Our first freeze warning is only a few days away and so the fall garden cleanup begins! Join me as I spend part of an afternoon cleaning out the annuals surrounding the backyard patio.
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Good morning!! I have a random plant question. I’m in coastal NC zone 8a. I’ve been considering a blue kazoo spirea and I wondered if you had any experience growing it in your garden? I’m curious if it will be able to stand up to the summer heat and humidity that we deal with in NC. Any thoughts? Hope y’all had a fun trip to the mountains!!
My annuals are basically starting to wilt…we are staying in the low 30’s at night and now we are under hard freeze warnings for this week. Oh well…life happens and we are moving toward the season of cold!
Here in Michigan 6 miles south of Walters Gardens, just for reference, we are cold VERY windy and rainy here today. I’m seeing you garden with sun shine and in cooler weather and I’m hoping that maybe you could send some of that our way? I still have to dig up some of my tubers from the ground and containers that I have scattered around the garden. When it starts raining in my area in the fall it doesn’t want to give up, maybe not a lot of rain but just enough that this old lady can’t talk herself into going out to do what NEEDS to be done. As a kid when I lived in Wisconsin I can never remember it being this dismal starting in fall and lasting well into early spring. Logistics I guess. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃
I could hardly recognize Jerry without this hat on. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃
Great that the pitcher plants in the ground are thriving. I was betting the one the container would do well but the ones in ground maybe not.
Looks nice, but I was grimacing when those gorgeous blooming plants had to be ripped out…..😞
Nice clean up video. Have fun at dinner. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Snakes are important in the garden, most are friendly and beneficial, I had a lite probiotic with mice, once I started seeing my baby snakes appear in late summer, my mouse problem disappeared!
GOOD MORNING Jenny!! Fall is my favorite season! Are you putting in a fall veggie garden? I love to do that. Have a great day!
I love to ho to the mountains. Can you tell me the name of the restaurant??
Such a shame that deck flower planter get some water damage because it look great. Maybe you could put liner inside, roofing rubber sheets are fairly inexpensive and would form well on walls of planter and just cut some holes on bottom for drainage 😀
I am like you, love the clean up time. It looks much better.
There’s such a sense of relief when all the fall clean up is ✔️.
Update of the Dahlias please.
Oh gosh I can't watch these poor annuals getting pulled ahhahaa I leave mine until a frost gets them, because I never trust the forecast.
Great video from your favorite nephew
Jenny, why are you taking out these falen leaves. They protect your plants and little creatures during the winter and they make good compost.It's better for nature not to be too tidy.
Clean up feels so gratifying.. Jenny you need a handy battery operated blower for small jobs. Looks great
🏵🏵question🏵🏵. Trying to spell the green plant that smells like lime, to find it somewhere ????
I'm sure it was nice to actually get outside in this beautiful weather and just enjoy doing a bit of off camera gardening 🙂
This is just crazy backwards! Here I am in Northern Utah, zones 5-6 and we still don't have a freeze in our forecast, yet there you are planning on one.
Limpar.
And fun we had!!! 🥰
Untill the hot weather comes back, lol ! Can still get some hot muggy days. Enjoy the bit of cooler weather while you can Ms Jenny.
I still have bulbs to plant, but not too much cleanup. We don’t have frost predicted yet here in Pacific Northwest 8b. Some years we make it into December with annuals still going strong. Love that.
So much better to pull them early than after they get slimy – yuck, such a sloppy mess!
Hi! Quick question, is there a reason that you don’t list the plants that you use in your pots or landscape. I don’t alway hear what you are talking about so it would make it easier if I want to plant the specific plant. I know you are busy with the garden center but it would help. Thanks
Jenny when will you trim your PRIME HYDRANGEA, NOW OR WAIT TO SPRING? I planted several this year and are still beautiful, I live in Piedmont area of NC.
We’re supposed to freeze tonight so I just took a bunch of cuttings from my favorite coleus to overwinter inside. The garden can go to sleep and there’s hope for the future!
Why don't you overwinter some of the healthy & still vibrant annuals?
Don't you enjoy seeing your garden change with the seasons? Thanks for sharing yours. The bugbat is so cute in its little pot! The pot with the heuchera and carrax is beautiful and perfect colors for fall! Cleaning out the annuals for fall is rewarding to me. Everything is nice and tidy. Enjoy your dinner with good friends and beautiful surroundings!
Today was clean up day in my garden as well – then put out the pumpkins and scarecrow. Raining, windy, falling leaves – I do love the change of seasons.. I did leave my lantana in my raised bed – it was the craziest plant (3) this year which produced such a healthy and beautiful show. Michigan 6a
I am with you. I agree that winter is a time to rest, and dream up what you are going to plant next year BTW I cannot believe you are getting a freeze before us in New England – Zone 6…
I also want to say, kudos on the growing 4 season spaces that you are creating – that one near the old chicken coop has come so far is just such a short time! The sweetspire looks so amazing right now
Sorry! Snakes are not my friend!
Jenny, you need some of those beautiful sumacs that Laura & Aaron (Garden Answer) have!
I love fall clean up – everything looking so neat 😊
Deconstruction can be a stress reliever. It’s getting PJs and hot cocoa or hot tea time here in the central MS.
Jenny,
What variety of gardenia is the cleome suffocating? I love the leaves! Hard to tell w/ the cleomes there, but it looks a bit like Diamond Spire.
Btw, Jenny,
Thank you & bless you for rescuing the sweet little snake! ❤❤❤
Its called a wish-post pile. A pile of things that you hope magically composts without any attention. (technically its slow composting or cold composting and it does work it just takes a few years instead of a few months).
I resist pulling out annuals and cutting back my peonies because I'm not ready to say goodbye, but once I commit it makes me so happy to have everything buttoned up for winter.
It's really cold in Minnesota and I have so much to do yet. My chores list gets amended as time runs out. I may still dig up the elephant ears, but if not then so be it. Furniture must be put in storage.
Do you amend soil this late? Did I hear you say that's what you did under the blue Rose of Sharon? I was thinking of getting some compost to put around my two surviving David Austin roses. I won't bother wrapping them. The one I did wrap didn't survive our severe winter.
I'm kinda enjoying the post-cleanup scene around the property. No more panicked watering, dead-heading, fertilizing, pruning, etc. Time for me to rest up, go dormant, and plan for next year's productivity.
We lined my raised garden beds with tyvek house wrap to protect the wood from the dirt and water.
What do you do with your salvia and gaura on the side of the walkway?
Good job…
Jenny, what is a "steplandia"? Spelling might not be right but I think that's what I heard! I live in zone 8a in North Carolina.
Thanks for all you do for all your viewers. You are a joy to watch and learn from.
I missed your dog out there with you, my little dog always comes outside with me when i garden, nice video thanks.
Time to clean up! your garden is always looking amazing!