Is it Too Late in the Fall to Plant- Nope!!!

Yori Yori

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00:00 is an evergreen called the Pesto Mugo Pine. It came with our Isley load that they sent out earlier

00:04 this summer. Now this one only grows one by three, so it's just going to be this cute little boop in

00:10 the flower bed. I'm really excited about that. Look at the picture. Like this perfect little green

00:15 circle. And it's hardy to negative 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Not that it gets that cold here,

00:20 but it's really tough and I love having those tiny little accent evergreens that you can tuck in

00:25 pretty much anywhere that you've got a sunny spot. We've also got the fragrant Grow Low Sumax,

00:31 which are putting on their fall color in just probably, I don't know, within this next week.

00:37 This whole thing will just be lit up with red. They are so beautiful. They grow two feet tall

00:42 by nine feet wide, but they're not invasive. They're just a super tough woody shrub. So I've

00:47 got three of these around the pond already, zone three, and it says that they're pest resistant

00:53 leaves, which are not affected by drought, heat, humidity, or snow plows. When I placed the three

00:58 around the pond, I just thought this is the perfect kind of woodland plant that I want in

01:02 that area. But I had picked up five at the time because I didn't know how many we were going to

01:06 need. And three ended up over there. And then I've got these two that have just been kind of sitting

01:10 in the high tunnel waiting. And I've got lots of spots either out in the new property or here in

01:15 the South Garden where I just want something to kind of fill in. I don't necessarily need a bunch

01:19 of different variety in every location. Sometimes it's nice to have those things that just provide

01:24 a rest for the eye, which is I think what this is going to do. Then we've got the Limelight Prime

01:29 Hydrangeas, which we do have a hedge of at the end of the loop out in the South Garden. And that's

01:33 where these are going as well, just to thicken up that hedge. Now these grow four to six feet tall

01:37 and wide, so more compact than the traditional Limelight. Zone three through eight, they are

01:42 said to be a little stockier, a little bit tougher, just in their structure. But you'll see

01:47 when we get out there what happened to ours. Now ours are in there, this is their second season,

01:52 and we had a goalie washer type rainstorm, just like massive downpour of rain. And it kind of

01:57 weighted down a lot of the branches that had blooms on them. And that could be probably, I didn't thin

02:03 them out good enough last year and give them a good enough prune job. So I'm going to be very

02:06 diligent about that this year. But I think that these will bulk up the area nicely. And the last

02:11 one is up here. I couldn't fit it. Oh, hey Douglas. I couldn't fit it in the back of the gator. This

02:16 is a seske gold dwarf birch, which I love these. Two to four feet tall and wide. Let me back some

02:22 of these leaves. Dainty little leaves, zone two through seven. And when the leaves come out in

02:26 the spring, I don't know if it shows it, they're like a gold, like a orange, kind of an orangey red.

02:33 And then they lighten up to kind of a chartreuse gold color. We've got three of these out in the

02:37 South Garden, kind of by an urn out there. I might have a picture of them. And I thought that this

02:41 one would look great by the pond. It kind of has that more wild look. We got to find Cheddar,

02:47 so everybody knows he's still alive. You guys have been asking a lot about Cheddar lately.

02:50 There's Russell. See Russell right there? Come here, bud. Hey, Russell. Kitty, kitty, kitty.

02:56 He's like, "Nope, I'm not coming out there." Cheddar is around. He's just more elusive.

03:03 He sleeps a lot during the day. You know, the other thing I wanted to talk about briefly are

03:07 a couple other questions I noticed this time of year. One, is it too late to plant, or how late

03:12 is too late to plant? And two, should you still be using fertilizer when you plant? So first off,

03:17 it's really, in my book, it's never too late to plant. I feel like plants are better off in the

03:22 ground. They're better insulated than they would be if you try to winter them over in nursery

03:25 containers. So if you're picking up plants that look an awful lot like this, like end of season

03:30 clearance sales at garden centers, I'd say no matter what time it is, just get them in the

03:34 ground. Make sure that you water them in, and if you have any long, dry spells or windy spells,

03:38 make sure to go throw some water on, even in the middle of winter. Easier than trying to huddle

03:44 them together in their nursery containers and keep them watered every two weeks throughout the

03:48 winter. That's what we do with anything that we've got in containers. So I think that the rule of

03:52 thumb is to get things in the ground six weeks before your average first hard frost, which is

03:58 anything 28 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. Light frost is 28 to 32, but I don't really go by that.

04:04 We just continue to plant as long as we can manage to get a whole dug in the ground. And the second

04:08 question is about the starter fertilizer, which is this right here, which is what I use when I

04:12 plant anything, Biotone starter fertilizer. And I do still use it no matter what time of year I'm

04:18 planting because those plants, even though they look dormant and don't have leaves, the roots are

04:22 still active, albeit a lot slower than they are during the growing season, but they're still

04:27 working underneath the soil surface. And Biotone isn't a type of fertilizer that's going to

04:32 encourage a bunch of upward growth and flowering and all kinds of production up top. It's more

04:37 focused on root production down below, which is what you want. So that is something I continue

04:42 to do. Anyway, I think we'll head out to the hydrangeas first and get those planted. I've

04:46 got four. I actually think I need five to finish my hedge. I'm in a constant state of being one

04:51 short of everything around here, but I think they're going to look beautiful.

04:59 Okay, real quick, we got to take a look at this. Look at this iris.

05:03 It's so confused. It's October. What are you doing? Look at how beautiful that is.

05:10 Soak it in. I'm not going to be able to smell that again for months after this.

05:14 Oh, I love the smell of iris. It's such a childhood nostalgic smell to me. Oh, yum.

05:23 Okay, here we are. Limelight Prime hydrangea hedge. I was hoping that they would get six by six in

05:28 this spot, but you can see what the rain did. Again, I think that's because of my pruning

05:33 job that I did. So what I'm going to do today is pop one in between each one of these. Even

05:39 though I've planted the buddleia hedge right behind, I still think that that will be gorgeous,

05:42 kind of towering above the hydrangeas. But we're going to need one, two, three, four.

05:47 I've got a beauty berry right there.

05:57 Might have to move that eventually. Well, that's perfect. I don't have one for this space anyway.

06:01 Sparkling amethyst superbena mass is awesome. I mean, it's awesome.

06:08 I don't know what we could put here that I would actually like better than this.

06:14 This is so beautiful, and I hope I'm going to be able to get in there to dig holes without

06:20 wrecking it too much. Okay, let's set these out and see how they look, and then we'll make our

06:24 final decision.

06:30 Oh, that looks a heck of a lot better. Yep, we're going to go with it. We'll get those four in the

06:48 ground, and then we'll address this last one next season when we can move the beauty berry, which is

06:56 growing so great. That's the Jolene Jolene one. And then we can pop another here. And at that time,

07:02 I'm going to need more anyway, so maybe I'm not one plant short of the hedge. I kind of want to

07:06 continue on because we're going to move this hibiscus. We had like a couple more. Maybe we

07:11 need three more. Okay, let's get those in the ground.

07:20 So,

07:25 so,

07:34 so,

07:37 so,

07:43 so,

08:08 oh you guys, it's so pretty. Look at all that color. Oh, especially once we finish it to there,

08:16 and once we get this out, because this is just, it's too messy, and it's too big right there.

08:21 So, if we continue on the hedge over to kind of where the roses end, and then we can have more

08:27 of a bank, like we'll continue our bank of annuals if that's what we do next year. We'll just have

08:32 this nice big hedge of hydrangeas. It's funny when I was planting this one, for some reason,

08:38 every time I came back and stood right where I'm standing right now, just to make sure I liked how

08:42 they lined up, I would always look at this one, and I think I need to go rotate it. So, I would

08:46 go back there, which you have to go through the daylilies, back behind the plants. I come back

08:50 here, I'd rotate this one, thinking I was rotating that one, and I'd come back and stand out here,

08:55 and think what in the world? It hasn't moved. And I did that probably three times before I realized

09:00 it was this one that I kept messing with. So, there is like a little hole in here. I was trying

09:04 to rotate it so that I could get it to all line up, but eventually it will all fill in, and honestly,

09:10 the fall color, like this one's the best. Look at the color on these. I'm not sure that we, I mean,

09:17 we've had the limelights color up real pretty, but not like this. This color's amazing. Okay,

09:22 while we are out here, this is where the low-grow sumacs are going to go. So, I'm going to grab one,

09:28 and I just want to plant them sort of underneath this big Norway as just a little bit of a filler.

09:34 So, see this big area right in here? You know, I don't want to put anything that gets too tall,

09:39 because we've got the totem pole grasses. There's really not room to do anything super tall.

09:43 So, if we did something low like this, right in here, and then maybe another one right over in

09:53 there, it can just kind of fill in underneath and kind of create this beautiful leafy undergrowth

09:58 and weed suppressor and all that good stuff. So, let's get those in. Looks like we might be

10:03 getting some weather here in a little bit.

10:05 So,

10:18 so,

10:46 oh, I love these, especially once they color up even more. They're going to be gorgeous.

10:52 You know, this whole area, like all underneath here, would be beautiful just kind of

10:56 packed out with these sumacs, I think. They would be awesome. Now, kind of looking in from this

11:02 angle, you can see I tucked it in over there, and I did that on purpose because we are going to

11:07 create some kind of like a little secret, just flagstone pathway, not a formal one that's,

11:12 you know, a bunch of pieces, just like single stones that kind of get you through the flower

11:16 bed if you are over here and want to get out quickly. So, it's either going to come through

11:20 here or it will come around this side. We're not sure yet, but I think it would look good.

11:27 This strap won't be here for too much longer. It's just here when we had the tree installed,

11:33 but it'll come through here and kind of weave its way through this flower bed and out this

11:37 direction. Oh, the breeze is coming up. It's been on and off windy today, so I apologize if my

11:42 audio is horrible. Anyway, it would lead you right out here to the grass, which I think would be

11:47 really nice. But this, oh, I'm just so happy with that. And you can see the little sumac tucked in

11:54 back in there. Okay, just two plants left. I think we'll go put the dwarf birch in by the pond,

11:58 and that's where this one may end up as well, or we may end up back out here. I'm not sure on this

12:02 one yet. Leaves are falling. Pretty. Oh, hey, here's the sesquigold dwarf birch right here.

12:11 Oh, and a pretty butterfly. Look at that. Oh, on the coral berry. Aren't those gorgeous?

12:16 They shine. And those are full-size right there. They won't get much, I mean, they might thicken

12:21 up a little bit, but they're just kind of this little dainty-looking leaf in there,

12:25 kind of that ethereal look, and I just love it. They're so pretty.

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12:41 What do we think of it right there? Maybe...it's hard to tell because there's so many leaves on

12:46 the ground right now. They kind of distract focus a little bit. That looks pretty. Kind of tucked

12:54 in behind the aronia, in between the serbian. I kind of love that. Yeah, I think that's where it

13:01 should go.

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13:42 Okay, I think that these are my favorite plantings of the day. So as we walk into the pond patio area,

13:49 you can see that sesquigold dwarf birch just kind of peeking out from behind that serbian spruce,

13:54 tucked in behind the aronia that we just planted a couple of days ago. Oh, it's such a pretty

14:01 texture up there, and it's going to really show, too. Like, the brightness that it has during the

14:06 season, it's going to really contrast these spruces right here. I think it's a really pretty location

14:12 for it. And again, two to four feet tall and wide, this one gets, oh, I think like, what was it, 18

14:21 inches? 18 to 24 inches. It'll be a step down in size. And then this will be our tall grassy

14:27 texture with more red in it, and then we've got the blue. We've got all the colors that we need

14:31 right here. I love it. Say hello to the fish. There they are, a few of them. And I popped the little

14:38 pine in right by this big rock at the entryway. Because it only gets one by three, it can kind of

14:44 just fill in and tuck underneath the rock a little bit. I think it's a perfect little accent evergreen,

14:49 and it will soften that stone just a little bit. And we'll get some other things in ground covers.

14:54 I think it'd be pretty to have some sempervivums kind of like tucked up underneath here.

14:57 And then eventually we will have a brick border, so that will be the only thing that will be

15:02 semi-formal, semi-formal, about this area in the end. Because we will have a brick border along

15:08 this mulched area, like the one we have lining that pathway. So the bricks will line our entire

15:14 driveway like they do on the other side, and they will line this side as well. So that will come in,

15:18 and that will help kind of keep our line nice and tidy, and it will keep gravel from getting

15:23 into the mulch and mulch into the gravel. And I want to see the birch from this direction.

15:26 Oh, that's so pretty. I love it. And you guys, that is going to do it for planting today. We just have

15:33 really a small handful of plants that we're going to be working on over the next one or two weeks

15:37 getting in the ground. I'm hoping to get them done in the next couple of weeks anyway. And I've got

15:41 to tag dahlias. I know I started to do that a few days back, and my progress halted where we stopped

15:48 the other day. So I only have two rows done. I've got five more rows to get done before the blooms

15:52 leave, which I feel like now that the temperatures are starting to be like legitimate fall, we're

15:58 going to start losing a little bit more interest out there. Anyway, that's a different subject for

16:03 a different day. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it,

16:06 Now we will see you in the next one. Bye.

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