Thank you everyone who has watched our video and left a comment below! 👋👋😊😉 To clear up some confusion, listed below are the plants that will actually bloom all summer long into the fall season, and then also plants that will bloom during the summer, but not all summer. Definitely follow the links to learn more about each plant and learn the caveats of each to know if it will bloom all summer or during the summer where you live and if it is even hardy in your zone. Thanks again and happy gardening! Plants that Bloom All Summer: - Dianthus 'Paint the Town Magenta' by Proven Winners®: www.provenwinners.com/plants/... - Begonia I'conia® 'Scentiment Peach' by Dummen Orange®: - Begonia I'conia® 'Lemon Berry' by Dummen Orange®: - Begonia 'Picotee Pink and White' and 'Roseform Pink' by Longfield Gardens®: www.longfield-gardens.com/pla... - Astilbe 'Gloria Purpurea' by Longfield Gardens®: www.longfield-gardens.com/pla... - Tecoma 'Chicklet™ Orange' by Proven Winners®: www.provenwinners.com/plants/... - Hydrangea (panicle) 'Limelight Prime' by Proven Winners®: www.provenwinners.com/plants/... Plants that Bloom During the Summer: - Heuchera Dolce® 'Toffee Tart' by Proven Winners®: www.provenwinners.com/plants/... - Hosta Shadowland® 'Diamond Lake' by Proven Winners®: www.provenwinners.com/plants/...
Hi Leah! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! We hope this video gave you some ideas and inspo. We wish we could show you an update but we moved a year after the planting. As of moving time, everything was growing and doing well. We removed a few of the plants to take with us but left the rest for the new owners to enjoy. 😊
Hi Sarah! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! We hope this video gave you some ideas and inspo. We wish we could show you an update but we moved a year after the planting. As of moving time, everything was growing and doing well. We removed a few of the plants but left the rest for the new owners to enjoy. 😊
Just accidentally found your channel. So glad I did. I really enjoyed the format, the clear info on each plant, their growth habits and placement of them. Will definitely be following to see how this lovely shade area progresses in the coming months. Especially great to see how well the two of you work together. 💚😊💚
Hi Pamela Valente!! 👋🏼👋🏼 Thank you for watching and for your really nice comments. We love talking about plants, sharing our knowledge and combined experiences, and getting to work with each other, pretty much every day. It's a blessing and we know it. Let us know if we can help you in your garden and if you would like, you (and anyone else, too) can always reach out to us by email if you would like to be a little more private: seanandallison@spokengarden.com . We hope your spring is full of fun gardening and new plants to grow! 😀😊
Thanks for the great plant ideas. It would be good at this point, a year later, to show videos and photos you may have taken at the end of last season. You have shown the 'before'. Can you show the 'after'? You could re-edit this video to reveal the end result.
Please show us how the garden looks NOW. You showed us the process and gave us advice, we would love to see the results of your knowledge and effort ❣️
Hi Eva! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! We hope this video gave you some ideas and inspo. We wish we could show you an update but we moved a year after the planting. As of moving time, everything was growing and doing well. We removed a few of the plants but left the rest for the new owners to enjoy. 😊
I absolutely love the hookera(coral bells) in all the different colors they are available in. They are great vibrant colors, hardy and they don't need much at all to keep maintained.
Depending on your zone the crosses with heuchera villosa are much hardier. Having said that I have lost numerous colorful hybrids. Heucheras tend to frost heave so mulch protection through winter up until final frost is important
I have experience with all of these plants. SLUG WARNING!!! I live in the same area and slugs demolish my dianthus; I believe this plant is a slug magnet …I use slug bait every year throughout the season. My Hostas get slug damage but not like this… FYI: slugs don’t need a mate, 1 slug can lay 400 eggs in the soil per season. They are destructive garden thugs!
Those people who live in Zone 8 are able to overwinter begonias outside.But they don't tolerate frost and cold winter weather unless you bring them in to be a house plant. All the different kinds of begonias can be checked out on inet.
Hi SComment! Luckily, some begonias are perennials in our zone 8b. Every year, we have begonias pop up in places we forget we had planted them!🤣 You definitely need to do your research. We hope this was helpful and thanks for watching!
Hi Wendy! 👋👋 LOL...out here in the PNW, everything is a "pine" cone even though these came from the old fir trees. It's just a general term 🤣 And, yes! This was a great planting project!! Unfortunately, we don't have any photo updates due to our move. We got this area all ready for the next owner and we hope they're enjoying it! All the plants were healthy and thriving when we moved (and we took a few of them with us). Thanks for watching!
Hi Melina! 👋 That is awesome! This deer (and another one in our front yard) belonged to Allison's grandparents! How fun you have one, too! Thank you for watching! 😀
We have a humongous blue spruce in our front yard that virtually nothing grows under. IF I was to try again, how do you deal with all the pine needles that fall on top of and around your plants, potentially smothering them? Plus the soil under the evergreen is so acidic.
Dianthus are really nice but they are short lived perennials at most three years and they only thrive in full sun have attempted for several years to keep them in part sun with no success they also need well drained soil. Huechura do not bloom all summer they have a bloom time of about a month like most perennials.
Hi Denise! Lots and lots of pulling roots went into the prep work and it took a couple of (back-breaking) weeks to prep before we planted everything. Thanks for watching!
I live in an apartment and have balcony. It t is full sun in the morning and shade in the afternoon. Are there perennials that bloom all spring to fall in pots, for this space?
Hi Ellen! Vinca can be a nuisance for sure and we're sorry to hear you're battling it, too. We pulled out vinca roots in prep for this planting area FOR WEEKS before filming this video. Unfortunately, it's really hard to get all of it out. 🤪 Hope this was helpful and thanks for watching!
Just keep pulling like weeds. That’s what I do. True gardening is labor intensive and back breaking. Not to sound self righteous, but I pull weeds every three days. Eventually they don’t return. In July, in central Oregon, they stop growing along with everything else because it gets so hot here. Hope this helps. By the way, Vinca is a wonderful ground cover for ugly areas. It beats barren soil .
Hi Louise! 👋👋 We would love to show you the full grown garden, but we moved since planting and filming this. The plants were thriving and healthy before we moved, though, and we really hope the new owners are enjoying the space! Thanks for watching!
Hi Shirley! We're in zone 8b and we apologize that we may have forgotten to state that in the video. It's in our description though. We hope this video was helpful and thanks for watching!
Hi ChippyChick! We run into this all the time in the garden industry! Everyone around the US, and other countries, pronounce the same plants juuust a bit differently. 🤣 That's why thankfully we can all use the botanical names to sort it out. Thanks for watching!
Hi Nancy! These tuberous begonias are hardy in zones 8-11. If they're not hardy in your area, you can always treat them like annuals and pull them up. Hope that helps!
Hi Deirdre! 👋 Thank you for watching and for commenting! I think we might have a later pic of this area in full bloom. We will check and, if so, we will write a post in the "community" area of our channel. Thank you for suggesting this! 👍 Maybe we could post the full bloom pic and then what it looks like right now at the start of Fall. Thanks again! 😉
1. My experience with perennial dianthus is they bloom fairly long in late spring early summer about 3wks but only once, with only sporadic 2 or 3 blooms popping up here & there the rest of summer. In full sun you will get a beautiful carpet of blooms but in a shady location not so much. The common variety is more of a flowering groundcover. The flower stalk grows about 2-3 inches above the foliage. what they lack in progressive flowering they make up in the beautiful blue-green creeping groundcover of soft spikey foliage. All dianthus spent blooms are unsightly and need deadheading. To better showcase the foliage you have to deadhead. Luckily it happens all at once and is easy to do. I take a handful at a time and with scissors ( or grass shears) shear the spent flower stalks level at the top of foliage. If you have a large area you can use electric shears & with a shrub rake flick out the clippings. The taller varieties of dianthus sometimes called "garden carnation" have taller stems at the sacrifice of interesting foliage. They are segmented & tend to flop over and look messy including the foliage. Every year I planted the taller variety. They were annuals ( zone 6) despite being labeled as perennial. I stuck with the perennial shorter groundcovers. They are not the same as the large double bloom very long stemmed florist carnation variety of dianthus. 2. Begonias are annuals. 3. Hostas take a few years to fill out if you are planting 4 or 6 inch pots. They size up by expanding their crown size (clump) but that gives you time before they have to be divided.
Hi there and thanks for watching our video. We love growing dianthus and grow many different types in our garden. The dianthus in our video bloomed profusely in the partial shade location that we showed you in the video, and twice a year (you can find that info in our Proven Winners link, too). We planted them closer to the edge to get more sun since the shadier part was in the back where the hostas and astilbe were planted. These dianthus are part sun-sun. Also, we have a couple of videos on deadheading different types of dianthus. The begonias are perennial in our zone 8b and come back every year. All hostas do take time to grow to size and that was the point of our design. Hope that clears it up!
You have an error in your teaching. What is true: Perennials return every year. What is false: most perennials DO NOT bloom for a whole season. Heucheras and Dianthus bloom 1x in the spring.
Hi airmom - We definitely could have been more clear about which plants bloom all summer vs. once in the summer which you can read more about in our description. We've since updated our title/description to reflect this. Otherwise, most of our awesome perennials, in general, do bloom throughout the summer which we love presenting and teaching about in our videos, including our reblooming hydrangeas, most of our salvias, yarrows, begonias, coneflowers, etc, etc.
Hey Bill! 👋 Great question! We used a combo of shovel digging to cut away and dig up small clumps/mats of vinca, and then went back through to hand pull any stragglers left over. In our garden soil, the vinca can be dug up and removed like this very easily. Are you planning on removing any vinca soon? Hope our video was fun to watch!
Hi John - Luckily, the old tree has such a vast network of roots, especially feeder roots, which span very far into our old yard that tons of plants already successfully grow under it. This was a fun, unique space to plant in. Thanks for watching.
Hi ButtonS! 👋👋 Sorry we didn't cover in detail any deer resistance in this video. Deer definitely love both hydrangeas and hostas, unfortunately. We're sorry to hear they've found your plants!! Thanks for watching!
Do you fertilize as you plant? I add fertilizer and fresh soil. Is that overdoing it, and wearing myself out for no reason. I’ve used good soil for years. Always fertilize.
Most of those plants are annuals, not perennials. Astilbe does not bloom all summer, it blooms for a couple weeks in mid summer. Tecoma is an annual for sun.
Hi Alexis - All of these plants are perennials in our zone 8b, like the Chicklet Orange. We planted the Chicklet Orange in the sunniest section of this part shade area knowing it needed more sun than the other plants, like we stated in the video. We definitely could have been clearer about some of these plants blooming all summer vs. once in the summer and we've since updated our title/description to reflect that. 😊
What growing zone are you in? I'm in 6a. I've planted dianthus and begonias in the past. You said they are perennials but mine do not survive the winter.
Hi OhioBucs! 👋👋 We're in zone 8b, and some begonias are perennial in our zone. All the dianthus we plant are perennial as well. The 'Paint the Town Magenta' dianthus hybrid that we planted in this video are hardy down to zone 4 so that might work for you? Thanks for watching!
