Growing in zone 6 my specialty and enthusiasm is centered around growing plants out of their natural growing ranges, all kinds of cold hardy fun! Palms, orchids, Sarracenia, Succulents and cactus! Aquaponics & hydroponics of interest as well. Animals, plants, pets & fish are all of my passions! On the weekends i upload a weekly vlog which is just clips of the happenings throughout the week. My hope is to make learning and designing fun and entertaining because education should always be enjoyable!
I love you...have missed seeing your videos just saw this so excited....thank you....I just rescued a majesty palm from the neighbors trash...it was outside waiting for me to come and rescue it.❤😂
Hey Jeff! I like the idea of painting the brackets white/ to match the framing. I don’t know how you do it with the pool, seems like so much work! That parlor palm (and Areca) definitely looks better pruned. I seized the opportunity to plant a mimosa! Is yours the EH Wilson? Mine came in as a single trunk… how was yours when planted? Everything in my garden is growing well… except my musa basjoo! Its roots are super shallow and is taking a week PER LEAF!!! I don’t think the fertilizer is even doing anything because there’s not a ton of roots. So weird. What do you think??
I try so hard to make my gardens special. Then I watch your videos and feel like a complete failure. Not sure how you even go inside to sleep. It's magical. 😊
Yay, finally caught up on your videos! You’ve shamed me into putting some empty pots back into the shed, and I finally mowed the backyard. (Still need to mow out front & edge & weed eat where the mower can’t reach…but I need it done before the extreme heat rolls back in.) I only found 1 fire ant mound so yay for no crazy dances & itchy legs for a week! I still need to repot a bunch of things and pull weeds…but life hasn’t been agreeable to plant chores.
We have the same enthusiasm in palms an tropicals , but I go to the extreme in my neighborhood, I normally spend thousands of dollars Planting palm trees in the neighborhood with permission from the neighborhood to do it on there property. I want walk out in the neighborhood and feel like I'm on vacation. I live in Wilmington nc. A subtropical zone 8 B
Hi Jeff! Those are really good looking orchid plants, and really nice sizes. I'm with Judy McKerrow and am hoping you will do a video about how you care for these orchids, and show us how you pot them up. I've only had Phals., but don't have very good luck keeping them alive after they've bloomed, but would like to try other orchids, too, like the Oncidium Sharry Baby that you got. Thank you so much for sharing!
I purchased a small False Bird of Paradise from Lowes last year. I overwintered it indoors and it did terrible. I can admit that I did not do the best in taking care of it but it all died back and the soil dried to a solid clumped mass. Once spring came around I noticed a tiny bit of green coming out from the soil so I stuck it outdoors. Eventually it started pushing out more leaves so I repotted it and now I have a plant that is even fuller than when I first bought it. Im in zone 7b. I feel more confident that I will be able to overwinter it this year in the off season and look forward to actually separating it into more plants next spring.
You are right a gardener’s work never done always something needs trimming or pulling or moving or repotting or watering. That’s why it’s a full time hobby. Glad to see pool recovering. I love the dicondra. I started bringing it into my garden this year and it’s done great can’t believe I’ve not had it before now
Technically Obtuse would be a good ska band name lol. I love those baskets they are like floating jellyfish hovering outside such a good color combo on those. I dunno if I'd paint those hooks it be a constant year maintainance once done cause they chip and flake. So many outdoor hooks and ect. are black they just sorta fade out into the background. Great improvements on the pool!!!
Your pool is looking so much better Jeff, thanks for sharing all of your beautiful plants in your backyard things are looking good. See you in your next video, sending love and hugs, bye!! 😊🌺🌺💜💜💜
Brain storming oh I feel your excitement....see if it wasnt for the pool needing filled with the timer. you wouldnt of got that great idea...little blessings. Thanks Jeff. Your white hydrangea pots are going great.
Your standard Hydrangeas are looking STUNNING this year! I will be very interested to watch your new drip irrigation idea unfold. We have been really cool here in the UK this year - floating around 60-70 degrees (on a good day) with lots of summer showers. Everything is looking very green and lush though which is nice at least. Lovely to see Pumpkin and Kitten again. 💖 xxx
I've found the only way I can grow Orchids is to place them behind other plants so I can't see them. It seems the more I ignore their existence the better they grow ;)
These ferns are called autumn ferns because in the early spring they spout up in orange- copper color with many dark grey or black squiggly fiddleheads that turn copper colored as they turn into fronds. The copper color stays that color until later in the season when these plants slowly begin to turn green. They stay green the rest of summer and fall and through the winter. I had thought the plant ( there when I bought this house) was dying or sick when I saw it in the spring because I'm used to normal ferns that begin green and stay that way. Mine stayed the same size for 7 years until I began redoing where they were and discovered 1 thousand pounds of rocks around them and everything else that was struggling. No wonder nothing was growing. I got rid of the rocks added some manure, and thickly mulched with cypress mulch. The autumn ferns are now many, healthy, happy and producing more of themselves. They are under the steps of the deck stairs and get dappled sun now and then. As much as I love all ferns these are my favorite, even though they do everything backwards; fall color in spring, and green in the fall when you wish something was still green, they are. Mine, zone 6a, last through the winter and look cheery and good and the stairs stop huge piles of snow from burying them. Right now, July, their spores-to-be are visible but not viable yet. I am hoping they continue to like reproducing so I can have nothing but them under the stairs. I just read up on gathering spores for replanting and, I guess I'll let mother nature do her job- it's a lot of timing and a bit more work than I want. Aside from enough moisture and mulch and a bit of dappled sun and perhaps protection from snow if you want to see them in winter, you can leave these beauties alone to themselves and all you have to do is enjoy them.
