July Garden Tour || Budget Gardening

Welcome to my lush July garden tour for 2025! Join me as I walk you through my Zone 5b New Hampshire garden, showcasing vibrant flowers, thriving perennials, and unique shade garden ideas – all while sharing my budget-friendly gardening tips.

In this comprehensive tour, we’ll explore everything from colorful window boxes and container pots (including overwintered Dipladenia!), to the evolving front walkway, a vibrant long border with coneflowers and clematis, and a thriving shade garden packed with hostas, ferns, and astilbe. I’ll also share updates on my plant nursery and future plans for different garden beds. Get inspiration for your own garden, whether you’re in Zone 5b or just looking for creative gardening solutions!”

I’ll show you many plants (along with their plant names) that are blooming right now (or will be blooming soon), including verbascum, hosta, bloody cranesbill geranium, fringed bleeding heart, epimedium, goat’s beard, astilbe, old fashioned bleeding heart, mountain bluet / centaurea, roses, yarrow, geum, heuchera / coral bells, daylilies, coreopsis, hydrangea, roses, clematis, lungwort / pulmonaria, oxeye shasta daisy, goat’s beard, maidenhair fern, Japanese painted fern, bloodroot, container pots, hanging baskets, begonias, impatiens, coleus, trailing lobelia, dahlias, bush green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, sea holly / eryngium, rudbeckia / black-eyed susan, globe thistle / echinops, asiatic lily, ajuga / bugleweed, spiderwort / tradescantia, mallow, veronica / speedwell, sweet william, evening primrose / oenothera, bee balm / monarda, stella d’oro daylilies, stokes aster / stokesia, geum, mountain bluet / centaurea, zagreb tickseed coreopsis, and more!

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Good morning, budget gardeners. Join me today as we do a late June garden tour in my New Hampshire zone 5B garden. We’re going to start the tour in my front yard. And here we have my front porch. At the front porch, I have a couple of window boxes. I love putting together window boxes and I love using material that I have in my landscape or plants that I started from seed. In the window box there’s lamium. There are also impatience. And then trailing down the front here is a type of lismakia. And we have another window box nearby that has the same plants in it. The window boxes are just starting to fill out very nicely for the season. Better late than never is my motto. We have a diploenia that’s in this pot and I overwintered it last year and then we have some alysum at the base here. I had recently just cut them back really hard. When it comes to many annuals as well as perennials, they benefit from a hard cut back during the season. Sometimes once if not twice. So I did cut these back really hard and they’re going to flush out with growth within a matter of weeks. In terms of the Diplodenia, since I overwintered it and because I live in a cold climate, the Diplodenia takes its time for reflushing with blooms, but I’m patient. It is so well worth the wait. In this pot here, you can see the callilly is just about to come up. We had recently put this container pot together as well. Many of my container pots use the same plant material. For example, we have lamium and I just dug that up for my landscape as well as the creeping jenny. They are wonderful spillers inside of a container pot. We also have a beautiful vinka vine that is not perennial where I live, but I was able to overwinter it in my unheated garage. The same is true for the callillies. They’re not hardy where I live, so I’m able to overwinter those inside my garage during the winter months. We have two identical container pots here. You’ll see a theme. I love putting together container pots. And what the plants that are inside these pots include the Vinka vine, which again I overwintered as well as alysum. I love collecting my own seeds from my plants. And then I just grow the plants indoors under my LED shop lights. We have the beautiful creeping jenny. Now, this pot was put together much earlier on in the season, which is why it’s more full, whereas my other pots were put together a little bit later. We also have a beautiful dwarf dalia. I started these das from seed a number of years ago, and I’ve been able to propagate the plant by dividing the tubers. And you’ll notice that there are a lot of buds. So, by our next garden tour, this should be bursting in color. Dalia are not hardy where I live, so I need to dig up the tubers each year and store them. And I store them in my unheated garage. I like to call this flower bed my bay window flower bed. I’m always thinking about changes I want to make in all my different areas. So, be on the lookout. I’m contemplating what I want to do in this space. I did have a boxwood that was in this area and I recently removed it with the help of my husband because it wasn’t looking very good. And one thing I’ve learned with gardening is if there’s something in your garden that you just don’t like the look of, why live with it? You might as well change it because after all, we want to enjoy our gardens, don’t we? Right now, the biggest thing that I want to show you in this garden space are the Stellodoro dillies. They’re putting on a fabulous show. And right near the Stellodoro dillies are the cranes deranium. I absolutely love dillies. I think they add such impact in the garden space. I’ll be showing you in a video soon my process for pruning back my cranes bill deranium at this time of year. They are starting to look leggy. They put on a fabulous show probably about a week ago. But at this time, even though they’re putting out a little bit of color, they are due for a nice hard cut back and they’ll reflash with more growth once we do that. But I want you to see in the late June, early July garden how beautiful these two plants complement each other. And right behind the dillies are spyhea. The spyhea are also adding a nice pop of color in this space. We have more of the cranes deranium on this side of the flower bed. Those were just added this spring. But I really love the look of this area this time of year. There are a number of Veronica or speed well in this flower bed and you can see that they are just buted up and when they bloom they put on a fabulous show. We have a beautiful verb in this flower bed. You can see that the bees are absolutely loving this plant. And what I like about the plant is that it puts out a nice vertical interest in this space, which is why I have it tucked in towards the center of this garden space. The Annabel hydrangeanger is blooming and it’s looking absolutely gorgeous. It’s a nice tall hydrangeanger. So, I have it tucked in towards the back of this garden area. And all buted up and just starting to bloom in fact are some of my different kinds of echgonatia or cone flour. And many of these cone flour are cone flour that I winter sewed a few years ago. So, it’ll be fun to see what they look like when they’re all blooming. This time of year, I really love looking at the different pops of pink and yellow in my garden space. I love my little pond that I have here along the front walkway. And surrounding the pond are a bunch of different kinds of mini hosta. Many of us know hosta to be quite large and many of us want the large hosta, but what I enjoy is tucking in mini hosta around my little pond for that little impact. And along with the mini hosta, you have many blooms. The callellies as well as the kolus that we planted recently in container pots are looking so pretty. I’m really enjoying them. and we made a few pots together. When it comes to your callellies, you want to make sure that you’re cutting them back as soon as the blooms are starting to fade. So, within a few days, a few of these will need to get cut back and then the calilly will end up pushing out new blooms. We’ve spent a lot of time working on the space along the walkway. We had planted a whole bunch of perennials here when we removed some roodendrrons. I called it an experiment and I wanted to see how the plants would do. I’ve learned that this area definitely gets more sun than I thought. So, on one hand, I’m a little sad because I’m going to have to remove these plants from here. But to be honest with you, my initial plan for this area was to put some lavender that I started from seed along my walkway. So, I’m actually very excited to add that lavender here. We’ll be doing that on a different day. And we can always find homes for a lot of these plants in the garden. That’s the beauty of gardening is always looking at our space and adjusting as we need to. Up along the walkway here, there are a whole bunch of different plants. We have kolas. There are some snapd dragons. There’s alysum. We also have the trailing loilia. There’s coropsis. There are a bunch of das. In fact, I love putting my dwarf das in pots. I really enjoy that. I like das, but I don’t love das that you have to stake. It’s a lot of maintenance. So, when it comes to the dwarf das, I just like tucking them into pots and containers. I like it to add the vertical height or vertical interest in a flower space. Just like lots of annuals and lots of perennials, das definitely benefit from being deadheaded. So that’s one of my goals this year is to be better about coming in and deadheading those das at a minimum on a weekly basis. But really, I should be coming out here at least two, if not three times a week and checking on my das and deadheading them. And you can see that the pollinators absolutely love the das. Things are really filling in. These container pots with the das have lamium as well as creeping jenny at the base. I tried to keep them very simple. I just like again using things that I already have and making my pots that way. When it comes to my kolus, I like to come out here about every 1 to two days and just check and see if I need to cut back any of the blooms. The blooms are pretty, but I prefer to not have blooms on my kolas plants. So you can see that all of the kolas are either starting to bloom or they’re starting to butt up. These colas were kolas that I started from seed and they were seed that I collected which is why there’s a full range a full spectrum and a mix of different types of kolas colors in here up along my walkway on the side. I call this the long border. There are a lot of things happening in here. We have a clemetus that’s been blooming and continues to bloom. It’s looking so gorgeous. And then at the base of the clemetus is a beautiful pennial. It’s called the fringed bleeding heart. [Music] And if I continue to dead head this, it will keep blooming for me. It blooms spring, summer through fall, and it actually does well in full sun as well as shade. It’s a wonderful plant to have in the garden. You’ll notice that the peies need to be cut back. It’s all part of garden maintenance. The yellow colored flowers are a type of yarrow. It’s called moonshine. Really pretty. I love it for its silver colored leaves. We have some wax beagonas that we started from seed earlier in the season. The pink colored flower that you see there is sweet William and I winter sewed that a few years ago. So, it’s blooming this year. And if I come in and start to dead head this sweet William, it’ll continue blooming for me throughout this throughout the summertime. And I want you to notice in the distance the stellidoro dilly putting on a fabulous show this time of year. We have another clemetus over here. And now you’re starting to see the pops of yellow of the stelodoro dilly coupled with the beautiful fringed bleeding heart. And in the distance there, you can see the echanatia is just starting to bloom. I love the speckled leaves of the lung wart or pulmonaria. And even though this garden space is full sun, I want you to notice that I have the lung wart in this area. I was worried that the leaves would not look as vibrant or bright, but I actually am enjoying them. I think they look really pretty in this space. This space changes so much. I really enjoy this area. In the distance there, you can see a hydrangeanger blooming. It’s in my plant nursery, and I have plans for that hydrangeanger. Those are hydrangeas that are Annabel hydrangeas and I took hardwood cutings of them a few years ago. So, I know exactly where I’m going to be putting those. In fact, I’m looking in the distance and I’m seeing a lot of really pretty color down there. I need to shop my nursery soon. I’m planning on tackling this flower bed with you. I think it would be fun. We have the oxey shasta daisy that is due to be cut back. And another plant that’s due to be pruned or cut back is the old-fashioned bleeding heart. I want you to see the yellow leaves in there. The plant is not dying. It’s just going dormant for the season. And once we cut that back, it’s going to be so satisfying. So, I hope you join me when we tackle this flower bed together. We recently put this pot together. It has the diploia in it again. So, we just need to be patient. If you live in a cold climate like I do and you overwinter your dipladenia, you will usually not see blooms on it until at least July. And that’s just the way it goes unless you have a heated greenhouse or anything like that. It’s so worth the wait, though. So, as we wait for other perennials to start blooming in here, such as the cone flower or the great blue loilia, we enjoy the yellow of the Stelladoro dilly. Another plant that’s just starting to butt up and this will bloom later in the season is the Rebecca or Blackeyed Susan. We added this in here, I believe it was 2 years ago when I noticed that this flower bed was lacking color in the late summer, early fall months. So, I’m really looking forward to the Blackeyed Susan putting on a fabulous show this year. I want you to see this is so tall. This is the cone flower, the purple cone flower. And it’s just reaching for the sun in here. It wants to put on its fabulous display. And it’s funny how some of them are budded up and some of them are now blooming. Look at this great color combination happening right here. We have the purple cone flower coupled with the bomb, which I’ve been noticing that the hummingbirds have been all over that. And then you throw in the white of the oxy shassa daisy as well as the yellow of the dilly here. And all four together are playing so nicely in this space. What’s also looking so beautiful right now is the clemetus. You can see there are a bunch of buds on there and then some blooms. We have more of the bomb that’s going to be blooming on this side of the garden bed. And as we make our way here, I don’t know if you remember how hard we cut back these hydrangeanger. We cut them back really hard. That noise that you hear is the piated woodpecker. And what’s fun is this year I’m really enjoying the stellidoro dillies at the base of the hydrangeas. I really couldn’t enjoy them before because the hydrangeanger was so big and it was coming down to the ground. So we really cut it back hard. And pretty soon, probably our next garden tour, the hydrangeanger will really be opened up. They’re currently just budded up, I would say. This variety with the red stems, this is called strawberry vanilla, and it’s just so pretty. And the variety right next to it, I always forget its name. I’m going to pop it up on the screen. I would say it’s a more common kind. I just it always escapes me. And then at the end here, we have another hydrangeanger that’s currently just buted up. It looks so pretty when it’s buted up like this. feel. We put this container pot together and it’s looking very pretty. It has the creeping jenny as well as dusty miller. There’s lambium and then there’s beautiful deraniums in here. And these are deraniums that I overwintered bare root and they’ve really filled in nicely in this container pot. The side walkway flower bed has a slight lull going on in it right now. I’m planning on making some big changes over in this area, but I want to show you there is a cone flower that’s blooming in here and it’s called paradoxa. It’s very pretty. Also in this garden space, we have some echanatia. The other plant that I really want to show you that’s looking pretty in this space is sea holly or arenium. It’s just barely starting to put on its beautiful blue display. If you don’t have arenium in your yard, you should consider it. It’s really pretty. when it does go to seed and if it drops its seeds, just keep in mind that you’ll end up with a ton of this plant. So, if you don’t want that, you want to deadhead it as soon as it’s done blooming. But, I really just enjoy this plant so much. We have some beautiful globe thistle and you can see that it’s all buted up and there are a lot of flower buds on this plant. It’s going to put on a great display later in the season. Unfortunately, I did have to apply some powder to it because there were a bunch of insects that were attacking this plant. It’s better to save the plant than let the plant go. I feel at the base of the sea holly are some liies. And you can see this lily is all buted up. Hopefully, it’ll be blooming by our next garden tour. But as we follow this lily down, we have another beautiful Asiatic lily. And I’m loving the bright orange color on this. Here at the side porch, we have two beautiful pots that we put together early in the season. And in the pots are zonal deraniums or pelargoniums that we overwintered bare root. And they they’ve just been putting on such a great show. They’ve really filled in in these pots. We also have a beautiful white colored trailing loilia that we started from seed and they were from seed that I collected. The same is true with this trailing loilia on this side, the blue colored one. This was my patriotic red, white, and blue container pot that I wanted to put together. This guy is a trailing vinka and it’s trying, but it’s getting swallowed up by all the other plants in there, which is totally fine. And even though there are a lot of blooms on here, you can see that there are still so many flower buds on here as well. Here on the side porch, we have some more container pots. We have the beautiful lamium. Now, I’ve been very diligent about coming in and deadheading this so that it can keep blooming for us. We also have lisakia that I was able to overwinter in my garage. I want you to see the leaf on this. Look how pretty that is. We have some impatience, the beacon impatience. They’re just starting to bloom. And we have a whole bunch of flower buds on here. And we also have another container pot that looks identical on this side here. I rely heavily on different container pots in my garden. And since I do that, I really do try to make my container pots on a budget because it can get very expensive quickly if you want to have this many pots in your garden. Here we are at the old arborite bed. We worked on this very recently and we just cleaned it up. did some deadheading, some pruning, and then we added a nice layer of mulch in this area. I enjoy this flower bed because it gets full sun and I can really pack it with annuals, which is sometimes tricky in the landscape. I feel to get annuals to pop in the landscape when you have a whole bunch of perennials. So, kind of dedicating much of this flower bed to annuals is a a lot of fun for me. And I like the pops of different colors that you see in this garden space. Peeking through around the corner here is my hosta garden. I have hosta in a few places in my yard, but I find that the hosta really do well in this particular area. It’s definitely quite shady and it’s pretty packed in there. What’s fun about hosta is not only does it come in different sizes and there’s variegated, there are different types of leaves, but then there are different blooms. Some are white, some are purple. So, you can see that some of the blooms that are happening right now are more on the white side. Eventually, we’ll have some purple colored blooms. We talked about mini hosta earlier and I love using mini hosta not only around my pond but also around the base of my trees since where I live I have a lot of trees around my landscape and I like to use those trees to my advantage both at the base of the trees as well as for vertical interest adding the hanging baskets. I think that’s a lot of fun, too. Once again, in the hanging baskets, we have the lambium or dead nettle, there’s the creeping jenny, and then we have impatience. And I’m really enjoying the simplicity and yet fullness of the hanging baskets this year. I used to think that the hanging baskets need to be filled with annuals and this year I’ve realized they don’t. They can have some annuals tucked in there, but why not add splashes of perennials in there as well. I love this area of my shade garden. There are a lot of different beautiful plants tucked into this particular space. The first plant I want to talk about is the feverfew. This was a surprise to me plant that just showed up here last year and I really love it. I think it’s so pretty, so dainty. At the base of the feverfw, I need to come in and do some maintenance work. Just deadheading. Is a beautiful plant. It’s a type of tiarella. Something’s been digging in this area, but you can see that there’s some beautiful ferns in here. That’s the Japanese painted fern. We also have some epimedium with those little heart-shaped leaves. There are some gorgeous colors of hooker in here that really make this shady area pop. There are some haores that just need a little bit of maintenance. I need to come in and clean those up a little. And then we also have the spotted leaves there. The lung wart or pulmonaria peeking through. I want you to notice these beautiful leaves here. these big heart-shaped leaves. This plant is called liaria. It’s bottle rocket and it is just butted up. And if you have a shady area of your yard and you want to add some something that blooms, I highly recommend that plant. And then right behind it, it looks like a still, but it’s not. That’s called goats beard. That’s another great plant to have in a shade garden. I’ve also tucked in some hydrangeas towards the back of this bed and those are the beautiful Annabel hydrangeas. The fern that you see in the distance is a maiden hair fern. And then we just added this beautiful brunner here earlier in the season. These large leaves that you see here, this is called bloodroot. And I at this point I need to come in here and cut the leaves back. They start to turn more of a yellow color and the plant basically dies back to the ground during the summer months. But I want you to just step back and notice all the different colors happening here. Texture. It’s a lot of fun to play around with a shade garden. Often times we think of shade gardens as a struggle. can be kind of boring, but you can actually do a lot in a shade garden. For example, I’ve tucked in some ailby in here. And you can see the ailby is just starting to butt up. Another plant that’s really fun to add in a shade garden, even though it prefers to be in the sun, is this plant right here that the bee is on. And that is a type of stackis. We have some more pops of a stillby. The pink as well as a white still. And the blooms are just starting to go by. These pink little eerie blooms that are on the hook. And in the distance, you’ll just see lots more of the beautiful Estillby. So, if you have a shady part of your yard, I’m really hoping that this tour gives you some ideas of plants that you can put in that shade garden of yours. This is still gets a little bit more sun and it is quite tall. If I step back, I want you to just see it’s actually a very large aelby. So, it’s fun to see in my yard the different heights of the different aelby that we have here. And not only the height, but also the color. These are just buted up. Oftent times I’ll bring you into the weedy part of my backyard that I call work in progress. It might not be this year. I’m not sure when it will be, but I want to show you that there is a space that’s weedy and it has some beauty in it. There’s some still there’s also a beautiful dilly in the back. At one time the space was beautiful and it just got overrun and that happens sometimes in our gardens and I want to show you it because I don’t want to hide it. I think it’s worthwhile to show. I think it’s important to know that we all have spaces like that and that’s okay. And amongst the chaos is beauty. There’s a beautiful clemetus that had already bloomed quite a bit and it’s just starting to go by. One of my goals when I eventually get to this space is to come in here and dig out some of the beautiful plants because they really are beautiful plants. And as I work in certain areas of my yard, I can go shopping. I can come here, dig out plants, and move them to spaces as I’m working on them. So, in one way, we’re emptying out a weedy part of the garden, but then we’re moving some of these beautiful plants to areas that we’re working on. I mean, who doesn’t love a stillby? So I can literally come here and shop my own yard for some beautiful ailby. Also tucked in this weedy part of my backyard. You can see in the distance we have some beautiful yarrow. It’s some more common yrow as well as some ailby. And I’m actually enjoying the pops of yellow in this weedy part of my yard coupled with the purple of the spider wart or tragia. Look how pretty those two look near each other. They actually complement each other very nicely. So a lot more of the Stelladoro dillies back here. Speaking of dillies, the dlillies are just starting to put on their show. So, we have what a lot of people refer to as ditch lilies. Well, I’m enjoying them, but I have plans for them. I’m going to be moving them down towards the end of my driveway behind a stone wall that I have there. And we have a dilly here. I don’t know the names. A lot of these dillies came from my mother-in-laws and they also came just from backyard nurseries where I just purchased them. But this area is full of dillies. All kinds of dillies. So once they start blooming, I will definitely show you. And not only that, we’re going to be coming in here and we’re going to start digging a whole bunch of dlies out of here. I want to basically work on this weedy part of my yard and I have a lot of plans for it and I’m going to be taking you along as we work on this area together. Here’s another beautiful dilly. It’s more of a red colored dilly and this little guy is just tucked in here in the back. Look how pretty that is. We had worked on the vegetable garden together. And the first thing I want to point out is right here is where we just seeded put some grass seed in here. And we’ve been very diligent about watering it. That’s so important. If you’re going to add some seed to your lawn or in a new space, you got to keep it well watered. We’re also making sure we’re not mowing it. We want to wait because the grass is so tender. And every so often I come out here and I just pull some of the bigger weeds that I seed because that’s inevitable if you’re going to seed a new part of your yard. You’re definitely going to get weeds. But I just don’t want the weeds to overtake the grass seed. So even if it’s manual effort, it’s well worth it. I just come out here maybe once a week and just pull the bigger weeds. I leave the small ones and let them be. I just don’t want the large weeds to compete against the grass. Towards the back of this vegetable garden space here are some peas. Some years, actually most years, I’m very successful with my peas, but because I had a lot of projects going on in the garden, I just wasn’t as successful with my peas. And that that happens. That’s totally fine. I also have bush beans that are towards the front here and they are just starting to butt up. And those look great. And we have the same type of plantings in this space here. Bush beans towards the front and then peas towards the back. In this next space, these are primarily tomatoes and I just added a bunch of alysum at the base of the tomato plants and I cut the alysum back really hard. The other thing that I did was I came in and removed a bunch of the suckers off my tomatoes or tomato plants I should say and I’m continuing to trellis them. I’m doing single stem trellising, but it’s exciting to see that the tomatoes are starting on the plants. The tomatoes in this second garden space are also looking really good. So, my goal for this year is to come out once a week and check on my tomato plants, rem remove the bottom leaves because I don’t want any water to splash on the leaves and then cause any sort of disease and then also remove any suckers so I can continue doing the single trellis or single stem I should say. I’m coming in with tomato fertilizer. It’s by Espoma. tomato uh tomato tone is what it’s called. And I’m sprinkling that at the base every two weeks. So, I’m really trying hard to baby my tomato plants this year. I definitely am more of a flower gardener than a vegetable gardener, but I I love vegetables and so does my husband. And I want to make sure that I learn from my experiences this year so I can be better next year. And then on this side here are the cucumbers. And they are looking good. We’ve been having some heat and you can see we have drip irrigation set up in here as well. So we’re making sure that our plants are getting the water that they need. I’m really pleased with how my vegetable garden is looking this year. [Music] The rose garden is putting on a beautiful display. In fact, I would say about a week ago, it was really at its peak. And I wasn’t able to show you it, but what I’ll do is pop up on the screen what it was looking like. It’s still looking very pretty right now. The big thing is I need to come in here and deadhead my roses. I have a bunch of knockout roses in here and I’m loving their color. There was a beautiful yellow colored rose that really needs I need to come in and just dead head that. And I want to explain about the leaves. They look a little bit shiny color. Basically, we have irrigation that has rust in the water. So when that rusty water hits all my roses, it just discolors them a little bit. And it’s just the nature of the way it is. It’s not really something I can change easily. And that’s fine. This is a beautiful drift rose. And it’s just starting to go by. It was looking so pretty a week ago, but you can see the color of it. Very, very pretty. I do need to come in here and do a bunch of maintenance. I’ll be bringing you in when we do that. There are some annuals that have gone to seed that I would like to remove. So, we’ll do some of that and cut back our roses, add some mulch. This beautiful rose here, many of these roses, I don’t have the names or the tags for them. A lot of these came from Home Depot or Lowe’s at the end of the season on clearance. But I really do enjoy this space. I love the color that my rose garden puts out. One thing I’d like to do in the rose garden is add some lavender to the outer part of this garden because I do have so much lavender that I started from seed and I think the lavender would look really pretty on the outside part of this garden space. Lots of beautiful different colors of roses in here. The white colored flowers that you see are wax beonas and they’re beonas I started from seed. And then this yellow colored or orange colored flower is a coropsis. So, when we come in here and do maintenance, we’re going to be pruning those back so that they look tidier and they bloom again for us. They’ll send out more blooms. There’s a rose here that I had started from hardwood cutings, and it really is so pretty. It’s a lot of fun being able to propagate roses from cutings. I especially love what this looks like in its tiny bud form. Isn’t that beautiful? And then we have another drift rose here that’s just starting to go over. But you can see the beautiful white flowers here on my back porch. But I just want to show you I have some more window boxes using many of the same plants that we’ve already talked about today. But these have really filled in. They’re looking very lush, very beautiful. The back porch needs to be cleaned. It needs to be powerwashed. So, I’m purposely showing an angle where you don’t see my back porch. That should be happening this week, though. Look at all the flower buds on this uh container pot or window box, I should say. So, let’s talk about this area. I had a number of trees removed in this area and I wasn’t sure about the light situation, what kind of light this area would get. It used to be a very very shady part of my yard and the trees that were removed were all along here. They were a bunch of the trees were hanging over my house. They had to be removed. So, I bought something on Amazon that basically calculates the sun, whether an area is full sun, part sun, part shade, or full shade. Now, I know you might think that’s silly that I really could just calculate it myself, but I want to do that in all areas of my garden because let’s be honest, do we really know if a garden space in our yard is full sun or part sun? Usually, we know, but when we have trees removed, it just changes everything. Or if we had a large a small tree, if we had a small tree that has become very large, now what? So, I put the small indicator tool out in this area yesterday, and I kept it out here from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. And it told me that this area is full sun. Now, I have plants in here that are struggling this year. And it’s not because they need water. This area right here has had irrigation in it for well over a month. And you can see that the hosta are struggling. That is not a bad problem to have. I don’t have a lot of full sun in my yard. So, I’m actually excited to know that this area is full sun. So, I guess what I’m saying is we are going to have so much fun playing in this area and adding a whole bunch of full sun plants in here. And the best part is I know exactly where we’re going to get those full sun plants from. We’re not going to go to a garden center. We’re not going to go shopping. We’re going to shop my own yard. And we’re going to start with the area back over there where I have a whole bunch of peies and they were put there temporarily because I didn’t know where to put them. So we will be shopping this area for peies. We also have the dlies we talked about earlier. A whole bunch of different dlillies. So, not a problem when it comes to this new full sun area of the garden. It’s opportunity. And you can see we’ve been adding more drip irrigation in here, we’re getting ready for this project. So, I really can’t wait. And the best part is as I start looking at my garden space and figuring out which areas are really full sun and which ones are truly shade, I can take a lot of the plants that are in here that thrive in shade and I can just put them in those shady areas. So, I’m really looking forward to this project. Another plant that thrives in shade is this plant right here. It’s European wild ginger and I can tell you that it used to be a much glossier green leaf to it and it’s a little on the yellow side and it’s not because it’s lacking water or nutrients. It’s because it’s getting too much sun here. The same is true for a lot of the hukra in here. These hukra usually thrive and they’re like get us out of here. We need to be in the shade. I hear you hookah. I hear you. So, I had to talk about this in this garden tour video because let’s face it, this area is not looking as lush as it usually does. And that’s totally fine. I see opportunity. I do want to mention though, because we removed those trees, the lawn has never looked that good in this area as it does this year. And it’s because that it’s getting a lot more sun here. So, I’m very happy about that. I do have more container pots on the trees here and it’s more of the Diplodenia. So, I’m hopeful by our next garden tour they will be blooming. So, this area here I’m pretty sure is probably part sun. But the little indicator tool that I have, you can see it’s right there. I placed it here at 7:00 a.m. this morning. It’s going to tell me after 12 hours what the space is. But I want you to see the hosta in the back. They look a lot nicer. But as we move this way, that’s where the hostas start to not look so nice. So right here we have more beautiful stillby. This is the season of a stillby, late June. The hookra also look gorgeous as we go down this way. So, I have a fun story. We have a boxwood here and we recently added a boxwood there. And this boxwood came from that boxwood. Both of these boxwood were in my bay window flower bed. And we tried to remove the boxwood, this one, and this one came out. And it’s gotten bigger. So, it’s basically two for one. And this boxwood here, we moved it during a hot time of the year, but I basically told myself, I want it out this year. I want it out. So, I just have been coming in every day and watering it. And we’ll see how it does. So, in this space here, we have a few things that are blooming. We have the beautiful coral bells that are still blooming. They have a nice spray of pink. And then the other coral bell next door is also just starting to look beautiful. We have a nice red dilly that’s blooming here. And then we have some Stelladoro dillies that are blooming here. And then all buted up is my Stokes aster. This is my first full year of having the Stokes aster. So I’m still learning about this plant. We have a beautiful sedum, variegated sedum here. And right behind it is mountain blew it. I’ve come in and deadheaded it once. I also came in and deadheaded the GM. So, I’m not sure if they’re going to bloom again for me. I thought that they both bloom if you deadhead them, but time will tell. And this is a garden space that we worked on last year. And I’m really happy with how it’s looking because last year this space only pretty much only had Stelloro dillies in it. So, we added a whole bunch of other plants in here. So, I’m pretty sure this area of my yard is more of a shade garden. I don’t know about full shade or part shade. The little indicator will tell me that. And this is a freebie plant, a Rebecca. That’s probably the annual Rebecca. It’s buted up. And we have a dilly in here. We actually have a hodge podge of things. I don’t remember putting this Asiatic lily in here, but you can see that it should be blooming hopefully by our next garden tour. This space we worked on two years ago and we tucked in a whole bunch of different plants, a lot of dillies. And even though I feel like it’s not a very sunny part of my yard, the big thing is the dillies do bloom. They might not put on a spectacular show because they’re not in full sun, but nevertheless, they put some color in this area. And another plant that seems to do well here, and you can see it all budded up, is cone flour. And these plants might reach for the sun a little bit, but that’s okay. The fact that they bloom in here makes me happy. And I have a bunch of different types of cone flour in here. A lot of cone flour that I winter sewed. So that’ll be fun to show you once they start blooming. This dilly over here is all buted up. A few of them are. The lilac bed needs a little bit of work. We have mums, perennial mums. I need to come in and do their final cut back. And I like to do that before the 4th of July. And the reason for cutting them back is so that they get bushier. And the reason for cutting them back before the 4th of July is to ensure that I have blooms for this season. Although one year I cut them back, it was like July 10th and I still had blooms. So there’s a little bit of wiggle space in there. I think another reason for cutting back the mums. Well, you can see they’re hiding the beautiful display of the Stelladoro dillies that are tucked right behind them. So for that reason, I’m bringing you down here to show you the Stellodoro dillies. And there are other dillies tucked in here as well that will bloom after the Stelladoro dillies near the what I call the driveway garden bed. Some maintenance needs to be done down here. I need to come in and cut back all of the daffodils. I want to add a nice fresh layer of mulch. I need to do some weeding. But I wanted to show you a couple of things down here. We planted some estilly down in this area last year and it’s looking really pretty and I’m noticing that it’s a little sparse as we head towards that tree. And I have the same as still in my uh nursery area. So, we’re going to go shop our nursery and we’re going to plant them all in here because why not? And I want to show you that the impatience are finally just starting to take off. It took them a while as well as the kolas. So when we come in here and we cut back the daffodils, we weed out all the little maple tree seedlings. You can look at all the maple tree seedlings. There’s so many. Then the impatience will really shine. And I think once we add that fresh layer of mulch, it will look so much better in here. Also, the hanging baskets along my driveway continue to really put on a nice show. And I’ve shown you in previous videos, I come in for deadheading and I just pinch off the blooms. And if you pinch off the blooms, you’re telling your lambium or dead nettle to continue blooming for you. I’m also giving this a fertilizer I like to give Miracle Grow and I’m doing that about once a week. Again, hanging baskets, you can get them for pretty cheap and fill them with just plants from your own garden or plants that you started from seed. And I think that they just make such a nice impact in the yard. You can see I have a bunch along the driveway here. Here we are in my backyard plant nursery. And I haven’t spent a lot of time in my nursery during the last few weeks. I need to come down here. I need to do maintenance and I need to shop my nursery for my own yard. So, let me take you in and show you some things that are down here. I have some Asiatic liies that I’m going to be pulling for myself. There are also some beautiful dlies that are buted up. There must be an arnium that’s tucked in here that needs to be pulled out. I have a beautiful mow that I winter sewed probably last year. Oh, and look, I have a flock. It should be a tall flock. It’s a short flock. I need to grab that. There’s the still I was telling you about. We’re going to grab every single aelby and we’re going to be planting those. And right behind the aby is a beautiful pensammen. And I don’t have pensammen really in my yard. It came from my weedy part of my backyard. So we need to grab those. The bee bomb in this little patch here is just buted up. And the other thing that’s all buted up are my cone flowers. I have not listed them for sale yet because I need to wait till they bloom and I want to see what they look like because there’s some in here that I don’t have in my landscape. So, I’ll be shopping my cone flower very soon within the next week. The zagib coropsis is all buted up and it’s just starting to bloom. And that’s a plant that I had a big patch of it in my yard and I removed it. I like it, but I just need to think a little harder about where I’m going to put it. Here’s another plant that I used to have in my landscape and I removed it. I like it again, but I need to think about where I’m going to put it. And this is called evening primrose or sundrops. And you can see that the pollinators love this plant. I mean, why wouldn’t they, right? A few of the plants that I’m showing you here, like the evening primrose or the zri coropsis, they just spread a little too fast for my liking. But I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I just need to think very hard about where I want to put them in my landscape. I have some oxy shasta daisy that’s blooming. There’s a beautiful manarda. I only have one and I need to move that and put that in my landscape so it can actually multiply. Look at the beautiful colors of the chocolate chip auga, the purple coupled with the sedum that we have here. We have the nice blooms on it. And then we have some white here. And that’s the English lawn daisy. And they’re all low growing. They would actually look really pretty towards the front of a flower bed. I’m in my nursery going, “Wait a minute. I have some beautiful color here. I need to grab all of it.” We have the common yarrow, the white, coupled with this little Veronica here or speed well. And then we have some beautiful cone flour right there. Now, these I definitely need to grab. I put these down here last year and I wasn’t sure where I was going to put them. They’re a beautiful Asiatic lily. And you can see I have another one down at the end there. So, now that they’re blooming, I need to grab those. There’s some coropsis in here. There’s a really pretty Veronica. Oh my goodness. We need to go shopping. Do you want to go shopping with me? Let’s go shop my nursery together and get these planted. And then over in the distance there, I see some beautiful shasta daisy I need to snag. And on a different day, R will be coming in here and snagging the beautiful animal hydrangeanger and planting them out in the landscape. We’re upstairs on my bedroom balcony looking down at the garden. And I just want to show you what my backyard looks like from up here. It just gives you a different perspective of things. There’s the hosta garden right there. And my beautiful patunias that I started from seed are still looking so gorgeous up here. I have four window boxes and I really am enjoying this space and the patunias are clearly very happy. This is one of the only areas of my yard where I can put full sunloving plants. So, for that reason, it’s totally worth growing patunias from seed. And these are patunias that I collected the seeds. And so, there’s a mix of different ones in here. Aren’t they just so pretty? Some of the patunias that are in here are also patunias that I got the seeds from Dollar Tree. Well, you see I have a bunch of pots there. I’ll be working on those later today. And where the ditch liies are, everyone calls them the common ditch lilies. You have to admit though, they look pretty right there in the distance. I hope you enjoyed this late June garden tour. I can’t wait to show you how the garden is waking up during the month of July. Happy gardening, friends.