Hi! I'm Rick. Welcome to my garden diary. I'm a novice gardener on Maryland's Eastern Shore in USDA hardiness zone 7. Join me as I document my gardening adventures.
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Your garden is looking beautiful! Rain is such a good thing for August. Crab grass is the worst!! I hate the squirrels got your fruit, but yes to Spring blooms. My garden is barely hanging on LOL and we're expecting over 100 degrees every single day this week here 😭
Yikes! 100 degrees everyday? Things start wilting for me at 90. I'm ready for summer to be over.
@@ricksgardendiary same!! Sigh.
What a lovely Flowers Like it My friend thank you for good sharing. Have a good relationship 😊
Gorgeous!
Thanks Wendi!
Love your garden! So many interesting areas and decor to see.
Thank you. Glad you liked it. 😊
Very nice garden. What do u use for spraying the roses ? I have so many problems with roses. Almost ready to take them out… love ur garden tour. Just found ur channel. Great one 👍. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you 😊. Sorry to hear you are having trouble with roses. They only look good in spring and fall for me. I use Bioadvanced fruit and vegetable 3 in 1 solution. Not sure if its organic, but the active ingredients are sulfur and pyrethrins.
Stunning
Thank you! 😊
I love a touch of red in the garden! I appreciate you sharing. I'm currently planning next year, and I really need to put in more drought and heat tolerate plants.
Hey Wendi! Drought tolerant is the way to go!
For a novice your grounds look great! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching! 😃
Wow!!! You have huge garden! I love your hot border and orchard! Thank you for the wonderful share!❤
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Your garden is absolutely lovely! Do you mind me asking, which season did you plant your peony in? I have a peony bare root and I am not sure when I should plant it.
Plant bareroot peonies in the spring. You can plant them directly in the ground, or you can grow them on in pots and transfer to the ground in the fall.
@@ricksgardendiary thank you for responding! I may be able to do just that. I’ll plant it in a pot and transfer it to the ground come this fall. I live in zone 8, so fingers crossed that it works out for me. 🌿🌸🌿
Thanks for the outstanding Foxglove video 🥀
Where do you live?
Beautiful looking garden and foxgloves, They are the bees knees.
Thank you!
Rick you sound like you have Trini roots.
Yep! Originally from Trinidad 🇹🇹
I love your garden ❤.
Thank you 😊
thank you for sharing 👱🏻♀️💕 i really enjoyed your ideas
So glad that you enjoyed it 😊
Even after rain damage, your garden still beautiful!
What a gorgeous garden and the foxgloves are lovely Thanks for sharing your video,Here in the Uk foxgloves grow anywhere
Thank you 😊. Yes I saw them and the other wildflowers growing at the sides of the road during a visit a couple years ago. So beautiful 😍
Absolutely love your foxgloves, peonies, and roses!!!
Thanks so much 😊
I'd never guess you were new to gardening. Love your garden!
Thank you 😊. Been gardening at this property for 6 years. So maybe not so new, but still learning what works and what doesn't.
Where is your garden located?
Maryland
Great garden tour. Thank you for sharing garden experience and tips!
Thanks for visiting Glad you enjoyed it.
New subscriber and garden friend here. Great garden tour! I love your garden and really enjoyed your foxgloves! I also adore foxgloves too. I never seen them grow so natural in the garden like in yours. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Thank you 😊. It took a couple years of sowing seeds before they began naturalizing. Now I have too many 😅
I love the foxgloves and roses. Much love from Trinidad 🇹🇹
Thank you 😊
Very pretty garden❤
Thank you 😊
Such a beautiful Garden, eye candy
Thank you 😊
Very pretty!
Thanks 😊
Yes!
Aren't they poisonous?
Yes they are poisonous if ingested.
Beautiful border! I’m hoping to get foxgloves going in my garden this year. Love that you named it the cotton candy bed.
Thank you! 😊
Fabulous foxgloves. New subscriber here. Do you purchase foxglove plants or seed? If seed, where do you purchase it? This does remind me of England where they seem to grow anywhere.
Hi there 😊. Most of them I grew from seeds. They are readily available at most garden centers here in the spring time. I probably got mine from Lowes or Walmart. Sowing them in late summer to plant them out in fall has worked best for me.
Wow! Would love to grow foxgloves but 3 years!? Do they also have deep tap roots?
Yep. Since it's a biennial it took 3 years of sowing and sprinkling seeds for them to become self sustaining. Good thing the seeds are cheap and you get a lot in a packet. No tap root, their roots don't go deep at all. Easy to dig up and transplant.
Beautiful garden! new subscriber!
Thank you 😊
Very nice ❤️
Very nice and beautiful ❤️ 😍 🤩 👌 Thank you ❤️ Subscribed! New friend from Virginia ❤❤❤
Thanks and welcome! 😊
You have such a beautiful garden, plants and flowers. Your video is so relaxing to watch
Thank you so much 😊
Thanks Rick! Can’t believe you’re already reaching towards 90°F! We had the same luck with the clematis we grew from Longfield Gardens. They actually grew and are so beautiful with long lasting flowers.
I bought two more clematis to add but the summer blooming ones. I'm waiting on it to rain before I plant them.
The garden looks great! In Zone 6, I rarely see anyone can get their Bird of Paradise bloom!
Thank you! 😊 They need lots of sun. Once temps are above 40 degrees it put them outside. They also like to be cool and dry in the winter.
Hello, wow 90° already. We've been dancing around 90°, but we've only made it to the high 80° here in the southeast Texas zone 9B. It is crazy my garden is in half sleep, half awake mode. Your azalea looks good in the pots. The irises are beautiful also. I enjoyed watching. Happy gardening 🥰
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it! You must be able to grow a lot of tropicals there ❤
90° in April for you 😭 your azaleas are beautiful & the hostas. Love the containers at your front steps. We have opposite of dry. It’s been super rainy here in north Texas. Yes, strange weather. I’ve been through 3 bottles of neem oil already for my roses and hostas.
Hi Wendi! I'm sure in a couple weeks I'd be complaining about too much rain. 😅🤞🏽 Sometimes it feels like you just can't win when it comes to gardening. Just have to celebrate the little moments 🥲
@@ricksgardendiary Indeed! 😅
The magnolia tree looks hugh! Here in Zone 6, they are still in buds, what a huge difference one zone makes!
Oh wow! The magnolias have already fully leafed out here.
Could tell a Trini anywhere lol 🇹🇹 keep it up.
Every year we think it’s time we plant a redbud but don’t know which one or if we should go with something else because we like so many plants out there.
Yeah. There are so many cultivars with different characteristics. If I had a small yard I don't think I would have planted a redbud. The fall foliage doesn't look that great to me. Maybe a weeping one, like ruby falls for a smaller space.
the peach daffodils are gorgeous!
Thanks Wendi!
Holy cow that magnolia is magnificent, huge and spectacular!
Thank you! I'm so grateful to the previous owners who decided to plant it 20+ years ago!
Congratulations to the newest 346 subscribers to your channel.
Lovely look around! Springtime is in the air.
We have a Leonard Messel and he’s about to bloom! You’re a little bit ahead of us but we are in Zone 5. So excited though!
Yes I saw your short video. Yours looks so much better than mine. I have to keep it caged to protect it from deer, and it also got magnolia scale last year.
I have 3 of these in my 3'x3' grow box under my LED panel, 24 hour light with some other vegetation. They're a year old now and a little over 1' tall, but beginning to grow rapidly now, 2 leaves per month. I keep the temperature in the low-mid 70s and the humidity is in the comfort zone range. They're in 5gal containers of organic potting mix and I feed with an even NPK fertilizer that's 20-20-20. These do not do well at all outside in Texas at any time of the year, so they're definitely indoor only plants here. It gets way too hot outside most of the year and often stays too hot even at night.
Oh wow. We only get a couple days in the triple digits here in Maryland. Haven't had any long heatwaves in a few years either. Sounds like you're having success growing them inside so far. Hope you have some flowers soon.
You have your bird of paradise outside in the winter… I didn’t know you could have it outside
Hi there. I move it into an unheated space in the winter that stays above freezing and leave it on the dry side.
I live in zone 9b Louisiana. I grow my BOP directly in the ground. Been having the BOP for years. This winter we had a hard freeze with ice. I had covered my BOP. But the strong winds at night blew off part of my frost cover that covered plant. Temperature went down to 27°. Ice pellets were on the plant and part of the cover. The outer leaves that were touched by the ice turned brown. The leaves in the center of the plant were protected from the top leaves. The leaves untouched by the ice pellets stayed green. Waiting for it to make flower stalks and bloom
@@ricksgardendiary I have 3 Bird of Paradise flowers in my bush. Very beautiful!
Hi, they grow wonderfully here in South Africa, in the garden, they bloom and get bushy and gorgeous, they tolerate all seasons