Thank you!!! Birdsong in the garden does add an extra element of enjoyment to the experience! I want to have clouds of butterflies and birds all the time!!! I’m going to do more to attract them this spring!
Oh my goodness!!! Your garden is absolutely goals!! 😍😍🌸🌺✨ It’s so hard growing a cottage style garden in zone 9 with all the heat and pests but you’ve just inspired me to try again this season! I’ve just planted a bunch of wildflowers I grew from last season and now I’m going to just sprinkle them around the entire garden. Thank you so much for the inspo!
Oh, yay!!! I'm so glad that you have been inspired to give it another go!!! I love having wildflowers growing! I'm letting my front yard go wild, and the birds have been so sweet to plant interesting things for me! It's the only way that I can figure that I got a beautyberry bush in the front yard. A bird musta pooped a seed there. LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening omg! what a sweet treat!!! have you tried beautyberry jam before? 😍 i have not but i hear it’s floral and delicious! i can wait to see how your garden continues to blossom 🥰🌸
I know how frustrating that can be since plants in full sun need way more watering and mulch! Luckily, vincas and pentas and salvia LOVE the sun and they look so good together!
Thanks, Ester! It’s a dream come true to get to have a garden with a rose arbor! I’ve wanted one since I first saw one which was probably when I was 3 years old!
Thanks!!! We may be having some snow flurries today, so I’m very thankful to be able to revisit the garden via video. I can’t wait to start planting new things this spring! I hope you get to plant something beautiful too!!!
What a gorgeous garden. I am in zone 9 in Southern CA. I have calendula, nasturtium, baby blue eyes, California Poppies, sweet peas, violets and English stock blooming or getting ready to flower right now.
Oh!!! That’s wonderful that you have so many beauties popping out right now!!! I’m going to get cracking on starting some seeds soon! I had calendulas growing last year for the first time. They are such cheery plants!!! I know you are loving your garden right now!!!!!!!!
New sub. Moved to Louisiana so need to know what kind of plants thrive here.Forgot to mention how gorgeous your garden is! Thank you for taking the time to share with us.
Awww! Thanks!!! I’ve planted a lot of things and killed a lot of things and I’m slowly discovering what wants to live here and what doesn’t. It turns out that I only learn the hard way. LOL!
Everything is so lovely! That climbing rose and the sunflowers make me so happy. And that sunlight shinning through at the end. I wish I was there to enjoy it with you but this in the next best thing! XO
Thanks, Akeo! I’m really itching to get things growing again! February is the most difficult month to get through, so it’s really nice to be able to look back and remember what the garden used to look like!
LOL! I think they do too because they get a little crazy over there, especially the doves! I was sitting out in the garden the other morning and felt myself being watched. I looked up and a cheeky dove was eyeing me from the roof of the house. They are entertaining little mites!
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Now that I think about it, ones that grow the best around here in my garden do tend to get a little bit of shade, but I've also seen gorgeous stands of elephant ears that are in full sun!
2:35 Wild Cherry (Prunus serotina) is red hot up here for producing Tiger Swallowtails and Red Spotted Purples, awa various moths of note. Grows fast, and tall! Likes drainage and ROOM.
Oh, yasss! I want a jillion tiger swallowtails! I’m going to try to grow another cherry tree this year. Last year I got a tiny sapling and planted it a place where plants quickly grew over it and shaded it out. That was thoughtless of me!
It did come with the picket fence wings. It is the Nantucket Deluxe Arbor. I can’t find where I ordered it from, but there is one on vinylfenceanddeck.com shown without the wings
It’s lovely. I would move the bird bath opposite the window so you have a nice view from indoors-maybe where the Salvia leucantha is now. Why are you blocking the path under the arch?
Thanks! LOL! I never meant to block the path, but the salvia grew overly large and then fell over and grew over the path and I didn’t have the heart to cut it back. And I moved the birdbath, but I don’t like the spot that it’s in right now either. I will have to keep trying new spots!
You've done good, very pretty, I am wondering, I notice the sun in the background, can't quite tell if it's morning, or dusk sun, it seemed to be getting brighter as the video went on, so, my question is, does the sun come directly over on top of the garden, does your garden get the full blunt of the sun during the day, and since this was 7 months back, how did everything do with this past summer. Thankyou for sharing.
Yes I love your garden. Are you in Texas zone9a or California zone 9a I’m in Texas zone 9b.And if you don’t mind. Do you buy plants that you like and find a place for them or do you buy with a plan in mind.
Hey, Jo! I’m on the Alabama Gulf Coast. I really like the English cottage garden style, but I’m also very into symmetry. So, I’ve tried to keep the bed in front of the rose arbor balanced with the same planting on both sides and then once inside the garden anything goes. LOL! That’s mainly because I tossed out seeds and then let them grow where they felt like it. Have you seen Piet Oudolf’s designs? I love the swathes and patches of color that he implements. His gardens are like paintings. This year I am going to really play with color, and let more yellow in! I’m also still learning what wants to live here and what doesn’t. Isn’t playing outside fun?!?
❤ absolutely beautiful! Please tell me how do you take care of the hydrangeas? I have tried each summer and it’s too hot in Houston. Thank you so much much for inspiring us.
Thanks, Leonila! I've had a time with my hydrangeas myself! They get weird brown spots on the leaves and in some areas of the garden I planted them in too much shade and in other areas they get too much sun. Thankfully, they are very tough, way tougher than you would imagine, and they can take being transplanted to other areas of the garden. I have some hydrangeas that I have moved multiple times! I'm going to dig my bobo hydrangea up and put it in a pot because I put it in too much shade and it needs 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight. I was too optimistic about the light conditions where I originally planted it. All that to say that hydrangeas needs are quite varied. I sure wish that I knew the magic formula for growing them, but I am still very much in the experimental stage with them. HAHA!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening You are wonderful! Thank you for your valuable time and for your continuous updates and inspiration. I will give them a try in the summer. 🙏🏻
I love buckeye butterflies!!! I’m going to be keeping a close eye on my frogfruit this year to see what buckeye and white peacock caterpillars look like!
6:28 Try Dicentra, a foot friendly native groundcover.ground over. The gc shown, also known as matchweed, is a host and nectar source for White Peacocks, who also use Bacopa monnieri (water hyssops) as a host. Match weed is a great nectar source for smaller butterflies and pollinators, being in the Verbenaceae family.
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening You already have it, the frogfruit. That's just another common name If you look at the flowerheads, they look a bit like matches catching on fire. Watch it, though, as it tends to run around a lot and get into your beds.
@@kinglyzard Oh! LOL! It has a lot of names! I do really love it a lot. The flowers are darling! And it does like to run but so far it isn’t out of control.
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening Cool. Maybe it's slower growing in Northern Fla and Central Fla with the colder winters, but it grows like gangbusters in Sofia! And the pollinators...
I’m using my iphone 11 pro max. I can hold it way steadier than my DSLR because it is so light. I did try using my big camera in the garden with a tripod, but it’s just so clunky and has such limited movement. Thanks for complimenting my steady hands! LOL! The coffee must have worn off by the time I recorded this video!
Isn’t it the cutest?!? It didn’t work for very long, but that could have been my fault. I should have cleaned it more regularly! I got it on Amazon for$15 or $17, but then I saw it somewhere else for $12, so shop around!
Obsessed with your garden! Love the elephant ears and plumeria. What is the name of the little lime green crawling out under the pink flowers at 7:40 ? Gorgeous!
LOL! Thanks!!! I’m glad that you are liking it! That lime green plant is creeping jenny and isn’t it just too cute? It does crawl out of pots and then proceed to crawl along the ground. It’s a great ground cover and a fabulous spiller if you do the pillar, filler, thriller, and spiller plant combination in a big pot. I guess it is a perennial because all of mine survived the winter and are just now starting to rev up for another go around.
I think that coleus could live as a perennial in zone 10 and 11, but it can't take being frozen. I had a few that I thought might be able to limp along in the ground this winter, but they turned black after they froze to death. Now the ones that I have in pots in the potting shed seem like they are going to regrow. I will keep you up to date on what makes it and what doesn't!
Hey, Kelli! Yes! That’s right! I think plumeria is the latin name for it. It is super easy to grow here on the Alabama Gulf Coast in zone 9a! I ended up moving the plumeria to the front yard where the plantings are more tropical looking. I broke some pieces off one of my larger trees and gave them to a friend and they are growing several in their garden too. Isn’t that cool?!?
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening yes. I’ve given one of each color to a friend in Wisconsin and a friend in Northwest Indiana. They keep them inside in the winter in front of a window and put them outside in the summer. They have all bloomed! I live in zone 10a in Southwest Florida. I love them!
@@terrijohnson2191 Oh, how wonderful!!! You probably have butterflies there all year! It’s started to be like that here. I still have monarch butterflies!
I had a butterfly garden up in the Green Mountains of Vermont at zone 4a/b. We were right on the edge. I had one little bush of tea roses that came back every year, lots of herbs and perennial favorites. Thank you for sharing yours.
@@ginger9475 I’m so glad that you got to experience the joys of having a butterfly garden!!! You know firsthand how magical it is so have those lovely creatures grace you with their presence!
Oh my goodness!!! Your garden is absolutely goals!! 😍😍🌸🌺✨ It’s so hard growing a cottage style garden in zone 9 with all the heat and pests but you’ve just inspired me to try again this season! I’ve just planted a bunch of wildflowers I grew from last season and now I’m going to just sprinkle them around the entire garden. Thank you so much for the inspo!
It’s so intoxicating to hear the sound of birds, and your garden is so lovely. 💖
Thank you!!! Birdsong in the garden does add an extra element of enjoyment to the experience! I want to have clouds of butterflies and birds all the time!!! I’m going to do more to attract them this spring!
Just gorgeous.
Thank you!!!
Your garden is beautiful! What an inspiration i will binge watch all your videos for sure
Thanks, Ana! LOL about the binge watching! I’m so glad that my videos are inspiring you! It is so much fun to plant things and watch them grow!!!
Oh my goodness!!! Your garden is absolutely goals!! 😍😍🌸🌺✨ It’s so hard growing a cottage style garden in zone 9 with all the heat and pests but you’ve just inspired me to try again this season! I’ve just planted a bunch of wildflowers I grew from last season and now I’m going to just sprinkle them around the entire garden. Thank you so much for the inspo!
Oh, yay!!! I'm so glad that you have been inspired to give it another go!!! I love having wildflowers growing! I'm letting my front yard go wild, and the birds have been so sweet to plant interesting things for me! It's the only way that I can figure that I got a beautyberry bush in the front yard. A bird musta pooped a seed there. LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening omg! what a sweet treat!!! have you tried beautyberry jam before? 😍 i have not but i hear it’s floral and delicious! i can wait to see how your garden continues to blossom 🥰🌸
I haven't had beautyberry jam but I have tasted the berries and they aren't good. You gotta add allota sugar to make that stuff palatable. LOL!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening yes!!! that’s why i’m so intrigued on how the jams good? LOL! the berries are definitely an acquired taste 🌚
I am in 9a zone too. Trying to grow a cottage garden. My place is in full sun so it’s difficult.
I know how frustrating that can be since plants in full sun need way more watering and mulch! Luckily, vincas and pentas and salvia LOVE the sun and they look so good together!
Lovely. I love all the surprises as well, other than the gophers moving the tulip bulbs out in the middle off the yard. Lol.
Thank you!!! LOL about the gophers! I had no idea that they could do that! It must be such a shock to see tulips coming up in odd places! Haha!
What a beautiful garden, thankyou for sharing
Thanks, Ester! It’s a dream come true to get to have a garden with a rose arbor! I’ve wanted one since I first saw one which was probably when I was 3 years old!
Your garden is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Thanks!!! We may be having some snow flurries today, so I’m very thankful to be able to revisit the garden via video. I can’t wait to start planting new things this spring! I hope you get to plant something beautiful too!!!
Your garden looks amazing 🦋🤗
Thank you!!! I am loving creating a place for butterflies and birds to gather! Seeing them in the garden makes my heart sing!
What a gorgeous garden. I am in zone
9 in Southern CA. I have calendula, nasturtium, baby blue eyes, California Poppies, sweet peas, violets and English stock blooming or getting ready to flower right now.
Oh!!! That’s wonderful that you have so many beauties popping out right now!!! I’m going to get cracking on starting some seeds soon! I had calendulas growing last year for the first time. They are such cheery plants!!! I know you are loving your garden right now!!!!!!!!
I love the blend of flowers, herbs, vegetables and fruit tree all mixed together. Looks so natural and beautiful!!!
Thanks!!! I enjoy a lot of variety in color and texture and uses too! If it’s beautiful and useful, then I want it!
Beautiful!!
Thanks, Beth!!! Your gingers are really livening up the front flowerbed! And you know the tree frogs are loving them!
I am envious.
Oh, no, Claire!!! Don’t be envious! You can do this too! If I can grow this stuff, then you can grow it too!!!
So scenic and beautiful
Thank you!!! I’m chomping at the bit for spring to get here! I can’t wait to plant a million seeds!
So peaceful🪴
Thank you! All you can do is plant things and pray that God will supply everything else, all the way down to the birdsong! LOL!
New sub. Moved to Louisiana so need to know what kind of plants thrive here.Forgot to mention how gorgeous your garden is! Thank you for taking the time to share with us.
Awww! Thanks!!! I’ve planted a lot of things and killed a lot of things and I’m slowly discovering what wants to live here and what doesn’t. It turns out that I only learn the hard way. LOL!
Everything is so lovely! That climbing rose and the sunflowers make me so happy. And that sunlight shinning through at the end. I wish I was there to enjoy it with you but this in the next best thing! XO
Thanks, Bethany!!! I hope this year’s garden will be the best ever, filled with color and butterflies!
Beautiful garden
Thanks!!! I’m enjoying puttering around in it and playing with plants and seeds. It started out for the butterflies, but now it’s my therapy! LOL!
Lovely🥰
Thanks!!!
Wow....speechless....beautiful garden
Thanks, Akeo! I’m really itching to get things growing again! February is the most difficult month to get through, so it’s really nice to be able to look back and remember what the garden used to look like!
very beautiful cant wait until my backyard looks like that
It won’t take long if you live in a warm climate! I can hardly believe it myself, but this garden was only six months old when I took this video!
I think the birds get a bit high on sunflower seeds and is why they love it! Beautiful gardens!
LOL! I think they do too because they get a little crazy over there, especially the doves! I was sitting out in the garden the other morning and felt myself being watched. I looked up and a cheeky dove was eyeing me from the roof of the house. They are entertaining little mites!
Estou apaixonada pelo seu jardim, um sonho encantado, vem conhecer o meu
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Thanks, Ilda!!! I’m trying to fill it with color! I want to have a cloud of butterflies coming to it!
Beautiful 💕💕💕
Thank you! I just plant the flowers and tell them that it’s up to them and God to do the rest! LOL!
Love the elephant ears. Will they do well in full sun, or more in partial shade? Beautiful garden
Now that I think about it, ones that grow the best around here in my garden do tend to get a little bit of shade, but I've also seen gorgeous stands of elephant ears that are in full sun!
2:35
Wild Cherry (Prunus serotina) is red hot up here for producing Tiger Swallowtails and Red Spotted Purples, awa various moths of note.
Grows fast, and tall!
Likes drainage and ROOM.
Oh, yasss! I want a jillion tiger swallowtails! I’m going to try to grow another cherry tree this year. Last year I got a tiny sapling and planted it a place where plants quickly grew over it and shaded it out. That was thoughtless of me!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening
You might try Liriodendron instead and give them a choice.
What works in WI won't necessarily be as productive in Fla.
Love the fence! Did it come with the trellis? Been looking for fencing like that
It did come with the picket fence wings. It is the Nantucket Deluxe Arbor. I can’t find where I ordered it from, but there is one on vinylfenceanddeck.com shown without the wings
It’s lovely. I would move the bird bath opposite the window so you have a nice view from indoors-maybe where the Salvia leucantha is now.
Why are you blocking the path under the arch?
Thanks! LOL! I never meant to block the path, but the salvia grew overly large and then fell over and grew over the path and I didn’t have the heart to cut it back. And I moved the birdbath, but I don’t like the spot that it’s in right now either. I will have to keep trying new spots!
You've done good, very pretty, I am wondering, I notice the sun in the background, can't quite tell if it's morning, or dusk sun, it seemed to be getting brighter as the video went on, so, my question is, does the sun come directly over on top of the garden, does your garden get the full blunt of the sun during the day, and since this was 7 months back, how did everything do with this past summer. Thankyou for sharing.
I just went into your channel, and see you do a lot of updates, so I can probably see how the garden has been doing
Thanks! I’m glad that you are enjoying it! I get a lot of sun in the garden. It faces south so there a lot of heat back there during the summer!
Yes I love your garden. Are you in Texas zone9a or California zone 9a I’m in Texas zone 9b.And if you don’t mind. Do you buy plants that you like and find a place for them or do you buy with a plan in mind.
Hey, Jo! I’m on the Alabama Gulf Coast. I really like the English cottage garden style, but I’m also very into symmetry. So, I’ve tried to keep the bed in front of the rose arbor balanced with the same planting on both sides and then once inside the garden anything goes. LOL! That’s mainly because I tossed out seeds and then let them grow where they felt like it. Have you seen Piet Oudolf’s designs? I love the swathes and patches of color that he implements. His gardens are like paintings. This year I am going to really play with color, and let more yellow in! I’m also still learning what wants to live here and what doesn’t. Isn’t playing outside fun?!?
❤ absolutely beautiful! Please tell me how do you take care of the hydrangeas? I have tried each summer and it’s too hot in Houston. Thank you so much much for inspiring us.
Thanks, Leonila! I've had a time with my hydrangeas myself! They get weird brown spots on the leaves and in some areas of the garden I planted them in too much shade and in other areas they get too much sun. Thankfully, they are very tough, way tougher than you would imagine, and they can take being transplanted to other areas of the garden. I have some hydrangeas that I have moved multiple times! I'm going to dig my bobo hydrangea up and put it in a pot because I put it in too much shade and it needs 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight. I was too optimistic about the light conditions where I originally planted it. All that to say that hydrangeas needs are quite varied. I sure wish that I knew the magic formula for growing them, but I am still very much in the experimental stage with them. HAHA!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening You are wonderful! Thank you for your valuable time and for your continuous updates and inspiration. I will give them a try in the summer. 🙏🏻
frogfruit is a larval host plant for white peacock and buckeye butterflies there is one more but i don't remember it
I love buckeye butterflies!!! I’m going to be keeping a close eye on my frogfruit this year to see what buckeye and white peacock caterpillars look like!
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Try Dicentra, a foot friendly native groundcover.ground over.
The gc shown, also known as matchweed, is a host and nectar source for White Peacocks, who also use Bacopa monnieri (water hyssops) as a host.
Match weed is a great nectar source for smaller butterflies and pollinators, being in the Verbenaceae family.
I’ve never heard of match weed! I will ask my butterfly host plant supplier if she can get some!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening
You already have it, the frogfruit.
That's just another common name
If you look at the flowerheads, they look a bit like matches catching on fire.
Watch it, though, as it tends to run around a lot and get into your beds.
@@kinglyzard Oh! LOL! It has a lot of names! I do really love it a lot. The flowers are darling! And it does like to run but so far it isn’t out of control.
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening
Cool. Maybe it's slower growing in Northern Fla and Central Fla with the colder winters, but it grows like gangbusters in Sofia! And the pollinators...
Out of curiosity what camera are you using? It’s very good at image stabilization. I have an m50 but honestly I use my iPhone 😂
I’m using my iphone 11 pro max. I can hold it way steadier than my DSLR because it is so light. I did try using my big camera in the garden with a tripod, but it’s just so clunky and has such limited movement. Thanks for complimenting my steady hands! LOL! The coffee must have worn off by the time I recorded this video!
Hola greetings from south Texas also zone 9a or 9b! I love that solar bird bath...where did you find it?
Isn’t it the cutest?!? It didn’t work for very long, but that could have been my fault. I should have cleaned it more regularly! I got it on Amazon for$15 or $17, but then I saw it somewhere else for $12, so shop around!
Obsessed with your garden! Love the elephant ears and plumeria. What is the name of the little lime green crawling out under the pink flowers at 7:40 ? Gorgeous!
LOL! Thanks!!! I’m glad that you are liking it! That lime green plant is creeping jenny and isn’t it just too cute? It does crawl out of pots and then proceed to crawl along the ground. It’s a great ground cover and a fabulous spiller if you do the pillar, filler, thriller, and spiller plant combination in a big pot. I guess it is a perennial because all of mine survived the winter and are just now starting to rev up for another go around.
How do you organize or schedule how much and when to water all those plants? Just buy similar ones?
When I hand water them, I will water the larger ones for twice as long.
Does the coleus come back every year or is it an annual? I'm 9a Texas an mine died back with the cold snap in December.
I think that coleus could live as a perennial in zone 10 and 11, but it can't take being frozen. I had a few that I thought might be able to limp along in the ground this winter, but they turned black after they froze to death. Now the ones that I have in pots in the potting shed seem like they are going to regrow. I will keep you up to date on what makes it and what doesn't!
2:18 it's actually turmeric, I can tell from a million miles away..
LOL! Thanks for the confirmation! I’m going to dig it up and juice some of it and plant the rest with banana trees and elephant ears.
That tree that they make lea’s out of is called frangipani.
Where do you live?
Hey, Kelli! Yes! That’s right! I think plumeria is the latin name for it. It is super easy to grow here on the Alabama Gulf Coast in zone 9a! I ended up moving the plumeria to the front yard where the plantings are more tropical looking. I broke some pieces off one of my larger trees and gave them to a friend and they are growing several in their garden too. Isn’t that cool?!?
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening yes. I’ve given one of each color to a friend in Wisconsin and a friend in Northwest Indiana. They keep them inside in the winter in front of a window and put them outside in the summer. They have all bloomed! I live in zone 10a in Southwest Florida. I love them!
@@kelliwebb2870 That’s so cool that you’ve been able to share them with friends who are so far up north!!!
Hi Rachel, I see you garden in zone 9a, but what State are you in?
I’m on the Alabama Gulf Coast. Are you in zone 9a also?
I am in 10a / St. Petersburg, FL.
@@terrijohnson2191 Oh, how wonderful!!! You probably have butterflies there all year! It’s started to be like that here. I still have monarch butterflies!
I had a butterfly garden up in the Green Mountains of Vermont at zone 4a/b. We were right on the edge. I had one little bush of tea roses that came back every year, lots of herbs and perennial favorites. Thank you for sharing yours.
@@ginger9475 I’m so glad that you got to experience the joys of having a butterfly garden!!! You know firsthand how magical it is so have those lovely creatures grace you with their presence!
I do things like that too lol I’ll totally cut it back… not!
Haha! I know! It’s so hard to discourage something that wants to grow into a giant when so many things don’t want to grow at all!
Oh my goodness!!! Your garden is absolutely goals!! 😍😍🌸🌺✨ It’s so hard growing a cottage style garden in zone 9 with all the heat and pests but you’ve just inspired me to try again this season! I’ve just planted a bunch of wildflowers I grew from last season and now I’m going to just sprinkle them around the entire garden. Thank you so much for the inspo!