What gardener doesn’t love springtime when the perennials come back to life! March is such a beautiful month in the Houston area. I wish I could bottle up this weather for later in the season, lol! The hummingbirds are migrating and I have seen the male ruby throats for a couple of weeks now. Birds are migrating north and the native bees have emerged. Come and join me as I go through our backyard pollinator garden.
Backyard Garden
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So beautiful! I am learning so much from your videos! I'm planting a coral honeysuckle today. My cardinal climbers are reaching for the netting! I hope my Gregg's mist grows like yours. I haven't seen many butterflies yet either. It seems like I would have seen more by now.
Would love to see a video of your potting soil mix the next time you pot up a plant. I’m struggling with my potting soil mix currently.
Like your videos, cause I can compare how your plants are doing compared to mine, and how they do with pollinators. Pearland here.
I was wondering if you have tried the Candy Corn vine (Manettia) a shade lover, almost a houseplant. I got it at Buchanans two years ago and it died back to the base in a large pot with that year’s hard freeze, but came back over that year slowly. This year I saved it in the garage during this last freeze and put it back out afterwards and it is now going bonkers with blooms since I put it out. It looks awesome on the obelisk and I will let you know how they do with the hummers.
BTW, the hummers liked your porter weed suggestion, but it did not like the freeze. I have to take cuttings of it this year to overwinter it.
I have had Turks cap in the ground for years, it is deeply imbedded in clay and never misses a beat! I tried digging one up once and it was very happy in its home and wouldn’t budge so I left it. Also what did you you to tie your Mexican flame vine trellis to the posts? Can you do a quick video on how you did it or just show what the set up looks like please? Only thing I don’t like about vines is setting up support, I don’t like spending money on it or taking the time 🤷🏻♀️
Beautiful 🌱
Hello from Katy Tx, Lovely video of your garden tour, Thank you. ☺
Everything is just Beautiful Rachel! I just enjoy everything about your yard and videos. I honestly learn something new and exciting with each video I see of yours. What do you use to fertilize with? You have probably mentioned it before and I just missed it .
Hot lips salvia cutting root quite readily
A very beautiful backyard garden 🪴❤️ Thanks to your past Porterweed videos, I did purchase a Ruby Throat Porterweed from Almost Eden and today I saw a Male Hummingbird sip on it a few times 😁
Very nice tour things are really coming to life in your garden. I was able to find more cape honeysuckle at Walmart in 3 gal bought 2 more to go with 3 I bought last spring that are now 5-6’ tall I need to trim back I potted them up last fall and brought them in a couple times when we got same cold snaps you got in January here in panhandle of Florida. You have such a nice variety of salvia. I finally had a small pot of a purple salvia come back this year so I was pleased. I almost ordered some coleus from same place you did in earlier video but Friday found some really nice ones at a local nursery. Lowes & HD this year don’t have any that look interesting maybe they will get more variety later. Finally seeing you had planted cardinals climbers made me want to do it again. Despite the late blooming it is still a nice vine plant. I also potted up a bunch of caladium bulbs today. Hate the wait to see them come up and look so amazing. Thanks for sharing all the treasures in your yard. Means more knowing we are in same growing zone and experience same weather challenges
I love your videos so much! I haven’t sat down and commented in a while, but I’m watching and learning from you all the time! Thank you for the wonderful tour!
Thank you for letting me know where you get your porter weed! I went two weekends ago and they had tons of plants there so I picked up two red and a purple plus many other plants.
I am in Houston and my hot lips survived the heat and freeze. Surprisingly, pollinators don't seem to like it as much as they do my other salvias.
Thank you! I am planning to move from the Seattle area to Portland Tx. I have a lot to learn.
Lovely backyard!
Lovely 😊
You definitely needed 2 parts for the May your. I enjoy you taking the time to talk through what you are growing. Would you consider doing a video talking about your routine to fertilize your plants and what you use and frequency. Thanks