We're going to go with large slabs of local llenroc stone, puzzled together with some smaller stones in between planted up maybe with Thymus or something equivalent. We found some stones that has the most beautiful ferrous shade with streaks of blue-gray. Our neighbor was doing some excavation work too-to build a barn-and they were sweet enough to let us go over and pick out some stones as well for steps and such.
This is one of the nicest videos of this channel, and it has much to do with the skiils shown in pointing to how much diversity is in the design of a small place.
Yes, it's a great suggestion. We did quite a bit of pruning on it already, but just to expose some of the whitish gray bark up top. We'll need to trim it (and their sisters) away from the house as well. Something to definitely consider!
I have Canada Ginger in my yard, I’ve dug some out of sections to have more in other beds, but I find it interesting to see where the ants have taken the seeds and it’s growing, sometimes in a desired area. They look so cute as tiny seedlings. I also like having less mulch, it’s a great larger groundcover.
My vote is for stone rubble edging and decomposed granite for the pathways! Although... with the rains y'all get... might get too washed out. For me, it is the sound of walking on DG, I love the crunch crunch sound while giving some formality but still giving some drainage.
Very nice thoughts! We're going with large slabs of llenroc stone. We found some that have a beautiful tinge of ferrous color-and we'll likely put some gravel in between and plant some thyme or similar in between. That's a project that we hope to get underway in the next couple months!
Beautiful! 8D Gaultheria Procumbens thrives! I tried planting them in a shady and moist garden and they all died... :(( Southern Ontario, zone 5) dunno what happened. maybe too much clay in soil.
I have no lawn and just gardens. I have lots of wildlife in my subdivision and even a turkey lives at my place now (moved here due to new subdivisions being built on wildland--very unfortunate). I have had a problem with some weeds being brought to my gardens via wildlife poop or burrs from their fur. I celebrate the chipmunks too but was brought to tears watching my neighbour trapping them in the fall and removing them--they wouldn't have any stored food where he would have dumped them. So sad and I can't legally do anything about it.
Are you happy with your creeping dogwood now that it's been in the ground a couple years? I'm considering planting some, but it seems pretty pricey so I'm wondering if you would still recommend it.
love the video and the garden, could I suggest when paneling camera to the left of the right with my age I am starting to get dizzy with the fast camera movements. Maybe a wide camera angle or a slower panel would help me and others who get dizzy. Thank you
I want to use mulch for developing a butterfly garden. There is many big trees on site where I want to develop. Is it good by using fallen leaves or other organic matter?
The garden is lovely. It got so 'feeling like home' so quick! Nature is a movie star, especially, the in the way which you put your bouquet with roots together. Staying tuned for the walkway project but the curvy original looks comfy too. 💐😎🌿💐🍀🌺🌻🌹🌼🏵️
Nicely done! I love watching how my fairly recently planted shrubs and perennials are filling in, and in turn how a variety of bees, butterflies, birds and squirrels are responding to the changing landscape. It feels good to create a healthy ecosystem in my backyard. PS episode 99!!! Wow that seems to have happened fast. 🥳
Such diversity of plants, that Acer is beautiful great specimen as the pine and crawling spruce looks so beautiful, great jab Summer, thanks for sharing!!!
@@FlockFingerLakes the wildlife take the berries I grow. But I realized a pattern. They go from one berry to the next as most of the berries in a patch is ripe. So I have to pick the ripe raspberries every day. As soon as most raspberries are ripe, I leave what's left to the birds and start picking blueberries every day. After that the partridge berries. If I wait till they are mostly ripe so I can pick a lot at once, I ain't getting any!
Love it, I have a number of hosta varieties with my heuchera and others that are all coming I ntontheor own this season, oh and astilbe are really showing off now.
Sooo good!! It's coming in so nicely! I've got a lot of shade here in Central Tx, and have also planted hardy Geraniums this year. As a matter of fact, I have 2 new Purple Ghost Geraniums in my driveway shade garden! (and one Rozanne over in a different garden where it will get the brunt of hot afternoon sun!) It may not survive... But if it does!! What a great groundcover that will be!! And was that Phaem Raven you pointed out? I need to go back in the video and see... It's so gorgeous!! I really like how the flowers stand up taller than the foliage! That exact geranium is on my list for next year in my shady driveway! Along with red & dark purple heucheras! I just LOVE the dark colors playing with the sea of green at my house! I'm adding a lot of that dark color to break up all the green. And your garden already has a great balance of color! Oh! And the Painted Fern! I'm TRYING to keep them alive down here, but the snail pressure is a constant battle!! (Not really a lot of slugs, just snails... Which I kinda like having snails bcuz I know the firefly larvae eat the snails!! The firefly population has been dwindling over here, it's a bit sad to only see 2 or 3 fireflies every night when we used to have hundreds only a few short years ago...) I think maybe all the snails in the neighborhood know that my shady yard is the ultimate vacation spot! Might as well have a sign: FREE FOOD FOR ALL SNAILS!! I gave up on hostas a looong time ago for that very reason! But right now, I'm determined to grow just a few painted ferns. My best solution is to cover the surrounding ground with crushed granite "sand" (also called Decomposed Granite = DG). The snails really don't like that sharp grit. As long as the Fern leaves don't touch the ground, the granite sand does protect them. However, asking the Fern leaves NOT to drape, is a BIG ASK!! Oh, and the 1st time I tried the Painted Ferns was planting them in the Fall before that horrendous & now infamous Arctic Storm of Feb 2021. Ugh. BIG mistake! This is my 1st try to grow them since that storm. I kinda thought it was the super cold temps of -5° that took them out before... But now, seeing yours, I'm rethinking that theory. I know y'all get A LOT more snow than we do, and I now see your beautiful Painted Fern made it thru the snowy Winter! Also, I'm thinking the Acer probably gave it some very good protection. So perhaps the snails got to my Painted Ferns that Winter afterall ? I'm not sure. I only know they never appeared again. Anyway- the dark garden colors- There's a streak of late afternoon sun that comes in for one hour thru the tree canopy in this one area on my driveway, so I'm adding a grouping of very dark Actaea in that spot. I'm really looking forward to those taking off & maturing! They will make a beautiful tall black background for my green Acer! (WHAT was I thinking planting a GREEN Acer amongst all the other green plants over there??!) Well, hopefully the Actaea will fix that issue & frame the young Acer nicely! Shade gardens are so very nice to have where ever it gets so HOT!! It's already 102° in the afternoons!! Yikes!!! SHADE is where it's AT over here!!! I am always so curious to see what the same plants down here in Texas do, compared to the growing habits in far away places like y'all's spot up North, where the Summer & Winter temps come at different times of year!! I don't know if it even gets up over 100° at y'all's place, but these are things I'm willing to find out while watching all your different gardens flourish!! The adaptability of Nature is an awesome sight to behold!! Thank You for the Shade Garden Tour! I remember watching you plant it, & it is doing soooo well!! Thanks for bring me along! ❤️
Your place looks GORGEOUS, it's crazy looking good! Makes me want to get a big place like this with friends so we could all work on the terrain , try things and grow life outside of my (smaller and smaller) apartment. Also, happy 100th coming up!
Ahhh thank you Etienne. This has been life-changing for all of us. If you can get the right group together, it's worth it! And yes, Ep 100 is right around the bend. Can't believe it!
Hi. Fantastic shade garden. Does it provide food from spring till onset of winter? Especially given the diversity of plant species that have varied flowering and fruiting cycles.
Yes it does! The fruits of the various plants will go from Spring through Winter. Strawberries and Rubus are in Spring and Summer and then Cornus, Gaultheria, and Archostaphylos are later through winter.
For us it feels too formal but then messy with all the grass coming up. We're going to go with large slabs of local llenroc stone, puzzled together with some smaller stones in between planted up maybe with Thymus or something equivalent. We found some stones that has the most beautiful ferrous shade with streaks of blue-gray. Our neighbor was doing some excavation work too-to build a barn-and they were sweet enough to let us go over and pick out some stones as well for steps and such. We'll likely end up using the brick elsewhere. Where... we don't know yet!
@@FlockFingerLakes okay, That could look nice. I was afraid that it'll be boring rectangles that some people put in front of their homes. But this sounds like you put a lot of thought into it. :)
We're going to go with large slabs of local llenroc stone. puzzled together. We found some that has the most beautiful ferrous shade with streaks of blue-gray.
Thank you, Wow, Wow, Wow Think that must be your smallest garden bed, and the detail ,care, colour palette are Fantastic, Love it , Your a Superstar Love and Rainbows
Thanks so much for touring it with us! More gardens throughout the year, as the seasons progress. It's fun to see what flowers and grasses have their turn blooming day-after-day!
Hey Tim, thanks for the suggestion. I most often default to the scientific name because the common name can vary so drastically-particularly for people in different regions and countries. The scientific name is the most reliable and standardized throughout the world, so it's what I've grown to know and like to help other gardeners advance their knowledge in that arena too. In many cases, including in this video, I will often include the most popular common name here in North America under the scientific name on the screen. Not always but many times-and I'll make note to continue to do that, based on your suggestion. I also think viewers of my other channel, 'Plant One On Me' have grown to appreciate the scientific name placement of the species there (ruclips.net/user/summerrayneoakes) because many of those plants-most of which are non-native to the United States-don't have a common name here. Or are just "generic" in description. So for instance, many hoyas are known as "Wax Plant" or "Hoya" but there are over 500 species of Hoya, so if we went with common names there-there would be much misunderstanding and no elevation of botanical knowledge. Hope that makes sense!
I’m back for another update of your beautiful garden. Everything looks great! Your work is inspirational to me. I’ve been very busy in my garden. Im glade I found time to check In with you. I appreciate the information you’ve shared. You’ve helped me learn lot. I hope we can connect and keep learning from each other. I’m a RUclips gardener too! I’m so happy to learn from you!
Gorgeous shade garden with so much interest… including 4 seasons of interest. Love it! There will never be a dull moment!
What are you planning to use instead of the brick for your pathway?
We're going to go with large slabs of local llenroc stone, puzzled together with some smaller stones in between planted up maybe with Thymus or something equivalent. We found some stones that has the most beautiful ferrous shade with streaks of blue-gray. Our neighbor was doing some excavation work too-to build a barn-and they were sweet enough to let us go over and pick out some stones as well for steps and such.
This is one of the nicest videos of this channel, and it has much to do with the skiils shown in pointing to how much diversity is in the design of a small place.
You should limb the acer palmatum up. Lets light in under it so you can plant and it allows you to admire the architecture of the bark limbs.
Yes, it's a great suggestion. We did quite a bit of pruning on it already, but just to expose some of the whitish gray bark up top. We'll need to trim it (and their sisters) away from the house as well. Something to definitely consider!
Subdued gentle northern planting. I have always loved Woodruff. It has such a pretty repeating, but free, form. I once grew it with Toad Lillies.
I don’t know why but this video makes me so emotional. What a beautiful shade garden. I adore you and in my next lifetime I wanna be your bff!!!
I have Canada Ginger in my yard, I’ve dug some out of sections to have more in other beds, but I find it interesting to see where the ants have taken the seeds and it’s growing, sometimes in a desired area. They look so cute as tiny seedlings. I also like having less mulch, it’s a great larger groundcover.
The color on the Acer is amazing wow
So vibrant! I love how it contrasts with its whitish-gray bark.
My vote is for stone rubble edging and decomposed granite for the pathways! Although... with the rains y'all get... might get too washed out. For me, it is the sound of walking on DG, I love the crunch crunch sound while giving some formality but still giving some drainage.
Very nice thoughts! We're going with large slabs of llenroc stone. We found some that have a beautiful tinge of ferrous color-and we'll likely put some gravel in between and plant some thyme or similar in between. That's a project that we hope to get underway in the next couple months!
Very nice video and sharing 👌🏻 very nice your plant and flower 🌻🌷🌹 new friend 🙏🙏
Beautiful! 8D Gaultheria Procumbens thrives! I tried planting them in a shady and moist garden and they all died... :(( Southern Ontario, zone 5) dunno what happened. maybe too much clay in soil.
I have no lawn and just gardens. I have lots of wildlife in my subdivision and even a turkey lives at my place now (moved here due to new subdivisions being built on wildland--very unfortunate). I have had a problem with some weeds being brought to my gardens via wildlife poop or burrs from their fur.
I celebrate the chipmunks too but was brought to tears watching my neighbour trapping them in the fall and removing them--they wouldn't have any stored food where he would have dumped them. So sad and I can't legally do anything about it.
Are you happy with your creeping dogwood now that it's been in the ground a couple years? I'm considering planting some, but it seems pretty pricey so I'm wondering if you would still recommend it.
You can try Loropetalum (chinese fringe plants) they have similar shade and are gorgeous.
love the video and the garden, could I suggest when paneling camera to the left of the right with my age I am starting to get dizzy with the fast camera movements. Maybe a wide camera angle or a slower panel would help me and others who get dizzy. Thank you
very lovely. so much packed into a relatively small space. thanks for sharing.
I want to use mulch for developing a butterfly garden. There is many big trees on site where I want to develop. Is it good by using fallen leaves or other organic matter?
Beautiful 🤩 thank you for the update! Definitely got some ideas for my shady spots.
Gorgeous tapestry. You use so many plants that I love. Such a pleasure to find someone else who clearly enjoys the Latin names as much as I do.
Tnk u for sharing
..its nice and inspiring how ur garden has come into frutuition.all the best --from asia
Great shade garden. beautiful array of plants and flowers too.
Another great little garden with more plants than my credit score! Haha. You both inspire me so much. :)
Haha. Good line!
Please suggest me to grow layers of flower plants for butterfly garden.
This content is probably the only reason I would ever buy a 4K tv
love the work,keep growing!
Agree!!! The video work, narrative, knowledge, tips, planning, background infos, passion. Overall the best for me! Great work Summer and Saunder
The garden is lovely. It got so 'feeling like home' so quick! Nature is a movie star, especially, the in the way which you put your bouquet with roots together. Staying tuned for the walkway project but the curvy original looks comfy too.
💐😎🌿💐🍀🌺🌻🌹🌼🏵️
Nicely done! I love watching how my fairly recently planted shrubs and perennials are filling in, and in turn how a variety of bees, butterflies, birds and squirrels are responding to the changing landscape. It feels good to create a healthy ecosystem in my backyard.
PS episode 99!!! Wow that seems to have happened fast. 🥳
Such diversity of plants, that Acer is beautiful great specimen as the pine and crawling spruce looks so beautiful, great jab Summer, thanks for sharing!!!
Production quality, along with lovely music and close up shots of the plants make this video so enjoyable to watch. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much Elisabeth. Always love your sweet comments. Have a lovely day.
Cornus Canadensis is edible for humans too. Rather tasteless but great for toning down strong tasting jams.
If we can get to them before the wildlife, then that's something we'd love to try. Thanks for the tip. :)
@@FlockFingerLakes the wildlife take the berries I grow. But I realized a pattern. They go from one berry to the next as most of the berries in a patch is ripe. So I have to pick the ripe raspberries every day. As soon as most raspberries are ripe, I leave what's left to the birds and start picking blueberries every day. After that the partridge berries.
If I wait till they are mostly ripe so I can pick a lot at once, I ain't getting any!
Lovely shade garden!
Lovely colors in this diverse garden, so warm and welcoming 💜! Also a visitor on deck at 8:33!
Lovely shade garden
Love it, I have a number of hosta varieties with my heuchera and others that are all coming I ntontheor own this season, oh and astilbe are really showing off now.
😊👍♥️
Beautiful🌺🌷🌼🌿💜
Thanks for sharing
Sooo good!!
It's coming in so nicely!
I've got a lot of shade here in Central Tx, and have also planted hardy Geraniums this year. As a matter of fact, I have 2 new Purple Ghost Geraniums in my driveway shade garden!
(and one Rozanne over in a different garden where it will get the brunt of hot afternoon sun!) It may not survive...
But if it does!! What a great groundcover that will be!!
And was that Phaem Raven you pointed out? I need to go back in the video and see...
It's so gorgeous!!
I really like how the flowers stand up taller than the foliage! That exact geranium is on my list for next year in my shady driveway! Along with red & dark purple heucheras!
I just LOVE the dark colors playing with the sea of green at my house!
I'm adding a lot of that dark color to break up all the green.
And your garden already has a great balance of color!
Oh! And the Painted Fern!
I'm TRYING to keep them alive down here, but the snail pressure is a constant battle!!
(Not really a lot of slugs,
just snails...
Which I kinda like having snails bcuz I know the firefly larvae eat the snails!! The firefly population has been dwindling over here, it's a bit sad to only see 2 or 3 fireflies every night when we used to have hundreds only a few short years ago...)
I think maybe all the snails in the neighborhood know that my shady yard is the ultimate vacation spot!
Might as well have a sign:
FREE FOOD FOR ALL SNAILS!!
I gave up on hostas a looong time ago for that very reason!
But right now, I'm determined to grow just a few painted ferns. My best solution is to cover the surrounding ground with crushed granite "sand" (also called Decomposed Granite = DG). The snails really don't like that sharp grit.
As long as the Fern leaves don't touch the ground, the granite sand does protect them. However, asking the Fern leaves NOT to drape, is a BIG ASK!!
Oh, and the 1st time I tried the Painted Ferns was planting them in the Fall before that horrendous & now infamous Arctic Storm of Feb 2021.
Ugh.
BIG mistake!
This is my 1st try to grow them since that storm. I kinda thought it was the super cold temps of -5° that took them out before...
But now, seeing yours, I'm rethinking that theory.
I know y'all get A LOT more snow than we do, and I now see your beautiful Painted Fern made it thru the snowy Winter! Also, I'm thinking the Acer probably gave it some very good protection.
So perhaps the snails got to my Painted Ferns that Winter afterall ?
I'm not sure.
I only know they never appeared again.
Anyway-
the dark garden colors-
There's a streak of late afternoon sun that comes in for one hour thru the tree canopy in this one area on my driveway, so I'm adding a grouping of very dark Actaea in that spot. I'm really looking forward to those taking off & maturing!
They will make a beautiful tall black background for my green Acer!
(WHAT was I thinking planting a GREEN Acer amongst all the other green plants over there??!)
Well, hopefully the Actaea will fix that issue & frame the young Acer nicely!
Shade gardens are so very nice to have where ever it gets so HOT!!
It's already 102° in the afternoons!! Yikes!!!
SHADE is where it's AT over here!!!
I am always so curious to see what the same plants down here in Texas do, compared to the growing habits in far away places like y'all's spot up North, where the Summer & Winter temps come at different times of year!!
I don't know if it even gets up over 100° at y'all's place, but these are things I'm willing to find out while watching all your different gardens flourish!!
The adaptability of Nature is an awesome sight to behold!!
Thank You for the Shade Garden Tour!
I remember watching you plant it, & it is doing soooo well!!
Thanks for bring me along! ❤️
The 'Purple Ghost' cultivar is so lovely. Nice pop of color contrasting with the bright greens.
Your place looks GORGEOUS, it's crazy looking good!
Makes me want to get a big place like this with friends so we could all work on the terrain , try things and grow life outside of my (smaller and smaller) apartment. Also, happy 100th coming up!
Ahhh thank you Etienne. This has been life-changing for all of us. If you can get the right group together, it's worth it! And yes, Ep 100 is right around the bend. Can't believe it!
Hi. Fantastic shade garden. Does it provide food from spring till onset of winter? Especially given the diversity of plant species that have varied flowering and fruiting cycles.
Yes it does! The fruits of the various plants will go from Spring through Winter. Strawberries and Rubus are in Spring and Summer and then Cornus, Gaultheria, and Archostaphylos are later through winter.
I like the brick and moss/grass path way.
For us it feels too formal but then messy with all the grass coming up. We're going to go with large slabs of local llenroc stone, puzzled together with some smaller stones in between planted up maybe with Thymus or something equivalent. We found some stones that has the most beautiful ferrous shade with streaks of blue-gray. Our neighbor was doing some excavation work too-to build a barn-and they were sweet enough to let us go over and pick out some stones as well for steps and such. We'll likely end up using the brick elsewhere. Where... we don't know yet!
@@FlockFingerLakes okay, That could look nice. I was afraid that it'll be boring rectangles that some people put in front of their homes.
But this sounds like you put a lot of thought into it. :)
👍👍
This is breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you for inspiring us through these glimpses into your world.
Our pleasure!
EARLYYyYYYYYyYyYyY
Gorgeous. I love tiarella. Yes I'm curious what you replace walkway with
We're going to go with large slabs of local llenroc stone. puzzled together. We found some that has the most beautiful ferrous shade with streaks of blue-gray.
Another beautiful, well thought out garden. The pine tree is a stunning anchor. Love the updates.
We were grateful we had three stately trees to work around. Anchored us with something beautiful to work around.
Thank you, Wow, Wow, Wow
Think that must be your smallest garden bed, and the detail ,care, colour palette are Fantastic,
Love it , Your a Superstar
Love and Rainbows
Thanks Clive. LOVE LOVE this garden. And happy to have expanded it. That was actually Sander's suggestion back in September!
@@FlockFingerLakes You guys work so well as a Team:)
This garden is so fascinating.
I am in love with your property and garden. Thank you for sharing the garden with us.
Thanks so much for touring it with us! More gardens throughout the year, as the seasons progress. It's fun to see what flowers and grasses have their turn blooming day-after-day!
@@FlockFingerLakes when are we going to enjoy a full property tour🤗 no pressure 😊
❤️😘
Summer- could you lose the Latin, and speak like most gardeners?
Hey Tim, thanks for the suggestion. I most often default to the scientific name because the common name can vary so drastically-particularly for people in different regions and countries. The scientific name is the most reliable and standardized throughout the world, so it's what I've grown to know and like to help other gardeners advance their knowledge in that arena too. In many cases, including in this video, I will often include the most popular common name here in North America under the scientific name on the screen. Not always but many times-and I'll make note to continue to do that, based on your suggestion. I also think viewers of my other channel, 'Plant One On Me' have grown to appreciate the scientific name placement of the species there (ruclips.net/user/summerrayneoakes) because many of those plants-most of which are non-native to the United States-don't have a common name here. Or are just "generic" in description. So for instance, many hoyas are known as "Wax Plant" or "Hoya" but there are over 500 species of Hoya, so if we went with common names there-there would be much misunderstanding and no elevation of botanical knowledge. Hope that makes sense!
I’m back for another update of your beautiful garden. Everything looks great! Your work is inspirational to me. I’ve been very busy in my garden. Im glade I found time to check In with you. I appreciate the information you’ve shared. You’ve helped me learn lot. I hope we can connect and keep learning from each other. I’m a RUclips gardener too! I’m so happy to learn from you!
So nice of you! And always marvelous to hear from another gardener here. :)