Bringing Fall Into The Garden | Flower Shed Reveal + New Plants

Hi friends! Well, welcome back to the garden. It has been a really fun week and yes, I caught a little bit of fall fever. So, stay tuned till the end of the video. My mom and I spent a morning together just puttering around back at the flower shed. I can't wait to show it to you. We added a little, little bit of fall to the area and just got it all cleaned up and it looks really pretty. We had a lot of fun together. So, first thing on the list, I had these white containers filled with a variety of plants. We had used these for a birthday event. They were on some big tables at a birthday event, family event, and I've been slowly using the plants, but I had a couple geraniums left. I wanted to go ahead and get them out, get them potted up so I can enjoy them in the garden and then bring them inside this winter. So, geraniums root really, really good. This one is really, really flimsy, but got this little baby shoot. It's got little growth points here and I can just stick it in the soil. It's kind of like coleus. It will root really, really easy and I don't know why this one got really beat up. Maybe it got too much water, but it still looks pretty and I think we can enjoy it in this little sweet bumblebee container. Okay, well, such an easy little project, but so good to get those containers out of the way. So, I've got them over here. I'm going to repurpose that soil in the next few days. I'm sure I'll use it up. Then, I can wash these up and actually donate them because I just don't use this bright white container in my garden. It's just not what I like. I know some people may really like it. I think it can be beautiful with really bright flowers, but glad to get this potted up. We're going to take it down probably to the patio. Then, I just want to show you back here. I did save these little vinca. They were just too sweet to let go and I had these pots sitting here. So, I'm just going to see. I think this one's going to continue to bloom. I also wanted to tell you I did some cuttings of my hydrangea and they're staying green. I need to make sure that they don't get too much water. Next time it rains, I think I'm going to stick them in the shed because I don't want them to get soaked. I'm trying to see if they'll root in and I can propagate some climbing hydrangea and then the other vinca. I have a container that's waiting for something. I may do a cutting of some sedum in there. It's a great time of year to start propagating some plants. All right, friends. Well, just a few days ago at the end of the week, I pulled out these two hostas from a window box over on the side of the shed. That was in last week's video. I wanted to get at least one of them in the ground today. I have a spot over here in the garden that I had a bunch of ajuga. For some reason, I think maybe the bunnies were sleeping on it because it got flat overnight and then it just disappeared. So, it just disappeared overnight. I think it'll be a perfect spot for one of these hostas. These hostas should get about 36 inches and it's kind of an empty space. I do have a hydrangea here that will fill in, but I think the two can work together great. So, I just wanted to get this one popped in and then I want to see if I have a spot for the shadowland. I'm going to be planting these as I redo a garden space, but maybe we can go ahead and find a home today and get it in the ground. I don't like to have to keep checking on the plants and making sure that it stays alive until I can get it planted. So, let's get this one in right here. Great roots on this. Now, I'm not going to divide this hosta. It's only a year or two old, so I think it's going to be just fine. In a few years, we can divide it. I'm going to be dividing hostas in a couple, well, about a month. So, if you are, I know there's tons of videos on it, but I'm going to do an established hosta garden and really clean it up. Oh, huge worm! Oh my gosh! Oh, it's a huge, it's not a jumping worm, but it's a huge worm. They're good for the garden, so stay right there, buddy. Yeah, I've never had a juga do this. It's basically just kind of, I don't know if it got too wet, but that hosta will be beautiful. I have a heuchera back here. I have a grass. I need to trim on my spirea, but it's okay. It's doing great. Okay, so I decided to put the second one back here in this new shade garden space. Now, this is a, I think it's some type of a canthus, maybe whitewater. I know it will get huge, but it's a baby. This other one is getting eaten up by something. I have no idea how these are going to do in this garden, so we will do a trial and error and see how they come back next year, and we'll also see, of course, this hosta will do great. It will come back for sure. I wanted to show you, though, the jasmine. It's got a bunch of leaf foliage in it from the storm, but it's growing, and I'm so happy about it because this is an evergreen jasmine. It's hardy to seven, but we'll just have to see how our winter goes, but it is growing, and I'm really happy that it's taking off, and then if you look back here, so I had planted some fiddle fig, and actually got some on the ground. I may have to find a way to tape that one up, but I had planted it, and then it looked like it died, but I kept it in there, and it's starting to take off. Now, I know many of you may hate this, but this is in the very back of my shade garden. I have no problem with it. Now, I don't know if we'll make it through our winter. I will mulch it really heavy, and we'll see, and then I have a third one that, again, I thought was dead, but we've got some new growth, and it's coming up. Actually, two of them are coming up this wall, and that would be amazing. I would love it to grow on this fence, so I'm excited about that. We'll just kind of see what happens. The goal is to have this fence covered with greenery, so it's a positive start. We'll see. We'll see how it goes, but this guy is doing amazing, just growing all the way across the trellis. I'm in love with this vine. Yes, it's a Virginia creeper. I know, but it is planted in a container, and it will die back this winter. I'm in zone 7 outside D.C. It will die completely back, and then it'll start all over growing. Now, eventually, it probably will go end-to-end and really fill in this trellis, which is exactly what I want, and the great thing about this one is you can cut it back. I am not going to let it get in the ground. I'm not going to let it take over the garden, so I think using it in the right conditions and in the right space, but it's beautiful because it's variegated, and it's going to get gorgeous fall color. You guys wait till you see it. I think it's just going to be stunning back here on this wall. Okay, friends, so the first plant I'm going to plant today, I'm sure you all have in your garden. If you don't, you absolutely need it. It is a perennial geranium. This one is rosanne. I know sometimes I think I call it Roxanne, but this one is rosanne, and I'll put all the links and the tag on the screen. I've been trying to do these tags so that you can take a screenshot of them, but what's great about a perennial geranium, it can handle part sun, you know, like under a tree, but it also loves full sun, and I have them. I have two different geraniums, but they are in shade, and so they creep along. They bloom throughout summer, not a lot, but if you have them in full sun, they get large. Now, they can also romp the garden, so you have to be mindful of that, but they get beautiful, beautiful different shades of pinks and purples and blues as blooms, so they are a fantastic plant, and I really wanted to add one into the sun garden, and originally, I thought I was going to put it towards the back of this garden bed, but I think I've got enough back there. This space is really full and thick. What I want to do is I'm actually going to take out some more lambs ear. Now, I'm going to see if there's a spot I can put it in the driveway, but I am reducing the amount of lambs ear in my garden because it really has spread, and it's divided and divided, and it will do that. It can kind of be a bully in the garden. I love it under plants, but I don't want it in the middle of the garden, so I'm going to replace it with some of this beautiful geranium. Now, it's a baby right now, but eventually, it will just fill in this space and be really, really beautiful. All right, so let's get some things cleaned up. I'll get this guy planted, and then I have a second plant that you may not have in your garden. It is so stunning, so hang in there with me. So, I'll give you a look of this garden space. You can see here's all the lambs ear. I've already taken out a bunch of it this year, but I'm going to take out some more today, and I've got the little lime punch hydrangeas. I've got some iris, some rubeccia, lots of coreopsis, some salvias, just a big, big mix, and it is really, really turned out gorgeous this year. Now, these on the corner, this is the early evolution hydrangea, and unfortunately, I only got a few blooms this year because we had a late frost. We had a frost in April, or freeze. It was a freeze, and the freeze snipped all the blooms, and I did not realize that that would happen. Now, what it has done, you can see over here, it is blooming. So, my idea is to put that rosanne right here, where it can just fill out and be beautiful and really give us a pop of color here and a little bit of height. The limelight punch hydrangeas are going to grow. They're going to fill in this area. I do have some things that won't be here next year, and so I think we've got plenty of space. It looks a little crowded right now because I filled in with some annuals. So, let me just get some of this lambs ear up. I'm going to see if I can transplant it, and we'll get this new plant in the ground. So, here's what's happened. You don't have to be gentle when you dig up lambs ear. You're going to get these rootlets, and they grow plants all along them. So, these are two plants, and then I got out the big mama plant, and I can divide this probably into six or seven plants. So, I may see if I have time to do that. I have put this stuff everywhere. I'm trying it in some shady spots because it does grow well under other plants, so I may do that, but I'm going to set it aside for now. Okay, so you can see I've really cleaned out this space. Now, I've left one plant. I'm going to leave it because I would still love for it to hover under the little lime punch as it continues to grow and get bigger. So, Stokes Aster is a beautiful plant, but this is an aster that's going to stay smaller, and I had literally just planted it. Okay, you guys. Well, it doesn't look like much right now, but you can see that I got this Stokes Aster's move to the edge, and I got the geranium there, and it can just get nice and big. Now, I'm going to think about this lamb's ear. I probably should go ahead and take it out, and it would give me space for another perennial. So, I may do that this fall. There are some things that I want to move around. So, right here, I have a sweet little baby butterfly bush, and that probably needs to get moved because I planted an abelia, and I want it to spread out. So, more than likely, I'll move this lamb's ear. Not going to do it today. The gnats are coming out, and I have another fun plant I want to show you. Okay, so the next plant that I recently purchased is one that I had never, never seen, and that is a black gamecock iris. I wanted to make sure I had the name right. Black gamecock iris. It is stunning. Of course, I'll put the tag and the pictures on the screen, but man, oh man, it is a beautiful, beautiful plant. Deep, deep purple, almost black blooms, and I thought it would just be stunning. So, I just recently moved some of this lamb's ear. I think I'm going to pop it right back there, and I think it will come up in spring and be gorgeous. So, this should be really quick and easy. If you've grown this one, let me know. It will clump. You can divide it over the years, but it is just stunning. So, let's get this one in the ground. It should be super, super easy. Okay, so I got it planted right there. It is just going to, you know, clump, thrive, and it will be beautiful, beautiful in the spring. So, let me know if you grow the black gamecock iris. I'm really excited about this one. So, I love to decorate and change the front of my little flower shed and also work on the side of my new secret garden, and I really caught the fall bug, fall fever this week. I had gone to a local garden center, and they had these gorgeous rebacchia and some celosia, and I had a vision to add baskets around the shed. Now, I'm not quite finished. I want to go to a local antique store and get some small baskets to add in. I'm also going to get some fresh herbs and some different dried flowers to add in the baskets. So, I'll show you in a couple weeks kind of a true overview of what it ended up looking like, but this is where I ended for this week. We're about to get some rain all weekend, which we need. So, I was able to at least get this started. Now, these are baskets that I've collected. I either got them really inexpensive at thrift stores, Goodwill, all over the place. So then, as we come around, we really just tidied up this space. So, my mom worked on my plant theater, and she repotted a bunch of plants. We had some colias that I needed to get put in some containers. We just had a lot of miscellaneous items and just wanted to give it a fresh look to last until winter. So, she had fun, I hope. It was a lot of work. She scrubbed the plant theater shelf for me. We ended up cleaning up the work table and just potted up a bunch of pretty things. I also took the plants that were on the porch and used them in some other areas. So, the space is really coming together. It's cleaned up. It feels so, so nice. So, let me show you the cute little plant theater update that my mom did. So, I started this plant theater back in, I think it was April, April, May. I've really enjoyed having the plants back here. I've kind of moved them around the garden based on the weather, making sure they get enough sunlight. But, mom today cleaned the shelf. It had gotten really gross, and then she just started putting some containers together. We also used some baskets that I had picked up on a local antique visit, a day where we went antiquing, and I found some baskets really inexpensive. So, I'm going to leave them out here through the season of autumn. Just think they added a little bit more fun to this space. So, lots of little things we planted up and just kind of rearranged and freshened up the space. It feels so good. It looks great, and I think it will be fun to have this here through the rest of the growing season. Now, my mom is going to come in the fall, late fall, and she is going to work on all my geraniums. I may have already said that in another video. She's going help me pop them up to be able to bring inside because I do overwinter my geraniums, and I think this year I'm going to try some coleus as well. I would love to save. I have so much coleus in the garden, and I would love to save some of it and have it ready for next spring. So, while she was doing this, I was decorating the front of the shed, and then I also was doing some cleanup inside the flower studio. So, I had quite a bit of things that I needed to do in there to tidy up, and you know, it's that time of year. I think at the end of August, it's a great time to just do a little reset before winter comes. We've still got, gosh, we could have until the end of November before it gets really cold. So, three more months that these plants can be out here, and I just wanted to have this space ready before all the fall leaves and all the fall nests. So, as always, thanks so much for hanging out with me today. Please take a minute to click subscribe and leave me a comment. Let me know what you think of the fall flower shed. Of course, I'm going to continue to tweak on it, add some more fun things, and as we get closer to October, I'll be adding some gourds and little pumpkins in the baskets. That was kind of ultimately my vision, but it's just a little sweet fun space and it just lifted my spirits. You know, I think if it doesn't cost a lot of money and it's going to be something you can enjoy, then go for it. Pull out the pumpkin spice candles and all of those fun things and just enjoy this season of the year and this season of the garden. So, I will see you next week, and I'll see you later in the week with another garden project. See you soon. Bye, friends!