Planting Climbing Roses in Obelisks, New Pineapple Lilies & Groundcover Shrubs! __ Garden Answer
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00:00 put in the pond area. It should be a wonderful afternoon. It's so nice out
00:04 here today. Oh here is our menagerie of stuff. Right here we've got some pineapple
00:09 lilies. So these are new for next year. They're called purple rain. They're so
00:14 pretty and there's another one called princess bride. So this one has like
00:18 lavender pink flowers. The other one has kind of tropical pink with a little bit
00:22 of like yellow and apricot mixed in. But these have their really beautiful deep
00:26 colored leaves and they grow like 18 to 20 inches tall and I think 2 feet wide
00:32 because they are brand new and I've actually not grown this type of plant
00:35 before. I'm not sure. Let's see at 2 feet wide. They are a zone 6 through 9. It
00:40 says they bloom midsummer through fall and that they're pretty adaptable to
00:43 different soil pH. So as long as they can make it through our winter, which we are
00:46 technically a zone 6 now. We used to be a zone 5 but they should, I'm hoping, do
00:52 okay here. So we'll find a spot for these. I think we've got two, four, five, six,
00:57 seven of those to put in the ground and then you can see the obelisks here. I
01:01 think these are seven footers. They've been in the barn for a while so they're
01:05 nice and dusty but I busted them out because we have two climbing roses that
01:10 actually came in a load from heirloom roses earlier on this season. They're
01:14 called the impressionist. Oh my goodness are they ever beautiful too. This is what
01:19 they look like when they bloom and I did get to see some blooms off of those this
01:22 summer. Poor things have been just sitting in their little one gallon
01:25 containers all summer long waiting for a spot and I intended on putting them on
01:29 an arbor somewhere but I don't have an arbor right now but I do have these
01:33 obelisks which I lost the bottom off of one it looks like. Where'd it go? I'm
01:37 gonna have to go track that down. Probably on my way out here. It's
01:40 probably sitting on the side of the road somewhere. We have one of these on the
01:44 west side of our house with a teasing Georgia I think. It's a yellow David
01:47 Dawson climber rose and it's done great. We do have to keep it pruned and
01:51 something with these like this rose in particular will get like 10 feet I think
01:55 8 to 10 feet somewhere around there tall and then it would grow out wide if we
02:00 trained it that way but you can keep them in these obelisks knowing that
02:04 you're gonna have to do some trimming on them because it's not a huge area for
02:08 them to ramble but it makes it so nice to be able to tuck it into a flowerbed
02:11 somewhere. You don't have to have a huge structure. You just pop one of these in
02:14 and you get to have that rose interest that vertical interest and you get
02:18 something pretty to look at in the wintertime too because the obelisk
02:20 itself is pretty. They are a zone 5 through 10 and I don't recall if I
02:24 actually smelled the blooms of this one when it was blooming out by the high
02:27 tunnel. The website says that they are very fragrant so I'm hoping that that
02:31 holds true. And then the other thing we are gonna plant is a little dipper
02:35 actually three little dipper cotoneasters. These are so great and they
02:39 look so perfect for around the pond area. They kind of have that woodland like
02:43 undergrowth kind of look. It's a woody shrub you can see right here. Grows about
02:47 6 to 12 inches tall is all and 3 to 4 feet wide so it'll kind of create that
02:52 ground cover. Little white blooms in the spring followed by red berries which you
02:57 know they don't perform the same in containers as they will in the ground
03:01 but you can see a couple. There's a little red berry right there. Here he
03:05 comes. Aaron's mowing right now. I swear he knows exactly where I'm at. I can
03:10 always hear that mower approaching. It's always when I'm wanting to share
03:14 details of plants with you guys. So anyway that is the order of the day. I'm
03:18 gonna have to go find the bottom of this obelisk though before we get started.
03:21 Let's go do that really fast. Here it is.
03:27 All right. I think I want to set the first one right in here somewhere. I'm
03:35 gonna try it in a couple different spots but I think it will it'll end up
03:38 somewhere in here because you really can't see any hardscape. It's all plants
03:43 except for there is an urn and then we've got our little maiden statue down
03:46 there. I don't like to have too much too close together in the landscape. I love
03:51 seeing beautiful pieces but unless it's a formal design that you've got a very
03:54 distinct like repeat of something I don't like to see a menagerie of things
03:58 so I try to make sure to spread things out in the in the flowerbeds. You can see
04:02 that urn now. This is the state of Grace Rose which looks an awful lot like the
04:07 Impressionist but this is in a shrub form. Isn't that beautiful? Oh my word. The
04:14 color. It's that pink apricot. Oh, it's just perfect. And that's our next little piece
04:20 right there. So I think it's spread out enough. I gotta do something with these
04:23 sumacs. Oh my word. It's taking over the land. I did bring my auger out here too.
04:30 This is the two inch diameter. This is the Laura edition one where the
04:33 flighting right here is a lot shorter so it's a lot less heavy. What I will
04:37 probably have to do is set the obelisk down where I want it and kind of make a
04:40 little mark in the soil where each leg needs to go in and then I'll use the
04:44 auger to make my holes so I can slide the obelisk down as far as I need to
04:48 because this soil is way too hard out here. I can't even get a stake down in it
04:52 very easily. That's what I do with my tomato cages and it works great. So let's
04:55 get this placed, get the first rose planted, then I'll show you.
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05:33 Oh you guys I love it right there. That looks so pretty and I love the fact that
05:40 the evergreens that are flanking it, so the cedar here, there's a Serbian spruce
05:45 and there's also Norway spruce in the back but all of those will not be losing
05:48 any leaves. They will still be here in the wintertime as will the weeping white
05:53 spruce right there. When I initially set it out here though I put it closer right
05:58 in this spot, even dug the holes and I thought no I've got enough room to push
06:02 some of those taller things back, have it be a little bit more spacious and I can
06:05 come in with something a little bit taller than like the Denim and Lace
06:08 Russian sage, taller than these are the double play dolly I think spirea. Look at
06:12 the fall color coming out. Oh my word that's so pretty. Anyway just give
06:19 everything a little bit more space because I want to say this one might
06:23 get 12 feet. I can't remember. Geez I'm have to look that one up and the Norway
06:28 spruce gets a lot wider than that. So anyway I think in the end it'll be a
06:32 happy spot for it. These are Vanessa Bells so we do have roses really close
06:37 by. These are the ones from the little triangle garden that we had in our
06:41 driveway and you know where we had the three-tier fountain and Aaron and I dug
06:46 these out and had a heck of a time digging them. They were so hard and we
06:50 barely got any roots, thought they died. All three of them have survived. Roses do
06:55 really well out here. Such a beautiful color. So I think this one will do nicely.
07:01 It's already got a little height on it. I'm thinking the next one's gonna go on
07:04 the far side.
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08:07 And there's the second obelisk just tucked right in there. Now in front of it
08:12 like to the left this side there's not a whole lot going on but we've got some
08:16 coreopsis and some agastachian daylilies. There's a redbud, spring glory
08:20 forsythia, north pole arborvita, a European white birch right here. I think
08:25 having this just having that obelisk right there is really pretty but having
08:29 those orange blooms through the season will be really really nice and then we
08:32 can start working on filling in the rest of this space. Need some kind of like a
08:36 blue evergreen. We've got the bonnie blue over there kind of underneath kind of
08:40 peeking through. I need something maybe smaller right in here that's got that
08:46 icy blue. Oh that just worked out perfectly. Okay so now we need to go
08:49 plant the pineapple lilies and the cotoneaster so let's get that done and
08:53 then we'll take a little tour.
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10:13 - All right guys, it's been a couple of hours.
10:21 I took a break so I could get some things watered
10:23 and then we had dinner.
10:24 I think the kids and Erin are out by the pond
10:25 getting the fire turned on.
10:27 And that's where we're gonna end up
10:28 to look at the cotoneasters.
10:29 But the pineapple lilies ended up out here
10:32 and I think they're so pretty.
10:33 And we're just gonna walk this path
10:35 because it's a beautiful time of night
10:38 when the sun starts shining through.
10:41 And I wanted to stop along the way
10:45 and show you the reminiscent pink roses
10:48 because when we planted these,
10:50 they were kind of sad to be honest with you.
10:53 And now they're just gorgeous.
10:57 I wouldn't mind like filling out a whole big swoop,
11:02 like just keep on going with those.
11:05 Wouldn't that be beautiful?
11:06 They come out and like these huge bouquets,
11:08 just pick one stem and you've got yourself a bouquet.
11:11 So beautiful.
11:12 Anyway, as we keep going through
11:17 underneath the arbor here, through the arbor,
11:20 you can see a little drift of the pineapple lilies.
11:22 And I think they're gonna be great here
11:24 because it's a very different texture
11:26 than anything else that we've got going on in this area.
11:29 You know, we've got some yellow twig dogwoods,
11:31 there's a gin fizz juniper and some lambs ear and some gems.
11:35 And we didn't really have anything grassy.
11:36 So I think this is gonna be great.
11:38 And it's likely I'll start in with some kind of a vine
11:40 right here that will sort of fill in
11:42 and maybe even kind of come over a little bit.
11:45 So I wanted to make sure not to get too close to the arbor.
11:47 But I think that that really deep colored foliage
11:50 looks pretty with that dogwood too.
11:52 It'll be interesting.
11:53 Like I said, I've never grown this particular plant before.
11:55 I don't know a lot about it.
11:57 So it's always fun to put those kinds of things in.
11:59 It's kind of like this Chautauqua.
12:01 Remember when we planted these?
12:02 Remember how small they were?
12:03 Look at them.
12:05 They're just doing so great.
12:07 They smell so good.
12:09 This is the El Nino Chautauqua.
12:11 And see all the buds here?
12:13 Getting ready.
12:15 But I bet you they've doubled, maybe.
12:16 Maybe we could go back in time and take a look.
12:18 I wanna say that they've doubled.
12:20 There's the other two right there.
12:23 I'm just really thrilled.
12:24 It's the same kind of situation with the pineapple lilies.
12:27 When I saw those Chautauqua, I just thought,
12:28 no, I don't think that they're gonna survive here.
12:30 You know how you just think that about certain things?
12:32 And then when they take off and do really well,
12:35 it's just, I don't know, I'm so pleased with it.
12:38 I hope I have the same experience
12:40 with the pineapple lilies.
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12:44 All right, well, the kids and Erin
12:46 have not made it out here yet, but Russell has.
12:49 Hey, bud.
12:50 And I'm so excited about these cotoneasters.
12:54 I think they're gonna be gorgeous.
12:56 So here's one right there.
12:58 So like I said, six to 12 inches tall,
13:01 three to four feet wide.
13:02 So I kind of want it to hug the corner of that rock.
13:04 And there's a little bit of a decline right here,
13:06 so I'm hoping it kind of spills over.
13:09 Kind of hope the same thing for all of these.
13:10 You can see this one right here.
13:12 Won't that be gorgeous right here?
13:14 I almost kind of want to get like, I don't know,
13:17 it'd be pretty to do more.
13:19 And then there's our third one,
13:20 tucked in right behind that little trio of rocks,
13:23 hoping for it to do the same thing
13:25 and kind of soften the edges of the rocks.
13:27 You can see we've got some leaves that have started to fall.
13:32 And I think I'll go ahead and get this going.
13:34 We love ending the day out here by the pond.
13:44 We're out here almost every single night.
13:46 I'm gonna probably go make a cup of coffee, find everybody,
13:48 and then we'll end up back out here
13:50 just enjoying this whole space.
13:52 And the weather is still so nice
13:53 that we don't even need coats out here
13:55 or sweaters or anything.
13:57 It's just absolutely beautiful.
13:58 Anyway, wonderful planting day.
14:00 Just had the best time getting those plants
14:02 put in the ground.
14:03 And I know that they're probably thankful
14:04 to be out of their containers.
14:05 Here they come.
14:07 You want marshmallows?
14:08 - Yeah.
14:09 - Ooh.
14:10 - It would be tasty.
14:13 - Would it be tasty?
14:14 - It'd be tasty.
14:15 - Yeah.
14:16 All right, guys, we will see you in the next video.