Of course, we remember you Stephany! The two of you make a great partnership with your obvious love and knowledge of plants. Every time you do one of these garden tours, I renew my promise to myself to smother the sod in more places and create my own clown college garden because yours makes me so happy. 💚🌺🌼🌸🌹🌻💚
Jim- thanks for promoting that most plants can figure it out (on spacing). I like how they "figure it out" and the interesting, organic growth habits compared to perfectly spaced swaths & drifts which to my eye look a little too perfect. 🌿 It also takes the edge off a planting rookies who try something new. Sometimes it drains the fun to over analyze all the plant stats, especially if you're going for a particular design.
Love seeing Stephanie! We know who is behind these great videos. Also love the letting it grow "they will figure it out " with the Hostas and Oakleaf Hydrageneas , it is what my husband says about our young adult children...a metaphor for those coming of age during these times..
Two years i have fought to get an African basil and they were delivered yesterday. And now i must have a striptease hosta. Stephany, we love you always! Enablers i tell ya!! 😆
Happy 4th weekend to you both. Good to see you again in a vid Stephanie. :) You are as elusive as Griffin in vids LOL . Wow, your yard and garden is looking lush and full these summer days Jim. Really beautiful. I love all the bee activity in your garden. Gives me hope. Take care and have a good holiday weekend you 4. Rusty from Illinois
Hi Stephany! Great to see you again. We enjoy hearing your perspective as well and hope to see you more often in the future. As the others have mentioned, you both make a great team.
Loving your clown college annuals. So much color in a small space. I must get a Little Devil hosta. We lost our "little devil" Chihuahua recently and it would be a great memorial for him.
Really loved the featured hostas on this tour! Thank you for that. Always wonderful to see Stephany in your videos, too. Have an awesome 4th, everyone! God Bless the USA! 🇺🇸
Jim you have nurtured a lovely maturing garden. "Clown college" I think not....you garden is top notch and it will get even better with time. I am mostly impressed with the selections of companion planting and this gives me hope because our zones are quite similar. I think you all may be a few weeks ahead of my Maryland zone 7a. Thanks for this banger Jim and it was a pleasure seeing Stephany again!
Jim and Stephany, I love seeing both of you in these videos! Do you plan to visit any private or botanical gardens on your vacation? Oh my, that was a pretty silly question, since visiting gardens is probably a requirement for most of us gardeners! Have fun and enjoy your time together.🌞🦋🌿
I really enjoyed the combination of talking about specific plants and quiet views of some spaces in the garden! Like you both and many others, I love hostas too. My favorites were the striptease and ones with red petioles, but they were all beautiful! Thank you for sharing! 💖👍💕
I'm so glad you guys emphasized on Hostas. Some of my gardening friends (here in Dallas) hates hostas and have bad luck with them. For some reason I don't. I tend to look for hostas with thick rubbery leaves. They seem to be more slug resistant. Also, I only plant in pots and they flourish. For some reason when I plant hostas in the ground they begin to slowly dwindle, not so in pots. Maybe, our winters aren't as sufficient to their needs. Im rambling! Enjoyed your video! Thank You🌻🐝🌻
Mine here in Central Texas (near Austin) love being in pots too! But in the ground, even in the same spot, the snails make a meal of them in one night! I know they can crawl up the sides of the pots, but they just don't. Go figure.
Voles love hosta roots & tunnel underground to eat them. I was looking out the window and my beautiful hostess were suddenly browning - I went out to check on them and discovered they were just sitting on top of the ground, sans roots.
I love zinnias and I save all the flowers in the fall to save the seeds. They are thriving in triple digits with no rain but I water every day. My hummers love the monarda which is almost a weed here in Ga Zone 8b. Hi, Steph! Happy 4th to all.
I've been lucky with my Gold Jubilee, I got the first 16 years ago but was soon forced into rental situations so I grew it in large containers. With good drainage, they would last 3-5 years and very rarely self seed. Winter sowing worked so well for me that I now have plants sprinkled in 6 different spots, seeing where it's happiest. I had a kitty that loved the anise flavored leaves. I bought 2 lovely Agastache last year but they're puny next to the Jubilee. 3 years in the ground, the gold still pops next to the orange Asclepias. We're still getting missed on rain in my yard, even the natives are thirsty. My standout Hosta this year has been the Great Expectations planted with sweet glad & my Guacamole that shares a container with a Seliginella fern. My Seiboldi bloomed super early this year, it had double bloomed last year so maybe it's just happy with it's new friend, a Ghost fern. Pretty combo! Thanks Jim & Stephanie, fun to compare my N. Georgia garden to yours! Edit: sweet flag, dang spell check
I need something for the back of out perennial bed that will reliably get 3+ ft tall, but not much wider than 2-3 ft. Seems like Blue Fortune would be a good option, although I may need to rein it in if it starts to become a bully, much like Mystic Spires Blue Salvia does for us (Central Texas 8b).
Everything is looking stunning! If I had more room for hostas, I could definitely see it becoming an addiction. I immediately Googled the Striptease hosta, saw that it’s sun-tolerant, and thought’ “hmm…maybe…” 😂 Pollinator note: I’ve got more wasps in the garden than I’ve ever seen (probably taking care of a pest problem I hadn’t even noticed yet), but the bee and butterfly activity has been really low this year so far. Fingers crossed.
everything is looking spectacular !! and thanks for sharing your new additions ... I am a big fan of hostas ( a hosta hoarder, sorta) and always looking for new and interesting varieties. I'm curious if you prune up your edgeworthia or if you let it just grow as it will? I have one that is growing very well but not sure if I should prune out the growth coming from the crown of the plant? Seems as I recall seeing them pruned up (kinda like a crepe myrtle) and underneath so as to show of it's structure ... not sure what I should do, if anything ??? any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks, as always, for sharing your garden, knowledge, enthusiasm and inspiration !!!
Jim, I think Golden Jubilee will do fine for you. I'm in Virginia 7a. I put in Blue Fortune and Golden Jubilee last spring as 4" pots. This year they are both the same size (around 3 1/2 ft.), have pretty much the same habit, and are very happy. Golden Jubilee self-seeded in my garden and I have a few little ones coming up this year, which I don't mind.
Sometimes I think hosta are the Taco Bell of the gardening world. You wouldn’t think you could build such a fan base with just four leaf colors combinations in various sizes, but, here we are. Love me some Taco Bell.
Your Edgeworthia looks so healthy! Mine has so few leaves…only at the tips! I’m in Tallahassee and it gets part shade/part sun. What am I doing wrong? Your garden is just beautiful!
Hi Jim. I planted a few hostas in my Georgia clay soil a few years ago. Now they're gotten pretty well established. The problem is that when they die back in the fall/winter the area where I've planted them looks totally bare. Any suggestions what I can plant over them while they're dormant?
I do love all the pollinator activity in your garden! I've just purchased my first butterfly bush (Proven Winners Blue Chip Jr.) and I'm hoping I've chosen a spot where it will make it through the winter --we used to be zone 4, they recently changed us to zone 5a, and I'm still very nervous about planting zone 5 plants. I've put it close to the house, hopefully sheltered well!
What's your secret for bees? In NW Ohio, lawn full of clover, native milkweed, honeysuckle, sunflowers, coneflower, etc... no bees. No bees and butterflies again this year. I use no insecticides. Very frustrating. Lost all my monarda and some black and blue salvia over the winter. Just ended 37 years in the greenhouse/garden center industry. Enjoy your videos.
To whoever is reading this, I pray that whatever you are going through gets better and you make it through it and learn from it. Have a blessed day and know things will get better. Lorrell Company LawnCare & Property Solutions
Of course, we remember you Stephany! The two of you make a great partnership with your obvious love and knowledge of plants. Every time you do one of these garden tours, I renew my promise to myself to smother the sod in more places and create my own clown college garden because yours makes me so happy. 💚🌺🌼🌸🌹🌻💚
Thank you so much for following along;
My exact thought JC- of course we remember you Steph! ☺️ Thank you- we love hearing your take on things 🌿
Jim- thanks for promoting that most plants can figure it out (on spacing). I like how they "figure it out" and the interesting, organic growth habits compared to perfectly spaced swaths & drifts which to my eye look a little too perfect. 🌿 It also takes the edge off a planting rookies who try something new. Sometimes it drains the fun to over analyze all the plant stats, especially if you're going for a particular design.
Love seeing Stephanie! We know who is behind these great videos. Also love the letting it grow "they will figure it out " with the Hostas and Oakleaf Hydrageneas , it is what my husband says about our young adult children...a metaphor for those coming of age during these times..
Two years i have fought to get an African basil and they were delivered yesterday. And now i must have a striptease hosta. Stephany, we love you always! Enablers i tell ya!! 😆
Glad to hear it’s ok to plant close together as things in time can be transplanted!!! Looking great!
This @ 5:20 is totally my jam! The natives, the colors, the coolness of the shadier spot. Oh my! Love it and want this in my garden!!
Btw Stephanie you are such an positive gardener to Jim’s videos!! You two are a great team!!!! Thanks 🤩
Long live the clown college design style! Love it! Everything’s looking so good, well done both of you.
Steph and Holly we were missing you both!
Your annual bed is specular! Also, what a beautiful collections of Hostas. Sadly, I have deer in my area who treat it as part of a salad bar.
The 🦌 are the worst to garden with. Thanks for watching
I love seeing all the hostas. Please show them in bloom next year.
Happy 4th weekend to you both. Good to see you again in a vid Stephanie. :) You are as elusive as Griffin in vids LOL . Wow, your yard and garden is looking lush and full these summer days Jim. Really beautiful. I love all the bee activity in your garden. Gives me hope. Take care and have a good holiday weekend you 4. Rusty from Illinois
Thank you. Coming through Illinois soon
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great tour..Really nice to see Stephanie in the videos lately. She is a good addition to your videos.
I was rather taken by the 'strip tease' Hosta too Stephany from Jim and Lynnes garden x 💚🐛🍀🙏😇🕊️🇦🇺
Hi Stephany! Great to see you again. We enjoy hearing your perspective as well and hope to see you more often in the future. As the others have mentioned, you both make a great team.
I have garden envy!!! Your yard is beautiful and so eye catching!!😍😍😍
Totally enjoyed the variety of hostas in this video.
It was also nice seeing Stephany again.
Love your enthusiasm for plants Stephanie!!👍❤️
Your garden has grown so fast, love it.
Blue mouse ears was my first hosta, It actually flowered a month after planting! Much healthier than a Guacamole hosta I planted at the same time lol
Amazing color! Love the Clown collage!
So many hostas so little time! Where do I line up for the giveaways when you start dividing them? 😄
Loving your clown college annuals. So much color in a small space. I must get a Little Devil hosta. We lost our "little devil"
Chihuahua recently and it would be a great memorial for him.
Hi Stephanie!🐝🐝🐝🌺🌸🌼🌻
Really loved the featured hostas on this tour! Thank you for that. Always wonderful to see Stephany in your videos, too. Have an awesome 4th, everyone! God Bless the USA! 🇺🇸
Jim you have nurtured a lovely maturing garden. "Clown college" I think not....you garden is top notch and it will get even better with time. I am mostly impressed with the selections of companion planting and this gives me hope because our zones are quite similar. I think you all may be a few weeks ahead of my Maryland zone 7a. Thanks for this banger Jim and it was a pleasure seeing Stephany again!
Nice to see you Stephany 🌸💚🙃
Jim and Stephany, I love seeing both of you in these videos! Do you plan to visit any private or botanical gardens on your vacation? Oh my, that was a pretty silly question, since visiting gardens is probably a requirement for most of us gardeners! Have fun and enjoy your time together.🌞🦋🌿
I really enjoyed the combination of talking about specific plants and quiet views of some spaces in the garden! Like you both and many others, I love hostas too. My favorites were the striptease and ones with red petioles, but they were all beautiful! Thank you for sharing! 💖👍💕
I love all the bright colors in the garden. My crinum lilies are trying to make a comeback after being attacked by deer
Love learning about hosta varieties!
Grogeous garden
🐝🐝🦋
Garden goals!!!
Beautiful tour. Love the variety of hostas you guys have!😊
Greetings from Michigan near Lake Saint Clair Detroit area,zone 6b.....I have the spotted Joe Pye Weed in my butterfly garden
Always beautiful. I’m jealous ❤️
So glad I found your channel thank you so much
Hi Jim and Stephany 💛
I'm so glad you guys emphasized on Hostas. Some of my gardening friends (here in Dallas) hates hostas and have bad luck with them. For some reason I don't. I tend to look for hostas with thick rubbery leaves. They seem to be more slug resistant. Also, I only plant in pots and they flourish. For some reason when I plant hostas in the ground they begin to slowly dwindle, not so in pots. Maybe, our winters aren't as sufficient to their needs. Im rambling! Enjoyed your video! Thank You🌻🐝🌻
Mine thrive in pots vs in the ground in zone 7 East TN. When I lived in zone 5 Illinois near Chicago they did great in the ground.
Mine here in Central Texas
(near Austin) love being in pots too!
But in the ground, even in the same spot, the snails make a meal of them in one night!
I know they can crawl up the sides of the pots, but they just don't.
Go figure.
Voles love hosta roots & tunnel underground to eat them. I was looking out the window and my beautiful hostess were suddenly browning - I went out to check on them and discovered they were just sitting on top of the ground, sans roots.
The plants will figure it out 😂 Love that 😁
Lovely! Love it all and especially the zinnias!
I love zinnias and I save all the flowers in the fall to save the seeds. They are thriving in triple digits with no rain but I water every day. My hummers love the monarda which is almost a weed here in Ga Zone 8b. Hi, Steph! Happy 4th to all.
Thank you Jim, everything is beautiful 🌸💚🙃
I've been lucky with my Gold Jubilee, I got the first 16 years ago but was soon forced into rental situations so I grew it in large containers. With good drainage, they would last 3-5 years and very rarely self seed. Winter sowing worked so well for me that I now have plants sprinkled in 6 different spots, seeing where it's happiest. I had a kitty that loved the anise flavored leaves. I bought 2 lovely Agastache last year but they're puny next to the Jubilee. 3 years in the ground, the gold still pops next to the orange Asclepias.
We're still getting missed on rain in my yard, even the natives are thirsty.
My standout Hosta this year has been the Great Expectations planted with sweet glad & my Guacamole that shares a container with a Seliginella fern. My Seiboldi bloomed super early this year, it had double bloomed last year so maybe it's just happy with it's new friend, a Ghost fern. Pretty combo!
Thanks Jim & Stephanie, fun to compare my N. Georgia garden to yours!
Edit: sweet flag, dang spell check
Love watching your videos!
So nice that you both share your passion for everything garden! My husband likes to talk to me about flashlights :/ haha
That hosta would make a great border plant!
Your gardens look like they’re approaching peak color!
They really are. A little later this year. Cooler and dry followed by the surface of the sun and dry🤣
Lovely to see you both again for a wonderful tour 🌸💕🌸
I need something for the back of out perennial bed that will reliably get 3+ ft tall, but not much wider than 2-3 ft. Seems like Blue Fortune would be a good option, although I may need to rein it in if it starts to become a bully, much like Mystic Spires Blue Salvia does for us (Central Texas 8b).
Everything is looking stunning! If I had more room for hostas, I could definitely see it becoming an addiction. I immediately Googled the Striptease hosta, saw that it’s sun-tolerant, and thought’ “hmm…maybe…” 😂 Pollinator note: I’ve got more wasps in the garden than I’ve ever seen (probably taking care of a pest problem I hadn’t even noticed yet), but the bee and butterfly activity has been really low this year so far. Fingers crossed.
Love the hostas. I have a small shade spot and filled it with hostas🙂
Looking good!
Hi Stephanie! 👋
Jim, thanks for reminding me that my plants don’t need to be perfectly placed…I’ve been known to agonize over it!! 🤣😊🤣
So funny…things can be off 3 inches and I’ll want to dig it out and move it, lol!
Love all the color!
Gorgeous garden!
everything is looking spectacular !! and thanks for sharing your new additions ... I am a big fan of hostas ( a hosta hoarder, sorta) and always looking for new and interesting varieties. I'm curious if you prune up your edgeworthia or if you let it just grow as it will? I have one that is growing very well but not sure if I should prune out the growth coming from the crown of the plant? Seems as I recall seeing them pruned up (kinda like a crepe myrtle) and underneath so as to show of it's structure ... not sure what I should do, if anything ??? any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks, as always, for sharing your garden, knowledge, enthusiasm and inspiration !!!
Thank you, your garden is so awesome right now!!! Still in love with that bee decor at 18:36! Where did you find it?
Market Imports across from Raleigh Farmers Market.
Love your videos! Do you have bug problems with your hosta?
Jim, I think Golden Jubilee will do fine for you. I'm in Virginia 7a. I put in Blue Fortune and Golden Jubilee last spring as 4" pots. This year they are both the same size (around 3 1/2 ft.), have pretty much the same habit, and are very happy. Golden Jubilee self-seeded in my garden and I have a few little ones coming up this year, which I don't mind.
Nice
Sometimes I think hosta are the Taco Bell of the gardening world. You wouldn’t think you could build such a fan base with just four leaf colors combinations in various sizes, but, here we are. Love me some Taco Bell.
Your Edgeworthia looks so healthy! Mine has so few leaves…only at the tips! I’m in Tallahassee and it gets part shade/part sun. What am I doing wrong? Your garden is just beautiful!
Do you see any difference in attracting pollinators between the straight Joe Pye Weed and the nativar Little Joe?
What is difference in 7B and 7 in Maryland. Thanks
Hi Jim. I planted a few hostas in my Georgia clay soil a few years ago. Now they're gotten pretty well established. The problem is that when they die back in the fall/winter the area where I've planted them looks totally bare. Any suggestions what I can plant over them while they're dormant?
What is the arrow shaped leaf plant beside you when you talk about the 1st hosta?
???
???
My perennials don’t get near as tall! Why? Because they are young? Not sure
Is that nasturtium beside the butterfly weed at 1:22?
Yes!
How to you keep Japanese beetles off of zinnias ?
Pick them off.
I do love all the pollinator activity in your garden! I've just purchased my first butterfly bush (Proven Winners Blue Chip Jr.) and I'm hoping I've chosen a spot where it will make it through the winter --we used to be zone 4, they recently changed us to zone 5a, and I'm still very nervous about planting zone 5 plants. I've put it close to the house, hopefully sheltered well!
What's your secret for bees? In NW Ohio, lawn full of clover, native milkweed, honeysuckle, sunflowers, coneflower, etc... no bees. No bees and butterflies again this year. I use no insecticides. Very frustrating. Lost all my monarda and some black and blue salvia over the winter. Just ended 37 years in the greenhouse/garden center industry. Enjoy your videos.
🙋
Honey bees!
To whoever is reading this, I pray that whatever you are going through gets better and you make it through it and learn from it. Have a blessed day and know things will get better. Lorrell Company LawnCare & Property Solutions
Thank you!