Hi Linda I so appreciated your view on de cluttering our spaces. While my garden space was and is a joy I removed about half my pots on my patio which was a hard decision but I'm happy as the space looks better actually and is much easier to care for. It's so easy for us to keep adding to our collections but it is also good to know when to edit. Thank you.
i agree with the decluttering of the outside space - i'm going to be doing that soon to "clean up" outside. if i need more pots, etc, then i can get more steps and go get them from storage!
I love Nev’s garden! He’s so peaceful and calm 🪴. Everyday when I do my walk about I have my basket of tools and a container for debris- keeps me from procrastinating!
Hi Linda what a great walkabout. And a very damp garden and poor Stewart. Your garden looks so beautiful after your rain fall. everything looking so beautiful as always. My favourite hydrangea is hydrangea Paniculata sliver dollar so beautiful..loved your outfit of the day to. So thank you for a damp walkabout.
Twist and Shout lace-cap hydrangea is one of my favorites in my garden. It is often covered in blooms that are shaded in pinks, purples and blues, not only on the same plant but on the same bloom. It's just beautiful.
My fave: hydrangea paniculata “Little Lamb.” The panicles start out a soft white and lime green, change to wedding white in high summer and finally mature to a beautiful russet in Fall. I had a 5-foot hedge of 16 against the fence line fronting our vegetable garden. We sold the house, but I still dream about driving two states away just to dig them out! ❤️
I love my tuberous begonia. Potted a white one last summer (Nonstop White) for my shady front porch along with white impatiens. It was glorious! Added so much light to that spot. I thought it died during our terrible ice storm in February. Nope! It’s putting on so much growth and will be sending up blooms in no time. Portland Oregon, 8a.
Loved the walk about. I am in central Arkansas 8A. I wish we could have a little of your rain, but our temperatures are cooler than normal and I am thankful for that.
Love the wire Vine that you use. I like to use it also, a lot of times in hanging baskets. Oh yes, coleus are some of the easiest plants to propagate and I love them because they have so many different colors that grow in the shade some of them grow in the sun, they're just a great plant. That being said , I would like to warn people that garden. As I have stated in an earlier comment, I've been sick. They can't seem to find a virus or a bacteria causing it. But when I look back on when this happened to me, I think I have a clue. I think I came in contact with wild hemlock. Even though I have a 6-ft cedar fence around my backyard, The neighbors on the one side are renters and they do not take care of their yard. There are weeds everywhere in the backyard and they come under and grow into my flower beds. And I'm in a constant battle with this. I was trying to pull out these flowers that were starting to bloom, correct that to weeds. Although, I had long sleeves and jeans on and my rose pruning gloves on. I think I came in contact with wild hemlock. And not through my skin or my eyes, but I think I breathed in possibly the pollen from the flower heads. And since this whole plant is very deadly, to both people and animals. Everyone should be aware of this and be extremely careful when dealing with it. You can get a hold of your County Extension, in case you need help with identification or how to get rid of it. They say the best ways to use poison but that's pretty hard to do when it's mixed in your flower bed with things you do not want to kill. I am better but still unable to garden. So, I am gardening with you when you do your videos. At least we finally got some rain so I don't have to try to go outside and water when I'm feeling lousy and having difficulty breathing. I just wanted to pass this on to fellow gardeners. I don't want anybody to feel the way I felt in the last 2 weeks. Thanks for all your gardening tips and showing us your pretty home and lovely flower gardens.
My Eastern Redbud tree died this spring. SO SAD! It was so healthy then almost overnight it died. I love all hydrangeas, I can't pick just one! Your garden is beautiful.
I have about 10 different varieties of Hydrangea. My favorite is paniculata "Vanilla Strawberry". I have people literally stop in their cars to comment on how beautiful they are in the fall. The color starts white and change to pink then burgundy in the fall. Just gorgeous!!!! They are about 8' tall. I'm zone 4-5 in the Chicagoland area.
Love all my hydrangeas but, my favorite is probably my Annabelles. They grow very well in my 6b garden at 3,300 feet in NC mountains. My favorite in my 7b garden is the Nikko Blue which was the very first years ago. Love all of your tips and have started my first topiaries since I discovered your channel in March of this year. Thanks for all of your hard work with the videos and can’t wait for your book. 🪴🌷🌹🌻🌼🌸
Please have Stuart try Avon Skin So Soft. People with horses apply it to them! Received some of your items from QVC, love them so much. More topiary please. We are some 5 here in Cheyenne Wyo
Your garden looks lovely, as usual. However, I sit here watching and just enjoy your personality and taste to the utmost with a huge smile on my face while learning, too. I just have to add that I enjoy you and Stewart and the serendipity almost as much as the plants. You're a real treat, Linda. God bless......Ann Clark
I recently added coleus to my garden. I cut off some longer stems and have them rooting in water with lots of roots forming! Today I tried your method of directly placing the cuttings directly into wet soil and then watered them afterwards. Excited to see how they do verses the rooted cuttings. I garden in Central CA Coast with cloudy skies and highs in the mid 60’s in zone 9b. I also have a small rosemary plant in a pot and I’m training it into a topiary! You’re rubbing off on me! lol
I love the snowflake oak leaf hydrangea the best. As far as the type of hydrangea in a perfect world they would all bloom on new wood. Before you channel and Garden Answer I didn't realize I was size controlling wrong and forfeiting next year's blooms.
I feel you, Stewart as I am a mosquito magnet. I love my Southern Living Endless Hydrangeas - Bloomstruck. They have performed greater than my expectation and have given me so much joy looking out my kitchen window with violet, blue and pink color. I equally love my Proven Winners BoBos. This is the first season in the ground and they are shouting out white panicles all over each plant. I would highly recommend both.
My favorite hydrangeas are all of the new ‘little’ types of paniculatas. It’s so much more practical in most gardens, the regular sized paniculatas can get so gigantic that there are so few places you can actually use them.
Laughing…..have to be smarter than the bottle… oh my think we all feel like that at times. Love your show Linda and appreciated Stewart also. California zone 9b
@@janetthornton7909 They are flexible bracelets with the mosquito deterrents in them. They are found with other mosquito repellents at walmart and other stores too. I think designed for kids but I use them too! LOL
I have a Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Pee Wee' that I love planted around the base of a Ash tree. Unfortunately the ash is dying from Emerald Ash Borers but I will replace it with something else. Anyways, the Hydrangeas have spread around that tree and make a beautiful, flowering groundcover. I feel for Stewart, the mosquitoes really love me too. I use a mesh hood to keep them out of my face, I highly recommend it. In fact, they make entire mesh suits!
I love my oak leaf hydrangeas so much. I do have a lace cap that I also adore! I replanted it three times before I found just the right spot and it does very well for me now. I’m in zone 6, SW Missouri.
I’ve a few favourites but in zone 3 can’t grow them all. Here, Limelight’s for a larger one and bobo or little lamb for smaller ones! Thanks for all you two do! I’d sure love to have an oak leaf bush but too cold here!
I use $ store scissors too on the thinner leaves & twigs. You look so sweet today & so young! Those hydrangeas, WOW! All of them but love the shape of flowers & leaves of the oak leaf. Hello Stuart.
Thank you dear Linda. Absolutely always enjoy your walkabouts. Great content and practical tips. Poooor Stewart. He is wearing so much PPE to protect himself against those pesky mosquitoes. Like my husband - the mosquitoes love him but don't get anywhere near me. I can never get enough of your backyard. So lush and verdant. I love the cute and tiny bird bath on your windowsill behind the window box. Where did you get it from. I was so chucked when I saw that delightful squirrel crawling along your fence - no squirrels here in Australia. Lots of love from sunny Sydney.
I tried Spartan Mosquito traps last year, and I was amazed at how well they worked. They have made gardening enjoyable again. It does take a couple weeks for the "magic" to start to work.
Annebell is my favorite but I have oakleaf too. Planted some quickfire and Limelight too which I love. Now I want some lace caps that I don’t have. I have hydrangea envy
Was so fun seeing your squirrel as we don't get them her like that in Western Australia. Just adore your garden and love all you tips. Thank you so much tir sharing them with us 💕💗💞
You are so blessed to get good rain. The mosquitoes , gnats and horse flies eat me for their meal everyday. They don't mind all the Deep Woods Off that I cover myself with. Your garden is beautiful 😍 💕.
My fav hydrangea is oak leaf. I adore how the leaves turn coppery red in the fall and the look of the flowers over top of the snow. Only problem is after a very hard winter the big center main part died off and I have four or five big Woody branches headed in all directions, kind of splayed right now. Not sure if I should just chop it all close to the ground at some point and see how it grows back up. I have 5 other type hydrangeas that are becoming more like trees, getting all tangled up together and huge hostas underneath are not really visible. Not sure whether to trim off all the lower branches for this or even really how or when to trim any of them. Very confused about blooming on old wood and new wood and which is which etc.
Procrastination IS our enemy.. Meryl Streep once said in her Academy Award Speech that she'd like to thank her mother for teaching her to clean as she goes. Boy did that one stick, and do me a world of good!
Hi Linda ... please send some rain our way. Here in zone 6, we've been having sweltering heat for weeks now! I was forced to use my hose early this morning to give my struggling garden a drink, so that ought to make it rain! I love all hydrangeas, but one of my favorites is a blue Lacecap which is a macrophylla and grew to a beastly size of 5ft tall this year and full of blooms! My #1 hydrangea is an Oak Leaf called Gatsby. The smell is just heavenly! Next, I think Ill try the oak leaf Snowflake like you have!
Poor Stewart! I know what you mean. We really needed the rain. It went from hot and dry to mild but wet and soggy recently! The mosquitoes came out of hiding here in Upper Michigan zone five!
Wow send the rain my way… I am in northern Canada, we have experienced days of 97 + weather and no rain. I am in zone 4a and we are in a massive heat wave. Need to be out 5:30 am to water and like you in Oklahoma need to stay out of the heat for the rest of the day, even the evenings are just too hot 🥵 ! My Peonies are done and now the roses are in bloom, hopefully the heat will not affect them, as the sun is brutal.
Poor Stewart! I sympathize because mosquitoes find me in my house as well as outside. I love all varieties of hydrangeas, but sadly they don’t do well in my alkaline soil, 8a in Central Texas. I enjoy looking at all of yours.
Just south of you here in SA (8b) area. I feel your pain! I only have two hydrangeas and have to keep them potted. I've killed 3 in the process of getting the hang of them. 😬 This is the first year mine have had more than 2-3 blooms!
Now I can say I've been through 114 degrees in the PNW and survived! Not so much for hydrangeas. Turns out they are not crazy about that much heat. Neither are dogwoods.
Stuart may benefit from using Superband Mosquito Repellent Bracelets. They are Deet free and waterproof and have worked wonderfully for us. We slip one on each wrist and both ankles while working in the garden, they are available on Amazon also. :)
Halfway through the video I went out back with some snips and plastic forks to take coleus cuttings and plant them. Thank you such for that idea! I recently bought a Coleus Henna, which is stunning. So I am hoping this will work (and the squirrels will stay clear of it).
My favorite hydrangea is any variety in blue! Obsessed with 💙! After that, any type of hydrangea with full fluffy blooms is my favorite! They are in my top 3-5 flowers! Being in south central Texas the reality is, any hydrangea that tolerates the climate and my care and sticks around for more than 2-3 summers is my favorite! Btw, thanks for posting the info and question about hydrangeas! I was wondering what to do with flower heads that are drooping from rain. AND (more importantly 😄) looking at the varieties of hydrangea posted in the comments gives me an idea list for trying hydrangeas I would like in the future!
Enjoyed the video. I never met a hydrangea I didn’t like. I enjoy my Vanilla Strawberry very much….a monster size-wise. Also like my Quick-fire tree-form. Hydrangeas help my garden look like I know what I’m doing!😆
Favourite hydrangea - Merveille Sanguine/Raspberry Crush/Bloody Marvllous. Same hydrangea different marketing names- beautiful in all soils but arrestingly dark amethyst in acid soils
What was the green mound to left of the cone flowers? Have you checked out plant delights mail order nursery? They have many varieties of Solomon's Seal, ginger, and baptisia that are absolutely wonderful!!
In Holland, I saw the darkest burgundy hydrangeas I've ever seen...not red or pink but deep burgundy. They were awesome. Must have a lot of lime in the soil there.
Stewart, i'm with you. Its because you are so sweet, they eat me a live. I try to go out and dump water out of saucers all the time, wash out bird baths daily. Here in mid Atlantic, we are having a HEAT WAVE, kinda early for us to be having days that feel like 100, but will be cooling off with some rain starting tomorrow, just briefly before heading back to SUMMER.
Tell Stuart to use Avon skin so soft lotion on his arms to repel mosquitoes. It does work. I’m not a huge fan of the smell, but it beats using insect repellent.
You learn something new everyday-I've done that with Wondering Dude (Tranescantia) for years but didn't know the Coleus will work as well. Happy 4th! Try the Spartan products for mosquito control or get a DynoTrap.
