Ice and Snow in the Garden, Changing Soil Chemistry, HOA Rant – Garden Questions Answered – In this video I answer gardening questions from last week’s garden question and answer video.
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I use moving quilts to protect plants from snow and ice storms. They're light weight but insulate well because quilted, and they're cheap and easy to find. They hold up to the weight of snow and ice better, too. Stuffing straw around plants with a moving quilt on top of that increases the insulation. I also put straw on paved areas just before a storm. It provides a good footing and after the storm, I used the straw for garden mulch.
Don't worry about being long-winded. I find the explanations on things so interesting and it helps me learn. I live in an HOA. I'm gardening in my backyard how I want to. I have ideas for the front yard that I know I would get pushback on. If the funds ever come available to tackle that project, I will do all I can to get approval for it. I know you said a lot of garden spaces around the country are moving to having more native areas for pollinators. Maybe this trend will come over to HOAs and open their minds to the benefits, and beauty, of gardening for pollinators.
I love that you gave your opinion on HOA‘s. I’m always amazed, though when people move into an HOA and then complain about the rules of the HOA and I’m like did you read it before you moved in? I agree we need to think about the natural world over having green grass. I live in historic preservation neighborhood and the rules here are your landscaping should be fitting with the age of your house meaning the landscaping should look something like what would’ve been put in the 1930s. Well, the 1930s in Oklahoma was pretty bare, very bare. I worried about this rule when I moved in, but it’s pretty much ignored and everyone in my neighborhood has pretty landscaping more grass than I would like. I try to preach for having less grass and I’m working on it myself. Now there is a neighborhood south of me that’s also historic preservation. It’s full of bungalows and there are several houses with natural habitat front yards. I love going down there and driving through. There are even two native plant nurseries among the houses. Anyway, keep on ranting. We need to hear your opinion.
I am trying to add shrubs and trees to my yard that benefit our bees. I have fruit trees, a button bush, butterfly bush, and wildflower patches (converted grass lawn areas). Zone 8b. Bham AL. What are some other suggestions that I can just plant and forget it for maintenance? My eventual goal is to have very little lawn to mow. Mostly sunny yard.
Spot on about the HOA'S! Last summer, I heard about an older woman who lived in one and she was sensitive to the pesticides the HOA'S landscapers were putting on her lawn. Long story short she got the list of the chemicals and her doctor advised to discontinue them. She went organic and when she had clover in her yard the HOA came after her with a vengeance.
Thank you for the Long Sleeve Shirt announcement.
I love when Jim gets sassy 👏😁
We’re beginning the first steps of building a home on a large piece of property (mostly wooded with trails). Any tips on trying to mitigate some of the problems with new construction that you discussed in this video?
Your opinion both expressed very respectfully, and at least somewhat scientifically backed by ecologists and other environment, plant and soil science people. Sociologists and geographers might agree sometimes too.
I have a fatshedra that has only 2 main stems and all the growth is at the top. Is there a way to prune it to encourage fuller growth at the bottom? If so, what is the best time to prune?
🙋🏽♀️ENJ🪴Y HEARING YOUR OPINION‼️
More opinions by Jim! 🎉
The only thing code enforcement and HOAs should be policing wrt to yards is overgrowth of noxious weeds. Your neighbor shouldn’t be allowed to have a yard full of Canadian thistle and bindweed, but they should absolutely have the right to have vegetables, or a native prairie, or an “unruly” 😂 ornamental garden.
You mentioned in another video that the gold sky pencil holly is better than others, how about the gold stick by proven winners is your better than this one?
Sleeting and freezin rain here in Charlotte as I’m started the vid at 6p
Your opinions are appreciated and valued. Most of your audience agrees, so keep up the good work educating us so that we can help spread the word. Well done.
26:33 Monty Don said that the biggest difference in American and English gardens are the front gardens. American have sweeping lawns while English front gardens are anything the gardener wants it to be.
We should really just go for it!
🙌🏼 YES! to the HOA bit! Thankfully, no one has said anything to me either but I would sarcastically ask them “Oh, you’re gonna help me pay my mortgage?!”Question: Are better boxwood resistant to Box Tree Moth?
I live in an HOA neighborhood and push the boundaries where I can. For those of us who care about soil, diversity, and supporting pollinators and birds, your “opinions” are exactly what we’re here for. Thanks for speaking up for the future of our landscapes.
When propagating other shrubs or tree do we need to make sure the cutting is calloused ?
HOA fees are taxation without representation.
On an encouraging note, the builders in my greater Seattle area are installing native huckleberries, grasses, echinaceas, hydrangeas, and evergreens in both new apartment and new home builds with very limited lawn.
So agree with any neighborhood to dictate your plantings it’s ridiculous and pissy!!! Thank you Jim!!!🥰
Jim, if you are ever looking to do more garden tours in the northeast, one you may consider is David Wilson’s Garden at Overdevest Nursery. I think you would like his garden. The other garden, which I am not sure you would be able to or not is in the UK. Allen Titchmarsh’s garden which is both formal and some areas wild/native. Both gardens are private and are quite beautiful, but they are a bit on the large size. More than I would ever be able to manage. Your garden is a manageable size. Gardens like the Giberson garden, stunning, but I just would not have the time for all the maintenance. I would need to retire.
HOAs serve their purpose (ie, "no cars on blocks", etc.), and not all are alike – some are receptive to more diverse landscapes. I live in a large HOA community near Elon, have front and back yard pollinator gardens with no grass and have not had a problem. I personally love living here. I used to live far outside the city limits with a next door neighbor that hoarded large hvac parts and dumped them in his yard on my side – it was basically a junkyard next door attracting all kind of vermin. I didn't complain – I moved.
Totally agree re HOAs and am happy to live in an older neighborhood like your’s with lots of variety of home styles, gardens and mature trees.
Totally agree with your HOA view. My family has lived in three new homes, all with HOAs. We do not have a cookie-cutter landscape and refuse to. I have yet to have a neighbor tell me they hate my pretty plants. Most HOA problems come from a hand full of power hungry control freaks.
Long-Winded is good.. if you don't do it, we're not going to hear it from the surface comments in everyone else's videos. Thank you for the knowledge. We think you're Awesome- Apologize for being on your own videos 😂
To the person asking about the lemon-lime nandinas in a west-facing bed, I agree with Jim, as I have some that have done well. I had planted them in the fall of 2022, and then we had the Christmas freeze. My pretty nandinas lost all of their leaves, but they came back in the spring. I am in a similar zone/climate in NW Mississippi, and I also have inkberry hollies, a needlepoint holly, yaupon holly in the same bed with the lemon-lime nandinas.
I think your gardens are beautiful. And I love your channel!!! I have learned so much from you. Some people just don’t know beauty when they see it.
Are there more varieties of the better boxwood coming out?
Great talk today. Appreciate you. 😊
When I was hunting for a home, I told the realtor no HOA properties. I would not pay for someone to tell me what I can or can not do on my own property. The city can and will fine those that trash out a place etc. That's good enough. We do have city restrictions like no fence in front yard, only upto front. And you do have to get a permit to fence. Anyways. I do have a QUESTION, please? Through this freezing weather I have many potted plants 🪴 pot to pot with the black frost proof breathable shade cloth on top. Will this cause more of a possibility to get pests because lack of air flow 🤔? Looks like they will have to stay covered for 4 days straight. Then a short break before covering again. Thank you. Jen Z9b Texas Gulf Coast
Hi Jim and Stephanie 👋 Thank you for another great Q&A. I value your opinion, knowledge, and information. And you don't talk too much lol 😆 I love it all. Jen Z9b Texas Gulf Coast
Long-winded Jim is the chief reason I love your channel. I have learned so much from you (and Steph) over the last 6 years, and it's been such a blast and so rewarding. If someone doesn't like your long answers, they can click off.🤪 Keep the diatribes coming, brother!
I think more of us agree with your opinion of HOA’s.
i like your pushback on others telling you what or how to grow things…what do you think about the african boxwood?…🪴