Yay! I am so excited to do my first garden tour of 2023! I love a march garden tour because it shows my garden just as it is beginning to wake up …. a spring garden tour!
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It all looks lovely! Cannot wait for your shade garden as I am in your same growing zone (Aubrey, TX) and my back garden is full shade due to a nature trail behind my house. I would love to see what you come up with!
Thanks so much for the grand tour. You both helped with inspiration….especially now as lady winter is making a visit once again here in upstate SC where we're dropping down to frost temps for the next week. All my tenders that popped up have their blankies back on. So, this was the best 30 minutes spent with gardener friends since it's too chilly to venture out here yet! Happy almost spring. Thanks again xoxoxo
Love that added the pots through the garden
Love your garden!
At what point did you begin hardening off your seedlings?
Beautiful early Spring garden tour! Congratulations on your Facebook container 🥰 excited to watch your shade garden come together!!
Congratulations on all the structure you added to the garden, especially the 2 redbuds. The perennials will be with you for years and reduce the amount of planting every year. A little less work and more time to enjoy the garden and arrange flowers.
So pretty! How much sun do your hucheras get in the summer?
Lovely. I’m getting excited for Spring too.
Glad your husband is supportive of your channel and helping to film.
Hello! I am also gardening in Texas, zone 8a. So glad to have found you! Happy Spring!
I don't know if you visit the County Research Gardens at Meyers but a tip if you have not, its good to see them experiment all year and then go multiple times to see what each plant type looks like throughout the year. The Master Gardeners had just left when I visited so I had the place to myself to read the signs marking over 400 plantings and do observations. I'll be back throughout the year.
For Crazy Cold weather the forecasts have just changed this morning. A new arctic blast has just grown in strength. Forecasts last week were showing mid 30s to low 40s lows. Now its showing 35/Th 32/Fr 31/Sat 😥
Good morning. Just wondering that if you keep cutting back the sweet almond verbeena don't the limbs stay thin and not so strong? Just wondering if at some point you want to harden off the limbs to hold the blooms. Thank you for the tour and Looking forward to seeing your gardens exploding with color.
Such a beautiful garden you have. I love the fact that you're barefoot also!🥰
Love your garden! Your light blue violas look just gorgeous! I'm waiting to see your garden in progress 😊We are in similar climate zones ( I'm in Italy zone 8b), but we are a week or two late looking at the plants development compared to your place. Another difference is that we have very green grass for all the winter and a very long warm autumn.
I love the Willow tree! Everything is looking so beautiful! Nice garden tour.
Everything I buy from Blue Stone perennials ends up dying😢❄️💚🙃
Your March garden tour is off to a wonderful start. Can't wait until I can go barefoot in my zone 5b garden. We are still covered in snow. Bonny
Thank you for keeping it real and showing the not so perfect. It makes me feel so much better about the state my garden is in. 😀 Everything is looking fantastic. I'm just as excited for your garden as you are! 😀
Another great walk through of the garden ❤. I have some seeds from Florets that I am NOT going to use… did not want to set up grow lights and all the stuff… wanted to share them with you
I wish I could be walking around my yard in bare feet…Also, the flower pulling works for day lilies.
Your tour was a delight, your gardens lovely. And now I MUST add light blue violas to my patches muscari. Stunning.
I couldn't help notice the downspout near the oakleaf hydrangea. If you're so inclined, it seems an ideal spot for a rain barrel, beautiful and functional. Of course, I suppose Texas is equally well-known for its abundant rains as for its shade gardens… 🌧 😉. But there is the occasional anomaly, yes?
Also, kudos to your husband for his role on your team. Enjoying your channel from the PNW, zone 6b.
I live in Cleburne which is not too far from you. Your garden looks so much better than mine ! You had said you kept your drip attached all year except when really cold comes in. Do you run drip once a week in winter if it doesn’t rain? How often do you fertilize and with what do you fertilize ? Your doing such a great job. It is all beautiful. Well done.
Thank you for the garden tour. Even though I’m in a different state/zone. I enjoy watching your channel. l like that your excited for a project, you show us such beautiful flowers when they work out and I like when you show us stuff that didn’t work. This has inspired me to just start planting and help me get over when something doesn’t work out because so much more does, anyway lovely garden lovely channel. It has been inspirational for me. Thank you for being you!
Your collection of violas is really lovely.
I will enjoy seeing your side shade garden take shape. I have pretty much no shade due to how my house is sited. When I think of my backyard, sweat immediately runs into my eyes because it is so stinking HOT. Southeastern NC, zone 8a is not for the faint of heart in the summer.
I love that you run around barefoot. My kinda girl. Also thank you for not cleaning up and showing the good and bad. You are one of my top gardeners because you don’t embellish or fake anything.
Lovely garden . Cant wait for your vedios to show all the plants blooming from last year .
Excellent! Love the plans for the shade garden. Hope you dont give up on the oakleaf,
Everything looks so nice, Amanda! Your husband did a great job filming, also! I'm very impressed that you have a Clematis that came back 😯. I see them available in the stores here (in El Paso), but questioned whether they would really grow here. El Paso is also zone 8a.
You can make a wattle fence from the smoke bush branches. I saw Janey from Dig,Plant, Water, Repeat make a wattle fence from branches that she picked around her neighborhood.
I love everything about this! I'm nearby you (over in Frisco) in a small suburban cottage and we just began installing garden beds here last year. We downsized from a larger place where we had developed a mature landscape with many trees (including a willow), shrubs, and perennials, boosted seasonally by annuals as you do. We had a double koi pond with a waterfall and a little footbridge, pergola-covered patios wrapped in flowering vines, and a secret garden of laceleaf Japanese maple, dogwood, and hydrangeas on the shady side of the house behind an arched trellis draped in blooms. It was my dream place but became too much for us at this later stage of life. (Thankfully, it was bought by a friend who loved the gardens as much as I did, so it's in good hands.) Now we've started over. We're in the midst of putting big shade beds in our front and back yards (thanks to several huge trees that are quite welcome in the summer heat). Then I got carried away and decided to add vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, and a few dwarf fruit trees in the few sunny patches of our backyard, so we're working on that, too. We have some vertical planters going (Greenstalk) and are adding some raised beds similar to yours but taller in order to go easy on our older backs and knees. Right now, we're enjoying our spring bulbs in pots and watching the things we put in last fall wake up and flush out. I was thinking we'd postpone doing anything with the side yards for at least another year or two, but seeing your beds there made me eager to get to them sooner, maybe this fall. Anyway, I enjoy your content because it is so relatable to my geography and interests. Thanks! (P.S. I have a weeping redbud, as well, and chuckled at your "Cousin It" description of the Golden Falls. I always think the same thing! 😄
Great video!! Nice to see new life in your gardens. Wondering when you plant your snapdragon seeds? Looking forward to planting some in my garden from seeds next year 🙂
The verbascum is not an aggressive reseeder for me. If you plant seeds, it will bloom the same year.
Without knowing the details of your neighbor situation, most cities, it is against ordinance to purposely drain rain water or other water onto a neighboring property against their wishes. If the water naturally flows that way, it is allowed. If the are creating a way to make the water go onto your property, not allowed. You can call city all, or county offices to request an inspector look at it. If in violation most cities/counties give 30 days for them to fix it and re inspect. Of course if you don't want to open a can of worms,,, maybe just live w it, cause of course your neighbor will know you complained and that can create problems. (saying all this assuming you have already reasonably talked to your neighbor about it and that got you no results).
The tulips not getting equal sun: I solved this by finding plastic pots that fit inside the urns and switching them every few days to get equal growth. Lovely garden! Thanks for sharing it!
You have so much planted and so much infrastructure! Looks great!
Hi friend,, had you been to calloways nursery in mesquite it is at Galloway street, they have so many perennials plants at a very decent price 3.99 they are very decent size you should go.. I got a lot of plants this week 🤗🤭
Amanda thank you for the real life garden tour. My Calloways here in South Arlington is not good about taking back plants within the one year time period. They just make excuses not to take a plant back.
A wonderful video….keep them coming !!…..Beautiful garden and flowers !!
Well done. Even when still in progress you've done so much.
That shade area is going to Ben. Don't forget a comfy chair, it'll be nice spot to chill out in summer.