State of the Lawn & Garden Walk & Wrap-Up Zone 6b Michigan / Garden Anxiety

Location: Macomb, Michigan – Zone 6b.

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November State of the Lawn & Garden Wrap-Up Walk.

Here’s the State of the Lawn & Garden on November 8th, 2025 here in Zone 6b, Macomb Township, Michigan. We had our first snow flurries this morning, Sunday, November 9th, so glad I got this recorded yesterday. Willow (Longhaired Weimaraner) got to meet The Grinch and Martha May at Ray Wiegand’s Nursery Christmas Open House!

Correction: Final fertilizer application was Menards 22-0-10, not 20-0-10.

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Welcome back to the best shaped state of Michigan. My name is Costa. I live in Mcome Township, Michigan in zone 6B and today is Saturday, November 8th, and we have snow in the forecast for uh tomorrow and Monday. So for Sunday and Monday the 9th and 10th, we’re looking at snow here. So I’m going to turn around and show you what what might be one of the uh last if not the last little brief tours here for the season. All right, I’ll start with the lawn since that seems to be uh where the most interest is for my channel so far, unfortunately, because I do plan on making this uh garden channel, hence garden is in the name, not lawn. Um, so this was last mode, I think two days ago at uh 1 and a quarter on uh for the whole lawn. I’ve just been using the ego on setting three, which is 2.4 to pick up the leaves, and I just did that now. Um, we just came home. Willow got to meet the Grinch at Ray Waggan’s nursery and then we went to a yarn shop and uh so she’s had an eventful day and I’ve been noticing uh the few neighbors that do kind of keep up with their lawns, they’re all outside picking up leaves and stuff. So I was like, well, I have time. I had like hardly any leaves on here at all. I just didn’t want to get caught. So that’s the state of the lawn. I can see the color is kind of hanging on. Um I did end up putting down a 2010 two days ago um cuz we were we got a little bit of rain. And so it got watered in a little bit and uh we’re due for more rain here either tonight or tomorrow before the snow comes. So So that is the update on uh the lawn here for the state of things. Now I’m going to turn it over to some plants cuz I love plants and you should love plants, too. If you don’t have any plants, get some plants. What are you doing? Don’t just have an awesome lawn. You can have awesome lawn and then you can have plants that make your lawn look even more awesome. give you a little uh a buffer and a backdrop to make your lawn stand out even more. That’s the way I look at it. So, uh here’s my eonymous golden spreader or golden creeper, I think it is. I’ll have to double check on that. Uh this one is a Proven Winners. I like that it’s getting this pink color to it right now. Uh here you go. I have three of these and I did confirm uh Proven Winners did write back to me and they said that this is the bush form of it. So, it is not the invasive version that is going to like take over my entire landscape. So, that’s nice. Um, here is my Ascot Rainbow Euphoria. One of the two. And this one is more of the completely variegated. Um, I like this. I’m curious to see what else it’s going to do for the rest of the year. Here, here’s the other one. Let me pan over here real quick. This one is like a, you know, jackal and hide here. Half of it is variegated. The other half is like solid green. So, um, but I am a big fan of these Ascot rainbow euphorias. I definitely want to get more euphorias. Probably not here at the time because as much as I would like to, I don’t plan on uh widening or making this landscaping bed any bigger. So here is my pinestrobus glue gloss glue blue globosa dwarf uh with the phmopsis blight fmopsis blight. I will spell that again if I remember to. Uh so this was confirmed by Lily at Wagan’s nursery that it’s fopsis blight and not cytosporic canker. So it was pretty wet. Um, I I did talk to someone earlier in the year when I had my uh my flap cypresses and my fire chief arborite and it was someone that was newer that I can remember and I haven’t seen them since and they were saying that it looked like my plants didn’t have enough water. So then I watered them and then they basically died right away. So I think they might have given me some bad information but what are you going to do? Um here’s another one of my eanomous with the pink. I had no idea. And actually now, you know, now that I see it, I see the very first berries on these guys. And it looks like I had a little visitor over here eating something, too. So, it’ll be interesting to see what happens with these over the winter time. There is the Palace Castle Armia uh after my trim job didn’t die, so that’s good. I feel like the Armisia plants are uh kind of indestructible. It seems like you would pretty much have to set it on fire, send it to Helen back, set it on fire again. it still want to die. Uh, Gold Coast junipers looking good. These were trimmed up a little bit. Uh, I think two weeks ago they were getting a little bit out of control. Um, but I still try to leave the abstract shapes that they have. Um, again, here are one of my five cool as ice fescues. I love these so much. These two here are Monrovia. Um, I’ve had a few I can’t remember the other ones offhand, but I know I’ve had a few Monrovia plants over the years, and I’ve been really, really happy with everything I’ve had from Monrovia. Um, I can’t remember if these are first editions or also proven winners, but these are fireside nine bark. And this is my healthiest of the three. Uh, this one’s about 36 in tall. This one’s a little bit shorter down here. So, still holding on to the fireside nine bark leaves. And then here was the one. This one’s actually kind of made a little bit of a comeback here at the top. The inside still looks really, really bad. So, I wonder if I’ve lost maybe half of this plant. I’m not sure. Uh, but let’s see here. Then, let’s get back to my amsonia is my favorite plant here. So, this little guy here in the front that is Midway to Montana. This has been in uh the full color of yellow here for about a month now. I’d say about three weeks, maybe four weeks. But the other four uh this is a cluster of three and then one here. These are all halfway to Arkansas and they are looking a little bit sickly to me in my opinion. They’re looking a little bit more lime green. And last year they all look the same. The last two years they actually all look the same cuz I bought them three years ago when they were in color at Wean’s Nursery. They were already turning this yellow orange. And originally they all they they were all planted here and this side gets a lot more sun for the majority of the day. Um so I’m wondering if they’re maybe suffering a little bit from having too much shade um this year from cuz I moved them in April. Uh I’m still holding out hope that they’re going to get some orange. Uh you can kind of see like here’s an example on the tip right here where it’s getting a little bit of color. And then here’s here’s the other eanimus right here. Um, I had no idea that it was going to do this with the color or the berries. I just I was looking for something evergreen at the beginning of the year and I bought these at Ty’s and Shelby and uh so this was kind of a surprise that I’m just going to go with. And then here is a here’s a look at the as ascot rainbow uh Euphoria from the back. This maple again, just plain red Japanese maple. Um, the more I’m looking at it, the more I feel like I should be able to figure out if there’s actually a variety to this other than just red Japanese maple from Menards because it definitely has a distinct leaf shape. Um, but I am pretty worried about this one for having not dropped leaves yet and it’s looked like this for a while now and it did have the the wound on the trunk that I tried to repair. So hopefully it’s going to make it. Here is my uh October Daphne sedum. Uh so now it’s November Daphne, but uh it’s definitely changing color. It’s losing its uh it had that eucalyptus look to it before it started getting the flowers on it and you could see it’s almost like half with the blue and half with the orange. So I didn’t really think much about this plant and it was uh it used to be kind of clustered with other stuff earlier in the year for the last couple years and I never really looked at it. Didn’t really pay much attention to it. Uh, but now that I moved it, I think I want to move it again to not be right up against these this other cool as ice fescue and to maybe put it in a planter I think could look cool, but I tend to kill everything that I have in planters. So, I don’t know. Uh, here we got blue star juniper, some more Gold Coast junipers, and the three Carl Forester grasses here that just have not looked right for me. Um, I did transplant uh my two M uh my two aliums and I made uh so from two aliums I got nine divisions and I kind of spread them all out all along the back here thinking it was a good idea at the time because I want to hide the foliage. But I also didn’t think about next year when it comes time to cut these back that it’s going to be really difficult to get the get to the foliage and to prune everything off because it’s everything’s so tight to the brick and these other plants. Um here are my uh my hydrangeas. These panacle hydrangeas. I have two of them here. In my opinion, this is like when they look the best. They’ll actually look even better in the winter when they’re completely dead and covered in snow. cuz sorry but I just I don’t like these hydrangeas. I’m not a fan. Maybe I can learn to like hydrangeas at some point. I definitely have my eye on some oakleaf hydrangeas. Um we had some uh about a month within the past month anyways. They had and they were all on their full fall color. They looked amazing. So, um I’m curious to pay more attention to them when they have their spring summer color and blooms and flowers, but I feel like I only ever see or at least notice uh oakleaf hydrangeas in the fall. So, and then here is my little crimson queen Japanese maple. And I swear I moved this two weeks ago and it did not have I don’t think it had these leaves on it on this end or this end. I I could be totally wrong and I probably am, but I’m at least noticing that it has some healthy leaves on it. Um, I have noticed that this uh this graft does not look good. I didn’t notice it when I bought it, but this graft looks terrible to me, but it was 20 bucks at Walmart. And uh I think my days of buying one gallon Japanese maples are probably over. That is the the fourth one gallon because this this one that’s 6 ft tall was also one gallon when I bought it or maybe not even a gallon. But um that one’s done well, but that one got in the ground right away. But my other my two from Mr. Maple, they survived from July. I bought them in July. They came back again in the spring and then within about a month of uh blooming in the spring, they both died. So I thought that was odd. And then I’ve seen on a lot of forums online on Facebook and stuff, people have had similar experience buying one gallon plants from them. So I’m not sure. I can only go on my experience and then it’s just interesting to see other people confirm that they’ve had similar experiences. I don’t even search for it. I’ll just people just are constantly posting about it. It’s not even something I’ve sought out to see if people have had that experience. So um for now I’m going to stay away from that. And uh I I think you definitely get what you pay for. Um, I was going to say I think it’s interesting uh when people complain about how expensive Japanese maples are or conifers or just trees in general. Um, and I whenever I hear someone say that I’ll I’ll literally just go up to them. It’s like, “Oh, you’re you’re paying for the you’re paying for the years and someone having taken care of it.” Like some of these trees are five or 10 years old. Um, so you’re paying for that experience and someone took care of that tree for it to get here to you now. So like for the previous five or 10 years that you you might have never even thought about that tree. That tree might never never have been even a thought in your mind. You might never have even been into plants or gardening. And now you now you are and now that tree is here for you to buy. So if it’s 300 bucks or 700 bucks, it’s like it’s worth it because it’s it already has those years on it. Um, I think getting uh the the young trees, the one-year-old trees, um, they’re going to be a lot more finicky and need a lot more work to kind of help survive. But when you’re getting a tree that’s already established, yeah, it’s going to have maybe some, uh, some growing pains of going from a pot to the ground, but it already has an established root system and it’s already been healthy enough to survive whatever those 3, five, 10 years are. So, that’s my thought on buying plants. I think you definitely get what you pay for and um if you can afford to buy a mature established tree um do it for sure. So, uh that’s the wrap- up here. Uh the next time you see this, there’s a good chance you’re going to be seeing uh seeing snow. Um, one last look and then here’s a little peek over here. Uh, so again, I want to thank everyone for watching for this video and for the previous ones and from the little bit of content I’ve put out here in the past two months. I definitely plan on making a go of this. Um, I definitely my goal like I said is to have more plant content and uh we are looking to move. So that is that’s why we’re in a holding pattern. So, um I’m hoping that all those things kind of come to fruition and come together at the same time and I can make make my dreams come true, make my gardening dreams come true and uh kind of put the content out there that I want to. I feel like right now I’m doing more of uh I’m putting out more things of like that I’m like almost like imitating a bunch of other people combined. So, like stuff I’ve seen on lawn videos, stuff I’ve seen in plant videos. So, I’m still just kind of trying to, you know, get my uh my feet under myself here and try to figure out my own style. And I feel like I I can definitely come up with something more unique. I just haven’t gotten there yet. I’ve definitely gotten a little bit more comfortable doing this. And this is definitely weird. Uh when I watch videos too about how you can do this, they call it talking to camera. Talk to camera. Uh so, it is weird. I’m not I’m not used to this at all. Um, I’m usually pretty uh private and anonymous. Like my other accounts are private. I don’t really like knowing people knowing everything about me. Uh, but I figured to do this I kind of have to uh let down my guard a little bit and show you that I’m a real person, that I have a real name, that I just don’t have some like pseudonym that I’m going by here. So, um, anyway, so yeah, farewell from Michigan for now and, uh, you’ll see me again when you see me again. So, I wish everybody well. See you in the next one. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]