Welcome to Seasonal Designs by Dawn! My channel is all about Garden Inspiration!!
I want to give you ideas that can help you put together gorgeous containers for ALL seasons....Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. I hope to be able to answer gardening questions you might have and offer hands-on gardening information and ideas I garden in Zone 5 but many of my container and garden ideas offered here are applicable to a wide range of zones. I often show names of plants used along with their tags so you can take a snapshot of them when your out at the garden center.
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Hi Dawn! Your property and gardens are so lovely-each area is special and well cared for. If I were walking through the grassy areas, I’d be saying the same…..so lush and green. Love your planters and look forward to more as the summer begins. Thank you so much…I can only dream of such spaces!
Garden looks great! It took me a LOT of years of gardening to appreciate green colors and textures as a garden perk….much preferring the colors of annual flowers, but as my yard aged and the shade grew, I grew with it and now I appreciate the variety of colors and textures. I’m in Indiana and I still haven’t moved my houseplants outside
Thank you so much. I feel like colors and textures of the foliage just add the depth to the garden and then the flowers are a spectacular perk so to speak. You know I don’t have any house plants out other than my bird of Paradise and my gardenia. And quite honestly, I probably should not have moved them out, but they’re so big and heavy that once they’re out they’re out.
Absolutely beautiful! Your garden beds are inspiring me to plant more drifts in my space. And I’ve been researching prairie gardens so I can start my own since I saw yours last year. I’m curious if you grow roses since I don’t seem to hear or see them in your tours?
Thank you! I am happy I inspire you! I do not have a lot of roses. I have one small patch of carpet roses near the front of the house. Do you grow roses?
@@SeasonalDesignsbyDawn Yes, I have about 30 roses in my zone 6a garden. Most of them are Kordes or Austins. I've been studying your plant selections because I want some companion plants for my roses. I'm going for a clean look with a simple color palette of white, cream, pastel pink, and green. After seeing all of the gorgeous spring purples in your beds I am tempted to bring in some of that color. Best of luck as you prepare for the August garden tour!
The prairie garden with the lupins is truly breathtaking! Your other gardens are like paintings too. I wish I lived closer to you to come see them in person.
Stunning!! loving the height of your containers also!! What type of grass do you two have, wondering if you have to edge the stones making up the pathway from the greenhouse and house?
Thank you. The grass seed is Madison Parks. And yes, we do have to edge once a year like the rest of our beds. If you keep on it with a weed wacker that really helps!
Oh my goodness, what a fabulous tour this was. You have put a tremendous amount of work to transform the swath of land into this Eden Paradise. I really appreciate the way you can very clearly introduce us to each of the plants in your garden and tell us a little bit about your process for creating each and everyone of these beds. I especially love how you mix very classic items such as your urns and your birdbath planters with something as rustic as your vegetable garden It truly is a work of art, but it’s so much more than that I hope to come and see your garden this summer
Oh man, that stuff is horrible and quite honestly I don’t think I eliminated at all. No idea where it came from but you can have that stuff lol. I tried to smother it for an entire season with mild success. What came back I spritzed with a little round up.
In what part of Wisconsin are you ? Wisconsin is my home state and will forever be in my heart even after living in another state for 30 plus years. 💐💚🙃
So gorgeous. Question about your Monrovia woodland garden: was that variegated gout weed in the before clip, or another type of ground cover? I have that everywhere. Some people have told me it’s a type of gout weed but I am not entirely sure. It does spread like crazy and I have to pull it out to give other plants a chance.
Thank you. Yes, variegated bishops weed or gout weed all the same thing and totally horrible. I am not sure how it ever got into my woods there, but I just can’t get rid of it totally. My goal now is just to keep it out of the new garden I planted, and if I have to spritz it with Roundup, I will! if you can eliminate it totally you would be doing the right thing!
@@SeasonalDesignsbyDawn Thanks for the reply! Alrighty, then. I guess I will have to be more assertive in dealing with this. Pulling it only seems to offer temporary space for other plants, and it grows back quickly after a rain. Do you worry about roundup getting on your other plants and damaging them?
No problem. What I did in this space is, I tried to smother it for an entire season first. That seemed to partially work, but that made it spread. The second thing I did was spray that entire area with round up. That seemed to work, but unfortunately, it has already spread into that tree line and I can’t really get rid of it there by spraying because I have other vegetation in there that I don’t want to kill. I planted and mulched heavily and now I will watch for it and if it pops up at all, I will spritz a leaf right away. I’m very very careful when I use it and I have yet to kill another plant. You just need to make sure the sprayer you’re using doesn’t drip or spray in a wide angle. You want a little spritz on the leaves of the plant you’re trying to eliminate. I don’t use it often but sometimes you need to on occasion.
What a treat to find a new garden tour this morning! I have so many words ... stunning, breathtaking, inspiring are a few. Many thanks for the opportunity to experience such artistry.
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I would like to plant some seeds of those ornamental cabbage to have for this fall. Can you please tell me the name of them, who produces the seeds and where I can get them? Thank you so much.
Greetings from Ireland, Great Ideas, I have a small front garden with four flowerbeds, Fifty two pots of perennials and six pots of annuals on the windowsills. My wife has no interest in gardening and she tells me that it looks like a mini garden centre. This year I planted the six windowsill pots with African daisies that I grew from seed. These pots are not that big, but big enough for African daisies.
Hi Dawn, Thanks for another great container idea. I am not familiar with angel wing cico (?), what does it like and does it flower? This year I used rainbow ascot euphorbia in my winter containers and am trying now in my summer pots (same plant) and it grows 14-16 inches tall and I have really enjoyed it. Also use different varieties of heuchera year round (zone 8B). Always interested in new things! Like seeing your segments-full of good information.
Hi Janice. It is a succulent type plant called Senecio candicans 'Senaw'. However, I can tell you I’m off to a rotten start with it because it has been so wet and rainy here. Something tells me it’s not gonna be super happy. But we’ll see.
I have a partial sun spit that I was wondering what I wanted to put there. Thank you for the video. I am going to look and see if I can run down a Jack Frost brunnera! I’m loving this plant. Very beautiful.
What amazing planters! Really appreciate the photos with labels for the plants you used in each one. VERY helpful and informative! I got some great ideas for planters than I need to fill. Thanks so much for the awesome video and information!
