A few updates then some more Q&A multitasking while I work in the garden. And then, of course, postcards!
00:01 Updates (banana, dahlias, roses)
6:46 Q&A + garden cleanup
23:13 Check out my impressive weed
24:16 Postcards
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My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5b.
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48 Comments
Good morning Erin, I’m just enjoying my morning coffee and looking at my red banana with wind damaged leaves! Uggh 😢. I thought that I had put it in a spot that provided enough protection from the wind, apparently not. How in the heck did your banana make it through an entire summer without damage? Is you yard that protected from wind?
Does anyone know of a good glove that’s touch responsive?
Perhaps you would find Siberian iris beneficial along the creek, Erin. It will form dense clumps, give you a grassy feature when not blooming, and winter interest with the seed pods. It’s not fussy and will help to keep the grass from growing there. 😊💖🦋🕊
I miss gross beaks. 🌷💚🙃
If you ever get the chance you should come to the Holland Michigan tulip festival the first week of May every year. Miles and miles of tulips line the streets, and parades featuring Dutch dancers, street washing and many bands and of course Holland is located right off Lake Michigan.🌷💚🙃
Really enjoyed this type of video.
Erin,
I'm confused on what "grit"–aka, chicken starter grit–is used for. A top dressing? Mulch? Mixed into soil to improve drainage? A chemical amendment?
Thank you. 😊
loved the birds too excellent!
Random question. Did she talk about soil mix for the red banana??????? I am about to plant one, and wanted to give it the best start.
So I agree with your statement that you don't want your garden to look like everyone else. I have 3 rose bushes that are supposed to be disease resistant, but they never read that part of the tag. They have every disease that they could have. My saw is on the bench as I speak. I hate my roses that I love.
Always a pleasure to hang out with you!
Oh my, you make me smile…. still 100% on multi-tasking! Enjoyed watching you work…. because I just did 3 'serious' days of getting things done in the garden and my back hurts! Keep us smiling… please 🙂
"We've moved through several beverages". I feel this deeply.
Funny, when you said you go out of the way to be different or put your stamp on things. This week my sister tried to call me out on wanting to be different just to be different 😂
I think we are all diverse. And that is the beauty in us and then in our creativity showing up in our garden spaces 🎉
Have the same banana plant. A tree frog has been hanging out on it over a week. Live in Oregon, WI.
Do you bury the Dahlia sprouts when planting in the ground?
When we moved to S Ct I planted the tangerine Agastache and I wondered if it would come back because we are/were zone 5/6. I put it in S exposure mulched and 🤞I was hopeful, but in spring I realized the stems were not attached to anything…my introduction to voles😜and the many methods to controlling them. I forgot about that beautiful plant but thank you for the reminder. I may try again. Thanks for sharing with us!
My Crichton honey are ahead as well
Thanks so much for the grit information 😊
Thank you for sharing. I love your approach to gardening!
I think the first video I watched of yours was something like, great plants you probably don’t have in your garden. So I agree about unusual plants!
Amazing video🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Hey hey my comment got a shout out in a video! Good to know there's a difference between False Hydrangea and False Hydrangea Vine.
Love the aside about “grit” – I hot the weirdest look when I asked someone in a nursery where their grit was!😂
You always make me chuckle. I feel like I try to multitask way too much sometimes. I love your videos. Can’t wait for wine and weeds.
Erin, why do you rake off the 'winter' leavings? Except for the dead branches that fall into the beds, the rest forms a natural mulch which we prefer to leave in situ.
Have you ever overwintered your caladium bulbs? You said you bought new this year. Thanks.
Use one of the sun position apps. You point your phone camera at the sky and it shows the sun path with hourly markers. Easy to see how much sun the spot you are standing in will get.
Erin I enjoy all your videos! I'm wondering if that huge pile of mulch is yours, and what kind it is. 🥀💮🌻
Your honesty is refreshing ❤
I really enjoyed the Q&A as you work. Makes me realize I’m not the only one having to weed! Have a great week.
All the goldfinches are up at my house: Wisconsin zone 4😊
Ha!! 😅 Thank you for hitting on of my age old questions. Yes, I have scouted and tried to find something that would match their GRIT for years and never found anything.
Love it. Really makes me laugh and I can’t wait to be on more successful hunt. 😂
Laura from Garden Answer also lost most of that same agastache over this winter and it was actually a mild winter in her zone 6. It looks to me like that is not a very hardy agastache.
I had to laugh when you were talking about trying to grow the banana plant. I'm in Tallahassee Florida, and had several in the yard of a previous house. I hate them with a passion. I dug and dug and dug to get rid of them for 3 years. If there is even a tiny piece of the root left it grows right back. They are so easy to grow and so hard to kill! Be careful what you ask for!! They multiple like crazy, too
Love this video! Thank you for showing us the beautiful birds. We get the same birds in Northeast Ohio. Noticed less goldfinches as well.
That was an absolutely fantastic tap root! 💯👍🏼
Loud bird lol sounded like king fisher
We hosted a lot of your gold finches this past winter. We had more here than I have ever seen. Arkansas zone 7.
Keep on rambling, we’re following along with you. Our summer birds are back including hummingbirds. I also noticed the lack of goldfinches this winter. I saw one yellow male a week ago. The first in a long time. Purple finches are missing too. 🌿
Any free seed giveaways?
My Cape Diamond Rose is on her 3rd year here (zone 5, NW Indiana) and I've never wrapped her or winter prepped her. She climbed up a bamboo trellis behind my rock berm and flowers from the end of June until the first frost. I've yet to have any die back on her. She leafed out before the 2 late freezes we had a few weeks ago and she's doing great.
Agastache Navajo Sunset is a pretty orange one that I had success with in zone 5 in Toronto. Very pretty!
I think I heard Jim Putman from Hortube that the new agastache colors in yellows, oranges, and peaches are not as hardy in his garden as the other colors. If his didn’t come back while he’s in zone 7b, it’s no wonder yours didn’t come back!
Agree on wanting to do your own thing but there is also a time commitment element. When I retire (in the next 5-10 years) I ill be able to look after a wider variety of plants. But one of the reasons so many people grow more or less the same plants is that they are low maintenance and time is of the essence!!
This year, just chop off your banana tree before uprooting it from it's pot to lighten the workload. It should give you a pup this year
Love the Q & A videos and the postcards are also a great idea.
I was so glad to hear your take on agastache – I am in New England zone5/6 and I have yet to have an agastache survive the winter! So frustrating because they are so pretty 🙁