New Perennials that can take the Heat!/Garden Style nw

[Music] hi everybody Debbie here with Garden style so I am sitting here in the shade due to the fact that it has warmed up dramatically just in the last couple of days uh we have had two three weeks of just kind of rain sideways wind really cold temperatures and what I mean by cold is it's getting down into the upper 40s at night and barely breaking 60 during the day so today we consider warm it actually got up to 76° um I live here in the Pacific Northwest in Washington and for us that's starting to get warm and by tomorrow and over the next few days we're going to be in the lower 80s so I'm not complaining because I know there are a lot of you that are s in 90 to Triple degree heat right now and I just feel very blessed that I live here in the Northwest with some cooler temperatures so anyway today we're going to talk about some drought tolerant plants I thought that was an appropriate thing to start talking about as we start moving into summer in fact tomorrow is summer solstice which is fabulous we're finally there um and did you know that this is the earliest Solstice that we have had in 228 years that's since George Washington so that's kind of a unique thing that's going on this year is uh Solstice just comes a little earlier now with that in mind needless to say we're going to be picking up the hose and doing a whole lot of watering over these next few weeks and it'll probably continue now uh especially here in the Northwest as we start to enter our dry season and that just means less and less rain a whole lot more sun and a whole lot more watering so today I'm going to introduce you to three or four perennials that you can still plant in the ground I plant perennials practically year round but these are some unique varieties and one of these is new so I definitely want to introduce you to that so I'm going to start with this first one and this one right here hopefully I can get it up in the camera this is called a parah heie and it's really neat because it's foliage kind of looks like eucalyptus foliage right here it's kind of a blue green and it gets these beautiful purple flowers on it and once it starts blooming it will continue to bloom all the way until the first Frost so this is a pretty Hardy plant uh in fact it is Hardy down to Zone 7 or 0 deg this plant will take sun to part shade and it gets pretty tall it will get maybe 2 feet tall by 3et wide and that's pretty good size for a perennial plant and the neat thing about it is once it's established it's extremely drought tolerant so you know feel free to plan it out in the full sun it can take part shade uh but trust me you'll probably going to get a lot more blooms out of it if it's getting at least 5 to six hours of Sun during the day um it's very long blooming and it's Evergreen which is a bonus so this is a new plant for me that I'm going to try this year and could be for you as well and of course I'll put the description there so you can see what it looks like and if you need the name again once the video is over I'll have it all down below in the description box underneath the more section but with that beautiful blue gray eucalyptus foliage um is considered a zeric plant or a plant that can be planted out with you know different types of plants like lavender uh cistus Hees Sedum carxs forums uh louisia and delosperma so lots of succulents were included on that which takes me right into these next few plants that I'm going to introduce you to this next one pretty neat succulent and this is actually considered a stone crop or a sedum and this one is called uh dream dazzler and you can see that there is a pink margin on there and it's getting ready to bloom you can see when they start sending up these little spikes it's going to send up some pink blooms but this is another one extremely D drought tolerant which most succulents are but this is part of the Suns sparkler series there's a a whole lot of different sedums that come out in this particular Series this one I really liked because it has that variegated pink uh margin on the leaves and this one will probably get maybe 18 in tall so this is perfect for the front of the Garden or in a rock garden on a rock wall anywhere where it's just really hot and sunny now the cool things with sedums um is they have these thicker leaves on them so you can water them once a week maybe um if you're getting down to where you're getting some rain or if you have Irrigation in the yard be very careful where you plant these because they hate wet feet they prefer it dry hot and sunny um but this is just one of the sunsparkler series that I'm introducing you to here these are extremely hearty uh down to Zone 4 up to zone 9 so they can be planted just about anywhere here in the United States and manage to live but it it's it's new New Growth is probably the cool part cuz it comes out really really deep pink and it'll eventually lighten up to a little bit lighter pink on the leaves and you don't even need blooms when you have something this colorful but it will get some nice pink blooms on it um here pretty quickly this one's already getting ready and starting to form some so that's the first one that I want to introduce you to that's part of the Suns sparkler series and this next one which is all green at the moment and this one is called lime zinger and the neat thing about this is once it gets more sun it will also start to get some deep pink margins on it uh as well as blooms this one also blooms it's considered an evergreen uh so it's not going to melt away during uh the winter time when it starts to get really cold this is another one that only gets maybe 6 to 18 in High um they call it a low growing and colorful thumb siiz rosettes are olive green with bright red edges and of course the more sun gets the redder it will get and it also does this when it gets cold so it just kind of reacts to the Heat and let's see it has pink flowers on it so that's another really neat uh succulent that you can put in and you notice how small and rounded the leaves are so it's a little different from the other one but still part of the sunsparkler series uh that one just happens to be a lime zinger now the next one I'm going to show you looks almost exactly like a twin and this one is called called fir crackle and you can see how deep maroon those leaves are there and I'm going to flash a picture up there of the ones that I currently have sitting out in the garden and I was amazed at how quickly they started to spread and again it stays really short but as I flash the picture up there you can see how deep red they get and that's what I really wanted was something that can contrast with all the green sitting out there um in this particular Garden that I have it in it's a real hot sun Sun Garden I have helianthemum planted in there which I'll introduce you to as well I'll cruise up there to the garden and show that to you and you'll see it in the picture there next to me but yeah this is another really cool Sedum that turns deep red and it will get a little bit brighter a little kind of like a firecracker during the fall as it reacts to the cold temperatures but I can attest to it it is Evergreen and it did a really good job holding its own uh this past winter especially when we had freezing temperatures down to 13° freeze and it just did not get above freezing for about 4 or 5 days it it held up really well I was amazed uh without a whole lot of damage to it and of course you got to wait a little bit until temperatures start to warm up uh during the springtime and all of a sudden it just comes out with this brand new flush of red leaves so sedums you can't go wrong especially in a hot dry garden that you just can't water a whole lot they're fantastic um but I wanted to introduce you to three specimens out of the Suns sparkler series cuz they just keep coming out with new ones and they just seem to be more colorful and uh of course all of them bloom for a short length of time and I do make sure to cut the old blooms off and that way it'll just continue to keep sending out its fantastic foliage but yeah even when you're in 80 90 degree temperatures those types of plants only need watering maybe once a week um maybe twice if you get really super hot and they'll tell you when they're drying out they'll you'll start to see their leaves crinkle up a little bit and you give them a little bit of water and by the next morning they're just full and flesh but that's where they store most of most of their water is in those thick leaves that you see there and that's kind of a general rule in the plant kingdom is the thicker the leaf the more water it can store which means you don't have to water it a whole lot so awesome another low maintenance plant that stays Evergreen throughout the season now I saved the best for last because we brought these into the Nursery here this is a Salvia isn't it gorgeous and this is called Rose Marvel and what you'll notice as I bring it up real close is the actual flowers on all the individual stems there are bigger than the flowers you normally see on a Salvia and this one will get about 12 in tall by 12 in wide and it's Hardy down to Zone 4 to zone 9 and the cool part is it's just a moderate grower so this is something that I would put directly in the front of the garden you can just Edge the front border with them and I highly recommend when you find these plants that you just Mass them out but this is a fairly new variety um and each year they keep coming out with more and more of them the flowers just seem to get bigger um and I love salvas because you can just dead head them keep the Dead flowers off of them and they'll just keep blooming for you all summer long but again it's a fantastic drought tolerant plant once they're established they don't require a ton of water now here in the Northwest in order to get South cvas lavender those types of plants to survive a really wet winter I highly recommend that you Mound them up a little bit just a couple inches above the surface of the ground just to increase the drainage down underneath I do mulch these uh in the winter time I just make sure the mulch isn't touching the stems on the plant but I do like at least an inch or two of mulch underneath them um not only to help Mo hold moisture in during the summertime but also keeps weeds down but also helps protect their root zones during the winter time when it can get super cold and freeze and normally our ground doesn't freeze here um but still a little extra protection is always good so this one is Rose marble and when they came in they were in full bloom like this and I was a struck they are just absolutely gorgeous so what a nice contrast I'm going to put these in between some other salvas and some geraniums that I have sitting out in the yard that are a blue so we'll have this blue ink theme going along the front of the border and I can't wait to get more I only bought three today and brought them home just because I want to test drive them for a season see how they do and if I'm really impressed and I really like how they do then of course I will continue to buy more to help fill up this really hot sunny border that I have during the summertime so anyway there's some plants for you to try out during the summer time when it gets really super hot I hope all of you have had a fantastic ftic spring and sever uh so far I've had to skip a week in my videos due to my mother having to go through a small procedure but she's fine now um for those of you who've been following me for a while I've had my 88-year-old mother move in with me and so I'm kind of looking after her and looking after the business and trying to look after the garden all at the same time and needless to say there's been a lot of appointments just to make sure that her health is okay and she is she just has a a little bit of a Mobility problem and I think we figured out what that problem is and she should be going into surgery here in a couple of weeks cuz we got great results from this procedure that she had done so anyway that's what's going on in my personal life and why I had to skip a week here and not go over plants I've got someone else in the family who's needed my attention and she's as sweet as can be and I can't wait till she's really mobile and then I'll definitely introduce you guys to her cuz she was the one who gave me the uh to get started in gardening all right you guys of course if you have any comments or questions leave those in the description box down below you can also take advantage of our newsletter at sunnyrest nursery.com or send me an email to Garden style nwest gmail.com start sending me in some of your questions uh I'm going to have some more q&as during the month of July because as we start moving into the warmer hotter months our planting slows down but some other things start to pick up and I'll definitely be going over July to-do list um in my grow more in 24 series along with other things but I can tell you what has been keeping me really busy now is keeping perennials trimmed I've also been trimming out trees that are just you know beyond excessive Tri trimming those back I've gotten all the lilacs trimmed roted endin are getting trimmed so that's kind of what it's about other than watering as we start to move into the hotter mon is just keeping things deadheaded trimmed watered um I'm going to give everybody one last fertilizing as we go into July and then it's a good idea to back off fertilizing you don't want to keep encouraging more New Growth as you start getting closer into can't believe I'm saying this the fall months so hanging baskets and annuals of course I fertilize those every other week just to keep them moving I've already started trimming some of my uh patunas as well as trimming off the bottoms of my hanging baskets because you know they start to get a little leggy as they' bloomed and bloomed and Bloom so give them a hair cut don't don't hesitate to cut off those long stems where it has one bloom at the end trim those up to the bottom of your hanging baskets and they'll just continue to keep sending out New Growth um and of course that always goes for perennials as well so anyway with that note I hope you guys are staying cool out there and of course keep those hands dirty and we we'll talk soon bye for now [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music]