Planting the Kitchen Flower Bed, 4 Full Sun Containers, Baptisia & Snapdragons! 🏡🌿🌸

Hey guys, how's it going? So today we've got several planting projects to work on. We're going to start off with some bactesia planting, which is a wonderful, sun-loving, tough perennial. Then we're going to move on to a really pretty blend of annuals. These are all going to be going in the ground near the house. And then when we're done with that, we've got four large full sun containers to plant with annuals. And if we have time, I'd like to get our snapdragons planted out in the formal flower garden. So I've parked in the shade of this autumn blaze maple tree. It's so awesome that they're big enough to cast some pretty decent shade, but we can always see a little bit better when the plants are shaded. But here are the varieties of bactesia we've got. So this one is pink truffles, which is just a beautiful kind of subdued pink color. It's got some smokiness to it and a little bit of yellow. I just think they're absolutely gorgeous. And then we have chocolate or decadence chocolate. I can't remember chocolate decadence or decadence chocolate, which way decadence dark chocolate. I was wrong both times. Look at the color on this one. Oh my word. They are so beautiful. They're wonderful for cutting too. And you can see just even with these smaller non-established plants, how long the stems are. So you can really get some good filler foliage and gorgeous snapdragon-esque kind of flowers. Anything with a long bloom panicle like this, I just love them. So I think the stats are going to be fairly similar on these, but the dark chocolate grows about three feet tall, maybe three and a half feet tall, and will spread out about three feet as well. And there is on four through nine and they bloom late spring through early summer. So they bloom for weeks and weeks and weeks. And we've got a lemon meringue. I don't know if you can see that one right there. We'll walk over there in a second, but it's just starting to bloom. And the pink truffles actually gets a little bit bigger. So four to four and a half feet tall and three to four feet wide. So yeah, I've got to have a little bit more space for that one. Also a zone four through nine, but you know, even after they're done blooming, they actually create little seed pods that rattle. They're kind of a cool plant and they look neat on the plant. You can deadhead them. And then you're left with this beautiful foliage. I love the way it looks kind of that medium green and it looks really soft. It's just a really nice kind of shrub for the rest of the season. And when I say that they get four to four and a half feet tall, they do that all in one season because you cut all of the growth back down to the ground, pretty much, you know, like an inch above the ground. And then it pushes new growth every year and gets to that size every year. It's incredible. We have to look at these lemon meringues though. I think that's what they're called. There's a new one. We just lemon smoothie maybe that we planted out in the dirt land. That's also in bloom. Let me get to the other side of them. So I'm not casting a shadow, but look at that. Aren't those beautiful? There are five here. One, two, three, four, five. Look at them from this side. I'd be able to see them a little bit better. I planted them right here kind of on purpose around our hose reel because I didn't really want that to be seen. But I think what I'm going to do is have a pipe pounded into the ground so that we can lower the whole hose reel so that it's not perched as much. But this usually does a really good job. But look at how many blooms. Oh my gosh. Look at this. This is just wild. And I mean they get no special treatment from us. They usually get one dose of plant tone in the spring or flower tone, whichever one we happen to have, or holly tone, whichever one's open in the back of the gator. So they get once a year fertilization in early spring and that is it. And they don't seem to be bothered by any kind of insects. I think one year I might have had one or two of them get a little bit of spider mite activity on them. But that was during that really bad year where we had everything afflicted by spider mites. So it didn't surprise me. But they don't normally struggle with anything like that. And those are the kinds of things I really want to add into the garden. Things that don't require a ton of deadheading. Things that don't require a bunch of spraying. All that. And you know while we're in the shade, let's just take a look at these annuals that we're going to be planting. So we've got the Aeromagica purple. Yep. Heliotrope, which this one says it wants full sun, grows 18 to 30 inches tall and will bloom all season long. So it's not like the older varieties that fizzle out. I just think the blooms are absolutely beautiful and especially if they do get that big. I don't have a lot of experience with this one. I've planted it maybe one time that I can think of and I put it in a little bit too much shade. Because you know traditionally it's kind of like viburnums. I always thought of them as being shade plants and we need to give them more protection. And same with heliotrope. And then through the years I've realized that there are varieties that want and or can handle more sun. So these will be getting more sun while we're putting up. We're going to pair those with the Supertunia Mini Vista White, some Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Lime, Sweet Potato Vine. Isn't that pretty? It's just a very clear beautiful mix. And then also a few of these Wedgwood Pink Angelonia. Just that really soft pink added into the mix and another little bit of a vertical accent in here. So these also grow 18 to 30 inches tall just like the heliotrope. And they only spread out like 14-16 inches wide while the heliotrope is supposed to spread out like upwards of 20 inches. But they're not hugely different other than the fact that I think the heliotrope will have a little bit more of a rounded appearance as opposed to angelonia which will be more like tall and spiky. I think that'll be a good blend. But we are going to head out to the dirtlands with the Baptisia first because I think that's where I'm going to put the pink truffles at least. We shall see. It's much nicer than it was yesterday. You can see I'm wearing a vest this morning because it's right now in the 40s. It's supposed to get into the 70s today. We had a system come through yesterday and the wind blew from about 10 in the morning. It was like lightly breezy in the morning. 10 in the morning it started to pick up and it was like 40 mile an hour gusts all the way until 9 p.m. last night. And we had just finished planting our pond berm with all that blue suede shoe salvias and like three of them cracked in half. Sunflowers had broken stems. The suncredibles that we just planted and they're all like leaning over in their holes. So last night I was just going around with our water tank just watering everything trying to rebound it from that day. It was just I mean I'm thankful for the cooler weather that it brought for sure but it was wild. I can stand pretty much any weather but wind really does it for me. It really it's like a high stress situation for me. Okay so we're just looking for great areas to pop these in which will be plenty of opportunity out here. We just have to decide if we want to put them all in one big group or if we want to spread them out. There's our lemon smoothies if I remember the name right. We just planted those and they all survived the wind thankfully. You know what? Right in here might be a really good spot. We've got a cedar which I think is getting too much water. I need to amend the drip. I will do that this morning. We've got birch trees we just planted. There's a cottony aster. Let's take a look here. Pop one of these down kind of near the rock. I think that would be really pretty and honestly be really pretty to tuck one in sort of like behind this rock too. Maybe we'll do that. Just kind of tuck them in. You know what? That might be too much if I did it right here. Right? I'll look at it. Yeah I mean it would be good for today because these are small but these will not be small for very long. So maybe we do one here. I'm gonna pop one over in here maybe. You know what we need in this spot? We need a black lace elderberry or a purple pony maybe right here for some deep color. Oh there we go. I think they look really pretty right there and especially this one as it starts to grow and kind of hug the side of that rock. It'll make the rock look a little bit more tucked in and of course the cedar will get fairly wide. I did amend the water so instead of having a loop around both sides I cut it and ended that part of the loop here instead of swapping that out for a straight coupler. Left just the one around one side of it and then I brought the other piece over and teed it in. Actually need to pick that up. And depending on the evergreen sometimes having two drip lines one on either side is the way you want to go like on the green giant arborvitae right back here that the guys just planted. Those tend to need more water but this one and this specific area like this evergreen doesn't need as much and this area tends to hold water. So like last night when I was running around making sure everything had water after all the wind because none of our drips went off yesterday. So you cup all the wind with no water being run to the plants. I was worried that especially like our new little flocks would be all dried out. This area was still moist so there's just some pockets that hold on to more moisture. So really keying in on that and making sure you amend drip as you go can be really helpful to your plants. Okay next set of baptisia. All right you guys I'm thinking somewhere right over in here. Also check out the Kentucky bluegrass lawn. So this is 100% Kentucky blue. It's looking really pretty. Starting to fill in quite a lot. Still real short but I love that color. We don't really have a lot of small things in here and I want to leave some space here for a larger shrub. We have a trio of birch trees which are growing so weird. Okay so one of them is completely full of beautiful green leaves but it looks like it lost its leader or no no no its leader is wonky. It's just a wonky tree and then we have this one that took forever to leaf out and there's a ton of catkins still stuck to it and new ones forming up too. Like these are the old ones right here fall apart. Here are the new ones and then this tree in the back has lost its leader. We thought well maybe if we gave it some time kind of like this one here it would maybe come out of it whatever it was doing. So it looks like it died back all the way to well let's see to right here or there's a tiny little growth on that branch but yeah all of that we need to clip that out. What a weird deal especially when you have three trees right next to one another. They were totally fine last year. They looked great. Either way I think having a large shrub here would be nice and then dotting some smaller stuff kind of along the edge here would be good. Now these aren't small small though so I'm gonna bump them back a little bit. All right we got our little trio here and they look really pretty. I think that'll bring some really nice late spring color to this area since we really don't have a lot in this space. I mean we've got a Kwanzan cherry but that's already done blooming a long time ago. Same with the crab apple over there and we've got a plum but yeah we need to start in with some lower stuff but it's quite nice to have the border now and that's why I didn't really plant a lot of small things in here because I wasn't exactly sure how this would kind of play out and where exactly it would go so once the grass is up and we can mow it and edge it then I'll know exactly how far I can come in and plant but now I know too where I can put some larger shrubs and things like that. It's exciting to see it start to take form out here even more. Okay we are going to go to the area behind the dream stream or maybe around the pond with the dark chocolate. Just kidding. I think we're gonna plant them right in here somewhere. There's lots of space, lots of opportunity in this area and I think it would be nice to have some spring color back here. Gosh these are just so gorgeous. Look at that. Oh my word. Okay I'm gonna put some kind of smallish evergreen right here. We have this crab apple which I don't recall the variety exactly but I don't think it gets massive. In fact maybe we'll put them a little bit more toward the spruce. It's in the shade right now because we're early morning. I got out here before eight so I think maybe putting them near this would be really nice instead of having the green on green right there in the kind of the same color tone and leaf shape. I try to at least vary that. If I'm planting one green thing next to another green thing I like there to be like either a grassy leaf variation or maybe like a bolder leaf with a finer leaf. That sort of thing. Oh that looks pretty right there. Now these don't get quite as big as the others but I still kind of want them to look separate so we're gonna space them out a bit. I'm digging three holes with the auger because I'm using our seven inch. I didn't bring our nine inch out here and these are a little bit bigger containers. And there they are looking gorgeous. I love them. Oh my goodness how beautiful is that. I feel like with the placement of these and the placement of the last ones it begins something. I mean we've got anchor pieces in both the areas but when you start planting things like that then you can kind of envision what needs to go around them. So the projects just kind of build and I already know a couple of things I'd like to put in that flowerbed. Okay we are going to head up to the flowerbed that used to have the Incrediball hydrangeas in it. All right so this is the area that we're going to plant up with all those beautiful annuals right here. We can flash back to what the Incrediballs look like in this space. They were absolutely gorgeous and honestly it's going to be a hard look to beat because those Incrediballs were absolutely gorgeous and they did great for a number of years until we lost our honey locust tree. And that's what provided a lot of protection in the middle part of the afternoon. You can see right now being in the early part of the morning it's still in a little bit of shade but it's about ready to come into sun and it will be in sun until late afternoon. But I think the mix of plants that we've got will be really pretty for this space. That purple, the white, the chartreuse. Also you might remember these lemon zest roses. I cut them all the way back down to the ground this spring in an effort to get ready to remove them. We were going to dig them out and they all came back and they're all full of buds. So now we got to leave them. We got to leave them until they bloom at least. They typically struggle through the rest of the season because in the springtime before the maple tree right above us gets leaves they get enough sun. And then once they get into shade from this tree they start to struggle and they get a little stringy and leggy. Things like that. Okay so I'm just going to arrange these plants see what they look like and then we're going to get them planted. Okay I think I've got them laid out the way I want them. What I ended up doing, I started on this end and I did a grouping of three of the heliotrope because I want that to be the like real big impact. And then one angelonia. Actually I'm going to pop one more angelonia in there because I did two in all the other spots. Another grouping of three heliotrope, three heliotrope, three heliotrope. And then this back area here I did a bunch. Three, six, seven, eight. Eight heliotrope. And then I'm going to pop I think a hosta back in there because the deeper we get in there the less sun they get. However the incredible that was right here did decent. So I'm hoping that these heliotrope do okay with just the amount that they're going to get. But I'm not going to push it by trying to put them all the way back in there. Look at that lilac. I need to take care of all those suckers. Oh my gosh. Anyway and then I went in with just three of the sweet potato vine. There's one, two, three. And that'll provide nice bright chartreuse. And then filled in the rest of it with Supertunia Mini Vista White. I actually think I can take one of these out. That's a little close. Move this one over a bit. Yeah I think that'll be beautiful. Well everything's in. And if it grows how I'm hoping it will grow I think it's going to be absolutely beautiful. Just beautiful. Little accents of pink, a lot of purple, a lot of white. It's just going to be a very cooling look in this area. And this is the last time we will ever plant this flowerbed. If everything with our kitchen renovation goes to plan next spring we will be demolishing part of this flowerbed in order to get equipment to the kitchen. So this is kind of the last go. So this corner will remain untouched. I'm going to have to move these things right here. It won't be too bad. I've got just a few things in here. The tricolor beech is going to have to find a new home somewhere. A couple roses, some perennials. Easy stuff to move. And then as we swing this way it'll be you know boxwood hedging from like well likely from here over. Now the question is we've got a color pattern going on here. Do we repeat that in this bed? We're not going to do that today because I really want to get the containers and the snapdragons done and we need to do a little cleanup. We don't have as much space in this bed to plant which is actually kind of nice. But we'll clean up all the bulb foliage. I'll leave all the anemones for now. You know all of this flowerbed is going to go to about right here. So you know late this fall and early early next spring probably late winter early early spring I'll be moving all the perennials and stuff like that in this bed. But we have about from this spot right here just kind of the front area to here. I still am a little bit like oh about the heliotropes in full sun and this gets nailed for a lot longer than that bed does. Because the maple tree right here it shades this bed first and then it eventually shades this other one in front of the kitchen. But it's in the sun for if I want to say at least two to three hours longer. So we're going to think on that for a minute. In the meantime we're going to go gather up some plants for the four containers we're going to plant. Now three of them are together. They're the three at the end of the berry beds. So I want them to probably match. I really enjoyed that last year. And then one of them is placed kind of close to our entryway. We had tulips in there. It was a really beautiful show. But they've all been cleaned out. I'll probably need to grab some soil to top them up and our plants. All right just kidding you guys. I went and grabbed more plants. I think I'd like to get the kitchen flowerbed planted up while we're at it. We may as well. And I don't think I can walk by this super beautiful freshly planted flowerbed and then walk by one that needs so much attention. And I'm going to repeat the same color combination. We'll just have to see how the heliotrope does. I guess it'll be a good test. You know in a place where it gets a little less sun and a place where it gets pretty much full sun. So anyway let's do our cleanup here and then we will get our plants placed and planted. All right you guys this is going to be gorgeous. And I think it's going to be really peaceful to have it look cohesive with the other area. I did add a purple fountain grass back in here just for a nice texture. And then it's just a repeat. I did leave the aromagicas, the heliotrope, tucked a little bit more this way because it does stay protected a little bit longer than this portion. I mean you can see already this portion's in the sun. So we've got angelonia in here along with our sweet potato vine and our white supertunias. And then the purple starts in here and kind of cruises back with a repeat of the angelonia in there and the supertunia and sweet potato vines. So pretty. All done. I'm glad we took the extra few minutes it took to do that. It didn't take long at all. And I only had to make one trip back to the high tunnel to grab a few more plants. So that's just going to be so pretty. And I'm trying to think back. Have I ever planted white right here? Because I usually skew, you know, purple. We've done pinks. We've done super veena. We've done supertunias. I just don't know if we've done a combination of sweet potato vine and white supertunias right here. I think it's just going to be so bright and fresh. Oh I'm excited about it. And in prior years I've taken the time to like dig up the Japanese anemones that have kind of spread themselves around and just kind of tried to keep them contained toward the back. So I've like hollowed out this area and I just am not fighting it this year, which I kind of like. I think it's going to be a really pretty kind of mix of colors. We'll have some really light pink, late summer pink flowers here. And usually I try to pack in a bunch of salvia back in here and we struggle with the water. So I found a wet spot right by an emitter for that fountain grass. So that should be perfect. We shouldn't have to fight the water stress on the plants. It looks really pretty in here mixed in with a little heucheras. There's some hardy geraniums, vinca. There's some lungwort over here. Bleeding hearts still have a little bit of life left in them and in the way of blooms anyway. And they've got a beautiful, this is a coast to coast I think, hosta that I planted here years ago. This whole bed. I mean it is sad that I have to relocate all these plants because it's a gorgeous view, especially toward the latter part of the day when the sun's behind that maple. This is one of my favorite views in our garden. I mean it's just, it's so beautiful to see all the different layers and it always feels so cool right here because it's always shaded right here. But we'll find good spots for these plants when we get ready to transplant them out and I'm very much so looking forward to the kitchen edition. So I think it's all gonna be good. This is gonna be great too. And we'll mirror some of the lemon color right here. That's a lemony lace elderberry you guys. Every garden should have one of these. Look at how it glows right here. And I cut these back hard. Like let me show you how much is of this is new growth. So starting here, following this stem all the way back down to, did this one come out fresh out of the ground? Hold on. Right here. That's where my cut is. Right there. So all of this has already been pushed this season. Isn't that wild? Elderberries really like it here. Can't say that about everything. That's for sure. There's a hummingbird you guys on the other side of the patch of iris. Oh, it just flew off. Dang it. It flew over right as I was trying to get the camera out. And so anyway, I think my movement scared it off. Dang it. That's so fun. Actually yesterday a hummingbird hit one of our windows and Benjamin went out there and was able to scoop it up and it laid in his hands for a long time just with its eyes closed. It was breathing. And eventually the bird started to like, its eyes started to open and it started flapping its wings and it took off, took off flying, which was a really good end to that whole thing. I can't imagine Benjamin having the trauma of having a bird die in his hands. I don't think that would be, that would not go well. He's a bird fanatic, bird lover. All right. Drip swap first. We're going to reuse the couplers and there it is all done looking so bright and beautiful. Isn't that just gorgeous? I think it works so well right here, those colors, because they have a nice backdrop. I mean, there's a lot of just deep green around him. I mean, look at how much new growth this spruce tree has put on. It's such a happy tree. I love that. And the Serbian spruce that we planted that actually Aaron questioned whether or not we should even plant it. I remember when we were putting it in, it was leftover from the original pond project and we didn't use it because it looked a little, it looked a little puny and it was starting to kind of turn brown. And I told him, well, I mean, I'd rather plant it and see what happens. And yeah, anyway, he was like, are you sure you want to plant it along the main driveway? But it was such a great spot for it. So I'm so thankful that it has, it came out of whatever it was doing. It's produced a bunch of cones, a bunch of new growth, and it's just a gorgeous tree. And it just makes this pop even more, I think. So anyway, new drip in there, put some biotone starter fertilizer, because that's what I had to recharge the soil. And then these plants, that's it. And look at the next one. Oh, we get to try out a new variety of salvia too in this next grouping of containers. Here we are, our other three containers at the end of our two raspberry beds and our blackberry bed. We're going to do the exact same thing in terms of topping them up with soil. We're going to swap their drip. We'll add in some fertilizer. This one is going to need to be leveled up. I think the other two look pretty good. This one is leaning to the side, but it's way too heavy for me. So I'll ask one of the guys to come out and do that later. But let me show you these plants. So this is a new salvia called outshine orchid. It's coming out next year, 2027, and we're able to try it out. So I'm super excited to try it with these other beautiful things just to see how, you know, how it works. So this grows one to two feet tall and I think wide, like pretty wide too. Let's see spacing. Okay. The tag says 18 inches, but let me look at the website because I kind of remember reading that they get a little bit wider than that. Let me look. Okay. Yeah. So the spread on it, it says two to three feet. So I don't know, maybe that's wrong on the website. Maybe the tags are wrong. We will see. I'm putting three in each pot, so it's going to fill them. It'll fill it up no matter what. But these, when I drove up to the high tunnel yesterday, they were sitting on the ground right outside and there were hummingbirds. There were two hummingbirds around this. And there's one other variety we have in kind of the same sort of situation. It's a little bit more on the red side though. So that is what's going to go in as our centerpiece. We'll do three of those. Then we're going to surround it with three of these sparkling amethyst super venus. So pretty. And then in the front of each pot, we're going to do a sweet potato vine. And then in the two gaps, two other gaps between these, we're going to pop in some tiara blue. It's going to be a very cool mix. Let's do it. I just read the tag and it says that these are hardy down to zone six. That would be interesting if they came back. I think they turned out really pretty. So here they are all three of them. And you can see the three salvia in the center, the three sparkling amethyst, one potato vine, and then two tiara blue. So we'll get to see a peek of that blue on either side. And then the front will have that bright chartreuse. And we're going to have to be really diligent about cutting away branches from both the raspberries and the blackberries because you know, they're pretty aggressive plants. So we'll just try to keep on like, you know, popping them back behind this right here and anything that comes forward is going to need to be trimmed. But I think that this is a really beautiful combination, like really beautiful. I love the colors. And now we get to see what these outshine orchid salvia do this year. Okay, so the last thing we're going to do is plant our snapdragons out here in the formal flower garden. We're going to have to start in the greenhouse first though. I did get out there yesterday morning and I did pop the camera up because I was thinking I might get that project done yesterday and I didn't. But I did cut back some of them, some of them that had some beautiful blooms to make a bouquet for a friend. So we've got part of the cut back done. We'll need to finish that before we bring them out here. Okay, here in the greenhouse we've got four flats of snapdragons and I cut back about half a flat roughly yesterday. So we've got a little bit more to do because look at how tall these are. They're beautiful. Look at the blooms. Oh my goodness. And these are the types too that they will continue to open after you cut them. Some flowers like dahlias don't do that. So we're going to be cutting off some that are, you know, not quite in bloom stage, but we'll still pop them in the vase and see what happens. Typically the best time to cut them is when you've got a couple of flowers open at the bottom and the rest are just still buds. But for our purposes today, I usually plant these out before they're this tall. Like that is just the single plant right there. And I don't want to put such a tall lanky thing out. But you can see it's already got branching down at the bottom here. And so we're just going to come in and like pretty, cut them down pretty short. But we'll take all of those stems, we'll pop them in a vase of water and we'll be able to enjoy it. And they're going to look really sad like this. Well, these look extra sad because for some reason, there's a few of them that are a little bit yellow, probably need to get out of here and also need probably a bit of food. And we'll take care of both of those things today. They'll get out of their container, out of being planted so closely together. We'll get them out in the fresh air. And, you know, they get quite a lot of air in here. I've got those sidewalls all the way up and both doors are open front and back. So especially yesterday, oh my goodness, it was nice and windy in here. But we're also going to be amending the soil with biotone where we're planting these. And then I'm going to use those beneficial nematodes, the extra little packets that we had, because we've always had such a problem with thrips on these and we don't have a problem yet. But I can foresee just knowing what they do once I get them planted out and what they attract. I think maybe attacking the thrip issue and whatever else issue at soil level will be a good idea. So I'm going to take my watering can out and our packets of beneficial nematodes and we'll get them after we, we'll water them then first, get the soil all moist, and then we'll rewater with those mixed in. Okay. So basically that flat, this one, this one, and this one, we need to cut back. Okay. Well, here is the very informal bouquet we got from those flats. It's just very cheerful and fun. So that'll go inside and we can enjoy that. So this is technically our second bouquet of snapdragons for the season, which is so fun. And one of the blends that I planted was a mix. I love that color. That is so pretty. And this one, the pink with the little bit of orangey red right inside. That's so pretty. And here are the now sad looking plants. However, these have insane root systems. And by cutting them back, we just sent all of the energy that the roots were sending up that plant to try to keep all of that alive into new growth. So they will, they'll sit out there for just a little bit, but they'll start pushing growth really quickly. And we'll have some really beautiful plants. One more thing before we head out there, just wanted to give you a little update on our Alstroemeria because they're looking beautiful. Look at them. Haven't had a chance to plant these two in the ground, but we've got blooms from the ones we've gotten pots as well, and they've put on new growth. Like they're starting to push new growth at the base there. They're getting quite a lot bushier than they were when we first planted them. Like look at the new stems here. And the Alstroemeria that we put in the Hartley look every bit as good as this, maybe even a tad better. Thus far, a fun experiment. Never grown those before. Okay guys, so we are going to head out to the formal flower garden. I'll probably just get the work done really quickly and then hopefully really quickly, and then I can show you what it looks like. So we're going to get some biotone. We're going to use our two-inch auger to zip some holes in the ground, and I'm going to do them every six inches. That's typically how I'm going to run into something, almost. Anyway, I plant them quite close together, and they kind of support each other and hold each other up, which is quite nice. Now a lot of people like to put that horizontal hortonova netting, that horizontal netting, I did get my hands on some jute netting, which is awesome. So we might put that up at some point, but snapdragons, I don't know what they call it, but it's something tropic. Anyway, if the stems kind of grow down, they will naturally bend back up and try to grow towards the sky. So you get some really neat shaped branches that you can use in arrangements that'll kind of cascade over the sides. So oftentimes, I don't stake out my plants because I like for some of them to have that shape. So it's kind of personal preference. Again, my cut flower situation is not for selling or for ultimate production. It's just for enjoyment. So it's fun to do some experiments. So anyway, we'll get it all done, and then I will walk you through and show you the stem plants planted in the soil. Okay, we've got our packets of beneficial nematodes. I'm going to dissolve or mix one packet at a time, and then we'll split them up between these two. And I've got more on order, so I can do the same thing for straw flowers, and then I think we might water in some of our containers that get budworms, anything with supertunias and super bells. Hold on, I gotta clean this out because I take care of budworms apparently. Snapdragons planted, fertilized, watered in, and then treated with beneficial nematodes. They will not look puny for very long. Once plants get out here, it's just like they find their stride because now they all of a sudden have a lot of soil around each plant as opposed to being so cramped in their containers, and they usually just go for it. But I'm excited about our snapdragon section. So what I ended up doing is in that first row, it's mostly apple blossom. That's my favorite variety. Not the, if there, there's a like an improved apple blossom or something like that. I don't like that one as much as I like this like standard apple blossom. It's very soft and pastel. I love it. So that goes almost to the very end. I had a little section left over. So then I started the second row and did Potomac Lavender and then Legend Light Pink, and then I had a few holes left at the end. Then I went in with snowflakes and went pretty close to the end with this one. And then I used our snapdragon mix just to end each row. And I've got over half a flat of the snapdragon mix left, but what I'm going to do is I'm hanging on to all of our seedlings, all the flower seedlings for a couple reasons. One, just in case we lose one here or there, I'll have extras to pop in and I will wait until every single quadrant is filled and then we'll see if we have any extra space because we, we might. There are a few varieties like Crespidia. I didn't buy any new Crespidia seeds. I just used what I had. So I've just got a limited amount of them and I know they won't fill up a whole section. And as much as I want each section to be, you know, its own individual plant, like we've got snapdragons here, strawflowers there, celosia there, I think we're going to end up with a couple of mishmash sections, which is totally great. But once we get all of that hammered out, everything has been planted, then I'll start farming out the extra seedlings. So anyway, guys, that is going to be it for today's projects. What a lot of things we got done. So excited about all of them. The Baptisia, I almost forget what we got done this morning because now we're into mid-afternoon at this point because I did take a break in there for lunch, um, that sort of thing. Anyway, uh, yeah, getting the kitchen flower beds done and then this project out here. What else did we do? Is that all we did? Maybe it's not as much as I thought. Oh no, we did the four containers. It kind of all blends together. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you are having a great day and we will see you in the next video. Bye.