Shade Container Garden Haul: Bare Root Perennials & Summer Bulbs

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Shade Container Garden Haul: Bare Root Perennials & Summer Bulbs
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good afternoon guys welcome back to my garden i’m Dominica if you’re new here today I want to share with you my plant haul for my shady container garden it’s mostly summer flowering bulbs and perennials in the form of bare roots so generally speaking you know my garden is pretty full at this point and it’s mostly perennial because you know I keep stuff from year to year but I do leave myself the possibility to try something new something different each year so I keep some of the containers just for seasonal plantings so today I want to show you what I got for this season i’m pretty excited because there’s a lot of plants that I have never tried before in my garden so they are completely new to me so I’m excited to share that with you and then obviously to report back to you in a couple of months show you how they did in my garden so let’s get into it let’s get going because I also want to plant all of this today all right I’m losing some bulbs here okay let’s start with the Dutch grown haul because I’m pretty excited about this uh so one thing I wanted to say is Dutch Grown um used to sell only summer flowering bulbs and spring flowering bulbs but now they also have a really nice selection of bare root perennials and I’m a huge fan of bare root perennials because they are really a budget friendly way to add more perennial plants to your garden barrett perennials are always cheaper than you know buying mature plants at the garden center often times you get more than one root per bag so for the price of one you get sometimes three sometimes five also often times you can find um a better selection of plants a wider selection of plants as bare roots than what you can maybe find at your local nursery or garden center the only downside to growing bare root perennials is that because they come as bare roots you know when you plant them in your garden you often times need to give them a season or two before they really establish and before you can fully enjoy them so last year I had a chance to try some of the Dutch grown bird perennials i planted three plants in my garden i had a hosta a steelby and anemmon and I was really impressed with the quality because those flowering perennials are still be anemone they bloomed already in the first season which is not always the case as I said with bird perennials but they had beautiful flowers just a couple of months after planting the hosta also did phenomenal uh this year it’s growing so vigorously it’s over there i already had to bump the size of the container that’s how beautiful and healthy it grows so I was really impressed with the quality so this year I am trying some new uh buried perennials and new summer bulbs from them as well so let’s dive right into this first things first I have kala lilies i highlighted kalis recently in my video about summer flowering bulbs for shade so I got three kalillies kalilly called akila beautiful purple flowers well technically you know they are not flowers they are modified leaves but let’s call them flowers for now so beautiful purple flowers dark green leaves with white speckles on them cala lilies are great for partial shade in milder climates those leaves can actually be evergreen next I have shooting star red wings so that’s a doathon i believe that’s how you pronounce it i might be wrong uh it has beautiful um green leaves at the base and then it has those really tall up to 40 cm tall bloomtocks with these beautiful pink flowers uh with reflex petals and it kind of looks like a shooting star so I have a bag of three um the only thing that I’m worried about is that these usually bloom between spring and summer and then in summer they go dormant because they don’t really like heat that’s kind of their protective mechanism to go dormant when you know it gets too hot so I garden in a very hot climate like our summers it can get up to 43°C in the shade so I’m just a little worried that they may go dormant before I actually enjoy the flowers but we’ll plant them we’ll see if I don’t enjoy them this year that’s okay i’ll probably enjoy them next year late spring next I have hellaore huge fan of hellaors because haores are very winter hardy they have evergreen foliage and they bloom between winter and spring when there’s nothing else you know happening outside and I always say this but it’s nice to have something pretty in the garden over winter even if you’re not actively gardening it’s nice to have something pretty to look at even if it’s just through the window and haors are perfect for that for all the reasons I just mentioned so I always wanted to add more haors to my garden but here where I live they usually just sell those you know classic white haors um so I’ve been searching for some more unique varieties and I found some really beautiful ones on Dutch Grown’s website i have halaors double Ellen pink beautiful large double pink flowers so this obviously is not summer flowering it’s winter flowering but we are going to plant it now and hopefully we can enjoy some flowers this winter already and I think I have two yes I have two haors next next we have a hosta again and huge fan of hostas hostas are shade garden classics i have three varieties in my garden uh this one is hosta hands up and I think this one is so unique looking it’s fairly small so it’s perfect for small gardens for small balconies and what is so special about this one is first of all the leaves are facing upwards and they’re also twisted which gives that very unique look dark green foliage with this kind of creamy or white margins uh and beautiful purple flowers in summer so a really beautiful beautiful variety that I’m excited to plant in my garden and next and last we have Dalas well Dalas are definitely an out of shape garden plants but I’ve been very stubborn for the past couple of years trying to grow Dalia at any price because I’m a huge fan of Dalas and you know my garden receives a little bit of sunlight um it receives between zero and four hours of sunlight the closer to the railings you go the more sunlight um the plants can get so I always place my dalia strategically very close to the railings so they can get as much sunlight as possible and I’ve tried different varieties different types of dalas over the years and I noticed that those das that have more simple um single flowers they tend to do quite okay other types of das don’t really bloom that well but the single flower dalas simple flower dalas they can actually produce a couple of flowers even in the in shady or partially shady garden so I have one Dalia that I kept from last year Dalia Famoso and this year I’m going to be adding Dalia Gallery Monet which is a beautiful variety that only grows 30 to 40 cm in height so that’s perfect again for small balconies for window seals all right so that’s for the Dutch grown and now I have also a couple of bulbs that I picked at the grocery store of all places we have ornitoal again a beautiful plant that I’ve not tried in my garden uh I’m not sure if it is the best idea for a very windy garden like mine today luckily it’s not windy but most of the time it’s very windy in here wind gust up to 100 kilometers per kilometers per hour so very tall plants you know they are more fragile in those kind of windy situations so this one grows up to 1 meter in height so probably will need staking but oriental common name uh the star of Bethlehem because they have these beautiful kind of star shaped flowers they produce clusters of of flowers on top of those very tall bloomtocks so we’ll see how that goes they do prefer full sun but they can handle light shade and last but not least we have a spider lily so the the botanical name is Hinois Zwanenberg that’s the name of the variety i think that’s such a unique look also a little you know on the taller side I would say 80 cm in height so we will see how that goes in partial shade especially on the wind terrace all right so the bare root perennials have to soak for about 20 to 30 minutes before planting to rehydrate the roots and something that I added to this water is Super Thrive it’s one of my recent favorite products it helps with the transplant shock it helps to um grow healthy new root system helps your plant establish and they actually recommend at the back you can see they recommend to add it to the water when you are soaking your bare root plants about 1 milll per 3 lit of water so that’s what I did i added a little bit of this to the water where I’m going to be soaking my perennials so while these soak we are going to plant the bulbs and tubers all right so this is how it looks here is our hellaore here’s our hosta and the three tiny things here this is the shooting star they are teeny teeny tiny so I kind of anchored them on the hosta roots okay we are going to start with the kala lilies i place mesh hole pads at the bottom of each uh pot on top of the drainage hole so this allows the water to evacuate but prevents soil from coming out of the pots now I’m going to personalize personalize customize my potting mix a little bit you could just plant everything in a multi-purpose potting mix uh that would work well for all the summer flowering bulbs for perennials that works too but if you’re going to just go you know simple and use a multi-purpose potting mix use one that’s good quality something like light mix with added perlite or or a multi-purpose potting mix that has a little bit of organic matter incorporated with it not just the cheap random uh you know universal potting mix from the garden center these are usually very poor quality they just don’t hold on to any moisture they dry out rapidly they compact rapidly so choose a good quality multi-purpose potting mix something like light mix uh I personally am going to mix a good quality light mix with a little bit of organic matter and just a few handfuls of garden soil to make that potting soil a little bit more rich a little bit more water retentive because kala lilies like the soil to be slightly moist so here it is light airy very porous but still holds on to some moisture and we even have an earthworm that will help us with the soil arration this is how it looks we want to plant kalillies very close to the surface they do not like to be buried too deep just below the soil level and you can clearly see this flat part obviously is the bottom and here you can see already the kal is starting to sprout so these pointy parts obviously need to face upwards all right kalis are planted we will water everything at the end all right so now we are going to plant dalia uh here I have my dalia from last year and I’m so happy it survived because as I mentioned the winter this year was exceptionally cold and it was very wet as well so the temperatures dropped to – 10° C the soil was frozen for really long periods of time and I was sure that this dalia did not make it but to my surprise I can see some new fresh growth starting to emerge so I’m super super happy so as you can see I’m lifting it off the floor so that it can catch as much morning sunlight as possible so because this one is slightly taller and it’s also in a larger container because um it’s well it’s a little bit bigger because I’ve kept it from last year so this new dalia I think it this container should be large enough because it’s a smaller it’s a dwarf type dalia as I said only 30 to 40 cm in height so we are going to make a swap here we’ll place this larger dalia behind and the smaller dalia up front so dalas they like the soil to be slightly acidic so you can add a little bit of aricacious soil or a little bit of aricacious compost mix it with the multi-purpose potting mix and that’ll be great so I’m reusing soil potting soil from last year i already mentioned I don’t always uh you know use fresh soil all the time i reuse the soil that I already have in my containers just add a little bit of fresh compost or fresh multi-purpose potting mix um and it works really well as you can see it’s still very nice and fluffy so das need to be planted about 5 cm below the soil surface obviously the tubers facing down the new fresh growth facing upwards but let’s clean it up a little bit let’s get rid of all of those dead and dry parts here while we are here I’m also going to plant the ornito the star of Bethlehem over here i think it will look pretty with my dalas we have three really nice size bulbs that I’m going to plant about 10 cm below the soil surface all right so I have one this one bulb left to plant i mean three bulbs and I’m wondering where to plant it i think I want it somewhere around the bench here maybe not here because I think that will look maybe a little awkward to have one tall plant here but maybe on the other side next to the clatis all right so um I am thinking maybe it’s a little bit too crowded over here like this container is way too close to this one and maybe I will not have enough room you know to walk i mean the balcony is very narrow it’s only about 1.3 m wide so it’s always going to be narrow no matter what even if it’s empty it’s still narrow but you know what I mean um I think I’m just going to plant it and if I feel like it’s a little bit too tight of a squeeze in here I’m going to move this container somewhere else or I can just you know I don’t have anything in this one at the at this moment so I can always you know take this one out and place this one more over here we’ll see how that goes and we’re going to place them about 10 cm deep i have three bulbs but they already started to multiply so that’s awesome all right our bare root perennials have been soaking for a while now it’s time to plant them so why don’t we start with that beautiful hosta all right so with summer bulbs and tubers we want the potting mix to be very lightweight very airy uh that allows water and oxygen to pass through easily because we don’t want those bulbs and tubers to rot so I usually go for something like 75% multi-purpose potting mix and then tw 25% of those additions that maybe a little bit of garden soil maybe a little bit of organic matter but 75% is multi-purpose potting mix now with perennial plants these are going to live in your garden for many many years they need slightly more heavy slightly richer soil so I personally like to go with 50% multi-purpose and then 25% garden soil 25% organic matter uh so that it holds on to more moisture it um holds on to more nutrients uh to make sure that these perennials grow uh healthy for many many years to come so here we have the hosta beautiful root system as you can see so I’m going to try to make enough room in my pot for all that beautiful root system and I’m going to be planting the hosta where that top growth is above the soil level so that the crown of the plant is just either a little bit below the soil level or just equal you know with the soil level so that that top growth is already slightly visible and I did the exact same thing with the halaore now as you can see I don’t really mulch my freshly planted plants i like to see that new fresh growth and then once the plant is a little bit more establish established that’s when I start to mulch i also like to control you know the soil moisture when I’m not sure yet uh I like to see the soil and I like to be able to stick my finger into the soil to see if the plant needs um a little bit more water okay and last but not least our teeny tiny but so beautiful shooting stars so I think I need to add a little bit more soil cuz these poor things will get lost in this pot all right all right you guys now I just have to water everything but this is going to be the end of today’s planting video i hope that you found some uh inspiration or some helpful tips in today’s episode if you did I would appreciate if you could leave this video a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel for more container gardening content thanks so much for spending some time in the garden with me today i hope you have a beautiful day and we’ll see each other again in the next video