Btw, my Grandma, bless her soul, taught me @ a very young age that spiders, snakes, praying mantis, & other garden creatures were our friends. Because of her teachings, I grew up liking, even loving, creatures others tend to fear. ❤
Oh my goodness, I would have wet myself seeing a black snake in my garden!!! 😳 .... every space you share in your garden is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing with us , have a blessed rest of your week ❤
That black snake is gorgeous! I’m so grateful that you appreciate and protect your helpful garden reptiles. It makes me sad when people harm snakes. I totally understand not wanting any harmful snakes around. But our nonvenemous snake friends do so much good for keeping down garden pests. Here in western Washington we’ve only got garter snakes. But I do everything I can to create habit for them. They will eat slugs, which are my number one pest. With the extremely wet, cool spring we had, the slugs are hammering my plants this year. I literally pray for more snakes! 🙏🏻 🐍
Thank you for the snake 'sidebar'. People do freak out but snakes are so beneficial. They can startle a person....but as you stated, back off and they will move on.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Don't know if I've said it before, but I always enjoy watching you throw the empty pots & tags as you plant. It cracks me up. Who cares, right? Toss away!
Jenny you always make me laugh with your down to earth attitude! Thank you for showing us your “blackie” and letting us know he is harmless. I am terrified of snakes and he was BIG! I have been following your individual gardens and am amazed at how they have grown so full! Your gardening ideas and combinations keep inspiring me🥰🥰 Thank you
Beautiful bed, and beautiful choices of annuals - So Pretty! We leave our black snakes alone too - if you have black snakes, you're less likely to their venomous cousins. :)
Pineapple Brandy coleus would look amazing because it's bright chartreuse but it has those deep purple stems and accents that would pick up on the Newly Noir. I would love to have a friendly snake in my garden to feast on the voles! Of course it's too cold for poisonous snakes where I live so they're all harmless.
Wow, what a beautiful space! Love all the colors and layers and the backdrop of the loropetalum and the thuja is perfection! When working in my garden two weeks ago I surprised when I turned around to find a copperhead. I'm not a fan of snakes but I hear that black snakes will eat the poisonous copperheads so if I had a choice the black snake would be my friend 🙂
Good morning Jenny, thank you for the tour of the cottage garden, it is absolutely beautiful. I really enjoy your channel. I garden along the Gulf Coast of Alabama in zone 8b. I am spoiled with wonderful rich soil in my garden. I recently re-worked a garden bed in a family home in Tennessee zone 7b - and WOW - my awe of you has grown by leaps and bounds. Clay soil is NO JOKE!! It almost got the best of me as we had to work in tons of compost just to get a plantable medium for the PW Little Limes and Limelight Primes we were installing. I am not sure how you and Jerry do it but props to you and the good people of North Carolina and Tennessee. I am much more appreciative of my soil in South Alabama now. 😊
Jenny, your vegetable garden area is looking absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to see how it fills in over the next few weeks. Yesterday, while I was planting up some of my large planters in the front yard, I saw my first hummingbird of the season! I made up some hummingbird nectar, filled a feeder, and hung it outside this morning. Today, I'm going to the greenhouses to hunt for some cuphea plants, and I need to buy more sugar to feed my hummers. To me, it's always such a delightful surprise to see the first hummingbird of the season! Have a wonderful week! ~Margie
Good Morning Jenny, the hillside garden is looking so beautiful. I have no hills in my yard and they bring such interest and beauty, can’t wait for each update as your gardens keep evolving! Weather man says we are in for a heatwave this weekend in South Carolina, keeps us on our toes! 🥰🦋🐝🌸
Would love to see a light colored grass behind the newly noir coleus.... will set off the dark foliage of the coleus as it goes and then will be totally stunning as a straw-grass color behind the coleus in autumn!
Your Blackie’s cousin showed up here the other day, all stretched out in my gazebo, I just walk away too. We are in NC too surrounded by woods and trees and ponds so the big black snakes are our friends. Not happy with him when he likes to stretch over the threshold of the front door😬
I'm a huge fan of lime next to dark, so I would pop some lemon coral sedum behind the Newly Noir coleus as a short backdrop to show off the colors of the other annuals.
Clearly you so get a kick out of Brianna.... She is adorable!! Your gardens are spectacular!!!! Dread this heat wave coming I need to so plant few more things... zone 8b/9 pensacola fl... thanks so much Jenny I always learn so much from you !!!!🥵👍
Hi Jenny your cottage garden is absolutely gorgeous!! Love it!! Great job!! I love the way you talk to your plants!! They do give us a lot pleasure and beauty!!
I'd replace the Newly Noirs w/ Wicked Witch--the chartreuse edge will stand out against the dark mulch better. As an added bonus, it will work beautifully w/ the shade of green in the Supertunias.
Lookin good! Y'all are about 1-2 weeks ahead of us here in 7b Southern MD. It is fun to see your flowers thriving and blooming because it gives me a good idea of what my garden will look like in a couple of weeks. I too have new puppy (6 months old) and he is like a bulldozer in the flowerbeds. He's learning...slowly.... He loves the flower pots too. It was his favorite thing when I was putting the annuals in last week.
Hi Jenny, greetings from Oklahoma. Your gardens are lovely and I am enjoying watching them grow along with you. I was really admiring your Baptisia and thought perhaps you could plant some Baptisia behind the coleus and petunias. The chartreuse green would really pop both of those colors. And of course they would come back each year.🌺
The garden looks great, love all the new additions! We have a king snake that hangs out near our compost bins, some times he gives me a start (especially after I was bitten by a poisonous snake once years ago) but, I let him be (since we do have several native poisonous snakes here).
I love this garden area! Your plant selection is beautiful! They look great in their new home. The birdhouse and butterfly house are so pretty and really add charm to the garden! Love Brena (sp?)!!! She is so fun! My Auzzie likes to get my pots too! Makes life fun and interesting!! Have a great day! I always look forward to the next one!
If I "accidentally have kids", I will have bigger problems than broken stems. Thanks for the laugh. Beautiful plants. Black and blue salvia is my favorite plant in the world because of the hummingbirds it draws.
Still think a 'Cottage Garden' is not complete without zinnias. They come in an assortment of sizes and colors to fit in anywhere. Hope your butterfly house doesn't end up as a wasp residence as mine did. Beautiful cottage garden.
Maybe a perennial(& evergreen) behind the dark Coleus would look good... carex everillo would contrast wonderfully and give you a different texture in that flower bed😁
I plant clemone as a barrier plant for my deer herd. The smell keeps them away. I plant it by seed so the Proven Winners odorless variety wouldn't work well for me. Agastache works well too.
I love hearing about Brenna with your gardening. We recently got a puppy who loves to run through our flower beds, so I would love to know the best puppy-durable plants you recommend.
I love you said they are sister gardens, not identical sisters gardens. Last year I named my formerly hydrangea garden my "sisters' garden" because I've added more shrubs, perennials and annuals. Three were 'Queen of Sweden' DA roses planted in memory of my mother and her two (living) sisters. They're half Swedish. 🤭 Unfortunately, it looks like one of the sisters didn't survive our harsh MN winter. I'm not sure if the other two reverted back to the root stock. Time will tell. I can't believe I have restrained myself from buying annuals yet. I'm still working on preparing beds (weeding) for them. I hope stores restock so I can get some of those beauties you planted. I know you'll update us later in the season when they show all their glory. I'm not a daylily fan so I planted something in front to hide the foliage. But I look forward to seeing the white blooms of the 'Sunday Gloves' daylily I planted late last year.
HiJenny, I think you need something white, maybe Diamond Frost , I believe it can take sun or shade. I love your gardens and enjoy your videos very much! 🥰
I saw a black snake last year. I hope he is still around. Also last year’s green snake is still absent. But, I have seen a corn snake so far this year.
Hai, can you please plant veronicastrum behind the coleus? My garden is too smal for them. They would provide a great backdrop for your coleus and tie in the trees behind them. I think the white ones would look great especially late in the evening but the pink or purple ones would also look great and maybe a better choice considering the cottage garden nearby. I'm looking forward to it ;) :D
So glad to hear you don’t harm black snakes in your garden, you are right, they are so beneficial!
“If you accidentally have kids..” why yes, I have done that! Twice! 😂🤣😂 Funny Jenni 🤪
Slip of the tongue 😂
Freudian slip.
I was watching this episode this morning and had to rewind that part because it caught my attention. It was hilarious! Best ever!!! 🤣
This was my favorite part 😂
Btw, my Grandma, bless her soul, taught me @ a very young age that spiders, snakes, praying mantis, & other garden creatures were our friends. Because of her teachings, I grew up liking, even loving, creatures others tend to fear. ❤
Grandmamas are THE BEST 💓
Brenna loves helping Mom in the garden. She's a cutie.
Good advice and healthy attitude toward snakes. GS are easily trained to leave snakes alone.😊❤️❤️❤️❤️🐾❤️❤️❤️
I’d put a coleus with a bright lime color on it behind the Newly Noir.
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Your garden is reminding me of John Lords Secret Garden on RUclips…it must be heaven to have your own nursery to fill your garden.
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I agree! Jenny's garden is a lot like John Lord's gardens... I like his channel too! 🌺
Think you for sharing Blackie with us and being an advocate for them. 🥰
Yes, after all, we humans encroach on their peaceful wilderness. So it's only natural to let them be.
Oh my goodness, I would have wet myself seeing a black snake in my garden!!! 😳 .... every space you share in your garden is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing with us , have a blessed rest of your week ❤
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Seeing all those pots in the shade made me laugh. She’s like a toddler. Gotta love 💕 her.
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Jenny I love your cottage garden,I just have to say, thank goodness for the auger, it is such a game changer for gardeners.🤗
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Good morning Creekside friends 🌞🌻 have a wonderful day 🌹🌺🌼🌺
You too!!
That black snake is gorgeous! I’m so grateful that you appreciate and protect your helpful garden reptiles. It makes me sad when people harm snakes. I totally understand not wanting any harmful snakes around. But our nonvenemous snake friends do so much good for keeping down garden pests. Here in western Washington we’ve only got garter snakes. But I do everything I can to create habit for them. They will eat slugs, which are my number one pest. With the extremely wet, cool spring we had, the slugs are hammering my plants this year. I literally pray for more snakes! 🙏🏻 🐍
You've got to love a dog .. Brena is just precious. Thanks for sharing her with us.
Thank you for the snake 'sidebar'. People do freak out but snakes are so beneficial. They can startle a person....but as you stated, back off and they will move on.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Don't know if I've said it before, but I always enjoy watching you throw the empty pots & tags as you plant. It cracks me up. Who cares, right? Toss away!
Good morning Mrs Jenny! Everything looking fresh & beautiful just like their sweet little gardner! Hope you have a blessed day!🌷🌻💚🕊
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So glad to hear you say that you love your black snakes. So many people who claim to love gardening sill kill all snakes. Very sad.
Looks great. Love the mixture of flowers and the bird and butterfly house are so cute. Glad your dog has fun with you.
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Good morning Jenny, I would put Lime time coleus behind the Newly Noir. I think the pop of green would be absolutely stunning!
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Climbing sweet potato vine... oh, I can't wait!!!!
The cottage garden is just adorable 🙂
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Yes, when we had a much larger garden, I loved having the black snake to help rid the area of pests
Great tip about planting the VermillionIre in groups of 3! Love that idea!
Jenny you always make me laugh with your down to earth attitude! Thank you for showing us your “blackie” and letting us know he is harmless. I am terrified of snakes and he was BIG! I have been following your individual gardens and am amazed at how they have grown so full! Your gardening ideas and combinations keep inspiring me🥰🥰 Thank you
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Love your gardens And Brenna She sure adds a lot !!!! Thanks
Don’t you have a garden
Beautiful bed, and beautiful choices of annuals - So Pretty! We leave our black snakes alone too - if you have black snakes, you're less likely to their venomous cousins. :)
Thankful for the rain this week as we head into the 90s this week. Everything looks amazing!
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Pineapple Brandy coleus would look amazing because it's bright chartreuse but it has those deep purple stems and accents that would pick up on the Newly Noir. I would love to have a friendly snake in my garden to feast on the voles! Of course it's too cold for poisonous snakes where I live so they're all harmless.
Gardens are looking beautiful !! And so are you🌳🌳🌳
Wow, what a beautiful space! Love all the colors and layers and the backdrop of the loropetalum and the thuja is perfection! When working in my garden two weeks ago I surprised when I turned around to find a copperhead. I'm not a fan of snakes but I hear that black snakes will eat the poisonous copperheads so if I had a choice the black snake would be my friend 🙂
Yes, I’ve heard that if you run off the black snakes, and other harmless varieties, it encourages the copperheads to move in.
Good morning Jenny, thank you for the tour of the cottage garden, it is absolutely beautiful. I really enjoy your channel. I garden along the Gulf Coast of Alabama in zone 8b. I am spoiled with wonderful rich soil in my garden. I recently re-worked a garden bed in a family home in Tennessee zone 7b - and WOW - my awe of you has grown by leaps and bounds. Clay soil is NO JOKE!! It almost got the best of me as we had to work in tons of compost just to get a plantable medium for the PW Little Limes and Limelight Primes we were installing. I am not sure how you and Jerry do it but props to you and the good people of North Carolina and Tennessee. I am much more appreciative of my soil in South Alabama now. 😊
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We welcome the black or garter snakes as well thank you!😀
😅 “if you accidentally have kids” I just love Jenny!
Awesome video!
Well done, I love the plants!🌱🌿👌👍😁🥰🌺
Jenny, your vegetable garden area is looking absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to see how it fills in over the next few weeks. Yesterday, while I was planting up some of my large planters in the front yard, I saw my first hummingbird of the season! I made up some hummingbird nectar, filled a feeder, and hung it outside this morning. Today, I'm going to the greenhouses to hunt for some cuphea plants, and I need to buy more sugar to feed my hummers. To me, it's always such a delightful surprise to see the first hummingbird of the season! Have a wonderful week! ~Margie
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Good Morning Jenny, the hillside garden is looking so beautiful. I have no hills in my yard and they bring such interest and beauty, can’t wait for each update as your gardens keep evolving! Weather man says we are in for a heatwave this weekend in South Carolina, keeps us on our toes! 🥰🦋🐝🌸
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Good morning creekside family, beautiful cozy space, looking forward to seeing all the colours in harmony,!🦋🐞🌹🪴🌻❤
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I love it! Beautiful and so amazing.
Would love to see a light colored grass behind the newly noir coleus.... will set off the dark foliage of the coleus as it goes and then will be totally stunning as a straw-grass color behind the coleus in autumn!
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That is one of the most beautiful garden spaces! Wow. ❤
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Black snakes are so good to keep down the rats and mice. We were plagued with rats in our barn and the black snake helped a lot. 😊
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Absolutely beautiful Jenny. I would love to have flower beds like yours.
A lot of hard work that's for sure 🌹
Your Blackie’s cousin showed up here the other day, all stretched out in my gazebo, I just walk away too. We are in NC too surrounded by woods and trees and ponds so the big black snakes are our friends. Not happy with him when he likes to stretch over the threshold of the front door😬
Fantastic Jenny. Love them all. Great morning job done. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
The hillside looks wonderful. You have done a great job as always. Love the butterfly house.Have a blessed day😀
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Something silver like artemisia, senecio, or dusty miller would be pretty behind the coleus.
My Dusty Miller is going on three seasons in the garden, and still looking good, I will have to propagate this time, just in case
I definitely agree with that the senecio angel wings or any dusty miller would be spectacular 🤍
Love you can drive down the driveway to the nursery for plants and pluck them in your own garden. So cool!
It is a MASSIVE blessing for sure!!!!
Very green! Looking forward to a summer tour for more colour. 🧡
I'm a huge fan of lime next to dark, so I would pop some lemon coral sedum behind the Newly Noir coleus as a short backdrop to show off the colors of the other annuals.
Clearly you so get a kick out of Brianna.... She is adorable!! Your gardens are spectacular!!!! Dread this heat wave coming I need to so plant few more things... zone 8b/9 pensacola fl... thanks so much Jenny I always learn so much from you !!!!🥵👍
Our puppy loves the nursery containers too. I keep them on the patio for him
It looks stunning Jenny 🌸💕🌸
Hummingbirds really love Rose of Sharon here in New Jersey in my garden.
Thanks Jenny for all your diversity of plants!! You always have such Fantastic Groupings!!!
What a beautiful cottage garden! You are the best at showing us what looks so great in the gardens!!
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I used a tri color sweet potato vine in a pot with a small teepee I made out of bamboo stakes and just helped it wind around it. Easy Peasy.
Hi Jenny your cottage garden is absolutely gorgeous!! Love it!! Great job!! I love the way you talk to your plants!! They do give us a lot pleasure and beauty!!
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Love the garden! very pretty! At least Brenna waits until the pots are empty ;) glad she is smart to find the shade.
Beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing.
You have such a beautiful garden.
Such a BEAUTIFUL garden Jenny!
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Yeah, Blackie! If you live in the country, you know you need your snakes or you’ll be overrun with rodents! Love the cottage garden ❤️
Love it! She clearly has created her path! :) Beautiful space as always!
I'd replace the Newly Noirs w/ Wicked Witch--the chartreuse edge will stand out against the dark mulch better. As an added bonus, it will work beautifully w/ the shade of green in the Supertunias.
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Beautiful Ms Jenny. Thank you for the tour. Try and stay cool, lol !
Your videos are so fun and full of great info ❤️
Love your cottage garden! So fun and peaceful.
Absolutely beautiful ~
Awesome segment!
Looking so gorgeous!
Love every plant!
Lookin good! Y'all are about 1-2 weeks ahead of us here in 7b Southern MD. It is fun to see your flowers thriving and blooming because it gives me a good idea of what my garden will look like in a couple of weeks.
I too have new puppy (6 months old) and he is like a bulldozer in the flowerbeds. He's learning...slowly....
He loves the flower pots too. It was his favorite thing when I was putting the annuals in last week.
5 or 6 coast to coast Hostas might make a good background for the dark plants.
Thank you for answers my question.
Love your bird house.
Hi Jenny, greetings from Oklahoma. Your gardens are lovely and I am enjoying watching them grow along with you. I was really admiring your Baptisia and thought perhaps you could plant some Baptisia behind the coleus and petunias. The chartreuse green would really pop both of those colors. And of course they would come back each year.🌺
I like that idea!!!!
The garden looks great, love all the new additions! We have a king snake that hangs out near our compost bins, some times he gives me a start (especially after I was bitten by a poisonous snake once years ago) but, I let him be (since we do have several native poisonous snakes here).
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Gorgeous 👏🏻
I am putting the newly noir in the middle of a trio with el Brighto or golden dreams flanking each side. It really helps it pop.
Wonderful sharing, have a nice day.
So beautiful Jenny!!!
I love this garden area! Your plant selection is beautiful! They look great in their new home. The birdhouse and butterfly house are so pretty and really add charm to the garden! Love Brena (sp?)!!! She is so fun! My Auzzie likes to get my pots too! Makes life fun and interesting!! Have a great day! I always look forward to the next one!
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I love your choices
If I "accidentally have kids", I will have bigger problems than broken stems. Thanks for the laugh. Beautiful plants. Black and blue salvia is my favorite plant in the world because of the hummingbirds it draws.
What I meant to say is if your kids accidentally break the stems😂
Still think a 'Cottage Garden' is not complete without zinnias. They come in an assortment of sizes and colors to fit in anywhere. Hope your butterfly house doesn't end up as a wasp residence as mine did. Beautiful cottage garden.
I’ve got lots of zinnia volunteers coming up in a garden box, plus more seeds I can plant 🙌🏻
Maybe a perennial(& evergreen) behind the dark Coleus would look good... carex everillo would contrast wonderfully and give you a different texture in that flower bed😁
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Maybe plant some of the lime colored coleus behind the dark ones!
I plant clemone as a barrier plant for my deer herd. The smell keeps them away. I plant it by seed so the Proven Winners odorless variety wouldn't work well for me. Agastache works well too.
Such a smart solution!!!!
I love hearing about Brenna with your gardening. We recently got a puppy who loves to run through our flower beds, so I would love to know the best puppy-durable plants you recommend.
Jenny: " If you accidently have kids" LOL yup.... three times!
I love you said they are sister gardens, not identical sisters gardens.
Last year I named my formerly hydrangea garden my "sisters' garden" because I've added more shrubs, perennials and annuals. Three were 'Queen of Sweden' DA roses planted in memory of my mother and her two (living) sisters. They're half Swedish. 🤭 Unfortunately, it looks like one of the sisters didn't survive our harsh MN winter. I'm not sure if the other two reverted back to the root stock. Time will tell.
I can't believe I have restrained myself from buying annuals yet. I'm still working on preparing beds (weeding) for them. I hope stores restock so I can get some of those beauties you planted.
I know you'll update us later in the season when they show all their glory.
I'm not a daylily fan so I planted something in front to hide the foliage. But I look forward to seeing the white blooms of the 'Sunday Gloves' daylily I planted late last year.
Beautiful!
Lol!
I tell my shade seeking dog..." you owe me $7", as she laid on a freshly planted astilbe.
Oh no!!!!
HiJenny, I think you need something white, maybe Diamond Frost , I believe it can take sun or shade. I love your gardens and enjoy your videos very much! 🥰
Diamond Mountain!!! Agree with the white ethereal
I saw a black snake last year. I hope he is still around. Also last year’s green snake is still absent. But, I have seen a corn snake so far this year.
It's sooo hot out here in Duplin County! I've had to start watering every day already.
I think the Saturn Sunflowers would look great behind the Newly Noir Coleus. IMO
Welcoming our garden snake friends 💚🐍
Hai, can you please plant veronicastrum behind the coleus? My garden is too smal for them. They would provide a great backdrop for your coleus and tie in the trees behind them. I think the white ones would look great especially late in the evening but the pink or purple ones would also look great and maybe a better choice considering the cottage garden nearby. I'm looking forward to it ;) :D