Garden Task – Pruning Clematis, Hellebores, Groundcovers – Preparing Plants to Move – Cut Out Sports – In this video we get going on some of the winter pruning and garden maintenance that needs to be done before spring gardening season.
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37 Comments
Always good info! 🌼🐝
Hi Jim and Steph! Did you cover your sunshine ligustrums during our recent cold snap? I had same temps as you in Zone 6b and my leaves have turned brown! I’m hoping they don’t all die, they’re established and have been thru our winters, but that cold snap was extra 😢!
Great video to get some ideas on our current situation here in Charlotte, NC and all of us who are anxious to do something outside this week with the weather showing some warmer days!
Seeing that sport was neat.
I’m looking to add a tree to my small front yard. I have power lines so it needs to be smaller or at least manageable. I’m considering a Jade butterfly Gingko or a tickle creek birch. Do you have any other suggestions? I’d like something unique. I’m zone 7a and my front yard is full sun. Thank you
How old is that Carolina midnight?
Thank you for the clematis pruning tips. I will do just that! I have two clematis in my small, urban Denver garden; they went in last spring. Hardly any growth — maybe a foot — last year, but very green and very much alive. I will give them both 3 years and see how they mature.
Great to see Holly out roaming the grounds today. Thanks for your hard work and advice, Jim! From Zone 9b
My Jantar went from chartruese yellow to green. Now, it looks like a regular arb. Its healthy still but not Jantar looking.
I have a clematis virginiania. It is….vigorous. I see it showing up all over my garden bed. Meanwhile, my Montana is doing nothing for 1 year but the vines and leaves. My Jackmanii put out tons of buds in late fall, then winter hit sudden (Z7 MD). The buds are crispy now.
Hey, Jim!
1) I could not find your garden open house tour on your website.
2) My hellebores don’t spread which I’d kind of like. Why is that?
Good morning!! Thank you for continuing to highlight chop and drop. I just love your practical, down to earth style of teaching & gardening.
Crispified!! Love it! One of my epimediums is "crispified"!!! (The other is not – different variety or slightly different microclimate)
I was underwhelmed by my Sweet Summer Love also. I gave it 4 years, then removed it. Love watching your garden grow and the plants get established.
I had a clematis like that and it never boomed. I gave it 3 years and took it out. Even the gentleman at the nursery was underwhelm with Sweet Summer love
What do you have stashed in the blue pot under the Carolina Midnight?
I'm not sure we're done with serious cold temps in north Georgia though we're having a warm up this week.
We have a bed where the perennials were quite vigorous this past season. Behind them as foundation plants are some Nandina (3x Obsession, 2x Gulf Stream) we've had for 3 seasons. They are barely growing. Two are 18" tall, and three are around 15-16" tall. All were planted from 3 gallon containers. Full sun for 6.5+ hours. We were hoping they would be taller by now. Maybe we'll make the entire bed all perennials for the pollinators.
Thanks for the hellebores pruning reminder! I need to prune mine.
You two are going to be BUSY. You have the (is it Wallace??) garden several miles away.
This new, adjacent city space — The Native Garden — will be a lot of work, but, at least it's "at home"!
Take good care of yourselves!!
I love the "links" in Comments! Thanks for doing that for us; you are so excellent.
A pruning knife looks like a tool I should add. Thanks.
Youtube stopped recommending you guys to me, but I'm back and catching up!
Thanks for not speeding up the root pruning. I really appreciate that. I have some 8 year old foundation shrubs that I have to attempt to dig up as soon as I get enough rain in east Tennessee to get us out of the drought. I'm already nervous about it because they desperately need to be moved, and I don't want to kill them, but never dug up established shrubs before. In preparation of that, I wanted to watch a bunch of transplanting videos, and as soon as they get ready to start digging it up, they put it in super-fast motion. That's not helpful at all!!!! I need to see in real time how easy or difficult it should be, so when I'm doing it, I don't give up just because I couldn't dig it up in 30 seconds. I know that's not realistic!! So I appreciate you showing it in real time so that I have real expectations and confidence that I can do it. Thanks jim and steph, I appreciate both of you very much, been watching about 2 years now, every single video you do!! I hope this convinces you to not speed up the transplant videos going forward, or other tasks you do also, because in YouTube, people can speed up the video, or move past it if they don't want to see that part. But for me, and probably others as well, like to watch the true actual process to know what to expect. Im a 52 year old female that has to either do it myself or pay someone because I don't have anyone to help me. I prefer to do it myself though, but it's important to have realistic expectations, and maybe some things I might not be able to do. But I think having realistic expectations helps me to decide if it's something im capable of.
Our hellebores only just emerged from the snow- and they are looking sad. They are all either fall planted or transplanted, so I expect I will not be super aggressive cutting them back so they can establish themselves.
Could the clematis be miss labeled by name and or group? I got a jackmanii that I started from bareroot and in its second year had a few dozen flowers. As should most group 3
I was underwhelmed with the sweet summer love clematis, too. Mine bloomed, but the blooms are very small and unimpressive. I moved it to a different spot to see if that might help, and it died. Good riddance. I replaced it with the avant garde clematis and I have liked it better.
Crispifying: Verb.
crispified; crispifies; crispification; crisped
crispify (third-person singular simple present crispifies, present participle crispifying, simple past and past participle crispified)
1. (transitive, informal) To make crispy.
2. (transitive, mathematics) To perform crispification upon.
Brain: Add this to my vocabulary.
“Crispifying” – you better watch out Jim, you may given fried chicken places a new marketing term 😂.
Sweet girl, Holly ❤ I actually wore my Miss Holly t-shirt today !!!
Do you have a Native Plant nursery source for Atlanta area?
There used to be a great nursery passed Statesville heading towards Asheville. Had lots of varieties of Rhodos, mountain laurel and azalea. Do you know the name of this place? I got some goodies there.
Good Morning- I am in my North Texas this entire weekend catching up on Jan & starting with the Feb weekly garden series I purchased. Back on the saddle again!😊
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Is there a way visually to know what type of blooming clematis you have? I inherited one and it rarely blooms
Install a long piece of black painted chicken wire along the upper back of fence. It disappears under the rank growth
Could you please show us how to trim a Vitex into a tree form? Or, at the least how you continue to train yours and keep it tree formed? Thanks!
I have a problem with a clematis blooming as well. The foliage is always lush, but it only blooms like every 4th year. When it does bloom, it is weirdly in fall right before it get too cold for them. I have moved it once so it would get more sun. Some things mock me in fall. I always have a couple of white geraniums, the look nice in the summer, but they are gorgeous in fall, right before the first frost.
Hey Jim and Steph!! Maybe I’m late to the game, but I just noticed the wedding band! Congrats!!!!! 🍾