What’s Looking Good Around the Neighborhood — Revisiting Garden

Neighborhood Garden Tour – Revisit Garden Install – In this video we revisit a garden that we installed last year and then do a walk about garden tour in the neighborhood.

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Welcome to H tube my name is Jim putam this is a neighborhood Garden Walk Around video and we’re going to start at a landscape job that Steph and I actually installed in the over the last couple of years if you followed along with this like five-part landscape

Installation that we did here in Raleigh we’re showing off some of the plants this morning have just absolutely taken off this is uh just been it’s kind of amazing how some of the things that we put in this Garden is last spring uh when the m majority of them went in this

Low quad has absolutely gone wild down in this low spot and we’re filming this in the morning and I can I can tell why the sun is coming up right here um the southeast is right there and this this sun comes around this thing and hits the

House and reflects back into this area and it’s 5 to 10° warmer where I’m standing right out of the gate in the morning uh than it would be otherwise and so this low quat where we’re in a marginal area for them and we had a couple six you know nights in the teens

During the winter time completely and totally unharmed by it we’ll eventually limb this up into a little more of a tree so we can underplant it in here and it’ll stick up big and tall above the retaining wall in the back couple of other things that look really really

Terrific we’ve got the uh Chef’s Choice Rosemary down here this looks so good it doesn’t get direct sun in until a little later in the day and it passes by on this side and it’s pulling it out uh this is you know a low growing Rosemary

And it sun is just pulling it out this way perfectly it just looks fantastic underplanting uh this Indian Hawthorne this is clean sweep snowbank which is the newer one of the new Indian hawthorns from the Southern Living plant collection it’s incredibly clean foliage some older varieties of Indian hawthorn

It’s got leaf spot really badly but this one has just been incredibly clean and garden and here for some reason and I don’t know if it’s because of the amount of organic material that was put in this bed before we started on this project all the plants in this Garden are

Growing faster than they are at our house and we’ve amended our soil quite a bit uh over time but I think when we started this project there was like 8 in 10 in of mulch and what we actually did was we didn’t initially mulch this at all because we wanted that mulch to

Break down but that landscaper who had put all that mulch down for all that time he had D it had damaged the existing plants that were here but by us allowing it to break down for some period of time before we jumped into this project we just kind of let the

Weeds take it cuz it something needed to happen to get this mulch it was O overly applied for years to break down but once it did it improved the soil so much that the plants are just thriving this has really been the year for viburnum Tinus

First of all this is the fastest growing viburnum Tinus I’ve ever seen we’re this is another kind of marginal plant here in our area not marginal because it dies in the winter but Marg orinal because typically we’ll get late frost on the flowers that will damage them and just

Kind of set them back uh but these have just again I got this little heat pocket and it’s identifying these things within your garden these spaces where you may be able to grow marginal things or things that get damaged late in the season uh but these VI burnum Tinus and

Everywhere in the city they’re just thriving this year but these are have grown more than I’ve ever seen uh this quickly this less you know like a year ago probably we were here planting these as little three gallon containers and now they’re four 4 and 1/2 ft tall

Something like that these white flowers will eventually become U like a almost metallic color uh black uh fruit later in the season one of my favorite Evergreen viburnum but they can be we just again they’re not marginal in terms of being killed in the winter but they

Are marginal in terms of whether these flowers cuz they flower so early are ever going to open these microclimates can be super interesting because where that low quat and that viburnum Tinus are really thriving with the additional heat uh it’s preventing any Frost from really settling into this low area and it’s and

It’s warming up super fast in the morning so it’s if it’s despite the fact it’s below freezing at night it’s coming up above freezing really quickly well you would think that that heat island would hurt this rad to dendrin uh we don’t have a lot of a large leaf

Evergreen Ro to dendron here you know they’re native to Western North Carolina and all of Appalachia but here down in our flatter clay based soils with the heat uh that we have they tend to not do as well there are some here and there that look fantastic but overall I would

Think the vast majority of these roaded dendrons that are planted in gardens fail uh over over a fairly quick period of time so you wonder why in a heat island of all things would this road to dendron be thriving like this and be so buted up and I think it’s cuz the roots

Shaded on it that that retaining wall right there and the mulch that’s under here and the shadow of the house later in the day is actually creating and its own canopy is actually creating a situation where the top is perfectly capable of taking the sun and a lot of

Sun and it’s these roots on them that were these ericaceous plants these aelas rendin blueberries pieras a lot of those types of plants have very shallow fibrous root systems up near the top of the soil so this thing planted out in the sun uh on someone’s Foundation where

The sun comes up and immediately strikes the roots and there’s no plant that’s close to it they get they get damaged the roots are what’s being damaged but this thing again it’s a little interesting thing it’s a actually a heat island but its roots are protected this

Is one of the tough spaces we were dealing with when we were doing this project the neighbor has some colonizing uh for CIA and they look great when they’re in bloom right now but they have they were planted a long time ago go and they’ve just they’re root suckering

Everywhere it took forever to dig them out from this side they’re going to continue to try to to try to come over here so they’re going to have to be chopped out occasionally the Jane Magnolia up at the top is pretty much full flower right now uh that thing

Looks absolutely fantastic it’ll get limed up a bit as it grows taller in the future I think it looks pretty good blooming at the same time as the Ruby Laura pedum next to it they match up pretty nicely these Ruby lur pedum will get pretty big this is one of those L

Pedum that’s tagged you know 3 to 4 feet but you know we had one at the nursery that was probably 12 14 ft tall if you let them these will just get limed up uh in the future and try to create some sort of uh try to create some sort of

Screen across here but I think they look good blooming at the same time and it’s again amazing how these Ruby Laura pedalin were this big 12 months ago and they have really taken off the side here is another amazing uh rate of growth uh we’ve put

This mix border screen in so there’s a combination of a couple different viburnums alysium uh Mahonia osmanthus fragrance uh alysium I’m not going to name every plant we we we did this a series of videos five videos for this mixed border screen was one of them and

We like to use a mixed border screen like this because if one of these plants has some sort of issue then and you know you’re not going to lose this entire screen and I’m also just in general impressed with how fast they’ve grown the viburnum the shindo viburnum that

Are up there have more than doubled in height since they’ve been in the ground they’re grown reasonably full this is a uh mixed light space and so things are going to reach a bit you can see the shindo viburnum that’s behind me how we

We’ve pruned it a bit to try to get some more growth down here at the bottom and we’re going to win but I’m going to have to prune it occasionally at the top uh or they’ll have to prune it occasionally at the top this other uh border planting

That Steph designed for the side here with the uh with the beautiful uh Kuba and the cast iron plants these have really thrived uh on on the side I’m it’s absolutely amazing how much this is grown and again I think it comes down to the period of time where we let this

Mulch break down uh and so it’s basically like starting off with wood chips it just ignites the soil and then this thing is more than doubled in size I I would not call this typical of a Kuba growth initially they’re not usually in any kind of hurry uh to grow

You can see it reaching a bit you know Au Kuba is for shady conditions but even it has a limit uh and this is a pretty shady space so even these will need to be tip pruned eventually to get them to fill out a little more one thing about

This job is we’re fighting invasives same thing in our garden at the house there’s English ivy that’s come back along this bank here where we thought we had gotten rid of most of it but it hasn’t been kept an eye on for a while as those things are either seating

Themselves in there or coming back from Roots they’ve got to be chopped down uh pretty frequently and again just this lot is just completely surrounded by uh invasive invasive plants the CarX looks fantastic Japanese maple will Leaf out pretty soon that’s Tam mukama the one

Similar to the one I have at the house except for mine it’s cork screwed the Utopia plums look fantastic here really love this plant I think they’re super super were underused uh they we just formed a little half half moon circle around them the soft caress Mahonia up

At the top the cast iron plants everything’s just going wild here uh it’s really nice to see uh there’s uh one of the uh Stellar Ruby Magnolias up at the very top up there this is a good time of year um as we’re filming this this is a Japanese lustrum that has

Seated itself in here this is a good time of year to find these types of things the soil is still soft it’s easy to get them out this is going to need to be REM mulched at some point here so good time to be taking out some of these

Invasives uh and it becomes mulch here in the in the garden as well but the this place has really responded extremely well I like to come back to jobs that we’ve done in the past and take a look but this is only at the most a couple things are

Maybe 18 months old but the vast vast majority of it it’s only about 12 months old at this point it was in the spring last year when we did most of this uh project so let’s bounce around the neighborhood and see a few other things one of the things that’s all over the

Neighborhood is our native uh Carolina jesan which absolutely peak flower here at the beginning of March it’s probably a little probably a hair early normally I’ll see a few flowers on them at this point but this is probably a week or two early on just absolute Peak Bloom the

Fragrance of these is just out of this world you’ll walk past it certain times and it’s super super fragrant other times other times it’s not um Holly and Griffin are enjoying the walk while we show off some of the the plants in the neighborhood of course this is this is a

Native uh Vine and it’s Evergreen lots of people use these as ornamental plants there are a couple of other varieties out there there’s one called pride of a gusta that has a double flower that I used to grow in the nursery uh there’s some there’s some there are some other

Interesting versions of this they can get a little out of control uh over some period of time so keep that in mind it’s not necessar barely for the it’s not the uh it’s not the lowest maintenance mine in time I actually had a landscape

Job years ago and I I priced it like I was still by myself before ID hired anyone had like $400 $400 or something I charged them and ended up there two days to take out four of them they had put one on each corner of their uh of of a

Of an overhead seating area that they had and uh it took me two solid days to cut them off and four trips in a fullsize pickup to the stump up so I learned I learned very early on um if I was pricing anything out with these kind

Of vines uh it was going to be it’s going to be a long hard day of work um to get them out so keep that in mind uh beautiful um great native plant but uh it’s it will over some period of time require some maintenance this is one of

Our absolute favorite plants in the entire neighborhood this is clus Armand or the Evergreen cemus you can see it starting to bloom up here pretty decent size white flowers a little smaller than some other Cletus uh named cultivars and and species but really beautiful great foliage even if this thing did not

Flower that foliage is enough for me uh to love this Vine I I recommend it all the time to people it’s not to be confused with like sweet Autumn clus which is really a very invasive uh plant in our area which people love and they plant it but man is that thing seed

Itself all all over the place this will not do that uh and I just I love the foliage the stems have a reddish color to them and like any other Vine it’s going to require some control occasionally but what a beautiful addition to the front of this house

Directly across the street from that Evergreen clus is a sweet Autumn clus growing up on this crepe myrtle I don’t think it was planted here just they seed themselves all over the place uh we always have them coming up in our uh our garden It’s actually an interesting mix

Of a couple of other things in here too there’s I see a uh a Japanese lustrum growing up through the middle of it as well but this one blooms in the fall it’s super fragrant I can see the appeal of it it’s got lots of little white

Flowers on it and it’s fragrant but it absolutely is just it’s everywhere it comes up in our garden just nonstop there’s one planted somewhere nearby and it just seeds itself the I think the birds must be moving them about or something because there it’s just everywhere very difficult uh invasive

Plant to control but again I can see the appeal of it’s beautiful white flowers fragrant flowers blooms at a time when not a lot uh most of the other flowering things in your garden would have bloomed out but this is sweet Autumn clitus this is something we actually look forward to

Every year this is Ion growing in one of our neighbors Lawns if you’re going to grow one of these bulbs in your lawn uh the uh you got to hold off mowing for a little while so they’ll let this they’ll their Turf will end up growing some you

Know quite a bit over time because you really don’t want to cut this foliage off off you know before some of it dies back there are other uh plants we can use for this glory of the snow and several others that can be uh added into

A lawn like this and naturalized into a lawn it’s quite beautiful they have a very small section of a Fescue lawn out here in their front garden and it comes to life like this for a few weeks Every Spring and again we always look forward to it it’s a everything is a little

Earlier this year so this is probably a little earlier than we’re normally seeing seeing this in full bloom but isn’t it a beautiful thing just naturalized bulbs and a lawn what looks like a beautiful field of yellow flowers is actually an invasive called with the common name for it is lesser saladine

Unfortunately looks a lot like our native Marsh marold so I think people may not know what this actually is it takes over an area really quickly though it’s a spring ephemeral so it’s been up and growing here uh during the late winter months and then it comes into

Flower right at the beginning of March and seeds itself like crazy uh these flowers produce tons of seed and it tends to grow in kind of moist areas like this but uh I think that we’ve found it over in our garden even growing in slightly drier conditions we’re we’re

Pretty close by this little field of them here this really needs to be eradicated Ry actually uh asked that people report uh places where this is growing this was but you can see how out of control it can get in a very short period of time but this is when we’re

Battling in our own garden because this has just been allowed to just kind of take over but unfortunately it’s taking a lot of space from other things that would like these kind of marshy uh wet conditions you can see how it’s completely covering up the ability

For any seed to germinate this time of year from any native that might want to occupy this moist shade part heart shade condition one other thing I’d point out on them is the flowers close during the night and they’ll open up during the day and again it’s it’s quite beautiful when

All of these flowers are completely open with that bright yellow against that dark green foliage it’s quite beautiful but man is it invasive look how thick it is right here nothing else is going to grow in a space where these things take over a couple of things here at the

House before we uh wrap this up uh this candy tuft is an example of uh not giving up on something uh this sat here and struggled for two seasons out in this really kind of tough condition out by the road on this corner had a big butter butterfly bush that was

Uh competing with it and other things other things going on with it here uh but uh given a couple seasons in the ground it got its roots under it and now it looks fantastic and it’s coming into a coming into full bloom and it’s exactly what we wanted it here some sort

Of low uh low uh Evergreen ground cover that would creep out toward the edge of the road over time so again sometimes it takes a minute for something to break through and get itself established enough to really look like what you had in mind when you planted it here’s a

Spot of that lesser saladine growing in our garden slightly moist area next to a rock U but other areas we’re finding it it’s not as wet as I would have expected it to be but this thing is just being spread around everywhere really difficult to dig this one out if you

Don’t get all of the roots on it it’ll just come right back up in the same spot uh for sure and then uh right beside it we have a uh Bruner which has started to flower with great foliage beautiful blue flowers but I got to get this weed out of here um

Before this thing will absolutely take over this entire space as we saw around the corner we have a difficult time here in the South with hybrid tulips having them come back year to year we just don’t get enough cold treatment we don’t get enough chill flowers on them to have

Them come back vigorous they don’t sleep long enough and because they don’t sleep long enough they don’t store they don’t they don’t come out as vigorous they come out very very strange variations that we get of them the second year third year when they come back sometimes

We’ll get enough cold one or two years to keep them around but most of the time they fade over time but we do have like five different species tulips out here in the garden maybe more than that the baker’s lilac is the first one out of

The gate this year again this is early morning so just like that lesser celadine up the street the flowers are closed up once the the sun is just getting on them this morning they’ll open up big and wide and they have this yellow in the center of the flower

That’s really super striking I love these uh a lot of these species tulips uh they’re just such great interest plants and again it’s another one we it’s one we can use here in the South and still have that feeling that we have you know have tulips of course they’re

Not you know they’re not like this this uh but they are quite striking again we have about five five different species and they all come back uh very reliably some of them have colonized a bit as well and taken a little bit of space over time you’ll notice the different

Timings on your bulbs in your garden we probably have five four to six plantings of these Baker’s lilacs uh around the garden this is the first one by far that’s blooming the others are still closed up foliage is up and everything but they’re still closed up this one

Gets a little more sun on it in the early morning and It sped it up uh just a bit so there are some things uh in and around the neighborhood in an old at a landscape job we had done last year that are showing off here in Raleigh or annoy

Or annoyingly invasive here in rileigh uh anything in your garden that’s looking good right now let us know down below thanks for watching