Mid-August Container Garden Tour, Minnesota Zone 5a

The containers are at their peak this time of year. Lots of elephant ears, caladium, verbena, lantana, salvia, potato vine and more!

Hey everyone, Laurel here. Minnesota zone 5A. We’re going to do a container garden tour today. It’s approaching the middle of August, so things are really kind of at their peak, filling out nicely. Right now, all of the feral cats and kittens are around. They’ve been lounging today, um, hiding amongst the pots every time. They’re getting used to me though to both of us so when we walk by they don’t scamper quite so fast. But anyway, uh things are looking pretty much at their peak right now. Uh we did have some more storms uh or another storm Friday night a couple nights ago. So some things got a little beat up from that. I have to So there’s lots of kitten destruction. You can see they love playing with the trailing pieces of the dicondra silver falls. So, a lot of mornings I come out and there’s just like destruction everywhere. Just leaves. Luckily, if a pot is really full of things, they don’t climb into it. But they do kind of they sometimes it’s hard for me to water because they’re like hanging out in the pots in my planters. So, one thing I did over here, I had this large planter with some there were some overwintered Rex bagonas that were kind of bare and then some these white or not white, what color is that? pink um pink impatience that had sprouted from seeds from last year in the basement and they were climbing all in that. So I got four four packs of uh colus when they went on clearance and just popped them in there. So they’ve left that alone. You can see here’s a little troublemaker. A couple of them down here. But this poor mum that I repotted I’ve had to cover and I keep finding it knocked over my oxales. they were climbing in, so I had to cover that. Although now it’s getting huge, so that’s good. I need a bigger cloach for it. Um, I do keep my amorillis out here over the summertime. And then kind of end of August, early September, we pull them in, stop watering, and let the leaves die back. Then they go in the basement and after I put away my Christmas decorations, I bring them back out um and start watering, and then they will bloom in the late winter usually. Um, I did this planter right here. This has the mini me chartreuse colus, which I’m loving. I love the watermelon one. This one maybe got blown around. We didn’t get as much wind in that storm, but there’s still some. And then there’s a that’s the malberry. I think it’s called aromance nia. And then I got the two I got two of these, the new um Kufia from Proven Winners. I forget the name of this variety. They had a couple new ones come out, but these got have powdery mildew really bad. So, I’m glad I got those on clearance cuz they are not looking good at all. Everything else is doing great, but that and then there’s a maze in there, too. And then this is lemon ball or lemon coral seedum. They’re literally the exact same plant just depending on what brand you buy them for from. I’ve overwintered this for multiple years out on my porch. This is an unheated porch, but it is on the south side of the house. But I overwinter usually the tender mums that aren’t perennial here. Um, and the deedum, and they get kind of bare, but I just trim them back and then they sprout again in the spring. So, those are marginally hearty on my porch, which is protected here in at least a warmer zone than I don’t know if you can see my reflection there. Um, a warmer zone than outside. Elephant ears. I have a purple one and a green one in this container. This is kind of what they do when they start to age out. You know, they sprout a new leaf, they’re nice and green like this for a few weeks, then they start getting kind of brown and yellow edges. I kind of like how they look. This one’s a little far where I would probably get to the point of um trimming it back. But I kind of like how it looks when they get a little bit of brown on them. Kind of an interesting texture. kind of know not everybody would necessarily love that. Talked about this container quite a bit. Very drought tolerant. Um it’s in a indigo or violet um I think indigo um scavola dicandra silver falls. And then this is angel wing sio. And this one I have the same container repeated up in the front garden. This um salvia I’ve grown this many times before. This year it’s really leaning forward quite a bit. Um the blue suede shoes, this is just one plant. Blue suede shoes salvia by Proven Wyinners. Below it I have dasia and uh tiara blue superunia which is a really pretty one but it’s getting kind of overtaken by this salvia. Um, and I am surprised that none of the stems on this salvia, it’s huge, have broken in all the wind storms we have because when I’ve planted it before, I found that they are pretty brittle and once it gets big, especially and we get wind and thunderstorms or whatever that branches will snap off, they’ll break cuz they’re not super strong. Otherwise, my sort of blue mass of blue here is really filling in. I don’t know if you watched my previous video, but the when I first filmed a video in early June with all this planted up, I have there’s quite a bit of space in between each of these planters. And I do scoot them around and adjust them a little bit as things fill in. But I always want to cram things closer because it looks so open and spaced out when I first plant. But this is this is what happens. They fill in. And these are most of these are Proven Winners annuals where I only need one or two per pot. Um, but they’re so vigorous that they just fill in so quickly. So, the front row we’ve got Superbina, sparkling amethyst. This is one of my favorites. Very vigorous. Not the I mean, still good size blooms. Not the largest blooms of any super tuna, but all verbina. I’ve said this before, all verbina lulls. It blooms and then lulls where it has a sporadic like only a few blooms and then it’ll be covered. And this one is just lulled where I just had a few blooms here and there. And now it’s going into full-on bloom mode again. So you can see it has a good amount of blooms going. But look at all of these like buds on the ends. And um I have grown the oldfashioned verbena that you get in like four packs. And those do great too. I like those. Those you need to dead head more to keep them full of bloom. And they can get a little bit leggy. They need more trimming. Um, I do sometimes trim superbina depending on if they don’t get a lot of sun, they tend to need more trimming, but like in full sun, they stay pretty mounted. They don’t don’t get scraggly in the middle. And then I only have two of them in there in this larger container. Um, this is a blue wink verbena, which is not a Proven Winners variety. I have to keep these watering cans around here because before it fills out, the kittens are climbing all in this pot and they’re breaking all the branches. So, I kind of I scooted it up against the other pot and then I keep these watering cans here. And so, that’s been keeping them from climbing in that while it fills out. But, this one is doing pretty good. I want to try some more varieties other than superbina because I’ve been seeing a whole lot more new uh lines come out lately and I want to see how they compare. Um, I have a caliber koa here. This kind of all the caliber ko are kind of beaten down from the rain that we got. had had some issues with thris this year. We’ve also had a very humid year, very humid summer. I mean, we’re humid here, but this was it’s like a lot of humidity this year. Um, so I don’t know if that has something to do with the insect issues. I do save all my potting soil from year to year. Um, I put it some of the larger containers, it just stays in the container. I store the whole thing with the soil in it in the garage for winter. Otherwise, the more small and mediumsiz containers I uh store on shelves, so I have to take the potting soil out because it would be way too heavy to get up on the shelves. So, I just put it I’ve got a whole bunch of 5gallon buckets or I save when I buy potting soil, I save the bag um that it came in and I pop it back in there and then I put that in the shed over the winter for storage. So, some things are killed off just because it goes well below freezing in the shed. We get down to like -20 every winter, if not colder sometimes on occasion. And yes, it is warmer in the shed than outside, but it’s enough to kill some things. Um, but if there are insect issues, like any of these containers, like if that caliber ko I find thris on that one, all of that potting soil goes in the trash. I don’t save that uh because I don’t want to overwinter their eggs. Even though the insects would die, I don’t want to overwinter any of those issues. Um, but it saves. This is the only way I could afford doing this many containers. I mean, that would be a massive waste to throw away all of that potting soil and start fresh every year and really expensive. And it is not at all necessary unless you need to throw away something that was diseased or had insect infestation. There’s no reason to do that, at least not in a northern climate. That’s the only place I have experienced gardening. But you just need to recharge it with new fertilizer every year. This one has two verbas mixed. Um the this one’s now coming took it was a little bit slow. This is the storm cloud superbina from Proven Winners. You can see when the blooms get like this. You go down. That’s a spent bloom. And you can see where it’s branching into two new bloom stocks. And you just kind of Whoops. I did a little rough. Pinch it off just like that. Right at that stem. You don’t want to pinch off the other bloom like I just did, but I’m kind of doing it weird holding the camera. So that is how you deadhead verb forbina. I have found these like hybrid ones, these new lines. They don’t need that to keep blooming, but I like to do it just to keep them looking tidy. So anyway, stormcloud verbena. Not quite as vigorous as the other ones. This one’s now catching up. This is the um superbina. Oh god, it’s going to be a day where I forget the names. indigo. It It’s gone. It’s gone. Hopefully somebody if you know it, put it in the comments, I guess. Or maybe I’ll remember to put it in the description of the video when I get around to posting. Um, but one of the blue superbas can see the blooms on this caliber koa, too. I’m noticing some of them are open. Kind of a mix of purple and yellow. There’s a little hopper right there. Grasshoppers. They don’t cause too much destruction, luckily. On this container, I have three Super Tunia Mini Vistas. I should drag this out a little bit. This is the Mini Vista Midnight, which now this is the third year I’ve grown that variety. Very vigorous, really strong stems. Um, I keep having to trim it back because this Super Tunia Mini Vista Indigo is getting like engulfed. And this is normally also a very strong growing plant for me, the Minivista Indigo. But when I bought it, it was much smaller. I probably should have pruned the other three back, other two back, so they were all the same size, but it just hasn’t quite been able to catch up with the indigo or the midnight one. I do see some indigo blooms, so maybe it’s they have kind of lighter purple blooms. And then this is mini vista uh violet star right there. We don’t I don’t spray for budworms. We don’t tend to have those here. We do get tobacco budworms late in the summer. They don’t survive here. They’re not native to this area. Um, they fly up on wind currents towards the end of summer and I do have those on geraniums and a few other things, but I really haven’t had issues with any patunias or super super bells or anything like that. This container has the super tunia um, hoopla vivid orchid. Really pretty one. Very vigorous. I’m a big fan of that one with the superbina white out. These This is like the superbina with like the largest blooms that I’ve grown. This between this one and the red one have the largest size blooms. Um, also very vigorous. I look for that every year. I’ll go out of my way to find that one cuz it does so well. And like when you get a really vigorous plant like that, you only need one. So yeah, it’s more expensive, but I’m getting where I would plant like two or three or four from a fourack, I only need one of these, so it kind of evens out in the end. Uh we’ve got the angelonia angelface blue here kind of leaning over because of that uh salvia getting into it. There’s a kind of a mazu that’s a little bit hidden trailing down there. And then we’ve got um Superbell’s Great Punch. I found most of the Punch Super Bells are pretty vigorous. Um that’s just one plant in that pot. Oh, look at look at this little rascal. See? Good thing I have that plant protector because they like to plant climb things. That one’s chasing a bee. Getting into more mischief. Oh, yep. Mhm. There we go. up to no good as usual. Oh boy, they’re so stinking cute. Oh, look, a hummingbird. This the nice thing about this Salvia is the hummingbirds absolutely love it. So, I see them come around all the time. I do get nervous with all the cats around, though. I hope that they aren’t catching the hummingbirds. Yeah. So cool. I planted a lot of salvia this year in the hopes of attracting more hummingbirds. Oh, there goes another kitten climbing up on the uh gosh. They’re probably watching the hummingbird, too. There it goes. the vine that I have climbing up to. I have six foot tall bamboo stakes in this pot that the vine climbs up. That’s a purple hyestin bean vine ruby moon. And then I strung just a string, cotton string from the top of the uh stakes to a hook that’s in the set there to let this climb up. And they’ve been This one probably isn’t as full at the bottom as it normally is. The kittens like to lay in that pot and snooze. So, I think it would have whatever new branches sprout, they are kind of crushing, but it’s still still doing well. I could put like concrete pieces or something in there to keep them out, but it’s fine. We’ve got the black and white containers over here. All white. Oh, there’s a bee just landed on me. Okay, I’m not food. Move on. I You got so many things to choose from here. Why are you landing on me? Um, all white blooms and then I played with like light and dark foliage. So, we’ve got the purple sweet potato vine. This is the um and it is blooming. You can see these pretty lavender blooms. Sweet potato vines do bloom. Not vigorously, obviously. They’re not blown for their blooms, but they do have pretty blooms on there. Oh god, now somebody they’re climbing all over my amorillis. I’m going to have to put stakes in there. Good grief. All kinds of activity going on over here. This is probably my favorite new thing that I planted. This is um I think it’s called Mercury um and a dusty miller new variety that I hadn’t seen before. I’m sure it’s been around. I just haven’t seen it. Uh so that one’s really cool. That’s just one plant. And then I have more of like the classic uh dusty miller over here. This was like a six-ack of annuals that I bought. Um, I did plant some coconut, a couple coconut lantana once I got those on clearance. So, those are kind of starting to open now. And this is a snow princess alysum from Proven Winners. That’s probably my favorite alysum for trailing. The most vigorous that I’ve I’ve ever tried. Um, a white angelonia. This is not Proven Winners. This is another I don’t remember the line that that comes from but not the proof of winners one. The potato vine. This is not or this is a proof of winners. Um uh if they have like the longest names ever. And this one is jet black is the name. Sweetheart jet black. That’s at least part of the name. It’s like they were in a competition to think of the longest names possible for their sweet potato vines. Um, a white scavola here. This one has done amazing. And that was not Proven Winners. I just got that one at Girtton. If you’re local and shop at Gertens, will be planting that again. We’ve got a bronze leaf white beonia here. This is a kolas called shiny shoes. Perfect size. I was thinking of looking for maybe if I could find the newly noir kolas which is real deep deep purple like this um which is a proven winners’s color blaze kolas but it just gets massive. Um I was worried this one wouldn’t get big enough but it is perfect perfect size where it doesn’t take over everything else. I have that under planted with super tunia latte another of my favorite. That’s an older variety and that one branches really well. I’ve only trimmed it a couple times. Kind of the straggly branches. We’ve got I don’t know the name of this. Uh this is also non-perero winners um euphoria in there. And my amorillis as well. Look at this little stinker. Look at you. And there’s one peeking out over there. Guys, you’re too curious. They are so cute though. We adopted, in case you have not followed my channel before, we adopted three feral kittens that were around my garden last year. I was not planning on doing that at all. In fact, I am very allergic to cats, so was not at all planning on adopting any. Um, but we decided to give it a try. I was miserable for about six weeks when they first came in the house. absolutely horrible time. But then I kind of got used to them. I think just the exposure reduced my reaction and I started doing allergy shots because of course I tested positive for cat allergies so that has helped a lot too. So I did that all winter. Love this is mainly foliage over here. I think I only have two blooming plants. Well, I have some beonas but they’ve now been kind of hidden by everything else. We’ve got these giant elephant ear leaves. Like this thing is huge. These are just massive leaves. So cool. And they kind of bob and sway in the breeze, too. We’ve got kolus velvetine here. This is a color blaze. Um, this one I think it has more of green edges right there cuz there was just an elephant ear leaf kind of covering those that had browned out. So, I cut it away. And then we have this rainbow. I think it’s called zebra rainbow traycantia growing down below here too that I overwintered and I’ll try overwintering it again this year. Um we’ve got pink polka dot. This is hippo pink hippo west. Um these two containers both have spicy lizard caladium growing and then a variegated licorice vine. And this is really overtaking this container. The Florida beauty caladium. It’s so cool how these have like the darker green splotches, too. I hope I get more leaves like that. These have kind of engulfed. There’s another snow print or snow euphoria. Diamond snow euphoria. And now finally starting to kind of I have a tranthis guacamole in here too. Starting to branch out a little bit. That’s usually a pretty vigorous plant, but I think this a it would be more vigorous with more sun, but this uh caladium kind of shaded it out early on. I do not remember the name of this caladium that I have coming out of this pot very late to emerge, but a pink one. And then there are some bagonas, some wax beonas down in the bottom. And I did plant some impatience in an attempt to keep the kittens from taking over that container as a napping spot. You can see these leaves. I’ll probably cut this one. Um, we had some hail a couple weeks ago or last weekend I think it was already. Um, that kind of ripped some holes and things, punched holes in the bigger leaves and now it’s browning out. So, I’ll clip that one back. But, we’ve got a hippo white hippo. Um, this is the only other than the beonia, the really only blooming plant. Um, I think it’s called catal not Catalina grape or maybe that’s which one it is. Oh, no. It’s a summer. It’s a summerwave terrenia. Um, a Rex Beagonia that I overhead overwintered from last year. This one is called Strawberry Star, I think. Or is it the cranberry one? I think it’s a strawberry where I got it more pink with white blooms. We have a pile down here. And I had a white loilia, but it kind of petered out, but it was pretty early on. Um, and then fantasy or no, fiesta caladium. And are those frog eggs? I get frog eggs in spots that hold water in my garden, too. Now, I have no water feature, so I don’t know where they live. And then there’s a bagonia that’s kind of taken over by the caladium. And then this is a Kimberly queen fern. And I had intended to have a trailing vinka, but it is taking its time to go ahead and trail. So, I don’t think that will end up trailing at all. Um, I should probably cut this elephant ear, too. Maybe we’ll do that right now. I have a a small pruners. So, I like the pattern on it, but it’s a little, you know, there there are greener ones behind it and it’s kind of blocking. So, what I do, you can see how it kind of um the new ears come out of the old ones. They kind of sprout from the middle. I don’t know if I have any sprouting over here. No. So, I just come down a little ways and just cut it like that. There’s a lot of water in these leaves. I’ll put that one in the shed later. Chop it up. Goes in the compost. So, now it looks really kind of bare without that one sticking out. But you can see the flowers behind it a little bit more. And there’s one that just emerged here. So, it will fill in a little bit with the new leaves, too. And then more leaves will sprout. They like sprout from the center of the old leaves, which is really interesting. We have this gorgeous bagonia. I got this one at Menard’s, but the orange and yellow center. This one kind of got a little battered. The blooms are now aged on it, but it’ll keep blooming. This beautiful yellow and the underside’s kind of peachy. And another Fiesta caladium in here. I don’t know if the other one will bloom, but it’s foliage looks good. Love this. This one is called Grey Ghost. That caladium probably my favorite one this year between that and spicy lizard. Um this I have two uh this one’s getting huge. This dragon wings beonia. I got that on clearance not too long ago. I planted two of them in a pot and they are really taking off. Um and then down here we have a fern. Uh and another beonia. This is an older tuber that I’ve had for a number of years and it’s kind of declined over the past few years. I know they do have like a certain life that they do well. So, I don’t know if that one maybe is done for. All the pink or coral impatients are beacon coral. I do have a few other things like I planted some of this wire vine here. We’ve got another being overtaken euphoria. And then the kolus here is elto from proven winners. I have two of them in this area. Um I also have a cana 2can coral cana throwing up some new blooms. Um I don’t know if the seeds on these are viable. I know you can save seeds from cana, but I usually just cut off the seed heads once they get turned brown. I think they look kind of cool though before they turn brown. Kind of a different texture when they’re more fresh. You can see they drop every now and then. I’ll come and just clear off like the the dropped petals. Um, but I like the cooler green. It’s like a cool tone green foliage on the toucan coral in particular. But just a mix of impatience. More of these. I think these are the beacon lipstick impatience. Um, I have had grown those last year and they selfseeded in some of the annuals that I dug up and overwintered. This year I kind of did that as an experiment. So I got some free impatience. We’ve got Maverick Scarlet Pikati geranium. A lot of the geranium blooms, they don’t do great when we get big heavy rain and wind, so I had to dead head a lot of those and they were kind of leaning, but they’ll be fine. Um, another albatoto colus. And then I have a couple lenai peach verbina here. That’s another variety similar to um the h what’s the peach one from Proven Winners? I’m forgetting the name of that one. Superbina peachy keen. So, very similar to that. If you can’t find that, but you see lenai peach, go for it. Um, this geranium was leaning quite a bit. This was the Americana dark coral. So, I deadheaded a bunch. I’ll probably have to should take off those blooms, too. And then it’ll The more you deadhead, the more it encourages new blooms. We’ve got Kent Beauty ornamental oregano. Uh-oh. My neighbor working on his scooters. again. Hopefully the noise cancellation is effective on my microphone. Um, brocade fire. Brocade fire for that geranium. It would have more bronze in it if it was in more sun. This is in part shade. Yeah, he restored. Very cool. He restores vintage scooters, like moped kind of looking things. um works on them. That’s his his hobby. So, he rides around and on weekends I hear him. But he even has some adorning his front garden bed, which I think is cool to show off your hobbies like that. Uh this white I have no idea what this um dalia is. It was half of my dalas this year were did not come out what they were labeled. Everything I bought at Menard’s um bloomed as something else other than it was labeled. So, just be warned if you shop at Menard’s. Not even like tall. Like, these were supposed to be dinner plate, like tall dinner plate dalia, and I got three short ones instead. I don’t mind because they’re all beautiful. It’s fine. They weren’t expensive, but lesson learned. I guess you get what you pay for sometimes. This is a mystery, too. Now, this one I did buy at Lake Garden Center. Still came out different. That’s supposed to be cafe olay, but it’s very lavender versus, and these are not containers, but this is cafe olay for sure. That’s what I’ve grown in the past. Very cream. So, there you go. I have to show you the Manhattan Island real quick, too, cuz you can kind of see the yellow yellow accents on that sort of burgundy red dalia bloom. Very pretty. I restaked a few things in anticipation of the storms the other night and everything came out great. Portulaka it’s like perfect conditions for it to open um its blooms. It only opens its blooms in certain conditions otherwise it kind of closes them up and even at night like the leaves will almost be closed up like it gathers the leaves like kind of lay up against the stems at night versus now they’re nice and open and lush looking. So, we’ve got the Mojave Mango um from Proven Wyinners. This one here, this is not Proven Winners, it is NanoPaz Pink. I have saved the seeds from NanoPaz Pink and NanoPaz for the last few years. They form these like these little buds turn into seed pods and then you can empty them out and collect the seeds. Like these are getting ready once they turn brown. tiny seeds, but they’re they’re they do really well when I sew them the next year. So, very easy to grow. So, I’ll try that with these as well. Don’t tell Proven Winners. Um, we also have the uh Twin Peach Snapdragon that I grew from seed. I need to get more. I forgot how much I like the Twin Snapdragons. I haven’t grown them in a number of years, but uh I’ll be getting more colors of that. And then a Spanish lavender. And this kind of flushes out. You can see a lot of the blooms are drying down. So, I’ll dead head those and that will send out more blooms. You can see the bumblebees love the portulaka. And then this one is really not as full of bloom. I did plant it later. So, it really grew its foliage. The foli foliage looks beautiful. But this is the Mojave Red uh from Proven Winners. And I wanted to see I just wanted to try out the colors. You know, things were on clearance. And I said this in my last video too, but it’s very much a pink red. Like it’s a warmer pink than the nano pizzazz pink, but it is still I would call it pink. But that one I see has got buds coming up, so I think that’ll be pretty full of blooms. I have a couple trays of sale clearance annuals. And I picked up another flat for $5 for the whole flat. So just some oldfashioned like the fourack patunias, fourack verbina, fourpack salvia. Got some necoana and some um alissum. All four packs. That was what was $5 for flat. And some mixed impatience. So I’m going to just fill in holes in the garden. Plant those where I’m missing color. Also the bags where I harvest my shallots. Couple geranium down here in another yellow portaka. This I’m going to try to overwinter. The kittens really destroyed that thing though, so I’m hoping I moved it over here. So hopefully it will flush out. We’ve got the red container again, the caliber koa looking kind of beat down from all the rain uh yesterday. Kind of rained all morning too off and on, but still looking good. This is the Proven Winners double redstone super bells. Big fan of that. And it actually stayed double blooms for me. A lot of times when I grow the double caliber ka, they revert to singles for me. Don’t know why. Um but I have also one bagonia. This is the um cordial cherry. Surefire beonia cordial cherry. These get very large and branch very well. So I only needed one. And then this is the superbina red from proven winners. Very vibrant red color. And again really big blooms. This is probably on par with the superbina white out in terms of bloom size. not as covered in blooms and dense as the um sparkling amethyst which is why I love that one so much but just really large and the super bean are always always have some blooming on them. Then I have another mazoo. This is just one of my favorite accents. It is so tough in the garden like it just does isn’t bothered by anything. Um and I have a Vinka on the other side that you can’t see. Baby wings beonia looking beautiful. Well, it’s like dragon wings but smaller leaves and it looks like it’s just absolutely covered in blooms. Like more more blooms than the its bigger siblings. Um I cut the sunflowers back from over here. I did leave this one and now it’s sprouting. I left half of it. Now it’s sprouting some more bloom. So that’s fun. The birds have been eating all the sunflowers that I leave out. Need I didn’t get to deadheading, but you can see like after we get a rain, this is kind of what beonas look like. anywhere that had loose petals at all. It’s just sort of plastered. So, I’ll come and dead head that one. Not beonia, geranium. That is This is three years old now. I kept overwintered it the last two winters. Um, Collia mega rose splash or rose mega splash. I do have some Americana dark red geranium that I’m going to add to my front garden bed. I have these bowls of echanatia. There are three echanatia. You can see the three. They’re not labeled with the varieties, but I picked those up so that I can separate them out and plant them. Um, I have some annuals I’m going to overwinter. This is a really cool uh altrena variety. So, hopefully those do well. This I had some serendipity aliams up in the front garden bed that were just withering away. So, I dug up the roots and I’ve just been giving trying to give them lots of sun, not as much water up here and they’re doing well. So, I think I’ll be able to transplant these. I think I saved that plant. Um, and then the milkweed that I grew from seed is doing well, so I’ll be able to transplant that, too. And I picked up some more ivy. I’m going to put this in a container that the kittens have been laying in that I don’t want them to crush what’s in there. So, this should deter them from napping in that space. Uh, I guess we’ll go backwards over here. Monkey flower. I hadn’t grown this before. Wasn’t sure about it, but it kind of lulled and now it’s starting to relum. So, we’ve got one container over here, and I think this will pick up now that it gets more sun without the big sunflowers blocking it. But, we’ve got the uh Medusa sweet potato vine. One of my favorites. We’ve got this poor thing is just kind of shaded out. Maybe if I cut the salvia back a little bit or take off some of the bigger leaves um so that this can get more sun. That is a Bando Lero um cherry rose lantana and it just hasn’t been full of blooms. You know, I make mistakes every year. I think things are going to be different and whatever. You live and you learn. Uh we’ve got this is a I think it’s lighthouse red, but it’s like a fourpack tall salvia. Also hummingbird adored. And then this was getting it’s starting to throw out some more blooms now. This is a nia. I should dead head. Nia magenta nimisia that kind of got shaded with all of the uh sunflower leaves. And there’s a plane overhead. Hopefully that’s not too annoying. But you can see, look at this porch lock. Isn’t that pretty? I just have like this iron container full of the nano yellow portaka. Just super cheerful. We’ve got a maze. This is that caladium that I don’t remember the name of. Uh sun tolerant one. But this this spot’s a little cuz once things fill in, I always have a container here that gets too much shade. So, I kind of have to plant things that do both shade and sun. So, I did this caladium that can has sun tolerant. And then the uh mini me watermelon colus with amazfire red beonia that I got clearance to test out. I hadn’t grown that one before. I have a couple. This is one of them. um toucan orange cana. So kind of a tropical like coraly orange color uh with a little yellow in the blooms. This leaf isn’t as cool blue as the toucan coral, but just a very attractive cana. It kind of gets smooshed by the window a little bit when I open the window. This is a U that I have to plant out in the garden. But I have the Y Kiki Sunset Lless Makia below it and then a Vinka uh tattoo black cherry Vinka down below. Um let’s see. We’re going to go around this way. Thanks for sticking around. I don’t often go through all the containers and all the plants because it takes forever. As you can see, I have many, many, many things planted. Move this chair. Okay. So, you can kind of see from this angle uh the Vinka a little bit better. I also have a wire vine hanging down there. This container is doing pretty good. This is a Kufia. I put the tags in here initially, but this container is just Oh, maybe I can actually grab it. Yes, this was a very upright Kufia that I hadn’t seen before. Sweet Talk Red. So, I thought I would give it a try. And it stayed upright for some time. Didn’t bloom hardly at all. and then all it flopped over. Um, but it started sending up more branches, so it became more of a bushy habit and then started blooming. So, I don’t know what that means, but I like it now that it’s blooming like a batface style kufia. Um, I also have a verbena in here. I don’t know where the tag is for this one somewhere. That is a Danzinger variety verbena. It just looked like it had good size blooms and that’s been blooming pretty well all summer despite getting a fair amount of shade since this can of filled in. And then the uh Superbell’s watermelon punch kind of getting got laid upon. So I kind of scooted it over this way so it would stay in the sun once that uh Kufia flopped. And then this Vinka is coming out of that container. I have it on a stand down there. Uh a variegated Vinka. And I noticed the the blooms on all of the Lantana got kind of beat down by the rain. You can see them all on the ground here, the little flowers. So, not super spectacular Lantana at the moment, but it’s all buted up, so it’ll come it’ll come back in no time. Another This is a separate container. Another Wiki Sunset Lis Makia. This is the Bandolista mango salsa. You can kind of see it usually has kind of orange, deep orange to yellow uh flowers on it. And then a cervesa and lime plecranthus. Another of my favorite foliage accents just super tough. I did buy one of these. I don’t overwinter them when they get huge cuz they’re hard to manage when they get massive. But you can. I have before. But I just bought here. Um, I’ll pot this up in a slightly bigger container and overwinter this because this was on clearance for like 250. So, but those are easy to overwinter even if you don’t have grow lights. They do shed a lot of leaves and they’re you have to make be mindful of watering if you’re they’re not under a grow light, but they still do great. Then they pop right back out as soon as you put them out in the sun again in the spring. Uh, this Lantana, this one you can’t even really see. It normally has very red on the blooms. red to orange to yellow gradient. Um, Bandolista red chili. I have a Goldilocks rocks bidens underneath. That’s another plant like verbina that kind of lulls and blooms and lulls and blooms. Uh, I should trim this back a little bit now. This is kind of draped over. But another um, nia uh, nia magenta. Oh, look. I have some kind of grass. Got to pull that out. Oh, here you can kind of see a little bit the red bloom color on that one. And in one of these pots, a random uh patunia that is purple has seated. I just saw that poking out, made its way out to the sun. So, I’m going to leave that. Uh it doesn’t look like Well, I don’t know. I have no idea what variety it is cuz I didn’t plant it. It seated itself. So, I’ll have to move this caliber koa maybe. But caliber koa still looking good though. That’s a danzinger one. Uh the tag is in there somewhere. I’m not going to dig for it. I think it’s maybe an ombre. I found the dancing or ombre line are very vigorous. And they’ve got kind of that yellow and pink coloring to them or yellow and orange. They’ve got a few different varieties. Um this is the new unplugged red salvia from Proven Winners. doing very well, but kind of an odd shape for a an annual salvia. Kind of grows. It’s like real leggy and grows kind of through things. So, I think I’m I’ll keep that in mind if I plant that again that you can kind of intermix it with things. I think it’s not as dense as like this salvia that has really dense foliage. This one, not so much. And it has long stems. So, I suppose that would make for good cut flowers, too. Again, brittle stems. I come out here and I find the stems broken off all the time, but it’s so vigorous that you don’t even notice they’re missing. Another Medusa potato vine. And I have a uh rush grass in here, the blue mohawk. And then I have some Vinka. Again, the tattoo wild cherry, but they’re getting engulfed. This is a Lantana from Proven Winners. Looks a lot like the mango salsa, but uh it wasn’t labeled. And I think this is Mirage cherry red salvia. I really like these Mirage Salvia. I’m hoping I can find more of the colors that those come in next year because they stay a very bushy habit and just covered in blooms all summer long. Um, I need to trim this. This is the only Proven Winners uh potato vine that I ever really have to trim. That’s the Mohawk red. Uh, but very vigorous and it has much longer stem. So, like I’ll trim this back so that it doesn’t take out the salvia. This kind of went out of bloom because it got in the shade, but it’s sending out more uh stocks. That’s a magenta angelonia. I forget the variety name with some more of this lighthouse red tall salvia. And I do have this one. The blooms all got shattered, but just a bandana cherry cherry rose I think it’s called Lantana. And then a uh Kof pleanthus guacamole down there. This is the Proven Winners basket tanglow. Uh that one has the orange. Kind of see it also has like deep orange normally on the blooms to yellow to peach to yellow. Again, sending out a lot more blooms but got all beat down. And purple prince alterned from seed. And then another There’s another hopper. A couple of them. Oh, and a wasp. cute. Um, toucan orange canaly. And this salvia, I want to say it’s lady and red. I’m pretty sure it’s lady and red. Not super impressed. It has not had a whole lot of color just sporadically. And it’s like full of buds right now. We’ll see if they emerge, but it has spent a lot of time just being green with like like this here and there. So, not the best. won’t be won’t be seeking that one out again. In this spot, it definitely gets full sun. It doesn’t really get shaded out by anything. I’ve got a couple caliber koa down here. More of the uh nano pizzazz pink portilaka. And then I have this caliber koa. Dang, I wish you could see more blooms. It’s called like strawberry something. I think it’s from Danzinger that I planted with the nano pizzazz pink portaka. I’m kind of surprised though. The portalaka is kind of taking over. I think I need to trim this. And you can kind of arrange it like pull the caliber koa foliage up above without having to trim it back so hard. But I haven’t grown these portaka in large containers before and they’re actually pretty vigorous, I guess. Wiki sunset lizmakia kind of getting taken over here. Uh another mini me watermelon kolus. And then we’re kind of back to where we started. Um, you can see I have a dusty miller in a pot with another tattoo black cherry vinka and uh this new verbena. Not super vigorous, but also not having a fair shot cuz it is kind of crowded. And then this is the um snowstorm white bakcopa. Has not bloomed yet this summer. Just a couple blooms here and there. I’m used to bakopa. I’ve grown that for many years. Not this variety, but just white pakopa where it blooms and lulls and blooms and lols. This is all lull. So I’m not paying extra to plant this ever again. Won’t seek out proven winners. Maybe it got too much shade now, but for half the summer it had full sun. So I don’t know what’s up with that. But definitely not worth paying for unless you just want this kind of foliage. I’ll stick with the cheaper basic bakopa if I plant it again here with the um purple hyasin bean vine. You can see the seed pods. You can eat these beans. Although I’ve heard that they have a lot of the uh what is it called? The Greta Greta’s chasing a grasshopper. Um they have a lot of whatever I forget what it’s called in them that causes extreme stomach upset. So, you have to cook them properly. I just save all the seeds. They’re like super prolific cedars, so I won’t have to buy seeds again. But the uh and then I cut these off. This also helps it stay full. When these start turning brown, I dead head the seed pods. Otherwise, that branch kind of starts dying off. So, we got kittens napping in this container all the time. I don’t know if there’s one in there now, but surefire white beonia. I have another plectranthus in there. and then a uh ornamental cabbage that I grew from seed. So, those are the containers in on the patio garden. This time of year is my absolute favorite for the containers. You can see they just look so full and so lush right now and we don’t get our first frost until early to mid October usually. Um so, we’ve got a long ways to go. I do fertilize every single week. I miss a week here and there, but for the most part, every single week with water soluble fertilizer and chelated iron uh to keep them growing and blooming and fed and looking great, looking nice and full. Um, what else was I going to say? We can walk in the yard and look as I go. I plant very densely. You know, I have individual pots. I think this turned out okay. I’m I learn every year. You know, I try something different. I tried to do a color scheme and with repeating elements along the wall here so it didn’t look so crazy. Still, I like wild and lots of color and I like when you can’t see the containers anymore. That’s kind of my style of planting. So, um yeah, they kind I’ll stop usually midseptember I’m kind of done fertilizing and things are on the way out anyways. They’re kind of looking a little worn. Little long in the tooth. I just want to go peek. There’s another plane. That one’s low. Oh, yeah. God, they’re so They fly so low when they’re coming to the airport nearby. Mon more monkey flower. Hopefully that puts on more blooms. Oh, you can see the water drops from the rain on the lady’s mantle. That’s like my favorite feature of this plant. It’s so pretty. It has little teeny hairs on all of its leaves and so it just collects like all the rain water and little drops on its leaves. Hopefully this is in focus. You can even see like on the edges it kind of has serrated edges. There’s a big old bumblebee trying to get the host to bloom right next to me. So, very cool. Again, thanks for sticking around on my super duper long garden tour of just my pots. Uh we’ve got a blue mohawk grass here with one single super tuna mini vista yellow. Massive. And I’ve been trimming this. I’ve been trimming this thing. It’s huge. Um Wiki Sunset Lism Makia. You can barely even see the dusty miller down or not dusty miller dicondra down below this poor thing. I think it gets too much sun here. This is the po hippo white polka dot plant. They can take they might even be listed for full sun but that one is not super happy as the one as happy as the one in the shade. Um we’ve got some seed deraniums. Not labeled the variety. I’ve got two different colors. And then this selfseeded here. I think it’s a Kong red colus. I grew those last year. So, one of the seeds made it over here. Hanging basket. This loofos is just climbing out of the basket up through the uh vine here. The uh clatus. But we’ve got tiara pink super bells. This is the uh whirlwind white scavola. Not doing a whole lot, but there it is. Super being a sparkling rose. Not nearly as vigorous or full of blooms usually as the sparkling amethyst. You kind of see it from this side. This tiara pink. That’s also just one plant in there. Crazy. And this is a larger hanging basket. I think it’s 24 in. It was originally a mass moss basket, but squirrels and birds kind of decimated the moss, so I just wrapped it in black landscape fabric and it works. More of this beautiful pink loofos hanging down. Don’t look at those. I need to dead head. Another uh super tunia mini vista yellow with a uh what’s this one called? Tropical. It’s a sunpations. I don’t remember the name. Again, the tags in there. Can’t get at it. Large blooms though for this sunpatient. And I love that variegated foliage. And then a Goldilocks rocks bidens. I’ve got two containers just with uh wax beagonas. It was just like a mixed. So, I pulled out all the pink and the white ones to make these two containers over here. This is filling in now pretty well. Uh the this one actually looks great even after the rain. Pink lemonade super bells as well as the new smitten double pink. Double smitten pink. This opened now. my canova peach or canova apricot canabloom. Really pretty apricot color. Love the dark foliage. These are just uh pots that like shrubs came in. I just wanted something easy to clean out for these two because I got these like this can was $3. Same thing with this elephant here. Three bucks on clearance. So I just wanted to plant them so that I would have them for next year cuz I save all of these tubers. Um paint the town. What is it called? Picasso uh Super Tunia again all on clearance. There’s Vinka. There’s some ivy in these. There’s another altern. I just wanted these to be less hassle cleaning out uh in the fall because as you can see, I have a lot of work in the fall when I clear everything out. As you can imagine from the number of containers that I plant and we I can’t keep anything on the patio because we need the space to uh the pretty blooms over there. We need the space to put snow in the winter. Last two winters we have not had our normal snowfall. It’s been below average, but you never know what you’re going to get. So the year before we had 90 inches of snow and houses are close together here. There’s not a lot of space to put that. So, um, we’ve got some zenyas, two different kinds, raspberry ripple and pink star zahara zenyas. And this is an angelface pink angelonia here. I did, they kind of split open, so I planted two fourpack salvia in there somewhere. That peach ones. So, those will come up eventually. I just did that recently. suppose we could consider the vegetable garden containers, but we’ve got this uh lemon lime or is it lemon twist plecrantthis now finally getting some good size um with the super tunia bermita beach and the superbina cherry star I think it’s called and then I have some can rose snapdragons that I started from seed. Look at this little Isn’t that cheerful? Little orange and pink moment there. Um, a lot of the fouracks, I’ll show you what I do with those clearance annuals. So, all my grow bags, I grow shallots and peppers in grow bags. Shallots get harvested. I just have one left. Um, and then I have a couple months where I got nothing. So, I that’s usually when things go on clearance. So, like I picked up some clearance plants. So, some of those new ones I got will fill in those gaps. I got some fourack aers. Most of these are fourpack clearance again. fourpack verbina here. So, you can see they do great. They just need a little more maintenance than the superbas. Love this tropical uh dip dip. What is it? It’s like a type of mandivia. Another cherry. Red cherry. Super bells. So, yeah. And I think I’ve got a couple. I have not mulched back here because I need to dig up the strawberries and then I will mulch. This is again rainbeaten geraniums back here. I love the dill flowers. More geraniums on the fence. And this is the uh witches brew kolus. Very cool variety. Will be growing that again. This is one plant too. Started pretty small, but it it gets pretty darn big that can do sun or shade. And then my another container with herbs, verbina and mirolds mixed in. So we’ve got rosemary. I’ve got spirit and sage, another rosemary back there, and then a um oregano. I love this. This is just Victoria blue. That is one of the best fourpack annuals in my opinion. Patunia is doing well down here. So, I think I’ll leave it there. This video is plenty long just with that much. Um, I think I just showed the front yard containers in my very last video. Some of these containers I showed in my last video. The grass, all the rain we’ve had this year with the grass. It’s like you have to mow three times a week. So, it’s looking kind of shaggy right now. Look at these two pretty little verbina. Then this is a proven winter zenya. Again, I got just to fill in because this poor golden rod I’m sure has mildew. So, as soon as that’s done blooming, I’m going to cut it back. But it’s not just the brightest yellow. Normally I wouldn’t buy like a proven winter zenya or something like seed zenyas are just as good. But uh it was on clearance and I just needed something full to put in that spot. Lots of annuals over here filling in again this time of year. Um some more containers but won’t go over that. This is my only dalia in a pot because it’s a dwarf one and it’s just starting to bud. It has pink blooms. And then another portulaka down below. Oh, and I didn’t go over this container. This is a fall container. This is a carrot. I think it’s called Ora ora or whatever. Golden car with a rubecia. I forget the name of this one. It’s not Toto. Um, uh, alterna, uh, English ivy, and then wirevine. I had a dalia that tipped over and broke in a storm, so I popped this pot in here. For fall, I don’t I don’t switch out anything to fall containers. We have by the time we get frost, we very quickly get a freeze. So, as soon as things get scraggly or start dying, like by October, I’m starting to clear all this out and put it away. Because again, this is where all the snow goes in the winter time. But look at what an oasis it is in the summer. It’s so peaceful. So lovely to Oh, there’s string. So lovely to sit out here on the patio just surrounded by all of this. Watering is a lot. I uh hand water everything. I’ve not set up drip or had the had the desire to do that really. Um, but it’s kind of meditative when I come out with water, except for when it’s like 90 degrees with 90% humidity. Um, so anyway, but this looks like prison block with the planters gone. So, I have to do something. So, I’ll quit rambling. Thank you all so much for watching and for everybody who supports me and my videos and comments. I think we have just a great community on these videos and it’s I really enjoy doing this. So again, thank you, especially if you made it all the way to the end of these super long videos. I know it’s a lot, but I appreciate it. Um, and I hope we can all learn things together as well. So, have I hope you’re having a great day in your gardens, you’re having some decent weather that you can enjoy, and I’ll see you in the next one. And please subscribe.