Fall Flower Bed Cleanup! – http://bit.ly/3tjRTT2
Planting Alliums & Tulips in the Garden! – http://bit.ly/3tjBQVg
Planting a Lawn in the Greenhouse for the Kids! – http://bit.ly/3hysNgF
Helping My Parents Plant Bulbs in Their Garden! – http://bit.ly/3hnm4WD
Planting Daffodils, Iris Reticulata & Alliums! – http://bit.ly/3Aauo2z
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Laura, I just love watching you two together. As a certified personal trainer I identify with your sanguine/ choleric personality because that’s what I am and my husband is a phlegmatic/melancholy just like Aaron. I say let’s build a greenhouse, let’s put in raised beds, let’s redo the patio, let’s cut that tree down and he says hang on! …If we do this thing that will happen …is this what you really want? We need to think about this… drives me crazy but we need them right!?
I love watching these recaps while having my coffee–great way to start a productive Sunday! Stay warm! 🙂
PS–I love the idea of Best/Worst/etc. awards each year! For my money, I want a long awards list: best veg. production, best flower production, best foliage, best all-around annual, best all-around perennial, best shady diva, biggest disappointment, etc. etc.
Changing the name of a place is so hard. We have 236 acres and it had the shell of a 2 story home with a chimney up the middle. So that was the rock house place. Over the years it fell down, we used many stones and sold some. We try to call it the red barn place but it is still called the rock house place almost every time. Old habits…..
Love your recap videos!!! You can use grass shears to “mow” your little plot of grass or even a hand mower
The balcony garden formally known as the Versatile garden is beautiful. A small amount of repair it would be back in its glory. That space is perfect. You can have more than 1 beautiful space.
Random question… how is the 200 year old Christmas Cactus doing after you repotted it?
Love the idea of the "GAAs"! Garden Answer Awards! I want to take the opportunity to THANK YOU both so much for all of your hard work on the daily. I am inspired as a gardener but also inspired seeing a hardworking couple raising their kids, and living the dream of working for yourself. Perhaps on this channel you could do a tutorial on how you plan your spaces on graph paper? Seeing it come to life from your drawn design is just magical to me! Love y'all all the way from central Kentucky!
Use hand grass shears! on the grassy box!🌱
The garden around the Hartley should be named mughal garden as very much similarities with mughal garden
I give an "annual of the year" award to something new I have planted each year. In 2022, it was lemon coral sedum!! I planted it in different locations throughout my yard to give some uniformity and it did so well. The color makes for a striking pop among other annuals and perennials
You could use a push mower to cut the indoor lawn. Weed Wacker would be a mess with flying cuttings.
Just watch out for vinca minor! It’s an extremely invasive species introduced into North America. Unfortunately it’s sold everywhere and it’s readily available.
YouTube videos are public conversations, if I waited until the end of a video there would probably be no comments, which in my case would probably be okay with some people 🤪. I have to respond during each segment of the video top feel involved in the content. Forgive me, if I annoy you.
Amen to begonias…….been planting those for years……my go to annual. Weeping cherry…….you are so right……this tree can make you weep.
You mentioned about JUST NOT LIKING
mine is PEOPLE
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Great idea and reasoning planting Daffodils around daylilies. Maybe if it warms back up here I can give it a try.
Green Isle Garden or just Isle Garden would be a fun name for Versailles garden.
You could get a small push lawnmower in to mow that lawn.
If you want to keep calling that space, "Versailles" … who cares? I always thought it was kind of cute and tongue-in-cheek in the first place. We all know what you mean and it's so much easier to say than "The Balcony Garden." 😉 Either way…. beautiful!
Black n decker has a very small electric mower almost looks like a toy
Maybe to trim the grass you can use hand held hedge trimmer with a long blade or electric hedge trimmer.
Anthony commented "Have you considered planting Vinca annuals?" Your answer made me think maybe you were thinking of Vinca ground cover/vine because you said they had a lot of green. My annual Vincas are covered with blooms, are self cleaning, are not bothered by pests and looked beautiful in full sun through 115 degree heat last summer. My plants were easily two to three feet wide and about a foot high. Be sure to pinch then when planting to get a fuller plant. I've been wanting to ask you if you've ever tried Vinca myself for a long time. They are a go to for me in our fierce summers in Central California. I've also thought that you might enjoy trying Chinese Ground Orchid in your shady spots. It can work in zone 6 according to online research. (I am in zone 9) They are beautiful and if they can survive your winters, you would love them.
Hartley is a cathedral roof line.
I had aphids in my grow room last year. So devastating! I was able to get by, but such a nightmare to have baby plants you've been growing all winter, covered in aphids. I can't tell you the number of nightmares I had during all that.
The Hartly is a gable structure. The peaked triangular shape is a gable. Also, call the "Versaille" garden the "east" garden. Or the Persephone garden.
Names for Gardens to toss around: Courtyard, herbarium, an arboretum, botanical garden (Public), a bower (sheltered with trees), kitchen garden, rockery, or peristyle, (in architecture, a line of columns that surrounds an outdoor space such as a garden inside a building, or the garden surrounded by these columns) to name a few. Although naming garden spaces after famous gardens is really a "thing". LOL! PS Watch every day, love your gardens.
+1 on the Garden Answer Annual Plant Awards! Your speaking about aphids reminded me of that ladybug drone guy you guys met at the garden center. Did you guys get a chance to decide if you will partake in the release of the ladybug by drone? I know that you have a LONG list of projects. I am just curious whether you will or not. I think the two raccoons and fox are there to meet Russel and Cheddar to have a garden party OR to try to put their combined brains together to figure out the chicken coop.
Why don’t you just try to make it look more versaille in style?? I love the name 😍
Could you use the automatic mower you use to have on the lawn to mow the greenhouse?
Hey…I agree with Laura…just plant those bulbs. Don’t film…I personally don’t like things that are weather sensitive, hanging over my head like that.
I think I feel empathy…😂
We USUALLY can't see the balcony when you're in the 'Versailles' garden… it was nice to see it in the bulb planting video. 🤔😉
Good idea in having 'your' annual plant of the year.. Where did you get the glass door cabinets that are in your potting shed?
Use grass shears to cut the grass! I'm sure Benjamin will be happy to help and you can use a tool that doesn't get used often
💜I would give amethyst verbena (or superbena) the annual of the year. They were amazing in mass!!💜
Can you mow the grass with a hedge clippers?
Less bulb PLANTING videos. More bulb IN BLOOM videos.
You did like (at least) 5-7 planting videos last autumn and only one or two viewing tours when they were in bloom.
If it's because they all bloom at different times, suggestion:. film the video in segments and then release it as one video at the end of spring (June).
😯 Both raccoons and foxes will kill your cats. I can't believe you think it's "cute" that they are running around your property. Especially after your last cat was killed by a wild animal…
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I agree with the Begonias being annual of the year, around here they are my go to for all my large containers
Portico garden?
Don't change the name of the Versailles garden!!! I always know where that is when you talk about it and it's a legacy from previous owners. Every garden needs a bit of Versailles–:).