Hi garden friends, This week I hosted my local garden club for a garden tour of my garden. While I do garden tours all the time here on KZread, it was alot of fun to get to show my garden to people in person, and to talk and answer questions about my plants. I had a wonderful evening with my guests. Hope you enjoy this video, and that you are all enjoying your summer garden. Thanks for watching - Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b) Water fountains shown in this video: amzn.to/3XLgnVE amzn.to/45MDFfJ

I love the idea of the garden club hosting regular garden tours - wish my garden club focused on more tours

Ok there are so many things!! 1) YOUR DRESS!!I have a dress this color similar style and I love it and It looks so BEAUTIFUL on you!!! YAY FOR GREEN DRESSES! 2) When you purchased all of the orange family flowers earlier this season I thought “Oh no”. I was completely wrong because they all ( containers)have such unique charm and are so pretty. 3)So much diversity! You both have done an amazing job to create interesting colorful diverse gardens! You both should feel so accomplished and proud of this creation! THANK YOU what a wonderful way to spend a Friday night!!!

Steph you and George have a beautiful garden. Lots of work but it has turned out very beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful during the "Golden Hour"! Congratulations Steph and George! And that green dress, Steph! You look stunning in green.

Everything is gorgeous! You and George have worked so hard, and it has paid off! Happy gardening! 🌻

The way you and George work together on your yard is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤❤

Thank you Steph, lovely garden ! I also like your dress ! 💐💚🙃

Everything looks beautiful, and that dress is a stunning on you! Thanks for sharing!

It’s so nice to share your garden! What a pleasant way to spend time. Hope you all inspired each other.

What a wonderful evening! So nice to have gardner's visiting another gardeners home. So much inspiration here 💚💚💚

What a great idea! Sounds fun 🌺 🌸 Your garden slays. Everyone will hang out longer to take it all in so be ready for quite a day. Green is a great color on you. You look really pretty 💚

Steph you look beautiful in your green dress. You and George have done a great job in the gardens. Thanks for the tour. Have fun

Hi Steph! Perfect color dress to wear for a garden tour😊. You’re doing a great job with layering, textures and colors in your garden. Laura at Garden Zander spoke about the redbud recently. I purchased the pinky winky hydrangea last yr. It’s small and the deer keep munching on it. 😅

In awe of the gardens’ beauty…. You and George are hard workers . Also, Love your summer dresses!

Good morning Steph. I Always enjoy your garden through my phone screen. How lucky are your gardens club members. Have a great day ❤

Steph: You and George have done a wonderful job of keeping your garden beautiful. I really love the bulb-structure fountain that goes to your entryway. I hope your weather remains favorable for a tour this evening as it will be fun to see such a pretty garden as guests go through and learn about all of your successes as yiu answer questions. Enjoy!

I’ve never been to a garden tour because there’s nothing like that where I live , but I enjoyed seeing your garden. Thanks for sharing.

Good morning from Arizona, beautiful garden ❤❤

Steph, all your flower garden's are very beautiful. They are so lush and healthy. Thank you for sharing this with us. I absolutely love all your gardens.❤

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Thank you so much for your kind words Judy! I'm thankful for YOU! 💚

Good Morning Steph, love your garden, your guests are sure going enjoy it. Blessings and have a wonderful day!!

Stunning. Hard work pays off. Your raised bed garden is perfection too! 💚

I love the lollipop looking blue spruce, so cute.

Such a nice tour Steph..Thank you! & George too 🎥😊 you guys have put in the work and it shows and its beautiful. That Bouquet 💐 was very nice! How many guests did you have come thru to see the gardens? Thank you for the tour! 😊♥️

Your garden is stunning Steph and you also look stunning in that green dress! 💕

Hi Steph - you and your garden look so gorgeous. Boy can I relate to the redbud struggles!! My arborist calls them “Deadbuds” here on Cape Cod because the winds cause them to break so easily. I have had better success by pruning them back quite a bit and not letting those branches arch out a lot. I have also learned to plant them in a more sheltered spot and that seems to do the trick from me. You really have developed such a layered, beautiful foliage garden. Love your videos. ❤❤

The gardens look so beautiful and ready for your garden club tour! Enjoy sharing all you and George have done with your friends! Also, thanks for taking time to walk around your gardens with George filming to show us this special video.

All the hard work you & George put in really shows. Just lovely!

Such a beautiful garden! Your hard work is really showing. And you look beautiful in that green dress.

I love your garden, it is beautiful! You and George worked so hard it and it shows. Love the garden club, what a way to show your garden and inspire others!! Have a wonderful weekend. looking forward to more videos. ♥♥♥♥

Hi your hair is beautiful and I love the green dress for your garden tour which is gorgeous especially all the color combinations ❤

Awww how fun for you to give a tour! Great video as always! I love to watch!! The flowers at the end were stunning!!

Your Japanese maple garden is so lovely. You should be proud of all your hard work 💚

Thank you for this stunning tour of your garden. Always enjoy seeing what's in bloom month by month. Such a pretty dress in the perfect shade of green for your garden party💚

As always, your garden looked beautiful! And so did you!! The cut and color of that dress was stunning! The raised garden bed area is really coming along. Such a fun spot. Thanks again for sharing!

Your garden and grounds are so well taken care of! Just gorgeous 🪴👒🪴

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Thank you so much for your kind words Patty, its certainly a labor of love 💚

Wow Steph absolutely beautiful! 😊 I love coneflower too. Your collection of plants are wonderful. This tour is one of my favorite tours I have watched on my garden shows.

thanks for the garden tour. i know the others enjoyed it also. you and george have a amazing garden. thanks for sharing. hope you have a great day!!!

If your blue suede shoes salvia is getting too big, id take a few stem cuttings and propagate them in a terracotta pot. Also your hyssop has the same square stem, so cuttings would be easy to propagate too. Anything that is flourishing and has lovely blue and chartreuse colours, would be worth planting in other gardens on your property. Looking fantastic!!! Great night for a garden tour, Jo😊

Garden tours are the bomb aren't they?! I just had a garden tour this past Tuesday which was themed Chaos in the Garden. Of course there was food and a raffle and lots of chairs so people were able to sit around and just enjoy the surroundings. I had between 45 and 50 people attend. It was quite the experience. I felt like I was at my own wedding. So check this out, I did the DIY fountain and the pump that I ordered which was the same one that you were using was not strong enough and the fittings did not fit on the tubing. So I ended up sending that back to Amazon and I got another one but I didn't know that I had ordered two of them so my sweetie and I put one together and it's great and for the other one I just brought home the materials to make the second one. Who knows where that one is going to go! So many possibilities

Your garden is fabulous ! So much love and work !

Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden.

Gorgeous garden you have. So happy you have garden tour. Cut flowers form your garden is so awesome.

Flower Garden beautiful.. 🌹💐🥰😁🌷🌷😘😊

A Garden Club, how fun! SO pretty, everything!! 🤩

Love this video. Your garden is so very lovely. The early evening light makes it look magical.

Your videos are fun, educational and very appreciated. Thanks to the both of you. 👌

I just love your gardens Steph and George. My favorite on KZread

Beautiful garden. I always enjoy your videos as they are so informative even though I am in zone 7a. Thanks and I’m sure they all loved the garden tour

Hi Steph, everything is looking so good, love the color palate.

Roses don't like me either, Steph! I have good luck with the Knockouts like you do although I keep trying with the David Austin's. I'm babying a Lady of Shallot. Next year will be it's 3rd year, so I'm hoping for a leap! Thank you for the great garden tour. Always enjoy your videos ❤.

Our White Swans did the same thing. Some years they return back to white others purple. Some years they are mixed.

First thing I noticed was your pretty green dress . How you had a nice time at your garden tour

Everything is beautiful including your dress. Gorgeous 😀

Beautiful garden. I love your videos. Thanks for sharing.

Nice job! Overwintering is challenging. I overwintered Pepper plants and harvested today!

Good morning from Michigan!! love this video!!! you have so many beautiful plants!!! 🥰

Love my Sweet Mademoiselle Rose- it is so gorgeous and fragrant! Last year fairly small, this year much more robust!

So professional. Fantastic job.

Steph, love your dress. ❤ BTW I like the result of the mixture for killing weeds. Waiting for rainy days to stop here, central Florida, to try it out on my back yard.

Your gardens are lovely. Thank you for the tour. I can't believe you have dahlias and snapdragons in the same bouquet! BTW, the feverfew I planted last year came back gangbusters this year and bloomed earlier than the new seedlings I planted in the spring. Hoping for the same next year, such a great filler plant. I thought it was an annual, but apparently a perennial. Zone 7a, NJ.

Coneflowers have been a real challenge for us here - believe it or not - in our small patch of New England Rabbits can eat them down to the ground - head clipping weevils can take out flowers - and in rainy years, botyritis can be an issue.. What is working for us - the native species like pallida angustifolia purpurea etc and nativars recommended by Mt Cuba - leaner soil and/or leaf litter mulch

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Hi Emma! I hear that from many gardeners. I have to say we have lots of bunnies this year, and I also found some buds on the ground. I try to spray repellent regularly but I sometimes don't get to it on time if its rained etc. I agree the native varieties are a great option and a bit stronger. I have many coneflowers planted in a bed that stays pretty moist, and they are supposed to like a dryer well draining soil. I have lost some of the cultivated varieties due to this but the purpurea comes up each year (so far!). I'm looking for a variety called pretty parasols, but pallida is also a very pretty option. I like the delicate look of the downward facing petals. Thank you so much for your comment 🌱

Maybe you could video the other garden members gardens ? 💐💚🙃

Your redbud tree might be helped by being properly pruned. An arborist or a landscaper that has had pruning experience could help. When I was living in RI I took a pruning class at URI for homeowners and Master Gardeners. You have lovely gardens.

WOW! very beautiful garden views

What a beautiful dress,can we know about where it comes from?

Lovely garden tour! Thank you so much!

Hi Steph 🌺 . Wonderful tour at your garden it looks stunning and Its great to have these guests in your garden . Have a wonderful day .🌺🌻🌺

Beautiful! I learn so much from you!

Hi Steph! Loving your green dress…very pretty! Your garden is looking beautiful as always. 🪴🌸🌿 What’s the variety of that yarrow? Loving that salmon/apricot color and would look perfect in my garden as I too have quite a bit of purple and lavender. 😊

Beautiful as always Steph ❤❤❤ you look very pretty tonight in your green dress!

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Thank you so very much for your sweet words Michelle!~ So thankful for YOU! 💚

4 season tree shrub border in progress too! I do not think our neighbors can see it but our wildlife can and that is what counts BTW Black lace elderberry can take years to take off, and get ravaged by borers - key sign is droopy leaf sprays..

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Yay!! so fun to have a project to work on slowly. I'm sure the wildlife appreciates it and since you get to see it, you will enjoy it. Yes, I have noticed that with the black lace elderberry. Thank you so much for you comment, and tip.

Your gardens are looking great! I think that using weed suppressant in a pebble walkway makes so much sense. My parents have such a hard time with this too. I guess you could try to burn them with a torch, also? Do you have any luck with planting Japanese Maples in pots? Love that your son is shooting hoops in the background.

BTW Godzilla fern is now licensed to WG so that means it is a lot easier to get a hold of.. even as plugs. Here, we have been using it in our growing woodland spaces in the understory of our deciduous trees…. Such great size and color, even in one year from a plug

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That is great to know! I would love to add some more to my garden. Its gorgeous!! and my other Japanese painted ferns (not sure on the variety) came back a bit smaller this year for some reason.

Great video! Beautiful garden! Love the dress !

You look so beautiful in your green dress❣️

Everything looks just beautiful, I just love your yard!

@HookedandRooted

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Hi Kelly, Thank you so much for your kind words, and for watching our videos💚

Love your garden and watching it evolve. I liked the info from last episode on the homemade weed killer. So sorry you got negative feedback. I have a hard time using store bought due to having a dog, and have spend countless hours weeding between flagstones.

Your garden looks lovely.

Beautiful‼️

Beautiful gardens!

Thank you ❤ beautiful garden

Thanks so much for sharing!! Beautiful

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You are so welcome! Thank you so much for watching!

Beautiful garden

Very beautiful

I love your garden!

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Thank you so much Mona! 🥰

Beautiful garden!!!

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Thank you so much Diane! 💚

Beautiful

Steph you and your garden look lovely

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Thank you so much 🥰

That's great 😊

I was interested in your information about White Swan coneflowers. Mine have gone completely purple. Thank you for a lovely tour!🦋🦋🦋

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Hi there! that is so interesting!! Thank you so much for commenting and for sharing your experience with us.

Beautiful dress.

Have you considered adding a small pond to your garden, or even a tiered fountain?

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Hi there! Yes, we have talked about it. Perhaps some day. 🌱

Hi Steph- how did you overwinter your Mandevilla? Maybe I missed that? Your garden looks great! Have a great club tour! ❤

I have the same issue with the bloomerang lilac. Bought it because of the rebloom but not really worth it. I would pull mine and replace with a Ms. Kim but it’s pretty deeply rooted now.

I had an elderberry die on me. I just replaced it with a smokebush that i got half price at Home Depot!

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Your garden looks wonderful. Do you find the False Spirea to be a spreader? I planted mine in a pot because I was worried it would overtake the garden.

How often do you fertilize your astilbe and what do you use?

May I ask what done you are in. Your yard is beautiful. Have fun on your tour. Maybe see if you can video other garden club members gardens. That would be fun. Just found you when you were redoing your shed (?) area. Tfscheers

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Hi Victoria! I am in garden zone 6b/7a, in Massachusetts. I would love to visit other members gardens and document them to share here on my channel. Thank you so much for watching, and for your comment 🌱