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All right, we've got our shipment coming from Walters Gardens. Had a nice shipment of perennials here. We're gonna be creating a new garden in the back. We'll show you the progress of that and what we're gonna be doing there. Got a little bit of rain today, but that's okay. It won't hurt the plants. So today we're gonna unload the pallets. When we got the pallets in, it was pouring rain, so we couldn't get them off of there. So we're a day later now. We're gonna kind of go ahead and unload them and kind of go through them and see what's up here. As I'm unloading, I'm gonna go ahead and divide the perennials up into groups. This is always my first step of designing the garden, and the groups that we're gonna separate them into is height. So we're gonna do different height groups so that way we have everything organized by height, so then we know where we're gonna place things as we go. That way we're not gonna place something super tall, like around 24 to 36 inches, in front of something that's 12 to 16 inches. And by keeping them divided and then placing them according to their height will be so much more helpful in the design process of laying them out. I'm really excited about these. These so far look like they're gonna be our tallest. This is Summerific Hibiscus. So these get 60 to 66 inches tall, and this would be a new color for us. We've never tried this color before. It's called Lilac Crush. So we're really excited to kind of see what this turns out to be, because sometimes the color is just a little bit more different in variation compared to the tag. So I'm wondering how pink this one will be. This is the Color Spire Salvia. This is actually one of our favorites. We did this one in our front garden design last season, and this one is called Back to the Fuchsia. I really love the names that they choose. They're so creative and awesome, and the flowers that this one just puts out is just amazing, and it's really, really stunning in the garden anywhere you put it. This one gets 22 to 24 inches, so we're just gonna put this in a pile of around the 24 inch mark. Looks like we also got some Heucheras. Ooh, this one's pretty. Pumpkin Spice. Yeah, that's probably why I like it. You guys know I'm a fall lover, and anything pumpkin and spice, you can give it to me. We also have some Clematis. Ooh, that's really pretty. I love that color. Like blues and purples are some of my most favorite colors in the garden. So this one is called Stand By Me Lavender, so that's probably why I like it, because I love lavender. So it'll be really nice. Another beautiful Salvia. It's even more true blue than what the camera is showing. Just gorgeous. This one's called Violet Riot Color Spires, so that one will be nice as well. We're gonna put this in the 24 inch group. Look at how pretty that combination is. So I'm really excited. I chose these just imagining what colors I liked, and what we've used before and liked, and what we wanted to try that was new. Ooh, look at this, Veronica. This one's called Magic Show Ever After. I love the flowers on this one. So this one is actually going to be a new one for us this year as well. So I am super excited to see what this does, but the flowers are just so awesome, how they start out beautiful. Like the buds are actually kind of like white, and then they fade into purple as they blossom, it looks like, or bloom. So it's really neat, because the this one gets 14 to 16 inches, so this will go in kind of a lower growing pile for now. We got another kind of Heuchera as well. It's the Peach Berry Ice, which I really like this one, because it's way more vibrant than the Pumpkin Spice. I just love the colors, and they'll be so vibrant come fall too, when everything else is getting brown. They'll fill in that beautiful color. We also have some Pulmonium. It's Heaven Scent. It's so beautiful. It's so lush and full in size, and it smells so sweet. It smells really good. It kind of reminds me of the smell of like a Sweet Alyssum in a way. We also got some Baptisia. This one's the Blueberry Sundance. So this Storm Cloud plant I've never grown, and I would pronounce it, but because I'm not familiar with it. But yeah, these are the beautiful blue flowers that it gets. They're a nice little light blue. They're more blue than you see on here. They look almost white on camera, but they're a really pretty blue. All right, now we're gonna move on to the next palette. Ooh, there are lots of goodies here. They are really packed in there, so there is going to be a lot of stuff to go through here. But it looks so nice. Walter's Gardens does such an amazing job of growing these perennials. Yay, I see I got some Elliums. I've been wanting some. I really want those giant ones, but these looked so awesome that I really wanted to try them. These are called Serendipity. Let's see over here. You can see the beautiful flowers it gets on there. So yeah, I'm really excited to see. Ooh, more of this Phlox. This has been in blossom already this year on our berm, and it is gorgeous. I see some Minarda. We've got some Coneflowers. I see the Russian Sage here. Oh, lots of good stuff. Oh, I see some Hosta up there. Wow, this is an awesome shipment. We also got more Cat's Pajamas, which is one of our favorites. It's a beautiful low-growing border plant. It's gorgeous. This is one of the most beautiful Hostas I've ever seen. It is gorgeous. Let's see what this is. Wow, Shadowland Diamond Lake. That is, it is just beautiful. I am super excited to see what this thing does. So here are the Echinaceas we got. We always love the Lakota Fire. It's such a vibrant Echinacea. It's really showy, so you can tell right here too. It just has this beautiful fade of oranges and almost like a pink tone as well. So really, really beautiful. They kind of like fade out to that pink. So every flower just looks like a different color. So here you can tell where the groups, you're starting to see the groups in groups of height, and that's based on their average full growth height. So that way when we're designing, we know that that's where all the taller varieties are going to be. So wherever we're going to focus our tall height in the garden, we're gonna go for those, and then kind of work our way down towards the front. Kind of like the waterfall effect. Go from tall, medium, to low-growing. And you guys, I love this Drops of Jupiter. It has that perfect bright chartreuse color, and it is so fragrant. Smells a lot just like oregano. We've got the Monarda over here. It's a really pretty pink color. And this over here, I have to show you, I think it's one of my favorite Monarda colors. This is our first year having this one and trying it in a garden. But it is so gorgeous, true purple, and it's fragrant. Which, it kind of reminds me of the smell of Heliacrism, you know, the straw flowers. It kind of reminds me of that. And straw flowers remind me of my childhood, because we used to grow and cut and sell them at markets. But this one is called Rockin' Raspberry Sugar Buzz. So it's, I'll show you the tag here. I'll show you the tag here. This is so beautiful. This is one of the most beautiful Monardas I've ever seen. But, you know, I like the dark purples and dark colors, so I may be a bit biased. So, you know, everyone has their favorite. Another one I have to show and share, that beautiful purple color. It is so gorgeous. It's called Paint the Town Fuchsia. This is a dianthus. Look at this view so far. This kind of gives you an example of what all these combinations of colors and heights are going to look like together. So the hosta and the Bleeding Hearts I'm keeping separate. They're kind of their own little group, because these aren't going to be in the garden. These are more shade variety, so these are going to be used to fill in any of my shade areas that kind of seem a little sparse without any of that nice bright chartreuse color. And even this beautiful hosta. I am just in love with that one. If you guys haven't noticed, I am in love with it. But these are going to be nice to fill in and brighten up our shady spaces. And the phlox is just gorgeous. Look at that. I'll show you ours on the berm. So here's our phlox on the berms over here. You can tell all the perennials are coming back. And these are the only ones in bloom right now. And if you can see, like my foot next to it, how large these plants have become in just, this is their second year. Actually no, this is their third year. And I have a larger foot. I'm a size 10. Well I used to be a 9 until I had kids. And then it's like I ended up with this big foot. So compared to a larger foot, look how big this phlox really got. I mean it's just absolutely gorgeous. So this over here is a shady space. So this is where we're going to add the bleeding heart and those hostas. And that'll look really nice over here. I might actually put that one hosta right here just because I want to be able to see it out this way more. But look at our bloomerangs here. Don't mean to switch the topic, but they are in blossom and they smell so sweet. These are a lilac and they can bloom twice a year. So once these are done, we cut them back and then they bloom again in fall. I haven't had where they bloom as much as they do in spring as they do in fall. But hey, they come again with something. And I love the smell of it and it really attracts the butterflies actually. The butterflies love these and the bees. But I see early butterflies on these. So that's great. And I'm going to actually try to make some aromatherapy spray with the lilacs as well. So I'm just waiting on my other ones to come and blossom. Because look how pretty that looks. Adds a lot of color. And then that's the other lilac and we have two more on the other side. So I'm walking back over here where I have everything, you know, divided out and these colors are so calming that I'm like, we definitely have to add a sitting space over here. This will be a great space to just be calm and relax. And, uh, yeah, you know, it's good for the soul. Wild rose hookahs. Look at those gorgeous. And they already got their flowers on. I mean, that's amazing. So far, it looks like we have a lot of medium height plants. So what you do in order to break up that height to make a little bit of a height difference in your garden is not to always do that waterfall effect from tall to medium to low growing. A lot of times it's nice to go in and plant all your medium height varieties and place in a tall variety amongst them sporadically. So it's almost like a little tall pop and surprise in the garden amongst that medium height to break it up, to break it up so your eye doesn't just, you know, your eye can go up and down a little bit. So let's say I had these salvias and I placed them in like a group of four. I kind of put them in like the shape of like a square, right? So you have them in the garden in the shape of a square and then you could place in the center of them a baptisia that gets taller. So it kind of breaks up the garden a little bit and these are the baptisias over here. So then you have like that little spurt of tallness. But you just want to make sure to always space everything so it has room to grow because perennials always take two to three years, three years really, to hit their maximum growth full potential in that third year. So you always have to make sure to give them a little extra space. We always put them together just a little bit closer than what's required only because I don't want any spacing because wherever there's spacing that's where weeds have the opportunity to sneak in there and grow. The dianthus always smells so amazing too. You guys always make sure to take time to stop and smell your flowers and enjoy them in more ways than just, I gotta get the job done, you know. I don't know if you guys remember but this was a really, really clay-like garden over here. So we did a lot of cut flowers last year and sunflowers to really amend the soil and and to kind of aerate it and break it up and add some additional nutrients. And then we just kind of chopped everything, let it lay all winter. This is also where I emptied out all of our our bunny cleanups in here over the winter. So everything's pushed in and kind of worked up together and I'm really excited to see how this ends up looking. Alright so this is a little bit more than what I was expecting but we are so grateful. We're gonna be able to fill this garden to the max and I think we'll also have some leftover for other gardens to fill in. So there should be no bare spaces in gardens this year. So I'm really excited. This garden is gonna be an awesome, calming garden. Like the color palette is very calming. So it'll be fun. And this will actually be a very simple garden design and garden process. We usually do all the stones and bring in soil but we've really worked at this soil for over a year knowing that this is where we wanted to put our perennials. So we really amended it through growing natural different things like we already discussed in the video. And we're just gonna go ahead and plant them and throw mulch in and we're gonna call it a day. And what's awesome is like the bees are already enjoying these flowers. There's all kinds of little bees flying around the different salvias and the cat's pajamas and all of these varieties. It's really really cool to see. Oh it's so sweet over here. I don't know if you can see them. We've got the little tiny tiny little bees there. There you can you can lightly see them but they're flying everywhere. And those are the most bees we've seen in a while other than in our greenhouse. So we know that these are definitely going to be some good pollinators for our for our garden this year. So what do you think of it all Jason? I like it. Everything smells good. I can't wait to see it all planted up. It's gonna it's gonna add a big difference here and just make it feel that much better back here. Yeah. Yeah loving it. And we're also getting the beds cleaned out today. It's a really nice day today. Lana's out here helping us. Well while her and Jason are cleaning up the gardens today I'm gonna lay the perennials out in our garden over there and get that design rolling. Jason's cleaning out the beds too. I'm gonna go get the design in. The what? The design. Okay yeah. And then you can shovel those guys in and then I'll start planting more of the raised beds. Alright well the artist is at work getting her her placement of everything. She pondered for a little bit, had her vision and went to work. Yep. Well I've got all of the pots set out for Jason to dig them in. He told me to just go ahead and place them. So I did so he's got a lot of work ahead of him. This is a really large garden and as you can see I keep the pots pretty close together so perennials reach their full growth around the third year. So I know that they're placed together but they're placed this close together so that way they grow in together. I don't like seeing empty gaps and seeing the mulch in between the plants. That's because when you don't have any space in between the plants once they're grown into their full potential then you don't have all of the weed pulling. So when you have a garden that grows in together it suppresses the weeds but what's awesome is it also looks a little bit more natural and wild as well which I like. And already we've been seeing so many pollinators here so it's awesome. Yep. So I designed it with a little path down the middle because this is a really big garden that you would have to walk around and I don't want to have to walk around the garden in order to get to the main garden space after playing with the kids in the yard. So it's kind of nice to have this cute little walkway in between here. So we have the cute little Jacob's ladder growing in on the sides which will be nice and full. So I designed this really uniquely because I didn't just want this big bed of flowers and then it goes from tall to just flat you know like medium height to ground cover. So I wanted some more depth and some more design to the garden. So I first focused on this pathway and I just focused on bringing the height. This is more of a medium to a taller height here about three feet the Jacob's ladder. And then it kind of just goes these here they get a little bit taller about 36 inches. So it's just that little pop of additional like lavender pink color. And then we have the alliums which are shorter. So you have a row of just a little bit taller in here but then medium height and medium height on both sides so that we got a little bit more of a design of a pop in the center with the color breaking up the lavender blue and the blue with that more pinkish tone. So that'll be really nice. And then we kind of just gradually went lower and lower with the heights here. And then in the center here we did that hibiscus which you know can get about four to five feet. And it gets really nice and round so we did leave more space in between that one. And then what we did from there is we kind of went from gradually going less and less in height. So we did a peak of height right there on that side. A peak of height right on the pathway. And a peak of height right over here and kind of just gradually went down. So it'll give a lot more depth to the garden rather than just going and doing you know tall from the back and all the way to the front just short. And adding this pathway is also breaking up this large garden to give it more of that design as well. So this will be really fun to sit here because this is all going to be mulch in here as well. And we're gonna put on a couple chairs because this is really like our only shade spot at the moment with this beautiful tree that we planted in memory of Jason's brother who passed away about four years ago. So it provides us nice shade and a great memory. I might want to add like a cute little like arbor or whatever but all of this stuff costs money. So you just gotta you got to kind of pick out you know what you need the most and then kind of go from there because there's always next year or the following year. Nothing has to be done in a rush but so Jason's working hard over here. Poor guy. But you're gonna have some abs of steel, huh? A little tough? Yeah it's muddy down below cuz we just got a good amount of rain for a few days. So but yeah we're having fun and so since I've been placing these out for Jason it's not like I'm just watching him you know do this stuff. I've actually been planting our raised beds over here. So Jason finally got all of these plants planted into the ground and I say finally because he had so many to plant into this garden but I am super excited to see because now that they're all planted it's time for the next step which there is some prep and everything like that so Jason will share that with you because he'll be doing the next step and then I'll help once it's time to lay down more of the mulch. All right well I got all of the the perennials planted there's about a hundred of them in there my back is is very sore so I did about half of them yesterday and then half of them a week ago and when I dug the first half of them 50 of them I dug the holes and I just set the pots in there because I just wanted to dig all the holes be done with that and then come back you know take the plant out of the pot and then kind of fill in around it well this soil is there's a lot of clay that's mixed in here so as those pots sat for you know a couple of days and the Sun kind of baked out the dirt you know I went back to fill in around the perennials and it was just rock solid so I had to break everything up with the shovel and then fill it in it took twice as long and whoo it's it's been a it's been a grueling project but it's almost done so now what I'm gonna do since everything is planted there's clumps of dirt that are kind of between everything and what I want to do is get all that stuff out of there so when we put the mulch down it's nice and nice and even throughout so I'm gonna go through and just kind of rake pick up use the hole whatever I got to do to get the big clumps of dirt out of here all right the next step is to break open this pallet of mulch start laying stuff down so this this area here is gonna be a little walkway from where I am back to there so since we don't have plants there I'm just gonna put down some some weed barrier there just in that spot and actually one more thing I'm gonna do before I put down the weed barrier this area got really uneven from rain that we had and me working in the mud and we got some rain last night so the grounds kind of soft so I'm gonna kind of pack everything down level it all out I'll put down the weed barrier that way it's not chunky so today I'm going to be spreading the mulch Jason did lay out the mulch for me I actually blew my knee out again so usually I would be helping laying the bags of mulch down I recovered quickly so thank God that was such a blessing because this is my busy time I can't afford to be laid up so today I'm gonna go ahead and start raking in the mulch I I don't always like the the amount that Jason puts down for mulch it's always minimal and I like something thick and heavy to really stop those weeds from breaking through the more mulch you put on the better to keep hold on a lot of those weeds we did add preen down to control any new weeds from germinating but the thicker you put it down the more you can kind of subside all those weeds from popping up right now so I'm just gonna go ahead and rake the mulch in and as I'm raking it anywhere that it seems to be a little too thin I'm gonna add an additional bag so this is what it looks like right now there's a lot of gaps where there aren't bags of mulch laid down so I will add a few additional ones especially in here around the perennials you really want it to be nice and heavy that also helps it with returning we are the type that do not cut any of our perennials back and fall we actually leave them as is we feel like when the foliage dies that's what really truly protects the perennials especially in this space here there is no protection of a side of a house or big trees or anything that's going to protect them from those cold winter winds that come and this will just be one of those wide open spaces but sailor is going to help me like about a day or so before we started laying down the mulch we had a lot of ants in this area and so we kind of scraped it away and then I laid down some diatomaceous earth that's really a great and easy thing to use and a safe thing to use to get rid of ants especially around any plants or trees it doesn't hurt your plants or anything like that so it really really took care of them because now we don't have all of these ants all over and so we're just gonna go ahead and mulch a little heavy around in this area because I kind of want to bring the height up just a little bit because when we plugged this tree in it kind of sat up above the ground just a little bit so I don't want anyone tripping around the tree and then once we get the mulch laid in there I am gonna plant some comfrey around this tree comfrey really helps aerate the soil in that area it carries a lot of nutrients throughout its roots and it's actually a really great thing to grow around trees this will be our first time growing it around trees are growing it at all for that matter but it's something I researched a lot over the winter and it's something that we're super excited to add to this tree because this tree has always looked kind of like it's been struggling and we've already replaced this tree once another key thing too is you always lift up on some of the foliage on any of your plants or shrubs and make sure that you get that mulch all the way up to to the root and cover where the root actually is that helps protect it in winter as well good job Selah daddy's gonna be so excited that he didn't have to do all of this part and don't go too thin you don't want to see through it right and Selah your shirt is so fitting today it says crush your goals we got some major goals today yep so she did a really good job so we're just filling in the gaps now we spread what was here we're going in the gaps with more bags all right next is this area we'll kind of spread it out and then add more all right I got all the mulch spread I used the rest of that palette plus we had about eight bags on our other palette in front that I went through kind of like in the beginning of the spring when I was working on getting some extra mulch put into some of the gardens I already went through almost a palette myself I went through about a third of the palette today so yeah it looks really good we're just missing some little stepping stones here but those are easily added we're just gonna place them on top of the mulch once that happens but look how pretty everything looks and these are actually stones that popped up when my dad was tilling so I thought that they made great little corner anchors and then we'll put like some little like stepping stones down the center and then we'll have some little seating right in there so it just looks so complete and pretty and I can't wait for it all to fill in usually by the third year everything fills in and looks amazing but the first year is always gorgeous too so is the second year every year is always a blessing to have a beautiful garden because all of these plants here really attract a lot of the bees and butterflies as soon as they came in they smelled sweet and wonderful and there were already bees on them and now there's butterflies actually hatching at the moment so we've been seeing a lot of monarchs and they're all over this so it's really neat to see so over here I'm just going to show you quick in this right here it's kind of a lot of mulch from where the plants are to the pea gravel and right in here is where we're gonna end up putting a cute little bird bath so that may not happen this year we're we don't really have a big budget this year and I don't know we'll see kind of you know trying to save money really and then right here is where we'll put some of the comfrey in I have small plugs otherwise I wouldn't put anything in here I don't want to dig big holes around the tree roots here and hurt the tree so it's just small little plugs that I grew of it so that way it won't be so invasive of a procedure to have to dig up those holes and then over here is where we're gonna put some seating so I'm just gonna grab a couple chairs because we're not buying anything for this area this year hopefully next year we can get more of like a hammock or something more cozy but it's just gonna really fill in really nice and pretty I'm really excited and then kind of where the garden finishes off right here it's a little you know distressed which is okay so we'll seed in some grass along in here and you're probably wondering how we're gonna keep these from you know the grass popping up where we laid it on top and how to keep the mulch separated from the grass over here so there is a little trench along there and I actually made a homemade weed killer I looked this up online I've tried it and it worked really nice over on the place X we get a lot of weeds and the pea gravel over there and I just mix pure vinegar salt and antibacterial soap you do it on a sunny day and it just browns it it doesn't always kill it down through the root like a like a weed killer but anything's better than you know using the weed killer so it browns it enough to kind of get rid of it so as soon as anything pops up that's kind of what I'm going to spray on it to keep it kind of down as you can see there's like some green in between the pea gravel in the mulch so that's kind of what we'll do right in there as well well I surprised Jason with the mulch certainly did she got the rest of it spread and there was just enough we had a little bit of a leftover pallet and then what was left out here so I was really happy to come home and see that I knew it would help out and then he went and got these stones that I found online at Lowe's and then I placed them out today which we still need two more to finish the path but the kids are loving it so far it's looking so cute I always love a little pathway in the garden we don't have a lot of shade on our on our property so I'm gonna love just sitting here and relaxing cuz the Sun's kind of over there so this will give some nice nice shade here nice shade yeah and then the last thing is just moving these pellets yeah yeah yep and then um what were you gonna say I was gonna say thank you Walters Gardens again yeah all of the the beautiful perennials that we have and the garden would have been a possible wouldn't have been possible without you we would have never been able to do this garden this year or any year for that matter because of all these beautiful perennials and like I said it from the beginning when I was doing the unloading of the perennials say let's having so much fun the quality of the plants is just unbelievable they are amazing growers and the plants are just so beautiful they look beautiful and they smell beautiful and we're gonna enjoy this beautiful garden the kids are one thing I just wanted to add about the design is over here by the tree we did have a lot of ants kind of like I talked about so I yep I'll show those next so I went ahead and use the diatomaceous earth but what I put over here is comfrey so we're growing comfrey this year there's two different types of comfrey one that keeps multiplying and one that stays within its own self like just one plant so these ones are the ones that do multiply we seed started these because Jason was really afraid of digging a large hole for perennials and with the little plugs we just had to pop them in and I do want them to multiply and then we'll just kind of control them because what we're gonna use them for is creating a natural fertilizer comfrey is really great to grow around trees it aerates the soil it adds a lot of nutrients to the soil it holds a lot of water within their roots which helps the tree during dry times and when you cut the foliage of the leaves you can let it sit and make like a comfrey tea kind of like you do with worm castings to make a worm tea so we're really gonna try this and kind of see how it is because we're working on creating our own fertilizer there's been talks of like fertilizer shortages and things like that so we want to be able to be sustainable on our own with our own fertilizer so this is the year to start trying out those things and having fun with it that's right did I talk too much on good useful information I know they're just so much to talk about keep talking if that was something that I was looking for information yeah so I mean I'll go more into detail on all that as we go but this is just gonna be like our little comfrey patch it'll fill in and then we still have this cute little path around here which is nice so we are gonna add a birdbath here eventually like I said before but we want that comfrey patch like if you notice I kind of did more like a teardrop coming down so I wanted to kind of spread this way a little bit and out so that way we can still have like a nice big patch of green here but then still have a nice little walkway around it too and we may add stepping stones there as well yeah yeah it would be nice to add stepping stones there because the stepping stones were only what like six something a piece I think it will too mm-hmm I like it too it's a wrap on this garden you books yep all right thanks for watching if you're new to the channel don't forget to subscribe and if you want to see more videos like this one don't forget to click the bell to be notified on new videos and if you loved this video please do give it a thumbs up see you next time