May Garden Tour
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TODAY’S VIDEO:
Come along for a garden tour today and see how it all looks May 30, 2024
ABOUT ME:
Hello, my name is Michelle and I own a garden center and floral store called The Landscape Connection. I am a volunteer master Gardener with the University of Illinois Extension. I am also a home gardener and a retired landscape designer and installer. If you like our videos please subscribe, like, share, and leave your comments and questions.
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Website:
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The Landscape Connection Gift & Garden Center
4472 S. Mulford Rd.
Rockford, Illinois 61109
815-633-5100
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Michelle.tlcgiftandgarden@gmail.com
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I've found the lungwort splits up really easy when you go to move them. Easy like Hostas. I turned 1 2 year old plant into 5
Michelle everything looks fantastic!
Cats meow pajamas...you crack me up!
What an accomplishment!! I hope you are taking time to enjoy your work. It really is beautiful...
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
Put a pot with some of those pretty flowers and trailing plants on top of that stump! I put stumps in my flower bed for that purpose! Love them. Your yard is beautiful!
Great job Michelle. What fun, everything is looking wonderful. Thanks for sharing and good luck over the weekend at the garden fair
Laura’s are Colette climbing roses from David Austin. I just planted 2 of the Generous Gardener climbers on my trellis … stunning blooms too! Love all of your hostas!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Yes. I was speaking about Monica's.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
The generous garden rose.....do you love them? Or too soon to tell?
@MimsysGarden
Ай бұрын
@@gardeningTLC absolutely! They’re fast growing and bloom like crazy already and they’re still small!
A few weeks ago you did a lovely conteiner with willow branches that really appealed to me. As soon as I could Iwent out and bought a bunch and they really elevated my container I added them to. thank you Michelle
Oh, so much fun! The cottage garden is my favorite I think. And I was along when you planted it up. Looking good, Michelle.
@gardeningTLC
29 күн бұрын
It is turning out better than I even imagined
🌳🌳Fantastic 🌳🌳
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thank you!
Your garden looks incredible and everything looks so healthy! Your hosta collection is impressive!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thank you
Beautiful, educational and inspiring! I can’t wait to try some of these plants in my garden 🪴 THANKS!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Have fun!
Michelle You are the best thing on the internet as far as I'm concerned! Of all the years and years of reading and hundreds of hours and hours of watching videos on gardening and landscaping over the years I have learned exactly what I need for my garden from just a FEW of your videos. It helps that you share the same growing zone so I can follow your advice to a T. I am in Glenview, IL north of Chicago. Thanks for taking some of the pressure off of my decisions when you, as a landscape professional, say things like "look at my garden. Nothing's blooming, everything's green and it's the same color green" I don't feel so bad for spending what I feel is a lot of money and then NOT getting 4 seasons of interest right in my garden, lol!! I like in other videos how you show how to put flowers and shrubs together in vignettes and groupings for an entire yard. You bring all the random facts together in one big picture! BTW, impressed with how you talk about what you are going to plant in your clients garden and then YOU are actually the person digging and installing everything!!! Wha?? I thought the designers bring in the work crew for the hard part ;))
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thank you and I do have a crew I use sometimes
@elliemunn165
Ай бұрын
@@gardeningTLC I just realized that the garden you recently planted by yourself was the side of your own house! Duh. Sorry about that...but still that was a LOT of digging and planting by yourself! (love the yellow baptisia). I did see that other video of the backyard job with the berm that your crew helped you with.
Try "Forever Purple" heuchera (I think it's un-branded) instead of PW Dolce Wildberry. It's an exact dupe for Wildberry and reliably comes back for me. I have tried probably 12 or 15 Wildberry heuchera and lost every one. Every Forever Purple I've planted has returned and thrived.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
I will...I have some out in the green house....in fact I believe I loaded those in the truck for the garden fair. Thanks for the tip! (Plus they are less expensive)
Don’t worry about cicadas. They don’t have functional mouthparts, so they won’t damage any plants.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
So true....till they lay their eggs....
With all the varieties now available there must be a coral bells to color match your beautiful weigela and bloom at the same time. :)
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Yes but the trick for me is getting one to come back.
Beautiful!! We have 4 David Austin Teasing Georgia climbing roses on our two wood gate arbors (if you need a climbing rose idea). They are humdingers!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Nice. I will check them out. Thanks😀
I'm jealous. I saw a Lemony Lace Elderberry . I bought 3 a couple of years ago, and they were pretty, then they all turned brown and died, so I gave up. Beautiful garden
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Oh those are doing so much better than I expected.
I’m so glad I came across your channel!!! I loved everything! Maybe a blue evergreen of some kind in the first garden you showed?
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Maybe.
Maybe hosta guacamole? Stained glass? No. I think guacamole. Your gardens are beautiful, love your videos Michelle. I'm in MI I sure hope those damn bugs don't come my way. I would FREAK out!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Haha
@carmenkuhn3865
Ай бұрын
Guacamole was my first guess. I’ve given up on heuchera they never come back.
@lynlalalala
Ай бұрын
I, also thought guacamole. I'm still looking for some more to buy.
Love your video, new subscriber🌺🌺🌺
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Welcome!!
I just found your channel! I've been watching Laura on Garden Answers because her zone is similar to mine (I'm in Eastern Washington just north of her), but I think you're clay soil and zone might be more similar to mine. I've been binge watching and enjoying it!!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
I watch Laura too...she is great. Welcome to our little community!!😀
Yeah that tulip tree will get huge I have some here at the park I know it don't take them long either good luck let's go get huge okay I'm the one with a 3040 New Kensington PA I love watching your show you do a good job okay talk to you later bye
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thank you Jeanne😀
I screwed a pot into my tree stump and planted in the pot..gives the garden some height variation.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
OH...I am so doing that....😃😃
I noticed that all green thing this morning when I looked out my window. I think next year will be different because I just added a massive number of catmints to edge my borders. They are plugs but growing fast. Thanks for the tour. I need all the ideas I can get.
Michelle, I believe Laura has Colette roses climbing on her arch trellis by the kitchen raised bed garden.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Yes she does.. but on the trellis at her sisters house they are lady of shallot. I have since learned that variety comes in both climbing and shrub varieties.
Your gardens are lovely. My bad knee is keeping me from doing what I would like in my garden this year. Having surgery soon. I hope I’ll be able to garden when I heal.
@ritasicari7518
Ай бұрын
Probably have a knee replacement in my future, too. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
@daphmahowell7836
Ай бұрын
Has having 2 total knee replacement, first one was 2013 and it was ruff had to take a early retirement the 2nd one was done 2019 and it was so much easier, as they came so in how and you need to do for recovery, physical therapy is bad but very important to get were you need to be , at 72 I'm able to work in my garden with no knee pain , good luck on your surgery,
Wow! Thank you for the garden tour Michelle! Everything looks Beautiful & will only get more glorious thru the season! Look forward to future tours! I think that limey green Hosta with the darker green variegation may be Stained Glass. That is what it reminds me of anyway. Thank you for sharing your hard work & beauty with us! I appreciate it so much. 😊♥️
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Very well could be.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Very well could be.
I appreciate the fact that you use some four pack annuals. I use a few expensive plants but for the most part I buy PW perennials or other name brand and mostly plant the cheaper annuals.
Love your oak-leaf hydgrangea! I've recently bought one but it's still tiny.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
I love mine🥰
@PlasBachGarden
Ай бұрын
@@gardeningTLC 👍👍👍
Gorgeous
I have 2 Lady of Shllot bushes and they can get tall (6 ft) I trim them way back in spring and thru the summer to control them and keep their vase shape. DA also has another Varieit of Lady of Shallot listed as a climber so very confusing. It is a short climber only getting 8 ft tall. Your beds look great!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thanks!
Green Spice heuchera is very hardy and does very well in my 5b.
I love garden tours 😊 Everything looks so lush and BEAUTIFUL!! I have been wanting the Mini Me Watermelon Coleus and when I search it on PW they find no matches 😞😢 they sold out last year and I have not been able to get one.. Thank you for sharing your beautiful.
Hi Michelle,love your videos!
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thank you so much Ruth!
You have so many pretty garden areas, it's hard to decide which is best. We've had cicades forover a month now, my husband feeds then to the chickens. The Japenese beetles showed up last week feasting on my cana. Everything is gowing in nicely for you. Love your videos. Have fun at the garden show.
@meldog7925
Ай бұрын
Cicadas 🤮. I couldn't deal with them.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Thanks Judy
Lady of Shallot - there is both a shrub rose and climber at D. Austin- I went through the same thing! Looks stunning and love your videos as always- thanks for doing them! 😊
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Well shoot.... I lost the tag....now I dont know which I have??
@jenleonard781
Ай бұрын
@@gardeningTLC Ha! I did the same - it looks like I have a shrub on the struggle bus- I hope you have climbers- will be beautiful! (I do have an 'Above and beyond' climber that is beautiful this year, third year, similar color if you need to switch them out)
That’s where I’m at with mine
Beautiful! I love all the hostas. Are those the solar lights from Lowes in your cottage garden. They look so pretty in the store, but solar lights don't always live up to their potential in real life. How do you like them?
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
No. I got rhem at my garden center. They are from Plow and Hearth. I bought them a few years ago...so far they all still work. Put them in the garden last year.
So gorgeous!! What do you use to keep the weeds out of your mulch??
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
I pull them, use a hula hoe as I see them, and apply a pre-emergent called snapsnot
You need some white blooms in your hosta garden
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Well, the lamimum is white nancy.....it's a start
How much sun a day does your weiglea get? I haven’t had luck growing them but zone 8 hot and dry. Maybe I gave it too much sun.
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
That one in the front driveway bed gets all morning sun...say til like 2ish. And the one by the big shed is all day....it is very new....planted last July
Lady of Shalott rose is sold as shrubs and climbers. You probably bought the wrong ones
@gardeningTLC
Ай бұрын
Probably
What fun - mistake et al.