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Hey guys, how's it going? It is such a beautiful day today. We just had the craziest rainstorm last night and we were supposed to have, I think it was like seven days of rain and it is just beautiful and it is cool out and there are flowers blooming and it's just, it feels like real spring right now. We had false spring and then we had rain and cold and now it feels like we're actually getting a real spring, which is really, really nice because usually we get false spring and then we get a heat wave and then we get like ice cold and then we go straight to hot and we're getting like really nice temperatures right now. So I wanna show you guys a couple of things that are blooming and I wanna give you guys an update on the pathways and then we're gonna get a little bit of planting done today. So, let me turn the camera around. I wanna show you guys some things. If you saw the garden tour, there was a lot of things that were blooming, but there were a lot of things that weren't quite blooming yet and now I have an update on a lot of things. So I wanna give you guys an update just on a few little things around the property that are looking so stunning right now. So first thing is in the side yard, my Kilmarnock willow. It looked beautiful during the garden tour, but all of the catkins have fully broke open. Isn't that so beautiful? So this is a Kilmarnock willow. It's a dwarf willow tree and it weeps like a willow does, but it gets the most fuzziest, beautiful catkins and then these catkins are gonna explode here in the next couple days, I'm assuming, and they're all gonna explode with these yellow little flowers on them and the bees are gonna go absolutely crazy for them. But for now, I get to enjoy these gorgeous catkins that are on here. Aren't those so beautiful? So beautiful, beautiful tree, Kilmarnock willow, dwarf willow tree. This one's been in this container for a couple years now and I'm absolutely, I'm obsessed with it and I don't think I'll ever take it out of the container. I will probably have to pot it up into a much larger container here probably in about a year, but still so beautiful. And then my magnolia bricky has fully bloomed out and we just had the most insane winds. Actually, some containers up front knocked over because of how windy it was, it was wild. We had, I think it was at least 50 mile an hour wind storm and it has still hold on to all of its beautiful blooms. Aren't those so gorgeous? So these guys, you can see, I mean, the wind totally tattered some of them, but these guys open up and those three were the first ones and they look a little rough, but they start out in the mornings, nice and closed like this, and then by the afternoon, they open up and then they close back up at nighttime and they're just so, so beautiful. I really, really love this magnolia tree so much. This is the magnolia ricky and this is another one that you can grow in a container that I think everyone should add to their property. This one, I'm thinking that maybe eventually I will pop it in the landscape and I'm thinking that I'll probably get way more blooms if I put it in the landscape, but it's still so worth it for me just to even get just a few of them right here by our back door. The next thing that I wanted to show you guys is this hellebore. Isn't this so pretty? So I picked this up at High Hand Nursery and you guys, are you kidding me with this one? So this one didn't have a name. They started this one from seed and some of the blooms are like this color and then some of them, well, actually all of them have faded to this green color. So once they get a little older, they're turning green and they're still speckled, but they all start out like this. They actually start out like that and then they move to that and then they're moving to this and these just look like little ballerina skirts. They're so beautiful. Hellebore is one plant that I absolutely love and I'm so happy that I added it into this container and I get to see it from our living room window. Okay, and then we're gonna go this way, but I want to talk about the honeysuckle really quick because I get questions anytime it's in the background. This is Hall's japonica honeysuckle. Can be invasive in certain areas. It grows really, really fast. Brett and I just got this whole thing cleaned up and it's already needing to be rewound. So if you like low maintenance, this is not a plant for you or a project for you. If you don't mind something that's very, very high maintenance, this is a project for you. Super worth it, Hall's japonica, and I will be extending it this summertime, this springtime. I'm gonna do one more diamond right here because our pathway used to end here and it ended where our pathway was, but we extended the pathway. So I'm gonna do one more diamond right back to there. But I want to show you guys, look at our tulips. So you guys saw the tulips up front. I did clear water tulips up front and they've totally been destroyed because of that windstorm. They're so bad right now. Well, it's really, really, it's actually super unfortunate. Back here though, I planted clear water and I planted sauna and the clear water is all starting to really color up back here, which was so nice. I love clear water tulips, they're so pretty. I really, I'm really enjoying growing these ones. These are ones that I'll probably always have in the garden. I will always order a couple of clear water, but they're so pretty. They're like this beautiful buttery yellow on the inside. And then they start out with this green and then they'll turn totally white. You can see there's probably an older one right back there that's totally white. And then I planted some called sauna and sauna has become one of my absolute favorites for just like a little bit of color. Because look at this, does this not just scream Easter? I love the like points on these tulips here and they stay this shape. Last year I grew a ton of them and I'm kind of regretting not growing a ton of them this year. I think next year I will definitely grow a ton more of these. I loved using these as cut flowers. I just thought it was so stunning. So sauna tulip, so beautiful, so classy. And then next to that, I have all of these hyacinth. They're so beautiful. I've never grown hyacinth and these are massive. You can see like they're just as big as my hand is and I've got them in whites and in purples. And I want to show you guys another spot that I also have them at. So this is my little micro drift of hyacinth. And I didn't know, I had bought whites and I bought the blue purple ones and I kind of mixed them all up, but it's funny because it ended up being white, white, white, white, and then all blues and one white. So next year I think I'll order even more of them and I will try to make sure that they get really mixed up. But it's really exciting seeing just like this really bright pop of color. These ones, they look like they're glowing in person. And then the white is just kind of like striking. It's really, really pretty. And then look at those bulbs back here. Look at those. I believe those are my alliums. I'm so excited to see those things. I cannot wait to have those bloom in the garden. And then the last thing I wanted to show you guys in the garden that's looking really good is I have some tulips that came up. I planted shocks and struts. I think it was, I can't remember if it was last year or if it was the year before, but I planted shocks and struts back here and some of them came back. And so I'm really happy about that because we got this little just random pop of color here. And then a couple of them came up back there and you can see two of them came up right there. So it's been a very pleasant surprise to see some of those come back this year. I'm really, really excited about those because I didn't plant any tulips back here. And to see these, I was like, I'll take it. And then you probably noticed we actually finished the gravel in this section. So we ended up getting the rest of the landscape fabric down I left you guys last week, where we had, I think got gravel up to this point and off camera, Brent and I just kind of finished it over the last couple of days because we really needed to get it just done before a storm was coming. But we got all the gravel in the center done. And then we got the landscape fabric here all laid and then the gravel laid pretty far back. So we did hit a stopping point. Where are we at? We're right here. So we ran out of landscape fabric. And so we kind of like had to like piece a couple of pieces together and we lost a branch from our willow tree. It was so insanely windy that I mean, I'm surprised that we didn't have trees fall over if we're being honest. So today's plan is to finish the gravel here and start working and getting the gravel down on the rest of the walkway to meet up over to this side right here. So that's the plan is to try to get this gravel finished. And then I've got a couple of plants that I would like to get planted in the ground. So I think Brent is going to continue working on this area. And we're definitely not gonna have enough of the road-based gravel, which is kind of unfortunate because this is such a huge like dip right here. You can see like this is all level and you can see like you can see the spikes of the metal edging there. So we have to put in a lot of gravel in this area. And I don't think that we have nearly enough. We might have enough to like get to this area and not even have enough to do any of that there. So we're shy probably about two yards, which is super unfortunate. So he's gonna work on gravel. I'm gonna get some plants planted. I've got a Jasmine that I wanna get planted and I've got another plant that I have zero experience growing. And so I'm kind of excited about it. It was really beautiful. I don't know anything about it. So I'm gonna go do a little research really quick and then we can get to planting. So let me show you guys what I got after I researched this one plant a little bit more. Okay, so I've done some research on this plant now. So this is a pericalis or a cineraria. Look at me saying botanical names. And I found this at Green Acres and I thought it was the most beautiful thing ever. This just screamed springtime to me. I loved all of these like little dainty daisy-like flowers. And I guess it's related to daisies. You're gonna see some broken stems on this thing. This was outside and like I said, we had that crazy storm come through and this thing fell off and fell off a ledge and it landed and it broke. So you can see like this whole side is flat. But this side is beautiful. And so this is a hardy end zones 9a-ish all the way up to about 12 to 13. For most people, this is just gonna be an annual. Even for me, this might be an annual. I'm right on the cusp of it. And it doesn't love a ton of heat, which is funny because it likes those higher zones, but it doesn't like cold and it doesn't like too much heat. So we're gonna see. This could be an annual, could be a perennial. We will find out later in the year if it dies in the summer heat for me. It doesn't like anything below like 32 degrees. It's too cold for it. But what I liked about this is just how sweet these flowers are. And so I guess this is a mixture of flowers like most daisies kind of are. I don't know if you can see. So see all of in here. Those are all little tiny flowers. And then each one of the petals is another flower. And so it's a whole bunch of flowers mixed with a whole bunch of little flowers. And so I'm hoping that the bees really like this plant. I really like it. I love how pastel-y it is and I like how small the flowers are. I've seen this plant and it never has wowed me before. Like this one has. Normally you see it and they are like either bicolor. So they're white with like reds or blues. This one is like a bicolor and it's like a pastel purple with like white around it and like this like soft buttery yellow like centers. And I don't love the red ones and I don't love the blue ones and I don't love the purple ones. I love this soft pastel-y color. This is my jam. So it's related to daisies, I guess. I don't know much about it. I'm also gonna assume that the snails love it because I'm already seeing some like snail and slug like the trail on this guy. And then we're gonna plant this in shade. So this is not one that wants sun. It says part sun to shade and I don't see this loving the sun at all. So we're gonna plant this somewhere where it's just going to get, if it's getting any sun, it's just gonna be maybe a little tiny bit of morning sun. So I'm gonna plant it over in the side yard right here and that's pretty much a full shade area and maybe some like dappled sun in the afternoon. And so I'm hoping that it just fills out really nicely. It says that it's gonna get about 10 to 14 inches tall and wide, so it'll probably double in size here. And I think this is gonna be a beautiful plant to add to my garden. The next plant that we're gonna get planted is this pink jasmine and it has zero blooms on it right now, but the blooms are coming and you can see the blooms are actually like pink on it. So I'm very excited to get this pink jasmine and I can already smell it. I don't know how that's possible, but I can already smell the jasmine on here, which is weird, because there's not a single open bloom on this. It's gonna get about 20 feet tall and it's a vine, so it's just gonna spread. I'm gonna plant this so it grows up a telephone pole. It's an abandoned telephone pole. There's literally, there's the wire that goes to it, but it doesn't actually run to anything. Otherwise I wouldn't plant it on the telephone pole. You definitely don't wanna plant this on somewhere where you've got like live wires, but this one, it's an abandoned telephone pole and this plant is so rebound. It severely needs to get out of here. I paid 14 bucks for this. It's growing zones nine through 11 and like I said, 20 feet tall and it's just gonna, it gets as wide as it can, but I'm going to turn it so it grows up the telephone pole. I'm gonna throw some wires on there so it can wrap around the wire on the telephone pole and then I'm hoping what that'll do is start to mask this hideous telephone pole that I've got and it'll be an evergreen. So warmer zones only and it's a beautiful vine and then I should get beautiful little pink flowers out of it and a beautiful smell that perfumes the air. I'm really, really excited about that. Let me show you guys the tag. It's not really a good photo. It's actually a really terrible photo. So it's just, well, it's not my rooster by the way. It is supposed to just be full of pink blooms. It's really beautiful. It says that it prefers moist, well-draining soil, blooms in the springtime, hardy down to 20 degrees, pruned yearly to keep it a little more tidy, spurtle, fertilize, fertilize in the spring and I think that's all we need to know about this and full sun. This is gonna get as much sun as I can possibly give it. So we're gonna cook this plant. So let's get to planting now. I'm very, very excited to start getting some color in here and pink is my dream in the garden. Let's go. This close. We really weren't that close. We need at least a yard more, minimum. Maybe like a yard and a half more of the road base, which is such a bummer, but we had to put it super deep in this area right here. We really wanted to make sure it was all level and this was the like least level. There was lots of like divots and everything. So if it was the original plan of like about an inch everywhere, it would have been perfect, but this area, some spots, we had to do like three inches of gravel. So, and then like this area right here is probably gonna be three or four inches of gravel. I don't know why. I thought I would just do one inch everywhere. That was totally wrong of me. Whatever. We're going to go pick up some more and maybe one day we'll finish this project. Oh man. Whatever. Yeah. So yard and a half more of the road base and then I got some plants moved and I got the jasmine in and I got the other plant in that the name is already escaping my mind, but let me show you guys what I did for the jasmine. So Brent is doing the last wheelbarrow full of it. And then here's the jasmine. And I had a pittosporum right here. And my original plan was to have it here and like mask this, but I think this green vine will be really, really pretty growing up it. And then it'll smell really nice. And then I had a chokeberry right here, which was going to help mask it. These plants just needed some time. This jasmine is going to grow extremely fast. There, here he comes. The jasmine is going to grow extremely fast and fill up this entire telephone pole right here. You can see there's the dead wire. So it's not even going to anything and we can't get it removed because it costs a couple thousand dollars. And that's like the last thing I want to do is spend a couple thousand dollars removing this telephone pole, which is really frustrating. So we're leaving it, but I moved the pittosporum. Pittosporum is now here. And I think that'll be nice because that'll fill this whole area in. I do plan to keep it trimmed up a little bit and keep it so it's maybe just a little bit past this fence. And then over on this side, we moved that chokeberry over to here, which is nice because it filled out an area that really needed to like have something tall there. So it's nice. There's chokeberries here and it gets like the cutest little dainty white flowers. They're not very impactful, but they're just dainty. And then I like it because in the winter time, it has these red berries on it. You can see these red berries. So it's some really pretty winter interest right here. And I really love the red berries. Supposedly birds like them, but the birds have pretty much left them alone. So I haven't had any issue with that. And then you can see there are some white flowers. These guys are starting to form. The buds are starting to form on this. So we should get flowers off of this pretty soon. And I think the white on the black will kind of pop nicely. And then over this way, I planted that plant that the name has totally escaped my brain, even though I just looked it all up. Pericalis, that's the name. So I planted it right there, kind of like tucked in a little bit. It's gonna get a little bit more shade there. It's gonna get plenty of water there. And I'm not sure it's gonna live. When I pulled it out of this container, most of the roots were gone. There was very few roots on this thing. So I'm not sure it's gonna survive. I'm not gonna hold my breath on that one. If it does, fabulous. I would love to have that little pop of like white flowers back there. I think it would be really pretty, but I also won't be surprised if it doesn't make it. Because like I said, there was almost no roots on it. So that, my friends, is all that I have for you today. I hope that you enjoyed this video. It's always so nice to be able to get out into the garden on these days where it's like slightly blue, slightly overcast days. They are my favorite days in the garden. It's cool. There's a very slight breeze happening. You can see the string moving. And it's just, it's the best weather. It is literally my favorite. It's like 62 today or something like that. So it's so nice. Anyways, I hope that spring is around the corner for you guys, and I will see you all in the next video. Bye, guys.