Patio Update, New Plants, Neighborhood Garden Tour

Patio Update, New Plants, Neighborhood Garden Tour – In this video we put in a few perennials to fill some spaces, give a patio install update, and do some plant touring in the neighborhood.

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welcome to H tube my name is Jim putam in this video we’re going to take a look at a few perennials that we’ve added into the front garden space uh give you a little bit of a patio update uh show you a couple things that are looking good and we may walk around the neighborhood and see if there’s anything that’s looking good we’ve had a little bit of rain this week uh but they’ve been insignificant uh versus I mean other people have had damaging things all over the country it seems like and we’ve just been rooting for a little bit of rain but we’ve gotten even right now kind of dribble dropping a bit uh I don’t think it’s going to be adequate unless we find a you know a real rain at some point over this while it’s unsettled we it’s just dry so as we walk as I’m saying we’re going to walk around the neighborhood and find some things that look good we may not I have no idea cuz again it’s been just super super dry one of the things about redesigning this front garden and making this piece of turf into new bed space are redefining the annuals which have actually grown quite a bit you can see the manual borders you can see the plants I mean I think within 2 weeks or so uh they’ll be touching one another already uh bulb foliage needs to die back and it has started it’s def they’re starting to decline which is kind of nice I’m I’m ready for the bulb foliage to disappear at this point but as we’re redesigning this we have holes in here and I didn’t want to just go and just buy just anything and just fill holes in so we went uh back down to a big bloomers and just grabbed a few perennial things uh to fill build these holes we can move them around later but if we find some shrubs or whatever that we like over the next year uh traveling or whatever plants with stories we’ll come back in here and fill a few of these holes uh in in in the ground but we’re going to have an open house on June 22nd and wanted to just kind of fill make sure that the space looked like we had it was kind of finished so we’re added three of these skyscraper purple Salvia uh we’ve got skyscraper pink that we had showed on the other side of the path over there but these skyscraper dark purple uh is what this one is added a white Lantana uh into this space which won’t you know which won’t com out compete you know the other the other flowers that Steph had designed in the uh uh in the annual borders you can go back and look at the annual border video from a week or so ago if you want to know all the plants that are in annual border and then there’s some skyscraper pink Salvia back here just three of them and besides that we had only planted basically three shrubs and three kind of weeping habit um you know a Japanese maple and a in a in a SE cedris Atlantica uh into this space but you can see there’s just still open there were still open space but these perennials are fast growing and they’ll fill this Gap these gaps in really quickly they’re almost placeholders and we can move them later to other places if we find something that’s just the perfect plant for this at some point these three Lantana can be given away or moved to another space in the garden right but for now they’re the perfect thing to fill that space for this summer uh The Babylon Beauty uh better boxwood uh we have we we put this container uh toward the back of the bed and there’s some red uh colus or cogia sorry uh in that red foliage cogia that’s about to start blooming right now with you know red flowers that should look pretty good and then there’s an Indian uh Indian pinks called little red head uh in the back of the in the back back of the space that’s another perennial that we’re kind of missing here uh in the garden but I just got these in right before this little dribble drop rain we have happening this morning uh and I think again we’re just kind of filling some ho holes and filling some gaps they’re almost things that were like placeholders for future plants that we would be adding out here in the garden I think you can see Griffin uh frequently if you’re watching the videos from out here if you’re if it’s something in the front garden uh he’s usually in one of these uh he’s usually in one of these windows uh looking out he does get to come out in the garden I think yesterday’s video there’s a tiny little clip of him running around uh in the uh in in the back Garden but again when we’re when I’m sitting here trying to think and he can he can he’s just he he’s not trying to get away but he will expand the space where comfortable him you know occupying you know he’ll he’ll get out of sight uh pretty quickly so while we’re have the camera on uh but then in between we have him out here in training hopefully to be uh uh where we can take our eye off of him for a minute without his Circle getting wider and wider and wider anyway other other things in these little holes on the other side there was some uh another Salvia Misty Salvia stuff came in and added some cone flowers in here that we did from seed some white gam frina that we did from seed uh plugged in some lobilia back here there’s some several perennials that have been added so as this bulb foliage again all these daffodil foliage as it fades back and again I can see it starting to happen we had a couple 90° days over the last week and I can see that bulb foliage the Tulips that are back behind stuff back there fading quickly so I’ll be excited to have that stuff kind of gone and all these perennials and annuals really taking over the space uh for the summertime you know the shrubs have their big early show uh in in the season and then oh well really it starts with bulbs and then shrubs and then we have a couple of we have a couple of Summer FL few summer flowering shrubs out here like cthra uh that the Dogwood is going to be blooming pretty soon we have Aila that will several Aila out here that will bloom during the summer of course hydrangeas uh the M the big leaf hydrangeas linger Into Summer and then the uh hydrangea picadas will bloom during the summer so there there’s there’s summer flowering shrubs but the vast majority of the shrubs are passing at this point and then this becomes a perennial you know the perennials take over the annuals take over uh and that’s where we get most of our color and our pollinators from uh during the summertime but again there’s going to be holes back here and we’re just not going to rush to fill them uh we’ll we’ll find things that we’re interested in and then a lot of times what we’ll do is we’ll bring a container home and we’ll just put the container on the ground in a spot and just live with it there for a few days before we actually sink it into the ground the amalen here or service Berry uh does have Cedar Apple rust and so some of the fruit but not all of the fruit uh you can see you can see you can see it on there this is a shared disease uh between uh sea uh cedar trees and then some things in the Rose family uh apples um you know it’s a cedar Apple rust but it’s not technically from a cedar it’s from a juniperus virginiana or it’s it’s a juniper that we call Eastern red cedar you know they share a disease there’s nothing I can do about it unless I cut every Cedar down or cut every every uh Eastern red cedar down in the entire neighborhood and I don’t think that’s going to uh I don’t think that’s going to work out for me so I’m not going to do any spraying on it I have no intention of actually eating these fruit the tree is perfectly healthy there is a portion of the fruit that is not on and the birds are out here all day long Robins are out here eating the fruit and again I’ve always said they’re always willing to take the fruit earlier than you so these have not turned you know they start off red and then they turn a purplish col color when they’re actually mature and they’re very very sweet uh but again they’re willing to take them earlier than you are always and I don’t know how I’d protect this tree from them even if I wanted to get the fruit uh to maturity but again I think where probably 50% of the fruit has Cedar Apple rust on it and 50% uh 50% does not uh so if we look in here uh there’s an example of it right there but then there’s a fruit right next to it and I think there’s literally a robin in the top of the tree you hear it he just he’s in the tree while I’m doing it is that a Robin it’s hard to say I can’t see it there’s literally a bird above my head right now uh eating the fruit on the tree so that was a great example I think it is a yep it was a robin uh that uh that came to the tree what so they’re complaining that we’re taking up their space right now but they’re busy eating the the remaining fruit and again I just don’t do anything about these things I mean there is no actual cure for this and so if I started spraying it with something I’d be spraying it forever and I just tree’s fine no big deal our early Fring blueberries are starting to form or starting to color up now and we’re again this is another thing we’ll be competing competing with the birds on but here’s there’s one that’s uh that’s ready and I’m sure again I’m sure I’m competing with the birds on them I could we could net these uh if we wanted to uh but I’m not gonna I’m not going to worry about it but you can see how many of these actually have on them these are uh Southern High Bush varieties these are Southern Living plant collection varieties and again they’re Southern High Bush these were from I think University of Florida breeding but look how early these blueberries are actually finished uh I absolutely love it and then we have a couple rabid eye varieties that are also Southern Living plant collection ones and they’ll be a little bit later so we can have blueberries uh over an extended period of time by having two different types out here in the garden and both of them the amount of chill hours we’re getting during the winter which was very very low this winter and I mean it was very few hours below uh 45° this winter for sure but they both bloomed extremely well and they’re absolutely loaded loaded with berries but again you know I can net them to keep them the birds away from them but I’m just not going to worry about it uh we’ll we’ll we’ll grab the few as we go by that look ready and the birds can have the rest I’ve gotten a good start on the patio over the last few days little bit of rain Interruption uh here and there and a 92 degree day Interruption which was just not fun to be out here uh uh laying these uh laying these pavers when it was that when it was that hot it’s going to be a combination of we bought this pallet of stone uh to put the front um walkway in which that’s done a couple of those um if you if you come on the open house on June 22nd that’s that whole front garden was nothing but roots and when I put that front uh walkway in I didn’t some of them are not set um quite well enough I’ll work on that in the future I just got to take out some of those old roots uh out of there this space was again you if you followed the channel initially we we slded this space last year I took out the sod I dug it out and then put in screenings which is just fine rock dust that will compact uh really well and this has just been screenings ever since and it’s just it’s really really compact it’s like the perfect base for laying this uh patio on but I have enough Stone left from the stone work out here the PA we put in to basically make Five Fingers of so you can see the Stone Meeting the path right here in front of Stu and then it meets the the the porch over here and then it will lead you to this path right here and then it will lead you to this path right here and there is no path this direction but it just looked good to have five basic uh a a spider look to it and then the empty spaces that are in between um right here actually the bird we’ll probably have a bird feeder back here is probably what we’ll end up doing at the end of that particular path I’ve got old bricks uh lots and lots and lots of old bricks that were from various things that were here in the garden already and these will be used to fill in these little five remaining gaps and then there’s going to be a brick mortared Ed Edge going around the edge of it but um I’ve did I’ve done I won’t be teaching how to lay a patio I don’t think that there I mean this is just more you know I I put up a line level and made sure that you know it drops a little bit that way and then it drops a little bit this way and that’s kind of all I’ve done these stones are not perfect these were Pi I picked over the best ones for the front walkway and so these are a little bit not some of them are absolutely dead level flat and easy to put in and then some of them are just kind of a mess uh but this is what I had left and it’s work you know it’ll it’ll work out fine and then these I love re recycling reusing natural materials that are already in the garden I did stone workor for 20 some years literally the reason I quit Landscaping was because of stonework um because I became famous or not famous but I became known for stonework and I had less and less and less planting jobs and more and more and more and more stone stone work request um and uh that’s why I quit Landscaping because I knew my body would not hold up to doing this this is a project you do and then you you know you move on you don’t you know it’s really this is really hard uh on someone’s body to do this day in day out so appreciate people who do this kind of work for a living cuz it is really tough on someone’s uh uh someone’s body to actually do this for a living and I did that for a while and then and was like w this is going to this is not good uh not good not good for for me long term anyway got a good start on this this week these Stones basically this way are laid these I haven’t set uh yet and then the brick Edge will get a a con concrete border and then mortared in place around the edge and then the other St other bricks will fill fill in these spaces uh but I actually taught I did teach for a while I had um there was a thing called the Carolina School of gardening where I taught ston work uh stone walls uh masonry for a while uh and and so I actually have done this for a long long long time and actually taught classes on it as well uh but I don’t think there’s any way on a YouTube channel to really convey you know how to do this this is basically just lay a lay a bed in place that you can compact like you know this these Rock screenings uh which is just again it’s just U very very fine gravel is what it is and it will allow you to compact it down and then you got to get in here and make sure you got to pitch one direction or another and then you start doing it uh and then if you can add a little Artistry to it and act some mix some other materials in with it um that tends to be something that will make it stand out a few things really taking off uh in the back Garden the tamuk AMA Japanese maple is happy with its move out here into a little bit more sunlight than it was back there behind it and I got to get in here and do a little bit of pruning on it it’s now covered up the entire the trunk entirely which is contorted there’s a salvia in front of it that’s about to be in bloom already that you know uh amazingly uh but I wanted to show off the viburnum nudum I think this is as close to peak flower as I probably will be able to film it uh this season bumblebees all over this thing in the afternoon it’s fun when you have a native uh a native plant like this because then instead of seeing you know all the honeybees which are fine I mean but they’re just not native uh but with this when the when the flowers are open on it it’s we’re shooting this early in the morning so the bum the Bumblebees aren’t out and it’s raining a little bit uh but the Bumblebees will be on it all afternoon interesting Ms all kinds of interesting uh Native species that enjoy having these native plants and flower in the garden and this thing’s just absolutely perfect what a great what a great plant if I burum nudum is in a small lot this is a large growing shrub but it fit it plays nice in our small lot because it you know has this upright kind of vase Habit to it so it’s not eating up a giant footprint down here on the ground it’s doing you know it’s doing its thing up higher here’s a bumble um yep maybe maybe it’s going to land on here I don’t know but they’re they are awake now uh but it’s kind of fun to watch this plant uh during the afternoon there’s a cicada I think uh on the back of it right there so here’s one of the cicas that’s come uh come out and done its thing already you know they do they leave these they leave these things behind we could hear a bunch of them uh yesterday they’re definitely not as bad here as you know other other places in the country that’s for sure but we are seeing them out here in the garden interesting spot on the back path we have um this is an a this that we were actually about to give up on or at least give up on in this space it took two years it did absolutely nothing just sat here and struggled not a single indication that it would ever flower and now look at it’s coming into flower now and it’s just man it’s just the the leaves look the foliage looks incredible the flowers look incredible this plant will eat you in a lot get you in a lot of different ways the flowers are actually have a little Thorn on the back of them that’s prickly Holly are you in the middle of shrubs you’re just standing in the middle of the shrubs um so uh but anyway it looked like it was going to uh are you now you’re walking to the auga that is not it Holly that’s not it okay but this year it’s just come out like crazy and just and it’s full you know coming into full flour there’s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine 10 flower spikes on it so far and uh just growing like crazy but it is eating a little honey Oakleaf hydrangea that’s down below it and a couple of Hosta that are down below it that little honey Oakleaf hydrange I’ve been asked about how it’s doing a couple times it actually initially got eaten by a deer like to the ground and so it’s had to come back from that and I may have broken it one time uh I think when it was coming back you know when these plants are only 4 in tall coming back from other damage it’s easy to step on them so anyway it’s got to be rescued uh we’ve got some space back here on the back Trail now that we can move it to and the couple hosta that are being buried but this a canthus is now happy doesn’t need to be moved uh but the things around it unfortunately uh or fortunately I mean you’re you’re fortunate when this happens right when everything’s thriving so much that it’s starting to compete compete with one another you know to one of them’s uh demise potentially uh that’s a good thing um we’ll just take the we’ll just rescue the one find a new home for it cuz we’ve got some spaces out here and uh glad to see the enanth this blooming almost forgot before we went out exploring we did put in another purple Daydream Laura pedum uh on the uh on the edge area just up from where we just looked at those blueberries a minute ago and then St planted a couple different profusion zenas over here again uh bulb foliage is in the process of dying back but she planted two uh two groups of these uh I think it’s um uh profusion Cherry by color or uh yeah Cherry by color and profusion white zenas these zenas just perform so well and they don’t get mdeo uh they’re just they’re this compact they just bloom all summer long um just I I love Giant zenas as well but um when you these little dwarf these little ones that stay compact like this that are milde resistant are just so good uh and then there was another one of these uh uh Clean Sweep snowbank Indian hawthorns uh added to the edge as well the foliage on this thing is just incredibly clean white flowering uh dwarf Indian Hawthorne uh super super compact as you can see and then perfect incredibly clean foliage it’ll get a purple Berry in place of those white flowers in the fall if you don’t do any pruning on it during the season typically don’t have to do any pruning on them because they’re just extremely low maintenance but it’s nice to see these really really disease resistant Indian hawthorns being kind of re-released out into the world because we’ve just had some of the older varieties just got uh leaf spot issues and then started you know defoliating and just don’t look all that great and so they’ just seen less and less of them being used U but I think this is uh definitely will offer a return to this just being so great ornamental plants this purple Riding Hood pinin is definitely worth pointing out the flowers are a little past Peak but that color with that Agave uh combined together is just spectacular uh it’s got a few more flowers coming on that pinin but it’s an early flowering penamon hit the ground running uh gotten itself into flower and against those two colors together just looks so striking we we took out our Royal Purple Smoke Tree in a video several weeks ago this is our immediate Nextdoor neighbors Royal Purple Smoke tree coming into flower this is where it has enough Sun that it’s not leaning out uh trying to stretch for light uh you can see how perfect the tree is it’s been limbed up into a small tree over time sometimes you’ll see them you know with foliage all the way to the ground this window has been has been uh you know just allowed to become a small a small tree in the front garden and it’s amazing cuz only 40 ft away ours was in too much shade and it was stretching and leaning and never flowered and then you you know you literally walked 40 ft and here’s an absolutely perfect specimen of Royal Purple Smoke Tree walk another 40 ft and here’s one in the shade so that you see the difference the two that were in the shade look like this the one that’s in the full sun uh looks like the one we just showed we have several Neighbors in the neighborhood that use uh star jasmine as a screening plant so they’ve got this you know fence in place uh with the lattice and then you know the star jasmine will go through there’s Evergreen uh but here it is in peak flower uh you tend to get this full flower thing in May it’s a little early probably it’s usually more more toward mid to late May when they come in full flour like this and then you’ll get some residual flowers on it after this but it’s mainly you know just this peak flour right now nothing smells uh quite like the star jasmine but great Evergreen Vine here we’re you know we’re on the edge of where these can be damaged in a particularly bad winter so it’s good to have them in slightly protected uh space you know out out of the full wind I wouldn’t use it as a screening plant as a wind screen uh as well if you’re in zone 7B or 8A uh cuz they they can be damaged in the winter here’s another example of star jasmine being used as a screen uh it’s under a very very large uh Oak here uh it’s thrived it took about 3 years for this to actually fill in and cover it was it was sparse got damaged I think one winter so miss there maybe four or five years in the making but now it’s completely covered in fact it’ll probably have to be cut on at some point this year to once it’s it’ll try to stretch up in different directions but here it is in peak flower and then when it’s done flowering it’s just these nice shiny shiny leaves and it’s a screen that’s only a foot wide right most of our screening plants are going to be you know eat up a lot of ground space but here with a just a basic uh basic metal fence this is actually just a roll of like a like a farm fencing uh with a me with metal Post in it so it’s not even a fancy fence uh you can’t see it anymore uh so there star jasmine as a screen a lot of perennials have jumped out super super early Rebeca here is on Full flow uh in front of this fence got cone flowers that are that are showing tons of color already not unusual for them to be about this tall but definitely a little unusual for them to be uh this far into flower and then the uh uh milked is uh already uh showing some color we’ve got one that’s butted up uh in our garden there’s a cone flower coming up through it but this is um tuberosa is this species that it coming in full flower again a little bit early but uh looks beautiful out here lots of great Oakleaf hydrangeas all over the neighborhood but this is the only one I’ve seen that’s absolutely full flour again seems a little early to be in full flour but we’ll take it it’s element school here uh in the neighborhood great Four Season plants great natives uh the you got the the inflorescences out on the outside that are just you know the decorative part of the flower but you can look in the interior here and see where all the real flower action is and of course all of our native you know native pollinators will be all over these as the day come the day goes on came over to my friend Rob’s Garden that we’ve shown off uh many times this is a a fantastic Garden something that’s always going on here the color guard yucka out by the street has a flower Spike on it the flowers are just about to start opening they will just draw in pollinators from everywhere uh honey bees will be honey bees will be all over those soon as those uh soon as those flowers are open you can see how beautiful this thing would never have to flower but it does it occasionally you know put a flower Spike up like that amazing beautiful he’s got uh two of the uh golden Falls Red Buds out here he bought them a little bit shorter and I’ve talked about this before this tree is going to be whatever height you buy it at or whatever height you’re willing to put work into it right so this he his were here uh and he has been staking up a piece a little bit higher and a little bit higher so you got to stake up if you you have to stake up to the height that you want them and that’s the only way you’re going to get any height out of them but he’s actually gained he’s been able to gain a foot or more out of them since he bought them cuz they were they were tiny things uh initially uh I hated to break that news to him that they weren’t going to get taller without him putting work into them but he’s put the work into it and and now they’re taller he’s got a trais gania Invasion uh this is one of those uh plants that can just kind of keep on giving uh we we have it coming up just everywhere in our garden but you can see the Hun U you know the bee is working it uh right now we’ve got a trash truck coming so we’ll take a break this trash skanse is just very very very good at making seed uh and just coming up everywhere and when you try to pull it it just breaks off at the ground and just comes right back uh so it really has to be dug out in order to actually get it out but he’s got a zelas that have passed flowering but you see the yuck is about to flower the here’s a hydrangea panicula that will flower later in the summer there’s actually some Salvia coming up through the middle of it uh just always something going on out here a lot of winter flowering interes things there’s a lot of chamele is out here that are flowering one of the more interesting things that’s flowering or about to flower is this Cardon we this is kind of an interesting one to shoot because back in I don’t know when it was February or sometime we were at the Roston and we shot a video with Mark wton just on some some things that might be interesting in the garden at that time of year and that the Cardon at the JC Roston Arbor was about this tall they had it planted with some Agave so again that combo we had over at the Garden with the purple flowers in the agave uh this was that was kind of a Blue on Blue on Blue uh bed that they had going but we saw them at the Roston last weekend and they were starting to pop up like this as soon as it gets hot they’ll flower it’s an artichoke family member so it actually looks like you know if you’re looking at this uh flower you got to be uh it looks like an artichoke right uh and artichokes have to be harvested before the flowers is actually open on them but you can see this is an artichoke artichoke family member uh beautiful beautiful plant it’s so striking in the garden uh this beautiful blue and it’s it’s it’s it’s an winter flower it’s a u basically a cold season perennial so this thing will actually flower and then go dormant for the summertime and it’ll start coming back up uh in the late fall and into the winter and then as it starts to get hot in the late spring It Bolts like this flowers and it repeats that process we’ll finish this video up with the flamethrower red bud you can see all the different colors uh it’s changing you know all the the the newest the newest newest leaves are always on this purple shade of purple and then it comes back and turns uh it basically is unveiling the chartreuse leaves that are behind it and then those over the course of the summer will become slightly Greener but it always it’s always showing this kind of three colors uh throughout the plant uh I have uh we get so many red bud questions so many red bud questions a lot of these new Red Buds are a bit fragile and and you can even see it in this plant how much growth this thing’s actually put on and the trunk is only this big around uh and the limbs are only this big around these big branches and then these leaves are this big it’s definitely going to leave it uh in a position where it could be damaged could be damaged by Ice could be damaged by wind uh We’ve and we’ve seen it on a bunch of these uh newer Red Bud cultivars out in the world that you they break apart so we probably would do a little bit of pruning on this you know while it’s still small just to try to thicken this thing up a bit and so it can kind of withstand you know you can see how wispy uh it actually is uh but beautiful beautiful tree uh can’t can’t take anything away from it you know how beautiful uh this thing is it’s in a little bit of shade to the point you know Red Buds like that kind of part shade conditions this one might be tucked up under it so much that it doesn’t have quite as much of the color as that we see in other ones so I think if it was maybe 10 or 15 ft that way uh toward the sun just a little bit more it would be a bit more colorful right now but there you go flamethrower red bud so there’s a view of a few things around the neighborhood and a few things back at the Garden and the patio is well underway and we’ll be inviting people into the Garden on June 22 so make sure you’re watching the question and answer videos on Sunday for more details about that