Oh, come on Jim, your favorite plant is whatever the camera is pointed at at the moment 😂 I am so the same way

@JimPutnam

2 ай бұрын

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@terrivance8750

2 ай бұрын

True! 😆😉

Love, all the action in your garden right now. So much happening. I always learn something. This time about the anvil pruners.

Love the music when you were planting the tomatoes 🍅

❤hello everyone, Mr Jim putnam and Stephany have fun gardening. 😊

I love the mock orange you showed at the beginning. I just fell in love with it last year when you showed it. Absolutely gorgeous!

Oh, Miss Holly ❤ I tried reaching through the screen and rubbing her head. Love her. Well, I also really enjoyed this video watching you plan out your garden and learning about so many plants in your garden space. Thank you, Stephany and Jim.

It was good to see the boss on site today..

Love that you have bird boxes. Now that makes for a happy and balanced garden.😊

My rabbits have chewed through doubled up deer netting a few times. I’ve gone to everything that they will entertain eating in raised beds with removable siding of hardware cloth. Glad to hear I’m not the only one struggling.

@cyhomer

2 ай бұрын

..yes, our neighbor had this same plastic fencing and the rabbits chewed thru it! Dang!

My neighbor, who also has a bunch of plants in his yard, with a glint in his eye informed me that he has “taken care of” the rabbit problem. Don’t know exactly what he’s done but I’ve not lost any plants at all this year.

Fences can make a garden look like a prison if there is not enough greenery in front of them. That Ruby magnolia looks terrific. I want one!

We have 2" by 4" welded wire in our rail fence that goes around our back yard. I could not understand how some of our plants were getting eaten to the ground until I saw a rabbit squeeze right through the wire like it was no big deal. And it wasn't a small rabbit. If their head can fit through, they're coming in.

Try the black and blue Salvia. Lasts forevermore in coastal Alabama. Now 4 x4 ft bush. O it's 4th season❤

Thank you for telling us about rabbits and okra!!!! The last 3 years something has nibbled on our okra. It's in an area where the deer never go. I have bee trying to figure out what in the world it was. We never see them in that area but I know they are around. Gotta be those little stinkers!!!! Now we can try to do something for the short term to protect the okra.

I'm going to a plant swap tomorrow. Gosh, I hope I remember then I have to go back home and plant everything. Great ideas for the vegetable garden and problem preventive. Another great video!! Sending your link to my Facebook feed often and telling everyone to subscribe on youtube!!

A few old quartered roses do so great in April and early May. My 3 baptisias are coming into their own.. a false spirea is very showy.. 2nd year in ground

Ventured out to Johnston co..today to couple of greenhouses and stopped by c&j nursery excellent plants ..bought a Florida sunshine from there!

Rabbits as you know are wily creatures, I believe if there is ANY opening surrounding your home they will make it into your garden. But hopefully you will be slowing them down a bit ! 🌷💚🙃

I can totally empathize with your rabbit problem! There are some plants that I just don't buy anymore unless they will be planted in a container or will have a protective cage around them so they won't be quickly destroyed by rabbits.

All the deciduous magnolias got torched here last night and the night prior from a 28 degree morning here in MI

@emmalavenham

2 ай бұрын

What has worked for us is Magnolia Genie - blooms later than most so we get the blooms and reblooms sporadically in summer. Zone 6 New England

Lot's of plants are a bit out of their usual time this spring. No telling what the season holds!

@whatsup848

2 ай бұрын

Our Mexican Sage blooms in the fall. It has blooms on it now. Weird to say the least.

Jim, I had a Whippet-Terrier mix for over 15-years. He couldn't stay still outside either. Indoors, however, was another matter--total velcro-dog/couch potato! ❤😊

Hi Jim. Why does Southern Living have plants in its line that we can’t get? I have been looking for this mock orange for over a year. It is frustrating. Sorry for venting, but darn.

@ChrisieCouncil

2 ай бұрын

I’m with you Stacie! I just tried to find it with no success.

@cyhomer

2 ай бұрын

..right. If it’s good to zone5, you’d think we could find it!

@mbiliameekers2665

2 ай бұрын

Yes! this was just about to be my exact question. I asked my local nursery in Seattle about this plant over a year ago when Jim first talked about it - they had no clue what I was talking about. Cant find it anywhere. Saw SLPCs webpage about it with no indicators of where to purchase. Still looking 🥲

@katherinecornette5315

2 ай бұрын

Agree!👍

wow, the anvil pruners is a great tip!

I like that you have plants waiting for a spot in the garden to open up. I do the same! A bit behind here on the veggie bed, but lots of shrubs in a new large bed (inspired by you), and the irises, peonies, and heirloom roses are all spectacular. Love this time of year!

Do you tack that fence down at the bottom, or are your rabbits easily discouraged? 😄 Everything is looking SO good, you two. Our season is just getting started (last night was in the 30s, and the night before was a hard frost, but fingers crossed that's the last of it), and I'm so ready to start spring/summer gardening.

We are looking forward to our May Night salvias blooming here in Zone 7A- they are a JP recommendation that were on special in our local garden center last August. Also, I think that we have the same deer fencing. Ours was pretty cheap as well- the utility company’s arborist left it to protect our replacement trees.

Beautiful dog!!!!

I know he loves to grow. I love to hang at your garden. Thanks😊!

Darn! I was hoping for a pet 🐖 piggy in that pen! 😂🤓

Thank you Stephany and Jim. 🌷💚🙃

What are the other more southern Salvia varieties? I would love Salvia blooming all summer. Thanks!

Neither of my Miss Scarlet Illicium bloomed this year. This is the 3rd spring that they've been in the garden. They bloomed heavy the first two years though. Weird. But they have put on a lot of new growth.

Jim, Steph, Think I need some Jerusalem sage in the drier, sunny areas of my garden! 😊

I know this isn’t part of this video however your fence in front is awesome. I love that fence but can’t find the video of how you made the top so prefect and symmetrical.

That mock orange plant looks to be a quite interesting plant. I can remember as a child growing up in the early 1960s in Wisconsin that my parents used to comment about a couple of "mock oranges" creating an archway in our back yard, about early summer. They were also fragrant as I remember, but had much tinier blooms. That illicium also seems like an interesting plant. It reminds me of my red 'Sonic Bloom' weigela. Great point about wood chips absorbing shock from anyone walking on them, guarding against compacted soil.

Love the Stellar Ruby Magnolia. I have the Magnolia figo (Banana Shrub), which smells like bananas. Los Angeles zone 10.

Need a couple outdoor community cats to take care of all your rabbit problems.

And thank you for feeding the robins 🤭🌷💚🙃

who else checked how close Jim was on the price of the deer price? lol

Oh Steph….to be young again and not need a kneeling pad….😉

@marybeth4002

2 ай бұрын

Ditto here!! 🤔 There was once a day when I didn't use one either.

LOL...that horizonal fence board on the ground won't stop one rabbit. They will dig under that in a minute. At least the did in my garden! Good try though...😁

🌳NEVER DISAPPOINTS 🌳

You’re way ahead of me! Can you also plant peppers 🫑 deep, like you do with tomatoes 🍅?

What in the world is that gorgeous flowering vine growing on the fence behind the ilicium Miss Scarlet? Thanks! I love your channel. I always learn something.

@stephanycoakley7352

2 ай бұрын

Bignonia capreolata 'Jekyll'

When and how to prune the Illisium floradanum please?

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Jim, I'm in TX Gulf Coast Zone 9. Orange Rocket Barberry says it is cold hardy in zone 9, but do you think it can take my heat and subtropical humidity? I fell in love with that red pop of color in the garden tour you did. Willing to trial it in my garden, but just wondered if you had insider info on it first.

@jeanninemorgan3526

2 ай бұрын

I’m no expert but it thrives in my now 9b northeast Florida garden.

Hello...how do you do it...i am bad at gardening too bad 👎 tq you for sharing your KZread videos

Do you still have that styrax tree? And if so how is it doing?

@emmalavenham

2 ай бұрын

Evening light has done well for us - great purplish leaf color and great form

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hi Jim, we went to Big Bloomers today. we really enjoyed it. I would have never know about it if you had not mentioned it in one of your videos. I have a question for you. We noticed 2 trees they have growing there. 2 were over by where the fruit and nut trees were and might be some kind of white birch? The other ones were all in a row over by where the roses were and the pergola area. The leaves looked like the grow in a layered look. It may just be the time of year with new growth there. they appeared to grow column like. We asked about those and they said hornbeam is what they are. I was wondering if you might know what genus those 2 trees might be? we would like to get some like those. I can send pictures to your email so you can see what we were looking at. thanks so much. (we are in eastern NC zone 8a.)

What is the difference between "Better Boxwoods" and "NewGen Boxwoods"?

I must have an allergy to boxwoods because they stink horribly to me. So bad I can't stand to be around them.

One million dollars in today’s dollars, lol. Pretty much.

5:24 very in demand I love boxwoods! I’ve just this Spring gotten to see new growth on mine… I love how all the different varieties leaves grow different… that ones so fluffy!!! I have some called New Gen I think supposed to be similar disease resistance 🤍🤍🤍🪴🪴🪴 any suggestions for dinnerplate Dahlia supports? Single poles? Trying to do like posts on each end and then run line with string … mine are already a foot high or better I gotta get on it everything’s just to do all at once ugh!

1:27 whoa that’s gorgeous!!!! I hope my mock orange I got does well I forgot about it that the plant I couldn’t remember what it was 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤣🤣🤣🪴🪴🪴 thank you!!!!