Sending My Giant Palm Trees to The Greenhouse For Winter

Okay, there it is, it's time, it's time to say goodbye. Adios, palm trees. It was fun, it was a fun growing season. I'm gonna do some watering, but the time has come. We're starting to move into a time of year temperatures are getting cooler. I think the lows are in the 40s this weekend. It's 91 right now, but you know, 91 today, 92 tomorrow, and then 43 on Saturday. Yay fall. So yeah, all the big palms, they're going back to the greenhouse. So what's, what's, we're saying goodbye to what? Alexander Queen. Alexander Queen. That's a thing, right? I don't know. I think so. Those are gonna grow. These two right here, which is pretty much I think the only thing we have to prep on in this video is to remove these from these big blue Miami planters. They're gonna come out of these and then I'll get them cleaned up. It's never as easy as it sounds. Usually quite difficult to get them out, but I have them potted up differently this year, so maybe. The thing is, usually their roots travel down into the containers and grasp onto the weighted material. I have, like, broken cinder blocks and old dumbbells and things in the bottom of those pots to weigh them down. Usually they end up in the bottom of the pot, tangle around things and have to, it's a whole thing. Nothing over here. That's all staying. Lin-Mill's staying. Okay. So here we are. Double trunked Adenidia, it's going. The two singles over here, which you can't really see them because of the shade, but... They're all of these, all of these palms, except for that little guy and the windmill. This is all going to be gone. Oh, did you find your ice cream cone? You found your ice cream cone. How fun. Good boy, Turbo. You can get it. Don't let me stop you. Get your toy. You got it. I'm not throwing that in the pool. That's a cloth toy. Gross. It's going to get nasty. I don't want a soggy, wet toy flopping around all over me. One, two, three, four, five, six. Sorry, I thought it was five, seven, eight, nine, ten. And then the bird of paradise. That's going to go. So, really... As far as what I need to do with y'all in this video, it's going to be a matter of we'll pull those big agapanthus out. Well, actually the two smallest agapanthus. Those are going to come out and then everything else is going to be just a big old mess. It's going to be a big freaking mess. I have to get all of the plants that are planted around everything pulled out and then I should lift some of the caladium bulbs. The caladiums are back there. We'll lift those. I just have to basically move everything out of here so that they can get in here and access the And pull them out. I didn't really, I don't think I did anyways. I don't think I planted anything in these. I was like, oh, I don't want them to take them. They don't guarantee what you have planted underneath your big plant. So I try to not put anything too valuable down below anymore. I used to put all kinds of things. Whereas now I'm like, yeah, they can have the caladiums and the impatiens. It's fine. I'll cut them back, probably. Hopefully I'll remember to cut them back. And then usually they'll return next year when they bring them back. So that's not an issue. And then over here, these are actually planted in here. But everything else, I never planted it. I said, nope, not going to do it. Because I knew that it would be a problem. So that's just sitting in there. Why is it, okay. Oh, it has a drip on it. I forgot about that. That explains why that guy is so big, vigorous, and healthy. Pop that back down in there. And then really, we're done with this at this point. It's pretty leggy. It's not looking too hot. Uh, I mean, I could cut it back. This time of year, if you don't have the heat, though, it's not likely to flush back out and look nice. That's an impatient. It's an annual. And then in here with these guys, yeah, I'll just have to. Oh, I have to move this. That's going to be a chore. And we're supposed to have storms some point this week. It's actually supposed to storm the day they said they're coming. So who knows when they'll actually show up? But they'll be here Thursday at the earliest. Today's. Monday. Look at that, getting a head start on things. I guess you could say that. Kind of a head start. I feel like I'm really far behind even though I'm not. Usually this is a pretty chaotic week for me, but I don't think it's gonna be that bad. No. Probably the day before they come, we'll pull all these things out, drain that fountain out. I doubt I'll do that on camera, but maybe. And you know what? I bet there's some stuff I want to dig up over here. Not that... Hold on, I had to reorganize my thinking there. Yeah, okay, they're going to need to be able to get in here, so I have a bunch of tropical stuff planted around this Alexander palm, so I should do this anyways, get this guy, the golden dragon alocasia dug up, this guy is just faux plants, so I can just lift that up, even in the morning they come, I can just pull that up and out of there, so really I just, is that really it, that's all I have to do, I just need to dig up a couple plants, repot them, and then pull those other, that's nice, that's going to be easy. That's good. That's good. I need to devote more of my energy to getting the garage ready to bring the rest of the plants in. You know, any day now, it'll be getting really cold out here and all the super, super tropicals are going to need to go in. I'm actually thinking I might move in the coconut palms and stuff this weekend, just for peace of mind, you know? And so anyways, whole point of this video, five minutes in, get those palms pulled. These will go and then I would I would like to start working on the fall-winter-spring reset over here I have. All new plants, all new things that I like to put over here. It's a different vibe, but I think it's going to be nice. Okay, I have to have help with this. I'm going to have Bay come out and we're going to get those palms pulled out of there. I'll let you have a look at them, but there's not going to be much to see. I'm going to cut them back. You'll see everything when it's time to see more things. Well, go on. Go on, do your thing. I know you want to go swim. Bye. All right it's time to see more things. I have just been like rattling my brain. I don't know why. Just over complicating things as I tend to do sometimes. Only because there's a lot of projects going on right now. And I started to go, oh, I need to dig this up. I said, no, no, no, I don't need to do that. They're going to wrap a strap around this thing and just rip it right out of the ground. It's in a pot, if you don't know. It's not going to hurt the alocasia. I don't think that I dug this up before they came last year. However, it might be a good idea to go ahead and dig that alocasia up now and get it potted up now because we still have, well, had some nice weather. Some very nice weather. High today is 96. Expecting for us to break an all-time record. Cool. And then in a few days it's going to be 41. All right fall. If you say so. That's how we're going to do things. That's fine. I think we broke a record for number of days over 90 this year. Which is surprising. It didn't feel that bad until the end of the summer. I thought it was actually a pretty pleasant summer here in St. Louis. I know a lot of people got fried. I didn't think it was that bad. whole point is um maybe i should go and dig this up now get it potted up now so it has some more time to get rooted and established into a container before i take it inside but in a few days it's gonna be 41 degrees outside today is tuesday yeah today's tuesday and uh it's supposed to be 96 and it's supposed to rain wednesday and thursday and then friday the high is 58 so i don't know this probably means nothing i could probably just wait in fact i almost I hope you don't mind doing this thinking out loud part but sometimes it helps people make decisions about things too. Advantage to leaving this in the ground is that the ground is warm right? If I dig this up then pot it up there's gonna be damage to the roots. When you have damage to the roots that probably means the plant's not going to be able to handle the cold as well which means instead of being able to leave it outside in the ground until I don't know maybe mid-November. I've done that plenty of times and then dig it and lift it and pull it in. i would need to just take it in as soon as we start to drop below like 45 because we're gonna run a high risk of root rot really below 50 with this plant so do i want to dig it up and then have to pull it in out of the garage for the next few weeks or just wait to dig it up and pot it and then move it all in and have it get established in the growth space huh another factor here acclimation i got distracted by the dog i'm sorry that's why it took me to get there i dig this up and say you know other than a few days potentially in the 40s that we have coming up here Maybe it could be outside for another two or three weeks in the grand scheme of getting a plant established. That's not very long, but it's going to go from being in the ground, having its root cuts, to being in a container, to having temperatures fluctuate, and then get moved in. So we reduce variables by just digging it up potting it up and taking it in and I think that's probably the smart move. It may not be three weeks it might be a week you just never know around here November is generally pretty chill here with the exception of like we'll have three or four days that's just ridiculously cold sometimes colder and worse than any days we get all winter long. And then the rest of November and December is usually just fine. Not really fine for the tropicals, but, you know, just not horribly cold. Chances are we'll have some dips into the lower 30s to mid-20s, maybe even upper teens, sometime between now. Actually, I just remembered, I don't know when this video is coming out. I think about a week after these go out. Huh. Between mid-October and mid-November, somewhere in there. So those are the factors that I keep in mind when trying to decide whether I should go ahead and dig up the plants. The main reason I want to dig up the plants is because it's just... It's just something else I can check off the list and that sounds nice. Sometimes that is a good enough reason to do something. I'll be smart about this. I do think the best thing for the plant would be to just leave it there. It might get, you know, trampled. Possibly there might be dudes running around it to get it strapped up and everything, but it'll be okay. So root structure is the main thing to keep intact there. I just, I have this itch and I want to get it done. It's not happening. We don't put soft fabric toys in the pool. You've got other toys. Where are your other toys? Here, just go place it on the patio. That works too, right? Still fine? I think so. Yeah, okay, so now that we did that back and forth thing, I'm going to take it out. What I settled on was probably better for the plant to only have to go through one change, but I wanted out of the ground I need to get this done. So that's what I'm doing. I'm getting it out now, because it's just one of those things where I need to get it done. It's going to keep bugging me, and these plants are tough, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue. I did take my shovel already, and I came through, and I cut around it. the best that i could there's a big container here see it's hard to get all the way around it and i'm not trying to get a huge root ball off of this i don't think that that would be best right these guys want really excellent drainage when you have them inside and i don't want to take too much of that soil that's down below i'm going to just gently bend it this way just a little bit so i can get my shovel back there and make another cut around the roots probably won't be a lot of roots That is okay. Yeah, this is fine. That's totally fine. In fact, I think that's probably about what I had off of it last year. There were some offsets in here. Do I want to try and get those too? Or is it too late for those? I think I can get them. Nah, those got chopped. That's all right. That's all right. We don't need those. Chinese fan palm. I wonder how much that rooted down. I usually just pluck these out. This ground is pretty soft over here. You can use one frond to wrap around the base and just pull really hard. Oh no, that actually got some roots in it. Well, that's good. That I don't worry about right now. They can even take white frost. I'm not sure it's a Chinese fan palm. That'll be fine. Okay, that's done. Not much to say. I mean, I potted it up. There's actually a lot to say, but I have a video that'll be up potting up Alocasias. It's just easier to separate it out from everything. I didn't show you the Adenidias. So here's their containers. Those are empty now. And I have a bunch of new plants to put in those. So we will probably be doing that. I don't know if we'll do that in this video, but maybe. Look at how well the Peperomia prostrata stood in here. The flowers are so freaking small and dainty. I think it's so cute. The new Cordyline ones I put in here, these are harlequins. They took off really well in these pots. This one's a little smaller. But still, I can tell that they're rooted. They've established themselves into the pots. And the palms themselves, they look okay. They look okay. They're skinny. I think that's just going to be a sunlight issue. I've got to move these to a spot with more sun next year. These lifted out very easily. It turned out I did not need any help. They just popped right out. Which is another sign that they probably need bigger containers. Because the plants should be getting heavier, not lighter. And I've always needed help getting them out of their pots. So, yeah. There is that. Now, let's check that forecast again. They're calling for rain all day tomorrow and Thursday. Which I assume means they're not going to come on Thursday. Which means they probably won't come this week. If it's going to rain two days, they're going to be behind by then. But I still, I'm not going to feel okay not being ready for them. So, I'm just going to start pulling stuff. Getting things out of the way over here. I can't believe we're doing this already. These are some asparagus starts that are not transitioning well. They're not loving life over here. This really isn't rocket science here. I'm just going to be moving everything around. And we have to make some changes out here next year. So I'm sure y'all noticed, probably. I could save this for a garden tour, but... Let's touch on it real quick. In summary, I have too many plants. And I actually, believe it or not, have cut way back on the plants. A lot of what I have out here is partially from multiplying, like dividing things up, in terms of more economical things. And the sun has changed so much. In my backyard I used to keep my tropicals spread around the entire perimeter of the yard and this year I realized like they just weren't doing well down there so you probably noticed like they just started to pile up over here and over here and it's getting a bit intense in here too and I do think that it looks nice I did my best to try and make it look good but uh just not a realistic approach Moving forward, I want to have enough plants around this area that you can't tell that these palms are in containers. I think that we did that in a video, and it worked out well. But it started to spill out really far. So I'm going to have to make some choices here. I'm going to have to be, you know, thinning the herd. Which is unfortunate. It just is what it is. The trees grow, and you don't have the sun anymore. And I just can't have all my tropicals all concentrated onto one side of the patio. That doesn't work. It looks stupid, and I don't like it. These guys are so stinking cute. So stinking cute. I'm excited for these. Yes. More plants, but hopefully these will be perennial. We'll find out next year and they won't be taking up space on the patio. Yeah, I also had to take a lot of my seedlings and transplants and things that were over there and move them over here because just as the season changed, there just wasn't enough sun over there where I usually keep those things. So that happened too. Ginger. I turned the drip off. I need the plants to lighten up so I could move them around, right? Can't be moving them around when they're sopping wet. I mean, I can. These little guys are no big deal. But it just made sense to shut the drip off. I let it run this morning and then turned it off and that's all it took for the drip system to have an absolute, not the drip system, the gingers, for the gingers to have a complete and total meltdown. And that's a fun little stuff to look at. That's nice. Oh, I do need to give that guy some water. It's been fun. It's been easy. I managed to get everything laid out in a way where Just having drip heads in the big pots was really taking care of most of the plants around everything, partially from either overspray from the drip heads that were up high or from the water that was running out underneath everything. So they were wicking it up. There wasn't a ton of water running around the patio, which was nice. Really, really nice. I need to reapply. I'm getting eaten alive out here. This has been the worst freaking year for mosquitoes that I have ever dealt with out here. I think this is easier than normal years because I don't have any I don't have anything over here that has to go out to the greenhouse I have things that need to go inside, but not this weekend. The low is 41 on Sunday. Everything out here can handle dropping to the 40s, no problem. The coconuts and helcos will be thrilled about it, but it's not going to kill them. It's really just, I need to clear out this area, pull the drip, and that's it. I pulled those two other palms. They'll do the rest of everything. Well, I should move the furniture too. I should really, I like to make sure I've done as much as I can so they can come in and grab things and leave. I'll do the best that I can with that. The nice thing about the timing here is that this gives me a chance to review things as I'm pulling them and go, okay, well, you know, the more cold hardy things I'll probably try and keep here towards the center and the more tropical things I'm going to try and keep towards the outside because the more tropical things I may end up not putting back over here, we may just have to take them inside. Just feels weird to say that because it is in the 90s right now. It doesn't feel like it's going to be 40 degrees in a couple of days. But that is what it is. That's what's happening. So may as well plan accordingly, right? These guys have been amazing. These are the... There's a helicopter story distracting me. It's not vibing with my ADD today. The Sable Defuniak from Defuniak Springs, Florida. It's probably a hybrid between a Sable Palmetto and a Miner. And these things are growing. I mean growing. Each one of these is about to push out their third new frond. That is very, very, very quick growth for a trunked Sable. For one that's going to be more cold hardy too. Okay, this one was not getting enough water. That's good to know. We'll come over here and we'll remedy that. There you go. Have a dunk. Get your water. Left the hose on the other side of the yard. Set that in there. Actually, because this guy is getting a lot of water. Frequent waterings. That little sable is going to need that too. I think I'm about ready to call it quits on the eucalypt. Yep, that's dead. Well, you know what? It was fun. We tried. These. This can go over here. I have a few little plants ready to go around some of the perennials and the trees that will get moved over here. That can go with, and this was that 50 cent eucalyptus. And I was like, yeah, let's turn it into a tree. Which I've done before and it worked wonderfully. But these guys, they just, I think they were too far gone by the time I got them. All right, I'm going to clear the rest of this out and we'll come back. I need to get that Caladium out of there and drain that pot too. That's going to be a pain. Wow. Oh, and I have my mic. Oh, that's fine. I don't need it. You get it. The plants are gone. Well, not really. They're not gone. They're everywhere. My scissors. Had to, you know, make enough room so I can get in here with a bunch of dollies and carts and everything to get these things out. Thought I'd bring y'all along for the pain. This is going to be difficult, but it's got to go. Got to do it. Got to cut it back so I can at least decide as to what I want to do with it. Chances are if I leave it in here, it'll come back next year. Usually, the stuff I keep in these pots, at least the caladiums, usually those overwinter just fine. And then when they bring the plants back, they spring back to life. So. Now I don't have to remove all these. Get out of there. Come on. I'm gonna open things up so I can see what we're dealing with. Looks like there's some potted plants in there that I completely forgot about. That's not ideal. Happens. See the pack of stackies. I'm pretty sure that guy's just sitting... Sorry. I should have put the mic on. I wouldn't have to hold the camera in such a specific way. Okay. Well, that plant didn't do very well. Not surprised. I'll put that away with the others. There are only, out of everything, only two annuals I ended up not using this year. That's very good. This I bought with the intention of having it die. That was the zebra corn. My seeds for my zebra corn went bad. So I bought one of those guys on clearance and I just held on to one of the cobs that came off of it and I set it down. Over here, where'd it go? I've kind of blocked myself from getting in there. Here it is. It just made sense to spend $2 on the plant and just save one of these for seeds than to spend $6 on a new packet of seeds. So that's what that's about. Oh, that's so sad-looking. I think, I'm pretty sure, these have gotten so full with difficult stuff. I'm pretty sure the pack of stackies, that's just sitting in here. Is that in a container? Right? I'm pretty sure there's so many coleoidiums in here, I can't see what's going on. I'm nearly positive it was in a container, but I can't see. And if it's not in a container, then where's the packet stack you said I had in a container? I'm so confused right now. Oh, it's back here. It's leaning forward. It's behind everything. All right. Wow. And there's no drip head in that. That's just, that's just been growing and doing wonderfully. These things are so nice. Such nice plants. That didn't even have a drip head on it. I thought I had a drip head. I think that when this fell down and I reshifted things, I must have forgotten, clearly, to take one of these drips and pop into that container. I don't know how to water that thing at all. It has just been growing and sturdy. Yeah, let me cut the rest of these back. Yeah, you know, I think I'm just going to leave it and see how they do this winter. Like I said, the coleoidiums always come back. I know I had said I was going to lift them up, but that doesn't really make a lot of sense. We'll let them take care of them in the wintertime. Those are rooted in there really well. Right, I mean, I pull on them and nothing's happening. If they were coming up, then I'd pull them out because they're just going to fall out while they're being shipped back over to the greenhouse. But they're sturdy, so I think we're pretty good out here. I'm sure there are some little things I'll think of. You know, I'm going to have to pull the drip the morning. I've already pulled the drip on that one because it needs a little more time to dry out and it's supposed to just keep raining. And I need to, I guess I need to drain this, but I'd rather, wait, my arm is on fire. Something in there, I'm having a reaction and it does not feel good. So I'm going to wrap this up. I'm going to go inside and wash my arm off. Pulled these guys over here so they can stay there for now. And yeah, I'm kind of hoping that the rain that we're supposed to have tomorrow is going to do a pretty good job helping clean up some of the sludge that's over here. And if it doesn't, that's okay. Pardon the microphone. Just scooped that over there. That's okay if it doesn't, but it's going to help at least loosen it up. I was going to move the... No, I'll leave the rug for now. It's getting late. We've done enough. We will pick up. Uh, either to show you guys the palm trees being taken or, uh, after. I don't know. We will see. Depends on the weather. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up not even coming until next week. Well, they said rain or shine, so this we'll see. I feel bad. I would tell them not to come out today, but it's up to them when they come and when they said they wanted to be here and that they would be here, so. I pulled the drip off of everything two days ago. Well, I shut it down two days ago, and I pulled it. Finished pulling it all last night, so the plants haven't had a chance to dry out. I think that may have been a big old waste of time. These things are dangerous. These things are going to be so slippery. These are big frickin' palm trees here. Oh, they'll probably just use the crane for most of it. It would be my guess that they can avoid all that drama. Everything's done. I did have to drain this down. I didn't drain it all the way. It would have been fine if I had. There's no fish in there. So that didn't really matter. It was just, you know, a matter of getting all the drips pulled so that no cords or tubing gets plucked. They don't know where it is. Why would they? That's happened before. Had to replace several lines before from forgetting to move something or something gets snagged. You know, accidents happen. But this is it. I was going to say last looks, but, I mean, you can't really see it. So whatever you saw last was the last looks. This isn't bad. I don't mind this view. That looks pretty cool, doesn't it? I mean, look at this right here. How freaking beautiful, especially if that... Let me put my finger over it. Boom. There we go. Let's pretend that ugly stuff isn't there. Oh, let me cover up the bucket, too. Wow. The fingers don't look any better. You know what I mean? You know. I don't think that in the future it would really make that much sense to just leave these two palm trees sitting on the patio right there. But just, you know, for aesthetics purposes, just standing right here. Well, that's absolutely beautiful, isn't it? It just looks so nice. Okay. All right. Well, we're just waiting on them to show up. They're usually here early, but, I mean, it's coming down fairly hard. It's a nice, peaceful rain. It's a good cleaning kind of rain, you know? Yeah. I don't usually film the process, but if it's raining, I don't know if I will. Basically, just, you know, I have the footage of when they drop them off. It's like that, but in reverse. All right, do you wanna have a look? Wanna see what things are looking like out here? Whoa, oh, it's so weird. I'm okay with it though. I'm sitting on the furniture over here. Different kind of view. Sort of a weird, but it feels weird to be sitting staring at the side of the house. I'm liking it. Already got things power washed. It's not looking too bad over here. Now there's some spots where the patio's just kinda stained. Not much I can do about that. Have my electric over here, gonna need to reroute that. Can. This is a spot where things just pull up. So scrub that out of there, let it dry, and then sweep it. It's probably the best thing to do with that. Yeah, oh my gosh. Finally. Not finally in like a, oh, I wanted the palm trees and stuff to be gone. That's not the case at all. Just, I don't know, just ready to move forward. I don't think I'm going to swap out the rugs. I talked about that. But this rug, which I just got this year, it's, I mean, it's pretty ratty. This has not been a very sturdy rug. And the other rug that I had out here last year looked great by the time I brought it back inside for the summertime. It's summertime, so... I may as well keep the one that looks good for next summer because I don't think this is going to look very good next summer. I can pull it back and just fold it so that this part's not stuck out so you have the fire pit nice and close to the seating. It's late enough now that I don't want to start digging into doing anything over here with the plants, but tomorrow... Can pull the crab apples over here, which that's going to be a chore because one of them is surrounded by plants in the driveway and the other one I placed obnoxiously in a corner on the front porch and there's a lot of obstacles I'm going to have to go through to get it off. But we'll get it done. We'll get it done. Then everything else is just me playing it by ear over here. You know, I have a ton of new plants to put over here. Those should have been in last weekend's vlog. If I scheduled things properly, then you already know what I'm talking about. You'll be seeing them tomorrow, and I don't have a ton of soil, though, so it's probably going to be a lot of placing things, and then I'll pick out pots for things, and then, you know, we're going to plant it up some other time. But for right now, I'm just trying to enjoy the fact that the leaves are clean, and the forecast is looking pretty good. It has some chilly nights coming up, but, you know, it's not supposed to drop a little, I think, 40, 41. Some forecasts are saying 38. I'm sorry. I'm gonna worry about the plants with that. That's not cold enough to hurt anything. And I am also simultaneously doing a lot of work in my garage to get the plants ready to move in. So yeah, this freed up some time. I have a couple weeks to work on all of that. I don't have to worry about any of this anymore. We get to have fun with plants. Just get to take all kinds of big trees and things and jam them on over here. I'm looking forward to the crispiness. We're getting there. It seems pretty humid and muggy, but like the trees and the driveways shedding its leaves there's beautiful yellow leaves all over the driveway but it's also like 83 degrees and humid it's just been a weird year it doesn't feel like fall but it kind of looks like fall you know what i mean anyways it's done no problems getting the palm trees out they did a good job moving them it's always entertaining watching the palms get moved and yeah we'll pick up tomorrow or you know i don't know hopefully sometime the next In the next couple of days, a bunch of other things going on. Get the furniture put back over here and try and create a nice cozy spot to sit this winter. It finally happened. Finally happened. It's fall. It feels like fall. Kind of chilly. It'd probably help if I put on pants. I have on shorts. That'll make it look like I'm sitting out here like pulling a Winnie the Pooh. Not the situation. I got the hoodie on. Have layers. Oh, it's so good. Crisp air. Man, the second it got cold and windy, pine needles everywhere. Outside and they're just all over the place. I forgot that that's a thing that happens this time of year. I'm not thrilled about that. But it's what it is. So before I get going over there. I guess I'm really gonna be multitasking right now. I remembered oh shoot it's cold tropical fish so I have this draining down I managed to catch one of the fish there's only like I think two mollies in here and then there's a goldfish which I'm not concerned about I pulled the water lily out and the water hyacinth so I could you know actually see what I'm doing here so you know I'm just sitting here waiting for this to drain down it's taking a pretty long time because you know this is not Not the quickest fountain, it's just there for a little trickle. That'll get the job done. The reflections over here were really pretty this morning. Good morning. Oops. Didn't expect that, did you? That was cool. A little tiny little spider was crawling on top of the water. Seemed to be enjoying its life. We scooped that out. By we, I mean me. I don't know why I talk like that when I'm filming. Why do us YouTube people do that? It's on the water hyacinth, I saw it. It got out safely. So since this is taking a while, I'm thinking maybe I'll go ahead and start... Grabbing a couple of the crab apples, maybe? Oh, it also looks like it's going to rain. Wait. Oh, it is raining. The second I said that, it started to rain. Shoot! Uh... Never mind. We'll pick up here eventually, and one of two things will be happening. I will have started to grab plants to put over here, or the fish will be gone. Chances are that will be after the rain moves through. So, yeah. Never mind. Didn't even need to have this portion here. Sorry. All right, fish are out. I think there's still a few in there. I went in and I popped the water hyacinth back in so they can just hang for a bit. The water needs to settle because I can't see anymore. Amazing how clean water hyacinth keeps the water. That water was crystal clear until I really started stirring things up. You know, I don't have a filter on this. Just let it do its own natural thing. Did I just see one or was that the goldfish? That was the goldfish. Okay, now I need to take these guys inside. It's going to take a long time to acclimate them because this water is chilly. So, uh, yeah. That's just done. That's the update. I just want to make sure y'all know that this is done. The fish are taken care of for the most part. I'm going to check out here again a little bit later and see if there's anything left in there. I didn't see any fry, but that didn't really surprise me. They were probably eating them. Probably what they've been doing. Some of those might be fry. I don't even know. I just threw them in there like a month and a half ago, so I wasn't expecting much as far as that's concerned. Fry is baby fish. If you didn't know, I was just saying weird stuff. Baby fish are called fry. Well, here we are. It's nighttime again. Again, another... Day of rain and mist, which I'm fine with. It was such a nice, relaxing day. I was looking forward to, you know, doing a lot of stuff here, but that's okay. I still have plenty of time to do stuff. I did manage to bring around this crabapple and this one. Have a look at them before. I'll set these back there tonight, and then tomorrow we'll do some other things. So we'll have a closer look at them. This one right here, this is a coral burst. Yeah, this is the coral burst crabapple. Yes, I'm always getting that wrong. Sometimes I call it a Tina. I don't know why. You can't read that. I can barely read that. Coral burst. I need to clean those lenses, and I need to... Oh, that's bad. That's getting pretty tight on that branch. Let's see here. Nothing in that nest, don't worry. There we go. Got that off. Let's see if it's starting to... Moving to the bark there. So this will probably be the last time that I'm going to get the name right on this. Because I just took the tag off. I'll attach it somewhere else here. It can go right in here for right now. It's fine. There it is. So this one has a juniper just sitting in it. I actually haven't potted that juniper in there. Because the junipers, they don't like a lot of water. So I just let it sit there in its container. And it's done fine. It actually grew a whole bunch just sitting in that pot. And then a boxwood. Wow, that's dark. Maybe we'll go through this in the morning. I think it's an independence. It's a new gem boxwood, but I don't remember what kind. Pretty sure it's an independent, so. And then the beautiful dark-leaved. Why can't, it's like the most common crab apple. Well, it's a pretty one. It has dark foliage, persistent fruit, which is really pretty. I'll make sure y'all get a better look at all this in the morning. It's under-planted with a June hosta, an autumn fern, and a yellow twig dogwood, and a boxwood. You'll see this better in the morning. This is all stuff from last year. The whole idea when I planted these up was perennial planters and everything did really, really well, which you'll just have to wait until morning and you'll see what I mean. Everything looks much better. So I guess I'll just hold off on moving. Because I was going to move these over so I can put the furniture over there. Once I put the furniture over there, it's a little bit harder to, yeah, whatever. We'll pick up in the morning. Oh, good morning, Punky. You just finished your breakfast? How was it? Was it delicious? Smelled terrible. I'm glad you liked it. That's my honey bunny. That's my sweetie pie. Sun's out. It's a beautiful morning. I always forget when there's soccer on TV, sorry, football. I kept thinking there was a window open or something. The crowd, it sounds like wind or the ocean when it comes through the TV. Last night, I ended up just popping these two over here because it was gonna bug me. I could just leave them sitting on the patio. And it made me feel better. I already felt nice, now I feel even better. Yeah. The two crab apples. So I, can we get a better look at what's going on down here now? Yes, that's much better. So this is a autumn brilliance fern and then the June hosta, which is looking pretty good. Usually by this time of year, pushing towards November, we're usually needing to give these a cutback, but that's why I like the June hosta. They have really, really nice thick foliage. Let's hold up on this one. So small, that's going to get pretty big. The yellow twig dogwood. I'm hoping that getting this back here will help to intensify some of that yellow because they yellow up on their second year's growth so this year's growth not much color but last year's growth Has some color. Isn't that nice? And yes, I'm wishing I'd put a red twig in there. Darn it. I think the yellow's still nice, though. I like the yellow. And then the boxwoods, I looked at, like, my old orders, and so that is likely a freedom. And then this big one over here I think is an independence, and I have another independence planted in the front yard at Royal Raindrops. That was the name I couldn't think of. Look at this. This is cool. So apparently a branch got snapped when I moved this tree to the front yard. That's where this sat this year. I had it in the front on my front porch. So it wasn't a lot of sunlight down here for these plants. That's why I was surprised that we got good color down there on the yellow twig. Sometimes you need some sun to intensify that, but it's got some color. Anyways, I must have snapped a branch and not realized it, and it hardened. Look at that. It hardened up, and it's just like, oh, I'm going to keep growing. We're just going to grow this way now. That's cool. I mean, not acceptable. I'm going to have to cut that off, but it's just neat to see the plants adapt. I do still have the lights on these from last year because why not? Oh no, did you get in the... No, it's way too cold for wet dog out here. Here we go. Okay, that's the only thing. I like the crisp weather, not when there's a wet dog running around. And there's those. Crab apples. Persistent. So, you know, the birds will probably chew these off, which is fine, but the ones that remain, I think they'll look really pretty this winter. And I need to give this a really big prune in the springtime, because I would like to get a lot more branching going on the inside. The more branching you have, then, you know, more flowers, and the more fruit. This one didn't bloom for me. in the springtime so i was considering just doing away with it. the whole point of the crabapple trees over here was an experiment really as i thought well that would be fun just have a couple deciduous trees over here with the seating area. So, you know, I have something, put some lights and stuff in during the holidays. And then in the springtime, you know, you get all these flowers and how pretty that would be. And it was pretty out of this one. This one, it didn't bloom. But it did do some growing though. It really filled out nicely. So I don't know, maybe this year it will. If it doesn't, I picked up and you've, I'll maybe remember this. I picked up this little guy, which is a Robinson's crab apple, similar foliage. to the other one the royal raindrops you know it's dark i think that this one does have a tidier growth habit to it though but it's just so much smaller i was going to take this and plant it up in that pot so they would match but they wouldn't match this is too small so i need some more time to grow out and then i have the weeping cherry here which has already started to drop some of its foliage this flowered beautifully in the springtime so i want to make sure that this That gets, you know, incorporated back over into the spot. I need to clean up all of this. Okay, this stuff goes in here, but there's a couch here, so I couldn't get it open. So, I'm going to put these things away. I think that the succulent planter up here is, well, I don't know. It's kind of had it, don't you think? Well, not really. Actually, maybe this just needs a good clean up. Yeah, it just needs a clean up, that's all. These are mostly all perennial succulents in here, so you know they can look kind of scraggly this time of year. They were getting a lot of shade because those palm trees were casting a lot of shade back here, so they will actually probably really appreciate those palms being gone. I can get these begonias out of here too, which could use some TLC. They were hard to reach, I should not have put those back there on that table. Figure may as well clean this table up while I can. I can still get to it when the couch is here, it's just you know easier to do it now. This thing did some growing. Not a plant I particularly care for, but I like the colors. It has a nice color contrast on it, but if it gives me any trouble, it's out of here. Okay, we have our big guy back here. This thing has done a lot of growing. Scraggly growing though. I think this would be a good year to move this into a different container and give it a cut back and get it to fill up. Look at the sparkle. Isn't that a gorgeous leaf? Stunning. I wrote out a tag for it. There it is, it's right there. Uh, benig, no, benig, benigo. Pull that crunchy leaf back. Oh, it's one of two things, it didn't have a name. So it's either pink dots or benigo. It's one of those huge, beautiful leaves. There's more pink when they're in the sun. See, it just looks silver right now. Maybe with a hint of pink, but it's so shiny and beautiful. Love that plant, but it is, it's ready for a larger container. So that'll be something to do. In the grow space this winter time. Thank God, I can just pop this guy open. Put the rest of this stuff away. It's going to look a lot better up here. There we go. So it'll close up. I'm thinking I'll probably pull this off at some point and put it just like a piece of burlap or something up there. Because this is already probably going to look absolutely horrible from having all the soil. And how did this even happen? How did that even happen? I have no idea. The plants that were sitting up here were all contained very, very well. So I don't know what that's about. Just put that over there. yeah i want something more fresh up there for the winter time then maybe i'll fill the top of this with i don't know pine cones or something i don't know i mean i'm fine with the fall stuff and enjoying the crisp weather i'm not fully into like what to decorate for winter and christmas Even for me, it's too early for that. Although I just realized this video comes out Halloween, and I usually do get going on my Christmas stuff November 1st. I like to get it done, like spend the first two weeks of November just doing whatever I need to do, decorating, shopping, so I can enjoy the holidays after that, because it's just, there's so much to do. Okay, now I need to make a decision. Do I put this back over there? I feel like it takes up an awful lot of space, and I have a birdbath that goes over there, but it's in pretty rough shape. It got knocked around a lot. by storms this past spring and it's you know it's broken in a lot of spots and it was a pain to maintain and keep clean but this just takes up so much space to call it a water feature if i don't have a fountain running in it then it's not a water feature i don't know I can't really move forward until I do that, though. I don't know why I can't move forward until I figure it out. It's just what my brain has decided. I have to solve this problem now. You guys do that, where you just become your own worst enemy when it comes to being productive? It's one of those moments. I don't have to decide right now. I'm being a little bit ridiculous when it comes to those things. I'm not hung up on the water feature over here, really, until it's time to shut the pool down, and then I'm like, oh, gosh, how do I function without the sound of water in the background? That's when I will care more about that. I guess I... Thank you for shaking cold, wet pool water. Cold, wet water, huh? That's what I just said. That makes a lot of sense. I lost another monkey. The rug. Let's pull the rug. But this is going to be a problem. I'm not throwing the toy. We're not playing in the pool. I already told you no swimming, and you did it anyways. Go over here. Go over here. Thank you. Sit. Hold your patience for a moment, please. Just for a moment. Okay. I need the rug. I can't have you running around on top of the rug while I'm trying to do things, Turbo. I'm going to talk to him like he knows what I'm saying. I do think he understands, like... 40%. You see that crease running through the middle? I wanna get that so it's going straight this way because I'm going to, Turbo, come on, get off the rug. I told you to stay. You gotta stay. Okay, just hold on. Just stay there. Turn it this way. You can kinda see where the seams are on it. If I get those lined up right, so I can just take this piece and tuck it under. Okay. Kinda do one of these. I think that's still gonna stick out too far though. Yeah. Yeah, it's sticking out too far. But maybe I tuck that piece down too so I can pull it back even further. I kind of like the idea of having some patio opened and not having the rug as flat back here because it's just less dirt getting trapped on the patio. If I take this back another where, then it's going to be bulky and, you know what I mean, it's going to be like lifted up off the ground. It's going to be weird. Let's try it. Pick it up and give it a shot. If I don't like it, then pull it back out. No, I think that that's fine. I know this looks weird. But it's just necessary because there's going to be a fire pit out here. And I can't put the fire pit on top of the plastic rug. That's not going to work out well. If I have the rug fully opened in a circle, the fire pit's going to have to go over here. That's going to do anybody sitting over there any good. It'll look better when I get the furniture put on. Just trust the process. Huh? What do we think? Adorable seating area. I know. Not the same vibe, but I still like it. It's cozy. Downside, though, to having this rug up like this, having it folded under twice, is it's too plush to get the umbrella over there. That kind of stinks, but hey, at least in my favorite spot, I've still got some shade right here. It's pretty much just right here, though. People's knees will be getting tan. Yep, yep, I'm pretty happy with it. Just, you know, clean slate, and I'm loving it. I'm loving it. I don't know why, I just love having the trees over here. It kind of feels like I'm sitting at a park. Maybe, I don't know. I just really like it. Obviously the palm trees were better. But this is pretty nice too. And the branching on this one right here, it holds the snow really well. It's really pretty. This one, I do a good prune on that and we get some more interior branching that'll hold the snow really well next year. So I'm thinking what we're gonna do here because we're already 40 something minutes into the video. I can't do anything too detailed at this point because that's a video running really long. So maybe I'll just start pulling the plants over here that I want to be in this general vicinity. And then next week we'll pick up from there because a lot of the stuff that's going to go over here is going to need to be potted up into things i don't have soil right now anyways i'm gonna go buy soil so you know there's all that and a lot of the containers i want to use need holes drilled in them you know it's going to be a whole thing i feel like this video has already had a whole bunch of whole things may as well just you know we'll just push that on to next week but i'll bring everything over so you saw most of these plants In the last weekend's video, if you watched it, I went to Home Depot and I picked up a ton of clearance plants. And a lot of those are to use over there this winter time. Here they are. Looks like my Alocasia got knocked over. I've got these little guys, hydrangea trees. I don't know if those are going to go over there. And these guys, they keep blowing over. I'm thinking, I already popped one in one of the containers, but I'm liking those for the Miami planters. Man, it is dark over here. This is some hard, hard shade. Let's go ahead and take one of these over there. That's not going to come with the pot, is it? Nope, it wants to come right out of the pot. There we go. You just got to hold it at the right angle. No! The plant fell off. All right, there we go. Get that down in there. You have to straighten it out some. It is way down in there. If we need to add some filler, or really I should probably pop these into slightly larger containers. Oh, I like, I think that looks really good. These look nice. Very pretty. I like the contrast. The Leyland Cypress, that's what these are. You don't know. There's a tag, Leyland Cypress. These have a more grayish tone to them, more of a silvery tinge than the other option I have, which are the emerald green giants, which is a darker green. I think those would really disappear into everything. So you have to remember, you know, there's not going to be anything to look at over here. The gingers will be gone. So it's like alocasias. Everything else over here is deciduous. So, you know, it's this and then there's a juniper up there, something feather juniper. It doesn't get very big. i think that's a nice look i think that's what a good size too they're perfect for these pots those look nice really nice i like that a lot those are pretty those are pretty enough i'm tempted to just leave them there that might be okay i have this guy one of those two emerald greens i have i'm not gonna name off everything there's too much here to name everything off well i'll start with taking one of these larger evergreens down there your pot gonna want to fall off too Now that one seems more stable. All right, jerky camera work. Set that right there for right now. Don't want it too close to the seat. They can be irritating to people, the oils and everything. Feel weird just setting them there, but like I said, I'm gonna need to pot things and I'm all out of soil. These three little guys here, which I think will make excellent filler for some other containers. Doing that with one hand was rather ambitious. Do that, you pick something up and you're like, why shouldn't I start walking real fast? You can feel them slipping out of your fingers. Okay, there we go, made it. These are good. I like these because I figured they'll make good fillers for the pots. Look, right there, that's some really nice color. That looks really good. Take one of these and pop it into this container too, right there, although it does, yeah, it shrouds out that hosta. That probably shouldn't do that, at least not until the hosta has died back, been cut back. I may even save these two and plant them at the base of this cherry because that cherry needs to be repotted. So maybe I'll do that. That might look kind of nice. I don't want to put, oh, I guess I could. There's a nice contrast here. I'll do that. No, no, that's wiener shaped. I can't do that. I can't have the two little balls in this. No, can't do that. And I could, and I think it'd be really funny, but I'm not going to. I'll get the, this guy. This is going to be nice. You know, I think that's going to end up. On the stairs over there. So I should hold off on that. I went ahead and I just started moving this stuff over. Because there's not a lot to talk about. It's a general layout. There's more I want to do when I get the plants off the steps here. Which will probably be another week or so. Until I move those in. Actually I bet it'll be the week this video comes out. So that works out well. So it'll be next week's video. I have a bamboo and a neat looking pine. And some stuff we can play with. Over in this area. And then all this stuff, it won't just be sitting here. We're going to get these up into nicer looking pots and, you know, try to make it look good. Then I have a canvas-y type fabric that I'm going to use this thick cord to wrap around these end tables. It just looks a lot nicer for the wintertime. And it helps protect those tables, which is perfect. And there's covers for these too, which I don't know if I need to put those on quite yet, but I have them. They're green. And, you know, I don't know. You'll see. And then the fountain will probably end up over here. I don't think that big pot will, though. That just doesn't make sense to use that big pot, right? I mean, that would take a lot of space, and it's going to be frozen most of the wintertime. It just doesn't make sense unless I were to set the fountain inside of that. That's something to think about. Toy us all that next week. Okay, I've got a lot to do. I'm going to probably stop where I am with y'all and pick up and... Start filming on into next week's video. Well, actually, I'm going to go to the store and get some soil and then we'll do all that. Hope everybody's doing well. Comment down below. What's going on in your gardens? You're moving your stuff in. A lot of you probably already have a lot of your plants inside. Do you do a winter setup? You know, a fall winter? This really goes fall, winter, and then early spring for me until I start to bring the tropicals out. And this is, it's over the top, you know. I got everything on clearance and a lot of these are plants that I want to move out into my landscaping. So that's one reason I justified the purchases on those because they're things I want in my garden someday. So yeah, you know, and some of them are just fillers. I mean, those were cute and they're like six bucks. That's less than a proven winner's annual from my nursery. Those are 6.99. That's an entire shrub. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a drastic change. Very, very different, but you know, it's going to look beautiful. Here's what it looked like last spring. So, so, so pretty and relaxing. And then over the summer, beautiful. And now here we are in the fall. Looking forward to finishing this up. Oh, look at this. Got a little oak bridge fell over here. It's got an acorn in it. Cute. All right. Hope everybody's doing well. Having a great day, a great life. Everything's just going absolutely beautiful for you. And of course, as always, and most importantly, everybody, keep on growing. Bye. Bye.