Proven Winners Salvia Rockin' Blue Suede Shoes -- It got HUGE wherever I planted it, and it was the hummingbird's favorite plant by far. So easy, always in flower, beautiful blue color. Love it!
Hot lips Salvia, only had one plant, now the size of a small shrub, was in gallon size container in April. Bees and humming birds love it. Most asked about plant in my garden all year.
I'm saving this video for future reference ❤ . This was my first year with zinnias!!! I can't believe I hadn't grown them before, who am I ? 🤷🏼♀️🤣. Next year, definitely getting some surefire begonias ... Happy Gardening 👩🌾
My favorite this summer was Prairie Sun Rudbeckia. The blossoms were huge and I loved the glowing yellow and orange color with the big green center. I plan to grow 3X more next year. They were easy to start from seed, too.
I grew cleome rosalita and WOW! It grew quickly, and I only needed to plant one to become a beautiful ever-flowering bush. Still going strong in zone 6b.
My flower of the year was Proven Winner's Cleome. Has bloomed absolutely all spring and summer. Finally pulled it up last week but it was still blooming beautifully.
I grew Verbena Bonariensis for the first time this year, started from seed, and I absolutely love it. It adds such a whimsical touch to my prennials. I found it even tolerates a good bit of shade, it just stays a little smaller.
I adore Beyond Midnight Caryopteris, vermillionaire and Windwalker red salvia. All 3 are loved by hummingbirds and host too many bumblebees to count! Love your channel!
I'm growing soil this year from woodchips. LOTS of it. The chips produced an owl ! We just put an owl house up for it to live in. It's prolly gunna find a mate & have babies. So- My favorite thing I'm growing this year is owls!
I grew some Surefire Rose and White Begonias in 24" diameter containers this year. They were phenomenal. I planted a green and white calladiun with the white begonia and a pink and green calladiun with the rose begonia, and dicondra silver falls in both pots. I put three Begonias in each pot and both pots got ginormous😮. And very little care needed.
I have been so impressed with three Angelonia (dark blue/purple, variety unknown) I planted in the ground rather than in pots as I have done many times in the past. They are in full sun next to my driveway and they have not skipped a beat, not even in the extraordinarily hot and dry conditions we’ve had this year. Excellent performers that I will replant next year.
I love your gardens and your laidback attitude. I added Beyond Midnight Caryopteris to my garden this year and loved it. Deep purple flowers with dark green foliage added nice coolness in front of pale grey-green Russian sage. Golden Jubilee Agastache was also stunning with chartreuse foliage and blue bottle brush flowers. Both of these plants were trouble-free and low maintenance. The caryopteris was basically planted and left alone - a very unfussy, undemanding shrub.
I grew Heart of the Jungle elephant ears with white begonias and chocolate drop coleus. The begonias and coleus all mixed together. So beautiful. Best part was I got them all 50% off after the 4th of July. They grew fast and big! Awesome end of summer/fall mix ❤️ I would love to see a fall perennial tour after all the annuals are gone?
I combined just 2 plants in a pedestal pot: Proven Winners Dichondra Silver falls with PW's Diamond frost Euphorbia, both of which I'd overwintered inside. I was so pleasantly surprised, thinking I'd have to change them out. They made it through our HOT summer very happily. Huge!!!!Upstate SC zone 7b.
I grow all my mostly annual seedlings for my garden around 800 +. My favourite this year was Veronica Blue Salvia, bloomed all summer and got 5 ft tall still going and looks so pretty around every flower. I started growing Salvia and Nicotiana because of your videos. ❤
I grew ornamental basil ‘Cardinal’ from seed. The flower heads come in mid summer and are very different then regular basil flowers. Looks great with red veined sorrel, which I also started from seed
Hi Erin, thanks for sharing some great plants. For me, knautia macedonica 'Thunder and Lightning', silene 'Valley High', salvia involucrata 'Sierra', and Plectranthus ‘Guacamole’ were high performers. (Zone 4, western Canadian prairies, north of Montana).
I purchased a Lowe’s clearance rose($10.00) and it has tripled in size since June and it’s hardy and beautiful. I was thrilled and I tell everyone about my “Lowe’s Rose”! Your Guara is awesome and I have that as well it’s so sprawling and incredible. Thank you for sharing your garden!
I grew some coleus from seed, first time ever. They were so easy, I took some cuttings from my favorites and going to try to overwinter in the house as houseplants.
Silene dioica ‘Clifford Moor’ (Catchfly) was a surprise winner in my garden, beautifully yellow/green variegated foliage that seemed to be evergreen, whimsical spikes of pink flowers that lasted most of the season. Did great in my full sun bed, 5b.
Well I certainly agree with the Surefire begonia series, I put 5 in the west side of my yard and they are ginormous! also loved the queen tut and really relived the labyrinth Dalia. A shorter large dahlia that is beautiful and very prolific.😊
Can you share with us how and where you shop for plants. How do you "research"? It sounds like it might be a variety of ways. I'm certainly not seeing these in most garden centers. Loved the video! Already can't wait until next year!
Zahara raspberry ripple zinnias have been my favorite plant this year. They have been the most prolific bloomers, have no issues with powdery mildew and are still going strong. Zone 8 B
One of my favorites Proven Winners Coffee Cups. I purchased them online and the took a beating in shipment. You would Never Know It! Put 2 in the ground; 5 feet tall and about 3-4 wide!!
Grew Surefire White Begonia blew me away along with a David Austin James Galloway rose I’d turn my head and that rose grew first year outstanding performance. Installed drip irrigation this year game changer my gardens went crazy.
The Cherry Cordial Begonia looks like a winner! I grew Centranthus 'Pretty Betsy from seed. It bloomed at lot of the summer. I also grew a white gaura from seed. It was okay... Russian Kale (purple black color) in my flower garden was a fun fluffy addition just for the color alone. Lots of dahlias, you fault!!!!
This spring was the first time I had grown Nasturtium from seed. All died but one so I planted it in the corner of my pepper plant raised bed. It sat there for a few months, cute but eh, seen better. As soon as things cooled down, it bolted, took over the whole bed and ground, the flowers were amazing! I just kept guiding it off my peppers, walkways etc. It truly was incredible. I am going to put it on my deck next year so I am hoping this wasn't a flluke lol.
I grew a Goldflame Honeysuckle this year that I got at the end of the season (last year) for $5. It was basically a twig, but grew gorgeously and even brought in some hummingbird visitors over the summer. I can't wait to see how it does next year, too!
Thank you for sharing Erin! I planted begonias this year and loved them enough to know they will be in my garden next year. Not sure the variety but they were winners for me.
Thanks Erin! You talked me into the cherry begonia for sure as well as some others!! I can’t believe the end of the season is near. I’m ready for a little rest but Spring always seems too far off. Best, Tara
I love Bullseye Salmon Geranium. The foliage make it pop among all the green you have in the garden.The only downside is the smell but that's help deter all the wild rabbits and deers!
Tried dahlia "china doll" this year for the first time and what a star! So many blooms that seem to glow and go with anything else I pick for a bouquet. Perfection.
New to me, Brazos Penstamon native in SE Texas (I'm in south central Texas). I actually purchased it spring 2022, but it was pretty puny last year (young perennial and too much sun). I moved it to morning sun location last fall and it was spectacular this past spring. It also has some beautiful fall foliage coloring on the tall stems. The crown foliage rosette is mostly evergreen.
I grew Agastache Tango from seed. It was blooming before I moved I them outside and are still blooming in October. They are about a foot high and have orange tubular flowers with no deadheading. They are a zone 5 perennial so I will see if they survive. This is my favorite for 2023. My second favorite is Proven Winners Luminere Phlox Coral Sunset. What a show. The coral color was intense and it rebloomed twice, even though I planted them midsummer.
LOVE your selection, Erin! My favorite must-have this year was "Flamingo" Celosia from seed (Botanical Interests). Although the seed packet states that it grows 24-30" tall, mine are EASILY 4+ feet! In my cluster home-size flowerbeds, the plants are overtaking, but I don't mind! The pollinators (particularly the bumbles) are ALL OVER IT!!! Along with verbena bonariensis (reseeded from last year), my flowerbeds are a-buzzing!!! There's, MAYbe, a 1/4-inch flower still left on the very tips, and the bumbles are still at it - I CAN'T bear to pull it out yet!!!
Found a little $1.89 pot in the herb section at my garden centre called Pineapple Sage this Spring. It's not little any more - 6 ft wide and 4 ft tall, fire engine red tubular blooms that the hummingbirds stand in line for. Began blooming in mid-August, and starts out slowly but then it takes off during Summer. The rabbits found it enticing when it was small so I had to give it some protection or it would have been someone's lunch. Also tried some new (for me) PW annuals that I wouldn't hesitate to grow again: Truffula Pink Gomphrena which get huge w/o pinching back in June; Rockin' Playin' the Blues Salvia - gorgeous, very long blue flower spikes that pollinators covered all Summer; Señorita Blanca White Cleome - stunning, huge white flower clusters; Mojave Purslane - just covered in blooms; Ascot Rainbow Spurge - the colours are just beautiful. Everything mentioned is still blooming like crazy in 6a with no stopping until frost. Thanks for sharing your new plants Erin - I saw a few that piqued my green thumb's interest.
Thanks to your prior raves about Verbena 'Bampton', we used it and are thrilled with it at the edges as a great airy filler! Quite a few new Dahlias as well and faves are Enchantress and Labyrinth.
I fell in LoVe with a yellow Sulphur Cosmos. It's 3'x3' & so gracefully sways in the breeze. I've been deadheading & it just keeps blooming. I'm saving seeds 'cuz I'm so in LoVe, so are the pollinators 💛
Two new plants to me that really stuck out as performing amazingly are Iris versicolor (Blue flag iris) and Lobelia siphilitica (Great blue lobelia). I planted the Iris last summer and it came back STRONG. It may have tripped, if not quadrupled in size, plus it tolerates a boggy part sun part of my yard. The lobelia was added this spring and I was able to get 11 plants from one 1 gal. container. Super easy to propagate and beautiful blooms. The best part is that they're both native to my area.
Love hearing about your new favorites. One of my new favorites, was also the Irish Poet, and Waikiki elephant ear. I do want to try Surefire Begonia, it always looks so good in videos. I like the pink cuphea, will have to try.
My fav was anything that survived my drought. 1/2" rain in August, probably less in September. Each rain Wisconsin had missed me. My water barrels (2 55 gal) have been empty more than full. I'm tired of watering!
This is the first year I planted Blue My Mind Evolvulus and Sun Patients. Both performed very well. I will plant again. I also love the cats pajamas Nepata. It bloomed the entire summer.
Camano Zoe dahlia was a new favorite as was Salish Twilight Girl... New rose for me that I have adored is Parfuma Bliss! What beauty we have to choose from.
Love your selection of plants Erin! I've ordered the Emilia since you loved it so much and would love to get my hands on the Fatshedera but I haven't seen that at my local nurseries. I agree with you about that PW Surefire Cherry Cordial as it was fantastic in the garden for me as well as all the PW Salvias and the Vermillionaire - fantastic for the hummingbirds! 😃😃😃
Senecio Candicans Angel Wings in a big pot was a wow for me. Also Dorotheanthus Mezoo Trailing Red which I am overwintering under lights. Love these vids.
This summer I grew a single Dahlia called bishop of Dover, I really like it and the bees do, too. I just hope I can overwinter the tubers, killed some last winter.
Fatchudara is perfect. Yes it's so pretty. My garden was planted with all new to me plants this year. Cherry red Gara was and still is Garaing. Purple punch superbells was difficult. Cuphea, Peony Itoh Julia Rose(my special purchase this year) Zinnias I planted from seed and they actually grew! Anouk lavender in pots and Dicondra Silver Falls with Aromance Mulberry Nemisia in hanging baskets were my favorite. The scent is amazing. Magenta double petunias, 6 different varieties of tomato and last a no name potato vine that has eaten my yard. Great video Thanks
I grew rudbeckia Sahara mix from seeds and they have flowered all season and still going strong…also I grew gusford supreme, Matsumoto mix and salmon janina asters from seeds and they have been stunning also flowers lasts a long time so will definitely repeat next year
The Surefire Begonias are definitely on my radar for next year, everywhere I have seen them they look outstanding...I suppose they would grow to large for a standard hanging basket...thoughts? New this year I grew mahogany splendor hibiscus which added height, dimension and contrast to my mixed border. Depending on where I had it planted I could either let it grow tall or cut it back to shape it to fit into the space. Another - Indian Summer Rudbeckia...an absolute stunner with its bright yellow blooms and is still in bloom here in NJ. Also both "new to me" plants were long lasting in bouquets.
I took screenshots of ones that I want to try here in my yard inIndiana so pretty much the same zone and my favorite performer has been my roses David Austin.❤❤ I love your videos
Because of you, Erin, I grew an ornamental banana on my front porch. It is one impressive plant! Do you think I could bring it into the house and keep it as a house plant until next spring? I'd rather not cut off those huge leaves and store it like you showed last year. If I bring it in I may need to give up a corner bath tub. No other place is big enough.
I started ageratum the timeless series from seed. I thought I killed it early on, but the color is just beautiful in the garden. I also love the branching sunflowers from both proven winners and Monrovia. I forgot their exact name. One has Saturn in it. Workhorses if you keep them deadheaded.
I tried dahlias for the first time this year, so of course I should thank you for giving me the confidence for that after watching all your videos! I also am loving the Waterlily form and needing more! I also tried nemesia for the first time and loving it! I put it with an African daisy and angelonia and it is my favorite container this year.
I’ve been looking for that fatshedera. It’s so beautiful. I’ve got the one with the yellow/green interior variegation. It’s a nice plant too. But the white margins on yours really make it stand out 👌🏻 Edit - My absolute hands down favorite, new to me, plant that I grew this year is echinacea ‘Sunseekers Rainbow.’ It is spectacular, looks every bit as good as the pictures online. It has a double layer of almost pleated petals with toothed edges that last for months. I showed pictures of my plants to the buyers at several local garden centers and they all added it to next year’s list. There’s a Sunseekers Salmon that I’m dying to get my hands on, as well as a beautiful white in the line. I’m hoping to see them all next year
