Garden Odd Jobs and Cool Plants

Garden Odd Jobs and Cool Plants – In this video we tour around the garden and the neighborhood to find interesting plants in flowers. We also show of some the odd jobs that we are doing in the garden this week.

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Welcome to H tube my name is Jim poam this is an odd jobs and cool plants video where we jump around the neighborhood and our garden and show off some interesting plants that happen to be in bloom here in Raleigh North Carolina and then show off some of the

Odd jobs that we’re doing around the home Garden which is quite a bit of changes that we’re making there foundation planting that’s become available and all kinds of things we’re in the process of muling uh right to Second uh as as well over here at elementary in the neighborhood is this beautiful

Lady banks rose uh lady Banks becomes quite a uh is quite a vigorous grower like a like a lot of vines uh they can be kind of hard to necess to select the space that you should have them this one’s on this wooden AR Arbor and it’s

Literally destroying it uh you know it’s it’s been on here for long enough now that it is is bent the arbor over it’s an inch and a half you know diameter on the bottom on the bottom of the vine it’s spectacular though when it comes into flower I grew lady banks at my

Nursery for years it’s a you know pretty easy one to pretty easy one to grow this one and the white uh version of this I actually like the white version of this I I can see the appeal of the yellow but the white is just really you know really

Really Pops from a long from a long way away uh there’s over at the Raley Rose Garden maybe we’ll show this next week they’ve got some attached to the building and on a big heavy duty structure and that’s really what you need for these uh to really be able to

Show them off if you put them on some sort of wooden structure or some sort of small Arbor it’s always going to kind of outgrow it and O over some period of time it’s not going to hold it’s either not going to hold it up or it’s just

Going to look out of place like my tiny Arbor with this big giant Vine it’s just starting to flour by the time all of these open up in a week or so it’ll be flow to flower it’ll all you’ll be able to see uh is the flower it’s a little

Different than other roses where you know this one’s going to come into just kind of all flowered out at the same time uh you’ll get some residual flowers on it later but it’s mostly all pretty quick hitting spring flowering Rose where you know other roses are going to be more consistent flowering uh

Throughout the season it’s a beautiful Vine not knocking them but you definitely have to have the right place cuz it’s such a vigorous grower in the long run but you can have one of these it can have probably hundreds of thousands of flowers on them at the same

Time so let’s jump around one other thing at the elementary school I believe this aelia is Mildred May uh this is an this is an older one this is one of the Gable hybrids um I think Joseph Gable introduced these uh this very Hardy

Series of aelas a long time ago in in up in up in Pennsylvania and you can see it’s old but it’s really still like 3x you know maybe 3 feet tall and four feet wide something like that coming to bloom beautifully this time of year and again

Not quite in full bloom by the time this is in full bloom it’ll basically be flower uh flower to flower this is an old oldfashioned aelia just a spring blooming aelia but it’s always been one of the better ones a very interesting flower it’s got this splotching on it

There’s another one called Karen which is a similar color to this and has this similar splotching uh but I believe I actually believe that though this this one is Mildred May again it’s one of those Gable hybrids it’s supposed to be one of the more cold hearty uh and an

Overall Hardy uh Evergreen aelas they’re right out here and they’re getting some direct sun at times during the day that’s what you’ll find on these aelas is it yes they’re shade plants but they’re much Fuller mounded and not stretched if they are there’s a definitely a gap here during the day

Where they’ve got some direct sun on them uh and it’s keeping them quite a bit Fuller there’s no not a lot of Maintenance going on here out here in the front of the school another type of aelia the Southern indicia aelia has larger leaves much larger growth habit

There are several of these uh that have been super super popular over time Formosa aelia Formosa that’s starting to bloom uh then there’s Gigi gerbing which is the white version of this and then this one’s called George Taber and George tabber uh is here’s one open I’ll

Just pull one flower off I’m not going to hurt anything by doing that but there’s this is George tabber which is similar to that Mildred May really but a much larger flower you see how large see how big this flower is uh in comparison to my in comparison to my hand the

Leaves are bigger on this plant it’s a just a vigorous growing plant these actually make great screening plants we’ve done a tour video in the uh of with some of these uh in the neighborhood where they’ve been allowed to get 9 8 9 ft tall and they work as a

Great screening plant these out here in front of the school are Mis pruned every year they prune these late summer I think because the school’s in all summer long and then they do a lot of the maintenance on these propert uh heavy maintenance on these properties liming up trees pruning back shrubs mulching

They do a lot of that during the summer time and it’s a little late on these so you’ll see the flowers that it has are kind of tucked down in the plant a bit because they’re the ones that survived the scalping that happened in the late summer last year before school open back

Up so it’s going to have a few flowers on it but it should be absolutely flower to flower if they were allowed to grow if they were pruned as they were finished flowering then these things would be spectacular Every Spring but again they’re just pruned a little late that

Uh weekly garden planner that we have over on the website this is the kind of thing that’s on that Weekly garden planner is to get some of these things pruned as they’re finished flowering and we go through some of the particular plants uh on that but I love these

Southern indicia zelas they’re fantastic ftic but if you’re growing them they you do need to kind of expect that they’re going to get 6 7 8T tall in time which is great if they’re pric in the proper spaces this is the third different Spa we found on these weekly garden tours

This is Reeves spa and you can see this tight clusters groupings of double flowers on this one this one’s always really really showy a big giant weeping habit just like the others uh this one’s in quite a bit of shade but then the it’s got winter sunlight so this time of

Year it’s actually getting plenty of Sun from the uh deciduous trees that are around it all the all the flowers are definitely pointing out toward where the sun is coming from but the this is always one of the more reliable ones uh you’ll see Bridal you know we showed off

Bridal wreath and then we showed off uh one other one other a few weeks back but this one is reev spa and it’s overall probably the most showy when it’s in full flower because the clusters of flowers are so tight and and then so close together again you’re going to get

Those flowers out on the last 12 in of growth so if this thing was pruned too late in the season the flowers would be non-existent and this one was I think pruned a little late uh because the ones that weren’t pruned the branches that weren’t pruned the flowers are this go

Back this far on the branch back over in the property uh just a bit I don’t want to be showing off uh necessarily the front of someone’s house but you see those white as back there those are definitely Delaware Valley white one of the most popular spring flowering

Evergreen of zelas of all time and those things almost have no leaves on them and they’re clearly under stress from just being out here in the middle of this uh this space with all the root competition but you can get Delaware Valley white aelia to have eight leaves on it and 400

Flowers this is not this is not atypical of of Delaware Valley white it’s incredible this thing this thing’s will to flly flower uh is always been amazing to me I could just have these really ugly not ugly but very very thin Delaware Valley white aelas in the

Nursery and then they’d come into flower and be solid white uh it was just it was kind of wild before repeat flowering aelas uh this variety right here Coral Bells was one of the absolute most popular aelas we still see these all over the place this one’s not quite in

Full bloom it’ll it’ll be even Fuller than this and back over behind them are those Delaware Valley white aelas that I’m talking about that combo was what people used to take home all the time at the Garden Center back in the 80s this uh Coral Bell aelas stay a little bit

Smaller Delaware Valley white and that combo of that white and pink together was just always so striking these need a little bit of um you know probably a little bit of pruning on them to get some more light down in them in the future and uh you could probably fill

These back in uh pretty easily by do doing a little bit of tough love on them after they flower this spring this same lot from our last walk around uh tour video with the lesser celadine the really really invasive yellow flowering weed uh back there is always a great

Place for us to go and find invasive plants for some reason this entire this entire not not everything but almost everything in this yard and one next to it is just lots of invasive plants that just been allowed to run a muuk including the Chinese wisteria that’s just coming in to flower

We do have a native species of Wisteria Kentucky Wisteria Amethyst Falls is a great variety of a named variety of of our native Wisteria but then you’ll see mostly Chinese wisteria if you’re seeing it it’s just just is coming in to bloom they have the uh what you’ll

Notice and once you notice this you’ll always notice it you see on these this is in the Pea family uh and you’ll notice on any flowering pee it’ll have this Keel most most everything in the fabas is a big family so it’s not everything but a lot of them will have

This this Keel this little top part of the flower right there and if I get up in here it’s actually climbing on a native Red Bud okay and if I pull the flower off shoot if I pull the flower off the red bud the red bud flowers are actually

Edible if you want to try them you’ll also notice that it has a keel up at the top so both of these flowers these are related the wisteria and the red bud so this is our native our native red bud with a Chinese wisteria growing on it but they’re long

Lost relatives so they’re out here hugging it out uh In This Very mostly invasive garden with you know one native the Autumn brilliant service Berry in the front garden at the house is almost in full bloom I think about about 2 3 days from it being completely open we

Had a minor Frost last night there was ice on the windshield and but I don’t see any damage on the open flower so hopefully hopefully we escape that but this is the first year we potentially get some fruit we need to get some bees in here this afternoon and uh and get it

And get them pollinated for sure but I I’ve had this thing staked up since the beginning I’ve got it perfectly straight I’ve got most of the crossing branches out of it there’s probably a few more up in here that ultimately will need to be to to come out but the tree is finally

Looking pretty good and I think you can see that as it’s as it’s the flowers are opening I think when the foliage comes out it’s going to really really great but this has been a process for sure this tree was just wispy uh it did not

Stand up on its own for a while finally got the caliper pretty thick on it hopefully this is the last season it’ll be staked out here but uh looking good our Autumn Majesty on corelia is just coming into to flour maybe a week or so away from it being in full flour it’s

Had a viburnum laying on it for the last 6 to eight months that snow Joey viburnum if you looked at the video last week about moving a large shrub that viburnum was just across this side over here so that’s why there’s not a lot of flowers on the side where the camera is

Most of them are over here on the side with with with with more sun on them so I’m expecting this thing to be bigger better Fuller this year without having something just laying right on top of it going be a little rearranging of plants over here but this one is probably where

It’s going to stay love this double purple flower it’s really the camera’s never going to pick this color up very well this is when you get these shades of pink and purple the camera just never just it never does a good job with but when this thing comes into full flow

Because of these doubles uh they’re just completely covered and again this one will come back into flow and do the same exact thing almost better in October than it does in March and April all the auga that we have out here in the garden is starting to show off this is

Chocolate chip auga which has the really dark Rich almost black foliage during the growing season and then of course gets covered in these flowers that the pollinators love this time of year one thing about this plant is if you’re using it on the edge of a bed like this

You know it’s urine tolerant so you thinking through that if you have dogs or you you know you have a shady space out by your Road and you know you have dogs coming along and peeing on things this is a pretty good ground cover to buffer in front of other shrubs and so

Hopefully dog lifts its leg on this and not on some shrub that may be sensitive uh to the urine but this one has a very small delicate kind of foliage and then you know we have a juga in the garden that are you know Green foliage is as

Big and dark foliage this as big but they’re all they’re showing off now the December freeze back in 22 which was just last winter basically that December freeze did a little bit of damage on the Chamilia japonicas that we have in the garden the Chamilia San was def slightly

More cold hearty had basically no damage so they’re all of our fall blaming Chamas were were fantastic this is uh a Chamilia Japonica that happens to bloom in the fall right through the winter and into early spring this is early Wonder but I really haven’t shown this thing

Off for over a year cuz it did take a little bit of damage I probably should have thrown a cover on it it was pretty pretty new at the time uh and it went from 60° one afternoon to 13° that night and nothing was ready for it and so it

Took you know there’s some there was some damage on it but it’s growing out of that it’s flushing out of that it looks fantastic and we still have some residual flowers on it even now the end of March coming up into uh April there’s a

Few more buds on it so I think we’ll still have but this is the longest flowering chamia Japonica this is one of the early ier blooming Chamas we have in the garden we’ve seen flowers on this thing as early as October and as late as middle April so but early wonder is not

Necessarily the perfect name for it cuz it’s also a late Wonder one big thing that’s going on here in Raleigh right now and I’m sure most of the southeast is the pine pollen and so we’re at back here on the screen in Port the screens definitely don’t do anything to stop the

Pollen uh the pine pollen from getting through so our normally I’m sitting on uh cushions on this sofa out here but we actually take the cushions in for a week or two until they uh till we get some rain that can knock this pine pollen down some one of

The projects uh we have going on we’re so this is week four of March we have about two and a half more weeks before we would be planting any of our things that we’ve started from seed for the summer into the ground so this is a tray of

Perennials uh I actually don’t even know what I just would have just pulled out penstamin Salvia scabiosa daisies and and some angelonia that are in this tray most everything has germinated and multiple seeds were put in each cell and so we’re going to go through here and thin some

Of these these could be divided I could pull these out and divide them and replant the small plants into other trays we just don’t need that many this is 20 of this particular Salvia right here this is more than more than more than we need but it is time to go

Through here and and as they’re growing select the more vigorous one to keep and then the others and thin the others out so we just use a small pair of little garden Snips this is the perfect the perfect tool for this and if you get you

Know this one has just really taken off this scabiosa Daisy so the other one that’s coming up next to it is really uh unnecessary for that sell so this one even though it’s off to the side like this it’s still looking pretty good there’s something else coming up in this

And this is another thing that could be happening is another seed from something else has jumped over here and so I’m defin I’m going to go ahead and pull that out or whatever that is and I can see it on the next one too in the process of seeding and it looks like

It’s the pinin that’s you know the P it looks like what the pinin looked like in the process of coming up is coming up over there so if you got any weeds potentially coming up or seed that jumped uh a place you can go ahead and

Take care of that I got a couple more whatever this seed is uh this one has decided to come up all over the all over the place so that’s something we really like to do while they’re still pretty small if if I wait to thin them until they’re already this tall they already

Be in a race with one another a bit uh and be stretching some trying to get to the light and so the earlier I can get this done the the earlier you know the better off that this plant that I’m leaving in place will be to be Fuller

And more you know be able to take advantage of the light without racing its partner next to it again this is still three weeks from these things going in the ground by the time they go in the ground they’ll be about this big the other thing we’ll do is once we

Start to get true leaves on them like this once they’ve grown uh to this point it’s time to start fertilizing them and the seed has everything it needs to germinate uh and the seed mix that it was in um gives them everything they need to do to get everything they need

To get this size at this point though they need fertilizer uh and so we’ll start some sort of liquid organic fertilizer at this point you can use fish Emulsion which works great it’s really really great but it can be a little funky if you have your seedlings

Indoors uh so that you know you can look at some other options that may be a little less stinky but we will take and just mix the liquid fertilizer and then water into the tray along the side of it and the fertilizer is taken up by the

Roots but once once we get to this point the next 3 weeks will probably fertilize once a week and then they’ll be up about this much and then they can go into the ground at that point perennial our our vegetables our perennials and our annuals that we started from seed break it up

This is definitely a house with 400 projects going on at the same time indoors and Outdoors the foundation was power washed and painted and I think it looks a lot better that you can see the side of the steps were painted the steps had been painted in the past and chipped

Away you probably have seen that in the background of videos for literally 4 years but they’re all it’s all buttoned up and uh looks pretty good we have some uh few more details we’re working on on the exterior of the house and several on the interior as well um Holly is posing

For the camera as always uh in the process of mulching this mulch was received last Monday uh gosh no Friday two a week and a half ago that’s not ideal I would have liked to have gotten it out almost immediately but I had to fly to California on Tuesday and I was there

For 6 days stuffed some of it while I was gone but it’s matted down a little bit more on the driveway so it’s a much harder job if you leave it in place for some period of time the day it’s dumped out of the back of the truck it’s light

And fluffy and it’s the easiest it’s ever going to be uh to put out we did put she did put a cover on it though while I was gone on a couple of rains so that kept it somewhat uh dry but the water is running under it and it’s

Soaked up a little bit so it’s a bit harder of a job than it would be otherwise so if whatever day you’re scheduling it for hopefully for delivery if you’re getting deliveries of mulch you know try to get it done the sooner the better because it is just the job

Just gets progressively harder over over several days but we’re I’m back here we’re in the process of finishing up the mulching uh and the garden should look pretty good with the exterior of the house like this as well bricks have been moved over um another job stuff did we

Have a bunch of old bricks that we’re using using in the patio job in the back Garden so that’s the next you know soon as this mulch is finished we’re jumping into that patio next and then the fence after that hydrangea pruning is always one of those

Things that’s a little hard to learn because different hydrangeas bloom uh differently so our hydrangea picul a month ago I cut them Way Way Back hydrangea arborescent could be cut Way Way Back uh right now because they actually Bloom on new wood during the growing season but our hydrangea

Macrofiles uh and and our mountain hydranges and our Oak Leaf hydranges they bloom on last some of last year’s wood and they’re kind of tricky to prune but if yours look like this where they’re leafing out uh it but they still have the old flower heads on them from

Last year now we kind of know that we can at least come in here and clean them up there’s nothing alive out here in the very end of this Branch so I can just trace this back you know once they’ve come out this much to where it’s obviously alive the flower buds are

Going to be down in this down in this growth um it it’s a little early in the season of course to be seeing a flower bud but somewhere we’re going to get four or five leaves there it is right there I hope hope you can see that but

That’s flower buds already forming in there and it’s basically one two so one two three four sets of leaves and then the flower Bud formed uh down in there so anywhere I can prune just above where I think the last of the buds on the branch

Is going to uh is going to Leaf out at this point and clean them up you can see you can pretty much see where that is by the time they start leafing out this much um any of that dead old material from last year any dead branches that

Are down in it uh any leaves that have accumulated inside of it can you know all this stuff can just so they can be cleaned up not really generally pruned but made to look a little a little better for the growing season uh at this point if I wasn’t talking about it I’d

Already had it done it’s just not that much not that much to do here but this is going to look way way better and I like to get a lot of any of this pruning I can get done before I mulch it the better right cuz

All this material I’d have to clean up if it was on top of the mulch but because I’m about to mulch and this one really didn’t have any leaf spot problems on it last year it just hadn’t didn’t have any issues um if there’s a branch like this though okay this is a

Great example of yeah it’s not the best time to prune but this one weird branch on here is just sitting out ahead of everything else so I’ll go ahead and just cut it to there I cost myself a couple flowers but the plant looks a whole heck of a lot better there’s

Another one on this side that’s similar and I’ll just do that just above the other growth you can’t really see where I prune them I’ve pruned them if you cut them down to that just inside of that first leaf and I think overall uh that looks a

Heck of a lot better I got pretty much all of them while running my mouth but there you go big Improvement we have this hot blonde Japanese maple that we got from Mr Maple last year it actually grew a lot this is a vigorous growing plant has a really really beautiful

Foliage beautiful uh summer color if you go back and look at the video that we did with Mr maple on I think their top five Japanese maples or something like that last year um go back and look at that video you can learn all about this one it’s extremely heat tolerant Japan

It’s a it’s a hybrid with a Japanese maple and another and another species I believe if I remember correctly uh and it’s very vigorous and very very heat tolerant I’ve got it staked and I’ve got this perfect I got this perfect leader that branches right about here and this

Is about the height I want it to Branch okay but then down lower on the side I have these two pretty vigorous side branches that are just going to be in my face it’s going to create this weird vase shaped tree if I don’t get rid of them

Now some folks Bonsai folks especially would tell you to leave these kind of branches on because it is gaining the sun’s energy it is creating growth in the plant energy in the plant uh and create some Vigor in the plant for me I’ve just always like to if I have a

Branch I know I’m going to cut off I just go and cut it off uh sooner than later these are fairly substantial branches so make sure your pruners are sharp if you’re cutting this type of you know cutting this type of thing off and uh or use a larger material but look at

That it’s a big Branch right uh but it was just going to end up in our face later on so it it just needs to go some of these some of these pruning decisions can be difficult ult uh like that sometimes you can cut it off a little

Further away from the plant and then come back in and trim it up and I I want to go back in here uh and actually prune these a little closer to the collar but instantly I’ve got a tree with a central leader now a straight central leader

I’ve got it staked properly and it’s branching perfect up here at the top so I took a I took a tree that looked a little odd and turned it into what is going to be follow along with the channel I think a really beautiful uh corner piece back here in the garden

This season one thing we didn’t point out walking around the neighborhood is how heavy the flowering is on Hol this spring uh we’ve had again just so far no significant freeze uh to harm them at all so when we were w we were walking up

The uh the road up to start to start this video off you could smell them everywhere these Hol actually when they’re in Peak Bloom smell but they can smell so sweet almost it’s almost too much it’s almost too perfumed but they actually smelled it was was not bad this

Morning of course it’s early in the day later in the day as it warms up that perfumey smell can get stronger and stronger but we should have a great crop of berries on all the Holli in the neighborhood as long as in the next 3 weeks or so we don’t get a

Significant freeze the viburnum David eye or David viburnum is showing off this is another one of these early flowering viburnum that can get stung uh so we don’t really grow this thing for the flowers uh they do get beautiful flowers they get a metallic kind of

Berry on them if the if if the flowers are allowed to you know do their thing and and end up getting pollinated but really grow this one for the foliage this thing it has this beautiful serrated foliage red stems interesting growth habit easy to keep small and

Mounding uh in the garden really just not a lot of Maintenance some people do struggle uh with this one to to find a good spot for it this one is getting about 4 hours of direct sun toward the middle of the day and that’s pretty much it otherwise it’s got its root shaded

And uh it’s a happy happy camper back here it keeps it two things from happening the winter damage from happening because it’s tucked up against the wall and the you know they don’t particularly like 15 hours of direct sun either so it’s a this we found the right

Spot for it just sometimes that can just be dumb luck uh but this David VI burn them is you know this will be you I don’t expect this every year and again we’re a week or two away from having all of these flowers open but it’s going to

Be putting on a big show Mostly growing it for the foliage though one of the last daffodils to bloom in the garden is Thalia uh this is a good this is a good Southern one I love how the little cup in the center of the flower is presented

By having the petals uh pointing back like that really this is a great one it’s it’s got the multiple flowers this these are new bulbs so they don’t they don’t have a lot but this one has multiple flowers on the same stem they’re lightly fragrant I think Steph

At one time counted 19 different daffodils we had in flour this one had not flowed yet at that time so I think we have 20 or more different daffodil varieties in the garden uh that have shown off over these last few three or four of these odd job

Walk around garden tour videos that we’ve been doing for the the last few weeks but we’re we’re near the end of the daffodils now most of them are slowing down or are finishing up and other things are waking up and starting to join to join in and I think that by

The time we do one more of these next week we’ll have I can see several things that’ll be that’ll be blooming that I’m pretty excited about that uh you know this time of year this time of year you know the engine is turning on and everything is uh really showing up so

Let us know down below what you have flowering in your garden right now and thanks for watching watching uh we’ll have another one of these up next week the foundation on the house has been painted uh steps have been painted a lot of progress is being made out here in

This Garden right now thanks for watching