I am enjoying watching and listening to all your garden information which I find very interesting and informative, even though I can’t grow a lot of the cold climate plants as I live in the sub tropics in Queensland Australia., but in saying that there are plenty that can be grown, for instance you planted a Rockin Fuchsia Salvia, on your blog today and I actually bought and planted one today. Enjoy the walks around the garden. Barbara

Enjoying your videos. I would find it beneficial if you could insert a picture of a mature specimen when you are introducing plants. Thanks for sharing your garden with us.

Erin it looks so great! Thanks so much for sharing!

Love it!!!!!

Always love watching your videos. Can't wait to see what you put in the big pot by the steps.

love the way you garden! enjoying watching you in your garden. so relaxing and learn a lot from what you do. you have a great day!

Love your videos. They are real...not perfect..lol...like us all!! You explain really well, got to go heading out to my gardens after 2 days of rain. Weeds are growing great! Keep up the good work Erin, I enjoy your videos with morning coffee.

I wish your new garden much growth and success! I love bush clematis. They are so dainty and interesting. I had to use a circular wire support for mine because I didn't enjoy the flopping over. And you are right about that fuchsia salvia, the hummingbirds love it. I grow it with black and blue salvia with they also love. For mulch, I bought one of those huge cast aluminum ice scoops at a restaurant supply store. I use it to scoop and distribute the mulch. I also use it to scoop soil out of bags.

@pratherlara5321

5 жыл бұрын

I second the ice scoops, been using baker's scoops of all sizes foe everything- soil, mulch, fertilizer- plastic animal food scoops work great in the garden also. the only way to kill any of them is to run it over with a truck.

Picked up a Lady's Mantle yesterday... just because you said it was one of your favorites. :) Thanks for the peek into your little version of paradise. #unique #sopretty

@grahamthomas6283

5 жыл бұрын

Lady mantle GT plants will self seed but worth a place in the garden 👍

@redlantern3371

5 жыл бұрын

@@grahamthomas6283 Thank you Graham Thomas...you are one of my favorite David Austin roses.

Looks so beautiful 😍

Love the drift wood looking piece in your garden along with all of the plants you’ve chosen. Great variety!!

Looks great! I agree about the seed heads on the clematis.

I’m digging that chunk of root, wood burl thing, in your garden there. I loved that salvia, too! Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing! .....ohhh, driftwood. Niiice.

Hey Erin! I am so happy I came across your channel! I too am from Wisconsin and I figure you are only about 2-3 hours from me! This year is the first time since we moved to our home almost 20 years ago that I am finally loving my gardens! I was always too intimidated by trying to figure out when, what, why, and how to plant. But this year I just did it! Thanks for all the great “real” videos! Have a great day in the garden!

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Hi “neighbor!” That’s the way it goes with gardening sometimes, isn’t it? Sometimes you just have to get stuck in and do it. Your garden sounds great. Thank you for saying hi.

Very nice, thanks for sharing! Love your big dogs!

catching up on previous videos love, love, love your plant selection so creative thank you for sharing

You have so much great information in your videos. Thank you..

Great job! Thank you for inspiring and I’m going to the nursury center to get Rocking Blue Salvia.👏👏👩‍🌾💕

Very nice, I would like to see this area in a follow up video for the growth, well done!

Thanks for sharing!

I have been loving your channel, just found you a few weeks ago (and then I found your blog, and I've been enjoying that too!). Thank you for sharing your gardening adventures with us - you put in a lot of work! I'm two weeks out from giving birth and am too big to be down digging in the dirt, so I'm getting my gardening fix from your videos 😆

Newcomer here from The Northern part of California. Enjoyed your choices of plants, anxious to see them mature. Tys

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Hi JoAnn!

Nice video!

Lamb's ear. Silvery fuzzy soft drifts of foliage with pretty baby pink tall flower stalks that can be cut down low after they finish blooming leaving the silvery mounds of foliage for the rest of the season. They're perineal

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

seriously? really? I love lambs ear foliage and have lots in my garden but I never let it flower. I just don’t care for the flowers. 😀

Erin, I love the selection of plants, would you be able to list them?

Looks like March! You need some sun up there 🌞

The garden is lovely. I like your choice of plants and how you explain why you are choosing it. I think I should add clematis to my garden for some vertical interest. Sedums are fabulous for rooting in, even their leaf will grow roots. Honey bees love the flowers which is great to feed them in the fall.

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

John Lord (an Irish gardener with a great KZread channel) says about sedums: you can throw them over your shoulder and they will root and he's pretty much right.

Learned a new plant! Sesleria autumnalis. I'm also zone 5. Also, damn I wish that Cerinthe (honeywort) was a perennial. The drooping blooms remind me of Kent oregano.

The sedum can look good when I do the Chelsea chop iam in England and when Chelsea flower show on we do the chop so it delay flowering so good with late flowering plants just a thought thanks for your time 🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

consider putting a round boxwood in front of the hydrangeas and in between the hostas. the contrast would stand out beautifully. great job!

Love it. When that takes off it’s going to be a beautiful area. Tfs. 👏🏼👏🏼

Love watching your videos! Thanks for keeping us up to date on your new additions. I am interested in the dogwood... I planted a “radiant rose” dogwood this spring that is doing well, just not entirely what I expected. I hope yours leafs out soon!

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

I just went to one of my go-to online tree sources (Whitman Farms) and she (the sweet woman who runs it) says on her site she sees no difference whatsoever between Radiant Rose and Satomi. I have seen other sites that say that Radiant Rose is hardier than Satomi. I have to say, I have real concerns about what's happening with this one I planted. I think it may have suffered some tissue damage over winter, which allows plants to leaf out but then no more nutrients can make it through the vascular system.

@Camille-ft1fj

5 жыл бұрын

The Impatient Gardener I picked radiant rose for its hardiness mostly (NY zone 6). And because I thought the color would be very pink. Right now the bracts are very very light pink. So a little disappointed so far. Was the satomi the tree that you showed us the root system of? Do you think it was the roots that were tangled that are the problem? Have you already asked the nursery for a replacement?

love the drift wood, I love how it adds to a garden. If you ever get the chance to visit St. Louis the Missouri Botanical Garden has a drift wood and stump display garden that is just AMAZING!!!! I bet you would LOVE it. I have a video on my channel, but video cannot do it justice.

@TheImpatientGardener

4 жыл бұрын

I will check it out! (The video and, hopefully, the botanical garden. )

Veronica Magic Show White Wands is one of my favorites. If you ever see one get it you will love it. Mine is covered with bees and butterflies.

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

I actually planted five of them just a few feet away from this area of the garden earlier this spring. Can't wait to see them thrive. Thank you for the suggestion.

I don't know if Crocosmia grows in your area but if it does you really need to put some out. In my 7b it doesn't need to be pulled up in fall. I tested it last year and it dd pretty darn good. But this year ... wowzer... it is a show stopper. Hummingbirds love it and the big sword shaped leaves are very pretty on their own. Keep us in loop with this area as it spreads and fills in. I think it is going to be really really pretty by summer.

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

It’s iffy on hardiness here but I actually did plant some in my “hot” border this year. I hope it does well because it’s a stunner!

It my flower garden's 3rd official Spring. I've done very little work. Except MULCHING!

We use maple leaves for mulch and it does wonders for the soil, turns into wonderful black soil as it decomposes. I’m with you, I’d rather buy plants as to mulch! Thanks for the video!

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Leaf mulch is the best! I usually mulch most of the gardens in fall with our leaves.

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What! I didn’t know you could just divine plants like that. Does that work with anything that has multiple stems?

Wow Fissell it weed where I Matt does that one hurts to touch it

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

It's a case of a terrible common name. Globe thistle is not the weedy thistle you are thinking of ... just a case of a bad common name.

Would you tell where you found some of your plants where to order them. The videos are great, so practical,thanks for the names of the plants.

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

In this area I ordered the Phlomis russeliana from High Country Gardens and a few of the grasses from Digging Dog Nursery. Everything else I picked up at area garden centers.

I've just recently found your site and LOVE it all. I hope you still will get this question even though this video is from 2019. I noticed the small gingko tree that you mentioned near the end of your video but you didn't talk about it. Can you tell me the variety? Is it a smaller variety? I have a "typical" size (very slow growing), but I love them. I'm in zone 4b so I'd love to plant another one & love this smaller size. Thanks!!

@TheImpatientGardener

3 жыл бұрын

It’s Ginkgo ‘Gnome’

looks great, will be interesting to see how it all fills out over the season. Are the fuzzy silver plants (sage?) also called "Lamb's Ears"? I like a mix of perennial and annuals as well, and I always shuffle the perennials around if it does not work out as planned, nothing is permanent in the garden :) tfs!

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Deb Potter No, lambs ear (aka Stachys Byzantine) is a perennial, but similar in appearance, particularly when silver sage is young.

So sorry ! I wrote the incorrect name of the Beautiful Rocking Fuchsia Salvia💕

Where dod you find the phlomis?

Hi Erin - question - Do you trim your dahlia in the early stages? I've seen some do this to cause more branching and blooms, and I don't want to make a horrendous mistake.

@TheImpatientGardener

4 жыл бұрын

How’s It Growing? Pinching back is a good idea when you’re growing them for your garden. If you’re growing them for cut flowers you generally sacrifice flowers for longer stems. I pinch them back early on and will do it later when I remember, which honestly isn’t often. Great growers really stay on top that. I also deadline all the way back to a node which I guess is a form of pinching back.

I don't like the look of dry mulch I just hate it ..your garden is very nice I see future progression there I just love the look of dark dirt 👌

Totally random question, at 10:39 you show the steps up to your patio. I love the railing. What do you call that type of railing?

@TheImpatientGardener

4 жыл бұрын

Stainless steel cable. They are becoming more popular so are probably easier to source now. When we did it we went to a sailboat lifeline maker (it’s exactly the same parts and construction) who was just launching an architectural line.

@maryknipp9623

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener thank you so much!

Where did you find the dogwood (fancy name) in the beginning of the video? Thistle, really? Not the weed I assume?

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

I found the dogwood at a Milwaukee area garden center. And nope, not the weedy thistle. It's just a case of a bad common name. Echinops, aka globe thistle, is not pokey and thuggish like the weedy thistles most of us contend with.

Can you tell me how you water all your gardens? do you have an underground system? or do you have to water this yourself?

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Julie Culshaw Perennials, shrubs and trees only get watered for their first year unless they get really stressed. For a new garden like this sometimes I’ll set up a soaker hose and connect the hose to that to make it easier but otherwise I just hand water.

Do you prefer cats pijamas to walkers low? I have walkers low all over , I love it but it can get a little large

@TheImpatientGardener

2 жыл бұрын

They are so different it's almost like they are two different plants. Walkers Low is a great performer where it can mingle with other plants (that can kind of hold it up) and for farther back in the border. Cat's Pajamas is so small that it's a front of the border kind of thing. I do think it has better color though.

@rbrown2746

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener I use Walkers low in the front of the border, maybe I should try it further back . Thank you

What is the “candelabra” like flower?

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

theezeverything Phlomis russeliana

What kind of conifer is that to the right side of the garden? I love it's shape.

@TheImpatientGardener

3 жыл бұрын

Blue globe spruce.

@dorisb505

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener Thank you. I love your channel.

Just wondering, I don't see you putting any fertilizer in your soil. Do you ever use it?

@TheImpatientGardener

4 жыл бұрын

I do, but not a lot. I should probably fertilize more than I do, to be honest, but I work hard to build the fertility in my soil and that seems to work ok. At a minimum, all hydrangeas, clematis and roses get a spring fertilization.

@marysmith9934

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener Thanks. I have all of the above here in Georgia and they grow profusely even with all the wicked heat and sun. I feed 2-3 times a season. Love your furbabies, drool and all. I have 3 cats. ^-^

i like your garden but i do prefer annuals myself , i dont like permanency of plants in certain areas . but --- we all have different views and aims which is what makes us humans --- bloody great , lol.

For people in neighborhoods w/ roaming pet cats, is nepeta like real catnip going to attract cats to my garden? I don’t want that

@TheImpatientGardener

2 жыл бұрын

I have never had that issue. I once asked for feedback on that on IG and if I recall about 20% of the people said it had been an issue for them.

@JWHealing

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener OK thanks!