I have watched several of your videos. They are so informative. You have helped me out tremendously. Flower beds have gotten bigger. I have a saying now. "The more I grow the less I mow." Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I’m a beekeeper too! I plant Rockin Blue and Pineapple salvias and the bees and hummingbirds are here all season. Another local beekeeper brought me a swarm - it’s adopting from the shelter, taking in stray bees. Another great video❤
Our temperatures vary so widely day to day that we’ve skipped spring annuals. We’re concentrating on structure, trees, shrubs. Also, soil improvement, leaf compost and mulch. In the span of two weeks we may have 28 degrees or 103 degrees. Zone 6b. Bonkers. Almost no rain here. We moved Connecticut from California. This weather is worrying as it sets up for forest fires. Rain. We need rain.
One of our local schools specializes in kids with special needs. They have a plant sale every year. The kids are involved in every part from planning to planting, from care to sales. Such sweet happy kids who were so excited to see so many customers this morning. Great plants and great prices as well.
Midnight Masquerade' Penstemon is new to my southeastern Virginia garden. Really looking forward to it thriving this summer. Hear it is an easy plant that loves the heat. Also, love the way you just toss your plants from the tray, the HortTube way 👍THANKS Jim & Steph 🌳🌳🌳🐕
I'm in s. Georgia, 8b. My Arkansas Blue Star is already blooming. It's a favorite in a tight 5 plant grouping. Looks great in front of orange rocket barberry.
Congrats on the bees! I just got a plant order with Cuphea, Agastache, and a new to me Salvia called Bodacious Hummingbird Falls. I'm trying to grow some different sunflower varieties (Lemon Queen and Busy Bee) but the squirrels got to the seedlings. I swear, squirrels make me question my "do no harm" philosophy several times during the growing year.
Pacific NW here, western WA to be more accurate. Spring is having to shoulder it's way into the weather pattern ... we are still a month away from average last freeze. Garden centers are stocking up and sales have begun. Flowering fruit trees are full of blossoms, conifers, nut trees and grass are spewing pollen, grass needs mowing, and post-winter plant care starts. I live next to a small, year-round creek ... it's the time of year when the Trilliums are blooming (family - Melanthiaceae ... I remember your horticulturalist's shirt.) I look forward to seeing the patio build.
Can't wait to see your new annuals in full bloom.. and see how da bees like em..lol..so glad you survived pulling one of Stephs plants outta the ground..lol..Appreciate yall thanks for sharing
Such a clever garden design, annuals in front of the perennials! Sometimes I think of my yard with its island beds as flowers and plants putting on a show, a few plants in the spotlight at a time, with a succession of plant "performers" afterwards. This keeps the yard always interesting! 👍
I’m concentrating on perennials(bee balm, agastache , Rudbeckia, salvias, etc.)that I’ve divided and transplanted last fall in various locations. Haven’t seen other you tube gardeners top the annuals after planting as you do. Don’t really know why they don’t. My mom always taught me to do that and it always makes the plant taller and healthier!
I got some white and salmon salvia and lots of white salmon and pink zinnia and of course white cosmos lol also plenty of white petunias alyssum Gomphrena all My favs lol … first time planting all these seeds wish me luck!!! 🍀🍀🍀 🌸🌺💚🖤🤍🪴🌿🌳🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
I am in the San Antonio area, zone 8B, and love ALL the salvias, which are perennial here. I currently have the Black & Blue, Mystic Spires, and Autumn Sage. I’m also trying new this year, some Agastache - Rosie Posie and Tutti Fruitti. Lantana are wonderful too and I’ve added Lucious Citron for some pop of yellow color. My front garden must be deer resistant and all of these hardy perennials provide that along with wonderful color.
Do you have a local nursery that you go to that carries Proven Winner plants? I'm new to the hill country and would love any local nursery shopping tips. TIA
We're going to attempt to sow Summer Jewel Salvia this year. Since we have a small garden, I would purchase them, but I haven't seen them all any of our local nurseries (within 30 miles). They should grow here (Central Texas zone 8b).
My edible landscape needs some complimentary flowers to help bring in pollinators. I have no experience growing flowers other than maybe rose. Love watching your videos. Best from Boston.
Summer jewel salvias are awesome! Our to-go plant for bees last summer! This year my focus is diversity & shading roots in the hottest areas of our garden. Some I’m trying are little honey oakleaf hydrangea, beyond midnight caryopteris, clematis, various agastache & salvia, ageratum, summerific hibiscus, penstemon (container planted), & vermillionaire cuphea (hoping perennial for me)
I added various Zinnias, summer jewel pink salvia & gomphrina that we started from seed. Planted them 2 weeks ago in areas that I direct sowed zinnias last year. Well….those last year zinnias self seeded and started popping up in those areas… 😂. Looks like I will have some thinning to do lol.
Summer Jewel is a must have in my garden and pots. It’s a heat tolerate, semi drought tolerate which blooms it’s head off and the pollinators just love it.
My primary focus has been just getting on top of the weeds and keeping my seedlings alive! But I will be heading down to Tarheel Nursery soon to pick up some annuals. I have no idea what I'll get (other than angelwing begonias, which were a favorite of mine last year).
I mix in an island of cannabis. The bees 🐝 are really attracted to the skunk weed stench. It can be smelled halfway down the street into my neighborhood.
THANKS JIM!!! Asters and goldenrod are excellent for pollinators at the end of summer/autumn. This is a time other flowering plants are dying back and the bees are looking for something.
We're having a cold spring and I'm having really good luck with native penstemon this year. So many of my natives get gobbled up by slugs or squirrels but for some reason they're leaving the native penstemon alone, thank god I'll be left with something. They ate my rudbeckia completely 😢
Vinca for color and longevity in South Carolina. But my zinnias are starting to take off. I actually saw some Rasberry Ripple in a local nursery 1st time ever seeing it in store. I have mine going from seed and starting to take off slowly but surely.
This year I've concentrated on winter-sowing pollinator friendly natives like wild bergamot, red monarda, obedient plant, liatris, asclepias, etc. Also have larkspur, verbascum, lupine, black-eyed susan and somniferum poppies growing from seed. But, to bring full season color, I have 100 mixed geraniums and a tray of dwarf dahlias that were all started from seed to plant in the front of the borders.
@@saraw8503 Luckily, it will have soggy, poor soil on one side and an asphalt road on the other to slow/stop it's spread. Hummingbirds should love 'em.
Absolutely love hoverflies! They are entertaining to watch. Along with the ladybugs, their larvae will take care of all the aphids in your garden. They love the daisy-type blooms. can't wait to see the progression of your patio and annual bed!
Beautiful color already. The salvia will be amazing I'm sure. Love the planting music, and also the fountain. Good info about snipping off the buds to encourage more growth.
I can't seed start inside but those Summer Jewel Salvia come SO easily from seed, I just scattered some & I'm sure others may come up too. Sunflower & Zinnia soon. Only Miss Huff shows life, Chapel Hill, nothing yet. Still cool nights in N. Georgia & the Oak catkins are here, ah-choo! Good rain, beautiful day today! Happy Saturday Jim, Steph &:pups 😊 Edit: my early color is a nativized yard full of Packera 😂
Heuchera for color ... I also did some candytuft dianthus yarrow and cannas ...and another banana .. more plants to plant this year it has only just begun
I'm concentrating on pollinator perennials this year. I do have plenty of annuals going out, but I want to get my garden set year over year and then I can work on annuals
So exciting that you'll be keeping bees! We did that quite a few years ago, and in addition to the wonderful honey, we just learned so much. 🙂 We did eventually stop because we kept losing the hives over winter, and after awhile having to buy new bees frequently got a bit trying. But that was just when the colony collapse stuff was starting, so hopefully you will benefit from the research that's been done on that.
Columbine aren't good repeat bloomers, so don't cut those current flowers off. Leave them be and collect the seed if you like. Alyssum has recurring flowers and can be cut back to help establish the root system.
@Wayne M. Thank you! I'm glad I waited for a response. This Columbine has a beautiful flower, it's a hybrid so the flower is pink, darker pink and white.
I tried some summer jewel seeds this year and they’re not doing so great. Are they typically slower growers? Maybe I’m not fertilizing enough. I may try to start some new seeds.
My 10 year old Encore Azaleas were in full bloom and now all the blooms wilted and turned brown at the same time. The leaves look fine. Does anyone have any idea what it is and what to do?
That saliva that’s zone 7 that doesn’t comeback it’s probably a water issue where it just rots over winter that’s how fall mums are here there supposed to be zone 5 and I’m 6a but more than half the time they don’t comeback even if spring planted. Unless in a area that stays dry in winter, but then they like the moisture in summer so it like 😂 🤷♂️🤦♂️ I just treat them as annuals
I gently blame videos like this for encouraging me to spend all my money haha ❤
Hi Stephanie! 16 ounces of honey requires 1,152 bees to travel 112,000 miles and visit 4.5 million flowers 🌺
Thanks!
I have watched several of your videos. They are so informative. You have helped me out tremendously. Flower beds have gotten bigger. I have a saying now. "The more I grow the less I mow." Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I’m a beekeeper too! I plant Rockin Blue and Pineapple salvias and the bees and hummingbirds are here all season. Another local beekeeper brought me a swarm - it’s adopting from the shelter, taking in stray bees. Another great video❤
I love those both, the pineapple’s red flowers against the golden foliage makes me so happy to look at!
Our temperatures vary so widely day to day that we’ve skipped spring annuals. We’re concentrating on structure, trees, shrubs. Also, soil improvement, leaf compost and mulch. In the span of two weeks we may have 28 degrees or 103 degrees. Zone 6b. Bonkers. Almost no rain here. We moved Connecticut from California. This weather is worrying as it sets up for forest fires. Rain. We need rain.
It’s a great time to check with your local high school’s FFA program for plant sales. I just came from one of ours with some beautiful plants!
One of our local schools specializes in kids with special needs. They have a plant sale every year. The kids are involved in every part from planning to planting, from care to sales. Such sweet happy kids who were so excited to see so many customers this morning. Great plants and great prices as well.
Midnight Masquerade' Penstemon is new to my southeastern Virginia garden. Really looking forward to it thriving this summer. Hear it is an easy plant that loves the heat. Also, love the way you just toss your plants from the tray, the HortTube way 👍THANKS Jim & Steph 🌳🌳🌳🐕
I have that Penstamon In a East TN garden. Full sun lots of heat and it's thriving.
@@HandcraftedintheFoothills wow, thanks 🌺
i planted mine last year, it has at least doubled. East TN also. can't wait for those pretty blossoms.
@@lainyjane4581 I can’t wait. Thank you 🌺
I'm in s. Georgia, 8b. My Arkansas Blue Star is already blooming. It's a favorite in a tight 5 plant grouping. Looks great in front of orange rocket barberry.
Indeed it does! I’ve got Orange Rocket as a backdrop for some of my perennials. My Bluestar is also blooming. You have good taste! 👍🏻
I have 5 Orange rocket barberry, and they are stunning planted in mass
Congrats on the bees! I just got a plant order with Cuphea, Agastache, and a new to me Salvia called Bodacious Hummingbird Falls. I'm trying to grow some different sunflower varieties (Lemon Queen and Busy Bee) but the squirrels got to the seedlings. I swear, squirrels make me question my "do no harm" philosophy several times during the growing year.
😂🤣😂🤣
Pacific NW here, western WA to be more accurate. Spring is having to shoulder it's way into the weather pattern ... we are still a month away from average last freeze. Garden centers are stocking up and sales have begun. Flowering fruit trees are full of blossoms, conifers, nut trees and grass are spewing pollen, grass needs mowing, and post-winter plant care starts. I live next to a small, year-round creek ... it's the time of year when the Trilliums are blooming (family - Melanthiaceae ... I remember your horticulturalist's shirt.) I look forward to seeing the patio build.
Impressed, no auger 😄 that's why I love Jim. ❤️ I absolutely love that song. Happy gardening!!!
He is planting so shallowly, they barely need to dig a hole in the light compost. 😀
@@staciejackson7497
So true
Creating a wildflower meadow is the best thing you can do to help all wildlife but especially pollinators.
Dang….easy peasy! Great demo. I need that fast speed in my garden…..must be LOTS of caffeine! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you, Jim!
Can't wait to see your new annuals in full bloom.. and see how da bees like em..lol..so glad you survived pulling one of Stephs plants outta the ground..lol..Appreciate yall thanks for sharing
Such a clever garden design, annuals in front of the perennials! Sometimes I think of my yard with its island beds as flowers and plants putting on a show, a few plants in the spotlight at a time, with a succession of plant "performers" afterwards. This keeps the yard always interesting! 👍
I love y'all's videos. They're like therapy, thanks!
👋🏻 Stephany . Thanks Jim and Stephany. 🌷💚🙃
I’m concentrating on perennials(bee balm, agastache , Rudbeckia, salvias, etc.)that I’ve divided and transplanted last fall in various locations. Haven’t seen other you tube gardeners top the annuals after planting as you do. Don’t really know why they don’t. My mom always taught me to do that and it always makes the plant taller and healthier!
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Always appreciate your presentation and explanations. Excited to see these fill in.
I got some white and salmon salvia and lots of white salmon and pink zinnia and of course white cosmos lol also plenty of white petunias alyssum Gomphrena all My favs lol … first time planting all these seeds wish me luck!!! 🍀🍀🍀
🌸🌺💚🖤🤍🪴🌿🌳🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
I am in the San Antonio area, zone 8B, and love ALL the salvias, which are perennial here. I currently have the Black & Blue, Mystic Spires, and Autumn Sage. I’m also trying new this year, some Agastache - Rosie Posie and Tutti Fruitti. Lantana are wonderful too and I’ve added Lucious Citron for some pop of yellow color. My front garden must be deer resistant and all of these hardy perennials provide that along with wonderful color.
Brilliant!
Do you have a local nursery that you go to that carries Proven Winner plants? I'm new to the hill country and would love any local nursery shopping tips. TIA
I have the same salvias as you lol
@@staciejackson7497 We have good taste!!
We're going to attempt to sow Summer Jewel Salvia this year. Since we have a small garden, I would purchase them, but I haven't seen them all any of our local nurseries (within 30 miles). They should grow here (Central Texas zone 8b).
My edible landscape needs some complimentary flowers to help bring in pollinators. I have no experience growing flowers other than maybe rose. Love watching your videos. Best from Boston.
omg cutting flowers off annuals as soon as they are planted! Of course! Never thought of that! I’m learning so much from your channel. Thank you!
Summer jewel salvias are awesome! Our to-go plant for bees last summer! This year my focus is diversity & shading roots in the hottest areas of our garden. Some I’m trying are little honey oakleaf hydrangea, beyond midnight caryopteris, clematis, various agastache & salvia, ageratum, summerific hibiscus, penstemon (container planted), & vermillionaire cuphea (hoping perennial for me)
I added various Zinnias, summer jewel pink salvia & gomphrina that we started from seed. Planted them 2 weeks ago in areas that I direct sowed zinnias last year. Well….those last year zinnias self seeded and started popping up in those areas… 😂. Looks like I will have some thinning to do lol.
What a beautiful garden. I watch your videos faithfully, and I know you two put a lot of work
Hi please hire me to come help you plant all those! That’s my favorite part. ❤
Congratulations on the bees! 🐝 I am focusing on creating a shared little raised bed area to grow some veggies with a neighbor.
Do you take the tops off your zinnias when you plant them?
Summer Jewel is a must have in my garden and pots. It’s a heat tolerate, semi drought tolerate which blooms it’s head off and the pollinators just love it.
I have the same salvia, in zone 7A, and it comes back yearly for me. I guess I'm lucky!
Thank you! I'm doing the same today
Jim, can you do some videos on how you maintain the bees?
I’m needing to do what your doing. Thanks for all your videos.
My primary focus has been just getting on top of the weeds and keeping my seedlings alive! But I will be heading down to Tarheel Nursery soon to pick up some annuals. I have no idea what I'll get (other than angelwing begonias, which were a favorite of mine last year).
Love me some Playin the Blues salvia
Great tip to top the annuals! Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge with us.
I mix in an island of cannabis. The bees 🐝 are really attracted to the skunk weed stench. It can be smelled halfway down the street into my neighborhood.
My liatris seeded itself all over, and I’m just letting it go! It was so pretty last year, I’m ok with it filling in my empty spaces
Great teamwork as usual. Going to look great this season.
Money’s garden had a mix of Salvias in a group and it was gorgeous. I can’t wait to see how yours do.
What a great team you both make.
THANKS JIM!!!
Asters and goldenrod are excellent for pollinators at the end of summer/autumn. This is a time other flowering plants are dying back and the bees are looking for something.
We're having a cold spring and I'm having really good luck with native penstemon this year. So many of my natives get gobbled up by slugs or squirrels but for some reason they're leaving the native penstemon alone, thank god I'll be left with something. They ate my rudbeckia completely 😢
This year I am adding blue boa agastache, and nicotiana.
If only weeds pulled that easily 😂
Vinca for color and longevity in South Carolina. But my zinnias are starting to take off. I actually saw some Rasberry Ripple in a local nursery 1st time ever seeing it in store. I have mine going from seed and starting to take off slowly but surely.
This year I've concentrated on winter-sowing pollinator friendly natives like wild bergamot, red monarda, obedient plant, liatris, asclepias, etc. Also have larkspur, verbascum, lupine, black-eyed susan and somniferum poppies growing from seed. But, to bring full season color, I have 100 mixed geraniums and a tray of dwarf dahlias that were all started from seed to plant in the front of the borders.
Good luck with the wild bergamot. I winter sowed it several years ago and found it to be much too happy in my beds.
@@saraw8503 Luckily, it will have soggy, poor soil on one side and an asphalt road on the other to slow/stop it's spread. Hummingbirds should love 'em.
Absolutely love hoverflies! They are entertaining to watch. Along with the ladybugs, their larvae will take care of all the aphids in your garden. They love the daisy-type blooms. can't wait to see the progression of your patio and annual bed!
Beautiful color already. The salvia will be amazing I'm sure. Love the planting music, and also the fountain. Good info about snipping off the buds to encourage more growth.
I can't seed start inside but those Summer Jewel Salvia come SO easily from seed, I just scattered some & I'm sure others may come up too. Sunflower & Zinnia soon. Only Miss Huff shows life, Chapel Hill, nothing yet. Still cool nights in N. Georgia & the Oak catkins are here, ah-choo! Good rain, beautiful day today! Happy Saturday Jim, Steph &:pups 😊
Edit: my early color is a nativized yard full of Packera 😂
Heuchera for color ... I also did some candytuft dianthus yarrow and cannas ...and another banana .. more plants to plant this year it has only just begun
I'm concentrating on pollinator perennials this year. I do have plenty of annuals going out, but I want to get my garden set year over year and then I can work on annuals
So exciting that you'll be keeping bees! We did that quite a few years ago, and in addition to the wonderful honey, we just learned so much. 🙂 We did eventually stop because we kept losing the hives over winter, and after awhile having to buy new bees frequently got a bit trying. But that was just when the colony collapse stuff was starting, so hopefully you will benefit from the research that's been done on that.
Question - would it be a good idea to remove blooms from small annuals purchased from big box stores when first planting?
Yes! Allows the roots to establish quicker and the annuals to branch out for more flowers. Works like a charm!
Do you take the flowers off all new plants? I just planted a Columbine and some alyssum but left the flowers on. Thanks for the great video! I
Columbine aren't good repeat bloomers, so don't cut those current flowers off. Leave them be and collect the seed if you like. Alyssum has recurring flowers and can be cut back to help establish the root system.
@Wayne M. Thank you! I'm glad I waited for a response. This Columbine has a beautiful flower, it's a hybrid so the flower is pink, darker pink and white.
I tried some summer jewel seeds this year and they’re not doing so great. Are they typically slower growers? Maybe I’m not fertilizing enough. I may try to start some new seeds.
What type of patio are you putting in…pavers?
What were the pink & white shrubs to lefty of Jim?
My 10 year old Encore Azaleas were in full bloom and now all the blooms wilted and turned brown at the same time. The leaves look fine. Does anyone have any idea what it is and what to do?
That saliva that’s zone 7 that doesn’t comeback it’s probably a water issue where it just rots over winter that’s how fall mums are here there supposed to be zone 5 and I’m 6a but more than half the time they don’t comeback even if spring planted. Unless in a area that stays dry in winter, but then they like the moisture in summer so it like 😂 🤷♂️🤦♂️ I just treat them as annuals
It also just keeps blooming until it gets nuked by the cold. Goes to sleep ugly.
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