Good morning everyone in the garden answer community! Hope you have a beautiful day wherever You Are. Today we will be raking leaves hopefully for the last time. The garden is all tucked in for the winter and now we are ready to decorate for the holidays. Thank you Laura and Aaron for this lovely place to come every day and enjoy with fellow gardeners. You help remind us there is a lot of good in the world. Love you both!
Goodmorning from Ohio! Yes leaves, I just went and put up a leaf mold for great compost next year! So I found these huge heavy spikes at walmart and got chicken wire to make it!
Ok. This is the second time I spend the night trying to figure out some kind of plant...... and the next morning Laura uploads a video with all the information I have been trying to find all over the internet. Thank you so much!
Not exactly next morning. But just watched this one again to try and figure what to put in my mostly shade corner. My idea is sticking with a cinder block wood rail edge. But changed again for prob 10 the time. Will do the euconymus green and yellow on left edge with a bench and potted forcynthia in more forward in the yard rather than at edge. Or maybe forcynthia on left edge and euconymus in the pot ?
The pine evergreens and cypress trees in our area are all dying! Hollies and magnolias are fine. The boxwoods are struggling. It looks like the dogwoods, crepe myrtles and fruit trees are dying from the same thing. Dead patches show up and then the whole thing dies. This is affecting about a mile square of housing with large wooded lots. Any input would be a big help.
@@dlsdyer9071 Ykes; it could be canker or blight, or even borers. You might have to google the "symptoms" of your trees and see what pops up. If it's borers, you might have to trash them. If not, you can always call an arborist. Good luck!
My grandma is into gardening, and she has alot of tropical plants in our garden. Every time i watch your videos, i always remember my grandma! Kind and loving like you. Thank you for everything you have done! 🌿🌱
I love to walk around a nursery and see all the evergreens and in the back of my mind saying that would look great in arrangements! Thanks Laura for great ideas for future plants!
It’s sad to admit but I never thought of evergreens, shrubs, trees or ornamental grasses when planting gardens growing up. Since watching GA & you Laura have opened me up to and given me a new found appreciation of all of those things. & I can’t thank you enough! 😊♥️🌲🌳🌿
Good morning 🌞. I planted 42 Sprinter boxwoods around my front porch on my 1870 Queen Ann Victorian. It was like you said, hard to have something formal that would take shade and sun. I had to ordered them. I would never had known of these if not for your wonderful channel and never ending knowledge I keep learning. Thank you for always giving so much detail information about so many plants. Love your new lamp in the sun porch!
Going to get some Sprinter boxwoods on your recommendation! Also want a taller evergreen/spruce that can take mostly shade? Zone 6 ( was 5 in Michigan) thanks
One of your best videos with so much important information. Your parents could use this as a "self-instructive" video outside among the trees for sale at the garden center. I imagine your garden will be cooler in temperature compared to your neighbors' yards once your beautiful trees get some growth. Thank you, Laura and Aaron, for continuing to create and share through your many videos. It's always great to see your family.
Hi Laura, When I started my garden 5 years ago, I committed to planting 50% evergreens, 25% flowering shrubs and 25% perennials. I don’t always follow the rule, but keeping evergreens a priority in the landscape has rewarded me with satisfying winter interest. My Fat Albert Blue Spruce and Hynoki Cypress being me joy all year long. I can’t wait to find a spot for an Alaskan Weeping Cedar. Thanks for all your inspiring videos and your positivity and kindness. The world needs more people like you.
When you impart all your knowledge about a particular topic on us I feel so blessed. It's like I went to school without leaving my house or paying a big tuition. I share information I get from you with all my friends. They think I'm a real plant expert. I always send them to your channel because I think you are one of the best gardening teachers on UA-cam. Thanks for all your research, knowledge and how skillfully you share. You make it look easy but I know it's a lot of work.
Thank you so much for listing zones, growth size and personal descriptions of each variety. Very helpful for us that don’t live in your grow zone! Your information comes at a perfect time as we are in the process of removing beds and going to 🌲 evergreens, you are appreciated more than you know!
I love these videos because I think every region has different favourites and it’s amazing to hear about something else for a change! I’m a landscape design student in Ontario and show all my gardening friends and family your videos!!! Thanks so much for all you do!
Before I even got of bed this morning I was thinking about North Pole Arbs. Who knew you would talk about them this morning. My head is so full of garden info that came from you over the past couple of years. I Iive in North Dakota so it's fun to see that you mentioned some varieties that I could grow.
Love love love your top 10 things videos! There are some I have watched multiple times!!!! They are so informative and inspiring. Your one about berries in winter inspired me to plant several Berry Heavy, Berry Poppins, and Coral Berry bushes - can't wait for them to grow up. Thank you for all the inspiration and "get it done" attitude - my gardens have truly never looked better as a result of being inspired by you and Aaron and all you do! THANK YOU!
This is very timely for me. I live on the shores of Puget Sound and have a garden that is 15 years old. I’m getting older (75) and beginning to realize that I need to make some changes in the types of plants I’m choosing. I’m redoing one bed to become primarily an evergreen garden, but space is limited. Could you recommend dwarf evergreens, primarily conifers, that could be suitable. I already have two good sized English yews and two Japanese maples. I’m removing roses and other random shrubs. I do love watching your program…keeps me enthusiastic about gardening 🤗
Leila, I second that request for smaller evergreen trees and shrubs Every time I think I want to put a few different evergreen in, I look up and see utility wires. UGH.
I am in Maine and am older also. We just moved to our forever home when I retired this year and put in garden beds all around the house. Hopefully I haven't done too much. I just finished bulb planting. But it's mainly maintenance now. I think a dwarf Blue Spruce would be good. I was thinking of one of those for our garden. I think more perennials and less annuals also makes less work. I do a little at a time and so far that has worked for me. It might take me a month to plant 100 bulbs but no one has me on a clock. I am retired! :) Good luck with your garden! Enjoy! P S. Hollies bring a lot of joy and most do not get that big. The China Girl series is not too large. I have those and the Prince and Princess Hollies.
@@janetn1925 If you're looking for a dwarf blue spruce I would highly recommend these to cultivars. The first one is called Montgomery blue spruce which grows 6ft tall by 3-4ft wide, and the second one grows 3ft by 3ft, a ball form called globe blue spruce. Sometimes you can find the globe train into a topiary form.
Hi, Leila, I also live in the Puget sound. I just spent an afternoon at Sunnyside Nursey looking at small conifers. I really liked the black dragon Japanese cedar. I recommend walking through a nursery and taking pictures of plants (and their tags). Then I come home and research the varieties to see what would fit in the best.
🎄Good morning GA viewers and friends, and hi Laura! I love this video, and can’t help but wish I could send you some cardinals to enjoy the cover of evergreens in your property, and for you to see them perched on the snow covered branches during winter. When I had my yard I planted arbs to replace other trees, and every winter in Wisconsin I had at least five pairs of cardinals loving my trees! Thank you for all your amazing information and love of all nature and people, too! Enjoy a safe and happy weekend everyone 🌲🍁🍂🧡
Dee, this SoCal gal fell in love with Cardinals when one of my Sisters moved to North Georgia. We don't have them in CA nor here in France where I live. I looked forward to each Summer vacay. Mom put out Bird feeders and we'd spend lots of time watching them. My fave birds and they remind me of my Mom, who passed 2 years ago tomorrow.
My biggest flex is that I live in a similar climate to Laura (eastern WA) and can essentially plant whatever she’s planting in her videos. Now the skill part I’m still working on 😂
I live in Northeastern Oklahoma. My zone also is 6 like Laura's. Only thing is I have very high humidity. I have to be careful about planting plants to close together.😊
Zone 8 here! Thanks for your recommendations! I’m going through an evergreen kick😂. My personal favorite shrub are Hollies🌲! I don’t mind the needlepoints. The berries are my favorite part❤️! I just planted a 75 foot long hedge of needlepoint hollies🌲. Have yet to film a video on it for the channel 😅 but I just love how fast they grow!!
Another zone 8 evergreen (I think zones 7-10): Mexican Mock Orange (choisya ternata). I love this plant! Incredibly low-fuss for me, covered in shiny green leaves all year long (think there's also a variety called "Sundance" that's more yellow) and I typically see blooms multiple times a year -- in spring when tulips and daffodils are blooming (makes a great filler in bouquets) and also in fall as the weather gets colder and a bunch of other plants are dying back. Extra bonus: It smells basil-y when pruned!
My parents garden in a zone 7b/8a in Alabama and I planted an emerald arborvitae in their front yard when I was 18 (I’m now 31) and that tree has just been the most beautiful winter interest and structure in their yard. It literally needs no special care or pruning while having a really beautiful natural shape (we did buy from a local garden center and made sure the plant we bought had a nice shape and strong leader). It was about 4ft tall when we planted it. It’s now 12 feet tall!
When I moved in, I had zero evergreens. I had to remedy that. Now I've got Green Gem boxwoods, Holmstrup arbs and a Fire Chief arb. I'm loving all of them, but the Fire Chief is especially cool. It's a lime green with bronze/orange tips all year round. I highly recommend checking it out.
Isn’t it so funny how a smell can be so nostalgic? The boxwood smell is one of my favorites because it reminds me of the boxwood hedges at my grandparent’s farm when I was little. I just loved that smell and what I associated it with. Now when I smell it my heart feels full in memory.
Good Morning! Evergreens are my favorite. They are the backbone of the garden. And best of all no messy leaves to deal with each fall. . We have many but I do pine for more. Your ten examples offer enough choices to fit any size garden. I have followed your practice of planting some in pots and then transferring to the garden.
Your ability to reel off the names, sizes and growing zones for tree after tree without any obvious notes is amazing! How do you remember all those details and present them to effortlessly?
I have a boxwood that flowers and the fragrance is so lovely! very sweet and beautiful! no idea what variety it is. the fragrance is so pleasant I have cut the flowers off and put them in a vase.
Absolutely wonderful and informative video. I love that you included zone 9!! Zone 9 is hard because we are very wet with alot of humidity ...lol.. like 100% humidity and it's hard to find things that can grow in that type of environment. Anyways, I hope everyone is having a beautiful and blessed Friday. Take care and God Bless you all.
This video was packed with so much new information for me. We are new to zone 6 and there is so much to learn. This very timely episode has started me in a new direction. Thank you so much. I'll be watching this one multiple times since it is loaded with useful information
Perfect timing! I was just going through your archives for videos on evergreens! I’m planting in a new yard and really have become obsessed with evergreens-especially conifers.
Anyone else notice the movement to the left of the boxwoods at 4:44. Looked like a black cat. Zone 9a here in Southern California. About 30 minutes from Big Bear so we do get snow on occasion. Planted a pine two years ago and it is doing great. Plan on adding more. Love everything you do Laura. My husband and I found your channel on March 15, 2020 the first day of California's shutdown. We had no idea what we were going to do. Thank you Lord, for Garden Answer. You got our views, Lowes, Home Depot and our local nursery got the $$$. LOL
Planted 2 Carolina Sapphire Cypress trees this year…either side of our driveway…so excited to see them grow. Sitting on my couch I can look up to the top of the driveway and their backdrop across the street are maples, oaks and poplars and it’s just so pretty having my “blue” in the foreground. Always makes me think of your moms rule of colors to make a complete garden! Thank you for another very informative video, you’re always teaching me something I never knewr!
We have two Princeton Maples in our yard. They are so beautiful and give a chartreuse colour all summer. A little brighter in the spring. In the fall, they go to a beautiful yellow. We have them next to some Blue Spruce and the contrast is so striking, that we have people mention it. We live in Canada and garden in a zone 4. If you can grow them in your area, I know you would love them. They would look so great in the south garden. Love your videos!
My blue Spruce is getting too tall, I bought it years ago from A Catolog, it was two of them ,did have to get rid of one because I couldn't find any takers, I love it just doesn't want a big tree 🤔
This is such a helpful video for people starting out. Three evergreens that I would be so happy if you had, are Taylor Junipers for very narrow spots, Horstmann's Silberlocke, which has a gorgeous two tone look, and beautiful holly for hedges and topiary. Also for people in zones 7 and warmer, don't forget camellias. Their foliage is gorgeous all year but best of all, they flower in autumn or winter when nothing else does.
I don’t know how holly of any variety do in Laura’s area. I am from there, and nobody seems to have any. (Maybe they don’t do well in alkaline soil). Similar looking alternative, Oregon grape.
@@laraemitchell9064 I am in Laura’s area and I have seen holly here, not a lot, though. And I think it takes a long time to get very big. It’s not the ideal environment for it.
We are about to loose our big spruce trees. Terrible bc we are old and do not have the time to enjoy them when grown. First is the worse - canker, those have to be cut down. Second is needle drop. They can be spray two times in the beginning of new spring growth. I hope you do not get these problems. The one small blue spruce we have that is so nice is called Baby Blue Eyes. Stays fairly small. Ours is about 8 tall now. So far it seems to be in unaffected. It is such a pretty blue. You planting a huge mix is wise! Just bc of disease. We have a hedge called Golden Hillside Privet. Stays green year round. Can be shaped. We live in the middle of Iowa. Near the top of zone 5. But we usually plant things from zone 4. Super cold here. Thank you for the information. We might need help now planting those evergreens. But love them too. Plus like to plant trees that live a super long time. Have you tried the male Ginkgo. Very yellow in the fall. November 16, 2022
Can you help? Is there anything new for the spruce trees that might have maybe a canker? I really do not want to cut them down! Please give me some ideas! Thank you so much. Merry Christmas!!! December 11, 2022
Perfect timing! I'm clearing out an overgrown area of our property and was just staring at it yesterday thinking evergreens were what I needed to start with and go from there...thankyou!
This is perfect timing! I need to grow a hedge, and decided I'd start buying small trees for winter decor on the deck, then plant them out the following spring. Avatar here I come!
Great Info 👍 more than most videos. I hear the name Boxwood used to loosely with out explaining how many varieties there actually are and how different the growth patterns can be.
I started out thinking I was going to watch this video because I love Laura and all things GA, but wouldn't come away with good options for my garden today. I was pleasantly surprised! I SO appreciate it when you list the full zone spectrum of the plants, thank you! I'm in a zone 8, but I grew up in upstate NY and I love Colorado blue spruces so much, but I know I can't grow them here. This video gave me some fantastic ideas for beautiful evergreens I can substitute for my favorite!
Our property in NH is in the woods, so we have blue spruce, pines, evergreens that are part of our landscape . I’m more drawn to the cypress , and junipers.I would love to add some around the house. Thanks for telling us about the different types! The Leland cypress would look great ! And I would love topiaries in planters! I laughed when you described one of them being “Dr Seuss like” as one of my neighbors in our town has planted tons around his house. Every time I drive by I think “ it’s Who-Ville”. 😄
I love pines & spruces!! My Father in Law when he lived in our home, planted several pines & spruces & now I am continuing to plant to continue what he started years ago! 😃🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
Great List of evergreens. I love evergreens to give structure to the garden and also during winter while everything goes to sleep, the evergreens continue shinning and showing an amazing display in the garden.
These types of videos are super helpful! I would love to see a follow up on how to garden under evergreens. My garden is full of old pine trees. They’re beautiful and provide to much shade but it makes gardening really difficult.
These videos aren't overwhelming at all! I've been waiting for this one! It's hard to keep track of all your evergreens when you plant them randomly (but don't stop the random plantings because I love them!)
Laura, I’m so glad you made this video as we moved here, Oklahoma from Indiana and I’ve planted tons of flowers but, no all year round greenery just bc I don’t know a lot about it. I’ve been grateful for you and your family making these videos I’ve learned so much. Thank you!
Wow!! You mentioned my home province of Newfoundland! But I need to correct the pronunciation (which I always do!) it rhymes with understand - so, understand, Newfoundland. And yes if it grows in Newfoundland, which is in the North Atlantic, it will undoubtedly be super winter hardy. Love your tree selections and have added some to my own garden in Nova Scotia.
Thanks for this detailed study of evergreens, Laura. I'm refurbishing a 50-year-old zone 9b garden, and some of the original bones are now broken, or at least severely bent. Having these height, width, sun and shearing characteristics is such a help in deciding which to choose!
You are a beast in the garden. I'm having a dry creek bed installed to replace my lawn. Hopefully we can divert the gutter downspout so when it rains in winter I'll have a bit of a creek. I wanted a very wintery type feel to accompany my white Birch. I have no idea what it's called but it's majestic and it will be given it's own drip line. It has these very large eyes that I can see from my living room window. Amazing what nature can do. Ok so I love Junipers and love you added zones and showed them in real time. Thank you for doing this video. You are a natural. Cheers and best wishes
Good morning! Even though all of your content may not be relevant to me (in my present space), I somehow find myself compelled to watch every video. I guess you can say I'm a dedicated supporter of G.A. Thanks!
Those Arborvitae and the Pinpoint Blue cypress are gorgeous! I will add them to my "list" for my landscaping reno considerations. I am in northern Georgia with thick red clay soil where we are classified as Zone 7b. Thank you!
Thanks for the great descriptions. I would also recommend yew (Taxus) and Canadian hemlock (Tsuga) for more urban landscape applications with deep shade where other conifers will not thrive. And, personally, living in the northeast, I can't imagine a landscape without the long soft needles of Eastern White Pine with its majestic wild form and the tallest tree in our forests. There are lovely dwarf garden varieties of it too.
Hello Evie. How are you doing? Very nice comment. I planted a bird nest spruce this fall they i am really excited to see grown. I have been trying to figure out which boxwoods to plant Next spring so this is pertinent timing.
I love this video I've watched it twice now. This time of year that the deciduous trees are all going to sleep it makes me appreciate the evergreens in landscapes! The red tipped one sounds wonderful! Your south garden is going to be like a Botanical gardens. So many unique specimens. I'm excited to see how many spring blooming shrubs you add next year!
Your channel has made me understand that having evergreens for year round interest has helped me establish my 2 year garden. Been a subscriber and avid watcher 4ever
Just bought a home that has a cute deer family in the yard daily. I am coming from a home where I did not have to worry at all! Talk about game changer! I’m mourning my wild abandonment in my tulip beds and hydrangea borders 🌷🌱 🦌 😩
I could not leave the house this morning without listening to this video LOL. I love evergreens especially the trees. Myzone here in Indiana Southern is a 6. I have a couple Acres I planted some pine trees on but I want to make a screen fast-growing across the front of the property and this really helped me make some decisions on the trees that would be perfect for that thank you so much
Fascinating video. I love evergreens. Here in Texas, we are limited to the choices we have to chose from. But, thanks to you Laura, I see there are more that will grow here in zone 8a. Euonymous however down here do have quite a hard time with insects. They can be controlled, but it becomes a hassle to stay on top of the problems. They are beautiful though.
My first house I pulled every single evergreen out, hated them all and hated them for years, yet watching your channel you are bring back the love of evergreens....
I am a new gardener and I designed 3 large, new garden beds around my house this past spring/summer. The one I built mainly around evergreen shrubs & trees is by far the best design! I learned a lot through the process - in my first garden, I focused almost solely on flowers (for an English-cottage look) and it needs to be fixed next year. It looks messy; lacks structure and multi-season interest. I’ve learned to: 1. build around anchor shrubs and trees first (flowers are exciting but should come after the vertical and horizontal shape is set), 2. plan for 4-season interest AND 3. combine at least 3 out of the 4 main colour schemes for the best look (blues & silvery greys | yellows | reds & burgundy | traditional greens). I learned a lot from you, Laura and all of the lovely commenters here so a big thanks to this community! Wish I could share a pic of the “good” garden 😂 I’m pretty proud of it for being a newbie 😊
That red-tipped spruce is so cool! I found listings for a few of these and bookmarked them for future reference. Being in humid NC, a lot of evergreens don't do well here, so thank you for including some that might! I just want to shout out the blue point juniper for folks in my area. I put one in this spring and it has done great with just an occasional extra watering.
Picea abies 'rubra spicata' is a red tipped spruce that can grow in North Carolina no problem. I have a bunch in my yard in north Atlanta ga in a 7b and they are healthy as an ox. I have them in excellent drainage and a little out of direct sun, but they are killer cool.
❤️loving the evergreens. I planted 2 Trautman junipers they grow 3 to 4 feet wide and stay around 12feet high in my small space and now I want to make a little woodland the idea of winter interest really appeals to me. The winter seems so long and to look out to beautiful evergreen in your space is such a joy. I need some more dwarf versions though! Love the way your space is shaping up!
WOW!! THIS WAS GREAT! I LOVE SPRUCES! & ARBS & needed to know of Boxwoods. Your Fruit Tree video was GREAT TOO! WHERE OH WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR BOUNDLESS ENERGY FROM!?! How does your husband get any work done seeing your striking beautiful eyes! And THIS ENTIRE VIDEO YOU NEVER nocked your coffee cup! Mine would've long gone -oops-flying across the room ! Your videos and knowledge & Vitality is such a joy to behold! I Always look forward to what garden adventures in planting await! Enjoyed The Pond Guy video too! I loved seeing your folks garden ! I'm so glad I removed the wire basket from my Norway Spruce gift tree. ENDLESS ENTHUSIASM!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! So INSPIRING !!
I love all your videos! I was a manager at a landscaping company and found your videos to be very helpful and I learned so much! I can't wait to see your Christmas content! Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Love the selection you offered. I see a couple I'd like to try in my GA zone 8A garden. I'm surprised you didn't mention hollies. They are evergreen, gorgeous colors and they offer berries for the birds. I've got Nellie Stevens hollies in my yard and they can either be trimmed to hedge or left to grow naturally. I've got some in full shade - which grow more slowly and sparsely - and some in full sun which are lush and full. Another evergreen that grows well in zone 8 is the Sweet Tea Olive. Glossy green leaves, can grow very large or be trimmed to keep smaller, and they bloom tiny white flowers that have a HEAVENLY scent. Calloway Gardens has a huge hedge of them and when they are in bloom, oh. my. word. One is transported... 😍😍
@@cynthiafisher9907 Hello Cynthia. How are you doing? I have been trying to figure out which boxwoods to plant Next spring so this is pertinent timing.
Congrats on your great coffee cup! It reminds me of the one my Mom received as a Mother Day present from my little boy many years ago . It has the thumb type hold and the curved lip making for a fantastic cup to drink from. She just loved it and constantly said "don't ever let anything happen to this cup" ! I have it in my cupboard now in a safe place! Good luck to you and your family....greg zone 5
Colorado Blue Spruce thrives, and is my favorite conifer, in our east Kansas yard. Along with our hollies and yews (kept trimmed at 3' to 4' ht) these three evergreens are the most frequently visited by a variety of birds. We enjoy watching the cardinals, especially, as they eat the berries on several holly bushes near the bay window.
Thanks for the vibrant flavor/colors added to the sun porch back ground. I felt soooo, stifled without color in your garden! Thanks again and happy growing..
Zone 3 here!! We don’t strictly follow the two zone lower rule because then I’d only be growing Arctic shrubs and grasses lol Which I’ve done! My dream is to have an established perennial garden 💜Love the videos and being able to grow vicariously through you!
I love these videos when you give us a list of plants to consider for our gardens. I’ve had landscape designers who don’t do half the job you do! So to answer you question: Yes! I enjoyed this video very much!!
I find myself looking at the foliage of trees more this year. I'm in the market for a new one or two next year and I think it's because I'm watching Laura's chloices and her decisions on trees that include fall color. I swear I hear her voice in my head. Also, the mugo pine is a great small evergreen with scruffy, compact structure. Love these tips on evergreens.
For southern gardeners (zone 8+), many things for us are evergreen. However, a good list for our gardens are camellia, sweet olive, podocarpus, eastern red cedar, Italian cypress, southern magnolia, live oak, eucalyptus, oleander, gardenia, and citrus.
Leyland Cypress is wonderful, they grow 4 ft a year in my area. My husband put them in as a hedge to stop a bored and creepy neighbor from peering into our yard. I don't think he ever watered them, or maybe he only watered them the first time and over the years those trees take care of themselves. They are beautifully green and gorgeous in the winter when everything is dead and only snow is on the ground. I love Emerald Arborvitae also but deer love to eat those. I definitely will look to get North Pole Arborvitae to put in as a hedge in another area. Laura, thanks for this video!
I'm with you on spruce vs pines. We have 4 very large pine trees on our property and they're the dirtiest trees ever, dropping their very long needles year round.
Thank you for all the information on evergreens. I was hoping you could recommend an evergreen that stays relatively small, slow growing that would be good for either side of a garage.
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Good morning everyone in the garden answer community! Hope you have a beautiful day wherever You Are. Today we will be raking leaves hopefully for the last time. The garden is all tucked in for the winter and now we are ready to decorate for the holidays. Thank you Laura and Aaron for this lovely place to come every day and enjoy with fellow gardeners. You help remind us there is a lot of good in the world. Love you both!
Goodmorning from Ohio! Yes leaves, I just went and put up a leaf mold for great compost next year! So I found these huge heavy spikes at walmart and got chicken wire to make it!
This is my favorite topic!!!!
@@BrittanyS143 care to share a link to leaf mold structures?
Here in coastal NC, we haven’t had frost so summer annuals are still blooming.
I'm in SE TN zone 7b and we just started raking 😊
Ok. This is the second time I spend the night trying to figure out some kind of plant...... and the next morning Laura uploads a video with all the information I have been trying to find all over the internet. Thank you so much!
It’s happened to me before too 😂 Psychic Laura 🤣❤️
Not exactly next morning. But just watched this one again to try and figure what to put in my mostly shade corner. My idea is sticking with a cinder block wood rail edge. But changed again for prob 10 the time. Will do the euconymus green and yellow on left edge with a bench and potted forcynthia in more forward in the yard rather than at edge. Or maybe forcynthia on left edge and euconymus in the pot ?
More pictures of trees. Less of her. Ego trip. 😮
There’s just something about evergreens with snow on them, especially when everything else is so brown in the winter months. It’s magical! 🌺💚🙃
I agree. I think because it reminds us of Christmas and the holidays! Or maybe that's just me! 🎄🎄🎄
The pine evergreens and cypress trees in our area are all dying! Hollies and magnolias are fine. The boxwoods are struggling. It looks like the dogwoods, crepe myrtles and fruit trees are dying from the same thing. Dead patches show up and then the whole thing dies. This is affecting about a mile square of housing with large wooded lots. Any input would be a big help.
@@dlsdyer9071 Ykes; it could be canker or blight, or even borers. You might have to google the "symptoms" of your trees and see what pops up. If it's borers, you might have to trash them. If not, you can always call an arborist. Good luck!
@@gardenrulez Thanks for the input.
@@dlsdyer9071 It was just a little offhand, but there is so much crud that attacks our plants, that it's hard figuring it out.
My grandma is into gardening, and she has alot of tropical plants in our garden. Every time i watch your videos, i always remember my grandma! Kind and loving like you. Thank you for everything you have done! 🌿🌱
Embracing my garden passion by rocking my Duluth Veggie print overalls on my way to work on this Philly rainy day. Hello all from PA ♥️ 🌧
These kinds of sit downs focusing on just one category or plants are SO helpful. Keep up the great work!
I love to walk around a nursery and see all the evergreens and in the back of my mind saying that would look great in arrangements! Thanks Laura for great ideas for future plants!
Hello Cheryl. How are you doing? I agree with you it’s a very beautiful ideas !
It’s sad to admit but I never thought of evergreens, shrubs, trees or ornamental grasses when planting gardens growing up. Since watching GA & you Laura have opened me up to and given me a new found appreciation of all of those things. & I can’t thank you enough! 😊♥️🌲🌳🌿
Good morning 🌞. I planted 42 Sprinter boxwoods around my front porch on my 1870 Queen Ann Victorian. It was like you said, hard to have something formal that would take shade and sun. I had to ordered them. I would never had known of these if not for your wonderful channel and never ending knowledge I keep learning. Thank you for always giving so much detail information about so many plants. Love your new lamp in the sun porch!
Going to get some Sprinter boxwoods on your recommendation! Also want a taller evergreen/spruce that can take mostly shade? Zone 6 ( was 5 in Michigan) thanks
@@donnatrobaugh1676 Hello Donna. How are you doing? My sprinter boxwood needs to be use !
The knowledge you have and remember is amazing.
One of your best videos with so much important information. Your parents could use this as a "self-instructive" video outside among the trees for sale at the garden center. I imagine your garden will be cooler in temperature compared to your neighbors' yards once your beautiful trees get some growth. Thank you, Laura and Aaron, for continuing to create and share through your many videos. It's always great to see your family.
Hello Linda. How are you doing?
I love Laura's enthusiasm while talking. It fuels my urge to just keep planting!
Am I the only one who looovesss the smell of boxwoods?? Brings back happy memories of my grandma's garden (she used to own a nursery)
Hello Dieneke. How are you doing?
Hi Laura, When I started my garden 5 years ago, I committed to planting 50% evergreens, 25% flowering shrubs and 25% perennials. I don’t always follow the rule, but keeping evergreens a priority in the landscape has rewarded me with satisfying winter interest. My Fat Albert Blue Spruce and Hynoki Cypress being me joy all year long. I can’t wait to find a spot for an Alaskan Weeping Cedar. Thanks for all your inspiring videos and your positivity and kindness. The world needs more people like you.
Hello Mary. That’s Great you started your garden on time. How are you doing? I really learned more anytime I watch this video
When you impart all your knowledge about a particular topic on us I feel so blessed. It's like I went to school without leaving my house or paying a big tuition. I share information I get from you with all my friends. They think I'm a real plant expert. I always send them to your channel because I think you are one of the best gardening teachers on UA-cam. Thanks for all your research, knowledge and how skillfully you share. You make it look easy but I know it's a lot of work.
Hello Cindy. How are you doing?
Thank you so much for listing zones, growth size and personal descriptions of each variety. Very helpful for us that don’t live in your grow zone!
Your information comes at a perfect time as we are in the process of removing beds and going to 🌲 evergreens, you are appreciated more than you know!
Hello Elaine. Very nice comment how are you doing? I really learned how to do boxwood.
I love these videos because I think every region has different favourites and it’s amazing to hear about something else for a change! I’m a landscape design student in Ontario and show all my gardening friends and family your videos!!! Thanks so much for all you do!
Before I even got of bed this morning I was thinking about North Pole Arbs. Who knew you would talk about them this morning. My head is so full of garden info that came from you over the past couple of years. I Iive in North Dakota so it's fun to see that you mentioned some varieties that I could grow.
Same, am planning my next move in my head
Good morning from New York, zone 6b. Off today, get to watch with my feet up and a cup coffee.
Whenever i see you speak about Serbian spruce I wanna say hello from Balkan (Croatia) 😂👌
Love love love your top 10 things videos! There are some I have watched multiple times!!!! They are so informative and inspiring. Your one about berries in winter inspired me to plant several Berry Heavy, Berry Poppins, and Coral Berry bushes - can't wait for them to grow up. Thank you for all the inspiration and "get it done" attitude - my gardens have truly never looked better as a result of being inspired by you and Aaron and all you do! THANK YOU!
Hello Kristin. How are you doing? I love this video very much I always lean more boxwoods
This is very timely for me. I live on the shores of Puget Sound and have a garden that is 15 years old. I’m getting older (75) and beginning to realize that I need to make some changes in the types of plants I’m choosing. I’m redoing one bed to become primarily an evergreen garden, but space is limited. Could you recommend dwarf evergreens, primarily conifers, that could be suitable. I already have two good sized English yews and two Japanese maples. I’m removing roses and other random shrubs. I do love watching your program…keeps me enthusiastic about gardening 🤗
Leila, I second that request for smaller evergreen trees and shrubs
Every time I think I want to put a few different evergreen in, I look up and see utility wires. UGH.
I am in Maine and am older also. We just moved to our forever home when I retired this year and put in garden beds all around the house. Hopefully I haven't done too much. I just finished bulb planting. But it's mainly maintenance now. I think a dwarf Blue Spruce would be good. I was thinking of one of those for our garden. I think more perennials and less annuals also makes less work. I do a little at a time and so far that has worked for me. It might take me a month to plant 100 bulbs but no one has me on a clock. I am retired! :) Good luck with your garden! Enjoy! P S. Hollies bring a lot of joy and most do not get that big. The China Girl series is not too large. I have those and the Prince and Princess Hollies.
@@janetn1925 If you're looking for a dwarf blue spruce I would highly recommend these to cultivars. The first one is called Montgomery blue spruce which grows 6ft tall by 3-4ft wide, and the second one grows 3ft by 3ft, a ball form called globe blue spruce. Sometimes you can find the globe train into a topiary form.
Hi, Leila, I also live in the Puget sound. I just spent an afternoon at Sunnyside Nursey looking at small conifers. I really liked the black dragon Japanese cedar. I recommend walking through a nursery and taking pictures of plants (and their tags). Then I come home and research the varieties to see what would fit in the best.
"Evergreen garden" just sounds so enchanting 🌲💞
🎄Good morning GA viewers and friends, and hi Laura! I love this video, and can’t help but wish I could send you some cardinals to enjoy the cover of evergreens in your property, and for you to see them perched on the snow covered branches during winter. When I had my yard I planted arbs to replace other trees, and every winter in Wisconsin I had at least five pairs of cardinals loving my trees! Thank you for all your amazing information and love of all nature and people, too! Enjoy a safe and happy weekend everyone 🌲🍁🍂🧡
I always lived in the northwest and got into my 60’s before I ever saw a cardinal. They are very beautiful and sing so nicely!
Dee, this SoCal gal fell in love with Cardinals when one of my Sisters moved to North Georgia. We don't have them in CA nor here in France where I live. I looked forward to each Summer vacay. Mom put out Bird feeders and we'd spend lots of time watching them. My fave birds and they remind me of my Mom, who passed 2 years ago tomorrow.
My biggest flex is that I live in a similar climate to Laura (eastern WA) and can essentially plant whatever she’s planting in her videos. Now the skill part I’m still working on 😂
I live in Northeastern Oklahoma. My zone also is 6 like Laura's. Only thing is I have very high humidity. I have to be careful about planting plants to close together.😊
Zone 8 here! Thanks for your recommendations! I’m going through an evergreen kick😂. My personal favorite shrub are Hollies🌲! I don’t mind the needlepoints. The berries are my favorite part❤️! I just planted a 75 foot long hedge of needlepoint hollies🌲. Have yet to film a video on it for the channel 😅 but I just love how fast they grow!!
I'm in GA zone 8! Try adding a few Tea Olives as well. The scent is heavenly...
Another zone 8 evergreen (I think zones 7-10): Mexican Mock Orange (choisya ternata). I love this plant! Incredibly low-fuss for me, covered in shiny green leaves all year long (think there's also a variety called "Sundance" that's more yellow) and I typically see blooms multiple times a year -- in spring when tulips and daffodils are blooming (makes a great filler in bouquets) and also in fall as the weather gets colder and a bunch of other plants are dying back. Extra bonus: It smells basil-y when pruned!
My parents garden in a zone 7b/8a in Alabama and I planted an emerald arborvitae in their front yard when I was 18 (I’m now 31) and that tree has just been the most beautiful winter interest and structure in their yard. It literally needs no special care or pruning while having a really beautiful natural shape (we did buy from a local garden center and made sure the plant we bought had a nice shape and strong leader). It was about 4ft tall when we planted it. It’s now 12 feet tall!
When I moved in, I had zero evergreens. I had to remedy that. Now I've got Green Gem boxwoods, Holmstrup arbs and a Fire Chief arb. I'm loving all of them, but the Fire Chief is especially cool. It's a lime green with bronze/orange tips all year round. I highly recommend checking it out.
Isn’t it so funny how a smell can be so nostalgic? The boxwood smell is one of my favorites because it reminds me of the boxwood hedges at my grandparent’s farm when I was little. I just loved that smell and what I associated it with. Now when I smell it my heart feels full in memory.
Hello Heather. How are you doing?
Happy Fun Friday has to begin with GA! Have a great weekend, everyone!🍂
Good Morning! Evergreens are my favorite. They are the backbone of the garden. And best of all no messy leaves to deal with each fall. . We have many but I do pine for more. Your ten examples offer enough choices to fit any size garden. I have followed your practice of planting some in pots and then transferring to the garden.
Hello Karen. How are you doing? I have been trying to figure out which boxwoods to plant Next spring so this is pertinent timing.
Your ability to reel off the names, sizes and growing zones for tree after tree without any obvious notes is amazing! How do you remember all those details and present them to effortlessly?
I have a boxwood that flowers and the fragrance is so lovely! very sweet and beautiful! no idea what variety it is. the fragrance is so pleasant I have cut the flowers off and put them in a vase.
Absolutely wonderful and informative video. I love that you included zone 9!! Zone 9 is hard because we are very wet with alot of humidity ...lol.. like 100% humidity and it's hard to find things that can grow in that type of environment. Anyways, I hope everyone is having a beautiful and blessed Friday. Take care and God Bless you all.
Not every zone 9 is humid. It just means you don’t get very cold in the winter.
This video was packed with so much new information for me. We are new to zone 6 and there is so much to learn. This very timely episode has started me in a new direction. Thank you so much. I'll be watching this one multiple times since it is loaded with useful information
Perfect timing! I was just going through your archives for videos on evergreens! I’m planting in a new yard and really have become obsessed with evergreens-especially conifers.
Hello Kaitlin. How are you doing?
Anyone else notice the movement to the left of the boxwoods at 4:44. Looked like a black cat. Zone 9a here in Southern California. About 30 minutes from Big Bear so we do get snow on occasion. Planted a pine two years ago and it is doing great. Plan on adding more. Love everything you do Laura. My husband and I found your channel on March 15, 2020 the first day of California's shutdown. We had no idea what we were going to do. Thank you Lord, for Garden Answer. You got our views, Lowes, Home Depot and our local nursery got the $$$. LOL
Planted 2 Carolina Sapphire Cypress trees this year…either side of our driveway…so excited to see them grow. Sitting on my couch I can look up to the top of the driveway and their backdrop across the street are maples, oaks and poplars and it’s just so pretty having my “blue” in the foreground. Always makes me think of your moms rule of colors to make a complete garden!
Thank you for another very informative video, you’re always teaching me something I never knewr!
Hello Chrisrfan. How are you doing? It’s has been a while since we learned many things from Laura!
We have two Princeton Maples in our yard. They are so beautiful and give a chartreuse colour all summer. A little brighter in the spring. In the fall, they go to a beautiful yellow. We have them next to some Blue Spruce and the contrast is so striking, that we have people mention it. We live in Canada and garden in a zone 4. If you can grow them in your area, I know you would love them. They would look so great in the south garden. Love your videos!
My blue Spruce is getting too tall, I bought it years ago from A Catolog, it was two of them ,did have to get rid of one because I couldn't find any takers, I love it just doesn't want a big tree 🤔
This is such a helpful video for people starting out. Three evergreens that I would be so happy if you had, are Taylor Junipers for very narrow spots, Horstmann's Silberlocke, which has a gorgeous two tone look, and beautiful holly for hedges and topiary. Also for people in zones 7 and warmer, don't forget camellias. Their foliage is gorgeous all year but best of all, they flower in autumn or winter when nothing else does.
I don’t know how holly of any variety do in Laura’s area. I am from there, and nobody seems to have any. (Maybe they don’t do well in alkaline soil). Similar looking alternative, Oregon grape.
@@laraemitchell9064 I am in Laura’s area and I have seen holly here, not a lot, though. And I think it takes a long time to get very big. It’s not the ideal environment for it.
We are about to loose our big spruce trees. Terrible bc we are old and do not have the time to enjoy them when grown. First is the worse - canker, those have to be cut down. Second is needle drop. They can be spray two times in the beginning of new spring growth. I hope you do not get these problems. The one small blue spruce we have that is so nice is called Baby Blue Eyes. Stays fairly small. Ours is about 8 tall now. So far it seems to be in unaffected. It is such a pretty blue. You planting a huge mix is wise! Just bc of disease. We have a hedge called Golden Hillside Privet. Stays green year round. Can be shaped. We live in the middle of Iowa. Near the top of zone 5. But we usually plant things from zone 4. Super cold here. Thank you for the information. We might need help now planting those evergreens. But love them too. Plus like to plant trees that live a super long time. Have you tried the male Ginkgo. Very yellow in the fall. November 16, 2022
Can you help? Is there anything new for the spruce trees that might have maybe a canker? I really do not want to cut them down! Please give me some ideas! Thank you so much. Merry Christmas!!! December 11, 2022
Laura, your enthusiasm about plants is inspiring! I learn something in every video! Thank you!
Perfect timing! I'm clearing out an overgrown area of our property and was just staring at it yesterday thinking evergreens were what I needed to start with and go from there...thankyou!
Wow. Look how much things have changed in the landscape since this was uploaded.
Hello Dee. How are you doing ?
This is perfect timing! I need to grow a hedge, and decided I'd start buying small trees for winter decor on the deck, then plant them out the following spring. Avatar here I come!
Great Info 👍 more than most videos. I hear the name Boxwood used to loosely with out explaining how many varieties there actually are and how different the growth patterns can be.
I started out thinking I was going to watch this video because I love Laura and all things GA, but wouldn't come away with good options for my garden today. I was pleasantly surprised! I SO appreciate it when you list the full zone spectrum of the plants, thank you! I'm in a zone 8, but I grew up in upstate NY and I love Colorado blue spruces so much, but I know I can't grow them here. This video gave me some fantastic ideas for beautiful evergreens I can substitute for my favorite!
Our property in NH is in the woods, so we have blue spruce, pines, evergreens that are part of our landscape .
I’m more drawn to the cypress , and junipers.I would love to add some around the house. Thanks for telling us about the different types! The Leland cypress would look great ! And I would love topiaries in planters!
I laughed when you described one of them being “Dr Seuss like” as one of my neighbors in our town has planted tons around his house. Every time I drive by I think “ it’s Who-Ville”. 😄
I could listen to you talk all day about gardening! Your videos are always amazing, informative, and just fun to watch!
I love pines & spruces!! My Father in Law when he lived in our home, planted several pines & spruces & now I am continuing to plant to continue what he started years ago! 😃🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
Great List of evergreens. I love evergreens to give structure to the garden and also during winter while everything goes to sleep, the evergreens continue shinning and showing an amazing display in the garden.
Absolutely love evergreens! So beautiful, thanks Laura for demystify the evergreens for us! Hugs🤗💜🤗
Hello Cami. How are you doing? It’s has been a while since we learned many things from Laura. I started my 5 year ago
These types of videos are super helpful! I would love to see a follow up on how to garden under evergreens. My garden is full of old pine trees. They’re beautiful and provide to much shade but it makes gardening really difficult.
I really love this kind of videos, with varieties of plants. I think it's a really good opportunity to learn gardening landscaping. ❇️💚
Hi hallo 🥰🥰 ma'am
I am in contract on a 10 acre house in Hudson Valley, NY and I can't wait to get my hands dirty. Love this video.
These videos aren't overwhelming at all! I've been waiting for this one! It's hard to keep track of all your evergreens when you plant them randomly (but don't stop the random plantings because I love them!)
Hello Rebecca. How are you doing?
Laura, I’m so glad you made this video as we moved here, Oklahoma from Indiana and I’ve planted tons of flowers but, no all year round greenery just bc I don’t know a lot about it. I’ve been grateful for you and your family making these videos I’ve learned so much. Thank you!
Hello Rosie. Very nice comment about Laura. How are you doing? I planted a bird nest spruce this fall they i am really excited to see grown.
Wow!! You mentioned my home province of Newfoundland! But I need to correct the pronunciation (which I always do!) it rhymes with understand - so, understand, Newfoundland. And yes if it grows in Newfoundland, which is in the North Atlantic, it will undoubtedly be super winter hardy. Love your tree selections and have added some to my own garden in Nova Scotia.
Hello Susan. How are you doing?
Thanks for this detailed study of evergreens, Laura. I'm refurbishing a 50-year-old zone 9b garden, and some of the original bones are now broken, or at least severely bent. Having these height, width, sun and shearing characteristics is such a help in deciding which to choose!
I’m doing the same and am also in 9b. I just tore out 30 years of mature plants that just looked so bad. 🥴 It’s been overwhelming.
@@sherric.2190 Hello Sherri. How are you doing ?
You are a beast in the garden. I'm having a dry creek bed installed to replace my lawn. Hopefully we can divert the gutter downspout so when it rains in winter I'll have a bit of a creek. I wanted a very wintery type feel to accompany my white Birch. I have no idea what it's called but it's majestic and it will be given it's own drip line. It has these very large eyes that I can see from my living room window. Amazing what nature can do. Ok so I love Junipers and love you added zones and showed them in real time. Thank you for doing this video. You are a natural. Cheers and best wishes
Living in the southwest coastal zone for so long I've missed snow on evergreens! Nicely documented~~
Hello Michael. How are you doing? I planted a bird nest spruce this fall they i am really excited to see grown.
Good morning! Even though all of your content may not be relevant to me (in my present space), I somehow find myself compelled to watch every video. I guess you can say I'm a dedicated supporter of G.A. Thanks!
Those Arborvitae and the Pinpoint Blue cypress are gorgeous! I will add them to my "list" for my landscaping reno considerations. I am in northern Georgia with thick red clay soil where we are classified as Zone 7b. Thank you!
Oh yes, I have so many pretty variety, we’re 6b so it’s exciting that we can get some longer growing season
Thanks for the great descriptions.
I would also recommend yew (Taxus) and Canadian hemlock (Tsuga) for more urban landscape applications with deep shade where other conifers will not thrive. And, personally, living in the northeast, I can't imagine a landscape without the long soft needles of Eastern White Pine with its majestic wild form and the tallest tree in our forests. There are lovely dwarf garden varieties of it too.
Hello Evie. How are you doing? Very nice comment. I planted a bird nest spruce this fall they i am really excited to see grown. I have been trying to figure out which boxwoods to plant Next spring so this is pertinent timing.
I love this video I've watched it twice now. This time of year that the deciduous trees are all going to sleep it makes me appreciate the evergreens in landscapes! The red tipped one sounds wonderful! Your south garden is going to be like a Botanical gardens. So many unique specimens. I'm excited to see how many spring blooming shrubs you add next year!
Your channel has made me understand that having evergreens for year round interest has helped me establish my 2 year garden. Been a subscriber and avid watcher 4ever
Hello Jacqueline. How are you doing?
Good morning! Always like this type of video. I’ve learned so much from watching you.
Thanks for showing the various evergreens. I’m thinking about putting a couple of them in. Deer resistance is a major requirement.
Just bought a home that has a cute deer family in the yard daily. I am coming from a home where I did not have to worry at all! Talk about game changer! I’m mourning my wild abandonment in my tulip beds and hydrangea borders 🌷🌱 🦌 😩
Good morning! 🌻🐝
Thank you for sharing the different varieties of evergreens.
New lamp looks gorgeous laura! good find. and yeah thanks for informative video.
I could not leave the house this morning without listening to this video LOL. I love evergreens especially the trees. Myzone here in Indiana Southern is a 6. I have a couple Acres I planted some pine trees on but I want to make a screen fast-growing across the front of the property and this really helped me make some decisions on the trees that would be perfect for that thank you so much
Fascinating video. I love evergreens. Here in Texas, we are limited to the choices we have to chose from. But, thanks to you Laura, I see there are more that will grow here in zone 8a.
Euonymous however down here do have quite a hard time with insects. They can be controlled, but it becomes a hassle to stay on top of the problems. They are beautiful though.
My first house I pulled every single evergreen out, hated them all and hated them for years, yet watching your channel you are bring back the love of evergreens....
Eeek that's so sad!
Greeting from Serbia! Thank you for the wonderful content :) !
I’m super excited for the aquavita junipers! Nice small size and pretty color! Perfect choice for my zone 8 😍
You join me in your journey adventures plz 🌹🥀🌻🌺🌼🌹
I am a new gardener and I designed 3 large, new garden beds around my house this past spring/summer. The one I built mainly around evergreen shrubs & trees is by far the best design!
I learned a lot through the process - in my first garden, I focused almost solely on flowers (for an English-cottage look) and it needs to be fixed next year. It looks messy; lacks structure and multi-season interest.
I’ve learned to:
1. build around anchor shrubs and trees first (flowers are exciting but should come after the vertical and horizontal shape is set),
2. plan for 4-season interest
AND
3. combine at least 3 out of the 4 main colour schemes for the best look (blues & silvery greys | yellows | reds & burgundy | traditional greens).
I learned a lot from you, Laura and all of the lovely commenters here so a big thanks to this community! Wish I could share a pic of the “good” garden 😂 I’m pretty proud of it for being a newbie 😊
That red-tipped spruce is so cool! I found listings for a few of these and bookmarked them for future reference. Being in humid NC, a lot of evergreens don't do well here, so thank you for including some that might! I just want to shout out the blue point juniper for folks in my area. I put one in this spring and it has done great with just an occasional extra watering.
Picea abies 'rubra spicata' is a red tipped spruce that can grow in North Carolina no problem. I have a bunch in my yard in north Atlanta ga in a 7b and they are healthy as an ox. I have them in excellent drainage and a little out of direct sun, but they are killer cool.
@@yourjunkguys5384 Nice! Thanks for the update. I will definitely be looking for one.
❤️loving the evergreens. I planted 2 Trautman junipers they grow 3 to 4 feet wide and stay around 12feet high in my small space and now I want to make a little woodland the idea of winter interest really appeals to me. The winter seems so long and to look out to beautiful evergreen in your space is such a joy. I need some more dwarf versions though! Love the way your space is shaping up!
Love the red tip. Great video. Thank you so very much for sharing. We’re just having a 4 day blizzard so gotta go and snow-blow. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
WOW!! THIS WAS GREAT! I LOVE SPRUCES! & ARBS & needed to know of Boxwoods. Your Fruit Tree video was GREAT TOO! WHERE OH WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR BOUNDLESS ENERGY FROM!?! How does your husband get any work done seeing your striking beautiful eyes! And THIS ENTIRE VIDEO YOU NEVER nocked your coffee cup! Mine would've long gone -oops-flying across the room ! Your videos and knowledge & Vitality is such a joy to behold! I Always look forward to what garden adventures in planting await! Enjoyed The Pond Guy video too! I loved seeing your folks garden ! I'm so glad I removed the wire basket from my Norway Spruce gift tree. ENDLESS ENTHUSIASM!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! So INSPIRING !!
I love all your videos! I was a manager at a landscaping company and found your videos to be very helpful and I learned so much! I can't wait to see your Christmas content! Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Hi Laura! Those are some beautiful trees. I like the blue ones the best, too. Thank you so much for sharing!
Hello Sandy. How are you doing? I planted a bird nest spruce this fall they i am really excited to see grown.
All that and you did not even have a sip of your coffee! Very interesting! Thank you so much!
That Gold Rider plant would look great in a few spots in your garden! That is so beautiful!
Love the selection you offered. I see a couple I'd like to try in my GA zone 8A garden.
I'm surprised you didn't mention hollies. They are evergreen, gorgeous colors and they offer berries for the birds. I've got Nellie Stevens hollies in my yard and they can either be trimmed to hedge or left to grow naturally. I've got some in full shade - which grow more slowly and sparsely - and some in full sun which are lush and full.
Another evergreen that grows well in zone 8 is the Sweet Tea Olive. Glossy green leaves, can grow very large or be trimmed to keep smaller, and they bloom tiny white flowers that have a HEAVENLY scent. Calloway Gardens has a huge hedge of them and when they are in bloom, oh. my. word. One is transported... 😍😍
Hollies don’t grow very well in Laur’as area, so she wouldn’t know a lot about them, probably.
@@cynthiafisher9907 Hello Cynthia. How are you doing? I have been trying to figure out which boxwoods to plant Next spring so this is pertinent timing.
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Thank you so much-needed information regarding adding new evergreens 🌲 😊.
Hello Jennifer. How are you doing ? It’s has been a while since we learned many things from Laura!
Congrats on your great coffee cup! It reminds me of the one my Mom received as a Mother Day present from my little boy many years ago . It has the thumb type hold and the curved lip making for a fantastic cup to drink from. She just loved it and constantly said "don't ever let anything happen to this cup" ! I have it in my cupboard now in a safe place! Good luck to you and your family....greg zone 5
Excellent selection. Beautiful evergreens. Thank you Laura!🌷
Hello Change. How are you doing?
Colorado Blue Spruce thrives, and is my favorite conifer, in our east Kansas yard. Along with our hollies and yews (kept trimmed at 3' to 4' ht) these three evergreens are the most frequently visited by a variety of birds. We enjoy watching the cardinals, especially, as they eat the berries on several holly bushes near the bay window.
Thanks for the vibrant flavor/colors added to the sun porch back ground. I felt soooo, stifled without color in your garden! Thanks again and happy growing..
Zone 3 here!! We don’t strictly follow the two zone lower rule because then I’d only be growing Arctic shrubs and grasses lol Which I’ve done! My dream is to have an established perennial garden 💜Love the videos and being able to grow vicariously through you!
I love these videos when you give us a list of plants to consider for our gardens. I’ve had landscape designers who don’t do half the job you do! So to answer you question: Yes! I enjoyed this video very much!!
Hello Laurel. How are you doing? I planted a bird nest spruce this fall they i am really excited to see grown.
Over the last 28 months, I have planted 35 evergreens. Love them.
Planning on planting a hedge of boxwoods around my deck in the spring, inspired by seeing yours!
I find myself looking at the foliage of trees more this year. I'm in the market for a new one or two next year and I think it's because I'm watching Laura's chloices and her decisions on trees that include fall color. I swear I hear her voice in my head. Also, the mugo pine is a great small evergreen with scruffy, compact structure. Love these tips on evergreens.
For southern gardeners (zone 8+), many things for us are evergreen. However, a good list for our gardens are camellia, sweet olive, podocarpus, eastern red cedar, Italian cypress, southern magnolia, live oak, eucalyptus, oleander, gardenia, and citrus.
Ya nice list. I have a 12-15 foot 'cupressus macrocarpa saligna aurea' growing in my yard here in Atlanta. It's so crazy awesome.
Leyland Cypress is wonderful, they grow 4 ft a year in my area. My husband put them in as a hedge to stop a bored and creepy neighbor from peering into our yard. I don't think he ever watered them, or maybe he only watered them the first time and over the years those trees take care of themselves. They are beautifully green and gorgeous in the winter when everything is dead and only snow is on the ground. I love Emerald Arborvitae also but deer love to eat those. I definitely will look to get North Pole Arborvitae to put in as a hedge in another area.
Laura, thanks for this video!
I'm with you on spruce vs pines. We have 4 very large pine trees on our property and they're the dirtiest trees ever, dropping their very long needles year round.
Thank you for all the information on evergreens. I was hoping you could recommend an evergreen that stays relatively small, slow growing that would be good for either side of a garage.