My Top 5 Favorite Plants in Zone 9b! :: PLUS Special Guest Jenny from Harmony Hills Home and Garden! 

I searched up “flowers for 9b” and this came up-I immediately subscribed when you said you’re in NorCal too! It’s hard when I get sucked into a video only to realize they’re in a totally different part of the world. Looking forward to more videos from you 🥰‼️

I was so excited to see Supertunia Bubblegums on your list! I’m also in zone 9 and I’m about to plant 24 pots of Bubblegums in my 2 front garden beds. The bubblegums have gotten so popular these days, I almost feel like a true gardener would kind of scoff at your garden if they saw a bunch of bubble gums, lol! I really went back-and-forth a lot this spring when choosing which Supertunia I was going to highlight in my garden this year. Last year I did the Vista snowdrifts, first time gardener, first garden beds ever, and I felt like a winner! Just like you said, it gave me such a boost of confidence and I felt like wow, maybe I do have a green thumb, ha ha! Every single one of my neighbors asked me what exact flower that was so they could go buy it for their garden. They were just so vigorous and beautiful and I think white is such a classic color. It was a beautiful backdrop to my sunshine ligustrum’s and Loropetalums. Loved all the color! But I finally just got to the point where I didn’t really care if everyone had the vista bubblegums. That’s what I wanted to plant and it’s my garden! They just arrived the other day and I’m super excited to get them in the ground. I’m just trying to get the whole irrigation thing worked out first. This is my first year doing the drip irrigation so that’s a whole challenge in itself! Great video! Love to hear about plants that thrive in my zone🌸🌸

The perennial flowers that always worked for me are the oleander and cape plumbago. The only thing that can kill them is neglect, but if you put in some effort, they can withstand anything!

That was so sweet!!!! I loved to see this collaboration and what beautiful choices.

A nice weeping Alaskan cedar dupe for zone 9b would be cupressus cashmeriana, otherwise known as the Bhutan Cypress. It is slightly lighter in color than the weeping Alaskan cedar but it pretty much looks the same! It can grow in zones 9-10

The mystic spiral salvia are my favorite! They grow really well here in Florida!

Those are all great choices Janey. I'm propagating my Mystic Spires this year to have more in the landscape. I have been a subscriber of Jenny's channel for a while now and was happy to see your collaboration. You are both such relatable gardeners and always fun to watch!

Great choices! You and Jenny are two of my favorite gardeners and I never miss your videos.

I have two large Salvias you first mentioned and they bloom gorgeous purple year long. I'm in zone 9 in deep south texas so it gets way too scorching hot if in direct sun so we have them on the east side of the house to get only morning to noon sun and shade after. It is still gets enough brightness to continue thriving. Added mulch in it's xl clay pot and water them almost every other day.

I’m so glad I found your channel. I am also from zone 9b and yes I have a hard time growing hydrangeas but I have not tried growing limelight hydrangeas. I will definitely try to grow them. Thanks for the great suggestion.

So excited for this collaboration and to watch hers! You are killing it with all the new content you are putting out. I've been too nervous to try hydrangeas here in Texas. But they are one of my favs for sure! At least we can always depend on the salvias!

I love all ur favorite plants..especially the supertunia vista bubble gum. First time I grow last year and definitely a repeat.its very striking and vigorous.loved it..yes I'm already following jenny from harmony hills.love her too..😍 have a wonderful day!

My heart is full a you tuber who is the same zone as me. I'm in Clovis CA. And you love cut flower bouquets. I've subscribed and look forward to your input.

I love all your choices Janey 💕 and I’ve been with Jenny from almost the very beginning and she’s absolutely wonderful and funny 🌸💕🌸

Oh, I love this collab! Love both of your channels 💚 I absolutely love all of your choices (6k on the nose!)💚

Great idea, I really enjoyed this video! I have all of the plants you mentioned but I don't have the limelight hydrangea, I have numerous big leaf hydrangeas and a lace cap (yes, it's variegated!) and 2 different varieties of shasta daisy (I have trouble growing these). My 5 favs are pelargoniums, hydrangea, gardenia, pansy/viola,and hosta. There are so many others that I could easily add to the list. Stay cool today, my friend.

I absolutely agree your choices Janey, I’m in zone 9a Henderson NV. I love your channel.

good morning 😃 great video 👏👏👏 I also watch Jenny !! And my favorite plant you mentioned was …. Salvia ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️. I love them all 🥰 have a wonderful day friend 😍😍😍

Thanks for sharing. I love this kind of video. My salvias are coming in👏

Discovered your channel and Harmony Hills at about the same time a month or so ago. So glad to see this collaboration. ☺

I’m in 9b as well, so glad to find your channel.

Love all your choices!!!!!

So fun to see what you’re favorite plants are! It is cool to compare different zones and what plants do well in each zone. Jenny is a month or two behind your planting season and I’m a could 2-3 months behind Jenny! 😂 I love hydrangeas too, I had a beautiful limelight hydrangea tree. But during the last snow storm earlier this week the snow got to heavy and it split my tree in half 😫 I’ll have to see what it does this spring. It’s right next to my front door so of course it’s what everyone sees as soon as they drive up to the house…half of a tree 🤦‍♀️

Hi sac neighbor! Loved your list. I left my bubblegum tunia alone all winter-it wasnt a pretty site but in feb i saw new growth at base. I cut all the dead off and its already in full bloom. I look forward to how many years it will continue to revive itself. Agree on the salvia! Summer burn destroys my E facing hydrangea's, so i moved it to N facing next to shelter of house-doing great. Last fall i bought summercrush hydrangeas and planted them next to a W facing fence under shade trees-sun till about 11 am. They are doing great! 2 plants i would have added are geraniums (lovely deep green with blooms) and dianthus-they bloom all year! I put in a drip system and this time of year it's on 2x a week for 1 hour. Intense summer over 95 it gets a 3rd run. I also made a topsoil to put at base of all plants, bushes & trees of peat moss, steer manure compost & topsoil. This has made a huge improvement to retaining water, giving nutrients all summer and in general improving the ground. I dont fertilize flowers with weekly products. Cheers

Love your garden. You have worked very hard.

Hi Janey! new subscriber came over from Jenny' channel. Love this collabs and learning what works well and looks good together!

Nice sharing my friend! Thank you so much! 👍59

Love the channel. I actually meet Jenny in Minneapolis, MN at a garden center. We are zone 4 so I envy both of you. I told you about the tulips I pulled before they died back and just left stem on and dried in my potting shed. Just a note about the tulips I pulled early last year and planted late last fall are now up. So the process I used did work.

I love Jenny! ❤️❤️❤️

Awesome Janey !! Some of our Salvias survived the winter and are showing a bit of growth. We have some killer Hydrangeas aswell. I try my hand at "pruning" them a few weeks ago because they were so overgrown, so fingers crossed Excellent video!! Colleen lived in Baltimore!! We'll check our Jenny's channel!! Cheers Jason and Colleen 🌱🌱🌱

I agree with you about the Salvia 'Mystic Spires', total hummer magnet! I found a supposedly dwarf version called 'Mysty', hope it works out. Just planted some Supertunia Bubblebum to fill in for my pink ranunculus that didn't do well this year.

Your garden is turning into a gorgeous garden 🏡

Love the video. So fun since I watch you both. I love plant profiles. I have 3 Limelights. I'm in zone 5B. At my prior house I had a 15 yr old specimen that must have been 10 ft high!

Beautiful selections! Salvia, hydrangeas, and Shasta daisies grow well here in zone 8b too! Petunias do as well but I might be the only person that hasn't heard of supertunias, lol, I need to check them out! Thanks for sharing Janey!

Great info. I had no idea about the lime lights. I'm zone 9

That was an awesome video! I really enjoyed it. I love Hydrangeas too and here on the coast, they are prolific. One of my friends has a redwood tree garden and the hydrangeas grow quite perfectly there! She has blooms all summer and into late fall! They do change color. They get to be a blue and then a dark purpke as the season progesses. They start off with green and then the color migrates as the season progresses. It is lovely. :) They accent the redwoods SO well too. I hope you have a great weekend. I will make sure to check out the other channel too1

Love all your suggestions. I'm also in 9b. And unless it's the variety my Shasta daisy in the 6pk get powdery mildew so bad . I stopped using it. I'll be trying the bubble Vista petunia at my Dad's for all the flower power and low maintenance. 💐

Great video! The Supertunia and Shasta Daisy look great here! It's fun to see the similarities and differences in our zones. Enjoy your weather. Some light snow coming down today. Yuck!!

Pretty much your top 5 plants that you grow are pretty much mine. There is one plant that I have that I know would make your list even longer is the one called cat's pyjamas. It belongs to the mint family but not one that will invade your garden. The bloom spike looks like the silivias. As always love your videos as you are just so packed with information to try on our gardens. Have a wonderful day.

Outstanding video- good afternoon

I’ll tell you what, I planted the Shasta ‘crazy daisy’ they’re all shaggy and super cool looking! Love them!

I'm so glad that I found your channel, thanks for all the great tips. I'm planning to plant limelight hydrangea in front of my westside window but not sure if they will survive of afternoon heat. Do you have them plant on westside of the house? if so then how do you keep them alive. thanks

Such a fun vid Janey!! I love your top 5! I would agree that those are solid performers. I don't have any lambs ear, but hope to add some soon. I like the blue/grey foliage and texture they provide. I had a similar foliage plant called rose campion, but it became a thug in my yard and self seeded EVERYWHERE. I grew Bordeaux supertunias last year and they were pretty vigorous also.

We are in zone 7 here at Bluebird homestead so I will definitely be checking her out too.

I love Salvia and Supertunia vista bubblegum. This last fall I cut mine back and this spring they have already overtaken the pots they are in. Somewhere in the middle is purple fountain grass but I'm not sure what's going on with that. It's been super hot here already and it should have already started growing. I'm thinking maybe the supertunias choked it out. I love lambs ear but have never grown it. I think I am going to try and plant some this year. Thanks for another great video. 😄

I loved this video and I would have loved it even more if you shared not just 5 but 20 😆! So happy to be subscribed to a some who is also in 9b ~

Hi, I have 3 Becky daisies waiting to go into my garden here just south of Edinburgh, just waiting on it warming up a little, snow showers today 🙂

Beautiful selection. Shasta daisy is the best cut flower can last up to three weeks

I love all your favorite plants. I wish I could plant them all. 😁 I've actually been wanting to try supertunia bubblegum. My future plan is to purchase 2 tall containers to flank my garage door and plant them in there since they don't do well in the ground in my zone. They don't like our rainy season. That may have to wait till next year, but that's totally okay with me. 😊

Love your video. I'm in zone 9b but in Florida. Do you think this plants will work here as well?

Great picks for your top five plants!

Love your shirt!!!!

Thank you for share information

Hi Janie! I'm in San Diego Zone 10B. I want to grow the limelight hydrangeas in my zone. Do you have any knowledge about growing them here? I went to my local Walter Andersons this past weekend and saw (2) 5 gallon pots of limelights from Proven Winners and almost pulled the trigger and bought them. I thought, "If they are selling them here in our zone, then they must be okay!" But, I know that they typically thrive up to zone 9, so I held back. Any suggestions or feedback is helpful! Thanks so much for all your share! I love it so much.

Zone9b in the house ❤️

Hi Janey, what a great list! I'm not sure how many of these are available here in France, but I'll be on the lookout as I'm ramping up to do a landscaping project soon. Question about the Supertunia Bubblegums, how many do you plant to get the effect you showed in the video? I've never been a petunia fan, but I think you just converted me! Take care, Val

So curious on your thoughts on limelight vs the new limelight prime? I'm also in zone 9b and am torn on which to get! Do the limelight primes stick up too straight? too small? Different looking flowers? I'm also torn because on the Proven Winner website it actually says that the Prime is not hardy in zone 9b (but regular limelight is). How did yours do?

Is there anyway we can grow a japanese cherry ” yoshino “ in zone 9 or kanzan cherry ?.

Execelent video

Love love limelights!!! I had a beautiful row of them along the inside of my pool fence and my husband got angry at me and while I was gone visiting our daughter he had them pulled out ...I was devastated 😢 uuggghhh....he knows how to get me where it hurts lol !!! No forgiveness for that one !!!

Proven Winners Bubblegum is a vista Supertunia. PW has several more. They have started offering mini vista Supertunia also that should not be missed. Also Royal Velvet is as vigerous as the vistas but isn't given the name. We are 9b also. My neighbor has a BG in the ground by his driveway that is going on it's third summer. I love the old BG because the plant is big very early. Don't miss Truffula pink gomphrena...... it will winter over also. I try everything they offer.

Can you give me suggestions for a 15 ft long/1 foot wide space along a walkway with partial sun in zone 9b? 😅 I'm constantly struggling with this space. I did have simply Mexican Heather all long the walkway but they got really bad during that catastrophic freeze in TX.

Great choices! Question, the vine looking plant behind you is that a tradescantia of some sort?

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That is a great selection of plants. I don’t know how you managed to keep it to 5.

I just bought my first two vista bubblegums, and have a jug of BT and pump sprayer on the shelf so I feel prepared for the bud worms that we get here. I’m zone 9b too, have you or any viewer of same zone had success with this plant in pots? All my ground plants/flowers are on drip so I never have to worry about watering but pots are an entirely different beast in our heat and intense sun. I’d like to hang them in the backyard which faces south and my patio which faces west. Any thoughts or advice, maybe soil/medium recommendations to hold water better?

My lambs ear died my first year :(. How much water? I'm in a hot area. Sunny area

I love living in 9b

Where do you get your plants? Order? What do Use for fertilizer?

What is your spring like in 9b? Do you have daffodil, tulip month and then flowering trees or do you just skip ahead to summer?

Hi Janey! I love this video :) I am in 9B too (Roseville, CA). I have to ask, where do you get the Limelights? We have a great chain of nurseries up here(GreenAcres) but they don't sell them, or many PV plants. I would be willing to drive to Davis to come and get some(and the supertunia vistas).

I want to try supertunia too if i had a chance on it.

80 👍🏻 beautiful 👌👍🏻🌹🙏🤝

I would love to see where you put these plants in your garden.

How do you prune back your mystic spires salvia?

Does the salvia need to be cut back in winter?

Do you know if the supertunia is a perennial in our zone?

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What is the vine growing on your fence right behind you?

What do you mean by "standard"

What is climbers behind you?

are supertunia bubblegum perennial ?