The Garden Is Going CRAZY!

Hey, hi, how's it going? Welcome to our garden. I am so glad that you are here. We are in Northern California, zone 9A visiting our little tiny garden. And I'm so excited to take you along with us. It is very early in the morning and that is the only time I can get out of the garden, but it is so beautiful right now. The sun has just barely, barely, barely started to kiss the garden. And so, um, it makes for a really, really enjoyable garden tour. A few things to know. Hi, my name is Robbie and I do garden in Northern California zone 9A on a very average size lot. We are under a quarter of an acre where I think we're at like 8,000 square feet, maybe, maybe closing in on 9,000 square feet. So it's not super large, but all of our garden is our backyard. Our front garden is very, very small. And I put out gardening videos five days a week. So if that's something that interests you and you want to see our previous garden tours, I will put a link to those in the description down below. The links to pretty much everything that I feature in the garden is going to be in the description down below. So I'll feature things like the metal edging that we've got. I've got some containers, I've got some fountains, anything that I can link, I will put it in the description of this video down below. Check it out. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. Let's head up front and we'll get into the garden tour. So this is our property. You can see it's not very wide at all. It's very long, not very wide. And then this is the road and then the gravel bit is our driveway. So when we first moved here, the place was a complete fixer up. We've been here for about seven years now and we've pretty much done everything ourselves minus a few projects. We are on less than a quarter of an acre. I always thought we were on a quarter of an acre or just under. We are on significantly less than a quarter of an acre. And we first bought this place. This was a chain link fence. We built the Arbor. We just kind of freestyled this Arbor here. There was no plans or anything that we followed. We just bought some 10 foot four by fours, sunk them into the ground and just started framing it out piece by piece. So that way we could have a nice little entry into the garden. Most of the petunias that you see up front, all of them actually, except for one is the Supertunia Vista Bubblegum because they just grow so insanely. The Arbor has three of them up there and that is it. It's not really, I don't think it could handle more than three, but they get huge and they fill out the entire space. They really do need a haircut or I need to, um, it's going to be the point where I need to take them out, cut off some of the roots, cut back the plant in half and then put them back up there. They have eaten up all of the soil that is there. It's just insane. These were three ball Eugenia topiaries, but, um, they are now two ball topiaries because this container here has a Supertunia Vista Bubblegum and it has Verbena Pink Cashmere. They just got a haircut back, but they are starting to grow a little bit. So, um, they will rebound here soon. Hopefully my Eden Climbing Rose is giving us another flush of blooms, which is so exciting. It's such a pretty, pretty rose. It's like a fully double rose, but it's got a little room in there. Sometimes I'll see some pollinators on there. Um, the second flush of blooms is always, I want to say it's underwhelming because it's not underwhelming. It's really, really pretty. Um, but it is less impactful than the first flush of blooms. The first flush of blooms on roses is incredible. The second flush always still takes my breath away and I still love it. And then the third flush is usually pretty, pretty small and you'll just get the occasional bloom here and there. We might get four flushes of blooms from most of our roses. Let's go this way. This is the Purple Chiffon Rose of Sharon right here. It is very purple in person. It's kind of like a blue purple. Like this is very, very blue. This is a faded bloom. So this one is done blooming, but this is like a blue purple. It's a very cool toned purple. As you can see, they then turn to a blue color. I don't really like that it holds on to its blooms when it's done. Um, it takes it a minute, but it does, it does drop them. There's a ton of blue blooms you can see down in here, but I just don't like that. It holds on to all of its blooms. It's fine. Um, the window box that's back there, that is also super continuous to bubblegum seal. It's got that like clump of green on the top. It's getting ready to start blooming. I thought it would be blooming by time we were going to do this garden torch today, but, um, it's slowed down because it got so incredibly hot. I think we hit 105 yesterday. So that was pretty rough. Um, but that is also a supertunia Vista bubblegum and the ones below it. I don't like those are the supertunia. Let me go show you. These are the blue tiara and I don't like them and I'm just letting weeds grow in them because they don't even like them. I don't even care to keep it weed free or anything. I just don't think I like the blue tiara look. It's just not my vibe. I don't know. For some reason they remind me of like a crayon. I don't know. Don't, don't ask me where I get that from. Anywho, we're back out front. The hibiscus that's right here is just blooming nonstop and it's blooming very early. So it's got all of these buds, these weird little, like they kind of like Oprah with like spider legs. That's a bloom that's about to form and this is what the blooms look like. It's kind of closed right now because it's morning. So throughout the day, it's going to just open. The blooms don't last more than a day. So this is going to open and then tomorrow it's probably going to end up looking like this. This is a faded bloom right here. But usually this is, I think this might be day one. So this is one that's just opening. So tomorrow or later today it'll look kind of like that one looks. But usually this doesn't start blooming till a little bit later in summer. Usually it's not like the very beginning of summer that the thing is blooming. Carl Forrester grass. I love this. I'm so happy that this worked out because I almost took this out. And so I'm really, really happy that we didn't take it out and that it survived here. We'll come down this way. This driveway has been fun. Um, I've been kind of experimenting with like a container this year and I'm really, really happy with it. The wall is Arabian Jasmine. This is the summer, something. Good thing we popped the name of the bottom screen and it's fine. It does medium. Um, it's very, very slow to grow and it's not always the happiest. It really likes heat. It does not like pool weather. And I think it might need a little bit more water if we're being honest. Um, I've got a little petunia project going on right there to see different types of petunias. This container though. So fabulous. This is the Supertunia Honey, which is the yellow one. Supertunia Bermuda Beach, which is right there and right there. And then I've got Bewitched with Green Envy Ipomoea. These are huge and they're so pretty. I will be doing that again. I've got the Luscious Lantana. The colors on it are stunning. I love that. And then I think they fade to this color, which I'm super in love with. And then I've got the pink, I think it's Stratosphere Gara is what it is. And pollinators love it. It's really fun. It's really interesting and it gives like so much drama to this bed. Okay, let's go through the gate because it is looking so good in here. Um, we had the gate custom made by a friend and we're still super happy with it. We still love this gate. It just adds so much interest as you walk into the garden. Like it's the first thing you see. So it's really, really cool. Um, all of the concrete is stamped concrete. We just had that done recently and it's supposed to look like cobblestone, which is really cool because I think it looks like cobblestone rather than just like that normal texture that they do concrete or the like one stamp that I think most people get, which it looks like stone. I wanted it to look like cobblestone, but not cost what cobblestone cost. So this is the side yard back here. Um, we have a red bud. I think this is the Oklahoma one and it is doing so good every single year. The giant green monster right there that is Clematis Armandii shade lover. So far she's still doing really well here, which is honestly so shocking. We're just waiting until she decides that she doesn't want to live here anymore because this is a full sun area. Once she tells us, then we're going to go ahead and move it. It's got to get moved. I've got Rebecca right here, treasure trove for a really bright pop of yellow in the garden. This is a new plant to, I think the garden industry, it's supposed to be more resistant to the disease that Rebecca get, which I don't have good luck with Rebecca and this one is doing really great, but I'll show you some other ones that are not doing really great. Um, this side over here, I have a hedge of Pitosporum. So that's what all of these round ball shaped evergreens are. And then below that, all of these are the Supertunia Paradise right here. They're really, really pretty. I love the drama that they bring. And that's exactly what that one is. That's back there too. And then here we've got a wall of chokeberry. These are going to get quite tall, but they're not going to get super wide. So they will eventually fill this area out, but it'll be great. So just add a little bit of privacy over here. And then I just tucked in a bunch of annuals down below. Um, nothing's really in super big bloom. So I'm not going to talk about those because they're not blooming like crazy. Over on this side, this bed is starting to bloom, which is really, really cool. So this is a Penstemon. I think this is the Rose Rhinestone one and it's starting to bloom. It's really pretty. I didn't like Penstemon and now I really do like Penstemon. It's really pretty. And then I've got the backlit white Phlox right there. And then my Alliums are also starting to bloom, which is so exciting. These ones here are called Bobblehead. They're so pretty. I've got another one. I've actually got it in two other spots in the garden. I will show you guys those so you can see it in like full bloom. But if we come this way, let's enter into the garden. Those right there are the Truffula Pink Gomphrena. They're moving a little slow this year, a little bit slower than I would like. And they're moving slow throughout the entire garden. I've got them in a few other spots and I'm not happy with the slow rate of growth that they've got. This is one Supertunia Vista Bubblegum right here. Just one single plant. It is absolutely taking over. It's so massive in our little fountain garden bed. This entire area here has been such a treat. Now that we've put this lattice up, we did DIY this ourselves with old bedspores. We just cut them down to the size that I wanted and painted them and tacked them on up there. Well, nailed them up there. But this area over here is our little fountain area. And you can see this one Petunia is just crazy. So that's one Bubblegum. And then below those darker blooms are the Paradise ones. And then it is just swallowing everything. Got some James Bertinia. That's those purple blooms down here. Those are doing really, really well. I'm happy with those. They're not a super wild plant, but they are just kind of like a nice plant to add into the garden. And then I've got some Verbena right there. And then the Heliotrope just keeps blooming for me, which is because it smells so good. If you've never grown Heliotrope before, highly, highly recommend it because of the smell. And it's like not an ugly plant, which is really, really nice too. And then our Lion Fountain, I don't have a source for that was found locally by a guy who was making fountains and he has since retired. Kind of a bummer. But we'll just keep going this way. This here is two of the Super Petunia Vista Bubblegums. Could have done one, but I did too. And now they are competing for nutrients with each other. And then our Rose, and this is the third flush of roses on these. We had a day that yesterday got really, really hot, really fast. And it did kind of scorch the blooms, which is such a bummer. So these are going to obviously just fall off today, which is, oh, so sad. It really is. And then this kind of brings you into the full view of the entire garden. And our garden is our entire back area. It's not the front area at all. Let's go kind of over this way. So I don't really show this area too often. So I've got two more of the Pittosporum just for a little repetition on the other side. So it kind of ties in. And then I've got Alyssum in here, which totally loving the Alyssum. So happy I did that. I kind of used it as a like soil topper in this container. And you can barely see the container. This is a Coco Loco Rose, and she had a black spot. I pulled off every single one of her leaves, cut her stems back, sprayed it with some neem oil, and then she has rebounded beautifully. It does look like maybe she's got some aphid issue going on, which that is no issue for me. I'll take care of the aphid problem and not even think about it. But I don't see any black spot happening. So I think that's a win for me. Roses are so hardy. This one, I literally, you can see, I hacked her back all the way down to just nubs. I said, nope, you lost your privileges. You're done. Try again. She tried again and she's now totally behaving. Below all of that, that is the Rocca Poco Wisteria Impatiens. They're like a double impatiens. They're really, really pretty. It looks like they just kind of slightly finished a flush of blooms and they're getting ready to put out another flush of blooms. So this thing is kind of like constantly in bloom. All the little white speckles that you see on there, that is from the alyssum that's there. But they're really, really pretty. I will do this again. This is mass planting these. So this is not like a little project. This wasn't just like five or six of them. I think this might have been like 10 or 12 of these. It was ridiculous. OK, we'll go to this side here. So you can see there's my hosta. That is the Shadowland Diamond Lake just getting too much sun. There's like a weird line of sun that goes like right through here. You can see like right where the line is. And so I'm going to clearly have to move her. It's getting just gets too much sun. So I've got a rose here also. This is a rose called the Itsy Bitsy Peach. And so she gets these huge just like clusters. So this is so this is one single stem right here. And then you can see all of these. It's really, really cool. So she gets a ton of blooms. They're not like the largest, but they're really, really pretty. And then they fade to this like soft peachy, like creamy color. It's really gorgeous. And she's very, very well behaved in the garden. Let's go this way. We're going to go away that we don't really ever go. So this bed is a struggle for me because it gets shade all day long, except it gets hit with about three hours, maybe three and a half hours of the hottest afternoon sun. So it just gets the most intense sun. So it's hard finding things that can be. I mean, that's technically a part shade plant, but it's hard to find things that can be part shade that can handle only the hot afternoon sun. Part shade usually would be ideal if it was morning sun, but it's not a morning sun location. So this bed is kind of a a mishmash of things. I've got some Rebecca in here. This is the first time Rebecca has ever come back for me. I don't quite recall the name of these ones, but these are ones that do want as much sun as you can give them. So you can see they are like stretching for the sun. They're basically sideways at this point because they're just trying to get more sun. I thought because this was the hot afternoon sun location, they would be fine, but they're not super happy there. So it is what it is. I also have this right here. It's a white Eryngium. I've grown white and blue. I like the white for flower arrangements, but I like the blue better in the garden. But it is a really, really pretty plant. It's very interesting. I like to cut on them. I obviously have not cut on these ones and then they started to flop. So one of them is right there and it's just going sideways. And then it's spikes are coming out that way. So this is our aviary moving on. We've got some zebra finch in there. They are there year round. You can see there's one right there on that willow branch. But they're so much fun. And they're the sweetest little birds. And they don't they're not like social with us, but they are very social birds. And they're not scared of us like outside the aviary very much, but they don't like us inside their aviary at all. So we just go in there, throw some food in there. Well, they've got a whole pedestal of food. So they get a pedestal of food and they get fresh water every single day. They've got a little bird bath in there. They've got some plants in there and they have babies, but they're not very good parents. So sometimes we do have to intervene, but we try not to. We try to just let them be parents. But we did build the aviary when we first moved here. Originally, this was our chicken coop and it had just a dirt bottom and it didn't have the stone on it and it didn't have this roof that we built. It actually had a metal roof is what it had on it from some metal, some corrugated metal that was left here when we bought the place. And so it was just kind of a piece that we just slowly built. And then eventually we just kind of switched it up to this. I think we'll go back this way because I think I hear irrigation turning on because it's like not even six o'clock in the morning. And I'm afraid the sprinklers are about to turn on. So this is a tiger eyes sumac. It is definitely one to grow in the container, not in the landscape. This one spreads underground by some rhizomes. And so what that means is it's just going to send out runners all around. So this is a plant that you got to make sure that you really want and that you're also probably going to have to stay up on. It's definitely a high maintenance plant if you plant it in the ground. I'm going to keep it in this container as long as possible. And then we may have to kind of like bonsai it. It's kind of a plant. Probably not the best plant for bonsai, but we're going to try. But it's put out so much growth since I planted this thing. And the stems on it, they're like a pink color. It's really, really pretty. So they're like this like weird pink color and they're kind of like fuzzy. It's really interesting. And then in the fall time, this is just going to glow with like an orange red color. I cannot wait to see the show that it puts out. This bed here has been so much fun. I love the white with like the pops of blue. So this is a Marguerite Daisy called White Butterfly. And then the blue that's in there, that is the unplugged blue salvia. And it's just kind of a little fun pop of color at all. All of our beds get irrigation. They all get drip tubing. And so I don't hand water a single container that's on our property. I just don't do it. And above that, we just planted this maple tree. This is the autumn blaze maple. Very excited about it because up front I have an October glory. I call it a November maybe because maybe in November you'll get a little bit of a show. But it's usually like the last week of November and into December. And then once the color starts to change on it, it drops all of its leaves. So we don't really get a show off of it. So I'm hoping that this one does better for us. I already like how large the leaves are on this one. They're huge. So I'm already a total sucker for it. This weird little plant right here. This is called Baptisia. It's so pretty. I love the seed pods that are on it. I like the like foliar growth that it has. It's very airy. It's very cottagey. I thought it died. So I threw the tag away. So super cool on me. Next to that, I've got bee balm. It's starting to grow again. I can't believe it's not growing faster. But everywhere that I cut it back, you can see those little little pieces coming out of it. So it's starting to grow. It's getting there. But I love it. I love bee balm. Highly recommend you add bee balm into the garden. Somebody said that their bee balm, or a lot of people said that their bee balm is a powdery mildew magnet. Like I said, I don't deal with powdery mildew. But I've never had any issues with it. I also have three varieties that are proven winners. And I've got one that was like a older variety. And I don't deal with it on all four of them. I can't believe I have bee balm four spots in my garden. OK, we're going to move over to this bed over here. I've got lamb's ear here, and I'm thinking that maybe she's getting close to the end of her life. She should not look like this at all. She should be beautiful and green. And now she is gray and brown, a little lifeless. So I'm going to keep an eye on her, but she might get a big haircut or she might just get taken out. Soul Sister Rose, plant this rose. Oh, the blooms on it are so pretty. It's a stunning, stunning rose. This is a faded bloom, but she just blooms just nonstop for us. I cannot recommend this rose enough. It's it's gorgeous. And then this bed has just been kind of a mismatch of things. You can see the hummingbird over there on the nyphopia. They really like that. That's red hot poker. Let me show you guys this. So it's got these tubular shaped flowers and pretty much anything with a tubular shaped flower hummingbirds are supposed to like. And they do. They do really like this one. I typically don't like this color in the garden, but this bed is very full of color. So I've got the red hot poker and then I've got these cone flower here. And I don't know the name of these. I couldn't even guess. But I think this might be like Cheyenne Spirit or something like that. Possibly. They're very, very red. But this bed is just full of color. I've got pinks. I've got yellows. I've got reds. I've got whites. I've got blues. The Cleome that's back there. That's those blooms. Oh, my gosh. It's so pretty. I'll show you it in another spot where I can actually get into it in front of that saffron finch is what's lining this bed. These are petunia. They should be doing better. They're doing medium petunias are doing medium for me this year. This is an example. So this is the petunia bubble gum. And I think these ones are the bubble gum, too. And let me give you an example of what she's doing. She is like sun scorching and she's kind of doing it like regularly. So I'm not super thrilled about this because bubble gum should be able to handle as much sun as possible. So the bubble gum is doing some weird things. It's pretty much all over the bubble gum. It's doing this like sunburn thing. It's really, really weird. And like pretty much all of the blooms are doing it. So I don't know if it's because it's the bubble gum, too, or if it's the old variety. I'm pretty sure that it is the new variety. And it's been struggling this year, which is not normal. Yeah, but I don't know. I don't know. I have nothing to say, which is weird because I typically love bubble gum. And this year it's just been it's had the same vigor. It's just had some problems this year. So I don't know what that's all about. Above that, Kinsley Ghost Honeysuckle highly, highly recommend. I almost took this out. It's so pretty, though. They look like eucalyptus, but these are called bracts. And it's part of the like reproductive system of the plant. And so all of these little pieces right here are going to start turning into beautiful berries. You can see there's a berry right there. And those berries are going to change into like yellows and oranges. And it's just going to be a stunning, stunning show. Let's go this way because this is starting to get in a bit more sun. This is a lemon cypress. I get questions about that every time. It's one of those little trees that you can find during the holidays that are usually tied up with ribbon called the Grinch Tree. It's a great, great evergreen tree. Higher zones only, though. But it doesn't get super massive. Over here, I've got a Jack of Diamonds Brunnera tucked in underneath. I'm a sucker for Brunnera. They're so pretty. They've got gorgeous, gorgeous color to them. Very, very silvery. And then this here is the Rebecca called Indian Summer. You can see they're growing really well and they should be blooming any time now. So I got my first bloom starting at the very top of it. And then I've got another Cleome tucked back there. This is the Senorita Rosalita Cleome. And it is supposed to be thornless and sterile. So I guess that's a I've never grown Cleome before. And I guess that's a problem that people deal with is that it has thorns and that it just self seeds. But isn't that so interesting with these little like spikes? It's also known as like spiderwort because it's kind of giving spider. But it is so pretty. The pollinators are usually just fighting over this one. This one is the Senorita Rosalita one. There is also the Senorita Blanca variety, and that's a white one. But I like the purple one a lot. I've never grown the other one. Surefire Cherry Cordial Begonias. Oh, my gosh, they do so well. There is a giant snail enjoying a breakfast on my begonia. Bon appetit, buddy. Go ahead and eat the fallen blooms. Surefire Cherry Cordial Begonias. I will probably continue to try to buy this one. I will try to buy all the Surefire Begonias every year because they just perform so well. This is below that. That is the Allium Bobblehead. This one is just starting to open. But I do have one that is open. It's it's a little farther gone than it is fresh. So I will show you that one because that one does look really good, too. The door to nowhere is still here. I had a thought about removing it. I was wrong. I'm sorry. I would like to apologize. We did build it. And those are just little mirrored pieces. But it's supposed to just kind of look like it goes into another garden. But it is our garden. Hey, hi. How's it going? And then next to that, today we're going to fix this branch because that branch is not supposed to be down there like that. But this here is a Vitex. It's called Pink Panicle Vitex. And it is always covered in bees. It's also first thing in the morning, so bees are not awake yet. But it is usually throughout the day buzzing. So if you want to attract pollinators, this is one to grow. But if you don't want something that is covered all day long in pollinators, don't grow this one. Because this thing is usually it's just buzzing with pollinators. It's kind of crazy. This bed is just kind of coming into something. It's starting to do its thing. I'm trying to add color throughout the garden. I'm trying to add yellows and reds and oranges and blues and pinks. I want all the colors in the garden this year. It's always kind of felt like I don't have all the colors in the garden. And it was only heavy focused on one. So we're getting there. Some sun patients here. They're doing okay. They should be full of blooms. But you can see there's very few blooms. So it's the opposite. These ones are called Tropical Rose. They're sun patients. They're supposed to be able to handle some sun. They're very, very, very water hungry. So if you live in an area where like you need to slightly conserve water, I would probably not grow these. I don't know if I'm going to grow sun patients again. They're kind of dramatic. But I do have a spot that I really like them. So we're gonna keep an eye on it. I need to get more color in this bed because it's very green right now. So I can see like this time of year, I'm obviously missing color. I had beautiful spring show of flowers in here. Peonies, columbines, foxgloves. Just I had a great show. And now I'm missing a summer show. So I got to figure that out for next year. Our greenhouse here. This is from BC Greenhouse. It is the 8 foot by 12. No, the 10 by 12 is what I think it is. And the 10 by 12 is actually it's like 10 and a half by like almost 13 feet. And we did not pull a permit for it. It's kind of the size that you don't really actually need to pull a permit for a greenhouse or for a structure. But they do work with you to let you know like your local zoning and help you kind of figure out what you do need to do for it. We have electrical in there. We have plumbing in there. And we use it constantly. Usually I try to come out here and sit my coffee in there in the morning. But in the afternoon, it is a little bit too hot. I feel like I totally missed this bed over here. Whoops, my bad. This right here, agostachy. This is the meant to be peach. Oh, good thing we popped the names up on the screen. There are so many plants in here. There's no way I could actually remember all of them off the top of my head. Pollinators are always going crazy for this one. There's a bee actively on it. Probably slept the night out from the hive so it could get first dibs on this plant. But this is, I think, I think this might be two plants in here. And I will do this again. This is a really, really, really cool one. I like this color. I wasn't sure I liked it. I almost pulled it out. And I'm really glad I didn't pull it out. And I did give it another chance because it is spectacular. Below that, petunia. This one is, we will try to pop the name up on the screen. Who are you? I'm not very good at this thing, at this whole garden tour thing. But we're moving on. Dahlia here called Fifi. You can see this is a very spent bloom, but it's a ball-type dahlia. And they're very dense. And then you can see this is a fresh bloom that's forming. And it will get that large. I think because it was so hot yesterday, things just started to burn. This one probably shouldn't be quite burned yet. So really weird. I know a lot of people think dahlias need as much sun as you can possibly give them. But where we live, it is so hot. It's ridiculous. And so dahlias need a little bit of reprieve from the afternoon sun. So this does not get that. Some of our other dahlias also don't get that. But sorry, it'll be fine. Weeping willow. I forget to talk about it. It's just your normal weeping willow tree. High maintenance, very high maintenance tree. You have to constantly trim her back. She does get wood borers. And she constantly has woodpeckers going after her. And her branches are very fragile. So she does lose branches in the wind. That's super fun. It's not fun. It's actually awful. But it is a very, very magical tree. Let's keep going down this way. Dusty Miller. This is the new look one. Oh my gosh. She's starting to really just kind of take over. She goes all the way through the bed over to the other side. And this year I really tried to do like a lot of like diagonal drifts rather than just like front border. So you can see there's petunia blooms tucked in right back there. So this petunia comes through here and then it comes diagonal and then it comes all the way around and swoops kind of around that corner a little bit. So I would just kind of like nice flows of things in the garden, which I think is something that I learned last year that is so important. You can't just do staggers of plants. Like you can't just do like here's a row. Here's a row. Because then it just kind of looks like a row in the garden. But if you can get flows in the garden and you can get things to kind of crisscross throughout, it works so well. We're going back this way. The sunlight is starting to hit the garden finally. Flamethrower redbud. Totally cool plant. Highly recommend it. Give it some protection from the afternoon sun. We did have caterpillars trying to eat it early in the springtime, but I did get on that. There is still caterpillar damage in there. All of the leaves will fall. It is deciduous. So next year it'll be fine. Let's go this way because this has been a really fun bed. These right here are the sweet alyssum. Oh my gosh. I bordered this entire bed all the way back. What a cool piece that is. Isn't that awesome? I love how that looks. I'm going to repeat that next year in a ton of different spots because it's so low growing. I do really wish that I had done it over on this side over here, but I didn't. And I'm just, I'm so happy with how this looks. The coleus that's over here, I had Ridiculous and I had Lime Thyme. Lime Thyme is doing medium. That's this green one right here. It's doing actually pretty good. It should be larger, but it's not. And then Ridiculous is the red one that's back there. And I am down to two Ridiculous coleus. I think I should have like six in there or something like that. I think I lost four. Compact Blush Sun Patients. See, those look really well there. They look good and they still get a little bit of sun. I wish that I had had more tucked in, but that's where I had all those holes. That was a Ridiculous. I think there might have been another Ridiculous. They just struggled hard. I think there might have been another Ridiculous. I don't know. They just took a nosedive. Bummer. Forgot to talk about this. This is an Amaranth. This is the Emerald Tassel Amaranth. It's so pretty. I am a sucker for Amaranth. I've got it in a pink color too that I'm going to show you guys. It's so pretty. Hydrangea over here. She got burnt yesterday, which is just really frustrating. She got sunburned yesterday, which is so frustrating because she looked so good. All of her blooms, every single one of them. I almost came out here and harvested them. Every single one looked like this. I'm really, really sad that she got sunburned yesterday, but it was so hot. It was like you stand in the sun and it felt like it was burning your skin. It was awful. Well, let's come back out this way though. This is a Coleus called Wicked Witch. She's doing pretty good. I'm actually really shocked. Some of them are growing a little bit slow. You can see the one by the planter right there. That's Swan Planter. That one's growing really slow. These ones over here are doing really well. Surefire White Begonias. Oh my gosh. What a drama queen in the best possible way. She is all the drama and all the impact. I'm so here for it. Total hands-off plant. But the drama that she brings to the garden, you need to get one. You need to get... I think this is three that are mature. And then I have three down here. So these did winter over for me. They are just an annual. But if our winters are mild enough, they do just completely winter over. You can see they've got all these white blooms. When it does drop them, it does catch them also. So that's kind of the bummer about it. But with white blooms, I thought you would notice it more. I don't notice it nearly as much. I feel like I notice the white blooms the most on it. Here's the other Cleome that I've got. I think I have it in four spots in the garden this year, which is so cool. I did them in two spots last year, and I did them as groupings of three. You only need one of these, truly. So if you can only find one, buy one, plant one. You'll be so happy with it. Scabiosa right here. These are so pretty. These are the Fama White series. They're just jaw-dropping. This one looks like it has dirt on it. That might have been for me. Sorry about that. But they're so pretty. And then this is what the seed heads look like. So I'm waiting for it to fully go to seed so I can collect some of them. Because I do plan to save seeds from this, because I would really like to add more of these next year. And the seeds on the Fama series can be either hard to find or kind of expensive. So we're just going to grow our own next year from seed. From our own seed. Let's go this way. I want to show these window boxes off, because these are really pretty. So Subpatient. This is the Orchid Blush back here. And then I have some Alyssum also tucked in back there. And then I've got some Dichondra. That's Silver Falls Dichondra. I love the drama Dichondra brings. And then this is an Ipomoea. I think this is one called Medusa. She has been a great performer in the garden. I kind of need to get like up above her. This is one that I think that next year I will grow it in the ground. So it's a little bit lower. So I can appreciate how it actually looks in the ground. But I cannot believe how cool this plant is. This is a really, really cool sweet potato vine is what it is. Let me show you the other one. This is the other window box. This one I think might get a little bit more shade. And so you can see it's a much deeper purple color. But just kind of like everything about it is amazing. The new growth is this bright green color. And then it's supposed to be like this like dark purple color. I think some of these that get a little bit more sun turn kind of green. But this gets cooked. This whole bed was shade. And I thought that they'd be happy in shade. Turns out that the epimea is very, very happy with a lot of sun. Okay, so I had to move the bench over to this bed because the coleus, the wicked witch coleus, they look so bad. Look at that one. That's pathetic. And at the end of the day, these are so wilty. So I moved the bench here hoping that it casts some shade to just kind of help these guys. This was full shade in the afternoon. Now it is full sun. The willow tree dropped a super massive branch. Actually dropped two massive branches. And when it dropped them, it made all of this shade or made all of the shade disappear because the branches come out this way. And there was another one that came out this way. And so all of this was shade. And it brought shade to the greenhouse in the morning. Now the greenhouse is in sun in the morning. So it heats up really fast, which is such a bummer. And then behind me was in shade in the afternoon. And even those coleus got shade in the afternoon. And so it's just kind of changed the whole dynamic at a terrible time in the garden. Would have been nice if it did it much earlier, but it didn't. This here is the exact same dusty miller on the other side. This one gets a lot more shade though. So when it gets sun, it gets larger. The one that gets shades has stayed so much more compact. So there's a difference. I do like it better, I think, with a little bit more shade. Just planted this loropedlum here. This one, Bailey's brought me this one. So the other one that I had, the branches kept breaking. So I don't know if all loropedlums are more fragile, but it was starting to look like more and more and more sparse. The other one I had was like jazz hands, I think. So we took it out and we're replacing it with this one. This one will get a little bit larger, which is what I wanted. I want it to kind of create like a window almost. So I'm hoping that it kind of like fills this area out here. So there'll be a window kind of looking through like loropedlum here, hydrangea here. You can kind of see through it. And then it kind of like blocks you off to like pull you around the corner a little bit. I'm not afraid to add a little bit of height right at the very front of the bed. Plus, they're such slow growing plants and they take to pruning very well that I can keep it in check. No problem because of how slow it grows. My phlox is growing back, so that's cool. It did get a haircut. This is the pinkadot. And see all that like bright growth? That is all new growth. And so I should pretty soon start getting another flush. You can see it's actually forming some flowers right here. So some of it has pushed new flowers. So we're getting there. But I should get a second or third flush out of these guys, which that makes me happy. We'll go down this way now. So this is a prairie princess ironweed, which is a native. It should start exploding with some color here pretty soon. Oh, you can see there are some of the blooms. See those purple like spiky looking blooms? They're not spiky at all. They just kind of look spiky, but they're so unique. And so this entire thing is just going to explode here pretty soon with purple. And this is a perennial, so it'll die back all the way to the ground and it comes fresh every single year. It's so pretty when it's actually in bloom, though. It's kind of like meh when it's not in bloom. It doesn't really do anything for me. But when it's blooming, so good. I do have geraniums here. They're done blooming now. I need to come in and I need to cut off all of the bloom spikes. That's what all of this is here. So this is a perennial geranium. And so it's going to die back all the way to the ground, disappear. You're going to think it's dead and it's not. I will say it is very, very sticky. And I don't like that. So I need to cut it back. But I need to be wearing gloves. But the blooms on it, they literally look like they're glowing. They don't even look real. So I think it's worth the stickiness and the grossness, just even touching the bloom. My hands are super sticky. And I do. I do have another Coyote tucked in right there. Oh, there's a bee on it. Carpenter bee. But back this way, I'm starting to get zinnias, which is so fun. I didn't even plant these. These are volunteer zinnias. I think these are the Bonares Giant Pink zinnias. Total sucker for zinnias. And then back there, I think this is Salmon Kiss, because those are the ones that I was growing last year. And this one has a smaller bloom to it, but a much more dense bloom compared to this one right here. So this one's a little bit more like flat and more like, I don't know, not as dense, not as many petals. Both of them are pretty. I use both of them throughout the garden. I do kind of need to update you guys on this project that we did. So we lined the top of the fence with Super Junior Vista Bubble Gums, and they're doing really, really good. They're starting to really fill in. They are doing that sunburn thing, so we're going to keep an eye on those. I hope that they stop doing the sunburn thing, but we are just scheduled to just continue to get hotter and hotter, so we'll see what happens. Another Bee Balm right here. This is the one that I told you guys. I don't know the name of. I think this might have just been picked up at Home Depot six years ago, I think. Bee Balm is so pretty, but it does need a haircut back. It's starting to get to the point where all of these blooms are starting to fade. So you can see all the blooms on this one. It looks like a bald man. So once all those fall, then I need to come in here, I need to hack it, and I need to hack it in half. I literally just come through and just cut it in half. It's very straightforward. This is the other Bobblehead Allium. So this bloom is probably the least spent, but it's like a white, silvery bloom. They're really, really pretty. And then this is a much more spent bloom, which I still don't dislike at all. I actually, I really like this kind of a lot. So this one should bloom. It should do its blooms. And then if I cut these blooms back, I think I might be able to force another flush of blooms out of these guys. But they are a good size Allium, and the bees go crazy for them when it doesn't bloom. This one is done blooming, so the bees are over it now. But the Bobblehead Allium, that's what I've got in the other side yard. And then behind that is some Agastachy. That's the meant-to-be Royal Raspberry. I like it back there. It's a nice little pop of color back there, and it's not loud. It's just nice. So I do like that. Another Hibiscus. This is the same exact one. This is the Ballet Slipper Hibiscus right here. And you can see she is also starting to bloom. I love this Hibiscus, and I never thought I would say that at all. Russian Sage next to that. Russian Sage is a really pretty plant. If you have sensitive skin, I probably wouldn't plant it where you can touch it. A lot of people report that they have sensitive skin due to this one. That they've got issues due to this one. So if you're somebody who's ever been like, yeah, I break out from plants, I would maybe steer clear of that one. Look at this. This is my False Queen Anne's Lace. Aren't these so pretty? So False Queen Anne's Lace, it gets this weird little dark spot in the middle. But I think this is Dara. This might be Purple Kisses is what this might be. But then I also have it in this really pretty white color. The white one is huge. That is so massive. But they do really well in floral arrangements. You got to pick them first thing in the morning. Otherwise, they flop. But they do just kind of bloom for us nonstop. Those are some blooms that are coming. Oh my gosh, I have another Cleome back there. I've got another Cleome back there. I must have done five. And then I've got tucked in kind of like growing through it right there. That is Amaranth. That one I think is Love Lies Bleeding. I think that's what that one is. And then I've got another Dahlia here. This is another one of the Fifi's. So you can see she's doing pretty well. But did get a little sun scorched yesterday. So fingers crossed that she can get her act together a little bit. And then over here, I've got some Yarrow. This is the Firefly. I swear this was Peach. But this is obviously not Peach. This is Yellow. So it's a Firefly Yarrow. Bee Bomb right here. And you can see she's starting to fill in that hole right there. I'm going to cut her back today after the garden tour is over. So this one is the upscale Red. She flopped because we had like 40 mile an hour winds. And it didn't make her very happy. And then she just wasn't able to pick herself up off the floor. She had a rough night. Let's kind of go in here. Because I didn't really show anything in here. So over here, I've got some Begonias. These, of course, I have more Begonias. These are the Space Age Black Hole Begonia. And I like them. They definitely are getting too much sun here, I think. But we're living and learning with this bed. And then the Compact Orchid Blush. Some Patience. I mass planted those in wire cans. That's what those are. We're dealing with underground critters. We haven't dealt with them in a few months now, which has been really, really nice. Knock on wood that it stays away. It was a Pocket Gopher. And we caught it. And we haven't had an issue since. I'm not going to hold my breath on it. Let's go back this way. This is starting to get in the sun. Oh, bummer. This here is a Dahlia called Petra's Wedding. It's a Ball-Type Dahlia. I'm a sucker for Ball-Type Dahlias and Water Lily Dahlias. But Water Lily Dahlias are so expensive. Ball-Type ones are not. This one's Petra's Wedding. She's so pretty when she's in full bloom. And she usually blooms non-stop. Her blooms are just tiny. And they're perfect to just tuck into floral arrangements. Below that, sorry that the lighting is so bad now. This is the Nepeta called Lemon Purrfection. Purr like a cat. It smells not my favorite. Because of the color that it is, and the blooms, and how much pollinators love it. And it just kind of like fills out of bed so beautifully. I really can't say anything bad about it. I don't like the smell. But that is so low on the list that it doesn't matter to me that I don't like the smell because of how well this plant performs. Some people like the smell of Nepeta. I don't like the smell of any Nepetas. So if you like the smell of Nepeta, this is a great one. My husband likes the smell of Nepeta. Something about it just kind of gets to me. I want to show you these other amaranth. This is the Emerald Tassel right here. And they do need some type of support. So these are staked up. This is Emerald Tassel. And you can see she gets these long beautiful tassels. And then it's either Coral Fountain or Love Lies Bleeding. And I think this one is Love Lies Bleeding. But they're so pretty. They do sometimes get aphids. I will say that. So I use them in floral arrangements if they don't get aphids. If they get aphids, I obviously... I don't use them in floral arrangements. But they add so much drama to the garden. And they're just so, I don't know, so interesting. I've got... I'll show you guys the other side. But I got this drift of petunias right here. And that's kind of what I was talking about. How I like to drift them through the bed instead of just right at the front of the bed. That's Bermuda Beach. So it goes all the way across there. And then it actually comes back and around this side and it's over there. Those were newly planted. Oh, there's my treasure trove. Those are the rebecca that I have when you first enter the side yard that are not doing great. So we're just gonna skip past those. But you can see this is what I like to do with these petunias. Because it makes this bed not feel so flat, I guess. This literally just kind of pulls you through. And if I had planted high things here, it would have created a wall. Which I like a wall in the garden. But I also like little windows in the garden. So I feel like this kind of like lets you peek through looking that way and vice versa when you come through the garden. So I don't know. I like the little looks. Oh, we have to talk about this because it's getting ready to bloom. It'll be in bloom by the next garden tour. This is an oregano called Drops of Jupiter. It's so pretty. It smells so good. It smells just like oregano does. And oregano smells amazing. But it's not really an edible oregano. So you don't want to eat this one. But the blooms on it, it's going to get these beautiful purple blooms. You're gonna have to come back for that one. So highly recommend this one. You don't need a million of them. Last year I think I planted three of them. And I did plant them like right across from the Lemon Perfection. And it was just... This gives the Lemon Perfection color and the Lemon Perfection blooms. But you only get like one or two flushes of blooms out of this where the Lemon Perfection you get constant blooms from. So if you don't like the smell of Nepeta, this might be a good alternative to grow because you get that color and you get purple blooms from it and the bees love it. It just takes a minute for it to bloom. And like I said, you just get one flush. But it is really, really cool. I didn't talk about these. These are Shasta Daisies called Marshmallow. I thought they died. Pocket Gophers got them. They didn't die, which is fabulous. So glad they made it throughout the garden. And I love them. I saw them for the first time on a vacation trip. And I would like to have them throughout the garden. So fingers crossed that they continue to survive in the garden. Let's go this way and we can talk about this bed. So this here is a Supertunia called Latte. I have been so impressed with it for the last two years. I first, like three times I tried growing it, totally failed. This year, love it. Last year, I loved it. It needs sun. It does want some pretty rich soil. So I've grown it in other spots that like the soil wasn't super rich. I mean, a Latte is kind of expensive. So she already says in her name that she's an expensive plant. She wants full sun. She wants water. She gets weekly water-soluble fertilizer. She gets sprayed with BT. And she just creates the most gorgeous, beautiful show. It's so pretty. But you can see behind that, so the Bermuda Beach little river. And then it comes down to the dens over there. So I don't know. It just kind of adds, I think, some interest in the garden. Our fountain, I will put a link to that one. I can link that one. It's just like a resin fountain. It gets so much bird activity more than any other water feature that we've ever had in our garden. So it is constantly dirty. I just cleaned it like maybe a week ago, week and a half ago. It's also in full sun. So that doesn't help. It also has a copper tag in there. The copper tag in this one isn't doing anything. But I have noticed the copper helping the other ones. I think this one just gets so much activity. At any given moment, there's about three to five birds on this thing throughout the entire day, nonstop. Below that, White Wands of Veronica. Oh, my gosh. How cool is that for white blooms? Very happy. These are starting to fizzle out. So I think by the next garden tour, they will be fizzled out. And then I'll come in and I will give them a haircut. You can see like this one started to flop a little bit because the blooms just get so heavy. So I got to come in here, cut this back. But I'm waiting because it's just so pretty. And usually there's bees all over this thing. So I don't want to cut this back until I absolutely have to. But once I cut it back, I might get a second flush out of it. So I think this might be where we say goodbye, friends. I hope that you enjoyed it. This is our quick garden tour. Now that the sun is coming out, it's supposed to be like 106 today. So I'm going to button up some things in the garden while it's still a little bit cool. I hope that you enjoyed our garden tour in Northern California. 9a. It's a great place to be, but it is hot in the summers. So if you haven't had a chance to, today's the day that you hit that subscribe button because it is free, helps out our channel, and then you'll be here for the next garden tour. So thank you so much for visiting our garden. See you in the next one. Bye, guys.