This is October in Minnesota?? Full Container Garden Tour, Zone 5a

I can’t believe it’s still 90 degrees in October in Minnesota. But cold is coming so please enjoy this patio garden tour and my thoughts on the different annuals I grew.

Hey everyone, it’s me. I’m just going to take you on a garden tour through my container garden here. I filmed this yesterday and I believe I maybe rambled on a little too long about my favorite plants. So, it is a little bit long. Um, so I appreciate anything you do watch. I hope you enjoy and we’ll see you in a minute. Hey everyone, Laurel here. Minnesota zone 5A. I just want to talk about the annuals today. It’s the first weekend in October and um it’s going to get close to 90 degrees today. It’s not normally we’re approaching our uh average first frost date with no frost in sight, but it’s been uh a big heat wave kind of hitting the upper Midwest this week. So things still look really really fresh. Normally by now, beginning of October, I’ve cleared out one or two pots, but things are still looking fantastic. There are a few things that look a little bit tired, but anyway, I had a lot of things that did really, really well this year. Um, a lot of favorites that I do every year that are kind of tried and true. So, yeah, just want to take a look at the container garden and see how things are doing. Possibly for the last time, we’re going to dip down to the 60s next week. Uh, I don’t think we’re I think we’re going to have some weather in the 40s, but not a frost yet. not close to a frost, so no end in sight yet, which gives me more time to plant all my perennials. This little corner I really liked. Um, this is pretty much I there are just a couple blooms in this area. Um, but this is really mainly just foliage interest over here and nothing else. I have a lot of caladium. I really enjoyed this this combination of the um spicy lizard caladium with the variegated licorice vine. And then I have a hippo pink hippo westes back here. Polka dot plant that’s kind of getting taken over now by the kolas, which by the way has become massive. This is the velvetine colus. It’s even like encroaching on the garage door. But I just let it go. That’s just one plant. The color blaze kolus tends to get very very large most varieties except for the mini me ones that they have now. Um but it’s just so calming. I like how it moves in the wind. Um, this is one of my This is probably my favorite. Plectranthus. Well, I think I have two favorites. Like I said, I can never pick a favorite, but Pleanthus guacamole. I’ve grown this in full shade and full sun. Gets bigger and takes off faster in full sun. Um, you can kind of see it trailing down here. I love the like really strong variegation on the leaf. Then it has like purple underside to the leaf. And all these colors are even deeper in full sun. and a purple stem. This one, this caladium is called uh Florida beauty and that took off so fast the uh plectranthus had to catch up a little bit so you couldn’t see it for a little while. But I love caladium. They are the first to go though. As soon as we start dipping below 40, um they well they don’t die. They’re corns. They’re bulbs that you plant and you can harvest them. I don’t have great luck overwintering them. and they need to be kept really dry and I don’t know, it’s just I’ve had difficulty with them rotting or getting moldy over the winter. So, I just buy fresh ones every year. Um, and say you get cold temperatures, these will all the clavium will droop down, will just kind of lay flat. So, you have to cut off all the old leaves cuz they’re not going to bounce back again. They’re done once it gets below 40. And they do that if you’re in a warm climate, like a lot of them are far grown and farmed in Florida at least that are distributed to the US. Um, if it gets warm again, they’ll respout from the corn, but once the leaves droop, they’re they’re not going to pop back up. Oh, there’s my neighbor. [Music] That’s so loud. I think he’s been doing work on one particular bike, testing it out. Oh, there goes the shed blowing open in the wind. Um, yeah. So, those will be the first things to go um before we even get a frost. As I said, like temps in the high30s. So, usually I clean these pots out first. Anything with caladium in it. Of course, frost sensitive things like kolus and sweet potato vine are usually the next to get hit. Those are very, very sensitive. beonas and impatients too, a little bit less so. Um, but because if you’re ever in an area or you want to protect annuals, say you get one cold night in the spring or something, even just putting them over an under an overhang here because it’s sort of sheltered between the structures. Okay, hold on. There we go. Just drove by the house. Um even like an overhang like from the eve there will the sophet will shield things from the frost or um like in the spring if we get a cold temp and I have this table out here I’ll put things under that that table or up against the house. So that’s one way if if you’re interested in doing that. This time of year, of course, I don’t bother if we get like sometimes you get one cold snap with a with a 35 degree night early on and then it gets warm again. Sometimes I’ll protect things when that happens. Okay. Well, it was nice and quiet in the neighborhood about 10 minutes ago, which is why I decided to film, but now the neighbor’s going up and down the street on his scooter. So, we’ll see. We’ll see how much he he goes back and forth. He restores um vintage scooters or like mopeds. So, he’s always working on them. Um these bounce back beautifully. This is the Great Punch Super Bells. Looking really lush right now. I did I think it was not last weekend but the weekend before I gave everything one last shot. It was like half strength chilated iron and just allpurpose water-soluble fertilizer in a watering can. Um, I just noticed things were looking kind of chlorotic. So, I’m done fertilizing now because we’re heading into winter, so there’s no point wasting the money, but I decided there wasn’t any uh frost in sight. So, I thought, well, I’ll give one last shot of fertilizer, keep things looking nice through the frost time. This um verbena I’m debating I might try because this is in its own smallalish pot, smaller pot. I might try bringing that inside. I’ll see how much space I have on my shelves with my grow lights over the winter. Um verbina can be touchy if it dries out too much. But and I do have a couple more like that’s a verbina that is in I uppotted it from the nursery pot, but I just have these in like basically nursery containers that I’m going to attempt to overwinter as an experiment. But all the verbina in the larger pots I’m not going to bother. I’m debating whether to try so dicra silver falls. Um I’m guessing it’s hardy in a lot of zones. I don’t know what zone it is, but I have had it. It’ll root in anywhere the stems touch the ground. It is easy to find and pretty cheap to buy. And now, thanks to Deanna on Gardens Glory, I know where to buy seeds for it. So, I might try that as well. But I might just try digging up some chunks and overwintering them this year. Um, where I had it growing last year and it rooted in. Don’t mind the dandelion here. It’s growing in my sidewalk cracks and I’ve had it come up in flower beds um near where I grew it the previous summer. So, it is somewhat hardy here. It can be. So, I might give that a shot as well. But all the verbina did really well. They do lull where they’re really full of blooms and then they have just sporadic. Um, but for the most part, as long as you keep them trimmed a little bit so they don’t get leggy and you keep them fertilized, verbina do great. Patunias and caliber koa over the winter also or over the season tend to do great but they do need at least in my experience if they’re in a pot they do need regular prunes pruning um so this like these are super tunia mini vista mix really only one of them you can see blooming now I gave those a hard cut back and I have to do that a few times a season in order for them to keep blooming well um I highly recommend all of these superunia mini vistas. Um, I’ve had really good luck with really all but one variety. I think it was the This one is the Super Tuna Mini Vista Midnight, but there’s another one and I like the indigo. Um, there’s another one I grew last year that kind of had a medium purple bloom. I forget the name of it now, but I avoided that this year because it was it was terrible last year. It did terrible. So very strong branching habit which keeps them looking very full on top and it takes them a while to get leggy so you don’t have to trim them as often compared to other patunias wave patunias anything like that that at least in my experience that I’ve grown before or even other just regular super tunias tend to need more trimming and get sort of longer leggier and ganglier over the season. Some of the new varieties though I think are kind of improved in that aspect. Like the Hoopla Vivid Orchid did really well in a container. It did need several cutbacks. You still have to do that, but uh it didn’t get leggy quite as fast as some of the other varieties I’ve tried. The older ones over here, too. I have to show you this sweet alysum. And now my shadow is going to be in the way, but go around. Snow princess alysum. Look at that. It’s like draping on the ground. It’s like literal curtain of blooms. It is so beautiful and pollinators like this too. Right now there are a bunch of flies on it in the morning. But it has just it is so low maintenance. Alyssum is very drought tolerant. Um so you don’t have to baby it by any means. This one’s in full sun pretty much the whole summer. Even as the light changes, it’s in full sun until late in the afternoon. These containers are all in full sun. But this is the best alysum I’ve ever grown is the snow princess. It is fabulous. And this year did really well. They won’t be as full of bloom if they’re in part shade. In my experience, even snow princess, I’ve grown in part shade and it just wasn’t quite as uh full of blooms. But this one is just gorgeous. Love that. Love angelonia. As long as that gets good sunlight as well. Um, I always love Lantana. I’m loving all the Lantana I grew this year. This one is coconut Lantana. And this is my I have two favorite sweet potato vines. There’s this one, the Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Jet Black. Um, it did crawl up just a little bit. It gets fairly full, but nothing like the older varieties of sweet potato vine where you’re constantly having to trim them to keep them from invading everything else. This stays much more compact. I haven’t trimmed this one at all this season. The other one is the Sweet Caroline Medusa. Probably the most compact and well behaved sweet potato vine on the market right now. I’m hoping I can get my hands on the Medusa Midnight or the dark one that they’re coming out with for next year, but we’ll see. Although I did see on Aaron the Impatient Gardener grew it this year. She of course got an early release as an influencer. Um and she says it does get bigger and a little more uh vigorous than the green version. This one was so cool. This is a dusty miller called Mercury. That’s one plant there. Of course, Dusty Miller is a tried and true classic or many like I have like the more traditional or commonly found variety over in this container mix as well. Really sturdy. They can do full sun or full shade. They get much bigger with more sun and more vigorous and more white color. But this one has stayed like solid white all summer. Sometimes on the other varieties of dusty miller, they kind of green out on the older leaves like that. This one does not. It reminds me more of the senio. They’re all in the senio family, but like I have an angel wing senio over there. Um where just all white leaves the whole summer. They do dry up. Like I’ve you can see they kind of age out and dry up and you just pick them off. I have to do that with a couple of them down here. But I’m really hoping I can find that next year because this was a really cool plant. Very cool form, too. I like how it kind of draped a little bit over the edge but also stayed upright. And unlike the senio angel wings, the grasshoppers didn’t attack this one and chew it up. Senio angel wings the grasshoppers seem to love. And so there’s just like holes in it from uh grasshoppers chewing on it. Yeah, you can see all the probably should have been doing this earlier, but you can see how the leaves kind of dry up underneath and you just pull them out once they’re dry and it’ll it would sprout new leaves to kind of fill in the gap. So really low maintenance. Same thing with beonas. They are a tuberous plant, which means they don’t like to be overwatered, so they’re not fussy. They’re good in drought. Um, the bronze leaf beonas do really well in full sun. Pretty much all of them, if they have a bronze leaf, you can put them in full sun. Um, this is just one was just labeled bronze leaf white. And I like how dark the foliage is. And then this kolas called shiny shoes. Really unique because kolas normally are kind of matte and velvety looking, but this one is glossy. And I really like the size that it got. I like how it branched. I did have one branch that broke off in here, but other stuff filled it in. And it just started flowering the last few weeks. Not a heavily flowering plant, which is which is great for molus. Um, but I kind of like how these I think I’m just going to leave this. You know, it’s end of the season. I kind of like how these flowers look, how they have green with dark purple on the stems. And then this is a dusty or a euphoria. Took a little while to take off because it’s kind of on the shady side of the pot. Um, and it’s not a Proven Winners, but it did really well. The tag is a lot of the plant tags are in the containers right now, and I don’t know where now that the plants have gotten so huge. So, can’t show you that tag, but um yeah, this is the sio I was talking about. Angel wings. Same thing. The leaves kind of dry up and you pick them off as they brown. Now, I think we’re kind of past grasshopper season, but you can see like this leaf was chewed up. There’s a hole in that one. It was the same thing with my plant up front. They chew big holes in these leaves. So, but all senio are really tough, drought tolerant plants. And this uh Caprosia. The last couple years I’ve gotten a couple of these on clearance. I wait till they go on clearance cuz they’re like 12 bucks. But now that I’ve see how big it gets and that it can be a thriller in a container. I think maybe next year I might plan for one of these. I like the glossy leaves and the variegation. This can do full sun or full shade. But this one got really large and I love the color. So I’m going to look for that again. and might be worth the $12 at least for one of them. Probably the best performing verbena I’ve ever grown is the sparkling amethyst superbina from Proven Winners. Good size blooms. Not the biggest blooms I see on verbena, but just a performer. I mean, it just blooms and blooms and blooms. Right now it lulls but it’s lulling but it is it’s more full of blooms than any other plant. Like fuller more mounded than any other verbina I’ve grown. And I’ve grown this one a number of years and it performs the same every time. It also mingles well. It does well. I’ve planted it with superunia mini vistas and and other plants and it mingles well. You know, it kind of intertwines. Um but this one just so low maintenance. It doesn’t get real leggy. I check it and trim it a couple times, but if you buy one superbina, if you have that in the budget for one, look for sparkling amethyst. I’ve also grown the pink version, which is sparkling rose. Kind of the sister plant. It’s a nice one, too, but not nearly as good as this one. Doesn’t quite hold up as well. It’s caliber co. I don’t know the name. And again, the tag is buried. But this one, man, that’s pretty. I want to say it’s like blueberry something. I like how it has those yellow tones in there, too. Two other verbinas um that are okay. Um this storm cloud ended up coming back a little bit. It started off that was the one I overwintered, so it had a rough start to the summer. It took a long time to uh get going, but once it did, it did well, but it’s also kind of a unique color with that striped bloom. And then this is the uh violet ice. Um solid solid performer, just not nearly as good as sparkling amethyst in my opinion. Superbina white out is one of my other favorites. It gets really some of the largest bloom panacles I’ve seen on a verbena. Um and more full of blooms, so I really enjoyed that one. Angelonia, it does really well at mingling. It’ll kind of lean and mingle with things. Um, this one is the Proven Winners. The name of that line is completely escaping me now. Angel Face, maybe. So, highly recommend that. I’ve grown a number of different angel face variet like colors and they all do well. This was the Surefire White Beonia. wasn’t sure about it because it’s green leaf if it could actually handle full sun as it was build because I’ve had green leaf beonas that say full sun but then they kind of struggle. They get leggy and they bronze the foliage kind of bronzes out but not in a good way like it looks burned. But this one did really well. It was shaded probably at the heat of the day. So I’m not sure if you put it in full full sun how it would perform but in this situation um it did well. And the uh Surfire bagonas get really large too. Um love this planter how this turned out. This is a caliber ka. I want to say it was called strawberry sundae or something like that. Again the tag is somewhere in this planter. Um I did have to so I planted it with this portilaka which is a pizzazz nano pink. I think it is hot pink something like that. Um and I will harvest seeds. You can see the seed pods. When the blooms dry up, there are little seed pods that when those turn brown, you can uh kind of squeeze. They’re filled with tons of seeds. So, it’s really easy to harvest porta seeds and they’re very plentiful and they uh very easy to sew as well. But I had two of those plants in one container and the porcha kept taking over the uh super uh the caliber koa. So, I had to keep unbearing the caliber koa and trimming back the portulaka. But now they’re mingling nicely. Portulaka is gorgeous, but the blooms don’t stay open all the time. They close in the evening. And I don’t know. I should look up what triggers them to open and close. They’re definitely usually open midday in the full sun. Um, but not always. Sometimes they come out there and they’re closed. There’s another one. This one I thought was pizzazz nano pink too, but it’s looking more orangey red, so who knows? I grew a number of salvia this year. This is the mini me watermelon colus from Proven Wyinners. Really enjoy that. Um, this salvia took a minute to get going. Um, again, I don’t know the name. That tag is buried. This is why I probably just shouldn’t put those tags in the pots because then I can’t find them later. Now it’s looking good. Um stayed nice and green, nice and full of very full foliage all summer, but it kind of uh ebbed with the bloom cycle. Um there were a number of weeks where it didn’t have any blooms on it. Um and I do like these blooms. Hummingbirds like them, too, but they’re I kind of like things that are a little bit more full of color. So, I think it’s a solid one, but I don’t know that I would seek it out to repeat it. You can see my bean. This is the hyestent ruby moon hyestent the bean vine that the hummingbirds absolutely love these flowers. Um, this was the first year I grew it in this container and had the string going up to the tall sophet. Normally, I’ve had it on the garage where I can still reach. I’m tall so I can kind of reach all the way up, but here I couldn’t reach it. And one thing with the um highinth bean vine, at least ruby moon, which I’ve grown, is to keep it from browning out like this um you have to keep the bean pods uh deadheaded. So it blooms, it forms those cool looking per bean pods and then as soon as those start kind of turning brown, you have to cut off cut off that branch with the beans on it or else it it stops sending energy into the plant. It thinks it produces its seed and then it’s done for the year. So that’s what happened with here. The pods were all the way up and I couldn’t really reach them to prune them off. I suppose I could have gotten up there with the loppers, but it also got crushed by kittens inside the pot. So I kind of just let this one go. So now it’s my fall ambiance, I suppose. Um, but I don’t really want to deal with getting a ladder up there. So it’ll just stay there until I’m ready to clear everything out. But that is a tip. If you grow highest bean vine, dead head those beans. um as soon as they start turning brown or your plant will stop producing uh nice new growth and it’ll it’ll start browning out too. So can of liies I save all my tubers. Same thing with the elephant ears. You can see I have purple one and a green one and mostly green ones. This purple one is new. Um but I save all the roots, the tubers from everything. Um I have for probably my oldest cana is well over 10 years old now. Uh this is toucan orange. The toucan canas do really well for me or have done very well. Originally bought them on clearance. That’s a tip too. If you want a can of a you can buy a tuber tubers in the garden center and start them very easily in the spring. They only take maybe four or five weeks to really get going. Grasshoppers do like them though as you can see and so do Japanese beetles. So just be warned of that. We had a weird year with almost no Japanese beetles, which was a treat. Um, but to overwinter your canas, if you have one growing, all you have to do after frost, I cut away the dead foliage. There’s a lot of water in those stems, too. So, just be warned of that when you’re clear cleaning up. And, um, dig out the root ball. I cut off there. You’ll see like big chunky roots and then finer roots. I cut out off the big chunky roots and knock off as much of the soil as I can without needing to clear every last bit of it off the root. I throw the whole thing into a cardboard box. I leave the flaps open for a couple weeks just to let any moisture from the stems dry out. And then I just fold over the box and stick it in the basement for the winter. And that’s it. And then in the spring when you pull it out, I usually pull them out in April. Our average last frost date is May 5th here. Uh late March, early April. I pulled them out of the basement and all the soil now has desiccated. So that’s much easier to to scrape off the old potting soil from the previous year, whatever was left. And um the you can see the living points of the tuber as well. the rest of the root system will have desecated as well, but you can see all the growth points is still the living tissue. So, I just trim it up. I cut away the dead stuff. And then I have a whole box full of uh chunks of tuber and you can start many more plants from that one root. Um, pro tip also, as I was saying, look for those once plants go on super clearance. Like Bachman’s right now, garden centers have 75% off tropicals. They tend to do that early in the season. at least here in the Twin Cities, go buy yourself a tuber, pot it up, just uppot it in a little or a plant, a cana, living cana. Um, if you need to pot it up in a little bit bigger pot and that tuber will spread and then you can depot it and uh store it over the winter and have one next year. I’ve done that. That’s what I did with the toucan can canas that I grew. Got those 75% off. I potted them up into a little bit bigger pot so they had some room to spread and a few weeks later stored them for winter. Ultrantherra great alternative. It’s kind of a filler and a spiller because it kind of mounds up but it will trail over a little bit. So um if you’re having trouble with sweet potato vine or it’s too dry and hot for sweet potato vine where you live, you can give alterna a try because it does really well also in heat and drought conditions. This one is purple prince. Um, you can start it from seed. It is a little bit finicky from seed. And now I can find this one or a version that looks just like it pretty much anywhere. So I am no longer going to purchase the seeds. They’re a little bit expensive, too. But I will continue to grow altern. And I like how it mixes and mingles. So that’s a beautiful plant. And you can see all my Lantana. I grew a number of different varieties, both proven winners and non-proven winners, and they all did great. They all did really well. Here’s another plectranthus guacamole. This one was in a little more sun, although it kind of got shaded out by the plants. Unfortunately, there’s still a hole down in my where the kittens had formed a nest before I realized. A little bed, kitten bed. Impatience. Just classic impatience. These I got in four packs, you know, for 250 each for a fourpack of impatience. And you can find them everywhere. They’re cheap and they get massive. They get huge. I mean, you can see, maybe you can see like how long these stems are on these plants, how far back this pot is. So, you can keep them trimmed up. They do tend to bloom on the ends of the stem. So, I just let them go. But, if you do buy some mid-season or you get when you first purchase them and they’re fourack and they’re real leggy, you can trim them back and they’ll sprout new growth. So that’s what I would recommend if you get if you’re planting leggy ones, trim them back. Um, these do better. So I’ve grown I tried a number of years growing the Proven Winners, the double what is it? The Rockapco uh line of impatience double impatience and they they never did well. I couldn’t figure out where they were happy where they wanted to be planted and just my cheap fourpack beacon impatience always took over. So I’m done planting the proof of winners ones. I’m sticking with these in the ground or in containers. This dragon wing beonia I must try to save as well. This is two plants in a small pot that I bought on super clearance and it got massive. All of these beonas I can save the tubers. Um, this one I started from a tuber that I purchased in a garden center. There’s another one down here, a pretty orange and yellow one. So, I will be saving. Bugonas are fairly easy to overwinter indoors. Just don’t overwater them or you will rot the roots. These plants are cool, too. I always find these pa. They’re not labeled with a specific variety, but there’s they’re sort of like accent plants and fillers, but they get huge. So, this is a pile, and I love the texture. It’s just so different. This area is in full shade over here. Torrenia here is a cool one. Full sun or full shade. Just be warned. It is thirsty if it’s in full sun. It needs a lot of water. So, um, this little Rex beagonia is in its own pot. So, I will overwinter that. Those I’ve had success over. In fact, that’s one I overwintered last year. The Kimberly Queen fern, however, I will not overwinter. I may just take it out of its pot, stick it in a bag, and uh bring it to work. See if anybody wants a free fern to try. They make a mess. They make a huge mess. Geraniums are another one that I have overwintered. Well, I have not tried the paper bag method or cardboard box method where you dig them up, let them dry out, store them in a box or a bag in a b place like a basement where it’s cool and dry and doesn’t freeze. My aunt had really good luck with that this last year, so I will probably try it. Last year I decided to over to throw out all but two of my geranium because did I say beonia geranium because uh they all had budworms really bad. So I didn’t want to overwinter that issue. Um this is the albido kolas. Another color blaze kolus that gets huge. This is what it looks like in full shade. A little more muted colors. Kind of that chartreuse green is uh is more chartreusy. That’s sort of the brighter accent. You can see the seed pods on the cana. They look really neat. I don’t know if these seeds are viable, but I just saved the tubers, so I don’t want to bother with seed starting. You can see more of the impatience. This is what elo looks like in mostly full sun. does get a fair amount of morning shade, especially this time of year, but it’s it’s more vibrant colors and that um chartreuse edge is more washed out kind of or blown out much lighter in color. These are the first blooms of the season. All of the colorblaze kolas I have found also bloom very late so you don’t have to do a lot of deadheading. So kind of fun how kolas changes color in the sun versus the shade. This is my oldest can of lily, my first one I ever brought, can of ptoria. I think I bought it as a starter plant initially and have been overwintering the tubers ever since. But it has grown for this beautiful striped foliage. And it does start turning brown the older leaves. You can see. So I’ve trimmed a few of them off. Might come in and trim a few more. Um because it’s under kind of the edge of the roof, too. This one won’t get hit as hard by frost. This one blooms very late. It really is grown for the foliage because it just started blooming a few weeks ago at the very end of summer like August at the very earliest. But hummingbirds love can of flowers as well and super tall blooms. You can see my Dalia that I have planted in the ground over here is just crawling everywhere. The one that was supposed to be pink but is white, but I’m enjoying the white. I did have to prop these up because I have poor little Hummel down there that got completely covered. So, and these keep tipping over. So, I prop them up a little bit more. I will move that hammealo. I think now that I know dalia do well over here, I’m just going to stick with dalas in this spot. Look how gorgeous these are. I just keep harvesting for bouques in the house. And a lot of them even go past harvest and I have to dead head. Once they get to this stage, that’s when the bees love them because they can actually get at the pollen. This is past when you harvest a dalia. You want it to be closed here and then kind of no brown or wilting on the back side of the flower. It’ll last much longer. I mean, you can harvest them at any point. It’s just they won’t last as long in the vase when they’re fully open like this. So, I leave the open ones until they kind of start getting real wilty because cuz the pollinators just love them, the bumblebees. Bumblebees especially love these open flower ones where they can really get at. This also was supposed to be a tall dinner plate dalia, but turned out to be a short but cute one. So, I’ll save all these tubers. As I’ve said before, I have middling luck with saving them and having them actually come back. This lantana got the biggest and fullest of all. This is the Bandolista red chili. I love that deep like crimson scarlet red. I also have this Nimia Nisia magenta. And then this purple patunia self-seeded no variety name. It is a mystery. This salvia has also been a disappointment. I kind of talked about it in my last video. I have one of these. This bloomtock actually looks kind of nice, but the rest are fairly bare. I think it get maybe shaded out a little bit late season. Um, this is the Proven Winners uh unplugged red salvia, which was new to market this year. Um, keeps budding and it gets really tall and leggy, so I think it’s one where you could mingle it with other things. You know, it’s kind of an open habit. I also have this grass in here. I didn’t know how it would grow. So, it was fun just just fun trying new things. But the blooms are a little bit underwhelming. I think here it maybe got shaded out a little too much from other plants around it. As as you can see, I plant very densely. And I want it to look like almost like these are planted in the ground and not like I just have a bunch of containers lined up on the concrete here. So, by the end of the season, that is accomplished. Um, but that means some things get shaded out. So, I kind of have to play with that and shift things around. So, I probably won’t go for this salvia again. Maybe if I plant it in the ground in full full sun, I would do it, but I’m not going to plant it in a container like this. Again, I think in full full sun it would do much better. This I will plant over and over though. This is the Mirage Red Salvia, but really it’s it’s pink. It’s like fuchsia magenta, not red red. This has done so well. I know there are different colors in the Mirage line of Salvia. This is the one I found this year, but I will definitely be seeking these out. It has a very bushy habit, almost like ah like a Texas sage or something like the perennial salvia. Um I see them down in Texas and Arizona when I visit uh my family. um but more of a shrub. I don’t see a lot of pollinators. This is the only drawback is that salvia usually is huge pollinator attractor. And I don’t know if it’s these blooms are, you know, sort of sterile like vinka doesn’t produce any pollen. Um or if it’s just the shape of the bloom. I’m not sure. So, I don’t love that. But this has just been a stellar plant. So, I will definitely plant the Mirage. I know there’s one that’s like pink and white mixed and a pink one, like an all pink one. Um, but it just stayed really full, really shrubby. Even though it’s Sorry, I got mosquito biting me. Getting shaded out by this huge this tall salvia here, it still keeps blooming. So, big fan of that. And I don’t rec this is a just an unlabeled uh lantana from Home Depot, but I kind of got three different ones with this color scheme and they all did equally well. This is the mystery unlabeled Home Depot lantana. I have this one over here. Now it got kind of engulfed, but um that is the Proven Winners Basket Tanglow. And then I have another one over here. This is the Bandelero mango salsa. Maybe it’s Bandalista mango salsa lantana. I grew both this and the proven winners. They’re pretty much indistinguishable. They both do very well. So, and so did the Home Depot one. So, whatever you can find, go for it. I have never grown a Lantana that did poorly. Some get bigger than others. Some are more prone to trailing. Um, but as long as they’re in the sun, they do great. I never have to dead head. I don’t know if older varieties you have to, but this is kind of like the seeds. Some of them produce berries, some don’t. You know, the flowers dry up and then it produces this seed head and then it will grow berries. Yeah, I don’t see any berries on this one. So, I’m wondering if the bandista series doesn’t produce berries. Um, here’s one on this bandana pink. You see those berries? Um, you can dead head. I usually don’t. I have not found it to inhibit the growth of the plants at all. Bandana tends to stay smaller. The bandero gets really large and I believe it’s Bandelista that tends to trail a little bit more if you’re wondering. Here’s the uh sweet potato vine, the Medusa, Proven Winners Medusa. Um, really strong branches too. like a lot of them trail down quite a bit. This one has really stiff branches, so it just kind of forms a mound. This would look also great just alone on its own as a monoculture because it stays really full on top. But that is the most compact, well- behaved sweet potato vine I’ve ever grown. And I’ve grown a lot. I obviously not every variety, but I’ve grown a lot of sweet potato vine. I’ve had it every year since I started gardening. And that one definitely is the best behaved. But in general, the Proven Winners do well. They don’t get so leggy and crazy. This is another Proven Winners, the uh Red Hawk, I think it’s called. I again, I didn’t actually I did trim that because when the Lantana was still small, it was crushing the Lantana, taking over. It was growing faster. So, I did trim a few branches until the Lantana took off and then I didn’t have to. Um, gardening on a budget fourpack tall salvia. This is one plant here. This tall salvia, it has now, you can see it is budding. Um, these blooms are all I just deadheaded. I should have deadheaded weeks ago. Um, so these blooms are looking a little bit tired, but it’s putting out a bunch of new growth here. But these get huge. Hummingbirds love them. Pollinators love them. They’re so inexpensive. You can find short, medium, and tall salvia. This one I want to say is like lighthouse red. It’s the tall version, but it’s just a fourack. Just basic. You can find these pretty much everywhere that sells annuals for cheap as well. Oh, there’s a hummingbird on the So, the number one hummingbird plant probably is between either it’s perching on the vine now. I don’t know if you can see it. It’s behind that little trellis there. um either the Ruby Moon sweet potato vine or um blue salvia. So, the two proven winners that I’ve grown, I didn’t mention this one cuz it’s getting kind of leggy, but this blue salvia over here, this is the uh rockin blue suede shoes with this sort of more tubular shaped bloom. That’s probably the number one hummingbird attractor between that and um I said the ruby moon flowers they love and kufia vermillionaire kufia they go for that like crazy too. I couldn’t get my hands on that. It was not available early in the season. It wasn’t until late June that I started seeing that otherwise I would have planted that as well which I am going to try overwintering a couple this year. So I’ll let you know how that goes. But those are the top three hummingbird plants in my garden that I’ve ever grown. They even like it more than this red salvia, which is surprising. When I used to just grow this on my balcony, they were all over it. And they do like it, but I think if the blue one is there, they go for that. My other flavor favorite pleanthus is this one, the cervvesa and lime. It’s also called Cuban oregano. Uh or maybe it’s Swedish oregano. Or maybe this one was ah I’m forgetting now. It is not oregano. It is not edible. It smells like limeade and it feels like velvet and has this really cool texture on the bottom of the leaf. I just love this plant and it overwters very well. You can take cutings at all plecranthus easily root in water or soil. I have done that with one branch. We’ll see how it goes. Um I don’t overwinter the huge plants. This will just die with frost. I’ll cut it back and that’ll be that. But it’s funny, even the dead plant, even at the end of winter, you know, I’ll usually have a bag of yard waste after the yard waste site closes down that sits in the garage all winter. And when I go take it in the spring when the yard waist site opens up, it’s still dead and dried, crusty, still smells like limeade. Such a cool plant. I’ve grown this the last couple years. This Lysm Makia, the wiki sunset trailer, full sun or full shade. Really cool plant. It gets charming yellow blooms on it, too. Not as vigorous as a sweet potato vine, too. So, if you have more limited space, definitely recommend that for a trailer in like a more confined, smaller pot, limited space situation versus sweet potato vine. Also way less thirsty than sweet potato vines. This plectranthite, I just wait till I get clearance plants. Like, I have that one. I have a couple of them and I just over I just up pot them and overwinter. You can overwinter them in a window sill. I’ll put them under grow lights and they’ll stay a little bit fuller because I don’t really have a south window. I don’t have full sun. This kufia did really well, too. It started out a little shaky. Oh, yeah. Here’s So, look at this dandra silver falls popping up because I had some planted over on this side of the garden last year and it survived. It roots in the cracks and it survived. And I’m almost contemplating next year just taking a long strand and rooting it in. All my sidewalk cracks just have dicondra cracks. Be kind of fun as an experiment. So this kofia is a batface kufia. Although it’s not very batty. It’s more, you know, the bat face kind of has three looks like bat ears and then a nose. This one has what? Six petals. Um, instead of three. Sweet talk red did really well after it tipped over. So, it started out as an upright plant. And these do tend to crawl. Um, the batfaced variety of kufia. Um, and we got a windstorm or something. It was like not blooming. It was really spindly looking and not great. and I was ready to pull it out and it tipped over in a windstorm. I didn’t get around to changing it and um it just filled in beautifully and it’s been blooming all summer. I don’t really see I don’t know if the hummingbirds are going for it. I don’t really see them going for this. Mainly the salvia and other things. Um so I don’t know if it attracts them as much. I know kufia is generally a big hummingbird attractor, but the batfaced ones, at least in my experience, don’t attract them as much as like the salvia or the more tubular flowered ones like the cigar looking kufia. So yeah, sweet talk red did great once it tipped over. And you can even see like how the branches kind of spun around and yeah, and it just keeps blooming. You can dead head it, but you don’t really need to. Um, and I had this planted with a it was a dancinger variety of verbina that did well, the purple one. And then this uh watermelon punch, the punch series of um see a dry branch here. Oh boy. Okay, I have to cut that. The punch series of super bells from Proven Winners tend to do very well in my experience. They’re all pretty vigorous. This one got real shaded out once this kufia fell on top of it and I didn’t bother to keep it cut so it it kind of it’s not as full. This little tattooed cherry black cherry vinka did well too but it stays really petite so I had it in a lot of mixed containers and it couldn’t keep up with the other annuals and kind of died back. But here it had a nice little gap from here’s the can of lily. That’s another toucan orange. Here’s another Lism Makia Wiki Sunset. And this container is looking pretty sad. This will probably end up being one of the first ones that I clear out. Boy, I’m all crowded by plants. You can see this uh I did dead head this salvia, too. But if I wanted it, the leaves are real yellowed and it’s not really shooting up any new blooms. And um the bottom of the container. Now I got some blooms on this Nimia. And then I have another uh Medusa sweet potato vine and a lantana in here too. Kind of peeking out. This one gets berries. That’s one of the bandista uh cherry sunrise I think they’re called. Oh the door’s blowing around. Even though it’s uh in the 80s today. It’s probably high 70s right now. We haven’t gotten to the 80s yet, but thankfully the humidity went way down. Due points are like in the low 50s. So, it’s not it’s not uncomfortable. Um, you can see this beautiful variegated Vinka. I can I have another one, a different variety. Um, I’ve grown Vinka for a number of years. I used to grow this kind every year on my apartment balcony. It would trail down below the neighbors, but Vinka is easy to dig out and overwinter as well. You just cut off, and a lot of it’s hardy, so I’ve overwintered it in my garage before. You just want to cut off all the long stems. So it’s it’s short like this so it doesn’t put energy into all those long stems but that overwters well. So I’ll overwinter that was one variegated variety with more kind of white variegation. I bought a couple of those. I don’t think they’re labeled. I think they’re just called same thing with this. This is another variegated variety I have grown before. This variety however was extremely disappointing. Um I had two of these. One this one in full sun. Here’s the rest of the That’s kind of all it did all summer. And then I planted another one, same variety in a in the shade situation. And that’s also all it did. Um I forget the names, but if you see this one, it was the only one I’ve ever seen with like the I like how it has these like pure white leaves mixed with the green that looks and then there were more variegated leaves as well, but it is not at all vigorous. It got overtaken by everything else. It never really took off. So, that’s a bummer. I won’t grow that one again. But I want those white leaves. Um, my poor verbina here. This is the verbina superbina red. Another one with huge panacles. Really vigorous and very full of blooms. It does still have buds all over it. Um, this one needed a cut back early in the season. It got leggy and I didn’t cut it back early enough. So, you can see it kind of gets browned out. If you’re in this situation and you still have six weeks or more left of summer weather, give it a hard cut back. Cut back all the brown, cut it back to kind of like a nicer green canopy and it will bounce right back. It’ll green up and it’ll fill out again. This one I did trim some legs off so it’s starting to look a little more green. Um it’s kind of lulling in bloom right now, but this one just bright red blooms all summer. And this is another Surfire Beonia. That’s just one plant. That is the Surfire cherry cordial. Keeps that super dark foliage all summer long. Those bright red blooms. I really I haven’t tried a Surefire Bonia that I didn’t like so far. And then this is the best double um caliber COA I’ve ever grown. This is the double red stone from Proven Winners. stayed double whenever I’ve grown caliber co in previous years. They tend to revert to single blooms throughout the summer. Don’t know why. I know I have googled it and can’t find any explanation for it. Here we have like here’s one and the single bloom looks really cool too. Still has that red and yellow. So that’s but every other variety that’ll be the whole plant after a couple months. Um but this one stayed double. This I will always grow caliber koa in this planter because it seems to be the perfect conditions for it. Caliber ka just loves that planter. Okay, there’s a bee buzzing my face right now. Can you not Okay, thank you. I don’t mind bees. I just don’t like when they’re by my face or trying to crawl in my clothes. I will try to overwinter this. It got much bigger and leggier than I expected. That was a clearance plant, but it said on the tag, good as a house plant. So, I’m going to try and then maybe I’ll have a cool dark leaf thriller for next summer along with all of these. So, beonia is geraniums. Um, I will uppot these to a little bit bigger container so they don’t get so stressed. They have a little more root room. And then these I I’ve grown this before. Um, flam flambe yellow. I forget the common name of this plant. Um, but they’re on super clearance. And anything I I think I said this last week, too. Anything that tends to be like a a tender perennial in any zones in the US is a good candidate for overwintering. They tend to do well. So, I’ll just put those in slightly bigger containers. You can see the Portulaka. I’ve got a nano pizzazz pink here open. This is Spanish lavender that really I trimmed it and it just never quite bounced back once it turned brown. Still smells delicious though. This is the mango salsa from Proven Winners. I will try harvesting seeds and see if those are viable. I also have the nano pizzazz yellow. And then this is the tag is completely overgrown. That one is the red mojave red. from Proven Winners. More of a sort of orangey pink than a red, I would say. Definitely not crimson or scarlet. It’s more of a pink, but like a warm pink. I got a uh another bronze leaf beonia to overwinter. A dragon wing one. All this stuff. Ivy, also easy to overwinter. I just wait till stuff goes on clearance. As I said, I got some more beonas to work on. Fuchsia is another one that overwinters well. So, I got one of those and I’m going to try my hand at some different ferns. Uh, my favorite garden tent closes their last location tomorrow. So, I’m going to head up there tomorrow morning and see what they have left. Um, so I’ll upot these and do those on my grow light shelves. As well as I’m going to give this uh purple fountain grass a try. I had intended to plant this earlier in the season, but then our summer just everything kind of lasted a long time. So, I didn’t have to replace anything like I normally do in the ground or in pots. So, um purple fountain grass overwinters well. Also, I will just cut it back uh and it’ll sprout green leaves, but then once I put it out in spring, it should be purple again. Same thing with the um lemon ball or lemon coral sedum. You can do these under grill lights. I even do them out on my porch, unheated porch in the winter, and they come back every year. So, very easy to overwinter those even in a cold climate. Just not they won’t survive outside in zone 5, but they will survive protected. I think my porch here is on the south side of the house, so I think it stays at least one or two zones warmer than um the out of doors. Um, yeah. Another I’ll keep I’ll I think I’m going to try go for all the deraniums this year. Some I’ll have to do in bags because I don’t have room under the grow lights. Some um I’ll keep in pots if they’re already in small pots and try and overwinter those that way. Um because I really didn’t have much of an issue. I had some budworms but not they weren’t infested like the ones last year. Geraniums do really well. And I talked about this one, too. This is one plant. This is like three or four years old now. Overwintered. I think I’ve overwintered it two winters. So, I guess it would be three years old. Um, too big for me. And you can see, look, this has some, see all those red dots or red brown dots on the leaves. And down here, too. Hopefully that’s focusing and you can see. Oh, that’s uh poop from budworms. So, I will inspect this one closely before I decide to bring it in for the winter. If it has too many budworms, I will let it go and start with a fresh one next year. The nice thing about overwintering geraniums is they can get much bigger year to year. Um, in one summer, you know, they grow pretty big, but they they can’t get this big in one summer in Minnesota. So when you have it for multiple seasons and you can continue putting in bigger pots, you get like a huge stunning geranium which can be expensive to buy, you know, this big already in the garden center. So this one is the Collia Rose mega splash. And I just love the tropical look to those blooms. They look like tropical flowers, but that is easy to find. If it is too infested with budworms, I’m not going to risk um overwintering those on my plants and or having them spread to everything else. Undecided on this baby wings beonia. That one was really cool. Um I don’t know if I can overwinter that. You can see the Kufia I uppotted. Those are Vermillionaire Kofia that I purchased on clearance and just put them in a little bit bigger pots to overwinter. Bachman’s for the locals here in the Twin Cities. Bachmann’s just started 50% off perennials. So, I finally picked up the Joe pie I’ve been waiting for. I’ll get that planted this weekend. I also got some hostas and a fern. Um, you can see over here, these are some other ivy that I have potted these up earlier this summer and those will be coming indoors to overwinter. Another one and I’m going to try alternate theraa. Not sure if it’ll work, but it was like a buck 30, so I figured why not try it out and see. Um, one thing I didn’t talk about this grass. This is the uh blue mohawk. And I’ve also seen it’s just a rush grass I’ve seen. I’m guessing it might be the same variety under different names cuz they all look the same. But this blue rush grass, I don’t think it’s owned by Proven Winners. Um, just it mingles really well. You can plant it among things and things grow through it. Um, but super hearty. You don’t have to do anything to it. It gets big pretty fast. So, that’s a favorite grass to plant and it doesn’t interfere. Sometimes, like I’ve planted purple fountain grass in a pot and it’s gorgeous, but man, it takes over like you wouldn’t believe. Takes over the pot. And I have to talk about the Super Tuna Mini Vista Yellow. I’ve been waiting for this to come to my market. Finally was able to get my hands on it and it was worth the wait. It is absolutely amazing. That’s one of the better ones I’ve grown of these super tuni mini vistas or patunias in general. Um, hippo white hippo esties cannot do. It probably gets about 6 hours of sun here, maybe seven at like peak summer in like the middle of June. But it, you can see that’s too much sun. So, this poor thing just looks sad. The branches on the back look much better, the ones that are more in the shade. But yeah, lesson learned. Too much sun over here. This spot’s a little tricky. I kind like alysum didn’t do as well over here as it does on the patio, so it’s not enough sun for listen, but it’s too much sun for that. But wiki sunset also did fabulous. This is such a gorgeous plant. I wish it had some they have these pretty like it’s like sunny. That’s a patunia bloom coming through. But clusters of like really bright gold sunny blooms on it. Oh, is that one? Yes, that’s what they look like. This is what their the blooms look like with a little orange in the center. Yeah. So, seeking that out every year. And I have a little dicondra that kind of got eaten up by everything else, but you can see it trailing. Not sure if I’ll save these geraniums or not. These were seed geraniums unlabeled. Just they were like a$150 or something. So, I couldn’t resist. And my free kolas that seated itself in here, the Kong red colas. Love when that happens. So, I like this little grouping ended up kind of cute with the Bobo hydrangeas over here. These would get much fuller if they had more sun and more water. As I’ve said, another thing that did really well, los lofosperm trailing. This is the pink one. I’ve grown the white one before. They both are equally vigorous. I will say though, I like I prefer the pink one because the dried the spent blooms aren’t as noticeable. Um like here, you can see there’s a couple of like dried spent blooms and they kind of turn brown. Um, but they keep a little bit of that like reddish pink color, so they blend in a little bit more versus the white loofos. You have like your very white fresh blooms and then like just brown crusty looking dried blooms. So, I didn’t like that as much with the white version. So, I think I’ll go for the pink one from now on. But, it is so vigorous. This is just one plant that I popped in here. Same thing with this Superunia Vista. Um, or not Vista, Superunia Tiara Pink. I think next year I’m gonna do tiara blue in here because I did that in a container and it also did really well. It did get choked out by the salvia. So I feel like but it’s even coming back from that. But this did awesome. Um it isn’t as full on top which doesn’t matter for this container because I have other things filling in the top. If it were on a pot, you know, and this is eye level, so you can’t really see that. Um, but just been full of blooms and trailing down all summer long. I have not trimmed this at all. It would be fuller on top if I had trimmed it. If you keep up with trimming the legs off, that encourages it to branch more. So, if you have it on in a pot, that you know, it’s more noticeable because it’s like below eye level when you’re looking down kind of at the top of the pot. So, just a tip growing patunias and other things in containers. This is the uh sparkling rose um the sister of the sparkling amethyst superbina. Really beautiful colors right now. It’s really full of blooms, too. Um I just haven’t found it to be quite as vigorous as the sparkling amethyst. It’s still a nice plant. Um also, this is probably fullest of blooms it’s been all summer. So, I still would plant it again. I just um I think it doesn’t beat the number one. It’s not as good as its uh blue sibling. And you can see this loaf’s kind of climbed up over the trellis from the other side. Oh, there’s a cardinal up in the male cardinal up there. See them? Pretty. There are several cardinal pairs that come to our bird feeders. They are or were molting, so they’re looking a little scruffy. right now. But uh yeah, getting their winter coats, I suppose, probably. But yeah, this loofos kind of ended up climbing up and using the um clatus as a trellis and which I love that. I love this draping cuz of course the clatus the spent blooms look really cool. I don’t dead head or cut these back. I love that little poofy those little poofs of the blooms. Um but I like that the loofos kind of climbed over and gave it a little bit looking like it’s blooming again. I did see one. Oh, and then I have this poor little This is the only um Scavola that survived. This is the non-improved version of the Proven Winners, and it did okay considering it’s really shaded out by other things. Um, but they made an improved version of that. I think it’s whirlwind white that comes out next year. So, but all my other scavola, I think they got wilt and they died or big chunks of them died back. There just did not look good this year compared to last year. I haven’t grown that for many years. Um yeah, this clatus had one stray bloom right there. This is Jackmani. One little blue bloom. And I have more simple containers over here. I’ve got two beonia pots. This one gets kind of fried. It’s in more sun and they’re kind of smooshed in there. I pack these full of those little especially this year. I had gotten wholesale tray of bagonas from Gurtens and they were not rooted in at all. They were really touch and go, but they’re really tough plants. So, I packed them in. Um, so the one in a bigger pot in the shade is looking a little bit more fresh than this one. You can see they get real leggy. And again, if we had, you know, six weeks or more of summer left, I would just cut this all back to the fresh growth kind of right at the base here, and it would flush back out, but we don’t, so I’m not going to. Um, Biden’s over here did great. Goldilocks rocks. Bidens. They’re looking a little thinned out now. I have not trimmed them. These really need full sun to be their full sunny blooming selves. Right now, they’re kind of lulling. This is what Bidens do. They bloom and they lull. So, you can see the spent blooms. You don’t have to dead head them, but you can. And I do sometimes just come and pick these blooms off. Um, of course, this late in the season, I’m not going to bother with that. But, Goldilocks rocks is great. I like how it has more of a trailing habit and it gets bigger than the other Biden’s varieties. And this is a uh I think it’s called tropical rose. It’s a nice fresh bloom. hot like neon pink color. It got real leggy though. Sun patience. Again, if we had more summer, I’d give this whole thing a hard cut back and it would flush back in about 3 4 weeks. By then, we’ll probably have frost, so there’s no point in doing that now. I might grow this tropical rose again next year. Um, sun patients are they’re new guinea patients that can take full sun. So, they can do full sun to full shade. Look how bright those blooms are. And they’re really large, too. I’ve been seeing some new varieties of sun patients that have huge blooms. Like, they’re bred for just the most massive blooms I’ve ever seen. This container is just looking gorgeous right now. Just really full of blooms. I gave this one one last shot of chelated iron as well, but this this uh Super Bells has done really well for me. This is the pink lemonade. It was new maybe two years ago, two or three years ago. Um very vigorous, well branching so it stays full on top. Again, with every caliber koa, you know, I would like you could trim this leg off, these legs that are kind of hanging down and that helps it stay full on top and I do that periodically. That’s just kind of a rule of thumb if you’re growing caliber ka or patuni. You just kind of have to do that every variety to keep them full on the top. But some branch better than others. Some are more tend to get more leggy. Um, so I like to grow new ones and experiment. And this one’s a winner for sure. The pink lemonade. The double smitten pink also did well here. Just not nearly as vigorous. But it also stayed double. So that’s a newer one. You can see my plant stash still. Uh things that I will have to plant soon. I have some moving and shaking to do. These containers. Canova bronze leaf peach. I’m excited to grow this one next year. This one I bought on clearance and uppotted it just in a this is just like a 5gallon container both of these that shrubs came in. Um my poor Picasso and purple. I completely neglected that. So it’s looking real rough. But I’ll save this Vinka as well and this elephant ear. Um, but yeah, I bought those sail plants and planted them purely just to save them for next year. I mean, I enjoyed them this year, too. Um, I have an alterna in there. Yeah. And this is another not purple prints, but you can see there are lots of varieties that are very similar. And more ivy. I might save that as well. I do not save these annual rudekia. Um, but I will let them go to seed. Um, these two actually were selfseeded from last year. I never deadheaded this uh fox glove here, so it may selfseed. Oh, I see there’s another giant weed. Snapdragons is Okay, sorry, my battery died. As I was saying, snapdragons didn’t do great this year. They uh not a whole lot of blooms. I don’t know if it was the varieties I grew or just the year, like the conditions this year, but uh they were kind of meh. And I went hard on staff dragons, too. I seated lots, so that was kind of disappointing. Uh, let’s see what other containers do we have. I won’t go to the back garden, but we’ll peek up here cuz I have a little bundle of them. So, more geraniums that I will save. Oh, this one. So, this is a Dalia. Do not remember the variety. I’ve had this. I’ve saved this tuber for a number of years now. A few years. kind of a pinky purple bloom. You can see the bees love it. I just deadheaded too. It was full of spent blooms. Um, but I planted it with this pizzazz nano yellow portillaka which is open beautiful right now. And this other you can see where this dalia is coming from all the way back here where it has tipped over because I neglected to properly stake it. But look at it all full of blooms and it’s kind of crawled its way up here and surrounded this pot. So, I kind of love I love when things do that when they kind of make themselves pretty in a way I didn’t plan or expect. And it’s got these blooms coming up even through this one. So, I’m just going to leave it. I’m just going to leave it cuz I like it. I might harvest some of these blooms that are on the ground and put those in a vase. Um, I think that’s it. Look at these pretty bald dalas. Just full of color still. I need to pull this out. This is my little fall container. But the rudbeckia needs more sun here. It’s getting too shaded by the dolls. So many things to do, but I love it. So I think that’s pretty much it. I will show you. So the mini me talked about the mini me watermelon coas. And this year I did try the mini me chartreuse which is the green version over here. Also very nice bright chartreuse. Um, I think it does well like this container is fairly simple where it just has the kolus the mazu. I have this is a separate pot that I overwinter the um and then I did plant it with this is the nimisia um aromance malberry. Um these namisia do so great. Look how full of blooms this one is. That’s just one plant. I had also planted this container with two that I got on clearance. Let me crawl over. I saw some blooms down here. Here, this kufia, that is one of the new Kufias from Proven Winners. Both plants immediately got horrible powdery mildew as soon as I like a few weeks after I planted them. Sorry, I’m tripping over things here. Um, so I was very glad I stuck this uh Numisia in here because that took over and just looked gorgeous. But yeah, not sure about those Kofi. I don’t know if I’ll maybe it was just cuz they were too close to the building, but uh yeah, that was not great. And then this little um I will overwinter this. I bought these as little bulbs. This is but it’s all it’s an oxalis, purple oxales that the kittens, the feral kittens were climbing all over and crushing. So I had to put in a cage when it was smaller. And um now that they’re all being fostered for adoption and there are no more kittens around, I freed the plant. Um but of course the stems were super long from being in the cage and so it tipped over and then we got a hard rain and it just dumped rain right in the center off the roof. So but it is kind of filling out. So anyway, this is an ivy that I’ve overwintered on the porch for five years. An Algerian ivy. Huge branches. You can see how big this trunk is. I do need to pot this up before I put it in there. This pot’s I can do it one more time. And after that, it’s just going to have to stay because I can’t carry it. Um, also, if you have amorillis, I have stopped watering the amorillis. We haven’t gotten rain in about a week. So, I start over. I stop watering end of summer. It’s they stay in full sun. I transition everything on the porch. All plants that come inside spend a couple weeks first on the porch. Um, and then the leaves on the amorillis will slowly dry up. I let them dry up, stick them in the basement where it’s dark for a couple months, and then I pull them out as soon as I put away my Christmas decorations. And then I have amorillis sprouting and blooming kind of late winter, early spring. So that’s what I usually do with mine. So now it’s getting sunny and warming up. I got to get some work done. But thank you so much for watching. and uh subscribing, commenting. I really enjoy all the engagement. It’s really fun. So, I hope you all have a great day, great week. We’ll see you soon. And please subscribe.