Gardening Trends, Winter Planting, Dividing Perennials, Holly’s Name – In this video I answer gardening questions that were asked in last week’s garden question and answer video.
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42 Comments
Best way to compost my mulched leaves – you talked about a new way you might me composting? Can you review the steps etc Thanks
Here in Central Texas (zone 8b/9a), we have the reverse dormancy issue in the summer. Sometimes, the heat is so much and the rain is seriously lacking that the evergreens will go into shutdown mode and stop growing. Some will even lose leaves during those hot/low rain periods. The perennials, like the Salvia and Lantana, have no such struggle.
Thank you Jim and Stephany for another great Q and A! Wishing you and family a very Blessed and Merry Christmas from the Texas Gulf Coast. 🌴🌲🌳🪴
Merry Christmas Jim and Steph! 🎄🔔❤
Wedding ring?!! 🌸🐝
Question: I bought marginal camellias in early fall. I am keeping overwintered under grow lights with consistent temperature of 65 degrees. What is the best way to acclimate plants outside in the spring? I live in 7A Western Kentucky
When is the best time to clip dieback on 2-3 year old Japanese maples? Specifically, coral barks The dieback started at the tips and moving down towards the trunk. Roughly 1/8-1/4” in size and zone 8a for reference. Thanks!
You're not speaking against Dogs, or smoking… But what about smoking dogs!??
You just have to draw the line somewhere.
Happy Holidays (!)
Merry 🎄Christmas Jim & Stephanie! 🌲💚🌲
You often advise planting annuals to shade the roots of larger plants but also remind us to remove weeds from the root zone. What’s the difference? If a weed is just a plant in the wrong place, why are annuals beneficial to the plant but weeds are harmful?
Thank you Jim and merry Christmas to you and your family and too your viewers
The extreme outliers in temperature are very important to us hobby gardeners who collect a wide variety of plants. I'm in Raleigh and I remember the minus 9 in the mid 1980s, but I also lost plants in the early 2000s when we had several 100-105 degree days in a row. The nights were around 95 degrees at 9:00 pm during that outlier.
Happy Winter Solstice!
Thanks for the Raleigh house 'start-up' video. I have a good amount of bermuda grass to remove and convert to garden space. Now I know to get it out and amended now, instead of waiting for spring. (Should have done it at Thanksgiving.) 8a, N. GA.
Thanks again, and give yourself a break for Xmas. You've certainly earned it!
(I'll be spending time catching up on my 'Weekly Planner' videos). ❤
Merry Christmas Jim & Steph 🎄 Another great year… I’ve learned a lot from all you share – Thank you so much! Hope you enjoy a restful & happy holiday season 😊
Question…what variety is your palm..looks like one I've seen sold as a house plant??
Another season of deer pressure… that being said you have always been the voice that deer don’t read labels, their eating all my hollies that apparently are deer proof (I. e. Dwarf Burford, needlepoint, compacta and oak leaf… just another year of going back to drawing board and figuring out a plan… 💥 🦌 🔫
Very interesting notion of the Japanese maple half holding its leaves longer with artificial light than no light. I wonder if this has implications for the phenomenon of tree senescence in general?
Hi Jim, I garden in zone 10b calif. coastal with mild winter and summer hardly goes up to mid to upper 80’s during the day. Many perennial plants are labeled “for hardiness zone 5-9 or 8” does this mean they will fail in my zone if not treated as an annual?
WAITTTTT…Is that a wedding ring?? Congrats if it is!!
Your birds were energizing my cat.
Merry Christmas, Jim and Stephany
Maybe it's just my old age but nothing I've ever planted gives me more long term joy than the hundreds of birds that visit my porch and yard every single day. I've given up making everything look perfect and the trade off is definitely worth it. The two pairs of Woodpeckers that visit daily call from the trees for their preferred seed. I've watched them bring their babies by this spring and summer. I've got migratory visitors and even the squirrels and opposums don't bother me as much. I hope the industry is starting to reach a balance of beauty for ALL the beholders, more native plants, less chemicals and invasive imports and more respect for our planet. I've got room for brush piles in my yard, great habitat! Seems a better use of natures cast offs than hours of blowers and the smoke from neighbors burning leaves. Only down side is I'm spending as much on bird seed as I used to on plants but the birds will hopefully be here after me and the ornamental plants are history. Now the days will start to lengthen, the cycle repeats. Happy holidays Jim, Steph, Holly and Grif 🌲
What editing software do you use for videos?
So when Holly gets in trouble do you use her full original name?
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If your temps are low enough, there's no burlap or insulation that will conserve heat. Insulation cannot compete with 10° (or in my case -20°) lasting several weeks unless it's super early in the year for your ground temps to still offer radiant heat. At some point of the winter there's no radiant temp to conserve. For many areas, the ground freezes 4'ft down, hence the reason you sink your concrete down past the frost line (standard 4'ft down) even if you're simply putting in a fence. This is another problem with the zone map, it doesn't account for number of days at your low temp. Insulation at these colder temps is more about keeping the ground cold inspring so things don't wake up too early as the ground heats up in the sun but the air is still too cold for that plant to bud out.
What is the best way to deal with baldcypress knees in the lawn?
Merry Christmas Jim, Steph and Holly and thank you for your wonderful content 🎄❤️ Shout out to Griffin!
Merry Christmas Jim and Steph. Looking forward to your 2025 projects.
do you use a rain gauge and if you do in what manner do you use it (i.e., do you ever change your watering routine based on the information gathered from the gauge). and, if you use one, do you use it all year long?
Merry Christmas! Your videos are always clear and informative. I live in zone 8B. We haven't had a freeze yet, and most things are still blooming here. One thing that did lose all its leaves last month was the Rose of Sharon. I noticed yesterday it has buds all over it and several new leaves emerging! What does this mean for when a freeze does come and the upcoming spring?
Thank you Jim and Stephany for such a great year of wonderful videos, all the information, the wonderful open garden event (loved it), and all that you two do! I have learned so much from you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Your yard is so full of life, very inspiring. Ive been slowly turning unused portions of our lawn into wildlife habitats. I greatly enjoy watching the wildlife in the garden as much as the plants!
Question: Do you recommend thawing out pots that have been frozen solid? Perhaps using warm water and slowly pouring it on. I havent been ontop of plant protection this winter and its 19 tonight, and the soil in my pots is like frozen solid rock. I feel like covering plants when their root system is frozen feels ineffective. Hope we get some snow here (7b/8a) for the insulation.
Happy holidays Jim, Steph, Holly!
I never have to spray ❤but yes sometimes a strong spray of water and drop of dish soap or something but otherwise nah, the pests get eaten by someone else
Great video! Thank you for your time and knowledge. Wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas!
@14:30 If a light owned by the electric company is shining excessively bright light onto your property, you can usually submit a request with them to put a shade on the light. The bulb on the light pole next to my house was replaced with an extremely bright LED, I submitted a request to the electric company and they put a shade on the light within a week.
Jim, I must have missed the soil test video the first time around, and it was interesting to see the stitched-together videos showing the evolution of the New House garden design. Question about soil testing: I was surprised to see you take samples from various parts of the yard and combine them, rather than take individual samples from different beds (say, front and back beds). For an urban lot like yours, is taking several samples and combining them the best way to go? Couldn't it be there might be variations between sections of the lot? I'm in 6b, in the Boston area, though I doubt that matters for this…. Thanks, and Merry Christmas to the entire household!
Question 1:
Which Evergreen Tall 'Broadleaf' Shade-tree-type-tree (as tall and wide as possible) do you recommend for zone 6A (full sun/Chicago area/slightly-acidic) ?
I'm thinking that a holly might be best option? If so, which ones are best? Any of these?:
1) Dan Fenton American Holly. (Best American Holly?)
2) Homefire Holly. (Best 'meserveae' Holly?)
3) Nellie Stevens Holly. (English holly (Ilex aquifolium) and Chinese holly (Ilex cornuta) )
4) Eagleston Holly. (Cross between Ilex cassine (Dahoon) and Ilex opaca (American Holly)
5) Savannah holly. (Cross between Ilex cassine (dahoon) and Ilex opaca (American Holly))
6) Foster's holly #2. (Cross between Ilex cassine (Dahoon) and Ilex opaca (American Holly)
7) LONGWOOD GOLD HOLLY. (Cross between Ilex cassine (Dahoon) and Ilex opaca (American Holly)
8) Oakland Holly. (Cross between Chinese Holly (Ilex cornuta) and other varieties)
9) Carolina Sentinel Holly. (Cross between Ilex verticillata x Ilex serrata Hybrid)
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Question 2:
I also want to try using the hardiest Evergreen cultivars of Magnolia in zone 6A Chicago (Northern Belle Magnolia (and) Edith Bogue Magnolia..
Do you think they will stay evergreen all winter in my location? …and stay healthy looking?'
Thanks Jim and Steph (and Holly and Griffin) ! Happy Holidays! I just bought the weekly garden planner, and I’m looking forward to starting my gardening in the New year a bit more organized and intentional. Thank you for all of your knowledge.
Jim, in hearing some of your constraints with things like inboxes and photo collages — you might wanna start looking at AI and how it can help with the tedious tasks. Gemini for Google Gmail for example. I’m sure there’s an AI who can rotate and gather photos together for you to review and do final tweaks on etc.
Congratulations Jim & Steph!!!💍 🔔 ❤