Summer Bulbs Haul For My Container Garden

My summer bulbs are here! Let me show you my small bulbs haul for my shady container garden!

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Hi guys! Wwelcome to this new video! My Summer bulbs have just been delivered and I thought   why don’t we open the box together this way  I can show you what I’m going to grow in my   container garden this year, and maybe you can find some ideas and inspiration for your own garden.

So all of these are bulbs that we plant in  the spring and then they bloom or produce   beautiful foliage in summer and I pre-ordered all of my bulbs in December. I don’t always   pre-order my stuff but you know sometimes when I’m really excited about some plant or I want  

To grow something that I know is everyone’s favorite and there’s a risk that it will sell   out quickly I try to pre-order but that being  said I just checked on Farmers Gracy website,   which is where I ordered all of these bulbs  from, and all of the things that I purchased  

Are still available. So in case if you’re  interested in buying any of these or growing   any of these yourself I think you can still  get your hands on them without any problem. So I ordered some of my all-time favorites  that I grow every year but then I have a lot  

Of new plants that I’ve never tried to grow in my balcony garden before so I’m really excited to   show you and just one last information my balcony garden is northeast facing, so it doesn’t receive   a lot of sunlight. It only receives a couple  of hours of sunlight in the morning and then  

There are parts of my balcony that don’t receive any sunlight at all. So it’s shade/part-shade.   So let me show you what I got and what I’m going to be growing in my garden this year. Okay so first let’s start with some good  old classics with Caladiums. I ordered three  

Varieties of Caladium, let’s take them all out. Okay so before I show you all of these varieties   let me tell you a few words about Caladiums. So they are exotic plants and they produce the most   beautiful foliage they are great plants for full shade and for partial shade they also make great  

House plants! I actually bought some that I’m going to grow indoors and some that I’m going   to grow in my container garden. And caladiums… you can display them in so many beautiful ways,   you can pot them individually, they look really beautiful on their own, and then if you order  

Several different varieties you can group them together and they provide a really beautiful   pop of color especially in the shade and if  you have a shade garden and you are searching   for some summer plants that you could create summer composition with caladiums are also great  

Candidates for that. So I have three varieties. I have cadium ‘White Queen’ and I ordered three   tubers because I’m going to grow some indoors and some outdoors and White Queen is one of my   favorites because it has those beautiful large heart-shaped leaves and they’re kind of mix of  

Pink and white with beautiful green margins such a stunner then. I have Caladium Spring Fling and   these are absolutely the cutest because not only they are heart-shaped but they are also pink so   it looks really pretty and I guarantee that if  you plant Caladium Spring Fling in your garden  

Everyone will ask you “what is this pink heart  sticking out of your composition” or you know   when you mix them with some other plants you have those pink hearts popping out that looks really   really cute. And then I have Caladium Florida Moonlight this is an absolute stunner as well it  

Produces those large white leaves and they are so white they are almost translucent and I think this   will look really great in the shade especially if you contrast it with some darker colored leaves   or darker plants I think that would be such a beautiful contrast. So absolutely love Caladiums,  

But you need to wait before planting them, because the temperature need to be consistently above 15   C because these are tropical plants they don’t like cold temperatures and although we grow them   as summer annuals they’re actually perennials and you can keep them from year to year. At  

The end of the season you will just need to dig out the tubers and store them indoors I actually   have some Caladium tubers indoors from last year. I think I have… I forgot what varieties I have,   because I forgot to tag them, but I’m sure  I have Rosebud which is another beautiful  

One that has green and pink leaves and then the second variety I don’t remember what I kept but   yeah you can totally keep them from year to year and they come back beautifully in the next year. Okay so this next plant I am really excied excited about, cause I have never grown it before in my  

Life and actually the first time that I that I  saw this plant was just last year when I traveled   to the south of France and I was visiting Nice and I went to one of their Botanical Gardens and  

I couldn’t see the plant yet but I could smell something and it was just the most beautiful,   the sweetest fragrance ever and when I finally located the plant I was like “wow okay I need   to find out what it is and I’m going to grow it in my container garden” cause they didn’t even have a  

Plant tag or anything so I googled it and I found out that it was Hedychium gardnerianum and it’s   a member of the ginger family actually and it’s native to the Himalayas. So I was lucky to find   hedychium gardnerianum on Farmers Gracy website and they also have different Hyedychiums different  

Species because in the genus Hedychium there are different species and they are all beautiful they   are all unique looking but this one produces these really beautiful large green leaves and   those really tall flower spikes with beautiful yellow flowers that attract pollinators. You can  

Grow them in full sun and and in partial shade. And in the past I was really successful with   tropical plants. I had a moment in my life when I was like all about tropical plants I had a banana   tree Canna lilies tuberous Begonias and Caladiums and all kind of tropical plants in my garden. So  

Hedychium gardnerianum is a perennial plant but it’s not very winter hardy, I think I can   get away with overwintering it outdoors cause in the past I overwintered Canna lilies and   tuberous Begonias utdoors even though I garden in zone 8 and technically there are not winter  

Hardy in my growing zone, but uh I successfully overwintered them outside so I think I can get   away with overwintering this one as well. But in all cases you can dig them up at the end of the   season and you can store the rhizomes and plant them again next year, so we’ll see how that goes!

Okay and now I’m going to surprise you because I bought Dahlia tubers and I know what you’re going   to say like “what you just said that your garden is in the shade how come you grow Dahlias” so I’m  

As surprised as you are and let me tell you what happened. So I tried growing Dahlias in the past,   never worked. I tried mature plant I tried tubers I planted tubers and as long as they produced some   healthy foliage they never produced flowers, they produced flower buds but those flower buds never  

Really opened. Sso I gave up because obviously I know that Dahlias needs at least six hours of   direct sunlight in order to grow healthy and to produce flowers but you know I wanted to give it   a try just in case. But last year I went to the garden center and they were getting rid of summer  

Bulbs and it was at the beginning of June I think and they asked me do you want some bulbs, because   we need to get rid of them and it’s such a shame because they look healthy and I think you could  

Still plant them in your garden and have success with them and I was like yeah sure why not, free   bulbs, who wouldn’t want them. So they gave me I think like four or five bulbs and among them there  

Was a Dahlia tuber and you know I hesitated I was like do I even bother planting it in my garden,   I know it’s not going to grow but at the end  I planted it and this time I placed the pot  

Strategically. I placed it on top of an overturned pot and I placed it close to the railing planters   cause my railing planters receive the most sun and you know they are high up and they can get  

All the sun that’s available to them and I think they can get up to 4 – 4.5 hours of sunlight and   so I placed that Dahlia very close to the railing planters and guess what? It actually bloomed and   it bloomed so beautifully so the plant stayed really small still like it was really really  

Miniature it was a full-size Dahlia but it grew like 30 cm tall and wide and It produced about I   think three-four flowers a week, which is not a lot but it was enough for me to enjoy it, enough  

For me to cut some flowers for my mini bouquets. So I figured well let’s give it a try let’s repeat   that experiment from last year and we will see what happens. This year so I ordered myself three   Dahlia tubers and we’ll see how that goes. So I have Dalia Wine Eyed Jill which is a beautiful  

Kind of pom pom or ball-shaped Dahlia with kind of creamy pinkish petals and darker center,   the center is kind of burgundy wine colored, beautiful Dahlia. Now we have a Dahlia Caitlyn’s   Joy which is a purple pinkish purple ball Dahlia and another one I want to say a few more words  

About this one. Because this one is a single flower Dahlia so I think that if any of these   blooms it would be this one because the one that I grew last year was also a single flower Dahlia.   I don’t know the variety of the one that I grew last year but this one is absolutely stunning,  

It has lilac colored petals that become more creamy towards the center and then the center   is yellow and this is a really short Dahlia so if you do have a sunny balcony and you will like   to grow some Dahlias but most Dahlia cultivars are too large for you, this one will be a great  

Option because it only grows 50 cm tall and in containers it’s probably going to stay smaller   in all cases. So this would be a great option for small balcony gardens especially those sunny   balcony gardens. Really beautiful cultivar and apparently pollinators absolutely love this  

One. So really excited to give all of those  Dahlia a try and we will see how that goes.   Okay so here is everything that I’m going to be growing in my container garden this year. I also have some plants that I’m growing  from seeds, so I need to save some space  

For those as well. I’m not going to  be planting any of these right away,   simply because I don’t have the space for it right now cause I still have my spring bulbs   in my containers. So I’m going to wait and  while I wait I’m going to put them back into  

That box but I’m going to open each individual  bag to make sure that they have good air flow   and then I’m going to store them somewhere inside of my apartment somewhere on the Shelf where it   stays dark and cool uh until I’m ready to plant them and I’m surely going to share with you in  

Some video how I plant all of these maybe I’ll even make some tutorial, so yeah that’s coming. Okay so I hope that you guys enjoyed this summer buls haul and seeing what I’m going to grow in   my container garden this year thanks so much for watching and we’ll see each other in the next one!