Vintage Chandeliers + Succulents = Greenhouse Magic __ Visit Our Garden

Hey guys, how's it going? We are going to be doing some work in the greenhouse today and I guess kind of around the greenhouse today. Mostly in the greenhouse. I've got to bring this out there. I just bought this vase in Michigan and I bought this paintbrush in Michigan and these need to be in the greenhouse because I bought them for that. And then also I need to start my sweet peas today. And then the other day we were in Home Depot. I'm trying to set that on there without knocking things over. The other day we were in Home Depot and I bought some succulents. I bought three of these guys right here and I bought them specifically for the sap pots that are right here. So I'm going to take the sap pots off the wall here, pot them up, and then I would like to get them how I want them actually on the wall today. So I don't want them in a row like this. I would like them... well that's interesting. Maybe I do want them in a row. So I have them on a wall, on this wall, in this row like this. And I know I want to put a shelf or a cabinet or something over on this side. And this is where I'm going to be doing a lot of seed starting is all on this side. But now I was thinking originally we were going to put chandeliers. We're going to put one of them here and then we were going to put one of them there and we were going to put one of them there. And now I'm thinking what if I just take all three of those sap pots and just do one, two, three, a little trio right there. Why not, right? I think that's a much better idea. And then the other thing we're going to do today is these are my chandeliers that I bought in Michigan. I bought two of them. They were originally going to go on this wall right here on this back wall and kind of like take up space there. Like that'd be good, right? Well, we actually were out here the other night kind of just playing with it. And then I just kind of held them up to that section, to that bar. And I was like, whoa, wait, that might be a thing. So we have decided to put them there. So we've got one on this side, one on the other peak behind me. And then we'll have the big chandelier there. So it'll kind of like all tie in. And I originally wanted to do three chandeliers anyways in here. And so this will kind of give that effect with still letting the main one be the star of the show. And then these guys get to like be a little accent up high. And we held them up there. And I was like, oh my gosh, that is so perfect. So Brent is going to work on getting them hung up here. And then he's going to wire them so that they attach into this. And then he's also going to put a dimmer on the light switch for us. So the chandeliers are going in. He put a backing on and he actually routed the edges of it. So that was a little bit more decorative instead of just looking like a block of wood. Because we had to make it so it was a custom sized piece of wood. He ran the electrical through the back. And then this is how it hooks into the like panes into the glass and the wood and the metal right here. It hooks in to those. I've shown you that in a couple videos. Let me show you again. So why I like it is so that you can put screws in here. Okay, I was just digging in the garden perma-dart. You can get screws and you can put them in through those little channels. And then they lock in to this part and they can't come out. And so that is all of the channels that are in here have those little like grooves in it. So that way you can hang shelves up. You can do whatever you need to do. Hang chandeliers up. Hang crystals up. Hello! And so up there also has all of that. So we'll be able to go ahead and do it on there. We really need to clean the glass in here. And we have been waiting to do the glass cleaning it because back here, see all of the mulch back here, it creates so much dust. And with us having the fence down and moving the mulch and everything, this was just getting so dirty because we were stirring up all this dirt. So now that we're done, once I move my giant pile, I mean it's a it's a huge mound, then I will actually clean the glass inside and out. But until then, we're not cleaning the glass because it's us just making a mess. So I'm going to start by taking those pots off and potting up my three succulents right here. I have three of them. I literally, this one is donkey tail. That's the only one I know how to pronounce. Those two, I don't know. But Brent liked that one. I liked this one. He also liked this one. And then I love the donkey tail one. So perfect. And then I did bring this out here. This is what I'm going to use for the potting bench to like sweep things off and like get dirt off of things. It is a old paintbrush made out of horsehair and I thought that was really pretty. And then this will just be a great little base to store things in. Like, I need to figure out a better place for those because that's not super pretty. And I want it to be really aesthetically pleasing. So these are old clay or terracotta or something, I don't know, some type of natural material, sap pots. So they would get nailed to the trees and then you would collect sap in them. So there's no drainage hole on the bottom of these guys, which I think will be perfect for succulents because then I can just put just a little bit of water in here and not worry about them being overwatered or anything like that. I put the donkey tail one at the very bottom because I like this lip and I wanted it to spill down. And my thought was if it spilled down and started to really grow and take off, it would end up covering these two if it was on the top, which my original thought was to put it on the very top. But I think that it being down low is the correct decision for this because then I can cascade down and I can trim them out and do whatever. I'm very, very excited about these guys. Look at, who's that? He's waiting for me to finish so he can do the lights. So I'm gonna stop because we're done with this now and I'm gonna help him do the lights. Do you want to see the first one? Look at that. Isn't that amazing? So the first one is hung up right there. Oh, that's so pretty. And then he's run the cord up this way through the top and it'll attach in with this guy right here. I think that that is so perfect. So look at the way the light's hitting it, refracting some rainbows in here. I love it. I can't wait for you guys to see it at nighttime. Okay, while he is on the ladder working on some of the electrical stuff, I am going to be doing my sweet peas. So sweet peas are ones that you want to soak for 24 hours before you get them started. Most people are not gonna be starting sweet peas right now. Where I live, I am the exception to the rule. Most people start their sweet peas middle of winter so they can start out in the spring. I have to start mine in the fall time and I get them planted out because it gets so hot so fast that during like late, honestly it's like spring gets really hot really fast here. So I grow sweet peas in the wintertime so that way early in the spring I get a really beautiful crop of them. So we rarely get cold here and sweet peas can handle some cold. They can't handle a lot of cold but they can handle like a decent amount of cold. Like 28 degrees are totally fine. 25 degrees are totally fine. And I don't remember a time that we've ever gotten below 25 here. I don't even remember if I'm hitting 25 here. So I know that these guys will be good. I am starting the high scent sweet pea right here. I thought that I hadn't ordered any. I placed my order from Johnny Seed and I thought that I hadn't ordered them. Turns out I did order them. So I have two packs of the high scent but I'm gonna get these guys started now. They're much cheaper to find them locally and so I'm a little bit bummed that I paid more and I had to pay more for shipping because I bought them. I feel like Johnny Seeds are so expensive and the shipping is so expensive but the quality is always so good so I know it's worth it. It's just hard to like place $150 seed order. It just kind of sucks. And then you have to like you're like so close you're like I'm $50 away from the $200 and $200 is free shipping but I don't need $200 worth of seeds. Especially when it's things like this that I can find locally. Kicking myself on that one. Anyways sweet peas we're starting now. I'm gonna just fill up this bowl of water and I'm going to put my sweet pea seeds in the water and I'm gonna let them soak for 24 hours. And so they're not gonna get potted up today. They will get put in a container with some soil tomorrow. But I just thought how pretty is this bowl. It's perfect for starting my little sweet pea seedlings. So I'll just put some water in here. Throw probably 10 seeds in here. Um I don't even know how many seeds are in here. There are definitely way more than 10 seeds in here so that's great. Um it does say on here I do like botanical interest because they offer so much information on here. There's so much information on the inside and the outside of the packets. Um and there's also a photo on it. Johnny's seeds is great but they don't have photos on here so you don't you have to know the names of your plants. You have to know exactly what it is that you ordered that you've that you're planting um to keep it organized. But like this is nice. It's just a little illustration on here. So high scent is one that is supposed to be I mean it's supposed to have high scent. I almost said really smelly. That's not wrong but it's good smelly. It's um supposed to be really good. This is a one that is sweet peas are toxic to animals and to people so you don't want to eat them. Um it says that it's deer resistant and it says recommended in cold climates four to six weeks before your average last frost. In mild climates late fall to early winter for spring bloom. And then um it says I've never once nicked my sweet pea seeds and there's been multiple times that I have not uh soaked them and I still get growth from them. They just take a little bit longer. So this just kind of gives you that little bit of a head start because they have such a hard shell on them. So yeah I think that's it. Uh and these guys will get quite large and it says that it's going to take them 10 to 21 days to emerge and it'll probably take them about 20 days to emerge here. It's going to be I'm going to keep them in the greenhouse. So I'm assuming it's probably going to take them that full 20 days. And for the next 24 hours these guys are just going to sit in some water and it's easy as that. And then I'll get them all potted up. Um I will probably end up using this shelf because I don't have somewhere good to put my seedlings yet. We're going to go to another antique show and hopefully I can find some kind of bench to be able to put all my The orchards are being sprayed right now. Um but cleaned up the mess, printed most of the cleaning. I just put everything kind of back. And I also did just bring in this trash can. It is a zinc planter and um I think it was something that somebody was throwing away and I saved it and I'm going to use it as a trash can. So beautiful. Kind of French. I love it. And then look. Isn't that amazing? It's so good. It's so beautiful. These lights aren't showing up on camera very well for some reason. These ones look brighter which is weird because these ones are dimmer than these ones. There we go. Now it looks like it's lit up. Anyways isn't that amazing? It looks so good. I love it so much. And I love the containers on the wall right there. That is way better than them being there on the wall. Look it. Oh that has my heart. That has definitely stolen the show. Oh my gosh. How beautiful. Can you imagine when the sun sets and like the sky has some pink into it? Oh stunning. So a little recap on these guys. I paid an arm and a leg for them. I think I paid $275. Way too much I paid for them. And then I later found the exact same ones on eBay for $75 I think. $40. I don't remember. Something ridiculously cheaper than what I paid for them. The ones that I did find on eBay that are the exact same are gold. These ones have been done something to them to make them not gold which I'm very happy that they are not gold. I would I would have actually passed on them if they were gold. I would not have had the creative mind to be like I like the shape of them. Let's paint them or stain them or whatever they did to make it so it looks more brushed than gold. Very very happy with how those look. I think that just looks so nice and like so just soft and it gives the effect of the three chandeliers in the greenhouse if I can get that one. And so originally I wanted three chandeliers for in the greenhouse but I think this works really well and um everyone that has come over I told everyone that I wanted three in here. I wanted the one in the middle and then I wanted two on the sides and I was going to do the same size but I think it really would have been a little bit too much. On camera things just don't portray the way that they are in real life. My sister came here she saw it on camera and she's like yeah that chandelier looks dinky it looks tiny and then she came in real life and she saw it and she was like oh no it's literally the perfect size. She's like I think three would be overwhelming in here so I think having the one that's it's really big I mean it's it's not small at all. It's a very large chandelier but in camera it looks tiny on camera and I don't I don't quite know why. I also think that I did these crystals wrong. I think that that has an angle to it. Those should all be over one. Not dealing with that today. That is for Robbie to do that a different day. But anyways I think the three would have been overwhelming and I think that having these two little tiny guys which they're not small either I mean there are decent size they're really big like wall sconce. I think that is so perfect. The last thing that I would like to do today is get this purple fountain grass planted. I love love me some purple fountain grass and I feel like purple fountain grass is one that um has been used so much that I feel like some people either love it or you hate it uh because it's been used for so many years and it's kind of like I don't know going out of style in the garden I guess but I just I just like it. I think it's really pretty. I love how it gets tall. I love how the plumes move. I I don't enjoy all grasses in the garden but I do enjoy certain ones and purple fountain grass is one that I do enjoy and Brent also enjoys it. This originally was for the window box. I only ended up using two in the front window box and I have a third one. I will say that purple fountain grass um the blades on it are kind of sharp and so uh they do kind of scratch you up a little bit. I'm not exactly sure where I want to put this is the issue. I want it in the garden. I want it in the garden now because it just needs to get planted otherwise it won't get planted and I would like it to put on some size this year. I mean it'll come back for me next year. Um this grass is a perennial grass for me in warmer zones. In lower zones it's an annual grass and so it is one that you want to get in the garden a little bit sooner rather than later. Um for me they're kind of hard to find. I think it'd be kind of fun to have it over here. Have some red in this bed. Let's just tuck this in right just like out those dahlias. That'll be perfect. So I'm thinking just kind of right there. That'll be perfect and that'll be perfect for next year. It'll give some height. It'll give some movement. Uh it'll give a little touch of whimsy and it'll add kind of the color that I need and the height that I need. It'll be the purple fountain grass gets to a really good size so it should come up to probably about here which will be kind of nice. Yeah yeah yeah about it'll come about there which will be really really nice. Give a little bit of privacy over in this area. Let's get this planted really quickly and I'm not going to go in with fertilizer. Grasses you don't always need it and this is such a uh like luscious soil. I do need to see if I can find one of those wire trash cans that I bought because uh I know I'm dealing with gophers or voles or somebody who's eating roots on grasses and I think I have one of their trash cans. One. Okay I do have one. I have this one. This is not the one I want so I'm gonna have to make a run into town to go get some from the dollar tree. I will do that a different day but I am still gonna plant it up today and I'm not gonna use this. It's not deep enough. I'm gonna use this for bulbs that I put into the landscape so I gotta get a bunch of these too and there's about a million companies that uh sell those wire baskets and they'll tell you that they're cloches. I'm gonna tell you right now don't pay more than $1.25 for those because um you can get them from the dollar tree for like $1.25 each and I see some companies online selling them for like uh like three four dollars a piece. That's a total ripoff. Don't do that. Go to the dollar tree. Get them for $1.25. You can use them to uh protect your garden from bunnies or from like animals. You just use some landscape staples and staple them down because if it's just set on there the animals will just kind of knock it over um or you can use it as root cages because it's got all the like holes in it so the roots can still grow through it um and for a perennial grass like this it's perfect or for like big annuals it's perfect. For something like a really big item like a tree I probably wouldn't do that. You don't want to put that in the roots. That's not good for it. Um things that are more permanent kind of a bummer like roses and things like that you don't really want to do that because it really will mess the roots too much um and the roots get kind of thick so it really won't be able to grow through that but for grasses or annuals I think it's going to be perfect. Yeah let's go and get this grass planted really quickly and then I can show you guys lights it's not I mean it's bright inside um it'll be perfect probably the perfect amount of lighting in here right now yeah see you can get in here I could be out here late at night and actually work and get things done but the lights look really pretty it's funny doesn't that look gold all of a sudden it is so nice though I could not be happier with how that looks look at the reflection oh kind of gave me goosebumps that's really pretty and this lighting is really really nice in here there's a nice even light because there's lighting all the way around so there's no crazy harsh shadows or anything I could be out here and I could actually like probably do some seeds at night time and uh just be able to enjoy the evenings in the greenhouse oh I love this so much and you're probably noticing Robby the lighting just changed why is it bright all of a sudden because I'm filming this before I film what you just saw so I wanted to say goodbye while we still had light otherwise it makes filming really hard and it gets really grainy and it's not the greatest to say goodbye in but I hope that you guys enjoyed this video I'm so happy to have those lights up there it looks so so beautiful I could not be happier I really was going back and forth with okay three chandeliers or just leave the one and that just kind of worked so beautifully got my sweet peace started got the grass planted got the greenhouse all cleaned up I just we're using the greenhouse which is really really nice and we're it's starting to come together and it's exciting to watch it like happen you know I'm not trying to go crazy fast with decorating I'm trying to find the right pieces for this greenhouse it is going to be a greenhouse that we use for starting seeds it's going to be a greenhouse that I can winter some things over in it's going to be a greenhouse in the uh like winter months have brunch and I can sit out here and enjoy the rain and uh still be in the garden and it's going to be somewhere where I I'm at some point I was even thinking you know what would be kind of fun is to like maybe have a little like one of those like tvs from like the early 2000s with like a vcr get some like old vcrs uh I would love to get like practical magic or something like that and have just a little small tv and then in the winter months I could be out here I could watch a little tv while I do a little seed starting and just kind of get to enjoy it and enjoy wanting to hang out in the greenhouse otherwise it's not going to get used as much and I want to spend every minute in that I am making it functional it's going to be a little bit of a I don't know it's going to be an extension of our home but also somewhere where if I spill dirt if I spill soil it's where I'm going to be able to host some friends to come over and we can have dinners out here or have some cocktails out here which I don't really drink cocktails I'll have a mocktail but you get the point so I hope that you guys enjoyed this video I feel like we got a decent amount done today the lights are exciting thank you guys so much for visiting our garden I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you in the next one bye guys