Planting a Ton of Perennials…Then The Wind Ruined My Day 🪴|| Visit Our Garden

It started out as the perfect planting day, cool weather, tons of new perennials going in the ground (including Artemisia ‘Silver Lining’, Opening Act phlox, and Tuscan Sun helianthus)… and then a windstorm came out of nowhere and knocked over my magnolia 😩 Broke the pot and everything. So today we’re doing a full garden update: planting tons of new things, talking irrigation, ripping out some dahlias I hated, and giving you a look at where that magnolia finally ended up. Let’s get into it!

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Hey guys, how’s it going? It is going to be such a good day in the garden. I have lots of planting to do. It’s nice and cool out. And then I think this evening Brent and I may try, we might we may possibly not 100% certain on yet uh to get some more of the stone work done today. So, um I would definitely like to get it done, but we’ll see how it goes today. It is so cool out here. Like I could use like a little light jacket. I know the second that I start working, um, I’ll get hot, but it’s really nice. So, let’s go get some plants planted today. Let’s get a lot planted today. Um, because these things need to get in the ground before we start really getting like into the hundreds. We’ve already had a couple days that have hit 100. But, uh, before we like have 10 days straight of 100°, I got to get a lot of these in the ground. So, let’s get to it. So, the first thing that we’re going to get planted today is this artameia. It’s called silver lining. I’ve never grown artameisia before, but it’s so pretty. It always catches my eyes. I don’t know why. Every time I look at it, though, it reminds me of owls. I don’t I don’t know. Don’t ask me why. It I don’t know. Is it I I literally can’t even guess why. Um anyways, 16 in tall and they get about 30 in wide. So, they kind of like are low growing, but they’ll kind of spread out, which is really good for where I want these guys to go. And then um they’re hardy in zones four through nine. And they are full sun lovers. So they’re really really pretty. I love this color. I don’t think this is Brent’s favorite color in the garden, but that’s okay. He’ll be all right. And so where they’re going to go is going to be full full sun. I’m hoping that they’ll do well where they go. A lot of things don’t do well where I’m going to plant these. So I’m going to keep my fingers crossed. Say a little prayer for these guys. Um and it says that they do best in excellent. It says, “An excellent choice for hot, dry sights.” Okay, we’ll see what happens. The next one that I want to get planted is flocks, and I love flocks. So, I’ve got three of these right here. This is opening act called ultra pink. I’ll show you the tag so you can see the color. Really pretty. 28 in tall, and they’re going to spread about 30 in. And then they’re hardy in zones 4 through 8. But they do come back for me in zone 9A, Northern California. So, with this one, it says that it’s ultra pink, but the blooms that I’m seeing are a much lighter pink. These ones kind of look like the pink polka dot one a little bit. Um, so we’ll see what happens when I get them in the ground. You can see there’s a bunch of blooms coming, which is really exciting. And I love flocks. I’ve got three of these guys. It says that it’s an early blooming flocks and um that it will add long seasons of color to the garden. And then what’s kind of funny is on the back of this it’s it says overall it looks light pink but the photo does not look light pink. So we will see what happens if that’s the color that it is. The tag is definitely wrong. Don’t believe that. Um it says light pink on the back. So I’m going to assume it’s going to be light pink cuz that’s what the flowers also show. It says to plant these in full sun. I don’t plant them in full sun. Um unless it’s only full morning sun at least in my growing zone. I think if you’re in like a northern state, definitely plant it in full sun. Um, us like southern climates and like California climates, we need to plant these in morning sun only with a little bit of shade. And um, they do like a little bit of extra water is what I have noticed. And with flocks like this, like perennial flocks, it’s best to let them bloom. They’ll give you a really big show of blooms and then you shear them back when they’re done blooming and then go get a second show of blooms even possibly if your season is long enough up to a third show of blooms which is really really nice. Another reason that I really like flocks is cuz you do get multiple shows out of it. Um and they’re just really pretty. They’re very interesting. They’re very tall, 28 in tall which is great for the garden. So we’re going to start with these two, get them planted and then I’ll come over here and see what else is speaking to my heart that needs to get in the garden today. So I really love a good standalone plant. So, I’d love to know. I mean, it’s what’s going to what I’m thinking is going to happen. What do we think about popping this in right behind that rock like in the walkway? I think that’s kind of cool. I kind of like that. We’re doing that. Oo, love it. Okay, so one is going to go there and then I have two left. And we don’t plant in doubles. We plant in singles or trios and things like that. Um, so we plant in odd numbers. So, where are the other two going to go that I can do singles? Okay, one more is going to go right here, I think. Break up. I got all the salvia and I’ve got salvia and it’s all purple with purple bomb. So, we’ll tuck in right there. I think that’ll be good. And then we’ll take the last one and we’ll tie it in to the property and we’ll come somewhere over here. Maybe we’ll go right there. I think that’ll be really good. Perfect. Yeah, I think I really like the way that that looks right there tucked in. It kind of just breaks up the hard line right here and incorporates that rock a little bit more into the bed. That’s going to be perfect. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] It’s really nice to start getting some plants in this bed. I have this huge, huge empty space right here. Also, if you hear the roosters, not my rooster. It’s a wild rooster. Um, it it’ll be really nice to have the flocks here. They’ll fill out this area. It’s going to get a little bit of afternoon sun. So, we’ll see how these guys perform right there. I’m hoping that they do well with getting like some shade a little bit from the lavender cuz like this will get the sun and then I’m hoping it cast a little bit of shadow back there. We’ll see. I do need to run extra irrigation to those right there. I’m noticing that in this bed right here because of this tree, the tree takes up so much of the water. So, I was digging down and it really wasn’t all that wet right there. And our irrigation just went off this morning. So, it should be a lot wetter in that area. This tree is just taking up every last drop that it can get. Plus, I have lavender there, which is actually pretty water hungry. If you’re growing lavender, make sure it gets extra water. So, I’ll go through and I will pop a 2 gallon per hour emitter at the base of each of those. So each one of those is getting their own specific amount of dedicated water. Hopefully that helps a little bit. Let’s see what else we can get planted today. Also, um the espalier is being taken care of by Brent today. So he’s working on that today. That’s what he’s doing. So next that I want to get planted, I think, is the summerrific. What are you doing? Um next is going to be this summerrific ballet slippers hibiscus. I already have one on the property. And this is what it looks like. I cannot wait for it to bloom. I love the little red center in there. I think it’s that unexpected red, which is really nice. And then the soft pink right on the edges. I’m really excited about it. Full sun to part sun. It’s going to do best in full sun. It’s also going to do best with a lot of extra water. So, it’s supposed to get 7in blooms on it. So, really massive blooms. I can tell that this one is in need of a feeding cuz it’s got a little bit of yellow on the leaves happening right there. So, I want to make sure that that gets a nice little feeding. When I get that planted, I’ll go in with a little extra fertilizer on this full sun. Um, extra water, a little extra fertilizer. This is going to get about 52 in tall and wide, so it’s going to get quite large in the garden. Um, but I think it’ll be great. I This whole shipment of plants came because of that one plant. I had had them send me some plants earlier this year and uh they didn’t have this one plant on there and I didn’t even think about it. I went and I bought one of these. Not even remember that I had asked Walters’s Garden to send me out one of these and they sent me an email. They’re like, “Hey, do you want some more plants? We really want to send you this one plant. Um, and we would like to get you some other ones, too.” And I was like, “Yeah, absolutely.” So, now I have two of these guys, which I’ve never been like a huge hibiscus fan. I like them in other people’s gardens. Brent loves them. So, I bought the ballet slippers for him. uh not remembering that they were going to send this out. And then now we have two of them. So I’m going to put one in the backyard. It’ll lend to the repetition on the property. I want lots of repetition. I want you to see it in one space and then see it again in another space. And why not? This is a huge plant. It’ll fill out great. It’s going to get full sun. One thing about hibiscus is that um it’s going to be one of the last things to start growing in your garden in the springtime. So with hibiscus, they’re very very late. So, you’re going to be like, “It’s dead. It’s not coming back for me. I killed this plant.” Give it three more weeks and then it’ll come out. Um, and what’s going to happen is it’s going to die all the way. It’s going to die. All of the like leaves and the flowers are going to come off it in the winter time and then you’re going to cut it back to the ground and it’s just going to be these little tiny sticks in the winter time and nothing’s going to happen and nothing’s going to happen and nothing’s going to happen and then all of a sudden it’s going to shoot up with growth in just a matter of a couple weeks. So, very fast growing, very slow to start. And then the very last thing that I’m going to get planted today is this perennial geranium. And I’ve never been a huge fan of geraniums before, but this one piqued my interest. It looked so pretty. Let me show you the tag. It just looks so good. I know a few people who have grown it who didn’t love it, and I know a lot of people who have grown it who absolutely loved it. So, I’m hoping I can find the right spot for this in my garden. I have five of these guys. I think they’re really really interesting. 26 in uh tall and close to that wide. About 28 in wide. Hardy in zones 3 through 8. And it says that it wants full to partial sun. I’m going to give these guys full sun. So, uh, lots of sun. And I can see there are some purple blooms still coming, but it looks like it also had already sent out a flush of blooms on these guys. It says that it blooms early to late spring. So, it’ll be fun to kind of watch these guys, see if we continue to get more blooms and then if it stops blooming um and then it’s just folure growth. I’m really I’m I’m excited to see what these guys do. And then it says that um I should cut it back after it’s done blooming to encourage more growth. So, I’m going to plant it and see if more blooms come. But I can see that there are definitely already lots of spent blooms. A lot of these are. So, I’m hoping that I get it planted and then maybe I get a few more blooms out of it. I actually get to enjoy the purple in my garden. Um, it says that it prefers well draining soil and it’s a little bit more drought tolerant once established. So, I’m going to make sure that it gets lots of water at first, especially this first year. And then by next year, we can cut off on the water for it and let it be a little bit more drought tolerant, but still getting plenty of water. And I think that those are going to be the last plants that I get planted in the ground today. And then, um, we’re going to go ahead and try to work on the greenhouse a little bit. And Brent is already making huge progress on the asalier. So, the hibiscus is going to go right here. And I know what you’re thinking, Robbie, there’s no room right there for a hibiscus. Well, let me tell you. I hate these das. I don’t like them at all. So, I’m taking the dalas out. I’m tossing them. I’m getting rid of them. Somebody’s going to be upset with me for tossing DAS. This is not how these guys were advertised. So, uh they they came out wrong. I And I I hate it. I can’t stand looking at them. I don’t love this. And of course, there’s a bee on them right now. It’s a carpenter bee, but you have so much extra food in the garden. You’ll be fine without these dalas. And then these ones, they’re brown and then they’re brown. So, I I don’t like it. I I have to take them out. I I can’t do it anymore. And we don’t keep things in our garden that don’t bring us joy. And these do not bring me joy. They bring me frustration. So, we’re taking them out, putting a hibiscus there, and it’s going to be way better. It’s going to be so much more beautiful. I think that that will be the perfect spot for it. [Music] [Music] [Music] So, just kidding. We’re going to hold off on the deraniums, actually. And I am going to get planted these Tuscin sun helopsis. Um yeah, I think that these will be fun. I’ve got a really good spot for these guys and I want to get them in the ground. So that way these guys are out of their containers. They’re really big and um they’re taking up a lot of water. So I think when they’re out of their container, they’ll be much happier. 36 in tall and about 20 in wide. Hardy zones 3 through 9. And it’s a more compact version of Helopsis. And it’s got these really pretty yellow flowers. I’m not typically a huge fan of yellow, but I really liked these ones. Look at the tag. I mean, it just looks like a shrub of blooms. So, I’m excited to see this one in the garden. It says that it’s heat tolerant, drought tolerant, and super easy to care for and native. So, this one should do a lot in the garden. It says deadheading is helpful, but not necessary for longer bloom time. And then you can divide it in the spring or fall um if you need to do that. So, I’m I’m kind of excited. And I have I think I’ve got I think I have like eight of these. I have like a ridiculous amount of them. So, uh let’s go ahead and get these guys placed and then um get them all planted. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Hello. Come on. [Music] [Music] Are you? [Music] All right, we are all done with planting today. So, I got the one in right there and I ended up having to uh pre-water the hole because it was so dry. So, I’m going to have to run irrigation there. I think that’s why that beonia is not growing cuz there’s no irrigation there. So, we will fix that. We’ve got the hibiscus here. That looks a million times better. I really am so much happier with that there. And then we’ll get these big, beautiful blooms. And then I could go in with something low on the ground right below it still. And then we come over here and I have another one of these right here. And then I decided to just go with five of the Tuscan suns. So 1 2 3 4 five to kind of create like a long drift in this bed rather than doing what I normally do is like clumping them all together. I thought this would be kind of nice and just kind of pull you back a little bit. So, I’m excited about those ones. I think those are going to be really pretty. I am expecting these to burn. I’m expecting them to really struggle, really burn, have some sunburn on them, um, and then rebound. Anything I plant in this bed usually burns really, really badly, and then it rebounds after. So, I’m expecting these to look terrible by the next couple days, and then hopefully in a couple weeks they’ll look good. Like, I planted this nepida right here, and they looked terrible. I thought they were completely dead. Um, and now they have since rebounded. And then I planted these guys right here, and they still don’t look great, but they were just awful. These are something called marshmallow. I can’t remember. Daisy, some kind of daisy. Um, yeah. and they completely died down and then they’ve sent out some new growth. So, so everything in this bed always just gets hit with hot afternoon sun and it really doesn’t get any reprieve which kind of sucks. So, I always just kind of assume everything is going to die and then send out a new flush. So, we’ll see what happens with those guys. And then I took out the das. Look at this tuber. Isn’t that crazy? This thing is huge. Absolutely massive tuber. Kind of cool, but still not pleased with those, so it’s fine. And then Brent finished the espalier and it looks so much better. So much tidier, so much happier with that. I do have some sad news. We have decided to take out the espalier. Not completely take it out, but use a different plant. So, we’ve done honeysuckle on this and it’s beautiful. It does great. Um, the issue is that it grows so fast. It’s like during the growing season weekly and I’ve always said I absolutely love it. I would definitely recommend doing this if you have a giant blank wall. Honeysuckle is high maintenance, though. And I’ve always said that this is a highmaintenance project, and if you’re not somebody who enjoys a high maintenance project in the garden, this is not for you. So, we’re we’re going to take all of these plants out, and we’re going to start over. I don’t know exactly what I’m going to start over with. I’m honestly thinking ivy, and I know that that’s going to make some people angry. Um, but I’m thinking ivy. And the thing with growing ivy is that as long as it’s not like laying on the ground or anything like that, it’ll be fine. I’m going to buy a dwarf ivy. They there is some dwarf ones. And um I’m just going to let it just grow just in this pattern. And then I can actually like trim on it, cut on it, let it do its thing. Um and as long as it’s not laying on the ground, it’s not going to be able to just spread and take over and throw roots into the ground because all the roots are going to be attached to the fence. So I think that’s what I’m going to do. not 100% certain, but um it’s hard because it is very mature now. And it does look good, but see all the burn on it? All of the leaves here. All of that is because when we go in and we cut out the pieces that have overgrown or whatever, um sometimes a branch will get broken on it or whatever might happen and then we kill a small piece in there and it’s just I don’t know. It’s kind it’s kind of a pain. But I do love it. We just got to do a different plant. So, we will be back this evening when we can start working on the greenhouse, but um yeah, we’re going to go take a little lunch break now. So, I’ll see you in two seconds. Well, we were going to work on the greenhouse this evening. Um I was inside making dinner and we just had we’ve had crazy winds all end of the day today. Um and we just had a really strong gust come. I am so heartbroken. I could literally cry. Look at my magnolia fell down. And literally, do you hear this? Oh, so my magnolia fell down. Totally busted the pot. That sucks cuz that’s a really expensive container. Such a huge bummer. Okay, we’re going to lift it up and I guess I don’t know. I don’t know. So, we got it up. Freya, stay away from that. Come on, go. It fell. Hit so hard. No fixing it. It’s broken. That is such a huge bummer. Oh man. So Brent is going to tie all those pieces together just to for the evening hold some moisture into it. Um I’m going to go finish cooking dinner and then I guess maybe tomorrow morning I’ll get that planted and I’m not even going to work on the stone tonight. I think tomorrow we’ll get that planted. That’s such a bummer. So, we ended up just tying it up so that way some moisture can stay in tonight. And then we’re going to go ahead and get it completely planted tomorrow. So, it’s such a bummer that uh that pot broke cuz terracotta is I mean any pot is not cheap right now, but terracotta rolled in pots not cheap. So, that does suck. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Uh I mean there’s there’s nothing I’m going to do, but we did find a spot. I was thinking that we would put it where the bird bath is in the backyard and Brent said that he would like it up in the front yard. So, tomorrow morning, um, actually probably tomorrow afternoon, I will get it planted in the front yard. I think we found a good spot for it. It’s going to go in the lawn up there. Let me actually take you guys up there right now while there’s still just a little teeny tiny bit of light left. So, this is the front and we’ve decided that it’s going to go right here inside the fence. So, it’s going to go in the lawn. Um, I will dig out tomorrow. And we’ll just kind of pop it in the lawn right here. I think that that’ll be actually really, really nice. And it’s going to get about 15 ft tall and wide at maturity. Not the fastest growing. So, it’s not going to be one that like takes over or anything, which will be really, really nice also. And then, um, once it grows up, we’re going to kind of limb it up so that way it’s kind of like an I don’t know, like you can see underneath it still. you’ll be able to kind of see through it and still be able to see the front of the house completely. And then it won’t hinder our like driveway over here and it won’t hinder the walkway or driveway on this side of the fence either. So, I think that’ll be a good spot for it. And it only getting 15 ft tall is not going to hinder our solar either. Um, this is 9 ft, so it’s going to go like 5 ft taller, which it’s far enough out that it’s not going to cause any shadows or anything like that on the solar panel. So, I think that’ll be a good spot. and I’ll see you in a couple seconds when we get it planted. And I do have an extra terracotta pot right here, but I’m not It’s the same exact size, but I’m not going to put it in there. I think we’re just going to just put it in the landscape, call it a loss on that terracotta pot, and then I can use this one for something else. What that else is going to be that goes in that pot, I have no clue. And if you guys have suggestions on what to do with a broken container, let me know. Uh, I don’t I feel like I’m wasting it cuz I don’t want to throw it away. Oh, the bummer. Anyways, I’ll see you in a couple seconds when we get it planted in the ground tomorrow. It is the next morning and it’s still extremely windy, but it’s really weird because it’s coming in really big gust. So, it’s like really windy and then no wind at all and then really really windy and then no wind at all. like the uh willow tree right here was just going like absolute crazy just a minute ago and now it is not. So it’s I don’t know. It’s really weird. Usually if it’s windy here it’s like all windy or like a very slight breeze. It’s never like all wind, no wind, all wind, no wind. I’ve never seen this happen and we’ve never had wind strong enough to um knock over a giant planter. So that is a little bit upsetting. shovel fertilizer. Fertilizer. So, let’s go get this planted now. I’ve got the gorilla cart cuz that’s what I’m going to have to put it in. And I’m just not going to put the pot. I’m just going to take just the tree itself. And I’m hoping that I can knock off some of the soil that’s in there. So, that way I don’t have to dig such a deep hole. The tree didn’t look rootbound, but it was definitely um it was definitely in there. So, yeah, let’s go. And I’m hoping that my tripod doesn’t fall over in this wind. So, we’ll see how that goes. [Music] It’s good. I am actually really happy to have it up here. It’s going to lend to my neighbors having privacy on their property a little bit. It’s going to lend to us having some privacy in this front room. Okay, there was no wind 2 seconds ago. Now it’s all wind. Um, and then also lend to a bit of privacy when we are on the front porch. So, overall, it’s good. We knew we wanted a tree up here anyways, finding a dwarf one, finding something that we liked. I don’t know. This just it is what it is. It was meant to be. It’s fine. Um, I did go in and I did limb it up quite a bit. So, uh, it was folure growth all the way to the bottom. And I also did go in with bag soil because the soil that’s here was just mush. It was all wet and there was no way I was going to be able to properly compact it back down into and around this tree. So, I figured, okay, we’re going with bagged soil. It’ll also give it a really, really good feeding, which it needs. And it definitely needed a good feeding. Um, we do fertilize this one, but not nearly as often as we probably should. So, it should be much happier up here. It’s also going to get a bunch more water cuz it’s going to get the water from the sprinklers up here. So, it should do really, really well. I’m going to keep an eye on it. Historically, uh, magnolia don’t take well to pruning, so we will see how it does. Uh, they usually don’t like it. Usually, it’s best to just kind of get them planted and leave them alone, but there was no way we would have been able to mow the lawn or get around it. So, say anyways, thanks for visiting our garden. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. I enjoyed the day yesterday until that happened. Thanks for visiting and I’ll see you all in the next one. Bye, guys. [Music]