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Well, all sorts of excitement in the neighborhood already this morning. The marathon runners ran through very, very early and they continue to run through. So, everybody went down to Chartell. Everybody was all dressed up and there was lots of cowbell Stewart and there were lots of arches that say Messa Park and Gorunners. Anyhow, it was very, very fun and very, very festive. So, here’s a little snippet of it right here. Um, and then of course I came home because it looked like it was going to be a really good gardening day. So I was going to show you some projects and I will, but Stuart said, “You know, things look so different just since the last time he was here a couple days ago.” He said, “We need to do just a traditional just walk around the entire circumference of the garden and show how much has changed, what’s come up, and we’ll just let you experience it along with me.” So, what do you say? Let’s do it. Let’s do it. [Music] [Music] [Music] And so I hope you enjoyed this little tour today. And by the way, I want to say a big thank you. There have been so many visitors from out of state this week and I enjoyed every one of you. You were so kind. Your gifts were also thoughtful. You were just lovely. And hopefully Oklahoma City received you well and you had a good tourist experience while you were here. I know um I know a lot of you said that you had never been here before. So hopefully it served you well. Okay, enough of that. So I’ve got my plant stand established right here. According to your recommendation, I have indeed planted the saucy salvia red from Southern Living. I got that in the ground and pretty soon my vision is that all of this drip line will be covered up in short order and it will and also I’ll probably be putting down a little bit more gravel. so much stuff has gotten wet and and washed away and washed down that the con the uh cleanup from it will be pretty much continual. But this stuff I think looks very very pretty right now. I continue to to dead head all of the geraniums. We discussed that before. And anyhow, I think it looks pretty, especially on a low light day like today. I think it really looks beautiful. So now we told them the door got fixed, right? Uh, yes, the door to the shed got fixed. However, the squeak. It’s not as bad. It’s not as bad, but the squeak is still there. I will never fix it. No matter how many of you tell me it needs oil. I paid a lot for that squeak. Yeah, I paid a lot for that squeak. Um, so then all of these agapanthas that are in pots here. This one is not doesn’t have any blooms on it yet. I’m actually going to add one more. I got some new ones in. I’m going to add another gallon here because agapanthas to bloom heavily, they really like to be pot bound. And so I’m going to make that one even more potbound than it already is. These better boxwood are going crazy. Happy. They are very happy. And this is evidence that the more crowded the agapanthus, the more potbound they are, the better they bloom. So look at this one’s got one, two, three blooms on it. And I’m going to give a super bloom, probably an espoma liquid feed to all of these to encourage more blooms. And then once the blooms set, I’ll probably move them out into a little bit more dramatic location. But right now, they’re doing just fine with this morning sun and afternoon shade. I’m gonna have to be doing some uh pruning on my holl pretty soon. This Oakland holly, this is a Southern Living holly. And the the other ones I decided not to topiary. However, this one I think I’m going to and I’m going to do a two ball topiary. This will be the first ball and this will be the second ball. Maybe I’ll even start a third ball. I’m not sure. Looks like you could. Yeah, easily I could do that and I will uh but I’ll do that a little bit later. Right now I’ve got a tour to give you. So I will do that. Um and by the way, for those of you who are new followers, we have so many new followers. All of this along here was kind of established after I moved in. And then we had to put some peers underneath the foundation of the house because also shortly after we moved in, we had an earthquake. So, those peers have been installed and now we are just fixing up and putting back in place what was here before. Something that was here before that I thought was a goner was a terra hydrangea that was in here that got covered up and a little bit um well, let’s just say messed up after all of the work. But I spy a little bit of it coming up. And then we also, as you guys may remember, we planted some hellaors. This area is kind of a holy mess, but pretty soon it will it will look good and maybe as good as look at that terra hydrangeanger bloomse just and you guys again if you’re new to the channel and you haven’t seen how big these get. They get huge as footballs big as a football and they almost look like a football when they dry and they’re spectacular when they dry. I talked earlier about moving this Oakland holly that’s getting so big. I will move this to the corner of the alley this winter. And yes, I did prune back the um the snowball viburnum so that it doesn’t obstruct the pathway when you walk. I’ve got a little bit more pruning to do on it, but that too will come at a later time. So, let’s take a break right here. Um and then I’ve got some really fun things to show you. Okay. So, some little things that I seeded that I just kind of stuck in there have come back or they have germinated. So, I’ve got some little coline in there. Finally, the auga is starting to do something. And all of these encoreelas are putting out all sorts of new growth. Now, some of these are really long. And I think what I’m going to do is I’m going to make a bouquet just using some of this encore aelia foliage of some of these branches that are a little bit taller. But as if on Q the moon dance hydrangeas behind them have moved up and they have gotten taller. So my staging is still intact. And then these arborvita, oh my gosh, they just have gone gang busters. These I did not plant here. Um, but they make a beautiful backdrop to all of this white goings on. And I will prune these, but I won’t do that till this winter because this is one of my favorite forms of greenery to use around Christmas time. Now, look here. These are starting to explode. This is the tiger clemetus that is growing up and through this arborvita. There’s even some on the ground. I need to Yeah. to encourage it to grow up. But look at all of these buds. Can’t stop looking at these. Can’t stop looking at those. But there’s buds over here. And as it continues to get established over time, it will do even better. And then you can see right here that I got some of these clips. And you just clip these on like that. They come in different sizes. And then that’s how you can support these kind of vines up and through a trellis or or a cyprress or arborite like this. You can see there there’s a small one. There we go. And over here, look, even even more blooms. Oh, wow. This is I’m I continue to pinch. So, if you if you need a lesson on how to pinch clemetus, see right there between these two leaves without block you. I’m sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Now I can’t Now I can’t see. Okay. See those little two white dots at the base? Those are two new branches getting ready to come out. If I just pinch that off. That is the power of pinching. One stem becomes two, two becomes four. You can see the results of that here from where see the stem that I pinched right there. I think I’m blinded by the sun, but I think so. Okay. Right there. Right there. And then here’s two that came out from it. That is how all plants get bushier. And it is a basic garden skill that you want to learn. How to pinch, when to pinch, and what to pinch. Okay. It really looks beautiful. I think this is one of the most beautiful perspectives of the garden because then all of a sudden it exposes the roses and the fox glove and everything else going on. But wait, come back here, Stuart, because I’ve got a couple of other things to show. So, I despared of getting any blooms on this topiaried encore aelia until this fall. But I’ll be darn. Look at all of the blooms that’s now starting to pump out. So, I’m going to come in here and I’m going to remove some of the winter damaged winter colored foliage so that it’s more beautiful for these gorgeous flowers when they come out. See, they’re starting to come out, too. Lot lots of buds. Lots of buds. So, I’m going to clean this up a little bit and make it presentable. Make the foliage as presentable as the flowers when they come out. I did not expect that. So, that was a happy surprise. Um, not surprising is the wonderful performance of this Eden Rose. It is really looking beautiful. Some of the heads are kind of turning down because of all of the rain that we’ve had, but I see no signs of any kind of black spot, any pests. Someone asked me, “So, will it damage it if it finally begins to grow up and over the awning?” And no, I don’t think it will. And if it damages it a little bit, then I’m okay with that. Um, but I don’t I don’t think it will. I thought, goodness, always people going by. That one scared me though. Friendly friendly people that make me jump out of my skin sometimes. Um, so this will be this will be beautiful. But I’ve got a lot more training on it to do because I want some of these to start going on the Yeah, I want it to start going on the diagonal. It’s about to be white everywhere. Oh, but it’s ab it’s absolutely stunning. This is one of the most romantic bloomers there is. Someone asked, “Does it relum?” It will relum, but only sporadically and not nearly as densely as it does on that first blush of blooms, which it’s putting out right now. Now, to encourage more blooms down the line, what I will do is I’ll dead head it. I will feed it again. I’ll keep an eye on it. I’ll train it. But the thing about roses that relum in Oklahoma is that’s all wonderful and that’s all fine and good. However, I don’t necessarily always buy things that relum when I am looking for a rose. Whether it’s a climber or a bush rose, I don’t really look at that as a qualifier. I just look, do I love it? Will it bloom heavily this time of year? And will I get something of a reloom in the fall? And if I deadhead it, yes, I will. So, this here happens to be one of the prettiest little color echoes. Let’s get really close in on that if we can, Stuart, because I love this pen stemon. And I started this from seed just last year. And while you do that, I’ll do a little weeding in some of my pots. And in my pots, I see all sorts of fox glove seedlings that are coming up in there. And I’ll transplant those out a little bit later. But there’s a certain category of plants that I called plants that hover or that are ethereal. And I would put definitely this plant, this pen stemman into that category. Look at the bees. The bees love it. It’s just so delicate. And I love it when there’s just a little breeze and it just kind of hovers over the garden. and it really contributes to the romance of the entire uh landscape, I think. So, I just love it. It was such a such a happy thing. I didn’t know if it was going to germinate or not. It germinated in some strange places, and I’ll probably move some of it around a little bit later in the year, but right now, I’m just going to let it do its thing. And then this apple blush rose. That was a surprise because it started climbing up this yopan holly. Look there. It’s going to put out some some blooms. These will bloom pretty heavily. About a month ago, I did feed them with um rose tone, especingly, and I’m really happy about that. So, they’re beautiful. I do have some pruning that I need to do on the yopan holly. And one thing to be really watchful for after you get as much rain as we have had and we’ve got more on the way and that is yellowing on some of your plants because it might be a sign of chlorosis. All of that rain may have leeched a lot of the iron and the nutrients out of the soil and afterwards I’m going to have to come back in. I’m going to have to feed them to replenish that and halt any decline or any iron or nutrient deficiency. And I will do that and I’ll probably do it on one of these days in the ne I think we have a window of time the next couple of days where it’s not going to rain and then it’s going to start raining again. So that’s a good opportunity to do that. Okay, we’ll talk more when we come back. Okay, now look at the drift of all of this pen stemmon. There’s some in the foreground and then towards autumn edge there’s more of it. There’s more of it over there by the orange rocket. There’s just toughs of this everywhere. In fact, I think probably some of these clumps will be big enough this fall that I can divide some of it up and I can put some along Lemon Lane. And I really I just see the way it just gently gently floats in the breeze. And it’s especially pretty with some of those aliums that are in bloom right now. very very delicate, very romantic, especially with little bumblebees hovering all around it. Now, here’s something else that’s that was kind of a surprise to me. Um, I talked about how that there were an star magnolia at bricks the other day and that I have Jane and I’ve gone back and forth on which one I had. Yeah, some of you have called me on that, but I finally did Google eye on it and this one is indeed Jane. But look at that. It’s putting up Oh, wow. Yeah, it’s putting out all sorts of new blooms. And what I’ve discovered is this will sporadically bloom all through the summer, which is just amazing to me. There’s a lot of them. There’s a lot of them. And then at the base, because I pruned this up a little bit, look at this. I’m starting to see evidence of manoan lace. Look at that. And when it blooms with that lark spur, when this blooms in white and that lark spur blooms in purple, it is just going to be so so dear. Okay. Still, there’s going to be lots of automotive activity here and lots of people walking by because they’re just coming back from the marathon celebration a couple blocks from here. So, hopefully it doesn’t uh create any kind of problems in you hearing me. Now, this is the quintessential kind of cottage garden thing. So many seeds are coming up and blooming in the foreground. All of the lark spur is really starting to come out and it is just lovely especially when it blooms in tandem with that manoan lace I was talking about a little bit earlier. And indeed right there you can see some of it start just starting to bloom in white with a big bumblebee around it. And then complemented by the spires of the the uh fox glove which is just ever I mean it’s just everywhere. For everything you see in bloom, there is something else that is probably half its way towards bloom or is so small it won’t even bloom maybe until next year. But nevertheless, there are seedlings everywhere. this area that you see with all of these self-seeders. Before too long, when it gets hot, these will come out. They’ll go to seed. They will come out. They’ll be tired. And all of these budlyi, these butterfly candy will take their place. They will get very big, shrublike, and the blue spires on the uh little lavender butterfly candy will take the place of a lot of the stuff that you’re seeing right now. So, probably what Stuart was most amazed by when he showed up was how many roses are on these It’s a Breeze rose roses and how much how many more of the bells on the fox glove are now in bloom than were in bloom before. It’s pretty amazing. And the fox glove is just coming up everywhere. I planted it in drifts and that is how it is blooming in a very kind of staggered romantic way. It’s just it’s fun better. Can you see it from this angle better? They’re just they’re just beautiful and happily no signs of spidermite, no signs of any kinds of pests. And so that pleases me no end. But look, look at all those happy bumblebees. Okay, now speaking of fox glove, fox glove is a bianial. And that by that I mean it puts on its foliage the first season and then it blooms the second. So I’ve got all sorts of fox glove down here that I can reposition in and around the garden so that they’re not so congested. But these won’t bloom this year. They will bloom next year. However, here’s a cleomi. I was desparing that I didn’t have see many cleomi seedlings. Here’s a big one. It will bloom this year as will this dill that I scattered in here. It will also bloom. And both of them have kind of hovering blooms just like the pen stem. And so it’ll be very, very fun. Um, and then there are some other seedlings I have over here that quite frankly I don’t recognize. Some of them are verbina bonarians like that one. But then I’ve got a few other here. I’m just not quite sure what they are. I don’t think they’re Zenas. Um, but time will tell and I won’t dig them up until I find out for sure. Well, all the salvia in my world is not this purple color. Some of it is fuchsia. And it blooms a little bit later. And I like it to bloom at the same time that this little Miss Bonnie spyhea blooms, but it’s blooming a little bit late. And I’ve got more of this in other parts of the garden, and I think I want to fill it in in here. Um, all of this Veronica that is that hasn’t even begun to bloom. And it will put up huge, tall, really soft lavender spires. And you can see that its foliage is much more glossy than the foliage of the other salvas. So I’ve got clumps of it pretty much everywhere. It goes to seed in a very mannerly way. And I just relocated at whim. And if you think, Stuart, that this rose is beautiful over here. I think especially especially pretty with that fox glove. I was Look at this shot for before you say the next thing. Before I say the next thing. Oh, yeah. It’s just It’s lovely, isn’t it? And let’s go. Yeah. If we go over that way, it’s really sweet. And then all of the pin cushion flowers come in to dance and play. Here’s a funny story. See these the bellshaped flowers on the digitalis on the fox glove? with that modeling in there. Somebody drew it. Yeah. Somebody at a garden tour I had earlier at my other house, somebody said, “Oh, what’s wrong with that flower that it’s got? Does it have a virus or something?” And no, that modeling, that speckling is basically they’re like landing lights for pollinators that need to find their way to the center of the tubular flower. Yeah. And all those little hairs. See all the little hairs? I don’t know if you can see that on the way. I can see them. The little furry things that capture the pollen. See if I can move. Yeah, I kind of got it a little bit. Okay. Just so fun. So, so fun. Here’s a weed while I’m down here. Now, all is not sweetness and light in the front garden today. This is something I am not going to show you. I’m just going to tell you about. But when I came out this morning, again, we’ve had such high water. Um, at least I’m up on the hill, but nevertheless, Stuart, I haven’t even told you this yet. I came out this morning over here, and one of the reasons if you’re a gardener, you have to have lots of gardening boots is because if you’re like me, half the time you leave them outside. And I left them outside and they were all filled with water. So, I was emptying I was emptying them out and admiring how beautiful this moss looks with all of this rain. And I looked under here and see where this dirt mound is right there. For reasons unbeknown to me, there was a dead baby possum under there this morning. A cat was drug. I have no idea what happened. Um, but it was indeed really sincerely dead. So hubs had to come out here, had to come out here and get it. And so then to eradicate that sad that sad image in my mind, I had to put out the new butterfly nets that I got from my little friends up and down the street who want to catch all of the little white cabbage mods. This is perfect. Can you see them over there, Stuart? See them over there? And they need to catch them. And they’re always saying, “Miss Linda, Miss Linda, you need to get us some butterfly nets.” And so indeed, I finally have. I’ve got five of them. So hopefully that will that will last for all the kids for all the kids on the street. And they can catch as many of those nasty white cabbage worm butterflies or moss as they want. Okay. Well, with that, let’s take a break and we’ll be right back. Okay. So, speaking of those obnoxious cabbage moths that are everywhere, Stuart just said, “I ought to pay the kids a penny a moth. A penny a moth for catching them.” And I don’t really know what they’re going towards. That might be the question of the day for you guys because I don’t have any bras out here. I don’t have any more kale. I don’t have anything like that. I don’t Yeah, I don’t have any cabbages. So, what they’re going for to lay their eggs on, I I don’t know. Maybe just everything in and around the garden. I guess they’re not exclusive to just food items, but what I wanted to show you was just how mammoth this it’s a breeze rose is. It’s It’s really almost gotten out of hand, but it’s so glorious that I will not touch it until after it’s finished with its first flush of bloom. And then this will continue to pump out blooms all summer long as long as I keep it deadheaded. and it will actually benefit from being cut back. And then over here there’s also some deer little fox glove and lots lots of pin cushion scabiosa in here. These have doubled or tripled in size since I planted them last year. They started out, I think, I could be wrong, but just as little 4 inch or 6 in pots, and they’ve definitely grown up and grown into place. Um, a lot of you asked me about the cat mint and if it gets out of control and it gets a little overly aggressive. I have not found that to be the case. Um, it might be the case with other varieties, but this is Persian blue and it stays quite mannerly. And once it finishes its first blush, then I’ll come in and I’ll give it a cut back and it will grow out just as tidily again. Now, in here, you can already see I’ve got some dead heading to do on that scabiosa. But there plenty there are plenty of buds there to take its Yeah. to take its place. But I have to be a good steward. If I want those blooms to keep coming, I have to stay on top of all of the dead heading on this side and over here. And if you watched yesterday’s video where I went to bricks and I bought some annuals, this is some of that Joseph’s coat and this is some of the penta, the lucky star pink penta that I got. Some of my favorite varieties, favorite colors. These two will probably triple quadruple um I don’t know what it’s called when they quinduple or five times their size by the end of the season. And these will just be really nice mounds that come out and kind of gently grow over the brick. And I love that look of plants spilling over and onto the brick. Then you can see I’ve got more pentas in here. And there’s all sorts of seedlings in here, including a few boxwood basil. And I am so excited about these blueberries. These are part of the um down home harvest collection from Southern Living. And look at all of those blueberries I’ve got. And I think they’ve been helped because this year I had to cut back the budley eye on this side really hard. So they got more light. And I think I’m going to make a note in my garden journal. Stuart, let’s put an ad up for my garden journal right here. Um that I need to do that every year so that these get more light or I’m going to have to I’m going to have to relocate them because they really need more light to bloom more heavily. Can you see some of them there in the distance right next to that touch of gold holly which looks so sweet? And then to the left, in fact, let me switch places with your foot Stuart and I’ll come back here. This is an uplose and personal garden tour for you guys. So these all these in here are the lucanum that will bloom in a beautiful lemony yellow color. They will bloom and then I’ll cut them back and hopefully they’ll relum in the fall. And then this, you talk about the perfect color, echo, look at this. Look at the color of this Empress Encore Aelia. Oops. I’ve got better fingers and that fox glove. Just beautiful. It even looks more pronounced right here. And then there’s all sorts of seedlings in here. Now look at the buds over here. I showed this as a surprise in one of my videos the other day. Can you zoom in on all those hydrangea buds? Yeah, they can see a couple sticking out the top, right? Yeah. Sticking out the top. Sticking. Let me get over there. Oh yeah. I need some more stepping stones. But all in there. See all those buds? There’s one of them starting to set color. All in here and over there. These are deer Dolores. And these are more like mop heads. They bloom on new wood. So there’s no problem with them dying back. And all of this rain. They will just keep growing larger and larger and larger as will their blooms. And then all of this other surrounding it is all white wedding hydrangeas. So can you imagine what this is going to look like this summer, Stuart? Yeah. In June, the wedding month. And over here, this is one area I’m going to really keep my eye out to see if there seems to be any signs of chlorosis because these leaves look a little bit yellow. I think it’s just because it’s emerging foliage, but could also be because they need a dose of iron. So, I may have to fertilize these to get even bigger blooms. They’re they’re everywhere in here. And not only are they large now, they will continue to get larger. And here’s a tease. Um, in an upcoming video, I don’t know if it’ll be on Monday or Tuesday, we’re going to show you drone images of the upper gardens, the upper terraces over time, over the years, the 20 from 2023, 2024, and 2025. So, you can see its progression and how much it has grown. I mean, look at that over there. You okay, Stuart? And then there’s there’s more down there budding. I see last year. They’re going to be really big. Yeah, they’re going to be really big. So, let’s get out of here very delicately and I’ll meet you on Lemon Lane. Good. But wait, before we go to Lemon Lane, let’s go up the stairs so I can show what’s going on in the BMS. You can see that all of the tulips are gone right now. The even this big mound of East Freezeland Salvia is about finished and I will cut it back and in its place will be some of the white lantana that I have planted. You guys saw me buy it the other day at Bricks. I planted some white lantana and those pink pentas in these urns. Right now, the bakcopa is beautiful and looks very lacy and pretty, but over time it just may not like the heat and may need to be pulled. But by that time, the other things, the lantana and the pentas will have taken their place. And there’s all sorts of stuff getting ready to happen here. I also planted some more of that gold Joseph’s coat. So, this is this is kind of it’s just kind of fun. And then the grass is still very happy. It needs to be mowed. And then over here, Stuart might want to go back down the steps. So, even even though the my total garden front and back isn’t as large as my other house, it nevertheless is enough to keep me busy. It’s just the right amount. Every day I come out here and I’m so happy to see what’s happening. Okay, this is some of that dark Joseph’s coat. Isn’t it pretty? And I planted it in mounds all up and down this western burm. And I’ve also planted transplanted some cone flour from another area to here. All this gar and everything, the yarao down there. This will all bloom. Look at how beautiful this lark spur is. And if you look through it, can you see all of the lavender that goes down that way to the walkway on the east side? And the baptisia, the blooms just keep getting bigger and its taproot, I’m sure, just keeps getting deeper. But I don’t tend to move it anytime soon, so that’s okay. There’s some more cone flour in there. Here is some well, let’s just say it’s got some growing up to do. But here is some milkweed that I planted in here. And remember, all this lark spur will eventually be gone. So, I planted some milkweed in there for the butterflies. And is that white? No, that is I have my first garlooms up in here. Stuart, look at here. My first whirling butterflies. Can you see them right there? Blooming in white. And how pretty these white bloomers will look when these finish blooming in purple. I love that combination of white and blue and yellow and blue. And then we can’t go away without looking at all of the color variations in the orange rocket barberry. That is just exquisite. Look at that. And I’m probably going to have to give it another little prune. It does not get very prickly. And the color is that salmon color is just spectacular. I told my son in Denver I need to check its hardiness because I sure want to plant some of it up there for him. Oh my gosh, look at the fire chief arborvita. And the tips of its growth is the perfect color echo. The perfect marital companion to the orange rocket barberry. That kind of lavendery pens doesn’t quite fit in there. So, it may be one that gets that gets relocated. There’s a good combo, but it’s Yeah, it’s beautiful. Beautiful combo. So, I’m going to try to replicate that in some other installations we’ve got going. And of course, I always get distracted. I was supposed to meet you on Lemon Lane, but look at all of the see the purple foliage, Steuart, on the the red husker pin stemmon. Those are all going to bloom in white any minute now. And then you have a whole different angle over here of all that manoan lace and the roses and the fox glove and the salvia and the aliums and the bees. Okay, this is a gardening risk worth taking. So, you may recall that I had an Easter red bud, eastern red bud that germinated here, and there was quite uh quite some contentiousness about should it stay or should it go. It really it’s going to be not happy here because it’s too close to the foundation. But maybe for just one season, while it’s still not very large and won’t be prohibitively difficult to get out, I’m going to see if I can kind of train it in and around these branches so that next spring when it blooms in pink, it will have just pink blooms all along here. Kind of like a panel of pink blooms. It may or may not work. Um, I can keep it clipped to size, but I’ve got nothing to lose. It’s a gardening risk worth taking. The other thing is is as I train it this fall, when the leaves begin to turn yellow, this will be gold here. And I think it could really be beautiful. There’s lots lots of rumbling going on in the window box. You can see that verbina is starting to come out and it’s really beautiful. We’ll talk more about the window box later next week, but right now I promised finally we would go down Lemon Lane. And if you are a new follower, you may ask, Linda, why do you name areas of your garden? Well, because it gives me a point of reference so that when I am instructing somebody to do something, when Stuart and I are talking about taking images, taking photos of one part of the garden or the other, um, it gives us a frame of reference. The other thing is is it’s just fun. Yeah, it’s just it’s just fun. So, all of the lemony ladies, the Miss Lemonabilia, the lemon lime nandina, they are all very very happy here. And look over here, Stuart. There’s big buds. There’s another mop head getting ready to bloom in there. And hopefully it will bloom in in blue, maybe pink, but that will also look beautiful when it joins the party over here. So fun. And then let’s get a closing before we move on to the next part. Look at how beautiful that looks. And all the seed heads. They even, I think, have a very ornamental quality to them while they’re still kind of purple hanging from the red bud trees before they turn brown and fall off. One of the garden visitors last week was absolutely mesmerized by that. [Music] [Music] [Music] So, this is the path. When the little kids in the neighborhood come to visit me and they want to go to the backyard, this is the way they typically come. Um, and I try not to have the hose out to be in their way, but they like to come this way. They think it’s like a hidden walkway. Some of you have already named it uh Beonia Way, or somebody said Beonia Boulevard, which I thought was very clever. I kind of liked Bagonia Boulevard. I liked both of them. Um, look at my sweet peas. I expected them to be fully not happy by now and they just love all this rain and they just keep growing and it’s turned out to be a pretty fun experiment. Now, don’t trip on this Stuart. As I continue to make this a more highly cultivated, more true gardening area, I’m going to have to clean up a lot of this stuff. But here are some of the bagonas, the aforementioned bagonas. I need to put a little bit more soil in that and stabilize that a little bit better. Um, this one is in a plastic pot inserted in the urn. And indeed it does look pretty from the kitchen window. And then here is I’ve decided that I guess maybe so much not a planting table, but I have a planting wall that has worked out really well for me. So I’m in the middle of planting up some more of these Ever White agapanthis. I’ve got them really crowded into one of these black plastic planter buckets that then sits inside one of my QVC line of Coobo baskets. It fits perfectly. So, never discard some of these better quality uh plastic or rubber planters because if you can find one that fits just perfectly inside another basket or vessel, they are just truly truly valuable. So, I’m planting that and I will move this into another location. But why I I find this so convenient is because I’ve got a little stem wall here. I don’t have to bend over. I can just put them on this wall. And then I’ve got my buckets of dirt right here. So, it works out pretty well. And then this tells me that since I’m working back here more, I’ll probably want to make it more attractive. So, I think I’ll put some edging along here and gravel this section. And right now, these buckets have dirt in them. And they are waiting for me and Miss Clara across the street to plant some beans in there. and maybe something else. Maybe some miniature cucumbers. I’m not sure. And then we’ve gone full circle to the backyard. Many of you have asked me about this shelf. Um, it’s not necessarily for out ofdoors. It was from Pottery Barn. We’ve had it for probably 20 years. Probably the last four of them it’s been outside. It’s holding up very well. These are metal. I may have to at some point replace the planks, but otherwise it would just be sitting in my garage. And I love the way it looks as a wall of terracotta. And the rest is just more work that I’ve got to do. I’ve got to clean this up. We’re going to actually try to dine outside tonight. I see some scale on some of my myrtle topiaries that I’ve been spraying with some neem oil. And look, Stuart, our little fire is even still going. We lit a little fire this morning because before too long. Boy, that red shines. Yeah. Oh, it does, doesn’t it? And before too long, it’s going to be too hot to do this. So, what we think we’ll probably do is relocate this over towards the terracotta wall, put a lid on it to use it as a big table because right here is where Hubs want Hubs Hubs Hubs wants to relocate his hammock, his hammock stand, his hammock at all. And so, that’ll be fine. I’m still working on my topiaries. Look at how pretty my million bells are starting to look hanging out over the pots. I got to come around you one sec. Oh, almost fell. Yeah. Don’t Here, let me get out of your way, Stuart. There we go. Excuse me. You think we’ve never done this before? Hey, the garden’s just a little more packed than it was. It is. And I love that. And remember, most of the time it’s just me back here. We’re not photographing it. uh the two of us together, but it is it is crowded because I’ve got lots of things I want to grow. That’s a good thing. Good things. Yeah. Good things. Good things. And I see that amongst my tomatoes there’s some basil that’s germinated at the base. I have some flowers on the tomatoes. I’m so excited about that. Well, it’s all I can do to go inside on days like today where it’s still cool, it’s not pouring, things are growing exponentially every day. The figs I know the figs are growing so much. Well, there was other stuff back here I thought was dead. These arbora that I planted and then I didn’t water them enough before the big freeze. They’re starting to come out, too. So, I gave them a feed. So, I just have to be patient. I’m not going to rip them out. They just I just have to be patient. And look at the big bud on this Salvia Argentia. Wow. I’m probably going to cut off some of the bigger leaves at the bottom that are just probably attracting roly polies. So, as this area gets more congested, it will be it’ll be um redesigned. things will move around. Here’s the kolas that I planted with the everillo carrots and also with the Alabama sunrise hukarella. So that’s kind of a fun combo I think. And then we are back to where we started over there. So the next time you see this in this degree of specificity, things will probably be twice as large. Some things that uh aren’t in bloom now will be in bloom. Some of the things that are in bloom now will be out of bloom. And that’s just the nature of a garden. It just it’s a progression of bloom and insect wildlife and wonders over time. So I hope you guys enjoyed this walk about this. This was Stuart’s idea. He said, “Okay, we so much has changed. It looked infinly different when I showed up.” Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then don’t forget to stay tuned. We’re going to show you all sorts of drone shots to how the front has looked over time, how it has matured over time. If you like this channel, please make sure to subscribe, to hit the follow button, um to hit the like button, share share it with your friends. Um and then just another reminder that my new book is available for pre-order. We will put a link there or you can pre-order it from your favorite bookstore. Preferably this weekend because I think it’s this weekend that’s independent bookstore is National Independent Bookstore Day. So, um yeah, so visit your local bookstore and pre-order my book. Thank you guys for hanging out with me. Hopefully you enjoyed this tour and we’ll be back tomorrow. We’re going to be shooting John Turman’s garden. So, lots of fun things to look forward to. You guys take care. [Music] [Music]