October Garden Tour While Everything is Being Torn Apart

Oh, I'm sorry. Are you bored? Did I bore you? Poor Turbo. I love you. We've been playing. We've been playing with the football. Hey, what's up, garden friends? Jeff here. How we doing? Hope you're doing well. I'm great. Things are going to be different in this video. I know. Great view, right? I'm not going to pan up quite yet. It's garden tour time, but the garden tour is falling in between. A critical video, or right before a critical video that explains some major changes in the backyard. Okay, my palm trees are gone. They left. They were taken. They're off to the greenhouse, and I started my fall and winter, spring planters, and I should have waited until after I filmed the garden tour to do... I screwed up. So I'm in the midst of filming a video, which, you know, here's a nice preview. We're doing some stuff, but I'm not going to go too into detail on that. I'm working on that. At the same time, I am also culling my plants. We'll talk about it. We'll walk around, look at the garden, but everything is a disaster right now because while I have these two projects going on, I just had cranes and equipment in my backyard recently pulling the big palm trees out of the ground. And, um, I'm getting things organized to move plants inside. So, there's a lot of balls in the air. But we're gonna do the garden tour anyways, because, I don't, I don't know, I don't miss a month. I'm not gonna skip a month. What's happening this month, this is what's happening this month. But things will feel a little bit out of order, because you're not gonna see the palms getting taken away until next week. Because I haven't edited any of that yet. Haven't had time, because I'm working, working, and making messes. This is cute, but you gotta wait to see more about that. I can't, this doesn't, can you... There we go. Good boy. Okay. So as far as all the tropicals and things are concerned, what I'm working on right now is having to make some tough decisions. The backyard has changed and I've always said, no, I don't have too many plants and I'll stand behind that. I didn't think I did have too many plants, but this year things changed. It just got different because, well, the trees have been growing back here. That's nature. It's a good thing. I'm happy the trees are growing, but that changes things. I used to be able to keep my tropicals spread around the the entire patio. And this year, around late July, I had to take pretty much all the tropicals, not all, but most of the tropicals that were down and spread over here from like right here and over there, they ought to come over here. And this is not how it's looked. This is just stuff I had to pull out for the equipment to get in to move the palm trees. This was all normally over there. But I had this bunch of plants over here that I didn't normally ever have over here. And I just, I didn't care for that. Not a fan of plants just being spread all over the place. I want my backyard to actually feel like a nice... Warm and inviting place, which I know it doesn't smell like that right now, but that's because we're working, okay? Normally you can sit at this table. Had to drain this out and pull the fish the other day because, you know, the... Cold. It got cold one night. Very warm October though. That's getting off track. So I do, I have to get rid of some things. I'm going to give a lot of these things away to friends and you know, whatever they don't want, go into the compost probably, but there probably won't be many things like that. So yeah, that's why there's just stuff all over the place because I've been pulling plants and organizing them. You know, like my gingers over here, these are going to die back on their own. They'll go into storage in the greenhouse. No problem. I might have Amelia Patton's here. Which is a great plant, I love these. But it didn't do it this year. I don't think my yard has enough sun for them to flower anymore. The last few times I've tried to grow them, haven't gotten anything. Now back in the day I'd buy one of these and it would be 4, 5, maybe 6 feet tall by the end of the season. And covered in beautiful orange flowers. They just don't do it anymore. I think I just don't have enough sun. So that one is going to go. The big plants, you know, the Eureka Palm. Who's just lovely. Freaking love this plant. Don't know how it's going to fit in the garage, but we'll make it. We do it every year. That's going to stay. The croton's going to stay. Most of the big plants will stay. It's just a matter of like cutting back and being like, do I really need eight different types of alocasias? No, let's just pick a few. Right. And I have this year specifically started focusing more on division and production for plants to grow outside next year. So that's going to take up some space. So there's just some stuff that has to go. So I've been kind of pulling things that I want to go into the outdoor greenhouses are being moved slowly over here into this area. Just help me keep things organized, smaller plants and things like that. They're just sitting on the table. But these are probably going to go into the greenhouse. This will go into the garage. Here's a begonia that I do like, but I have somewhat fallen out of love with. It doesn't take up a lot of space. See, that's how the things build up. You go, oh, I mean, it's nice, but do I love it? I don't love it. I'll probably keep it, though, because it doesn't take up a lot of space. That's how things build up. I pulled some baskets that I'm getting ready to cut back. I'll put those away for winter to kind of dump them. I'm not going to bother trying to keep this begonia. It does not love its life this summer. All the storms got blown it over. So that's getting cut back. I'll cut back the pack of stackies. Pretty much everything over here that's over here in this space is something I'm going to cut back and clean out the containers on. And the stuff over here is stuff that just really needed more sun. And I was like, well, I'm just going to stick you right here for right now because they're not, they used to be over here. And I pulled them so we could get the big palm trees out. And they've just sat here for right now because I didn't see a reason to put them back over there while I'm moving containers around. I don't know, it just makes sense to have things piled around in a space where I'm trying to clean things up. I want to be able to get into all the nooks and crannies. Get all the soil out. All the lantanas are doing great. These sables, I keep on calling sable miners, they're not. These are the Daphuniac Springs sables, probably a miner in Palmetto Cross. I've talked about these so much. Frickin' love them. They're growing so quickly. That's a nice thing. You don't see that a lot with the sables. The alocasias over here. So instead of bringing lots and lots of big plants, I started dividing them up so I have little tubers and things down there. They kind of forced that upon me, but I'm okay with it. You see we've had some leaf cutter action over here on the brugmansia. That time of year, they're getting their fill. Good for them. Need to water the hibiscus. Oops. I'm looking forward to cutting back these planters. It's just they've gotten so full. But this time of year, if it has flowers on it, I try and leave them up, because there's not as much food out there for the pollinators this time of year, and the coleus is just, it's popular. The critters love it, so it can stay for right now. Coophea and all that is just like a haven. Right here. Right here, down to here, and up over here, there's just like this beautiful... Pass where it's full of pollinators most of the time. Not right now what I'm talking about, but usually it's just full of bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. The heptacodium has been insane this year with pollinators. I just scared a bird out of there. It was working on something. Oh, that's a female cardinal and a male cardinal. Okay, I'm getting away. I think there might be working on a nest up there. Typically where they would nest if they were both in there. That's probably suggesting something. This is at Temple of Bloom. So it's the one from Proven Winners that's horribly backlit. Because lighting this year, this time of year, that is just awful. Absolutely awful. The lines are so sharp. Pollinators love it. I like that it blooms when nothing else is blooming. I actually have a separate video coming out about this tree, because I just, it's one of those ones where I could rave on it for about 10 minutes straight. And I did that a few days ago, so I just had to put it in a different video. It's been great. Pollinators up there on the pack of stackies and over here. Yeah. Gingers haven't been doing much. They're fizzling out. At least this clump of gingers, they're fizzling out. I could probably come in here and cut these back and clean them up quite a bit. Ooh, is it time to come in here and harvest some of these guys? Looks like it. I always miss it. I always miss the window to get in here and get these seeds off of these guys. Usually it's because the weather gets to them first, but no, these are some good clumps. I might Let me see, how hard is that? Yeah, that's pretty, that's pretty solid. Might be time to go ahead and pull those. Those are the sable miners that are back here. Grown like weeds, you will see more of those in a few weeks when, I'm sorry, I'm so zoomed in. You'll see more of those in a few weeks when all the alocasias, that is, when all of those die back. Those will be revealed. They're very nice looking. Oh, the ginger over here, I noticed this morning, it's still blooming. It has been such an incredibly warm. It's October. Unusual. I don't think we have any frost in the forecast, which that happens. Sometimes we can make it till early November without frost. But yeah, the growths that are back here by the house, which is beautiful, watching through those windows, you can watch the bees dance around on top of these guys. But those pieces back there, they're still blooming. These were blooming up until about a week ago, and they've all stopped by now. They've went and took a rest. This Vanda orchid's been in bloom for a long time, too. I love this one. Another one started blooming the other day, but I can't get to it because it's It's blocked by equipment. Looks fairly similar to this one, though. Love this orchid. I think they were saying this is our sixth warmest October on record, which, I don't mean that's, I don't know, it's not that impressive. Number six, but I guess it's kind of a cool thing to know. It has been nice in a sense where it's like, okay, the plants are growing, but the sunlight isn't really matching the warmth, right? The day lengths are getting shorter. Specifically for me, because, you know, I live on the hill, and the sun this time of year is lower in the sky, so the shade over here is very, very, very harsh. It's not even shade. The sun's just blocked out by the homes around, like, well, now. It's about one o'clock, and so there's a little sliver of sun left. So it's like, we have the warmth, but the plants are only getting, you know, maybe, maybe... three to five hours of sun because the sun rises over there it's not peeking over this spot right here until about 10 30 or 11. so they have from like 11 to 1 and then shade so that could actually pose some problems back here it'd really be better to have some frost and get things to go dormant at this point because it's when diseases and things start to kick in the conditions as far as heat is concerned it's there for the plants to want to keep growing but the light isn't And that can cause some problems, but chances are we're likely no more than a week away from some frost. We'll be able to come in here and cut everything back. It doesn't be really shocking to the plants to go from warm to just cold. That happens most years. I feel like most years we do tend to just skip fall. It's like we have a, we have, oh my god, it's too hot summer to, oh, this is pleasant, to... Freaking cold, and you'd never want to go outside again. By pleasant, you know what I mean? It's like, I don't know, upper 70s, low 80s most days, which is nice. But it's not going to be a gradual decline. I have a feeling it's just going to be like, boom, highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s. That's what's going to happen here. So, you know, it shocks the plants. They don't appreciate it. I just dug this guy up. This is the Metallica. Right here, or metalhead, I don't remember. Beautiful alacasia. It's laying on its side. I'm coming in here. I'm going to chop it back. There's a big hole in the ground there, too, which is the reason I laid it on its side. Because I was paranoid about something falling in the hole. So I have, like, sticks and things. You see, I have, like, a piece of wood over there in case something falls in and can't get out. Are you eating the... No, we don't do that. You nauseous? You're not feeling well? Why are you doing that? He only ever chews on the grasses over here. Well, let's not do that. You don't need to do that. Look at the Barry White hydrangea. That is a gorgeous flower isn't it? It's so refreshing to see a nice flower on a hydrangea out here because you know the strawberry vanillas they didn't handle the heat very well. Nope nope not well at all. They look absolutely awful. Just terrible. I'm going to prune the flowers off of these early this year. Usually you know I let them stay on there all winter but why would I do that? They've been brown since mid-August probably when we had all that heat and that drought so I just Right? I'm just gonna cut them off. I don't see a good reason to keep them on the plant. They aren't adding anything. They're just going to be messy and they weigh the branches down and I need the branches to not be weighed down because when they get weighed down you get really weird growth habits and it makes the pruning in the springtime that much more intense having all these branches that have been pulled down. They start to harden while they're hanging. I don't want that to happen. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to getting this cleaned up. I've been looking forward to it for a while. I don't know why I decided I had to wait until October or November. I could have done it any time throughout the summer when they started looking at it. At least if I'm brand new, let's cut them off. It's not going to hurt anything. That's why I should have just done it earlier. I don't know. Maybe in my head I had this, like, glimmer of hope that they were going to magically look better. But that's not how that works. New plants. There are so many, so many new plants. Lots and lots of evergreens out here. emerald green that just won't stand up so I'm just letting it lay down until it gets planted later on probably today. Ah clearance things things that are going to be used for evergreen hedges and things like that mostly at my sister's house but for the winter time I'm going to be using them in containers and things around here so over here where I had my adenidia palms in place of those I have a couple of these nice leyland cypresses they're not potted up they're just sitting in there I should probably put them into something larger. But it's just nice to have these big evergreens. These were so cheap. By the time all was said and done, some I got for 50% off, some for 75% off, most of these were like 15 bucks. Such a good deal. And it helps so much in the wintertime having the green out here. It just makes life more enjoyable, right? But again, there'll be more about that in the next video. Yeah, that was all in last week's video, all these clearance plants. I think there are a few more that you'll see in the next video or the video after. But got lots of good stuff. Really fun things I'm working with for planting up winter containers. It's going to be a pretty year out here. As far as the tropicals are concerned, this is what I should be focusing on. Everything is good. Like the Monstera, it's not skipping a beat. It doesn't care that it's getting more shady out. I mean, the variegation is kind of waning. That leaf right there doesn't have a lot going on. But holy crap, that is a big leaf. Really big leaf. I need to chop it. I say this every year and then I don't do it. I really should though. I don't need a 12 foot tall monstera. I could cut this and drop the whole thing down but then it would take up a lot of space down here. What's nice about it being this height is I can move it into my grow space during the winter time and I can walk around underneath it and have plants underneath it. If I bring this down that's a lot of space that's just sticking out all over the place and it's got all kinds of stuff going on down below too. It has offshoots and Thing's growing. I feel like this thing probably has its own ecosystem at this point. No, I don't know. I'll just leave it. Pulled out my pikaia palms, which, by the way, I mistakenly said, don't know why I said, that these are sensitive to the cold a while ago. They are. But I was thinking about my, um... My cerebus, which is back there, because they're right next to each other. The cerebus, big wimp with the cult. It's this ugly little fan palm back there. I'm not a fan of it. Hasn't been a great houseplant. I mean, I guess it has in the sense that it grows and I do nothing with it. But it's ugly. Anyways, this guy right here, the picaia palm, Chemidoria tapalitos, they can take some cold. Like, they can go into the mid-20s. You shouldn't let that happen, but they can. I was more referring to their growth really ceases when you lose warmth, and that's why I like to move them in sooner than a lot of my other palm trees, because they just stop, and they're already a slow grower. So once we start having consistent temperatures below 70, than I wanted to move them inside. It's just the best thing to do to keep them growing. I have the two of them over here. Look how freaking cute they are. Aren't they adorable? I freaking love these palm trees. They do grow like snails. The growth picks up a little bit over the years, but they're just so cute that it's worth the slowness. A bunch of hostas over here. There'll be a video about that. I am getting ready. I have so many projects going on right now. I'm going to finish up what I'm working on over there in the next week. Everything I talked about with the sorting the plants and moving things in and out. Because I'm not going to wait for the frost to come this year. I'm just going to go ahead and move everything in probably, I don't know, a couple days after this video comes out. Because I just assume, you know, the forecast is going to tell me that I have to. So I'd like to do it when it's convenient for me and not when I have to because of the weather. So that's going to help a lot. Once those are in, I have things sorted out to where they need to go. Then I'll have more free time to come over here and get things I plant. Most of them are hosses that are pretty much going, a lot of them are going dormant at this point. But I'm going to plant this area up here on this hill right there. I need to pull this Dracaena out of here. That thing's done. And I just don't think it can go here anymore. I left it over here because it was already potted up with all these impatiens and everything. But it really didn't grow very much this year. Which is a shame, because I really liked it in this container. It was nice sitting here during the summer with all that color, and, you know, it's nice to have a variegated plant over here in the shade, but it is just too much shade. In fact, I'm even slightly concerned about the hosta garden situation that I'm planning out right now, because the, there's just no sun. I don't know how else to explain it. There's just no sun. It's not enough past, um. Late July, things get pretty shaded back here. I had this area filled with impatiens and begonias this year. They didn't do very much. They started to, and then, you know, the angle of the sun shifted, or the angle of the earth shifted, really, and it's not as much light. See, I have a U up there I need to replace, which is okay, because I picked up a new one for $5 on clearance the other day. I'm gonna be able to pop that up there. Up here, I have some of my philodendrons just hanging out. They did wonderfully up here. Got a lot of good growth on these. They're just hanging out. Didn't do anything with them. I haven't even watered them. I just let the sprinkler set them. There's not a lot of sprinkler action up here either. But with this ring of fire, I have my Alba Monstera, which is just, I mean, it's growing everywhere out here. You can see I have some weeds I should probably cut. And these things grow like weeds. I do not understand the cost. They grow so frickin' fast. I would think that this has probably got some roots in the ground. No, oh, that's a missed opportunity. I should have taken this lid on sight and let it grow across the ground and just chopped it. I would have had a ton of these rooted and ready to give away to people. I'll try to remember to do that next year. Yeah, cut that off. That's a useless leaf. Oh, but it is pretty. But it's useless. It'll be brown and gross in no time. Yeah, the end of October is very, very, very similar to the beginning of May out here. Beginning of May, everything's getting set up. There's perennials coming in, there's tropicals being moved out, there's, you know, delivery machines putting the palm trees in place. There's a lot going on. In the end of October, I'm taking all that apart. So, you know, it doesn't look as great out here. But I'm still enjoying a lot of the plants. And it's perspicuous. Perspectives, that's not a word. Specifically, the ones that are in the ground. I think this bed still looks nice. It's overgrown at this point. I removed the impatience from the front a few weeks ago because it was just too much. It was bugging me. I wanted to be able to see the lines that go through here more. So, you know, that did help. It made it so my eyes could rest some more when I was over there. And I just wasn't crazy about the impatience I planted over there this year. It was the purple candy and the peach candy. I'd never grown the peach candy before. It's a newer one. And I was really looking forward to trying it. And I put it over here and I was like, no, nope, nope, that's not doing it for me. I'm usually not very particular when it comes to sunpatients, but... I just, I didn't like the blend, so I pulled them out. I was like, I would rather have an open area here that I can see and more access to the plants that are going to be very messy here, really, so I'm going to start cutting them back and mulching. Just made sense to get them out. I was also thinking that we'd have frost any day now because this is, you know, mid-October. And I was wrong. It didn't happen, which is fine. I have another Impatient over here. I went in and I pulled this. I was like, I could probably cut this back and bring it back and try and keep it through the winter. That might be fun in the grow space. But again, I'm trying to cut back on the plants, right? So I don't know if that's wise, bringing in Impatient. But we'll see. Heliconia over here looking real thirsty. Real thirsty. It's a lady die. Princess die. Lady die. Lady die. That's the one. I need to give her a drink. All the plants in this bed though, they've been doing well, like I said, for right now. Who knows how long it's going to stay that way just because it's just so freaking weird the way the weather is right now. I'm really looking forward to actually being able to get in here and see the magnolia. It's gotten really, really overgrown with things this year. Now this magnolia, it's a little gem. And I've mentioned multiple times over the years that I didn't like it and I was thinking about pulling it out because I planted it and it just wasn't growing. It wasn't doing anything. And last year we had a windstorm in November that ripped the entire top off of this tree. And I think that was the best thing that ever happened to it. You'll see more of that, I guess, when we do a November garden tour and you'll be able to see this better because all the cannas and bananas and alocases will be gone. But when that happened, it really forced this tree to flush out. And, you know, sometimes that's just the way it goes. Sometimes you need some adversity. to get things moving and get things looking nice. dang comatose vines always fighting those. but yeah it's hard to fill out more and really i think it put that height on already that it lost last year so it grew more this year than it has ever grown which is good and that should in theory end up being a more sturdy healthy growth on the plant so i'm excited about that. in fact you know when this about grows another 25 percent of this size when like i guess like That much bigger in here, I'm probably going to have to start editing out some of the cannas, which is okay with me. The cannas have gotten to be too much. I'm not crazy. I love this new type of canna over here. This is the one that is the cross between an indica, it's just a species canna, and the moussefolia. This is a cross that happened back here in the backyard. They have awesome flowers on them. You can kind of see right there. Right, they're more rostrat, rostrate, prostrate. It's a pendulous flower, a nice coral color to it. And they, their flowers hold on for a long time. They have some that go up and they have some that come down. And I love the structure of them. They're tall and thin. There's a hint of reddish pink on the insides of the stems. And they're, they really, they just, they give me heliconia vibes from their growth. Look at the leaf on that. I keep thinking, oh my gosh, the bananas are growing in here. They're not. that's the canna you know which makes sense it has the genes from a banana canna in it so you know there's that i did come in and thin out so we could open things up on the inside so i wanted to be able to see these stems i think the stems look really cool so i did that intentionally so you can get in here and kind of see the openness Of the clump. Not an ideal spot to have it, but it is just where it naturally decided it wanted to grow. I'm going to leave it there this year. Next year, hopefully it will come back. I'm going to put a lot of mulch on it, just to be safe, because I don't know what the hardiness is going to be like. But both of the parents for the plant have been very hardy, so I'd assume it should be just as cold hardy. But I'll mulch it, just to be safe. And look, they even look adorable when they're small, too. Just a really cute looking plant. I think that they have a far more tropical look to them than a lot of the other chianas do. Still got pretty big though. I was thinking that this might be a little bit more dwarf, but they're a good 10 feet probably. Some people may not like that more open appearance, but I like it just because there's so much color on the stems and it's a nice contrast. You don't have it on the foliage. You just got nice green leaves that look just like a fricking banana leaf. And then the color on the inside and the flowers, man, those pollinators, the hummingbirds. When they're out here, they always go to these first, and then they check out the others second. Don't get me wrong. I think the foliage on these is absolutely beautiful. It's gorgeous. It's stunning. They're great plants. But it's just something I see a lot more commonly around here in a lot of, like, business parks and things like that. Plazas and parking lots, even. You see a lot of these canas. But this? Uh-uh. I don't ever see them. Because it, you know, it crossed right here. So. I just think it's more fun and more unique. So chances are next year, these will probably all be going and I'm going to try and dedicate the space for these to be back there. Won't be able to appreciate those stems quite as much, but I think that's okay. I think this is going to fit better back there because those cannons back there sometimes feels more forced, whereas I just feel like this as a background is going to blend better with the Colocasias in the front. The Colocasias in the front, we have the Bikini Teenies right here, super cold tardy, and the Pharaoh's Dream, which are my all-time. Without a doubt, hands down, favorite cold hardy elephant ear. I mean, these guys, they have just, they've grown like champs. Their foliage is looking a little meh at this point because I mentioned the sunlight and everything. Oh, that one's sticky. That means I need to be looking for pests over here. It shouldn't be sticky. That's what happens though. You lose the light, you keep the warmth and the moisture and the pests show up. It still looks nice though, doesn't it? Everything's still looking really pretty. The crinum, I'd like to cut that one back. This bed. Looking nice. My nephew's been out here moving those flamingos around. He has a lot of fun with them. The Tradescantia is still doing its thing in the front. The Pakistakis lutea I think was a great option for the front of this bed. This is probably the last time we see these in a garden tour. So on that note, I should probably go ahead and just move the metal rusted flamingos out of sight and have a better look at what these are actually doing over here. I will repeat this next For sure. I love it. I've always done something either with Sun Impatience or Lantana. There's always some kind of Tradescantia or something down here in the front. But this year I said, let's try and pack the stackies. I was able to get a whole bunch of them for like six bucks a pop, which is less than a proven winner's annual. And they formed this nice thicket of shrubs in here. Beautiful green shrubs that are always, except where I'm standing right here, there's always hummingbirds over here. And the hummingbird moths really enjoy them too. It's been really, really simple. Very simple to grow. I will probably lift these, cut them back, and bring them inside, but I don't know. We will see. Maybe not, because like I said, I'm trying to edit down what goes into the garage this year, because, well, I don't want to be overwhelmed by plants. I don't have many new plants this year. You may have noticed there have been a ton of like, oh, look at all these new tropicals. I have a few new philodendrons, but those are like in my fish tanks. And then there's a video that will be coming out sometime this winter. I decided to wait to put it out because I want some more time with the plants. I'll haul from top tropicals. It's just a few plants, but I'm going to wait to put it out because I keep adding updates to how the plants have been doing. Like here's how they looked after one month and then two months and I've been having some fun with that. So yeah, but you'll see. So I have like, you know, a few new plants from them, but otherwise I've been very perennial tree and shrub focused because that's just what makes life better for me back here is knowing that I don't have to be reliant on the tropicals out here. That's how things used to be, and every year we add some more evergreens, we add some more trees, we add some more shrubs, and it helps so much because in a month from now, none of this is going to be here. There'll be a table, and maybe not a month, maybe like two or three months, you know. January, February, things are looking pretty bleak out here. This is just dirt over here, right? It's just dirt. There's nothing to look at. The gingers die all the way down to the ground. The heptacodium has a nice trunk on it, and it's getting bigger, so that actually, that'll probably be nice the bigger it gets. The more you can see the trunk, it's a pretty little cat trunk, so that's going to help. I have an evergreen right here that's a needle palm, and then a couple of hardy palms over there that are evergreen, and the magnolia, but otherwise it's just, you know, it's just bleak. So I'm trying to focus a lot more on shrubbery. Like, I have all these lantanas over here that are supposedly cold hardy. We will find out next year. I wanted to grow them out. So I'm going to be keeping them going all winter long in the greenhouse, and then we'll put them in the ground next spring. When you're pushing your zones, you want to put those plants in the ground as early as you can. So as soon as the ground's warm enough in the spring, put them in the ground at the same time to establish a root system. I couldn't tell you where else these land hens are cold hardy here to this area, 6B, 7A, and St. Louis, if I had planted them in September when they were shipped to me. That's not a fair chance for the plants. They need to have had a season to establish themselves. So, you know, that's what a lot of space is going to these things and to all my palm seedlings. I have a lot of palm seedlings now. Because I'm trying to grow more cold hardy type palms. I love all my adonidias and my queen palms. But, you know, there will come a day where I'm like, you know, I don't feel like having to have a crane come out here twice a year to pull the plants in and out. Right now it's really not a big deal. But I can just imagine that it probably won't be too long into the future. I'm like, you know, I really enjoy my windmill palm that's over there where I just have to take it inside for like three weeks out of the year. Sometimes six weeks in a really bad year, but otherwise it's outside. That's why I have so many more windmill palms and stables and things that I'm trying to grow things. They can take more cold. The pakaia palms, they can take more cold. The bamboo palms, they can take more cold. I have my Washingtonia, it can take more cold. They don't have to be rushed inside as soon as things get chilly outside. The Chinese fan palms are great. I love them and I have all the windmills down there. Which, I don't know, probably just do separate videos on all of those things when it's time to start moving things around and shifting things out here. So I'm going to go over every single plant that I'm obsessed with right now. This video will go on absolutely forever. Oh, what's up, banana? Looking nice. Almost lost this guy. It did not transition well to being outside, and it died back, and then it shot up two pups. Which is awesome. It's in Moosa, Florida. Right there. Yeah, I have four. Moosa. Not sables. Windmill palms over there. I can see there's a big weed growing out of one of them I need to pull. Those are all hooked to irrigation, so I potted them up. That was in a video. And I stuck them back here where they get a good amount of morning sun and some afternoon shade. It's just how they do better out here is with a little bit of afternoon shade during the summer. And then I have all these other seedlings, testin types right here, which I think are already ready for a new repot. And they just got potted up. Ooh, look at that. About to have a show out of the sherry baby orchid. That's pretty exciting. The one that I have inside just finished blooming. yeah the orchids are really enjoying this time of year where it's you know in the i don't know i'll say mid to upper 70s sometimes mid 80s during the daytime and then at night time it's just like plummeting to like 40. summer's here it's not like that it's you know hot during the day and still fairly warm and sticky at night but when we start to have the temperature transitions the orchids absolutely love it the chinese fan palms i talked in a separate video about whether or not i'm going to cut these impatience back because i could probably keep these going all winter with the greenhouse over them i have impatience that grow in my garage pretty much all winter they just pop up all over the place from the plants that i move inside But I think I've decided that I'm going to cut them back. I'll wait for there to be a frost warning and then give them a cutback because it's nice having a splash of color over here. I think that looks really nice. It's nice to have something out here that looks good right now. And it's such a baby. It's like two weeks. Okay, there's like two weeks of chaos. It's not that big a deal. And I'm out here acting like it's the end of the world. Within probably four or five days, it's going to look spectacular out here. I'm just in the middle of projects and I had to film this video right now. So you get to see the mess. It's just what's going on right now. It is kind of the theme of October, right? Moving things around. The Impatient, so I decided to keep them. Sorry about my little deviation there. Get a little defensive. You get uptight when you're showing things and you see a mess. It's not my favorite thing to show, but it's just reality. They're going to take up a lot of space. Okay, so that greenhouse that comes out here, it's only 8 feet by 12. And these stick out a good, I don't know, 18, no, these stick out a good 30 inches from their containers. This is the edge of that Impatient, the containers all the way back over there. That's going to take up too much room. So I'll be cutting them back, which is fine. Nothing wrong with that, but I will miss them. It would have been nice to maintain some color out here. I could always cut them back and replant them. That's an option. Maybe we'll do that. I don't know. It's just nice to have options. These have done very well out here this year. They're one of my favorites. I just love a Chinese fan palm. I think they're so graceful, and they're so pretty, aren't they? I love the way the ends of the frond just dangles there. Pretty slow as far as palms are concerned. They don't ever get a trunk for me when I have them in a container. So pretty much always just be big leaves, at least for the next probably five to 10 years. That's all they're really gonna do. And I'm fine with that. I think they look really good over here. I haven't had a ton of different plants I've been able to grow over here for multiple years at a time. If you go back to the beginning of the channel back in 2015 or 2016, I had trellises in these containers and I would put like Mandevilla or something like that on them every single year or Passion Vines. I did that for a few years and then the trees grew. And that just stopped working. This used to be a gorgeous spot full of orchids and tropicals. Oh, it was so nice. And now I've settled it down. And I really think that I kind of like it being more toned down over here. Just a couple of big containers and some things worked into the scape over here. But it's just, you know. There are not little pots everywhere, and I appreciate that. I don't want little pots all over the patio. That's what I'm trying to get away from. It's hard to do when I'm also dividing and trying to produce a lot of my own plants for next year. Of course there's going to be little pots everywhere, because I'm moving everything and cuttings into smaller containers. That'll be an issue for the grow space this winter. That's what I'm talking about. You know, I have to make some sacrifices. If I want to bring plants in that I'm dividing up and things I want for the landscape next year. And chances are I'm going to have to get rid of a few houseplants, but there aren't really that many. There's like a couple of alocasias that are going to go, just because I don't need them. I don't have any attachment to them anymore. I probably won't bring the dragonwing begonias, which I usually do. I'll go ahead and just let them go. They can just go. It's fine. I'm not going to take the heliconias in. Usually I bring them in, and then they don't do well, and they just end up taking space. Like, I don't need to waste space on plants that aren't going to thrive in there. So, that'll save some space. And the Lady Diaheliconia will come in, but that's just one. But the other ones, the, um, what are they? What are they? The Chaconianas, the orange ones? Eh, they never do that well for me in there, so why bother? I'm only bringing in one ginger instead of all my gingers, because I didn't really like the growth of a lot of my gingers this year, except for this one, which you can't even see. So I have this cherry tree sitting in front of it. But it goes all the way from down here, all the way up there. And over here it is just absolutely massive. I bought it pretty big, but it is, I would say, easily doubled in size. And when I grow these, I'm always hopeful to get flowers out of them. These gingers need a couple years growth before they flower, so it's important that you can keep like 75% of the plant doing its thing through the winter time so you can get flowers next year. So this one actually has potential to flower for me. Between now and next year, like any day now. You know, we've got a good five feet of growth on some of these stems. Almost six feet, probably, actually, on some of them. So that's the one that I'm going to take in. But it takes up the space of three. So I had to make some choices there. I think it's worth it. I'd rather have one really big, beautiful plant than a whole bunch of little ones that the variegation's kind of meh on and that weren't growing that well. This one's just been a champion. So, yep, that one's coming in. Is there a flower down here? There was a flower down here the other day. That was really pretty on the hibiscus, the watermelon ruffles, but I think that's gone. Yeah, yeah, the hardy hibiscus, they pretty much stopped flowering. I still have my shovels over here because I found another bobo hydrangea on Clarence. I wanted to put two of them up here, so. Getting started on that here. So I brought my shovels over. Got some compost ready to go. So we have a bobo hydrangea that's going to go right here. And another one that's going to go right next to it. So we'll have a little mound of those pretty white flowers. I like the bobo hydrangeas because they're really good about flowering from the top to the ground. You just get like a nice ball of flowers. There's another one. What is it? Pufferfish that does that really well. And Powerball, I think that's what it's called. Pretty good about having a good coverage with the flowers. So I thought that'd be good over here. They don't get too terribly big either, so it's more practical than what was here before. I think they look better. Yeah, no growth out of that hibiscus, obviously. Those don't really grow. The first year you plant them a shadows-type hibiscus, they tend to just do whatever it is they're doing. If you do want to get growth out of them, plant them early, cut them back. You know, since they're like six inches tall, they'll put up lots of new growth from that. But I think it's best to just plant them, let them do their thing, cut them back in the fall and next year have a big, beautiful plant. It takes a little bit more patience, but I'd say it's well worth the wait. I don't know what I'm going to do with these bromeliads. Here's the thing with these bromeliads. I have three of these, great big, I think they're Patricia's. They're awesome. I love them. They're huge. But they're going on their fourth year. I don't understand how they're still alive because they have all bloomed. They should, well, actually, I did have two that died because they bloomed and they died off. But these are still going. I don't know what that's about. But they do take up a lot of space. But they're so easy, though. That's something with, like, the bromeliads. I can take them. I can just tuck them into, like, the palm trees that are in the growth space. They don't take up a ton of space. Even though they're huge. Because they can just sit in, like, a fairly dark spot for a few months and be fine. Yeah, really, I think that what I'm going to be doing is it's only a few plants that I'll be getting rid of. And everything else is just going to be a more full outside area here in the greenhouse this year than... Inside. That's because I have a lot of these little palms and little lanterns and things like that. That's supposed to be a garden tour instead of me thinking out loud tour. Hope you're enjoying. Oh, you're seeing the garden while I'm doing it. There's just not much to say about the garden this time of year. This is what it looks like. Starting to see a little bit of fall color in the trees and pretty much everything has surpassed its peak. It's starting to look kind of crummy. I still like the way they look but one could argue that they look crummy. I think it's nice when things are really full. But you get over here and you see that and you go, eh. Eh, it's looking kind of wild, kind of junky. I can't even get to that agave that fell over there. I need to just decide what I'm going to do here. I have three begonias over here. Those are all going to grow. The two of them, they were whites. They didn't do much growing this year. I really wasn't impressed with them. They're a newer type. I don't remember what they were called, but I don't know. They either didn't like me or something. They weren't happy back here. Didn't get much growth out of them. I'd like to get over here so I can show you that orchid, but I blocked myself in. But there it is. It's a beautiful barbecue girl in the background. This was never intentional. There's only supposed to be one pot here, but it's where I had to keep things because they needed sun and this was a spot that had sun. I think I'm done with this fall container. This grass got blown over in a storm and I've just never really been able to get it to stand upright. It might be time just to cut that grass out and cut some of the other things out and just maybe just leave the sedum, the, what is this, Lysmachia, and there's a chocolate astilbe in here, but I can take these out. I think that that would look a lot nicer. I should probably do it. Can you even see what I'm talking about when we get in here? Everything is so backlit. I'm sorry. Hard to film with the sun at such a sharp angle. I'm loving the lanterns over here. Aren't those beautiful? These are the Berrylicious Royale, maybe? I can't remember. They're stunning, and I love them. The Leucochesi is finally doing some recovering. This thing's been through it this year. It should be huge, but it kept getting spider mites, and then it recovered from the spider mites, and then, for some reason, Turbo kept ripping the leaves off of it. He's never been destructive with plants, ever, but he, like, you can see, he'd run by and go, like, he wouldn't even stop running, just go, boom, and just run and rip a piece off. It's been, like, his zoomy, sacrificial lamb. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why. That only happened with like one leaf that he actually tore up. This one he had already done some damage to. But this right here he hasn't harmed. We've got some new stuff coming out. So this thing should have one hell of a root system by now. It's barely been able to grow. Every time it started to grow we had a storm or something that would come through and just shred it to pieces. Yeah, I would imagine it's probably in there pretty solid. That will probably go in the outdoor greenhouse. I don't keep that outdoor greenhouse as warm. And that's beneficial for some plants sometimes. And I think that this one would probably store really well under cool conditions. I've always kept them warm. I've always kept them very, very, very warm in the garage. So I'll be able to figure that out when it's time. When it's time, I mean, like, probably. I'd say five to ten days, something like that. So yeah, this is what's going on here right now. You'll see all about this soon enough. It's still in the works. That's why, you know, it's messy. I'm in the midst of a major project, resetting everything, and I'm having a blast too. I love doing this stuff. I think it's fun getting to do a reset every few months. It's just nice, you know, and the last few years I've been focusing on bringing in plants out here that I can put into big containers, prune on them, kind of like giant bonsais. And keep them around year to year. So, you know, I had these crab apples. I bought those last year. They overwintered out here last year. They bloomed in the, well, one of them bloomed in the springtime. They have crab apples on now that we'll be able to appreciate this winter if the birds don't get to them. And they're underplanted with perennials. The perennials all came back. So, you know, there are things you can do like that where I'm like, okay, I might have to spend a ton of money on annuals in the fall, which is nice because I've never been a fan of that. Annuals and fall to me, they just, I've just never been into it. Like look at the kales. These are gorgeous kales that I bought but it's been so warm that they're all bolting because it's been such an unusually warm October and I feel like my kale usually bolts on me. Maybe it's all the pavement. It just never works out that well but I mean they're still pretty. You know I threw a few pansies in down here. Just a few though. I think I have like eight pansies total that I'm planting this year. Otherwise it's all perennials, evergreens, and things will die back and come back next year. It's just fun. It's, you know, shifting gears and trying new things. I like it. Variety. I love variety. Okay, well, there's your messy October garden tour. You saw the garden. Not a lot to it right now because everything's being cut back and dismantled. That bed over there is still looking pretty good, and I'm having a lot of fun doing all this stuff. Next week, you'll get to see what goes into getting the palm trees out of here, and then my thought process is with starting some some of these things up. What's going on in your gardens? Do you still have your gardens up and going? Has it also been a very warm October where you live? You've been able to keep things up and moving? I know a lot of y'all already had to move your plants inside. Usually between October 15th and November 6th I move them in. Some years I've had them out till like the week of Thanksgiving, but it's been like a good eight or ten years since I've been able to do that. All right, hey, comment down below. Hope everybody's doing well. I'm having a great day, a great life, and everything's going absolutely beautifully for you. And of course, as always, and most importantly, everybody, keep on growing. I might keep this one. This one begonia, maybe I'll keep it. It has a nice shape to it. It's been a trooper. Maybe that one should go in. I said I was going to go. It's time to go. All right, yeah, bye-bye.