I am always blown away by the volume of quality information you're able to relay. This video summed up years of trial and error and multiple books read/videos watched in just over 30 minutes. I love your no nonsense evidence based approach to gardening. Thank you thank you thank you.

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

Your welcome - let others know about the channel - thanks.

@annekincannon-kf3hx

Жыл бұрын

He’s a very intelligent man in a world of less than. This can be very trying in life.

Felt like I just took a Master Class! And I WILL rewatch several times!!! Excellent. Thank you!!

I don’t know why I’m just discovering your channel but you gave a wealth of information in this video. I’m definitely subscribing and binge watching more videos! 🌱

Good job! I too use a chop and drop method in my rose mixed beds. I live in Germany where people go out and polish the dirt between plants to impress the neighbors. Anything else is considered lazy and messy. My mixed beds are messy. but guess whose roses put out the best show? Mine, all living with a thin layer of rotting matter on top. I don't consider my flower garden anything special. I planted for blooms and wildlife....no pesticides, no chemicals. Fertilizing consists of rotted matter thrown right to the ground when snipped and some chipped horn. When walking in the garden, you will hear noisy bees, bumbles, butterflies, hummingbird hawks. I have three areas where I leave thicker branches to rot. They house a family of BIG hedgehogs. A tiny pond gives them all something to drink. That pond has even birthed a few salamanders! Even though my garden is only one tenth of an acre with a cottage sitting in the middle, I have 200 roses, thousands of bulbs and many small trees. I love your "let it be" attitude and agree that letting things rot is the best way. Thumbs up to your natural garden. More people should realize that nature knows best.

@KatherineTheGr8t

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Heikefa, I have a question for you: You say you have many small trees, what types are they and what zone are you in? (I have been looking for small trees and go between wanting fruit bearing or simply something that doesn't get over 10' tall.) Thank you so much! I'm Katherine from western Oregon 8b (between the Pacific Ocean & Cascade Mountains in Eugene, OR) : D

"Who can remember how to take care of 500 different plants? " Not me for sure! Learn how to take care of each group. I like this guy! Subscribed!

You are a wealth of knowledge and an excellent speaker. Thank you for sharing!

You are now my garden expert. I need no other.

I love your science backed, no nonsense approach. Hoping to go back and get all you videos eventually! Thanks for good presentation of helpful material!

About fall clean-up, a little real wood mulch, just sprinkled around unifies the garden, covers over dead stuff enough to hide it and looks fabulous, plus feeds the soil life. It doesn't take much, just a sprinkle and there is no clean-up involved, just "unifiying" where I want a better canvas. Some things can add interest, if not, I cut down or cover up.

Thanks for the great information,. I am a Gardner, I have learn so much that was puzzling, why some flowers did not last. Thank you again!!!!

What an informative session! I learned more about the key principles of gardening than I’ve ever heard before. Really loved your clear, concise presentation format. More please!

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Awesome video! We are so lucky you chose to share all your wisdom.

This is extremely informative and I can tell comes from lots of experience. My purpose of growing perennials is due to less maintenance and after several years of only growing only perennials, I agree that what he says is true. I find pruning and cleaning up in spring protects my plants from winter. The only problem is you need to remove the seeds of certain plants or it will spread everywhere.

A wealth of knowledge - for Canadians!!! Thankyou! I have been gardening since I could follow my dad around. I've got an established small garden that's been basically the same for years. it's time to shake things up and I'm so glad I found your channel. I want to put a few (new to me) shrubs so I can have different seasonal interest to look forward to. Suggestions welcome - replacing 2 purple sandcherries that were 7-8' tall and each 5' wide. I am also looking for a climbing white rose - I had 2 incredible "everblooming iceberg climbers" but one has died (after 29 yrs) and the other doesn't look great. Not sure if is due to less sun as trees have grown or I may have crowded the roots with a creeping juniper?? anyway I'm in the Halton area and having trouble sourcing - not sure if its due to the pandemic or other reasons. If you have any suggestions, let me know. For sentimental reasons I would be happy to replace. - thanks. Off to divide some grasses- thanks for the tip- I was going to put the clumps together but I'll be patient and give away a few clumps ;)

I watched your video, and I have learned so much. You really keep things simple. I have such a better understanding of perennials now and am excited about the coming spring.

Greetings from Madoc, Ontario. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Learned quite a few things. Thanks

I learned so much from your video!! Thanks so much!!

Lol. I asked this question based on he other videos of yours that I’ve watched. This one Ives it all away!

Thanks for sharing the knowledge. Totally worth watching!

I’m new to gardening . I learned a great deal from you. Thank you professor!

By far, the BEST informative video on perennials I've seen! Subscribing!

Love your videos and wealth of knowledge. Thank you so much! Always have loved gardening sense a young age. Someday I’ll have a garden as great as yours!! Mine has came along well the last 12 years...just need more space!

Nice video, there is more content than I can digest in one session, thank you for this and the other videos

Thank you. Your video was helpful!

Excellent! Glad I found your channel.

Thank You! Very informative.

Best gardening perennials video! Thank you!

You really are in tune with nature. Thankyou so much for your gifts of invaluable knowledge and common sense.

Thanks for excellent information for new gardeners and ongoing gardeners so lets keep the videos coming.

Awesome you are a PRO at work , thank you! Ive never seen such an informative video easy to understand straight to the point 👍

I really appreciate your insight on a number of things. Thanks.

This is the best video I have seen ever. I learned so much. Thank you!!

Thank you so much. This was so helpful!

Thank you so much for this video! This is exactly the kind of information I’ve been looking for as a new perennial gardener. I’ve already made so many mistakes, but am so grateful that I now understand why those things were wrong. I’m in north Texas (Zone 8a) and have done a lot of trial and error to see which perennials will thrive in our clay soil and climate. It’s been such a fun adventure. The way you presented this information was so easy to understand. Thank you again!! I’ve just subscribed to your channel and look forward to learning more! 😊

Terrific video, thanks! Also a big thanks to the Ontario Native Plant Gardening FB group for recommending you to me! I have bought a house with a natural pond - clay (actually they built it as a hockey rink not as a pond as there's nothing growing in it now and it's looking green!). So I have some pond gardening to learn and the group let me know about you and your FB group and I've bought your book, Building Natural Ponds. I'm so happy someone from Ontario is answering all my q's as all I could find is British or Southern USA videos on Koi ponds.

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for buying the book - enjoy the pond.

Thank you for this incredible video which is by far the best perennial video I've ever watched. I love your methods.

you have such a great way of relaying information. I wasn't distracted throughout. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Very down to earth & informative!

Great video, thanks very much.

In California my Russian Sage dies to the ground by itself. I always think it’s gone. Then in the Spring it pops out again. 😊 it’s tiny still after 3 years.

Excellent video on perennials

Gardening in Texas 8b is different from growing in Canada, but the principles are the same. Thanks.

Your video is the most informative resource I have ever come across regarding perennials. I only grow perennials and have only been gardening for two years. Thank you so much for your information and the easy way you deliver your information it makes so much sense. I have happily subscribed to your KZread Vlogs to learn more. I will look for other resources you have.

Amazing info, thankyou!😁

Brilliant Thankyou

I love your videos! #Thankyoufortheinformation and #Keepupthegreatwork

You are truly the best PROFESSOR y have ever come across, not only is the best knowledgeable and comprehensive video but practical and dawn to earth on all aspects of making gardening simpler and a time saver on far less work. That alone, for me, is like receiving a gift. Your suggestions on simplifying the work is most appealing and welcome. It makes a world of sense. I subscribed with pleasure and hope for more of your videos. Let’s enjoy spring - summer and every minute of life. Thank you 🙏

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

You are phenomenal! Thank you so much for sharing all of your knowledge and love of plants. I am quite new to gardening. I've watched quit a few of your videos today/tonight - been binging! (and sharing your videos with friends and FB groups). I'm going to start with several different seeds that I've purchased. I also bought an LED grow light - thankfully it met a lot of the criteria you discussed in your "Grow Light" video. I just moved to Quebec City area from Vancouver. Of course it's completely different here. One of my questions is where can I buy seeds in Canada where they have a larger, better variety? Can I buy online from the USA - will they be allowed to ship them cross border to me? I haven't been able to find any Canadian Suppliers online with as great a variety as I see in the US. Thank you in advance for any help. And thank you again for boosting my confidence, so I can take the first steps. ~ Danika🙏🌺

Heh thanks a lot love it

I subscribed to your channel after watching this one video. Your voice is very calming and your instructions are direct and precise. I’ve been watching KZread videos for quite some time and I find your channel refreshing. Thank you for insightful information. I will share this channel with my other gardeners. 🙏

@Gardenfundamentals1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words.

Very informative. Thanks

@Gardenfundamentals1

4 жыл бұрын

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This question has to do with Bio-Char, I know how to make it, but is it true that you can use either in the compost, or in the ground. Bio Car is suppose to be a very pourus material, and will hold nutrients for the plants. I've started watching all your videos and have learned, quite a bit, even though I have been gardening quite a long time. Thank You. Please keep your videos coming.

Thank you for this video! We bought a house last year in Nova Scotia and moved to this beautiful province. I was always an apartment girl and never had a garden in my life. I would love to create one on my front yard, but to be frank I am not sure where to start. I really like your video because it gave me so much helpful tips, like how do NOT concentrate on sun and shade, but look deeper and that perennials have a lot in common. I know that different flowers live better in their own zone, but I can't find good videos about Nova Scotia flowers. I live close to the ocean and there is a fair amount of wind, so I am trying to figure out low maintenance flowers that would be ok with wind and hopefully rocks plus bloom or maybe even stay green during winter. Can you recommend me any flowers based on that? Thank you!

@tyronebrewster978

Жыл бұрын

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I have one more question, what you use for powdery mildew on your flowers? Very much appreciated on all your advises, they are the best one.

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest I either do nothing, or throw the plant out. If I wanted to treat them, you can use milk - about 40% mixed with water and a drop of soap. But ,,,, you have to spray before you see the powdery mildew. It just prevents it, it does not kill it once it has infected the leaf.

Any info about when to start perennials seeds indoors? Love your videos!

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on the seed. Every species has a different germination period. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpxtk6eRaZzRdJs.html

I have tried and tried to grow delphinium but they never come back, I live in south western Oregon.

Thank you for posting this video! Do you have a list somewhere online of your best behaved perennials? I live in a similar climactic zone and want to convert part of my lawn into perennial beds. Also, do you have a list of plants that are safe to use over septic beds? Thanks again for all your hard work in teaching! It’s appreciated.

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

I do have this list of my favorite plants. www.gardenfundamentals.com/favorite-plants/

Excellent! Should you dead head every new plant after putting it in the ground? Perennials specifically

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

It is better for the plant if they don't bloom soon after planting.

I am wondering about the blanket flower is this a short lived perennial? What would you suggest for growing the Russian sage as you said it was actually a bush. Thanks for the great information

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

Gallardia can be short lived. Grow Russian sage like a perennial, except for pruning - prune like a shrub.

What about mildew and rot underneath old plants going into winter? Also, can a collapsed, messy garden harbor disease if you don't clean it up?

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

What about mildew and rot - it won't grow in winter. Next year it will be back no matter what you do - it is floating for miles from other gardens.

😢but I want Foxgloves in my garden every year. I guess I have to start some new ones every year.

Should i add manure to the soil in the fall or spring to encourage flowering/plant health ? What is the best nitrogen available? Cleaning up in the spring when it is still frozen doesn’t it affect the bugs / nests re:lady bugs , bees etc ?

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

You can add manure as a mulch. There is no "best nitrogen" - once it is in a nitrate form it is all the exact same. Cleaning up too early in spring is a problem for hibernating bugs. That is why I don't clean up - I just cut things down and leave them.

Can make a home visit summer 2021. I’m in Kitchener. Pleeeeeeeaaaase!

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

I'm in Guelph.

I would like to mulch with wood chips but I am terrified of introducing jumping worms. Many gardens in my city have them and said they thought they were brought into the garden on mulch. I didn't mulch last year because of this, added leaves in fall, only buy plants from nurseries.

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

I rarely see worms in wood chips - there is nothing for them to eat in a pile of wood. If many gardens in your city have them already - you can't keep them out.

I have no pollinating plants in my yard as we xeriscaped our little yard. I am a first time vegetable gardener and will be planting flowers in fabric pots due to space. Can these be started inside as well to get a jump on the flowering? Some packets say starting inside is not recommended but I do not understand why? I need some pollinators fast. Lol. Thank you.

@Gardenfundamentals1

2 жыл бұрын

Everything can be started inside. Some plants don't like to be transplanted, but you can do it you don't disturb the roots.

@LoveandPeace1971

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙂

So weird. I grew Monarda from seed. Of all the seeds I got 3 plants. It just never flourished. One plant grew to 18 inches. It had nice flowers. It’s all died and I don’t see any seedlings. Agastache just dies here to. I have a hard time with the weirdest plants but am very successful with most all others.

What do you do if you have sandy soil?

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of compost.

@juliastantic3033

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gardenfundamentals1Again, best channel and answers so far. Big thanks from me.

Are you in Canada? You have a bit of a Canadian accent ie the way you say process.

@Gardenfundamentals1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I am, with a bit of Austrian thrown in.

I am in Provence and very astonished about your technique with lavender. You don't cut it at all after the flowering? I have to cut the flowers for essential oils - you wait until the new bulbs come in the next year? Did I understand this right? But then, you only have a flowering leavender every second year if you cut the bulbs? I Don't get it :D

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

If you cut the flowers for oils, you are still left with the main stem and leaves. Pruning in spring does not change.

@mycomment3509

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gardenfundamentals1 Perfect. Many thanks. In Provence, some people are afraid of lavender becoming "too woody" in the stem and deadhead the entire plant in autumn but I will then try your method instead and respect the nature of the plant itself. That's what I like about your approach.

Question- I want to purchase seed because it is the most affordable for me. So my question- is it possible to grow perennials from seed that are normally sold as corms, bulbs, or rhizomes?

@Gardenfundamentals1

3 жыл бұрын

Every plant in the world came from seeds at some point. So yes.

@KatherineTheGr8t

2 жыл бұрын

Great Question, I too always think of buying the bulb rather than the seed. Here's an FYI - if you plant Dahlias from seed they grow their little tubers right away, save them over winter or if you're in zone 8 or higher leave them in the ground, either way your tubers will grow larger the following years as well as the size of the bloom : D

@shawnsg

2 жыл бұрын

The _problem_ you may run into is that growing from seed can take a really long to before the plant is mature. Amaryllis, daffodils, peonies and so on can sometimes take up to 5 years to bloom from seed.

"You can't blame yourself for everything that doesn't work in your garden."

Good thing these plants have a one year warranty

my lupins came back white

Echinacea has taken over my garden 🤷‍♀️