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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2020
- I recently had the opportunity to tour the Gardens at Ball in West Chicago, Illinois. I’m sharing a few of the best things I saw there.
The gardens are not open to the public, but you can enjoy a virtual tour here: www.ballseed.com/customerdays...
Sorry for the shaky video; I didn’t go intending to make a video so I didn’t have any of my gear with.
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My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5.
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So glad you were able to video this for us and share. The voice-over is just fine and not creepy at all.
The takeaway for me was how underused colorful foliage plants are in the landscape. Color impact all season with no deadheading - basically little to no maintenance. This is where the bulk of our budget should probably go & the remainder spent on flowers for containers near the driveway/front door. Loved the tour & thanks for taking us out with you!
Never doubt your skills, Erin. Didn’t Henry Ford say something like ‘whether you think something possible or impossible, either way you’ll be right.’? Whether it is your gorgeous gardens, your flower arrangements or surprise videography, you’re one of the best and I cannot get enough of your vlogs.
I like the contrast in height, structure, foliage and color of the bunching onion display! It’s very doable. Thank you.
My wife prefers planting foliage over flowers. Foliage hardly fades, doesn't need dead-heading, and has just as much color as any flowers you could find! It's not exactly bee friendly, but for people deathly allergic, you can still have all the color you want!
I'm not even done with this video, but I had to pause to hit up the comments. I'm so glad you got this footage. It's so gorgeous and gives me so many simple, but super impactful ideas. Thank you!! Can't wait to see what you do with all these ideas in your amazing garden!
Anything from your garden would look great in a vase !! Glad you got to go on your garden trip. We all need a break from the tons of yard work we do. And get a chance to see other things for more ideas. Have a great one love watching you !!
I just created an entire wish list just from this video. Better still, the location is in my zone!!
Could just watch this all day long. Thank you for bringing us with you. Those hydrangea were my fave. So fluffy and a great color.
Thanks Laura!
The vista at 10:20 is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing this with us, Erin!
Ahhhhhhh I'm in love wiht the Pinus strobus Pendula Weeping White Pine too! Thanks for the great tour!!! NO creepiness!
Thank you for sharing your view with us of these magnificent gardens.
Thank you for sharing the loveliness!
Thanks for sharing this. The video was just fine - as the flowers and foliage were the start of the show!!
What a wonderful opportunity in these odd times. Thank you for sharing it, even if you felt it wasn't an ideal set up for the video. So much inspiration was contained in these shots. I loved your bouquet too.
Umwerfend schön, fantastisch, traumhaft......Dankeschön!!!
Wow beautiful thanks for showing.
New sub here I just started getting into gardening on the first home I bought myself after a divorce and I love your content! Found you on accident when I was looking for something from garden answers website and you popped up so I decided to check you out! Just picked up a pinky winki hydrangea today and scored a gorgeous light pink hibiscus 🌺 for only $5 on clearance to add to my yard. I have big plans and a low budget so it’s going to take some time. My favorite east flower this year is my zinnias except I didn’t realize how large they got and I planted in the front of a bed oops! Well I’m learning! Excited to watch more from you!
WOW! Just WOW! Thanks for sharing! Beautiful!
Spectacular display ! Thank you for showing and your video was perfect to me 🥰☘️
Thank you for sharing this with us. Absolutely inspiring. Great job.
Looks like so much fun! Glad you filmed for us!
Beautiful gardens and so is your 💐💐 bouquet!
Thank You for the nice walk-about. Just loved all the flowers wishI had room for them all. You flower bouquet was really pretty from your garden, Need to go over to Garden Answer to see the wreath that she made from her flower garden for Fall. You two people are so talented. Stay Safe till the next time.
Thanks for sharing and the weeping pine was beautiful🌿
Thank you for the tour! That purple flash!!!
I love the bean vine! Thank you for the tour.
I found that purple flash plant at a garden center in NC this past spring and planted them in some pots with other flowering plants. It is absolutely beautiful.
Here from Garden Answer. Glad to know you have deer, because I do too.
Omg the echinaceas 😳I want them all!!! 😍 Thank you Erin for the great video and for all the information and inspiration! 🤗
Bouquet is gorgeous 😍
Breathe taking, absolutely gorgeous. Thanks so so much for sharing.
Beautiful tour! Thanks for sharing and your bouquet was lovely!
Beautiful tour ' thanks
Everything's so pretty! I bet it was nice to be out and about for a while. I really love that weeping pine too... gotta read up on that... i might have to get one of those, too! White pines do great where I live. Definitely need more colorful foliage plants as well! Thanks for the tour!
Thank you for sharing,such an inspiration!
Beautiful. Thank you!
The way you were talking in the intro, I thought this video would be terrible. It wasn’t your usually high quality, but it was easy to watch. I’m glad you filmed and posted. Will have to watch this more than once.
Love this so much !!!🌸💕🌸
Loved this. Than you for sharing.
Awesome. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks Erin! Beautiful 😊
Firstly your flower arrangement is beautiful, I only wish. Secondly so very glad you spend two hours driving so we got to share your garden tour. Would have loved a day in there, forty-five minutes must have flown way. Thanks for sharing I’ll be saving this video to watch a few times again. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The bouquet is simply gorgeous ! You are an inspiring genuine Gardner and got lots of talents!
Thanks for sharing!
Amazing! Thanks
Thanks, for sharing this video, Erin. You did a good job with it. I'm inspired to plant some swaths of color in my flower beds and I love the timber arches. Those would work well in my yard!
Thanks this was great made me jealous 😆 working at a place like this would be awesome!! BTW the voice over was fine your disclaimer was funny.
Thanks for the tour... some great ideas 😁
Absolutely stunning thanks for sharing!
I planted 800 tulips and daffodils in December 2020. Can’t wait for them to come up this spring. I will probably use 20% as cut flowers.
The bouquet is lovely!
Erin - I loved going on this tour with you at Ball Gardens. It feels "exotic" to see other gardens at this time when we can't actually go to them. The colorful foliage displays planted in mass were my favorite. I drooled over the draping hyacinth bean planting. Thank again for bringing us along.
So much fun!!! It must have felt amazing to get out and explore finally! 🌝🤩
For not being prepared, I think you did a wonderful job showing us around. Beautiful flowers and vegetables. Loved every minute of the tour.
Love it! Thank you for sharing ❤️
Absolutely lovely....thank you.
Thank you so much. Eye candy. Such grace and motion in their plantings. Funny, I drove a half hour after months of back and forth to the grocery store 10 minutes away and felt I wasn't paying enough attention. Sheesh.
So cool! Thank you for sharing.
I have come to truly LOVE variations in foliage. It does so much more in a landscape, because it’s always around, while flowers come and go. I grew a variety pack of coleus this year and I can’t tell you how much joy those plants bring me. Especially the single specimen that is white and green with pink splotches 🙃. I just love the variations, and wish they were perennial in my zone! Thanks for a lovely tour!
So many cool plants in this! Major inspiration for sure for next season and even fall for perennials.
Thanks for the tour. I think your bouquet is top notch👍🏽👍🏽
Thank you for taking us along for such an enjoyable inspiring tour.
I loved this video! your voice was soft and soothing. I'm totally relaxed after watching. I too loved the weeping white pine. Prettiest one i have ever seen. And now I have a botanical name for my pink arrowhead plant. I didn't know they could be put outside. I have a little shade area in which i planted an all foliage woodland type garden. It's my favorite place in my garden.
thank you for the tour, Erin.
Thank you for sharing this! Very interesting to see some of the varieties and different ways they used them ☺️
Loved the video. Thanks for sharing. I loved all of the new flowers and veggies that are coming out!!!!!
That was a beautiful tour such color! Your narrating was so calm and peaceful like drifting along with flowers!
I planted 2 large pots for my deck with the itsy petunia and they have done so well
Fabulous planting! What great ideas they have displayed! Super video! Loved this b/c of how unusual but attainable these looks were👍👍
Thanks so much for the tour. I love large swaths of planting. Just don’t know how to do that in a smaller garden.
Thank u Erin! I'm in SW suburbs of Chicago & I had no idea that was going on🤷🏻♀️but I will definitely be referencing this video! You have a great eye for unique & interesting style & I luv that!👌🏻thanx again!🙏🏻
Hi Erin,
Thank you so much for sharing. The next time I get to Chicago and Ball is back to regular visits, I hope to visit. You did a good job with the voice -ove👏!
Thank you!😁
Thank you for sharing. Definitely missed the garden & home shows this year so this was nice and definitely got some inspiration. You sound kinda sick hope you're ok.
Thanks for the informal way you did this - I felt like I was strolling along with you!!
Thanks for sharing this tour. A lot of great new plants. I wish you had named some that you didn't, but all lovely. The video wasn't bad at all, just a bit brief.
Wow! I’m now also in love with that weeping pine! Keep us posted on if a zone 5 grower like me could ever grow one. Am also a huge fan of foliage for color. Grew up with a flower loving gardener, so would surprise her when I’d come home from the nursery with a plant with no remaining flowers or identification. “Why did you buy that?” she’d ask. “Because it has great foliage,” I’d reply. It was a beleaguered geum. Still love them. Have multiple colors now. Have the same addiction to hardy geraniums with many types of foliage and indoors I love peperomias. I’d also have a fern addiction indoors, but despite my efforts, they don’t love me back.
I loved the huge swaths of colorful foliage. Think that inspired me the most. I love - L😍VE - my flowers, but this showed me how much color I could actually have in my garden & not have to worry about all of the constant deadheading! I also loved the bright green of that one shade plant (Canary Leaf??? - I need to go back & watch again!😅 Actually I prob will save this vid!!!). We have a massive Ornamental Double Blossomed Cherry tree in our back yard so we have a very large shade garden. I constantly struggle w/ finding something that helps bring this much color & "light" to that area.
Question: When I heard you say Ball Gardens/Seeds I was curious if they were connected to the Ball Canning/Preserving we have all heard of our whole lives?
Great tour! I cannot believe they are only about an hour away from me. I'll have to keep an eye on them to see when they open to the public.
I can relate to traveling for a few hours outside your hometown. We took the subway to millienial park in Chicago two weeks ago. Chicago feels very different now. We had to wear mask everywhere and they are very strict about it. Hope things get back to normal soon 😩😩😩
That was AWESOME!! Would it be possible to ask you what some of the plants where? LOVE your hair!!
I bet those grasses would give lots of winter interest until the snow pack arrives.
You were near me! It would be so cool to meet you. Bummer.
So odd that I would notice that there were NO pollinators on any of the pollinators or flowers.
🌺🐝eautiful🌺bouquet
I might sound like a silly newbie with this question but what is the difference between the new wave petunia and the supertunia?
I trialed the white Salvia this season. The jury is still out on whether I like it or not. Nice that you could visit the gardens. My colleagues and I usually go to the CSU trial gardens in Fort Collins, Colorado. Not this year. 😥
bluesky7226 Interesting. What’s not making you completely sold about it?
@@TheImpatientGardener the colour is not really white and it's not really silver. I'll take a photo of it in my pot and send it along. I hope I'm talking about the same salvia!😜
Yep, it is the right salvia.
bluesky7226 Thanks for checking. Always great to hear real-world reports.
Wow. What a beautiful place. The tree! The tree! Oh my word that’s amazing. Thank you so much for the tour. What state is this in again? Wonderful video. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
Lisa Walters it’s in Chicago, Illinois
Lisa Walters I believe Erin said West Chicago, IL
I would think the only issue with planting in big swaths like that is the possibility of losing several plants in one area or another. That could leave a sizable hole in the overall look..
Correction. That is exactly the most beautiful bouquet in the world!
Doe your wild magic mountain basil come back each year?
No. I buy it new every year.
@@TheImpatientGardener is there a way to overwinter it?
packed in &pretty, but i don't understand how they can tend something in the middle!
Wondered the same thing.
Hi..im new here...
Funny how there were massive amounts of flowers and I did not see one bee or moth or butterfly. They say cultivar annuals are not good for wildlife or pollinators and it looks like this video supports that notion. Or maybe they use a lot of pesticides to keep it looking nice. It is a little too nice IMO.
Your eyes are beautiful... by the way