Planting Rudbeckia and Globe Thistle (Wish Me Luck) || Visit Our Garden

Hey guys, how's it going? I'm bringing out some garden cloches. I've got two of them to tuck in behind the greenhouse really quickly. We're getting a little bit cool, and I've got some things that are just being demolished by slugs, and so I'm gonna cover a couple things up, and hopefully this helps take care of it. I've got two cloches on some of these things already, and it's helping... Oh, I've got three cloches back here, and it's helping with those, but I want to make sure that some other things survive, so we're gonna cover whatever we can that looks decent up. It's not much. I planted some snapdragons there, and then I also planted some delphiniums, and the ones that I have under cloches are doing okay, but everything else is not doing okay, so I would like to try and save as much of this as I can. So I've got a snapdragon there. Not sure that'll even survive, and then I have another snapdragon right here, and I'm gonna cover this one up also, and my hope is that this helps with slugs and bugs. So I just covered them up. I've got a cloche there, I've got a cloche here, and I'm trying to, like, bury them into the ground a little bit, and then this one is covered, this one is covered, and then I have another one over here that's covered of a snapdragon. I think I need to... Oh, that was a bunch of whiteflies that just flew out of there. Gross. Oh man, there's so many in here too. Oh, mosquitoes are all flying out of this thing, but that does look alive, so that's good. Oh, there's so many mosquitoes in this. Gross. Um, let's try covering... let's try covering something else up. Try covering that up a little bit. Hopefully that deters slugs. Also, I never got these planted, and they started to rot, so that was a bummer. I threw them out the window. These are some tiny alliums. They're just gooey, so that was my fault. And we'll try covering that up also. Anyways, that's not what this video is about. Um, that's just me keeping it real with you, showing you the ugly that's happening around here. I thought I just noticed some mounding happening. I didn't. Um, the other day I went and did a little plant shopping, and I picked up some plants. I picked up these globe thistles. Very excited about these. I also picked up some rivecchia. Very excited to try these for probably the sixth year in a row. Um, and then I did also pick up a lemon tree. Very excited about the lemon tree. So my plan for today is to get the rivecchia planted and to get the globe thistle planted. I would really like to get both of these in the ground today. It's very exciting to get some planting done. I have a really good luck with, like, this type of plant with, like, sea hollies, and really, really good luck with these with any type of, like, thistle like this. They grow really great here as I throw them on the ground. I have terrible luck with rivecchia. Awful luck with it. Um, and I have awful luck with it because I think I give it too much water, and because I think, um, the roots get eaten by animals. I think it's a really great snack for them, and I think that they really appreciate the all-you-can-eat buffet that I provide for them here. So we're going to try something a little different. We're going to plant rivecchia bare root, and we're going to plant them in these wire baskets. So hopefully that helps with this. So I have a total of eight rivecchia. So I would really like to have these dotted around the garden. I've seen some other people who have these, and instead of doing, like, a really big drift of them, they have them around the garden, and they're just so pretty. I love rivecchia. I love seeing them in other people's gardens. To me, they're just so, like, cottagey, um, and, like, so just very sweet. I just, I really love how they look in the, in the garden. I think they're a very pretty flower. So I really would like to have eight of them scattered throughout the garden. I'm going to do kind of singles throughout the garden. My goal this year is to have lots of repetition throughout, um, whether that is a grouping of three here, and a grouping of three somewhere else, or having eight plants, and having, um, them in eight different spots in the garden. I think that that's also a really good way to do repetition in the garden. So that is the plan. Eight plants, eight different spots, then I have eight plants of repetition in the garden. I might do, like, a grouping of, like, three of them in one spot, and then do the other five of them in different spots in the garden, because eight different spots might be a little bit of an overkill. But I think I have enough baskets here to do, um, my eight plants. I don't have enough baskets to also do the thistle inside of a basket, but I think it'll be fine. We're just gonna not do these in a basket, because I've never had roots eaten off of these, and these always do really, really well for me. I paid ten dollars for six. They call them bulbs, that's what I think. It's, it's roots. It's, it's a whole bunch of roots that I'm getting. Um, and so I got six roots for ten bucks. It feels like a killer deal. And then this is fifteen dollars for four plants, is what they call them, which it is. It's plants, it's roots. And it feels kind of like a lot of money, but I know that if I were to go buy these in the store this year, they're probably gonna be, like, anywhere from ten to, like, twelve dollars for one single plant. So in the long run, it is a really good deal. And I'm gonna open these up inside here and just kind of inspect the roots. And I think what I'm gonna do, too, is just throw one root inside of a basket, and then I will be able to just take my pile of baskets and kind of place them where I want to place them. Um, that way I can kind of get, like, maybe a sense of height in the garden before I actually plant them. I think that might be a really good idea. We'll try that. Before I do that, I'm going to make labels. I'm trying to do everything to have a label in my garden. Just do the rebecchia. I have to do the thistle really quick. And just like that, the rebecchia is done. It's called goldstrom. So I do rebecchia in small, and then I do the name of the plant in the large one. So, like, this is called an echinop. I think that's how you say it? Um, but the type is globe thistle. So globe thistle is big. If anyone comes over and they're interested in the plant, they know exactly what to look up. Look at me being all professional, actually labeling everything. So I've got those done. Let's go ahead and open these up really quick. So I want to look at these really quick and make sure that they actually all look decent before I get out there, so I can make sure I put some really good ones together. We're just going to open that up. These are supposed to be hardy but I don't even usually get them to bloom for me ever. I have such bad luck with rebecchia. So I'm hoping that this method kind of helps change that a little bit. This is going to be four plants that they rubber band together. It looks like they have a decent root system on them. So you can see this is one single plant right here. Lots of growth points, and it's basically just a chunk of the plant that they give you with some of the roots on it, and that should come back. So one. Here's the second one. This actually gives you a much better look at what the roots kind of look like. So it's literally just a chunk of the plant with all of these roots attached to it, and then some growth points coming out of it. So two, three, and four. This is a really good looking one. That's a lot of roots on there. Five. Oh my gosh, this is a huge one. Wow. This actually probably could have been divided into two. So I don't know if you can see, so there's like a chunk there and a chunk there. This probably could still be divided into two, but since I always have really bad luck with them, I'm not going to. Here is another one, a little bit smaller, and then a really big one. So that's actually eight very healthy plants with lots of roots on these. And then I do also want to look at the globe thistle too, just to make sure that those look good. And these ones are kind of funny because these look like just a really weird carrot, like a stick almost. So this is one of them, and these do look very, very happy, very, very healthy, and they feel very solid. So this will get planted, and this will go down like it's like the root of a carrot, and then this will stick out of the ground just like this. So you don't want to plant these sideways. These you want to plant like you're pulling a carrot out of the ground. So one, two, like this would be a very long one, just like this. One, two, three. Here's a broken one. I would be skeptical if anything came from this. Four, five, six. So there are six plants in here, and you can see like here's a seventh one, but here's a seventh one. I would be super skeptical if anything would come from that. And then same with these three. All three of these actually look like they don't have any growth point on the top of these, which is exactly what we want to look for, where these guys had lots of growth points on them. And I mean you can clearly see the growth point. These look like the tops of them have been chopped off. So this one might have a growth point right there, so this one I might try and plant, but I'm not really seeing too much happening on these three smaller ones. So I'll probably still try to pot these three up, but I'm probably going to do these ones just inside the greenhouse, just so I can keep an eye on them and I can just throw them in a cell and not worry about it, rather than going out in the garden and digging a hole and then possibly not coming back. But the six of them, what I'm going to do with these is I'm going to plant a grouping of three in one spot, and I'm going to plant another grouping of three in another spot. So I'll have them in two different areas in the garden, which I'm very, very excited about. I'm going to clean up my mess in here really quick, and then we'll go ahead and get to planting. So the rebecchia is hardy in zones three through ten, so really anybody should be able to grow this as a perennial. It's also known as a black-eyed susan. I just think they're so beautiful. It's going to get about three feet tall and about two and a half to three feet wide. Really, really beautiful plant. I want to be successful with it, so I'm going to do everything I can in my power to be successful. I'm not going to go in with any fertilizer. It's also a native, and so it's supposed to thrive in well-draining and kind of poor conditions. I fear that also my soil might be a little too rich for its taste, so we'll see how that goes. And then the globe thistle right here, this one's called Vichys blue, also known as ecups. I don't know. I just call them globe thistle, and it's hardy in zones three through nine, and it's going to get about three to four feet tall, and it's also going to get about two feet wide. This one is also a native and prefers really poor draining soil, so it'll be interesting to see if my soil is a little too rich. So I'm not going to go on fertilizer for either of these, because we have some really rich kind of compost that I'm putting these into, and so I don't want to... I want to get the best success with these as I possibly can. So both of these are perennial, and both of these should come back for me. I just think that pairing of like the blues and the yellow, so pretty. I think what I'm going to do is like, when I do some of these groupings, because they're going to get about the same height, I'm going to kind of pair them somewhat close together, but I just think like the blue and the yellow is like... that is a killer combo right there. And these are supposed to be like really truly blue, like they're supposed to be a really bright blue, so we'll see how that goes. Anyways, let's go ahead and get these planted. Some of these I'm going to use my auger, and some of these I'm just probably going to end up using a shovel, uh, because some of them I've got some things close by that I don't want to mess with, but this feels like such overkill, but I think this is going to be the only way that I'm going to be able to actually protect these plants. So one plant is going to go in each one of these baskets, and then we can go ahead and get these planted up. Some of these have beautiful roots. This really is two plants in here. Maybe I can. Not going to. I thought I could mess with it. We want as good of luck as we can. Okay, and I'm only going to put one of these plant tags at one plant, and I'm going to probably put it at the one that is closest to where people start walking, so I'll put it by the one that they see first is where I'm probably going to put the plant tag, and same thing for the, um, globe thistles. I'll do the same thing, but these are not going to go in a basket. These I'm just going to put into the ground just as they are. I mean, I do have one basket, so I might put one in a basket. Um, maybe I need a little more baskets. Okay, I got them all placed, and I think before I plant them, I'm going to show you what they look like, because once I get them planted, it's going to look like absolutely nothing, so we're going to do that first. So when you walk into the garden, you're going to see them kind of scattered throughout. Hopefully they all survive, because I think it'll be really, really pretty. So we'll have one here, and then we've got one by the fountain here, and then there is a three of them right there kind of spaced out a little bit, and that's going to be a killer view, and then there is, I think, one more over here. Yeah, there's one more back in that bed a little bit further down the way, and then over here, there's one in this front jelly, or in the back jelly bean bed, and then there's one even further right where that white basket is, um, closer to the greenhouse. So like, you could be right here, and you'll see it popping up here. You'll see it popping up here, here, and here. Um, that way, kind of like wherever you're standing, you'll just kind of like always see little windows of it. So like, you'll see a trio right there, and that's going to be really pretty. What I'm excited about is this should just pull you back through, like, oh, I see this. That reminds me of that one. That reminds me of that one, and then I did put the plant tag on the one closest to the fountain, but I think that's going to be really pretty. So very, very excited about it, and then I do think the, um, the globe thistle, what I'm going to do is I'm going to do groupings. So I'm going to do, like, two groupings of three, I think is what I'm going to do, and so for the ones that are in the jelly bean bed, I'm going to use a hand shovel. So I've got three that I'm going to dig those out just because I do have some tulip bulbs in there, and I don't want to disrupt the tulip bulbs too much, and then the ones that are inside the beds, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to use the auger, uh, and I'm just going to aug the holes because they're kind of really big holes to dig for a teeny tiny root. If I didn't have this issue, it'd be so nice to get these planted, but such a pain. I'm also going to go in with mole mats. I forgot I pulled that out. So we're going to use mole mats in every single one of these holes just as a extra precaution, and like I said, they do perform best. I mean, I'm not the expert on them, I kill them all, um, but they perform best in crummy soil. So, crummy soil, if you got it, this should do great for you. Okay, I got those all planted, and now I have the thistle right here that I'm going to get planted, and I don't think I'm going to use this basket. I think I'm going to just, just wing it. We're going to say good luck to me. Um, a mistake, possibly. We'll find out together, won't we? Um, I'm, I am going to go in with this Felco, Felco tool. They call it a Hori Hori. I don't think it's a Hori Hori, but that's what they call it, so we're going to call it a Hori Hori, and I'm just going to get these guys planted really quick. While I was planting the rest of them, um, before I came out here, I did go ahead and mist the roots of these, so they stayed a little bit wet while I was planting. I didn't want them to dry out or anything like that, but I'm just going to get these planted and hope for the best. I did get everything planted. I did get all the rebeccia planted, and I found a couple tunnels, so where I did find the tunnels, what I did was I would pour the Molmax in there, and I would kind of like fling it far back into the hole as, or into the tunnel as I could, to try to get as much of it in there, and I would go in with kind of a lot, so hopefully that deters those guys, and then, um, I really think that the wire baskets are going to help with a really good thing on those, so I really, I think I should be okay with these. We'll see. Final last words. We'll see what happens. I think this will be fun. So I did three of them right here, and they're, they're spaced kind of close together, but I do like to do that. I want these to kind of grow together, so I want it to look like one really big plant, so I did one, one, one, which will be kind of nice, and I did move the label, so it's over here. I feel like it'll be easier to read over here versus the other spot that I put it, which the other ones I ended up putting over here in the long bed, and I think that that's gonna be really pretty. They're gonna be right behind, see, I need to label everything, right behind that. I think it's a cedar or something like that, um, but they'll be right back there, and they should, they should get to about there-ish on the fence, so we'll see, and then I do have one is there, one's there, and then one's further back. One's really close to the fence, and I did find a tunnel when I was digging for that one, which is kind of funny, because there's one of those mole spike, gopher spike things right there, and so, uh, super interesting that I was able to find one literally just inches away from it, but whatever, I ended up putting extra of the mole max down in there, so hopefully that deters them. I also hope that they just don't like to eat those, so we'll see what happens, but I'm really excited to get the rebecchia in and the globe thistle, and I think that they're both really beautiful plants, and I hope that I have really good luck this year with them, um, because I really want to grow, I really want to grow the rebecchia, like, I really want to have rebecchia. I've bought it every single year, and every single year it dies on me. Fingers crossed this is the year that I can get it to live, uh, I'm not giving it any fertilizer, I'm planting it really early, and hopefully those roots can just wake up on their own, um, I don't think that they're gonna be extraordinarily large this year, um, for, like, perennials and shrubs and trees and things like that. It usually is, like, a rule of thumb is sleep, creep, leap, so first year they sleep, they don't really do a whole lot, second year they creep, they get a little bit bigger, and then third year is when they, like, really come into a big show. So this year I'll just take a little bit, I'll be fine with just a little, a little something, something better than nothing, right? And realistically I'll probably end up buying some more when I'm at the garden centers, and I will plant them inside of those gopher baskets to see if I can get them to overwinter. Now, I told you we were gonna do the lemon tree today. I think I've changed my mind. I think I'm done. I think I'm done in the garden. Um, after going all winter without really planting anything, like, we did a little bit of planting here and there, I forgot how hard it is to plant. Um, it kind of takes a lot out of you. So, you know what? We got a lot of things in the ground. What is that? I got 14 plants in the ground, so I feel that's pretty good for one day. 14 plants, that's a lot of plants in the ground. Um, I still have a lot to do. Uh, I, I, let me show you something, and you're not gonna judge. I still have not potted these guys up, my little dahlias. I'm gonna just spritz them with a little bit of water, and I'm gonna keep them in a bag, and then my goal tomorrow is going to be to pot up my dahlias, pot up the Those are my two must-do, no excuses. If I lie to you, we're gonna have to come up with something that I'm gonna have to do, because I'm, I gotta get those done. Uh, anyways, I think this is where we're gonna end the video today. Also, update, my jumping spider is here still. If you saw, we have a jumping spider friend. I smushed its leg today on accident. I was lifting up my fox love. It's living inside behind this fox love right here. It actually made a whole spider web down in there, and I was spraying, and I saw it come out, and I was like, oh, sweet, how cool is that? Um, and then I pulled that out, and, uh, it kind of, like, jumped out at me, and I did, like, drop it back into the cell, and its leg got stuck, and it was, like, freaking out, and so I pulled it back out, so that way it could run away, and it ran away. It's still there. I think it's mad at me now. I did smash its leg, so it should be mad at me, but that's an update. The jumping spider is still here. It's, it's living behind my fox love, so I hope it stays in here. I did try to catch a bug and feed it to it, but I think it was just too mad at me. We'll, I'll update you as I have updates. This is where we say goodbye. I hope that you guys enjoyed the video. Please keep your fingers crossed for me that I get these for Becky of the live. I will see you all in the next one. Bye, guys.