Grab a cup of coffee or your favorite drink, and join me as I discuss my garden plans for 2024! All of my hopes and dreams for my garden for 2024, including annuals, container combinations, perennials and vines that I hope to add this year! There are pictures and names given for my wishlist plants as well.
Here are the links that I discuss if you’d like to check them out:
Dallas Arboretum Plant Trials Flameproof Winners: https://www.dallasplanttrials.org/_ccLib/attachments/pages/Flameproof+Winners+2022.pdf
Proven Winners Container Garden Recipe Search: https://www.provenwinners.com/container-gardening/container-recipes/search
Hi everyone welcome back to grow roots this is Shannon and today I’m going to talk about my dreams and aspirations for the garden for 2024 I know that sounds a little bit silly but those of you who are gardening and like to plan your Gardens each year
I think you know what I’m talking about here in winter is the best time to dream about what plants you’re wanting to plant um I have made a a wish list and I know I it may change 100 times before the planting season begins and um you
Know we just kind of go with the flow I always change my plans when I get to the garden centers and see the plants that they have but uh these are the plants that are on my wish list and may or may not be in my budget and this is these
Are my plans for my front garden and my back Garden for 2024 okay so I have four different um categories of plants that I have been thinking about and uh that includes the annuals so annuals that are going to go in my front garden as my garden border annuals that are going to
Go in some of my containers that I have both in the front and in the backyard and annuals that I want to plant through the landscape in my backyard which you see behind me um so I’ll talk about those and then some perennials that are kind of on my radar
If I find them I’ll pick them up this year um the container combinations that I’m thinking about which include mostly annuals but there are certain combinations that I really want to incorporate and then um lastly Vines so they’re in their own category for me um
I have a limited space you know I have a home in Suburban in a suburban area north of Dallas Texas and I have a very limited backyard space and a pretty limited front yard space just your normal average family home but um one thing that I really want to kick up a
Notch this year are my Vines and so I will tell you what my plans are for those okay so let’s get started um so annuals when I think of the annuals uh the very first thing that I start dreaming about and thinking about because I think they
Make the biggest impact are the annuals that I’m going to plant in my front garden border I always leave a space open for annuals in the front of my garden um and it’s because I just I love it I love that look of a low growing annuals it’s bright and colorful and
Then you know the graduation of taller plants behind it that add also color and interest and texture and all of that but the you know the biggest impact is the color for me I’m a color person and I believe that um annuals are the best way
To do that so uh in previous years I have done vinka as a garden border and here in North Texas if you have grown vinka in full sun you know that it is a rockstar heat tolerance an amazing plant and it worked really well as a garden
Border for me so I know that works but I like to try new things every single year so um last year I tried zenas and I picked up Thumbelina Zenia um seeds and grew them from seed and the Thumbelina zenas that were supposed to be 12 in to
16 in tall ended up growing 3 to 4 feet tall in my front garden border so it was beautiful and it was a pollinator magnet let me tell you the bees and the butterflies every time I stepped out my front door it was just it was like a
Dream world for me um because I love butterflies so much but you know uh 3 to 4 feet tall for a garden Bard is just too tall in my opinion and uh then you couldn’t see the plants that were planted behind it either and they also
Kind of flopped over into to the grass um in front of the garden border and that just that wasn’t that wasn’t good so I’m definitely looking for something more low growing um so that you can see the larger plants planted behind it and the Sunshine the gustom in the
Background and so um what I really what I’ve decided that I really want to do this year is I want to plant a a bright pink super tunia Vista so either super tunia Vista jazzberry Sor super tuna I think it’s a Vista Bermuda Beach super tunia Vista fuchsia or um super tunia
Vista bubblegum or super CH Vista what am I looking for Paradise so all of those are bright pink colors if I find any of them at a decent price near me I will pick them up and then that in combination with uh superb it’s called Imperial blue it used
To be called super beina Cobalt it is now called superina Imperial blue and I first saw this combination on a YouTube channel I believe it’s called gardening with the williamses and I can pop their link below if you’d like to check out the specific video that really inspired
Me to do this but they mixed super tun jberry with super beina Imperial blue and there’re they are in California so they don’t quite get as hot as we do here in Texas however ever it was just spectacular the mixture of that like bright hot pink color with the um
Purplish bluish really bright purplish bluish color of the super tuna or super beina and then also the textures of the flowers really really compliment each other so the colors compliment each other the textures compliment each other I just really love that combination and I want to try that in the front garden
Border this year I do realize even super uh will not quite make it throughout our entire summer because our summers get so hot and they’re it seems that they’re hotter and hotter every single year and so I realized they’re going to fizzle out probably in Late July or early
August and my plan then is to proactively start growing um zenas a dwarf Zenia this time um thanks to one of you lovely people who comment m mented i I apologize I will pop your name on the screen because I believe you deserve that recognition I don’t recall
It off memory right now but uh one of you had commented on one of my garden tours and said the Dreamland series of zenas from Park seed is going to be a true dwarf variety and truly only get like 12 to 16 in tall and so I ordered
Those seeds and I’m so excited to grow them this year and so my plan is when those super Tunas and superbas come fizzle out a little bit I’m going to replace them with the Dreamland series zenas and I think planted later in this season those Zas too will have you know
A few months of growing time and uh they’ll be really really great to end that summer season so in addition to that front garden border for annuals I do have a lot of containers in the front that also will be having some annuals I have a three tier planter um that’s like
Right off to the side of my steps that I absolutely love and um truly I’ll just wait until I start talking about my container combinations that I want to do it’s really for those I’m really not sure I’m just going to go with whatever strikes me and whatever color
Combination or whatever is in the color combination that I want to be sticking with this year um but I definitely have plans for there’s two containers that are at the very front um they’re planted in the grass actually along the street along the um the sidewalk there and that
I really really want to incorporate um they’re going to be the same Rock and play in the blue salvia as the centerpiece plant I wanted to grow that plant for so so long and I love the combination of that with Super tuno Bubble Gum so that’s a possibility there
But um I you know we’re kind of moving into the containers thing but um I I wanted to point out on The Proven Winners website if you haven’t checked that out and you’re looking for container garden inspiration you they have a complete separate um a completely separate menu for container garden
Inspiration and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of combinations of plants that they know Works they have been grown before they are tried and true and um and you can see what inspiration you like the most and what color combinations and things like that and one of them that really strikes me that
Incorporates Rock and play in the blue salvia is their Salvia mix and I’ll pop a picture on the screen but it incorporates their um their walk and play in the blue salvia along with their fuchia Salvia and then one of their um dark purple salvas I’m not recalling the
Name of it but um just the combination of the three different colors of salvia the blue the purple and the pink I think is beautiful and a beautiful statement um another thing that I really like is this rock and play in the blue salvia as the centerpiece along with super beina
Storm burst or I could go Imperial blue there but the storm burst I think would be a little more complimentary a super Bell’s yellow shiffon um and they put they put lagona sky blue liilia in there and I would not do that plant because I do not think mbilia does well here in
Texas it Fizzles out in the heat really quickly but I would probably pop it in uh a hot pink color complimentary to what I’m doing in the front garden so like the super tuna you know Bermuda Beach or maybe even super pmen some type of pink color I would pop in there
Instead of the laelia um and then that kind of brings me to The Container um and the color combination that I want to keep up front I love because I have Sunshine lustrum which incorporates a lot of yellows already um I’m I’m going to be going with the grand like really
Bright colors so yellows and bright pinks and oranges and uh bright blues and bright purples so there’s a couple of combinations there on their websites that incorporate all of those really bright colors that I absolutely love and so when I go to the garden centers I’m thinking of those colors and I see
Annuals that I know are heat tolerant um that can you know that will look good then I’ll pick them up so we’ll see what we end up with there but that’s going to be the front um I also have some porch containers that are in almost full shade
Some Morning Sun but mostly full shade and so um with that if I find the Color Blaze eloro colius um I’m going to pick that up I’m going to try that because it incorporates all of the colors in my color scheme so yellows and reds and
Pinks and purples and all of that so I would love to find that um but I also would love to find some cadium that incorporate those colors as well I think I love caladiums and they grow really well in the shade but like um the Prov
Winers lemon blush cadium which is a y a yellow color on the outside of the leaf and a pink color on the inside of the leaf along with the chartreuse color of like a you know anything like a sweet potato vine or a creeping jeny or Lemon
Ball Sedum um and that combination would be really really pretty as well and I still have English ivy growing in those containers as well so I would keep that English ivy there because it has made it for sure through the winter um backtracking a little bit back to the
Annuals because I didn’t really talk about the um the backyard back here I do want to plant some annuals back here and that’s going to include all of the zenas so I have California giant Zenia seeds I have my thalina Zenia seeds I have uh um the Dreamland Series this year and then
I also have um I’ll pop a picture I bought the zinderella peach and I’m thinking about buying The Queeny Queeny lime orange I think is what it’s called Zenia um so definitely planting some zenas back here um to grow along that fence and in other various
Areas and I also want to plant a lot of Cosmos this year I love Cosmos and I’ve done orange Cosmos in the past um but I want to incorporate some pink Cosmos this year as well and I do have red Cosmos um that I picked up that I’ll
Plant at some in some location as well and also I have you know new garden beds that are shade in part shade on this side of my house that um I started one portion of that two years ago and then all the rest of it is almost brand
New last year um um those part shade locations so I’m going to be adding some shade and part shade annuals back there and the number one um annual that I’m excited to get going back there is The Proven Winners double F pink Bonia I picked two of those plants up last year
And I planted them actually kind of right behind me in a container like right by this pillar actually right there um and so it was in full shade because it’s under this awning my por porch my back porch and um oh it was spectacular these two plants that
Started this big grew all the way to this big and bloomed for me all season long the foliage was on point all season long no insects no pests no heat like nothing affected this plant at all not even when we started getting our first Frost in November it got down to 23 de
It survived that and it survived a few of the frost in December as well and so um goodness as long as you’re keeping I I know double up pink says um it says shade to Sun but here in North Texas because our sun is so brutally hot
You’ve got to plant it in the shade I think and as long as you do that this plant is going to perform like crazy so I actually saved um some of this plant I divided it up instead of letting it diey in the frost I did this in December late
December I divided it up into four or five plants um and then I also took a few cuting so the four or five plants are actually planted in pots and I’m growing them indoors right now they’re doing just fine um and then I the cuting
That I had taken um one of them rooted out of maybe four so the cuting haven’t I haven’t been super successful rooting the cuting but as far as splitting the plant up and overwintering it in my home I have had great success so I will have
Four or five of them to plant into the landscape already and then I’ve seen them always at Home Depot for I think it was $6.99 last year this year i’ I’ll bet they’re way more expensive everything seems to be way more expensive this year but I should only need to pick up maybe
A couple if I see them another shade annual that I really want to try this year if I see it is the endless illumination bralia uh it is shade tolerant and heat tolerant and Jenny from gardening with Creekside thank you for the recommendation that is where I
Fell in love with that in her shade garden and I’d love to try that in mine as well if I see it oh I don’t know if you guys can hear that but the squirrels are back there I don’t know if you can see them or but I can definitely hear
Them they’re squeaking and so they’re playing behind me anyway okay okay um another annual that I’m going to be for sure planting back here and maybe in the front as well it’s just taller so it’ll go in the back um Gina Gina is unbelievable um it was heat tolerant
Last year it did fizzle out in late August um but just beautiful beautiful flowers that are that make really great cut flowers as well as dried flowers they keep their color so I’m definitely planting Gina again um and then really let’s see oh I did pick up some seeds
These I grew last year um Chinese forget me knots they are from Dollar Tree four for a dollar still and um these were unbelievable this shade of blue is is spectacular and um so I’m going to be growing this again I’m going to be growing some herbs I have a strawberry
Pot that I got for free and I’ve decided to make that into an herb garden with with all of the different has 12 holes in it so I’m going to be growing dill and um parsley and Thyme oregano basil and all those good things there I also
Have these um I picked this up at Dollar Tree as well I think this one was actually a dollar um but I’ll be planting a lot of impatience for my shade containers and my shade garden that’s pretty much it for annuals and again we’ll see what
Happens I go to the garden centers and see what they have available but moving on to perennials okay so as far as perennials goes I’m running out of space it’s okay I picked up a lot of perennials last fall when they were all in clearance so
Um I picked up a pink skull cap I picked up Mystic blue um Mystic Blue spes Salvia which is supposed to be perennial in our area I picked up um a carax that an Everest carax that is like a variegated foliage unbelievable plant I picked up what else did I get on
Clearance oh a lot of salvia Salvia Greggy hot trumpet Salvia for the front I got lemon ball Sedum a couple of those um so I’ve planted and I’ve divided some eona peria and those are all throughout the landscape back here I also picked up some plumbago serat stigma which is a
Par plumbago ground cover with blue flowers that I have found to be extremely heat tolerant unbelievable plant I picked up those oh burgundy glow auka as another perennial ground cover and then also variegated vinka major as a as a ground cover a perennial ground
Cover as well so I added a lot to the Garden last year there are a few plants that are still on my radar um one of them is brona um Bruna historically doesn’t do that well in the heat however Dallas arum they did plant trials and the results of their
Plant trials from 2022 are available on their website I can post a link in the description box for you to check it out because it’s really cool they tell you um in our area in the Dallas area which plants did really well um through the heat of 2022 that was a record-breaking
Year as well and so Brun Queen of Hearts from Proven Winners was on their list of flame proof they called them flame proof plants heat tolerant um so I want to plant that if I can find it in my shade garden I also want to pick up a
Different type of Cana Lily to add to the landscape and that is Cana 2an Coral by Proven Winners that again was on the Dallas arboretums uh flame proof list from their plant trials and then I have always had my eye on cat’s pajama NEPA I just love the look of that
Plant still I can’t find it so I may order it online this year but I really want to add that to the landscape and then I would really love to add some Monarda I tried one Monarda plant in a container last year and it did not make
It it it um died from powdery mildew and I think Monarda is is known for that after some research but I just love the pop of color and I love love love the smell of monardo I would love to have that all throughout the landscape so I’m
Going to try one more time but this time I’m going to plant it in the ground and see how see if I can keep it alive another plant that I haven’t quite given up yet but this close to giving up on it I feel like I’m the only one
Rudbeckia I have tried growing Rudbeckia gold Sturm and Rudbeckia Indian what is it called Indian summer um from seed to your years in a row they look spectacular they grow they grow they grow they’re unbelievable they mix with other plants so so well and then towards the end of the season they die
They’re supposed to be perennial but mine die and I think it’s powdery MW it’s like you know the everything kind of turns whitish and dies pretty quickly um so I think that’s what it is but I’m going to give Rudbeckia one more chance this time I’m going to try and pick up
The Proven Winners variety of Rudbeckia because if anything’s going to survive I think it’s going to be one of theirs um his theirs you know are tested and and tri so much so I’m going to try Rudbeckia little gold star or Rudbeckia Mega Millions and see if I can have
Success with that because I just love Ria okay so last but not least if you’re still with me thank you thank you thank you but I really want to talk about Vines Now I love Vines so much and I feel like they add so much color and interest and texture to the Garden
Especially when you have a small space like I do so my vision for this year I don’t know if we’ll get there but I’d love to have this Back Fence kind of almost [Applause] covered okay sorry everybody uh it is a new day I have been editing this video
Getting it ready to get out to you and I realized that my last p of my footage has been deleted isn’t that fun um so I’m just going to it’s a new day I just want to get this video out to you and I
Wanted to finish it up for you so all we have left to talk about is Vines and uh so excited about them I already have some perennial Vine um varieties that I have been really trying um for a while now I’ve been growing Confederate star jasmine and I love it except my
Experience with it here in North Texas is that no matter where it’s planted um in our Winters typically the vine will die and the you know it’ll have to start brand new from Roots every season and because it blooms in the spring I’m not really getting the blooms that I should
Be expecting from the Confederate star jasmine yes it will Bloom but I will get like four blooms per Vine because it’s it’s starting fr from New Growth every year so I uh I took that out of where I was growing it in the trellises last year I put them in other locations
Because I didn’t want to throw them away I just can’t do that I do love it but I put Tangerine Beauty cross fine in its place on my trellises in the backyard and this will be its second season growing I’m super excited for spring because I’m hoping the trellises the
Four trellises I have with the four vimes will just completely explode with with blooms this spring and I’m super excited for that I also have picked up a coral honey suckle which is also a it’s supposed to be an evergreen uh Vine and uh it’s pretty small right now I picked
It up on clearance in the fall it hasn’t had a whole lot of time to grow and let’s see um that’s about it that I have right now tangaran Beauty Coral Honeysuckle and Confederate star jasmine this year I’m really hoping to incorporate um at least one mature Claus
Into my yard I have a spot that I think is perfect for the Claus in my backyard where the roots will get shade but the vine itself will get full sun and I think I’m going to start with a um a Jackman Claus they do really well here
In North Texas from what I’ve heard and so if I’m going to start with one I’m going to do one that is tried and true in my area and and I want to pick up a mature one I’m not going to start small because I really kind of they’re
Somewhat slow maturing and I want to um enjoy the benefits of a Claus pretty soon so I’m going to do that I may pick up a couple bar root Claus where I will have to wait several years to see um them grow and to see the
Blooms and things like that so Claus for sure I’m I’m going to do I also picked up some annual Vines um because I do have some areas where I want Vines to kind of explode but then I don’t want them to overtake the area either um and
One of them is the Kent bean vine super excited about this full sun it’s going to be fantastic um and I have a spot picked out in my backyard with a you know an archway that it will uh grow over and um and it will have some purple
Flowers and purple beans I’m hoping but even if it doesn’t the foliage is amazing and so really excited about that one um I also am going to be growing a blackeyed Susan vine uh with yellows and oranges and whites these come in such a wide variety of colors it was hard for
Me to choose but I think this one is supposed to be really heat tolerant which is why I picked it up um and I’m really excited about this one again this one will be an annual Vine will not survive our winter but um I do have a
Couple locations in mind for this one and then lastly I am going to be growing a morning glory and I know some of you will cringe at this I get that morning glories I hear can be very invasive and um once you plant them in the ground you’re picking them up everywhere some
People even say that if you have it in a container it seeds itself in the wind and you still have them growing in your garden it it’s just a mixed um opinion I do believe that morning glories are absolutely beautiful I love this blue
One I’ve had my eye on it for a couple years now I’m just going to go for it I’m going to do it in a container that’s for sure uh for my first time actually growing it myself but um but I do I think it’s going to be okay I actually
Have wild Morning Glory growing in um not in my back well yes I have wild Morning Glory growing in the forest area behind my backyard and it is beautiful I get to enjoy it it’s still part of our view and it’s starting to creep into uh
One of my backyard garden beds and it’s been doing this for 2 years I’ve seen it and it’s it’s very easy I if I don’t want it there I just pull it and it it stops it’s really not I have a different very invasive Vine in my front yard that
Isn’t flowering I don’t know really what it is and it’s incredibly invasive and I’m constantly pulling it out of my shrubs and things like that it’s morning glory for me or this wild Morning Glory anyway has not been very invasive or very hard to uh to take out at all you
Just pull it it’s fine so uh I’m going to be growing that and super excited about that um so there are that’s my garden plans for 20124 my wishes and my dreams and not all of this is in my budget necessarily but um but I do think
I’m gonna be able to accomplish a majority of my goals that I told you about and uh this is the perfect time of year I know I’m actually a little bit late in posting this video I have been planning and thinking about this all winter long and we are now at late
Winter um but you know I’m just super excited for spring to come the garden is already coming alive you will see I will be posting a February uh garden tour for my front and backyard here maybe in the next one or two weeks so stay tuned for
That but you will see that the garden is waking up here in North Texas we have not had very many freezes we’ve had maybe h a little more than half of the the average freezes that we normally have and the last I don’t know the last
3 weeks have just been very spring likee and beautiful and um our Highs are in the upper 30s low 40s we haven’t had a freeze for quite some time so the garden is definitely thinking it’s already spring and it’s coming to life it’s making me so excited but I know I have
To hold off because we are six weeks away from our last frost date here um so you know we have to wait but I’m so excited for 2024 I can’t wait to see what it brings in my garden and in yours I hope that you are planning your garden
As well and please if you have any questions about your garden and things like that feel free to comment below I’m happy to answer them also please subscribe to my channel I will be posting lots of videos and updates on my garden all throughout I do monthly
Garden tours for my front and my backyard so please please subscribe so that you can get notified when those videos come out I thank you so much for watching I really do appreciate each and every one of you uh have a fantastic day Bye-bye
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