What's Happening In My Garden | Roses & Garden Mishap — Summer Walk & Talk - Episode 2

Hi friends, welcome to the garden and my Saturday walk and talk. There is so much beauty to show you this week, but I also wanted to pop in to let you know that at the end of the video, I'm gonna share a little mistake that's happened in the garden that is gonna impact a pretty large space of my garden. It's not pretty. It has been really challenging to think about and deal with this week, but I wanted to just be honest with you. I wanted to show you real life. Things happen in our garden. It's not always roses and hydrangeas and sweet bumblebees. Sometimes we have bug pressure, we have things die, we have trees fall, we have damage. And I just wanna let you know what's going on in my space. So we're gonna get started with all the beauty. And then at the end, I'm gonna sit down and just show you and share with you what's happened in one of the most beautiful spots in my garden. We will recover, it will be okay, but I'm gonna go ahead and show you real life today. All right, let's get started. Hi friends. So this Saturday walk, it's Friday evening and the roses are finally in really nice bloom. Now, most of my roses are pink. I like pink roses. I wish I had a yellow rose. So maybe someday if I have space. This is the Queen Elizabeth Rose. Now this is the one that actually got it Lowe's. It is the variety that gets like eight feet tall, blooms nonstop. I think I got it for $20 and I love it. Now there's also a David Austin variety of an Elizabeth Rose. I know there's several, but this is one that I think maybe I got it at Lowe's, but it's really beautiful and it smells absolutely incredible. So I wanted to be sure to show you that today. Something definitely new in the garden. Now, the other thing is this garden bed. This is the Magnolia bed is just finally, I feel I'm really happy with it. The hydrangeas have not bloomed yet. That will be the next stage of this garden. But right now, I think I mentioned last week, the Veronica, look at the bumble. It's just gorgeous. Now this is a real tall Veronica. I would say it's 36 inches. I don't know the name, but you can look up and find Veronica's everywhere. I also have a little small pink Veronica. The fever fuse started to bloom. I transplanted this from the cut flower garden and it's just a sweet addition. So this week off camera, I did plant some blue. It's a type of salvia. It's an annual salvia. I popped those in because this Veronica stays a little small. This is an Agapanthus. So this Agapanthus will be blooming soon. It's a white one. It comes back every year for me in zone seven, which is great. But I wanted a little blue pop and height here. I also planted this one. My nursery had them on sale or in clearance. So I got a couple of them. I added one over here. Now she's not looking too great, but these are supposed to get large, like kind of like the play in the blue salvia. So I did pop some of those in this week and I'm excited to see if they just bring a little bit of color to the garden. I don't think over time I'll have room for those once this spirea grows. So I just wanted something kind of temporary. Now this is one of my favorite views because you really can see all the layers of the garden. So I've got this gorgeous blue Veronica right here. That's a purple blue variety. The bees are all over it. You can see way back there, the sky, I think that's sky salvia. It's a blue one, it's re-blooming. I cut it back. You can see some pink roses, some big, beautiful, dark blue, purple salvia. I'll show these to you up close and just every possible perennial is starting to pop. So it's really beautiful. And the roses. So I've got a couple more roses, different shades of pink. This is my second Elizabeth. Look at all the blooms. If you ever see one of those at Lowe's or Home Depot and you need a tall rose, not a shrub rose, I definitely recommend this guy. She just gets huge and blooms all summer long. Now she started to get a little bug pressure on the bottom. I'm gonna give her a coat this week, a fish emulsion, and hopefully that helps take care of it. I treat my roses or feed them with fish emulsion. It also helps with any bug pressure. Now I have another sweet rose over here. I think I'm gonna have to look up the name. I know it's a little David Austin. So it's a little soft pink one. So here's this garden space from another view. Now the day lilies are about to pop. So, and then look at the catnip, everybody. If you've been following me, I cut it back. It has liked the heat we've had and it is really, really taken off. It's gonna be a nice, nice hedge. Now we still have an issue right here. This is the water line that goes under the sidewalk and it goes over to my potting bench. And my husband is working and working and working on it. We've got a leak. He's patched it twice. It may be the leak is under the grass. So he's gonna have to spend some time on that this afternoon. Try to get it fixed. But I'm just enjoying how everything's filling in in this garden space. And got some hydrangeas that are going to bloom. They're late. The early evolution got really hit, but they're starting to pop out of it. The lavender has had a first, first bloom. And it's coming, coming along. It's gonna need a cutback probably when I get back. And this salvia, if you know the name of it, let me know. It is absolutely stunning. I'd love to get a second one. What I love about it is this blue, it's like a deep purple color, but then it turns to this lighter purple. And the combination together, it may not show off on camera as well, but it's really gorgeous. I like the combination of the colors. I'm gonna try to look that one up and find the name. And you can see the chocolate chip adjuga down there. And the other, that is a pink veronica. Now this is the harlow car rose that is brand new to my garden. She's probably closed up for the evening, but I wanted you to see her. Now she is getting eat on. So I'm gonna need to definitely give the roses some delicious food. I may need to give her a little bit of extra something, but it's my first year with this rose. It's supposed to just be stunning and I can smell it. It has a really, really good scent. Now I did grow some cleome from seed. It's looking a little yellow. A lot of my seedlings seem to be, maybe have some nutrient deficiency. So I'm gonna give it some of the proven winner's feed, but it will fill in. It's hopefully gonna get huge. I'm excited. And then this little sweet rose, oh my goodness, that one is upside down. There you go. Look at that one, just beautiful. This is a David Austin. You can see it's also a little yellow. So I think I'm gonna need to maybe put out some iron tone. It may not show up on camera, but it's definitely got a yellow cast and I know it's not supposed to. So with all the, I think we've had, you know, we've had rain, but it's also dry. I'm just gonna make sure, I'm looking at her stem. It all looks good. She's blooming and she's got tons of buds, but I definitely want to address that. I may add some iron tone in this area. I can also get some Iron Max. If you have a Home Depot near you, they carry Iron Max and you can hook it up to your hose and it sprays things and they get a full year worth of feed. Now this rose is one, I do not know the name. I bought it years ago and I had to save her. She's been moved a couple of times. The rabbits ate her to pieces. I had three of them. The rabbits ate them, ate her to pieces. This one I saved though, and I nursed it back to health last year. And she's got a second bud. I just love it. If you know the name, of course, let me know. I don't remember her name because it's been, it's been so long. ♪ And tell me all that you've seen and all the colors ♪ ♪ It's all in love, memory ♪ ♪ Washed in every shade of green and all the colors ♪ So a few new things in the cut flower garden this week. This is a type of miniature foxglove. I found it last year at a nursery and it's just really interesting. It doesn't look like your typical foxglove. Now, maybe it was mislabeled, but it is a little small. I'll try to find the variety name for you. It's a perennial, so it does come back for me. And then look at all of these. Oh my goodness. They have finally, after, you know, it's the middle of June. These should have been really spring annuals, but they're really starting to pop. The little snapdragons, the sweet William. So it's coming along, but I wanted to show you some good news. So this is the campanula and I deadheaded them and cut them back. And I just stuck a bunch in this container to see what they would do. And I'm getting new growth. So I think we're going to have another flush. And I did read online that they can continue to flush out all through summer. So we'll see. I'm hopeful. And then this week, the pincushion flower, this is supposed to be larger than this, maybe over the season or after, you know, the first cut, but it's a beautiful, sweet little fluffy pincushion. And I've got it all in this container. There is a syrinth major in here, just so pretty. And there's something, a little blue flower that I don't remember planting. So I'm not sure what that is, but doing great. And I'll give you an update on the sweet peas. They're sweet. You know, they're not the huge ones. They don't smell that great, but they're sweet. They're blue, which is so unique. They have a little touch of pink and I'm enjoying them. And it's just the fact that I grew them. I'd never grown them before. So really happy with those. All right. Are you ready to see what's absolutely stunning right now? So they're not in, they're not in peak peak, but the Annabelle hydrangeas have started to come out. And oh my goodness, this one is so large. She's my biggest. She has started flopping a little in the front, but that's okay. There's not really anything important under her. And sometimes after a little while, I'll clean her up. I did add a arbor in the back and I did tie some twine. We had a big storm and I didn't want her to come crashing down. But the blooms are starting to get their gorgeous white. Now this of course, blooms more of that circular. They're a little more lacy and delicate, and then they will turn lime green after they get really white. So they're on their way. They're still a little yellow, but she's a beautiful, beautiful plant to have right here in the garden. I wanted to show you the Annabelle's while they're looking so beautiful. I'm sure in another week, they will be even more stunning. I'm going to be out of town for a few days. My son will be here. I may have him send me some pictures, but I'm not sure if I'll get to see them at their peak, but they're gorgeous anyway. ♪ Side by side we sway there in all the colors ♪ ♪ Sunlight on chair in all the colors ♪ ♪ Sunlight won't stop giving back ♪ ♪ When you circle fresh cut grass ♪ ♪ I could really use some stuff like that ♪ All right, so if you're familiar with my garden, I have two crabapple trees, and they really flank the end of the garden right here at the patio. And they are six years old. They are filled with hydrangeas, ajuga, lambs ear, lamien, lots of things that are very shade tolerant and just beautiful throughout the season. So you may notice right away, this hydrangea is a little quick fire, and you can see all the damage on the leaves. She looks really sick, doesn't she? Not only that, if you look underneath, look at the area around the crabapple. Yeah, it's not very pretty. And then this is my large limelight. And you can see the flopping leaves are not from the water. The leaves are slowly dying and falling off the plant. And you're a gardener like me, and it has been very stressful and very heartbreaking to see this happen. So let me tell you a little bit about what happened, what caused it, and what we're gonna do about it. We also have some damage to the early evolution hydrangea. You can see it basically has a hole in the middle of it and is definitely under stress. Now this second crabapple space has very similar damage at the bottom. And you can see this hosta just really does not look well. And there are some branches on this early evolution hydrangea. Now fortunately, this early evolution hydrangea has not been as impacted. So this one right here. And my peonies, thank goodness, have not been as impacted. So in this area, it mainly was the hosta and that other early evolution hydrangea that was impacted. So I wanted to show you the damage because you're gonna see it in future videos. And I wanted to tell you about it because it's a lesson learned and something that you may also want to be aware of. So our crabapple trees are gorgeous. And we had our local tree company that is highly rated. They are professional arborists. They have treated the trees on our property for two years. They come out and prune. They've assessed. They help us with our big trees in the back. And they told us last year that the crabapple trees are prone to rust. And it doesn't hurt the health of the tree. I mean, it could, but it mainly impacts the berries, which the birds feed on, and that it can be prevented really easily with a treatment, which actually is a potassium treatment. So we had it done last year in early spring. Well, this year, the timing to get it done got delayed because we had the freeze in April. Things had to warm up, and they have this kind of window where they like to do it. Well, I actually thought they were probably gonna skip it for this year and do it next year because of all the timing. But a gentleman showed up last week, and he said he was scheduled to come out and do the treatment. And so, of course, I asked him tons of questions. How was he doing the treatment? Was it gonna impact any of the plants around it? And I knew that the product they used was safe because they had done it before. Well, unfortunately, the gentleman that did it either over-mixed it, over-poured it. It definitely impacted this quadrant on the left the most. And what happens is when a plant gets too much potassium or too much salt, it stops producing calcium, and it impacts the makeup of the plant. Now, I've done a ton of research. I've called my local resource center. And while I probably will lose the majority of the leaves on these plants this year, it is very likely that they will remain alive and will thrive in future years. So I originally started cutting back, thinking that something had gotten on the leaves, and I didn't want it to attack the whole plant. That was kind of my first reaction. Then I decided to wait because I wanted to show the arborist who came back out to see it. So what's recommended is to just take the leaves as they wilt off and leave the stems and see if you get some new growth this year, and then to see if the plant will bounce back once all the potassium is leached from the soil. So they do recommend that we soak it and soak it and soak it. I think the problem is while my garden has great drainage, this particular area of the garden doesn't really have a lot of space to drain. We don't even really have to run drip in that part of the garden. It's not a wet, boggy area, but it definitely doesn't drain super fast because it's at the edge of our patio and the edge of my neighbor's yard. So we have been soaking it, soaking it nonstop to see if we can help get that potassium out. But as you can see, the area around the trunk where I had all the ajuga, tons of ajuga, is completely just gone. So the arborist company has come out. I'm staying in touch with them. They are going to clean up the area around the tree for me, and they are gonna get me some replacement plants for the ground cover, which is very nice. They're also not charging me for the treatment. They've been very cooperative. What we wanna do is see if the hydrangeas will bounce back this year, even just a little growth, or see what they do next spring. So it's heartbreaking when an almost entire garden bed has really been decimated before it even began this year. Like, it hasn't even, there's not even buds. It also is very hurtful because the quickfire matches the one on the other side of the garden, and they've been growing for six years. But I know in the grand scheme of life, it's just a plant. It can be replaced. And, you know, our gardens are subject to freezes, bugs, things that you have to do, construction. You know, there's all kinds of things that happen. But I really, this could have been prevented. And, you know, the arborist company has been very, very nice, very kind, very willing to work with me and resolve the issue. So that is the positive. I really like the company. I like the gentleman that works with us. So, you know, mistakes happen, and it was definitely a big learning for them. And we're just gonna have to see what happens to this plant. So I will definitely keep you updated. I am letting it just continue to work through the process. I'm not gonna stress it by pruning anything. This weekend, before I head out of town, I'm gonna go ahead and take off those dead leaves. And, you know, we'll just see how much. It looks like we're gonna lose about half of the limelight for this season and most of the quickfire and the early evolution. So I think we're gonna lose the majority of the leaves and bugs. But hopefully, cross your fingers, the plant will recover. Now, there's not any fertilizer we can do. They don't want you to treat. They just want you to keep it flushed with water until next year. So we're just gonna let it rest. And I'm actually not gonna plant anything new until fall. I wanna get all that potassium out of the ground and let it just really leach from the ground. And I may plant this fall or next spring. We'll just wait and see. So I think for now, I'm gonna get a few containers to pop in where the missing plants are with some beautiful shade plants, just to add some beauty. This is such a small garden and it's such a focal point. So I'm gonna try to make lemonade out of some lemons. But I think the learning is just be very careful and mindful. I'm gonna definitely try to find an organic option for treating these trees. I know copper fungicide works, but you really don't wanna oversaturate a garden where plants are planted so closely. So we're gonna have to really do some research on what to do for the crab apples in the future. If you've dealt with rust on trees, let me know. I'd really welcome it. The issue is the hydrangeas and the tree roots are intermingled at this point. They're planted pretty close together. I planted them all at the same time. And so unfortunately, I also think the plants go towards the water, which is mainly around the outside of the tree area. And so I think the roots are probably all surrounded in that space. And they just soaked up that salty potassium. So that is the sad story for the week, but that's okay. We're gonna just keep moving on. So I'm gonna wrap for today, this Saturday, but I wanna leave you with some beautiful views of the garden and just let you see how it's looking in mid June. Have a Saturday video next week, but I'll be back the following week and hopefully have some gardens to show you from my visit, as well as an update on how things have grown while I've been away. It's so fun to come back and see the garden, just how it takes off even one week. So my son's gonna be dog sitting, watering the garden and helping me out with things around the house while we're away. But I'm excited to go up where it's cool weather in the Northeast and visit a ton of historic gardens. So I can't wait to tell you all about that. All right, so let's wrap with some beautiful views and I will see you back out in the garden soon. Thanks so much for joining me, for watching and for any advice that you might have. I'm always love your comments. Bye friends. ♪ Side by side we sway there in all the colors ♪ ♪ Summer love on chair in all summer love ♪ ♪ Remember won't stop giving back ♪ ♪ Circle fresh cut grass ♪ ♪ I could really use some stuff like that ♪