So many beautiful design elements in your garden, very inspirational. I enjoy how you explain changes in your gargen and landscape over time and include clips from different seasons. Great videos!
The deers eat the buckeye fruit, in Canada we call the buckeye tree chestnut trees. The deers eat the chestnuts in fall like crazy. No squirrels in this Atlantic region. Gorgeous property and gardens! Great job Kevin and Mrs. Kevin. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Great tour, Kevin, thank you! Can you please clarify the Colorado blue spruce is Blue Horizon as you listed? The only reference I'm finding on the internet with that name is a low growing ground creeper blue spruce. I have an Iseli fastigiata blue spruce and recall your sester, and I recently noticed there is a newer totem variety but it doesn't seem to be widely available yet. I love the dwarf columnar spruce trees.
Interesting! My map/log books showed Blue Horizon so I did some digging. I was pretty sure that it was sourced from Oregon Pride Nursery. I used to do the buying for a garden center I worked at, and sure enough, I found a photo of it on their website: www.oregonpridenurseries.com/picea-pungens-glauca-pendula-the-bl They are indicating a mature size of 3’H x 6’W. Then, I also found an older photo of my own, taken about the time it was planted when I was building the water feature. And sure enough, my plant looks about the same as the photo on the Oregon Pride website. I’ve mentioned in some of my other videos that the Globe Colorados can revert back to a pyramidal form and it looks like this one has done so with a vengeance! Funny that at 9:30 in the video I was questioning why I would have planted two pyramidal plants (the other a weeping white spruce) so close together!? Now I know. I was expecting it to be a globe spruce! As the growing season winds down, I spend some of winter time writing blog articles for my website, gardenhike.com. I’ll put this topic at the top of my list so I can show the early photo, and explain what can happen. Thanks for the great question. Glad you enjoyed the tour!
I wish the water was always that clear 😊. We struggle with string algae during the hottest part of the season. We remove a lot of it with a rake, drain the pond a couple times a year to let the sun bake it (the algae), and add algaecide occasionally. I also have an ultraviolet light plumbed into the water line but a film quickly builds up on the bulb casing making it less effective than I would like. The vertical gabion piece was from another garden I toured. I believe the owner made it himself.
Hi Kevin thanks for sharing you beautiful garden, I just have a question what’s the ever green plants on your container behind that green shrub beside your mugo ? Thanks
I’m in WI (zone 4) and have heard a lot of people say blue spruce are prone to disease. Have you found that to be true? I have baby blue and Monty blue spruces and kind of assume they were bred to be more hardy.
Love your channel Kevin, and the emphasis on trees, architecture and art. (Long-time watcher here).
👍Thanks! I appreciate that!
So many beautiful design elements in your garden, very inspirational. I enjoy how you explain changes in your gargen and landscape over time and include clips from different seasons. Great videos!
The deers eat the buckeye fruit, in Canada we call the buckeye tree chestnut trees. The deers eat the chestnuts in fall like crazy. No squirrels in this Atlantic region. Gorgeous property and gardens! Great job Kevin and Mrs. Kevin. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Love the squirrels - I plant trees for them : )
Relaxing , inspiring and informative. I really appreciate your content. Thank you.
Great tour, Kevin, thank you! Can you please clarify the Colorado blue spruce is Blue Horizon as you listed? The only reference I'm finding on the internet with that name is a low growing ground creeper blue spruce. I have an Iseli fastigiata blue spruce and recall your sester, and I recently noticed there is a newer totem variety but it doesn't seem to be widely available yet. I love the dwarf columnar spruce trees.
Interesting! My map/log books showed Blue Horizon so I did some digging. I was pretty sure that it was sourced from Oregon Pride Nursery. I used to do the buying for a garden center I worked at, and sure enough, I found a photo of it on their website: www.oregonpridenurseries.com/picea-pungens-glauca-pendula-the-bl
They are indicating a mature size of 3’H x 6’W.
Then, I also found an older photo of my own, taken about the time it was planted when I was building the water feature. And sure enough, my plant looks about the same as the photo on the Oregon Pride website.
I’ve mentioned in some of my other videos that the Globe Colorados can revert back to a pyramidal form and it looks like this one has done so with a vengeance! Funny that at 9:30 in the video I was questioning why I would have planted two pyramidal plants (the other a weeping white spruce) so close together!? Now I know. I was expecting it to be a globe spruce!
As the growing season winds down, I spend some of winter time writing blog articles for my website, gardenhike.com. I’ll put this topic at the top of my list so I can show the early photo, and explain what can happen.
Thanks for the great question. Glad you enjoyed the tour!
Wow. So many beautiful things. How do you keep your water so clear? Also, where did you get that gorgeous verticals gabion sculpture thingy?
I wish the water was always that clear 😊. We struggle with string algae during the hottest part of the season. We remove a lot of it with a rake, drain the pond a couple times a year to let the sun bake it (the algae), and add algaecide occasionally. I also have an ultraviolet light plumbed into the water line but a film quickly builds up on the bulb casing making it less effective than I would like. The vertical gabion piece was from another garden I toured. I believe the owner made it himself.
Hi Kevin thanks for sharing you beautiful garden, I just have a question what’s the ever green plants on your container behind that green shrub beside your mugo ? Thanks
If you are referring to the one at about 6:22 in the video, it’s a Russian Cypress, (Microbiota decussata).
I’m in WI (zone 4) and have heard a lot of people say blue spruce are prone to disease. Have you found that to be true? I have baby blue and Monty blue spruces and kind of assume they were bred to be more hardy.
For my area, not yet. But I’ve heard from around Fargo, ND going east, yes, needle-cast diseases have become very prevalent on the Colorado Spruce.