June Container Garden Tour, ALL the Plants

Join me as I review all of my containers and everything I planted this year.

hi everyone Laurel here minnesota zone 5A finally going to do a patio garden tour i’m going to try to go through all of my annuals i’m sure I will forget some names i do have some tags that I put in pots but I don’t like to stick a lot of tags in my pots where they’re going to show so anyway um been doing this a long time as you can see I have a lot of containers i also need to fertilize today so if you stick around to the end I will um go over what fertilizers I use and how regularly I fertilize everything as far as my uh container annuals anyways I don’t fertilize the ingground annuals nearly as often but so uh we can get started also don’t mind all the weeds in the cracks of the driveway i have not I mean if you have a driveway you know it is an endless task um and I have not weeded in a couple weeks so but I decided I just want to get this filmed um we’re coming out of a super hot weekend it was hotter here in Minnesota than it was in Texas temperatures 95 96 degrees air temperature plus oop sorry I hit the mic um high due points and high humidity so the feels like temperature or heat index was between 105 and 110 for Saturday and Sunday so didn’t do a whole lot in the garden other than keep things watered as best I could it was also super windy which is comfortable for humans when it’s that hot but um not so much for plants so this area over here I kind of did uh light and dark containers where I’m playing with uh light dark foliage light foliage white blooms um kind sort of inspired by like stars in the night sky or something i don’t know anyway we have uh this container this is an angelonia archangel white i think that’s what it’s called it’s one of the Archangel angelonia we’ve got my favorite uh sweet potato vine uh the sweet Caroline jet black from Proven Winners this is a snow princess alysum one of the best alysum I have ever grown it gets super full of blooms um and just that’s one plant just fills the container and then I have a couple a few dusty miller over here um these are like the typical ones that you find i bought like a six-ack of them from Menard’s so I have four of them between these two pots or three pots and then um this is another type of uh armia um did I put the tag in here i forget the name of it but I wasn’t sure if it was going to look messy or cool but it’s looking kind of cool so far so in a messy way I guess if you like that this is another dusty miller or armisia that was new to me i thought I put the tag over here but no um I want to say it’s called Century either Century or Mercury something like that i want I also want to say Centurion but that just reminds me of Doctor Who so Rory on Doctor Who if you’re familiar um we have a white scavola that will be trailing and then a bronze leaf white beonia um these containers are in full sun beonas often are thought of as purely shade plants but the bronze leaf varieties in particular can take a lot of sun um so far this one’s been doing great here in the full sun here we have a super tunia latte one of my favorite superunas uh this is a kolas that I grew last year that I thought was so neat um because it has these shiny textured leaves it’s called shiny shoes colas and it stays this dark purple uh we’ll get will get much bigger i do have to keep this one pinched to keep it branching out last year I grew it in a little more shade and it got a little bit uh shaded out so and then this is a Euphoria um it is not one of the Proven Winners varieties i don’t know if it was had a specific name on the tag might have just been called euphoria there’s also a lot of pcelain weeds growing down here but um there are also antills they’ve been super busy in these cracks so over here I did my sort of blue purple white area this red beonia this is another one not labeled but it’s a bronze leaf red beonia um that will be going up in the front yard this container I have a um uh my mind’s going blank sio angel wings a blue this one’s called violet um scavola and dusty oh my god it’s one of the biggest plants I plant now I’m blanking on the name dandra Silver Falls get it together Laurel um back here I will be planting that in a container as well actually I haven’t planted this one over here yet so that is coming soon but that I bought um bulbs or corns of uh oxales at the garden center in the spring and started them up so that one’s ready to get planted and then this is where all of my um amorillis live for the summer um that way they get watered regularly you can see I have my hose over here one of them on the back of the house i like those coil hoses um because they stretch pretty far but they don’t take up a lot of room and they’re quick to just pop back in i have two of them and I kind of keep them in pots like that you can see I had that pot had a little accident so it’s become my uh hose storage but they work great for me um I get the 50ft ones stretches all the way across the driveway so yeah Amorillis super long live plants they can live like 80 years or something like that the two down here are 15 20 years old at least uh my mom gave them to me years and years ago um cuz they they you can see they split and form little bulblets so they keep they’re happy they’ll form new amorillis for you otherwise I usually just pick up one or two uh after Christmas or late season Christmas time from the garden center i like to keep them out here uh for the summer they can take full sun and it recharges the bulbs keep them watered and then late August we usually pull them onto the porch and stop watering and then uh once it starts getting cool they go in the basement all the leaves die back and they stay down there through uh Christmas i don’t pull them out before Christmas um because the house is already full of beautiful sparkly Christmas decorations at Christmas time and I don’t really have room for them so I pull them out as soon as I put my Christmas decor away at the beginning of January um I pull out my amorillis and start watering and they start sprouting and then usually they bloom late February or into March they’re all kind of blooming on a different schedule so that’s how I handle mine i still have some just a small amount left to plant a lot of this will go up front or in the back where I haven’t gotten to yet it’s just a process always so I’ve got some extra elephant ears cana um some rudekia that I started from seed snap dragons um fox glove these are all things I grew from seed oh I have to sneeze excuse me what else is new um so they will be planted in the ground um I have two elephant ear over here i have a green one and then I bought a purple one this year last year I bought a purple one but I think it was a dud because it never sprouted and when I pulled it out it was all rotted and I I don’t think it got over watered so anyway happy to have that i dig up my canalies and elephant ears i dig up in the fall once we get frost and I save them i just throw them in a box in the basement in a cardboard box pull them out in the spring and pot them up in these little pots and then I can plant them out so you’ll get years of use out of those um we also have uh plectranthus cervesa and lime i love this plant i did see it if you’re local and you do the uh plant sale the friend school plant sale in the spring at the state fairgrounds I did see it but it was labeled Cuban oregano and it was in with the herbs instead of with annuals but it’s the exact same plant i looked it up proven Winners does not have a patent on this variety they just have a trademark on the name Curvea and Lime so other growers and companies or whatever can grow the same plant and sell the same plant they just can’t call it surveys and lime they have to call it something else but it’s identical plant so if you’re looking for that and you’re local that’s a tip next year at the plant sale it’s just a shame that is uh only once a year or if you see it locally and it looks the same and smells the same it’s probably the same plant they just can’t name it the same thing so another of the uh jet black sweet Caroline sweet potato vine here in my trellis you can see my highest in the bean vine starting to climb i did have two seeds of those that I planted in the center and that should cover the trellis i also strung up a string from the trellis up to the roof so it can climb a little bit higher it also kind of folds over itself which is fine um this is an ornamental cabbage that I grew from seed i have another cervesa and lime ple tranthus in there in the back we can see this better on the back side there’s a silver licorice vine and then there’s a beonia on the other side this is a new one of these surefire white beonas that I haven’t grown before so we’ll see how it does in mostly sun i’m getting sniffly here thanks to that sneeze we have an angelonia um that is the proven winners what is that line called uh I want to say Surefire that’s it shoot i’ll think of it because I have more proven Winners Angelonia in blue this is the Lagouna blue with white eye um Loilia from Proven Winners and we have a Mazu we have this trio Super Tunia Mini Vista uh Violet Star Superunior Mini Vista Midnight Super Tuni Mini Vista Indigo um these mingle very well the indigo was kind of smaller but it will get much bigger i love that’s probably my favorite mini vista is the indigo i love the multi-tone blooms that it will get middle of the season in this pot um this pot is a little bit small for how big this salvia is going to get that is the um blue suede shoes rocking blue suede shoes from Proven Winners i’ve grown that several years and it gets massive um be warned these huge salvia uh tend to have more brittle stems and fragile um so you don’t want to plant it somewhere where you’re passing by or brushing against it all the time because you will break off branches especially once they’re mature or in an area that gets just blasted by high wind because the wind will break off branches as well but hummingbirds absolutely love this i do need to dead head now it’s putting out new sprouts kind of recovering from being stressed in its plant can although I will be replacing this pot I bought at Girtton’s a bigger one over there um it was such a pretty glaze I had to get it but then I thought well I really need a bigger one for this area so I’ll be replacing that i also have this underplanted with the Super Tunia Tiara Blue i have two of them in there um this planter has the Superbina uh Stormburst which I overwintered as a test nearly died but it’s coming back and this is the not Violet what is that called oh violet ice yes good job past Laurel you saved me um just two of them i’m a little bit worried i’m hoping that soil reservoir is enough for two superbina because they get huge very vigorous plants um we have two in this pot two superbina violet ice no sparkling amethyst also very vigorous one of my favorites um Superbina kind of does this a they’re recovering from being potted up a couple weeks ago or a week and a half whatever it was um but they do they’ll be full of blooms and then they’ll kind of lull where they just have sporadic blooms and they’ll be full of blooms again but for me the superbina in particular and I am testing out some other lines of verbina that are newer to see if they compare um they don’t get leggy and they don’t need as much nearly as much trimming as um patunias do or even the super tunias and when you do trim them the foliage still stays full so they don’t look like stringy so at least in my experience um another dicandra silver falls planted here this is just an angelonia sedum i’ve had it in that pot for a long time but I want to get rid of it i have it all over my garden so I think I’m just going to bring I’ll pop that out and bring the sedum to work and give it away couple perennials here that will go in the ground um this is a new caliber ka there’s just one plant in here by Danzinger i’ve had a lot of luck with Danzinger stuff ombre purple i love how it has the yellow and purple blooms on the same plant it’s like something was eating at it here i don’t have a big issue with budworms they tobacco budworms they are not native here they don’t survive our winters they get the moths i mean budworms are just caterpillars of moths the mods float up on air currents late summer and lay their eggs so we don’t typically see worm damage or budworm damage until late summer up here so I don’t really spray for them until maybe late summer if needed um which is nice and then they die off if they have any eggs or larvae or whatever around they die off uh in our winter um so this is an armia i don’t remember if it was labeled um I just thought it was kind of a pretty texture it’s super soft this is a new one to me um so far I’m not liking the form of it as much beth’s Blue Escatma Oxilaris uh what was it called starflower i haven’t grown these before i’m hoping that it’ll get more full of blooms you know it’s still early and like I said things are still establishing their roots so hopefully that’ll be big and full got a cone flower here to plant in the ground this pot I have a superbina white out one of my favorites some of the biggest blooms I’ve ever seen on any verbena super tuna um hoopla vivid orchid i have two of them in there so three plants total and you can see my caliber ka got we had a lot of rain we’ve had a lot of rain we have another storm front coming through this week that’s going to dump some rain on us again so convenient not having to water but um it does harm plants that don’t like a lot of water it doesn’t make them look great so all that yellowing that’s chlorosis that’s from overwatering also things were a little bit stressed in their plant cans so um they’re not as able to fight off that sort of thing um I did hit all the patunias and caliber koa with some chelated iron earlier this week and I’m seeing some improvements in a couple of them and I’ll do that again today i’m going to fertilize and and do chelated iron i do that about once a week for the once every week or two for all of the caliber koa and patunias um it benefits any plant so um I’ll hit you know the whole planter with any of those types of plants in it is going to be fine it just makes the leaves nice and green and lush um but you don’t need to do it super regularly and you don’t want to overdo it and it’s kind of expensive so that’s why I only do it every about every other time I fertilize this container we’ve got two of those Dusty Miller from the six-packs i also had a six-pack of this um tattoo cherry tattoo black cherry vinka um that’s kind of scattered around and then this is a new verbina to me it’s not a superbina i just love the color but I was seeing it around um so I wanted to try it alaskar mango orange verbena that one was a little bit stressed and yellowed but now the leaves are turning green so I think it’ll it’ll be nice and full of blooms and then a white bakcopa here and we’ll swing around and go to this side i might have to pause and blow my nose because man allergies this time of year especially with the wind now you can see if you are in an area with cottonwoods then you know those darn fuzzy seeds get everywhere and sprout up so I have to pick those out of there but if you’re seeing weeds it is probably cottonwoods because they’ve been flying for the last like month so in this container this is kind of a little bit pink and white maybe tones i don’t know i guess it’s mixed i have colladiums planted in every one of these containers as well um I just plant the corn directly in the container pre- sprouting them i haven’t had a lot of luck with that i’ve tried that pre- sprouting indoors they won’t sprout until they get the right soil temperature um but it’s tough i lose I’ve lost a lot of them just to rot because they sit there so I just order the corns wait till I plant up these containers and I pop the corns right in and they’ve been fine the last few years doing that I order from Florida Boys Coladiums they have really nice selection and huge i ordered the smallest size the number two and they are massive they are like twice as big as anything I’ve ever bought in the store even in the small size they also have a number one which is bigger and a jumbo which I can’t even imagine how huge those are so I have colus velvetine over here that is a colorblaze kolus um I just bought a like six-ack of wax beonas pink wax beonas with green leaves from Menards this area is in full shade gets a little bit of direct sun early morning and then late afternoon so I have those scattered around this is a truscanchia that I had in my container last year and I overwintered it uh on my thought I put the tag in there in my basement i had some growite shelves set up with grow lights and it did great so popped it in here i want to say it’s like rainbow zebra or something like that and I have various caladium bulbs scattered about that will sprout soon this is the hippo rose hippo westies from Proven Winners in a variegated licorice vine i found growing the variegated and the gold licorice vines they do better with a little bit of shade i know they say full sun but for me whenever I put them in full sun they kind of get a little bit of scorch on the edges so who knows maybe it’s just me um this container is pretty simple excuse me i just have three of the pink wax beagonas with an elephant ear in the center i think I popped two corns in there and then various caladium bulbs in the bare spots um this is the diamond snow euphoria i grew this last year and was really impressed with it and it just stays really full of blooms i’ve got a few cladium bulbs and then a um plectranthus guacamole that is my one of my favorite trailers and plectranthus are much more tidy like they stay in a much more compact and tidy shape than sweet potato vine and they are super drought tolerant um sweet potato vine is very thirsty so like if you have a container that dries out quickly like a hanging basket or something I recommend plectranthis or mazu as a trailer because they they are super drought tolerant plants and a lot easier to uh keep watered than sweet potato vine but they come in all kinds of different colors and look beautiful so um I’ve got a hellaore and then these beonas are going to get repotted uh soon those are Rex beagonas that I overwintered i’ve got the hippo white uh hippo westies from Proven Winners planted there and this is a Catalina uh grape I think is it grape um wave god now I’m forgetting terrenia wave was it wave trinia anyway these this line I think it’s called wave series maybe um gets really big flowers trinia are surprisingly thirsty plants though they like a lot of water so just be warned but beautiful blooms that’ll trail down and then I have just a variegated vinka here and more caladium bulbs got a Godzilla fern i think I finally I got that on clearance last summer or last fall didn’t have a place to put it then but now I figured out a spot for Godzilla so we’re going to plant Godzilla um very soon i have a Laguna White from Proven Winners Loilia here those do great um couple of cladium bulbs and then this is a pile uh oh what was the name of this particular plant um artillery plant um kind of interesting it can do sun or shade and I I got one on clearance last year and it was just kind of this interesting shape so I thought I’d try it properly in its own pot this year i’ve got two wax beagonia surrounded by cladium corns and then this is a Kimberly Queen fern that was a hanging basket and so I potted it in this big pot and a Vinka in here hopefully this takes off here i just wanted some color trailing down it’s a little bit slow but that’s how thing go that’s how things go sometimes early season over on this side you can see my Girtton’s pot i’ll also talk about my where I get my pots at the end of the video um cuz obviously pots aren’t cheap either um definitely will help if you’re local um but I don’t know i suppose it might translate to other areas as well if you’re not in the Twin Cities this area I kind of did my coral and gold color story a little bit yellow I guess i don’t know um I’ve got I bought some beonia uh tubers um when they went on sale kind of late spring at the garden center so I have two of them in here i don’t remember the name hopefully they’re a peachy color i think that’s what I got um one was kind of later than the other and then this was an overwintered poor little thing was struggling but an overwintered Rex beagonia and then Lismakia is hearty here um I did have some overwintered in the basement it also does well to overwinter it indoors um so I just popped out little pieces of that and plugged them in there as a trailer down here this is a asparagus fern that I’ve overwintered it’s looking really ratty so the feral the two feral kittens that have been roaming around my yard for a while now with their mom like to come and plop in this pot their little kitten butt and play with this fern so I’m hoping it survives long enough to get some size on it but you can see they’ve there’s a lot of damage to the fronds back there it must be a very fun toy for them um we’ve got just uh beacon impatience i think they’re the salmon beacon salmon color and then I have some colladium bulbs in here oh man is it starting to sprinkle yes it is okay well we’ll keep going if it rains hard I’ll have to pause we’re supposed to get chances of random little pockets of scattered rain today so we’ll see what happens um man this is getting eaten up by something this is a beonia tuber I’ve had for a really long time it’s humongous and then I have another Rex beonia down there that I’ll be potting up elsewhere another diamond snow euphoria cladium bulbs around it and a beacon impatient um this beagonia I picked up at Menard’s i put the tag in here um I just love the color and there’s not a mature bloom on it right now but it’s like bright orange with a yellow center on it i have a couple elephant ears in the middle another impatient and then this is an uh I think it was labeled an ainka i overwintered that i see it as sprouting in the middle so it should fill in there and the elephant ears will fill in that hole in the back um I kind of repeated this motif i have a elto kolus um this is lai peach verbina i could I still can’t find even at Lowe’s didn’t have it which I’m bummed about but um even the expensive garden tent didn’t have again the uh peachy keen superbina but I grew this last year as a substitute and it did great so I picked it up again at Gertton’s and some more of that Lismakia in there over here this is the toucan coral cana i overwinter those tubers um another impatient and a mazu this mazoo I overwintered oh there goes a plane pause cuz that’s noisy come on plane okay so beacon impatient um I overwintered this mazoo thank you to the viewer who commented that they overwinter well it was planted where I had pink beacon impatients or the rose ones last year and some of the impatient seed themselves in here so I’m just letting that grow there’s no separating it it’ll it would kill one or the other plants if I tried to separate it so we’ll have a pop of hot pink in here too back here I have the canoptoriia i’ve had these ryomes been overwintering them for probably 10 years now um surrounded by three beacon impatients i think I might have remember if I put caladium bulbs in there and then I have an autoutumninal this poor thing so this is the uh fuchsia atumnol which is beautiful like chartreuse foliage with red new growth or orangey new growth um but the kittens have been also decimating this planter i need to move this uh bird bath a little bit so they jump up here and climb into the bird bath and sit there and drink water from the bird bath i have other water on the ground for the uh cats and other critters to enjoy but no they want to climb up and drink on the bird bath so there also kitten butt uh damage here hopefully it survives um in this planter we have a Goldilocks rocks bidins the best bidens I’ve ever grown i’ve grown them for a number of years and they get nice and full um and bloom very full of blooms although bidens do they bloom and then they lull and then they bloom and then they lull every variety I’ve ever grown but those have double blooms on them so love the goalie locks rocks i’ve got another lenai peach uh verbina and then another uh colorblaze elto kolas i have these are my geraniums that I started from seed that I will be potting up eventually and then I have two geraniums over here this one I overwintered that is the Americana coral and uh planted with a Kent Beauty ornamental oregano i have grown both Kent Beauty and Kirai ornamental oregano i prefer the Kent Beauty it just seems to stay green and in bloom longer than the Kurigimi for me Kiraimi has always um turned brown faster so every now and then every few years I pick up a Kent Beauty um and then this is the um OULT shield geranium that one got really stressed so it is finally looking good but it has this like chartreuse leaf with with that um like bronze center and they’ll get more chartreuse um with more sun and then this sort of bright orangey coral flower so love those and I love the flower color on the Americana geranium as well this was not the prime time to see it but um head back over this direction we are getting into the bright color area now um hopefully this looks like a motif and not just messy as the season goes on i do have a tray of the um bronze leaf red beonia that we’ll be planting up front um I love how they look as an impact so they’re going to be an impact up front as well i did the bronze leaf rose up front indistinguishable from the Surefire red and Surfire pink bagonas when or cherry cordial I think is the Surefire version they get huge they get just as full of bloom same colors i had them planted next to each other and you couldn’t tell so if that’s all you can find go for it same thing as the Surfire just as good um we have a Color Blaze mini watermelon colas i’ve grown that the last few years and I love it because it stays nice and compact um planted with a Did I put the tag in here this is a salvia maybe I did but now it’s buried a red salvia and this is the Wiki Sunset Lismakia i love how it gets these blooms in the variegated foliage um this is a planter with Spanish lavender uh 20 peach snapdragon which I grow from seed and then these are um nano yellow I think uh portilaka i’ve been saving the seeds from plants I nursery plants that I purchased uh a number of years ago this actually will go on the table on the patio table once I clear the plants off of there that need to get planted um and then this is just in a plant can this is going to go on the ground up front again once I get to the front gardens um looking stressed so I’m hoping I can get it soon rock and Deep Purple Salvia i have grown that before all those rocking salvia from Proven Winners get huge you get big bang for your buck with just one plant this is the 2can orange can of lillly again I save those tubers every year you can see I have more Rex beonas back there from overwintering i usually buy those on clearance late season overwinter them um this is a uh purple prince altern i start those from seed although the seeds are kind of finicky not sure if I’ll keep doing that because I can usually find them in garden centers too for a decent price this one is the proven winners i have a lot of Lantana and a lot of salvia luscious basket tangloana more of a trailing not trailing variety but a little lower um doesn’t get as tall also more of mounding and it will kind of hang over a little bit without trailing per se beautiful they’re kind of yellow now but they’re like yellow with peach and orange blooms um this planter these are This is like a fourack of red salvia the tall salvia i like that they’re a little bit coralally looking um this is an angelonia oh I did put tags in here yay angela Rose a newer variety i like that sort of magenta bloom color okay let’s see if Sorry for my lovely camera work and then a bandana cherry lantana here this one was pretty small i got this at a local garden center rather than going to Home Depot or something um but this one cherry rose I love because it has the blooms that go from like yellow orange and hot pink on a single bloom another guacamole plectranthus and then down here this is the uh I’ll have to pot this up too another Danzinger um caliber koa that I didn’t need but I couldn’t resist iconic strawberry so that will be potted up as well um here we have the Redhawk sweet potato vine this one gets bigger um the larger sweet potato vine so I may have to cut that back periodically but overall the Proven Winners sweet potato vines stay much more compact than um some of the traditional ones this salvia I have grown before and I love this one sylvia Craigi Mirage Cherry Red i know there are different colors in the Mirage series but they stay more rounded a little bit more compact and just full of blooms all summer so I’m hoping to attract lots of hummingbirds i know I’ve grown like the fourpack salvia and the hummingbirds will love them and then this is a Lantana it was not lab was just labeled i got it from Home Depot impulse purchase because it just looks so beautiful um but it didn’t have a specific variety it just said Lantana but I thought I need that uh over here we’ve got the rush grass blue mohawk three more of the tattoo black cherry vinka i probably should move this one cuz it’s going to be engulfed this is the most u well- behaved sweet potato vine one of my favorites the Perwininners Medusa sweet potato vine i know they came out with like a dark one Medusa black that I’m hoping to try um you know and I like having the mix of foliage i’ve got the bolder foliage over here with the finer foliage trailer so kind of alternating that as well as color and then this is the new I am so impressed by this i I’m glad I found it this year this is the new um Salvia from Proven Winners the uh there’s a bee checking out little native bee checking out my camera um the red uh what’s it called not victory red it’s a red salvia new from Proven Winners this year not in the rockin series it’s the other series what is that called probably think of it as soon as I turn off the camera um over here I also have another Goldilocks rocks bidens you can see how full of blooms it was and now they’re fading but there’s a whole new set of buds here so they this is what they do all Bidens that I’ve ever grown um we have another mazoo and then this is a Lantana that’s red and orange called Bandolista Red Chili and then this is the Nissia um I love the Purple Winners series the Aeromance these are just as fragrant and do just as well this is the Nia line not from Purple Winners um this is a new color magenta so nia magenta numisia they do when it gets really hot they do kind of lull a little bit not like the traditional ones not as bad they don’t die back um but they do kind of go out of bloom and so I give them like a Chelsea chop a hard cut back and a few weeks later they send out a whole new flesh of bloom so just be warned this these two poor little caliber co are looking really rough they really need that a broken branch here i suspect kitten butt again um they really need some more iron so I’ll be hitting those this is an armia that will be planted up front perennial and then again these caliber co are not looking the greatest they were really full of color but all this rain has stressed them out so they’ll be happy to have some iron and some fertilizer i have my watering setup over here again another coil hose that I keep contained in the splitter that goes out to the backyard and then I have this handy little rail here on the uh sh on the porch that allows me to store my watering wand out of the way so um here this container I did this or a version similar to this last year got a different trailer but that is another wiki sunset lis makia with a curvea and lime ple tranthis and then this is the Bandolista another more mounding trailing type of uh Bandelista mango salsa um sort of mounding trailing type of lantana bandelista is the line that sort of mounds and trails bandelero is the kind that gets bigger and taller and fuller more bushy over here we have the Superbells uh watermelon punch those are looking good this is a new um type of like a well it’s not exactly batfaced Kufia but kind of that style bloom um I was impressed though by how upright it was in the plant can sweet talk red is the variety kufia again hummingbird’s favorite got a variegated vinkine that was not named and then this verbena I’m I’m having trouble finding superbina so I’m looking for I’m seeing a lot of new Verbina lines that look excellent and like they probably perform just about as well so I thought I’d try this Dancinger Vanessa Compact Bordeaux so far so good we’ll see how it compares over here we have two more of the uh the last two of the tattoo black cherry vinka another lizmakia wiki sunset another toucan orange can of lillly and then this so far scoot behind the chair here very impressed with this loilia this was also a new one that I hadn’t seen before i don’t know if it’s new magatti compact blue bay loilia but I love that like white variegation rather usually you see like just a white center but this one was kind of like white edges and center so and so far in the sun it’s been doing great over here we have an Americana red dark red geranium a mazu and um another colus the watermelon mini me watermelon this one isn’t as bright because it gets more shade so I think than the other one it was a little bit stressed too it was smaller so maybe it’ll brighten up and then I have a a few caladium planted around here as well and then over here more of that fourack of salvia i think I have three plants in here tall red salvia um these sunflower by the way once they bloom they’re just have fallen seeds from this uh bird feeder which I have a lot of them down there that I have to keep picking out and weeding but these two I decided just to let bloom so you can see they’re forming blooms now they’ll bloom i’ll cut them and then this will get full sun again um but we have another of the uh Nisia nia uh what did I say it was magenta um a medusa sweet potato vine and a bandelo cherry sunrise lantana which unfortunately is not in full bloom this one also has the yellow orange and hot pink blooms on it and then you can kind of see this is a um Collia mega rose splash or rose mega splash geranium i’ve overwintered that now for a couple years so it’s in a huge container um I will not be able to overwinter it in a container next year it will be very way too big and then I have some mimulus or monkey flour here i’ve never grown that before um I bought it like in a fourack a mixed variety so I’m trying that for the first time so if you have any tips let me know um I have read it likes part sun and a lot of moisture so I was going to plant it i was had the idea to plant it in a full sun area i was thinking it needed like full sun and drought but it is actually the opposite so I have it here for now i figure I can move the pots around if needed and then this little urn uh more of the saved seeds of the nano i think that one’s nano pink uh I don’t know if that’ll stay there or not and then I also have more things to plant over here on the table looking much better whittling down quite a bit and some more uh seed started ornamental cabbage in my tall container over here you can see this is Oh I need to fill the water dish here that’s cat water um we have a superbina red verbina huge blooms full of bloom beautiful like neon red um with a variegated vinka that I overwintered i should cut this one off that’s the winter stem and now it’s putting out fresh growth so um we have a cherry cordial surefire bagonia this is the new Superbell’s double redstone with the red and yellow variegated blooms so I’m trying that this year and um for pardon the grass it is quite long it was way too hot to mow this weekend so uh and another mazoo trailing out that side so So those are my patio containers um I also have some more things that will go in the ground you can see all the arbiva from my wholesale order there’s another another plane i have more of this seed started uh nano nano pizzazz that’s the line nano pazazz yellow and pink a few other things excuse me but we can go out to the containers in the yard next so this superunia mini vista yellow is incredible this is humongous that is one plant i’ve been wanting to get my hands on that for a couple years now finally found it a few places in the Twin Cities so very impressed with that i can see why Laura on Garden Answer and other garden channels love it so much uh planted with another rush grass blue mohawk um Hippo’s hippo white polka dot plant i have another Wiki Sunset Lismakia over here and then a Diconda Silver Falls but man this patunia is just taking over so I may have to keep that trimmed which ultimately will keep it fuller uh more lush looking and full of bloom so that is aok okay i bought some these did not have variety names these were seed geraniums that were on sale at back in May around Mother’s Day um or end of May I guess at Bicewingers hardware store so just four pink ones so I couldn’t resist they were $1.29 and so beautiful um let’s see i’ll do a garden tour but I just have to give you a peek at all the vias that are starting these just seed themselves over here oh and a dragonfly look at that that’s a cool one it has like a white white body on it neat i just realized my zoom stick battery died so good thing I don’t need to zoom a whole lot and the Jackman Clatus is spectacular right now so I’ll do a separate like garden tour and show more of this there is just not time to do both so in my hanging basket over here we’ve got these sparkling rose superbina this is the proven winners scavola i think they’re doing an approved version for next year uh I forget what it’s called the trailing one in white i have a tiara pink super tuna in here and then the other trailer is now starting to trail a loss the pink loofos i grew this one in white here and it trailed way down it was really pretty so um and then this is actually a moss basket uh it was all moss but over the years the birds and squirrels at times have come and picked all the moss away and then all the strings that hold the moss in place were hanging all over the place um I was going to cover it in burlap but that turned out to just be too big of a project cuz it’s so thick so instead I just use landscape fabric just black landscape fabric and that works pretty well been doing that the last couple years and eventually the plants just trail over and you can’t see the basket anyway so it works little containers over here i’ve got another Super Tunia Mini Vista Yellow Goldilocks Rocks Bidens and then this is a um I don’t do a lot i love the Sunpatience varieties compact tropical rose suns they are just sun tolerant uh New Guinea impatients um Japanese beetles just love sunat the ones that I’ve grown so the leaves end up all eaten up it doesn’t harm I mean the plant just keeps growing but it just looks terrible when it’s Japanese beetle season you can see some dried bread remnants that the birds and squirrels have been eating um and then I got a tray of just the bronze mixed wax beonia so I have a bunch of pink ones in here and then pink and white over here on this pot these do great they get about half sun half shade and they do awesome and they just fill in beonia are very drought tolerant they do not like to be over watered they rot easily so they do well in small containers because they don’t need a ton of water or root space and then I’ll show you back here and again we’ll do a proper garden tour despite the long grass so but I’ll show you my flower containers back in the vegetable garden i like to plant lots of flowers everywhere because they’re pretty who doesn’t like flowers um so we have the arc no not archangel dang it i thought I remembered this is the Proven Winners Angelonia in pink is it Archangel pink no I think that’s the non-proven winners kind h I know it like I’ve said it a gazillion times over the years so go figure and then I have some zenyas that I I did not seed start i this year I just bought bought packs of them but we’ve got the Zahara Zenyas are probably my favorite they’re super resistant because of their leaf shape they’re super resistant to uh powdery mildew and these stay more compact and bushy so we’ve got the Zahara uh raspberry ripple which you can’t really see they’re just starting to bloom but it’s white and then it has kind of like a pink streak on the center of each petal these are still forming their roots and now just starting to bloom um and then the uh Oh gosh darn it sahara double is it pink star yep i knew I’d forget it again um but just pink and white zenyas i also had some extras that I planted over here in the ground this pot uh we have the Superunia Bermuda Beach grew this last year and it was absolutely wonderful this one is kind of out of bloom this is but it’s establishing roots this is the cherry ice cherry ice uh superbina from Proven Winners and then a lemon lime pleanthus that gets more upright gets huge so just be warned but the stems look amazing in cut flower arrangements and they they hold for a really long time and then this is the uh can rose um snapdragon and I grew those from seed i went ham on the snapd dragons this year i got a bunch of seed packets they just look so pretty i couldn’t resist and I did a lot of sprinkling onto my uh seed starting trays and ended up with a ton they did very well so um I did plant this little I don’t think this was labeled this was a uh maybe it was um it’s like pink with and it’s looking stressed it needs more iron uh I do like things that are planted in the ground that need iron i do hit those regularly with fertilizer and chilated iron or they suffer but that’s a caliber koa and my veggies you can see I love planting marolds and then I did get this potted up forgive me I still have a mess it was just so hot it was like do what’s necessary and then get back inside um so I have two um geranium over here in this little pot this one is the Fantasia Fuchsia Berry and then Dynamo Orange uh in this little container potted up this one this is a Kolas Witches Brew um I have one Victoria Blue Salvia uh I got a whole flat of those that will be planted but I popped some back here um this is a caliber koa um or no supercal the pet koa which are a combination it’s like a hybrid of um caliber koa and patunia um let’s see i have the tags over here supercal premium pearl vista pearl white and then this is the superunia black cherry i haven’t grown that before and witches brew colus in case you wanted to see uh so back in this planter here this does get some afternoon shade as well but mostly sun throughout the day and turn around hopefully you don’t get too dizzy and then I did my herb pot back here so I have two different kinds of uh rosemary like an upright rosemary i had some extra marolds that I popped in one of the Victoria blue salvia in the center and then there’s a burgartan sage and a hot and spicy oregano that will kind of trail a little bit and mingle um and that’s it oh no i have containers up front okay well I’m going to pause and we’ll rejoin up front there’s just three pots so it should be quick totally forgot about these two also before we head up front um so this container I’ve got a can of uh toucan coral um I also have three armsia uh the trailing kind which are kind of engulfing these little poor little guys these are the um uh uh alterna purple prints that I started from seed these were kind of puny when I potted them up but got one two and three armia on the back and then I’ve got three caliber koa here in this little container this is like a sweet spot for they love this pot in this spot so I will always plant caliber ka over here so we’ve got the tropical sunrise from Proven Winners that kind of coral with yellow stripes in it these are like two of my absolute favorite caliber koa of all time i grow these every year this is the um Superbell’s over easy very vigorous both of those and then this one I found I’ve seen this on um Nicole’s channel uh uh why am I not North LF Farm um why am I forgetting her channel name i can picture her logo um she’s out in New York but she Oh and I’ve got Shoot I see Thris all right I’m gonna have to hit this with neem oil dang it i get that sometimes on Caliber Koa um this is the cappuccino variety which I found locally for the first time man I’m bummed i have issues with thris sometimes on my caliber koa so but hopefully I can hit it early with some some neem oil and kill those off so these things cuz man how spectacular will this container be all right running back up front now okay in the front yard you can see my massive sidewalk crack and we’ve got two containers um wax beonas we’ve got the bronze leaf red i think this one is actually the vodka cocktail series there are a bunch of them named after cocktails and this one is like vodka and then red vodka or something and then I’ve got the white ones this is a Lis Makia called I think it’s called Golden Globes if I remember right it is not the Wiki Sunset it’s a little bit different variety um and then just repeated over here you can tell one gets more sun than the other and tends to get more full you can see the beautiful blooms this is Makia and then making our way making our way over here so I’ve got a repeat of the container in back um sio angel wings we’ve got the violet scavola and a dicondara silver falls and I did get my deraniums in the ground everything needs to be mowed and weed whipped but you get the idea so those are my containers um oh and why don’t I show you the these violas these I purchased as soon as they’re available in April from Menards or wherever i’m I’m picking up violas because I’m just so anxious to see some color and these can take frost i can even take like a freeze snow whatever you throw at them so I can pop these out and just have something up here while I’m waiting for everything else to come to life so and I pack them pretty full um these do fizzle out man if they’ve lasted all summer this is what I would do for the whole summer it’s absolutely beautiful and inexpensive um and I do have some pansies in here too this year I picked up some different pansies uh but they do fizzle out kind of mid July or so they will set seed which is how I ended up with that patch of violas in the back so usually this is where those red beonas are going to go up in here which will last the remainder of the summer um but I will dig these out and just pop them various places around the garden and just let them grow until they die off um I don’t throw these away when they’re looking this beautiful so but yes that is everything um thank you so much for joining me oh I forgot I have to show you my fertilizer so if you are not interested thank you so much for watching i really appreciate it um I hope you’re having a great day in your garden great summer some at least decent weather so you can enjoy part of it um otherwise stay tuned uh I will be right back and I’ll pull my fertilizer out and show you what I use and talk about my schedule all right here is the fertilizer portion of our video um for I’m talking fertilizer for my annuals specifically containers i do use the same thing on annuals that I have planted in the ground i just don’t fertilize those nearly as often the containers I fertilize every weekend you know I work Monday through Friday full-time so Saturday or Sunday is my fertilizer day um I have various watering cans that I use for my water soluble fertilizer and I just hit everything usually in the morning with fertilizer um I do not saturate you know I’ve seen channels where they mix their fertilizer and then that’s their full watering where they saturate the soil until it runs out of the pot i don’t like doing that because I feel like then I’m just wasting fertilizer so I usually both water with the hose and the fertilizer and watering cans on the same day um and it so far it’s worked great for me so it made a huge difference though i didn’t used to when I first started out I didn’t use like weekly water- soluble fertilizer and once I started doing that it was a massive difference in my in the the success of my plants so um to start when I plant I mix in the soil I reuse my potting soil from year to year it is stored either in the big containers it just stays in the container and is grow uh is in the stored in the garage in the container or my medium pots because I put those up on shelves i empty the soil out into used potting soil bags or 5gallon buckets and that also stores in the shed i do refresh every year with I usually buy a few cubic feet of fresh potting soil um just because I need to make up the volume that’s lost when you dig out your plants um but also that kind of keeps a steady stream of fresh potting soil uh in your planters in the mix I guess in with your stock um if anything has insect issues like that container that I just found thris on all of that soil will go in the trash at the end of the season i will not reuse that soil um same thing if there’s any disease like if anything gets fungal disease or anything like that I will uh dump that soil and and not save that particular container full of soil because that’s just overwintering the disease or the eggs or whatever the issue is potentially and bringing it back the next year so um you do so potting soil in North America is largely made from Pete Moss it’s very difficult to find potting soil that does not contain Pete Moss um that is the base usually from Canada it is farmed in Canada um so you know I know it’s controversial because it’s not there’s there’s uh a lot of uh unearthefriendly practices in farming Pete Moss but it is very difficult to find potting soil that is not that and it is a lot more expensive so for most people that’s the reality of gardening here um but by reusing all of my potting soil I feel like I’m minimizing the my impact as well environmentally uh you does have to be recharged pete Moss on its own is pretty void of nutrients it’s it’s pretty much inert um very good at water retention it’s great obviously a great growing medium which is why it’s been used for so long um but if you reuse your soil the plants take up those nutrients and so you have to replenish every year so when I pot everything up I went over this in one of my previous videos as well I use earthworm castings i have a like a mug for coffee that has a chip and is cracked and doesn’t hold water anymore so I just take a scoop of that and throw it in mix it in with my potting soil and I use Espoma usually Plant Tone i’ve used Garden Tone um those are usually cheaper than like Bioone i think one year I found a big bag of like bloom whatever the any kind of tone will work but uh plant tone and garden tone are usually the most widely available they’re basically the same thing i mean there might be small differences so I’ve used both in my containers either or I whatever I find cheaper so this is a 36B bag i usually find that for 40 bucks um at Girtton’s I think they have huge bags i’ve also seen them at by Swingers in Ardan Hills if or where is it mountains View if you’re local to the area um Home Depot carries Plant Tone just about every nursery I’ve ever been to carries Espoma products including Plant Tone and Garden Tone so um easy to find and it’s one of the cheaper alternatives in the past I’ve used um Aimo Coat also a great one that one is more expensive um and for the volume of containers you know I need to I need to be mindful of cost if you’re only doing a couple and you can use Osmo Coat great but um that would cost me a lot more money so um for my weekly water soluble fertilizers um this is the chilated iron that I use it is not the adda one for high pH soil um I do not have particularly high pH soil or water um so I don’t need the EDDDHA version of that okay so sorry about that my uh battery died and I went inside to replace it and noticed I only had 1 minute left on my memory card so both of those are fixed and we are back uh I don’t remember exactly where I left off but um chelated liquid iron so the fertilome I’ve used that variety for years you can also get it in smaller containers this year I bought a big jug because I go through a lot of it um uh but what I do I put in my my fertilizer and that all in the same uh watering can uh the liquid or the chilated iron doesn’t need to be done every week it can usually be done every other or if I skip a couple weeks it’s fine uh right now though I will hit everything with it though because a lot of the caliber koa are stressed out if you grow caliber koa I highly recommend liquid iron it makes a huge difference they are the most needy um in terms of their iron need um and they will grow bigger and fuller and be much less stressed for you over the summer with uh regular chilated iron application i do know the Proven Winners whenever I go to order it it’s sold out like the Proven Winners fertilizer um their liquid soluble or water soluble fertilizer does contain the EDDDHA chilated iron as well so maybe some year I’ll do those allin-one for now though this combination is a little bit cheaper um in particularly because I got a bunch of uh fertilizers on clearance um so I switch between the blooming bloom fertilizer and the allpurpose fertilizer i do use both i don’t know that there’s really a big difference between the two in terms of like performance that I’ve noticed but usually I rotate week to week one or the other um you can see this fertilum I’ve used few years now i got these on clearance i’ve stocked up on a bunch of these bags on clearance um I’ve also used like Bachman’s that is a local nursery chain business to the Twin Cities they sell their own version of it um and I’ve used if you’re local the Girtton’s variety i haven’t used the Miracle Grow i can’t speak to how that works and I have used organic uh soluble fertilizers such as Burpee makes some organic ones um so I mix those i they come with little scoopers according to the directions in my watering can i throw in two tablespoons usually of the chilated iron and I saturate the soil but I don’t saturate it so much that it runs out the bottom because like I said I don’t want to waste the expensive ingredients of fertilizer and iron by a running to the bottom of the pot this early in the season when the roots only reach the top and uh fertilizing the sidewalk by having the water run out the bottom so I will also hit them like the cont small containers that I haven’t planted yet um they’ll be much happier if I give them a little dose of this as well before I plant so and then out in the vegetable garden I use fish emulsion fertilizer um this is just what I have right now um what I’ve been using and so I don’t know that it’s necessarily bad to use this you know in on the roots of your edible plants um I don’t know that it really like travels up the roots and infiltrates the the fruit or whatever you’re going to eat i’m not sure but it’s just easier because I fertilize all my vegetables with the fish emulsion fertilizer and this is a liquid as well of course um so I mix that into watering cans and usually any of the pots that are out there I’ll just use this on it um like that big herb planter it will get the fish emotion fertilizer um all the marolds that are planted with the peppers this is what it gets just it’s just easier that way now because I do have a caliber koa and some patunias out there I will be using this and the chilated iron on those but I also don’t have edibles in those containers so yeah so that’s it in a nutshell um let me know in the comments if you have any questions about it or or whatever but that is my entire container garden i still haven’t thought of the name of that Angelonia the Proven Winners um but anyway thank you so much for watching for sticking around hopefully this was helpful and um we’ll see you later bye bye