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Hi y’all we’re back in the new year and we’re going to be talking about plants over the next several videos it’s cold here it’s wet here and over the next week we’re going to get into the negative temperatures which we’ve not had uh where I live negative

Temperatures in a couple years now and I’m kind of concerned about all the things I planted but they had plenty of time to get settled in over the past three plus months since I planted them everything’s hearty here um so we should be good zone six where I live can get to

-10° but today Margot which I think you’ve met Margot before and I are going to be telling you about the perennials I have ordered and we’re going to be planting in the garden this year now this isn’t all encompassing this is a broad group of perennials uh that I have some of them

I’ve grown before uh I think most of them actually I’ve grown before so you’ll notice a lot of them and I’m adding them immediately to this Garden because they’re some of my favorites before before we jump into that I wanted to mention that if you’ve not picked up

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To show you how kind of this design is going to work over the next um season and my design process may be a little differently from your a lot of people handdraw um things onto pieces of paper I really love to use because I have a photo background

Photoshop and so it’s a little more sophisticated than a lot of people may be able to use but Photoshop works really well for me and I can grab the pictures of the plants offline uh basically remove the background from them and slap them into the

Image as uh I see fit I’m a very visual person I need to see the space laid out um so I can know how to design well in that space and it also allows me to see what pairings of plants I want to do to contrast color contrast blooms to

Contrast texture to contrast foliage and so that’s my method I typically I have sent the Drone up or you can just take a picture um from the side and design front to back I like to take the Drone up a little bit and get a kind of a

Level like this down down 45° or so to the space now designing this way can be a little difficult because uh it stretches and compresses the space so in the background the space is compressed so it’s kind of more difficult design in the back in the foreground it’s a little

Stretched and so what you put there may not be the exact number of things you’ll need so you’ll notice in the picture on the screen that I have taken this photo I think I took it in November after I finished the edge on the bed and then I

Kind of Photoshopped in the extra curve that I want to add to the front of the bed I took all of the trees that I had planted pulled images offline removed the backgrounds and stuck them in to where they will be uh this coming season

Now because all of this stuff is in here in perfect bloom all of the stuff obviously is not going to look like this all the time but it’s a really dramatic way to see all of your colors at once that’ll be in the garden so you can see

My Crimson Sentry Maple there with that beautiful red foliage that lasts all year year round and actually held on to its leaves to December here and still had that burgundy color until it got really cold uh and under that I’ve paired with some one in a melon cone

Flowers for that nice contrast so this allows me this type of design allows me to see those colors of the blooms and the foliage and to contrast them really nicely so they’ll be interest uh some cases not necessarily year round but the Evergreens here we’ve got some Evergreens including some um fire chief

Ari that are kind of orangey now in the winter uh the star power Juniper which is a little blue and then of course the interest of the upright trees that I have in that space like kindred spirit and Crimson centry so even when all the leaves are all of those trees they’re

Still very striking to look at now that you’ve seen this uh this is mostly perennials I’ll go over some shrubs that I’ll be adding in a later video haven’t completely worked that out yet and that meant be something I have to wait until um more closer to Spring after I get the

Perennials in they’ll arrive late April I can get those in the ground after our last frost and then I can pick some shrubs that I want to add in the space there is a list of shrubs I’ve been adding uh to that some from my prior Garden after I

Did the last Garden Tour and I edited that video recently I was like oh I need to add these back to the Garden because I love those so there’ll be some things going up here and this space is going to be the primary focus for this year in a

Coming video I’m going to talk about one The Cut Flower space and the goals for this property this coming year I have a lot of lofty goals this year but I find that I typically have lots of goals and I run through them pretty quickly um I just churn through things and even

Though it seems like a lot to accomplish I’m usually pretty good at getting it done because I spend a lot of time outside during the Spring and fall getting plants and beds established so let’s just jump right into the perennials and the first one I want to

Go over is fun and games Red Rover huk carella so if you’ve been watching my channel very long you know that I love Huka um I have grown hooka all the different colors I wanted to do a hura river with all the different foliage colors two years ago I started that

Project I planted them from tiny tiny plants and it didn’t go very well and they weren’t all Proven Winners variety hookas now huk carella is a cross between a hura and a tiarella which means often times they’re really vigorous and really productive and this one specifically I Grew From tiny tiny

Plants and it just became massive Huka of often times also can only take a part sun to shade location Red Rover for me will take full sun in our zone 6 Southwest Ohio and it is incredibly vigorous I love the stark contrast of the leaves that red burgundy color and

In the fall it’s really pretty um when all the the leaves start falling it kind of just looks like Falling Leaves I used it to underplant a hedge of Bobo hydrange jaes and I’ve tucked it here and there so if you’ll go back to the picture that I showed you of the design

I’ve kind of contrasted it with some more green foliage uh just tucked in the bed everywhere so I’ll be getting these in and I’ll be poking them anywhere I can that I just need a stark contrast uh hook carellas in general since they are a hybrid are pretty vigorous I want to

Repeat the h River uh in this front garden bed I don’t know that that’s something I’ll get to this year um it may be something I tackle next year depending on what I can get my hands on uh and I may find a lot of those locally

And be able to mix and match some beautiful colors and Red Rover specifically is Hardy in zones 4 through nine so almost anywhere in the United States you can grow this and it get 6 to8 in tall and 18 to 20 in wide and I

Have found that to be very true it it’s very vigorous and gets very big very quickly now let’s move on to our next perennial none of these are in any particular order uh but I’m going to be growing some flocks this year one called luminary opal Ence I grew this one in

The last garden and I really L the way it looked uh but I’m going to be growing quite a bit of these some of them in the front flower bed that I just showed you and some of them I’m going to be putting into the cut flower garden to pral lie

To be beautiful and cut flower arrangements for years and years come uh this is a tall flock so it can get roughly 2 feet and 6 in tall to 28 is what Walter’s Garden sets and spread between 2 foot and 2 and 1/2t wide already in zones 3 through eight so also

Really broad scope of the United States there a lot of these perennials can be grown probably in my location and also your location uh really broad range and that just means they’ll hold up really long in your garden the next perennial is a flock but it’s a hybrid flocks that

Stays a little shorter that I grew in my last Garden called opening act pinka do now how I grew this one in the last Garden was really interesting I tuck them all right next to each other and even when these things are not in bloom I like the foliage because it’s really

Delicate and it kind of blows in the wind but I had these in a part shade location Under The Willow at the last house bunnies kind of love to nest in them in early spring and fall so regularly I’d see like kind of a spot of

Them that had been a bunny had been nest in but it bloomed constantly throughout the entire season now the description of these say they’re hardian ones 4 through 8 really great broad range of hardiness 22 to 26 in tall and 2 and 1/2 to 3T wide these do spread um and they spread

Not super vigorously but it’s something that you’ll have to deal with eventually if thinning those just like any perennial and moving them around in your garden but it’s certainly not something to not plant these far they’re not super like vigorous that they’re just going to take over your garden or anything I were

In that space for several years and they just kind of creep like any other little peral from year to year get a couple inches wider and a couple inches wider and then eventually you dig it up transplant it and you have new like fresh plants elsewhere in your garden

Now the next plant is a cone flow and I’m not adding a whole lot of cone flowers to my garden this year I love cone flowers but I find that if you leave the seeds heads on which are really great for Birds but those seed heads drop most likely you’re going to

Get a reverted cone flour that sometimes will often transition back to the purple so this cone flour is one in a melon and what I really like about it is it has huge massive blooms and I’ve showed these off I think on both Instagram and in my recent Garden Tour uh they’re

Massive they’re this big round at least and they would be really great in Cut Flower Arrangements as well great seed heads for the birds um at the end of the season but I also found these just Bloom kind of prolifically all season long and they come out pretty much a little more

Orangey and then they kind of Fade to a lighter yellow and they’re Hardy in zones 4 through eight and get roughly to less than 2 and 1/2t Tall 18 to 20 in wide so they are a little bit of a taller cone flower which is a really

Nice mid ofthe border plant and if you’re looking at adding any comf flowers to your garden this year this is certainly one that I would highly recommend you look at getting the next is one of my favorite atil bees that I added to the front garden bed last year

At the last house when I was redesigning those spaces and that is dark side of the moon a still be beautiful dark Foliage for an a still be compared with these really bright Plum purpley pink looking blooms in Spring and I can tell you as long as we were at the last house

Last year to the end of July they did perfectly fine in a full sun location so these are a sby that can take full sun they may need a little bit more water but in my garden they did pretty well in that full sun location all year uh still

Be of course bloom in the spring but the seed heads are nice to use in arrangements then or for dried Arrangements later in the fall and they provide interest year round if you leave the seed heads to the next spring the next plant on the list is Serendipity

Alium now this is an improvement on like Millennium alium that’s probably pretty common it may even be in your garden I had both at the last Garden but I really like Serendipity because the foliage is a little Bluer Than Millennium so it looks less like a chive and more

Interesting and then it has a very nice small uh kind of delicate this size purple blooms on them throughout the season and then they dry they can be interest over winter and they’re really rabbit and deer resistant because they are oniony now they don’t have an oniony

Smell just sitting around in your garden but if you run your hands through it or crush the foliage you’ll notice that oniony smell but I really love them I’ve used them as a border I’ve used them all sorts of places cuz they’re just really nice to tuck in interesting foliage even

When they’re not in bloom but when they do come in bloom that perfectly little light delicate purple color is really nice uh just anywhere in your garden they’re also super Hardy zones 4 through eight and they get roughly 15 in to 20 in high and 15 in wide so these are

Things that will Clump out over time you can divide later after they grow out now let’s talk about yaros cuz yaros are really interesting plants uh I’m going to be adding some to the cut flowers space now I didn’t have the best results with Yaro at the last house they like

Really kind of I’ll just call it dull soil potentially dry soil with not a whole lot of nutrition and at the last house we had really kind of heavy clay which made the Ys kind of difficult to grow but when they are blooming they’re really pretty at this new house the

Soil’s much better so I think I’ll have a much better result there and the ones I’m adding to my garden are Peach Sky which I grew in the last Garden really beautiful peachy color perfect to add and cut flower arrangements for a perennial gets roughly 3T tall it can be

A taller perennial for you I never saw that it got that tall in my last Garden so that maybe over time it gets that tall and roughly 2 and 1/2t wide already in zones 3 through eight so also a really broad range of hardiness uh the

Next one that I’m going to be adding is Peter cotton taaro which I also had in the last Garden I love to use this one as a baby’s breath alternative and cut flower arrangements and that’s why I’m primarily growing it this year is to add to the cut flower garden but I’ll also

Be adding it to the front flower bed probably too this one can creep and crawl a little more quickly than a lot lot of the other improved yuros like the one I just mentioned Peach Sky um so it’s something you need to be a little more careful of planting just so it

Doesn’t kind of take over a space not super incredibly vigorous but just something to be aware of to watch out for if you find it but instead of having like the top little flower heads like you’ll see a lot of yaros have this one has tiny little flowers all over it that

Look like I mentioned bigger baby breaths blooms and so you can cut those and add those to arrangements and I’ve done that before really just beautiful Cut Flower and just something different in the garden that people ask you questions about and you can just tell

Them it’s a Yaro um it gets roughly 2ot tall 2 and 1/2t wide Hardy in zones 3 through eight so also a really broad range of hardiness and you’ll see that picture on the screen there really kind of lovely perennial I’m going to be growing a couple varieties of cat mint

Uh one I’ve grown before called cats pajamas because it stays relatively small and it’s easy to tuck in locations and get that beautiful uh minty smell if you run your hands through it but also the nice purple blooms throughout the season some cat mats can get really big

And floppy cat’s pajamas tends to stay pretty small so you don’t have that issue and I find that it had blooms on it year round in zone 6 Southwest Ohio um a lot of cat mints you can cut back halfway through the summer and they’ll rebloom again but the cxes or the kaces

On these plants seem to be a little darker so even when they’re necessarily out of Bloom they still look really nice but I didn’t find myself cutting them back Midsummer which is why I like that variety uh they get roughly 14 in tall and 20 in wide and they Hardy in zones 3

Through six so another one of those good ones that you can probably grow the next one is called chartreuse on the loose and this is one that’s recent to the market I believe but it’s cool because it has yellow chartreuse foliage with purple Bloom so there’s a really

Striking contrast there um that I’m excited to add this one along with other perennials because there’s not a ton of perennials that you get that chart trusy leaf on a lot of them are just the green leaf ones maybe a little blue here and there so a really interesting variety

Similar to the Drops of Jupiter ornamental oregano that PR winners carries it stays relatively simil small or short uh less than a foot tall 8 to 10 in and then 20 to 24 in wide so it kind of spreads out a little further and is shorter in height and it is Hardy in

Zones 3 through eight as well same as cat’s pajamas uh and it will just provide a proliferation of flowers for you along with a contrast of color the next thing we can cover is sedums I’m going to be adding a couple sedums initially to my garden two that I’ve

Grown before Back in Black which I really love really striking contrast for a perennial against all your other perennials because it has that really dark uh black foliage purple foliage and then it comes out with these mahogany is pink blooms and later summer gets roughly 2ot tall and 2 and 1 half

Potentially foot wide uh and I find it grows really well for a sedum Even in our kind of heavier clay soil that we had at the last garden and we have some sedums here at the new home and they are growing prolifically I think one of them’s Autumn Joy there’s another one

There that I’m not sure it’s a very similar one looking one to Autumn joy and these also do really well in Cut Flower Arrangements so I’m going to be digging up some of the Autumn joy in Spring and transplanting it into my Cut Flower space so those can get developed

Over time they last really long in Cut flow Arrangements CU they are succulent um so even you can use the foliage and the spraying before the blooms come out they also work really good in dried Arrangements but black and black I’m going to be combining with um Boogie

Wogie which I grew in the last garden and it’s a ground cover Sedum so we have a planter outside at the end of the driveway I don’t have water out there yet although that is a goal to get water to that container sometime this year hopefully but Sedum I want to fill that

Big container with Boogie wogie Sedum on the bottom and Back in Black that’ll stand up and it’ll be just excellent yellow dark purple black contrast of foliage that’ll be really striking and a pop of color out to the driveway where I’m not going to be able toak get water

To very often or very quickly Boogie wogie is a ground cover it does get up to a half foot tall uh I found that it was just a few inches tall in my garden and then it does spread because it’s a spreading Sedum 16 to 18 in wide so over

Time it’ll just get a little bigger you can take little sections of it and put pop it elsewhere in your garden after a few years and the next variety of perennials I’m growing on my list are Veronicas also called speed well Spike speed well it’s the common name uh and I

Have grown Veronica previously in the prior Garden several years ago and it just did not perform well but it was a no-name variety so this year I’m trying some Proven Winners variety the first one’s called Wizard of Oz which has really really beautiful blue purple blooms that are really big it gets

Roughly 16 in high so it’s a shorter one and roughly 2T wide 18 in to 20 2 2 in and it’s Hardy in zones 4 through eight so a smaller zone of Hardy inness but that still covers most of the United States the magic show Veronicas from improving winners are supposed to bloom

Really well and for a really long time the next one I’m growing which I already added a few of these to the Garden this fall is Ever After so magic show ever after and this is supposed to be the longest blooming Veronica uh in proven winers line and it has a slightly

Lighter col lavenderish uh and really long Bloom panicles so these are nice to add to your garden for those spiky blooms similar to a Salvia and this one gets roughly 16 in tall and 16 to 20 in wide already in zones 4 through eight and I’m really

Excited to grow these in the garden because I’ve never grown them before they’ll pair nicely with a lot of the other perennials I have and you can see these in the original image I put on the screen popped here and there in groupings of four or five uh and these

Were also really good to add to cut flower arrangements so I’ll be adding some to The Cut Flower Garden you’ll find in the video that I’ll be doing on the cut flow garden and I’m going to be adding a lot of perennials this year to that to become established for future

Years of cut flowers the next perennial is a Salvia called Violet profusion it is a very striking purple uh Salvia uh I also wanted uh Pink profusion so I’ll probably be finding that locally but I’ve got Violet profusion on order gets roughly 16 in tall 16 to 20 in wide

Hardian zones 3 through eight so a really broad range of hardiness and the profusion salvas are known for their re reblooming capability um which is really great I grew uh perfect profusion in the last Garden I did find that it reblo really well compared to other salvas I

Had grown in my garden before so you just give it a little bit of a cut back after its initial flush of blooms and it will continue producing blooms for you later in the the season the next one is a lavender and you know I love lavender

I had a lavender hedge at the last Garden I’ll probably repeat that sometime at this Garden somewhere but for now I’m going to do a short grouping of them along the sidewalk uh in the last Garden I grew hi coat which I find to be a really great lavender it’s

Pretty short uh it came back reliably year after year for me I’m going to be trying out sweet romance from the pren winners collection this year uh and see how it does sweet romance is a little more than H coat similar sizing uh but the actual blooms

Are a little fluffier on them so it gets roughly uh 16 in tall and wide and his Hardy in SS 5 through n so uh higher in hardiness cuz lavender tends to like the Heat and kind of like Mediterranean uh climates but it is good for us in Ohio Z

5 through six the last Garden I found lavender grew pretty well even in my clay soil I did kind of put some sand underneath it when I planted it for some drink drainage but it was on drip irrigation along with the rest of my perennials and was never any worse off

For having that extra water I’m going to be growing a lung wart uh which is not the best name of a plant these are also called pulmon areas I grew them at the last Garden I really love them they’re shade perennial that has really interesting speckled foliage and blooms

Really early in the spring so when your helor are blooming you will find that your long wart is blooming probably before the helor go out of Blom um so you can put these in a shady location in your garden which is where I’m kind of establishing some shade beds under some

Of these older trees that I have uh this year so I may uh keep these around and let them grow on a little bit and establish a little more and then plant them into the shade beds when I get those done uh they can take part shade

To shade so I’ll probably be tucking some in the front flower bed that I’m developing as well under some of the trees that’ll eventually grow up I think if I can give these enough drip irrigation they’ll be fine because that bed is Eastern facing um so they’ll get

You know Sun until you know after lunch in a lot of those locations so if I put it up closer to the house where some of my Japanese maples are I think they’ll grow on really nicely and then we can add some later to the shadier beds

Around the house and the last one on my list today is a dianthus called classic coral and I grew this one at the last house and I just love that perfect coraly color uh this year’s color of the year is peach fuzz I think by Pantone um

So classic Coral will kind of breach that color kind of nicely kind of be very similar to the peach fuzz uh color of the year and so you’ll see that I’ll be adding a lot of those colors cuz that peach coraly color is like my favorite anyway ranging from yellow to Pink and

Then you throw in some purples that’s where I live in the garden basically so classic Coral dianthus is a taller Dianthus it’s not necessarily a ground cover dianthus it gets roughly 10 in tall and 12 to 14 in wide hardan ons 4 through n and I found it to be really

Beautiful the foliage is great even when it’s not in Blooming because it’s one of those perennials that have a little Bluer foliage after it blooms you kind of trim it back a little bit and it’ll continue producing blooms for you later in the season like most pral do well

Margo has been taking a nap Margot do you want to say bye come here come here you want to tell them bye yeah yeah okay say she is a lazy Springer Spaniel but I love her thank you guys for joining me today and check out the next video in

The coming weeks uh there’s a lot to cover it is still really cold here so we can’t get out in the garden but Spring’s only a few months away and there’s lot to be done between now and then with planning and preparation thanks for joining me guys and remember be a light

Take care bye