Stroll Through a LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS Front Yard 🌺

Well hey you guys, welcome back. Today we are in my front yard here in Vero Beach, Florida, Zone 10A, and we're going to do an updated garden tour. I'm just going to kind of walk you around the front yard and share with you, of course, plant and tree names and just kind of, just kind of what I call home. So I am thrilled to have you guys here and I hope you really get a lot of inspiration from the front yard garden. This is a space that is not very big at all, but it's definitely a spot that I utilize every single day. We really, really enjoy being in the front yard, entertaining in the front yard, and relaxing, of course, in the front yard. Part of our, big part of our relaxing is the koi pond that we have here in the front. And as you walk through here, you can see that it pretty much takes up most of our front yard space and we absolutely love it. We have Marissa and Olive here. You guys, I have to introduce you to Marissa. Marissa is my future daughter-in-law. And you guys, I probably saw Olive in one of the last videos, but she is, oh she's camera shy. She's getting so big. So, but, so we're just kind of hanging out in the, around the front, around the yard today. We're here for the weekend, the whole family, and so I thought I would do a quick video and share with you guys. And yes, that's what Olive does. So she, she loves it and fishes love her. So in a moment, you guys are going to hear a splash and she will be in the pond swimming. She does her laps. She's probably better at that than I am, but she's, she's, it just is in love with this pond as I am. So let's go ahead and start at the front. So this is my driveway area. So it's your typical wide driveway for, for, for a typical front, suburban front yard. What, what is a bit different, I would say, is that we really did close off the whole front yard section. And not because I don't want to see my neighbors, you guys, but mainly because, you know, I, I love that courtyard feel. And if you guys have watched my videos, you know that I like to make intimate spaces. I like to be surrounded by the gardens. I like to be surrounded by water. And I think the combination of having the gates here and having the podocarpus wall there, that they're still pretty young. They're going to get about, I'm going to let them get about three foot tall or just above the columns. And I think they're going to be just a nice, nice soft barrier between the driveway space and the main space that everybody hangs out at. So what, what we have here is a green Colucia hedge, and my community itself doesn't allow for fences along the front yard. So what we did is we did a soft, nice green fence, and it makes a fantastic green wall. I absolutely love it. We did curve it, so it's not pretty solid. So it kind of angles at the corner, drops down in the middle, and allows for this nice little, this little pop out within this hedge, making, making a good backing here. I did both of my favorite kinds of edgings here. We've got the aluminum alloy edging. That's kind of a nice defined little line. And then we have the Buda edging, which is absolutely my favorite edging. This is in the charcoal pattern. It's a two-stage edging. I'll put the link of my Buda edging down below. If you guys are interested, please check out the link. I get a little commission from it. So it's, it's always, I'm always grateful for, for anyone who picks up the Buda edging for me. But it's, yes, but it's absolutely a fantastic product. You will not be sorry. So right in the middle here, I've got the triple Christmas palm, and it is just almost full grown. It's super happy here, and I just, I absolutely love the way it looks. As it gets a little bit taller, I'm probably going to stick some bromeliads growing up it, just so I have a little bit more interest in this little, little spot, because we are tipping out at where the county allows us to, to pop out these front beds before we get into the ditch area. So we're kind of, this is as far as we can go. We have got some beautiful pinwheel jasmines on the corners. I absolutely love what they're doing. They're so soft, so delicate, and they bloom all spring, all summer. Just such a nice little fun little clustering of those. And then, of course, you guys know how I feel about ruby reds. They're just such a great blanket plant. You can keep them like a little miniature hedge. The ground cover is just, I don't know, it's just so stunning. I just love the look. And then the foxtail agaves. These are agaves that do not have any pricks, or any spines, or any thorns. They're just a nice, soft, succulent looking agave, and I just think that they're cool. They will cluster on their own, but they do take quite a bit of time to do that, so you got to really, really like them. And then, of course, we seeded them with a boulder in the middle. Over here, we have a double bottle palm. This guy was moved recently. Well, not recently. Yes, we do. Yeah, we do have a, this is a palm of plant of the week, and plant of the week video in a previous tour. But this bottle palm is struggling a little bit because it was moved when we did the koi pond, so it's really starting to kind of re-establish. And then we've got some foxtail agaves kind of clustered around some boulders. I don't know what it is about boulders, and foxtail agaves, and foxtail ferns. Those are my go-to things for around the boulders to kind of soften that look. And then these Brazilian red cloaks just take up this whole corner. I wish they were in more bloom for you guys, but they're, look like they're just running out of their blooming cycle. But they're just such stunners. They fill in this gap. Even my neighbors are starting to pop them in their, their garden, so I'm seeing that everybody is really, really liking them. And then the Calusia hedge goes straight down our property line and gives us great coverage. Yeah, nice and low, huh? He's part of the blue angels there. So, and then as you can see, we've continued with some buffering all the way down to my property line. That's kind of my thing, so. But, so now that you guys have kind of seen the face of it from the road, you'll kind of now get a better look at the inside. My goal for this space, Bryce, that's a great question. It's actually, I think it's been achieved. It is, so when you're looking out this way, it's an attractive front. It's not like a wall or a fence front, like, you know, closing me off in any kind of way. I wanted it to be attractive from the outside, but I wanted it to be private on the inside. I, I give a lot of time and attention to my, to my work, and I work a lot of hours. So when I'm home, I, you know, I want to be, I want to have that glass of wine in the evening. I know you guys know that. I, you know, I want to have my coffee in the morning. I kind of want to be in my pajamas as long as absolutely possible. And so this allows me to do that. It allows me to feel like I can really just kind of, kind of huddle up in here, regain some good energy and, you know, kind of get, get the inspiration that I need for the rest of the week. You know, when I'm, when I'm here, it, it does that for me. So, so that's exactly what I wanted. So we'll, we'll kind of walk through this area and I'll share with you what we did. So this is what that Colucia hedge looks like on the inside of the property. What I love about that hedge is it's a wall, but it doesn't feel like I'm closed in in any way. We kept it very simple, which I know some of you guys are probably pretty surprised because my backyard garden is, you know, with layers and colors. This one is much more paired back. Part of the reason is, is that we do have a septic tank that runs right along this front section here. And so I was very careful about what I put here route-wise. So I ended up wanting to put in some color, wanted something that was going to have some height. And then these bougainvilleas just fit the bill. I love the potted bougainvilleas along the front because I not only see these guys from when I walk in from the inside, but as soon as I drive along the front of the, the front of my house, I see these tips of color all over, all the way through this hedge. And it's just kind of like, what's going on back there? You know, it makes you want to see what's happening. And I wish they were in full bloom for you guys. They're getting ready to pop again, but they just went through a real hefty blooming cycle. And they're, they're going to, you know, they're going to pop back here soon. They're just not going to fully show up today. I put them in pots because my garden is set up in such a way where it's tropical. So it definitely needs water. And so bougainvilleas, obviously, as you guys know, they do not love water. So they definitely a plant that you want to either put in a pot or keep it in a well-drained area. And pots to me are a go-to when you're working in the garden and you need to really keep good control over this way. I know they're not going to take over. They're not going to grow into my Colucia. They're not going to be such an aggressive grower that I'm going to be fighting it all the time. So, and they're also heavy feeders, so I can control how much food they get by their, by the fertilizer that I put in just around the pot base. So it really just kind of really helps me all in all. And I was fortunate enough to get these pots from a past client who we did a beautiful outdoor garden tour. They live on the water and they just didn't need the pots anymore. And so I was so grateful to be able to reuse them in my own garden. So, but yeah, so I ended up putting in nice little trees. I did want to mention on the bougainvillea, you want to make sure that you have a little bit of protection for them as far as, as far as some security, because they can break fairly easy. So you want to put some rebar. In some cases they have the copper that runs through them. And I have another one over there, but it's pretty well covered that has the copper running through them. This one I bought because I absolutely love the color combination, but it didn't have the copper, which was a big negative for me. So I would suggest anybody who is looking for bougainvillea trees to find the ones with the copper on them. Don't just be seduced by the pretty colors because you know, I'm having trouble with it staying straight up. So I'm going to have to add some additional plants. And then you want to keep these kinds of bottoms. Sorry, Bryce, you're probably going to be like, what are you doing, mom? You want to keep these bottoms kind of trimmed off just like this. You don't want to let that grow because that way all that energy goes towards the plant itself. So, um, and I keep my falcos, falcos, you guys check them out in my storefront. These are fantastic. They are tough. They can, can go through little thin clippings like this, like butter, as well as my thicker little palm, um, fronds I can clip. So I always keep these in my, in my little pouch. This pouch goes right by my front door. There's a little cabinet that I keep, and then I just pull them out. I've seen people put the mailboxes through their gardens and keep their little, um, trimmers, you know, in those mailboxes. And I just think that is so cool. So possibly I might do something like that with like birdhouses or something. Um, cause I can't, can't get birds to live in my birdhouses. So I might as well put my trimmers in there because you never know as you're walking through. That's exactly what happens as a gardener. You just start clipping and nipping. And, you know, before you know it, you spent two hours out in the garden and it was relaxing. It was, you felt like you did something that day. So, um, so I never mind pulling out my falcos to do that, but, um, so right here we have a Anderson crepe hibiscus. Now this is the white variety. The hummingbirds love this tree. It's like, they just kind of, they find it and you can see just how beautiful these blooms are. And just these, I just, I just think that they're so delicate. It looks like a rain tree to me. I just love how soft and delicate these white blooms are. Now the Anderson crepe white is definitely rarer than the pink. Um, and the, the main reason is, is these take much longer to grow much, much longer, unfortunately. Um, so that one took a good two years for it to get established. So I had to really be a patient gardener on that. Um, and then now it's obviously very, very happy, but this is a variegated lemon tree. It has, um, really great juice to the lemons, um, a little bit tardy, um, but perfect for like pink lemonade because they have, you know, a little bit of that tinge and coloring there. So very, very cool, um, tree to work with. This right here is a full grown, um, spindle palm and he is just chunky and fat and what a great anchor he makes on the corner of my front yard garden. I just love the way he looks. I love, I love this, these rings on this trunk. I just think it's fabulous. So he's, uh, he's full grown and that's about as big as he's going to get. Um, this little area right here is a very clean, I wanted it to be interesting. You know, we're off of the edge of the septic tank that's over there. And so I just kind of wanted a, a nice little tight grouping of plants. Um, we're going to start over here with this just cool statue. I mean, I just, I think he's, I think he's so charming. I'm waiting for the perfect plant to, to kind of put a backing behind them. And then I'm going to cut out the plant around it. I'm thinking about lion's tail, um, because I love the way how they get big and beefy and I'll show you that. And maybe I'll get Bryce to slide in what that looks like, but it's a great orange blooming, um, plant. And it's just so, it's just so beefy and big and very, very upright. So I don't have to worry about it getting over into this area, but I love the idea of him being engulfed in a plant grouping, mainly because I got the idea for the soldiers. Um, when I did a project, um, down South and they had one that they shipped in from China. He was amazing. It was a couple foot taller and he was standing straight up and, um, they were just like, you know, we had him shipped and we went there to visit and saw them and got the whole story and really got just really, really gotten grossed by it. And then they had it shipped, um, to their, to their property in Palm city. And, um, they had no idea what to do with it, you know, put it in the front yard, put it there, but it just, no, no, no matter where they put it, we couldn't figure out what to do with it. So we kind of created a, an Asian inspired landscape just around that statue. So we put some bougainvillea trees that had some nice canopy coverage and we ended up incorporating them and kind of around almost like a grotto style around them. And then we did a really kind of a decorative bromeliad planting underneath of them. And it was mixed with some stones and some rocks. And from that moment on, and that was years ago from that moment on, I just said, I want one, don't know where I'm going to put one, but I want one. And I saw one in Palm city of all places at a garden center. And so it's not the same great story from China being shipped, but I still like them. And, uh, I'm going to have to get Bryce to name them cause he names all of my statues, but, uh, but we'll even though he wasn't shipped from China, I still kind of like them. So, um, in this area, um, again, we've got King Sago's and you guys may have seen the King Sago plant of the week highlight. Um, I love their look in the, in the garden. There's such sculptures and they just really, especially clustered like they are, you know, I like them when they're connected planning like they are now, they do take a little extra care. I had to put dominion on them several times a year. Um, but you know, since I don't have to trim them hardly, I mean, I trim them maybe once a year, then, um, I, I feel like the, the drench is well worth it. It's a half ounce in a gallon of water and you drench the whole plant with that one gallon and you just hit them all like that. And you do it a few times a year that prevents the scale from, from hitting them. Now they are poisonous to dogs. So you want to keep your pets. Like I keep olive way out of this bed. And that's also another reason why, you know, I wanted some separation. This is a very clean, very easy area to get to, to maintain. And, um, I, I didn't kind of like just pop them in, in every little area. So I have one designated area and I watch her when it's in this area because I can't part with my King Sagos, but I love my puppies. So, um, I've spotted in some Tennessee boulders in between this mamma jamma was, um, no joke getting in here. It was really cool when I told my husband, I want it in here. He's like, what? But I just think, wow, just what? Yes. I just loved it. I thought it was beautiful. And you know, anytime you can bring in different elements into the garden, like statues and boulders and, um, different types of rocks and stones that really kind of, it just brings it all together. It really just makes the garden. So, um, and it doesn't have to be anything expensive. Cause I was telling Bryce, he asked me the other day where I got this and I'm like, Facebook marketplace, you know, I can pick up a lot of odds and end pots and, and columns and, um, you know, little, um, platforms and all that for my outdoor stuff from Facebook marketplace, because you, gosh, you can't beat it. Now this, I know you guys have seen these when I planted them new in some of my tours, but this is my blaze copper leaf. This is the height that I love to keep them. They're getting ready to be trimmed, but I wanted this to be full grown kind of my, my general overall, um, height that I like to keep them, um, for this video. So you guys can see what that looks like. So blaze copper leaf, they can be kept three foot. They can kept four foot. These are about four and a half foot. So they're about ready to go down. And when I do trim them, I mushroom them out. So I really do trim them tight from the bottom here and then cut across the top here. So that way it's nice and rounded all the way around. And because I only trim them about every 90 days, I do it. Um, I do a hard cut back. So two foot of this will go, and then we'll start again. And then they'll flush back out. Um, right behind these are a lime green coloring of the curly white Javas. These are Java white copper leaf. Believe it or not, these are the dwarf variety and that they're dwarf because they can be kept smaller if you want them to be. But I love this look, um, just the way they are. And they pair so nicely with the, um, blaze copper leaf and they're in the same family. They like more moisture. And this is another reason why I, um, I pot certain things that don't go with the rest of my landscape. Like those bougainvilleas, um, I pop them because these blaze and these copper leafs that you're looking at are super happy with the amount of watering that they're getting, which is about three days a week to four days a week watering during the summer months. So if I did that with the bougainvillea, I'd have no blooms on my bougainvillea. So in order to do that, you really have to really play with, um, you know, play with, you know, where you're going to place these plants and then protect them from what they don't want. So that way they're beautiful for you. So I would say my favorite tree in this front yard garden is this, this guy. I, I love him at my entrance way. I love him to greet me as I walk in. I just think he is so cool. I don't know of a tree that gives you as much understory pop as, um, what this guy does. He's a fantastic lower canopy tree underneath this big giant coconut palm that's above them. That coconut palm offers this tree, the perfect amount of coverage. So that way it's not getting blasted by this afternoon sun. It's really kind of giving it that shade that it needs filtered light, really not shade, but, um, and making this nice and dark green and happy. And that tree that you saw earlier, we were walking around the front, that, that, uh, bottle palm. Now that one, you can see it's getting a little bit, um, paled out because it is in the direct sunlight. So we're working on that. That tree is that now getting extra water to kind of combat that, um, that heat. So, um, this tree is in the perfect condition. So if there's a way that you can take your bottle palms, single doubles, triples, whatever you got, and you can put them in a, um, in a filtered light environment with another tree over top of them, definitely do so because it, it, it's just a much healthier, happier tree. So it's well worth it. These guys here are quarter lions. They probably don't have to come to be introduced to you guys, especially if you watch my video, cause you know that I love them. These are anti-loo quarter lines. Um, they are just a cluster that I add to and add to as, as I do my trimmings. So, um, I have a quarter line video. I'll get Bryce to link it, um, down below, but it's, it's how to maintain a quarter line. So all you do really is trim the tallest one, like this guy, for instance, he is kind of getting bigger here. And, um, if I had an extra pair of hands, I would probably do it for you, but okay. So all I would do and take him, and then you would just want to trim him here right off. See, look at how big this stump is for this to trim so easily. And then put him right in the ground down below. Now I have more coverage at the bottom and it really does give you that layered effect. And I'll add, I'll add him in. It'll absolutely root and propagate right into the ground right there. The only thing you want to do is you want to peel back that mulch and you kind of want to, you know, get a nice little hole started. I tend to use like a piece of rebar or, you know, any kind of little post that you might have, like a little sign post or whatever, and put it in there just to kind of, that way you're not pushing on the plant too much. And then you put it in. Um, so you would want to take him in and put him into the ground up to about this range. So, you know, three or four inches or a little less than half of the overall stem. So if I cut him a little smaller, I would just go halfway up and put him in the ground and they propagate right from there. So within, within three months, they're nice and solid little plant and they'll start to reproduce on their own. So, um, they're really cool. So you kind of see what it does. Now, if I put him down here like this, this little bit of woodiness that you see here, you will no longer see. So it disguises itself. So I love plants that pay rent and that's exactly what these guys do. So, and, um, and they're, they're just happy. You can see that right on the tips where this is outside the lines of my tree, that these are getting a little bit sunburnt. They'll do that early part of summer until they get really adjusted. And all this new growth that you see here is already adapting to that. So yeah, they're just stunners. And, and a lot of people think that you can let them get real tall and leggy. Actually had a customer last week who said the same thing. Oh, I love those plants, but I hate it when they get tall and leggy, you just throw them out. And I'm like, Oh no, you don't, you don't throw them out. You just cut the tallest one first, just like you saw me do put that right back in the ground. And then the other two now are more proportionate. So the two that are remaining, now you have the lower one at the bottom. And then the one that you cut now is now nice and low, and it's going to propagate two new stems. So it'll have two new heads from that cutting. And then you get a third stem by where, wherever you place that cutting at. So it's, it's a, it's, that's why this clustering is thick and dense and wide and not tall and straight and skinny. So, um, but check out that video. It'll go into more instruction on that. So, um, then we have another, we have another statue here. I love this guy's face. Um, and then we have a silver Odorata popping out of him to look like he's got some, some crazy hair. I'm going to be that lady with statues all over my garden. My kids make fun of me, but that's going to be me. And I don't care. Just missing the gnomes. Yes. And, and yeah, I'm sure I'll get those for Christmas. Um, so this is a Fiji palm. I absolutely love Fiji palms. Um, this is my only one in the garden. I planted this guy from a three gallon size and look at him. He is happy, happy, happy. I just hit him with a, a little bit of magnesium and, um, cause you can kind of see that he's, he's needing a little bit of dose, but look, his new fronds are coming out beautifully. Just look at the size of that compared to my hands. I mean, oh my goodness, he's going to be a beautiful tree. And because I have other plants behind him and you'll see that as you move up Bryce, his trunk is starting to curve, which just really, it's, it's just so stunning. I mean, as I just look at how it's looking at me, I just, I think how I think about plants. It's like, it greets me as I walk out my front door. It's just like wide and open and just really greets me here. And I just think that is so cool. So, and then a touch of Ruby reds, because when you have lime green, why not have purple? And I just love the Ruby reds in this little grouping. Yeah. You know, this is a little flagstone area. So when I get my lemons, this is my Myers lemon tree. Um, and it's got buds, it's got little lemons all over it, you guys. And, um, when I get there, then I can easily harvest and bring my, my basket here. And it's just such a cool little spot. And when those blooms are going, I absolutely love it. So I've got a Myers lemon here. I've got a variegated lemon over there and I've got a key lime on the side and it produces like crazy for drinks and fun stuff. And, you know, it's just, it's just an awesome, I love it. I love it when, when, when plants or trees offer you, you know, more back, you know, so it's kind of cool. Again, I have another bougainvillea, absolutely love this coloring. And, um, it's just in a little shallow pot here. That was also another gift from a client. So, um, and it's just sitting on a pedestal. That was another gift from a client. It seems like I get a lot of those. Um, but yeah, so it's just kind of a cool little pop. And what's, what was typically a kind of a boring spot, you know, it just had the blaze copper leaf there and it needed to need a little bit of a, a change up. And then right below it is the silver odorata vermilion and a couple boulders and then a cool frog. And this too was a gift from Peggy. Peggy's also, if you guys saw the backyard or side yard tour, she gave us the, um, the little, uh, little cool bench on the side. And, um, she also gave me the frog. So it was just, uh, I just love that. I've got little pieces from, from all over the garden. So this is another potted plant. As you guys noticed, I love mixing the potted plants within the garden and this little nook here needed something. And this is also where all my cable lines run. Um, as you can see from all my boxes that are, I try to hide, but it's not, I'm not doing a great job of it, but they all run this direction. So I put a pot here with this cool tapioca tree. Now this was, um, if you saw my side yard video, it was in a pot on my side yard and it's got this cool bend because in the side yard it was trying to find the sun. So gosh, you got to love mother nature because how resourceful. So she was kind of coming up and then she made this cool curve going this way to find the sun. And now that she's been here for a little while now, she's going back straight up. So look at those bends are now coming straight up. And I just think, I just think what a crate. I mean, I couldn't have picked a better sculpture for this spot. So it was a happy accident and it was a great one. So I love it. And, um, I feed her about every once a month or so, but, but yeah, I, um, speaking of feeding, this is the liquid feed that I use a lot on my, um, my bougainvilleas, um, tend to love it. And my, um, my living wall really, really loves it. It's just an easy, easy product to use. And what, um, what I do, this is a hose end bib. I love that it comes with this little container here that's on the, on the wall. And you just put your bottle that goes in here. It screws in here, hose end bib goes there. And then all you have to do is, yeah. So all you do is put this guy here and I won't go into too much detail on this, you guys, because I have this in my storefront down below, but I just think it was a cool product. It really helps a lot to keep everything just blooming beautifully and it's easy and I'm all about easy. So I put my hose bib in here, spend two minutes and I click this button and it just goes over top of those things and voila, I'm done. It allows me to feed so much more than when I'd pop out those granulars and do that then, because I haven't just walked by this and see it on the wall. I don't know who came up with that, but it's genius. It's right next to the hose. You know, it's just kind of a nice, one of those nice, simple, happy, easy coincidences to start. So that is definitely on my storefront and my favorite gardening tools section. So, and I appreciate you guys. I've just recently started doing the storefront, so I'm definitely making sure that you know of all my favorite things. There's a handful of them, there's not many, but it's something that if you click on it, I get a little commission from it, it helps the channel. So I appreciate you doing so and it doesn't cost you any more. So hopefully that tip helps. And if I run across anything else, like my Falco shears are on there, my Buda edging is not on there, but my Buda edging, I do have a link down below as an affiliate. So please check those things out because of course, those things are helpful when we're doing videos like this. So thank you for that. Thank you guys. So somehow we missed my favorite part of the garden. Best for last. I guess so, right? I said we saved the best for last, but in case you guys are wondering where that wine and where that coffee is had, it's had right here on these chairs. And I purposely picked these chairs because they're hard to get up out of. So you can sit and relax and then you're struggling to get out. I put up my little umbrella so I can come out any time of the day and look at my koi pond. I've had water throughout my gardens for years and years and years, but it's only been about a year and a half I've had my koi pond. And I really have enjoyed just seeing these beautiful fish every single day and having the sound of water. So we've got two spillways up at the very top and they spill water down those Tennessee boulders that you see right there. And then just to give us a little bit more air flow, we have an old basin that is, I'll actually show you, an old basin that's right here. Now we had to use a, that's part of a fountain, and we had to use the fountain top for another project. So I didn't really know what to do with this one. So what we did is we ended up kind of putting it here with an extra hose for the pump and just slicing out little slices here just to give it kind of a rainfall effect. And it's just kind of doing a cool little, you know, cool little finial at the very top because y'all know by now I'm just a little extra. So it's doing a good job here. I need to do some clippings to my poor elephant ears. The sun is no joke here in Florida and it, we're almost in June and you can tell it's starting. So I just, I just think it's just a cool, cool feature with these dual spillways going on. And then because there is a bare spot back here, I loved incorporating just this little Eugenia topiary on here. You know, anytime you have all this wild and crazy, you guys know I like to put a little bit of tidiness around here. So I just love this kind of cool look to this plant sitting in a pot. Exactly. And just FYI, I know so many of you guys probably know this, but all of these impatiens that you see here, they're planted in the water. So impatiens, if you have a water feature, whether it's a little babbling brook or a little fountain or a little waterfall, whatever you have, you can even put it in a little fountain kit like I have here with these guys, but you can put them in, just rinse off their, the dirt from their roots and put them right into the water and they will just give you tons of color. They're super, super happy and they're just a fantastic, fantastic feature in the garden. That little pot right there with the little basin, that was also a Facebook find. I've got quite a few of those little bases. There was a restaurant that was going out of business, a little wine bar, and they had them as little table base. And so I'm going to find places all through the garden to put my little statues on. And I'm still playing with that one. I'm not quite satisfied with it, but I'm going to, I just think it's super cool. So, and then I have a little spitter, my old man spitter. He is right there on that corner. He looks kind of creepy at night. I've got some lights that light him up at night and he just adds a little bit of more bubble on one side. The fish love to go under there and hide. And I will tell you guys this, if you're planning on doing a pond for yourself, find places for the fish to hide. So this back area, Bryce, I'll kind of point to it. This back area right here, in this corner here, they really, right, they do a really good job. They actually, their whole purpose of them is to have, they're on risers. So they're on boulders themselves. So the fish can go underneath there and hide from predators and from this baking sun because the pond is about three and a half foot deep. I wish it was deeper. If I had to go back and do something, I would make it deeper. But so in order for them to kind of get away from this blazing sun midsummer, I am glad that they have that little area, that whole rear corner of the pond is pretty much on raised bricks that allow them to go in and out of there. So, and thank God for it because we have the egrets and the egrets, you know, worry me was trying to get over here. But, but yeah, that, that kind of, kind of finishes up our front yard. More plants by the door because I don't have enough of them. My husband says every time he sees me come home with plants loaded in the back of the truck, he's like, where? He doesn't say anything else. He just says, where? I was like, well, so, so these of course are for the summer. I had impatiens for the winter and I just love Portulaca. I think their blooms are beautiful. They love, love, love dry spots. So you can put them in planters and kind of forget about them. I give them water about once a week and they're very, very happy with me. So I put them during the summer months during the heat and just about every pot that I can, I can imagine. And I do want to, I do want to show you this one little plant right here, but I said, you can get a closeup. I know the angle is probably not great. But this bougainvillea plant, it's only in about this much soil. This, the bottom is all rock. And then it's got soil from here all the way up to here. This plant I took out of a project where the lady had had it and it was like dead as a doornail. It was just nothing but these stems, but I love the white coloring. And it had one little, one little stem that had a bloom on it. I'm like, you know what? I might be able to bring that back. And it has been so happy here ever since. So bougainvilleas, they, you know, they love to be fed. So give them a little bit of that Miracle Grow feeder or BGI bougainvillea fertilizer, any of those work really well. And then they just, they'll just really just branch out and be beautiful. So no matter how small the pot is, you can almost treat them like a bonsai, put them in a really tiny pot, and they will still branch out and really give you tons of blooms because this thing is not in a lot of soil, but it's reaching out and it's really given me tons of blooms. And it does, it blooms probably better than anything that I've got. So I just love that look on it. So, but, but yeah, you guys, oh, and of course these little stands, I'm seeing them more and more. When I first got this, I, I rarely saw them, but I just think it's such a cool piece. It was given to me from a, a friend of mine who passed away recently. She owned a nursery, Busy Bee's Nursery. And I love having it by my front door. I think about her when I, when I pass it and, you know, I just, I love having those kinds of things in the garden. And so, and that's kind of what my yard has become. And I think that that's, what's made it so special to me is that I've got pieces and, and little, little things that have come from, from past clients and friends and family. And, you know, cause when you're a gardener, everybody in your family knows you're a gardener. So those end up being your Christmas gifts and your, you know, anniversary gifts and things like that. So I, I think that's what makes it special. So as I walk around my garden, I not only think of how, how pretty this is or how nice that's doing. I think of, thank you, Brenda, for this, this gift, or, you know, thank you, Mark, for the pots, or, you know, thank you Peggy for, you know, it's just, it's, I don't know, it's, it's heartwarming to me. So, so yeah. So, so, and, you know, put those things, even if they're not perfect, even if they have their flaws, put them out in your garden because they do mean something. And I know they mean something to me. They probably mean something to you like that, but, but anyway. Oh, okay. Bryce had a few questions. I was going to just give you a little interview style if you wanted to. Oh no. I know you want to get right in front. I'll put you on the spot. Oh, it's on the spot. That's great. If someone were to start in a garden in their front yard, where would they start at? Would you start like a little farther back? Would you start a little closer or? Well, you know, it does depend. It really definitely depends on your, your circumstances. I always in general start at the furthest point. So I start at the property lines and work my way in because ultimately every square inch is your yard. And we're, you know, in Florida, especially it's our land is at a premium and you, you want to be able to utilize every bit of it. That's why I've landscaped my front yard, my side yard, my backyard, because I want to feel that I've used and utilized it and enjoy every, every bit that I pay tax on. So so my yard is set up that way. So I do try to design yards in the same kind of fashion. So start from, from the property line and work your way in. And then the very first thing to start with is course a hedge. If you're going to start with it, like the Calusia hedge, getting that started and established. Even if you start teeny tiny three gallon size, get that kind of going. And before you know it, you're now ready for that next step. And then your level one trees right after that, but you put in your big trees, even if they're again, three gallon or seven gallon size, you can get those from Lowe's and Home Depot and find them just about anywhere, get them started. And then before you know it, you're now ready for your understory trees. Yep. I do have a level video. Thanks, Bryce. Like he knows my videos better than I do. Check out my levels video and that'll explain more about what I was just talking about. So yeah, but you can create it. You can start this garden, you can do it yourself. And you know, it's just, it just takes a little bit of time and effort. I've got two more questions for you. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Put you on the spot. Love you, mom. Well, I feel like people can overdo statues and I feel like people can overdo like, like, just little knickknacks like that. How do you find good spots for them? How that just don't take up your eye? That makes sense. Because I feel I feel like you have them in the perfect spots. Like that is just subtle and nice touches. Like, oh, I didn't even see that there. And it turns out really nice. So how do you do that? Well, first, thank you. And thank you for this whole interview style. You might want to mention that before we started the video. But so I, you know, I think that's preference, obviously, you know, it depends on on your personal style. This might be too much for you, who knows. As a designer, I know that I love mixing elements in the garden. So if I've got a lot of soft material, I want to make sure that I've got something more, more either rustic or more stone like or whether it's boulders, it's statues, it's something structural, vertical wise, it's, you know, even something is like a bird feeder or something along those lines that give us a little break, because those things when you're looking at a whole garden, sometimes your eye gets lost. And sometimes it's ideal to have a focal point, forward, back, angled, you know, angled in throughout the beds to kind of give your eye that place to instantly go to instantly rest. And then if you can do that, too, with color, you know, I've done that a lot of times where clients are not like me, they don't want 5000 gnomes or things in the garden, but they want they want those pops. And so what I'll do is I'll have more of a monochromatic kind of plant grouping, and then I'll hit like a powerhouse of yellow right in that middle or a powerhouse of purple with some ruby reds and some, you know, some mix of colors in there. So that way, that way your eye goes there, they're there. And then you kind of get the whole the whole feel of the space. I have one more question. One more question. It's also probably the hardest question. So you're prepared. All right, let's go. What is your favorite color to have in a garden? Oh, gosh, that is the hardest part. I'm very sorry, but I cannot pick one. Yeah, I, I, I love color. I absolutely love color. I'm I have no bias against any color and the more of it, the better. I do tend to like instead of color, being red, pink, yellow, orange, like right in the cluster, I do tend clumps clusters, I really do enjoy that mix. So I'll do a hot spot of red. And then right next to that red, I'll do a hot spot of pink. And I know that's a big no no in the in the design world. But for me, in the landscape world, and way Mother Nature works, it works, it just works. So you'll see that in my backyard garden tour that it's that there's just different, there's all different colors mixed in together. But I tend to like to really do groups of things because I think that you get more impact. It's like they show up a little bit better. So but so all colors. Yeah. So all colors work for me. But now that you're done with your questions, right, Bryce, I want to thank you guys for joining me for this, this walkabout because this is not it's not so much a garden tour, but more of like just walking through the garden with me and so many of you guys have subscribed and I thank you for that. And this has been a fun project for me, Bryce and my family. We've just enjoyed doing these videos together and watching them. And, you know, and then your comments, of course, make it just so nice, because I feel like we're really interacting. And I feel like I've really helped a lot of people determine what they like and what maybe what they don't like and what works well in our area. And that was actually how this video started was to give you some tried and true plants that will really work well in our in our Florida climate. So because it can be tricky, it can be tough. Doing this 25 years has has been its challenges. I've made my mistakes. And I've tried to share what those mistakes are with my clients and now with my YouTube friends. So because there there were there were many of them, I definitely didn't get it right the first time. So but speaking of that, so I have been in business for 25 years, I have a landscape company, my husband and I have owned it, again, for 25 years. And we specialize in landscape design and installation. So I do all the design work for all my clients, I meet with you directly. And then he handles the installation with our in house installation crew. And we service areas, I'll get Bryce to stick the map up right above right somewhere. And then that way. Yeah, way right there. Bryce's point right there. Where where we service and we'd be very happy to meet with you to do your design and installation and to give you a complete project. So give us a call if that's something that you're looking for. I'll put our contact information and our website down below and check out the how it works page and that'll go into way more detail than I have time for in this video. So but for the rest of you guys, you DIYers, you know, get out in the garden, which was a place that I could, you know, see your photos because I hear so many great comments about what you've done, what you picked up the plants that you've chosen because of some of the videos. I absolutely love it. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. So say damn it to me on Instagram. But I would Yeah, so I'd love to see the progress because that's such inspiration to me because I enjoy being in my garden. I enjoy tinkering around and adding plants. I know you're probably wondering where but I do I pull out my handy little auger. I put it in the ground and I I add pocket little plants here and there and I don't think I'll ever stop doing that. So it's just Bryce asked me earlier he goes when are you going to be done? Like, obviously never. So and I know most of you gardeners are the same. This garden evolved over time. This was not overnight. So please be patient with yourselves out there because it's it takes time. And then there's some failures there too. So it happens to the rest of us. But that's why you get so excited about it when things are working and things are doing well and things are flourishing. And, and you know, you're just out here and then you could admire it. It's it's, I call it my own personal resort, but a resort I don't have any attachment to my yard I do. And seeing that flourish every single day and get better and better. Gosh, it just just makes me happy. So and I'm happy to share it with you guys. So I will see you in the very next video. I think we have a backyard upcoming tour, the next visit that Bryce comes by. So hopefully you guys will check that out. And Bryce just reminded me comment true gardener, like and subscribe, hit the little notification thingy. And I would be very, very happy to pop up on your feed when we have a new video pop out. So I will see you guys in the very next video. Take care.