Planting a Pollinator Magnet Nepeta in Front of Our Chicken Coop! 🐝🦋💜// Garden Answer 

Lauren - you are just such a ray of sunshine to watch !!! I wish the world was filled with more people like you and families like yours . Thank you for doing what you do and being who you are - God bless you ! ( Benjamin is so blessed and just to darn A-DOR-A-BLE !!! - Take care )

So true about excessive moisture and the Nepeta. We had about nine dwarf Nepetas edging a garden at the animal rescue where I garden. They were dependable and reliable for several years until we had an unusually wet spring last year. Repeated drenching rains succeeded in killing all but one of the Nepetas (and three, well-established Buddleias, too). Losing the Nepetas was a bummer! Now, in this time of pandemic self-distancing, business closures, unemployment & financial woes, we’ll wait until next year to replace them. Thank heavens for your videos, they give us all a sense of normalcy and beautiful blooms.

Varieties of catmint have easily become my favorite go-to for pots, borders, just about everything! I plant them in all my containers then overwinter them in the veggie garden and dig them up and repot them in the spring. I just did this again and the are thriving and will be blooming in a few weeks. I find that they bloom nearly all summer and into the fall, and YES...the bees 💕 them! 🐝🐝🐝🐝. And the bonus is, that color is my absolute favorite!! It’s a win-win! ☺️☺️

Hi Laura love seeing your video that is a very nice lavander we have to wait till end may than the risk of forst is over but enjoy seeing you in your garden have a lovely weekend 🤗👍🌱

You’ve got that slo-mo fertilizer drop down, girl! Also I adore this plant. Such a nice form without the flop of some nepetas.

Thank you for continuing on with daily videos in spite of being under quarantine. What a great sense of normalcy.

Yes coffee with Laura and some weather to deal with! Let's hope the hail storms don't get worse as these are such pretty plants. If and when I get back to work I may see about planting some of these in my garden at work since it can take full sun. I am so glad you are finding projects that you can do and are willing to get out in the rain to film for us!!! Thank you for all of your hard work!

Laura I remember your heartache over that awful hail last year, you voicing “your poor baby plants! “ made my heart squeeze - all gardeners ptsd!😱♥️

My husband won a catmint nepeta plant at a gardening class. We've absolutely LOVED its beauty and how it attracts bees. This is the 3rd year and it gave us two baby plants. We were thrilled to transplant one elsewhere to attract bees there. Love, love, love this plant♥️

Love this plant! The color and the sweet smell after you rub your fingers through the leaves and blooms. 🦋

Love the white-black crisp contrast look of your chicken coop. I wouldn't mind living in a small space like that while using the enclosed area as a sun room. The rounded flower beds echo nicely with the metal arch. Great job!

Ahhhh little sneak peek of tulips ... I can’t wait to see them in full bloom. One of my favourite flowers 🌷

Yellow and purple are complementary colors on the color wheel. Applying art to the garden gives lots of beautiful color combos.

Thank you for posting so many videos lately. We are in a stay at home order for non essentials, but your videos have me excited to start when this is all over.

Thanks for the video. I've had a Nepeta cat's pajama struggling along for two years. Perhaps I'll be able to get the results I want now. Off topic, but I wanted to comment on the video concerning your new walk along the west side. Laura said you were intending to use the same driveway rock there at your new circle in the walk. A really wonderful gravel size for that type of use is 'A quarter inch to dust' (or it might have place name too. Here in NC, it''s called Chapel Hill crushed). Its what is used in parks on compacted gravel walking trails. Because it compacts so very well, it is considered impervious.

Hi Laura! I just bought the magazine Fine Gardening and saw your page!! I said to my husband that's the garden girl I watch on you tube!! so congratulations:). I love all of your videos you have taught me so much and my garden looks more beautiful because of you!!!

I love nepeta, mine attracts so many 🐝 all summer long. The chicken coop garden is fast becoming one of my favorite areas of your beautiful garden! I'm really looking forward to seeing those Zephirine Droughin roses climbing the coop!

Simply fabulous colours...my favourite blue/lilac/ lavender shades... Your videos are much needed at these trying times Thanks so much for sharing....❤💖💝

So cute, "and now it's starting to hail" !! You are a trooper! Thank you for brightening my day :)

I'm grateful that your videos always have such great sound quality.

I have been watching you for a year now and I really love 💕 you videos......I can’t wait to see all the tulips 🌷 in bloom.....I really have learned a gre

I love 💕 and appreciate your videos during this stressful time! Thank you!!!!!

That's my fav section of the property. I love the cottage garden look and the chicken shed just tops it all off beautifully. When I first bought cat mint it was because it was in bloom at the garden center and covered in bees.

thank you so much for continuing with the videos, I am in Michigan and we are a stay at home state. I was hoping you could do a video on perennials that provide season long color.

That Nepeta is beautiful! I also enjoyed seeing your cute rooster hidden in the garden!

Oh I love watching the outdoors and with the beautiful plants. I love it; since we're quarantined it helps us stay connected.

Those Cat's Pajamas Nepeta are so pretty! I'm going to watch for them when we can shop for plants. Thank you for sharing!

Your chicken coop is so stinking cute! Gorgeous florals loving the Nepeta!❤️ You have a beautiful piece of earth! Stay well!🌷😘🌷

I love how they look at the base of the pots!

Love the vlog. You were talking about them being deer resistant. Here in the UK we are under lock down and because there are few cars and fewer people in some towns (Wales for instance) they have wild goats roaming the streets and gardens. The goats are just hopping over walls and walking along them then dropping into the gardens. Looks funny unless of course it is your garden..... Stay safe. Love from the uk jude x

just lovely!! with that soft yellow, sigh.. so pretty... i'm jazzed because i found out my local nursery will deliver to me, so i'm making a LONG list!! looks like we're in this for the long haul so i want to justify the delivery charge with LOTS o'plants! i'm so glad your new babies weren't hurt with the hail - your weather goes from one extreme to another, 'no plants were harmed during the hail storm in this video' haha... and yes, Benjamin is an absolute angel... what a sweet boy...

Really like the plantings around the chicken coop. One of my.🔹favorites that you have designed!

Love your channel so much information you give me some much inspiration for my new gardens. I'm in the process of shaping a garden next to my house which it's tricky because it gets full sun all day. I have to kill the weeds first a take out the grass. I want my garden to look cottage style.

Last year I bought a nepeta at Lowe's in the clearance bin, it was dried out and I didn't know if I could bring it back. But I planted it and it thrived. I cut it back and it re-bloomed. I just transplanted it to a sunnier area and I ordered 5 more so I can have a nice border in front of my day lilies.

I love nepeta and can't wait to find this new variety at my garden centre this year to add some to my garden.

So beautiful! Thanks for continuing to focus on beauty and order in this unusual time.

You have the most beautiful property! I've definitely been inspired to start gardening after watching your videos. Thanks for all the tips!

Love seeing new plants going in the ground! I adore Nepeta ~ I would love 'Cats in Pajamas' in my garden. I absolutely love the chicken ornament at the chicken coop!! Blessings from NL, Canada

Laura your videos are the first I typically view first thing in the morning. Your gardens and ideas act as a beacon of light within my life. This morning especially you were simply beaming with joy as you tackled yet again several garden vignettes within your yard. Thank-you 💚

Your videos are really helping my mental health through this tough time!! Thank you so much for continuing to post! It’s great motivation to get working in my own garden and I’m so excited about the plans I have this year. 🌸

I love it! The plant looks so FLUFFY!! Thx for sharing!

The flowers on the cat's pajamas are so pretty!

Love your videos.....they give me hope Spring will come to stay EVENTUALLY....we got 6 inches of snow here in Bismarck, ND zone 4a.....PEACE......🥰

Oooh... z9! Yea! I need to keep a lookout. These remind me of Lavender.

Learned a lot....today color combination was absolutely beautiful.....So looking forward to your up coming videos.....God Bless

So nice to see something in full bloom, it's still pretty chilly in MN. Last night's temp was 19. Hydrangeas are slow but my Bloomerang lilacs, Japanese Maples and Coral Berries are starting to bud out. My peonies are starting to sprout strongly as always and as I'm saying this year, I can't wait until the nursery opens and I can plant shop again. Hope you and the families all stay safe.

What a coincidence! I just ordered some Cat's Pajama nepeta to plant in a bed with Full Moon coreopsis.

That is the prettiest chicken coop I have ever seen!

Ha! You DID get the chicken statue! That's awesome. It's nice to know that I am not the only person who can't resist ;)

We've got some beautiful weather coming next week here in SW Washington. So ready for dry days to get stuff done outside. I look forward to your videos each day - thank you!

Watching this video for the second time still amazing thanks for sharing!!!

I am enjoying your videos so much since we are "locked down". Been 4 weeks since out of the yard. I pray this isn't the way it's going to be from now on. This virus is something else. My sons' wedding is supposed to be on June 1st. I doubt it will happen. I don't even know if he was able to get a marriage license this week. Anyway, you brighten my day! Stay home, stay safe, stay well.

Love the colour of Nepeta , and the cats will love the foliage 🐈

Beautiful,we’re having freezing rain right now inTX so I wrapped all my plants up for now😩

Yesss! Thank you for featuring a plant that will survive in zone 3. My heart sinks when I realize how many beautiful plants I cannot grow where I live.

Got to purchase and plant our very first Proven Winners plants today! We have the lemon coral sedum and diamond frost euphorbia! LOVE them! Can't wait to see how they develop. We are a zone 7b, so crossing fingers that winters will permit a regrowth year after year for the lemon coral. Love your channel! My 4 year old daughter and I watch a lot from you! We also planted some pots earlier and she was my little manager reminding me that we needed more "potty mix" in that pot to fill it in. :-D (she meant potting mix!) Keep the awesomeness coming, we love it!

👋🏻 Hi Laura! I was looking for someone that planted in and around their chicken and pig pens, etc… with things the animals inside can also eat. Looking at yours, I’d love to see some sod put down and have your water feature stream through the coop some kind of way. I’m also thinking grapes, mirlitons, small melons hanging down would look awesome and planters filled with yummy things chickens love to eat, peas, lettuce, kale, etc. Maybe a super cute chandelier and a miniature claw foot tub with some dusty soil for when they want a dust bath lol. A blingy miniature sink for fresh water to drink and mirror! 🪞 Oh and inside maybe some cute little doll beds with canopies for the nesting boxes? And something decorative for a roost. Anthropomorphic chicken art! How adorable would that be? It would also be fantastic farm charm content for a video, definitely something I’d share….if you ever have the time and energy for it. Just an idea I had.

You have been such a joy to watch start planting it is still well into the minus here felt like -29 yesterday morning😥 enjoy watching you as I look longingly into my new garden planning all my flowers

Awesome, I just planted 3 of these Iast fall. I'm excited to see if they grow like the pics you showed. I'm totally going for a cottage look. Thanks for the continued uploads.❤

Getting so excited for a big tulip tour 🌷 🌷🌷😁

I would absolutely love it if you did a 'gardening for beginners' series! I mean a complete, no clue, absolutely no experience starting point. I don't know what zones are, I don't know how to plant borders beyond 'dig a hole and stick a plant in it', I really want to start a container vegetable garden in an old wheelbarrow that I salvaged but no idea where to start. Pretty please from the UK! X

How I wish my garden center carried a bigger variety of flowers. They are just gorgeous. 🌱🌻💗🌱🌻💗

Your chicken coop is just so beautiful. Love all you do and can't wait for each new video. Thanks for your hard work and inspiration.

Hi Laura! Oh my goodness that hail, my heart sunk! The flower bed is going to be stunning with everything in bloom! I noticed the 3 wall planters on the back of the shed, time to plant them up! I live in Georgia & we now have a shelter in place order so I've been outside in my garden getting all my projects buttoned up. I would love if you posted some longer detailed videos on any and everything for the garden. I love longer videos anyway but now most people have a little bit more time on their hands.

Well now I know what plant that I dug up and through away yesterday .... guess that I need to retrieve it .... put it back and analogize.... for not remembering what it was ..... Long story short .... had a new patio put in last fall .... So this year is an OMG ... what is all of this .... Grrrr .... hopefully I will have it all in place soon ..... Thanks for sharing .... Hugs ..... Shirlene

Love this plant! Never heard of it before! Might add it to my black and blue salvia and purple veronica in my garden, especially since we get deer and bush bunnies here.

I really love all the information you gave in this video, I have a difficult front yard in our new home as it gets full blown sun most of the day and we have groups of up to 15 deer take come thru daily during mid spring thru late fall so its quite the challenging area.. So looking forward to trying these🌿🌸🌿

Cats Pajamas has been on my wish list! I can't wait to get my hands on some. Though since going out is not a good thing right now I have seeds started of a few varieties that will tide me over.

I am doing a lot in my yard this year and will definitely be adding these to my list!!

I have those and they do come back beautifully each year.

This weather is unpredictable right now we had rain for about 3days and wind! Those were beautiful! Looked so nice where you planted them! I miss longer videos!

I'm so jealous your spring has been so good! I'm in the Midwest zone 5 and we hit 70 a few days ago then it snowed and was 25 😭 love watching you guys add to your garden!!

so pretty, nepeta is one of my favorite perenials

I have four containers of Cat’s Pajamas waiting to be planted today so this was quite timely for me. It was helpful to know that they need to be pruned back when they are finished blooming.

Love how beautiful the cats pajama's look.

I love this type of plant, purple spikes like saliva, nepeta, veronica, and hyssop.

Ooo..I love that plant and I love the way the area around the chicken coop is evolving. I spotted the rooster : )

Love that spring colour theme

I love the blooms Cats’ Pajamas! 💜💙💜💙💜

Now that's dedication! Doing a video in a hail-storm! Love the color! I have one of my garden plots done in yellow and various shades of purple/lavender. It IS a great combination! I usually enjoy watching what I call Aaron's "speed-up button" where he fast forwards a lot of your work. (Because I always wish I had a speed-up button!!) But I REALLY enjoyed seeing some in slow motion on this video because that is my actual speed!! And thus the reason it takes me about 6 hrs to do what should be about 90 minutes of gardening!

Yay for more perennial plantings!

Your Stone’d’ Rooster made it to the garden! Love it and the flowers beautiful too!!

What a beautiful plant . I would love to plant it in my yard:) stay safe.

Lovin the music Mr. AARON 😃🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵

All your property needs now is a perrenial water feature..I know you may be uneasy because of Benjamin, but it would really be beautiful to have an aquatic oasis somewhere.

Love these plants. Hope I find some for my garden.

We are in Melbourne Au and we got heavy wind and rain yesterday and today. Yesterday the hail came and I was out in it covering my seedlings from the hail! Lol I took the sheet off when the hail finished but oh my I got wet but I saved the seedlings!

If you had to pick just one, would you pick lavendar or nepeta? And why ;) by the way, Im such a newbie to gardening but it brings me such joy, and I love that you bring us along through your garden pointing out different plants, I feel like I’m learning and growing so much through repetition! You bring so much joy to my week!!

Love your chicken coop & the garden around look so beautiful🌹💖

I planted a nepeta plant a few years ago and I really love it. I have problems with deer but they haven't touched this plant and it is definitely hardy. The only issue I have is my wonderful cat who loves it too, so much that he lays and rolls in it and eats some of the leaves! It still continues to grow but with a rather smashed center. I've read that not all cats are attracted to it though so I assume it's not a problem that you have.

Very pretty! I need that in my landscaping💕💕💕💕

Nice Video and the blue plants Nepeta is awesome you are inspiring me to plant more perennials in my garden. I only do annuals for my hanging baskets. I like some of new plants that Proven Winners has but not finding them in my area. Thanks for sharing Laura!

Nepeta is one of my faves! Hope I can find the cats pajamas, around here I usually find PW in annuals, not so much perennials.

It turned out beautifully!

I can’t wait to plants so many perennials in my garden !!🧤🌱

Beautiful! I already ordered a bunch of those!! I can't wait to get them!!! 🌸🌸

Your outdoor gardens are looking great

Beautiful flowers Lauren. You're giving me great ideas! Thank you so much for being so upbeat. Stay dry

I would like to get this plant, it would make a nice addition to my garden. I like that it's heat tolerant and it reblooms.

When I watch your videos, aside from my great admiration of the beauty of your gardens, I often wonder...how does she handle deer? How do you keep the deer from devouring everything? You answered my question...lol. You don't have that problem. Lucky you! The deer are like squirrels in my area. Beautiful plant! I love the color and softness of appearance.