Oak leaf Hydrangeas are the official native shrub of Alabama. 20 years ago, when they were developing the other end of our block there was a hillside full of them. Day before the clearing crew came I went down with a shovel and a wagon and dug up a dozen or so. Transplanted them to my yard. Not only did every one survive the move, but they have multiplied and spread alll around my yard. Just this spring I dug 6 volunteers to take over to my son's new landscape. I LOVE them.
I think they have gone back and forth on the "official" shrub of Alabama and finally designated the Oak leaf Hydrangea the official "native" shrub as Camellias are not native. Both are beautiful and have a place in any southern garden.
@@kathleenniles3941 If you are talking about the Cherokee rose, it is quite tender and might not live in a hard-freeze zone. It is from the China family which loves the Southeast, Southwest and California. Cherokee rose is "iffy" in zone 7A but does well in 7B through 11. Mermaid, which I think is an even prettier but thornier rendition of this rose, is also tender and will not thrive in zones below 7. Otherwise, I would say 'Mermaid is a must.'
I prune from the base as well. I love the look, and it makes less spaces for snakes to hide in summer. I have 2 terriers who will attack snakes, so keeping ground areas clear in the backyard is a top priority.
I have 4 out of the 5 shrubs listed and love them all, but hands down, my absolutely favorite is my Oak Leaf Hydrangea. Mine has been growing on the east side of my house and gets the morning sun and afternoon shade and when it blooms it truly is a show stopping awesome sight.
I planted an oak leaf hydrangea years ago and it was just a small stick. Now it’s a glorious shrub. Planted some more hydrangeas this spring, boxwood and an encore azalea. Glad to see you mention them here! ❤️🐇
I have one in my front yard that gets cranky if you show it too much love. I'm only allowed to visit it 3 times a year, or we have issues 🤣 we had a severe drought last year (towns in my area were literally running out of water). I watered that bloody rose bush once, and it looked spectacular. It was the only living thing in my yard.
This video was great I really enjoyed the shrub review I didn’t realize Encores were so tuff. The intro is getting fun I see Stuart added the Fiat coming to a screeching halt.
I love your videos, and oh, my heaven, do I ever LOVE your yard!!! It is what I have always wanted my yard to be! Wish I lived next door so I could see it every day. Be blessed!
Blooming shrubs, what an brilliant idea! great video... your voice and words, Ms Linda, are the icing on this garden cake... thank you... God bless you for taking good care of His creation.
I love how you limb shrubs up. I planted 3 Wegeila last fall, a bunny pruned the middle one maybe around Feb., it looks so much better than the other 2. Saved this to my Arboretum plant folder.
Linda, I would like to suggest to you the Peggy Martin rose, aka Katrina rose. It survived Hurricane Katrina (flooded with Gulf of Mexico salt water for weeks it was the only plant that survived in Peggy Martin's yard). It's a spectacular evergreen climbing/rambling rose with clusters of pink blossoms in spring, basically thorn-less (I think it must be related to Lady Banksia rose). Carefree, no disease issues, and it survived the brutal week in Louisiana with snow/ice and temps in the teens.
What a gorgeous weigela. I'm still adding plants to my yard of 6 years. That is something I'm going to look into to. Thank you for great videos and always giving me such great ideas and knowledge. Love, hugs, prayers.
Have you done a vid about your every green shrubs and how to design a garden around them? I'm intrigued when you say you don't weed much because the shrubs grow so tightly together that they crowd the weeds out. I usually make beds kidney shaped around my trees but I have an area at the side of my house that is shaped like a square where I've had herbs and perennials and now I'm evolving and thinking I need some structure with shrubs besides the foundation plantings so maybe I don't have to weed so much! I'm 70 yrs young and agree with you! Everyone needs a convertible in their lifetime! Mine was when I was growing up....my father loved convertibles and then I bought a red 2 seater convertible when I was 20 and drove until it died and I was having my first child! My dream is to have another one before I die!!! You should look at and try a couple of my fav roses. Zephirine Drouhin Rose,-climber, no thorns and VERY fragrant- Lavender Lassie-climber, thorns, fragrant-and The Fairie Rose-climber, thorns. All old fashioned and heirloom roses. I have really enjoyed your videos and have OD'd since I recently found you.
I love your suggestions! I actually purchased a snowball viburnum from plantsbymail after my husband and I admired yours in your videos. Can't wait to get it in the ground and watch it grow. You are so inspiring, Linda!
The light is beautiful !🌞 Years ago my mum snook a cutting of wegelia from a church yard !! so I named it sacred wegelia ! ☺ yours is stunning. Love the hydrangea too, all of shrubs are perfect. Have a lovely weekend X❤X
Here is my story of a plant that was almost destroyed by weather. There is a row of old fashioned spirea bushes (Spiraea vahhouttei) in front of my house. I believe they are original to the 90-year-old house. Years ago an ice storm bent the branches over. They were lying on the ground. The bushes had been about 5 feet tall. I chopped them down to 1 foot tall. They grew back, but I've kept them no taller than 4 feet. I also learned how to hand prune them so they don't get top heavy. I love how in the spring the branches arch over the bush when they are loaded with white flowers.
Linda I think you are so right saying this years blooms look so much fuller is because of the very cold winter. We have noticed it as well here in Pennsylvania. Louisa
I agree with you with planting shrubs that bloom. I love the double file viburnum which I've had for years and then I have a viburnum snowball. I have all sorts of hydrangeas including a climbing Hydrangea. I also have a thing for Vines. My neighbor commented on how many Vines I have and why I like them so much. I told her that they're like the drapery of my garden rooms. You know years ago, I lived in Tulsa Oklahoma. I was quite a bit younger, in my twenties. I tried to garden there, at the house. But I was just not used to the awful earth that I had to deal with and that scorching hot summer. It wasn't till I came back to Ohio that I was able to really start gardening. I have amazing soil here and I don't know if your house came with that or whether you had to build your soil through composting, but it looks like either way your plants love their home. Yes I still put out annuals in pots and somewhat in the landscape but most of my garden is perennials and shrubs. I hope your new choice in color and style for your front yard works for you. And hopefully you'll love it. I have some tried and true favorites, but still I like to mix it up. Happy gardening and I hope to see your QVC line very soon.
Trimming the lower region of shrubs to expose the beautiful structure of the plant is the best tip I’ve learned from Linda. I’ve even noticed that the landscapers maintaining the common areas in my neighborhood must have seen your channel - they’ve adapted your signature tip♥️
I raised the canopy of a vitex and a lorapetlum. I love it. In an opposite response, I cut my smoke tree to a stump. I really struggled with the decision...limb up or cut down. I love having the blooms at eye level.
I don’t have that much space so I’m putting in the small compact flowering shrubs. I’m tired of perennial flowers not performing up to par! Flowering shrubs really are the way to go.
Have you ever thought of writing? Your descriptive words are so beautiful! You make us all want to get out and prune, plant, and love in our outdoor spaces! Thank you so much for including the cards with the plant name and info, it is so helpful when trying to find the plant at a garden center. 🌻 BTW, Stuart does such a splendid job! Thank you! 🎥
Look at delbard roses. Particularly the parfum series. I have both david Austin and Delbard roses growing in a subtropical environment ( Noosa Australia). The Delbard outperform the DAs in all accounts perfume growth flowering etc . I try not to use sprays except to save a plant. The Delbard are over 12 foot tall and have hundreds of blooms all year. Occasionally one dies but I have been successful with cuttings from original plant . So no problem there.
Wow...I love what you did by pruning the weigela , it’s so pretty... the way the branches hangs like it’s a flower basket. I thought it was a monster hanging basket at first until you showed the pruned branches underneath, very nice!👍👍
I went to my local nursery this morning and bought a weigella!!! I'm so looking forward to it growing! Thank you for posting this video. I never knew or heard of weigella till you posted this. We planted it in our front bed. Do you use ant special fertilizer for it?
Ballerina roses are a soft pink color, hybrid musks and have pannicles similar to a hydrangea but stiffer. David Austin roses are difficult for gardeners in the humid, buggy south who do not spray and I don't. Depending on your location, watch for the rootstock onto which your David Austin roses are grown or whether they are own-root roses. As a rosarian, I would recommend doing research on antique roses (Heirloom gets confused with the company that sells roses so I will say old fashioned or antique) or old fashioned. I much prefer antique roses for my hot, humid, buggy, fungus-prone climate (Noisettes, Chinas and Teas, not to be confused with hybrid teas). In colder climates, David Austins are great roses, but in very cold climates, some of the Damasks, Gallicas, Albas, Centifolias and the hybrid musk roses. Some of the old garden roses from which David Austin has used for hybridization are the best smelling on the planet.
You’re right about David Austin’s for colder climates. I just gave away the 2 potted and my mom never came around to dig up the other 6...so I’m stuck with them for another year. I’m in California.
Great choices, however, we simply cannot grow azaleas here in Salt Lake City. The soil is extremely alkaline and even if you try to make a specific acidic bed, it disappears quickly. I've tried! Same with anything in that family. Oak leaf hydrangea grows beautifully here, better than any other variety because it's more tolerant of our soils.
Weigela is truly the best flowering shrub, I have a yellow one! You should trim it a bit as it can end up having dead looking parts of branches at the bottom. This shrub spreads very fast, it I'll lift block pavers, so look out and cut them off. It flowers all summer in the UK, till late autumn.
Hey, a couple years ago, I watched you talk about treatment that you put on your shrubs and trees that flower and I can’t remember what it was but it gave me my best crop of apples I’ve ever had so I’m hoping that you will answer and tell us again what the fall treatment that you use on flowering shrubs and trees was?
I have fallen in love with topiaries. Abd not to brag but I find im otetty goid at it. It us si fun. I've done 4 now . My question. The 1st one i did id putting out new growth all over. It is,a dwarf spruce.when do i trim it or don't i trim it. That I'm confused about. Is there a topiary guide book to refer to. You are my guide book. But you arent sitting on my end table.
Linda, you have such a garden-informative channel. I just love how much you know about plant life. Just as an aside, don't know if your neighbors have a spraying service for their lawns but if they do, the drift from those toxins can cause your roses to look like they have rose rosette disease when, in fact, that all you need do is prune that part off and when the spraying stops, your roses will return to normal. RRD is a gift given to us by a mite with a long history but I won't go into that. Don't forget the bourbon roses for their beauty and fragrance. I think you could grow one well in your garden. Think Austin used bourbons for in some of his hybridization but would have to check before swearing on that. Madame Isiac Periere would be lovely for you.
@@LindaVater That is sad. I heard that Oklahoma had been hit hard by it a number of years ago. I guess the tornadoes and hurricane bring it in and it stays as an unwelcome guest.
When other shrubs are still just sticks in the spring garden here in Western Massachusetts, my Spireas have the most beautiful foliage already, I have always loved them and as you stated, with all new varieties coming out in recent years there is lots to choose from.
I'm happy to see your oakleaf hydrangeas doing so well. I planted one last spring and it didn't flower. However, I've heard that's possible in the first year. So, I am anxiously waiting and watching it daily to see if it will perform this year. I don't see any hint of blooms yet but I'm in the Pacific Northwest. I'm glad you indicated that it gets really 'big' because that's exactly what I want. Mine is planted in shade/dappled sun with some very late afternoon sun, so I hope that's not too shady. Love your channel!!!
Linda, I must say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. This was a great trip through your garden, and the information you imparted to me/us, well...it is going to be very helpful. I have three spots for three of the five plants you just showed us. Where is my shovel? Zone 8/Seattle here.
I am new to and find myself enjoying your videos, but would ask that you please include information regarding where you garden, even if it is just the USDA zone and garden soil, climate, etc. descriptions.
Linda you should get a portion of the commission off those 2 homes for sale on your block! 😁 As always - wonderful video! I have a lot of roses but I have one that is a persnickety plant that suffers from every rose issue except rose rosette - and I would not be surprised if it picked that up too. I’m thinking of putting it in the trash can this year. It’s a pretty rose but a pain. Have a great day! I have my DVR set for QVC and have it on my calendar - can’t wait!
I had problems with cuttings too, but last summer I bent some stems from my hydrangea down and buried them under the ground, then put a rock over the part that was buried. I think I nicked the part of the stem that I buried so they would develop roots. This year I dug them up and planted them elsewhere. They are doing very well. Best thing about this is you really don't do much after you start them - they will take care of themselves. I saw it done online, I'm sure you can find a video on it.
I listened carefully to the first shrub mentioned. I thought you said ryejella, but I couldn’t find it on google. I finally read the description and found wegeila. Which I can’t find either. Thank goodness googles suggestions weigela came up, but in many forms. Might you have a link you can share? Thank you 🙏🏻 love for your fun and enlightening videos!
I'm not sure what to do with my soil concerning my white bloom hydrangea. The bloom changed its color from white to green. What do I need to do to the soil to get the beautiful white bloom back. I am a novice gardener, well if I can even call myself a gardener. Thanks so much for whatever help you can give me. God bless.
That weigela form reminds me of a woman in an off-the-shoulder dress! Those blooms against the gold foilage is just gorgeous and coordinates w/your other golds X the way. My very 1st DA Rose arrives tomorrow - a yellow climber named Graham Thomas! Will be going into a container w/an obelisk at the front door and hopefully climb up and around my door frame over the summer. What a great list of flowering shrubs!! Looking so great in the garden!! Nice video.
So lucky! I've been trying to choose a climber for side of my house and was looking on their website just yesterday. Not sure what color yet though 😳. They are all so beautiful.
@@eileenmc8808 Check out YT channel called Garden Obsessions - they LOVE David Austin roses and have lots of climbers. They talk about sun/shade, their fragrances, how they train them, colors, size of blooms, etc. They are a military couple who is passionate about their roses...they grow in zone 7b VA. I am in 6a PA.
Love the interaction on this comment! You can’t go wrong with yellow Graham Thomas, apricot colored heritage, cerise pink Gertrude Jekyll, or really, any of them!
I live in WA and have 3 weigelas which were spectacular this year too. Wow! just Wow! do you have to stake those curving branches at all. I am getting ready to prune mine.
I had at least 6 different flowering bushes where we lived in our last house, I loved gardening at that house, not realizing I wouldn't be able to garden in our next house. We moved 3 years ago, and unfortunately, we can't have any flowers or flowering bushes here now, we have about 15 deer that regularly visit our yard. 😩 I planted hydrangeas when we first moved here, and the next morning, deer had eaten both of them to the ground, I didn't know we had deer here! We planted ligustrum bushes and the deer strip all the leaves off of the bushes in the wintertime. I'm so sad to not be able to have flowering bushes here! I'm looking for bushes that deer won't eat! 🙄😊 Do you know of any? Thank you!
Hi Linda always enjoy your vids. 2 questions these flowering shrubs are they scented (other than the roses)? And what similar type shrub would grow in zone 10?
Ooh! I would think you’d have so many more choices than we have in our colder zones! I would suggest searching online for blooming shrubs for zone 10. You might also, search by color, depending on what color inform you were looking for!
