May Walkabout Garden Tour Pt. 1 Zone 6

I’m so excited to have you join me on this May Walkabout Garden Tour of my zone 6 Mid Missouri Garden. To keep the tour from being waaaay toooo looong to view in one sitting…I’ve split it into two parts. In this video I’ll show you all of the garden beds up close to our house. We’ve been busy this Spring adding new trees, loads of perennials and of course some flower power through summer annuals. It’s been a lovely, cool Spring in our area and the ROSES ARE SHOWING OFF. Hope you enjoy and will stay tuned for the next video…part 2. I’ll take you in the greenhouse, my raised bed garden ending with a stroll through our 2 acre pollinator habitat. Happy Gardening friends.
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[Music] hey everybody welcome to Garden Time with Belle it is getting towards the end of May in my mid Missouri zone 6 garden and that means it’s time for me to grab this camera and take you all on another walkabout i refer to my monthly garden tours as walkabouts because that’s what we used to call them with our sons when they were little we would do loads and loads of exploring in the great outdoors and just have lots of fun adventures and walkabouts around our properties around their parents’ farm there’s always something interesting to look at so today I am bringing along my garden journal uh because I keep a lot of notes from year to year about what’s growing in my garden and I have actually added quite a few new trees shrubs and perennials to my space this year so what I thought we would do is start this tour by taking a walkabout around the perimeter of our home i’m also going to try to show you some of the pots that I’ve recently planted up um might run up on our covered porch because I’ve got some new things up there for the year as well so before we jump into the tour I’m going to ask everybody to please like and subscribe to my channel so that I can continue to grow my channel and reach out to more gardeners just like you many of the things you’re going to see today especially any of my containers are really brand new they’ve only been in there just a little while so let’s take a look down here now this is the north side of our home uh and there’s sort of three little tiers this is of course the top tier where I’ve got my drip irrigation set up but this tier a step down and then a step down further so in this bed right now what we’ve got growing of course is Mr mikawa this is a dwarf Japanese maple this is only its second year so of course it’s only right now about maybe three and a half four foot tall and at least that wide but what you’ll see in the background let me get up in here are of course some hostas the closer up to the house is where I like to put my shade plants in a recent video you saw me planting up a bunch of colas do you see those three in the back they’re not much right now but they’re going to get huge they will get about 3 to four foot tall and fill in the back of that nicely um so I just thinking that’s going to be pretty behind this bed uh the Brunner is new this is It’s only Let’s see i planted it last summer and it’s done just about done with its gorgeous little periwinkle blue fairy fl fairy flowers as I say um so I will be actually trimming off those spent blooms here in just a little bit but what we’ll be left with is that gorgeous foliage my idea here is according to the stats on this particular brunner it will end up spreading and getting about 3 feet wide right now I would say it’s a couple feet wide so I’m hoping since I’ve got the three here it will sort of be a nice underplanting under Mr mikawa right here in the front I actually planted some sunloving things and I can do that because this bed is very deep so they sit out further away from the house so they only get shade um in the late part of the day which is kind of nice so they’re going to be in sun and these are my favorite patunias i have loads of videos and I just planted these less than a week ago and these would be the Super Tuna Vista Jaspberry look at that saturated color absolutely glorious and if you’ve grown super tuna vistas you know they get about three feet in diameter so eventually my idea is those will touch each other and fill in the front of the bed nicely okay down here let’s take a step down let’s start in the back of this bed again my cong red colus that I propagated from little cutings it’s in the back it’ll be just like those up there and grow up up up up i’ve got some a stillby here we’ve got a one of these a still is blooming isn’t that a pretty color the a still in front i think they’ll be more of a creamy white and then some more of my kolas wasabi and again I propagated these i just took some cutings off the mother plant and popped them in and then this little one here I think this is the las it’s not looking so great but I’m just going to be patient and let that fill in so as we move further down in this bed let’s take a look at what’s growing here one of our brand new additions this year is this gorgeous spiral boxwood we purchased quite a large specimen because we wanted some instant impact it’s about 5 and 1/2t tall I’d say at this point and I think it maxes out uh I don’t know maybe six or seven feet tall i think it fills in this area nicely you know we’ve got like many of you an AC unit they’re very ugly um if you have ideas for me on how I can sort of camouflage that I would love it the thing that we have to be mindful of though is we don’t want our um vegetation or plants too close to the unit that’s not good for your AC unit so I don’t know if my husband can you know he’s great at building things maybe he can build a pretty lattice covering or something for it anyhow okay so the other thing I wanted to point out that you might have seen on a recent video is I want to get way better at ground covers if you all have ideas also for your favorite ground covers let me know in the comments below because I really want to improve that part of my gardening something I haven’t really focused on before so I have chosen for this area lamium so if I get in here really close you can see how beautiful the variegation is it’s got that silvery gray green foliage and it of course is a trailing lamium it will spread and I’m hoping be a nice ground cover underneath that spiral boxwood and as we swing down over here you’ll see my three little lime punch hydrangeas they are a panacle hydrangeanger that changes color from the beginning of the season all the way through fall the flowers change color i mean if you can get a shrub or a perennial that puts flowers out that change color and they’ll be actually four different colors by the time October arrives h grab it up all right here’s my attempt this year at using an annual for ground cover and I have chosen this sweet potato i think it’s Caroline vine it’s not showing up great this morning in the in the filming that I’m doing but this is a very beautiful bright chartreuse color bright green against a deeper dark green and I do really feel like if this fills in like it’s supposed to cuz they get enormous then hopefully it will be a nice contrast underneath my little lime punch hydrangeas you’re seeing here my nepida my cat mint not catnip and um it’s really early this morning so we’re not seeing a lot of pollinators yet they haven’t woken up oh except soon as I say that there’s a bumble working the cat mint this morning all right they’re going to really be covering this whole area up okay I want to bring you to this bed of all the garden beds that are up close to the house this one has had the most massive transformation this year very intentional you’ve heard me talk about this bed a lot so let me give you a little background so this particular garden bed stays really wet we have tried everything we’ve just explored every possible cause we haven’t figured out how to rectify it yet so rather than really working against it I spent a lot of time last fall in reworking this bed in terms of thinking about and researching what plants mostly perennials can handle really wet soil and so based on what I learned I purchased a lot of perennials in fact we just planted 22 perennials in this bed about 3 weeks ago that handle moisture so I’m going to turn the camera around and show you what we decided on give you a little bit of the specs on what’s happening uh so you can maybe if you have a wet spot you can um get some inspiration but also if you have a really wet garden bed in your property that you have found certain plants for that are really successful please let me know i’d love to get your ideas uh as we came around the corner there you see where the nepida was I just showed you and I didn’t tell you but what’s next to it is a Miss Molly Budlia it’ll get hot pink it’s about oh not quite 3 foot tall but it really will take off later in the summer i’ve got some spider wart this purple and I’ve got a a hosta there so let me show you up close what plants we went with now as I come in here these three big shrubs one two and three are not brand new this year these are the only three things that aren’t brand new we actually planted three Limelight Prime hydrangeas in this bed last season and they are looking great let’s go into the back of this bed and here is where I’ve planted some Siberian iris and the variety I planted is Caesar’s Brother and we already have a little bloom i don’t know if it’s going to show up very well and apologize for my shadow but I’ve got the sunrise behind me this morning so it’s going to create some shadows anyways uh Siberian iris they will spread and fill in and have a nice backdrop of purple behind my limelight hydrangeas and I kind of planted them can you see they’re sort of in between the hydrangeas not directly behind so eventually they’ll fill in all right so we’ve got my hydrangeas and then the next row I have manarda manarda is supposed to do really well in wet conditions and this one is just starting to crack open and I’m going to have to grab my little garden journal because I can’t remember i think it’s some kind of a hot pink color but I’m trying to find the actual variety so let me do that now it’s okay thanks for your patience everybody i grabbed my garden journal it’s in my other hand now so this is a manarda called electric pink and it will get 22 in tall and about 18 in wide but it is a reeder so it will drop its seed and I’m going to you know try to manage that i don’t care if it spreads i’m hoping it does but I do know that manarda does have a tendency to really spread so you know if it creates new plants great i’ll move them around to different parts of the property and then I chose in the very front row they’re not looking so great right now but I chose a carrots or palm sedge for this front row and what I like about this is that it is on the brighter side of green it’s not quite chartreuse but it’s a brighter green against the darker manarda and then I had some leftover geraniums in uh salmon that I started from seed on January the 1st and so I thought why not pop in some of those so again the back row can handle more shade the front part can handle more sun so I’m hopeful now I am really concerned and probably going to make a change here and this is why doing garden tours is so good whether you do it for yourself or I do it for my channel look at this oh I’m so worried about this so this is one of my hearty hibiscus from Proven Winners the summer rific series i think I planted this about two weeks ago and there is no green growth i’m going to show you the other hearty hibiscus I planted and it’s looking fabulous my concern is maybe with this being such a wet zone maybe maybe the roots are too wet and I don’t want the roots to rot cuz I spent a lot of money on that particular uh hearty hibiscus so I think later today I’m going to dig it up take a look at it and I’m going to relocate it in a drier zone although hibiscus hearty hibiscus are supposed to be able to handle moist conditions so there’s my beloved colus that’s one colus pop that in the pot i need to get the drip tucked up in there so that I don’t have to worry about watering it there it is one plant that’s a congred you’ve seen that before all right here’s one of my aqua pots all filled in with my beloved geraniums and coral that aren’t blooming quite yet and in the middle this is the Oso I think Oso Blue Unplugged Salvia by Proven Wyinners i only potted these pots up maybe a week ago at the most so they are really going to grow grow grow i think I will take you up on the deck quickly because I had uh put out some videos on some hanging baskets and a new planter that’s right up on the deck philip well here we are on our screened and covered porch which is where we spend a lot of time this is the perfect location to sip your morning coffee and maybe your evening beverage uh just wanted to point out you can see my Boston ferns this was one fern until about two months ago that I overwintered in my greenhouse i’ve had the fern for going on two years now anyhow it had gotten enormous and I thought hey let’s cut it in half repot it and put one on either side of this little couch and it looks great I think over here again my colas that’s just one plant and I underplanted the kolas with this beautiful um weeping trailing kolas i’m going to forget the name if I can find it I’ll put it up on the screen so anyhow that will eventually fill in and drape over the sides of that beautiful blue pot and here’s more geraniums can you tell I’m in love with this variety this year get in here close so you can see one of the flowers i do have them staked i know that doesn’t look so great but here’s the deal we get loads and loads of wind and summer storms and spring storms in fact we had tornadoes last week and it blows like crazy and these are relatively new i just potted these up maybe maybe not even a week ago and you know they get topheavy so I want this to really root in and get stronger and then once it does I’ll remove that little bamboo steak all right enough about pots let’s go out here this is a new addition to our gardens and that would be this 4 foot long planter box with an attached trellis i did a little video on this called um something about tropicals i can’t remember but anyway so you can look that up uh on the playlist loaded it up with lots of different kolas the wasabi the cong red this one that I can’t ever remember the name of and then the pink mande that I’m going to train to go up this six foot tall trellis let’s go over here oh it might be a little bit hard to see because the sun the morning sun is really reflecting off the um uh the pond but oh Hummer activity always let’s see if I can capture it while we’re out here there’s a Hummer hanging on i don’t know if you guys can see that on the um hanging basket okay so let me go in here a little closer i just recently created these hanging baskets again it’s not even been a week ago that I popped in the super tuna patunias and this year I’m using blue tiara saffron finch and a pink tiara there it is only a week into the process if I swing around here and there is the other one i am so happy with how they’re going to fill in you will not even see the cocoaquar baskets in about a I’d say about 6 weeks it’ll completely cover that next stop on the walkabout let’s go down these stairs and show you this little point these two beds and I want to show you what I was talking about earlier with the hearty hibiscus so I popped in I think it’s the cherry chocolate latte one over here the hearty hibiscus and look at the foliage well first of all that doesn’t look so good does it i mean there is foliage where the other one had no green but it also looks like something’s eating my leaves so I better get in here and investigate what’s happening i’m not sure sometimes when you see circle holes sometimes those could be saw flies i think sometimes I can’t I can’t imagine it’s slugs or snails they wouldn’t get up that high I don’t think if you have any ideas let me know but eventually if I take care of that problem that hearty hibiscus will get enormous so it’s got lots of space uh next to these hostas to grow up and hopefully cover up some of that ugly concrete wall just a variation of hostas in this little row here this is a karaopterus that I just planted not long ago and what was funny is when I bought it of course it had been in a greenhouse and it was in full bloom but really it’s a supposed to be a late summer bloomer so the blooms have left but they’re going to come back and it’s supposed to get let me see here 24 to 36 in tall so almost 3 foot and 2 feet wide so when it matures and it’s a perennial it’ll fill in this space right here all right let’s swing around here and take a look at the spider wart i mean wow wow wow what color right here we’ve got my uh Baptisia false indigo and they’re a little bit done they’re starting to get done uh this is the uh sparkling sapphire variety next to it later for the summer this is one of my cone flowers i think it’s a beautiful hot pink magenta all right so the row of peies you know my lovehate relationship i currently love them they bloom here in my zone six garden for about two to three weeks max and then they’re done for the year so you make the most of them while you can what I don’t like about them is after they’ve bloomed the shrubs that are left over when I prune back all the spent flowers they look gorgeous now look at those leaves but I suffer in this zone or they suffer from blight and powdery mildew we are very hot and humid here in the summer and so the shrub tends to look pretty awful in June July and August but anyhow so in between Russian sage that’ll get as tall or taller than the peony bushes this is a Miss Molly butterfly bush again it’s a later one to come on so it’s got a ways to go and it gets easily 4 foot tall here’s some more Russian sage tucked in between these two pianies not blooming yet but it will be oh let’s take a look at the bumble oh he is really far in there let’s see if I can There he is oh and he’s off he’s off for the baptisia so here’s more of that baptisia the one you saw down below that I showed you uh we actually transplanted it to a new spot i pulled it out of its original position there and relocated it it’s a little bit on the struggle bus but it’s trying to get established so they don’t always transplant very well so we’ll see how it does but just look at this sparkling sapphire get in there Mr bumble they pollinators love false indigo then this is lemon mering and again it’s been in bloom for quite a bit of time so it’s just about done you can see how some of the yellow’s faded but this is lemon mering and then another sapphire sparkling sapphire and more lemon mering quick little trick or tip some of you might know not know is it’s a great idea when you are deciding color schemes for your garden to plant things from the color wheel and I’ll put the color wheel up on the screen what I’m talking about plant things of different colors that are complimentary or that are across the color wheel and they just complement one another so beautifully and purple and yellow are across each other on the color wheel so let’s turn around here and take one more look this isn’t about plants but I just have to respond i get a lot of questions from people about they see the the dog kennel on our back patio that faces our pond and that dog kennel um was the home part-time home of our beautiful yellow lab Bailey miss Bailey uh passed away oh about a year or so ago she lived to be 15 and a half years old i’ll see if I can put a picture of that beautiful dog of ours up on the screen for you to see how gorgeous she was and actually she wasn’t really yellow she was white and living here on our property all this acorage it was doggy heaven for Miss Bailey especially being a water dog and h just to see her run loose over the property of course we were always out here with her when she was off um off leash but to see that white dog just run and jump in our pond and swim against this gorgeous green grass it was really a gift so we miss her a lot we don’t have a new doggy we’re talking about it but we haven’t made any decisions yet so anyways we really miss our Bailey but this is a little additional raised bed box that my hubby made me a couple years ago and this is where I grow additional cut flowers so right now I’ve got some ageratum in the front and some salosia in the back still early yet they’re not quite in bloom but this was some overflow plants i’ve got some more I’ll show you um in the next video down in my raised bed garden but what I need to get in here probably today or tomorrow zenia seeds so I’m going to add that here a look at our little oh so easy Italian ice rose i mean look at that apricot and yellow and pink so lovely this rose was actually right there until about three weeks ago when we picked up a um Oh gosh okay julia Child rose that has enormous yellow flowers right now the flowers are off and I’ve trimmed them off and it’ll flush out a lot new of new flowers pretty soon but anyways this little one was there and had been doing horrible so I thought let’s just pop it in the end of this raised bed and see if that makes a difference and it’s liking its new home and the final spot on our tour would be the front of our house which is west facing there’s our lovely Leonard Messle magnolia tree that of course blooms early early in spring like in March and I don’t know if I have any pictures of it in full bloom if I do I’ll try to put them up on the screen so you can really appreciate that tree okay so here is a new addition my North Pole arrivites uh were planted by my son here last summer but I finally got one of the coveted David Austin roses called Sceptered Isle and it’s going right here originally we had planned on purchasing a Belinda Rose since that’s my name uh but they were all out so I went ahead and actually had a sweet friend in St louis pick me up this David Austin rose what’ll be lovely is it’s a about this rose for this space is it gets five foot tall and four feet wide and the bottom of the window is four feet so it might get just a little bit taller than the window it’s going to fill in it’s a beautiful pink uh a medium tone pink with a yellow throat and then I did some hard work and I’ll I have a video that’s either coming out or has already come out um showing how I dug all the mulch out in the front section and I removed from here to here which is about four feet i removed a bunch of landscape fabric so that I could plant annuals in the front of the bed to give some big color all right here’s the OG of Proven Winners Super Tuna Patunias and this would be bubblegum and this is Silverberry with the pink throat isn’t that sweet i just planted these y’all about a may maybe a week ago so they don’t look like much but you hear me talk about them all the time they get enormous especially in the landscape where their roots can really reach out they will be a little river of pink and creamy pink so I have them alternated here so it will fill in this whole area this summer and just really be what I hope is going to be major flower power so here we are at the entrance to the house in our front porch area and I want to bring your attention to another you just saw this oh so easy Italian ice on the south side of the house that uh is much smaller i’m not sure why it didn’t like where it was but this one has been in this bed for I think this will be its third season and again here’s one of those flowers that roses that changes color you know it looks orangey apricotty opens up yellow yellow in the center with some fringes of pink and apricot just love it and it’s on the uh petite side it’s probably at the max in the summer maybe three foot tall but it gets nice and wide just lovely i’ve got another video of me uh showing you how to use uh annuals in your garden that can take sun or shade and this is a great example of that i just planted these maybe a week ago this is one of the Proven Winners beonas that will fill in this whole pot they get like two feet tall and oh gosh about a foot wide so that’s going to be in the back so got to be patient for that and then some dripping draping little petite colas in the front uh so I am looking forward to that really simple combination can you see the flower power I’m about to show you this would be my beautiful Jack Manai Clemetus let me just come in here and give it its due talk about a gorgeous gorgeous clemetus i’ve had this clemetus growing here i think this would probably be its fourth year look at the buds i mean I’ve got it on a trellis i don’t know if you can see on an iron trellis but honestly I got to figure out a way to extend that trellis or something to let it gets to its full potential there on size i mean I couldn’t be more happy one of the things that I attribute to all this flower power and this wonderful growth this year is the fact that I chose this year to use Rosetone that Espoma organic fertilizer i use some of it on it they say that rose tone is great not only for roses but for things like clemetus and I use rose tone fertilizer on all of my panacle hydrangeas and uh yeah I apply that uh every usually April to get them started uh for the season so yeah could not be happier tucked in another little super tuna patunia this is the vista one that gets really big and this is that what they call silver berry i needed something to fill in this space right there and I think it’ll work out all right last let’s save the best for last shall we my beloved Gertrude Gal Climbing Roses h I just like come on you You can’t get You can’t get any better than that can you i don’t think it’s possible so she is showing off she really shows off in May usually the last half of May she puts on her first gigantic flush and what is so incredible about her is she is a repeat bloomer and she has outstanding fragrance probably the most fragrant of all roses that I happen to have the pleasure of growing in my garden let’s just let’s just pause here and take a moment i can’t think of a better place to end today’s garden walkabout than right here by these roses that are putting on a fabulous show here in May in my mid Missouri zone 6 garden so I appreciate you all hanging out with me today i hope that you maybe got a little inspiration about certain kinds of plants you might want to add to your own garden i hope that you’ll add your comments and suggestions for me i asked you a few questions that I need some help on uh considering how to manage a few of the things growing so until next time I wish everybody out there happy gardening