I love your videos! They really encourage me to keep going! I have such a tiny "farm" compared to yours, but you're so real and honest with us about all your failures, as well as successes! Thanks for all you do! The farm looks amazing and florific!
Around sunset, when the Japanese beetles are sluggish sweep them into a bowl of clean water and they will swim about as you find them....and then set the bowl in front of your girls. They will loooooooove you. Every week I'm reducing the population by half😁 and free protein for the ladies
I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, The Jessica Dahlia is right up my alley for type, AND color!! Congratulations Jessica on choosing such a BEAUTY!!! 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
@@jgriffin1827 Hi 👋 Jessica!!! So Glad to hear you like it!!! It's just beautiful!! Prolly even better than the one in the original picture too! Plus, I love good surprises like this, so the whole thing was really fun! I would be proud to grow that same one in my own garden, but first gotta do some research! 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼
Found your channel yesterday and fell in love 🥰 You are so entertaining and real life!! I appreciate all your enthusiasm and your love for flowers really shines through. My daughter and I started a cut flower garden this year. So we have a lot to learn, but are truly enjoying the flowers. Thanks for what you do.
If you don’t have young kids who would enjoy playing on the lawn, then dig it up...or start with 1/3 of it first. Plant some bunch grass that’s native to your area if you still want that perennial green look near the edge of the border and inter plant it with dwarf zinnias or marigolds...which are easy to grow from seed.
I think it’s called love. When you’re dedicated to something you love that much you can’t help but remember. I’m in admiration of Nicole’s abilities too.
Your 🍅 look so happy! My “white” vanilla marigolds are straight up yellow. Lies! Obsessed with gomphrena ❤️. Dry the poppy heads upside down so they stay straight, spray with clear lacquer for decoration. Super interesting visually.
Thank you for the garden tour. Everything look gorgeous! You grow flowers I have never grown before, and many old favorites, too. I love all your videos.
My mahogany splendor hibiscus is not as large as I would like either yet, but it makes me hopeful what Gina said about it taking a while to get big and then taking off! Hoping that will be the case for me.
My glads are all done for the year. (zone 8b) I planted a mix and every single one was red. :( They were still beautiful and my daughter used them at the flower shop where she works. Everything in your garden looks amazing!!
Anyone else having a terrible year for spider mites? They have been awful in my area of Houston... completely wiped out my cosmos and I have seen extensive damage to plants. Good thing I have extra seed to re-sow and it is Houston, so I will have no issues getting them back to flowering in no time.
Oh my gosh! Same im also in Houston and the bugs this year have been sooo bad. The snails and slugs have also been feasting on my petunias- last year i had no issues. The rain has made it impossible to spray anything though. Ive been cycling Diatomaceous earth, neem, capt jacks dead bug and sprinkle sluggo plus everywhere because it will keep working even if it rains. Ive had a huge slug and snail problem too.
Gorgeous flowers. The glad you showed was fabulous...so pretty. Those are my favorites BTW, so I'm just as excited to see them as anyone else that appreciates these. You've been blessed with a lot of rainfall, but feel free to send it my way if you get too much, I'd be happy to take it off your hands ;)
Ugh, you poor thing with all that rain 🌧 Hoping for a strong block of sunny weather for you! Those flowers are handling it really well though, so much pretty color 🌸
Oh my, Nicole your "garden of paradise" is unreal. Such beauty! The zinnias are terrific, and I especially like the celosia, amaranth, the very delicate one's, wheats, unusual ones also. I'm in the same zone as you in Minn. But we have heat and drought most of this summer so far. I can't be in the heat, and humidity so I'm depressed about my garden (quite small). Sooooo many weeds I can barely see the flowers. Blessings to you and your loved ones, dear one. Thanks.
Ooh I'm so glad you did an update on the gomphrena! I was afraid to plant for fear of it being massive. Now I can plant it. The garden looks wonderful!
Your plants look great! My poor zinnias are either being eaten by JBs or the dang rabbits! They just sit there chomping off the tops - flowers and all! Love all the varieties of gomphrenas and celosias! You're going to be making some gorgeous bouquets :)
Hi Nicole, it's Nicole 😁 from Southern California. Love your channel so much 💖 it brings so much joy when I can't be out in my garden, in this 100 degree desert heat.🥵🔥🥵🔥 Thanks for sharing a part of you with us💕💕💕
Everything’s looking good! We just need the rain to moderate a bit. I’m in northeastern PA and we’ve had a lot of rain too. Today was sunny and I’m hoping my dahlias start budding soon 🤞🏻
Everything looks awesome!! My amaranth foliage always looks like Swiss cheese. You are really killing it this year with this new and improved cut flower garden. Awe inspiring!! Thanks
I grew amaranth a couple years primarily for seeds for my chickens. But I quit because they attract colorado potato beetles which decimate the leaves, as you say, and also my vegetable garden. North Carolina zone 7b
I planted more basil this year than I know what to do with them...they’re all flowering. I’ve never noticed their flowers much in the past as I do now. Go figure!
I only found your channel when you planted these plants and as I’ve just discovered gardening I’m loving watching this. I also have a large patch of land that between Laura @GardenAnswer and watching you both LOOOVE cut flower gardening, I’m thinking I might like to do that too. Thanks for the update
I’m obsessed with dahlias and impatiently waiting for all of mine to bloom here in PA. Tons of buds 🙈 I actually think the single dahlias can be just as dreamy as doubles. I want to purchase some for next year! I got my snapdragons in late because the first planting didn’t work so I begrudgingly grew them inside as suggested 😬 live and learn!
I am so grateful for your videos. You're so inspiring ❤ I am starting a spring cut flower garden and a permaculture plant nursery. I took the leap to make my first large bulb order for my cut flower garden after following your videos and designed a 1/10 acre garden to implement in the next 3 years. I am in zone 5b here in maine so this is very close to my growing zone and your videos are so helpful. Plus you are hilarious. Have you considered starting a u pick on your property?
Love today’s update video….. I started screaming at you/my screen like a lunatic cus I have the same garden shoes as you, just a different pattern. Mine are the brighter yellowish with red flowers. Lol I know I’m crazy 😜🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely amazing! Love seeing the updates. All of those snapdragons, wow! Did I see Lisianthus inside of the deer fence? Looks like you will have a nice crop this year. I have a few starting to bud...no one understands my excitement.
Looks wonderful and everything seems to filling out very nicely. The rest will start popping anytime. And I wouldn’t worry about the leaves on the zinnias, you’re not growing them for the leaves. I wish I had been as organized as you in my planting... I have no idea where things are atm. Just letting it all grow unless I can identify it as a weed. 😂 Keep growing. 🙏🏻🌱
Your blooms make me so happy. 😊 Ugh! Those dreadful Japanese beetles. I didn't know I could spray them away with Captain Jack's. I thought they left my garden, but today I saw a few. Into the soapy bath for them. I'm getting less squeemish about squishing grubs. Look what they've done to this pacifist.
We are getting tons of rain here too in NE , Ohio. I have been fighting Japanese beetles for weeks! I started Maghony Splendor Hibiscus from seed this year too, and I planted it all over my property. The plants get massive. How late in July do you start zinnias? I keep pulling my seed packets out because I want to start more zinnias, but I am worried it's too late. Starting another round of sunflowers because most of my sunflowers have been blooming for weeks now.
Sweatshirt?? It's cold there already? I'm so glad you said your Dahlias are just now budding. I was beginning to think something was wrong with mine. Are you seeing more snakes than normal in your yard this year? I sure am 😲. Be blessed Nicole ❤️
What’s your easiest and also pest free greenery to grow? I’m doing sage and basil. The sage is being eaten by something I can’t see. Maybe at night they’re coming out. Been doing neem/dish soap/water solution and DE. I need to cut away all the bitten parts to see if it’s working.
The flowers are coming up nice. Those beetles!!😡 They are all over my roses. I need to try companion plants that they may not like. Anyway, I am spraying them with Neem oil early AM and picking them out later PM, if any survive. I understand they will be gone by July. They mate in June.🤔💐🌺
I also have Japanese beetles. For two years I resisted the pheromone attractant bags but last year those beetles were worse so I just said (you know what) at got the bags. Yes they attracted every beetle for the area but none on my plants and all the beetles I caught won't be increasing the beetle population.
Just beautiful, for as far as the eye can see, love that. Can you tell me again where that sunflower ring is from, I know it's in a video, but finding it didn't happen.
It's the best areas a great teacher Nicole 🍎🍏🇺🇸🇺🇸😃😄😅😆😀🐺🐱🐫🍉🍇🍏🍅🌰🐎😣and together and friends so much and a lot of videos show me to America today and Tomorrow So SO MUCH. Bay
Everything is looking so good! I'm finally swimming in blooms! More than I can keep up with! I just harvested my first benarys giant salmons & Mrs. Burns Lemon Basil & some like Basil. Omg! It smells SOOOO good! I've gotten a lot of rain too, & a good amount of my dahlias seem to have rotted. 😔 I am also growing ammonium, I can't find though, whether or not it's cut & come again. Do you know?
They've walked through a couple times but haven't touched the plants. I have fencing to use if it becomes an issue. The deer are mostly in a different area right now- they come to us later in the summer once the apple trees start dropping fruit.
