8 New plants to try this year! /Garden Style nw

[Applause] [Music] hi everybody Debbie here with Garden style so today is absolutely gorgeous it's about 70 de and today I wanted to cover some new plants that I have just put into the ground and introduce you to some new cultivars that maybe you can try in your own yard most of the plants I'm going to cover today are going to be perennials and some some are sun some are shade so meanwhile I hope all of you have been able to get a chance to get out and enjoy this gorgeous weather and get some yard work done gardening done but it is getting to that itchy time of the year where I want to buy everything everything that comes into the nursery is just gorgeous because it's all fluffy and colorful but I have restrained myself this week I wanted to cover containers but I do know that we have a whole bunch of really cool annuals that are getting ready to come in this week so I'm going to hold off on the container thing until the following week meanwhile let me introduce you to some new plants that uh maybe you'll want to try in your own yard so here we go so here's the first one that I wanted to try and this is a new lavender that I've put into the ground I've never grown these before but I'm about to tell you why I'm enthused with this particular variety this particular one is a lavender Sensational and the flowers on them are bigger than a normal lavender and supposedly they rebloom which is another bonus now this is an English lavender uh which has has a tendency to be a little harder in our area um they can put up with our wet Winters and our really super dry Summers but this one happens to be Hardy down to zone 5 five um you of course you're going to let it get dry between waterings but right now I'm going to make sure it stays wet just until it gets established but it will get about 24 in high and about 30 in wide so it's going to cover some territory and The Sensational series is fairly new but I've heard some really good things about it and it's something that I have really wanted to try it's an intermedia uh lavender but the flowers are full and thick and the uh foliage as it starts to age will become a really pretty silver so the lavender and the silver um will look really good together it's a very Compact and dense habit and excellent branching thrives of course in hot conditions and right now we're in the shake cuz we're towards the end of the day but it's very hot right here where I normally have it planted but this is known to Bloom from now until summer it will quiet down for a moment I'm going to trim off all of the the uh old flowers and it's supposed to rebloom so hang around and uh let's see if it's going to do that so I put two or three of them here to create a border uh along a real hot sunny bed and I'm going to put the tag right back in there so I can know what it is I like to save my tags but yeah I've got them all planted in a border right here and let's just see how these work out all right on to the next one so the sun is really bright out here so I apologize if I'm kind of in the shadow right here just so you can see the plant but this is another variety of Pence stemon that I'm going to try this year and this one is called Prairie Dusk and it's just a beautiful fuchsia pink these Bloom from late spring all the way until the end of summer uh I absolutely love pen Stemmons they have done very well here in my yard and of course they take full sun and they're extremely drought tolerant once they get established they will get about 3 ft high and about 2T wide so they cover some area and that's what I want the more area they cover the less weeds I have to worry about and of course the color is all what it's about now pen stimon this particular one has tubular blooms and I can guarantee you that the hummingbirds will be all over these things um by the time they start blooming but they get these beautiful stocks on them like this and I've kind of mixed them in with some geraniums as well as salvas I have some really deep blue salvia so I think the colors will really accent each other really well out here in the garden and so I put a couple of them in here cuz they're going to cover some territory once they get big but you can see where have a geranium here and another pent stemon right here and these are just beautiful plants to begin with and they will be blooming here real soon but was very excited to try out these new cultivars um I probably have four or five different varieties of Pence Stemmons in my garden but I'm just extremely successful with them and I just love how they perform uh All Summer Long which is great so again I'm going to put this tag back so I know what it is and we'll definitely follow up with you uh later on uh once it's In Bloom I'll show you how it's uh reacting with all the other plants here in the garden okay so what what I'm about to show you here is actually a coreopsis you would think coreopsis comes primarily in yellows maybe a red and yellow but this one is different this one is called Ruby Frost coreopsis look at the flowers on those they are so cool so of course I had to try them so coreopsis is another hot perennial that loves hot beds the heat does really well once it's established and so this is another one that I have got to try out this year this is a Hardy coreopsis it's Hardy down to zone 6 to Zone 10 extremely drought tolerant of course very long blooming these things once they start blooming they just don't quit and they don't get super tall so I kind of put them kind of sort of near the front of the bed um and I actually have another yellow chopis sitting right in front of them but I planted these two close together cuz I want a really nice Clump once they start to really get going and get established but they have a stunning red balloom with a white Edge um of course drought tolerant once it's established and these are great when you mix them with agachi delosperma crocosmia companias achia salvas anything that loves the Heat and a lot of sun now what I will be doing is making sure they stay well watered their first year uh but once they get established it's one of those plants where you water them maybe every other day every couple of days they just don't require a lot of fuss once they get into the ground so there you go Ruby Frost coreopsis I can't wait to see what they look like and of course I'll follow up with you later when I see all these starting to come into bloom okay so here's another fantastic perennial I've already started growing Yos and yo comes in so many different colors I have primarily the yellow uh moonshine type uh yo that you see everywhere but now we've gotten in this one and this is a violet color and considering how well my other yows have done there's one right back there and there's one over there and one over here they did so well over the last couple of years I've decided to try them in a new color and I figured the Violet would be awesome in here and we'll mix really well not only with the yellows but also with the blues that have with the um nepita that I have growing right next to me here which actually is going to be coming into bloom here any minute but yeah got to try some of these colors they have like paprika uh they have Rusty kind of colors but I'm more of a violet kind of pink person so I decided I would try these and just see how it all works together once they start blooming and yl is another one that blooms for a really long time and these are super drought tolerant they uh are Hardy down to Zone 4 orus 30° up to zone 9 um it's a good idea to start letting these start to dry out between waterings um and these will also get about 26 to 28 in high so not super high I kind of put them in the mid part of the garden and these will Bloom from late spring all the way until the fall so this is a Workhorse type of plant you just cut them back when they get their first flush um the blooms cut the blooms back and they will make new ones and come right back but I'm kind of thrilled with their ferny kind of foliage I really like the texture that they have but you can see as I back up here I put two or three of them in here and there is the NEPA right next door which by the way is getting ready to bloom any second and that's another plant that just blooms forever and then I have all the arrows just kind of in the same area here so mixing the color like that I think will be really really pretty so I just can't wait to see what they look like so there's another new one to introduce to you here's another fantastic low growing ground cover and this is called Campanula and this particular variety is called waterfall and I have had the best luck with this plant so much luck that I've added in some new ones this year and I just keep I just find myself adding more and more of them to create a border over here but as you could see it's got lovely buds on it but this is a beautiful purple and they bloom all summer long just all summer long I'll cut them back once and they just come right back and they'll bloom again these are fantastic over rock walls uh covering up a lot of area see I don't want to have to put down all kinds of mulch here later on so I try to find nice looking Ground Covers like this and they actually stayed green during the winter time which was kind of surprising so there's another one that's good from Zone 4 to zone 9 and this is as tall as it gets gets maybe 12 in tall but it'll get about 2 to 2 and 1/2 ft wide and it'll just keep spreading which is fantastic and uh yeah just puts in a nice kind of a violet type of Border in here and of course flash pictures up there so you can see what they look like while they're in bloom this is another one I've fallen in love with and these would be great on a slope as well for erosion control control so Cula blue waterfall got to try it okay here is another fabulous perennial for the shade I have always been a lover of a stilles because of their beautiful feathery plumes that they send up but most still bees have green foliage what I like about this one is this dark burgundy foliage and you can see the new growth right here comes out a real pretty red and let me tell you a little bit about it I've saved all these tags just so I can review them with you but these are what the plumes look like they're almost a red this is called Visions volcano a stillie and so I wanted this is a new bed that I'm just getting started over here in the shade and I planted two or three of them here close together cuz I want a really nice clump of them but uh a still bees they seem to be coming out with more and more colors but I'm just infused with this particular Leaf color on them so this is still be will get about 14 in tall and about 12 in wide and I can guarantee you it might be a little bit taller than 14 in once it gets this plumes on it um but it has bright pink I would call Red Flower plumes um it's an outstanding Bloomer it's a little bit smaller than some of the other atiles that you'll come across so I kind of have it on the corner of my little shade bed here it's fantastic here just because it does so well in cooler climates uh but you want make sure to protect it from afternoon sun just make sure it's just staying in the shade for most of its life and it still be like wet areas and this happens to be a lower area in my garden that stays damp most of the time I find I don't have to water over here A whole lot so I want a plant that can handle uh wet feet so full to partial shade of course you want to keep the soil evenly moist it'll bloom in about Midsummer it's Hardy from zones 4 to 8 which is - 30 to 20° and of course its average size will reach about 14 in tall by 12 in wide another cool thing about this particular variety are the leaves get a real bronzy beautiful red during the fall so there's more than just one season of interest from these plants so I'm excited uh and I hope you are too I'm always looking for some new plants and a new way of bringing in more color into the shade garden so there you go okay so these are a couple of shade containers that I've planted up that barely see Sun during the day so I had to pick some plants that are going to do really well in the shade and one of these is a new Fern that I'm trying out this year I like it cuz it's light fluffy kind of has a weeping Habit to it and it's called a tassel Fern um and if I go down deep here you can see where the new growth is right there they're kind of fuzzy which is fun but I wanted him in here CU I know he can withstand Complete deep shade and of course I've combined some colus and some kcoa with them and then one of my favorite grasses here everen and they actually made it through this last freeze but I had a couple plants in here that got frozen solid during December so I found myself having to plant these again but I have a couple of them here but yeah you could see where the ends of them are kind of fuzzy until they get completely grown out there but just thought that was an interesting Fern um something neat for a container and if they get too big I'll just put them out in the garden uh but for right now it's doing just great and of course it wants part to full on shade um it's Hardy down to zone 6 of course keeping the water evenly moist it'll get about 2 to 3 feet high when it's fully grown oh hello you might fill up this whole thing um and about 24 to 36 in wide but we grow it for is foliage um it's also very deer resistant uh for those of you who have issues with deer it's fantastic uh Evergreen it'll actually stay Evergreen during the winter time it's not like it dies back like a lot of your ferns do so I just thought this was a neat one to try uh called a tassel Fern um so yeah you got some shade pots you need to plant up that's a great way to go uh putting in some ferns with colus and and mix it in with some other things I still feel I need one more plant in here and I haven't quite found the right one yet so those are the kinds of things I'll keep my eyes out for okay I saved the best for last I planted a new tree in the garden uh this is a tree I've been wanting to add to the front yard for a long long time and that is a crab apple and this one happens to be one of the best varieties you can possibly put in your yard if you're looking for a small dwarf tree this will get about 15 maybe 20 ft tall so it's not humongous but what I like about crab apples is they bloom as you can see after everything else is done and it's just coated in blooms it's just now getting started uh but I find them to be very stunning and the cool thing about a prairie crab apple Prairie Fire crab apple is in the fall its leaves will turn This brilliant red so now you're getting two three seasons of Interest out of this tree and it's something I've been wanting for a long long time and I finally broke down and just threw it in the back of the car and brought it home so there he is he's in his new home and uh seems to be liking it here but of course crab apples any type of flowering tree other than a dogwood needs fullon sun um during the day so he gets Morning Sun as well as afternoon uh before the sun decides to finally set but yeah what a beautiful tree I just so excited and it'll stay fairly small so happy about that all right you guys so there's a quick blurb on some new plants that I have placed in my yard I have been the planting fool for the last couple of days got the lawn mode and the thing I am most excited about is uh starting tomorrow night we're going to finally get some rain we are actually behind for the month of April by a couple of inches so we may make up for some of that but I can tell already just by the way the lawn looks and by the way some of our plants look we need some rain so I rushed out today after I was all done planting and finally got some fertilizer on the grass and I'm going to let mother nature take care of that and finally give my lawn some food and feed it for the first time this year I was just waiting on some rain to start showing up uh which is much easier on your lawn than trying to do it you know with a sprinkler but I've had to do that too at times but uh yeah didn't think I would be excited to see some rain but I am and it looks like we're going to need a couple of days of some cloudy rainy type weather and then it's just kind of partly sunny after that but after today which is glorious and 70° I might be a little sad to see clouds and rain again but I know how desperately our plants need it and my lawn needs it so I'm actually pretty happy to see it all right you guys of course if you have any questions or comments you can leave those down in the description box down below next week I am piling up on some annuals so that I can start putting together some containers and I'll show you some of the tricks and neat plants that I use in order to do that um I'm kind of going with a little more of a tropical flare this year in some of my pots so I'm going to show you some of the plants I'll be using for that but yeah finally I can start to get some color in the container and get going leave me some pictures let me know what what are you guys doing in your yard what have you put together uh where are you at as far as getting your Gardens all spruced up and ready to go I would love to hear from you um yeah for sure let me know send pictures I want to see what you guys are up to Meanwhile if you want to get a hold of our newsletter I'll be sending one out here in the coming week or so for May May is huge because there's just so much to talk about so I'm going to try and just pick some highlighted items send out a newsletter for the first two weeks of May and then of course some more for uh the middle of May but yeah if you want to get a hold of our newsletter just go to sunnyrest nursery.com you can sign up for it there you can also send me an email to Garden stylein West gmail.com and I'll do my dead Lev best to try and answer you back when I you know see your questions or comments uh that you send in but yeah the yard's finally starting to fluff out and now it's going to be about the color coming on and as you can see behind me this this roie is absolutely huge that's behind me here he must be at least 12T tall he's big I've cut him back all the way to the ground nope he just comes back and so I'm just going to let him go he just he wants to be huge look at this he wants to be huge we'll let him be huge look at that the flowers themselves are gorgeous just kind of super pale creamy yellow with the orange centers I just love them just love this time of the year all right you guys hope you're having fun out there get your hands dirty and we'll talk soon bye for now [Music] you [Music]