HARVEST UPDATE: Gladiolus + Sunflowers // Backyard Flower Farm

Hello everyone, welcome back to the garden. Lots of sunflowers and things blooming today. So going to get right on into this. Of course showing you these gorgeous sunflowers. They're almost done. Definitely a sunflower tour coming sometime very soon. So fingers crossed that that will be a really good one. Before I wanted to start this video I want to just thank you to this video sponsor. This is the Lefree expandable garden hose. This is a rubberized version of expandable hoses which are so common. I've never seen one without that kind of outer fabric layer before. This has a lifetime warranty. It is 50 foot long. I believe it comes with a holder for you know to attach to the side of your house and whatnot. So I did want to give this a quick test as I'm always looking for a good garden hose. I currently have eight garden hoses attached together in my yard as a means to water the plants because there's technically no water and there's no way for me to hook up drip irrigation. This seems to be pretty high quality. It comes with this sprayer nozzle. I believe it has 10 settings which I really like. All of the fittings are a really really sturdy. I guess brass or copper. I'm not sure honestly but a very good quality. I'm certain I wouldn't accidentally dent these or you know bend these like I'm known to do here in my yard where I accidentally run over hoses and things. Anyway as soon as I turn the water on obviously this began to expand and fill up which is always kind of weirds me out for some reason. It reminds me of snakes. Kind of makes me on edge but it's just the garden hose. It expanded very easily and the stream of water was really nice and consistent. The whole time I used this hose. This hose is a little bit thinner than kind of typical traditional garden hoses so the output is a little less but the sprayer nozzle was really awesome. I especially love the mist and the shower setting which I think would be absolutely perfect for watering seed trays and delicate little seedlings during the seed starting process. So I am very pleased. They did not pay me for this. Just in exchange for an honest review they sent me this. So full transparency. Take it as you will. Now on to the main topic of this video. This will be the gladiolus bed. For a long time I was really worried that the gladiolus weren't going to bloom this year but finally they have come into their own. They're getting tall. Probably should have staked them but I did want to show you kind of like a mini tour mini harvest. I might do a full gladiolus tour. I'm not quite sure because a lot of the varieties that I ordered are not the varieties that I received and you know that's to be expected a little bit with especially importers and things but this was definitely not the greatest result here in you know this little trial bed of gladiolus. I did want to show you some of the ones that I have harvested so far though just to see what you think. The first one up here is this creamy kind of peach salmon one. This one is called Benvenuto. Probably saying that wrong. I always seem to say everything wrong. I most often see this listed as a pink color. It's pink but it's also got that kind of hint of salmon that is so gorgeous and so popular among flower farmers. The petals are a bit ruffly. Not too much. You know just little crinkles in the margins. I think they're very lovely and I imagine they will look very nice in cut flower arrangements as well. Another one that bloomed here in the yard is this white one. I do not know the name of this white one simply because I had not ordered any white gladiolus so their mere existence is a pure surprise to me but they are a solid pure white. They're very nice. There's no denying they look very lovely but unfortunately I just don't know the name of them so if you have any idea please leave them in the comments below. I would really appreciate that. The next one I wanted to show you is this kind of blend of green and yellow. I guess you'd call it chartreuse. In the sunlight they look very kind of yellowy. In the shade they look a little bit more green tinted. I believe that this one is called Alicia. I did order Alicia and this one came out from the tag so I assume that this is correct. It's a very lovely color. It's a very unique color. I'm not sure if I would grow this one again when looking for a green gladiolus. Very pretty nonetheless. I also wanted to show you quickly in this video one last color. This is a red one. I definitely didn't order any red. Red has never been one of my favorite colors in terms of flowers. Something about it is so highly saturated that it makes it difficult to work with sometimes. Nonetheless I did want to show you them because I know some people absolutely love red flowers and these are very pretty. Don't get me wrong. Hummingbirds seem to absolutely love them. That's for sure. But that's really about it for this video. Thank you so much for watching. I really do appreciate it. It means a lot to me. Big thanks to all the Patreons for your support. Link to that is down in the description if you're interested. I hope that it is so sunny and gorgeous wherever you are. I hope you're having a really great day because you totally deserve it. Thank you so much for stopping by and I will have to talk to y'all later. Bye.