Hi everyone, I’m Brie Arthur, also known as “The Plant Lady”! I’ve been gardening since my childhood days in Michigan, and now share practical advice from my home gardens in the Raleigh, NC area. I studied Landscape Design and Horticulture at Purdue University and have worked in the nursery industry for more two decades! My books, "The Foodscape Revolution" and "Gardening with Grains” are guides to help everyone grow what they love 💚 I hope these videos will inspire you to get outside and make the most of the ground you live on. Thanks for following my journey!
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You garden looks beautiful. We have a fig tree that we keep trimmed and got a lot more figs the following year. It looks like you could thin out some branches in the middle. Just a thought, you might want to try.
That’s a good idea! I’d live to actually get some fruit.
I am so happy that we are having more frequent rain again!! Your garden looks fabulous!
Thank you!!!
Plants in grow bags will typically root straight into the soil. Air pruning only works when the roots actually encounter air. Plumbago is a perennial here in my zone 10 garden. Depending on the info you find online, it may be a perennial in zones as low as 5.
Some of my shrubs pretty much went dormant with the drought. Now that we are getting rain at least once a day, some shrubs have died. Or they look dead. Too much water too fast for dormant shrubs. But still, I am happy for the rain!!!
Thanks for a great video!😁
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Makes my skin crawl when you were touching it… I couldn’t lol
😂😂😂 I’m pretty desensitized to handling insects
I live in San Diego, California and I love watching garden tours from the same time of year around the world. It's so cool to see which plants can grow in different zones and to see some plants I've never heard of before. Keep the updates coming!
Awesome!!! It is cool to see how different everything is in various regions!
Great job removing that leyland cypress tree, it was the bees knees.
I drown mine in a bucket and feed to chickens
Wow! That was a job! I’ve seen those “bags” before and had no clue what it was! I learned something new today! Thanks! 😊
Those bags look really dry. I was thinking flame thrower.
Ohhhh that’s sounds fun!
Hey plant lady! I got fireball poppies for next season! I'm so excited!
Ohhh cool!
Reporting in that U. reversalis made its way to Peoria IL, courtesy of the incredibly hot year we've had here. After a week of severe storms and not checking the garden as usual, I felt like screaming when I saw our largest native baptisia covered in webs. The caterpillars were falling from the plant as I was on the ground cutting this monster back. If I have to repeat that ever again, I'm netting the whole thing first for my sanity. How are your baptisias holding up?
Oh no! They are all of mine. Not a single leaf left.
I ❤ your channel. The drought was horrible. Being originally from SoCal, I never take rain for granted, its life.
Awww thank you!!!! Rain IS life!!! You are so right!
Great to see you got rain to help your plants and you can see the difference already. Looking forward to your next video on your other gardens.
What a difference a few weeks makes! Rainy cooler days. I finally spent an weekend working in the garden.
It’s such a joy! Now we are planning our work around the rain! We got that leyland cut down just in time today! We had 2” over night!!!!
Do you anticipate having seeds from your Colocasia available for sale at the open gardens at any point?
No not this year. Last year the seed rotted.
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Did you grow the cotton from seed and where did you get it?
I grow it from direct seeding
Just found you through the Triangle Gardener. ❤
Do you order your clematis or get them from a local source? I'm in eastern NC zone 8b... have a hard time finding them!
David, what size or type of bonsai wire do you use for your clematis?
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ha did you see the hummingbird
Excellent info and message ! Let’s celebrate diversity in the garden 👍
window boxes would look nice on your AirB&B.........temperatures have been detrimental this year!!! :(
Hi Brie! Do you water your phlox from the bottom or the top? Do you deadhead them? I am planting phlox for the first time this year. Thanks!
Everything here gets overhead sprinkler water as needed (thankfully it has started to rain again!) and no I do not deadhead.
Brie do you have a preferred source for containers?
Most of mine are from Lowes. I like crescent pots but they are really expensive.
We had bees up to three weeks ago and now we have very few in the garden. There have been no butterflies so far this year. We have plenty of plants for pollinators so we don't know what is wrong, hopefully they come back because a garden is not a garden without pollinators.
Love it !!! 🦋🐝
It is really interesting but I did not notice almost any activity on zinnias in my garden. I wonder if there are different types of zinnias. The plants that are non-native and are popular in my garden are seed dahlias and marigolds (single).
Good morning Brie! One thing that may have been worth mentioning is that for most butterflies and moths native plants are necessary to complete their life cycle. Providing nectar and pollen for pollinators is obviously a must but it is only one of the life stages. For the others one must have a diversity of native plants that are host plants. I too have some nonnnative pollinators including phlox,Zinnias and sages/salvias as they do indeed attract pollinators in our heavily , but not solely, native gardens. In the past you have mentioned the importance of having a diversity of host plants. Just didn’t hear u mention it this time and thought I’d chime in! Thanks for your great channel.
Yes, zinnias are butterfly magnets. I avoided planting them years ago, but the past few seasons they have been amazing. Monarda, echinacea, and salvias are also drawing the pollinators to my garden.
What’s really annoying is the #1 pollinator of my Quickfire hydrangeas is house flies.
😂😂😂 flies, ants, and wasps are the top 3 pollinators in North America
Do you have to spray your zinnias for the leaf spot disease? Mine are starting to get it maybe because all our rain in Durham.
Just did cutbacks this week 👍
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respectfully disagree with the pool bed. I am in LOVE with the orange coleus up against the blue pool!
It’s growing on me! I just had to criticize it to like it 😂😂😂
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Thank you for your honesty about the native plants…relieves my freely of guilt for choosing other adapted plants that grow in my region. Enjoy your channel!
Thank you!!
I think the pool is the most pretty this year - funny, huh? I love how the coleus color complements that beautiful blue. The pink pops of zinnia are gorgeous! But it may be different in person- I get it. Usually you’ve got darker, taller coleus around the pool, really making an enclosure, which would be nice for dipping & sipping. 😊
The brighter coleus is growing on me but it’s not as vigorous as other varieties I’ve grown in the past.
I'm in NE Kentucky, zone 6b. I've never grown Poppy's but am really considering it! If I buy seeds now, would I also plant mine late Nov/ early Dec? I heard you say zone 6 and down to 2° but I just wanted to double check lol. Sometimes here, not often but ya never know, can get a few degrees below zero. Would they still be okay if that were to happen? Thank you, I'm so happy I found your channel! 💛
Yes you are best to do a late fall planting in your region. I’m glad you found me too!!!
What a lovely hibiscus, such stunning blooms. The one that I have tended to for the last 30 odd years likes to bloom in November/December. My Mum treated her as a house plant for years, which is most likely why she blooms at an odd time of the year. So, I bring her indoors for the winter and put outdoors for the Spring-Fall times.
Ah yes that would be a tropical species
I got mangraves. Lavender Lady is growing fast, I already potted up once. Can it stay in the same size pot for one season?
Yes you can keep it in the same container for years.
@@BrieThePlantLady that’s good to know. My collection is already at 2 after your recommendation. Would you ever chance it in the ground in your area?
"I like rice. Rice is great when you're hungry and want 2,000 of something."
I don't think Aganthus like sandy soil. I find that they last much longer. in Clay based soil. Here in Tallahassee soil.
Great garden tour, it was the bees knees. We have four agapanthus midnight blue and four agapanthus fireworks in pots. We bought one of each variety four years ago and we have split them twice to make more plants. They are all in flower at the moment and will be brought into a glasshouse over winter to protect them.
Where did you get your veggie mix cube from
shop.soil3.com
No leaf litter bugs on the tomatoes growing in soil cube bags? Better resistance if grown in soil cube?
It seems so!
Get a mini wet-dry vacuum. 25 dollar investment. It is one of my favorite garden tools along with shade cloth. Bye bye leaf footed bugs.