Shopping for Groundcovers + Potting Up Rooted Fig Cuttings! 🙌🌿🥰 // Garden Answer 

Your parents' garden center gets so many different and unusual varieties of plants. Some I have not seen before. Your mother does a great job of ordering different plants instead of the same old, same old varieties you see every year at the big box stores. I wish I lived around your area because I would go crazy buying many of the different varieties of herbs and flowers and the David Austen roses. Just a lovely selection to choose from. Happy Gardening!

Laura "these can take a little foot traffic" Russell shows up and demonstrates on cue That meow was everything for the morning

I have never been much of a gardener and only have a few pots on my small deck and yet I watch your videos every morning without fail. I just love your gardens, your kids, your cats, your mom, your sister... everyone and everything. You and your team produce the best videos ever. 7days a week, still not enough. I have to watch your videos from years ago. Keep it up, please.

I'm American gardening in England. I have The Lark Ascending. I purchased it at a beautiful garden center in the cotswolds and the early evening sun was shining through the flowers of the rose. I'll never forget the effect it had on me. The poem and music - The Lark Ascending - is beautiful also.

LOVE when you take us on an up-close tour of your Mom's wonderful greenhouses and plants. Especially on a rainy morning it is exactly what we need to see!

Your videos just make me so happy! I started gardening late in life after my children left the nest, and I needed something to nurture. Your videos have taught me so much and bring me so much joy! Thank you Laura and Aaron. ❤❤❤

Love it when we get to see all the beautiful things at the garden center ❤

Good morning everyone! Blessings ❤️🙏🤗

Oh to have a garden center like your parents near by. Such a huge selection of plants. ❤

Looking at all your beautiful things in your greenhouse just makes my heart happy! Such a lovely abundance of wonderful things!

Russell's meaw is just something else... Love seeing those orange cats here and there in your videos

Videos that start at Andrew’s are always so much fun!! Sitting at the edge of my seat in 5b waiting for the day I can dig in the dirt again!!

We can all relate to a Russell cat personality 🤣 🐈 ❤that’s why we love him so !

U are the only you tuber that I let all the adverts go. So u can get as much money as u can. Please keep these videos up. I love them

Good morning, beautiful people ❤ wishing you a beautiful day ❤

Laura's excitement for these beautiful ground covers is contagious! Such abundance! I never knew so many varieties existed! Another interesting, educational video.

It's always such a great pleasure to go plant shopping with you, Laura. It always helps us out too😊

Wonderful video - Spring has finally sprung in Garden Answer. I can’t wait to see what wonders the year holds for the gardens around the world.

Hi! You were talking about sorrel. We go through so much in a year with a soup called Summer Borscht. It’s a favourite in our family. Love how Russell just tested out your new plants. Our cats would be no different.

Russell is a supervisor! He was jus doing his work! Good job Russell!

Look at sweet Russell sleeping in that chair. I love watching sleeping pets

While watching with my 5 year old daughter this morning, she said "Oh, giving them to her friends?! I hope she gives one to me!" I love sharing my joy of gardening with my child!!

My favorite part about all of your videos is watching your children and or your adorable cats. Thank you Laura for creating entertaining videos that are educational as well. 😍😍😍👍👍👍 Liz

Excited every spring to visit the local nurseries to bring my garden alive with color. Makes my heart sing.

What a fantastic day and sharing with us. Walking thru on a spring day to see all the plants makes my heart sing.❤

Thank you for taking us to Andrews it was nice to see all the new plants. Love all your new ground cover plants. And great you had good luck rooting the fig cuttings.

Oh my gosh, I am dying laughing at Russell! His timing was purrfect!! Laura sweetly exclaims over her beautifully set table of perennials and then BAM!! 😂😂

I just love it when you go through all the new fresh plants at your parent's nursery that have come in, I was so excited to see it all and what next you were going to show us. I have that creeping Veroncia you mentioned and I live in northeast GA 7b hardy zone and back in December the week of Christmas we got some freezing 🥶 single digit temps (very unusual for us) consecutively and surprisely it did keep it's foilage amongst other hardy plants that took a hard hit and suffered leaf lost, so it's definitely a great one to have. The Chicago Hardy Figs look awesome! 😍 Thank you again, Laura for sharing your plant shopping trip with us. As always, so very fun to watch!

I am a huge fan, I watch your channel during lunch break and have learned so much . I am now a cat/Kitten owner and understand how they love to walk outside in my garden. Keep up the great job!!! 💕

Thanks for taking us along. It is gloomy here but I was so excited to see all the plants. Some of them reminded me that I went big on planting more perennials and shrubs last fall. I loved the excitement when you found roots on those fig cuttings. Discovering growth makes gardening fun. I love to watch my seedlings under the grow lights and really look forward to see our plants outside show green growth. Enjoy your weekend!

inspiring fig propagation!!! And my favorite kind of shopping is plant shopping! Happy Spring!!!

I so wish we had a garden center like your parents where I am at. They get some of the most interesting things.

I love apple mint, I use it in my floral arrangements. I also dry it for tea. It’s delicious and fruity 😊 Also, russle talking back, as if to say, “I don’t like my choice to jump up either” 😂

So much fun! I love ground-covers!

Lovely haul; I love plant shopping. Problem is I come home with too many, LOL. Figs are so easy to root and I'm glad you had success. Give Russell a hug!

Propagating is my thing and over time I've become a pro at it. I propagate everything I buy and give it away! It's addicting.

That is such a fun and helpful tip, I never even thought of that. To ask for the ones that my garden center wintered over from last year because that means that they are quite hardy to have made it in a nursery container!

What a fun video! Just what I needed today. How does one even decide which type of herb to buy with so many varieties?!?! They are all so beautiful. :)

Laura, you’re not wrong about Ricola Swiss Mint. It’s soooo good! I bought some after your suggestion a few years ago and it keeps coming back in my container. I can give cuttings away for tea. My favorite drink with it is a sweet iced sun tea. Sooo good!

I’m loving the shopping trip today! The local nurseries here won’t be open for a long time yet. Our Zone 4 garden, still tucked under its winter blanket, just received a few more inches of snow, and they predict five to eight inches tonight. So it’s great to get a garden center fix, while we are still in the middle of our winter! Thank you!

I love it when you take us on tour to the garden center, and then show us the interesting finds you've acquired.

Hi Laura, due to some health issues I'm not able to garden as much as I used to so I am do so vicariously with you every day. You almost always tell the lowest zone,but I'm in N. central FL. zone 9 and would be great full for the higher zones.

Yes definitely need the catnip I would love to see them two with it

Thanks for taking us plant shopping with you. It made my day😊

Aaa Russell just saying hi how sweet, thx for taking us along enjoyed every moment.

Lovvvvveeee long-form vids! Thanks for the content Laura! 🌸🌼🌻🌱🌿

Here in Seacoast NH we have had the same issue with temperatures-we have had just a day or two of 40’s & 50’s. Even in the sun with a slight breeze it feels rather cold. This shopping trip filled my empty feeling about getting started this year ! I LOVE everything I saw and everything you bought and I am SO grateful for your enthusiasm!! It helps when I can’t get out just yet for plant shopping or working the ground in my little garden. Thanks Laura for lifting my spirit! 😊🌞

I just want to go plant shopping!!!! Midwestern girl here, they just upgraded our area to a winter storm warning for tonite into tomorrow, but we have thunderstorms rolling across right now! Never know what you are going to get for weather in MN!

I love that you told us how to make the garden store employees lives easier by taking plants out of flats in alternating spots! I always want to be helpful. This has been so fun for me because I discovered you in mid summer last year. So never saw all this fun spring stuff that you do. Always thankful for all you do.

Plant shopping is my absolute favorite, I always over do it and buy a few extra plants I have no idea what to do with, but in most cases those finds turn out to be my best.

This brighten my day bless you… Russel and you made me laugh out loud 😂❤

Over 2 years ago I tried rooting 25 fig cuttings. Some were pretty ugly but 8 rooted and grew! That is such a great day when they reach that point. I gave 5 away and planted 3 and they are now a regular star of my monthly garden tours!!! ❤🎉🎉❤😊

I was glad to see so many Monrovia plants. Love their performance as much as PW.

Back in February '87, we had either straight line winds or a tornado which did not get all the way to the ground. I live on a heavily wooded lot with a few pines and a ton of sweetgums. One of the trees I chose to close an empty gap was a saucer magnolia. While most springs there is the caramel frost-look on the blooms from cold that came after the warm, the shade from the beautiful leaves is divine. That shade is where the humpback hostas, burgundy glow ajugas and recently planted trilliums live with a few Spanish bluebells and hellebores. The last two springs, the saucer magnolia blooms escaped with no damage! A sight to behold!

Plants shopping is the best !

Love this shopping trip to Andrews Garden Center. So much variety of herbs, what a wonderful selection all wanting to come home with you. Loved Monica popping in. Wished I could smell them too. Had to laugh after the Russell welcome to the new plants. He was evaluating your selection. It's so heartwarming to spot an Orange Cat napping in the background. Should have got Russell the Catnip. Congrats on the Fig success, they look so good. Just a Really Great Video to wake up to, made me Smile. 🌿🌱🪴🐈😻😍

Yes! Our nursery orders the same thing as the big box stores. Same plants, higher plants. Would love to shop your moms nursery!

Cheddar curled up in his chair after he got in trouble for jumping on your new plants. Good kitty.

Yeah on the visit to the Garden Center for plants - FUN!!! Yeah on the Fig's rooting! You so encourage us to be brave and inspire us to try new things! Russell following you reminds me of Dexter. Questions: Will you plant "Caryopteris/Beyond Midnight (like you did 4 yrs ago - behind the gazabo??) And: can you explain why David Austin Roses are superior to others? Hope y'all are enjoying LENT.

So fun, thanks Laura! I live in zone 8a on the NC coast so we are a little ahead of you, but I love your words of advice and experience with some of the same plants I'm excited to grow. You're the one who introduced me to Veronica and in our extremely sandy soil it's one of the best performers in my garden, it's coming back beautifully. Plants have to be tough to come back in pure sand soil and Veronica, Pincushion, Black Eye'd Susans, Bee balm, Sage and Salvia, Coreopsis, and Sedums are some of the tough guys I love. I'm hoping to find some Joe Pye Weed and Border Penstemons to try out this year.

Oooh! This greenhouse tour gave me such excitement and motivation I broke out into a panic sweat. 😅I'm really loving the herb selection! I'm going to put more in pots this year. I would love to make a trip to your side of this state to visit your mom's nursery and shop!🌿🌺🌼

So fun! Plant shopping is always the best!

Hi Laura! Your mom has such a gorgeous variety of flowers. I have not seen half of these flowers in on Long Island, NY.

ok, ground covers are my current jam... yes to weed suppressing!! lol... this is great, i was taking so many notes... will have to see what my nursery has in stock.. what a fun day!!! plant shopping is my favorite, too! forget the mall - take me to a nursery!!! love Russell testing the "foot, er paw traffic" on the veronica, lol.. good to know... maybe it will tolerate bunny paws (hopefully they don't eat it, sigh.. they're so cute but geeez, they eat a lot... lol)... so many ideas!! gotta go to the nursery! 🥰❤thanks for the video!!! 🥰❤

I'm Latvian/American and we eat Sorel ALLOT. It add allot to soups and salads with a lemony flavor. You can steam it and put in jars for winter for your soups.

I don’t know what variety of oregano I planted at my house in Boise, but it took over (the same way you are describing with borage). So watch out for that. Mint and chives will do it too. They are useful little “weeds” 🤣🤣🤣

Good morning all have a safe and blessed day 🥰

❤watching you and spring discoveries! I am zone 9 and every thing is wide open and growing in our warm weather ! I am loving it Thank you for another great video!

I just planted a window box full of strawberry mint, which I've never seen before

Good morning Garden Answer. The greenhouse is looking great. There's nothing like spending a rainy day in the greenhouse checking on the progress of how everything's doing. 🌼🌻

After starting a portage garden for my 83 year old mother and I too grow our own vegetables and flowers, it would be a big help to have a Aerobin Composter to create organic soil from yard clippings and weeding to keep raised beds at optimal levels with the added benefit of saving on soil purchase. Dreaming BIG, hoping to save up for a greenhouse just like or a little bigger one that Laura installed at her sister-in-laws home, too to winterize some citrus and other trees that cannot withstand cold GA winters.

Hi Laura, I have been combing through your videos for your top favorite hardy ground covers for sun and shade. I am in zone 5 in Pennsylvania and have a lot of deer and rabbit pressure and have a lot of woods and am in the foot hills of the mountains at about 1200 feet in altitude. Also the more that boom the better, since I am desperate to look at some color and not just the woods. Thank you for all of your help and knowledge.

I am so envious! We don’t have a nursery that carries anywhere near the assortment of herbs and perennials. 😢

Oh, Russel. 🤣I love that your cats prefer being out and about just as nature intended. 😸 🌳That's a beautiful haul you were able to get; those carpet-style ground covers look so fun especially if allowed to grow around the cracks of your meandering pathway. Congrats to your figs rooting!! I follow Epic Gardening as well and yours seems to have a lot more success than Kevin's, probably thanks to the liquid you used. It's not a race but if it were you are definitely winning. 😄

Good thing they can take foot traffic, Russell is the tester.

Gosh, Andrew’s has such a wonderful selection of plants! We should all be so lucky!! Have a great weekend everyone!

So many beautiful varieties at Andrews! Thanks for sharing your shopping trip with the GA family.

Just waiting for the weather to stabilize so I can start planting my pots up with herbs...the rest will have to wait until we move in June! Thanks for the inspiration!

Love this one. What a great selection your parent’s garden center carries. One request, can Ken do a quick video clip/compilation of you slapping back all those plant tags? Omg! Too funny!

Laura you are so interesting you are the queen of gardening i would like to go shop at your mom store we are a zone 4b in CANADA so i seen lots of plante for my garden but we can not bring no vegetation accrosse country so sad keep showing us your mom plants she got a nice store

Love the success of your new fig babies! Such a marvel to see how motivated plants are to grow!

Oh that Russell! Made me laugh out loud!😂

Love all the beautiful new plants I have never heard of. I will definitely try to find some for my zone 6 landscape this year.❤

All of these would look amazing around your stone path in the south garden!!

Yes, as Russell illustrated, the Speedwell CAN tolerate foot, well paw, traffic! Thank you Russell for the comic relief this morning! Cat Supervisor always getting in Laura's business!!! LoL!

When you mention foot traffic, does that mean that they can handle being stepped on, occasionally? If so, would they be something you could have growing in the gaps of your stone walkway? I am dizzy, in a good way, with all the aromas you are describing 😊 Russell!! That spooked me as well 😅

Thanks for going over all these plants. Your plant knowledge really helps me to decide what to plant this spring. Also at 34:23, what a sweet vignette to backdrop your final minute of filming.

Thank you Laura I had no idea there were so many different varieties I currently am growing oregano from seed I would like to have a healing herb garden someday

I am so proud of your fig trees!! You are such a bright spot in my life right now. Thanks also for the ideas for ground cover. I have been looking for some good ones.

Absolutely love these kinds of videos. I screenshotted several plants I want. So exciting! Thanks for sharing!

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Love all the ground cover plants. I'm looking forward to the planting and even more so to see these mid-summer to grasp how they fill up a space. The flowers beds will be gorgeous.

Can't wait to watch the planting video of all those groundcovers!!

I love when you go plant shopping. I get such great ideas.

Hey, Laura 👋 What a fun day. It must be so hard to resist taking it all 🤣🤣 This is your third year in the South Garden so things are going to look amazing; I just know it! Have a Blessed Night 😊🐈

Never have I ever seen such a variety of herbs!! Probably a good thing, since I tend to want 3 of everything.😅 Your garden center has such a wonderful variety of plants. Thanks for the tour! 💚

Climbers as a backdrop for your benches in the south garden circle would be amazing! I miss having a garden but you've shown some great ideas for balcony planting😊. It would be fun to try a checkerboard layout with the ground covers👍. Yay Spring!🌱🌞💐🌷🌼

Good morning, Laura ! Plant window shopping with Laura! Hugs from N.C .❤️

Lambs ear naturalizes here in zone 9b, a house down the street from us usually has some growing in the sidewalk cracks in front of their garden.

Laura, thank you for the awesome tour of new plants at the Garden Center. I want to up my ground-cover game, too. I'm with you--plant shopping is my favorite.