Cut Flower Garden Tour!!! SO Many Pretty Things!
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00:00 right now. It's about 715 in the morning. The sun hasn't peeked over the trees and
00:04 it actually has a cool there's a cool edge to the air which is very welcome.
00:08 We're at the beginning of a cool down. Yesterday was 105 I think today is like
00:11 98 or something and then by the end of the 10 day we're in the low 80s. We're
00:16 gonna start right here even though the cut flower garden is there just because
00:19 I wanted to walk down this grass pathway because there are some beautiful things.
00:23 I'm just loving how these beds are filling in and it's interesting because
00:28 you know we're taking a very willy-nilly no plan approach to this garden out here.
00:34 You know I thought that I was gonna want to move more things around and there are
00:38 a few things like for example this geranium right here is not digging the
00:43 full Sun. In fact the ones that are more shrouded look better. The ones toward the
00:47 edge just have kind of fizzled out so I'm gonna dig up what's there and move
00:51 them. Everything else though like the cats meow nepada, the ginger wine
00:56 ninebark, those arctic fire dogwoods you guys. Do you remember when I planted them
01:00 last year they were little and they have really grown and I love that green
01:06 backdrop with the firefly peach sky yarrow and the Niagara Falls panicum and
01:11 then we've got the back and black sedum bringing that really beautiful kind of
01:15 red note to this bed. The rise up amber nests right no something I don't know
01:23 maybe we'll put the name on the screen but those are gorgeous. The blue spruce
01:29 is growing I'm just really thrilled. I have done zero planting on this side
01:34 this year but this is a drops of Jupiter oregano this needs to be shorn back and
01:39 moved. I'm gonna move that this fall look at what it does. It got way bigger than I
01:43 thought it was going to. Way bigger than our other drops of Jupiter oregano which
01:47 are on the west side and they stay much smaller because they don't get as much
01:49 Sun. So when I popped this one out here I thought well this is gonna be nice
01:53 this will be a nice little border plant it's like a shrub. Sometimes you just
01:56 don't know how something's gonna act so that one too unruly for that spot. But
02:01 the coral jade sedum is gorgeous. Oh we're starting to get a little bit of sun
02:04 now. Already dang I thought I was gonna beat it. Okay let's scoot a little
02:10 quicker. The grass pathways are really filling in out here and the benches have
02:16 just made it. They kind of ground the space. I don't know if you can kind of
02:21 feel that from here but they add some weight and I thought I was gonna miss
02:25 the vertical interest of the obelisks out there but I don't. I feel like the
02:31 benches are what was needed out there. I just love it. Okay we got to address the
02:35 sweet potato vine monster we've got going on here. This is one of the upside
02:40 sweet potato vines. It's like upside lime or something. I planted one and it was
02:45 such a puny little thing when I put it in here and of course you know one could
02:49 one could be more of a better manager of the plant. I could trim it back and such
02:55 and I clearly haven't done that. But we do have an imperial blue super bina
02:59 popping through on this side and some sparkling amethyst. So a little bit of
03:03 color but I'm gonna be a little bit more selective where I put those sweet
03:07 potato vines. I mean it's a nice color and it looks healthy but it is a it's a
03:11 beast. This side we have a little bit more color. This is pretty. Look at that.
03:17 That's a saffron finch superchunia right there. Superchunia raspberry rush.
03:25 Oh and this is our annual quadrant of flowers right here. So we've got it kind
03:35 of broken up into sections or I'm going that direction. It's not 100% yet but
03:39 we've got the annual quadrant where everything will change every single
03:42 season. We've got the rose garden now right here. We've got the perennial
03:47 section which is largely annuals this year because I just decided to make that
03:51 the perennial section. So I do have a few that I've put in there that are amazing
03:54 and we'll look at those here in a second. But I also have like zinnias and sweet
03:58 peas and stuff in that area as well. But we'll move more toward perennial in that
04:02 spot. And then we have the quadrant right up front here that's dahlias and zinnias.
04:08 I kind of wanted to do dahlias and zinnias in that space forever. I don't
04:13 know. But I'm thinking let's just start at this outer row and we'll work our way
04:17 toward the center. Now in this space this first row and then half of the second
04:22 one we had ranunculus and anemones. When those were done which we wait till their
04:27 leaves you know kind of yellow and die back. Once those were done we dug them
04:31 and we're storing the the corms in the barn. But I went ahead and seeded some
04:36 California giant zinnias in this space. And oh my goodness they're about ready
04:41 to burst. I actually can hear the waters running right now. Can you hear that? This
04:46 week we just started noticing a few of the flowers open. If I walk along here
04:51 kind of do it slowly. I just love the California Giants get nice and tall like
04:55 36 inches and they're just a wild mix of bright color. And you can see like all
05:01 the buds. They're just budded up everywhere. And it's gonna be awesome. And
05:06 they are staying so tame so far. And I don't pinch anything you guys. I just
05:11 don't. I don't know. I'm trying to think if I I have pinched snapdragons before. I
05:15 didn't really notice like much of a huge difference. I didn't pinch mine this year.
05:19 I don't pinch my dahlias. Don't pinch my zinnias. I just let things kind of do
05:24 their their own thing. And I know that there is a reason why people pinch them.
05:28 You know but more productivity or longer stems that sort of thing. We don't
05:31 grow our flowers to sell them. We grow them well usually we grow them so that
05:35 we can use them inside. Enjoy watching them grow but then also give them away.
05:38 This year's a little bit different because we've had the thrip problem out
05:41 here. I haven't wanted to send buggy flowers out of this garden. So we've just
05:46 been really enjoying looking at the flowers. I really I've loved this year.
05:50 It's been it's been fun and a good a good experiment in predatory insects and
05:56 so on. But and I am noticing the thrip population decreasing even more. It's
06:00 like every day those predatory mites that we release maybe we can link that
06:04 video down below if you want to learn more. But I have noticed the population
06:08 of thrips just decreasing slightly every single day and that's all I can ask for.
06:12 I'm loving it. The pollinators are just crazy in this garden this year and it's
06:17 a good thing. Okay while we're down here let's just kind of bump over to this
06:21 next row because the rudbeckia this year is insane and it's gorgeous. Let me enter
06:27 from this side. Last year my rudbeckia was a complete bust. I think I ended up
06:32 with like two plants out of all the ones I started from seed. I have no idea why. I
06:36 didn't do anything differently last year versus this year. But this year they just
06:41 took hold and they're doing great. Okay so zinnias on this side as well. Oh I've
06:44 got the limon. This is that talinum limon. I only had four plants out of the ones I
06:53 started take and I can't remember if I did a whole tray of 24 or if I just did
06:57 12. But look at these stems. I don't know. Let's see if we can put them up. You can
07:02 see the detail there. They're beautiful little wispy fillers in a bouquet and
07:08 they've super long stems and the leaves look so healthy. So I just tucked those
07:13 in when I had a little space but oh my word look at these rudbeckia. So this
07:18 first section is the glorioso double. Some of them are double some of them are
07:24 not which is kind of typical but I love it. I think they're just the neatest
07:28 blend of structure and I love seeing those you know dark colored cones there.
07:33 This next section minus that plant right there is orange fudge. You can see the
07:38 kind of color we've got there. Kind of that I don't know it's a smoky orange on
07:43 the outside and then the yellow with the burgundy in the middle. It's so pretty.
07:47 And then we have prairie sun right here which I love this one. Always have. I love
07:53 how bright and clear the yellow is and I like the lighter colored center here
07:59 and then because it's like yellow here and then it turns like that greenish it
08:03 just pops. I think they're so so pretty. I've got the lone snapdragon here. No
08:09 thrips. I don't see any in this one. The thrips were the worst in the
08:13 snapdragons. I think it's just because these flowers are naturally closed so
08:16 they're like a nice little house for them. There's a little black bug but
08:20 that's not a thrip. Oh and then we've got the Sahara variety which has always
08:24 been a favorite because it produces so many variations of pinks and yellows and
08:29 like the autumnal colors. Also a lot of different bloom structures. So you get
08:34 the doubles here. You also get some singles like that right there. You get
08:39 some kind of that more smoky. Look at these. They're so beautiful. Oh my
08:45 goodness. Oh and I love just seeing the mass of blooms because we're not just
08:49 we're not cutting very many of them. It's so gorgeous. I'm enjoying it so so much.
08:54 Okay what is the next section here? Where's my tag? That is cherry brandy
08:59 which is not fully cherry brandy. There's some yellow ones mixed in there which
09:03 might be tucked in with the Sahara but this right here that's the cherry brandy.
09:09 Oh I love it. I love that burgundy and then that smoky mauve kind of color on
09:16 the outer part of the petals. And then we've got one which some of you guys
09:20 were saying it's pink lemonade. I've never seen. I didn't start this one from
09:24 seed. It was mixed in with something else and it's just one single plant and I
09:29 Google searched for pink lemonade and maybe I didn't look hard enough but I
09:32 couldn't really find anything that looked quite like this. And I don't know
09:37 if I would have success trying to save seeds because it's around so many others.
09:42 So I'm not sure even if I gathered the seeds I'd get this variety again but I
09:45 love it. It looks, it glows. So so pretty. Okay third row in we've got our status
09:52 which we've got the purple variety right here. Oh the thing I love about status is
09:58 that it doesn't matter if you cut it or leave it on the plant it's gonna dry the
10:02 same color and that's amazing. So I don't feel like in a huge rush to get out here
10:07 and do anything. Unlike the straw flowers which I'll show you some different stages
10:11 of bloom for those I haven't harvested any and I'm feeling the need to come out
10:14 here and do that. I think this is the blue right here so we've got purple
10:18 which really is more of a purple color and then blue has more of a blue vibe to
10:23 it still kind of purple but you can see the difference. We've got yellow right
10:28 here. So vibrant. And then we have apricot here which has got a gorgeous bright
10:36 yellow center. It makes them shine. They do, this one does look more fresh when
10:42 it's a newer bloom as opposed to some of these other varieties and then it kind
10:48 of fades out a little bit. So that's something to consider with that one like
10:51 you probably do want to get out and harvest that one a little bit sooner. And
10:54 then we have a white status which they call forever silver but it's white. Really
11:00 pretty. It looks pretty with the rudbeckia doesn't it? Okay so the rest of
11:04 this row was stock. We had, well you can see the tags, marine. We had cats lavender.
11:11 There's a couple small tags. What was that? Vintage brown which is a gorgeous
11:17 color and then another one and then quartet rainbow which has been one of
11:21 the only stocks that can hold up to our hundred plus degree heat and keep
11:25 blooming all through the summer. There are a lot of spent stocks we could come
11:28 in and remove but it just keeps producing these new fresh ones. Nice
11:33 long stems, wonderful scent. They hold really long in a vase. A great variety.
11:39 Okay this row right here, the front part of it actually has perennial, they're
11:42 oriental lilies. I didn't need to dig and move somewhere else. I don't find myself
11:46 cutting those because they're huge. I mean they're huge blooms. They're highly
11:50 scented which I like the scent in small doses but I don't like a ton of it. So I
11:54 just find myself, I enjoy looking at the blooms but I think we could move those
11:58 to a flower bed and utilize that space differently. And then the back half of
12:01 this row, this is white stars fever few and maybe I read these stats wrong or
12:08 didn't pay attention to the stats. This is not an ideal cut flower. Look how tiny
12:12 it is and maybe it's just it doesn't like it or maybe I don't know, who knows.
12:18 I have used it a couple of times. The flowers are really sweet but I have to
12:23 use it in smaller bouquets because it just, you know, I don't know, I don't even
12:29 know how long those are. Eight inches, eight inch stems. I grew three maybe-ish,
12:33 three-ish varieties of fever few last year or the year, no it was last year and
12:39 they were long stems and wonderful. So I'm gonna have to refer back to the
12:42 varieties I did the first time and maybe go back to that because while these are
12:46 sweet, little flowers are just too short. And you guys, most of these beds like
12:50 beyond the oriental lilies we had some mignonette and some corn cockle that
12:54 we've pulled. So we're just kind of getting ready for our next push of late
12:58 season stuff. I might even do some fall crops out here. Right here we had
13:02 companulas. The champion pink, champion blue, champion lavender, champion white
13:08 and they did okay. Those companulas, the ones that produce the tall stems with
13:12 the big, you know, bell-shaped blooms, they are, you have to grow them very
13:16 specifically. When you start them out they have to be started at a specific
13:20 temperature and then at seedling stage they have to move be moved to a
13:22 different temperature and if it gets too warm then they'll produce short stocks
13:26 and it was very, and I knew going in, I knew all of that and I just thought
13:30 let's just see what happens. I'm gonna start them from seed and treat them like
13:33 everything else and the pink variety did perform fairly well. It produced long
13:38 stems. I used it in a few arrangements before I noticed the thrip infestation
13:42 but all of the rest of the variety stayed really short and it really wasn't
13:45 worth growing them. So for that one I would definitely recommend following the
13:49 growing instructions on the seed packet. I got those from Johnny's and it had
13:53 very detailed instructions on what to do. So it's something I might try at some
13:57 point but I don't really, when I'm starting so much, because most of this,
14:00 well all of this, right here in this section, all of it started from seed
14:05 whether, you know, direct seed in the ground or started in the greenhouse and
14:08 it's a lot to manage so I don't really want to have to fuss with certain crops.
14:11 And then we have the bronze Nicosiana right here. Beautiful blooms, beautiful
14:17 color. I'm kind of letting it do its thing, get wild, kind of drop seed over
14:20 here and then we'll have it forever. It'll be lovely. The thing I've noticed
14:24 this year, and I'm not sure, those predatory mites do not eat aphids but
14:28 usually my Nicosiana is covered in aphids and I almost grow it as a host
14:32 crop so that the aphids don't bother anything else. And yeah, it's just
14:39 clean. There's no aphids. So, and we're not spraying at all. We've not sprayed a
14:43 single time out here. I don't know what the deal is. I just realized I skipped
14:48 our entire row of snapdragons. We've got Potomac Orange. Monica and I, when we did
14:53 our workday recently, just came through and deadheaded these, which we, I've never
14:56 really done. I've never cut them back during the middle of the season and they
14:59 are producing more color. We've got Madame Butterfly White. We've got Madame
15:04 Butterfly Bronze with white, which I prefer over the just Madame Butterfly
15:08 Bronze because it's got a little bit more of a lightness to it. Like the base
15:13 of the bloom here has white while the other one doesn't, but you still get that
15:17 fluffy apricot colored bloom. We've got Madame Butterfly Red. That's a prolific
15:22 one. Look at that. This one's Early Lemon Yellow. Isn't that pretty? Two-tone
15:29 yellow. And then we've got a lavender right here. We've got another white. This
15:34 is just more of a clean bloom. It doesn't have the fluff like the Madame
15:37 Butterfly series. This one is the Legend Light Pink. It's almost got, in this
15:42 lighting, has kind of like a silver edge to it. And then I think this one's the
15:45 Bridal Pink right here. A little bit more saturated. And then there's Apple
15:49 Blossom, which is one of my faves. I love, love that because it's like a creamy
15:54 white and then you just have a little bit of pink there. Oh, there's one thrip.
16:02 None in that bloom.
16:10 Oh, two. But you know before I'd open up a bloom and there'd be like 15 of them
16:15 rolling around in there. And like every single bloom that I opened. So this is a
16:19 marked improvement. Okay, this row we have the Crespidia, which I grow this every
16:23 single year. And it's an amazing, amazingly unique flower. The cool thing
16:30 about these, let me find an aged bloom. If you dry the blooms they stay pretty, I
16:35 mean, nicely colored. If you harvest them earlier, of course, they will stay nicer.
16:38 So I should get out here and get some of these real fresh, bright blooms
16:41 harvested and get those drying. Because this is a really great one to work into
16:46 arrangements that you want to have last. Okay, for our straw flowers we've got
16:50 Apricot, there's a Purple Red and a White. And let me show you, look at the color on
16:56 these. They are so beautiful. And you'll see when they're brand new, they look
17:01 kind of like this. Really pretty, very like tight bud. And then it starts
17:07 opening up. I like them at this stage right here quite a lot. And then they
17:12 open up more to this right here with a fresher yellow center. There's a little
17:16 brown toward the edges of that yellow. And then they get even further down the
17:19 road here, more brown. And then they start to poof out seeds. See this? Jeez. It's
17:27 amazing how many seeds one flower will produce. It's just insane. But anyway, so
17:32 for the straw flowers you really do want to harvest the blooms at the stage you
17:36 like them to be at. Because that's what they will stay at. That's what they will
17:40 dry out forever. And these are, you know, not ideal. Because they, you know, if
17:45 they're starting to throw seeds they will kind of fall apart in arrangements.
17:48 Beautiful color though. And here's the Purple Red right here. That's the stage I
17:54 like this one at. And then you can see like what they do. You can see all of
17:58 this. This wants to fluff apart. This is pretty too. And there's a little bit of
18:03 yellow. They have that papery sound. And then we've got the White right here. Which this
18:08 stage, absolutely gorgeous. Ooh, or this stage right here. Oh that's pretty. And
18:14 then they get the yellow. So it looks like an egg, like a fried egg. And then
18:18 brown. And then falling apart. Alright guys, then we've got Gomphrena which is
18:25 also an amazing dried flower. In fact, I put all of these in the same row. So
18:28 we've got Gomphrena, straw flowers, Crispedia. Because they all like it on
18:32 the dry side. So it's able to manage the water. I can turn the valves off and not
18:36 give this water while I'm giving water to other things that need more of it. But
18:40 we've got the Orange. Gomphrena right here. Which I think is so beautiful. Look what
18:45 they do when they get a little older. They kind of form up these long blooms right
18:50 there. But I just love it. I think this color is so pretty. We've got the White
18:55 right here. I think this is Audrey White. And then we've got a light pink right here.
19:02 And then a deeper pink. Oh and there's a Bumble. Is it sleeping? I think it might
19:09 be sleeping. Hey little dude.
19:14 They hang off of flowers like this and sleep. That's why I don't want to, I don't
19:23 want to spray anything. Okay and then this row is a little bit hard to
19:26 navigate. So I'm gonna probably just walk on the other side. But we do have several
19:30 varieties of Dianthus. There's the Sweet White right here. Which they are so easy
19:36 to grow. The Sweet White, the Sweet White bicolor with purple over here. Super easy
19:40 to start from seed. They're some of my most robust looking seedlings. And
19:44 the blooms do last a long time in a vase. And they kind of have like a hydrangea
19:49 vibe to them. And they don't wilt like hydrangeas do. So if you kind of want
19:53 that ball shape, they do bring that. There's a Sweet Purple White bicolor.
19:58 Sweet Purple with White Dianthus. And then we've got the Chabot series of
20:03 Dianthus. Which they're very pretty. I mean they've got real pretty color blooms
20:08 here. Like a light pink. This one's cool though. This one is the Orange Sherbert.
20:20 But see what happens when you're not cutting off of them or deadheading them.
20:24 The spent blooms are pretty ugly. I thought the flowers were gonna be a
20:30 tiny bit bigger than this. But they're a very nice filler flower. These did have a
20:34 fairly heavy infestation of thrips too. But I'm not I'm not seeing any in them
20:39 right now. Okay I see the tag in here. This is the Shungiku edible
20:44 Chrysanthemum. Edible Chrysanthemum right here. Really tall plant here. Really
20:52 interesting bloom. And edible apparently. I have not tried them. Too early in the
20:57 morning to try them. Okay then in this row here we've got a bunch of Pincushion
21:02 flowers. There was Bells of Ireland right here. Which you can still see. Once you
21:05 plant Bells of Ireland you will have it for life. They're a little bit difficult
21:10 to work into arrangements for me. I don't enjoy working with them that much. But
21:13 we've got the Black Knight Pincushion flower. There's a pink right here. Real
21:19 pretty. Those are annuals. And then we've got the Fama Blue which is a perennial.
21:26 This. Huge flowers. Super long stems. And they're strong but they still have a
21:35 little bit of give to them. Which I love. I love that they have a little flex. Easy
21:40 to work into arrangements. And I love the blooms on the Pincushion flowers when
21:44 they're done. If you get after them a little bit earlier like see they will
21:47 start to fall apart too. Right there. Their seeds look like little birdies.
21:52 Like badminton birdies. But their seed heads are so pretty to use in
21:57 arrangements. And then there's Fama White. Another perennial. So technically this
22:05 one and the Fama Blue could be moved to the perennial section. But I'll probably
22:09 just leave them here because I'll always do Pincushion flowers here. I didn't
22:14 realize those were perennial when I planted them. And then we've got the
22:18 Merlot Red right here. And then we have a crop it looks like of White Finch Orlea
22:23 coming up. Little seedlings here. Arlizia this. It's kind of laying over at this
22:27 point. But we've got a light green. There's the white. The brown. And the pink.
22:44 This is the only flower crop I'm considering staking. I don't stake
22:51 anything else. You can see I don't have any of that. I don't really like
22:55 the look of it. All that you know horizontal netting. Hortonova right. So I
22:59 don't do the Snapdragons. I don't I don't stake anything other than the
23:03 Dahlias out here and Sweet Peas. But the section of Lysianthus. I mean I could
23:08 lose a little bit of help. I still cut on them and I actually like that when the
23:13 stems lay over and the Snapdragons do this too. They still grow nicely and then
23:17 they curve up. So I can use this in a vase. You know putting the stem in the
23:21 vase and then this part will kind of flop over the side of the vase. Which is
23:26 fun. It gives the the bouquet more of an interesting structure. These are the
23:30 Arena Red. Voyage 2 Green. Mariacha. Mariacha. Pure White. Roseanne Brown. And
23:37 Voyage 2 Pink. And then the last section in here I have some more Pinkushen
23:42 flower. Which this one's just called I think Starflower or something. And you
23:46 use it for the seed heads. The seed heads are just like look at this. That is one seed
23:52 right there. It is so interesting. So much detail. And the seed heads are just
23:58 beautiful. And then we've got some Peach Screamer Nekotianna. Which I planted
24:01 two years ago. And it just seeds itself a little bit. A really pretty peach color
24:07 blooms. Nekotianna are such sticky flowers though. I don't like working with
24:10 them all that much. Like touching them. Okay and then we've got the Rose Garden
24:14 here. Which I'm not going to go through each one of them. I don't have them all
24:17 tagged yet. I started in and then ran out of tags. And I just showed this recently.
24:21 But overall the roses are doing fantastic. I mean the growth on these is
24:27 crazy. And some of these were like two little stems when I planted them. So just
24:31 to kind of take a little bit of a walk around here. Like oh look at this. Look at
24:37 the color. This is the Lady of Shallot right here. Oh Moleno. So earlier
24:44 blooms were yellow. And then they age out with this gorgeous apricot tinge to them.
24:48 Tchaikovsky. This is the Charles Darwin. This is Bolero. And there's a bee just
24:54 chilling. Chilling in there. Hot Coco. This one is my best friend. Oh I love
25:05 this one. It is Edith's. Edith's. Edith. Edith's Darling. When you add that
25:10 apostrophe s I have a hard time saying the word. Edith's Darling Rose. Look at how
25:14 beautiful that is. I love how dainty the flowers are. I love that they come up in
25:18 these kind of big clusters. Because what I would do in an arrangement is I would
25:22 take the stem down like right in here. And I'd use that whole entire top piece
25:25 to kind of be my bouquet structure. And you could use it as a frog. You know and
25:30 work in other stems around all of those branches. Golden Celebration. Fun in the
25:34 Sun takes on multiple different colors. When it first comes out they're a little
25:38 bit more yellow. And then they kind of age to this pink color. Oh what is this
25:43 one? Apricots and Cream. Oh my beautiful. That's so gorgeous.
25:48 James Galway. Look at this. Like full-size right here. Is this the Sweet
25:53 Mademoiselle? Yep. Look at all these beautiful blooms and buds everywhere. So
26:00 you get the idea of the rose garden. And I just love how it's growing and filling
26:03 in. And I know a lot of rose gardens are laid out a lot more ornamentally. But I
26:08 wanted this one one to kind of have the same feel of the other quadrants out
26:12 here. I wanted there to be rose. I also like that they're all spaced out quite
26:16 far from one another. So that you can easily access each one of the roses. I
26:20 think that's really important if we're gonna want to use them for cutting. And
26:22 it's important for the health of the rose plant too. You want plenty of light
26:26 and airflow to be able to hit each one of the plants. You know all sides of the
26:29 plants. And I think we're gonna get that. Okay let's head to the dahlias. There are
26:33 so many beautiful dahlias in here right now. First we started with two roses
26:37 and zinnias. And there's a whole bunch of different varieties. Cupcake pink right
26:40 here. There's Peruviana which is kind of a little bit wild and mangy. And it looks
26:46 iron deficient this year. It did not do that last year. See the yellowing on the
26:50 leaves but the veins are still dark. Hmm I have been using them in arrangements
26:55 though. Because they usually come up multiple blooms for a stem. And they're a
26:58 little bit smaller. And I love the color. That pumpkin orange. This is the
27:02 Mazurkia. It's botanical intra seed. They've got really interesting
27:07 gradient of color. There's the Redmond super cactus. Which ended up being one of
27:12 my favorite varieties that I grew last year. Which is wild because I usually
27:16 don't like you know that red orange. It's very very warm. Very hot colored. Huge
27:22 blooms. They're just so interesting to me. This variety came up in my Zinderella
27:27 peach. So I don't know what it is exactly. But I love it. It's really pretty. There's
27:32 the Zinderella peach. They've got the really interesting downturn blooms. Not
27:39 all of them do. But most of them do. We've got the Oklahoma salmon. Which are a
27:44 little bit more of a dainty. More ball shapes in ya. Then we have the pink
27:48 Senorita or Senorita pink. I can't remember. But oh these are so pretty. Such
27:53 big beautiful flowers with the perfect pink color. That warm pink. And then
27:58 there's Oklahoma ivory. Right there. The smaller white sort of bloom. And these
28:02 are the creamy yellow giant dahlia zinnias. So some of them get some great
28:07 big flowers. But they're that really pretty soft yellow. There's a honey berry
28:12 with a clary sage that came up by itself in there. There's our rhubarb. This is the
28:18 crimson cherry variety. This one is doing particularly well. Maybe because it's on
28:24 the edge. But we've got three in here that I planted last year. And then oh my
28:28 word. So I don't have all of these labeled. There's just a bunch of
28:33 beautiful color. And this patch is really coming into its own. It took a little
28:36 while. And I think that's just kind of due to our experimentation. I started
28:40 some of them by tuber. Some of them I had grown on in the greenhouse. And some were
28:44 wintered over from last year. But yeah. I'm really enjoying all the color out
28:50 here. Oh look at those. Are so gorgeous. I think I can walk down most of these rows.
28:57 But I just want to walk down them quick. And I'll point out some of my favorite
29:01 varieties. Of which I may or may not know the name of. Like this one right here.
29:04 We've got kind of the Cafe au lait vibe. But there's some with a little bit more
29:10 pink. Like this one here. I think these are more of the Cafe au lait Royals.
29:15 They're so so gorgeous. I love that one right there. It's got a really
29:20 interesting structure and really pretty color. These are a go-to shape for me. The
29:24 ball dahlias are really easy to tuck into arrangements. And they usually like
29:29 I will cut a really long stem. And use one that's got two or three blooms at
29:33 the top. This is a really pretty apricot colored one. Lilac thyme. Oh beautiful
29:41 white. Pure white. That is a beauty. I've been loving these right here. What are
29:45 these supposed to be? Lights out is that variety. Really pretty. This bloom is aged.
29:50 Definitely. But I love how it's got that bright yellow. But a lot of creamy white.
29:55 This one's got a wild shape bloom. This one is Poo. Okay this one right here has
30:00 probably the weakest stems. I think it's called Gouda shank. Gouda shank maybe.
30:06 Yeah very thin kind of weak stems. But I love to work these into arrangements. I
30:11 don't know what it is about them. But they've got an orange yellow. But they've
30:15 got a pink note to some of them. And I just think they're beautiful. As are
30:21 these right here. Look at this perfection right there. This one has a glow quality
30:26 to it with that kind of yellowish apricot toward the base of the petals.
30:29 So so beautiful. Gorgeous apricot color. And I love this. Is this what? Water lily
30:36 type? Probably one of my favorites. Because they're not massive. There's a
30:41 little spider on that one. They're not massive. Like the dinner plates are
30:45 beautiful and impressive. But they aren't very fun to work with in arrangements.
30:48 Because they're so demanding of attention. And they're kind of rigid. You know you
30:54 get a stem. There's no like flex. That that bloom is gonna point that direction
30:59 no matter what you want to do with it. And if you try too hard to manipulate it
31:02 it'll pop off. These just have a little bit more workability. Easier easier to
31:06 work with. And they tuck in better. Melody Dora I think. A shorter growing one. This
31:14 is pretty. The pink with the yellow interior. I started with mostly tubers in
31:17 this first row. And look how much smaller. Like everything in this row is smaller.
31:21 Oh I like this. I like that one a lot. This one is Bloomquist Tori P. Beautiful.
31:29 Linda's baby. Oh these are the Wizard of Oz right here.
31:33 Doris Duke. And these are Sandia Panama. And then we have Peaches and Cream. Which
31:40 I don't have any really fresh blooms because I just cut them. But you can kind
31:44 of see. Let me shade it. You can kind of see how the interior is a darker apricot.
31:49 And the outside is a very creamy. But some of them bloom way more apricot. Look
31:55 at that. I've been enjoying the variation that that plant has been giving. This one
31:59 is Rip City. And then we've got a Red and White. Anyway we've been overall enjoying
32:03 the Dahlia patch a lot. I mean things are just really starting to cook out here.
32:07 Plants are putting on a lot of growth. I mean the heat certainly helps. And same
32:11 thing goes for the thrips here in the Dahlia. Same as the Snapdragons. I'm
32:14 noticing fewer and fewer. They are still here. But you know it's just gonna take
32:19 some time. Alright this is our last area to look at. And this is the one that I
32:23 want to turn into mostly perennials. You can see that the first two rows. Let's
32:28 see. Well the whole first row is Zinnias. I wanted those rows. And I probably will
32:32 keep both of those annual rows. So I can line this walkway up to the flower shed
32:37 with something that's similar. We did have two little black iron urns on
32:42 either side of the door. They didn't have anything in them. I haven't all season. So
32:46 we moved them out a couple of days ago. And I actually miss seeing them there. I
32:49 haven't really focused on planting up that area. You know when you go into the
32:52 season and you have very clear ideas of what you want to get done. And some
32:56 things just kind of get pushed to the back of the list every single time. I
32:59 just really haven't had any major inspiration of what I want to do in
33:03 front of there. So I just kind of want to wait until that strikes. Second row is
33:06 Celosia first. And we've got the Crystal Beauty or Crystal Palace. An apricot
33:13 color. And some of them are huge. Look at this. This is all one right here. And some of
33:19 them are wonderful to work with. Celosia is a weird one for me. Especially the
33:22 ones that are shaped like this. They are bulky. They can be bulky. But these little
33:28 ones are great. This one is the Selway White. I prefer this structure. A little
33:33 bit easier. They're not as large. We've got the Chocolate Flower right here. And
33:38 they do smell like chocolate. More than the bloom though. I love the spent blooms.
33:46 It looks like a second flower. Isn't that pretty? Beyond that we have some
33:53 Perennial Companulas. Which are not blooming and may not bloom until next
33:57 year. And then we've got a section of Delphiniums that just went for it. Just
34:01 absolutely gorgeous and huge. They need some iron. This is what their leaves
34:06 should look like right here. And this is what some of them are looking like. So we
34:10 need to get after that. It looks like aphid leavings right there. But I don't
34:14 think that's what it is. There's no aphids on these plants. We've got a
34:17 variety of Foxglove right here. I think these are the Cafe Cream. Which I do have
34:21 a whole row of Foxglove over here. But I planted that whole row up. So we've got
34:25 that. Those are second year bloomers. And then we've got more Celosia here. This is
34:29 the Pink Spike. I've got that kind of papery. These also dry beautifully. And
34:34 then we've got Sunday Wine Red right here. And you know I grow this one every
34:40 year. I hardly ever cut it to use it. I don't know why. It's beautiful though. I
34:43 love to see it out here. And then we've got the Summer Pastels Yarrow. Which is a
34:48 really phenomenal perennial. And I love the variation of color. Because we're
34:53 getting whites. We're getting yellows. We're getting apricot. We're getting
34:55 light pink. We're getting dark pink. And it's just this little section. And it's so
34:59 so prolific all summer long. And then we've got some perennial Rudbeckia right
35:03 here. I can't remember the variety name. But they've been beautiful. They look
35:08 gorgeous. Especially from the other side. Look at that. I wouldn't mind those in a
35:13 flower bed. And then we've got our Eryngium or Sea Holly. These are an
35:16 amazing dried flower. They get the blue stems. They are pokey. So you want to kind
35:20 of be careful with that. And they do have a little bit of a scent. It's not the
35:23 most pleasant scent. But it doesn't last for very long. It actually is something I
35:26 didn't really realize about this plant. And I've grown it before. But I cut some
35:30 for an arrangement. I in fact I think I did a little thing on Instagram. It was
35:34 mostly purples and blues. And then I put it in a vase on our kitchen table. And I
35:37 was kind of like, "What is that smell?" And I figured out it was these. But it only
35:43 lasted like a day. And then it just I think it wore itself out. And it was fine
35:46 after that. So keep that in mind. I do want to get these probably harvested
35:50 here soon. So that we can get them hanging and drying. Because I'd like to
35:54 use these for holiday arrangements. I also like the white glitter variety. So
35:58 I'm probably coming with some of that at some point. Okay so we've got some
36:01 Celosia. This is where it was planted last year. And it just seeded itself. But
36:04 I also have Echinacea purpurea. Which we started from seed this winter. Look at it.
36:11 Wonderful perennial flower. And just like seeing this and realizing how easy it
36:17 was to start from seed. We could fill up a whole flower bed with that very easily
36:21 and inexpensively. Echinacea purpurea is an easy seed to come by. This one needs
36:26 iron. This little section. But all of these look great. Look at those. Oh they're
36:36 so gorgeous. Okay this whole row here as you know is strawberries. And it will
36:41 remain strawberries until one day we build ourselves some raised beds. So I
36:44 really want to build some like waist-high raised beds for strawberries.
36:48 Because they're such a little plant. And you have to be constantly bent over to
36:52 check to see if there's strawberries ready. Or to harvest. It'd be so nice to
36:56 be able to stand and do that. But I couldn't figure out where I wanted to
36:59 have them. And all that business. So we're just gonna let them be here.
37:02 Strawberry plants don't like produce really well for a super long time. So
37:07 we'll let these run their course. We're cutting all of the babies. All the
37:09 runners off. Just to keep them tidy and kind of in check here. It needs to be
37:14 done. Especially those June bearing ones up there. My goodness they're just going
37:17 for it. But we're getting some good production out here. This is a seascape
37:20 variety. We've got two section of seascapes. There's a section of quinault.
37:25 And there's all stars and honey eyes. And then our foxglove row. Boy it was a
37:29 stunner. I started these seeds this winter. And there are like one, two, maybe
37:33 four, five, six varieties in this row. A lot of white apricot and lavender. But
37:40 Monica and I just came through and deadheaded all of them. And they will
37:44 bloom again next year. The same plant. And then they'll just have to reseed
37:47 themselves in this area. I love the peach and the lavender here. And then we have
37:53 one amaranth. Which we didn't have the heart to pull because it's so strong.
37:57 It's not staked. It's just staying just like that on its own. We had amaranth
38:01 planted right here last year. And then this is where we had our wheat. Which
38:05 we're already seeing some wheat pop up. I'm sure if we just turned the water on
38:09 it's the water's off in this row. But if we turned it on it would just grow
38:11 another crop. Maybe we should just do that. And then these two rows here are
38:16 sweet peas. Which they are looking really tired. We'll probably pull them out. Well
38:21 we'll see. They might start looking a little bit better. You see how the base
38:24 so they get kind of crunchy and dry looking. But they've been super
38:30 productive. It takes them forever to get going. But it's worth it. Worth the wait.
38:34 Because the scent out here is amazing. And the color is amazing. And I love love
38:39 using these in arrangements. Such pretty colors. And at the end of the sweet pea
38:45 rows I had a couple of tomatoes planted here last year. And so the the frames
38:49 were still here. But I also had some butterfly pea seedlings that I didn't
38:53 have a trellis to. I didn't know where I was gonna plant them. So I thought well
38:56 just pop them right here. And they're doing great. I mean they're not like
38:59 super thick or anything. But like these have made it to the top. And look at the
39:04 flowers. I mean last year we didn't get any of the butterfly peas to survive. So
39:08 the fact that they're out here growing and that they have color is awesome. Okay
39:13 the last spot I want to look through is the orchard quick. I need to do some
39:17 fruit thinning ASAP. Especially on our nectarine tree. So we've got nine trees
39:21 out here. Apricot which was wonderful. It's a perfection apricot. Wonderful
39:26 fruit. We have a honeycrisp apple which most of the apples are wormy. We're gonna
39:31 probably just pull these off. Some of them are clean but not many. Apples are
39:36 just tough to keep worms out of. I hate to be out here spraying. But I did spray
39:40 the apple trees one time. And I think I needed to do it. I think it's every two
39:43 weeks for maybe till the end of July. So anyway they definitely didn't get
39:49 enough spray. This tree is worse than the Fuji. Fuji looks a lot better. So I
39:54 think what we'll do is pull off all the apples that have any damage. Just so that
39:57 the tree doesn't have to support the growth of those. And then try to be
40:00 better at it next year. The nectarine tree. I have already thinned this
40:04 twice. When the fruit is so little it doesn't seem like they're that thick. But
40:09 look at this poor branch. Oh it needs the weight lifted off of it so bad. This one
40:15 too. Look at this. It's just crazy. So we'll probably get after that today or
40:20 tomorrow and get those the fruit thinned off. We'll just you know take off a ton
40:24 of this weight. And that way the tree will produce bigger fruit too. I mean
40:30 it's a shame but it has to be done. Grass is looking amazing in here. Aaron does
40:35 mow it every week. He puts it at a higher setting than the grass pathways. And it's
40:39 definitely thicker. But I don't know. I've been really enjoying it. We've got
40:44 the Santa Rosa plum right here. These are a little bit smaller than the year
40:48 before last. Last year we didn't get much off the tree but I pruned it hard this
40:52 winter. Like really hard. And we had a ton of plums. But they are the sweetest
40:57 most juicy plums ever. Mmm so good. Got our baby nectarine tree right back here.
41:05 Few nectarines on it. This is our Alberta peach. Things are looking good. Tons of
41:11 fruit. I need to come in and thin this one as well. My goodness. They're just
41:15 wanting to be so productive. The Tilton apricot which wonderful flavor. This tree
41:20 produced fruit after the perfection. So we had kind of a good staggered harvest.
41:25 The Tilton apricots were much smaller than the perfections. I don't remember
41:29 them being smaller the first year we had them. But really wonderful flavor. And
41:33 this is the Snow Beauty white peach. Oh this poor orchard. I need to get out here.
41:39 Oh I just like feel for it so much carrying that much weight. I'm gonna have
41:45 a great crop though. And then this is our Fuji tree. So the apples on this one are
41:49 much smaller than the honeycrisp but more of them are clean and not buggy
41:53 than on the honeycrisp. And so pretty. And then on our fence right here I did plant
41:58 a climbing rose. Last year thought it was dead this spring. It was just like two
42:02 brown sticks and it took forever for it to come out of it. But it did and it's
42:07 doing great. And then we've got a sensation honeysuckle right here. Mmm
42:13 smells so good. And you guys that is where the cut flower garden currently
42:16 stands. Things are doing really well. Super super happy with how everything's
42:21 looking. We've got some spots to plant some things. Huge shout out to Paul and
42:24 Bethany. They keep this area looking really good like weed free. I mean I
42:28 didn't see weeds when we were walking through. They've got it kind of on a
42:32 rotation so they kind of keep up on that really well. Couldn't do it without them.
42:36 So anyway just happy with how things are right now toward the end latter part of
42:42 August. We still have probably well we've got all of September and a good portion
42:48 of October before things will start kind of petering out out here. So a couple
42:53 more good months we'll get out of this space. Anyway that is it for today's
42:56 video. It was nice being out here early this morning. Kind of beating the heat
43:00 and things look so fresh and nice in the morning time. So I hope you guys are
43:03 having a great day and we will see you in the next video. Bye.