Tour a lush Chicago garden that feels like a private vacation escape 🌿 From total beginner to high-impact design, Deronis Cooper shares how he built a vibrant container garden using the “thriller, filler, spiller” technique. Learn how to choose plants, layer for impact, and create a colorful, low-maintenance oasis with coleus, elephant ears, sweet potato vines, and more. Perfect inspiration for beginner gardeners and small-space garden design!
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28 Comments
Amazing! What does he feed these and how often?
This man and his garden are genius!
It’s absolutely beautiful! It’s so nice to see what people can do in other zones than where I live. It feels so tropical looking at it. A true oasis. Deronis, have you ever considered using veggies as a spiller? A squash or cucumber?
Deronis and his garden are an inspiration every year! We love following him and watching his garden bloom. Thank you for stopping by to feature him!
Please tell me how he can grow a lot of plants that don't grow in cold place? Banana trees, coleus, and else. Where do they go during winter in Chicago home? Beautiful 💕
Amazing flower garden! WOW!
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BEAUTIFUL! I live in Chicago as well and am wondering if this was a video taken last summer. Also, does he buy new plants every single year? How does everything get watered?
simply gorgeous!
Absolutely breathtaking 😍
The dedication to start fresh every year since these beauties don’t over winter and are mostly annuals is quite an endeavor 🥰 I have always loved Hostas Coleus Potato Vines and Elephant ears for their vibrant colors .. this shows how beautiful a garden can be without flowers and blooms but with texture color and leaf variety..amazing job 👏🏼👏🏼
Is beautiful ❤
Truly enjoyed ever minute of this awesome garden
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Do you use fertilizer? If so, what kind. Beautiful labor of love!
Stunning garden! Loved it! But I would have liked to know how he overwinters all those tropical plants???
Absolutely beautiful garden! I was wondering what winters look like for him! Does he overwinter anything or does he have to replace everything each year?
What do you do with your plants in winter? Gosh, it is beautiful!
Beautiful garden!! 😍 Loved his garden and he's a great interview too!
Omg.. I am inspired. Beautiful garden, such dedication. Kudos Deronis!! Thanks, I really appreciate the plant list. I am not ashamed to say that I will be copying this layout.😄
Great garden. When did you start planting?
So many of those are annuals up north here. Look at all the coleus, sweet potato vines and elephant ears! Dang! I love that they showed the early planting stage. He is a total artist. I can't believe how well his layering plan comes together. Incredible! #goals
Gorgeous creativity! I wish the host didn’t make comments after every sentence spoken by guest. “Um-hmm”, “yeah” and “sure” became difficult to ignore.
I love your garden, I'm in Jamaica 🎉. ❤️
Super lush and beautiful…
What does he do with al those big tropicals in the winter?
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WOW! Breathtaking. Thank you for sharing this amazing garden.
Very good video series, my wife and I enjoy them, and the graphics with plant names are quite helpful. One constructive comment, if you don’t mind. Can whoever edits these please put the audio through a compressor so that the voice levels are consistent? I know YouTube does funky things to audio, but the level shifts are really noticeable. Thanks!
Amazon garden!!!