Oh my gosh! What a brilliant observer of plants. Truly loved Dr Dirr and admire their garden. Thanks Jim and the audio isn’t that big a problem folks so watch! You will learn.
Loved this video!! I could listen to him and Dr. Armitage talk about plants for days! I wish I were younger, rich, and had about 10 acres so I could plant and watch grow all the beautiful things they have shared with us! 😊💖
I say this daily. If I could plant a tree or shrub every day or at least every week I’d have an excess of endorphins and dopamine, plenty in excess to harvest to sell to all the poor people who have never been able to enjoy a garden.
What a great video - a most gracious and knowledgeable host for sure. I've been fortunate to visit Dr. Dirr's garden on several occasions and am always blown away. Having visited in Spring, it was so much fun to see everything in their Autumn glory. He & Bonny (who is a gifted artist) are always so happy to open their garden and their home to those who wish to visit, wander & sit a spell and talk horticulture. And he (almost) always sends you home with a souvenir - a hydrangea, bulbs, seedlings - I was excited to hear him talk about the "Irish Lace" hydrangea - I recently acquired one from him thru the American Hydrangea Society - this past summer, since we were unable to meet in person, he donated hydrangeas for a fund raiser. I'm so glad you got to visit with him in his garden - he is a treasure !!! thanks to you & Dr. Dirr for sharing this video - it was a great watch on a Saturday afternoon!!
Can we get quarterly visits to see the same trees in different times of the year? It would be a lot of work to show the previous seasons image for each tree but oh man what a valuable video that would be. Or, time stamps for the same specimen in other videos for each season… 😬 don’t hate me 😂 I’m greedy, I know! But such a video would be viral I bet.
Wow you've had my two favorite plant authors you've had on here. Michael Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants has long been the most used book in my gardening library. Allan Armitage's Herbaceous Perennial Plants is another favorite. Georgia is one lucky state to have both these people!
I have several of Dr Dirrs’ books and am so grateful that he wrote another book. Thank you for the tour of your garden; you truly love your work. Jim you’ve outdone yourself bringing these hero’s to our screens. Now to get a Dan Hinkley interview and garden tour. I remember ordering his catalogues from Heronswood each year just to get an education on the plants he collected (and his humorous introductions).
Hands down Michael Dirr is THE best of the best! His knowledge, passion, inspiration, and humor make what would be an overwhelmingly task of learning about trees and shrubs fun! I have all of his books but my bible is "Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs" and I am thrilled with this series - I could listen to him all day. Because of him I also was inspired to check out Longwood Gardens and Mt. Cuba Center (DuPont) in Delaware. This is a must have and Thank You for having him on - I hope you do more videos together!
Stunning japanese maples. The large upright orange/yellow japanese maple that you cut to when he was talking about Seiryu is gorgeous. Maybe it's the Sango Kaku he mentioned? Thank you for the longer video! When someone is this knowledgeable and easy to listen to, I always hope for a long video.
“If you can keep it looking good around here, then you can keep looking good anywhere.” “To hell with homogeneity, you can do whatever you want in your own garden”
I love these interviews. I wish that you would list the plants discussed with time signatures in your description. It would be very helpful for future reference.
“The H%#* with homogeneity, I want spontaneity” when referring to one’s own home garden. Lol. Love it! This dude marches to the beat of his own drum! Refreshing. Man that’s a good quote! Look at all those colors. I’ve tried to stay away from planting dogwoods…until now. I found the Appalachian Joy Dogwood online after watching this and bought one. It will fit in well on my property with the other 50 plus Japanese maples I have.
Great video with Dr. Dirr. His plant knowledge is endless, I think. His yard is pretty wonderful. I noticed the audio issues you mentioned for all of about 15 seconds. Then I was so engaged listening to Dr. Dirr talk about plants that Ibpaid no attention to the quality of the audio.
“You build the garden for yourself, your family, your wife and you don’t really worry what the neighbors think or when the garden designer comes in and says boy, there’s no homogeneity in this…the hell with homogeneity! I like spontaneity and diversity and you can do whatever you want in your own garden.” - Dr. Michael Dirr ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lol, don’t worry about the tech, makes me feel good when even the experts mess up something since I haven’t even started doing a channel. I love t(e fall foliage, what great shows, I am going to set some of these planted on my property so I can enjoy the fall colors and stop listing the colors in the east. Thank you for sharing, I’ll be looking for one of those hydrangea books too!
I was introduced to Dirr literature when I began a horticulture night college course. All the courses required 1 main text book. Michael Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants! It changed my life and 15 years later I've now started a hobby nursery growing native and unusual plants not common in the trade here in southern Ontario. Time and time again, I still reference that book and it will always be top in my collection. Thank you Michael Dirr!
Sadly my 10 year old lindera is coming out this spring. It’s a rather coarse large shrub that tends to want to splay out horizontally. Remnants of a hurricane beat it up a few years ago and it never really recovered its shape. In my opinion if you are pruning it it doesn’t like being taken back into older thicker branches. Mine was prone to not putting on new growth on older branches While the tan leaves are attractive in winter they are a pain to chip up with a mower when they do fall
Great tour & lots of good info. I'm in zone 10a in St Petersburg Florida so I'm a little salty that apparently everyone in zone 4-9 can grow so many things I cannot. 😅
I just finished watching the nursery upload with Dr. Dirr and immediately came here to watch his home garden. Jim I am so grateful for these videos/series. Absolutely inspirational!
Interested to see if the cold hardiness of the camellia somehow carries over to the flowers. A disadvantage of white flowering camellias is that the flowers turn brown with freezing temps; maybe this new one will keep its white coloration with at colder temperatures?
Audio quality - really not a problem, understood almost everything. Dr. Dirr - AMAZING!! And I've never seen anyone, even Jim, speak so quickly! I'll be running through this again at 75% speed! 😁 Thanks for these wonderful videos.
He mentions a hybrid Hydrangea at 23:40. One parent, "Lady in Red" is one of my favorites. It's a tough red stemmed lace-cap. I'd love to see this heat tolerant hybrid with with the cross of Bloomstruck. - Lots of great info here. I think I'll ask for Dr. Dirr's updated book for Christmas. Thanks!
What a wealth of experience and knowledge! Thank you both for a very informative video. "The Hydrangea Book - The Authoritative Guide" is very tempting! But the link included does not link to this book. 🌸🌿
Love your channel watch something from you everyday I've got a ash tree that comes out beautiful every year it's a young tree probably 10 yes old came up from seed but half way through the summer it gets black leaves and drops black soot all over I'd it aphids? The trunk look warty too
Growing up in East Tennessee outside of Knoxville, I had a backyard filled with native dogwoods. They had naturally horizontal growing branches. When the wind blew the rustling leaves sounded like taffeta petticoats. In fall, the leaves turned scarlet. It was wonderful. Of course the spring flowers of at least a dozen tress was breathtaking. It sounds like Dr Dirr doesn't have these native trees.
We all did in the South, but unfortunately we have disease issues in them. He is just pointing out that new breeding is finding resistance to these problems.
@@JimPutnam I hope the dogwoods of my childhood can be saved. I haven't lived there in some time. Covid has kept me from visiting lately. Beautiful trees are under-appreciated treasures.
I am not worthy! What a gift to see this video! I have his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants book since the 1990s when I took horticultural classes. I still refer to that book all the time. I especially enjoy his comments about landscape use. This video shows newer varieties. 😊
What a wonderful rich store of knowledge Dr Dirr has! I have all his books now. Please have more videos with him! Where oh where can I buy Lindera angustifolia? I have had no luck finding it…
I wish you would do more plants with more colder zones!!! I still love your videos and will watch every one. I live in NY and would love recommendations for my zone.
any chance you could include the plant names discussed in the description? i'd like to look some of these up, would be great to be able to copy and paste
Love Dr. Dirr ! Can’t tell you how many of his textbooks I have on my shelf, and I refer to them continuously - they were a fantastic investment in my horticultural learning process. Thank you!!
The closed caption translater does a great job of interpreting Michael Dirr (and you, Jim). Wonderful to see Dr Dirr _in situ_ . Odd, he doesn’t sound like he reads. Those shorts…
I just had the most surreal experience watching this video. Earlier today my wife and I visited the Sarah P Duke Gardens in Durham NC and we saw a beautiful large shrub that I said looked like some kind of cryptomeria, but we couldn't find a tag to identify it. Then I come home and watch this video and Dr. Dirr shows a plant that looks EXACTLY like it. And imagine my shock when he says it was introduced at the Sarah P Duke Gardens! I guess this is a sign that I have to get one now
