July Garden Tour

Hey, what's up garden friends? Jeff here. How's everybody doing? I hope you're good. I am great. Time for another garden tour. I figure may as well start off where I left off in my last vlog, which is the veggie garden. Thing is, this has only been planted up for a few days, so it's not going to be many differences in here from that vlog, but it wasn't in the last garden tour because it didn't exist yet. So some of the jalapenos are fully ripe. Need to get those off when they're red. They're a little bit sweeter, slightly less spicy, so I typically pick them when they're green, but sometimes I let some of them go red also. Then even though it's only been a couple of days, got some new growth coming out on those scotch bonnets, which had to get a very heavy, heavy pruning. They're looking good. Bell peppers already have new growth coming out of them. Pardon all the snail damage if you didn't see the last vlog. The snails have just been terrible this year, but it's all good news with the peppers. New growth coming out of all of them. And same thing with the amazel basil that's over here. This basil smells so good. I can smell it from fairly far away. Then all the strawberries that are down here, those buried treasure strawberries from Proven Winners are doing their thing, you know, being strawberries. Oh, my fingers smell like pizza sauce or pizza. It's so much basil. Since I'm over here, don't want to forget to talk about the carnivorous plants. This was done in a vlog, I don't know, back in May. Filled Lots of growth coming out of this one. Haven't had any issues with it. I've had to pull some dead growth out, but it's, like, just old growth. Nothing serious. Not like anything's going wrong with it. Trying to be very careful here. Holding my camera over the water isn't, like, my favorite thing to do. Better view of the taller pitchers that are in there. And these, none of them had names on them, so I don't like to give them names if I don't have the tags, because there are a lot of varieties that look very, very similar. But they're cute. That's all that matters. They're pretty. They should all be hardy to my zone, so they should overwinter just fine. I'm not worried about that. The water is intentionally green. It's green water that's on purpose. It's not dirty. Back here, the windmill palm, this got potted up in a vlog a while ago when I was on the hunt for those brown pots. Impatiens are filling up very nicely in there. I think it could use a little bit more sun, so I may end up relocating that, because the sun's changed. It's summer now. Coleus looking good over here. This is a planter I did with my pygmy date palm, my robelini. That's right here, the phoenix robelini. I put some caladiums in here, two of these white ones, and I, when I did that video, I was really nervous that maybe it was a bad fit, just because I was really unsure about the amount of white that they would be getting over here. But they're doing great. I haven't had any issues with them scorching or anything, and they're getting along. You know, getting along. They've paired up fine with the cordyland fruticosa that's in here. This is the harlequin, and the one in the back, I believe, is red sister. And have that gorgeous pink dragon swing begonia coming over the front. The supertunia vista silverberry hasn't done much. None of the supertunias really have, except for the ones around the pool. I'm thinking that that's a precipitation thing. I'll talk about that in a minute when I show some of the other ones. This is that curtain that got smashed by the palm tree that fell on top of it, and it's rebounding. Well, it's got lots of new growth coming off the top. It's doing okay. I'm actually, I think I'm just about ready to swap this out with my monstera, the Thai constellation, my variegated monstera that normally goes here. But I've been kind of waiting for the sun to finish shifting, so the spot isn't quite as intense with sunlight. I think I'm just about there. Just about there as far as the time of the year goes, that is. And then back here, my dog knocked over that caladium right before I started filming. So that was nice of him. Say thanks, Toby. Those caladiums are doing great. The dracaenia is doing well. The impatiens that I planted back here underneath this alpinia are starting to flower and look nice. And the bromeliads, still doing their thing. Still looking pretty. No changes there. No change. Good thing. Macho ferns putting on a lot of growth, getting very big. There are two macho ferns over here, and I think I'm going to have to move them eventually, right? They can get up to six feet tall, so probably not going to work out. Mostly just this one. It's kind of blocking light from the things behind it. So that's the one that I think I'm going to need to pull that out eventually. The dracaenia down here, that is a dracaenia reflexa from a video, I don't know, a few weeks ago. Doing real well. It's actually put out a lot of new growth. That's nice. Exciting. Love new growth. This is my foot. That video hasn't come out yet. Don't worry about it. Pretend you didn't see that. No foot there. New leaf on the Bird of Paradise. Actually, just about multiple leaves. Something's getting ready to open up a few. Opened one up not too long ago. These planters, fairly similar to the ones over there with the cordyceps and fruticosa. This is definitely a Red Sister, Pink Dragon's Wing Begonia, and then I have the Supertunia Vista Bubblegums in the front of these pots as well. And, like I said, not doing what I had hoped they would be doing. It rained, like, all of June. Just so, so, so much rain. A lot of people's petunias ended up dying and melting, so I got lucky that they held on through that, but they just kind of have somewhat sat still. And there's not a ton of light over here either, which is fine. I've planted the Vista Bubblegum in shady locations before, and it did well. It's just the flowers were a little bit more sparse. It still flowered, just was a little bit leggy. And I was like, you know what? I'm okay with that. Having petunias in a shady spot, you can't do that with most petunias. So I kind of thought that might be an issue up here in the front. So it's either the light, the rain, or any combination of the above. They're still growing, though. Alocasia Lutea. These were just divisions that I put in here underneath this adenidia palm not that long ago. I don't know. May, so a couple months. Late May, early June, and they finally, their roots have set out, and they're growing very well. Having a great time. In fact, I can probably go ahead and get this. I had left this leaf on here. I didn't cut it off yet because it still had some green in it, so it was still providing energy to the plant, and I wanted to keep putting up new foliage, but I'm pretty sure once that leaf right there opens up, I can go ahead and cut this off finally. It doesn't need it anymore. And I had also, back here, planted the alpinia zaremba variegata, the variegated shell ginger, and that was just a division. It's put up a whole bunch of new growth. It's not super evident. I'm hopeful within the end of this month, which, so hopefully we'll be able to see that in the August garden tour, there'll be a small wall of those variegated leaves back here. I think that'll look nice. I've talked about it in a lot of my videos. I like having the contrast and veining, variegation, any type of lightness that I can get, because at night time, it lights up. It illuminates. It draws the eyes back, particularly like these caladiums that are back here, and then the white caladiums that are over here in this pot. That's just, they light up. They're so pretty. They're reflective. They brighten the area. That's what I've been hoping they would do, and they did it. Speaking of reflective, look at this ixora. Oh, she's bright. This one doesn't have a name to it. It was just an assorted ixora I picked up from a big box store, probably Lowe's. I got it back in April. It had just come off the truck, and I kind of just reached back and took it off a rack who's hiding behind plastic and stuff. It's blooming, doing fantastic. I gave it a little bit of holly tone, a little bit of acid, and it seemed to like that, and it's been a pretty much a fuss-free plant. Ixoras are usually pretty stuff. Stuff. Ixoras are usually pretty tough. And over here, we got my little sea of heliconias that are mostly waiting to be planted up. I planted up a few, which I don't think any of those videos are out yet, but I have planted some up. They're doing well. These were all in my suitcase just a couple weeks ago coming up from Florida. Did well. They had a good trip. I was surprised how well they did. They didn't really have any damage to them. They're still blooming great. Looking good. The Andromeda heliconia that's in the front has some new stuff coming up on it down there and over there behind that bloom. And then the lady dye heliconias, they're just always blooming. They're always happy. This bird of paradise in this pot, it's been growing very well. Been throwing up new leaves like seemingly constantly. It's put up at least four or five, which means I can probably go ahead. I think I can cut that one out now. It's been bugging me for a while. Then come through, trim that out now that it's got a new foliage on it to take in some light. Because yeah, see that? That looks dumb. Also, why is that leaf pointing this direction? What are you doing? Don't you know my aesthetic? Didn't you get the memo I wanted? You're supposed to be fanning out, not coming at everything. That's dumb. Why'd you do that? Looks so stupid. Whatever. It's doing that because I guess that's the direction it seems to think the light is, even though the other ones aren't doing. Why? Why? Oh, that's really gonna bug me. It's fine for now. Moving on. The epidendrum over here. This is the epidendrum radicans, the ground orchid. Doing great. Always doing great. It's a really sturdy plant. They just flower and flower, put off new offshoots. They don't usually skip a beat. They're happy plants. Easy to grow orchids. Needle palms doing their thing. Hopefully those are going to get planted up sometime this week or next week, which I'm very much looking forward to. And this is the lantana tree from the lantana tree video. The variety was confetti, still is confetti. It's just the flowers have faded to being all pink now, so they don't have those yellow circles on the outside. A little bit of yellow left in the middle, but otherwise pretty much just pink. So once this bloom cycle is done, I'm going to give this a very heavy pruning. It could use it. You can see how the plant's starting to split, sort of. It's starting to flop, so that's when I want to give it a cut and get it to thicken out. The hydrangea's getting ready to bloom. I was really hoping this would be in bloom in time for the July garden tour, but no luck. By the time this video comes out, it's going to be like the 8th or the 9th. Oh, don't fall in the pool. And I prefer for the garden tours to be out between the 1st and the 5th, so already late on that one. If I keep waiting, then it's not going to... this video wouldn't be out till the middle of the month, so I'll have updates posted on my social media with all that. At the end of the video, I'll talk about that. I keep coming in here. I'm pulling this honeysuckle out. This is the major wheeler, which is planted back here, and on this side. I did finally find a garden arch. I've been trying to find a garden arch that I could put over the staircase to get that honeysuckle to grow up. The problem is this is just over 8 feet from the outside to the outside, and it's because it has to go out a little bit further over here, and that's because there's a bunch of gravel and cement where you can't really get anything into the ground there. So where I can get it goes 8 feet across, and it's hard to find a garden arch that big. Now, garden answers. Laura, I just saw her post a video not too long ago. She got some massive, humongous garden arches, and they look really pretty. I don't think I'm going to be able to go that route, but I found some other ones for like $25 on Amazon. I'm sure they're not very sturdy, but I might give it a whirl and see how long they last. So that way this honeysuckle will grow up and over that arch instead of trying to grow into the hydrangea trees, because they don't, the hydrangea trees don't need that. I mean, look at that, growing all over the top. It's not necessary. Here are those windmill palm pots that was from a vlog not too long ago. This sweet potato vine, I think the variety was called Bewitched, maybe? I can't remember. It's very bushy, way more full than I expected it to be. That's not really working for me. I might have to pull those out. Just because it's really encroaching on those impatiens, it doesn't need to be that full. You know what I mean? False Aurelia's got lots of new growth coming out the top. This has been a sturdy plant. I haven't had to do anything with it. This whole area is getting redone in this weekend's vlog, so stay posted for that. Stay tuned for that. New growth coming up here out of the Plumeria. I can go ahead and move this, actually. They need full sun. I've been acclimating it, and I think it should be ready to go out into the sun. When I brought it outside, that's embarrassing. You didn't see that. The foliage started to scorch out, even though I had acclimated it. But it should be good now, so I can go ahead and get this moved. And what's real exciting, look at the Monstera. One, two, three, four, five, six leaves. This has opened three leaves since I brought it outside. This one in the back being the newest that just popped open. It's very, very happy out here. I think it enjoyed being repotted this winter. Lots of new growth. The variegation's not super heavy on it, but I'm okay with that. Every leaf that comes out looks a little bit different. That's part of the fun with this plant, right? Tiny green foliage and so much growth. Such a happy plant. Getting really tall. That's probably it's close to four and a half feet tall. It's really getting up there. The Mimosa's asleep, so I'm not really going to be able to show you how that looks, unfortunately. Actually, I need to do part of this video in the front yard in a couple days, like hours before I release the video, so I can get a shot of the Mimosa tree then. Back here, Philodendron bipinidifidum, looking good. Threw a bit of a fit when I brought it outside, which is kind of unusual, but it's bounced back, recovered. It's forgiven me for bringing it outside and giving it more water and nutrition. I don't know what that was about. Usually, it's fine with coming outside and it celebrates and grows like crazy. Speaking of growing like crazy, look at how big the leaves are on this Pettis. This is Pettis japonicus gigantea, I believe is the variety. These are absolutely massive. These leaves are huge. I don't have my tripod or a camera person, but just look. So big. These are humongous leaves. That's not even one of the bigger leaves, either. They do have some hail damage and some snail damage. The snails have been, man, they've been driving me crazy this year. I can't wait for the product. I ordered some of the bone-eyed slug and snail stuff. I love that product, but I'm not going to find it anywhere. Everybody's sold out, because the snails have been a big problem for a lot of people around here. Because it rained all of June, so that's not surprising at all. But because of that, yeah, just waiting for the product to come in. I've been using some other stuff to keep things at bay while I can. The other Pettis that are in here are just the variegated ones. They're okay. A little bit thirsty. I don't know why, because I think the sprinklers should have hit them. Maybe I need to adjust my drip. As the foliage on things grows, I use micro sprayers back here. As the foliage starts to get beefier on the plants, sometimes the leaves block them and stuff like that. So that's something I'll check that out in a little bit. Majesty Palms, because of the Majesty Palm video. They're here, still being Majesty Palms. Here I have some other Majesty Palms that are doing their thing. That video hasn't come out yet, so I don't know why I'm showing it to you. I really shouldn't be. I have a few planter videos that I've been working on, where I'm letting them grow out and fill out for a few weeks before I finish the video. Because that kind of helps, I think, give a better impression of what it looks like when you don't pack the pot full right when you get it. Because it's not always practical. That can be very expensive to do, right? So that's what's going on there. The Supertunias. Doing well. Not as much growth on this end as on the other end, but these were also planted like a couple weeks later than the other ones. Let's go look at the other ones. I say let's. What I mean is, let me go show you. How about them Petunias? Oh, they're big. And this Sweet Potato vine, you guys, it's too much. When I potted this up, I was saying, I explained the issues in the past with the Sweet Potato vines was that they were just too vigorous and they choked out the Supertunias. So I tried a different variety this year. One I tried last year that wasn't as vigorous, but it wasn't also getting as much light as over here. And this is just as vigorous, very full, very bushy. I have to come in here just about every single day. I come in here and I grab the stragglers and pull them to the sides like so. And so it keeps growing in its own direction. That's just too much work for me. And it doesn't sound like a big deal, but there's a lot of other plants out here that need my attention. So like being able to cut corners and not have to guide my Sweet Potato vines is a nifty thing. So I don't know if I'm going to keep them. I think it might look just as great to just not have those and have the Supertunias all the way around the pots. It might look even better. Maybe I could throw the Silverberries in that spot. So it's like pink and white and pink and white. Or I would really like to do the Purple Wave Petunias. But for some reason it feels kind of like sacrilege. Like I'm not supposed to combine the Supertunias and the Wave Petunias together. Like maybe they won't get along. They're competitors. You know what I'm saying? No, I know. I'm just being stupid. That's not necessary. More weeds. Always weeds. It's constant struggle. But yeah, look at how big and full these have gotten. So much growth on them. And this one I've been able to keep growing a little bit more like along a narrow path, I guess is what you would say. And you can see the Supertunias are responding well to that. They're kind of spreading out, doing well. As long as each plant gets their quarter, I think it'll be okay. The main thing is that I just can't let these potato vines. What they did last year is they firecrackers. Hopefully. They shoot out. They run across. And when they do that, they put their little roots down. And that's when they start to choke things out. So I'm mostly just kind of trying to keep things open in here. Which isn't that hard to do. Please excuse the fireworks. I don't know what that's about. They're not even legal here. So that really shouldn't be going on. I'm sure my dogs really appreciate that. Over here, Chinese Fan Palm doing well. The Iconia Begonia, I had been concerned about it maybe not doing so great once the heat of the summer kicked in. And yeah, it's not doing fantastic. Worst case scenario, I pull that out and pop a Pink Sun Impatient in there. That'll work out just fine. But right now it's throwing a little bit of a set because we went from being in like the 70s and 80s and constant, constant rain outside to just 95 degrees and dry. So they don't like that. That wasn't a great transition for them. Nobody, the people, nobody, I didn't enjoy it either. It's like, where was spring? What happened? It's just hot now. Remember all those caladium tubers that got planted in here? That was in the video right before the last garden tour. It's only been about three weeks. Look at this. So, so, so much growth. I need to actually probably pull these out before they start to set root too much. But the spot where they might be going isn't ready in the front. I'm still waiting for that stump to get ground out, which is supposed to happen Tuesday morning, which should be the morning this video comes out. So hopefully they'll get here and get that done so I can finish the video and release it. I don't think I'm going to be able to plant these the same day though because I need to pick something out to, don't worry about it. I'll talk to it when I get to that part of the video when I talk about the front yard. But those caladiums, doing great. Tons of growth, lots of variety. Reds and speckles and white ones. They look good. Got some nice growth on the Pakistakis lutea over here, that gold shrimp plant. Very pretty. I love the little torches of flowers they send up. Hibiscus is resting, but here's a picture. Isn't it pretty? One of my favorites. Wish I knew what it was called. And this is the freckles croton. The new growth is coming out with more of just like a gold dust plant appearance to it. Which I was a little bit bummed out about because I mean I can just pick up one of those gold dust crotons from the hardware store for like nine dollars. So I'm hoping that as this foliage ages it starts to get more color to it. Because you can see the lower foliage does have a little bit more color and like way down there it's basically red. So I don't know. We will see. If it just stays like that though then I'm not going to be as attached to that croton anymore. Gotta get pretty for me. This croton is getting a lot of sun. A lot of afternoon sun. So I might need to move it. I've always kept a croton right here in the corner but never one this tall. So that might be maybe it's a height thing. Maybe when I've had them down lower. Because you can see the lower growth looks okay. It's everything up here. So it might need to be moved too. Now that the sun has shifted the lighting's different out here and it just it changes things you know. And I'm worrying that it's going to scorch when the foliage starts to get black on these guys. See that dark dark dark black foliage? That's as dark as it can go. That's like its last mode of defense. So if it can't stay like that what am I trying to say? It's gonna go ahead and bleach out if that's as dark as it can go and it's not doing the trick of protecting the plant. Don't want that to happen. Gingers not as vigorous this year. We had a very bad winter. I was concerned that they wouldn't even come back and they have but usually this whole area would be full. So I'm gonna up their fertilizing I think and get more growth coming out of them. I need to really revive those ginger rhizomes that are in the ground if I want them to survive this winter because they're not hardy here. I'm in zone six. Tropicana put up a flower looking pretty. It's just being a Tropicana not much to say about that. Yucca recurvifolias. This stump is going to grow here in a few days which I'm very excited about and I can get this area planted up finally. Haven't seen any buds on this crinum lily which is a little bit disappointing. Gosh these morning glory vines constant. I'm constantly pulling those out. The variety is called paracone something like that. It has big pretty pink flowers on it. The banana right here it's gotten like really big. Much bigger than it usually gets so I think it's kind of shading it a little bit. Now that the sun has shifted it's starting to get more light so I think it's fine. I like the glossy foliage. I'm going to divide it up move some things around. That's going to look nice. The begonia adds a nice contrast there as well as this pretty alicaja which I think is metallica. I asked in my last video if anyone could identify it for me and they said it looked like a metallica the plum bay metallica and I looked up it's like yeah seems about right. Really pretty very reflective. Love love love those glossy shiny leaves. And speaking of alicajas the colocajas. The bikini teenies. They are taking over which is what they do. I normally have sun impatiens planted up here in the front but this year the colocajas decided they wanted to grow there. Good morning. It's the next day. My memory card ran out. Hasn't happened in a long time. Switched over to 4k and forget that things take up a lot more space than they used to. So as I was saying down here these I need to move them. They kind of go wherever they want to. They're popping up all over the place. The variety is bikini teeny. If I hadn't said that before and I know people were asking me from the last garden tour where I got them from I had to look it up. These are from Brian's Botanicals many many many years ago. I don't know if they still sell them. That's where I originally got them from and here's one of the things I love about them. Look at that. Look at how the water just kind of dances on those leaves. Just so cool how it does that and when it rains just like with the colocaja tea cups or coffee cups the rain comes down splatters onto those leaves and when these get full they tip forward and the water pours out and they bounce back up. It's pretty neat. Bananas back here. Oh oh hold on look like diamonds. Gorgeous. Got bananas. They're doing the thing being bananas. Getting a lot of growth out of them this year especially considering I've been a little bit bad about fertilizing. I haven't done my like normal routine fertilizing. They've gotten soil amendments and some slow release but I need to hit them with the liquid which I'm going to be doing probably this afternoon. Gonna get started on that. Doing that usually gets them to like explode with growth. I have a special fertilizer I use for my bananas, my colocajas, alocajas, gingers. It's specifically mostly for the palm trees but those other plants seem to appreciate it. The Thai giants putting out a good amount of growth. These are lucocaja gigantea no longer colocaja. They changed it. I think it was actually originally lucocaja and then they went to colocaja and then they went back to lucocaja. I think that the verdict was that they had decided the plant naming people had been like well it's not really an alocaja so we're gonna go with colocaja and then after so many years they're like you know what it's not really a colocaja. Lucocaja. Whatever. The Thai giant elephant ears. Y'all know what I'm talking about. These once the heat kicks in they just they grow like insanity. They do lots and lots and lots of good growing when it gets hot outside. Over here I have some things that just need to be moved. Actually I set them where the sprinklers will get them. I want to call it overflow because it's not overflow. They're for future videos and for different parts of the garden and planters and whatnot but they're just over here chilling where the sprinklers will get them. The yucca bristradas are doing well. They both are putting out new growth. The one that was mostly a cutting was the one that I was of course the most concerned about because it didn't have roots on it but yeah it's got new growth so it's good. Now as soon as they flush out from the top it comes up like this and then unfurls. Once they do that that's when I'm confident that the plant's rooted and it's doing okay so I'm not as concerned about it anymore. That's a very good thing. And this one right here I had already received as a rooted plant came in a pot and everything so that one is of course fine. I'm gonna leave the dead leaves on just because it does provide some insulation during the winter time. I'm not going to be keeping these outside in the winter just yet but someday. I'm gonna give them a few years where every year I'll leave them out in the fall a little bit longer so they can kind of adjust to it and then I'll pop them in the ground one day. Oleander still has a bunch of flowers on it. Really pretty. This one doesn't have a name just was an assorted oleander. Sunflower is finishing up its flowering. I think it has one left on here and actually no it's putting out a whole bunch of new buds so that's pretty exciting. I'm not really ready for it yet but that's all right. I'll be doing stuff with that in fall planters and not too terribly long. Hey Tuck. How you doing bud? Hey get out of there. So rude. That's not for you. There's a little bit of a size reference for how big those pettisets are. You got Tucker over here sitting down. You're gonna lay down. You can get up. You don't have to stay there. You're free Tucker. You're free. Go on. You can get out. Old man. He didn't need to be sitting on the pavement but there's a little glimpse there. There are some more gingers coming up over here. These should also be the flaming torches. I also have the palani and corinorium which is just the white butterfly ginger planted out here but the palani didn't make it through the winter which is unfortunate because I've had it for a very long time and the corinorium is just it just looks just like these. There are some I almost forgot up here amongst the nutsedge that's growing in here with my dune grass pineapple lily putting up. Would you please behave? The camera's like there's too many colors. What do I do? Flowers coming up there on that pineapple lily. When nutsedge grows inside of the ornamental grass it is such a nightmare to get rid of. I've been trying to stay on top of it. It's actually been a lot better this year and then these are the flowers on the bicolor eucalyptus, the bicolor pineapple lily. The bananas grew so much faster than these this year that these are getting kind of shaded so I might need to move these. It's probably time. I've had these in the ground for I don't know many many many years so it's time to probably divide them up anyways and move them where they'll get some more sun but they're great plants. They just flower and flower. Well they hold on to their flowers for a long time I should say. They put up their blooms and those usually last six to eight weeks normally. Okay I'll go to the front yard real quick. Not much to say about the front. Hey bud you can't come naked. You gotta have your collar on. Sometimes they get little heat rashes around their necks from their collars during the summer so they don't have those on right now. I got a lot of the weeds pulled out of the cactus garden over here which is something I dread doing so that looks a lot better. The pachysandra, it's a bit much for this area but it does so well. Nothing else grows over here in this corner so I just leave it because it's one of the few things that does well. And over here is the berm with the dragon's wing begonias, those alocasia luteus, and then the strawberry vanilla hydrangeas. There's a lot of new growth on the alocasias which is nice because remember they were just tiny little things when I threw them in the ground. The begonias are kind of starting to do their thing. There was just so much rain this year in June that they sort of just sat still and endured it which is good because a lot of plants died. Not mine but a lot of people like their petunias and some of their begonias just drowned. And they are putting on a decent amount of growth. They're filling out fairly well. That's going to look pretty neat here not too long. Flowers on the strawberry vanilla. Not very exciting this year because I had someone who was helping me do yard work and I handed them a hedge trimmers and they took the tops off the hydrangeas. So not probably going to get the flower show I was hoping for this year but there is still time. We will see. I've had them do second rounds of blooms before but it's not likely to happen unless there's a pretty long growing season. It's unfortunate. It is what it is. It happened. This would have been so pretty though if these had actually been covered in their flowers and like that fountain of the pink and cream. Oh well. Not a ton to update with on the rest of the front yard. The impatiens are doing their thing being impatiens. It's really only been a few weeks since last update with these guys so this is where I'm thinking about maybe putting the rest of those caladiums somewhere back there. Just have to kind of wait and see. You can see though in the vlog when I planted these up I had been deciding whether or not to leave all the little seedlings in here and I left them and they're growing. They're doing really well. Even some of them you can see under that rhododendron there are starting to bloom even though they're super teeny tiny. There's some white ones back there with a red center on them. I didn't plant any of those last year. I've never planted any I don't think that looked like that so maybe they like hybridized between themselves. I don't know. But lots of little babies coming up in here so but yeah there's not a ton to update with because not much has happened. It's only been a couple weeks. Still waiting on that stump to get ground out. I had thought I was going to wait to release this video until after that got done but then I was like it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all because there's still just gonna be a giant hole there. I'm not gonna have time to plant this up so that'll hopefully be gone by the next garden tour. Well it will definitely be gone but I mean hopefully this whole area will be planted up. Porch pots are looking good. Everything's done. A lot of growing. The bananas are very full and very very happy in there. Alocasia Frydeck doing well also. The Sun Impatient even though it's one of the compact ones. Very vigorous like extremely vigorous just to be expected. That's nothing wrong with that. You can see the spider plants they've taken very well to being divided and put in here. Those chlorophytums. I always I know it's dumb and probably doesn't matter to anyone but I always prefer the chlorophytums that have the orange on them. I don't know why. Just my preference. I do know why because it adds contrast and it's very pretty. The more white they get the more intense that orange gets. This Frydeck is getting I think too much light. I didn't know what to do up here. My front porch has always been very shady because there was a giant Japanese maple shading it and this year not the case. Lots and lots and lots of sun and things are doing well with it. I do need to I think maybe rehang these baskets so that the Bacopa is facing outward. I didn't really pay any attention to that when I hung them up. These just go all the way up to the ceiling there. Yeah I think they need a little bit more light because see they're not flowering and the Creeping Jenny can take the shade so they don't they don't need all that sun. So I'll probably go ahead and rotate those. I think they'd look a lot better if I did. These got planted up in a vlog also or actually they got their own video and doing well. Lots and lots of new growth. They're on drip that's why that line's there. I like to keep them on drip just because that way well I don't have to remember to come out to my front yard and water them. Yeah you can see even these Bacopa the ones that are getting a little bit more sun they're blooming but this um what is that that Iconia begonia is kind of choking it out a little bit. So they need some pruning and some reshaping but either way they're very pretty and I'm okay with it. I really enjoy the different colors the color combination in there. Yeah I'm back Tobes. You didn't think I was gonna leave you did you? You good boy. Oh hello. Dogs are so fantastic. They're always so happy. Who doesn't love being welcomed like that? Right Tuck? Right Tuck? Yeah yeah good boy. All right and then some quick succulent updates. My variegated aloe here doing well. This is a clam planter that I did in a video I want to say back in May. I've had to keep my succulents under this table over here just because like I've mentioned multiple times it has just been raining and raining and raining so some of them are a little bit stretched out from the shade. It's been a little bit too shady for them. It was the only thing I could think of to keep them dry and it's doing well. I just think it's ready to be moved out to get some more light and like I have these over here hanging up from the umbrella and they've been doing better. They're not stretching as much which I attribute to them getting more light and I didn't make these. I bought these. They were really cheap. I can't remember where I got them from but when I bought them it was with the intention of thinking oh I'll tear these apart and use them for other planters and then I got kind of attached to them and well I didn't because you know look they're really pretty. All right that's gonna do it though. That's everything and I only have three minutes left on my memory card now so gotta wrap things up. I hope everyone's doing well. There will be another tour here and just under a month. I like to get them out before the end of the or like at the start of the month. Excited to see all the changes and progress and all the fun things happening and just watching the plants grow. So much fun. Can I show you what the wind did to this queen palm? It just like has completely pushed it. Not much I can do about that at this point unfortunately. I hope everybody's doing well. Having a great day, great life and everything's just going wonderfully for you. I have all my social media linked down below. You can follow me there. I'm on Instagram like way more than anything else and don't forget to like the video. Makes a big difference for the channel and for the videos. I really do appreciate it. 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