June Garden Tour / Giant Lilies, Smooth Hydrangeas, Strawflowers, Dara, Larkspur, Snapdragon

Hi friends welcome back to our weekly garden walk and talks This week i'm so excited to share with you that all of our eastern moon lilies are in bloom These are brand new eastern moon lilies So they're much shorter than the ones that you're going to see in the main flower walk today because I just planted them last fall But over the course of the next two years, they are going to reach at least six to even seven feet tall And it's just going to be a wall of gorgeous lilies back here in the rose garden and just in time Because the roses are taking a break. And so i'm really dependent on these lilies And also the sunflowers to carry us through until the next round of roses Really hits its stride Let's take a look at another gorgeous planting of eastern moon lilies Oh my The fragrance is powerful, but it's pleasant I love the maroon on the exterior of the petals Beautiful white interior glowing yellow center gorgeous brown pollen This is one of my favorite lilies We'll head over around here And I can show you we have a little bit of dara in bloom Oh, here's a good one Isn't that lovely? The bees are just loving this serenthi major And you can see they're going to seed now Here's the seed right there I just flipped this bed from rosella's dream lilies To dahlias and a little bit of yarrow and you can see I have a lot more space in that bed I also just flipped a bed that was filled with silt lilies to dahlias and angelonia This bed is just hitting its stride This is marble arch salvia Beautiful purple brachs This pink flower here is sapenaria The white flower is called orlea And then right behind this sapenaria We have some straw flower This one I think is silvery rose I have to check my seeds in the basement Lots of beautiful light pinks and vibrant pinks This bed is filled with dahlias Lysianthus and amimagus and it's not really in bloom at the moment Strawberry lemonade sunflowers Probably another week on this lysianthus So let's take a look at the book nook now All of the incredible hydrangeas Are in full bloom I just recently changed out the flowers that were in the henry studio pots They originally had cascading hydrangeas and violas And I just wanted a perennial that would attract the hummingbirds and I also wanted to add in some cut flowers So in the tallest ones, I have a pink nicotiana a mexican bush sage We have a pinkie pie agostachy And then a trailing ivy geranium We've got some straw flower and then to disguise the foliage of straw flower. I added in some purple ornamental peppers I have white geraniums on all our side tables I'm excited to see how these trailing geraniums fill in I just popped three into these large pots and i'm not sure if I needed more than that But here we have the potomac lavender snapdragons And I paired those with some invincible spirit 2 hydrangeas And some dara We've got some new lighting in the garden And i'm really trying to get better with protecting myself from the sun So I do have this sun hat from terrain that i've been trying to wear That's how the book nook is looking You can see that the nigella has sprouted and I think it will be in bloom next week Now we're in the main flower walk And this is where we have some eastern moon lily bulbs that I believe i've had in the garden for probably about seven years And I think they have to be seven feet tall That one shorter one that's going over is the regal lily And if I could do it over again, I wouldn't plant any regal lilies and I would only plant eastern moon Eastern moon stays in bloom so much longer. It has a stronger stem a thicker stem It's taller And it just has more going on with that maroon on the exterior of the petals I stuck with a pink purple white and lime green color palette this year I love this sublime hydrangea This one stays lime green. Oh right on cue Grace is drinking from the fountain. I'm telling you guys she waits until I turn this camera on to do this Really beautiful Some are more of a dusty pink Others are a vibrant pink Lady's mantle is still blooming along with our roseanne geraniums Such a wonderful time of year Always doing grass repair You know how it goes with the dog More eastern moon lilies You know what? Maybe they're more like eight feet tall They're floral giants, that's for sure I've decided not to harvest any of the QIS larkspur this year because I'd like them to go to seed And I'd like that seed to just be sprinkled all throughout the garden I do have it in pockets near our stone rug But it's just such a wonderful cut flower And I would really like to have more Our large hosta that we got from my parents old garden is in bloom The amsonia is a beautiful lime green Gatsby gal oakleaf hydrangea And it looks like next week we're going to have some dahlias in bloom And I forgot to tell you what I did with the dahlias this year So in the main flower walk I have all of my purple dahlias Over in the rose garden. We have all of our orange dahlias One-of-a-kind dahlias in a wide range of colors are located in the raised bed gardens And in the driveway garden, we have all of the wonderful pink dahlias so Lots to look forward to The hydrangea annex is filling in nicely We have invincibel ruby Incrediball I'm fairly certain that we planted this bare root astilbe together two years ago And it's just starting to come into bloom, but it's going to be lovely And it really does well here Under the cousa dogwood tree. There's a couple different varieties. This one is mighty pip And it's already bloomed but I do think I have some mighty pip over in the hydrangea room It's still looking fairly good So let's head over there now Now look at this. I just filmed a hydrangea tour Maybe five days ago This is invincibel lace It's been really hot and also dry and windy But it's already turned from pink to green So this is invincibel lace Which was pink in that last video and now it doesn't look too different from hoss halo But the blooms are smaller And they're going to be this green color for the remainder of the growing season A lot of people ask me about the hydrangea that we've propagated Many years ago. It's right here It only has one bloom on it And I can show you the mother plant when we get over to the driveway garden Now we arrive at my favorite room in the house the hydrangea room beautiful pinks Lovely moths creamy whites A hint of lime green Primarily smooth hydrangeas in this garden I believe I have two maybe three panicle hydrangeas But this garden is really a celebration Of our native smooth hydrangea Mini mavet limetta Here's mighty pip right here invincibel spirit too Hoss halo always is filled with pollinators Here's one of our panicle hydrangeas invincibel spirit here in the distance And then invincibel ruby is lining hummingbird way invincibel ruby is really nice if you want a smooth hydrangea That stays pink for a long time and doesn't get too big That's the one I would recommend for small spaces I suppose that this incredible hydrangea is slightly obstructing the view towards the library But that's all right And you know what? I think I need friends is a stronger focal point coming out of hummingbird way It's nice to have the stone rug here But i'm just not getting a focal point for some reason and i'm thinking what we might need to do Is two more larger pots a grouping of three pots right here with maybe coordinating dahlias Let me know what you think about that But this is how the backyard is looking in late june Now let's head over to the driveway garden Come on, gracie. Where are you at? Hey princess you want to lead the way? Sorry friends. I've just got my gardening tools and my coffee out and about today Had to stake up some more lilies And there's always snips around See more eastern moon lilies right here Americana white geraniums and the pots And you know what friends they are going brown pretty quickly on me They're very sensitive in terms of water They really don't want to get wet. Do they? Well, I probably picked the wrong geranium For someone who lives in a wet climate live and learn right Storm-proof hydrangeas around the bistro garden This is a stone that I found in our front yard when I was creating this garden last year Now our house was built in 1944, I believe So I don't know what happened in 1968, but I found that buried In the front yard And isn't it so much fun to see what popped up in the bistro garden? This plant is a wonderful cut flower. Hey grace And it's called jewels of opar. It's not in bloom yet, but it has this wonderful succulent green foliage It's going to branch out But I love that lime green color in the bistro and I love that. I didn't have to plant it Last week in the driveway garden We had pink flight and rosella's dream in full bloom. Sorry if you can hear grace in the background. She wants to come out Had to put her inside for a second This week we have purple prince and gaucho blooming So here's a look at purple prince This is an ot lily with subtle pleasant fragrance And then right here we have gaucho lily Which is a big white oriental lily with a lovely raspberry center and nice freckling Let me take you over here and i'll show you where the mother plant is for that hydrangea This hydrangea was here when we moved in And all I did was take a tip cutting from this hydrangea I cut right below a node right here Stuck it into water and within about a month it had produced roots And once it produced roots at that point, I stuck it in potting soil And if you're interested in watching a video on propagating hydrangeas I do have one and i'll go ahead and pop that in the description section down below Before I say goodbye for the day. I want to fill you in on another garden project that we're going to be working on this fall Last year I told you that there were some areas in my backyard that I didn't like showing and that I was kind of embarrassed about And the one area that I want to tackle this year is the area that you see when you immediately enter our property Now where I was standing previously is what I normally show you But here's what this area actually looks like when you pull into the property It's not a very welcoming view is it now we have a lot of necessary things going on We have power running over to the flower stand. This area is really compacted because there's also Trenching and pipes and electrical work that goes back to the garden library And so I don't really want to dig down in this area But I do want to create a beautiful stone pathway that leads you to this gate And then we can dig a little bit right here And right here because the trench runs basically where the grass isn't growing and then back through grace's garden and over to the library But we're going to create some beautiful beds right here Fill those probably primarily with evergreens I think I want to stick with evergreens over here and then whatever we plant along the side here Needs to be able to be run over with our recycling and trash bins. So we're going to tackle this area That well, it doesn't look very nice now, but hopefully by next year it will look beautiful So thanks so much for joining me for today's garden walk and talk and I will see you back here next week I think it's going to be a really hot one next week. It looks like a couple days in the hundreds See you soon friends Bye