Hello! My name is Bethany and I grow things in my rooftop container garden in Chicago, zone 6a. In this video, I’ll show you what my garden looks like at the beginning of June.
2023 Garden Tours Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk7YUFQ82iM&list=PL-x6xtohdIXap8w-cfW1ZIoKfLHusEyCY
2022 Garden Tours Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-x6xtohdIXbaJs5yUAocS8b7vDjRmpkx
Where Things Are From:
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~ Wood elevated beds: https://gronomics.com/all-elevated-garden-beds/
~ 30-gallon grow bags: https://amzn.to/3C4tvZU
~ 7-gallon black grow bags: https://parkseed.com/smart-pot-fabric-planters/c/smart-pots/
~ 5 and 7 gallon beige grow bags: https://amzn.to/3qgiWjR
~ Flower cart: https://amzn.to/43unbGU
~ Table and chairs: old from Wayfair
~ Wheels for 30-gallon grow bags: https://amzn.to/3qfRxib
~ Caddy for smaller plants: https://amzn.to/3WIhjra
~ ProvenWinners drip irrigation: https://www.provenwinners.com/waterwise
~ Carpathen drip irrigation: https://amzn.to/3OLiCUk
~ Side plant stands for herb rack: https://amzn.to/3WOu7fH
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31 Comments
Gaillardia (blanket flower), pentas (star flower) and ageratum (Mexican paintbrush or floss flower)? 17:51
Glorious flowers and blooms, colours, colours and more.😍😍. I really like your container garden, well done👏😍👏
Absolutely beautiful ❤❤❤ love it!! Is the mystery plant milkweed?
Looks beautiful
It looks amazing –so gorgeous! Everything looks so healthy 🙂
Love your deck garden! Absolutely gorgeous! Your strawberry plants are doing so well. What do you think if the strawberry leaves are curled up? Too much sun or too crowded in the planter… Anyways thanks for the video. Really enjoyed it!
Milkweed ?
Wow, wow, wow! Fantastic color and progression from June! You are doing an amazing job – can’t wait to see the back garden!
Gorgeous rooftop garden vibrant with colors and beautiful gardener💐❤️
Your gomphrena looks great! My orange & carmine gomphrena are all floppy and disheveled looking after all the rain we have been getting. I have to now support them to get the stems to grow upright cause I am getting some wonky looking stems! However my light pink gomphrena is totally fine and very sturdy because I think it is a more bushier variety.
Omg, your garden has flourished.❤❤ Do you get powdery mildew on your zinnas??
Beautiful Garden. Your Blanket Flower, Guillardia? Is perennial.
Looking great. So much color. How often do you feed your gomphrena? Mine as so much smaller.
Your garden is so beautiful! I’m very impressed with how much you have in that space. The ground cherries are so yummy! I have 3 in my garden. 😊
Gorgeous container garden tour!
Your garden always inspires me! Gorgeous 🤩
Butterfly weed?
Are you kidding me ! The flowers have grown so much so quick Looking really awesome 🌸🌹🌺Love it so much. Well done you. I love the way you have them arranged , not just a big mess of containers and plants like at my place lol I wish I could get my zinnias to grow like that ..do you fertilise your zinnias? Love that salvia and the Gaillardia
Hi Bethany, are you going to make a summer flower tour in Chicago? I was in Chicago in April this year and loved the parks and gardens, it would be good to see how it looks in summer. Your rooftop garden is also beautiful! Greetings from Budapest
Do you pinch your dahlias? I am trying both ways. One pinched one not. I also joined the American Dahlia Society MW northern suburbs.
You sure have a green thumb with petunias. Mine get scraggly even if cut back
Thank you for sharing. The garden is looking amazing.
You could grow vertically to fit more on the deck.
Gorgeous! Just a riot of color! I am looking forward to the back garden.
beautiful garden! do you pinch the apical meristem off of your zinnias when they’re young?
You don't have a large amount of space but this is a perfect example of when life gives you lemons you make delicious lemonade 😊. I just love it.Yum Yum!
First time seeing your channel new subscriber here. I’m so impressed with how well you can grow everything in containers 😍❤
I love everything. Where is the herb stands from? ❤ It looks like it 3 tiered
Love your container garden. Do you get slugs that eat your leaves? If so, how do you control them? Help, I'm trying to get my container garden going!
Hello Bethany! Fellow Chicago gardener here too. At 17:38 you show a pot. The orange flowers look like a type of Coreopsis and the one on the right looks a bit like Joe Pye. Annuals or perennials?
Wow. Amazing. Hello from Missouri
Amazing hello from Ia