🌹 Our Garden Before & After 8 Years // Garden Walk & Geek Talk
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- An August walk through our perennial garden where I discuss everything about our garden - the good, the bad, and the ugly. I also share pics of our garden before we moved here 8 years ago so that you can see the changes and how long it takes trees and shrubs to grow. I highly recommend taking before and after pics of your garden to encourage you during struggles and extreme weather.
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Every garden channel on UA-cam, from HortTube to Gardening with Creekside to Garden Answer have shown us flopping hydrangeas this summer. If you (and I) don’t know how to prune, then I suppose we are in good company.
Thank you so much for being transparent. Im in Zone 8b with poor soil quality and humidity and its so easy to get discouraged when all you see online are gorgeous gardens with “no issues” and you’re just struggling to keep things healthy. Thank you!
@@TheRoseGeek not a hot mess! Lol its beautiful! (:
I can’t believe it’s been 8 years since since I moved here with my wife of 26, Kimberley, aka The Rose Geek. When we moved here the previous homeowners left us 1 rose. We brought some Evelyn’s and other bottled roses from Virginia, but I can’t remember how many. Kimberley, do you remember how many roses we brought, which varieties we brought, what rose the previous owners left us, and if that rose is still alive?
So, the absolute best tip I've ever gotten in life, not just gardening, is this: "Fail faster". Failure is always an option and everyone fails. Our failures don't define us, our reaction to failure does. Try more things out and fail faster. Nothing truly "comes naturally" to anyone, it only seems that way because they likely started sooner and, that's right, failed faster. Every failure gets you closer to success. It's never falling off the horse, it's refusing to get back on and try again. I grew up in Minnesota and gardening up there is VASTLY different than gardening out here is Southern AZ where I live now. I've been here for nearly 20 years now, and honestly I think I've only gotten a grasp on gardening out here in the last 5 years. And y'know what? I still lost a rose over the winter. We're never done learning, any of us. Of course I'm certain you already know this, but hopefully this pep talk encourages more new gardeners to join us! 🥰💖
I know I'm late to the party, but thanks for this walkthrough. It'll be fun to see how different it is this summer with the new fence and the plants getting moved around! 🤩
I purchased hydrangeas directly from Proven Winners in the fall. I wouldn't say they were particularly big but, they were definitely not like the tiny plant they gave you. I think at the end of the season when they're not willing to get stuck with big plants, you would probably get a better size.
Thanks so much for sharing, your garden and setting is just beautiful and you can see the labour of love you have put into it, it is very inspiring loved this video. It’s so helpful to see what isn’t working, and what needs improving etc i live in Australia near the ocean so battle with salt winds and sandy soils which always need improving and roses tend to struggle here but I love them. 🌸🌿
I probably should have used raised beds in hindsight, I add vegetable scraps, mushroom compost,, soil conditioner and fertiliser and am just trying soaking wet newspaper with compost on top. On my roses I like neutrog sudden impact, my roses also suffer black spot, and I’d love some of your clay mixed with my sand lol.
Came here from Fraser Valley Rose Farm and i am glad i did!!
I like your style it's very akin to me , Crepe myrtles, Hydrangeas , Roses and mostly focusing on perennial foliage 💚 subscribed!
I enjoyed this video. You sure have a beautiful setting for your beautiful yard.
What a beautiful property you have! And the changes you’ve made in 8 years are stunning. It’s heartbreaking to see the little pools of water here and there, and I know the struggle is real! We went through a similar situation on our 3 acres - a very choice piece of the landscape turned into a literal pond after heavy rains. After 3 years of working with engineers and landscapers and installing French drains, etc etc etc we finally just decided to accept it and turned it into a GOOD thing. We planted a couple of weeping willows - both curly and non - and the result was gorgeous. I know that a willow is a huge decision, since they do get very big, but there are dwarf varieties as well. I thought perhaps a weeper in that area where your neighbor pumps his water onto your land? Where the arborvitae won’t grow? That might work..anyway, thanks for another terrific video. It’s indeed heartening to see a YT gardening video that shows a garden in its true, real-life state. Warts and all! 🥰🥰👍👍👍👏👏
Thank you for showing how Anna's Magic Ball looks (dead!) in the winter. I was seriously considering it for a hedge just for winter interest, but thanks to you I will look at other options.
I was also very disappointed on how teeny tiny my Incrediball hydrangea looked when it arrived in spring of 2020 from Proven Winners. In its second season, it has grown to barely two feet tall.
Thanks for keeping it real and honest! Love your channel!!
I've been working in my perennial and rose gardens for 30 years. There was nothing here but grass when we moved in. Your garden never will be done. The trees get bigger which means the shade changes. I revamped one of my perennial gardens last summer. Unfortunately it was too late to get my David Austin roses. I'm in Ontario zone 5b. Thanks for showing the good and the bad. I just subscribed to your channel.
Amazing.
Your property is soo beautiful! I been in mine for two years and I’m getting so sad because I feel like it takes everything sooo long to grow!
@@TheRoseGeek that’s a great idea! I will take pictures!
Your garden is so lovely! Now I feel better about buying so many plants🤣😂🤣
This is the 3rd time I have watched this video since last year and might not even be the last 😁 You are one of my rose gardening inspiration. Thank you 🙏🏽
@@TheRoseGeek I am sure I won’t miss it. I am checking your channel constantly 😁
Thankful that you shared the realities of the garden. I always feel that my garden looks good in spring and then it goes down mid summer in Texas 8A. All of it takes a lot of time and effort and it's good to see that other gardeners also deal with issues, some failures and it's okay to be a work in progress.
I'm in zone 5. I have over 300 potted up plants, from cutting or tubers etc from my 7 gardens, parks, hotels, trips. I decorate around house foundation, garage porches, fences. Move them around for interest. And in dry season put them into kiddie pools for easier care. In winter I put the pots on their sides, so that i can do at least 3 layers (obviously largest 5 gal pots on bottom) then I put large kiddie pools or heavy plastic over them once they have frozen. The small pots go on their sides in one of my big green bins & trash cans...again starting with 9 inch pots...up towards 4 inch. or even some still in the soft plastic multi hole planters. I rarely lose anything. Infact, now my daughter is starting to finally take them to her new house to start her landscaping.
Fascinating to hear how some gardeners cope with their weather conditions (& succeed!). I grew up in a temperate climate (Buenos Aires, Argentina) & have lived in The Netherlands for almost 30 years. We never have these kinds of conditions to deal with. We all struggle to succeed, wherever we garden, but I see that my gardening conditions are more like a walk in the park 🙂
What an amazing amount of work and it shows! Be aware that not all zone 8 freeze mid Nov, ours is mid October.
Love the video and I agree who needs grass! 😆
I have zero grass in my tiny yard which is a deck with a lot of pots and three small raised beds but I have crammed in over 20 roses, fig, pomegranate and three Japanese maples as well as a variegated willow tree. It’s a bit chaotic but proof that you can have a ton of blooms in a non traditional garden space with no lawn
@@TheRoseGeek even if i could move somewhere with a lawn tomorrow, I’d get rid of all of it (except a little bit for Orion to roll around on) it’s just so much work to maintain
Have you thought about continuing on from the dock with a gravel path up to the house? That's what I see when looking at the view from the dock. Eventually you could plant on either side of the walk. It would give some interest as that's a wide swath of nothing but green. Just a thought.
Every year we have to add more beds, so eventually I think we will have to do this. Our dogs are too old to play fetch, and I can’t remember the last time we played Bocce or Horse Shoes, so why not??? 😂
@@TheRoseGeek Concrete stairs sounds too hard. 2 pallets of Marble White Gravel bags delivered from Lowes plus 2 100-ft rolls of landscape tarp is a 1 Saturday job when you have a golf cart to move the bags.
I am so Enjoy your video！I played it when I walked through my garden. You gave me so many inspiration🌹
Beautiful canes! Love the raised boxes on the gardens too! Great idea for people with poor soil too. I didn't know about fertilizing 6 weeks before the first freeze! OMG don't say it's ending!!! Makes me so sad lol Also, Mother of Pearl looks so pretty along the riprap. So do the hydrangeas!
I just shared you into the Retalk_ gardening group because we all struggle with propagation of certain plants. My teenaged daughter once told an older boy visiting our home "my mother can make a dead stick grow" then proceeded to show him, tell him off which sidewalk I collected things from (after gardeners had been thru Wolfville etc). He said something to which she replied "no she is just mother nature". But, I can't root a geranium cutting successfully to save my life!
With such wet location I'm surprised not to see lots of different willows in your yards.
@@TheRoseGeek I don't have the weeping type. I love the moss green truck & yellow-green branches in the winter months against the dark green forest. AND love the delicate longish leaves fluttering in the breeze of other seasons. Ya, the root issue. My answer to that is 5 tied together patio blocks as the planter. Or the really good sized plastic ones that trees are sold in. Gotta shift it from time to time. Put the bases of these planters onto stones or bricks to air-trim the root that may escape. Think of it as sort of like Bonsai. A cluster of 8 foot trees would still look amazing. Not need to have a mammoth tree of any type. Control the growth, control the root system. Not to say you can't open the patio block box by cutting the ropes or wire & putting some new soil in every 5 years or so.
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Thanks for your videos, I have been watching for a whole week. Love the unboxing online orders, the comparison of prices, shipping, sizes; another place you can try for bare root roses 🌹 is Menagerie Flowers, I ordered from them last year and I was very happy plus the owner Felicia is amazing. Thanks for your honesty and the encouragement you give to people like me that love roses 🌹
I’m adding crazy love to my list for next year! 🤩
Crazy Love is my absolute favorite. I talked The Rose Geek into buying me 1 more, which is own root so we will do a side by side compare of own vs bare root stock. I also talked her into Peace (Meilland), Enchanted Peace (Meilland), Shiela’s Perfume, and The Dark Knight (cause it sounded like the Batman movie). Every year she gets to buy over 100 roses and I got to pick 5. Is that fair? I wanted several Peace roses.
Mine aren't flopping because I have large potted plants around them that have 3 or 4 yr old Spirea & sedum growing in them. So the slightly taller Hydrangeas seem to stay upright even in our heavy winds.
Yeah, that succulent planter is awesome, but it needs to be closer to eye-level, on a stand or pedestal! It will simply Pop in your face! :) very sweet!
This Tour makes me like you even more! It bothers me when things are perfect! :) Much Love from Las Cruces, NM!
I am such a stranger, hearing you speak of "leveling" the house, "tearing" the house down....I suddenly feel scared! LOL Why???...it is Gorgeous!
@@TheRoseGeek I Love this Channel! :) ...it is amazing how a House can hide the Ghosts! :)
❤lovely bushy hydrangeas😊my Summer hydrangeas grew so bushy too but, it eventually died 😢
oh no! I wonder what happened! I wish mine would stay more upright. Thank you for watching.
It was attacked by some kinda of aphids or mites causing wilting....must be Fusarium wilt or mosaic virus :(
You’ve done a fantastic job. My two year old hydrangeas are droopy too. I picked up bliss parfuma last you posted it was in stock so I’m excited.
Would you say that Kordes has better health than DA?
@@TheRoseGeek look forward to it! I’m in Jacksonville, N.C. It’s very humid and BS is a problem here too.
Kordes and Meilland multicolored roses are my favorite. The Rose Geek has always been a traditional DA English garden Rosarian, but I’m slowly pulling her to more multicolored roses.
Your kind of sedum, which looks like it gets tiny pale yellow flowers, I'd take it all out NOW. And every tiny new one you see anywhere. It is like Rocket weed! The tall Devil's Pocker sedum is what I like for anywhere. It blooms early but doesn't go to seed until after the heavy frost, so that is when I like to cut them all back anyway.
@@TheRoseGeek When i moved to a house that I found mine at I liked it so much that I dug up pop trays full of it for friends. They ALL got mad at me in the next couple of years. Like when I gave them Jerusalem artichoke....slow to establish, then BOOM every-where 3 yrs later out of control. The pale green, then palest pink to dark red of the Devils' Pocker foot high sedum (as it gets really cold) alternated with P. geranium & chives makes great borders instead of boxwood or as underplanting around my roses etc. I like it as borders for rectangle beds or housefoundation or patio edging plantings because there it no need to keep it sharply trimmed the way boxwood looks good for these places...and super cheap cus it bushes out faster too. And after a coupel of years, many bits can be dug up to start new plants.
I don't know Sedum Devil's Poker, but if it has the same structure as Autumn Joy you can give it what the Brits call a 'Chelsea chop'*, i.e. reduce by 1/3 & although it flowers a little later it makes the plant denser and not as leggy, so it only flops right at the end of the season. * third week of May, or around that time.
My limelights droop like that too and more so after heavy rain. I have a huge limelight hedge along my back fence. I'm planning to limb them up. Interested in seeing what you do.
Do you know what kind of crepe myrtle you have? I love it! I live in PA, and I've only seen a dusty pink and a red one. I wonder if I can find one that will take our winter with THAT color. 😍 You have such exquisite taste!
Limelights are YUGE! 🤩 With so many limelights so large and mature... could that mean that the deer will likely NOT eat them down to the base, leaving enough substance to actually allow them to bloom in the summer?
So beautiful. Thanks 4 the videos can't wait to see more!
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Beautiful 😍 I ordered Bliss from High Country; can't wait to see her in the garden. Curious what camera are you using to film? What do you use for stabilizing? Mic? Your videos flow beautifully; no shaking / jostling. 😊 Loving your content.
@@TheRoseGeek I have a few videos on YT (dc0145a) one of my sons lives in Norfolk area UK and another in CO. So I'm hoping to put up more videos mainly so the kiddos n grandkids can see what's happening round our place. But, I struggle with shaking when walking about. Do use any type of tripod? Or, selfie stick?
I am new to your videos and wonder why you chopped down all those trees in the front garden. Do you think your water table problem has occurred because the trees are no longer there to take up the water. Could you have maybe removed a third of the trees, say, and planted Spring and Summer flowering bulbs throughout the front garden - tapestry effect.
@@TheRoseGeek Thanks for your gracious reply - because, on reflection after posting to my comment you, I hoped I hadn’t come across as impertinent! I garden on heavy Surrey/Sussex clay. A friend (helpfully!) planted a couple of willow saplings, a few years ago, which I rue to this day - constant cutting down - difficult to eradicate as they have escaped into the ditch.
Finally, what a magnificent outlook from your back garden.
Here in The Netherlands (& UK) tulips should be treated as annuals, because they seldom come up the second year. Specially the more 'sophisticated' colours. They dislike the cold wet winters. Species tulips (the small ones) do naturalise better. Daffodils/narcissi (although they flower earlier) also naturalise well. I have clay soil with a very high water table in winter & now only have tulips in pots. Much easier, I just compost the bulbs at the end of the season. One job less! Dutch bulbs for commercial purposes are grown on very sandy, free draining soil. Thank you for all your posts, Irene
Great job! too much work and money😄
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That's what I say about kids.
OMG, there is the Million Dollar Question, right there! Someone needs to create an Umbrella System for Hydrangeas.....a pole can be anchored into the Center of the plant early in planting, knowing the general height of that Cultivar...then when the Rain comes, stick the Umbrella in place, into the Pole slot and none of them will weighted down...when the rain subsides, the Umbrellas come in! ...I bet that is a product that would be agreeable with Gardeners! ...The Blooms on that one were sheltered by the tree above it, it acted as an Umbrella! ......the "Official" Hydrangea Umbrella was conceived in your Garden! LOL ...I am only kidding, but it would be a good product to prevent them from spending the rest of the Season bowing down to the world...they are too Gorgeous and need to be Standing up!
@@TheRoseGeek That would be silly for me, we cannot grow them here in our Desert setting! I encourage all creative thinkers! :)
Thanks for the tour. I’m curious, why will you be removing the yellow daylilies?
@@TheRoseGeek I actually liked that the yellow stood out, but it makes sense that you don’t want it detracting from the roses.
Has it been 8 years already?????
What happened to the standards?!