3 of My Favorite Sun-Loving Perennials! 🌸🌿☀️ // Garden Answer 

I love Laura’s videos. I’m amazed at how beautiful she looks with her hair curled and makeup on. When I garden, I come away looking like I crawled out of a primordial ooze.

Hi Laura. Yesterday I turned 57. I wanted to share with you the gifts you and Aaron have given me over the last year. I started gardening last March and was failing miserably (Phoenix 9B), planting things at the wrong time, in the wrong light, etc. - every rookie gardener mistake. Your channel kept being suggested to me and I started watching. Seeing you break up tasks (the weekly zone map tasks), seed starting, and even doing what I would have thought previously as mundane tasks like weeding - has boosted how much I get accomplished and in turn, my enthusiasm (see one, do one). Each day the yard looks healthier and prettier. The Hubs and I find ourselves 'walking the estate' at the end of the day to see what's grown since he saw it the night before, then sitting in the rockers just relaxing when previously we rarely spent any time out back (we have a little over a 1/4 acre and have lived here over a decade). I'm healthier than I've been in years from all the stretching and bending and am getting 'farm girl feet' tan : ) Thank you both for the gifts you have bestowed upon me by sharing what you know and always encouraging new gardeners like me that there's more than one way to do things, it's ok to make mistakes, and to just keep trying. Love to all from 100 degree Phoenix - yep my tomatoes are already scorching.

I love that you have your own little paparazzi behind you at the beginning 😊

I love the way you have your gardens. All are beautiful with clean and appealing pathways. Who says a homestead can't be functional and productive as well as clean and aesthetically beautiful!

Good morning ☀️. I’m going shopping for flowers plants today 😍. Love your show 🥰. I’m from Ukraine 🇺🇦 ( I live in Chicago right now ) and I grew up in the farm so I love playing in the dirt every time I get a chance .

So cute that Benjamin is filming behind Laura! ❤❤

Laura it makes me super happy to find another gardener that loves orange and peach colours in their garden! It is such a fun colour. Every year I try to find more perennials and annuals to use in my landscape. I call them the kiss of sunshine!

I can't get over those orange tulips. ..... So so beautiful

The break is over! Laura hits the ground running! 💚💚💚

Could you do an exclusive video on trees on your property with an update on last year's extensive tree planting?

I love your channel! I am so motivated and inspired to elevate my garden. I have been stumped for a long time on just what to do to my yard. And I am still figuring it out. But, after discovering this channel, I watch it everyday now and you all do a great job with your work! Beautiful work as usual!

I started yarrow from seed using winter sowing method. Did not know or realize it doesn’t like to be fertilized! Thanks for the tip!

🌼🌷 Laura: I’m so sorry I haven’t kept up with you & your videos. 🌸 Life has been crazy. ✝️ God Bless You & Those You Love.💕

I so love those tulips they look so happy.. Feels like to me a bit of sunshine in everyone so beautiful

Love this music while planting. Beautiful spring day. Thank you for this channel and all you bring to the world.

Good morning Laura and Aaron! Let the planting begin! Hugs from N.C..❤️

It is so satisfying to see the changes happening in the garden. So lovely. The music was relaxing . Benjamin filming behind you was precious 🥰❤️

How I love your videos. Always inspiring. The flowers, the music, angles of filming, production. Just perfection 🥰

Good morning Laura and family Those plants are going to look gorgeous, you inspire me very time you plant something, today we got a cold front in and getting some rain 💦 which we need badly thank you Lord. Have a wonderful rest of the day and weekend 👋🙂🌱🌸🌷

I love to see your gardens! They are so beautiful-never tire of seeing them change and grow!

So pretty! The plants, the landscape, and Laura!

What a joy it must be to fill your land with such beautiful plants

It's finally getting time to work in the garden. You have helped us do much this year with our plans of redoing the landscape. Wish us luck.

I never get tired of seeing you work out your spacing and your levels as you design your beds.

You have a little paparazzi over your shoulder there Laura 😅…how cute!

Woot woot, all zone 3! Love it❤

Love both those areas so much! I think the rock path area is going to be gorgeous!

I'm obsessed with my Pink Profusion Salvia. They rebloomed at least 4 times last year, each time just as full as the first, and they started blooming this year in early April. They look spectacular right now.

Good morning, Laura ☕️ I love all those plants! That corner behind the grapevines is shaping up beautifully 😍 Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈

Those pumpkin-colored tulips are gorgeous! The yarrow looks great beside them 🧡🧡🧡

This was fun . HOWEVER, I enjoy more when you share your knowledge with smaller areas - like when you began in your business . I loved seeing what you did this year at your sister and sister in law’s houses. It relates more to my life. And, I wish we could see more of both. I find myself looking for other channels to see and learn what is more relatable. Many of us don’t have such large areas as you have. Also, I enjoy seeing your family ! 😊 I feel overwhelmed with you at times- you put so much out there…. whew! 😊

I loved those orange tulips. They caught my eye immediately and I definitely want to look for that variety next year!

Spot on with the music. So relaxing with my morning cup of coffee

Love those orange tulips! That's usually not a color I go for but I think I might buy a bunch of orange tulips this fall!

LOVE the peaceful, soothing music! Goes perfectly with gardening. 😊

Aww, little cameraman Benjamin helping crew the job! Adorable ❤ Beautiful flowers, really lovely colours. Thanks for another nice video!

That would be an interesting video - showing all of the perennials and annuals arriving !! 😊

So exciting to see you planting again. Feels like it has been a while.

Every Time I watch your videos I just wanna go and buy flowers from my own local garden shop 😊love watching your videos and your garden is the prettiest 💕 lots of love from Turkiye

We just bought a house with a bigger yard and I can not wait to start planting!

Love your planting videos. Have you ever considered direct/scatter sowing native wildflowers in the newer areas while you decide on your final plants?

Funny, The weather you guys are having is very much like Michigan weather.

i went to home depot last spring with my sweet little coonhound, Jasper. He "picked out" the cats pajama's for planting in his yard 😊 It bloomed continually and looked great all season. Jasper and I were very pleased with his selection. Highly recommend!

I’m so happy to see the flowers coming❤ can’t wait for the fruits and everything is in it’s my happy place.. besides the garden center.

Now the fun begins!!!come on Spring planting!

The first video of yours I watched, was one where you talked about loving that lemony laced elderberry. I got really excited the other day when I went to a local greenhouse and found it. I love it, I haven't decided where it's going yet, but I loved the look of yours so much that I wrote the name of it down when I saw the video. It was the only thing written on a whole piece of paper. I'm so glad I found it. I love the bright chartreuse color! Also, I'm a dedicated fan now and I watch everything you post and love it. Thanks for being so inspirational! Your constant happiness and love of the beautiful things is refreshing to see every morning. When you don't have a new video, I watch an old one!

Some of my favorites too. I have them all in my garden and they all came back after our hard winter freeze.

Good Morning! 🌷 I have all these plants in my gardens & I love them!! Let the color show begin!! 🥰🌈🌸🌿

What a lovely way to end the week.

More beautiful plants. Thank you! Can't wait to see you dahlia patch coming up!

Gorgeousness, love the Yarrow near those stunning coloured Tulips x 💙🙏😇🇦🇺🕊️🌷

At first I thought you were doing a collaboration with Epic Gardening….nope it’s just Benjamin popping up from behind the flowers. 😂😊❤

I am going to use the pink profusion and cat's pajama's in some landscape refresh at my church all because of how well they do for you. (Although its been hard going for me to find them as of yet- Omaha area, zone 5b). I love how enthusiastic you are for these blooms!! Thank-you for giving us all ideas for our spaces every day. Have a great one!

Always like it when you double-clutch. You change your mind and tell people to try it and if it doesn't work, try something else.

The Orange tulips with that color yarrow is a dream combo!

I always giggle a bit when you talk about yarrow , they are weeds where I grew up in Alaska … I mean as any little kid I would pick the wild roses and wild geranium Monks hood etc. but even little it was the yarrow we would pull as weeds 😂 I love that. Depending on location what is a weed somewhere is the star of the garden somewhere else 🤩

Love all three of these! 🙂

I can’t believe how tall Benjamin has grown! Oh my goodness!❣️

Look at the orange tulips dancing in the wind😊

I’ve learned so much watching your videos, Laura. I lost 2 peach Drift rose bushes to Rosetta Disease last year. I loved those bushes as they were just loaded with blooms all summer long. I reworked their bed last Spring & after I was advised to not to put roses in again so soon, I decided to use mostly perennials. As I have an auto immune type of arthritis that mostly affects my spine, I knew I needed to minimize my effort & simplify things. To have the color I’ve come to enjoy from my beautiful Drift roses, I knew adding new annuals every year would require too much from me. The sun just beats this bed & the whole front of the house, all afternoon long so the plants would have to love the sun. As we have clay soil here, with help from my husband, we added some manure & other stuff to lighten up & improve the soil a bit. I started w/a front border of Cat’s Pajama in that bed. It didn’t do a ton last year but looks really good now & is blooming here in zone 7b (we’re in the burbs, about 30 miles north of Atlanta.) I didn’t know Nepeta is not a heavy feeder, so I’m glad I checked in to see today’s video. I added a Stokes Aster “Peachie’s Pick too. It bloomed beautifully & is coming back again. I added a concrete birdbath & the front side of it is ringed with 3 white Gara. Right now they are big & blooming like crazy. Toward the end of last summer I added some Aliums & they are sending up bloom stalks right now. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. I lost a Veronica & assume the cause was a particularly bad freeze we had here in December as we lost or had a few things nipped pretty badly. This year I added a Lupin to this bed & it’s starting to bloom now. I know I said I planned to use mostly Perennials but my Grandgirl, Bailey, & I did plant an 8-pack of Zinnias that are a pretty mix of colors & they seem to be taking hold well. I’m also trying my luck with Truffla Pink Gomphrena. I’ve taken your advice though & only put 2 plants in as their spot isn’t huge. I’m hoping to see it go crazy for me too. We’ll see how it goes. I have learned it’s better for me to plant just 1 or 2 of a “new-to-me” plant, & not 6 or 8. Especially when it comes to perennials. I learned the hard way after I’d chosen a less than desirable site for my new 8 PW Lavender plants. We had a very wet early Summer last year. After taking out the Drift & planting the Lavender, I saw just how much rainwater from a nearby gutter ran right into that bed. Yep, it drowned all 8 of my big PW Lavender plants I’d sprung for at a locally owned Garden Center. Lesson learned. 😩

The cart bed looked like a wonderful painting of colors. It had to be so joyful to add these to the view.

What a joy to see colours today. So many beautiful plants and loving were you put them. What a beautiful show the saliva hads to your flower bed. Just so inspiring.

Love to see the arbs. Blowing in the wind. Shows that the screening plants add movement. Thanks

Omg Benjamin so cute “filming” at beginning of video🥰

My tiny garden is so full. I am envious of your massive space. I go to garden centers and never fail to be smitten by something. I buy one then I walk around garden seeking a spot to plant it.

Those are so gorgeous! Benjamin is learning to vlog! so cute!

Love the yellow and salmon\orange color flowers

Hi Laura 🌺 wonderful plants they will be amazing in your garden .You can plant nepeta near the orange tulips and their colors will be charming . Have anice day .🦋🌺🦋

And she’s off! Let the fun begin!

Good Evening Laura Greetings from Margaret Lynch SOUTHERN IRELAND love all those flowers when they bloom had a disaster this week the cattle went throughinto into the electric fence and into my tramplled everything ate all my cabbages strawberries 🍓 plants trampled my onions just sat and down and cried

Your sister-in-law is very lucky to have this set up for her. What a great space. If I won the gift card, I would get some raised garden beds and tomato trellises. Thank you Gardeners Supply for the opportunity

👋Good Friday afternoon, Laura!!! 👋Hi, Benjamin!!! Coming out to help Momma plant? I didn't think that I liked yarrow, but after seeing the foliage, I just changed my mind. The flowers are pretty; they remind me of lantana. But, that foliage is devine.🤩🤗 Verrrrrrry nice, soft music! Good job Aaron/Ken!!!👏👏👏👏 I did enjoy this video; it is always nice to see growth and color, in our yards/gardens/flowerbeds! Have a Blessed and Beautiful day/night/weekend 🌞/🌜✨️⭐️🌟⭐️✨️ 🌐 everyone!!! Kimberley F in the Arizona desert 🏜 USA 🇺🇸

Laura you are so energetic you make my say love your video n how you explain everything have a wonderful day

Blue and apricot colored flowers are my favorite

That music is everything !❤

It doesn't usually happen that we are so far ahead of you season wise. My daffs are done, getting ready to deadhead the tulips and the peonies should start blooming this week. I think I need the yarrow in my garden!

The new home neighbours must love the borrowed landscape they get to enjoy. A front row seat to all the awesomeness that is being created!❤🤗🇨🇦

Love these plants! I need to get some in my garden this year!

Love my Cats Pajamas nepeta! Such a reliable plant-we even planted it at the front if our subdivision where there is no irrigation and it lived! 😊

It's fun that here in Finland 🇫🇮 yarrow is a weed almost everybody hates (we got white and pink) and just cant get rid of. But some make tea or ointments from them, so we got that going. Such pretty much wow 💚💚💚

Afternoon Everyone 🍃🌺🍃

Good morning! Quick video this morning. I’m still waiting to plant in the landscape, to cold right now. Hopefully this week will warm up!😊

Such a pretty day for planting 🌱🌞

Love the new flowers and color is amazing.

That was quite soothing to watch.

I like these videos that are focus on specific types of plants.

Those Shogun tulips are so, so beautiful. I'm going to try planting them in the future and they look great with that yarrow.

Absolutely love the orange tulips and yarrow together sooo much!🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

Planted one yarrow last year, in a small patch of a bed where the sprinkler hardly hits it. I love anything drought tolerant now,,and that thing has just ballooned into a gorgeous plant, blooming it’s head off. I am going to cut and dry the heads, but right now just enjoying a plant that does not require me to spray, water or pray over it. Have pink perfusion salvia, cat’s pajamas, and Walker’s Low catmint all of which I adore for the same reasons as the yarrow. I am especially aware of how plants can thrive without too much water simply because that is their nature, and these are some of them for sure. Water is expensive here and the process of watering, and the cost, both take away from the enjoyment of gardening for me. So, I am overjoyed to be able to plant beautiful plants and not worry about critters or water. As always, thanks for the wonderful advice, and you really cannot offer this kind of information too often. Plants are expensive today, and it’s nice to buy with some assurance that they will thrive in many different areas of your garden.

Laura you are glowing today.

I gave some Cats Pajamas Nepeta to a friend and it’s the star of their rock wall garden. Now I have to get some for me. Thanks for the inspiration. S. Jersey Shore Gardener 🪴

I live in Northern NM we just got SNOW today. Yup spring is very late. I love purple flowers 💜💜

Love watching these. Getting started to finish my front landscape. Because of your influence ❤❤❤

Quick video cute plants. Love those orangey tulips so gorgeous. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

It’s so nice to see color!🌸💚

Hi Laura! Love your channel and beautiful gardens. Had to chuckle when you mentioned again that you wasn't going to put perennials in your south garden I think we all knew as soon as you said it we were going to see perennials. Lol!Love it

I have nepeta in my garden and love it too! I don’t have any Pink Profusion Salvia. I may have to do a hunt for that one! So pretty!

I’m in 8b SC. Just letting everyone know who is in the same zone. Cat’s pajama doesn’t do well here at all. Also my cat enjoyed munching on it while it lasted, but i did not mind, he wasn’t eating it aggressively or anything like that. lol. Yarrow does great here and spreads but not too bad, Salvia does ok if planted on the slop or mound that it drains well and in full to part sun. I’m talking about these exact PW plants, tried them all few times.

Beautiful flowers! I can't believe how weird the winter and spring was this year.👀 I hope that summer will not be hot and humid for me here in Georgia.❤🤗❤

I'm so glad I found your RU-vid channel. I liked container gardening videos. I live in central NY and in zone 5a and b. I finally was able to get some flowers for the containers in the front yard. Dwarf peach snapdragon and gerbera daisy.