New Plants for the Shade Garden/Garden Style nw

[Music] hi I'm Kendall with Kendall's greenhouse and I'm Debbie with sunny Chris nursery and garden style northwestwest so we are the Northwest Garden YouTubers and um we met a few weeks ago where I just came to the nursery and decided on a whim to ask Debbie if she would like to record a little bit she just popped in on me that's the best right when people were like can I just stick a camera in your face okay if I do an interview sure why not we've been trying to create some videos for other people in our Zone in the Northwest and really just anybody who's curious about what works here um with some plants that we have in our Gardens or have worked for us or that you just have experience with being a nursery owner um but we also realized we should probably say a little bit about ourselves and our channels so um I'm relatively new YouTuber I just looked the other day it's been three months since I started since I posted my first video oh so new um so so new I decided January 1st that I was going to do it it was going to be my New Year's resolution but it took me two months at least to figure out what I was going to post for my video first video and everything so I've been doing lots of garden tours and introducing my followers to my garden and just myself and my experience and sort of dialing in what I want to talk about um I definitely want to talk about the Pacific Northwest because that's where I live right um and that's all my experience with gardening and planting and then recently um I'm studying to be a master gardener and recently got my intern project which is adding more native plants to the Children's Garden at the pup um demonstration garden Y and so I just met with my sort of Project Lead the other day and she has some plant she's going to bring in and I have a very tiny budget to buy some plants to bring in for the Children's Garden so they're kind of clearing out some colum Bine and some other things that sort of seated themselves and I get to plant up this little area so I'll be sharing that with um everybody on my channel and then we'll see where we go from there that sounds like lots of fun yeah I think I hope so so you got started just in January I think I started 7even eight years ago um just because I felt we live in such a unique climate here and people have so many questions on what to get where to plant it you know how much life does it need that sort of thing cuz we do we have a unique climate here um we're cooler we're definitely wetter during the winter but yet we don't freeze so we can plant a lot of things that other people say east of the mountains cannot plant um because they're too tender but here we can't so I started about seven or eight years ago before I even purchased the nursery oh um and maybe that was just my way of manifesting you know finally taking over my own nursery and then the folks here retired this nursery's been here for almost 40 years yeah uh and I was like oh what an opportunity yes so I took over the nursery and now the two kind of blend together where I'm doing the informational videos as well as selling the plants yeah it just gives me all kinds of material now to talk about and I do videos so it's great without having to purchase every single one of them right though you want to yeah yeah that can get very expensive yes so kindall found me and introduced herself just walked into the store and said is it okay if I interview you sure why not and the rest is history we decided that we were going to continue to bring you more information and get together just to spice things up a little bit yeah it's fun to not do everything by yourself it is gets a little boring just sort of talking to yourself in a camera exactly so and audience probably gets a little bored with it too so yeah this is fun to shake things up a little bit so we'd love to hear your feedback in the comments if there's something you'd like to hear us talk about um maybe something specific to our region the questions you might have about when and where to plant or um how to read plant tags actually that's what we're going to do um in the video that we're going to put on my channel is how to read plant tags and interpret them um so we'll put a link below this video for you so you can go and see that video over on my channel and I'll be starting a Q&A probably in July oh um I'm already collecting questions um from folks that have been watching the videos over the last few months and July calms down a little bit you usually all you're doing is watering just trying to keep everything hydrated so I'm going to take a couple of my videos and actually do a Q&A and start reading off all the questions that customers have and give them some answers I love that yeah so I figure if they're asking me online I'm sure there's lots of other people out there that are wondering the same thing well you know where a really nice place to do a Q&A might be I think maybe in Kendall's green someone's greenhous I have I have two comfy little chairs in there in I know depends on the time of day right we might have a fun little beverage we can figure out how to use something from the garden in our beverage hey there you go I got some mojito mint just around the corner uh perfect that's actually my favorite mint I've planted a bunch of different mints in the Mojito ones so far of all the ones we've tried that's my favorite my husband is from Kentucky and we try to have a Kentucky Derby party every year oh and so we actually have to find good mint to eat and muddle and have in minty beverages right and sometimes we'll make mint simple syrup for that um and so mint is actually very important to us awesome so that's awes mojito mint is your your bonus up found out something else about candle today planned tip of the day yes so I need to find more places to grow mint that's a good reminder yeah well now that our trees are leafed out and we have more shade in our yards we thought it would be a good time to cover some more shade plants yes I get a lot of questions on what to plant in the shade um so I've come up with some new specimens today uh that I want to introduce you to that would be great in the shade and I'll probably start off with perennials first and this very first one is Master wart or arancha and these come in several different shades of Reds you can also get them in white um and these just start to come up but they're a beautiful flower that once they start to come up they'll last for quite a while and this is a fantastic Bloom for the shade and I can tell you hold it for you going to hold it for me take advantage of there being two very Hardy from zone four to zone seven so you know this is going to do really well keep it in the Deep shade if it gets out into the sun it's just going to it's going to melt on you so it appreciates shade to deep shade uh moist conditions it seems like when they put a cap on the Zone like that seven it seems like they're concerned about it getting too hot so that means it's even more important to keep it in the shade exact so it doesn't right get too hot if they're saying only to Zone 7even we're Zone 8 it'll be fine in the shade yes this is a woodland plant so normally it's growing in the under story of trees yes so yeah it appreciates shade great and very moist soil so if you have moist areas that are damp mhm fantastic perennial for that yeah what else can we tell you let's see there's no mention of deer resistance on here so I'm not going to even go there uh of course it flowers through the summertime and it just needs Rich evenly moist composted soil which is pretty easy to come by I have one of these in my garden and I want more because their Bloom heads dry really beautifully kind of like how Ali sort of set and dry and they still look really nice for a long time in your garden so this is another one in that family where you can kind of leave it up in a exact this one uh this one's a burgundy Manor that's the burgundy color and then we have the other one here oh which is called star of fire oh boy so it's a little bit brighter brighter red yeah same conditions same exact thing yeah and these will get about 24 to 30 in tall once they start sending up their spikes so nice plant a drift of those and the clumps will just get bigger and bigger every year as they get older yeah I need more of these so there's one in my life yes and we're going to provide a link for you below um after we're done talking about these plants we're going to make a video for my channel over at Kendall's Greenhouse talking about how to read plant tags so in this video today Debbie's going to kind of read the tags for you and interpret them but then we're going to dig into that a little bit deeper um in another video so you can kind of see what she's reading and how she's interpreting those tags for more info about how to do that so here's another one this is new for us in the nursery this year I don't think the plant itself is new um but this is called Bug Bane or ACTA ACA pink Spike get those Botanical names in there and it can be very hard to pronounce that was so pretty but this gets a beautiful pink Spike on it um these are also available in a white and kind of a cream color now the cool thing with this shade plant is it'll get about four to 5et tall tall so oh it looks so uh innocent Trey yes so it's something you want in the mid to the back of the Shea Garden okay uh fantastic mix with hostas of course the still bees um you know hydranges in the back maybe or roaded endin in the background yeah so they're they're kind of a fluffy nice filler for the shade garden and these will start blooming late spring early summer and they keep on blooming all the way till fall all the way through autum that's amazing fantastic how often do you get that in your shade garden I feel like there's not very I wanted to pick on this one today yeah that's great uh let's see it says exposure part sun which means it can take Morning Sun okay afternoon shade U of course it's very hearty down to Zone 4 um it likes evenly moist soil and again it'll Bloom from Summer to early fall yeah wish we had an example of the blooms for you but we will put a picture of what that looks like on the screen so you can see I'll do a little closeup of the leaves too cuz they are really pretty pretty dark kind of lacy so those two the bug Bane and the um Master wart such interesting names those are orious perennials right so they're going to disappear in the winter here in our Zone and then they'll come up with fresh all fresh foliage yes in the the spring yeah so our next perennial yes oh I'm not so I got lots of question about dry shade so cute so if you're looking for a low growing ground cover for dry shade like beneath fur trees for instance um this is your plant and this one is called epimedium or Baron wart and they get these beautiful looking Orchid type flowers that bloom on the top of the foliage and those come out in very early spring but then the rest of the season it comes out with this new growth and you can see it's that beautiful red tinge around the leaves um and they'll start to spread like I know this one will get 12 in by 12 in so it's an excellent ground cover that's something you can just put directly on the ground it's great beneath the feet of other like maybe tall plants putting in that would be a nice combo look great with something like that or underneath any of your shade shrubs uh it would do really well this flowering time is April through May and this one I'm sure has just finished uh Hardy from zone 5 to8 and I will tell you I planted several of these a couple of years ago underneath fur trees because it's really hard to grow anything under directly underneath fur trees cuz they just suck the water right out of the soil y but these guys I of course kept them watered their first year and I've ignored them and they're flourishing that's great they do great and another cool thing in the fall is they get a bronzy red color in the fall this is your little preview Leaf color right there and these will stay Evergreen as long as you don't have a super harsh winter so they'll hold their leaves yeah and this is interesting too like these um I'll show you guys a close-up kind they come up with just a couple stems from the bottom and this one you can see in its pot I'll hold it a little closer how there's all these stems coming up that kind of fill the pot and so you can see how it will kind of spread in your garden that way too by just in the nursery container what it's already doing yeah um it's really cute this by cuz they're just not aware what this plant can do it's it's super tough It's powerful yeah it's very powerful in the shade dry shade yeah and it's a slow spreader so it's not something that's going to take over your garden yeah that's what I was going to say there's a couple other shade ones that are more aggressive so if you want to like fill the ground quickly um what am I thinking of like Sweet Woodruff and um what's the other one thata auga is the kind of aggressive on so if you're scared of those which maybe you should be a little bit um this is a better option for something really easy to control um and slow spreader yeah yeah yeah so cool plant for the dry shave I love that there you go of course half the time you get the tag in and well it's got this well established root system so you can't get it back in there and now this one last but not least I decided to introduce a shrub today for the shade it can take Morning Sun afternoon shade and this is what we call a mountain laurel or Calia and they are still coming out with all these different colors but the flowers themselves to me look like candy they don't even look real it's kind of a waxy flower and once they open up they hang on to those flowers as long as you're not getting high heat you you get into the 80s the flowers are just going to melt off the plant but as long as the weather stays cool those flowers will last for weeks on the shrub let me hold it she chose one that's just been watered so our arm on my way here so this shrub is also nice cuz it only gets maybe 2 to 3T tall so it's something you can put in the front of a sheade garden and not have it um just get huge M uh let's see of course it prefers well- drained soil it doesn't like super wet feet but it does like moist so just make sure it drains really well and of course it's Hardy down to zone four so yeah up to zone 9 so it can hand a little bit of heat but not a whole a lot but they're most happy when they're sitting in uh partial shade yeah and it's Evergreen so that's another bonus it doesn't drop its leaves so these buds that we'll show you closeup are they're still closed it hasn't flowered yet and they just look it's so hard to describe what they look like hopefully you can kind of get they plastic yeah hopefully you can get an idea from the pictures will show but yeah they're just a really unusual shape um I don't even know how to describe it they're cuz they're kind of bumpy and textured on the side and then they're going to pop open that one's almost ready to pop open I can't even see yeah and this particular variety we're talking about is called minuette which I thought was a neat name that's a very musical name for it minuette and then we have another one here and I'm just showing this one is it also it's this one is called firecracker oh and so it kind of fits its name because his buds will be a bright red yes and then once the flowers open up they're kind of a pink to deep pink ni so they're gorgeous absolutely gorgeous and it looks like the new growth has some really pretty red stems on this variety to even more than this one so that looks like a a bonus of the firecracker one and same thing 3 ft tall by 2T wide but just a nice small evergreen shrub that behaves itself and actually gives you some flowers yeah yeah put in the front of your beds yeah I picked a bonus one this time only because it's not a shrub or anything but I I wanted something that was contrasty well there you go um that would be shade tolerant just as far as like plant combining is concerned and since we had these really rich um colors I thought this is the Carrick evero or everillo I'm not sure how how we say that I thought honestly it would look good with everything just cuz we don't have this bright chart trusy color yet in any of our things so we've got this pretty plum and then just a really bright beautiful contrast so put these together there's also like hona that you can get that has this bright um L try color mhm that would I would just that would make everything stand out and the neat thing with these cars is anything in the ever series everillo um God there's so many of them has the word ever in front of the name means it's ever green oh so this won't die back it holds its color year round in the spring I do grab them like this and give them a nice little haircut because you know they get meat up during the winter time yeah and they'll just fill right back in okay it only takes three to four weeks and they're just they look like a brand new plant yeah so you always want to do that here that's like kind of March February or March where before you see the new little spikes coming up cuz you don't want to cut any of the tips of this of the pretty ones or you'll get like um brown little things the end of your so yeah that's an early spring trim but that's a great tip for looking for the ever exact the ever series um Series in the tag yeah yep I love that so yes make some gorgeous plant combos in your shade uh Garden to make that stand out I love it our climate here is so unique compared to other parts of the country that it can be kind of tricky sometimes to figure out what to plant where um that's where we get the most questions is where do I put this will it grow here yeah so we try and clear up some of that yeah we were just having a conversation about planting in June because when we release this video it will be the very beginning of June and I was asking Debbie is it okay to still keep planting things in June because a lot of other channels in hotter areas are saying oh it's getting a little late you should have planted earlier in Spring um so I think that's a really important question if you're in our environment is it okay to keep planting what do you think absolutely that's the neat thing about living here in the Northwest is we can practically plant things year round when you get into June you're kind of focusing on perennials and shrubs that's probably where your primary focus should be when you get closer to July then trees are out of the question I wouldn't try to plant a tree unless you want to keep babysitting it throughout the entire summer you can get back to tree planting once you get into September when the sun isn't this hot and her days are starting to shorten up and it's cooling cooling off a little bit but I plan year round I plant all through the summer Nothing Stops me so so that's our special perk living in this is a perk definitely living in this climate in this environment um and our soil doesn't seem to dry out as much as other people's too that seems to be something they mention is like oh it's the soil isn't good for planting like what do you mean it seems good to me yeah yeah yeah as long as you're adding the Amendments and the things that you need to keep moisture in during the summer yeah you can get away with planting practically year round so those are our I guess we did five cuz we did four plus I I snuck a little bonus in there bonus today um those are five shade plants um that we recommend for your garden you can put them in now you can put them in anytime you want because if you live here that's our sort of M here in the Northwest future of living here in the Northwest and we're dealing with a cool shade on this one so this is something yeah no worries just plant them that's perfect and there are a lot more options for the shade so let us know if you liked learning about these and we can do some more ipas some more videos about it I have a lot of shade in my backyard that I need to plant so these are the perfect videos for me too um I'm still looking for a spot for my dappled Willow that I got last planted it no I'm keeping it alive it looks pretty good good but it does get big and so it's like a big commitment to put one ofed aace for it things in the ground but it's good to buy big shrubs when you're sort of starting to landscaping area cuz that's kind of your structure a little bit and then I will come in and I will fill you know the right from it with my Evergreens and um other sort of lower growing plants yeah if you have a blank slate that's the best way to go is start with your trees and shrubs first which I call the foundation plants they're the plants you're looking at year round all the time right and then start fing in with all your perennials and ground covers yeah it's not so overwhelming that way but those are like the easiest ones for me to buy for some reason get like a little container of it and it's pretty and it's like I'll just take this but then I don't want to put it in the ground and have to move it and so yeah I end up with pots all over my yard well I'm all about instant gratification so I find sometimes I plant too much in an area and then three or four years later you're having to pull things out I'm okay because they got too big yeah I'm okay with that you could always give a plant to a friend right um if you need to or find another spot in the yard for it find another spot uh I think that's great so um okay so we're going to put a link below and go make a video talking about plant tags for you guys so you can learn how to interpret them like we just did with that ever Series right and um look for little hints in the plant tags about where they will fit in your garden and other things you should look for and we will crisscross back and forth so in her YouTube video she'll put a link down to get to mine Y and vice versa I will put in a link to Kendall's Greenhouse so yes and one for garden style Northwest yes and somay you can come visit my Greenhouse yes I can't wait she has a beautiful Greenhouse yes that that will be a fun trip thank you for joining us here at Sunny Crest today thanks you guys we'll see you soon keep your hands dirty [Music] o [Music]