August Garden Tour 🌿// Garden Answer

Hey guys, how's it going? Today I want to give you a tour around our garden. This is kind of an end of summer garden tour because by the next time we show you the garden in tour format, it should be decked out for fall. I hope. I hope like that all of our doorways and patios and porches and all those areas have fall colors and pumpkins and gourds. So this is the last kind of glimpse at summer color, and I have enjoyed this spot so much that I wanted to start the tour right here. So in these two areas here, I've got Sweet Caroline bewitched like green potato vine, underplanted with Supertunia Hot Pink Charm, which I planted three of the Charm varieties this year. Have enjoyed them so much because they look a little bit different than the traditional Supertunias. They have a little bit more of a compact habit, smaller blooms, but just prolific. And then I planted Meteor Shower Verbena in the center, and I've just been so happy with how this. Whole combination has grown together so compatible that it's something I think I might even repeat something similar in our brick circle area maybe next year. I just really like it. Super Tuna Royal Velvet with my little boxwood topiaries. The weather is starting to cool down quite dramatically. Like we had over one hundred degree temperatures for weeks, and this week all of a sudden it's like down in the seventies. Like, well, I think today's high, yeah, seventy eight today. It's just beautiful out here, which means we can start trimming up our topiaries again. I can trim this privet hedge, which when it's trimmed into its nice tight, like more square shape, it's very very pretty. This looks like a big monster right now, and it's actually here to hide an AC unit. So anyway, I'm excited to be able to start doing those kind of chores again. The hydrangea limelight is doing wonderful. So it's already over doubled in growth since last year when we planted it. Full of blooms this year. Been really really happy with them. Underplanted with super tinea bordeaux. That's been a really gorgeous combination. Now I want to head out kind of toward where we planted the red point maples, and then go toward the vegetable garden. Got some really pretty kingswood torch coleus here. I've liked this color right here just in mass. And then right out here, I've got some Cinderella pumpkins planted in the place of where we had an old scrubby looking lilac. This was not the plan this year. I hadn't planned on taking the lilac out quite yet, but we just happened to get it done. So I decided to pop these pumpkins in, and look at them. They are so, so fun. I love it because it was just kind of a, like spur of the moment decision, and you know what? We got some produce out of them. I'll be able to decorate with these, and so we utilized this space, which I think is really fun to do, and it's what I did in that whole corner right in front of me. It's full of extra tomatoes and squash and pumpkins, things like that. And then you can see the five red point maples here that we planted. They're all in all doing really well. We have one of them that the leaves have slightly yellowed a bit, but you know what? We planted them when it was over. I think it was over 100 degrees. It was 103 or 105 that day. But it should be fine. We're keeping a slow hose on them every other day. I move a hose to each one of them and I let it run for several hours to really deep soak the trees. So anyway, I'm excited for the way this this is gonna look. Arborvitae, the north poles. Erin and I were just talking about how thrilled we are with the growth. They have really, like, um, what's the word? Like beefed up. Like they have really broadened out since when we planted them last year. They've put on some vertical growth, but they've really filled in, and I don't even care what kind of growth they have. They've just had good growth. I just want a green wall. I'm really excited for this to fill in, create a really nice screen right here, and just have a nice green, soft thing to look at there. Right here, we have boxwoods coming this fall because I do want to put a boxwood hedge in here where the privets used to be. I have some jack o' lantern pumpkins here. In the meantime, there are a few in there. I think. Let's take a look. All right, so let's head toward the vegetable garden. I love this view. Look at the weeping willow. I think it's such a pretty structure right there. And there's rustle. Actually, look at the view right here. I know it probably looks a little bit far away. It always tends to do that in cameras. We'll get closer to it to show you. But I just am so pleased with all the layers in there—the coleus and the lemon coral sedum. It's so fun. Okay, so you can see my corn is growing super tall. Doing really well. Also, the Sweet Romance lavender is doing pretty good. It is in a very hot location. So for its first season, I kind of expected it to struggle a little bit, being over 100 degrees up against this gravel. But I think all in all, I'm only going to have to replace one out of like over 30. I can't remember exactly how many are here, but over 30. So I think that's a pretty good ratio, and they're starting to bloom again. Everything in the garden space is doing pretty good. I've been really, really happy with the soil blend and all of these beds. I'm not going to go through each individual bed here, but I just wanted to kind of give you an overall look. I do have some squash and beans planted in these two beds. These are going to be the next zinnias in this one. Those will be the next two I actually plant in here because once I harvest all that stuff out, I'll be putting my garlic in. So that's where I think all my garlic is going to go because the garlic this year was in the area where the corn is. So I planted the corn very late, and you can see if you come around here. It's just about ready to pick. It's getting close. Actually, came out last night, and pulled, pulled this down, and it looks like the kernels are filling all the way to the top. I don't know if you can see that very well. But I'm going to give them probably another week or so until they are ready because I figured out the maturity date should be about the first part of September. The roses on the arbors are doing good, you guys. I mean, we just planted them this year. I need to come out here and do a little training. If you let them get out of control, they start to not be very easy to put in and out of the trellis form here. But the arbors are beautiful. I just love this whole area. I am very excited to come in and start landscaping. I thought I would do a little bit of that this summer, but with Benjamin, it's just I just want to spend so much time with him that this is going to be next year. I think I'm going to really work on my plan this winter, which I'm not very good at doing. I'm going to try to have a plan so I can come in next spring and really go to town. I just wanted to point out the barn because I think it's so pretty. Super Tuna Royal Magenta is the only kind of blooming plant I used over here, and I'm so glad we did that. Because I think it's very striking. I think it looks very good contrasted against the color of the barn. Um, now the spruces, I you may have just seen the video. I did take the spruces out of these pots like I did with the ones in front of the garden space because they got very scorched. I replaced them with bamboo TP trellises and then I planted sugar snap pole peas beneath them. Six days, you guys, and I already have peas coming up. Look at that. So exciting! So now I want to show you the area we planted up in here, kind of that brick circle raised bed. Now this has been a fun project. Last year we just left pretty much everything that was in there when we bought the place, and it was all kind of xeriscaped. It was very like artemisia. There was some hardy cactus, some delosperma. There was stuff that doesn't need irrigation because this had no drip running to it. So this year we had drip run to it. It actually comes underneath the bricks. So we had the bricks were pulled up right here. There's a drip tube running up. Underneath the bricks and then up into the brick circle, and then we just put a bunch of that brown drip tubing that has holes every 18 inches throughout this whole area. Vertigo pentasedum in the center here, which is like. Oh my word, amazing! I was just commenting to Erin last night that we need to repeat that. I think that is repeatable right there, because it's so striking and it brings like the height and the drama that we needed for this area. We have Mystic Illusion dahlias. Surrounding, which it has attracted pollinators like crazy. Look at this right here. I've noticed butterflies on it, and we just started noticing hummingbirds. There's Vermilioner Kufia, which I don't typically like red in my garden, but I decided to add it into this bed because I wanted this area to attract pollinators. It's something we walk by and see every day, and I thought it would be really fun to see. And I've been noticing hummingbirds on it in the last like two to three weeks in particular. Now, the one thing that did not work out in this area, like I thought it was going to, is the Super Tuna Bordeaux. You can kind of see it peeking through. These plants have just like they have taken over so much space. I thought that the Super Tuna Bordeaux would make a really nice filler plant, and you can still kind of see some color, which is nice. But I ran, I think, a little bit too much drip tubing, and it's getting a little bit too much water. So that's something to note for next year. That I'll probably do something different or kind of change up the type of plants because in order to get enough water to keep my dahlias happy, Super Tuna's were not very happy. But all in all, this area has been super great. Really, really enjoyed it. And I think the vertigros have grown like I think where they like this tall. Maybe when I planted them, they're supposed to get like four to eight feet tall, and they're definitely like. At least five. I would say they're five feet tall in there, and then the dipped-in-wine coleus underneath the pine tree has just now started to bloom. So the cool thing about the color blaze coleus, and I don't know if you guys know this, I didn't. The color blaze coleus have been bred to not bloom either at all, or they wait till really late in the season. So you do not have to be out deadheading your coleus all the time because we don't grow coleus for the blooms typically. We grow it for the foliage. We don't want to have blooms on them, so we want to come out and pop them off like that. So this one just started to bloom, and we're almost into September. So I think that is pretty good. And this has turned out so beautiful. I have really loved it with the autumn frost. Costas down below. I can't remember how many I planted in this area, but I think the super tunias and coleus are two plants that if you've got a lot of space in your garden and you've got an event, or you just want something beautiful to look at, those two types of plants are so great because they get big in a hurry and they look beautiful for most of the season. Okay, now I want to go behind the pergola and gazebo area because I actually have done quite a bit of work on this. But first, let me show you the calycarpa beautyberries I planted around this angel statue. I've noticed quite a few comments. If you guys want to see an update, so this one right here. It's actually the one that we planted in the video. It's put on some growth. It's actually um starting to bloom. Look at all those buds, actually. Some of them are bloomed out, and I see the berries starting to form. That is so exciting. So this will be full of purple berries. I did go ahead and plant two more right after we were done with the video, and those have actually put on quite a bit of growth too. So I really just wanted this whole like just have a ring around her, just full of the blooms and the purple berries. I thought it would be really pretty, especially right above the salvia that's down below. I am battling with morning glory down here. So bad. I don't know if you guys have it, but I've got specific spots in my garden where it's particularly bad. I did not have a whiff of bindweed in my old garden. I never dealt with this, and so this has been a really, really Weed to deal with. Okay, let's head this direction. So this space right here. I actually ran a bunch of drip tubing this year. I planted this all gold, all gold Hakonechloa, Japanese forest grass on either side, and they get into these, grow into these beautiful mounds that are really like graceful in the wind. They're beautiful, and they bring a bright pop to shady areas. Now it is overcast today, but this area is generally shady most of the time, and they've done really well. They were really little; they were like plugs when I planted them, so they've like bulked up quite a bit. And then I ran drip all in this whole area except for to these containers because couldn't really figure out how to get drip to them without seeing it or raising the pots off the ground. So this is such a shady spot that I hardly ever have to water these planters anyway. Like maybe. Twice a week, maybe three times a week when it's hot, really hot. Okay, so I don't even know which direction to take this. Let's look at this area first because this is one of my most recent projects, this pallet walkway. And oh my goodness, what a fun project! Easy. The whole pathway cost seventy five dollars. Anyway, you can watch those videos. You can find them on our channel to see how I put it together. How I ripped apart the pallets. But the whole planting process has been so much fun back here because when we first moved in, there was a giant Leyland Cypress hedge, which, not a hedge, it was trained into an arbor, which was very cool. But it was full of spider mites and it was starting to die, and I was so sad because the structure was amazing. I love stuff that's trained into shapes like that, and it was about right here ish. Like right here, so that was taken out, and then there was nothing else. There was like nothing else back here, there was no drip tubing, nothing. So we brought drip tubing in, planted up this whole area, and it's just so pleasant. We drive by like right in front of me. We drive by, and I can see this, and it's just. It's just very fun, and this area we have worked on quite a bit. We did a video last year where I put in the Veronica, which I have not cut back all year, so it's looking a tiny bit mangy. I almost can't bring myself to cutting it back though because this is its first set of blooms, and there's still color on the tips, and the honeybees still like to be on it. So you can see the new fresh blooms. See them coming up right here. I just need to come in here and do some cleanup, but. You know, if I get to it, I get to it. That still got color on it. Supertunia wild rose down below with the wild. Prima wild rose hooker, I believe, right, kind of like intermixed in there, and I had a lamp post. In this spot, which when we moved in, that's all I really had to put here, and it worked really great for the first couple of years. But I've been eyeballing this fountain since last spring down at the garden center, and I thought, you know what, I need I need that fountain right there because it's the perfect scale. I've got some little quick fire hydrants planted around, kind of a swoop around the backside. So once those grow up and fill in, I think it's going to be just so. So pretty, okay. So now I want to go back toward this area here. Just planted a little hedge or a little drift, I should say, of lady's mantle. Which is one of my, lady's mantle is one of those things that I have to have in every garden, and it was one of those things that I didn't that wasn't here when we moved in. This garden had a lot of my favorites already in it, but this is one I had in my old garden that I had to make sure to put in this one as well as brunera, for a shade garden. Brunera is amazing. So the walkway is right here. I did put some boxwoods in. I don't know. I don't know that I showed that in the video. So I feel like I should show you guys real quick. I put in three, six, nine, eleven boxwoods in this area, and I want to keep them in really tight spheres. So as they grow and put on a little bit more like thickness, I'm going to be trimming them into really nice tight spheres because I really like that shape. I think it'll be pretty back here, and it creates some definition and somewhere for your eye to stop between the two areas. I only planted two between this section because there is a walkway which I have not recentered. I need to center the stepping stone at some point. So our pond was here, and I have to say I am so thankful it's not here anymore. We had that removed this year. There was a slow leak going on in it. I think it was in the waterfall, and it was just I don't know. It was one of those things. I thought I don't really want to tear apart the whole pond to try to find the leak. I would rather just get rid of the pond, not have that worry when I have a toddler running around my garden. I don't want to have water standing anywhere. So it's just been nice. But I have not. You can see I have not done any landscaping because I wasn't really planning on this this year, and that's okay. I just mulched it, and we'll just tackle it next year or the year after whenever we get to it. I planted up these containers. I don't know, like three or four. Could it have been four weeks ago? Maybe three weeks ago, I ran drip to them. I watered them in. Like right initially after I planted them, and I have not touched them since. I have not touched them. I wish I could say that about all of my containers, but honestly, you guys, if you can get drip run to your containers, your flowers look better. It's less work on you. It's just some kind of an amazing experience. So this has been a really fun kind of fallish look, and then I have been really working on this space right here. So I thought I had removed all of this. I think it's like a helianthium of some kind. I don't know that for certain. But since some of it came popped back up, there will be some bright yellow flowers on it. And I thought, well, I'll just let it grow this year, cut it for flower arrangements, and then make sure to pop it out. But this whole space right here, we've got Caryopteris. I did plant a sedum right here, which I have just cut back because it was a little stringy, so that has yet to flush. But this is my favorite annual this year. I think I can say that like without a doubt. This is called Plain the Blue Salvia. And I have just enjoyed it so much. I tend to like flowers that come up in stocks like that, like foxglove, delphinium, the buddleia. This is a pink microchip butterfly bush. Anything like that grows like that is just so pretty, and this one. The foliage is also very. It's like velvety, really soft, and it's like the perfect color of cool green to me. I don't know. I just so enjoyed it, and you can see the lamp post. Aaron and I moved that over here. I have not run an extension cord over there so that it can light up yet, though. But that will be pretty when we get that thing going. Oh, you guys! I wanted to ask your opinion and tell you what our plans were for this space right here. So, if you look to my left, you can see our house is right there. A lot of our windows, like to our great room and to our kitchen, are right on the bottom there, so we can see this space. And so we thought this would be a really good location for Benjamin's playset of some kind. And I have no experience in the land of playsets. I have no idea which ones are good ones. I would love to know what you guys use if you have kids. If you have a playset, I'd want. To know which ones you think are awesome, I do kind of want it to match the landscape a little bit. I don't want anything. I would rather it be wood, if at all possible. So we're just starting to research that, but I thought this would be a perfect location. We'll remove the grass, put something down that's soft and nice, and then he has this whole grass area to play in. We won't get rid of any of the grass. We can put up like. Goals or whatever, you know, soccer goals or whatever. It's just a nice grass area that I can see from the house, which I think is important. We talked about putting a play area in the back formal garden, but it feels too sequestered. Like it feels like we're trying to hide it, and I don't think we need to do that. I think we need to embrace where we're at in life, and this is where we're at. We're going to have a little boy playing outside, so I want him to feel like he's still part of, you know, the activity that's going on. I did just trim this ash tree too, which I think is going to actually have to be removed eventually. It's got borers really bad, and it just like keeps dying every single year. Dies more and more and more. So I was out there with a ladder and our pruning saw and our reciprocating saw, probably cutting branches too. Like I didn't have any business cutting the size of branches I was cutting, but we got it kind of shaped up and looking good. Okay, so now let's go through look at the corner garden and the little area we did back here. First, the hydrangeas, limelight hydrangeas that I planted around Hebe, are doing wonderfully. It was super hot the day I planted them. I actually put two two gallon emitters on each one of these so they get four gallons of water every single day, and they look really good. They have not skipped a beat. I wonder, can you hear all the birds? There are so many birds in in the nearby trees right now. Okay, so this arbor is covered with sweet autumn clematis. Now, if you need a vigorous vine that has beautiful late summer to fall flowers, sweet autumn clematis is a really good one. It just it thrives, and I mean, you know how hot it gets here, and it's right out in the middle of nothing. Like there's nothing shading it at all, and I just came in and kind of hacked this back because there was about this much space. So now you like one person could comfortably get through, but it is starting to bloom. Look, you can see the blooms right here. Little white sweet blooms. Love, love this vine, and this spot has really. I'm really so happy when we installed this Grand Kensington fountain this spring. I thought we had trampled the Gara to within an inch of its life, but it clearly didn't really mind because it came back so gorgeous. Now the fountain is not running because something's wrong with the pump. It's either clogged with algae or, which we really weren't dealing with. So I'm thinking maybe it was a hard water issue. You can see that the fountain is a little bit different color than when we put it in. That's why I always choose concrete pieces that are either natural concrete or a really light color because we deal with so much hard water that it kind of like it looks okay still. So anyway, we thought we might put together a video of troubleshooting the fountain and trying to get it back up and going. Let me know if that's something you would be interested in seeing, but we'd have to get in there and we'll have to figure out just exactly what's going on. And I'm hoping that the pump is still good. All right, so last spot back here I wanted to kind of touch on was this corner we planted up this spring. This was early this spring. I felt like. Was it in March? Maybe I don't know. Anyway, it's doing so well. If I kind of pot back in here, this is the ginger wine nine bark right here, which eventually I want it to grow. It grows five to six feet tall and wide, so it'll grow and fill in this whole space right here. Sorry, the camera just quit recording for some reason. But what I was saying is that I had to cut so much dead out of this pagoda dogwood that I thought having a larger shrub back in here would be nice to kind of fill in this space. And then stepping down, we have these stand by me clematis, which is a bush type clematis, and it has been doing so great. It says it just blooms through midsummer, and it's still blooming almost fall now. And they are just absolutely gorgeous. So I can only imagine what they are going to look like once they're all like mature and they're standing. They'll stand about this tall. And then another step down, you can only see the foliage. I have orange smoothie daylilies, which when they bloomed, they were blooming at the same time as this clematis. It was so gorgeous. In fact, I think I took a picture. We'll put it on the screen so you can see such a pretty mix. And then I popped some super tonya vista fuchsia in here. I do that in a lot of the areas where I have brand new plantings just to fill in extra space. They've clearly loved it back here, and they're beautiful with the clematis. It's something that because we see like the initial coming into the driveway, you see this area back here. So it actually is pretty because it draws your eye and you can see this big pop of color. And I did plant a couple of, not a couple. Let's see, one, two, three. Like seven of the Carolee Petite Pink Gara right here, beautiful plant, isn't that so pretty? Gara is just one of my favorites. They just seem to do so well here, and if a plant does well here in high desert where it has to just endure so much, I just like, I love it. This is a super, salvia, rock and fuchsia. This one's actually coming out next year. Now I thought it was going to get a little bit taller back here and kind of be a little bit of a taller plant, but it doesn't matter. It's beautiful, beautiful color. The honeybees. Look at that. Honeybees love it, and hummingbirds love it. Now again, this area I haven't done much just because it's so back here, like kind of off the beaten path. Erin and I haven't decided what exactly we want to do back here. I have a feeling it's gonna we're gonna end up cutting out a really pretty like design in the grass and planting it up with stuff. We have to do an overhaul of the water system too, and I think that's kind of the reason why we haven't done much back here because we know it's gonna involve trenching and like some major work. This is kind of our next phase in the water system. Anyway, so we've just kind of let everything just be because it is very low maintenance. I did just plant those color guard yeah, because though in those urns there's one there, one on the far side. Now the reason why I don't plant up the middle one is it actually is a fountain. So a lot of people ask when I post pictures, they're like, why did you skip the middle one? Well, it is a fountain that I broke earlier this spring and I haven't fixed it yet. So anyway, that's that for this garden. So let's head toward Versailles. Oh, on our way, check this out. I just popped some meteor shower verbena in here and some super tonya vista bubble gum, and my word, it's been so pretty right here. I love that you can see the layers: the pink, the purple, the blue spruce. Then you can see the nice green lawn, which I'm surprised looks so green and beautiful after all of our summer heat. But then you can see the iceberg roses on the far end of this grassy area. It's very pretty. So coming into Versailles here, you know one thing that I think Erin and I have done better this year too is tree maintenance. We've gotten out here together with pruning like loppers and our pull pruners, and we've taken care of trees a lot better this year. So I'm really happy about that. Everything looks a little bit more just maintained. Last year was kind of a hard year because we had everything tore up. There was trenches everywhere, digging new water lines and electric. And I was pregnant, and it was so hot. And so I feel like this year has been so wonderful. We've just put a lot of those projects up, and we have a little bit more time to spend on maintenance like the trees. So you can see the Super Tuna Latte and Royal Velvet planted around Persephone there, and they've done pretty good. This is a really good area to test Super Tuna out, like to kind of like test what they can take in terms of water because we have multiple grass sprinklers. Because this is an odd area. I mean, look at it. There's grass around this, and then there's like random kidney bean shape out in the middle of nowhere. So we have sprinklers like coming from every direction. So this spot gets quite a bit of water. Super Tuna Latte has held up great. Super Tuna Royal Velvet has held its own. It's showing a little bit of yellow right now, but to have last through the whole season and like not totally bid it, I think is amazing. I love the color up here. I actually love this right now. I mean, look at the view of the garden over here. It looks pretty on an overcast day, of course, with the weeping willow and you can see the ash tree. I took it down by about half its size, you guys. Like there was huge dead branches sticking up out of it. So at first I was kind of like, what did I just do to this tree? Oh my word! But then I got used to it, and it's looking a lot better now. We got a couple of birch trees. Of course, one's way older than the other one. These were here when we moved in, and I just enjoy them a lot. They look so pretty in the winter time, you guys. Thinking about winter structure is so important, just to make sure it's like pretty structured, pretty colors to look at. Superbina dark blue up here, is doing pretty good. I mean, there's areas where it's kind of starting to flush out just a little bit, but right here you can see, the color and it's starting to climb the Russian sage. But I've liked this a lot because last year we had the Alyssum and Bordeaux in here, which it did. Really well, like so well that it was coming out into the gravel like this far, and you could just see like little like little bit of the boxwood kind of poking out of the Alyssum, and this has stayed a lot more tame on its own, like it's behaving itself, and it looks a little bit more tidy to me, and I really like that, and the color is beautiful. And then I just kind of wanted to touch on this corner area. Maybe we'll just end right here. I am going to start training my boxwoods this fall, so I'm going to go in, and I'm just going to tighten up the sides a little bit. So I'll just come in and just kind of like. Barely tighten up the sides and kind of try to encourage a little bit more, like. Like encourage them to thicken out, thicken up, or broaden out a little bit. I'm excited for that because I think it's gonna even that little bit of shearing is gonna make it look really nice. Ariane and I just mulched this corner, so it looks just miles better than it it did. Our soil tends to look really white because it's really alkaline, so this whole area looked just pretty chalky, and now it looks pretty with the mulch. But I planted a few things. This is gonna be like kind of a slow go, because I took me a while to decide what I wanted to do. But I put a totem pole grass back in there. They get like five to seven feet tall. And maybe like this bigger rounder stuff. I think that would be a beautiful structure. And there's a pink flowering dogwood, a couple of David Austin roses, which I have. I think three more on order, so I'll have five up in here. And then this compact Norway spruce. This sure won't compact, I think, but I think this is gonna be super cute when it gets big, and I can put Christmas lights on it. So anyway, that's pretty much it for this garden tour. I just wanted to show you kind of the last bit of summer before we move into fall, because it's going to start changing here pretty quickly. I think. Looks like our temperatures are starting to get really, really nice. So anyway, thank you guys so much for watching this video, and we will see you in the next one. Bye. All right, bonus footage, you guys. So after we got done with the tour, Erin and I were talking about the video, and we realized that I said that I was gonna come show you this flower bed, and we never did. So we thought we'd come out, Benjamin and I, and show you what this area looks like. Um, so we've got the maroon coleus right there with the lemon coral cedar right below, and we've just really enjoyed seeing the progress of this area. I think this coleus has gotten bigger than it did last year when I when I had it planted there, because we have more consistent water to this area. Also, just kind of swinging this way a little bit. I've got Superbells Great Punch, um, which I actually just discovered has aphids today, so I'll need to treat that here pretty quick. But I did want to show you the Madame Maria clematis, kind of aged out blooms a little bit, but oh my goodness, such a pretty clematis vine. Um, and then if we kind of come this way. We've got more maroon coleus, and then we've got a superbeena called Sparkling Amethyst, which I planted, just a I think like two right there, and then I planted a whole bunch more right in this area right here, and I really love the color; it's so pretty. Um, but we planted a bunch of perennials in this spot earlier this spring. I think it was like maybe late spring, um, and so I'm still going to be working on it because I noticed like in this area, I've got a lot of the same texture going on. So I just want to start adding some other like bolder things right in here because see how like nice the bold hostas look. I think I need to draw a little bit more of that texture that way, maybe a little bit more evergreen interest. But right here, these are North Star boxwoods right here. And, I just started training them, like trimming them into a hedge this year. I planted them, I think it was two years ago, and they were really, really tiny. I haven't had to replace a single one of them, but I tightened up the edges a little bit, and they're starting to put on vertical growth, and they're just so beautiful. Oh, our sprinklers are just turning on. Aaron says he has footage of the other side of this flower bed because we put a Blushing Princess Alyssum in there, and it's so pretty and sparkly. I love it. So anyway, just wanted to make sure that we showed you this area and kind of how it's evolved, what it looks like right now. So thanks again for watching this video, and we will see you in the next one. Bye. Be gentle, buddy. No pulling. No pulling. Gentle. There. Oh, good boy, Russell. And onward.