Welcome back to the garden for another Garden Diaries episode as plants return home from the greenhouse and spring gardening season officially begins. In this video, Linda Vater shares how she brings overwintered plants back into the garden, including geraniums, begonias, olive trees, bay trees, scented geraniums, and hanging basket plants, while preparing them for a new season of growth with pruning, feeding, pest checks, and fresh placement ideas.
This early spring garden update is full of practical gardening inspiration for anyone wondering when to bring plants out of the greenhouse, how to cut back leggy geraniums, how to refresh container plants for spring, and how to save money in the garden by reusing overwintered plants instead of buying all new material. Linda also shares her plans for feeding container plants, protecting tender plants from a possible light freeze, treating scale with neem oil and insecticidal soap, and encouraging fuller, bushier growth for a more beautiful spring display.
Along the way, you’ll also see tulips emerging, redbuds blooming, boxwoods pushing fresh growth, olive trees getting bigger, and hanging baskets getting ready for spring planting. If you love spring gardening, container garden ideas, greenhouse plants, cottage garden inspiration, practical garden tips, and seasonal garden diaries, this episode is filled with beautiful inspiration and helpful real-life garden advice.
Whether you are growing in containers, styling a cottage garden, reviving overwintered plants, or planning your spring garden layout, this video is a reminder that some of the best garden beauty starts with what you already have.
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What plants are you most excited to bring back out for spring? 🌿 I always love this time of year when overwintered plants start coming home from the greenhouse and the garden begins to feel alive again. Tell me what you’re pruning, feeding, or bringing back into your containers this season!
I love watching your videos and have been following you for years 💚 But me ears bleed when you call pelargoniums geranium 😂😘
"Pelargoniums are called "geraniums" due to a 17th-century botanical misidentification when they were first brought to Europe from South Africa. Because they resembled native Geranium species (cranesbill), they were labeled as such, and the name stuck even after they were reclassified into the Pelargonium genus in the 18th century"
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My plants come into the house in winter, so I live with them, and look forward to putting them out in the sunshine, but that won't be until mid April or later. . They look pretty full this year, so if I feed them I might get some good blooms.
We have a banana palm that grew to the top of the pitched roof inside, so we will have to cut it down to move out. It was alittle too happy.
My bay plants always get scale .. such a pain 😞
I have some leggy geraniums just like yours but I don’t know how to cut them back. Can you please show us how.
Victor needs a small little hand truck for the over sized pots. I see some comments on the expense of overwintering your plants in someone's greenhouse. The expense does not get me… it just seems like such a hassel. Of course, I am here in California , and can't relate. Everything stays out year around here. Plus , my garden would lose all its character if so many plants were removed. I too, love geraniums. My favorite color is hot bubble gum pink… and love white too .
Hi Linda, zone 7B here but not moving my 2 large geranium pots outside yet. I bring them into my sun room in the fall but cut them way back and top dress with composted cow manure. They have been blooming since January. We are still having low temps hovering close to freezing in our 10 day forecast and they are too heavy to move in and out.Been pruning and feeding roses and hydrangeas this week.
Definitely NOT making fun of you, Linda! I'm squealing with excitement along with you! I've been in my new house (with brand new from scratch gardens) the same length of time as you. We moved together basically. Me to Olathe KS from Minnesota. This is also for me the year I expect to begin to see some maturity in my new gardens and I can't wait for this growing season! your gardens are looking amazing, front & back!
So beautiful..
Finally Michigan is going up to 70 tomorrow. I just cant go crazy yet…but, we will
See❤
Leave the big trees out.
Not the back. Lovely ❤
The red geraniums are beautiful and stands out in your garden!!!!!
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Hi. I love watching your videos. When you trim your geraniums, will you put some of the cuttings in water and let them root? My mom used to do that in So. Calif. I live in Wash state, so geraniums would have to go into a greenhouse here too.
Our gardens here in England have been saturated with rain for weeks and weeks now. Its impossible to get out and not sinķ into the mud . Just want it to dry out a bit. Your geraniums have overwintered really well. I will start again with mine 😂
Oh happy Day!! ❤❤
I took a chance and over wintered in my garage a fox tail fern and a tree fern. I bought both summer 2025. Fox tail looks good but I'm not sure about the tree fern, we had a very harsh ny weather 🤞
I know you missed your babies while they were being overwintered. Love that sweet precious olive tree 🌱❤️
I have those same Scarlett red geraniums also , so easy to grow and just as easy to propagate…you said your going to use miracle grow isn't that stuff synthetic, not good , why not try some organic, much better than chemicals!
… I've been visiting my "girls" (3 Eugenia topiaries and 2 Kimberly ferns) over the winter in a florist's greenhouse in my town. I'm a church Parish Administrator and order altar flowers every week, and I've become friends with the manager at the florist. They have overwintered my topiaries and ferns the last few years but gee whiz, I won't be able to retrieve them at least for another 6-8 weeks when nighttime temps stabilize. [MD, now 7a] I know you will be tickled to have them back in the garden. You have some beauties which lend beautiful focal points throughout the garden. 🫶🌳🤗
👩🏼🌾💚🌳 =^..^=
How fun how does you garden look in the alley?
Even in the rain, your garden is so inspiring, especially for those of us whose seasons here in the north and northeast are several weeks or a month or more behind yours in Oklahoma. Lots for us to look forward to using your garden as inspiration! I have only one pink geranium that I winter over indoors, but it's ready to head outside as soon as the warm weather returns in earnest. Beyond that, my outdoor garden – mostly all in pots – is really a blank slate, so I've been planning to do something outdoors this year (raised beds, I think) that's more permanent in an area that previously was lawn, but is currently just dirt, so truly could be anything I want. Thanks, as always, for sharing!
😊this is my kind of video. I just came from Lowe's and bought some tulip pits and lots of other. I know it's early but I couldn't hold back. Such a long hard winter. ENJOY 😊
Oh Linda please leave that olive tree on the steps! It is BEAUTIFUL right there! 😎❤️
I appreciate you encouraging us to not spend money but shop our garden. I replanted a front flower bed with Mexican feather grass, dusty Miller and green succulents. These will allaettle in our rainy weather. So much fun…this bed faces west so these plants will handke the hot afternoon sun.
Hi Linda watching from Aussie and we are entering autumn/winter we don’t get snow like you guys.. not sure if I could handle the wintering process a d seeing everything so bare 😩but that must make spring all the more exciting for you😀🥰ps exactly tell John he is the boss of the plants😂