Join me on my February 2024 Backyard Garden Tour! There is soo much to see!! So much new life! I’ve got daffodils, tulips, and wait until you see my Candy Corn Spirea!! WOW! It’s so exciting to see new life emerge in late winter/early spring. Come along and let me show you!
Hello everyone good morning welcome back to grow roots this is Shannon and today I’ll be taking you on the February 2024 my backyard garden tour as my 8th grade history teacher always used to say the sun is shining the birds are tweeting it’s a great day to be alive it is absolutely beautiful
Here in North Texas and we have had some warm very spring like temperatures the lows have only been getting into the 40s some nights even the 50s and the 60s it’s crazy we’ve had highs as high as what 79° this past week and then this coming up week we are headed for another
Warm up it’s supposed to be almost 90° here on Tuesday and the average first day first 90° temperature for us even in north Texas where it is extremely hot our average 90° first day is in um I think they said May 11th we are not even
In March yet oh my goodness gracious I hope that doesn’t mean that we’re going to have an extraordinarily hot summer but um we will see I will take the good weather as it comes now it is absolutely beautiful and as you can see the garden is starting to come alive and starting
To believe that it is spring although we still have um what a couple of weeks before our first day of meteor ological spring so happy almost spring everybody so here we go I’m going to start over here as I usually do uh just going to show you some of the new life what’s
Most obvious right now is that I have daffodils that are planted this is just a naturalizing mix of daffodils and I think I planted some uh a few years back but I believe those those have died off all all that I’m seeing right here I think are the ones
That I picked up and planted uh I planted them the first week of January and these are just naturalizing bulbs that I got yeah say hi to Chloe there’s Chloe she’s always in my backyard garden tours she is our backyard cat Okay anyway I picked these up for $1 at
Walmart at the end of season clearance and they are really starting to show their beauty they’re just oh hi chloey do you love the daffodils too those are gorgeous and coming up I also have a pot of tulips these are pink mixes from Sam’s Club I have them fully blooming in
The front yard the backyard is just a little bit behind the front yard and I think it’s because my backyard faces North and right now the sun is more situated in the winter time towards the South so my south facing Garden is definitely ahead of my North facing
Garden but you can see I still have some some some of the flowers are starting to come up and they’ll open here pretty soon um I have dianthus right here that I’m still waiting for this plant to bloom I had a bunch of them from seed
Spring of last year so these plants are officially one year old now and they still have never given me blooms this type of dianthus is gosh I think it’s double Sweet William pinks something like that uh from Botanical interest and they have grown really well they’re
Super hearty um but I just have not seen them bloom they’re supposed to bloom right now but not yet here is just a magnificent picture oh my goodness I absolutely love this Mr goodbud Sedum my first spring with it the first time I get to see these little um gosh they
Look like rose buds to me don’t they they look like oh they’re just absolutely beautiful but they’re definitely coming to life I have a row of dwarf pink Mexican patunas that are right here that uh they are only Hardy down to Zone 8 and we had Zone Seven
Temperatures at one point this winter so I was a little worried about them coming back but I hope you can see this let me get a little bit closer here is one of them that is coming back to life and then that one and this
One and then that one so they all they all survived uh Zone 7even temperatures so dwarf Mexican patunas they’re the pink shade definitely um a great great plant and they survived more than they said they would so more extreme cold temperatures than the tag said here is one of the most fascinating
Things in my backyard right now I absolutely loved it love it and I know many of you have said that you know keep me updated on this plant I really want this plan or some of you even have this plant and said it’s amazing this is the
Double play Candy Corn spyra and I picked this up on clearance at rooted in in Pilot Point and uh it’s actually already starting to turn colors from the red so I experienced about two weeks ago it started to Leaf out and the the foliage on that was a bright red is
Already starting so it’s bright it went from bright red to now it’s turning a little bit Orange it’s so funny like it’s the opposite of what you think of for like fall colors you know things turn yellow then orange then red in the fall and then the leaves
Die off well this plant is the opposite of that like the first foliage is red now it’s turning yellow and orange but it’s absolutely spectacular four seasons of interest for sure I cannot wait to see what this does all throughout the seasons this year but there’s a
Beautiful uh view of the daffodils and the sun just coming in on them absolutely amazing I have a lime light hydrangea right here and I just got done pruning it I’m actually rethinking this Branch I think I need to prune this Branch a little bit shorter to about here to be honest but
It is showing signs of life as well if I could get that yep there you go it’s got new branches coming on the buds are swelling and giving us new life um more dianas over here I have eona a white swan eona right here here that is not
Coming to life yet I also have a peria eona right here not coming to life quite yet but that’s okay so moving on oh I also have other plants that are not coming out quite yet still sleeping is plumbago serat stigma here and another one over there it’s a uh ground cover
Perennial plumbago it’s amazing um over here here is something I’m not super sure about this is my summer carnival hibiscus and I’m not sure if it’s alive it had transplant shock when I transplanted it and then defoliated but it was I I think that it maybe just went
Into dormy early because it was late fall and that’s what I’m hoping for I don’t see too much Signs of Life although I did dig down here and I covered it back up but I dug down and it looks like that base of that stump and
That stump is still alive so I think it is still alive and I’m um I’m praying that it is cuz it’s a beautiful plant summer carnival hibiscus over here I have a new I guess you could call it a trellis an obelisk that I will be
Growing some chatus on I picked up to be root Claus um at Walmart I wasn’t going to go the bear root route because I haven’t had success with be root plants in the past just getting them even to uh emerge with growth but when I was at
Walmart I saw the be root Claus Jackman and then also gosh I think it’s Henry something it’s a per big purple flower and they they were bursting with new growth so much so that the new growth had poked through the plastic of the be root plastic and uh and it was already
At least 6 in Long the new growth so I picked up two of those I’m going to be having them climb on this because I think it will be just beautiful um my plan this this spring is to have my whole backyard fenc almost covered with
Vines and I don’t want the climas to grow on that fence but I I am growing annual Vines purple hin bean blackeyed Susan vine and I am also growing Morning Glory blue and I have have started those seeds they are growing and I hope to fill this backyard
Fence with with vines and you know there’s my star jasmine Vine and the vine is dead I need to go back and cut that in or cut that back and there’s another one here there’s another one way down there um I picked up like you can
See this netting it was $5 for one of these and it’s gosh I don’t even know that’s got to be 10 or 12 feet and Chloe’s getting stuck in there Chloe maybe that’s not a good idea hm she just I’ve had this up for a couple weeks and she’s not gotten
Stuck in it but anyway I picked that up for $5 and I’m just hoping it’ll be easier for the vines to grow up and hopefully you just won’t even see that okay up here to one of the only pots that I still have on my patio I have
Strawberry plants and a rosemary plant and they survived and this is let’s see Seascape strawberries and I was coming in and and cutting all the dead stuff out this week and and I find this oh my goodness we’re going to have strawberries soon it’s just so awesome and I’ve got this one
Has more strawberries this one doesn’t have as many and it’s doesn’t get as much sun right now that’s why um so that’s fun also I have a blue agave and it was doing so so so well until I covered it with mulch when we got like those Zone 7 temperatures I covered it
In mulch almost and I left the mulch there I shouldn’t have done that it it did not like it it’s losing the outer leaves it’s still alive here and it’s doing okay but also Chloe stop Chloe I think has damaged some of the tips as well she likes to
Rub up against them even though they’re super super sharp silly girl oh my goodness I have a Texas stage here that kind of partially defoliated during the Zone 7 temperatur but we’ve got some new life coming up do you see that all of those empty spaces are starting to fill
In and got all kinds of new foliage there so it’s it’s doing good I’m going to back up a little bit so that you can see my sunshine lustrum I have tree formed it if you can see down there and it looks well before it started growing
Like crazy it looked just like a beautiful lollipop so I just love tree formed things and the sunshine sunshine lustrum plant is a great plant to do that with I have another pot that has some tulips just as many as the other one but this one just has not done as
Well again probably not as much sun as the other pot based on the time of year so um yeah more more tulips forming there I have a crepe myrtle here and it is getting new life this was a baby from my neighbors crepe myrtle tree and and it seated itself kind of in
My sidey yard so I picked it and I grew it and babied it a little bit and I didn’t know if it was going to survive but it sure did and it’s coming up with new new life as well so exciting down here I have an eona right
Here it is be Cheyenne Spirit I think that’s what it is it’s like coraly orangey colors it’s beautiful I have another Dian this there I have some auka burgundy glow auga that I transplanted there’s another one here but it’s much smaller I have four of them growing at
The base of my sunshine lustrum they are doing pretty well got my jasmine plant there I’ve got another Texas sage another dianthus and I’ve got another little tuck you know uh thing of daffodils and tulips and they are doing really really well I have another panicle hydrangea here this one
Is a baby Limelight this is a propagated limelight hydrangea the other one’s over here um woo look at that growth actually all right we are getting started but this is a baby from a big limelight hydrangea that I had um in my yard that didn’t make it
In the heat heat heat of last summer so I did have two sticks that I had propagated last spring and they did very very well and grew for me and I planted this one here in hopes that it would do a little better because it is a little
Bit more shaded here still almost full sun but also shaded in the afternoon so hopefully we will get you know some good life out of that one um let’s see right here I have some Cana lies and they are kind of starting to come up to
Live as well just a little bit of life going there I had a bunch right here that I took out because I’m putting some Vines here to grow all the way up hopefully this sun doesn’t get you guys I have a it’s it is a water feature that
Is currently not working but it is still a beautiful Square Arch that we have and I’m going to have hopefully annual Vines growing all the way around this this year that’s my vision and so I hope that comes to life for sure that’s going to be absolutely beautiful but I took out
Canales here and there to make room to plant those annual Vines here I have pink mule grass that is also coming to life I trimmed this back maybe even a little bit too late because you can see I did trim like the very very tips of the new growth which
Will be uh brown but that’s okay just very very little very very little damage there but it’s coming another Jasmine Vine is there and this is what I came to see this morning um cuz I haven’t checked on it in a couple of days this is coral honeysuckle it is a vine that
Is native here to Texas and does very well in the Texas heat so I picked it up on clearance last year uh last late last fall along with many others and um I was taking a walk in our neighborhood and a a neighbor has a more established Coral honeysuckle that is already flowering
But I’m looking on this guy and there is tons of new growth especially down there all of that is New Growth uh these are the old leaves that pretty much stayed Evergreen it did lose some of its leaves and some of them were looking kind of
Sad but all of this is New Growth which is amazing I don’t see any flower buds quite yet so that’s okay so mine is younger less established there’s a little bit of new growth on those as well very cool so can’t wait to see what this find does very exciting we’ve also
Got the uh midnight Marvel hibiscus and and I’ve cut that back there’s no signs of life on it quite yet but that’s expected these things come to life the almost the very last thing to the point where you think it’s dead and then oh look there’s growth so that’s
Not quite there yet but it’s definitely alive no doubt in my mind I have more Canales planted over there and let’s go take a look at my Tangerine Beauty cross fine that is growing on these beautiful trellises look at that wow these are pretty exciting again native to um Texas and
Lots of new growth is starting on these as well you can see this is also an evergreen Vine and it was true to its name of being an evergreen Vine but you can see look at that new growth I’m hoping to get it here we go so spectacular okay
Also let’s see this one I don’t think I’m seeing a whole lot of buds but I am seeing buds on one of mine that I’m super excited so I’m going to have flowers pretty soon the tangaran beauty cross vine has beautiful coral colored flowers and they bring they bloom from
Spring until fall now mine were mine did bloom last year they were baby baby babies they were this big y’all that’s how bitty they were they were $12.50 at Green Acres and now they have grown and you know done a pretty good job of trying to fill in these trellises they’re
Spectacular lots and lots of growth but you can see from this picture this is what the blooms look like it bloomed a little bit for me last year sporadically throughout the season but um it I should have tons of blooms coming up and uh let me show you some
Buds that I can find let’s see definitely on this one where did they go so there we go there’s little bit of buds swarming right there okay so I had to go up onto my actual patio to find the buds that I have seen forming but
Here we go look at that view with the sun poking through oh it’s so pretty okay so here’s what I’m talking about right there those are new flower BDS that are forming and they’re all over this particular plant you could see those right there right there um they’re just everywhere to be
Honest up here coming over to this one let’s see that’s mostly new leaves right there let’s see if we can find more on this plant yeah it’s this plant is a little bit further behind than the other planet which is so interesting I’ve noticed this with when my when my star jasine
Was on these trellises as well it’s just each individual space in your garden is like a little micro climate a little micro environment that is different than the rest of your garden and so this trellis always has more growth and it’s further along and then as we go this way
More towards the north it’s just less vigorous less you know a little bit further behind and that’s kind of what I’m seeing on the new growth on these as well as the flower buds that are forming on these it’s just very interesting I’ve got this ready to go I’m probably going
To do some flower seeds in this which I have done in the past I’m also thinking about doing some annual vines on in here so that they can intermix with the cross with the Tangerine Beauty cross vine but I’m unsure about that let me know what yall think about mixing annual Vine with
Perennial Vines I don’t I don’t want to choke out the perennial vines in any way so I may not do that but um I don’t know here is another one of my propagated limelights that is just oh there is a spider web is coming to life see that you see those
New growth points coming alive there it’s all very exciting it’s definitely definitely thinking that it’s springtime here so I wanted to show you up here these are all of the plants that have been in my house that I overwintered um that used to be out here
I just wanted to show them to you real quick as an example of plants that you could take inside if you wanted to save them and they would they would do just fine over winter so this is foxtail fern I had three of them in hanging planters right there right there
And right there and I just really really love them and I hated to see them die um they’re not they’re not Hardy here in zone 8 I think zones 9 through 11 they are um so anyway I had what three of those that I’ve overwintered I also overwintered uh some
Of my Pinto mix colus that it blooms even indoors if it has a bright a bright uh wind window it will Bloom and it just has such great color and I hated to see that go as well I wanted to overwinter some of it so these were
Cuttings that I’ve had going since late fall that are kind of all of the cuting are in this one plant and it’s just beautiful so there’s that I also have tricolor sweet potato vine that it had a little bit of a hard time depending on
Where it was I grew them and are grow lights and some did really really good and some did not I also have this which is my Proven Winners double up pink Bonia I split see it was growing in this pot and there were two plants originally it was enough
For me to divide it into what one two three four do I have four of them no five I have five plants that I split up the root ball um into five and I overwintered them and and one of or two of them are blooming look at this they
Started blooming in my house so I will be planting those up in shade locations and so there’s another one I have a another sweet potato vine that is a purple so I have I think two or three of these and I have two or three of the
Tricolor sweet potato vine that I have wintered over so I’m getting them acclimated to being outside again since the temperatures are so amazing here is the sweet potato vine the TR color that did really really really well you can I hope you can see the pink in it that is
An actual pink color it’s so so pretty it’s striking so I really love love love love this plant and I’m glad that I overwintered it cuz it also added to the plants in my home like you can grow them in your house here’s another Bonia and here are the Claus the be root
Claus that I was telling you about that are now leaf leing out look at this $542 at Walmart this was already you know when I purchased it a week ago it was probably like this and like these leaves weren’t fully out they were just starting to form and now they’re out this one
Is the um HF young Claus that’s right these will have big purple flowers and then this one yeah oo this one is the Jackman fox tail Fern is trying to take over this one is the Jackman and again I’ve only had it for about a week and it’s just growing like
Crazy so that’s super exciting while I’m over here I also just briefly wanted to show you these four large pots that I have this area is full full shade and I decided to try hostas that I had gotten on clearance last year and yes three out of the four have brand
New growth I don’t know if you can see that but that is brand new growth in three different areas no four five okay um this one is Shadowland Diamond Lake again I got this on clearance these were $1 at callaways at the end of this season and then this one is Shadowland wo
Laa and you can see it is coming along this one has a little tiny growth point I think but not a whole lot of growth on this one this one is L bro at Costa and then this one does not have any new growth at all and this one is
The elegon blue hosta so we will see if that one survives not totally sure that one not super sure about it either like there’s this little green thing right there but it doesn’t look like the other hostas it’s definitely coming from that root ball though and it’s sturdy so we’ll just see what
Happens this is my part shade SL shade sidey yard this is the east side of my house and this particular area is like a part-shade area from there to there is like a full shade area and then I’m another portion that’s under normal circumstances in the summertime it’s also part-shade way back
There so it’s kind of like I said different microclimates that I had to figure out and then once I figured that out and planted accordingly I started having things really do well so let me show you what I’ve got this is a little little guy it’s a pink skull cap Texas
Native plant that I planted here oop I pulled out some Canales that were right here that I did not want I just felt like it wasn’t the right spot for them but looks like I missed one cuz there’s a canaly coming up let me show you where did I have okay
So I had a pany and I did see new growth but now I can’t find it it’s around where this pole is I made sure of it yes there it is so that little thing is a py um I forget which type it is cuz I had gotten two types one of them
Definitely didn’t make it through the summer this one kind of did but I thought it had died at the end but it is bursting with new life here and it’s um I’ll pop the name of it on the screen I just don’t know there it’s this will be
Its second season and I felt like it struggled so much last year that I just wasn’t sure that peanes were going to work in my garden with the heat that we’re having in the summertime here is a uh a CarX beautiful beautiful variegated it’s awesome um a lot of this is brown
But it’s is it coming back to life quite yeah it is we’ve got some new growth coming in there for sure it’s just taking a little longer than I thought it was going to but it’s a great plant I have a boxwood there that did really really really well we have a day
Lily that is coming up here it has beautiful coral flowers I had amarist that was back here and right here that I hoped would over winter a matter of fact is that one of them let me see let’s let’s see there it is there it is
Look I think it did survive this is the baby and it does have new growth right now yay that is so exciting so I think it did survive which means I’m going to get amarillis blooms in the springtime there was another one back here but I covered it
In mulch so I think it will emerge fairly soon that is exciting I did not know if it would survive um I had some purple heart back here looks like some of it did survive and is coming back up this is a rose Malo we won’t see
Signs of life for a while I planted some perennial vinka BR cover so that’s doing pretty well back there these this is six and the summer hydranges and this will be what their third season third spring in the ground and they’re coming up beautifully and I do need to I don’t
Think I did get to go in here and clean these up so some of these branches are dead and need to be trimmed away but again I don’t mean prune prune I just put out a video on pruning hydrangeas and all the different types and when to
Prune them when not to prune them so please watch that video but um right now all you want to do with endless sumber um hydrange is find the dead stuff and the spindly stuff and the stuff that is problematic and cut that away before too much happens so like this I’m not sure
About that actually okay yeah this one is dead that one can just be cut away but um again most of the time it’s the interior growth within the summer H ranges I think this one died off potentially but it did have a new growth that died these guys can go away but
Anyway you can see the new growth they’re doing pretty good so that’s what these guys are coming over here this is the part shade area of the sidey yard again and I have more dayes the same type that Coral flowers I have Turks cat pink here and
It was a clearance plant end of fall I’m not really seeing new growth on it and a lot of people are saying their Turks cap does have new growth so I’m starting to wonder it’s pretty sturdy in there so H we will find out but it is a
Beautiful plant oh my goodness and look the star of this sidey yard this part shade area is going to be this Oakleaf hydrangea I’m amazed at the new growth already look at this so this all the way up is brand new growth and same with this area all of
This brown is New Growth and it’s just oh I just can’t wait I hope that it blooms for me this spring but this is a dwarf aliceon Wonderland Oakleaf hydrangea so absolutely beautiful and then I have an ailia that my neighbor gave me and oh she probably I need to
Wait until she blooms and then I’m going to prune her down a little bit um but she’s not blooming I’m I have to look it up again this is a new plant for me this is a kaleidoscope ailia and I need to see when it blooms because I know after
It blooms is the right time to prune it there’s just a lot of interior well it’s all hold on see if I can get this the interior is buding up with new growth so hopefully it wouldn’t it won’t look um so bare in the middle after a
Little while so that’s that’s kind of exciting and then over here I have Mexican petunia the regular purple variety oops sorry and it is not showing signs of Life quite yet so the dwarf Mexican petunia pink is showing signs of life this one is not so we’ll keep an eye on
That all right so that concludes the February 2024 backyard garden tour I thank you guys so much for coming along and coming with me I’m going to come back here I thank you all so much for watching please hit that subscribe button so that you can be
Notified of my garden tours um I will be doing one for my front yard and my backyard every single month in 2024 and it’s going to be an amazing year for the garden thank you so much everyone have a fantastic day bye
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Love your garden tours… everything is coming to life! We’re hoping that we avoid a late freeze…
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Beautiful garden 😍