Weekly Garden Walk n’ Talk | Planting in Antique Urns | Alliums, Foxgloves, Bearded Iris Blooming!

Good morning friends! Grace and I hope you're having a great day out there in your gardens. Today we're going to be planting up some antique bistro pots that I got for our new bistro area near our house, but I thought we would take a really nice slow garden walk and talk this morning before we plant up these new containers with lobelia and geraniums. Now last year we planted about, what is Gracie doing? She always does that in the kicks it back. Last fall we planted approximately 40 gladiator alliums back here near the outdoor dining room and I'm beyond thrilled with the result of that planting. Gracie is chowing down on some mulch this morning. I'm also thankful that we decided to keep the pear tree. It has been getting fire blight but Nick convinced me to keep it for one more year and it really does frame this area beautifully. Tricolor beach is leafing out in the distance there over by my car. There are two varying shades of sweet rocket blooming in the hydrangea annex at the moment and you can see the cousa dogwood has just started to bloom. Fern leaf bleeding heart and old-fashioned bleeding heart are blooming in this garden. There's our old-fashioned bleeding heart and there's the fern leaf. Nice view here to the stone rug isn't it? Here's the tricolor beach glistening in the morning sun. The Mount Everest alliums have started to bloom here in the hydrangea room. You can see that Gracie has lost track of the mulch that I just threw down for her. Where is it Gracie? I like the combination of Mount Everest and gladiator. The Mount Everest alliums just sparkle in the sunshine. The butterscotch amsonia has started to bloom. I've been planting some butterfly blue scabiosa that Jackson and Perkins sent out this week and I'm really enjoying that pop of light lavender. It's wonderful to have a perennial that's in bloom all growing season. Since our last walk and talk I've removed the majority of the tulips from the main flower lock. I have a brand new idea of what I want to do with spring bulbs this coming fall and it involves a lot more fertile areas but we do have some beautiful foxglove in bloom this week. These are tucked in underneath the limelight hydrangea. I picked up this David Austin rose the other day. I think it's called um I think it was Elizabeth. GM's blooming down below and we also have our snowball viburnum blooming in the background. Wigelia will be coming on in about a week's time. The climbing hydrangeas are starting to make their way up and maybe even over the roof line of the garage. Beautiful beautiful love the white purple and orange together. More sweet rocket whoops and down here we can see we have some lupins starting to bloom. There's some cotton candy phyllichthrum here. It's not quite fully open in this area that does receive a little more shade but I think if we walk down a while and get close to this crabapple tree I have some in full bloom and it is such a wonderful perennial. I've had it for three years and I noticed that last year it got powdery mildew and I had to cut it back down to the ground. This year as I'm harvesting for the flower stand I'm trying to give it a little more air so you can see I used a lot of Solomon's seal at the stand this week for Mother's Day. So I just tried to cut right here and give this thalicrum a little bit more room but you know the color is fantastic. Is it pink? Is it purple? What are you seeing on your screen? I'm thinking it's more purple than pink. The Siberian iris from my grandma's garden and let me turn you this way. I have clematis on most of the trellises that you see in the main flower walk. This one I think we picked up from a local nursery together but this one that's about maybe five feet tall at the moment I got us a plug from Longfield Gardens and let's sneak in here together because you know it looked like almost nothing when I received it back then. This teeny tiny little plug. I'm not sure it's ever bloomed before. Definitely worth waiting for. Normally we have a grand allium show over here in the driveway garden but this year I decided to cut and sell the alliums from this particular garden because I wanted to keep the alliums in the backyard for myself and my family. We do have some azaleas in bloom in this garden and also some beautiful bearded iris. I brought these over from our old house. The instant boxwood hedge is looking fantastic and my husband and I decided that we like the look of it untrimmed. We're just gonna leave it like this. I love the more natural appearance of boxwood. I'm so thankful to see that all of the hydrangeas came back healthy and strong. I was a little worried about the one here as I put Christmas lights on them this year. This one seemed to be really leaning almost out of the ground so I may need to actually pop that plant out of the ground in the fall and replant it in a more upright position because I'm not exactly sure what happened there. Let's take a closer look at the bistro pots together. As we walk down there I would love to show you that I see a lot of nigella has started to germinate. So I did take an entire packet of nigella and just sprinkled it all around the book nook. I cannot wait to see what that looks like. The frothy blue flowers of nigella next to our gorgeous white incredible hydrangeas. And I'm using white geraniums. I believe this one is called Americana White. I'm using that as a repeating annual throughout my containers this year. I'm gonna leave the pansies and violas in the Henry Studio pots for as long as possible. These pots do have cascading hydrangeas. The blue one I think is called Fresco in the pots also. I was concerned that these had died back to the rootstock and may not bloom but I sent a picture over to Proven Winners and they think they're going to be all right. So let's watch that happen together. I love watching and learning new things. It's my favorite part about gardening. Watch and learn. So it's Mother's Day right now and usually what I like to do on Mother's Day or the week of Mother's Day is head over to our local antique store and see if I can find any treasures. Earlier this week I found this pot with roses and lions for $22 and I think it was only $22 because it has a minor crack on the back but who cares right? So I stuck four geraniums in that one and then the urns I got from a different antique store. I can link the antique stores if you like. Well friends I think that does it for this week's video. I want to wish you a wonderful day out there in your gardens and I'll see you sometime real soon. Bye!