Late Summer Garden Tour 🌸 Our Last Look Before Fa

There's a familiar chill in the air, but before fall gets here, let's have a late summer garden tour and take a look at all of the stuff going on here in our Upstate New York Zone 6A garden. I want to start right here, Eric. Look at this vignette. I love this Powerball Hydrangea with these gorgeous purples around it. The Powerball Hydrangea is a panicle, but it has kind of a rounder bloom. If you come in close, Eric, it is so dense and heavy, but it's not flopping. These stems are really strong, and we're actually seeing quite a lot of pollinator action on it, even though it's a dense flower, and it's being beaten pollinator-wise by the Backham Black Sedum. I love how, as a gardener, you just stick your hands right into a flower covered in bees, but the dark foliage giving way to these really pretty flowers here in the late summer, this is an awesome little combo. Above it, towering, is our native New York Ironweed. It's a Vernonia Nova something. It's got a really great long botanical name. I'll pop that up on the screen, and it's got another olive strappy foliage. Really cool flower, too. It's so vivid. It's a really pretty plant, and that'll reseed itself around the garden, and we'll come upon one of those seedlings very soon. This is Verbena Officinalis. It's Bampton is the common name of it. Really awesome. It's so hard to describe. It's not strappy. It's wispy, and it's got almost a silvery effect, so this texture combination is really awesome, and we have it planted here next to the Firefly Oriental Spruce that, in time, will get, you know, about eight feet tall, two or three feet wide in this location. Nice yellow foliage accent, and it's kind of hiding a little seedling. That is the Vernonia seedling we were just talking about. Really excited to get that relocated to somewhere that we want it to be nice and towering. We repeated the Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo around the Pondless Waterfall. Oh, wait. We should mention the fact that this entire garden was planted last May. Yeah, it's only had one full year. Two full seasons. Two full growing seasons, but, I mean, this is pretty good for two years. Part of our design idea for this space is to be a little more natural with it, so, yes, we have the Supertunia River. We have some hydrangeas, but we have some self-seeders like the Verbena Benariensis. There's also a Silene that's kind of seeded itself around. We have Valerian planted, so this area is, over time, going to be even more natural. Above the waterfall at the top, we have Oakleaf hydrangea, which are native to the United States. I wouldn't say the Japanese maple hybrids are particularly native. No, but I like what they do for the space. Exactly. I think it's come together really nicely. The sound is so good. This has been awesome to have over these last two years. I feel like, Eric, should we continue along this border? Yeah, we certainly can. Or should we jump across to the other side? Well, these gorgeous Little Lime Punches before we move on, because this is their moment to shine. This is their moment. Little Lime Punch, it's probably the most vivid of all the hydrangeas, the panicle hydrangeas. It gets this really nice fruit punch color. And there's another one, really sturdy stems on this one. This is planted four years ago. 2022, yeah. 2022. This whole bed around the terrace is 2022. But Eric had pruned these for size, a little bit smaller. They'll get a little bit bigger than this. Just really great color. And again, super sturdy like those Power Balls. I think they look great up underneath Diana Contorted Larch. This will have a really beautiful golden color in the next couple weeks. And it's a deciduous conifer, so it will be bald. But we'll get to see all the really cool twisty branches. Recently, we added Incrediball Stormproof to this location. Another super sturdy hydrangea, this being an arborescence. These are just little babies, though. Eventually, they'll get about four feet tall. This will be a nice, solid clump. For being little babies, they're putting out quite a lot of flowers here at the end of summer. Not four years old, just planted in the spring. This is the Center Stage Pink Crepe Myrtle. If these come back for us, they'll likely die to the ground. They're not going to be a big tree like you people in the South get to have. But it's a really cool dark foliage, nice flower, works really well in this area. And then on the ground, we have tried the Aromance Mulberry, which is a great annual. In the heat of the summer, when it was really, really hot, they kind of died back a little bit, didn't look so great. But now that things are cooling down a bit, we have more of that beautiful fragrance and really beautiful color. And oh, look, some more self-seeded Verbena Benariensis, which you're going to notice has really gotten into its mode. And it's just this nice see-through plant that gives you so much pollinator interest this time of year. Going back in this direction, we were talking earlier about sun patients and what we think of each individual variety. There's the Glow and the Blush. This is the Blush Pink. I don't know. What do you think of this one, Eric? It's not my preferred color of the sun patients. There's almost like an orange undertone to it that I don't care for. Yeah, it's not my favorite either. There's also the Orchid Blush over here. That I like. That's pretty. That one's nice. But the blushes don't have as saturated of a color. Look at this Rock and Play in the Blues covered in pollinators. Those look amazing. Really cool. Next to those, you can see Red Zeppelin. That's the Callicanthus with the red leaves, putting on quite a show at the moment. Look at how that stem has grown so much since we planted these. I think we're actually going to get a flower on it. That flower is orange, which is interesting. Yeah, it's that one's not going to be one that you grow for the flower. This urn has been controversial between Eric and I. I wanted to plant less in it than we have in the past. We usually pack things in a little bit tighter. What do you think at this point now, Eric, after seeing it grow? I think what I'm learning about the Jensen urns is I like them to not necessarily have so much of a trailer in them because you can't really see the structure of them. That's what I'm learning about them. So we want to have more of an upright feature in this. Okay, that makes sense to me. I love the combination of plants. I'm going to fully admit I missed a bunch of weeks of spraying Captain Jack's every day or every Sunday. So there's quite a lot of dead or budworm damage on some of our petunias and super bells. So if some of them don't look as full as they should, that's why. Don't blame the plant. Blame me. Down in front of our Jensen urn, we have a bubbly wine weigela. I like that golden pop that it brings to the space, especially right in front of our black dragon cryptomeria. As we're awaiting that to get bigger, we've planted a purple fountain grass, which is an annual for us. And then behind that, this is a deep, wet corner of the garden. So we have filled the space with two types of dogwoods. We have Tartarian dogwood called Sargent Pepper, which has a kind of a variegated, not variegated, but it's got like a pickety edge around it, right? Yeah, it's got the white margin that turns pink, white, that's much clearer. And then behind that is Arctic Red Twig dogwood. I think we're going to have a spectacular display of redwood this winter, and it's going to look particularly nice popping against the trunk of our river birch. We're still waiting for our avalanche birch trees to get mature enough for their trunks to turn white. I'm really looking forward to that. Down in front of that is another Vernonia. This is a cultivar. This is Prairie Princess. So if you don't have the space for the giant native that gets eight feet tall, this is a dwarf version that'll get about two to three feet tall and wide, but it'll still give you that late summer pollinator and color. In front of that's our Comfrey, which we were inspired to plant to make Comfrey tea out of to produce a nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Do you think we're actually going to do it, Christopher? I don't think we're going to. Well, you know, we could do it this year because they are going to need to get cut back for the season. We could try. I think we should definitely try because we planted them with that intention. We might as well see how it goes. We do have our stand of Crema roses. We didn't rabbit protect these. Normally, we put black chicken wire around the base of our roses, and look what happens if we forget to do that. The rabbits get a little treat. Oh, those are quite pruned. Also, if you forget to do something like a treat for Budworms Weekly, this is what you'll get with your super bells. So that's what we have there. But the tater tot in the center looks great. Yeah, that's good. Come on over this way, Christopher, because we have more verbena veneriansis. We have a little update on our Let's Dance Hot Stepper. This is a new variety of hydrangea from Pupa Winners. When we planted these in the spring, they were just like teeny tiny little one gallons. You can see they put on a ton of growth. They have been producing flowers, but next year is when we'll really get to see how they do. More of the orchid blush, sun patience really showing off this time of year. Rock and play in the blue salvia. And Christopher, do you think if you stand on that side so we can get an idea of Monty with the torch-like coleus with the sinureta pink pleome that we could kind of get that view for a second? Let's get that view. Oh, this is such a look at this beautiful camera work. Okay, and now I'll do one of these like, and we're panning and you're panning. Look at the Monty blue spruce. Remember, Monty was transplanted this past spring, and I think it's done very well. The true tell is going to be how it appears next spring once it makes it through the winter because it's hard to see whenever greens are struggling sometimes. I love that combination with the torch-like coleus and the sinureta pink pleome, which Christopher really pushed for. And I like it, Christopher. I'm very happy to hear that. You know, it's so fun. I'm standing on the bench. I didn't suddenly get really tall. What I'm noticing is we have this really awesome block of color effect happening. It's cool. I also appreciate the one night the deer got in and got this phlox because now we have these gorgeous phlox flowers this late in the season. And we've got this nice verbena and phlox and cleome and coleus and salvia and more verbena. And I'm really loving this combination. And this, we kind of just redid this spring. So I'm excited to see how it's coming along. But come around here, Christopher, and let's move on with these Invincible mini malvets. Now, one night that the deer came in, it also nibbled off all the buds on the mini malvets. You can see there's old flowers. This is all new growth from where the deer came through. And now we're getting flowers late in the season. So that's fun. Love that. And look, our evovulus is coming back after the rabbits attacked it. You know, I'm really impressed. He put these cages on after these were eaten to the ground. I did not have as much faith as you did. So I'm very happy that you did because it's such a pretty plant. But they were gone. The deer or the bunny came through. They were. Also, before we move on, I want to give everybody an update on our papal bark maple with our super blue angelonia planted underneath it. And our square of us is strong box, right? There's strong box, strong box, inkberry holly. I got to say that angelonia is gorgeous. I like I, I really like it. And I'm really impressed with how beautiful the foliage is on it. I think that was one of the things that was like an improvement that it didn't get one of the diseases angelonia get. But the color is killing me. It's so pretty. The other thing is this only gets overhead water from the lawn sprinklers. So this is a snapdragon. And I think you can do the little like talking mouth thing with it. Can you? I don't know. I don't think I can. But let's move on to here's another sun patients. This one's super intense. Yeah, this is that glow versus the blush. This is rose glow. I like the glow. I really like this intense pinky color with blue foliage. So I think it looks really nice combined with this Japanese white pine. The other thing Christopher, if you scoot this way and then come towards me to do one of my favorite moments in the garden this entire season. We took the time this past spring to make this moment a little more formal. So we moved. I don't remember what was here. Oh, it was catmint, right? There was a lot of catmint something we made a little more formal by making this double hedge of unplugged pink with a gust of lavender heliotrope. So that's the little formal part with the matching urns on the end that once again would be flowering if we had remembered to spray for budworms in the month of August. They were so pretty. This was it was double grapefruit, right? Yeah. Oh, it was really pretty. But then I then all of a sudden it gets a little askew with new luna marcoleus here and new luna marcoleus there. So there's a little formality to, you know, center the eye and then you can start being a little bit more fun with the placement of your plants. Another moment I really love that's such a surprise. The champagne majorette hollyhock combined with the reminiscent pink rose and the pink rose with the new luna marcoleus is a great moment. It's really pretty. And I am glad we didn't trim the flowers off the new luna marcoleus because the pollinators have loved it in the late season. It's true. Earlier I was starting to trim them off over there and I thought, why am I doing this? Yeah, it's fall. This is the time for it to happen. Come on this way, Christopher. A hedge of... this one always escapes me. It is. Don't tell me. It is not. It is. It's a begonia. It's surefire white begonia. It sure is. I'm a fan. I will admit I did end up liking this and I'm okay that you didn't. I like it and then I don't like it. It depends on my mood. You know what it is like as an idea it's so good but I do agree begonias in general. This didn't look great till I got the leaf blower out last night after you did all the edging and blew most of the petals away. In the center of this bed is quickfire fab and this I pruned really hard in the spring kind of in an attempt to size control it and it has size controlled it and it's also created enormous flowers this year so I really love that hydrangea there. We have just the beginning of color starting to turn on our aronia. This is snowfire aronia and it's snowfire aronia because in the spring it's covered in white flowers and pollinators and then in the fall the fire happens and it's going to turn this bright orangy red. I love that addition. Really do. We have steady eddy viburnum right here. This is getting taken out of the garden. Shh. Don't tell anyone. We're going to replace it with something really really cool. Update on this square right here. More of the super blue angelonia and our Princeton century ginkgo. It's a slow grower but I love it so much. It was staked for a long time and then we took the stake off because sometimes if you stake a tree too long it messes with the strength of the trunk but we'll see how this goes. Yeah we'll see. Oh right behind it though I am loving this addition this past spring. This is deja blue spruce. We talked a lot about this in our previous tour videos. Really a great addition to the garden but let's continue this way Christopher and show off these gorgeous zinnias you grew from seed this past spring. This is a floret seed variety. It's vintage. Oh victorian wedding. Victoria wedding and they've gotten pretty tall but they're supposedly known for their very small flower. That bee just woke up. Little bee friend. Very cute. We've got our bosque bells. They're not flowering right now. We've got the end of some let's dance lovable flowers. I did go through and deadhead them so that's why you don't see the old blooms on there. Honeysuckle sensation putting out some new flowers but it's really past the main part of its flowering but I love this moment here with the verbena benariensis combined with the tottering by gently rose which is renowned for its rose hips so we won't be deadheading it anytime soon. We're going to let that turn into hips for the rest of the season. Our let's dance sky views put on a ton of growth so you can see the old blooms behind all the new growth coming and then the new growth is also flowering so lots of flowers on this. I also went through and deadheaded some of that. I missed this one over here but you can see this is an old bloom here. Can you see that? Faded and papery. Fresh and then new coming so it's a continuous blooming hydrangea. This was a great addition too. This was uh you know it. We all know it. Let's say it together. Moonstone. Good job everyone. So this is Moonstone Blue Spruce. We just added this past spring. It's from Isley. I love that the icy blue plays with the midnight wine shine and the lemon coral sedum and the green of the hydrangea. It's a great combination and it helps pull the blue from the weeping white spruce over here so this has really turned into one of my favorite moments in the garden. I think the biggest surprise in the garden this year is the addition of the Red Abyssinian Banana which was in a tiny little container. It's so cool. It's really fun. You know and even though we don't do a lot of tropicals in our garden, I feel like this color really kind of works with a lot of the stuff around it. There is a verdony yellow cypress that in time is going to be a little bit taller and I kind of want to try and save this over winter because I'd love to see this playing off of a vibrant yellow. And then before we pop to that back corner, Reminiscent Ginger. There's three very small roses planted in this urn which is also new for us this season. It is on drip but look at this foliage. It was covered in flowers. This gets deadheaded all the time because it's so easy because it's right up close. Beautiful. Really excited to see how this rose does. We're going to pop this in the garage to let it relax for winter. As we come through here you can see more of the Midnight Wineshine underneath the Caterina Fountain. The Catmint's coming back from its big cutback earlier in the season. The Lady of Shallot Roses, they're also coming back after their big trim. Eric's favorite hydrangea ever, Sublime. Still looking great. You can see how they do darken to a different green but it takes a long time for them to get to this point and this is really only when they're very late in the season. Let's run over here. I'm very attracted to the pink of the Candy Crush Hibiscus. It's so upright and bright and vibrant and really gives the late summer a punch and next to it is the Very Awesome Hibiscus. That's more of a sprawler. It gets a lot wider but we do love both of them. Here's more of the Global Oakleaf Hydrangea. This is all new growth so that's the reason you're not seeing any flowers. They were just planted this year. They're on the small side and of course we talked in our last video a lot about what's going to happen here. We actually have some of those plants ready to get planted. The New Zealand Purple Castor Bean. Look at that cool bug on that leaf. Oh my gosh, it's one of those ones that looks like a leaf. That's cool. Can someone pop the name of that bug into the comments? That is a cool bug. I love that. We just gotta admire that for a moment. Really love that bug. It's cool. What? That's neat. Look at that little wing on it. Looks like a leaf. Wow. It's breezy today, guys. Sorry. No, but it's so beautiful. That's fun. I love that. And this spot here, the Pink Lightning Phlox. It's the same series as the White Phlox earlier. Another really nice vibrant pink similar to Candy Crush, tying that in in this area. This is the most asked about grass in the comments section. Northwind Panicum. I mean, in the wind. Look how cool this grass is. It's awesome. More of that Cleome with the Lark Ascending Rose. Wow. This is so cool. Eric got some new supports for it, so we're going to be putting those in come springtime. This is the time of year when Quickfire and Pinky Winky are really showing off the most. These hydrangeas have been here. The Quickfires for eight years. I think the Pinky Winkies are a year behind, but they do eventually get bigger. So I'm excited to watch how this continues developing. Unfortunately, our big Jensen Urn got the budworms. So guess what? We're going to be making a big old change with these. We were at a garden center. We found some awesome fresh color plants that are more fall inspired. So be on the lookout later this week for the video of us replanting these. It's going to be a really nice different collection for us. The Blue Artist Adgeratum that we have hedging out this entire curve. This is a rock star. This plant I would put in the same category as Rock and Play in the Blue Salvia. It does what you expect it to. It blooms nonstop. It's tidy. It's just great. Love this one. Also the Totally Tempted Vivid Violet Cufia. That annual is another rock star. Great vivid color. Plays off so well from the Anna's Magic Ball Arborvitae in there. And the Torchlight Coleus. This has been another surprise this year. What do you think about that, Eric? I really am enjoying the green edge and the bright pink center. With that pink pulled directly into Oh So Easy Peasy Rose. Which, gosh, this is such a good plant. It really does have color. There's a couple rest periods of maybe a week, week and a half. But then it just starts putting out more sporadic pink. So you do have color all season. And the Tromner Spruce. From that angle, Eric, you can see it has chosen a leader. It sure has. And I'm excited to see how it grows. I think it's going to be good. And I was also thinking if the leader kind of goes in towards the garden, it'll probably balance out because it's close to the fence. Yeah, it'll be really nice. More of these quickfire pinky winky quickfire and fall in love sweetly. This could be, I know this is probably your favorite fall perennial. Oh, for sure. This is my favorite fall perennial. And I really also enjoy that Back in Black Sedum. That one's good. And this is Autumn Joy Sedum, which will be blooming very soon. These are just starting to crack a little bit of color. Really pretty. This area here is exploding with growth and color because we had taken a not-so-happy branch off of our redbud. And now this area is just getting lush. Just some different small shrubs that we have in here. There's some Dervilla, some Leucothoe. Even the, whatchamacallit? I thought I'd be able to see from over there, but I can't. So let me come back. Even the, oh my gosh, now I'm having a name. The Sun King Aurelia? The Sun King Aurelia is still getting that nice vibrancy, even though it gets quite a bit of sun. I would say even the dark side of the moon, Astilbe, is growing quite well in this area, just because they have more sun. Yes. I think we should thin out some of this, the bumble sky. This is something we bought together very early on in gardening. Just three small plants. And it does reseed itself. We've also divided it a little bit, but it has grown so far back. I think we're just going to thin it out a little bit because we're going to have it forever, one way or the other. These tough stuff, Hydrangeas, oh, it's tough for me. This is one of my favorite plants ever, but as you can see, it's not blooming for us. It's really sad. So these are going to be getting replaced by something that will bloom for us. That's the plan. Over here, there's a little bit of change coming. We're going to be adding in a little bit more of a dark foliage plant here. That's a little more reliable for us. Another Sun King Aurelia. This one does get quite a lot of sun, so it gets a little unhappy. But over time as the Pagoda Dogwood gets bigger, that will be handled. And this Pagoda Dogwood, this too will be getting probably limbed up just a bit to make room for some of the other happy things below it. This collection of all greens. I kind of like that it's all green here. It's cool. You know, there's, oh gosh, Huccarella, Heuchera, Hosta. This is Love Story. Really pretty Hosta. And that's a Fatsia right there. Not hardy. Yep. Five Fingers Fatsia. Not hardy. We'll probably lift that and bring it inside for the winter because it looks really nice there. We're having a little rebloom here on the arch with the Betty Corning Clematis. And we did learn the Betty Corning Clematis really bullied out the poor generous Gardener Rose. So we did not get a lot of flower on that. And they really only got this tall. They did not. But we've got a plan, believe it or not. This is getting replaced. This is getting replaced. It's been here since before we started YouTube. So it's going to be, it's gonna be hard to say goodbye. But what's coming is going to be really easy to say hello to. Now we're in one of my favorite areas of the garden, the hydrangea room. And now you can see there's a whole wide variety of hydrangeas at all different stages of the bloom cycle right now. We have some panicle hydrangeas. This is Bobo hydrangea, blooms on new wood. This is kind of when they're shining right now at the end of summer. But as we move forward, we've got some smooth leaf hydrangeas, Invincible Spirit II. And then we have our combination of Incredible, Incredible Blush, Invincible Sublime, and Invincible Lace. Still looking pretty nice, but you can see that end of season color happening. I love the Kinsley Ghost here on the fence, just starting to produce those red berries that the birds are going to devour. And that blue bract next to the purple of the Winecraft Black Smokebush is one of my favorite color combinations. And I'm so happy we added in the Meteor Shower Verbena here this season, because as the magic show Ever After Veronica fades, that purple color still continues on in that Verbena. And I really love how it plays with the Peachberry Ice Coral Bells and the Surefire Rose Begonia. Another surprise addition this year that I really enjoy more than I thought is the Velveteen Coleus. You know what I think is so interesting is not that I don't like that Coleus, but I think any Coleus would have been good in that spot. Just that nice mound of color. And the major difference with this one is the tiny foliage on this one versus the big, bold foliage of the Torchlight or the Newly Noir that we use elsewhere in the garden. You may remember last fall we hedged out the Invincible, Incredible Hedge with New Gen Freedom Boxwood. And they suffered a lot of winter dieback, but they bounced back beautifully this spring. There does seem to be quite a bit of spider web action happening in them. Have you noticed that? I have. I don't think it's spider mite, because the plants are fine, but there's some webs. Yeah, definitely a lot of webs. Then we move forward. Our Lamium, this is Pink Shubbley Lamium, does gorgeous in the spring and gorgeous in the fall. In the summer, it struggles a little bit, so it looks a little sparse, but right now it's starting to bounce back. We have our Aphrodite Sweet Shrub here. This is actually getting moved, because we're going to add in, shocking, more hydrangeas into the hydrangea room. Winecraft Gold Smokebush, very nice after its major cutback. I'm not sure if you remember, but it was basically cut to here. Yeah. And that's all new growth this season. That is one season. So it's really happy. Invincible Ruby underneath. You can see how Invincible Ruby, as it fades, the underside of the flower has ruby tones still, which I think is so interesting. Really cool plant. And then we come through this way. We've got a whole mix of part shade to shade loving plants. We've got Brunnera and Hostiles. We've got this cool coleus for new for next year. It's called Pepper Flakes. It's got the flakes. Did it grow on you, Christopher? Nope. No, you hate it? I really dislike it. Oh, I think it's kind of cool. That's funny. And then what makes it even more bizarre is that it's got these purpley blue flowers on it. Yeah, it's not my favorite. I will say I don't mind the size, the shape, all of it. It's just the color combo. Oh, I think it's not good for me. And it adds a nice contrast to this. Then we have this really cool Snakeroot right here. This is pretty. What do you think of that? Yeah, this one, and it is not Simipuga anymore. It's Actaea, I learned. Oh my gosh, what is this back here? This is like, that is a big weed. Whoa. Whoops. What a, that, you know, it's easier to pull them when they're big, I guess. It sure is. Wow. Run that over later with the lawnmower. We have our Willow here, and underneath that is more Hassa. It's a nice combination. We have a Limelight Prime Hydrangea, another panicle. So this is an improvement on the Limelight. It's a little bit smaller. It gets a little more intense color, better flowers on it. Our Weewights, like we mentioned earlier in our Hydrangea video this season, those are also getting moved. And when I, you know, when I say we're moving things, that usually means they're moving to a friend's garden. Yep, somewhere that they can be more protected. Yes. Where we have them. But, you know us, we're never gonna like, not replace a Hydrangea with another newer, cooler, better Hydrangea. So stay tuned for that one. We're also going to move our Pung Hill Japanese Maple, but it's not going to go very far. And this one, we're actually moving within the garden. I think it's going to pop up and over here because this is all kind of going to get rearranged this fall too. So stay tuned for that. Christopher, what do you think of the way the blooms are fading on the Let's Dance Blue Jangles? You know, I don't mind them. You know, at this point they get a little bit of the brown, but there's like a kaleidoscope effect. I think they're pretty still. And it's still putting out new blooms too. Wild, which is really pretty. The rock star of the Hydrangeas this season. And then we have our Ruguchii Clematis that we kind of forgot to tie onto the RV, but we'll get there. So our Lime Rookie has really, really, really flopped, but it's still putting out flowers, so that's exciting. Another cool hydrangea. And then look at the growth the Gatsby Pink put on this year. It's wild how big this plant has gotten. It really struggled this past winter, but the growth it's put on this year is insane. It is. And the funny thing is because this is an old wood hydrangea, we can't really prune it back now. But if we do need to size control it, we could do that after it flowers next year. Yes, we do have one of the Roseandraniums that was under planting. It has grown all the way up here. That's pretty cool. That's pretty high. Wow. Yeah, that's pretty cool for Roseandranium. So moving on to more hydrangeas, of course, because this is the entrance to the hydrangea room. It's our Let's Dance Skyview Hedge, planted just last fall. And this gives you a better idea because I didn't deadhead any of these. This gives you a better idea of that continuous bloom. So earlier in the season, later in the season, and then more buds yet to come. So really cool. Looks like we have a little vole action happening under here. This garden has been very vole-tastic this season. Yeah, there's a lot of voles happening. Let me move this way and finish up with our hydrangea extravaganza. But I'll mention the Tricolor Beach first because it's a very asked about tree. Firelight Tidbit hydrangea. Look at these really cool little hydrangea. This is mature size. This is as big as this shrub will get for you. Blooms on new wood, really low maintenance, super easy. If you're looking for like a groundcovery type hydrangea, this is a great alternative because it gets nice and wide. Behind that is our Faded Invincible Spirit 2 Hedge. Now this is kind of how the blooms fade in full sun, facing south. Still a green undertone, but I think we could probably do with a little deadheading here. What do you think? Maybe just a touch of a cleanup. A touch of a cleanup. They've done so well overall. And then we'll come over here. Oh, we should show them the darkest night butterfly bush. Which, oh my goodness, glorious. Look at that flower. I mean, really zoom in on that. The depth of color on that is amazing. There's a little touch of like a almost like yellowy pink in the center of each flower. Yeah, it's like iridescent. And then as you come down here, our Red Fox Katsura is looking really nice. And this will put on a gorgeous fall color. We were debating transplanting this tree, but we don't know where we would transplant it. But we're thinking of moving it into the backyard, but we're not quite sure where. This is a Lime Ricky here. Got a little nibbled by some deer from the street. Some street walking deer, as we call them around here. Another Firelight Tidbit. And then this is a Flop Stravaganza. What is this? This is our Vanilla Strawberry, which normally I think is a really pretty hydrangea. But man, we had those storms and it really, really flopped. But it's still a pretty color. I think there's just enough color on top that it just looks like we did it on purpose. And I don't know how I feel about that. It looks like a not so tasteful choice. But it wasn't a choice. It just happened. It's a saucer. It's like a hydrangea flying saucer. A fun spot here at the front of the house is the Heritage River Birch Bed. Below that, we had a couple extra annuals. So we put the Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo and some Supervena Cobalt in the ground. These only get lawn sprinkler. They get the full southern exposure and they've done so well. This could be a really fun thing to repeat, but maybe with different colors, maybe add in a third annual, maybe take out some of these catmint and turn it into a whole big sea of color. What do you think? I think that's a fun idea. I remember when we originally planted this with shrubs and catmint to alleviate the work of having to replant annuals every year. But it seems that, you know, we missed it. So now we're going to kind of revert the other direction. Like a little punch, a little passion in this color up here. Oh my goodness. I think I swallowed a bug. Let's go up here and talk about the best container planting we've ever done. And it's kind of ironic because we used colors that we kind of have never used successfully. And I love this color combo. Oh, it's just that we've never really used peachy orange and purple as a rule because we usually have more of the pinks and yellow, like light yellows and purples. But look at this Super Beena Peachy Keen. It's incredible. Meteor Shower Verbena, Supertunia Bordeaux, the Variegated Jazz Hands Laura Petalum, and the Super, the Aromance Mulberry Nemesia. Is that not the most glorious mix? I love this combo and I love how it's just like falling out of the container. Spilling, billowing, this side over here doing something slightly different. It's so interesting. It's more wide. This one was a little bit more constrained. And I don't know, I think this mix, it would be hard to not do something identical to this. But I do think knowing what these plants do, we could whip up a recipe where we say, okay, we know we like the Super Beena. So maybe we try different Super Beena and a different Supertunia and a different one of the Nemesia. But we could repeat the plants just in different colors, knowing that we'd have a great success, but just with a different recipe. What do you think? I agree. Or if you find something you really, really love, you can just do it again. I know. You know, we were thinking about how we do like to move things and change things around. I feel like it's kind of like living rooms where you change the pillow covers. That's easy. That's your annuals. But then we sometimes like to move furniture. So when we're moving to Japanese maple, that's like the moving the furniture, right? Yes. Down here, we have very newly planted Let's Dance Skyview hydrangeas. They've only been in the ground a couple months, right? Yeah, maybe July. I think we planted them. Okay. And this is the Southwest exposure. They get very hot sun, a touch of scorch on older growth, no scorch on new growth, still putting out color. There's a grasshopper. And then there's, I think those are muscari that we planted years ago trying to do something. That's kind of silly. On this border, we have quite a bit of repetition of things that we've used before. This is more of the Firelight Tidbit. It is such a good panicle. I think it might be my favorite panicle. A peony changing seasonal color already. Let's Dance Can-Do hydrangea here. And that's underneath a new Little Quickfire hydrangea standard. So we've got the low hydrangea, and then this will be a nice tall hydrangea next to another little, little lime, no little, no little, limelight prime hydrangea. These get so sturdy too. Really nice. And great contrast up against the Shiloh Splash Birch. This put on so much growth this year. It's really awesome. More Fallen Love Sweetly Anemone, a Sun King Aurelia. This is the, oh, some fresh blooms on Incredible Lace. Hang on. I'm catching up. Catching up. Sorry. I'm rushing here. There's so much stuff to see. And this is Invincible Lace hydrangea, which we have in the hydrangea room. The fresh blooms covered in pollinators. That's hysterical. Look at him. He's rolling around. And that's underneath the White Pillar Rose of Sharon. The last Rose of Sharon in our garden. It is blooming, and it is late, late, late in the season. So I don't know. I think I might be on your team of removing it. But I wonder next year, maybe we'll give it a little rejuvenation prune and see what happens. It could be. It's got, I like the height that it's doing. Right. It's got the pillar shape. It's got beautiful clear white flowers and there's tons of buds. But the end of August to be getting color here. I don't know. I don't know if it's worth it so much. I have noticed recently it's been easier to walk by this. And then I realized Eric did some pruning on it. Yep. It's really nice to be able to walk by and not get smacked by this Dandelion Pine. Our Wabi Sabi Japanese Maple looking gorgeous. This is Blue Meringue Pink, which I know they've done some improved versions of this lilac. They call it Blue Meringue Purr Pink now because it's a more purply pink. Okay. But it's growing so well in this spot. And it's, I mean, it's a blooming lilac at the end of the season. Oh, our tiniest hydrangea. This is Tiny Quickfire. How cute. I love the color on this. Really nice foliage too, like very organized, very pretty. This is full size. That's yeah, full size. So if you want a ground cover hydrangea, this is another great alternative. One of the roses that we didn't get to show early in the season because it wasn't ready yet. This is Claire Austin. Really nice, clear white flower, but it does have a touch of yellow involved in some of its blooms with another Raguccii Clematis. Really great pairing on this lovely Agra Frames. This is King Obelisk, right? Yes. This is the King is square shaped and the Queen is round shape. Right. The Dawick Purple Beach, standing up nice and tall. This is a perfect place for this because it won't get very wide at all. And it'll just shoot straight up covering more siding. The Ember Waves, Arborvitae, nice and golden. And here we have, oh my gosh, I think it's Midnight Velvet Sedum. I wanted to say it was Night Embers. Night Embers. Well, don't listen to me. I never know. Well, this is Golden Waves. Maybe this is Night Embers. I think he was right. Mark that one down, folks. But look at this pink with the dark foliage up against that with the green of these faded Invincible Ruby hydrangeas, the cool blue of this Baptisia. It's a perfect little vignette right in one little section there. Oh, there's tons of finches right behind you in the Delphiniums eating the seeds. Oh my goodness. I just saw one fly. Oh yeah, they just scurried away. They just scurried away. But it has been lots of birds in the garden this year, which is really nice to see. When we started in this area, we have one other spot besides this to show you. The Supertunia Mini Vista Plum Veined as a mini hedge around this whole area. It's really nice. It didn't get taken by the Budworms. It was fertilized weekly throughout the season. At this point in the season, it does start to sprawl a bit. So when doing the edging, you do kind of cut off the edges. But otherwise, I would say it's pretty successful. I like that tidy look. So I just want to point out really quickly in this urn, this is that Double Midnight Magenta Superbells. Such a good color. This gets a little bit too much water because it's on drip. It also gets some overspray from the sprinkler. But really happy, beautiful flowers. And the last flower before we go, look at the Spillway Bowl and the containers. Look at this rhythmic blue. Blue. That's so pretty. Amazing. Let's head this way. This bed is getting an overhaul this fall, so stay tuned for that. That's super exciting. Look at our purple pillar. This is our Parkland Pillar Birch Tree. Doing pretty well, right? Yeah, it's a pillar. It's gotten nice and tall. It'll get some nice golden color on it. Another one of our favorite panicle hydrangeas, Pufferfish Hydrangea. I don't think this one has its praises sung enough because I love how big these flower heads are. And it's covered in pollinators. The flower head is loose enough to allow the pollinators into the actual flowers. So I love that one. Carolina, Sweet Carolina Redbud under here. We have some cool hydrangeas we're adding in this fall. They're over there hanging out, awaiting their star turn coming up. Lots of plants we've been collecting. Fall is a great time to head to your local garden center to get those end of season sales. And usually the prices are pretty good this time of year as well. This area here on the north side of our house has turned out quite nice this season. We added in a Surefire White Begonia underneath this I love the addition of this Wild Berry Rose Heuchera and that color combo with the Gatsby Moon Oakleaf Hydrangea above it. This is such a pretty flower. Look how dense it is. It looks fake. It's so dense. It's so dense. We do struggle with some flopping on it because the flower looms are so heavy, but I'm hoping as it matures, it will get better. We've got some Bronnera and a Sun King Aurelia. This is a faded Lavender Mist or Phyllichthrum. I don't even want to try that one myself. Lavender Mist Phyllichthrum. It's really pretty. It will recede itself around the garden. And then we have our Spillway Bowl. What do you think is the best angle for this, Christopher? I think if I stand on this side, you stand there. Let's try that. Yes. So it's planted underneath our Bloodgood Japanese Maple, which I think is showing a little stress, but I only think it's showing stress because when we dug this out in the spring, we did have to disturb the roots on it. So I think that's why that's happening. I think next year, once it's settled in, it'll bounce back beautifully. Look at that Bronnera foliage. That is Queen of Spades. That's Jack of Spades. Jack of Spades. And then we've got our Geranium, our New Hampshire Purple Geranium in front of it. Lots of Ragged Robin foliage, the Silene that Christopher grew from seed. And then some gorgeous Hostas back there, Empress Wu, and then Neptune happening right here. We do have a Let's Dance Big Band Hydrangea. This is what their flowers look like faded. They're that beautiful blue color. And then they'll fade out like this. Any of these containers you see here as specimens in any of these plants you see are specimens in container. We're just going to pop them out, bring them into the unheated garage over the winter and let them go dormant there. And then we're up here on the terrace, our Japanese Maple Seedling looking cool. And then Christopher, let's switch places. Which way are we going? We'll go that way. Look at this container. I just love it. Oh wow, look, the wirevine. It's made it like up out of the top. Nice update on these containers. We have many videos where we go through every plant on these, so I don't want to bore you with that again today, but they do look gorgeous. And your Sweet Pea Vine is really doing well. Yeah, look at that. Lavender Pea. What's it called? Lavender Queen. Lavender Queen something vine. Pea Flower. Pea Flower Vine. Finally made it to the top. Pretty flower. I don't know. Is it supposed to look this yellow, do you think? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe? It's a pretty flower, not a success of a vine. Oh, One Little Penelope Lively joining us at the end of the season. Very nice. Really cute. And then this is the Shadow Storm Sweet Potato Vine that we had planted by the Palmless Waterfall last year. I really like that. I do too. Let's do this one next year. Really great texture. The surprise of the season, Christopher, come on in here, has been these. The Roccapoco Impatience in the center of our hanging baskets. Gorgeous, intense color. Really pretty. The Sun Pendants. This is hot pink Sun Pendants. And then we have our Terrenia and our Lamium. The Lamium is hardy for us, so this will go in the ground in the fall underneath a tree in a nice shady area. But I'm really, really happy about these hanging baskets. And everybody asks about these hanging baskets. And the source that we had for them. Sorry, I think I just pounded my microphone. And the source that we have for them is, was on Wayfair, but they're not there anymore. So I don't know where we can, where you can get them now. But we really like them. And then we have some houseplants in here hanging out, taking a vacation. And that's basically it for the garden tour. Fall is a great time for planting and we have some awesome projects lined up. So if you want to see what's happening in our garden this autumn, please make sure to click like and subscribe. Again, I'm Eric. And I'm Christopher. And we're Grow For Me Gardening. Thanks for growing with us.