This was one of my favorite videos of yours. So real. Addressing real life issues. Even though I can not do very many succulents in my yard, I still soak up so much knowledge and joy from you. All my succulents are in pots so I can move them around. Love your channel! ❤
HAHAHAHA...funny you mentioned your lipstick. I was thinking "wow, she has lipstick on today". About adapting, my husband thinks gardening is once you place a plant that's where it stays. I move stuff all the time. We live in a "hostile" environment, zone 5 New England. I'm trying to work with what I can get to make a small, wonderful patch of succulents. First stage is done. Now for the "structure" part, rocks.
No way!! When i was a kid there was a cartoon on tv called “el jardín secreto” i guess it was based on that book you mentioned, i remember i was obsessed and created my own garden in the backyard of my grandparents between a palm tree an some citrus trees with some post i stealed from my grandpa 😅😅😅 and now more than 20 years later i have my own desert garden in my patio inspired by you !
😅Laura you crack me up!!! I love watching you! I can’t believe you tossed your plants over the fence🤣🤣🤣🤣I just imagined someone tossing them right back🤣
YOU JUST MAKE ME HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love your place and it truly is a secret garden of delight for me who lives in hostile Utah (which I love ) BUT I can not have your plants. Sad day. Gardeners are special people that just GET each other, you know what I mean! I gave up the soft succulents-- ucky spider mites all the time all winter long indoors. Now I do aloes and semi mean or thorn less cactus that love me back. Thank-you so much for the joy you bring into my life!
For your Bakersfield client, I live in Bakersfield and have no problems growing succulents. In full sun, on the west and south fences, I have many types of aloe, crassula ovata, Blue chalk fingers, portulacaria afra, foxtail agave, octopus agave, stonecrop, yucca, carrion plant, and others. The more tender ones grow well under my lattice patio cover also on the west side.
I love your garden Laura. It's a cheery garden which very much reflects your happy personality. We have 1 hectare of land here in Queensland Australia which I would love to fill in with succulents and cacti. I'm having fun putting into practice many of your tips of the day. Keep teaching your sensible and methodical techniques. They are much appreciated. I'm always learning stuff from you.
I am digging through 3/4” jade to get those little FLAT weeds. 🤨 I had a huge, old portulacaria in a clay pot and it got little pink flowers all over it 2 years in a row! I was so surprised. Now I have newer cuttings of it, no flowers. Love the Stephanotis- I had forgotten about that vine. Beautiful big little garden, Laura. Much Love 😘
You have many fans/followers in Bakersfield, Laura 🙋🏻♀️ I’m one too. I’ve learned so much from you and think of you often while working in my garden. 💚🌵🌱🪴
I have salvaged/acquired several Crassula ovata that were reshaped into tall, open, bonsai-esque 3 to 4 foot tall specimens in 16 inch tall containers. Some highlight the exposed container and some are thriller/filler/spiller to blend in. Small flower show but always green and alway stop the eye then lead it down to lower plantings. Thanks for showing us your thought processes and changes along the way. Your joy in your garden and your gardening is so obvious and inspiring! Thanks!
Laura, I also live in a very hot climate in Las Vegas. On a FB gardening page, there is a debate of how much watering we do on these continuously triple digit days. And should we ever get the actual plants wet, as some say that water causes them to brown in the sun because of the reflection. How true is that, and is that only true for non-cacti plants?? And how often should I water my plants like Golden barrels and Yuccas when it is so extremely hot? For example we recently had a 116° day!
Oh, didn't they make a movie out of that book? I remember watching something very similar to what you read. Edit: Yup, The secret garden (1993) based on a book written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 💚
Nice seeing you in such a relaxing area, your beautiful gardens ❤️ Hi Greg, lol. My husband would no more film me then eat something green, lol Have a great visit/dinner with friends!
Hi Laura, those upright portulacaria do actually flower. They have to be very mature, and the flowers are red. I see them in various gardens in Riverside.
I also have a "prison wall" and this morning moved some potted Portulacaria afra against it to have something that will stay continually green thru the year (between Whisteria, Jasmine, etc). I laughed when I watched your June 18th video this afternoon and you also put some against your wall. I'll let you know how mine do. Thanks
Looking forward to you show on Sunday with the lady in Bakersfield. I also live in a hostile climate environment. The winters here a glorious but the summer months are extremely 🥵. My Cactus seem to thrive in the heat .Even some succulents don’t seem to mind. Unfortunately I I tried to grow vegetables and they all died.
I like to imagine that on the other side of your wall is a mean Karen neighbor, and you in your feistyness are just tossing your detritus into their yard as karma... LOLOLOL
Bougainvillea are great and all but the thorns are a pain!!! I live in Australia and we have one on our back fence which is partially for privacy and partially for security - it is big, thick and there's no way anyone would dare to climb over that fence!! Because our Bougainvillea is a lot thicker than yours it needs a good trim back fairly regularly and we use electric hedging tools to reach - but even then we need ladders.. I have walked down there (wearing crocs) after it's been cleaned up and had the thorns go right through to my feet!! ouchie!!!!
@@pamgrimm8850 have you seen wreath hangers? They are L-shaped, fit over the door. Get a welder to make one to hang over top of wall then find a way to attach pots beneath in a pattern. There is also creeping fig to plant! 😉👍🏼👍🏼
Yes!! But only in morning sun and afternoon shade. Wait a couple of weeks before watering gently. They need to establish some new roots before they can accept a drink😊
Branches attached to the prison wall is perfect for airplants. Just stick those airplants and it's roots will attach to the bare branches. Just suggesting.
5:17 I'll show you mine. That one is stretching but if they're in full sun - PURPLE! I call it forest miniata haha the way it grows like a mini forest in clumps! One of my absolutes! 6:19 I'm 100s sure it's the same one. That's weird P.Afra do flower, a pink mini spike with tiny flowers. The Aloe arboresence are great if you put it out and cut the rosette of the stem and dont let it branch its spectacular. I'll send a pic gorgeous
I planted 5 bougainvilleas last year and all but one dies. I did not know how to wire them up to my block wall as you mentioned. I am not handy with things like wires and screwdrivers and have no one around who is. Is there a UA-cam video that demonstrates how to do this? Also, the city of Las Vegas water company sent me a very threatening letter to only water once a week and that contributed to their death. So sad. They were gorgeous. I’d like to start over with Bougainvilleas. I love them! But I’m not going to do it until I figure out how to make them stand upright this time!
I’ve become opposed to bougainvillea in my own yard in the past… I love em but… messy messy messy… however, I’m composting in a new yard with absolutely no material growing readily available year round to add to the bin, so I’m now planting three of those guys along one of my prison walls … your prison wall is nice compared to mine. LOL… the flowers are nice in salads too
Enjoy your garden and your comments ! God has indeed created an unending variety of not only succulents but other plants as well ! Praise Him for the beauty of them ! ! ! I have a bougainvillea at the very bottom of the back garden which gets NO WATER OTHER THAN WHAT COMES IN WINTER ! It blooms every so abundantly ! It is 35 years old and that may have something to do with it.
I live in the Phoenix area where it's brutally hot through the summer, as you know. Agaves and Cati do well in the extreme temps, but a lot of the cutesy types (echeveria, sedums, graptos, etc.) just kill over once our 110+ degree days kick in. I've had better luck keeping them shaded, but I still lose a lot in the summer and am not really sure about watering. Unless we get monsoon rain, we don't really "cool down" in the summer, so I'm not sure if I should wait all summer or just water at night or give them less than I normally would? Or do I need to face the fact that some of these are just winter annuals in my area? 😆
@7:40 LMFAO!! I do the same thing!! Throw my green trash on the other side of the fence!! luckily it’s just the hill next to the Highway and not someone’s home 🥴🤣😂
so keeping with your "adapt" philosophy", I was thinking of planting some of my agave pups where i can enjoy them right now even though in 3-4 years they may be too big (I'm thinking of the americana variegata...) Is this a bad idea? Everyone is saying don't plant too close together, but then it doesn't look good for a couple of years...(I'm 68, in southeastern Spain) Anyone ever done a"puppy" garden and then transplanted when bigger?
Can anyone tell me what's the large light green aeoniums at the center bottom between sunburst at 3:56? Laura said it is dinner plate but I looked up the pictures and it looks to me that the leaves of dinner plate aroniums are very small and fuzzy unlike those large and smooth leaves Laura has. This has puzzle me for a year since I saw them under the palm tree at Laura's front yard over a year ago. Thanks!
Hi what is your suggestions for spraying succulents for insects without damaging them? I used alcohol and my lola succulents got burned. Im so bummed. Thank you
Yep i hare those things they took over my por of shame my rose plant that dead ln febuary after giving me a beautiful rose it got in 2 of my pots put they where empty
Laura, you say your yard is small but it looks huge 😂 just Beautiful.
Yay! Two long videos in two days! Please make more videos of you puttering around the garden.
"Resist watering abd provide shade"... exactly what I needed to hear👌 Thanks... lovely garden with so many interesting areas.
This was one of my favorite videos of yours. So real. Addressing real life issues. Even though I can not do very many succulents in my yard, I still soak up so much knowledge and joy from you. All my succulents are in pots so I can move them around. Love your channel! ❤
Me too, well said!!!!!!!
"Put your crap in pots!" Love her!!!
HAHAHAHA...funny you mentioned your lipstick. I was thinking "wow, she has lipstick on today". About adapting, my husband thinks gardening is once you place a plant that's where it stays. I move stuff all the time. We live in a "hostile" environment, zone 5 New England. I'm trying to work with what I can get to make a small, wonderful patch of succulents. First stage is done. Now for the "structure" part, rocks.
This garden tour is satisfying. Would love to see them again in walkabout Wednesday💕
No way!! When i was a kid there was a cartoon on tv called “el jardín secreto” i guess it was based on that book you mentioned, i remember i was obsessed and created my own garden in the backyard of my grandparents between a palm tree an some citrus trees with some post i stealed from my grandpa 😅😅😅 and now more than 20 years later i have my own desert garden in my patio inspired by you !
So if you toss the cuttings over could you accidentally start a garden on the other side? 😂😂😂
I loved this and would love another succulent solutions video with types, care, etc. on your different plants. 🥰
I love your garden and water feature you are so creative and I love watching you. Enjoy your dinner tonight and Happy Father’s Day to your hubby. ❤️
😅Laura you crack me up!!! I love watching you! I can’t believe you tossed your plants over the fence🤣🤣🤣🤣I just imagined someone tossing them right back🤣
Absolutely LOVED The Secret Garden when I was young. More reasons to love you Laura! You always pick me up when I watch your videos.😘
Thank you for showing us the backdrop plants, they look amazing and really make the front showstoppers shine even more.
YOU JUST MAKE ME HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love your place and it truly is a secret garden of delight for me who lives in hostile Utah (which I love ) BUT I can not have your plants. Sad day. Gardeners are special people that just GET each other, you know what I mean! I gave up the soft succulents-- ucky spider mites all the time all winter long indoors. Now I do aloes and semi mean or thorn less cactus that love me back. Thank-you so much for the joy you bring into my life!
For your Bakersfield client, I live in Bakersfield and have no problems growing succulents. In full sun, on the west and south fences, I have many types of aloe, crassula ovata, Blue chalk fingers, portulacaria afra, foxtail agave, octopus agave, stonecrop, yucca, carrion plant, and others. The more tender ones grow well under my lattice patio cover also on the west side.
Another treat. Never will i go tired watching your garden!
I love your garden Laura. It's a cheery garden which very much reflects your happy personality.
We have 1 hectare of land here in Queensland Australia which I would love to fill in with succulents and cacti. I'm having fun putting into practice many of your tips of the day. Keep teaching your sensible and methodical techniques. They are much appreciated. I'm always learning stuff from you.
Your garden is truely a magical place!💫🌵🌈💕
I am digging through 3/4” jade to get those little FLAT weeds. 🤨 I had a huge, old portulacaria in a clay pot and it got little pink flowers all over it 2 years in a row! I was so surprised. Now I have newer cuttings of it, no flowers. Love the Stephanotis- I had forgotten about that vine. Beautiful big little garden, Laura. Much Love 😘
You have many fans/followers in Bakersfield, Laura 🙋🏻♀️ I’m one too. I’ve learned so much from you and think of you often while working in my garden. 💚🌵🌱🪴
So pretty, I have a small/native cactus garden. I love when they start blooming because they really do surprise you with their beauty.
I have salvaged/acquired several Crassula ovata that were reshaped into tall, open, bonsai-esque 3 to 4 foot tall specimens in 16 inch tall containers. Some highlight the exposed container and some are thriller/filler/spiller to blend in. Small flower show but always green and alway stop the eye then lead it down to lower plantings. Thanks for showing us your thought processes and changes along the way.
Your joy in your garden and your gardening is so obvious and inspiring! Thanks!
Good morning to you vary nice succulents they all so beautiful and amazing you have a beautiful garden have a blessed day ❤❤❤
thanks Ms Laura for another glymps of your garden take care!
"Its all good in tha hood" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was so helpful and inspiring! Off to go move some pouting plants.
Your garden looks beautiful!
Your cornucopia of beautiful succulents is stunning. Thanks for sharing and stay blessed🤗👍❤.
Laura, I also live in a very hot climate in Las Vegas. On a FB gardening page, there is a debate of how much watering we do on these continuously triple digit days. And should we ever get the actual plants wet, as some say that water causes them to brown in the sun because of the reflection. How true is that, and is that only true for non-cacti plants?? And how often should I water my plants like Golden barrels and Yuccas when it is so extremely hot? For example we recently had a 116° day!
I enjoy your videos so much. You are so down to earth ❤️🌺
Your yard is so pretty! Love your waterfall area 😊😎 my copper spoon is huge (over 5 ft.) after 4 years and looks beautiful against our stucco wall 🤎💚
Love your garden!! Its beautiful 💚💚💚
Hermosas suculentas y muy valiosos consejos para mantenerlas así. Gracias 👍🏽👏🏽
I'm thinking how good would gutters looks along the wall haha. I would never leave the yard if I had that space and setup
Oh, didn't they make a movie out of that book? I remember watching something very similar to what you read. Edit: Yup, The secret garden (1993) based on a book written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 💚
Nice seeing you in such a relaxing area, your beautiful gardens ❤️ Hi Greg, lol. My husband would no more film me then eat something green, lol Have a great visit/dinner with friends!
Hi Laura, those upright portulacaria do actually flower. They have to be very mature, and the flowers are red. I see them in various gardens in Riverside.
Yes they do flower but after a few years
Laura can you do more planting pots, or like you did the succulent spoon.
Any type of succulent potting. Love you and your channel!
Would love to see how the Bakersfield garden turns out! I live in Fresno and this is our 2nd week of 105+ degrees.
Love love this video, thank you, your garden is beautiful.
I wish I lived somewhere where I could have a garden like yours. I would have to move to California.
I also have a "prison wall" and this morning moved some potted Portulacaria afra against it to have something that will stay continually green thru the year (between Whisteria, Jasmine, etc). I laughed when I watched your June 18th video this afternoon and you also put some against your wall. I'll let you know how mine do. Thanks
I think the unknown aloe is ciliaris, called the climbing aloe. I love all of your vertical solutions. Xox, Bonnie
This video was so satisfying. Hope you had fun in your party pants!
love love love your backyard! where is your succulents fountain?
My favorite Stefanotis has started blooming too at our wall near our patio. 😘
As you speak your words of wisdom to be ingenious The chimes ring 🤣🙏🌬️🌿
I love your garden 😍😍😍😍😍
Looking forward to you show on Sunday with the lady in Bakersfield. I also live in a hostile climate environment. The winters here a glorious but the summer months are extremely 🥵. My Cactus seem to thrive in the heat .Even some succulents don’t seem to mind. Unfortunately I I tried to grow vegetables and they all died.
I’m from Bakersfield! This makes me excited to know what side of town
I like to imagine that on the other side of your wall is a mean Karen neighbor, and you in your feistyness are just tossing your detritus into their yard as karma... LOLOLOL
Bougainvillea are great and all but the thorns are a pain!!! I live in Australia and we have one on our back fence which is partially for privacy and partially for security - it is big, thick and there's no way anyone would dare to climb over that fence!! Because our Bougainvillea is a lot thicker than yours it needs a good trim back fairly regularly and we use electric hedging tools to reach - but even then we need ladders.. I have walked down there (wearing crocs) after it's been cleaned up and had the thorns go right through to my feet!! ouchie!!!!
Always good for a chuckle...party pants n lipstick. 😆
What about some pots on the wall with hanging plants to cover some of the wall? Or Pedilanthus bracteatus? Or some tall stands with pots?
I am trying to figure out how to hang pots on a block wall. My daughter tried drilling and it kept breaking her concrete drills. Any tips?
@@pamgrimm8850 have you seen wreath hangers? They are L-shaped, fit over the door. Get a welder to make one to hang over top of wall then find a way to attach pots beneath in a pattern. There is also creeping fig to plant! 😉👍🏼👍🏼
I did the sam about a month ago with the same ground cover, took two weekends to complete. But great therapy 😊
I loved that book too!
Love your videos!
I live in Santa Monica, Ca. Can I plant cuttings in the ground now? If so, when should I water? 🙏🏼
Yes!! But only in morning sun and afternoon shade.
Wait a couple of weeks before watering gently. They need to establish some new roots before they can accept a drink😊
What is that red circular piece hanging on the wall? Yard art? Art can also improve a wall, although that red piece seems mostly hidden.
So beautiful!
Branches attached to the prison wall is perfect for airplants. Just stick those airplants and it's roots will attach to the bare branches. Just suggesting.
Isn't the tall Aloe the one called Climbing Aloe? I have 2 and that's the name for them?? Love your videos. God bless🙏🏼
the alyssum looks so pretty mixed in with the succs
Here in Utah all you would have to do is plant Ivy. I’ve seen houses completely covered by it lol.
5:17 I'll show you mine. That one is stretching but if they're in full sun - PURPLE! I call it forest miniata haha the way it grows like a mini forest in clumps! One of my absolutes!
6:19 I'm 100s sure it's the same one.
That's weird P.Afra do flower, a pink mini spike with tiny flowers.
The Aloe arboresence are great if you put it out and cut the rosette of the stem and dont let it branch its spectacular. I'll send a pic gorgeous
I planted 5 bougainvilleas last year and all but one dies. I did not know how to wire them up to my block wall as you mentioned. I am not handy with things like wires and screwdrivers and have no one around who is. Is there a UA-cam video that demonstrates how to do this? Also, the city of Las Vegas water company sent me a very threatening letter to only water once a week and that contributed to their death. So sad. They were gorgeous. I’d like to start over with Bougainvilleas. I love them! But I’m not going to do it until I figure out how to make them stand upright this time!
I’ve become opposed to bougainvillea in my own yard in the past… I love em but… messy messy messy… however, I’m composting in a new yard with absolutely no material growing readily available year round to add to the bin, so I’m now planting three of those guys along one of my prison walls … your prison wall is nice compared to mine. LOL… the flowers are nice in salads too
Enjoy your garden and your comments ! God has indeed created an unending variety of not only succulents but other plants as well ! Praise Him for the beauty of them ! ! ! I have a bougainvillea at the very bottom of the back garden which gets NO WATER OTHER THAN WHAT COMES IN WINTER ! It blooms every so abundantly ! It is 35 years old and that may have something to do with it.
Bakersfield *large sigh* yep 👍
Under your pergola you have an orange octopus type hanging pot. Please tell me what is growing in it 🥰
Omg you’re gonna be in Bakersfield?!? 😭😭😭 I live here!!
One tip to make a wall disappear is to paint it a dark color. Then all your greens will pop in front if it.
I live in the Phoenix area where it's brutally hot through the summer, as you know. Agaves and Cati do well in the extreme temps, but a lot of the cutesy types (echeveria, sedums, graptos, etc.) just kill over once our 110+ degree days kick in. I've had better luck keeping them shaded, but I still lose a lot in the summer and am not really sure about watering. Unless we get monsoon rain, we don't really "cool down" in the summer, so I'm not sure if I should wait all summer or just water at night or give them less than I normally would? Or do I need to face the fact that some of these are just winter annuals in my area? 😆
That last thing. Bingo😊
@7:40 LMFAO!! I do the same thing!! Throw my green trash on the other side of the fence!! luckily it’s just the hill next to the Highway and not someone’s home 🥴🤣😂
Aaahhhhh I want your shirt!!!!!!!
so keeping with your "adapt" philosophy", I was thinking of planting some of my agave pups where i can enjoy them right now even though in 3-4 years they may be too big (I'm thinking of the americana variegata...) Is this a bad idea? Everyone is saying don't plant too close together, but then it doesn't look good for a couple of years...(I'm 68, in southeastern Spain) Anyone ever done a"puppy" garden and then transplanted when bigger?
Can anyone tell me what's the large light green aeoniums at the center bottom between sunburst at 3:56? Laura said it is dinner plate but I looked up the pictures and it looks to me that the leaves of dinner plate aroniums are very small and fuzzy unlike those large and smooth leaves Laura has. This has puzzle me for a year since I saw them under the palm tree at Laura's front yard over a year ago. Thanks!
Yes, yes...follow the shade.
I'd love to see the other side of the wall in the open space. There could be a whole thriving garden of death back there. 🍃
Where did you get the orange hanging pot. That’s my issue Hot, Hot and more hot.
Beautiful 🙏✌🌻🐝
is bakersfield full up on water because if they dont have there own water you shouldnt promote water features thankyouverymuch
Hi what is your suggestions for spraying succulents for insects without damaging them? I used alcohol and my lola succulents got burned. Im so bummed. Thank you
Make sure to provide shade after treatment for a few days.
Beautiful)
What about a creeping fig vine or something for the wall
You could put boiling water on the weeds. Especially in pavers 👍 they may not grow again...
2:42 what is that large Aloe in the right, pleeeease.
Banesii not need water?
Its a movie now!!
Yep i hare those things they took over my por of shame my rose plant that dead ln febuary after giving me a beautiful rose it got in 2 of my pots put they where empty
I love the aloes I really want a cameronii aloe can’t get in OZ 😂
Love you 😍
I live in bakersfield
💕
I'm 30 miles inland from San Francisco.
Put your euphorbia trigona and some tall cacti along the wall!
That aloe looks like Ciliaris maybe? :)
I always kill my succulents in the hot Arizona summer by over watering 💔💔
Come and have dinner with me 🥰
Did she just throw the cuttings into the neighbors yard 😆
Nah. That’s open space😊