Please do more videos about CA Native Plants. Would love to see manzanitas, deergrass, coyote mint, matilijiya poppies. Thanks for the great video. New plants need watering unless it has rained a lot during the first year. Usually people do need to water their new plants every week when it hasn't rained.
Just seeing all those flowers made me feel happy. I've always favoured veggies in my garden and somewhat ignored flowers but I'd love to walk outside and see all that colour and life. Random info but what you call plumeria is known as frangipani in Australia.
Back in central/western NY, I grew in raised beds, always interplanting veggies, flowers, and herbs. My next-door neighbor, who I adored, grew a conventional all-veggie, row garden with chemicals and lots of conventional beefsteak tomatoes. He could not understand why I grew flowers in my veggie garden. We had a friendly competition. One summer he grabbed one of my tomatoes, I think it was an Amish paste or an Opalka, and put it in his sandwich - said it was the best tomato he had ever eaten and conceded, finally, that maybe I was on to something. He bought our house and land when we moved to Colorado almost 12 years ago. Our house, very old and in need of extensive repairs, was demolished and our neighbor is sadly, no longer with us. But his family continues to garden exclusively in our old raised beds, still productive after all these years. The beds had originally been filled with 10 year old composted horse manure from a friend whose sister kept horses on her farm and who kindly delivered truckload after truckload to us. Such a nice memory. Still miss that garden, although I have a new one now. Sorry so long.
Very cool story, sometimes tasting is believing! Most people start off using practices they are used to and resist change so that is cool to hear about
Pineapple sage is a beautiful plant and a quick grower. When they flower the plant is just one giant explosion of cardinal colored blooms. One of my favorites in the herb garden.
I liked pineapple sage so much, it got me into a whole herb thing. I have 2 greenhouses for herbs. Its funny how these things happen. What beautiful plants!
I am keeping my flowers 🌻🌼 pretty simple. Sunflowers, borage, morning glory and milkweed. I have some Iris and roses 🌹 that are perennials. Gonna let my herbs and Brassicas go to flower.... But not too many ornamentals this season
Interesting last several years watching the changing gardening trends. More people (me included) are specifically doing flowers in the veggie garden. I'm also sensing a trend away from varieties that have interesting colors but not much else. Also "no dig" is officially "digging is okay just not too much." And synthetic soluble fertilizers correctly used, sensing a trend that is okay now.
I agree that no dig Is something that is context dependent leading to it being okay to some level. The flowers are interesting to see expanding, they tend to require a lot less work compared to veggies, at least I find that to be true. Less pruning, less supporting, still look good under less than ideal conditions and help make the garden feel like an ecosystem rather than a vegetable market. I still don't use synthetic fertilizers because they are just not good for the soil life compared to organics.
Such great points! I've only been gardening for 3 years and the change from the past year is insane. I'd never thought some of the most exciting things of my day is seeing the variety of pollinated bees attracted to my mammoth sunflower! Also, the idea of creating a productive ecosystem for my plants, insects and inevitably for myself 😊 It's almost as nice as seeing a good harvest from a crop. You and epic gardening have made a huge difference in the way gardening is viewed in such a "less stress, more fun" way imo. Thank you so much!
I find it interesting that I have only been gardening 1 full year but realizing that while I love growing all sorts of veggies and herbs I am very busy and just dont have time to eat or store my harvest properly with such little time. I started incorporating a lot more flowers and now all the bees, hummingbirds and ladybugs are everywhere. Will definitely be growing more flowers and ornamental stuff along with vegetables in the same space. My borage and sage have grown massive each taking over a 3 x 6 space.
Pride of Madeira -- OMG! Finally know the name of that stunning wall of purple along your fence. Thanks for all the inspiration and all the love to the pollinators your flowers bring.🐝
Cheers from Oklahoma , where's it's raining and 40° hahaha but getting my garden up and running this year just started my first corn crop (peaches and cream) can't get enough of your videos and love the chemistry between you and Kevin
Everything is looking SO beautiful!! I absolutely love pineapple sage!! I always grow it for the hummingbirds and me!!! Did you know that you can use the leaves to make teas or in salsa? Love picking the leaves to rub and smell!! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
Thanks for the tour of your flowers! I want to incorporate more pollinator-friendly plants in my garden, and now I have a list (from your video) of flowers to try.
I love to incorporate flowers and vegetables together, not only for the benefits, but beauty, as well. I want to explore different calendulas in peachy colors, but a few years back I brought a few seeds from my mother's garden in 🇧🇬 and I'm afraid they might cross pollinate. *sigh*
I have an african blue basil that has been flowering non-stop for about 5 years! I haphazardly water it and it doesn’t care. It is always covered in bees! I think it is finally reaching its end but it has been amazing in my garden and low maintenance! I am in East County San Diego where it is hot and dry for most of the summer and this still flowers (even after most of my native plants are done)! Thank you for showing all of your wonderful blooms!
Love all the flowers you showed us. I wasn’t aware of all the varieties that grow here in San Diego! My CA poppies are growing amazingly for the first time!
I’m hoping for a variety of flowers this year. The alyssum has flowered and some of my marigolds are budding, so hopefully flowers soon. I also planted zinnias, bachelor buttons, daisies, impatiens, and a few others, hopefully some come up. This is my second year gardening, and I love the charm flowers add to the vegetable garden.
Love this time of year so much! everything is blooming and vibrant. I can't get enough of all the beautiful fragrances filling the air in my yard. Am keen to try growing the Lacy Phacelia now if I can find the space LOL Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden! 🐞🐝🦋💮🏵🌺🌻🌼
These flowers look beautiful. An interesting fact: the phacelia can also be used as a cover crop an green manure. It also improves the soil by losening it and has a ton of biomass in their root System.
I so love having poppies in my garden. However, the gophers loved them too. It seems some people in my neighborhood got aggressive against the gophers because I haven’t seen any activity in a long while. Sooo….I have tons of poppies that were seeded in previous years. They are truly lovely.
Looking great brother, I love the Lacy's! we are getting close in Colorado Springs but I'm itching to get some flowers in the ground. I don't know if the epic family has heard, but the local community of Manitou Springs was just named the worlds first 'Pollinator District'. Id recommend looking into it, as the message they are spreading is so incredibly important, especially for our little bee friends! Have a great day everyone!
I was literally wanting to know today what flowers I could grow for the Valley Carpenter Bees that are frequent visitors to my garden and you completely answered my question along with a treat snippet video of my favorite bee!
Love this. Just this year, I started gathering and starting seeds for native flowers for the Midwest such as Indian Blanket, Dense Blazing Star and Plains Coreopsis. Echinacea (coneflower) also does well here - and I starting a variety of different colors. I going to watch this again to jot down names; my hope is to find some varieties that are cold tolerant enough to be perennials. GREAT vid - thank you.
Coneflowers seem to hate me, they struggle to germinate and size up and then seem to quickly fail in ground. I haven't spent the time to figure out why that is yet but I want them!
@@jacquesinthegarden , Same! I’m in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley (10a) and have the worst time with coneflowers. I can’t figure it out. This year I got a whopping one plant to both germinate and get past the seedling stage. I have it in a pot and am babying that thing like no other. It’ll be cocktail time if and when I actually get a bloom!
I bought a white one from a catalog. They sent me two bareroots. One survive and one didn't. Before that my son bought me a container of pink one.i was moving all around with no luck. I decided to put in on the sidewalk where I had a rose of Sharon. It's doing better at that spot nothing added to the soil just water
That Pride of Maderia is such a lovely, stately piece! Still waiting for planting time in my 6a, tempermental zone so it's nice to live a bit vicariously through your beautiful greenery, haha.
Love the garden!! 😍So much life there! With so much bee activity, do you plan on starting a bee hotel? I know there's a lot to do regarding care, but it might be a nice addition. 🐝🐝
Love your videos. Just a note on the etymology of chamomile from Wikipedia "The word chamomile is derived via the French and Latin, from the Greek χαμαίμηλον, khamaimēlon, 'earth apple', from χαμαί, khamai, 'on the ground', and μῆλον, mēlon, 'apple'."
4:50 I grabbed a 1 or 2gal from my local nursery maybe 9 months ago and it basically quadrupled or quintupled in size since I planted it and threw out a ton of beautiful blooms this year. I was shocked at how quickly it grew and it basically needed no water!
I started growing flowers, then vegetables. Thats how I started growing, i never knew how many awesome flowers existed. When the epic gardening tour of your garden first came out i was amazed to see how many flowers you had, and just interesting plants. Pineapple sage has been in my growing list since!
We used to have a lot of annuals like you in our garden (borage, poppies, cosmos...), coz it's easy to sow, but now we've shifted towards more variety and perennials. We have alkaline clay soil, often dry in summer, so we had to find plants that can handle it. There are a few great plants that flower in spring and die down in summer, before putting leaves in autumn again. Stuff like perennials poppies (Papaver orientale) and my favorite, centaurea montana. Centaureas are a must in the garden, all of their species are great. Centaurea orientalis, centaurea dealbata... All amazing. The achillea family is also amazing for clay soils. And there are some that tolerate (and demand) dry soil like achillea filipendulina (quite a classic for flower beds). 2 types of plants that people really don't use enough are echinops and eryngiums. They put out great deep blue flowers, the first one in globe flowers, the second one in a spiky thistle like flower. In my opinion the best flower bed is to have perennials, with annuals self sown filling the gaps, some tall grasses to structure the bed, and possibly a tree or a couple of shrubs. I'm not mentionning asters or campalunacaes coz with your dry summers, only a handful of species would survive. Knautia macedonica is a must for hot summers though, as well as a few species of agastache and monarda that can tolerate dry soils. For echinacea, the purpurea type will do poorly, but echinacea pallida will do just fine. Sedums do great in dry clay soils too, like sedum telephium 'matrona', a classic.
You can fill in your native garden bare ground with native annuals like baby blue eyes, tidy tips, ca blue bells, and elegant clarkia. Elegant clarkia is new for me this year. Blooms after the baby blue eyes and tidy tips are going over. Looks good with orange ca poppies and calendula. I like the height. Sow seeds in fall after the first rain.
Beautiful garden! 😍 I’m expanding my garden and adding lots of flowers!!! I need to get some pineapple sage for the hummingbirds. Thanks for another great video!
Thanks for sharing Jacques... I've been working on improving my pollinators & natives this year and seeing this shows just how far I have to go. Inspiring!
Can you do a video on garden envy? Because honestly up here in Canada it is hard to believe how beautiful your garden looks at this time of the year. We are excited that the snow has melted 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Jacques! What a great tour of your flowers, thank you so much for sharing. I have a request not related to the flowers, but I wonder if you might consider doing a video about your espalier apples? I planted my first apple trees last fall with the intention of espalier-ing them, and would love some of your practical advice.
Man I'd love a garden like that I'm definitely going to plant some sage once I find some, I'm my garden at the moment I have bluebells, aquilegia,Three-cornered garlic,red campion,lesser celandine,tulips, lots of forget me nots and a clematis coming into bloom
I work at a garden center and I got a customer asking me to help her out with choosing bushes and flowers. But the catch was that she didn't want to attract any bees. I was like...hm not sure if I can help you out with that haha. Plus, I tried explaining to her that the bees are super awesome and that they won't mess with her. I believe that she had a bee fear? Anyways, I love the bees and try to tell people that they are harmless. some customers love them, some are scared of them.
So jealous of gardeners who are growing in areas where the heat & humidity aren't actively trying to kill you AND your plants every day. :: cries in native Floridian ::
