Plant Lover Heaven? GardenPalooza 2026 at Bauman Farms 🌿

Let's do rock, paper, scissors for if I can get a Dahlia bed. Hey, guys, welcome back and welcome to Gardenpalooza. We are here at Baumann Farms. It is packed with people. There are so many amazing gardeners. I've already met some of you, which is so lovely. You guys know I love meeting you in person. I want to walk around and I want to show you how this event is going along, especially for those of you who can't be here. I want to bring you along so you feel like you're here with me. So we're going to walk around. I did see some plants already that I'm like, we need this for our garden. So I'm probably going to pick up some stuff. I want to see all of the vendors that they have. And then we will also be back tomorrow for day two of Gardenpalooza. And that's where I'm going to be doing a container seminar. And I will also do a video of that so you guys can see what I pick for my containers this year. So let's go and explore. So Baumann's is packed to the brim with plants. You guys like they were holding they were holding back the last time I was here. I was actually here just the other day picking up some things and they were not this pack like they really, really went to town. Let's actually go where all of the other vendors is. I probably won't be able to get through there. Let's turn around. I'm like trying to sneak in instead of going through the front. You know what? We might go to the front. Let's start. Let's start. Let's start over there. Let's start over. All right. When we walk in, we have some of the proven winner plants here, you guys. These are their new trailing hydrangeas. Brian has them and they are so beautiful. I definitely need these in our garden. Look at how beautiful this is. This is the fairy tale bride. And look at how it cascades. Isn't that amazing? Like, I can't wrap my head around how they were able to create this. It's just so, so fabulous. Great in hanging baskets. But I'm thinking we can plant one of these in one of the urns that we bought for the English garden, I think. But oh, my gosh, you guys, they're just so, so beautiful. Now, let me read you the specs. Let's see. They need at least six hours of sun. And they're hardies in zone six through nine. They get four feet tall and wide. And I think you just train them or prune them back once they're done blooming. I have to learn more about these. I don't know if you have these in your garden yet, but they are absolutely magnificent. And I believe this is the new one. Look at this. This is the fairy. Is this the new one? The fresco. OK, fairy trail fresco. So this is the brand new one being introduced this year. The cool thing about this one is you can change the pH, which will alter the color of them. So you can have blue or the light pink. You can use the acidifier and then the guard line to make it more pink. Isn't that cool? Like, I think I don't know. I think I might go, well, why not have both in the garden? But this one definitely look at that pink hue. Isn't that stunning? And then the specs for this one. Let's see. So 46 hours of sun. This one is going to be a little bit smaller. So three to four and a half feet tall and wide hardy in zones five through nine. I'm obsessed. These are so cool. And Brian, I think you might be the only one that has them right now. I don't know. I have to double check. And hot tip coming from proven winners. They recommend that we plant them in containers or hanging baskets. That way they trail down really beautifully because in ground they might just look a little bit more flat and almost like an octopus. So great for hanging baskets. And I think amazing for containers as well. All right. We have a lot of really beautiful vendors. Monrovia is here. All of the beautiful plants that they brought in. Look at these vines. Oh, my gosh. Oh, look, the kangaroo paws. These are the ones that we bought and you guys loved. Look at those. I want to plant a whole ton of them in our garden. But look at these mandevilla vines. Which one is this? A sun parcel fired up coral. Look at the color. That is incredible. Wow. Look at that. That is gorgeous. First edition, beautiful hydrangeas, beautiful lilacs. Oh, my goodness. So sunny. And look, these are all of the different vendors here. Came a little bit towards the end of the day, which is nice. There's a lot of really great veggie starts. More shopping inside. I see a lot of like garden art in here. Hi. Hi. How are you? Claudia. Nice to meet you. I'm sorry. Nice to meet you. I saw your halo. Oh, nice to meet you. How are you? Good. Good. Are you enjoying? Yes. Have you guys been here for a long time? No, we just got here really early. Oh, nice. Are you in the medical field? I work at a clinic. Oh, very cool. Hi, Claudia. Nice to meet you. Oh, my gosh. Look at all of these little succulents. Oh, they're so cute. Look at how little they are. How fun is this? All of the beautiful clematis. And I think there are different societies here, too. So you can sign up to become a member at different societies. Just look at this. We got the Dahlia folks and the Owls Garden over here. So it's cool because other garden centers are here as well. Oh, and peonies. Blushing princess. Look at this. Wow. That is so gorgeous. Look at all of these beautiful tools that you can buy. We actually saw them last year. This is the company. And just look at how beautifully crafted everything is. Isn't that stunning? Look at this. I love that. These shovels. I need a good, like, trowel. These are great. Wow. These are awesome. And then look at this alley full of different vendors. This is where I lose my mind. This is where I just get overly excited. I buy too many things that I might not necessarily need. But, you know, that's just how it goes. Look at the beautiful bleeding hearts. Stunning. And see, this is why I like this event is because people bring such unique plants that you would normally not find at garden centers. Look at the Cyanthus. Monk silver black. This is not something I typically see at a garden center. You know what I mean? And look at how beautiful all of these starts look. Lovely. I might want to get some of these. I'm not a Cyanthus fan, but I like that. Oh, and the maples. I better tell Strega he may be wandering off somewhere. Look at these gorgeous little maples. I wonder if he's already made his way over here is the true question. Oh, look at that. Stunning. Just stunning. First ghost. Look at those delicate little leaves. The best part about coming to events like this is just being around a bunch of garden people, like people that get excited about plants the way that you and I do and just like the energy. You know what I mean? Like, it's just fun. It's really, really, really fun. Look at these cute garden signs, guys. Look at this. Oh, those are beautiful. Wow. Love these. Oh, can we see what's in your cart? What are these? It's a heart. Wow. They're in the main room. Are they really? They're so beautiful. You have good taste. Oh, we planted one of these last year. The gold heart. Look at that gorgeous color. Isn't that stunning? Such a standout plant, especially like somewhere darker in your garden. It just immediately draws your eyes to it. They're so, so pretty. All right. You know, I'm going to look at the dahlias. Hi, how are you? Good. How are you? Don't mind me. Just going to take a peek. Look at all of these gorgeous dahlias, you guys. And I love that they're out like this because I like to pick out my own tubers. I do. I know that's a little bit weird, but any chance that I can, I like to come in and pick them up and just look at all of their quirky little shapes and find the ones that I like, which shape doesn't really matter. Every every dahlia makes a different size tuber, different shape, different quantities. I feel like most of these we already have, which is actually kind of exciting because that means I don't have to spend a lot more money on dahlias because I already have one more sale to go to. But these are really, really great varieties. So stunning. Wow. Oh, hee haw. That's a beautiful one. Look at that. A nice orange pink. Daydreamer, one of my favorite peachy yellow varieties. Also, look at this one. Fuzzy Wuzzy. This is not something I would ever go for, but I actually think that's really pretty. Lovely, beautiful selection. This is wonderful. I'll be back to shop. We found a dwarf irises. I had no idea they were this beautiful. Look at the sweetness. Familiar face. That's the name of this one. This one is it's a small world. Wow. That is so beautiful. I had no idea these existed. Is this as big as they get? Yeah. Wow. Look at this. Wow. These are so cool. Which one is this? Elegant cashmere. Holy moly. That's beautiful. Sum total. Incredible. I believe you can order those irises from Mid-America, if I recall correctly. Just stunning plants. I love buying tools at any show like this because you can just find really beautiful products like this. Stunning. Look at these Hori Hori's. This is like next level. Wow. This is where they keep all the good ones. Look at that. That is exciting. Look at this one. This is more my style. That's cool. Here's the company. These are really cool. Bridgetown. OK. Wow. Those are really cool. What's that? Yeah, you do. You do have nice Hori Hori's. Those are the ones that we wouldn't lose in the garden because you're so nice. OK. Cozy Bee Nursery. They also have Dahlias. Look at these. Oh, that's such a cute white one. Brookside Snowball. Love. Brown Sugar. Excellent. Lark's Eby, another favorite of mine. Snow Ho Jojo. Classic. There's Daydreamer again. Sweet Nathalie. I think that's like a cult favorite. Everybody loves her, right? Yeah, you do. Everybody needs that, you know, that one in their collection. Also Rock Run Ashley. She's just one of my favorites. Beautiful. Oh, When Home Diane. Oh, interesting. I don't think I have that one. It's a nice butter yellow. Is it? OK. But, you know, we kind of like the not in your face yellow. No. Yeah. You can't sell me on highlighter yellow. But that's nice. That's what I like about her. Wow. That's almost like a cream Diane, but with like a blushier center. Yes. OK, I might need to come back for that one. Hey, and there's more right here as well. Jan's Choice. Ken's Choice. Snow Ho, Snow Ho Doris is also a really good one. Also Ferncliff Rusty. And I think I don't know if I should you guys Copper Boy, but that is also like quickly becoming one of my favorites. So great. You can follow them right here. Cozy Bee Nursery. Very cool. I'll be back, ladies, to shop. Oh, my gosh. Look at all of these little metal art pieces. I want to find something for our garden. Like I think at the Northwest Fargo show, I saw a lot of these flowers and I was super curious about them. Having them tucked in between plants, I think is so cool. And just look at how beautiful these are. Isn't that incredible? We have a couple of their picks, like I think we have a hummingbird and a bee that we picked up. Oh, gosh. Maybe like two years ago. And I just think they're so fun. Like I'm usually not into things like this, but I don't know. Some of these are really cute like this. We have this one. I believe we have the hummingbird. I don't know if it's that one, but we do have a hummingbird. Oh, cute. That's adorable. That is really cute. All right. And if you do come out, you can come pet all of the beautiful animals. Hi, babies. Oh, you guys, I want sheep so bad. They're so cute. And look at the goats. So cute. And the ducks. Look at how sweet. Oh, adorable. Look at these cool water gardens. It's like a one stop cold garden situation right here. These are cool. Are these easy to like put together? Yeah. Wow. That one took... Wow. This one took two guys about three hours. Oh, and it has fish. This is really cool. What is your company name? Let's see. Where do you have a... Where can we find you guys online? Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. There you go. Yeah, we got a mini. Oh, they have a mini. Look at this, a baby one. This guy's so small people miss it. Did you hear that? So small that people miss it. Great for the office. Right? Love that. All right. Well, those little water features are pretty darn cool. Back to the plants, though. Look at these cuties. Look at that. That's sweet and delicate. I wonder if these are natives. Are these natives? They might be. I don't know. You can always find good native selections at garden shows. This is a local garden center. They sell really cool things for a really great price. We haven't been out there yet, but maybe we should go on a field trip to check out their garden center because they have beautiful plants. Look at all of this. Just stunning. Oh, my gosh. How gorgeous. So delicate. I could never get one to grow like this. That is beautiful. Fuchsia. Oh, this one is Fuchsia first success. This one is display. Darn, you can't buy it. But just look at how stunning and delicate these are. And I think they do sell them. Oh, yeah, they do. Right back here. Gorgeous mint bush. Wow. Is it? Hmm. What a sweet, delicate scent. It's a little bit herby. That's so, so pretty. Great selection. All right, let's pop back into the nursery. I just to show you guys all of the gorgeous baskets that they have available right now. There are some combos that I am really, really loving. But you can see again, garden center is just packed and they're going to be refilling everything tomorrow. But I'll tell you what, Bowmans has just the most beautiful hanging baskets. The combos are so stunning. Look at this. It's just just rows and rows and rows of gorgeous hanging baskets. This is like hanging basket heaven right here. And I don't know if you recall, but last year I gave you guys the behind the scenes and we got to see all of their hanging baskets and keep an eye out for our next video, because I am going to show you one of the greenhouses. It's unbelievable how packed a plant it is. It's just mind-boggling to me every single time. But anyways, it's just always like so fun to see everything that they have available. So let me spin you guys around so you can see. Look at this. And they're constantly working, constantly bringing more product out. All of the stunning hanging baskets are here. Oh, look at this one. This is sweet. Oh, I love that. So pretty. Incredible. Oh, so simple and delicate. I think these might be the new petunias, if I'm not wrong, from Proven Winners. So here they are, the Supertunia Vista Cool Jazz. Isn't that beautiful? I typically don't go for cooler tones. Look at how beautiful the throat of these petunias are. Isn't that great? So beautiful. I'm really excited about these. This is a really great basket right here. And these are the other plants. So we have the Cool Jazz Petunia. We have the Superbina Pink Cashmere. We have the Dichondra Silver Falls and then Stardiva Blue Scaevola. Stunning, stunning, stunning. And then a many famous Neo Dark Blue Calibrachoa. All right. More beautiful Proven Winner annuals. I'm such an advocate for getting more of these out into our community because they're so amazing. I really am such a fan. Just lovely selection. Bauman's does have the best selection of Proven Winner annuals because they grow all of these in-house. So if you're looking for them, here they are. Right back out here, more plants, just more plants. There's just an endless amount of plants at this event and at this garden center. I've been seeing this clematis more and more, and I'm super curious about it. Early sensation. I almost feel like these will be even more fun to grow than the like the Snowdrift Armondi, only because the leaves and the flowers on these are so much smaller and just different. Like the Armondi, the bigger or I guess the older they get, their leaves just get so big and these will grow crazy. I mean, they're beautiful if you're looking for something quick, fast impact, a lot of coverage, really fast growing again. Then this one, I haven't grown this one, but I'm also thinking it's probably a fast grower, I think. But I just adore the little flowers that they put out. So beautiful, so delicate. I would actually love to get one of these today. Sergei found the tomatoes. Tell us what you're thinking. I found the tomatoes, OK? I really regret it. I should have just stayed in the car. I do so much damage when I get out because look how silly this is. You and I got some amazing seeds, OK? But they have these varieties that I haven't seen before. Like this here. Black strawberry? What? Blush? How awesome is that? But it's so worth starting your own, right? Like you love that process. Starting them is the greatest. Like then being able to kind of like pick out the best and healthiest one and then like nurture it and everything. But I don't know. What? Cozula? What is that? I don't know. But maybe we'll get some and then the others will start because we still have to start our tomatoes. Don't judge us, we're late. Let's do rock, paper, scissors for if I can get a Dahlia bed. And guys, just a preview for our next video. This is what you're going to be seeing when I pull together my container combination. So fun. Can't wait to show you what I picked. All right, guys, that will wrap it up for our tour of Gardenpalooza 2026. I can't wait to show you guys my container combination tomorrow. I am just so happy to be here. Now I want to get a car and I want to do some shopping. I saw some things that I'm really, really interested in. I think Sergey is also doing a little bit of shopping. I cannot wait to just get back out there and just put some beautiful plants in my car and also to come back tomorrow to see some of you and just, again, do this all over again. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today. And I'll see you guys in the next episode. Bye bye.