October Garden Tour
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2023
- Thanks for growing with us!
The end of the growing season is upon us and in this video we are taking you on a complete tour of our garden. Our landscape has changed from pinks and purples, to golds and oranges. It is amazing how different things can look from month to month.
Here are some of the structures we mentioned on the tour
Gothic Arch - tinyurl.com/48wh7h9c
Essex Square Trellis - tinyurl.com/ycyc23n5
Jardin Tower - tinyurl.com/2p9xf9zr
2x8 Elevated Raised Bed - tinyurl.com/5faz7a6e
2x4 Elevated Raised Bed - tinyurl.com/w7yx5bpv
2 x 2 Elevated Raised Bed - tinyurl.com/22c8v2ue
2 x 8 Arch Trellis - tinyurl.com/3v4kapup
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This video is not sponsored, however some plants and equipment that we use in the garden have been provided to me to try out!
Please don’t get me wrong…. I love watching Garden Answers, but I can relate more to your yard and gardening style. It’s more in the prospective of a normal homeowner’s yard-garden. Thank you for sharing and giving me ideas to add to our garden in the spring🌻🌻
That is very kind of you.
I love Garden Answer as well and look forward to their videos every single day. I take sections of Laura's garden and can apply them to my much smaller garden. I think it's more about combining color, texture, shape and size. Laura has taught me SO much but I understand what you are saying. I love Eric and Christopher's garden. I'm always amazed how many plant names they remember. It's not easy.
I ditto your comment. I have learned so much from Laura and love watching her videos. You take what you can from her (which is a lot) but what makes her most liked is her personality. I actually met her in Mackinac Island, MI one year and she is just as down to earth in person. But as you mentioned, Grow 4 Me 5b are very relatable for us “normal gardeners” and I believe those who are very experienced gardeners as well. Loved this comment.
@@rbthegardennannyllc4219 That is so great to hear. We are definitely not experts...we just love to garden and share what we do!
@rbthegardennannyllc4219 I think I would burst into tears if I ever met Laura...lol.
You guys are a pleasure! Your garden is pretty spectacular too. Thanks for all the videos. 😀
Thanks so much!
The drone footage is amazing and your garden deserves NO LESS than the best!
Thanks so much 😊
Love your videos and sense of humor!! Gardens are beautiful.
Thank you!
We so enjoy your videos! You rank right up there with Laura from Garden Answer, Jenny from Creekside and Danielle from Northlawn Gardens. Danielle is spectacular with her cut flowers. Thanks so much for the time you put in to your gardens and videos! Great plant combinations!
Oh thank you! That is some amazing company!
I say yes to the window box!
haha ok!
Oh guys, what heartbreak from all the deer damage. I moved into town this year and I see a lot of squirrels a groundhog, voles and or moles, crows and a ton of birds. I had just gotten my garden of 10 years figured out and now I need to figure out prevention for my new garden. Thank you for sharing, I adore it❤ Have a wonderful day.
These critters!!!!
It took me at least double time to view your tour video 😍 because I'd pause to look up a shrub or tree to see if I could grow it. You certainly found unusual ones. (I'm in Minneapolis, zone 4 b.) Talk about a rabbit hole 🐇 🕳️
Your lawn is stunning! I have lawn envy.
That's wonderful to hear. We really have enjoyed finding little gems
You asked..I vote no on the window box. I was so excited to find you here this morning and this tour was awesome! I learn something each time. Beautiful fall color! Our deer fence is the only reason we can have our garden, particularly arborvitae.
We are going to try the fishing line deer fence method soon!
Yes a black window box would look fantastic
Thanks!
I have a lot of deer damage in my garden every year as well and tried many different products with little to no success. Last year, I came across a mix on Pinterest and it is the only thing that has worked for me. I mix an egg, oil, a little milk, and water and whisk it together and add it to a spray bottle. On our security cameras we see the deer in our yard and they just walk on by. Its incredible and it really doesn't smell like other products.
That is really interesting. Definitely less expensive!
I appreciate when you flash the name of each plant on the screen. Thank You
It's hard with the long tours but I try!
I really enjoyed the fall garden tour. Even the deer pressure can’t detract from the beauty of your garden. You have a gorgeous fall tree borrowed view behind the berm.
Thank you so much!
I would love to see you two cuties doing a video of holiday decorations inside of your house after you are done with the outside garden. I bet it would be so so so beautiful!!!
I think that's on the schedule!
Yay🎉❤!!! I can’t wait !!!!
Greetings from Westfield, Indiana. I just found your channel. So beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you!
A great tour and some great laughs. You've given me lots to think about. I'm trying to only plant native plants in my new garden here in Japan, but this was really interesting.
The discussion of natives vs non natives is really interesting. There was an episode of the gardening simplified podcast about it. Lots to consider
Dang 🦌! I had been having the same problem and after seeing Steph from Hook & Rooted add the wireless deer fence, I was desperate and tried. A few nights after adding them to the landscape I got a notification from our WYSE camera at our shed. Low and behold we caught the deer getting a little zap and running off. I forwarded to Steph via a DM & she contacted me and used it on a follow up video. Just an idea it’s helped me tremendously.
We just saw your email! Thank you! We are going to look into it.
Team window box!! Black, modern and planted with all the same color for non messy looking impact. You guys have impeccable taste so whatever is done is always stunning. Thank you for the beautiful tour 🌿💚
I love these comments!
Your yard is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much!
Hello from Germany, you two are really something, very good explained. Greetings from Germany 🙋♀️💚🌻
Thank you! 😃
Beautiful
Thank you
your voices are so soothing to me 😂 Beautiful garden!
😊 thank you
Great tour! Y’all are my fav and you’re gardens are just gorgeous! You both are very talented and have great taste! Yes to the window box if kept very simple:)
Thank you so much!!
It was nice to see the back of the berm.
We thought it was nice to share a different view
It is like a secret garden back there!@@growformegardening
No box... I love the way it is now... beautiful view!!!
Thanks!
Your both right!
One's English and one's American pronunciation.
Gertrude's brother was a minister and his friend was Robert Louis Stevenson. Who borrowed his friends last name for his book. It reminds me which guy was the good guy.😂 so now you don't have to fight about it.
I'll be sure to let him know!
Fantastic garden tour. The fall foliage is spectacular beautiful. I haven’t been a subscriber very long but so glad I found your channel as you share the good and not so good things that happen in one’s garden. Enjoy your day everyone. California zone 9b here.
Welcome aboard!
Pro window box! But I understand wanting it to be tidy!
This has been the hot topic!
I also say yes to the window box
Notes!
Your garden plantings have a nice variety of shapes, textures and colors,...obviously to your credit. A pleasant tour, thanks.
Many thanks
Exemplary variety and made notes on the salad bar choices for deer
Haha I love that
Wonderful. More kitties please.
We wish they could be outside with us
Beautiful octobre garden tour 🤩 i love your garden 👌💐
Thank you so much 🙂
Loved the tour! Such a beautiful garden! The kitty in the window was adorable!
Isn't she cute?!
Love your kitty…we have 2 and our boys are our babies.
Love them!
Great tour!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'll give it to you guys. You're both taking the deer damage like champs!!!! Remaining very positive ❤. I live near Raleigh. An NC State retired professor bred the Ruby Falls weeping Redbud and Golden Falls (Jim Putnam, RUclips in Raleigh has 'Golden Falls' and keeps it staked still after several years otherwise it may collapse slightly and become more contorted) weeping and several others. Keep up the great work. I love the diversity of plants you have in your garden. 😊
Thank you! I’m going to look up his video on it.
Gorgeous! 🍂 You guys have the best attitude about the deer, I am always 😭about them.
If it were mid season and not the end we might be less positive!
Nice to see the view at the woods facing the back of the house. I can see why you get so many deer. If I was a deer, I
I would want to hang out in your yard and not your neighbors with their barren yards. That little Tater tot always makes me smile. Your grasses are standouts!
The tater tot makes me smile too!! It’s just so cute
That mugo pine is going to get huge! Friend has one that is 8 feet wide
Ooh I’ll keep that in mind.
Adore your garden. Thank you for sharing your paradise with us 😊.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful tour, thanks so much. We have deer pressure here too. When we moved here 10 years ago, there were no deer in town. Now it’s bad, my Hosta bed became a salad bar and my Little Quickfires, dessert. I can’t do much about the Quickfires given their location out front but we stopped the bar. We sunk 6ft rebar in the ground and tied black bird netting to it. We made sure the netting went right to the ground as they will crawl under it if enough room. We back onto bush so lined the bottom with logs and so far success. Now if only slugs would move on! 🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦
It’s really amazing how little deer damage we had up until this year.
@@growformegardeningTheir population seems to be going up everywhere...fewer hunters ( my hubby is one ) lack of predators and milder winters. Our major predator here is when they become roadkill. There’s a town in Manitoba called Pinawa that basically the deer capital of Canada. The deer are so tame and have taken over to the point of crawling under decks to keep cool. Couldn’t believe my eyes! I tried all the sprays etc, but couldn’t stand the smell myself so tried the “ poor man’s fence” I described above. So far so good. The best of luck guys! ❄️🇨🇦❄️
@@peggy-ann1961 that is incredible!
Such beautiful fall colors! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I just love the both of you! Thanks for all your garden tours!
So nice of you
Really nice video, glad you named everything.
Thanks for watching!
We have a forest on 1 side of us and a corn field on the other, so we have a lot of deer pressure as well as bears and other critters coming into the yard. We put up Ring cameras a year ago, and so far the announcements and lights have scared them all away. No telling how long this will work, and we don't have neighbors to worry about the cameras bothering, but so far so good. And the awareness of all activity out there has been quite interesting.
I’d love to put a camera out there. I think we might need to do that soon
"I'm actually embarrassed for you." HAHAHAHA, yall make me laugh! Love it!
I just can't stop saying it wrong!!!!
Eric, Christopher loved your October garden tour. The deer have been vicious this year even eating my fall daisy mums which they have never done before. Don't put the hydrangea dried flowers around your roses since they had spider mites and they could infect your roses next year. Looking forward to a few more garden tours before winter. Love you guys your an inspiration to us all.
oh my gosh thank you for that... we could have had a big big problem on our hands!
@growforme5b Your the best.
Wow…..I love the styling and grouping of colors and textures……I love an eclectic garden……blessings ❤❤❤
Thank you so much!
@@growformegardening
One of you must be in the graphic arts field. I love your eye for layering color and texture, and mixing shrubs with perennials. I don't know how you do it AND have FT jobs (presuming).
@@Edu_Kate That is so nice of you to say! Neither of us do graphics!
Beautiful fall garden! I can’t believe October is over. 🍁
I know!!
Praying mantis eat bugs only. Love them!
They are so cool!
Loved the tour. So many beautiful shrubs and trees. Birches are lovely. Also like the $5 tree in the back "for the win." Sorry about the deer.
Thanks! Hopefully the deer are finished with us for now!
Thank you for your tour!!
My pleasure!!
I get so excited when I see you guys post a new video. You are a joy! Anyway, "yes" on the window box. Geraniums would look great there (full sun and drought tolerant.) I would personally take out the juniper and put a Green Mountain boxwood in its place (pruning it into a conical shape, which they naturally do anyway).
Yay! Thank you!
Another great tour guys! Love your garden! I've been in my garden for over 30 years and have never seen any praying mantis. I don't have a deer problem but I do have rabbits. Bonny
Last year we had a praying mantis egg sac thing. It was so cool.
I agree with Christopher about the window box
So far all the votes are with me!
Window boxes would look great.
Noted!
amazing fall garden guys watching from Sweden
Hi!!!!
I vote yes on window box, not one that is attached to house. Linda Vater had a free standing one built - that would look nice. LOVE your channel!!!!
Thanks for voting
You guys are a hoot!
haha thanks
Beautiful garden 😍your videos make my day watching from wet and windy N W England. Sorry about the deer damage to your gorgeous plants 🌺
Thanks!
First time watching... you guys are awesome! I believe Bobbex will work its magic for your deer issue. I have used it and even though it stinks for a couple days, it is well worth it! And yes, Lemony Lace Elderberry, if left untreated, will be a feast for the deer! I am impressed your arborviteas didn't get munched.
The Green Giant arbs are always ok. I think the few other arbs we have are tucked too far back in the beds.
Stunning, gentlemen, just stunning. Its a shame about the deer, but everything is still beautiful. Keep rotating your sprays, sprinkle garlic powder, try burning herbs in your fire pit, and even move wind chimes ( or clusters of bells) around your garden. Never allow the deer to get used to any of your preventative measures. For us, besides everything I just mentioned, we’ve been feeding our deer in a meadow clearing away from our house ( we have 40 acres) and I haven’t had any problems with them this year. But, I have also double fenced my vegetable garden, and plant a ton of things they don’t enjoy. We’ll see if they find the Little Quick Fires I planted a month ago. 😝
I think rotating the defenses is a good tip
Loved the October tour! Saddened about the deer pressure though! I have to say, you guys handled the damage WAY better than I do! My husband always says “What do you expect when you offer them up the grand buffet?”!
As noted, I also encounter deer pressure, but I tried something new this year that a golf course uses locally. I used my first application in the Spring of this year, Milorganite (sold at any big box store like Lowes/Home Depot). It does not claim to work on their packaging as a deer repellent (because that isn’t the “purpose” of the product), but after just one application it lessened the hoof traffic this summer. I do believe it is wearing off and I will be applying the late Fall application this month (NY-Cool season application). The deer came through two nights ago and got to my Little Quick Fire’s and my Crown Princess Margareta David Austin Rose. It is also a gentle all-purpose slow release fertilizer for the lawn/flower beds! Worth an application to test it out! I have tried a bunch of products, also use Plantskydd (but too expensive to use as much as needed)….so I switch products quite often. Enjoy the winter slumber and already looking forward to seeing your gardens in the Spring! Thank you for the great content!
That is so good to know. I am going to look in to the Milorganite. I just have to get passed what it is actually made out of!!!!
Just A Thought - I would love to know about your favorite gardening tools and why? (Gloves, Hose, Watering Tools, Shovels, Pruners, Etc). TIA. I’m loving following you two.
That might be coming soon!
There is also a link to our Amazon store in the description box. It has a few of the items we use all the time
The Winnie the Pooh comment had me laughing out loud. Love the channel.
I keep telling Eric that my random references are hysterical!
Great video guys… just beautiful!
Up here in Canada many of our garden centers recommend Plantskyd for deer, works great!
🇨🇦 ZN 4
Thanks for the tip!
@@growformegardeningPlantskyd is wonderful, it keeps the deer off our one acre garden that is loaded with favorite of deer.
Poinsettia is actually in the euphorbia family. It is a tropical plant native to Mexico. Your yard still looks beautiful. ❤❤❤
Oh thank you!
I’m pro window box!!
Noted!
I love that front bed under the window and while I love window boxes, I agree that a window box my make it look too cluttered
We shall seeeee!
@@growformegardening hahahaha yes, I’m sure we will 🤣
In one of Jim Putnam videos he mentioned he recommends continue staking the weeping redbuds. He has the golden falls.
good tip!
Deer and rabbits annihilated my garden this year… liquid fence was also a dud for me as well 😢. I’m trying to figure out what to do for next year. Thanks for the tour!
We will report back on how the Bobbex product works!
You guys are such a joy! You’ve already probably answered this at one time but I was curious if the origin of your beautiful kitty Freya - is she named for the Mortal Storm character?
We wanted a Nordic goddess name for her. Freja seemed perfect
I love your October garden tour. I find your videos very inspiring and relaxing at the same time.
When do you prune your limelight hydrangeas?
We just posted a video of deadheading the limelights...in Spring Eric will do the real in depth pruning.
The variegated leaves of the hydrangea is really great. I need to look into that one to see if it’ll work in my zone 3b. I’m a foliage gardener or a flower minimalist. I avoid hydrangeas because they are too much flower for me. I perked up when you said it didn’t flower. What about a foliage plant window box…all one kind of foliage may be classy don’t you think?
That would be beautiful. I don’t know how the hydrangea would work in your zone.
I’m against the flower box. I feel it would make that area too busy. Also I see window boxes more for cottage style homes. Perhaps a window box on a shed would look cozy.
So many thoughts. It’s still 50/50 if we count votes on here
You can always give it a try!
@@growformegardeningI’m leaning no too. Especially if it would involve any drilling into the house.
@@heatherk2693 That is definitely a consideration
When the video started, I was immediately drawn to the fancy grass designs from the mower and the ageratum. Grass goals ❤
Eric does quite a lovely job!
Milorganite…pick up a bag at Lowe’s. Sprinkle it on a dry day and it keeps deer out of your shrubs & trees.
good tip!
Have you thought about installing a fence in the back to connect with the sides? Perhaps one that disappears if you wanted to enjoy that gorgeous backdrop?
We are going to try a fishing line fence across the back for the winter
Your Garden is simply lovely, despite the woodland creatures enjoyment of it.❤❤😊 2:30
Thank you!!! Those boogers were pretty awful.
It’s Halloween 🎃 and first ❄️❄️❄️ of the season here in Northern Illinois. I planted tulip bulbs in my clay pots, but haven’t brought them into the garage yet. Will they be okay?! Are you planning to mow the lawn one last time? I agree with one of the comments that your yard is more relatable to those if us with a subdivision sized yard. We’re in .4 acres, started in 2022 and always find your garden such an inspiration! When did you start your garden? Anne from 5B👩🏻🌾
We started in 2018 when we built our house actually. Thank you for watching!
Insulate your rockin playin the blues salvia and it might come back -mine did
That's not a bad idea.
I am with Christopher. No window box! Too busy. Would detract from what you have already planted.
Noted!
Unless I missed something in the tour, I didn't see any rhododendrons in your garden, and I'm wondering why. Is it because you don't have much shade yet, with your trees being so young? (There are varieties that can take full sun in northern climates.) Or do you have alkaline soil? Or don't you like them (hard to imagine)? There are many varieties that are hardy in zone 5. In addition to being flowering shrubs, they're evergreen and need very little maintenance. I think they'd fit very well with your style of garden. Something you've just overlooked, perhaps?
You know it isn't Eric's favorite plant. They are very common in our area and the bloom time is so short. I found one this summer and popped it in. We shall see how it does for us!
So beautiful! The deer have been feasting on all of my hydrangeas. They seem to prefer my limelight right now. Over the summer they ate all of my Incrediball and Invincibelle. It’s super frustrating.
Isn't it annoying how their taste changes
Love your garden guys!! Quick question if you would indulge me,... how deep are the garden beds? I'm trying to figure out how much sod I should pull.
They vary... but we always aim for 6 feet mininum. In the hydrangea room it is only 4 feet but eventually it will be 5 feet as they grow.
I vote no window box. Less busy that way.
Noted!
What are the sizes of the planters by the garage? I love Ageratum. As always the garden is looking great.
They are 26" wide and 26" high!
@@growformegardening nice. Thanks.
Hi, guys. Love the berm. Did you place the soil and then wait to plant it, or plant straight away, or take another approach?we’re considering adding a berm and would like your advice.
The berm was here when we arrived. I think the original land developers built it up to encourage drainage. If we were doing our own berm we would probably plant right away to get the roots locking the soil in!
Thanks.
NO window box. They are sooooo much work. My husband talked me into two huge window boxes. I loved them for a few years but as I age, they are too much extra work each year. Plus, I need to sand and paint them every spring.
That makes sense. If we got one I think we would do some kind of vinyl or other no maintenance material... we shall see!
I found a weeping norway spruce in September on a road trip. How do you find the growth rate on yours? Great tour. Thank you!
Ours sat for a year and now it is growing FAST
@@growformegardening that is exciting. Thank you! I marked the pole I am training it on when I planted it.
Do you cut your Russian Sage down in spring? Beautiful garden
Yes. We will cut that down in Spring
No window box 😀
Noted!
Would love to get together sometime as we are near each other! Been doing RUclips for 2 years here in CT
@@letstalkgardeningwithrobin How fun! Are you close to White Flower Farm?
@@growformegardeningso close about 15 minutes. We could meet for lunch in Litchfield or maybe Great Barrington
Do you bring in your garden accessories/art for the winter?
Nope. We really try to choose items that can stay put... who needs one more chore!
What is the name of the huge grass that is yellow in the back burm?
That is the same Northwind grass...for some reason it is more yellow already
Does your apple tree have fireblight?? It looked like it in the brief moment you talked about it. I hope it doesn’t but if it does, you may want to consider removing it asap.
I am going to cut it down. We don’t maintain them up on the berm so it’s not worth trying to save it
It’s going tomorrow
Naw...Mr Mantis is eating another insect.
That's what we thought
Beautiful tour. Vote no for window box…Your house screams tidy and classic. Boxes would be too cottagey.
Good point
Did you know that Praying Mantis eat Hummingbirds? They catch and hold with their legs and suck out the brain. Poor birds
Mother Nature is rough!
I am so sad... i did not plan for winter interest 😭
This winter you can make some notes of the areas you want to add things to. Then next season add them in!
@@growformegardening I will do🥲thank you!!