When you’re at the clearance rack and you see a plant that looks beyond repair, give it the scratch test! If you scratch the stem lightly and see green then there’s still life in it! Thanks for this video! 💜
Last year I saw one of your videos about buying distressed plants at a huge discount and bringing them home to revive them, then be blessed by their beauty! I can't even begin to thank you for doing these videos! I've found countless plants that looked half dead and now they grace my garden! I'm thrilled to have rescued them from total destruction! Thank you SO much!!!
Your channel is so refreshing because you see all the other gardening accounts posting videos of them planting so many full price, lush plants and their gardens look amazing from the start and although I love watching those videos, I can't afford buying so many plants all the time and I find my self often in the reduced plants section because that's more realistic for me and so many other people who don't have hundreds to spend on plants each year\ each time you start a new flower bed so its so nice to watch your videos and be able to relate to you.
For real, I love garden answer videos but she must spend thousands every year. I can't do that. I plant seeds and I love end of year clearance when plants are 80 percent off or Lowe's clearance for gallon pots for a dollar. Glad to see a RU-vidr building her garden the same way I do.
Just came across your channel & was like FINALLY! A melanated female gardening lover like me (😆), Aaliyah t-shirt, sirens in the background & unbothered, rescuing plants on death row from stores 😯🤩❤️ Yaaaaass!!! You have a new subscriber! Keep up the great work & hello to your plants 👋🏾😂❤️
So many times I want to buy a nearly dying plant off clearance and i pass cause i dont know what to do to get it back health.... so thank you for this video!!!
Plants from the store also tend to be root-bound so they also may need to be moved to a larger pot for the roots to spread out or perhaps planted in the ground.
Or even better since they are perennials, get them into the ground as soon as possible. But most are root-bound, agreed. Gently loosening the roots and even pruning away some from the very bottom of the root ball will stimulate new root growth.
This is true however many of the plants are hybrids so those seeds will resemble your plant’s ancestors, not like what you bought. But you can experiment and see what you get.
Good video! I consider this to be a public service announcement at all of the plant lovers who pass by the clearance shelves in their local plant nursery. They will now think twice before doing that.
Thanks for sharing. As a beginner, I’ve been looking for advice to save my distressed plants. Some were over watered and some were overheated. This video is so helpful. Love, Care and Patience.
Patience is something all gardeners have and love and generosity and faith. You can only do your best. Great to see/hear all your voices, warms my heart. Oh, I forgot creativity!
Good inspiration! Keep promoting reduced plant sales. I went to Lowe’s again with my husband and we got a bunch of fruit trees 75% off! 😳. He was like wow these trees are beautiful. I also picked up some perennials and a few annuals that really just needed water and a trim. They were $1-5 each.
We got 1 pear, 2 red delicious, 2 golden delicious, 2 blush draws apples. 2 plums. A rhododendron, a small hydrangea and a funny looking house plant all for $100. The trees are good size covered in leaves.
I’m on a bargain plant mission☺️ Can’t save them all but I can afford more at discount prices. It feels great to help them have a second chance. Beware of pests & diseases. Those aren’t a bargain. 🌱☺️❤️🩹
SOOOO good to see a woman with such a love of gardening! We NEED more gardening girlz (particularly women of colour) speaking to (and for) those of us who want to maximize the harvests, while making our dollars stretch. You are a voice for all of us. Also, I don't know about any other state, but here in NC, EBT cards (food stamps) can be used to purchase ANY seeds, plants, and even TREES that produce edibles! You have a new subscriber. Preach on!
This made me and my 6 year old daughter save clearance plants. We love going to lowes and walmart and shop the clearance plants . It's our special time together . Thank you 💕
I want to thank you so much for this video. I always thought "dead plant" when I'd see one like these in a store. I had a new ceanothus planted in our front yard that was dropping leaves and I feared it wouldn't survive. I replanted it in the ground with potting soil (our soil is a bit alkaline)and cut it back according to your directions. The old leaves quickly dried up and died, then we were hit with a heat wave averaging 108 degrees that's still going on today. I took a patio chair and upended it over the plant to keep the worst of the sun off it and watered with like you said, but just not too much. It's in the afternoon sun instead of the morning sun, hence the chair. With the shade during all this heat that poor plant is starting to come back one new leaf at a time. I never before considered the root side of the plant needs to be happy before the above-ground side of the plant can show it. That one tip gave me the exploding brain moment of "Doh! Why didn't I think of that??" Thank you again. I am in your debt and my ceanothus just might make it to maturity so it thanks you too!
She speaks to me. Honestly, I only wish she was my next door neighbor or garden friend. Please, please make more videos. Especially, Hydrangea videos, which are my favorite! Cannot get enough of clearance Limelight excitement! Ha ha ❤️
I like the spray bottle with diluted bleach idea!! I have always just come inside and washed or sanitized my garden snips at the sink but the spray bottle outside is so much faster and easier. Also....the cutting back without hesitation and explaining why it helps our plants focus on strengthening for next year......needed that advice. My favorite thing you said....”don’t overthink it” Working on this.
Please make an update video on how these plants are doing this summer! Just found your channel! I always check the clearance plants. Several years ago I was standing at the checkout with 3 terrible looking clearance coneflowers, when the man in front of me turned, looked down at the plants, them up at me, and said “you really think you can save those?” And I said, “I’m going to try!” And I now have a beautiful Cheyenne Spirit, and 2 Pow Wow Wildberry coneflowers for only a few dollars!😁
Hello, glad to have stopped by your channel. I have learned a lot by binge watching your channel. I'm a homeowner with 1.5 acres of land and I didn't know what to do or where to start. It was a blessing that I ran into your channel. You make me feel like I can do this on a budget. Thank you and praying for your channel to grow. Glad to have meet a new garden friend!🙂
Felicia Alexander thank you for the kind words Felicia. Thank you for watching! You can section off that land, have an orchard of fruits, have a vegetable area in another section, a cutting field of fresh flowers that you can start from seed, so much you can do with that land.
oh yea... my little sister created an Addict when she told me about marked down plants at the box stores 🤣 ...after about 4 years, i'm gettin pretty darn good at rescuing plants and I'm establishing a pretty cute garden ☺️❤️❤️❤️❤️ tooootally addictive & good for a tattered old soul
I’ve only watched a couple of your videos since late yesterday when it came up on my algorithm. In those 2 videos I’ve learned more about stressed plants and reviving them than any other place, and trust me I’ve looked around. You are a fantastic teacher and you really articulate what needs to be done very well! Like someone posted earlier most people show videos with lush plants whereas you show how to take care of actually stressed plants so one doesn’t feel like they need to give up when they stress their plants, in spite of their best efforts (I may or may not be referring to myself😇) . I subscribed right away and look forward to binging your content and to pretend to be patient awaiting your newest videos 🤪 Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I do the very same thing! I try to stop at Lowe’s and my nurseries whoever I’m in town and check out the “death row racks”well... I’ve done all my flowerbeds AND my best friends all for less than $100! And that’s an investment in the future as 95% of the plants are perennials! I have “estate” perennial beds on a lunch lady budget! 🥰
Just came across your channel; I do the same thing as you but I clean tools with 91% alcohol or vinegar. I use bleach when I put the tools away. Great job.
Lovely...thank you. I have been so nervous to cut back some of my herbs. Seeing and listening to you show directly how to prune and what to look for. This is a great help.
Hello with the Echinacea the dry up flowers is the best part because, that’s where all the seeds are at. And you will never have to buy another plant again.. I tell you this because this is how I’ve been doing it for about 14 years now.. Started out with 6 plants very expensive indeed. Thought to myself have figure something out. So that’s when I decided to experiment with the seeds... Now 14 years later the Community Garden is thriving with so much beauty.. And this way I have shared with many people around the neighborhood.. For I accidentally came across your RU-vid channel and I’m absolutely enjoying it... A lot insightful information definitely will be sharing your page with the other Garden Members.. Again thank you so much.... Thank You Berry Street Garden Member
I just found your channel and am thrilled!!!!! I love your enthusiasm and your humor, and your passion for gardening couldn’t be any more obvious. I’m a verrrry longtime gardener (25 yrs) in 3 different zones but am very new to the RU-vid gardening world. All very exciting! I’m finally settled for good in zone 6 and am so looking forward to getting back to bulbs and perennials and dormancy and all that that entails (I gardened for years in south Florida which is VERY different from northern gardening). I do so appreciate your down to earth tips that take budgets into account as well. I just had a delivery of 9 roses from different online places and have my week cut out for me. Looking forward to your next video!!
Love this!! I buy clearance to because I feel sorry for them.. I always keep mine in the garage for a week or so and so far all have survived!! Thanks for all the tips!!!
Great video and needed! So many good deals on perennials on the clearance shelves at places like Lowe’s, but a lot of new gardeners aren’t sure how to save the stressed-out plants. I love how she showed up-close how to tell what’s going on with each plant and evaluate what it needs. Some of the plants at places like Lowe’s have been harmed by over-watering. You’ll see a lot of yellow foliage from this. If they’re really soaked and you’ve already done the trimming back shown in the video, I’ve sometimes tipped the plants out and let them “dry out” just a little overnight in a shaded area. Next day get them planted or back into the pot if not planting. The perennial plants need to get into the ground as soon as it’s possible. After tipping them out of the pot you can evaluate how root-bound they are. Most are. You can gently loosen the roots. If it’s a good-sized perennial or shrub (like a Hydrangea), light pruning away of some roots from very bottom of the root ball can stimulate new growth. Not too much as they are already stressed. Another step which can help is to treat with sulphur for fungal disease, depending upon how much trouble you want to go to. Thanks for the excellent video on helping stressed plants from what I call the “plant graveyard”! ❤️❤️❤️
Just found your channel. This is the first video I watched. I “rescue” plants every season. Like they need me to take them home and love them. You are the first RU-vid channel to specify spraying the shears with bleach between pruning plants. So smart! I do this all the time. You’re real and down to earth. I wanna be your neighbor! Keep the videos coming.
Thank you for the information. But you and me are sisters i could work all day with plants. I learned a few things from you today Thank you for sharing. 🌿🌸🌿🌺🌿
Bleach and a black shirt don’t mix! Thanks for the tips. I have more confidence when buying these plants. New subscriber, great content for real gardeners with real budgets.
I’ve watched quite a few gardeners on RU-vid, and your channel is the first I’ve truly binged on! The way you explain your process is so understandable for a beginner like myself, and then of course the personality you bring makes your videos addicting! Thank youuu! 💜 I’ve learned so much within the last hour or two I’ve been watching your channel 🙈
You inspired me a lot, I’m a garden lover just like you, used to buy plants every year, spend money for plants so I decided to start all my plants from seed this year...now I will start going on clearance sale ...thanks a lot ♥️
lani dela cruz Ramsey 😢 thank you so much. Just trying to share the things that I know and have learned and continue to learn. So happy you found this video helpful. Thank you soooooo much for watching.
Hi again I forgot to mention I LOVE LOVE GARDENING i men everytime I talk about gardening, my 💜 just overflows with JOY LOVE GOD'S BLESSINGS AND BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS
This was so satisfying to watch (I also love shopping the clearance plant section). This should be an ongoing thing - where you take us along on your plant rescues! 😆
Several years ago i bought some distressed roses for $1 each. They truly looked like they would die. With a little care they came back to life and were beautiful.
My mother and I have really bonded over the forgotten plants at lowes. She has a nack for bringing them babies back to life. Mom says she is rescuing those dying plants off death row. Great tips in this video right here. New subscriber right here......
Just this for the first time and I am so happy to see someone else bringing home clearance plants and reviving them. I put in a full backyard with trees and tons of plants I bought on clearance. My front yard as well. It feels so good resurrecting a plant or tree and watching it grow! Anyone can grow a healthy plant from the beginning but to revive one is so much more rewarding. I love my garden , my trees , my yard. I agree with you that watering the plants as soon as you bring them home is a must but I always also throw in a bit of fertilizer as well. I am going to try your suggestion to not feed stressed plants when you bring them home. It makes sense ! Thank you , I enjoyed your video.
Thank you for your tips, I'm glad I found your Insta feed which led me to your channel! I just bought a distressed hydrangea for $3 @ Lowe's and your info is right.on.time.
Thank you for this, I have a jasmine plant that I realised way too late had a huge aphid problem and it has been looking extremely sorry for itself even after the aphids are gone. You've given me the confidence to give it a major haircut and hopefully I can save it!
Just discovered your channel & I'm obsessed! Finally someone like me who can't resist a death row plant. As much as I love the fancy no budget gardening channels, yours is the gardening channel we all need. Thank you 🌱💓
Hi, I have learned so much from your gardening videos! I often tell myself upon entering 'that store' this time of the year 'I'm only going to walk thru the such-and-such isle today and not buying any plants' but yep, I wound up in lawn and garden anyway, lol. It's just something rewarding about rescuing distressed plants! I believe the biggest reward is admiring the fruits of your labor by attempting what they say can't be done-TFS!
Your flowers are so beautiful! I love gardening, so it's good to find a channel where someone seems as passionate about her flowers as my mom was. I'm learning quite a bit about saving flowers too 😊
thank you for being refreshing. im new to gardening and am finding some plants difficult to care for but your down to earth" coaching is exactly what i needed to help figure out what i was doing wrong.. will defiantly be back for more tips...
Girl, I am a clearance sale, especially Lowe's, buyer. I have been a plant lover forever, got it from my Mom, God Rest Her Soul🙏🙏🙏 Do you hurt like me when it comes to giving them a "haircut"? Living on a prayer🙏🙏 I just joined your video. You are so down to earth, no drama. God bless🙏🙏 where do all the weeds come from in your pots, I have to pull out everyday. The Red Birds, my Mom's favorite next to the Humming Birds love my yard. Love from Mom I feel. They play in my pot plants, they knock my plants off shelves, play in the birdbaths, then it makes me sad to have that lone dove who lost its mate, and the tiny finches. My neighbors think I run a nursery. Lol God bless🙏🙏🙏
I love reduced plants, not only do I save money, I kept these babies from ending up in the dumpster! I hate throwing things out. Most stores don't pay for their plants outright, the grower gets paid from what they sell. The big box stores usually won't pay for good help that really knows plants because it's not cost effective for them. I'm always giving advice to fellow shoppers, fixing mis-tagged plants, setting up those that fell over etc. Guess I'm just missing my days in a high end retail gardening store. Oh well, their loss is our gain! New sub.
Took your advice, found a bunch of shrubs at Lowes on Clearance. As long as they make it, I got an amazing deal and something done that I wouldn't have otherwise. And if not, still, a deal and some experience!! Thank you!! And I just love watching your videos!!
These are my favorite videos of yours. Buying dead clearance plants and bringing them back to life. I LOVE seeing the process and results. Make more please!!
Loved your passion to care for these babies, especially that you said you are there to give them what they need! It's one of my favorite past time too and brings me joy when I see the results from the TLC they needed. Great tips - Thank you
Thank you for making this video! It’s the first one I see talking about dying plants from the clearance shelf. I just brought home a dying elephant ear plant and this video was really helpful, thank you!
OMGosh I LOVE your channel!!! I wish I had found you before I tossed my dying lavender plant. I have subscribed and pushed the bell to make sure I don't miss anymore.
You should talk about how much $ you saved by doing this. I’ll bet a lot. I like to shop the sale plants too. You can get good stuff cheap and bring it back to life. Thanks for your video.
Very good video! First time viewer. Just bought 3 marked down butterfly bush at big box store. Hesitated before buying them, but I could see good new growth coming along & bought them, trimmed them down to the new growth like you did & they are growing like crazy now. I do water them every day. One thing I have found that revives wilted plants the quickest is fill a big tub with water then place the plant in it, go about my business & come back & it is revived. Even if it falls on it’s side it will be ok. Then, back out you go. You make a good plant ER Dr!
I get all my plants on the clearance rack at Lowe’s as well. Unfortunately, I think the store has caught on. I’m not seeing as many plant&trees this year. I did get my Supetunias there and some Veronicas. Thanks for sharing and showing what can be done for the distressed plants.
Rainy Days try asking for the garden manager- they have authority to look at a plant you selected... review status and mark down ...even if not in clearance section
Just started watching your videos and am liking them a lot. I learned new things today from this one. I won't be afraid to buy sad looking plants now. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Love this video. All they need is TLC! So true!! All of my gardens are clearance plants on an acre of so many flowerbeds. Some say I have a million dollar landscape. Little do they know Lol. Probably close if I did retail cost. I have lost some plants and that was because of voles not the plant, but I never pass up a good deal and my garden is gorgeous!! Voles are gone too!! Two things I take very seriously my hummingbirds and my plants. So glad to see another plant lifesaver, so awesome! Keep saving them!
Nokesville Haunt thank you. And I’m jealous of your hummingbirds. I live in Maryland and I’ve been trying for years to encourage them in my yard. I have yet to see one.
I’m so happy I found your channel this evening! So far I really appreciate your insight and wisdom about gardening and think your hands on demonstration and easy to understand instructions will help me on my gardening journey for sure. Can’t wait to watch all your videos.
I love this!! I am subscribing. I also enjoy giving life to plants that have been neglected and now have to hunt down more of your videos so I can see the "shop with me" ones! I love your adorable, no nonsense attitude making it feel easy and uncomplicated. Thank you!
@@GardenAddictz you know why is the best? Because this particular video speaks to the average gardener who does not get FREE plants from Proven Winners like Laura from Garden Answer. I love her videos, but it is very unrealistic for the average homeowner. You are inspiration to all....
Hi! I'm a new subscriber and I'd like to say that I enjoy your videos very much. I LOVE plants! Unfortunately I've been away from my apartment due to illness and most of my plants have died. Just as you've explained I told my children to continue to water my plants even if they they look like they're dead. When I get home I take care of them just as you do. Plants are tougher than we think and can survive through alot. Love your flower beds. Hopefully now that I'm home I can go shopping for some new plants. Take care of yourself and congratulations on your twins. As a mother of six I know how hard it is to find time for ourselves. Keep up the good work. God bless you all.
Thank you so much. I'm in Ohio. I would have loved to know about Garden Addictz at the beginning of the Season. Much prayers for grace as I play catch up with my blessed bargain plants! Thanks again!
Great information. I did buy a little lime for $5 from the clearance section at Loews two years ago and it’s doing so well. I have a deer problem and after they munched on it in the spring I loosely covered it with deer nesting and adjusted the netting as it grew and it’s worked so well and I get to enjoy the blooms that have started coming up. Good rip about cleaning the cutters in between plants. Thanks!
I saw a lot of clearance plants yesterday they were down to .50 cents per plant but I didn’t know if I should get them because they looked like that. I’m going to go back and get them. I saw this video by chance. Very helpful. Thank you.
I love this video,you are amazing. This let's me know that it's okay to nurture things back to their former glory!!!! The info is sound teaching as well!! Very doable🤗🤗💗💗
