Extreme Clearance Plant Haul From The Home Depot

It happened. I did a thing. I did too many things. So many things happened. It is hot. Don't judge my face. It's so hot outside. Very hot parking lot. Hey, what's up garden friends? Jeff here. I hope you're doing well. I'm great. It's the humidity. It's like 80 something percent. It was 88% when I left in 94. Whatever the case, I ran to the Home Depot because I wanted to get some gravel to put into the bottom of some container. Not the bottom. We don't do that anymore, remember? To top dress a container. And naturally, while I was there, that is a lot of lead. I can't shake my shorts down there up too high. Naturally, while I was there, clearance things happened. It's 50% off and they had some stuff here that I've really wanted for a long time. So I said, oh, okay. They don't look the best because they were on clearance. I actually think they should have been cheaper than they were. But we have all the rest of summer to get these looking good again. And I think they'll flush out, look really great in the spring. We can talk about that some more. We can get them out of the car. I have a couple of nice crab apples in here, a bunch of evergreens. And I did, I managed to get the gravel. It's in there somewhere. Always fun trying to get very large cars out of the tree. What I do is I just lift them through the back window and pull them in. Which isn't that bad, but getting them out is sometimes a trouble. A trouble? An issue. That's what I meant to say. It just depends on what it is. I think that this has enough flex that I should be able to just, it'll come out. That wasn't too bad. The apple espaliers, I think those were probably the hardest things to get out of this car out of anything I've ever loaded in because the shape of them wasn't a shape that allowed you to pull them out this way. So I had to load them in through the back window and I had to get in and lift them up and carry, they were hard to get out of here. Okay. Crab apples are done. Don't worry. We'll go have a look at all this. I mean, of course we will. The point of the start of this video, I accidentally smushed this one. Sorry, plant. There we go. And finally, there's some overcast. Things are feeling really good now. It'd be nice if it would rain. Could use some rain. This has been so flooding hot lately. I mean, not unusual. It is summer after all. It's nothing unusual. It's what I meant to say and how I meant to phrase it. Hey, look at the hydrangeas. Still looking good. Aren't they beautiful? Huh. That was interesting timing. It rained the second I set my phone down. Also worked out really well. The interesting timing part was because I went inside to see if somebody would help me put the top up on the convertible. It's old, you know. It's an old car. Sometimes you need two people. Usually you need two people, but it went up on its own the very second it started pouring. And now, no rain. It wasn't enough to really do anything, but it was fun. Always fun to have a little bit of drizzle. So here's what I got. There's everything from here and over. All clearance. Well, not the banana and the grass. Those have been around, but all of this. Good clearance finds. I've been getting lucky. The Home Depot that's closest to my house, mostly closest, when I go to the most, the people who work there talk to the vendors about trying to get in really fun and unique things. So that helps a lot. I mean, these are just junipers and crab apples. There's nothing mind-blowing, but they also take better care of their things. I go to a lot of just big box nurseries and the plants look like garbage come midsummer. And these, they're looking so good. Okay. They're crab apples. You know, so I'm not surprised by that. They're in containers in the heat of the summer sitting out in a very, the hottest, hottest Home Depot I ever go to. I never leave that place without dripping sweat. It's just a location that fries. What's here? Okay. I got three more of these junior giants. If you don't know, I had already gotten, I think 10. Yeah. I had 10 of the junior giant arbs. So these are a Thuya Placata crossed with a Standishii, I believe. Where are the tags? Did I pick up the only one that doesn't have a tag? No. One of these didn't have a label on it. So let's come down here and make sure I got that right. Standishii crossed with Placata, 15 to 20 feet tall. Says to space them 8 to 10 feet wide. So the junior giant, they have all the great things about a green giant, except they don't get absolute, there's a green giant over here. You can't really see it. You can kind of see it. There it is. Green giants get massive. These, 15 to 20 feet. It says 8 to 10 feet spacing. Generally everything I've seen about the junior giant says that they go about 3 to 5 feet wide. So I don't know why it says 8 to 10 feet spacing. Someone's wrong here. Or perhaps that they do have the potential for 8 to 10 feet in width if left to just grow solo. Whereas if you do put them closer together, then they'll be more narrow and grow up taller. The green giants are like that. Green giants, you just plant one and walk away from it. They will have a massive spread. But if you plant them to form a hedge, once they start to touch, it does encourage them to grow upwards. They're not as wide. I don't know. What I like about the junior giant, or really just plicata thuyas in general, is that they do very well for me in the wintertime in containers. Whereas the regular, just the occidental, occidental, occidental, emerald green orbs. Smart words. Occidentalis. There we go. These right here. Those. Horrible. I don't like them. They're pretty plants, but they don't like our fluctuating temperatures very much during the summer. Sometimes you have die-off. And they're one of those plants where you stick them in the ground and you just expect some of them to die. They can be like that. That happens with plants that are just mass-produced and tried and true. You have more opportunity to have some die-off when you're growing so many of them, right? They don't handle our winters as well in the containers. So, these. Wonderful for planters to put together late summer into fall and to have outside up until, I don't know, whenever I'd want to plant them out into the ground. These are small to keep in containers for a few years. A good chunk of these, though, are going to be going to plant a hedge along this fence from right around here and then all the way down. It's the perfect height. It's not going to grow out and take up too much long, so there's not a ton of lawn over there. I don't want to eat too much of that up, but it really would be nice to just go ahead and get some privacy going. Their growth pretty uneven because we got shade, and then we got sun, and we got shade, but I don't care. I'm just over it. I just wanted a hedge, and I want it to be cheap. These were cheap. I think they were 10 or 12 bucks a pop because of the clearance, which is great. They're going to grow faster than your regular, I shouldn't say regular, than the Occidentalis Occidentalis Emerald Green Arbs. They're going to grow faster than those, and they have that better durability in containers during winter. I've had some spring groves, which are back here. One of them looks like it does need some attention. No, that's not one of the green groves. The green groves are fine. They're back here. They're great. I've had them in containers for years. I keep them on each side of the pool. During the wintertime, the container is down on the other end that you can't see. That one. That one right there. You see it? That container. They do fine. They do great. It's been, I think this will be year four. It'll be their fourth winter. They've been through three winters. Just repotted them. They don't skip a beat. They're a little bit larger than something I'd like to keep in the ground, so I just keep repotting them, and eventually they'll get away to someone. But these, I have enough now to go ahead and plant my hedge, and I have one that I'd like to do in a planter on my front porch or near my front porch, and then the rest of these will be sprung around into different containers this winter and just used in fun fall-winter arrangements to help get some color out here. It's just so bleak from, I don't know, December and on. It's not so great being out here. That's always something I strive for is to get more evergreens in the ground and more things with some spring interest, which comes down to these guys. Look at these crab apples. Aren't they just beautiful? Two different types here. This is the royal raindrops. Gets larger than the one that I'm about to show you. Here we go. Hardy rootstock. Enjoy seeing that. Six foot. This is way taller than six foot. This guy is easily 12 foot, probably. They're kind of scrawny. Royal raindrops, you can see they have this more of a burgundy color leaf on them. They have a very pretty pinkish flower during the springtime, and they have persistent fruit. That was important. Main reason I wanted them. I've been saying for a couple of years, when spring comes around, I'm like, I want to get a crab apple and just put it in a giant pot and have it over there near the seeding area, because I just, I love their structure, but I don't really have a spot where they sit back here. And there are plenty of types that stay small enough. They're good option to try in a container and then get some spring flowers and hopefully have them hold those flowers long enough. That can be harder to do in a container, but have them hold those flowers long enough that you get some berries and have those berries persist through the wintertime, which I mean, they won't. The birds will pick them off, but that's the whole point. So let's get some color out here, just some nice structure. Crab apples start fairly early here in the year, which is also just really nice because there are plenty of trees that wait a long time to wake up. These guys get going nice and early, so it'll just add some lushness. This one gets larger though. I think the row raindrops is like a 12 to 15 foot, maybe. I don't think this one has a tag on it. Just going off of memory, it's one that gets planted a lot now. It doesn't have a tag, but I believe that's about how big they are. They get to be a good size and have a really good wide structure to them. Then over here, something with not so wide of a structure is the coral burst crab apple. These are grown a lot out here. I picked the thickest one with the closest to straight trunk that I could find. They had a lot of healthy looking graft points. There were some where the graft points were not looking all that great. This one right here I believe goes 8 to 10 feet at the max. I see these around. They're pretty common. Actually, I had some a long time ago in my front yard, and then the front yard got really shady, and they no longer thrive. Yeah, 8 to 10 feet tall, sun 8 hours a day, bloom time mid-spring, small glossy red fruit turns orange with age. That was the other thing. So I wanted that nice... I think it's more of an orangey yellow from what I'm remembering, but also persistent fruit. So they'll hold on to those fruit during the winter, hopefully, and just have that nice appeal right outside the windows when you're looking outside. I just think... I think it's going to look really pretty. Right now, not that exciting. These are going to need to be potted up into substantially larger containers, and really going to need some TLC. I need this to be nice and strong when they go into their first winter. Overwintering deciduous trees in containers can be more tricky, which is one of the reasons I did not want to pay full price on one of these things. Not that they were cheap. They were still like $75, but they tend to dry out a lot faster. They don't have a cuticle. So these guys right here, they have a cuticle. There is a waxy coating. I said that weird. There is a waxy coating on the foliage that helps hold moisture in, and the plant's just programmed to have the sugars and everything in there to help make them more cold hardy, and to be more durable-ish with situations like water loss, because they're evergreen. These right here, the wood, it can dry out. So it's important that I remember. I'm going to have to remember to make sure that these get watered. I'm not great about that during the wintertime. Now, we'll go into more of that when it's time to actually pot these up and get them looking nice. I think what I'll be doing with these during the summertime is putting them, I don't know, anywhere into the garden, into the landscape, in containers, maybe in my front yard, in some nice pots. I'm going to be pruning on these to try and get some really good shape on them over the years, so they look nice in a container. I can't let that one get away from me, because these get really big. And since they are perennial, a tree, actually, they need to be repotted about every two or three years to get some nice rich soil into their mix, or else they just don't do well, or go into the ground. That's usually better, but I'm going to be keeping them in containers, and they'll have to have big prunes and root prunes every few years. That's not that big a deal. It's easy to do. And they're sturdy plants, the ones with the grafts. So where I live, I don't know if it's like this for y'all, but where I live, if we have a really bad winter, even though they're hardy to zone for, I end up seeing a lot of dead dwarf crab apples. The ones that are grafted, they tend to just lose a lot of those graft points, and then a few months later, because for some reason the city just leaves the dead ones laying around, you see a big flush of growth coming out from the root stock. It's just graft points. They're more delicate, so this will need to be in a spot that's more sheltered, even though it's a four through eight, and I'm technically 7a, 6b, 7a. Really going to have to be careful making sure that this doesn't get blasted with dry winter winds, and that it's not someplace where it's going to experience too high of a swing. Some days in the winter time, it can be like 70 degrees, and then it can be, you know, 12, maybe a week later. You just never know. We don't have a lot of 70 degree days, but in February, we bounce around a lot. That's also not great for your woody plants, because you have the expanding, the contracting, expanding, the contracting, and that's not what the problem is, but whenever they do that, they lose a lot of moisture, and when they expand, they're more susceptible to being burnt and dried out from the wind when your cold winds blow in in the evening. So it could be really warm during the day, mostly because of the sun, and the sun goes down at like 4 p.m. The air gets really cold that's blowing on that, and they don't do well. It's one of the reasons crepe myrtles are more difficult here, because if you don't have them planted someplace that's nice and warm, you lose the A lot of them are good down to the roots, but we don't see a ton unless you actually get into the city area where we have a nice heat island that are nice, big, beautiful plants. Out here where I live, I'm just a few miles outside the city, it's more big bush crepe myrtles that a lot of them die down to the ground every few years because of that. Same thing with the buddleias. They're a good example of that. Okay, this is all that's left. These are not plants that I'm typically that crazy about, because they make me itchy, and I think they're stinky, but some people love the fragrance. They're junipers. What I have here are two. I got two of the gold, old gold junipers. Three feet tall? I thought these go four to five feet tall. Maybe not. So it's one of the ones that gets nice and wide, and I do really like those big white junipers. I think they look really good in a landscape. Old gold, I'm sure you get it, has more of a goldish tinge to the foliage. These are a decent size, and they were three dollars. I love that. Then these down here, these are some of my favorites as far as junipers go. Landscape junipers that stay more on the small side. These are the sea green. They have a really great wispy texture to them. Look at that. See the way it flops around? They're so pretty. Really pretty plants, and again, three bucks a pop. So I'm going to be mixing these into fall and winter containers, and then actually probably moving them into some people's landscapes. I have some friends who have a lot of sun and they want well maintenance. Juniper, that's the way to go. Oh yeah, that's it. That's everything. Lots of good stuff here. In a few weeks when things start to cool down, oh, we're gonna be having some fun with plants out here. Don't worry, I still have lots of things going on with the tropicals, but when you see the things on clearance, you have to plan ahead for fall and winter, and the next year. I'm gonna turn that sprinkler head on. That whole zone, the current one wasn't looking too good. Gotta snag the deals while you can. In a couple of months, all the tropical stuff will be on clearance when I no longer want it, but it'll be on sale. Okay, I'm gonna sip my tea. I have some stuff I need to do, and then I have some gravel here that I was thinking about using to top dress this container, which was the entire reason that I went to the Home Depot. Hey, you know what? I'm not mad about it. Those were really good deals. Saved a lot of money. Is that obnoxious? I have my hand over the microphone. I hope it's not too bad. This thing, it's gonna overheat if I don't have the fan on me and I'm talking while the sun's out. So, oh, the sprinklers finally just turned on. Cool, more noise. I was just going to say something I hadn't mentioned or explained. I'm gonna try again in five minutes when these sprinklers turn off. And we have clouds now. Oh, it feels so much better when the clouds roll over. The crab apples. I should finish up all those thoughts. My thinking had been, and I did talk about this in the springtime, was that it would be really nice to have something large and stately on the side of the staircase. Remember, none of this is here during the wintertime, except for the furniture. So, I just think it'd be pretty to have a nice big pot with that structure of a tree there, even if it's deciduous. I like the look of a deciduous tree. It's not going to bother me. An evergreen would be too heavy and way too expensive for the size I would want. So, I think that royal raindrops is going to look really nice right there, especially when I have the two spring grove arbs over in those containers right there. And I'll likely underplant it with a bunch of those junipers for some more evergreen interest. So, it won't be evergreen up top, but it will be down below. I think it'll be great. And then the coral bursts I'll probably just pop over here. I think that that'll be nice. So, you have two different color foliage. The foliage is two different colors. During the spring, once they flush out, before all the palm trees are out here, and have different color flowers too. So, we'll have that nice pink, and then the other one is, well, it's pink too. I had thought about getting these ones called tinas, which have white flowers, so I'd have some more variety. But I just noticed that the tinas, which are great for their dwarfishness, they stay much smaller. But they're the ones that I see just about the most that suffer serious damage when we have extreme drops during the winter. So, I thought, well, let's try the coral burst. And it gets a little bit larger too. Because the tina, four to five, the ones they had were way over four to five feet. So, that was the other thing. I wasn't convinced that they were actually the super dwarf ones. Their graft alone, they were up five feet onto their graft. So, you know. I've had many occasions where I have planted crab apples for people, the super dwarf types that only get a few feet tall, and they end up turning into great big trees. Because wrong approach to the graft, and sometimes the rootstock takes over, things happen. I have some trust issues with super dwarf crab apples, at least from the big box stores. My local nurseries, I trust them a lot more, but they're also, you know, two to three hundred dollars. And that's not what I'm looking for, for something that's purely experimental out here. I don't know how it's going to go, but I think it'll be okay. Wrap some lights around them at wintertime. It'll look great in wintertime. It's gonna bug me that there's this gap right here. So, I'm gonna be keeping my eyes peeled for a, I don't know, junipers. The upright junipers, at least. Their head are missing containers during the wintertime, but I'm already gonna be out here watering, so maybe I could find something that has a nice, slender, upright shape to it. Something very columnar for that spot, because I know it's gonna bug me. If not, then chances are the windmill palm, well the windmill palm will be on the other side of the steps over there where the adenidius. Never mind. Just thinking out loud. That's all that's happening here. We can get back. We'll go do some other things now. By go, I mean right there. This alocasia. It's just, it needs something. Looks beautiful. I love that container, but I've been thinking it would look really nice to top dress that. I couldn't decide what color of gravel to go with. I got white and I got black. I'm wondering if I should lift this up in the container. Let me just go for it. Top dressing. Decoratively, I think it looks very nice. Uh, practically. Makes a lot of sense for plants that are moisture lovers and you're having issues with your containers drying out quickly. Helps hold in some of that moisture. For an alocasia, they're not, not all that fond of things being really moist all the time, so I'm thinking if I'm going to top dress this, I really need to remember to pull that gravel during the wintertime when I have this inside, because it's good. Oh, I had a hiccup. Good to have a lot of airflow around the base of the plant when they're inside. They rot so easily indoors. I think that the black, even though I love it, because it's that nice glossy. See that? The glossy shiny. I think that would look really nice there, but I also think it's going to totally disappear. Let's go with the white. Before I do that though, I'm wondering. This would not be the time to do it because it's very wet. This actually, this needs some more soil. All right. I think that's good. I had lost some soil. You know, I only had it potted up for a little bit now, so not shocked that some of the soil has come out of there. I like to make sure when I am top dressing a container that I'm going to be able to have the gravel high enough that it just peaks up just a smidge above the top of the pot or be perfectly level with it, but I don't like, I know this probably seems stupid and nitpicky, but I don't like for the gravel to be down past the rim at all because it just ends up looking unfinished. I think. That's just a me thing. That's just a me thing. I just think it looks a lot better when the gravel has that height to it and I don't want to do all that height when there were some roots sticking out. This is, this is going to be very loud. It's gravel. It moves around. It makes noise. It moves around. It makes noise. What a great way to describe that rocks make noise when they clink together. So I can either do this very slowly or we just cut back to it. It's going to be awful on the audio if I pour it on camera. I've made that mistake before and then I have to do all kinds of adjustments because it's just, it's so loud and it's so clanky. It's a high pitch. I care about y'all too much to put your ears through all that and I care about myself too much to have to go into the audio panel on Adobe Premiere Pro and have to fix that. That would take me like an additional minute and a half. That's actually a very easy thing to fix. It's not a big deal. Mostly just playing around here. I like this rock. It's a good size. These were just sold as beach pebbles. Caribbean beach pebbles. I have them in a lot of, not a lot, I put them in some of my other containers this year and I have some in the bottom of my patio pond. Adds a nice contrast. The goldfish don't really seem to care but I think it's nice for there to be some gravel on the bottom. It's a nice big round smooth stones that they can swim around and food can fall in between them. It's not necessarily enrichment. It's just, I don't know, it just seems like the right thing to do. You know what I mean? Huh? What do you think? I think it looks nice. It's much more finished. I love that black shiny beach pebble but I do think that it would have just disappeared down there. That lightness pulls your eye in and draws the attention over into that spot. It's nice. It's nice. It's a nice finishing touch. I do think if the stone were about half the size of what it is then that would probably look better but this is what they had so it's fine. It's fine. It's gonna work. Another thing I love about top dressing a container with gravel is that you can water without soil splattering everywhere. Oh that's so nice. Makes such a big difference. This one was pretty splattery because when I water this one it gets a big drench. It's hot outside because I know it's an aloe case. You don't necessarily want big drenches but when it's hot they like a lot of water. When it's hot they like a lot of water. That's the thing right there. So that will make it easier. You can see all the soil that spills out when I water it and I try and be careful but I don't know. It's just something about the angle I have to stand at because the way the leaves poke out. I don't really know what it is but it's been a messy one to water so that's going to help control all of that too and I probably could have gone a smidge lower with the gravel but it will settle some and it'll end up going down. Oh that looks nice. See you can actually see that. I think that if I were to have used those beach pebbles you wouldn't have been able to notice it. I did think about getting more elaborate and ridiculous with this and just using both and doing like a quartering it and have a section of the black and then a section of the white and a section of black and a section of the white but I think that that's that's a bit too much. It's doing too much. The plant should be the star of the show and the container should just look nice. That's all I want is for the container to look nice and I think that it looks good just like this. This is great. It's too hot. It's too it's too hot and I know anytime anytime myself anybody on YouTube says it's hot then anybody where it's hot it goes you don't know hot. I'm uncomfortable. How about that? I'll just say that. I'm uncomfortable. Not gonna go into the numbers. Just say heat indexes, triple digits, humidity, very high. It's gross out here. It's been a day because it the camera just kept overheating when I finished with this and I was like I don't want to I don't want to do it anymore. This isn't fun anymore and I don't want to do a ton of stuff when it's this warm outside. I have a hanging basket that I really need to do. It's this one up here. You see it? That one. The birds have finally moved out of it and it would be much easier to keep it hydrated in a fresh mix. Does that make anybody else dizzy? Made me dizzy. So we could we could do that. It would feel good to get it done. I already have my baskets out here. Two different ones to choose from. I can't turn it off. I know the audio might be obnoxious but this thing it just overheats constantly. There's an air flowing on. So we have two different choices. There's this one which is stuck to that one and that's not gonna work. That's not big enough. Don't want to use that one. But also have this guy which will definitely work. This is, is it a 22 or a 24 inch? Can't remember. Don't see a number on here. Right there. 20 inch. Wasn't right with either one of those numbers. Big. It'll be a substantial increase for this begonia up here. Can that hook hold that weight? I didn't do anything special when I put that in there. It's just, I just used the screws that came with it. These things get heavy. Huh. Huh. I had wanted to do this a few weeks ago if there was a bird's nest in it. I figured should let the, you know, let the birds do their thing. They need to fledge and grow up. I haven't heard any chirps in several days or seen mama bird coming and going. So I think, I think the nest is empty. I don't see anything in there. I hate messing with bird's nests. I always feel itchy afterwards. I think it's because once when I was a kid I picked up a bird's nest that had like fallen on the ground and I remember I got covered in mites. There were mites crawling all over me. And ever since then I just associate them with being a filthy, just cesspool of mites. That's not necessarily the case. Birds are pretty clean animals, but you know, that's just powers of association, right? I typically, I'm going to try and clear a spot to do this over here in the shade because it's just, it's too dang hot, too dang hot. Okay. I have a little corner to work with here. Uh, yeah, normally I would say this is a bad idea, but I know that this has a nice solid root mass in it that is not going to get split apart when I pull it. So I'm not going to be messing with the roots very much on this one at all, really. Is there a way to undo the chain on this one? I would hope so. Uh, oh, not really. No. Okay. All right. That's not ideal. These were pretty inexpensive. I got them from Amazon. I say these because I ordered a two pack. I can only find one though. I let somebody else unpack the box for me when they showed up a few weeks ago. Uh, cause the, having the box laying around, we're just bothering them. They want to get up to the recycling. And I said, sure. And then I never paid attention and never noticed until just now that I only have one. There's supposed to be two. So hopefully there's a rogue hanging basket around here somewhere. This is why I say I'm supposed to get the chains off. That's going to drive me crazy, but it's, it's fine. Sometimes when I plant up a coconut lined basket, I will line it with plastic, which is a trash bag or something, and then tear a big hole in the bottom of it. I don't think I need to do that because this gets a good amount of shade up there. It's not going to dry out too quickly. And this is the same thing I was doing on my front porch. So y'all have seen this. If you watch the videos, you've seen this. I have some sweet potato vines over here that I also want to get plopped in there with it. And, uh, well, that's pretty much all there is to it. Using the Proven Winners potting mix. I have enjoyed it. It's worked well. Good moisture retention on it. That's been my favorite thing about it is I'm only watering about every other day, even in this heat, with, I mean, not everything, but with most of the plants. With both of the plants. That was weird. I had a lisp there. Not mocking the lisp. I know that's a thing. Some people have it. Don't be ashamed of it. It was just weird how it just popped out of my mouth like that. Even the pool, look how low the pool is. Can you see that? You probably can't really tell, but it's just the heat. Usually when it's humid, though, it doesn't always water that fast. I need to do a liner check and make sure that there's not a leak in there. And then, yeah, I just, I'm so paranoid that I'm going to hurt a baby bird, but I haven't seen mama bird in this for several days. Oh, this is a dragon wing begonia. It is quite large. Oh, thanks Turbo. Thanks for showing up for scale. He's big, like 110 pounds of just pure lovely swamp monster. Aren't you Turbo? He stands probably around three feet tall. I'm guessing. I don't know. I haven't measured. I don't know. How tall are you, Turbo? How tall is the swamp monster? I'm going to grab the potting mix and get this done. There's the root ball. I have to film in short bursts with this kind of heat because everything just overheats and turns off, but I thought you might want to see it. It's not at all root bound. It's not overgrown. This is nice and healthy. I don't need to loosen it up, which is great. If I needed to loosen this up, I probably would have popped it back in that container and waited a few more days until temperatures were cooler. Oh, you know what? I'm going to stop. I'm going to try and tinker around with the chain on this because the last one of these I did, it was really hard to get that chain back up and over the begonias without just totally destroying them. So it'd be ideal if I could get the chain off the basket. That's a comment. You're supposed to be able to take the chain off the basket. I said they're relatively inexpensive, but that should even more so make it. That's one less step to clamp them shut. Leave the little S hook open so you can remove these things. I'll try and get this figured out. Got it. Oh, you can't even see that. There we go. Loosen that up enough just to get on the outside and have been very carefully pulling the begonia through this chain. You know, it's a begonia, so it's just, it's doing what begonias do, snapping all over the place. I expected some of that. I need to figure out where did I pull this from? I can't remember. Okay, there it is. It's not hanging up because, well, it's, it's very heavy. I'm going to need a ladder and I'm going to need a helper, so it can hang up down here with the furniture and the people for a while. Is the alocasia blocking the wind from the microphone? I hope so. That was the one downside to using a basket like this is, you know, when you have a chain, then you actually have to physically lift that chain up to hang things from these hooks up here. Those hooks, I put them really high, so with the baskets where it's just a wire, it's already standing on its own, so I can just lift from the bottom and it'll hook over, but can't do that with the chain, so I will actually have to get a ladder to put out here and get up there and have somebody help me hang up. It is pretty dang heavy. Hopefully it will hold. I don't know. I didn't use anything special when I put those in. They're in the wood. I think that they're in studs. I'm not positive. I'm pretty sure they are. I remember some of them were really hard to get in there. I put some trailers in here, which are just, they're looking great right now. I have two of these sweetheart light green hypomias from Proven Winners, and then two of the, uh, oh, you know, I don't think these are sweethearts. I think they're just, um, what are they called? What's this little squeaky toy? Am I safe? Don't know how that happened. Sweet caroline light green. That's what I meant to say. And then this one over here is the sweetheart mahogany sweet potato vine. I really like the color on this one. Isn't that really nice? I love the way that goes with the begonia. I know you can't see it that well right now, but yeah, give it some time. It'll grow. There's one of the, uh, light greens on each side, and then one of the mahoganies on the others. I think it's those grow and chill out that look really nice together. It's just looking great, isn't it? Oh, there's a breeze, and the fan, but also a breeze. Oh, hi. Are you done? I know. I know the feeling. He's not done. He wants me to get in the pool with him. Hey, thanks for hanging out. Sorry I couldn't get the basket actually hung back up, but I don't know. I just don't feel safe about it. It'd be a lot of struggle to get that done on my own, and having it down here, there's some deeper shade, and I can water it more heavily for the next few days. I think it's probably a good idea because, well, it's, like I said, supposed to just keep getting hotter for a couple days, and then it's supposed to drastically cool off. Like, drastically. Also, I have to say, I'm sure I'll reiterate this in the next video because I think the video after this should be a garden tour. I'm pretty sure it will be, that it has been such a pleasant summer. Like, I don't know if we've hit triple digits. We've had heat indexes way over triple digits, but that's nothing unusual for St. Louis during the summer. Heck, I don't know if it was last summer. I think it was the summer before it got so hot I heard the entire patio cracked. It hasn't been too bad, but the downside of that is I have become not accustomed to when we are around the triple digits with the humidity, but that's all right. It's really only for a few days, so I'm not complaining, just explaining. That's all. Mostly a result of having to have the fan and messing with the audio, otherwise the camera overheats constantly. You get it. I believe by the the garden tour comes out, I think it's gonna be like 82, 79, something like that. Oh my gosh, it's gonna feel cold. I'm gonna be complaining about being cold. I will definitely have this hung up by then. Well, hopefully. I should. I bet I can get it hung up by then. Let me know thoughts and opinions on the rocks. I did forget to mention with the top dressing and gravel, the larger gravel you use, the more airflow you're going to get around it, right? The smaller, more fine gravel, then the less airflow there will be around that, so it might be something to keep in mind if that's something you're worried about. Also, usually easier to rinse the larger gravel because, well, there's more space in between the chunks of rock and water can flush around it more quickly, but it's not, those aren't really important details. It's just, I put rocks on top of a pot and got some new plants and re-potted a begonia. It's nothing all that crazy happened here. I hope everybody's doing well. Have a great day, great life, and I just wish it's going absolutely beautifully for you. I'm hiding behind the leaf for the sake of the microphone, probably for absolutely no reason, and of course, as always, and most importantly, everybody, keep on growing. Bye-bye.