Hi! My name is Shannon, and my garden is located in North Texas; Zone 8a. I am a home gardener with limited space and limited funds; so I try my best to maximize my garden with the space I have while being smart and frugal! I found joy in gardening in 2020, along with many many people who decided to garden during the pandemic and became hooked! I created this RU-vid Channel in 2023 because I found a desire to share my joy in gardening and share my experiences as a North Texas gardener. I also wanted to document my garden throughout the season so that I could learn from my successes and mistakes and be able to see it change throughout the year in a very tangible way! I hope you find the joy in gardening as I do, and subscribe to my channel!
Hey Shannon, Love all the hydrangeas!! So encouraging to see them blooming again. I’m wondering how old your biggest desert rose is? How many hyacinth bean plants do you have on that fence? I just started a couple of the hyacinth beans on Father’s Day, and i hope i still have enough time for them to make the bean pods. Hoping anyway 😊
Thank you Stacey!! My biggest Dessert Rose is in its 4th season I think? I bought it at Lowe's, it was just a baby cutting and it was mislabeled as a Diplodenia for about $6!! I didn't know it though! I think I have 4-5 Hyacinth Bean Vines along the fence. Too many I think! 😬 I've never grown them before but now I know how big they can get! Yours will be my size in no time! The ones along the fence were started in ground in late March, so yours are just about two months behind that. Plenty of time! 😍
Thank you!! Yes, once I learned how long it takes to train them, I understood why they were so expensive! It's worth the wait to do it yourself for sure. ❤️
I totally agree! Never seen $1 plants there before and never have again! But I truly think they were going to toss them otherwise...they were fried hostas!
Hey Shannon! I’m going weekly to my calloways to see if they have any $1 plants, but so far they are sticking to the regular prices! 😄 I’m curious about those siphons…what causes them to start drawing up the water? Did you have to prime them? If they work, that’s genius!
Stacey I'm not really sure! The stakes interestingly are ceramic, but I don't know what draws the water up or if it actually does. I tested it on one for a week and it seemed to work on that one. I'm out of town resting then out now so I may come home to a few dead plants. Only a few of mine needed it.
I did try the solar lights. They don't spread far apart from each other. I don't love them. I have gotten garden markers and plant tags, several (gardening)T shirts, plant clips, watering stakes(terrible).
Yes, I would love the solar lights much more if they spread out better! They do work and I still like them. I love the shirts I've purchased, the moss poles are great, the self watering stakes have been just okay. Some work some don't. The metal plant stakes have been great and the zip ties too!
That’s an awesome shirt (and song!). I would definitely like to know how the hose works out. It seems like so many garden channels have (and kind of push) the actual hoselink, and it’s just so expensive! Great video, Shannon!
I have used Temu a few times and have been pleased with everything. Please do a follow up video on the retractable hose, been thinking about it for a long time.
Yes! I got them at my favorite place ever- Green Acres in Irving. They have a location now in Melissa too. I picked them up in Spring 2023 for $12.50 each!! They were about 3 feet tall at the time. It is so amazing how expensive plants have gotten in just a little over a year!
Where did u get ur Limelight standard and did u plant the black eyed Susan vine from seed? If so, where did u get the seeds pls? I’m amazed that u can get any blooms from any kind of hydrangeas in Texas!! They’re beautiful! I’m in west Tx (Permian Basin), zone 8b, and I’ve tried hydrangeas twice with no success unfortunately.
I actually grew my Limelight Standard myself! I bought a Limelight Hydrangea shrub a few years ago, planted it in the backyard, and one of the stems actually got buried and propagated itself. I let the roots grow and cut it from the parent plant, planted it in a pot. From there, it was a single stem. I cut off all of the other shoots that it tried to send up and kept only the single stem it's first season. Second season that stem shot off shoots from every node of the single stem, but I only kept 4 shoots at the very top to form the bottom branches of the limelight standard. It takes a long time and many seasons to get it to where it is now, but I am so happy I did it! The Black Eyed Susan Vine was grown from seed that I purchased on Amazon (Seed Needs brand). If you are interested on how to care for hydrangeas in Texas, I do have quite a few videos on them as they are my absolute favorite!! Check them out!
Your garden looks great! I just got back to Houston after being away and things look a bit of a mess but mainly ok, first world problems compared to the people who still don’t have electricity. We flooded with Harvey so I sort of feel like I’ve paid my dues but I’m not holding my breath!
@@GrowRoots23 my black eyed susan is flopped but I’m full. Flower and looks awesome. My Russian sage looks terrible but didn’t look good before the storm either.
Your back yard is looking gorgeous! I love all the textures and colors. ❤❤❤❤❤ I really need to get some of the Brunnera, the silver foliage stands out. Good call on wearing the boots. I found a copperhead in my back flowerbed two days ago. I feel for your pain with the poison ivy. It is amazing how fast it grows. I have been wanting to switch a few of my sprinklers to drip. I would love to know how you did that.
Thank you Stacie! I will have to ask my hubby to help me make a video on how to switch to drip! He is the one that knows all about how to do it, I just helped! I know that basically you get 1/2 inch Drip Tubing, and then there are fittings that you put in where the sprinkler heads normally are. The drip tube fits into that (which kept coming out on us, we eventually had to clamp it on). Then you basically run the drip tube where you want it to go, and where you want it to T off, you get the appropriate T fittings. You need landscape staples to staple the tubing into the soil. It is a bit of a learning curve, as I explained in the video, because drip tubing zones need to be on longer than overhead sprinkler zones. It still saves water in the long run, and best for the roots of the plant, too. It's just a bit more complicated!
What a very good deal you got!!! Beautiful Garden you got!!! Thanks for showing the Dreamland Zinnias and Vinca. I'm learning everyday with new Garden stuff. Hehe. Trying to see if I can plant perennial also because in AZ it's so Hot 🔥 Also as well.
You scored good 🌿🌻🌿 you'll definitely be planting a lot in this Texas heat. I only found 3 small ferns for my shade garden. Yeah, at Lowe's wasn't much of anything. Be safe in heat 🌻🌻🌻
Score! What a great haul! Congrats on your anniversary; my husband and I also got married in 2003! Hey, what are you using for your microphone today? Good sound quality. Finally, I bought 2 oakleaf hydrangeas on sale at green acres yesterday…I hope that will turn out to be a good buy; (i was hoping I might be able to prune them to standards, but I can’t find anyone on RU-vid that has done it with an oakleaf hydrangea) I’ve watched your video on pruning the paniculata as my inspiration but I’m afraid of making a wrong cut!)
Thank you Stacey! How crazy you and your husband married the same year! My Oakleaf Hydrangea is from Green Acres too! It's a Dwarf Alice Oakleaf, what type is yours? In regards to pruning it into a standard, I do believe Dawn from Shaded From Reality pruned her Oakleaf into a standard? I do not know if she did a video on it though, she is also local and from North Texas and has a YT channel! In terms of following pruning advice, it is a bit trickier with Oakleaf Hydrangeas because they bloom on old wood... that just means that NOW is the time to do it before it sets the buds for next year. And honestly, you will have to wait quite a few growing seasons to get it shaped the way you'd like; just like my Paniculata hydrangea. Jim Putnam also has a video called "How to Form Any Shrub Into a Tree" and I believe he also has a video about pruning Oakleaf Hydrangeas, I would watch both and "marry" those techniques if that makes sense! Good luck!
@@GrowRoots23 ok I do follow both Dawn and Jim. These oakleaf hydrangeas are both PW Gatsby Star …I’m pretty sure this variety has been discontinued so I wondered if they might have problems. It will be an experiment for sure. I do plan on including them in my next tour but not sure if I will have decided what I’m gonna do by then 😙
I just realized I did not answer your mic question. For Real- I'm not using a mic in this video!! I forgot. However, I do my editing on Canva and I recently discovered that you can extract the audio from the video and then it allows you to turn up the volume up to 400%. I had to turn up the volume the max of 400% in this video. I do kind of prefer this method over using a mic because I love the quality of my phone's mic! I have not invested in a quality mic yet.
As a north Texas gardener I’m dealing with some of the same struggles. A couple of annuals that do very well in extreme full sun for me are Angelonia and gomphrena🩷 A few other annuals that perform well in the summer months in my garden are pentas, torenia, and blue daze evolvulus. Looking forward to watching your backyard garden tour🌺
Thank you so much Jen! Yes, I've done Angelonia and Gomphrena before but for whatever reason did not include them in my garden this year- regretting that now! Going to include pentas next year too. I've never tried torenia, but would love to. I tried Blue Daze Evolvulus last year and it stopped blooming when the temps were over 100. I picked up another one on clearance a few days ago and I'm going to give it another chance in a different location, hoping it does better! Backyard Garden Tour will be posted tomorrow afternoon! Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you Maria!! I have a video ALL about how I care for my hydrangeas! Feel free to check it out, I hope you like it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BDEijHUB7a0.htmlsi=M1BW8i-O_NjGB4Lc
Hmmm. I have many hydrangeas and I've finally gotten most of them looking good with their foliage! This one is usually my star but the top leaves are definitely nutrient deficient. It's strange!
We just had our roof replaced (I live in Arlington), and I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much damage from the tarping of the plants on a 101 degree day. Ugh. I'm going out tonight to trim off the dead stuff, and was so happy to see this video for inspiration.
Thank you! Really it's just the annuals that are struggling with the heat, the perennials I have now are specialized for our Texas heat! It's my fault for trying out Supertunias one last time, and now I can add impatiens to the no-go list, too! I'll be sticking with Zinnias, Cosmos, Vinca, Caladium, Coleus, Begonias, Pentas, Purslane for my annual color!!
Hey Shannon! So much of my garden is looking the same! My jazzberries are hanging on, but certainly not looking as good as in June just a few weeks ago!! I have my quick fire fab hydrangea in an almost full shade spot and in a container, so we’ll see if I can keep it from scorching. Thank you for the update; I really enjoy all your garden tours!
Thank you Stacey! Yay for your Supertunia Jazzberries! Hope they make it! Same for your Quick Fire Fab, just remember with them that they can be dramatic and wilt during the day. Don't water unless the soil is dry. They do love morning sun and afternoon shade!
@@GrowRoots23 ok thank you! Also I wanted to say that you inspired me to get another video out this week on my channel…i was thinking ‘oh things are looking not great’ but i decided to go ahead and post one today!
@@summerofstacey6676 YES! I am so glad you changed your mind! I feel like we doubt ourselves and our gardens and don't want to share that with everyone, but I like to look at it as "documenting the garden", no matter what struggles the plants are currently facing! We have real struggles, and others can still learn and be inspired by how you face those challenges (including ourselves)! I am SO looking forward to a bit of cooler weather that is coming though! It feels amazing outside this morning!!
