Hello friends! Today I’m bringing you along for a late winter garden tour here at the house in North Carolina (Zone 8A). Even though it’s technically still winter, spring has definitely started waking up in the garden!
In this garden tour, we’ll walk through the property and see what’s blooming right now, including thousands of tulips, camellias, hellebores, forsythia, cherry trees, and so many plants that are just beginning to wake up for the growing season.
You’ll also get updates on several garden spaces including the driveway garden, patio beds, woodland garden at the chicken coop, cottage garden, and forest pansy bed.
If you’re wondering what your garden might look like as winter transitions into spring, this tour will give you lots of inspiration for early-season color, structure, and planning your spring garden.
Gardening always teaches patience — and this time of year is when we start to see all the promise of the growing season ahead!
🌿 In this video you’ll see:
Tulips in the landscape and containers
Camellias and hellebores blooming
Forsythia and Edgeworthia flowering
Roses, hydrangeas, and shrubs waking up
Cherry trees beginning their spring show
Early spring bulbs and perennials emerging
Updates on the woodland garden and chicken coop garden
If you’re still covered in snow where you live, hang in there — spring is on the way!
Thank you so much for gardening with us.
There is always grace in gardening.
00:00 Late Winter Garden Tour Begins
01:05 600 Yellow Tulips Along the Driveway
03:05 Hydrangeas, Hellebores & Camellias Waking Up
05:00 Butterfly Bushes, Sedums & Spring Garden Updates
06:30 Fall-Planted Anemones Blooming Beautifully
08:30 Fragrant Edgeworthia & Forsythia in Bloom
10:10 Roses, Tulips & Clematis in the Backyard Garden
12:35 Spirea, Cherry Trees & Early Spring Color
14:40 Daffodils, Salvias & Butterfly Bushes in the Back Garden
17:20 Phantom Hydrangea Hedge Needs Pruning
19:05 Forest Pansy Bed & Shade Garden Update
21:30 Containers, Pulmonaria & Hellebores in Bloom
23:30 Woodland Garden & Chicken Coop Garden Update
25:40 Tulips, Camellias & Hostas at the Chicken Coop Garden
26:55 Spring Is Here in North Carolina
20 Comments
Very pretty!
This was the best video. Your tulips are gorgeous. That rose is so healthy on the arbor. Is it still available to buy? Thank you for sharing your garden.
You coordinated your blooms so well. The yellow tulips pick up the back yard yellow bells.
My favorite are the deep pink/magenta tulips in back.
I've read it's good to cut back annuals rather than pull out the root ball. Keeps the micro critters in the ground doing what they do best.
I was just looking up Star Magnolia this morning. Now I'll see if we in Minnesota can grow that edgeworthia. I suspect it's marginal.
I've got 9 PW reminiscent roses in white, orange and coral coming late May. I hope I can keep THESE roses alive. DA, I've struggled with them. I'll up pot them this year, overwinter them in my unheated garage and maybe next year they'll be ready for the big time.
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Kentucky is bracing for the storm also .. prayers to everybody in the path of this storm 🙏🏻🫶🏻🙋♀️
…she meant….Edgeworthia "chrysantha"
Everything is looking good, Jenny
Emilee? Likes pink tulips momma 🥺💚🙃 I LOVE the yellow 🤗💚🙃um nope Megan 🤗💚🙃
Do you have any fragrant camellias ? ❤️💚🙃
Thank you Jenny and Jerry. 💚🙃
You’re looking fantastic! Winter was kind to you 👍 looking forward to Spring with Creekside 🌷
Thank you!! When you did the planter at the chicken coop the other day I wanted more information on the tulips. This video is so appreciated!
Absolutely gorgeous and inspiring landscape!! Thank you from Zone 7a. My first yellow tulip bloomed today! 💐 I love and appreciate your positive videos!! 🤩
Jenny – at minute 11:55, that adorable frog!! Where did you get that? Love it and need it in my garden!
Dang that turf looks amazing I wonder who does that turf care ??
I dealt with bunnies and chipmunks for years. My Nanny told me “find a rat snake!” She was right, I found a rat snake sunning in the road when I was out on my golf cart. I picked her up and she bit me! It felt like somebody pinched me. I got her home and that girl pays her rent. She eats bunnies, chipmunks, field mice, and she scares away squirrels and larger rabbits. Her name is Louise and the only concern I have is to watch out for her when I mow and run the weed eater. The first few times I saw her she startled me, but we are all good now!
Sooo nice to see as a New Yorker… I’m going to have to take a drive south & meet y’all since it’s taking so long to warm up here. 10:53 Which cultivar of Magnolia is that in the background?
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You have convinced to try yellow tulips next year instead of my usual pinks and purples. Those yellow tulips are beautiful.
Love this tour! The weather is CRAZY in the NC mountains this year…spring and the winter again, don’t know if my hydrangeas are gonna make it as far as blooms😖😖😖