Welcome to my October garden tour of my front yard in My Carolina Garden. Temps dropped for the day I filmed this tour, so it felt more like Fall than it has yet. I continue to have some perennial plants that are looking ok, and some evergreens that are coming more into play as the season gets cooler. My front yard garden doesn’t have as many tropical plants as my back yard, but I have some beautiful feature plants like my Camellia, which is a Fall blooming shrub, while my Rudbeckia and Blanket Flowers continue to shine.
My name is Nicole Roggeman and My Carolina Garden is located in Wilmington, NC in growing zone 8B. I hope you enjoy my back yard garden tour for October, and are getting through the wacky weather we’ve been experiencing alright! For more on gardening in North Carolina, and to see how my landscape blossoms and expands, stick with me and My Carolina Garden by subscribing!
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I love this so much💚💚 is so beautiful, I hope my camellias get as big as yours one day. I love how welcoming your front yard is, I'm going to keep working on my yard, my small garden and hopefully one of these days it's going to be full and beautiful like yours. Thanks for the inspiration as always 💚💯
The cosmos cracked me up 🤣
Maybe they just didn't like the spot you had them planted 😂
Mine started blooming in spring and bloomed through summer. I'm getting a few here and there now so my guess is they really just didn't like their first spot.
The Camilla is stunning, I didn't know there are varieties that take sun so I'll be on the lookout for those.
Everything looks so great! I too was surprised at my coneflowers showing out one more time. I think that every living thing is happy with these welcomed cooler temps.lol
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Hi Nicole 🌺. Wonderful tour at your front yard it looks amazing in october and its flowers are so pretty . My garden looks beautiful in October but because of the war I can't take care of the garden as much as l should . Happy Sanday .🌺🌻🌺
Hi Nicole, I just found your channel a few days ago and I’m loving your videos. Your front garden is awesome, talk about goals! I appreciate you sharing your experiences in gardening as well as your tips and information. I live just a few miles from Charlotte, NC so many of the plants you grow thrive in my yard as well. Happy growing! 👌🪴🥰
Hi Nicole, I just found your channel a few days ago and I’m loving your videos. Your front garden is awesome, talk about goals! I appreciate you sharing your experiences in gardening as well as your tips and information. I live just a few miles from Charlotte, NC so many of the plants you grow thrive in my yard as well. Happy growing! 👌🪴🥰
Beautiful camellia! I have 2 in my backyard that are about to bloom!(I bought them 3 years ago, and this will be the first time they have bloomed!) I cut one from the bottom trunk and made it into a camellia tree! Can’t wait!
I hate that about dianthus ! Those would’ve been beautiful blooming there. I have trouble with mine too.THE kaleidoscope Abelia, Wow! My cosmos were over 6 feet high and leggy during the summer. They bloomed all summer. I need to Chelsea chop them earlier next year so they will be thick and bushy.Don’t forget to save the seeds to plant next year! Your flowers are so gorgeous and blooming this time of year! Do you fertilize all of your plants ? I need to start fertilizing more. Thanks for the great inspiration and showing the beauty of your coastal garden!🌸🌺🌻
For the camelia in your front yard, is 7 feet the maximum height? I am looking for evergreens to plant in my full sun front yard, zone 8b NC. ty!❤❤
Hi Nicole, even in October your garden looks great. Your camellia is gorgeous so smart of you to choose one that blooms in fall and the other in winter. Had to laugh at your cosmos growing out of your discarded debris, good thing you had not had time to dispose of it, are you going to leave it where it is I think I would since it liked the soil and area. Loved the video…Thanks🌺🥰🌺
hello nicole, great video as always. and your garden is still amazing. i have one camellia blooming now but, i hope they all begin to bloom soon. they are looking a little sad not sure what's going on with the others. i'm a little tired with garden duties. but, i will keep on going as long as they keep going. lol ready for some cooler weather now. thank you for sharing with us. and hope you have a great week ahead.
It could be a shot in the dark but I read once that cosmos prefer poor soil to bloom. If the soil is too rich it just grows green. I had one once and it got a this suuuuppper long stem and got huge, but no bloom. That’s crazy what happened to yours 😄
My Yuletide is in full bloom right now! I'm only 2 hours north of you, 8a in Cary.
Hi Nicole, I am tired of the heat and the drying out of the perennials. So it’s time to start cutting plants back. The deer also have been around helping themselves. Your garden looks amazing for October! Good luck with the new roof ❤
Yes, I am tired, but the watering can't stop or all my efforts and money spent would be wasted. Do you plant spring bulbs? I love them, but unless they perennialize, they are very expensive and a lot of hard work just for the few weeks of color you get.
The poorer the soil, the better cosmos will do. Hilarious you just threw it and it took off where it landed!!! I think your dollar weed is pretty! Being senior gardeners, our motto has become “take the path of least resistance”…..sometimes you gotta appreciate the beauty of certain weeds! Enjoy your day and your spectacular gardens!!
I just moved to Sneads Ferry NC all the way from Idaho and you have been helping me adjust to southern gardening! ❤
Question: do you think those camellia plants would do okay for a year or 2 in big planters? I have one on each side of my garage that are still empty since moving…they’re very large! In Idaho I would have planted grasses in the spring as a centerpiece or something like an arborvitae for year round interest..but I’d never heard of a camellia plant until today and I’m thinking it would be nice to plant that in the planter as a centerpiece for fall and winter interest and in the spring I would under plant with some flowers.
I’m looking forward to seeing your garden over the winter and what winter interest you have in pots and in the ground!
Thanks!! 😄
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