Help! Spring Garden Decisions I Need To Make

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well hello everyone and welcome to today’s Wednesday Walkabout I am just so excited because spring is definitely in the air I spent all morning doing radio interviews talking about just that spring and gardening in preparation for the Oklahoma City Home and Garden Show I’m going to be speaking there on the 22nd and the 23rd is that right Leah um I’ll be speaking three different times I hope you guys can can join us um and it’s just well let me just say spring is in the air I’ve got a couple of questions that I am really thinking about I would like your input on them and some other things that are literally popping up so what do you say steuart let’s do it let’s do it well an answer to your questions and and a question that I get over and over again is what do I miss most about the old house well it kind of changes from season to season but from a gardening standpoint I would would say during this time of year what I miss most are the helbor um as you guys might remember I had a beautiful stand of white helbor at the other house they were underneath that oak tree I really missed them so consequently what am I doing I am starting to plant some more helbor I planted some really small ones uh starts that my friend Gail gave me last year but they’re not doing a whole lot these I got at Trader Joe’s I have them in this color in a darker maroon and I’m going to be planting these a great byy by the way um so I’m going to be planting more of these so I’ll have them as both cut flowers and to enjoy in the garden and so that that would be one thing that I really miss number two I really miss the creeping flocks that I had around the perimeter of the front bed so Stuart remember that that really gorgeous lavender ground cover in the front it was right in front front of the pansies a sweet delicate Little Flower often called Thrift um and I loved it in the spring it was so romantic so delicate I didn’t like it however very much in the summer because it would start getting really Woody and tired and not look very presentable so that’s my question of the day my big struggle my big dilemma that I want your help with um I miss it this time of year but do I want to plant it and then seph through the remainder of the Year trying to keep it going and making it look attractive I’m also thinking about perhaps using candy tuft instead of that flocks I do face South this has great drainage so I’m thinking about maybe planting it on these flower beds that the railings are kind of sandwiched in between so maybe some toughs of it in between the pansies and the vi Olas so that’s my big gardening dilemma that’s what I need help with so give me your thoughts on that and whether or not that’s something that I want to incorporate or if already what’s existing will be enough now what is existing whether or not it will be enough will be told over time as spring continues to unfold it’s still very very early thirdly what I really miss because it’s been so prohibitively warm I mean we’ve gotten up close to 90 you guys um as that I have missed even the minimal shade that I could get in Spring even before the trees had really leafed out uh because up here it’s very very much exposed and even though I’m waiting uh for my Eastern red bud trees to Lea F and Bloom and my beautiful Maple and the nuttle Oaks which are very they’re the last to start leafing out along the street um I still feel very uh very exposed up here and I really am missing some of that shade but you know what that’s the sacrifice I made giving up a hundred-year-old tree and I’m very cognizant of that and I just need to be patient everything else seems to really be enjoying the additional sunlight so let’s take a break here and I want to show you a couple of other things well here is a tip steuart we need to put one of those little light bulbs here when you are cleaning up all of the leafy debris the broken Twigs the acorns all of those things hi guys um in your Gardens you want to make sure that you are very very careful in how you or your helpers use the garden blower because if you are too overly aggressive with um with your blower you can damage some tender little seedlings like these Larks spur that are just starting to erupt from the earth and you want to be very very careful not to damage those so better that you put it your blower on a lower setting and you just kind of skim the surface that way you’ll remove the leaves without removing any of those tender little plantings now once I do that there’ll be a number of places that they just look a little bit bare I really need to replenish The Mulch before I do any more seeding of some of the annuals like the clei and the saloia things like that that I might want that I might want in the front landscape so what I’m going to do is I’m going to put down a thin layer about 1 and 1 half to 2 Ines of my favorite mulch this is that happy grow landscaper mix last year I did it in a 50/50 blend of gravel and the landscaper mix this year I’m just going to do the land scaper mix because there’s enough gravel that has um that has persisted over time so I’m just going to use this I had a couple of my neighbors come over yesterday Bonnie and Elsie they came across they live right across the street from me and they helped me spread some of this Mulch and when you get helpers to help you it makes fast work of this kind of job so I have recruited child labor from across the street and Bonnie and Elsie hey girls say hey so they are helping me put down some of this happy grow landscapers mix so Bonnie yeah kind of empty out a handful into the yeah so people could kind of see the texture of it so what I like about this Bonnie if you’ll demonstrate take a handful of it and then kind of put it around the pansies and the yeah and the Tulips because what I like about this is It’s really loose and fine and so it falls into the cracks and crevices yeah see like Bonnie’s doing right there into the cracks and crevices around the violas and the pansies and it makes it a little bit easier to spread and then it breaks down and it looks it looks almost just like dirt doesn’t it guys so these ladies you’ve met them before they live across the street and they kindly offered to help me spread my mulch makes the job that much more pleasant so I clean up the leaves first then I spread the mulch so there is a tip on that task that you want to do this time of year let’s take a break and I want to show you something [Music] [Music] else so today I’ve got got David and Sergio and Javier and Fernando and they’re all here still working on the irrigation system but what they’re doing now is starting to skim off the turf because if if you are just now joining us you may or you may not be aware that I’m not going to have any to very little grass in my front yard so we’re starting to skim off the turf and you can see the outline of where my little side patio will be which will blend in it it looks maybe as if it is just going to be a sore thumb sticking out there but it will blend in so well with the rest of the landscape I think you will see my vision before too long so that’s what we’re doing now is we’re starting to skim off the turf and move on to the next phase [Music] oh my gosh Stuart look at your Chinese Snowball by buron that’s your very favorite thing right here is where we need to put a picture of the one at the other house and even though I will miss it and its scale this one is going to be I think equally as as floral bound I mean there’s going to be so many flowers on there that you will you will hardly be able to see any of the stems or the foliage okay let’s start talking about something that will be very very important for you to start doing this time of year if your garden is at the stage mine is if you are a little bit after you’re a little bit later than my garden is or a little bit earlier then obviously plan accordingly but I talked last week about the importance of pinching and and so let me talk a little bit today about things you want to pinch the Artistry and the practice of pinching so last year I planted some of this Claus some of this Tiga Claus right here and honestly I need to do my research I am 99% sure that this blooms on new wood but I’m not 100% sure at this moment in time I don’t really care because right now I am just pinching for fullness and for the future so see right here in this Branch I’ve already done some of it but see right here in between these two you got the two going stems right here okay and then see this stem coming up in here I’m going to pinch that out then see those tiny little toughs of green right there those are going to come out and they’re going to be two stems instead of just the one what that will do is really make this bush out and not only will the foliage be more profuse but so will the flowering and I think it’ll be really gorgeous as this begins to bloom purple as it comes up and Cascades through this Arbor VA now let’s go around the corner and by the way if you guys think I haven’t been working look at this I have been deadheading working I love these collapsible drugs um one of you recommended and I and I’m going to order another one and probably the next one I order even though this one is great I’ll order the one with a solid bottom thanks to you and your recommendation okay so I’m I’m there’s so much to do you could tell that I’m a little bit um I’m a little bit dumb fluxed okay come back around here and here’s some more pinching to be done so I planted some um Sedum autumn Joy right here and you can see it’s starting to erupt in this tight little Mound which I I love I love but I want it to stay bushy I really want it to stay full and you can see here I’ve got something I don’t even remember what that is I’ve got something else coming up I don’t think they’re tulips two of them two of them there’s something else coming up in here but this mound right here what I want to do is spread it around now ideally I would have a tool but when you don’t have a tool you do like Native Americans would do and you make a tool out of Nature and so what I’m going to do here is I’m going to pinch and plant okay so see here show this is a okay this is a wonderful Sedum and it is so easy to spread around same kind of spot same kind of spot so all I have to do is then take that I’ve removed a couple of leaves this time of year it’s going to spread like wildfire and I will get an even larger mass of them by pinching okay so I’m going to pinch this one do the same thing I’m going to remove these lower leaves stick it in there I think you can get way more kids into gardening if you show they just stick it in the ground you know it’s I know it well and the thing is it’s it’s knowing which plants are easy to do this with and sedums are one so I’m going to do this here and this does two things it’s twofold it will make this that much more dense that much more thick that much more Bloom but it also will make the entire Mound that much larger and then later if I wanted to dig up some of these little starts and plant them around the Garden in other places I could so we will come back at a later date and visit this and it’s as simple as just making a dent a hole in the ground pinching and pudding could not be easier or more satisfying and each one of these little segments that I just planted is going to make another plant well one thing I love about gardening I’ve said this over and over again it’s all part of that Garden inspired living thing and that is that gardening is very experiential and happily it’s fragrant and nothing is more fragrant right now than these hents so typically one thing I have learned over the many many years of gardening that I have done is that each season contains sub seasons and Spring right now is very much early spring and the color palette of early spring is usually decidedly different than mid-spring and late spring so historically in the past early spring for me consisted of these beautiful Blues um yellows and white but this year because things have bloomed out of sequence and some things have Bloom so early I have all of these pinks that normally bloom a little bit later that have kind of crashed the party and I’m not sure that I like that or not I really like to have them come a little bit later so note to what I am putting in my garden journal is I will no longer plant I’ve said this before I will no longer plant early blooming tulips now they will all be mid to late blooming tulips and when I do those early blooming tulips will be in shades of of pale yellows or white so that they kind of are oh they are better dancers in the choreography of what I like to have in early spring with with this purple lavender and yellow I think they’ll be a lot more beautiful now it’s been a while we have been remiss I don’t think last month maybe even the month before that I’m not sure did we have a smile present so this is my smile present for this month and these are um well they’re hents they’re just these beautiful purpley blue whatever you call it hent I got these at these at Walmart but I’ve seen them a number of different places in flats this was $148 and I like to just have a flat that I kind of keep in the shade and when people come by like Bonnie and Elsie when they helped me with the mulching I gave them a smile present for themselves and one for their mom and it’s something that they can keep by their bed at night it’s so so fragrant and then unlike tulips which are forc these can be planted out in the garden any that I have in my pots right right now these tetatet daffodils um the Easter basket which has these large hents grape hents all of these will be removed after they finished blooming and I plant them up with Summer color and the bulbs themselves will be transplanted to Lemon Lane where they will all bloom in that beautiful yellow and lavender just like I did last year I planted a few of them ignore my hose but look here I have some of this blue Mascari that’s blooming in here so I will plant a lot more of that this fall here’s a couple here’s one and these were all from bulbs that I bought Forest I used them inside before I planted them outside they will come back they will come back and spread every year and then all of these beautiful lemony tones the Miss lemon abilia hey the Miss lemon abilia the uh chartreuse Feverfew um all of these beautiful colors in the pansies and violas all of those will kind of harmonize up and down Lemon Lane so there you go stuff is really starting to explode the traffic is starting to get much heavier um I know what’s to come and that this is just very much just a shadow of what will come and um so I’m just so excited for it hopefully you can you can hear that in my voice well here you go here is my outfit of the day because you guys have asked that I resurrect this segment um my sunglasses I got years ago I think I think they were lucky I honestly don’t remember cuz I’ve had them for so long my earrings are made well that I got at Nordstrom Rack my top I bought online online I think it was zessica or something like that but what I love about these sweaters is number one they are so easy to wash they’re so comfortable and they’re lightweight so they keep on days like today where it’s kind of cool kind of warm um they are neither too hot or nor too um um too for too cold they’re they’re just right I don’t know how I messed that up but they’re but they’re just right just like Goldilocks they’re just right just right um my britches boy I’ve had these for years they they really evoke kind of a 70s Vibe I got these on deep discount at anthropology and my booties are the drop and I also bought these online and what I like about them is they make me a little bit taller and they are very very comfortable and then you may have noticed that when I was working outside I had on these house shoes SL Garden shoes that are they are wonderful in fact Leah got some for her mom after I had some and she she can also uh make a testimonial to how wonderful they are so there you go there’s my outfit dour well now to the backyard the front yard I’m really intent on making it look staged and beautiful because the spring show is about to begin the backyard still very much a work in progress but before I start doing some of the staging with the potted plants and the plant Terraces etc etc I do want to go ahead and get started on planting some things in my raised bed now historically I think the legend is that we we typically want to plant our sweet peas our peas in general around St Patrick’s Day but because everything is speeded up we are going to do that a little bit earlier and in addition to any kind of things in the Pea family I would also include the nesters family so I have been soaking my nestam seeds in some water overnight these are hanging basket little Firebirds Nest sturum these are in more vibrant colors than historically I have used in the past at the other house but in the backyard here I want a little bit more color to kind of Pop against all of the gray so what am I going to do with these now already in these race planter planter beds that I bought um bought online and then I had them kind of customized a little bit with paint and with some reinforcements to make them more substantial um I’ve got three raised beds and in this bed I have already planted some things I have planted some Swiss chards some bright light Swiss chard one excuse me Stuart one in each corner and then I have planted some curly kale 1 2 3 four five curly kale and then on top of that I have also seated some things I have seated kind of just a spring mix blend of lettuce and that will grow up in the gaps and I will harvest things sporadically over time now before I talk about planting the nesters why do I have these closes and yes I will include a description in this description box a link to these closes in addition to some links to some closes in my own QVC line that are a little bit different but these I had these in place because of what there’s already been some digging activity in here some squirrel activity and this will prevent that digging just by having these squirrel these closes in place as a squirrel deterrent and also because I just think they’re darn cute now what I want to do is is plant these nesters not only because I think they will be very very fun in that color palette spilling over the edge but also because these are edible so I can use these as an edible flour in any kind of spring salads that I make um and I also like to use I I learned this from my friend Roger I really like to use the foliage which is so sweet and so dear and kind of can you see okay kind of in a blue green color palette I like to use those in flower arrangements so these I am just planting around the perimeter and almost got me and what I’m going to do is I am going to plant these and then hopefully they will spill up and over the side and if they in any way on the interior side begin to interfere with any of my plantings then I can just kind of pinch them back judiciously you’re just pushing it in all I’m doing is pushing them in about an inch well about 2 and 1 half times the depth of the seed just like bulbs and I can do this really early even if it’s almost close to freezing if it’s still kind of cold where you are this is fine I’m not worried about it and even if some of them freeze out I’m planting enough that those that survive will give me more than enough of a show so I’m planting these like this and what’s fun about this is sometimes I forget I’ve done this because I do it so early in the season I yeah and they come up and and they’re they’re um they they’re very jolly when they come up well on their own volunteers what would you call those uh planted seedlings planted seed you forgot about them though it’s different yeah you forgot about them and and that’s what’s kind of fun is they’re I would include this in the same category as maybe forget me knots you kind of sprinkle them yeah and you’re you’re not not always Str yeah you’re not always you’re you’re stretching there okay so I’m going to plant these and I’m only doing them in in this middle box in the other box I have let’s go over here and please don’t look at the mess in between CU I just haven’t gotten there yet over here I’ve got a different variety that I’m going to be planting and these are also air luminous These Are Climbing Phoenix and they have kind of a fringed or a cut Leaf petal and these I’m going to plant to crawl up these two tours you can see that I too have soaked these when you soak them it really softens the exterior so they germinate much more quickly you do this with also the Swiss charred seeds so I will remove a lot of this debris that’s on top that I used to mulch the things that were here previously this is very good soil I don’t need to amend it and so then I will plant these to climb up the tutour and then around the perimeter of these Tut tours I will PL probably plant some arugula or some kind of greens that hopefully will germinate very quickly that I can Harvest very quickly and enjoy them on my dinner table so let’s take a break here I want to show you a couple of other things I’m excited about well now as you can tell this is far from finished in terms of styling and staging but I do love the kind of vision that I’ve got going starting with a couple of different things I showed you guys these faux terracotta Planters and I have painted them both in um oh kind of just a charcoal gray I love the way they turned out I think I have decided that I am going to plant some of this Platinum Beauty lamandre it’s a Southern Living plant in both of them I might change my mind and plant them someplace else in this same staging area but I like the way this looks and then for those of you that were so concerned that I didn’t have a railing off of this way and concerned about my fire firewood that I had positioned here for easy easy access and this is what I mean I can come out here and this winter I could I could just easily without this being here I could just easily get a log and bring inside now do I want that there during the summer because as as you guys have noticed there might be termite or whatever in other words it’s not seasonal anymore so I had to I have come up with another plan and that is I’m going to make a living kind of barrier here by using these wonderful window boxes that I got I have used this trick so many different times um with clients that I have helped in the past past and that is how you create kind of a border or a green wall with a container planting and I love this you guys if you want to provide some kind of definition or you want to circumscribe a space or enclose a space then this is a way to do it you might start noticing lots of restaurants use this um typically they’ll have like planter boxes up on stilts or something and then the whole patio they may have beastro lights the patio is kind of circumscribed with these kind of planter boxes well I’m doing the same here so as you can see these are very very lightweight but they are formidable they are really sturdy they’ll H they will have great insulation they’re self-watering solid one piece right they’re solid one piece they’ll have great drainage and of course they are kind of a window box form so when you get them and of course I will put the links below they come with four of these really great rot iron um supports so if you wanted to actually use them as a window box you could in this case I’m just using them as freestanding Planters now I ordered these in Gray obviously but I still put I because I want everything to coordinate I still put um uh a layer of the spray of that charcoal gray spray paint it’s Rustoleum in and I put a coating of that on this can you hear the water in there I haven’t removed the plugs yet and so what this is going to do is provide me a green wall and this is far from confirmed but what I’m thinking about is a couple of these better boxwoods in here and I’ll show you how I do it later but a couple of better boxwoods in here this variety is skylight and it will grow tall it will get at least as tall as this and I will keep it pruned to about that height so let’s see ultimately it can grow 6 to 8 feet high so ultimately over time it can grow this tall in the winter I can move it yes sir did you consider putting it on stilts or raising I could put it on stilts but I kind of like I but less to me is more I already have I already have lots of this going on and I didn’t want to add any more of that plus why add something additional if I don’t have to these are going to grow up so these will stay in place I can lift them up and move them myself when winter approaches and I need to access the log rack but I think they’ll be beautiful right here with these Skylight better boxwoods and then I’ll put just some kind of really profuse seasonal color in here and then I will do the same thing down here on this lower level and and I’ll explain that in Greater detail a little bit later now some of you may be concerned okay so what about the foliage from this Japanese maple well over time it will grow up and I will just keep these lower branches pruned back against the trunk so that the canopy will be up and arching and I think it’ll be really really beautiful so do you approve Ste agree you you approve okay lots to be done out here you guys um so so so much to to be done but I kind of really have details of a vision now I I kind of had the broad Vision before a year ago we probably need to put Stuart we need to put it before here a broad version before because this used to be a series of just very steep concrete steps and now I’ve got these fabulous um very I think appropriately Grand in scale uh brick bordered steps that I think look beautiful here and now I will finish staging it out a little bit later but right now the front is what is taking is is taking Focus because I already have lots and lots of passers by who are enjoying what is beginning at the cottage so you guys thanks for hanging out with me on this Wednesday walkabout and go out and enjoy your own garden and saor [Music] spring [Music] a