I’m amazed at how quickly my baby garden is responding to the cooler temps. The heat subsided less than 48 hours ago and the garden says thank YOU by turning its pouty pouts into sunny smiles😎 I did a little watering today to celebrate🎉
I think the "crest tableau" is better without any shell or rock under it... it's so restful to look at without anything... like a mysterious path or journey to somewhere else..... It allows viewers to think and "imagine" for themselves what the space is... (not a "black, negative" space but a place for imagination).. with tchotchke under it it's just "another" part of the garden where your eyes might just glance past.
Really like what you did with the crest- the seashells accentuate the arch. 🧡🧡🧡the amber fire glass - will be looking around for it. TY for all the pointers on cactus/succulent care. My plants thank you too!
LOVED THIS VIDIO THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER NICE WALK ABOUT WEDNESDAY ALWAYS ENJOY THE INFO.....YOUR VERY GOOD AND HAVE ALOT OF TALENT REMMERING ALL THE PLANTS NAMES IS AMAZING THEY ALL HAVE LONG NAMES AND I THINK WOULD BE HARD TO REMMBER SOME OF THEM.....IVE GOT ALOT OF SUCCULENTS I BUY AT THE FLE MARKET HERE. THEY DONT HAVE NAME TAGS IN THEM SO NEVER NEW WHAT KIND OF PLANTS THEY WERE CALLED.BUT LISTENING TO YOU IS HELPING ME LEARN THE NAMES SO THANK YOU FOR BEING SO SMART YOU ARE THAT FORSURE LOVED. YOUR WORK AND YOUR YARD IS BEAUTIFUL HAVE A GOOD NIGHT THANKS FOR SHARING 🌵😇🌴🌵🐾🐾🐈🌻🐺🐱🌵👍
The garden is looking wonderful ! I personally like the crest as it was, the shells make it look a bit “twee” but maybe one of those Air Plants might look like a spider crab in the cave 🤷🏼♀️. 😉
I love it Laura that crest is amazing and needs no other embellishments it’s fabulous ❤️🦘🐨🐨🦘🤩 I really love that corner area with that red aloe and fan aloe.❤️
Hi Laura, I absolutely love your new succulent and cactus coral reef garden. You inspire me to have a go at creating my own masterpiece garden.....I feel that your beautiful expensive rainbow rock competes a bit too much with the crested Sunburst aeonium, perhaps plainer pieces of rubble wouldn't take too much limelight from the crest......a dedicated Laura junky from Down Under ....cheers Cheryl
A fun side note. Recently most of the Lowes stores have gotten in shipments of plumeria from junglejacks which is headquartered in California. And JungleJacksPlumeria is world renowned for their extensive varieties of miniature plumeria cultivars. They all have tags and pictures on them and list and describe if it's a miniature they are 20-40 USD and minis only grow a few feet and can easily be pruned and many heavily branch forming a small bush only a few feet high as in around or lower than waist level and can be grown in a pot and are succulent compatible. They are easy to clean up too, the leaves when they drop are large and easy to pick up. I have one on my balcony and am quite impressed these exist now. I've been cutting off the fragrant flowers and bringing indoors they last decently long about 5-7 days if cut with the tiny bloom stem part attached when snapping the flowers off. "pink jack" "divine" and "bouquet" are 3 of the best varieties for quantity of blooms and strong scent from going through the dozens of varieties on their website and that I've seen sold at Lowes.
I really enjoy watching your videos how you create beautiful succulents and cautus and other plants together , I'm a beginner myself, I'm sending you pictures of my gardens, I need to add small rocks because my plants are small that's next, hope you like them
A delight to watch from Melbourne Australia. I’m building a cheap greenhouse/shade house (in between watching you)as we’re in our 3rd La Niña this year and I just can’t keep my cuttings dry and summer looks like being very very wet as well. I’ve learnt so much from you and really appreciate your work. I had to laugh about humidity… I was in SD 2018 and staying in Chula Vista, it was very humid. But a lovely city!
I hear you from Sydney! Talk about bad timing getting into drought tolerant plants. I’ve been digging up casualties and hiding them under cover to save them.
@@kirstyhilton4394 The temptation to build a few gutter beds under the eaves for summer is strong. The plastic gutters are at Bunnings I’ve discovered.
Oooo! I wrote my comment before the end of your video! I was blessed enough to be one of those purchasers of your first annual Susan Aach pot collaboration. I’ve been on the edge of my seat waiting to see what this year’s will be! Yay! 😊
maybe just a few pieces of fire glass under that crest... just a few, lol... i love the shells and the mixed rock... everything looks so good... we are back in the 90s and hot again next week, so i'm just keeping an eye on stuff... oy... i'd stay and chat but now i gotta go check my cacti for scale! ugh... (it's on my lemon tree but i'm getting it under control, i think - are we ever in control??)... have fun with Susan Aach, can't wait to see that!!! 😍😍😍
Thanks for taking my advice about too much green. In fact, that’s such a pretty pot it looks better where you placed it now. Can’t wait to see the color transformation 🌸
What a beautiful garden.....I love how you potter around... change things that don't make you happy.... amazing....I often watch the video my son had you do for my birthday a couple of years ago.... you inspire me so much.... when I'm talking to people about plants I always say 'my best friend Laura ' told me.... haha....I never get sick of watching your videos.... much love to you....❤
Everything looks great! My yard is a mess, I can’t keep up. Looking forward to cooler weather in Menifee so I can spend a little time back there. Ty for the inspiration 🥰
Looking great! Lucky for the change in weary, we're still in peak of summer weather in South Florida, and my plants are barely making it... My Echeveria Agavoides did not make it through our extra hot and humid summer 😭😭
plain sand under the crest was a break for the eye. It looked cool-- like underwater coral one could swim under. plain sand seemed like a natural current carried through
I love how you are “jetting”the detritus out of your plants. 😂 Hey sister, my desert garden has trees everywhere! There is no way I can keep my cacti, aloes, euphorbias…clean and beautiful. IT DRIVES ME MAD!! My weekly landscape crew just look at me blank faced when I suggest “cleaning” the desert plants. There are just too many. The trees drop crap all the time. Nearly an acre. So difficult to ignore…😢
Laura, as I lay here recovering from hernia surgery yesterday, it’s been fun watching today’s and yesterday’s videos back-to-back. Watching you pull the big, heavy green pot from out of the garden in yesterday’s video re-ruptured my hernia! Oy! Has anyone on Team DFS gotten a hernia from all that pushing and pulling and lifting y’all do? Especially at the weird angles y’all have to twist and bend and work in. Anyway, love the clearing out you did around the crest. It really showcases it….much better! Seems to me that your old Chula Vista garden was almost effortless…everything just grew and did their jobs perfectly. Moving to Vista and planting a new garden and having differences in weather and location and the heat you’ve had, for me, has been super helpful because you’ve had more issues in dealing with sunburn and extreme heat. Helps me a lot with my Florida succs. 😊
Join the club Liz! 😍 Laura and Greg are such awesome people and their videos are so addictive! Laura is the best and I love her sense of humor besides her great talent‼️🫶🏽🤩💚
Hello! Perhaps I'm alone in saying that I really liked that green aloe near the crested aeonium. I liked the pop of color it offered although I agree the height was a problem. I wondered if it shouldn't have been planted in-ground instead of in the pot in the same spot. I really like what you did though and it was fun to watch it come about. I'm still thinking it could use a pop of color there. Maybe a talavera starfish or maybe one of those small Christmas aloes or another low, colorful plant that won't get too overgrown. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work with us. You and Greg are always so generous in sharing your know-how and your experiences good and bad. It makes me think about the possibilities for revitalizing my various areas. ❣️
I like the shells under the crest. Can you sprinkle a little of that purple DG dressing (or whatever you call it!) at the front to distinguish the creva from the wall? It looks a bit too samey there to me. I've seen you use the purple dressing on some of your jobs at the end and it always adds lovely definition
Encouraged by your daily dose of your STD (Succulent Tip of the Day), I spent my Sunday picking out detritus and repotting some cuttings. So fulfilling. Can't wait for your collab with Susan Aack especially it's for a great cause.
Laura what type of fertilizer would you recommend for cacti? Recently purchased a totem pole and have many others in pots. Also how did you get thorns out of your fingers? If I get close they send their microscopic thorns flying into me🤣.
hi Laura. what about a water like top dressing under the crested plant with the shells on top that trickles over the raised bed behind that lava rock.? live the channel!!
Hi Laura I could really use your help. I beheaded my first echeveria and now 3 new plants are growing on top and they have gotten pretty big and I don’t know what to do😳 do I cut them off and plant them? Or leave them on? Any advice is highly appreciated!
I bought a blue cactus from poots a week before the terrible heat. I live in Vacaville I set them in the shade but we had upwards of 116 heat now I have a black spot on the top what do you think is something bad happening
I'm new at trying to grow succulents and I've noticed a couple have white stuff growing on them. Someone said to spray them with diluted alcohol. Do you agree?
It’s probably mealy bugs if it’s fuzzy white stuff. Spray treatment asap! They can kill plants and will spread like wildfire - they walk surprisingly fast and far.
Laura, why don't you try tossing your shells in like you would toss in your "Jackson Pollock"-style rock? I think placing them individually leans away from that natural vibe you're going for.
