Such a beautiful yard, thank you for sharing. Living in the central valley of California, it reaches over 100 degrees throughout the summer. I love hydrangeas and one that tolerates the heat ,with a bit of shade, is the Oakleaf Hydrangea that has white cone like blooms. Loved hearing the birds as well.
Your knowledge of your plants and flowers is amazing making your gardens a peaceful place of beauty and solace. I’m sure it has taken a lot of work and I love your choices of different plants and flowers.
@@Roberta.SABLEStitchers my dtr in law who is a major gardening nerd 😂 watched it w me last night taking many mental notes!! She just loved it too! Beautiful Roberta it’s just a beautiful space !
Thank's for sharing with everyone Roberta, was fun watching. Hearing the birds are always a joy to hear.❤😊. Just Gorgeous, saying Hello from Carolann in Minnesota
Roberta, what a beautiful space you and your husband have created here. I especially love how you are so aware of keeping it natural enough for the bees and other pollinators. Gardening is a joy when you enjoy it. Since returning, I have planted about 20 rose bushes and I love going out each morning to see how they are doing :)
Ms. Roberta, I truly enjoyed seeing garden. It is always a journey to get our peaceful places as beautiful as Yours is. I missed the names of the he Lilies that You have. I would love to find them, and it would be easier if I knew their names. By the way, I grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas. I have many wonderful memories there, however the memory of a terrible tornado that happened when I was 10 years old has left it's scars on me. I am now nearly 71 and when I hear "Tornado Watch" or "Tornado Warning" I get quite nervous and scamper for safety. I live in East Texas now, but just the idea still gives me shudders. Your garden is truly beautiful, I wonder have You ever heard of either of these 2 bushes: Chinese Fringe and the Chaste Tree? The Chinese Fringe is a bush that can grow quite large if You don't keep it pruned. It is a dark green foliage that is covered with bright pink Fringe that flutter in the breeze. The Chaste Tree is a bush/tree depending on your pruning. It has silver green leaves that give off a spicy scent when crushed. It is covered with blue bracts. Both bushes are fairly drought tolerant but need lots of mulch to protect them in the Winter. Both are considered "Understory Trees", that is they do best when grown under taller mature trees. Mine grow under large Hickory and Oak trees. Take care. GOD BLESS. Linda
Hi Linda! I have not heard of those bushes; so much to learn. The yellow lilies are Stella D'Oro and Many Happy Returns and the red ones are Rainbow Rhythym Ruby. Yes tornados are awful and hope we never experience that.
So beautiful! Kuddos to you and your hubby in creating a beautiful living space for ‘all’ to enjoy! I agree gardening is a journey; always giving back to nature and teaches us to become a better steward of the earth. Thank you Roberta.
What a beautiful garden tour! You have accomplished a lot in a few years. I love all the different areas with so much wonderful sites to see. Congratulations to you and your husband for creating a beautiful vision.
Your yard is one of the most beautiful yards that I have ever seen. Can not believe all the different kinds of plants that you have. Must be a lot of work.thank you very much❤❤
Roberta, your yard is just lovely. I don’t know how you keep up with it and still have time to stitch. I’m impressed with the way you remember all the names of the plants.
Roberta, your garden and yard is beautiful! You and your husband have done a wonderful job in placing plants in lovely locations! Thanks for sharing this video! ❤
Oh Roberta, I was going to listen to yr tour while I pieced a baby quilt for our upcoming great grand. BUT… I had to keep stopping to watch! What a work of love you have created! I also am a gardener and love this time of year. We ended up buying a pallet of mulch & had it delivered. My husband has a shredded so he does a wheelbarrow at a time while I spread it out. In our 70’s we take our time & enjoy it! Thank you for sharing!
That would be the way to go and would have saved a lot of trips to the garden center! I want to continue to keep up with the yard in my 70's as well, but am hoping we can cut down on the mulch.
Thank you for the garden tour. I don’t know how you find time to stitch; that is a lot of work out there! Everything is so beautiful and I can tell it gets a lot of tender loving care. ❤
Well last summer I was working and spending time watering all the plants so my stitching time has always been more limited in the summer. But I am loving seeing the garden take shape this year!
Beautiful garden Roberta!! Something that's good for snails and slug is broken egg shells. They can't cross the shells and the shells are great nurture for out plants. I save my shells all year long. I don't break them down real fine. But you'll figure it out. This helped my garden alot.
Thanks for giving us a tour of your beautiful yard! You have done a lot in just a few years. I did the Master Gardener program many years ago and it is a very worthwhile program. I enjoyed giving back and helping other gardeners. Those mature trees and the lake make such a beautiful background for your gardens. Wildlife can certainly be a challenge, can't it! I find my stitching time goes WAY down in the summer months while I'm gardening, but I love both hobbies.
What a gorgeous garden! I couldn't help but think of all the work you and hubby have done to make such a magical place! Thanks so much for sharing! I loved it! 😊❤
Beautiful tour, Roberta! I'm working on building up my yard and these types of videos are so helpful in knowing what works & what doesn't. Especially since I'm just down the road from you in Boonville. I usually can't get enough stitching videos, but this time of year the gardening just pulls me in :).
Roberta, your gardens are beautiful 💕. I loved seeing all the great plants and trees you've added. I think your weather may be too hot, but you should add a bench in a nice shady spot so you can stitch!! Thank you for sharing with us.
I don't know that I'll use it for sitting, but I do want to add a bench in the back as a focal point. I'll probably put a pot of flowers on it but I think that will be pretty.
Love your yard, it's beautiful. We owned a garden center for a few years, so I enjoyed seeing all of your plant varieties ❤ We had so many unique plants at the home we owned back then. We sold that house and the new owners were not plant people so I took what I could, and then they took out everything else. My favorites were the weeping dogwood and my burgundy smoke tree, both gone, but loved when I owned them. Your lawn was gorgeous as well and I loved the lake!
That had to be a lot of work owning a garden center! I don't know about you, but I love visiting garden centers in other cities. So many have great gift and decor areas as well and I picked up a favorite necklace at one in Fort Collins where my son lives.
Oh my what a beautiful yard and garden! Thank you so much for sharing with us! We have deer which have eaten my hydrangea that I planted 2 years ago,so not sure if I’m going to have any flowers this year or not. We also have a ground hog that has eaten a lot of my hosta! It is a battle for sure! Squirrels, chipmunks, and who knows what else! I’d love to have a yard like yours! I loved all of your beautiful pots as well! Thank you again!
Those critters are fun to watch but not so much when they're being destructive. I forgot to mention a woodpecker had drilled into our deck posts this spring and my husband had to patch up those holes.
I loved watching your garden tour. I also love gardening. We have lived in this house since 1978 and are still making changes to the yard. I don't think a gardeners yard is ever "finished". I joined Instagram in December and started posting garden photos in addition to my cross stitch.
I'll check out your Instagram account. I agree that the garden is never finished. I learn something every time I go on a garden tour and try to use that information to improve my garden.
Beautiful yard Roberta. I live in the high desert in North Eastern Nevada. Our soil is very acidic and has a lot of alkali, clay, and just icky. Makes it very hard to grow things here. I dream of a yard like yours.
Roberta, just gorgeous! You and Jim are master gardeners! I got so much information on different plants. Since we moved, we have full sun in our backyard and I am struggling.
I'm planning to take the Master Gardener class that begins in August. We've always had houses with full sun yards so I'm so happy to now have the option of planting all kinds of hostas.
That was beautiful Roberta! I’m sure you thoroughly enjoy your time out there, at least until it gets so hot and humid as it is in Nebraska this week. 🥵
There have been some humid days already when I was doing the edging and mulching. I try to make at least a little progress every day but was wishing I'd started in April.
Done w/o coffee, oh my!! I live in the Southwest, temps in the 100's so many of my potted plants have struggled this week & some sadly croaked. My Lantana are hanging in there! The bunnies here have actually eaten some of a cactus, saw with my own eyes!! The deer ate my Pink Penstemon back in April, they left 1 stalk. Very nice Stroll through, loved it, beautiful property, privacy plantings, nice water feature too. TYVM.
@@Roberta.SABLEStitchers I'm not sure, water, fiber ... it ate sections in between the red barrel cactus thorns, so glad my plant healed itself. One ate the neighbor's golden barrel cactus, yet it croaked, probably the same nutty bunny!!!
Just beautiful gardens, Roberta! We lived next to master gardeners for years, and I so enjoyed walking their gardens. Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Thank you Roberta for sharing your beautiful garden and flowering pots !! You and your husband have accomplished so much beauty in a short time. I love how you naturalized the gardens with native plants !! You are one busy team 🤩👍
wow! Thank you so much for the garden tour! I love that you are right on the lake :) I can't put my hostas in the front yard because the deer will eat them all.
I was talking to friends who live in the neighborhood and they have that issue, but they back up to the golf course. I know we've had deer, but don't think we get them very often!
Such a beautiful oasis, Roberta. Thank you for taking the time to share the beauty and the knowledge. I also love the beautiful pebble / stone 'mulch' you have near the house. All of it, lovely and amazing.
Beautiful yard. We have lots of beds as well as have the major mulch dilemma, so I have added several varieties of different colored low growing trailing sedums to fill in. Starting to see results with having to use less mulch. Also have Master Gardener friend who gives me tips as well as plants she propagates.
Beautiful gardens. I picked up a Fox Glove too and love it. They are biannual so my challenge is to not give up on it when it doesn't come back next year.I'm thinking that you live at lake View. Gorgeous
Thanks for sharing with us. Everything is beautiful!!! At the beginning when you were naming off things I thought I should ask if she watches Laura. Then shortly after you mentioned garden answers.
Yes, love Garden Answer and am amazed at all the plant names and varieties she remembers. I also like the Impatient Gardener and Linda Vater since they are both midwest gardeners.
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden! I can see that it took a lot of your time to do the tour and you did a wonderful job. There are quite a few plants I was not familiar with so enjoyed seeing those.
What an amazing area you have created! It's absolutely breathtaking . You have put a lot of love and hard work into your yard. Thank you for sharing. Don't see how you have time to cross stitch.
Thank you Roberta, your yard looks amazing. Great job in moving your plants from place to place. I love the look of your hostas, surprised to see so many different types.
Isn't it amazing the endless variety of hostas? When I toured the yard of the gardener with over 100 varieties they had a label identifying each "Hosta of the Year" and the year it won the award, which was fun.
Thank you for that wonderful view of your plantings. We had to have a septic system re-done just two weeks ago (we've been waiting since last fall), and a good part of my plantings were dug up, a lot of the yard was dug too. I think my area needed to be re-done anyway. So now I am looking for ideas on what to plant. My Joe Pyeweed was saved though and it is huge.
Oh Roberta, your garden is lovely! I've been a gardener for years and am moving soon to Houston, TX so I'll have to learn how to garden in a totally different climate . Yes, you should definitely take the Master Gardener class. I did that when I retired too. You'll learn a lot and meet so many new friends who share your same love of gardening.
My inlaws moved from Ohio to Texas years ago so yes, it's a totally different environment! I've been through Houston in the spring and the azaleas are amazing though. Thank you, I am going to look into enrolling in the next Master gardening class!
Hi Roberta, I loved your garden tour, it is beautiful. I also enjoy gardening and particularly love hosta. I have many variety of hosta which were planted under a tree. Unfortunately the tree roots choke the hosta out. I put all my hosta in pots and they survived the winters here in northern Ohio. You need to be aware that even when they are in pots I need to lift the pots at least yearly because the tree roots will grow up through the pot’s drainage holes and choke the hosta roots.
I appreciate knowing that! I wonder if that is the same for the Japanese Forest Grass? My husband is from northern Ohio and they had a large garden growing up that provided most of the vegetables for the family.
@@Roberta.SABLEStitchers as invasive as tree roots can be I would think it would be the same for Japanese Forest Grass. Although I love flower gardening I have never been as successful with vegetables. As a kid I worked on farms picking vegetables.
Your garden is beautiful and I appreciate the time you spent with us sharing all these beautiful plants. I was missing my garden back east until we saw the poison ivy and then I was over it. I didn't become allergic until in my late 20's and I made up for lost time. I'm planning to start a container garden in the fall and I'm looking forward to that. Too hot now in the desert to start anything. Thank you again..
I had poison ivy so bad the first year I planted in the way back. Since then I just get little spots on my arms which are just more of a nuisance. There are so many options for pretty containers; I'd love to know what you plant in yours for the winter.
Love your gardens. Your hostas are gorgeous. I’d love to have a hosta garden but we live out on a mountain and have too many deer who enjoy eating them😩
Ohhh my Roberta!!! You have an amazing and gorgeous yard, flowers, trees, lake view etc. I as well have to put cloches over a lot of my plants that are rabbits like to eat too. I even went so far as to go to dollar tree and buy some wire waste baskets and inverted them over some of my smaller plants & used the garden staples to hold them down, so far it works well until those plants outgrow them. I love your cloches would you share where you buy them?
I really wanted a lake view because to me, lakes are so relaxing. That's a great tip Sheila! I meant to mention this on the video but forgot! I got my cloches from Gardener's Supply online. I see they now have an extension for the wire ones and will be getting some of those so I can keep the coneflowers safe.
Thank you so much Roberta!!! I agree Lakeside living is so relaxing. My father-in-law had a home on a lake that we would go to often and talk about distressing!!! Unfortunately, he passed away a year or so ago so we have no lake home to go to anymore 😢. Enjoy life! 🥰
I'm so impressed that you know all the names of your coleus! When you come visit the Ozark Stitchers in August, you should just come on down and whip my yard in shape too. Where did you find those wicker plant covers? Thanks for sharing. Beautiful gardens!
All my plant covers come from Gardeners Supply. They are pretty but more expensive than the wire. They're so pretty I bought a couple for a friend for her birthday!
Roberta, great work. Beautiful garden. I am not sure if you were reading the plant names or if you know them and are able to name them by memory. If you do, that's remarkable. I can barely remember my own name. I don't think I can name plants. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much Gloria! I have tried to keep a spreadsheet with my plants and where I plant them, but learned from another viewer I got the names of the redbuds backwards. That's what happens when I rely on my memory!
You should sprinkle some foxglove seeds around. The rabbits don’t like them. Nice garden! I don’t have much sun in my yard. I have a more woodland garden. I put in a prairie this year on the side yard. I’m hoping in a three years it looks good. I three out 630 dollars of seeds. I’m hoping the deer don’t eat them all. 😬
I also did a new area to garden in and did the cardboard method. So far it’s working great. I haven’t planted anything in there yet. If you like hostas you should watch Jess Gardening on RU-vid she has gorgeous gardens.
Thanks Vickie! I have not heard of her and will check that out. Yes, turning over all that turf just didn't sound appealing so I'm glad to hear the cardboard is working well for you.
Roberta what a beautiful yard, you've done so much work to make it a sanctuary. I just love the statues and the little mushrooms, they add a bit of whimsy. How do you find the time to stitch?
What a beautiful yard and your pots are very creative. Can you tell me what kind of metal edging you use? Does it keep the grass from growing into the garden? I'm thinking of trying it.
Beautiful garden. Wish I could have one like that. I’m in the desert SW so our garden time is the fall through the early spring. Since you like the tours check out Priscilla and Chelsea’s channel. Priscilla is a cross stitch designer and an avid gardener. They usually do a spring and fall tour of her garden on their channel.
Beautiful garden! I live in zone 4b in southern Minnesota, so I envy your long growing season and varieties of your plants. Is this Lake Lotawana? My great aunt had a lake home there and I have fond memories of it.
My husband cuts the grass with a push mower, but really should have a riding mower because it's big enough for that. It's a regular neighborhood sized lot, but we did want one with room for a garden so it's one of the larger ones in the neighborhood.
