Garden Tour/New Plants to try/Nursery pics/Garden Style nw

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi everybody Debbie here with Garden style so today I'm going to be covering some things that I am growing in my yard I'm going to hopefully introduce you to some new plants that you can start planting now and kind of give you a little garden tour April Garden Tour as things are starting to Bloom as you can see right behind me here one of the roded endrance that are here in my backyard is blooming his little heart out along with many other things now in my last video I mentioned that mother nature is really good at playing some tricks on us and tonight is one of those nights where we're actually going to get down to 32° which means I'm going to be covering up some tender plants that I have put in the ground over the last few days but it's just for one night so and it be for very long so I don't think there'll be a whole lot of damage incurred but this is the kind of thing you got to look out for even though your freeze date may be April 15th here we are on April 16th and we're getting a freeze tonight but it looks pretty good for the rest of the week we actually should be getting up into the 60s lower 70s by the following week so spring is definitely here and I've been planting my little tail off over the last few weeks and just kind of want to walk around give you a little tour and introduce you to some plants that I've put in the ground so here we go so this is one of my success stories um you watched if you had watched one of my last videos about three weeks ago I had put in some seeds here into the garden as you can see they have come up and they're doing very well uh we've got radishes in here uh spinach there's lettuce on the other side and I just put down some beets um about 2 days ago so hopefully those will be coming up here real soon I planted some new onions all around the outside um and for those of you who don't know sometimes when you're Planting onions on the outside onions maragold it keeps the critters out of your garden things like Little Critters like rabbits and I've seen a couple of them wandering around the yard so just wanted to give you a little update on that and got some broccoli in I've got carrots starting to come through and potato of course are taking off got those going on lots of onions and garlic in here and soon in the next couple of weeks probably by the beginning of May I'll be planting the squash cucumbers and of course tomatoes so I always wait a couple of weeks usually around the first week of May I'll start planting those more warm crops into the ground but uh success already we're going to have some food to eat and I'm just absolutely thrilled at the success so far so that's an update on the veggie beds and look at this we've got lots of apple blossoms starting to open on all the apple trees so I think we're going to have a bountiful crop of apples we just need to warm up and we will by tomorrow so that the bees can come out and make sure all these trees get pollinated oh how I love of this time of the year so here's a cool specimen that I just planted um this A yanus La Paloma Blanca which actually means white dove in Spanish but you'll notice that all of its new growth comes out kind of a light yellow and then turns white and this is just a cool little shrub it's an evergreen I needed something in these containers and this little shrub will take full sun to part shade and it is is Hardy between zones 5 and 9 and does quite well here so I'm testing these out to see how well they do but what a neat little shrub and a little bit later I'll be planting probably some calber coas or patunas down in the bottom so they'll flow out over the edges but yeah I just had to show you this it's just a really cool specimen tiny leaves and the uous family is huge you can actually get very large shrubs that look like this one one like here this is a uous silver King and these can get quite large these can get to about five to 6 feet tall and just about as wide and I have them planted up here against the fence but you can see all their new growth that's starting to come out and I usually have to prune these a couple times a year um CU they they're they grow pretty fast but that's just another part of the yanis shrub family the first one that I showed you the Paloma Blanca that will only get maybe four feet tall and about as wide where these will get five to six feet tall and then there's a whole another category to the yamus family that looks like this one and that is this little guy look at this and this is a uous gy and it has this bright yellow uh leaves that start to come out on it in the spring and this is more of a ground cover so it sits pretty low and it'll get made maybe 24 in tall and they'll spread as far as you will let them I try to keep them pruned so they're just a nice neat little Clump right here but the uus family has a whole bunch of different shrubs in it that grow at different heights different widths and they're all Evergreen and do quite well here in the Northwest so if you haven't tried them I highly recommend that you do we always carry a whole bunch of them at the nursery of all different types and varieties but the Paloma Blanca which I showed you first uh is a new one that I'm trying this year so I'll give you an update later once I have it planted with some annuals and of course take you on a May Garden Tour uh so you can see what all that's about but moving on and look at this beauty this is a blue sky roie um kind of inherited it when it came when I moved into the house and I kind of did a little Bonsai thing on it cuz a lot of the bottom branches were dead or dying so I just cut them all off and trained it like this but as I back off you can see it turned out really cool um but it's usually one of the first of the Roes to start blooming here in the yard and it's just stunning just purple as far as the eye can see absolutely beautiful and of course the famous heno Crimson aelas are all starting to come into bloom got one down here who's a little behind the rest of the aelas but here they come they always go into full-on bloom here and then one of my favorite shrubs right here this is a Pieris and this one is called silver flame look at that and it just almost looks like a Christmas tree when you step back from it but this is what it does it gets all this new growth on it after it just bloomed and these beautiful like deep Pink new growth and eventually those start to lighten up and turn a real light pink pink and eventually a lime green and then variegated so it just Blends in with the rest of the tree so this shrub tree whatever you want to call it I've just let it go I haven't pruned it or anything and I just love the shape that it's taken on naturally but uh this thing just stands out in the yard at this time of the year it's one of my favorites as you can see is just stunning so Pieris got to love it this is enough gorgeous roie and this is called President Roosevelt and these flowers are brand new but as they get older the centers of them turn white so just kind of a red and white Bic color Bloom on this roded andren and you can see that the leaves are variegated as well rather than being dark green but President Roosevelt is showing his stuff today so here's some more new specimens that I just put in and these are delphiniums and this particular variety is called Magic fountains and it kind of has a dark blue uh flower on it with a white bee kind of like what you will see right here in the tag look at that isn't that gorgeous so I thought I'd try some of those I needed something tall towards the back here behind all the daisies here that are starting to come in but what a gorgeous flower I can't wait to see what they look like and these will probably get about 28 in tall by 24 in wide very Hardy from Zone 3 to 8 and their flowering time is from the summer all the way until the fall cannot wait to see what these look like but again I'll show you the tag here give you an idea right there of course hummingbirds love them but it's just absolutely beautiful so looking forward to those so here's some more new ones um if you have watched some of my past videos from last summer I had planted a plant called ragged Robin or linis and this happens to be petite Jenny and the Ragged Robin that I planted last year is white well these showed up this year and they're pink so of course I had to try them so I bought two or three of these little plants and they're holding up quite well so far but what I can tell you about this plant I what I absolutely adore about them is they bloom all summer long they're hearty down to zone five they can take full sun to part shade the idea is to keep the soil evenly moist uh they don't take the real dry soil so I always make it a point to come over here and make sure they have plenty of water and they'll probably get about 16 to 18 in high and they bloom from late spring all the way into the fall you just got to keep them deadheaded and I just thought they were super cute and they just add something kind of frilly and dainty to The Perennial bed so there you go ragged Robin petite Jenny so I finally decided on some lavenders to replace some really old lavenders that I had to pull out of here uh the other ones were probably about 15 years old and it was just time for them to get yanked out so I found a new variety I've never tried it before and this one is called lavendula super blue uh it's an English lavender and English lavenders tend to do very well here in our climate they're like a Mediterranean plant so it suits our climate where we're really wet in the winter super dry in the Summers and they'll do quite well as long as you make sure they have plenty of good drainage now here I have mounded mine up a little bit just a couple inches above the ground level just to ensure that their Roots stay drained during the winter time because that's their enemy is all that water that we get but during the summer once they're established they're extremely drought tolerant and they have a beautiful deep violet blue flower um with of course fragrance leaves and this particular plant can be used for drying sachets can be used as herbs Rock Gardens Mast or as an edging and I'm going to be using them as an edging uh they're Hardy down to minus 20° of course deer resistant deer don't like lavender because of the way they smell so if you have a deer issue and you have lots of sun this is the perfect plant but yeah this is lavendula super blue is the name of that so I'm going to give these a try and uh here in a couple of months when they've put on a little bit of size as you can see they look small for the moment but not for long I have edged this entire bed with them all the way to the outside on the outside there so yeah I will follow up with you here in a couple of months and give you an update but these will start to bloom right around May and June um which is fabulous just looking for something to Edge this bed with nice patch of strawberry starting to come in and soon this will be so thick you won't even be able to see the ground uh yeah looking forward to them to start blooming but here we are it's after April 15th and uh now is the time to start thinking about containers putting out our annuals like patunas and adding some color and that's something I definitely want to cover in my next video is I'm going to be collecting up a whole bunch of plants and start planting up my deck containers and I'll give you guys some ideas as to what you can use in your containers this year and hopefully some inspiration um but yeah here we are the middle of April and everything is just really starting to fill out I don't know if you saw a couple of my last videos where I was out here and I had just cleaned this thing out but you can see already just within 3 weeks how everything is starting to Green up and I know it doesn't look real impressive now but there is so much in in here and it's just going to fill right in and crowd and it's going to look fantastic I can't wait so that's a quick little garden tour little update as to what's going on here in Debbie's yard uh I hope all of you have been able to get out start planting your own flowers but as we move along here look at this this is an EOP pany and he is really coming to his own I can't wait till he starts blooming but I have lots of things I want to fill in along the front edges here after yanking out some old plants that just weren't performing anymore and when you run into things like that don't be afraid to just yank them out and replace them with something new and fresh but yeah as I walk along here all the perennials are starting to really show their stuff and come through but just wait here in about 4 weeks what the difference will be and of course the roded endons are starting to bloom their hearts out look at this this is one of the things I love about the Northwest are the gorgeous flowers that we're blessed with during the springtime but anyway there you go kind of a real quick update for you guys is just kind of take a quick tour around the yard here I had landscapers in yesterday helping me get the front yard all cleaned up and wearing to go cuz I'm quickly running out of time I've been so busy at the nursery that that uh I just haven't had time to get out here and do the things I want to do so it never hurts to enlist a little help so there you go quick little garden tour uh little update for the middle of April I believe is what we're in now it's going to be May here before we know it so needless to say we have been rocking and rolling at the nursery we're getting all kinds of new plants in uh hanging baskets are showing up this week as we start gearing up for Mother's Day and of course the weather is warming up so it's just perfect and we've just been very very very busy uh Hey really good news is our new Greenhouse arrived um for those of you who've been following me for a while you'll know that our old Greenhouse collapsed during the winter time and so our new one finally arrived now it's just finding enough time to actually build the thing and help customers and unload trucks at the same time so it's going to be a little tricky but if we don't get it all built right now that's okay most of our plants are outside anyway we'll have a lot more time during June and July to finally get it up and established and raring to go for old man winter which comes so fast it seems but at least have it done uh By the time September gets here hopefully way before then but we'll see anyway I hope you guys are having a fabulous April so far and I encourage all of you to get online to Sunny Christ nursery.com and sign up for our email you of course can enter any questions or comments in the description box down below uh let me know what you're doing send me some pictures I would love to see what all you guys are up to out there and of course I will tune in again next week and uh we're going to go over planting some containers I think it's about time to get some color out on the deck I'll give you some ideas for your Thrillers Spillers uh and fillers all three that can go into pots um I'm already going through my head as to what it is I want to see out on the back deck this year so yeah hopefully you guys are out there getting your hands dirty and we'll talk soon bye for now [Music] [Music]