How to Choose Plants for a New Garden
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I have two big landscape projects planned for this season. I just started the first one. I have been systematically reducing the amount of turf grass in my front landscape. This season I am installing an island border that will be filled with deer resistant shrubs and perennials.
This is part 2 of the new project. I'm showing how I decided what plants to use in my new island border. I purchased all the plant material from a local family-owned nursery called Masaab Acres.
Part 1 - Creating a New Island Border from Scratch
• Creating a New Front L...
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Like how you talk through your process and do things in methodical way. Very helpful.
Thank you. I appreciate the kind words.
OMG I love Massab on Pardee. We lived 1 mile south of there (on Kensington) for many yrs and shopped there a lot when we lived in T. I'm a life long resident of that city until 2 yr ago when we moved to Monroe. (biggest mistake ever).
I love Massab Acres. Nice to meet you.
Winter gem is my favorite boxwood. It is hardy and looks spectacular in the spring. However, one has to guard against the branches bowing down and breaking in a heavy snow.
You offer some great advice there. I am typically keen to get the snow off the shrubs and hedges when it snows here. I was traveling this season and we had a heavy, wet snow that did terrible damage to my cedars.
@@ccrider4516 I haven't tried Green Mountain yet. Does it suffer winter burn? I am in zone 7a. Winter burn damage is the problem I have with Green Velvet boxwood.
It is totally amazing just how much Roseanne blooms! I keep thinking it is going to wear itself out!
I can't believe it is a Cranesbill. Just amazing! I wish the deer didn't like them, but I've had luck with repellent.
I've learned through experience to plant the correct plant in the correct spot. Certain plants are not good to plant if you don't shelter them from wind and winter damage. So, I plant the more hardy industrial shrubs on the outside to protect the more vulnerable plants in the interior.
I think you have summed up the essence of good gardening. I am still trying to learn, but I agree. Right plant, right place is the goal to making a great garden.
Ooo, I haven't heard of that nursery before, and apparently, I'm only eight miles away from it. Thanks for the recommendation. I want to put a Japanese maple in my front yard because I miss the one from my old house.
They are a great family owned nursery. You will want to visit early in the season because they are small. I hope you like it.
Hello Sue, now I know how you can get a big quantity of plants to your house. Thanks for this very helpful video! Do you also have a video on how you prepare the soil for mass planting?
Hi,
Thank you for your note. I haven't done a soil video, but for new garden beds I will do a soil test to know what kind of amendments the soil is missing and I add around 3 inches of compost each season.
Stunning collection Sue 🥰
It was fun to buy so many plants at one time. I typically don't do that. 🥰
I also live in Michigan, I'm starting a over as I just purchased my home as a single mother and would give anything to have just a pinch of what your yard looks like you are amazing.. I can listen to you talk About gardening all day you are very easy to listen to.
Hey fellow Michigan gardener. Thanks so much for being here and thanks for your kind words of encouragement. 💚
such a stunning combination of plants you chose. I also have extreme deer pressure as well as rabbits. Can you comment if these plants are also rabbit resistant? If I find some thing that is deer resistant, it seems like the rabbits get at it. And vice versa. It’s a struggle.
The rabbits in my area tend to love roses, but I am glad to say they are not much of a problem. For me it is deer.
I am so happy to have found this! Like a previous comment I left I want to reiterate I adore what you’ve done. I though need massive help and this looks like the exact video I need. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!’ Also, your neighbor has no taste! 😂
Thanks so much for your kind note.
Have you ever considered what planting imported invasive plants do to out parks and woodlands? Have you ever visited your local park to see what is the fraction of invasives growing there?
Sue, this is such fabulous video. Thank you for sharing so much information. From your design standpoint, to your source and how many plants you ordered. Can you tell why you decided to put the taller weigela in a band before a lower growing plant?
Hi Caludia. First off, the weigela I originally wanted to purchase is called "Spilled Wine" which is a smaller variety. Unfortunately, that wasn't available so I am going to try an experiment. I plan to only plant a couple of this plants within the center section with the idea that I am interested in the purple foliage. I am going to prune them hard after blooming. If they become too large, they will get moved to another area of the garden. I am keen to try to add a bigger layer into the middle section of the island to add a bit of texture. I'll be sure to let you know if the experiment is a success...or not...ha ha.
Beautiful garden design =) What is the plant surrounding the large tree at minute 7:11?
Thank you. The tree out front is surrounded with pachysandra.
Looking fabulous ✅👍🏼🌱 CHIPS WORLD
Thanks so much!
@@GardenMoxie your very welcome ✅👍🏼 Chip
NOT...A...GARDENER, but I,m trying! What is the beautiful green surrounding the tree? Would it flourish under a maple tree?
@Linda Shaw, she mentions at 3:20 that the new garden borders a bed of Pachysandra. Depending where you live, it might be the type on the invasive list. I got rid of mine in southern Ontario, Canada. It wasn’t near a neighbouring garden, but I thought the next owner of my property could plant it elsewhere and cause a problem. I’ve seen native plants in a forest smothered out by vinca, another difficult to remove and invasive plant. People dump soil and often it contains invasives or they live next to a natural area and things spread, or birds take seeds and invasives spread that way too.
It is pachysandra and as Bette mentions below, it is extremely invasive. If I were starting new, I would plant a different ground cover that was native. I also wouldn't have the raised bed around the tree flare.... that is very, very bad for the tree. All rookie mistakes. The roots of that tree are SO dense, I can't even get a hand trowel into the soil. I hope that helps. 💚
You are right. Vinca is awful. I have some that got into my garden and I need to get rid of it. It is a beast to remove.
I need rabbit resistant plants……they are so cute, but they are eating all my hostas.
In my garden, the rabbits love roses. They leave my hosta alone thank goodness. They are little stinkers for sure.
@@GardenMoxie isn’t that something? I planted giant hostas and none came up in 2022. I replanted some in mid-September and there I was sitting at my office window looking at that little naughty cutie chew on my growing giant hosta in October. Needless to say, none of the hostas got to fully reach their intermediate size in autumn….now they all look like they are just planted
@@MoonLightOnWater1 Stinker!