to see which viewers who wrote-in for his suggestions actually used Allen's advice! I know I do!
We had acquired a lot of perennials and shrubs at the end of the season when we started our gardens. It just takes a little patience to reap the benefits the following year.
Do the varigated iris attract aphids, like the regular iris? Northern Nevada here, and the reason I don't plant Iris is the aphid destruction from seeing neighbors.
Beautiful Garten ! Thank you ! 🙂
Thank you so much for all the beauty, variety, & knowledge that you put into your videos. I live in New Jersey, in zone 7, behind a major highway. For years we didn’t do much with the backyard (other than a deck) because of the excessive highway & truck traffic noise. But your videos, as well as Garden Gate magazine, & the desire to create beauty, & make use of the land we’re fortunate enough to have, inspired my husband & I to turn our backyard into a perennial garden. My husband took down the scruffy pines & spindly oaks & replaced them with an evergreen border of Thuga on the highway side & Skip Laurel on the other side that borders our neighbors. We also have another border with some big beautiful hemlock trees (that we just treated for woolly adelgid) in addition to creating a vegetable garden, that we had to completely enclose because of all the critters, we also built a shed where we store some potted plants, along with the lawn equipment. At the center we have all types of perennials, mostly bought on sale, with an in the ground drip system & lots of cedar mulch as well as a birdbath, though we’re planning a water feature with a small pond, that pumps the water over a series of rocks. And we’re not sure what to use for our paths yet…We love it! Funny thing is, I hardly notice the traffic noise when I’m back there, instead it feels peaceful. And it’s a fun challenge to keep making it more beautiful, & incorporate some of the lovely things we’ve seen from your garden!
Love Allen’s garden style and wonderful content! ❤️ Planning a new border, and this contains good advice about building one with evergreen structure. The best proof point is garden in Wales shown in this video
Thanks for the tour of amazing gardens and all the information about perennials 🌸🌹🌸🌹🌸
Beautiful
I only grow perennials. I dont see a point in buying over and over every year. Bought my home 3 yrs ago n have spent $ on perennials each year for 3 different spots. Now all I need to do is divide n re arrange @ play with them. Every year there are more of everything n new beds will be born. For free.
I bet it’s beautiful!
How many types of American Native plants have you been taking of them ? Which one is your favorite plant ?
It's like being in horticulture school, and any wise gardener should be taking notes. Allen could charge a fortune for such excellent advice; and here we are getting all this free!!! Don't you think for one minute I'm not putting these jewels of knowledge to work in my own garden! I love his ideas at the end of the video for that Texas home. I'd love to see which viewers who wrote-in for his suggestions actually used Allen's advice! I know I do!
Thank you! 💚
Can't get enough of the perennial info. Love the garden tours.
We had acquired a lot of perennials and shrubs at the end of the season when we started our gardens. It just takes a little patience to reap the benefits the following year.
Yes! 💚
First year they sleep...second year they creep...third year they leap!
Do the varigated iris attract aphids, like the regular iris? Northern Nevada here, and the reason I don't plant Iris is the aphid destruction from seeing neighbors.
You're so kind Paul Allen Smith. Thank you ☺️
Artemesia stinks to a person with allergies