Hi Rachel, I look forward to seeing your Sunday garden tour. Your garden is so glorious. Full of little critters and nature’s beauty. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Praise God 😊❤️❤️
Your best is heroic proportions of beauty to me. I thoroughly enjoyed our morning today! Guess what? 've been walking in your glorious garden of beauty for 1/2 hour and haven't been bitten my even one mosquito yet! LOL. I'm sorry for your brown snake but you will probably get another soon and hopefully it will also be a harmless one. What was that Monarch-ish butterfly? I've never seen one like that before.Seeing your God given front yard is also nice as well as a visit to the community garden. I love their statuary, especially that cute little boy reading with his leg hooked over the arm. ADORABLE! Your tour of the nurdery was also nice. Love that you show that aspect of gardening, also - how would we be gardeners without those fantastic nurseries? Sow me a true gardener that doesn't come home without at least one new plant after their visit? Impossible.
LOL, Mary! Watching my garden on TV is actually the only way to see it without getting bitten by something! - That butterfly was a painted lady. I didn’t know what it was either! I hardly ever see them, but their larval host plant is, among other things, cudweed. I hate cudweed, but I want more painted ladies, so I’m gonna have to tolerate the cudweed. - Haha!!! “My God-given garden.” Yassss! I love it!!! He’s the best! And the butterflies love His design way better than mine! - I hope You’ve been have a wonderful week!!! God bless you!!!!!!!
How did I miss this yesterday. What a lovely fun video. Love your garden tour, its more beautiful every week. Seeing the nurseries you visit and meeting your friends is an added bonus. Thanks.
Hi Rachel 🌺 . Your garden looks stunning with these amazing flowers . Your new containers looks beautiful and you plant in them gaura with supertunias and pink scaevola . Have a wonderful day .🌺🌻🌺
Greetings from Ireland, Beautiful natural looking garden and lovely pots, there the bees knees. We don't have a big front garden and my wife has no interest in gardening. I started gardening twenty years ago there are now four flower beds, fifty two pots of perennials and six pots of annuals on the two windowsills. She tells me the garden looks like a mini garden centre. I bought four pots in March and divided four flowers from the flower beds and planted them into the new pots. I have told my wife that's it no more pots I cant fit any more in. We have grass, a glasshouse, water barrels, a no dig veg bed and a three bay compost system at the bottom of the back garden. I plan to plant two big flower no dig beds next autumn I'm going to divide the perennial flowers in the front garden and use the homemade compost for the no dig beds.
Wow, Nicholas!!! It sounds like you have made use of every square inch of gardening space that you have! I love that!!! And you know I’m a fan of containers myself! LOL! It’s so cool that you are gardening all the way over in Ireland! Some of my ancestors from way back came over from Ireland and the Isle of Man, so I have a great longing to see it one day! It’s so special to hear about your gardening adventures there!!!
Rachel that Millet is absolutely gorgeous! I cannot WAIT to watch mine blossom! Y’all, Rachel filled the back of my car up with plants she grew from seed!!! You are such a delight Rachel and I feel like I met my gardening soul sister! Your garden is so magical!! I can’t wait to bring you some more of my plants and share!! Can’t wait to go garden hopping with you ASAP!! Much love!’ 💕 ❤❤❤ Ann Marie
Yay, Ann-Marie!!! I can’t wait to see what you did with your plants!!!!!! I hope that you will get to harvest some millet seeds! They’re worth a jillion dollars, according to seed companies. Haha! - Yes!!! We are definitely kindred spirits!!!!!! We’re gonna take all the surrounding nurseries by storm! LOL!
I can’t get over all that color! I have to tell you I go for walks at this retention pond turned wetland and have been noticing all these native plants and pollinators thanks to your and Jo’s videos! Love it! Today saw Mexican hats and monarda and bees and gulf fritillary butterflies were dancing all over them. 🐝🦋
Oh! How wonderful that you’ve found an awesome place to enjoy native plants living their best lives!!! I love that you can appreciate them, too! I’m always looking at the sides of the roads when I’m driving along and looking for plants that I recognize! It’s like seeing old friends when I spot them!
So much fun to view your garden. So interesting and diverse. I always get a kick out you saying you need more pink that you don’t have enough. Always look forward to your weekly videos
LOL, Marvette!!! Yes, they do bring me joy! Part of me wants to see the decorative pot and another part of me wants the plant to grow outta control and cover it completely. But dang it, I can’t have it both ways!
Thank you, Cathy!!! I’m loving having so much growing up together so thickly! It seemed like it would always look like a collection of pots, but now it’s starting to get a little out of control! LOL!
My goodness, your garden is breathtaking Rachel, and about 6 weeks ahead of ours, so if you remember what yours looked like in March, that's what ours looks like now 😅. But it is coming, and my Lady of Shalot produced her first bloom this week ❤️. About the rosemary, it needs poor , well draining soil and a sunny spot, very much the same as lavender, not too much water. I've got mine planted next to a low wall, and every year, it gets completely out of control. I cut it back when the flowers have finished. Maybe they would do well in your gravel garden ?we've had so much rain that I'm having to add more nitrogen for the trees and shrubs. The leaves are turning yellow, even on the willow, which needs a lot of water. As you say, we can but do our best 🤗 Thank you for sharing 😍
Oh, Kim! I looked up the Lady of Shalot rose again, so that I could see her afresh and know what you are enjoying! She glows!!! I’m so happy that you have so much to look forward to in the garden! It’s wild that we are 6 weeks ahead of y’all! But it’s about to be too hot here to be able to stand being in the garden much. I’ve got to enjoy it from the windows. Haha! - I’m going to try to trim that rosemary and see if that encourages it or kills it. We have some kind of gross pest that makes little blobs of webs on rosemary. I might have to start all over with a different kind. Ugh! - We have wild rosemary that grows in the state park, but you can’t use it for culinary purposes. It’s smaller and has a gray/green color to it. I’ll have to video some so you can see it! I hope you been have a joyous time in your garden this week!!!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful new pots with us. I also buy quite a few pots and I’m really trying to buy at least one or two pots every month because I want to fill my garden up with pots for I don’t have to go down so low to work in the garden, I’m trying to bring the garden up to me. And I think your garden is looking fabulous.
Rachel the view through your arbor is so so beautiful! And that view by the sunflower! I love your garden so much! Do you find the love in a mist doesn’t really stand up. Kind of floppy? That’s how mine are so far. I just want to thank you so much for taking the time to watch my backyard tour! I posted the front yard! You are just so sweet! I feel like we could be fast friends! Deanna
Thanks, Deanna!!! And your garden is GORGEOUS!!!!! I love that you have so many plants and decorations that have meaning and hold memories for you and your family!!! - I haven’t ever had love in a mist that has grown upright like you see it in books and magazines. I don’t know why. I wish that I could grow a huge stand of them, too! - I’m so thankful that you have a RU-vid channel now! I love getting to see your garden and being inspired by what you are growing! You have great style!!! - Oh, yes! We are kindred spirits, for sure!!!!!!
Good morning! Boom! And you have an amazingly mature & flowering garden in no time. You’ve outdone yourself this year. More glorious than last year. How do you do it? 🥰 I love the Cleome you have. I bought seeds that look like the color you have that I tried starting indoors but never germinated. So I planted some in a pot outside & they germinated but while outside watering & not watching where I was going, I backed up & tripped over the pot, turning it upside down. Ugh. Really? Forget it. Maybe next year? lol My daughter bought me a variegated Weigelia shrub that had glorious blooms in the spring that I need to plant but after yesterday’s rain, it’s so humid today, reaching 92. I’ll have to get outside early to dig a hole so it won’t be today. There is no breeze. Take care & sending you hugs from GA❤
Oh, no, Linda, about your cleome!!! But I bet you will have a jillion come up where the pot was knocked over! - LOL about not digging a hole until you’ve got a breeze! I KNOW!!! That breeze is EVERYTHING! I lying on the porch the other day and they said it was 89 degrees, but it felt great with a gentle breeze blowing. I went out a little later and almost died from the stifling heat because it was dead still outside. The weather changes in the blink of an eye around here! - I hope you were able to plant out your weigelia! And you know, I think this is my best garden so far too, and I gotta give credit to all the plants that I’ve seen others growing and for having a chance to grow so many from seed. I’m hooked on that now! You know how I want a jillion of everything! LOL! I hope you’ve been having a wonderful summer so far!!!!
Happy Sunday! Your blooms are spectacular! My coneflowers are starting to bloom and I have a milkweed that came back and is in bloom!😊 No luck with the passion flower vines coming back. 😢 And none of the seeds have germinated. 🤷♀️ I also bought more pots at Old Time Pottery! And let me tell you, they carry a set of three ceramic pots that I love, but you have to check the price tags on them. I bought two set for $14.99. Other sets were marked $19.99 and $24.99!!! I don't know if it's like that at all of their stores, but it was at the one in Madison, Alabama. It's sunny here today. 😎 So many of my Drought loving plants have yellow leaves. I hope they will recover from this wet spring. Happy planting! Thank you so much for all of your inspiration. 🥰🐦🌱🐛🦋
Oh, no, Tammy! I’m sorry that the passionflower hasn’t come back! Maybe they need more time and will surprise you! - I meant to go by Old Time Pottery to see if they had those pot sets that you were talking about, but I haven’t gotten over there yet. - I bet your bluebirds are flying all over the place now! I hope all the sweet creatures will take up residence in your garden!!! - I haven’t mailed those seeds yet! I hope to pop them in the mail tomorrow!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening Second brood of eggs are still incubating. I checked this week and there were only 4 eggs. I don't know what happened to the 5th one? I hope nothing gets to the other 4 eggs. I hope you can find the set of 3 pots. I love them. Water break is over, back to my gardens. I hope you're having a beautiful day. 🙋♀️🐦🌱🐛🦋
lol about being a delusional pot buyer 😂 it’s okay to change your mind and buy more! Im loving all the millet growing tall amongst all the plants! I didn’t know cleome was thorny but it sure looks pretty! Our hollyhocks took a long time to flower last year but once it did continued to bloom until late autumn, so I bet yours will too! I’m laughing about your “rescue rosemary” shenanigans, I’m sure it’s glad it got a second chance! I love seeing those butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds flitting around in your backyard!! It looks like you and your friend had a wonderful time at the nursery!
LOL! Thank you for telling me it’s okay to change my mind!!! I’m rather hard on myself when I do that, and I do it often! Haha!!! - Yeah, cleome will reach out and claw you across the face. You know roses gonna be like that, but the cleome comes outta nowhere!
How do you water all those plants? You must spend hours in your lovely garden. Well done. Love that you mentioned hummingbirds. That is my love and gardening for them with high nectar plants. I love your positive energy. Never lose that.
Awww, thank you, Carol!!! I love having things that the hummingbirds particularly love, especially salvias! I tasted my coral honeysuckle the other day and it was SOOO sweet and full of juice! If I was a hummingbird, I would just live near one of those as long as it was blooming! - I use a couple of regular old sprinklers to water me garden, and now that it’s hot, I run them for an hour every day. We have a well and use well water, so I’m very thankful to have that!!!
Always think with a lot of different colors and textures in the garden always add so much interest. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful garden with us.
Awww 🥰 every week I see something in your garden that’s my new favorite! It’s so joyful to share plants and garden shop with friends 👏👏Looking forward to finding out the plant you referred to the past 2 weeks as Ammee (spelling?) because a couple have popped up along the border of my beds and I didn’t plant whatever it is and it’s taking forever for the thing to bloom too 😂 Sad about the little snake but it wasn’t intentional. Happy gardening see you next week 🌺
Awww, thank you!!! That’s so cool that you have some ammi majus growing in your garden! I just looked it up and I didn’t realize that calling it ammi was fancy for Queen Anne’s lace. LOL! That’s what we get for watching Gardeners’ World! Haha!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening oddly enough Susan from Butterfly Gardening Inspirations had the same plant in her garden and asked for plant id because she’s not had ammi in her garden and someone said Queen Ann lace, wild carrot and I googled it and learned it’s one and the same plant as yours so we all get a good chuckle 🤭
Thanks for another great Sunday morning garden tour. Oh my gosh everything is looking so beautiful and thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden with us once again.
Not a tomato infestation one year of tomato bugs. I pulled every tomato plant out of my garden and put it in a bag immediately I didn’t want to have a problem. I hated seeing all my get pulled out, but I saved my garden and I have not had them come back since.
Your shade garden is a work of art. Couple of things, first I usually just cut back all the blooms on my caladiums to keep the energy in making leaves so maybe I should rethink it. Second I’m just curious I see you have a theme of white pots. Did you ever consider black pots to help put emphasis on the plants? I know we all have our preferences I like black cause I like dropping plants in my garden and they seem to blend into the scenery better. I also like clay colored pots, dark blue
Hi Rachel, I love both you and your sister's content! I see the humor you both share! This year I am going to try to raise swallowtails! I have one caterpillar and two eggs. Any advice or tips? Do you have a video dedicated to them?
Oh, yay, thank you, Monica!!! I’m so excited that you are raising swallowtails!!! I bet they are huge now! I do have a video about raising swallowtails! I will see if I can share the link here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E7U5ZTibMIE.htmlsi=-x83jioiGkTMAUij I made that video several years ago. I need to make a new one! But I’m raising swallowtails again because I went to Corner Copia Gardens the other day and found several fennel plants covered in Eastern black swallowtails. I had to buy them and bring them home. Just had to! LOL! Let me know if you have any questions!
In addition to butterflies I do like other beneficial insects. Dragonfly’s and damsel flys because they control mosquito populations. I live where they spray for mosquitos. I believe the spray they use is also killing pollinators. Where releasing more dragonflies and damsel flys would be a much better way. Since they sprayed yesterday the few butterflies I normally see are gone. Same result as last year when I picked up several a day or two after they sprayed.
Oh, no!!! I’m so sorry that the spray has killed your butterflies!!!!!! They spray here, too, but I can’t tell that it does anything. I hope that whoever runs the spray truck just puts water in it and goes around “misting” to make it seem like they are doing something.
has your zone not changed to 9b? My area of Houston was previously 9a but is now 9b, not that it really makes a difference, just curious. As far as adding more pink? I'm wondering if a deeper shade if pink might show up better especially when the sun's out. I love pale colors, especially pink yet have noticed the pale pinks/colors just seem to fade away in the sunshine. Well anyway, just a thought. Was fun seeing you w/o your cute hat and glasses! Always so fun going to a new garden center!. My most recent find is a new cascading white hydranga called Fairy Trail Bride from Proven Winners. I don't usually have alot of success with Proven Winner plants but I just had to have this one so I'm hoping this one will succeed since I was able to purchase it locally. Enjoy your week, time to Chelsea Chop!😂😂 for me
Thanks, Wendy!!! I’m still in Zone 9a. Bummer. I’ve checked several times to see if they want to change it, but they said, “No, be happy with what you’ve got!” LOL! - I do need to get some more shades of pink going! I’m thinking about getting some sunpatiens. The only thing is that they must be watered twice a day, and while I love them, I don’t know if I am ready for that kind of a commitment. - The fairytale bride hydrangea is SOOOO dreamy! Let me know if it works for you because if it does, then ME WANT!!!
Beautiful Sunday Garden stroll and adventures! Did you have your microphone turned in? I couldn’t hear a thing when you were holding it and had to turn on my booster to hear you. But I enjoyed your garden. I can’t believe how quick it grew in such a short time!
Oh, no, Kelli! I’m starting to think that the microphone doesn’t even work! Ugh! I’m going to try to hold the phone closer to my face when I’m talking. I know that the sound gets more quiet if I zoom in with the camera, which is strange. - I’m so glad that you enjoyed my garden! I was looking at old videos to find the name of a garden that I bought, and I was shocked by how little everything was not too long ago! Aren’t plants the best?!? I love how we can put ‘em out their and give them their head, and they can double in size in such a short time!
@@gulfcoastbutterflygardening they don’t grow by leaps and bounds in my garden unless they are tropicals. Otherwise it’s just too hot. Second day in a row it’s been 98 and we haven’t had any rain in a month. I have to water every day! I’m praying for the rainy season to get here and hopefully this year it will. My whole life it has rained every day in the summer but the last two years it hasn’t rained hardly at all in the summer. I think it’s from them spraying the atmosphere so they can claim climate change. They think those who control the weather control the world! Don’t they know they aren’t God? It really disgusts me. I need to keep on DeSantis about outlawing it like Tennessee has done! We so need rain!
Do y’all have mosquitos in your area? They are FIERCE here in Houston. They make enjoying the garden difficult! We’ve had so much rain too. It’s been downright swampy!!
Oh, yeah! We’ve got mosquitoes! And yellow flies and no-see-ums (midges). I’d rather be bit by a mosquito than anything else. Isn’t that crazy?!? - We did have swamp and now we’re back to the Sahara. We live with extremes now. This is our life. Ugh!
LOL! I have an on again/ off again relationship with rosemary myself! I can grow healthy cuttings, but then some kind of gross web building pests come along and turn them into brown blob covered messes and I have to yank them out.
Oh, yay, Shirley! I’m so glad that you found me!!! I mostly grow things in containers because we have a terrible armadillo problem. They will come around and dig my plants completely out of the ground and throw them to the side. They are hateful creatures that do not respect plants or gardens at all!
