Spend a Relaxing Sunday With Me In the Backyard Garden

Spend relaxing Sunday afternoon with me working in the garden and puttering at the potting bench! If you’re one of the first to watch, look for the blooper that is at this very moment being edited out lol! What a fun day. #backyardgardening #backyard #gardendesign #cottagegarden #gardendecor #backyardgarden #gardeningtips #gardenscapes #gardentour #japanesemaple

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well this is going to be a different Garden life Sunday because we’ve really had to reconfigure and reschedule if you will some of the things we were planning to do I promised that we were going to do a garden live show today on gardening in clay soil and because it has been so wet and so rainy and the soil is so saturated well the first thing you need to know about clay soil is don’t dig in it when it’s really really wet cuz you can ruin the teth of the soil so that has just kind of discombobulated our schedule so today we are going to spend a really relaxing afternoon in my backyard living room this is this is what I dreamed of I have been piddling back here steuart can attest to that um I’ve been piddling back here and we just have a lot going on today including some surprise guests who are bringing some surprise treats we’re going to C up some things at the potting table I’m going to give you an update on the things that are growing here surrounding the brick patio we’re going to be serving some things well Stuart there’s just pruning a little bit what else did we do all I know is everything we did was absolutely delightful and yes truly very relaxing so what do you say let’s do it let’s do it now when you’re at the potting table this is definitely a case of do what I say not what I do try to practice Mison PL gardening now what do I mean by that or me Mison PL potting that means have everything you need kind of in place before you get started and what do you need you may ask if you’re a new Gardener um well you will need whatever you need to pot whatever it is you are planting so obviously you need a container you need if you want it to be long lived you might want to put a slow relase fertilizer in there you need need a good quality potting mix um and you can get that just well just about anywhere you can make it yourself um the other thing that you’re going to need if you want to prevent a big old mess is one of these tarps I have showed this to you before you guys have ordered a million of them and I would bet that’s my question of the day did you order one and do you love yours as much as I love mine I keep mine underneath the kitchen counter so one of these tarps is great to cover your table and then you either need a dedicated potting table or you need one like I have which is a collapsible table that if I keep it clean I can then just fold it up or more appropriately steuart can fold it up and where do I keep it steuart under the couch I keep it under the couch in the great room it fits perfectly it’s a great place to store it then I just bring it out I put my tarp on top and then I start uh and then I start potting the other thing that you might want want is some kind of oh like a used bread knife or some shears or something so that if whatever it is your planting is really really pot-bound then you can disrupt that rot ball so that it will start growing in and around the new soil you put in the pot and not grow into a circle so there there you go just make sure you have what you need if you are potting up some kind of specimens you’re going to be putting in and around your garden and if you are going to top it or mulch it in gravel like I often do then obviously you want to have some of that on hand too well hello everyone welcome to the potting table we haven’t been here for a while I thought it would be fun to pot some things up today not only because I just enjoying that enjoy doing that but also because it’s the perfect weather for it it’s cool it’s cloudy and I’ve got some things to pot up so what I’m doing is of course undoing what I did earlier I PL I planted this cicio I believe it’s a Ania that I got from California last time I went out there and it was happy in one pot but the other one was not happy in its companion pot and I want these to match and I want to use these someplace differently plus I want a little bit more movement this is where I had them positioned on top of the Terracotta shelf and I wanted a little bit more movement up there I also wanted them to kind of Fade Into the backdrop a little bit more and these were a little too white so that’s my rationale for doing this and all I did was pluck the other one out and I still have some good potting soil in here so am I going to put any osac Co in here as I often do when I do container plantings no I am not because this is a Miracle Grow type potting mix and it already has some slow release food in it and I really don’t want these to grow very fast I want them to stay about the same size that they are because they’ll be here I’m hoping for the duration of the summer and I really don’t want them to get prohibitively large so that they get too large for the space or that I have to repot them or anything like that now this is just something I’m sure you guys are familiar with this is just purple fountain grass and you can find it anywhere it is not cold hearty so you would have to bring it inside this is kind of rot bound so I am going to address that by just clipping into these roots a little bit so they don’t grow in a circle but this you guys you may say well why are you not feeding it why are you not being more tender with it and it’s because this is a short-term proposition this is going to I’m going to commit to it for the summer and then after that I may or may not continue to commit to it further right now I just want it to look good sitting up there so all I’m doing is taking this soil that I removed from this pedestal Clay Pot which I love it’s got some chips it’s got some cracks it’s a little bit beaten up and bruising and aged like me but that’s okay I like that and I’m just going to plant it in here now this soil is is already nice it’s moist it’s Frable and no this is not what my soil looks like in the ground like chocolate cake this is what it looks like when it’s potting soil my soil in the GL ground as I told you is clay and also as I told you earlier later we’re going to be talking about gardening in clay because so many of us have it okay so I just kind of like the way that looks I like the Simplicity of it um you know what I think maybe I’ll be right back I think I’m going to top dress it in some just regular pea gravel so I’ll be right back and I will show you my storage area later after I kind of clean it up right now it’s it’s almost clean but not completely okay so my pea gravel and this is just the Earth Naturals pea gravel that I get at Lowe’s but really any Earth cover colored pea gravel from anywhere would work maybe you’ve got it some in your driveway steal from your driveway if you need to and I’m going to top dress this and I’m not going to water this right now partly because the soil was was already moist and had moisture in it but also the only reason I’m itching to water this is just to clean up this Dusty gravel but I am not going to worry about that right now I am just going to put this down here I am going to remove this guy from its pot and it will go and live someplace else and it wasn’t I was kind of brutal with that but that’s okay it wasn’t it was a little bit established in there but really not too much and sometimes I’m just brutal with things in the garden I think I I think one of the reasons that gardening can be intimidating to people is because they think you have to be really really really careful with stuff and trust me in most cases not all but in most cases if something dies it’s probably not going to be because you brutally mishandled it or you were too rough on the root systems I mean that might be true if it’s a Little Seedling or something but it’s mostly because it just isn’t happy where it’s planted you either overwatered it or underwatered it as I do frequently but don’t let your garden boss you around yeah don’t let your garden boss you around and certainly don’t be intimidated from gardening just because you think you can make a mistake like probably I should have been more careful with that but you know I’m getting it done and I’m getting it done when I have time and sometimes that’s as important okay so I’m going to do the same thing here I’m going to cut into this root ball and what this does when you do this is it damages the root system enough or it braids The Roots enough so just like when you get an owie on your skin or whatever it will start putting out new new skin new whatever it will in other words it will begin to heal itself and this will heal itself by sending out smaller feeder Roots okay so that is almost exactly at the top of the pot and I’m planting this red fountain grass because I think it matches the color palette and the vibe of the backyard it looks a little more I don’t know a little bit more sophisticated I think it looks kind of Oklahom I as I said earlier I like the movement of it I don’t have a lot of grasses in my yard so it’s kind of a little bit different for me and it’s always best to mix things up a little bit so there you go I have two one gallon Fountain grasses in these pots I’ve got one more that I’m going to pot up and we’ll just show you the finished product of that we will show you the finished Tableau of where these go on the Terracotta shelves and we’ll take a break here and then we’ll move on to one other potting project that I’ve got in the works okay a couple of tips so steuart get your little light bulbs ready because here are some gardening tips you are going to want to pay attention to especially if you are a new Gardener so I just bought a couple of Kimberly Queen fern these were on sale at Lowe’s they’re beautiful they can handle Sunner shade and more more importantly they were on sale for 50% off and what someone was asking me why don’t plants ever go on sale well sometimes they do I’ve noticed that at Home Depot they seldom ever go on sale but at Lowe’s they do regularly and a lot of times the stuff that you get that’s on sale is like brand new so when I got those they were practically they looked great they were not distressed in any way they had shelf after shelf of things that looked great and the reason they were on sale is simply because they were getting ready for even newer inventory to come in and they needed to clear their shelves okay so let me show you here in the center of the pot if you are new to gardening you may have heard about putting gravel in the bottom of your pots or putting uh peanuts packing peanuts or something like that and yes you can do that if you do the packing peanuts make sure they’re contained but the packing peanuts are not organic they are not going to break down over time time and these are going to be in here for a relatively I hope long lived period of time uh unlike the the fountain grass that I planted up so this I prefer for the garden debris that’s filling the bottom I want this to be organic matter so I’ve got an expired plant in here I thanked it for its service I yanked it out of its pot I put it in here along with some other twigs and things like that and when I say twigs and things like that literally I will do this I will just look at any stor for any storm debris that may be lying around I’ll put that in there and as long as it’s organic then I’m okay with that now here’s another tip if you are reusing garden soil that has been in another container or it’s just used it’s used garden soil well here is how you Revitalize it and you put it to use and you don’t have to just throw it out and that’s that you mix the old garden soil with about an equal amount of new potting mix so you mix the old with the new we did this at the other house on a large scale I think and this is what you’re going to use for your potting blend okay so I’m putting this in here and then I’m going to be mindful okay how how far up do I need to put that soil well I take my pot I want the top of the pot to be basically parallel or equal to the top the top of the plant and so this is about right so and the other thing sometimes you guys comment and you say Oh Linda you you planted that a little bit too high it looks too high to me well in some cases it might be but I happen to know that because I’ve got organic matter on the bottom that it is going to get pressed T down and it’s going to settle into place over time and certainly with watering now this one I am going to add some slow release osmo Co to not a lot just a little show them what it is real quick yeah this is osac Coe we’ll put a link online this is a slow release this is those little round things this is for new gardeners this is the little round pelletized granules granules that you sometimes see when you buy a new plant okay so I’m going to take this out of its pot now look at how rootbound this is some plants it’s already starting to send out Runners some plants I might be concerned about that and I might say o you are too rootbound and I am not going to buy you because that being so rootbound will put you at risk but in this case I know that’s not so much of a problem so since I can’t pull it easily out of its pot I’m going to use these pruners to just cut the pot so that I can then remove the plant now I could also if you’re going thrifting next time you go to the thrift store look for an old bread knife because an old bread knife is also really good for this purpose okay ah free at last you can almost feel it breathing thank you for giving me some Breathing Room it says okay so I’m going to just take that now you see oh voila it is going to be almost exactly at the top of the pot so that’s good now what am I going to do because I know it’s rootbound and I am going to mess with this rip ball a little bit I’m going to just kind of cut it up and down and you could use again you could use your bread knife for this but the these roots that are just really compacted and if the plant is not compacted you don’t have to do this but in this case it was getting to be rootbound and I don’t want the the root ball to grow in circles I want it to start growing into the Container this container when I repot it is about I’m going to say 2 Ines bigger than the root ball of the plant itself and then I am just going to fill in around the perimeter with that potting mix of 50% old and 50% new now you guys don’t have to hang out with me for this I’ll finish this up and then I’ll show you where these are going to live and we’ll move on to some other happy puttering in the backyard on this lazy wonderful Sunday are you back there hello who is it well what a nice surprise come on you guys hi is that what I think it is yeah it’s okay messy messy money hug you guys may know Bonnie and Elsie they live across the street from me they help me in the garden they just make me smile they’re just wonderful um and I know so look what they brought let’s let’s do a closeup is that not the most gorgeous thing oh wow y so my credibility with you guys out there in YouTube land is important and I talk about how they sometimes bring me sourdough bread sometimes I ask for them to bring me sourdough bread and who made this uh our dad her D her dad makes it and it came out of the oven 30 minut 30 minutes ago oh my gosh that is so wonderful so so that’s so much fun you guys I’ve heard you you’ve already been in the pool or somebody’s been in the pool the past this past week yeah so do you have the heater turned on no it’s like and you’re in the pool already cuz it’s been kind of cool yeah I like that about you girls you are tough you are you are tough tough tough you want to just set that on my kitchen counter yeah okay yeah just go on in there Jamie might be in there and I’ll see you guys later thank you thank you so much you never know who is going to come visiting the cottage that was not planned was it steuart the sweet girls across the street I did ask for some the other day though so I shouldn’t be too surprised okay we’ll be right back [Music] [Music] okay I’m standing by the Japanese Maple and I want you to see what I see now when I’m out in the backyard which is why I am just in total Bliss being able to spend a Sunday a relaxing Sunday afternoon cool not windy we can have a fire it’s absolutely delightful and this is what I dreamed of this is really my dream of this this backyard living room and I think it’s pretty wonderful I think HBS would probably agree to that it’s speaking speaking of pubs he is making his way from the garage to the back door hurry hurry so nobody sees you now nor normally I would have music coming from the windows which as you can see we’ve got cranked open the casement windows uh but we can’t do that because we’ll get I don’t know the music police or something will come come after us if they can hear the country music that we’re listening to so here I am and one of the things that I love to do you know this about me I think you guys like to do it too is to really thin out and limb up shrubs and small trees so that they look a little bit more Grand that they have less density that they have a little bit more well translucents if you will that you can kind of see through them into something else and also because they just well they just don’t look so kind of weedy and overgrown so I’m working on this Japanese maple here I have two this is just a regular old green Japanese Maple and I have a coral bark one over there by the air conditioner and so ultimately what I always try to do is over time I want to limb things up because ultimately this will get oh gosh probably maybe 20 feet high if not higher and as it grows I want to raise the canopy this is a concept I’ve talked about many many times before but I don’t think it can be repeated enough because it is what can turn a ho home Garden into something truly spectacular and it doesn’t cost anything other than sculpting the trees that you have so what I’m going to do here because I’m not sure I want to lose some of the limbs at the bottom right now because I kind of like the way they Cascade over the rod iron railing but I do want to thin them out so how do I decide where I want to start well typically and we’re going to discuss this tomorrow because I have some tree people that are coming out with Kayla and we’re going to discuss the feeding the care the pruning the maintenance of your investment trees in your garden and in mine but one of the things that I do at that decision juncture is what is the first cut well The First Cut is typically one that’s kind of growing down or it is growing into something and I want to Spotlight this gorgeous elephant bush and you really kind of can’t see it a little bit or as beautifully as you could see it in profile because of all of this foliage of the Japanese maple so I’m going to start out conservatively with this one right here so let’s do a before okay now let’s do an after and I’m going to take this whole small Branch out I’ve got some good sharp pruners and immediately it made a difference now I can take this that I have cut and I can bring it inside because I try not to waste anything I could bring that inside and put it into a flower arrangement if I chose to do so the green looks nice when the colors I know doesn’t that even that in and of itself is just beautiful and by the way I want I left these out so I could show you guys my new wood table if you will span over to it Stuart with the fire in the background I think that is indeed Charming um Kayla you know Kayla’s gu made and yes I did reorient the table now that everything’s filling out I moved it from one direction to another but I have to keep it covered when it rains heavily which it has been doing and I for a while just had weighted things on the end but then I got some of these tablecloth stainless steel tablecloth clips that secure it into place all around the perimeter they’re inexpensive and they’re great for picnic season and any time that you’re going to be entertaining outside and the tablecloth might be blowing around but I digress let’s go back to our Japanese Maple and so what I want to do is I I’m not ready to take off this large Branch can you see it there stew yeah I’m not ready to take it off but I am ready to clean it up a little bit because I want to to expose it I want to expose its beautiful lines and the way it kind of O torqus that way kind of arches that way so I’m going to just remove some of the smaller foliage that’s on there and then also this I’m going to remove a little bit and all of a sudden what that does is not only expose the architecture and these are really small you guys I don’t even need my clippers for this stuff it comes off easily it’s not harming it’s not harming the tree in any way but it not only reveals the beauty of this branch and I’m doing it when it’s still young when these are still young but it also gives more negative space between the elephant bush and the Japanese maple but that level that one at the bottom that you’re cutting on is kind of a debatable one because it it is low and so on its own kind of down there but I’m not ready to remove it yet and why because I kind of like this Branch that’s kind of arching over the railing I kind of like that oh it comes from that one okay yeah and it comes from this one so I’m not ready to lose it yet now as the tree matures I’m sure I will but I’m not ready to lose it yet now do I want to you lose this one let me get over there so I thought I could see it from there this one and I’m and I’m I know I’m going to into this in great detail and I’ve done this before but I think it’s instructive if you if you want to do the same thing so this one I could remove I could remove the entirety of this right here and I think maybe that’s what I’ll do so see here this will give me that much more negative space between here and there yeah do it now so they can kind of see the difference so I’m going to remove this one and that really opened it up and not only did it open it up but it makes the tree itself look a little bit larger because now it looks less like a shrub and more like a tree the other thing is this cut right here I can clean it up clean it up some because I want it pretty flush with the branch but the other thing that I like is that this will then heal and it’s easier for it to heal when it’s small and young versus when it’s a when it’s a large larger branch is that one that healed right there this one this one may be one that healed earlier yeah it probably is one that healed earlier and then there’s this one so you can kind of see it scarred but in short order this will heal and it’s easier for that to be less noticeable because I don’t want to notice it then it then it would be if I had done it at a later date so now I can just kind of move up and some of these smaller branches in here I can remove and every time I make a cut I kind of just stand back so I look at this one do I want to lose this one yes I think I do because okay let’s look at it again and here here do an example should it stay or should it go and I kind of like it leaving now this could be a judgment call you guys make and what I can do is start out conservatively not take out the whole branch but take out the low growing in other words they’re growing down branches on that limb that then smacks me in the face and I can say do I want to keep it or do I want to lose it I think this one is growing low and I want to lose it this one is kind of growing low off of this major branch and I want to lose it and what I’ll then do is I will just work my way up the plant kind of thinning it out and reducing its density again so that it looks less like a big shrub and more like a small tree I’m not cutting off so much that this new tree is going to be harmed or jeopardized in any way to photosynthesize for food but look at how much difference it made by removing a little bit of foliage in there I think it made a huge difference so I don’t want I you know I’m kind of belaboring the point but because I think it makes so much difference it costs nothing and it makes your garden look so much more sophisticated I think this is a technique that you guys might want to start learning yourself okay let’s take a break and then let’s do some relaxing Stewart [Music] well I wish you guys were here with me because I want you to see what I see when I come out into the outdoor living room and I truly think it is I I I think it’s Charming it may not be your taste you may not like it but to me it’s exactly what I envisioned when I had a a design uh kind of a design aesthetic in mind for the backyard this is what I envisioned and even though it’s still not completely grown in it is nevertheless coming to fruition starting with I guess probably the basic thing which you guys saw under construction was just the great big brick rug in the center and then the steps and and it’s just I think it’s intimate back here now there have been so many people at the cottage recently who have seen the front and in the back and I find this so interesting here are three observations they make when I ask them when I’ll say well what does it look like in real life compared to TV and they will tell me the front yard looks bigger on TV the backyard looks smaller and I look smaller so I don’t know what that means um I’m not that small I’m 5’5 but um so SE thank you for making me look taller and more statues I I I guess but the backyard it may be intimate it may be small but it’s exactly what I want and it is just a wonderful outdoor living room complete with fireplace a dining table which yes I did reorient uh back the other way again because as I’ve often said according to my theory of relativity every one thing in the garden relates to every other thing and when some of the things started growing in and I had my plant theaters in place and populated it told me well maybe I want this to look uh uh to appear in a certain way at this angle not only when I come down the steps but also let’s do this for you guys because if you want to just be on my shoulder or following me oh the other thing that everybody always says is that as I have expressed on this channel many times that the pathway along the east side of the house is not nearly as Steep and treacherous as it appears as it appears on camera so that’s the view you would get if you were coming down the stairs from the inside to the outside and then this is the view that you would get as you come in from the back gate and you come in this way and I love the way you can then see the profile of the topiaries that I have on the table I’ve got topiaries on my plant stand I did plant a little bit more color I’ve got a couple of heartthrob hydrangeas those are from the Southern Living plant collection and they’re just starting to show color and then the other things that are in the Mounds and The Villages that I want to grow around the circumference of the patio as you can tell they have already put on a lot of growth the little coconut budle eye they are starting to grow up they’ll be bloom before too long already the boxwoods getting larger Stuart could not believe if you kind of pan over this way towards my potting area Stuart they can see it now huh yeah look at look at how all of this auga is filling in and probably within 3 weeks you’re going to hardly be able to see any of the mulch in between the stepping stones and I like this one and and Stuart likes that one because it’s a variegated form of ajuga which by the way AA as a ground cover it likes clay soil so that as I alluded to earlier that’s a video we have to postpone for a little bit later but it is a clay soil lover and is it an impediment to walking on the stones no it’s not and if it becomes an impediment it can handle a little bit of foot traffic and if it becomes an impediment all I have to do is dig a section from around the stepping stones and just relocate it to the one of the other hundreds of areas that I’ve got in the garden where it would be happy to live I’m planting a lot of it in this area which looks a little bit scruffy now um but I don’t really care because I know in short order all of this auka is going to grow in it’s going to be solid and as importantly it will not only be beautiful but it will also keep some of this soil in place from eroding away and going into the garage and going into the drain that I’ve got there the Annabel hydrangeas this is kind of a this is kind of a Sunday Walkabout um the Annabelle hydrant just look at these buds let me get down there and look at the girth of both of these plants or actually I should say the trio of these plants all of these came from the other house and I I planted them here and I think they’re especially when they’re in bloom they’re going to look spectacular then then behind it don’t trip St TR to balance well I’m always saying don’t trip it’s cuz he’s walking backwards um not because really my garden spaces are that treacherous but if you’re walking in Reverse not in heels like Ginger Rogers but if you’re walking in Reverse it can be more difficult and then back here because the one that I transplanted at the from the other house died I have an Oakleaf hydrangea here that I believe is a snowflake it’s unmarked but I believe it’s a snowflake and it will come and Arch over this now you may ask willinda I thought you said you were going to plant a rose and I might still plant a a rose if I do that hydrant might move but again I live in the real world I Garden in the real world just like you do so David Austin Roses a company that I adore and I love their roses they contacted me and they were going to send me some roses and they probably still will but I haven’t gotten them yet and I know that when I plant them later they’re not going to do as well and I already want this wall to fill up and so because of that those Roses May then have to go someplace else I like the fact that this is a solid hydrangea corner I love the beauty of that I will especially love it in the fall when this foliage begins to turn their autal Hues and I think it will be beautiful and all of these rough edges will then be softened now the other thing hip hip herah some of my guests that came said oh they were so glad that I moved the rain barrel um I did love that rain barrel but it had to go byebye and they have indeed come and they have fixed the gutter which now goes straight down and it’s kind of that area is kind of hidden right now by these Evergreen plantings but they will also be camouflaged later by the profusion of things that are coming up in here so what’s coming up in here do you ask well I planted around the perimeter a bunch of red verbina which will I hope kind of cascade over the side and continue with that that color theme that I’ve got going you can see where the aita can you see right there those toughs of green Stewart those are the aita doas that I planted back here and they’re in all three corners and there what you see there those little seedlings those are Zena seedlings that I planted far are away from the Dalia but in the storms they migrated down to here and so I’ll just have to kind of very gently excavate those and relocate them in that area the Little Miss figgy over here is really starting to do great so pretty soon you’re not going to see any of that Garden meter any of that of the utilities that are there on this wall but look over here Stuart this just goes to show that sometimes you have to have a little faith and a lot of patients both of which are sometimes in short supply in my gardening life and yesterday I came out here Stuart and look this gnarly old stump look it’s putting out some new growth so that fig was not really most sincerely dead it was just really most sincerely very very late and very very tardy so then that’s going to come up and that’s going to be full and then I’ve got those aido doas over here I’ve got some other annuals that are growing some of those orange orangish red zenyas I think those will be fun I’ve kind of moved around some of the toughs but you can see how the toughs are starting to grow together the toughs of the pancake Arbor V of The Chef’s Choice Rosemary of the Autumn Coral aelas they’re all kind of growing together and in short order they will all completely fill out and blend in this beautiful tapestry that surrounds surrounds the patio that’s my dream anyway I have yet to plant my tomatoes and peppers and things in my box over here I’ll do that a little bit later it it turned cool didn’t it it turned very cool and I’m waiting for some of those things from my friend Jen she grew some seedlings for me so I will do that um I’ll do a whole probably video segment in a future video on my planter boxes some of which I’ve been pleased with and some of which not so much um but I’ll talk about that look here this is so exciting for me look here oh these olive trees that were over wintering look how many olives there are and some of them are getting big look at this look that one’s getting big now will I brine these to make them edible no but will I be absolutely Charmed and mesmerized by by how beautiful they look on this on this Olive Tree absolutely yes this one I’ve got a little bit more pruning to do on um over here I have lots of red geraniums lots of red dragon Bonas or angel wing Bonas and I just I it’s fun for me to play in a different color palette back here everything kind of is is uh visually choreographed I think I like the way it looks um the other thing is if you are a southern Gardener you know this and that is I love just pelargonium geraniums I love just plain old oldfashioned your mom’s geraniums they remind me of my second mother every time I dead head one but in the South they don’t really we think of them as a summer flower but they don’t like the heat of Summer they just quit blooming they get budw worms but when they’re at their most beautiful is actually in late spring I think early summer and then in the fall so once these begin to flag something else will take their place probably in the form of Edibles some other things um let’s take a break here and I’ll show you some of the things that I planted up at the potting table and then we’ll say goodbye for today okay the topiaries the Myrtle topiaries may be looking a little shaggy and that Thrills me no end because I want them to get as big as possible put on lots of growth lots of width on their on the heads so that they will look more mature and then some of them I will repot even though traditionally you see these kind of standard topies in a small pot and the plant itself is rather large I’m tired of watering over and over and also rewriting these smaller pots because they get blown over in the wind and they are the ones that dry out fastest so some of those I will be repotting in larger uh that brown terracotta that I like that brown Italian Terracotta clay that I like as I did these Kimberly Queen uh Fern that I got on sale at Lowe’s I think they both look great here this area is pretty shaded they look very very luxurious I think and very verdant this time of year and they will in the summer if I keep enough water on them as I told you earlier in a tip I’ll share it again in case you mi missed that video these are just hanging baskets I took off the hangers I put them in some of my metal hanging baskets and you can see right there that I’ve got a wire just one of those coated those coated wires strips wire strips that secures this to the plant sand so that it won’t blow over and then these relatively lightweight Fern will stay in position when it is really really windy and they won’t blow away and I like the way that this rot iron looks on the rot iron plant stand and then I guess lastly before we kind of do another Circuit of the garden let me show you just how beautifully you guys helped me make these topiary a while ago in the great room and look at how well they’re doing look at how much New Growth they’re putting out I continue to clip on them pretty soon I won’t have to have that guide string on them at all look at that look at how happy they are and we just took gallon pots and we turned them into into topiary one of my very favorite things to do on a relaxing Sunday really on any day thank you guys for hanging out with me it is this is my dream this is what I really envisioned was a relaxing Sunday like this I think we’re going to have some friends over for a glass of wine here shortly hubs has it prepared over here in this wonderful side table Yeah Stuart was saying he thinks he needs one of these now this wonderful side table slash ice chest and it’s just it’s pretty sweet and maybe now that I’ve got some sour dough bread I can serve some sourdough bread maybe a selection of cheeses and some other condiments along with the wine thank you guys for hanging out with me I wish you were here in person but if not um but since you’re not then hopefully virtually you’ve enjoyed spending a relaxing Sunday with me [Music] 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