Master Gardener’s DIY Paradise | Terraced Beds & Edible Landscaping

In today’s video, I got the chance to tour my friend’s incredible garden—and it’s one you have to see to believe! She’s a Master Gardener who focuses on vegetable production, companion planting, and using native plants throughout her space. Her garden is fully terraced and designed with purpose and beauty in mind. Every inch of it is done by her and her husband, from the hardscape to the planting. If you’re looking for inspiration for your own garden, especially if you love growing food or want to learn more about native plantings and garden design, this one’s for you.

🌱 Terraced beds
🌿 Companion planting tips
🍅 Productive veggie garden
🏡 DIY garden built with love
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00:00-03:16 Intro
03:17-16:28 Vegetable Garden
16:29-25:14 Back Patio
25:15-31:02 North Garden
31:03-38:28 Front Garden
38:29-40:04 Outro
40:05 40:54 End Photos

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hi everybody welcome back my name’s Nicholas today we are in somebody else’s garden this is my friend Bethany my name is Bethany hi um so I don’t know some of you guys might remember but I and I meant to look it up before I got here but I would say late winter sometime I was looking for an iron chandelier to go behind my greenhouse in the secret garden and um this is who I got it from and we just got to chitchatting while like when when I picked it up and she was like I’m a master gardener i love gardening all this stuff and I was like oh my gosh I have to come back so and you guys have been asking for it so we are in her garden today and so we’re just I’m just want to ask you a couple questions so you said you’ve been here for 10 years and you have been gardening but maybe not like hardcore gardening that whole time yeah so I started gardening in my first house in Grand View um 20 years ago and um so I’ve always kind of dabbled and then we moved here 10 years ago and that’s when it started taking off but six years ago I want to say is really when it started getting buck wild and you guys I’m sure you know cuz you guys are probably all gardeners but it like is all consuming isn’t it it’s And then I just want to tell you guys so we have had probably the rainiest spring or year that I can remember which is great because I don’t have to like rush to get my drip irrigation set up but we have weeds everywhere for days like everywhere i just went out of town for like 5 days came back and it’s like a jungle and you said you did something similar right yeah we went on vacation came back and like I’m there’s no catching up there i don’t I don’t know how I’m going to ever get do it i I feel like I have to hire a company to come i’m not going to do that but I’m It’s going to take that i don’t I don’t know when I’m going to have the time but anyway so what else did I have I had questions about um Oh you became a master gardener when I just graduated in the class of 2024 so just this last year I became a master gardener and you said you were interested because or in doing it because you’re like very into veggie gardening yeah I really love um community gardens and um feeding people and um yeah teaching people like how to grow something like this i mean this is a little extreme I think for a backyard garden no no not at all not even a little bit but um just like being self sustainable and like finding getting your own food and it’s such a lovely um hobby to have and especially when you get to share it absolutely like I feel like I get that from being able to share it with you guys obviously I’m not sharing you food but being able to share just my gardening experience so just I just feel like and I’m usually a very introverted person so uh I just feel like gardening puts me out there it does and the garden community is really kind like I’ve never met a rude gardener yeah I think I have but we maybe in the comments section but I believe that but um I don’t know if they’re a gardener or not but I can’t remember if that’s all the questions I had but if I remember as we go through I’ll ask you some stuff so I’m going to jump behind the camera and we’re just going to get going okay cool all right you guys we’re going to start this tour i just want to tell you there’s so much beauty already just spilling over as I walk in and she was saying that there’s volunteer sunflowers everywhere from a chipmunk and there really is they’re absolutely everywhere and it’s so cute and tomatoes just here and there yep okay here we are let’s let’s go what uh what do you have growing what do you want to tell me about well I think the better question is what don’t I have growing so part of how I like to grow in my garden is companion planting for one but also adding a lot of flowers into everything I do so we have the pollinators that visit the flowers and then it’s easier for them to come and find um the actual plant that I need them to pollinate so in this garden bed I have carrots growing i have You guys can tell how inexperienced with vegetables I am cuz I looked down and I said “What is that?” It’s a beet um and then there’s some cabbage um some romaine lettuce and then one of my favorite things to plant in the garden is ntorium nersium it’s so The leaves are so pretty just by themselves and they’re edible and so are the flowers and they kind of have like a peppery arugula taste they’re delicious yum yeah so and then we have a series of arches which is just cattle panel and teaost um so here we have um snap peas growing there’s a ton that need to be harvested and in these two beds I have tomatoes which are going to be coming up behind the peas yep and this bed I have bush beans and in this bed back here are um is garlic which needs to be harvested in probably next couple weeks it’s starting to look a little sad um then we come what is the big uh plant over there by the house okay so that is the well-known poke weed most people look at it as a weed but if you take a better look at it it’s actually really pretty well I like the bloom yeah so those turn into like really vibrant pink berries and they’re beautiful in arrangements it kind of I don’t know I don’t know anything about anything but these kind of like give me like a rhubarb look they totally do they do stem yeah so I let the only this section is allowed to grow and I once they mature a little bit I like to cut them up and um put them in arrangements oh cool so you do like a lot of flower arrangements and stuff i mean we have a ton of flowers just wait and then here’s some more nersiums a totally different variety i I really love the variegated leaf on this i need to look it up so pretty yes and I am like love this color isn’t it beautiful it’s not looking the same on camera but it’s a very pale orange it’s kind of like a coraly coral it’s But on camera it’s looking very very orange totally and then here’s another one too like a whole other color they’re everywhere they’re everywhere and the other pink and like a red or well it’s kind of Yeah I don’t know a reddish pink but another great thing about planting nersium other than them just being beautiful and a great companion plant is they’re a trap crop so a lot of aphids and other types of um insects that you don’t want eating your crops they’ll go to the um ntorium as well um I love that because here’s another little fun one over here cuz we definitely have aphids yeah aphids for days here’s another plant that I love but I don’t plant anymore because it is a very vigorous volunteer and that is the chundula colundula is another great trap crop and it’s beautiful but another cool thing about it is um you can dry it out and make it into like medicinal salves and stuff it’s really excellent for your skin cool what is while we’re over here what did you say about this area with the cloches yeah so this is like the area of doom at the moment if you take a good look there’s weeds everywhere but um the plan is for the cloaches is to cover the um squash plants just enough so that they don’t get eaten by um vine borers or um squash bugs and we want them to grow all the way down towards the back of the yard that would be so cool it will be it also needs weeded bad but well tis the life of a gardener i will show you guys how bad my weeds are at home and it’s like I feel like it’s just the rain like I don’t think we could keep up with it if we if we wanted to i don’t think so either like I try and get some of the more noxious ones but it’s it is what it is oh I know what this is this is a zenya oh yeah oh there’s a bunch of them there is there’s a bunch of zenyas in there and more chundula look how cute that is chamomile i meant to start some this year and I totally start it and you’ll never have to start it again i should have i love And you know what the tea is actually phenomenal when you just pluck them fresh as well so that’s why I enjoy the colundula and I don’t bother pulling it that’s what I wanted to do too all right what is All right so this jungle this needs pruned back but we have like this big guy right here is my um oregano okay and then we have lemon balm which a lot of people complain about lemon balm like just kind of growing everywhere i have not had that problem but I do try and keep it cut down regularly so it doesn’t get crazy and let’s see we have parsley in here we have basil there’s some rosemary tucked in there yeah yeah there is i see it now yes you just got to dig there’s chives and thyme it’s all kind of bundled all in there all right i see you like yarao as well i love yarao yarao is another great medicinal plant but it’s also absolutely beautiful and we have quite the variety of colors of yarao yeah I really like this pale yellow such a pretty plant wait what is this you know I planted that years ago and I don’t remember but I love it oh well good i’m not At least I It’s not just me that doesn’t know what things are oh this one’s pretty so yarao is another plant you can cut back and it’ll come back and flower again yes your um vining crops look very healthy like this looks very like this ah this leaf is absolutely huge you guys it’s massive i think it’s a pumpkin and I say I think because it popped up and I was like “Oh.” And there’s something I’ll try to zoom in for you guys but there’s a a little You think it’s a pumpkin of some sort which is odd cuz I’ve never grown a pumpkin a day in my life oh well now you have i have and then we have our onion bed which also has um sweet peas and they smell phenomenal so actually this is my first year oh I can smell them right now this is my first year believe it or not that I’ve ever grown sweet peas period and I grew them from seed and I think I grew four different types and I have them on uh same a similar situation and the smell is intoxicating and I love it i know well not many flowers I feel like smell um I mean all of them have some kind of a scent but these are very strong so pretty so pretty do you know what variety they are i would have to look it up oh my gosh i just smell that you guys and it’s like it’s fabulous and then you see the seed pods after they bloom so we’ll let those grow all the way and dry out and then I’ll harvest it so I can have sweet peas for next year so cool i know um so I have four different varieties of garlic growing this year i think I counted 150 um like this is like huge it’s huge and what’s funny about that is all the other garlic popped up in the fall and these guys didn’t pop up until the spring and they’re huge they’re absolutely huge and I I’m going to be honest I’ve never grown garlic before but do it the It feels very like like corn almost yeah or like um I don’t know like a Oh my gosh what is the name of the plant that I’m trying to think of well I don’t know yuck no yeah yucka no yeah no I don’t agave no no okay we’ll find out another day is this the traditional echania it is the traditional echanatia that’s so pretty like that rusty orange color with the pink purple beautiful such a pretty plant i have a lot of echanatia yeah I love it i just It’s beautiful it’s native i have so much of it too and it’s it’s exciting cuz it’s just starting and it’s going to last for the rest of the season and then if you look in this bed like other than like this weed that is growing um all of this is just from these plants from last year yep so next year they’ll be a lot bigger and they’ll have flowers this year it’s just foliage and it’s feeding the roots as we go we also have um a couple different types of Swiss chard in here yeah I was going to say that but I didn’t want to sound guys like literally I know nothing about vegetables but this was Swiss chard i just didn’t want to say it first in case I look like a fool like look how pretty like yellow i know the yellow one back here is like catching my eye it’s so pretty it’s so pretty and it’s really tasty i don’t care for spinach but I’ll throw it down for Swiss chard like you can put it in like sauté it you can put it in anything really you don’t like spinach on like a pizza with chicken no it’s just like that’s like my favorite way to eat it no just no no spinach i love spinach and I Okay so you grow this stuff like to help other people but also I’m guessing you eat it yourself oh yeah i mean it goes to my family first and so are you like a super experimental eater yeah I will i am my kids are too and it’s funny cuz like they’re only experimental eaters when it comes from like our garden right but if I bring something home from the grocery store they’re like absolutely not forget it well I’m an experimental eater but I I guess I don’t know it maybe it’s just not in my garden i literally have the most boring crop of vegetables i have bell peppers tomatoes and cucumbers is that all I have growing you guys you can do a lot of really yummy things with that though well yeah i mean I’m going to I’m excited about them but now I want to branch out i’m I’m so excited about It’s so fun like here’s some lettucees that I just threw in here because seed fell from last year’s crop and I didn’t want it growing in my pathways see and this is so pretty like even if you didn’t want to eat this like think about this in like a like a flower pot or something with some I don’t know i mean you should eat it if you grow it but Well it’s very pretty and I have to say like this garden is not necessarily just for production i care deeply about the aesthetics of it all at night it’s beautiful we have lights we have little twinkly things all over it’s actually very stunning um and I do like to let a little bit of the wild grow too i mean like I said Chippy the chipmunk planted all of these i have two golden doodles and Chippy and the golden doodles are like Tom and Jerry like that chipmunk harasses them and they can’t do anything about it that’s so cool it’s pretty great oh you have no netorium everywhere everywhere and I’m in love with it i I literally don’t have any in my garden right now and watch out next year because next year they’re so simple and they’re just very versatile plants i guess I didn’t realize how much I love the leaves on them like even if they didn’t flower I would be perfectly fine yeah i made a big salad for my family over the weekend and I decorated it with the flowers and I put the leaves in it mhm we all ate it and it was delicious what are the um grassy looking things under there well those are um onions that never got planted oh oh I have Oh I have plenty of things that never got planted so I planted that bed with the onions and then I was like I’ll come back and do this and then I didn’t mhm there’s a poppy it showed up just for you it’s so pretty you guys so I always say that I I Okay I like uh red in other people’s gardens but I don’t super love it in mine for some reason but that doesn’t mean every shade of red like I love like burgundy’s and stuff and it’s only really in like the actual flower that I don’t love like like a scarlet red but I love it everywhere else and I’m looking around and I’m seeing red everywhere and I’m like well maybe I do like it well red is like it’s an aggressive color it can be i don’t necessarily love red either but I like a pop of red um like these bagonas over here I like just the tiniest bit and that’ll be it everything else will be purple pinks whites some yellow but that’s all you’re going to get and this is a beautiful red bud said it was a red bud right yes but you didn’t know what the I don’t know what the variety is but it’s has it the coolest shape shape vase like but then it like spills over oh it’s fascinating it’s so cool oh is this the um like uh marshmallow yarao yes i have some of this too but mine is nowhere near as big as this i started it from seed last year it will I think I started this from seed three years ago oh okay good cuz I’m excited about um that’s so pretty isn’t that fun is this the or black susan vine yes that is such a pretty one i know mine is like a the one I grew this year is like a very pale yellow but I really like that so this isn’t even my favorite variety i couldn’t find seed for my favorite the other one I like is has like yellows and different shades of pink um but I’ll take what I can get cuz this is also beautiful and then this whole trellis will light up at night and by the end of the summer this will be covered and the vine and it’s just so delightful oh it’s so pretty i know i’ll show you this is one of my favorite parts of the garden oh yes because you had a plaque out front that we’ll see in a minute yeah so my yard is registered with the um National Wildlife Federation so we have to provide shelter a place for animals birds to raise their young water and food so this is part of our water source um we have I think four goldfish they were just up here they get scared and a koi in there and they just take care of themselves but they keep the water clean yeah it looks very clean it does and I love the sound i need to put a water feature in my garden because I don’t know why I haven’t well I do because there’s only so many hours in a day that’s why um but I really want to do a water feature in I would say probably like in my secret garden area because think about it like you’re like behind the greenhouse with all the lush foliage uh furniture like water like doesn’t that sound kind of perfect i think so it does and it’s really nice to sit out back and you just hear it yeah that Yeah I need that i had a garden snake over winter in there and I watched it emerge like it it does really cool things so I actually just saw my first not my first but first of this year garter steak are you okay and I’m fine and I actually don’t mind but it was huge i’m talking huge like I’ve never seen one that big like it was that big around and that is not an exaggeration and it was I would say like 2 and 1/2 ft long that’s insane so we have one too i don’t see it that often sometimes I’ll see it come take a drink but I find it’s shedded skin every single spring yeah and it’s just gotten longer and longer and we try and freak out i looked it up with it and it said um that they’re only supposed to last 2 years um in the wild and I’m like sure there’s no way that that thing got that big in two years no way no way okay there is an echania over here that’s absolutely catching my eye it i can’t wait for you guys to see it look at this thing it’s like orangey coral with like pink how cute i love echynatia so much i do too there’s so many cool varieties and I I guess you guys will see this when you get out front but she has a lot of terracotta pots and like that’s exactly what I like too terracotta is like it’s the way to go i love how it ages the patina that just does something for me yeah and look you guys it’s hilarious we have the exact same patio furniture like the exact same patio furniture and it has to be flipped over or else it gets Yeah get your butt wet constantly although I do want to walk over here and show you guys this cool like menagerie of terracotta look at all the terracotta pots everywhere that’s Florence our other fountain we call her Flo when she’s working so pretty and this is really catching my eye what are these things so those are wine container that is so pretty yeah so the idea is to bury them into the garden and then put um the dish on top okay and then since it it’s a porous it will seep out and like water the garden oh yeah so it’s like a I think they’re called oyas o L A i think that’s OA no o L A yeah okay yeah i don’t know i think that’s what they are but yeah so that’s what it does that would be like a homemade oya so do you use these um harvest baskets i love baskets like that especially for like cutting flowers and stuff yes cuz they just like fit perfectly and you look really cute as you carry it so cute and I just let them out here age like I It is what it is all right and then this area so we did like a little pre-our and um Oh I didn’t see these lanterns before that’s really cute and I love this patunia thank you um I don’t know it looks really cool cuz on the backside it’s like a really light color and it kind of like I don’t know it’s cool whatever but this is I think this is beautiful because it’s a menagerie of so many things and I’m literally loving this and I don’t have any and I want some and you can dig some out i have a lot dig it out dig it out of your garden yeah the um Oh I just forgot what they’re called the other purple ones bomb bomb yeah the bomb is starting to pop and it’s so pretty mine is not this tall it’s been there a few years oh and um is this one of those um it’s like a clover i was going to say those things that rabbits eat the clover the red clover yeah rabbits eat those but what’s funny is we’ve never had a rabbit or a deer in our yard eating anything and if you look back we have a field that’s kind of insane to me so I don’t have Well I’ve had deer pass through but luckily they’ve never stopped but I have I have seen a very large increase of rabbits in my garden this year get a dog they’re very cute but they’re not that cute they are eating quite a bit of my stuff yeah get a dog um whenever we’ve we have had a rabbit out here this year for the first time and every single time I let my dog just chase it down yeah well it’ll teach it all right I’ll get a dog yeah there’s a lot of natives intentionally planted natives in here yeah most of them actually this actually is native um and my goal is to never have to mulch never have to touch it i just want it to grow wild um cuz it’ll be beautiful just as it is absolutely um this is a elderberry this is its first full year i planted it last year and the birds have already like gone for it but the blooms are beautiful yep yep and then I don’t know what this is called but this is really pretty just a second there should be a path here but again weeds well there is i see a couple stepping stones yeah there are some but like this I planted last year i started from seed and sadly I don’t know what it is that’s what I love about doing my gardening YouTube because before I would plant stuff and I was I literally didn’t care to keep a tag or think about it and now I have like a chronicle of everything that I plant and it’s been so helpful and if I don’t remember what something is if someone asked me I’ll be like go watch that video cuz it’s there and come back and tell me this really um pretty pale pink is beautiful that is evening primrose and I planted one of those years ago and now it’s just kind of spread i mean it goes all the way back into there down to there so I love certain things that spread like that because you can give it their space and let it do its thing and then but sometimes that’s just not um always what you want but I think that people are so afraid of um planting things that spread but if you give it the right location then it’s perfectly fine and also you can rip it out of the ground well we say that in our gardens are swallowed in weeds right but this planter is that used to be a fountain that would constantly fall over and it just like got gross so I decided to take it apart and make it into a planter i love that yeah it needs And then I love one more thing right here this is so apparently it’s the year for red buds because I just got one too but this is the Ruby Falls I believe yes you guys so pretty look at that like green veining like in the shape of the leaf so pretty and it’s like weeping too or it will be so the cool thing about weeping is that you can make it as tall as you want or as short as you want so you always will take the leader and you’ll just continuously pin it up and then it’ll keep falling down so I probably only want it a couple feet taller so I’ll let this go and then when I’m done with the height that I want I’m just going to take out the steak and it just let it fall let it Ruby fall let it ruby fall so this area so I don’t know if it’s showing up on camera but she does not have a flat spot in her garden um but this terrace area is so cool i mean obviously she did say that you know it’s um a little bit weedy right now but I do understand that but and it’s the north side of the house so it’s decently shady but she has some really nice stuff you said Jacob’s ladder what was the there’s spider wart spider wart hostas there’s a ton of really beautiful um spring ephemerals in here a lot of tulips and hyasin and um hellaors hellaors are down there daffra is one of my favorites it’s so pretty so the intention for this garden we have a pond liner that we got over the winter so we are going to completely redo this garden and put in a larger pond some fountains um and really try and make this into more of like a woodland style space and I think it’ll end up being really pretty that’s going to be so beautiful it is i just need to figure out how to get some kind of seating in here cuz everything is like tiered like he said there’s no flat spots in this yard so Oh yeah that’s probably been our biggest challenge in um designing and creating these spaces i’m actually just now seeing a view that I didn’t show you guys but let me just go show you real quick i didn’t even notice it cuz I didn’t look back until I was all the way over there but if you stand right here look past the nepida to see the planter old fountain that in the red bud oh my gosh that is beautiful and you said that a lot of this um like uh hardscape stuff is new yeah so my husband built this entire hardscape around our entire house i can’t even tell you how many hours he could tell you that he could also tell you how many bricks he used cuz it was a lot of work and a lot of trigger bites and it was it was fun for him i had nothing to do with it but he really did a phenomenal job yeah he did and then this is a dog wood um cousa I think is what I think that’s right k O U S A I believe and you were saying that it can grow in sun and shade shade yeah so I get I don’t know if this is your experience but I get a lot of comments because I mix sun and shade stuff together mhm and people constantly are saying that it won’t work but I feel like in our area it doesn’t matter that much i mean there’s certain things that like an interesting like growing zone like zone 6A 6B and a lot of things work here that probably wouldn’t in other zones and areas i mean we have like intense cloud cover a lot of the year and then we’ll have intense sun a lot heat cold like it works and I I can’t explain to you why like even those u hostas that are in this middle like crescent area like those get a ton of sun and they’re still looking really nice i have hostas in absolutely full blaring sun and I feel like they just do it but also I feel like too because of our soil um there are certain things that just don’t do it because it’s just too heavy but for the most part I feel like we’re in like a sweet spot because it just a lot of things i would agree with that for sure and then this area we’re making our way out to the front and it is so pretty and then also look she uses watering cans as planters too the poor plants have drowned in with all the rain yep but they were very beautiful and then look at this little flower cart with the terracotta pots i just picked that up a couple weeks ago i got to play with it a little bit more so pretty i love it um and then this tree is new you said yeah so I got that at the Chadwick spring plant sale same with the Ruby Falls and that is a weeping northern spruce and so that’ll just be the same as the Ruby Falls where I just grow it as tall as I want it and let it fall that’s such It’s so pretty i love it i really love this um like image right here because you have like roses a beautiful tree all the salvia all the salvia all of the lavender like it’s that lavender is impressive it’s been there a long time and really thriving these roses are beautiful do you know what they are yeah they are David Austin roses yep they were all mine and I don’t know the exact type um but you said that you think that there might be an issue yeah they have rose rosette disease which is a fungus and it just passes from one plant to another so sadly my investment is going down the drain is there nothing you can do there’s nothing you can do about it once it gets it it’s done i know oh and you can see like on here like if you look at like this side like see how intense those thorns have become and like they’re just everywhere and they get really spiky and like more clustered but then you look at this healthy one and it’s just like a normal thorn right so that’s one way to tell um another one is the leaves become really raggedy looking and like kind of creepy and um just the spotting on the leaves so they’re done sadly they’re going to have to come out and I’m going to have to redo my front yard all right and then this is like the entrance here’s the lavender these look like two different kinds they are but that your lavender is so pretty how do you take care of your like how do you prune it um and the Well I cut the flowers back often just because I like them dried i like the way they smell yes um but yeah I just kind of trim back like a few inches above the woody area uh-huh that’s it love it yeah they sure do do you do um most of your cutback in the winter or or in fall or in spring spring i don’t cut really anything in winter yeah because it one it it’s something to look at in the winter but it also gives like um a lot of places for Yep forage and habitats for a lot of the beneficial insects really like some of these bees are native and they’ll burrow um they also will look for like the hollow out stems of flowers and that’s where they overwinter and lay their eggs so it’s really good to just wait yeah and really by the end of fall with all of this upkeep like through the season like the last thing I want to do is clean it all up well that’s true so it’s kind of it’s a twofer and I love your ferns up here i love the little low um urns that they’re in they look really cute thank you your little peace sign it’s just so It’s just so so cute it’s a very serene space i like the idea of a secret garden and just having a lot of things to discover and look at and just having a peaceful stroll i will say like my husband and I’s favorite thing to do in the evening is to make a cocktail and we just like take a lap or two around it’s really fun yeah and then like soak up all your hard work yeah we really enjoy it and then we talk about our dogs like that’s that’s my life okay and then I think I have one more thing to show you guys look at this cute little plaque i want one i need to do things I need to do to get that oh and I’m just noticing I didn’t see this over here maybe all cuz we didn’t see over here but that is a beautiful um Japanese maple it is do you know what it is nope it has the fine foliage like my I think it’s like a tamakoyama um that might be it is that the Japanese and we’ll obviously it’s like a a slightly weeping version yeah i think that’s what this one is yeah so what I I don’t love when they like touch the ground so I need to like continue to prune it and bring it up but like the foliage underneath is green the top is red so I I believe the one that I have Well I have a couple but the Tamakayyama one it is weeping but I don’t I don’t think that I’m going to want it to do that either i think I’m going to leave it like kind of upward yeah and then we have more David Austin up here and then we have the northern sea oats this grass uhhuh um oh my gosh it’s beautiful in the fall like all of these little ends the flowering part they turn into like this really bronzy silvery like dangling oats oh my gosh it’s so pretty i’ve been looking for seeds for um like a year and I have I can’t find them well good news for you um all of this bright green I have to take out you can have it yay because I didn’t cut the it all back cuz I liked looking at it i’ve actually Yeah I’ve been looking and I can’t I can’t find it like everywhere every all of my like usual like seed haunts like um Johnny’s uh swallowtail garden seeds like all the places that I usually go are they don’t have them right now i got these from Johnny’s oh but that was like six years ago well that’s why she she bought them all there’s none left for me these look like hydrangeas over here panical hydrangeas these are the limelight hydrangeas i like them because they are super low maintenance yes they grow at a great pace although the one on the right is outpacing the one yes it is but that’s okay so um I have I think it’s a panical hydrangeanger addiction um I believe that I have roughly maybe not all panacles but hydrangeas i believe I have 60 in my garden right now that’s insane like it’s very pretty i bet it is and it’s very low maintenance yeah it is i have four it’s Yeah so but you know what we all have our things right you like vegetables i like hydrangeas apparently and many other things but Yeah all right well we’ve made it full circle all right you guys i hope you enjoyed this tour i sure did i’ve actually been looking forward to this since I can’t remember i think it was like February or March it was some cold months like very cold and it was just fun like to be able to talk to you then about like the excitement of growing and stuff and and to see that we’ve come now into the growing season and everything is like thriving and looking so great even the weeds um but anyway they’re Oh they’re they’re thriving more than probably anything else but thank you so much for allowing us to come here and pleasure if you guys are interested in checking her out she does have an Instagram and a website so that information is going to be in the video description so make sure you go check her out and I think that she should start some sort of online or like um like YouTube presence or something because she has such a great space and like your mind is just very different than mine as far as um gardening goes uh and I think that people are going to be interested i’ve already learned so much from being here and I think come back anytime i think I will actually um so so check her out and give her some love so thank you so much for allowing us to be here oh my gosh thank you so much for coming that was fun it It really was and now um now I have a new gardener friend who’s in real life so I will see you guys very soon i will see you guys very soon keep learning and keep growing [Music]